Bloodveld

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A Bloodveld is a Slayer monster requiring level 50 Slayer to kill. They have very similar drops to Lesser demons, including Rune med helms and Steel scimitars, and a decent drop rate of Green charms.

Their appearance changed upon release of the Smoking Kills quest on 5 June 2008.

Strengths and weaknesses
Bloodvelds attack via hand to hand combat. Though their attacks are melee, the damage they do based on magic and magic stats. Players, therefore, with high Magic defence will take less damage. As such, it is strongly recommended that players wear Dragonhide armour or other armour with higher magical defence bonuses in order to take as little damage as possible. Despite the mage/melee stat blending of the Bloodveld, the Protect from Melee prayer will completely protect players from a Bloodveld's attacks.

Tactics


As Bloodvelds become a common slayer task for mid level slayers and higher, it is worth noting several major tactics used to complete Bloodveld slayer tasks. One such tactic is for the player to use the Bones to Peaches spell or spell tablet works just as well. This is especially valid as Bloodvelds commonly drop more than one set of bones. This method saves players time and effort by prolonging the time spent fighting the monsters, delaying regular banking trips for health restoring food.

Bloodveld have rather low Defence and Strength for their combat level, and can only hit a maximum of 59 (level 76) or 80 (level 81). They have a higher attack level though, so while they hit low they are fairly accurate and will quickly deal significant damage to lower level players.

Ranged and Magic
Safe spotting is an often used tactic for these monsters. There are significant amounts of locations in their habitat where a player can hide and attack these monsters using Ranged, Magic, or long-distance melee with a Halberd without having to deal with retribution from the monsters they attack. As they have an unusually high Hitpoints level, they are excellent targets for training the Ranged skill, with more experience per hour than a player will gain by using the established method of training on Fire giants. Bloodveld are difficult to fight effectively using magic if the player is at or below level 60 magic.

The Slayer Tower is a popular place to fight Bloodveld, with a broad range of safe spots found behind chairs, heaps of bricks, and at several locations along the main wall that partitions the area of their habitat; specifically the end of the wall that separates the two southern rooms, and at the corner of the corridor to the north. The slayer tower is always very crowded, by a large cross-section of players including high level slayers who have gotten low level tasks, and low level players who generally tend to be clueless, exemplified by the absence of dragonhide/magic resistant armour.

At the God Wars Dungeon, where Bloodvelds can also be found, there are safe spots in the Zamorak area of the God Wars Dungeon near the entrance. The Bloodveld there are higher level, also therefore have higher hitpoints which means more experience, while also implying more difficulty per kill. Another bonus of training at God Wars is that players will still get the Slayer experience if another monster kills the Bloodveld, so long as the player has inflicted at least one damage on the Bloodveld first. For more details on this see the God Wars Dungeon guide.

Melee
The Full Guthan's set, with its healing effects is well put to use at bloodvelds, especially by players who have high magic levels, therefore a high innate magic defence. Although Guthan's gear itself does not give magic defence bonuses, the set special effect will activate as usual, healing the player. However, using the spear as a weapon, rather than a faster weapon, use of the special ability may be required more often than usual. To save wear-and-tear on Guthan's armour, some players also bring armour with high magical defence and only switch to Guthan's set when hitpoints are low.

With the innate characteristics of the Bloodveld include unprotected skin they are noticeably weaker to slash attacks and stab attacks. As they are also demonic, they're also vulnerable to the meger effects of Silverlight and Darklight.

The dragon halberd is also a good choice when fighting these, as the massive Slash power and long range works well with the area.

Demonic nature
Slayer Masters sometimes refer to bloodveld as a "strange, demonic creature" or a "half-ton demon". Bloodveld drop various quantities of bones when they die, while all other demons crumble to ash. It has been confirmed that Silverlight and Darklight have their special effects when fighting Bloodveld. As such, it appears bloodvelds are indeed a type of demon, despite their distinct dissimilarity with other creatures in that classification. This may be due to the fact that Bloodveld seem to be the result of human/vampyre experimentation as the examine for the mutated bloodveld is "A bloodveld with a very mixed heritage".

Habitats

 * Morytania Slayer Tower, first floor (level 76)
 * God Wars Dungeon (level 81)
 * Meiyerditch Dungeon (level 126, 146, 76)

100% drop

 * Bones (1-3)

Weapons

 * Dragon spear (extremely rare)
 * 5 Rune javelins (rare)
 * Steel scimitar (common)
 * Steel hatchet (common)
 * Rune spear (very rare)

Armour

 * Shield left half (extremely rare)
 * Rune med helm (rare)
 * Mithril chainbody
 * Mithril square shield
 * Black boots
 * Steel full helmet (common)
 * Rune full helm (rare)

Runes

 * 60 Fire runes (common)
 * 3, 10 or 30 Blood runes (rare) (more common in blood runecrafting altar)

Gems

 * Uncut sapphire (common)
 * Uncut emerald
 * Uncut ruby
 * Uncut diamond (rare)

Herbs and seeds

 * Grimy guam
 * Grimy tarromin
 * Grimy harralander
 * Grimy irit
 * Grimy kwuarm
 * Grimy lantadyme
 * Grimy marrentill
 * Grimy ranarr
 * Grimy dwarf weed
 * Grimy Cadantine
 * Jangerberry seed

Other

 * 10, 40, 120, 200 or 450 coins (common)
 * Big bones (1,4)
 * Meat pizza
 * Half of a key (rare)
 * Nature talisman
 * Chaos talisman
 * Gold ore
 * Gold ring (rare)

Trivia

 * Bloodveld are loyal to Zamorak, as shown in the God Wars Dungeon.
 * Bloodveld resemble both Headcrabs and Barnacles from Valve's Half-Life series.
 * Bloodveld are the only type of demon to drop bones rather than ashes.