Warped tortoise

The Warped tortoise is found during the The Path of Glouphrie quest and can be fought during and after the quest.

About the creature
Before players can damage a warped tortoise, they must use Crystal chimes on it to cleanse it. This makes the tortoise vulnerable for a short duration of time, after which the chimes must be used again if the tortoise is still fighting. The tortoise changes colour when cleansed and changed back when the time is up. (The shell of a cleansed tortoise is darker than that of an uncleansed one.) These monsters are vulnerable to all attacks once cleansed, with slash attacks being the most effective. The tortoises can hit up to 10.

Its habitat, the Poison Waste Slayer Dungeon, is multi-combat, so Summoning familiars can hit and damage warped tortoises even in their uncleaned form. A Dwarf Multicannon will damage cleansed tortoises but not uncleansed ones.

Despite living in a poisonous environment, warped tortoises can be poisoned.

The tortoises sometimes drop Tortoise shells, which are used to create War tortoise pouches in Summoning. They also can drop Perfect shells. These cannot be used for war tortoise pouches, but instead can be sold to Barlak in Dorgesh-Kaan, in exchange for crafting experience and some money.

The crystal chime can be used at a distance to cleanse a warped tortoise. However, since a tortoise is not aggressive, it is recommended for players to stand near it to cleanse it, to avoid wasting time running up to it to attack. However, one can use the chime on it and immediately click to attack the tortoise; the player will run toward the tortoise as the chime rings, wasting little time. Using the chime to cleanse a tortoise is not an attack on it, so the tortoise will continue to ignore the player unless he does attack it.

The player can use the chime multiple times in a row to cleanse different nearby tortoises, without having to attack the ones he cleansed first. This allows a cannon to be used with effect against several at once, as well as the use of Ancient Magicks with area combat effects.

Guthan's set is effective against warped tortoises, as it allows the player to heal himself. The set has a chance of replenishing the player's health by the damage caused, on a 1:1 ratio. There is a 'hidden' bonus in that it includes 'potential damage' when players cannot actually inflict damage (because the tortoise is uncleaned) but the set activates anyway. For example, wearing Guthan's and attacking an uncleaned warped tortoise means all attacks result in 0 damage. However, Guthan's set still activates as usual, and the players are healed the amount they would have hit.

Players with a high Defence should not bring too much food with them. The inventory can become filled quickly due to the frequent Tortoise shell drops. It is also advised for players to pick up the Swamp tar which are coins each and stackable.

Habitat

 * Poison Waste Slayer Dungeon

Drops
Coins
 * 33 - 177

Charms
 * Blue, Crimson, Green, Gold

Armour
 * Mithril platebody

Weapons
 * Rune spear (rare)
 * Rune warhammer
 * Rune pickaxe
 * Rune Javelin (5) (rare)
 * Adamant hatchet
 * Mithril warhammer

Ore
 * Adamantite ore
 * Mithril ore (noted) (3-6)
 * Coal (noted) (7-16)

Other
 * Air runes (49)
 * Law runes (3-6)
 * Swamp tar (1-32)
 * Cabbage (noted) (6-54)
 * Tangled toad's legs (1-3)
 * Tortoise shell (1-3)
 * Perfect shell (1-3)
 * Curved bone (rare)
 * Long bone
 * Weapon poison
 * Sulphur
 * Uncut gems
 * Half of a key
 * Nature talisman
 * Law talisman
 * Shield left half