Ghast



Ghasts are undead souls of people that starved to death in Mort Myre swamp. When first encountered, they are fully transparent, have no combat level, and try to turn food into useless rotten food. If a player has no food, they do damage instead.

A player can kill a ghast only after obtaining a Druid pouch in the Nature Spirit quest. A player must use the Cast Bloom ability (uses up to six prayer points each time cast) of a blessed Silver sickle or the Ivandis flail near some dead logs, branches, or bushes to harvest Mort myre fungi, Mort myre stems, or Mort myre pears. Then put three or more of those harvested items into the druid pouch by filling it. A player may fill it multiple times in a row to contain many charges. A charge from a filled druid pouch makes a ghast visible. If a ghast attacks a player, the pouch makes it visible (and consumes a charge) automatically. Visibility renders the ghast vulnerable to attack. Killing it rewards the player with Prayer experience equal to the combat level of ghast (e.g., 30 Prayer experience for a Level 30 ghast). Killing higher level ghasts from the temple trekking mini-game rewards the player with up to 139 prayer experience per kill.

Ghast Hunting Notes
Although not difficult, it is considered by some to be rather tedious to summon Ghasts for combat training. They do drop lots of herbs, much more so than Hobgoblins. The material drops are rather petty. You do, however, gain reasonable Prayer experience as well as combat experience for killing them.

The best place to hunt them would be just west of the Altar of Nature/Grotto from the Nature Spirit quest. This allows you to keep refreshing your Prayer Points without using valuable Prayer Potions. The Silver Sickle does not have to actually equipped to gain its benefits, it just has to be in your inventory. However, you must also have a filled druid pouch in your inventory to prevent your food from being rotted. A player can use whichever weapon they choose for combat, not having to use the Sickle. Fully charge your Prayer Points, go west of the Grotto (where the Ghasts are) and cast Bloom with the Sickle next to the rotten logs. Try and do it between as many logs, branches, and bushes as possible, and you will often get several blossomed items to put in the Druid pouch. Do this over and over until you are out of Prayer Points. Now "use" the filled pouch on the ghostly Ghasts - do not wait for them to attack you. Often they will just float around, or the pouch will activate itself, allowing the solid Ghast to float out over the water where it cannot be attacked. The drops will more often than not fall under the rotten logs, so search the ground carefully after defeating the Ghast.

Drops

 * Coins 1-125
 * Herbs
 * Bronze kiteshield
 * Iron dagger
 * Iron mace
 * Runes (Fire, Chaos, Cosmic, Body, Air)
 * Eye of newt
 * Fishing bait (common)
 * Tin ore
 * Tinderbox
 * Nature talisman
 * Uncut gems
 * Half keys
 * Shield left half
 * Summer pie

Trivia

 * If a Ghast dies above water, there will be no drop at all.
 * The level 30 Ghasts attack at the speed of a whip, but their higher leveled counterparts encountered during Temple trekking attack much slower (same speed as an ogre bow).