Balance Elemental

The Balance Elemental is an enemy fought during While Guthix Sleeps. It is currently the 10th strongest monster in RuneScape and the second strongest quest monster to be able to fight with conventional methods. It could be linked to the Chaos Elemental, according to Reldo in an edition of Postbag from the Hedge. It speaks about the player as if they have already met, and the player has already died.

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The Balance Elemental lives in the temple where the Stone of Jas is found. Lucien appears immediately after and finally, at the end of the quest, Tormented Demons are fought.

The Balance Elemental uses all attack styles, and changes appearance for each: A stone club signifies that it is attacking with melee, a flaming bow ranged, and blue spike protruding from its head mean magic attacks. It also uses a stat draining attack which is a rock-like missile. God spells do not work against this monster.

The Fight


The Balance Elemental will appear from the Stone of Jas once a player touches it. It begins the fight using Ranged, but will readily switch to other attack types. Like players, there is a small delay when it switches combat styles, and it usually uses that same attack for 3-4 hits in a row. It is advisable to fight it using Ranged or Magic (be careful however, the stat drain will affect your spell casting) and get it stuck on some of the rubble around the room so that it cannot use its melee attack. The Stone of Jas itself can be used as a safespot, and a familiar can be used to block as well. If the Elemental's melee attack is disabled in this way, switching prayer is a lot easier, with the bow and the blue spikes being clear indications of which prayer to use. Food must then only be eaten to replenish the health lost through the stat draining attacks.

One tactic is to immediately run to the other side of the Stone of Jas as soon as the Elemental appears and then completely out of its target range. This will allow time to plan a strategy as the player will no longer be targeted and the elemental will simply stand in place allowing for positioning before the first strike.

Another uncommonly used tactic:

Using combat skills, being a minimum of 80.

Wear black dragonhide for armour, with 200 rune bolts to be safe and Dragon shield. For equipment carry one prayer potion, one super restore, one super attack, super defence and super strength. Use a one click-teleport for quick escape. Have rune crossbow ready to go and fill the rest of the spaces with sharks.

For the melee weapon use a Dragon Battleaxe.

Before touching the stone, use the axe's special and drink a dose of each super potion. Summon the Elemental and turn on protect from magic (keep it on).

Jump to crossbow when he switches to melee, but beware as he still has his rockthrowing ability. He shouldn't take more then 5 minutes to bring down.

Note: Should you die during the battle, your gravestone will appear next to Movario and Darve in the Tears of Guthix cave.

See While Guthix Sleeps for more extensive details on how the elemental fights and how to fight it.

Trivia

 * The words 'manners maketh the man' appear to be based upon the motto of the British public school Winchester College and New College, Oxford, 'manners makyth man'.

Balance Elemental