Dust devil

The Dust Devil is a very popular training monster for slayers of level 65 and up. A Face mask, Masked earmuffs or Slayer helmet is always required to slay them, whether in the Smoke Dungeon or Chaos Tunnels. The Slayer helmet also has the same benefits as the Black mask when the Dust Devil is your current slayer assignment.

Dust Devils are vulnerable to ranged attacks. Like Jellies, for the relative ease of slaying them, they have very good drops. Dust devils drop the coveted Dragon chainbody. Even though this item is extremely rarely dropped, Dust devils are popular targets for treasure hunters.

Players may consider using the low graphics detail setting when fighting Dust Devils, as this will reduce the dust visual effects.

Locations

 * Smoke Dungeon west from Pollnivneach in the Kharidian Desert.
 * Chaos Tunnels

Strengths and weaknesses
Dust Devils attack with melee type damage, close range. You need at least level 65 Slayer to fight these creatures as well as a Facemask, slayer helmet or masked earmuffs to survive in the Smoke Dungeon. The Smoke Dungeon has many safe spots where players can use range, magic or halberds to defeat them.

Melee is also effective, a good strategy for which is using the spell Bones to Peaches to maximize one's stay in the dungeon. It is possible to use Guthans armour to heal, although players must be careful switching the helm with the face mask, otherwise the dungeon will hit them for 20 damage every 12 seconds or so, only allowing 3-4 hits in before having to switch back to the face mask. Please note that you can only use Guthans armour to heal on nearby Fire Elementals, Pyrefiends, or Fire Giants, as attacking a Dust Devil without a face mask causes your melee stats to be drained to 0, and deals 14 damage to you every few seconds. So Bones to Peaches would be the best method to use. If the player chooses the use the Chaos Tunnels instead, he will still need the facemask to kill the Dust Devils themselves, but since there's no environmental smoke, Guthans can be used to heal on the nearby level 76 Crypt Rats.

Drops
100% Drop: Bones

Weapons and Armour

 * Dragon chainbody(3%)Extremely Uncommon
 * Dragon spear (5%) Very Uncommon
 * Shield left half (5%) Very Uncommon
 * Rune spear (8%) Uncommon
 * Rune dagger (75%)Very common
 * 12 Rune Arrows (65%)common
 * 5 Rune Javelins (15%)Uncommon
 * Earth battlestaff (22%) Quite Uncommon
 * Red dragonhide vambraces (55%)Quite common

Runes

 * 37 or 150 Fire runes (45-50%) Quite common and quite uncommon
 * 2 or 5 Soul runes (35%) Uncommon
 * 5 Chaos runes (55%) Abit common
 * Nature talisman (15%) Very Unlikely
 * Staff of fire (Unknown) Nobody knows
 * Red halloween mask (1%) Exteremely Unlikely

Charms

 * Crimson charm  (85%)Very common
 * Gold charm (75%)Very common
 * Green charm (38%)uncommon
 * Blue charm (48%)quite common-quite uncommon

Other

 * 15, 25, 60 or 400 Coins (common)
 * Half of a key (rare)
 * Herbs (very common)
 * Mithril bar (common)
 * 1-2 Ugthanki kebab
 * Uncut gems
 * Steel axe
 * Nothing