Salve amulet (e)



The Salve amulet (e) is an enchanted Salve amulet. It raises the wearer's attack and strength by 20% while fighting undead monsters such as Zombies, Revenants, Ankou, and Aberrant spectres. It is useful for training combat in the fourth level of the Stronghold of Security because of the many undead there. It has been confirmed that it does not give any effect against the seven Barrows brothers.

The enchanted amulet can be made during and after The Lair of Tarn Razorlor miniquest. After defeating Tarn Razorlor, Tarn's diary can be found on a table in the next room. Using the diary with a salve amulet creates the enchanted amulet. It is possible to enchant more than one, if you have multiple salve amulets. Once the miniquest is finished, the diary can also be found in a bookcase of a Player-owned house.

For people going for level 99 Attack, Strength and Defence by killing the Armoured zombies, this amulet is very useful.

For players on undead Slayer assignments, the boosts of a salve amulet do not stack with the effects of a Black mask or Slayer helmet. Only the larger boost will be effective. The larger boost being the Salve Amulet (e), so slayers may still find it useful on undead tasks.

Note: The boost of a salve amulet DOES stack with the effects of Void Knight equipment.

Salve amulet (e) vs. Amulet of fury
The Salve Amulet (e) is considered by many players as one of the very best combat amulets in the game against the undead. Notice that while the Amulet of fury gives a very high bonus to levels, it cannot easily be compared to the Salve amulet (e), since one attack level boost isn't equal to one attack point boost. However, it is safe to assume that Salve Amulet is more effective for fighting the undead, as a 20% boost to strength has a greater effect than a +8 strength bonus.

Following some calcultations with the max hit calculators the 20% strength bonus equates to a strength bonus of aproximately +14 between levels 20-99. Therefore it is probably same to assume the attack bonus is around the same amount, +14.

The Salve amulet (e), however, only gives a +3 bonus to melee-related defence and a +3 bonus to prayer, while the Amulet of fury gives +15 bonuses to melee, ranged, magic, and summoning defence, along with 5 prayer bonus.

Notice how the Salve amulet (e) does not increase defence much. If defence is a concern, however, then the Amulet of fury may allow the player to stay in action against the undead longer.

When a player is using protection prayers against the undead (such as against Aberrant spectres), the slightly larger defence bonus of the Amulet of fury is not particularly significant, making the Salve amulet (e) preferable for most players.

For slayer assignments against undead, however, if the player can use a Black mask or Slayer Helmet, then the Amulet of Fury is always preferable, since this amulet's bonuses stack with the mask's or helmet's bonuses, while the Salve amulet (e)'s attack and strength bonuses do not.

It is also noteworthy that this amulet's bonus does stack with Void.

Note that the Salve amulet and its unenchanted counterpart only boost Attack and Strength, so its bonuse don't work with Range and Mage.

The Salve amulet(e) is worth 300gp as shown in the "Items Kept On Death" interface.

Undead monsters
The salve amulet / salve amulet (e) is effective against the following undead creatures.
 * Aberrant spectre
 * Armoured zombie
 * Ankou
 * Banshee
 * Crawling hand
 * Dried zombie
 * Ghost
 * Ghast
 * Mummy
 * Mighty banshee
 * Revenants
 * All Shades
 * Skeleton
 * Skeleton brute
 * Skeleton thug
 * Skeleton warlord
 * Summoned Zombie
 * Skogre
 * Tormented wraith
 * Tortured soul
 * Undead chicken
 * Undead cow
 * Undead one
 * Undead troll
 * Zombie
 * Zombie monkey
 * Zombie rat
 * Zogre

Note that all Vampyric creatures are not undead and are unaffected by the enchanted salve amulet.