Aberrant spectre

Aberrant spectres are Slayer monsters that require level 60 Slayer to kill. They frequently drop large amounts of high level herbs and herb seeds. They are also known for their higher chance in dropping level 3 clue scrolls. Due to the short distance from a bank (when killing them at the Slayer Tower) and their drops, killing Aberrant spectres is often used to make money. A Macaw Summoning familiar is helpful as they will improve herb drops (requires level 41 Summoning), as will herb gloves (reward from the Fist of Guthix minigame).

Locations

 * Morytania Slayer Tower
 * Pollnivneach Slayer Dungeon

Strengths and weaknesses
Players must equip either a nose peg or a slayer helmet when fighting Aberrant spectres, or the player's stats (including hitpoints) will be rapidly reduced due to the Aberrant spectre's smell. Spectres use a very accurate Magic-based attack with a max hit of 12, which will hit fairly often even with a high magic defence. Recommended armour is: dragonhide (preferably black) or Karil's; an elemental shield, mind shield or Holy book, with other high magic defence armour. Alternatively, wear prayer enhancing gear and use the Protect from Magic prayer. As well have a Holy wrench in your inventory so you will boost more Prayer points per sip of the Prayer potion. During a trip they should drop enough Ranarr weeds to recoup or even make a profit over the prayer potions used. On average, a Ranarr weed is dropped every 8-10 kills.

They seem to be weak to Ranged attacks, although a weapon with Slash attacks work just fine. In addition, if using melee, using a Salve amulet (e) will give a large advantage, since they are classified as undead.

The only non-aggressive Aberrant Spectres are in the Desert Slayer Dungeon. Players cannot kill them safely until the player makes the slayer helmet, because both the nose peg and facemask are needed to fight them without suffering the effects of the spectres or the smoke. The smoke, however, will only damage players down to 1 hitpoint, so it is possible to use a nose peg, with the Protect from magic prayer, to avoid damage from the spectres and remain at 1 hitpoint. This is very risky, as if the player's prayer runs out, or is otherwise turned off, for just a second, there is a very high chance that the player will die, and hence is not recommended.

Guthan set could be used to heal on bloodveld if you are in the slayer tower. This could extend your trip long enough to have to bank your herbs

Recommended Armour
If you are using prayer:
 * Slayer helmet/Nose peg
 * Ardougne cloak 3/Trimmed skillcape/God Vestment cloak/Fire cape
 * Salve amulet (e)/Amulet of fury/Unholy symbol/Holy symbol/God stole
 * (Although the Salve Amulet/(e)'s stat boost does not stack with the slayer helm, it is a good idea to wear the slayer helm with the salve amulet/(e), because it offers better stats than the slayer helmet which is required or a nose peg instead.)
 * Abyssal whip/Dragon scimitar/Saradomin sword/Dragon mace
 * Falador Shield 3/Falador shield 2/Holy book/Unholy book/Book of balance/Rune defender/Any Spirit shield
 * Proselyte hauberk/Initiate hauberk/Monk's robe (top)
 * Proselyte cuisse/Initiate cuisse/Monk's robe (bottom)
 * Dragon boots/Rune boots/Climbing boots/White boots/Bandos boots
 * Your best Metal gloves/Regen bracelet/Combat bracelet/White gloves
 * Ring of wealth/Explorer's ring/Fremennik ring of your attack style

After the release of the extreme defence potion with the large herblore update, a common high level strategy is simply using armour of high magic defence, as the defence bonus of the extreme defence potion is large enough to make this option cheap and effective.



Seeds

 * Belladonna seed(very common)
 * Poison ivy seed
 * Cactus seed
 * Toadflax seed (common)
 * Avantoe seed
 * Irit seed
 * Snapdragon seed (rare)
 * Cadantine seed
 * Lantadyme seed
 * Dwarf weed seed
 * Kwuarm seed
 * Torstol seed
 * Ranarr seed (rare)

Herbs (1-3 common)

 * Grimy guam
 * Grimy marrentill
 * Grimy tarromin
 * Grimy harralander
 * Grimy ranarr
 * Grimy irit
 * Grimy avantoe
 * Grimy kwuarm(rare)
 * Grimy cadantine(rare)
 * Grimy lantadyme(rare)
 * Grimy dwarf weed(rare)

Weapons

 * Dragon spear (extremely rare)
 * Lava battlestaff (rare)
 * 5 Rune javelins (very rare)
 * Rune spear (very rare)
 * Steel hatchet

Armour

 * Black/Red Mystic robe bottom (rare)
 * Rune full helmet (rare)
 * Adamant platelegs (rare)
 * Mithril kiteshield (rare)
 * Shield left half (very rare)

Other

 * 460 Coins (rare)
 * Level 3 Clue Scroll (rare)
 * Half of a key (Loop and Tooth) (rare)
 * Nature talisman (rare)
 * Gems (common)
 * Champion Scroll (Extremely rare)
 * Nothing

Trivia

 * Aberrant means absurd or abnormal, and spectre means ghost.
 * Some players prefer to use Prayer-Flashing, to extend their trip without using any supplies. A skilled Prayer-Flasher can stay until he/she is forced to bank his/her herbs.