Hobgoblin Geomancer

The Hobgoblin Geomancer is a boss monster encountered in the Dungeoneering skill.

Habitat
He appears as a boss when the player has achieved level 23 Dungeoneering, on Floor 12 - Floor 17, and later on Floor 30 - Floor 35.

Methods
The Hobgoblin Geomancer can use magic to snare the player (lasts 12 seconds), cast multi-targeted earth spells, weaken the player's stats, and temporarily stop the player from praying (lasts 15 seconds). It has a fairly accurate melee attack as well. The hobgoblin can also teleport himself around the room.

If the player has a prayer active when he uses his prayer-disabling attack, he will heal himself slightly and will drain the player's prayer points slightly as well. The only way to prevent this is to fight him without prayer, however with a good prayer level, praying can still do limited help. He's weak against stab and ranged, but since he teleports around the room occasionally it is easier to range him. It is most effective to make and wear range armour to fight him. Additionally, he will only teleport far away from the player if the player attacks it with melee. He will teleport right next to the player and melee him/her if the player uses range. Keeping all this in mind an effective method of fighting is to utilise both range and melee while wearing the best range armour you can make, ranging when he teleports far from the player and switching to melee when he gets close. Utilizing this method removes the need for prayer and minimize the amount of food needed. Another method to fight is to purely range the boss and try to run away when the Geomancer teleports near the player, such that he will be forced to use magic. This way, ranged armour will provide the best attack and defence bonus.

Other drops

 * Stegoleather boots
 * Spinoleather boots
 * Protoleather boots
 * Gallileather boots
 * Archleather boots
 * Dromoleather boots
 * Sagittarian boots
 * Tyrannoleather boots
 * Paraleather boots
 * Megaleather boots
 * Parts of the Dungeoneering journals

Trivia

 * Upon release this boss was incorrectly listed as requiring level 24 dungeoneering. This was fixed in a later patch to read as level 23.
 * Many players have said that the boss song that you encounter during the Hobgoblin Geomancer sounds very similar to The Chemical Brothers - "Do It Again"
 * When a player reaches level 23 Dungeoneering, the skill guide says 'You can now fight the Geomage Shaman.'
 * Although graphics and animations for the elemental combat spells were updated (on June 24, 2010), this boss still used the old Earth bolt animation. This has since been fixed.
 * Whilst the Geomancer utilizes magic and melee attacks, it drops range armour.
 * Geomancy is a method of divination that interprets markings on the ground or the patterns formed by tossed handfuls of soil, rocks, or sand.