Living rock striker

Living rock strikers can be found throughout the Living Rock Caverns. They were released along with the Living Rock Caverns on 17 September 2009. They have very high hitpoints, decent drops, and are fairly easy to kill; despite looking threatening and defensive, players with 75+ Attack will find a whip very suitable. A person with 80+ Defence, with rune or better armour, could easily kill one of these without taking much damage. A player with 80+ Defence may instead choose to use a Bunyip with the weaker Fighter torso. A set of guthans armour is very effective here as a player can stay the whole task with a good defence level. They will only use their ranged attack if you move a distance from it, which hits much more frequently and consistently harder than their melee attack, if the player attacks them and is not in melee range. As with all other living rock creatures, the strikers are immune to the effects of poison. In addition, they are aggressive, but the player must be right next to them to be targeted. A player with good clicking skills could navigate the cavern without being attacked at all.

Their remains can be mined to receive living minerals and 25 Mining experience. A Mining level of at least 73 is required. The minerals serve as bait for fishing rocktails at level 90 Fishing. The minerals also give a decent amount of money for players, providing upwards of 100k per hour.

One way to stay here for very long is to bring a bunyip familiar and lots of swallow whole scrolls and fish either rocktail or cavefish and eat them with the swallow whole scrolls. However, this requires high fishing and cooking levels.

Another effective method is to bring full guthans to stay for long periods of time. You can switch to full slayer helm and/or a better weapon such as a chaotic maul or barrelchest anchor for the better crush stats, and then switch back to guthans to heal when needed. If swapping weapons, make sure to change attack style to crush each time you switch for maximum accuracy.

Although the easiest and cheapest way is to bring an enhanced excalibur and use the special attack if you get damaged. You can use the special attack every 5 minutes, and the special attack heals 200LP (Hard tasks completed) or 400 LP (elite tasks completed). Not to mention it only takes up one inventory space, and doesn't degrade.

If you cannot afford crush type weapons, or don't want to use the lower-levelled crush weapons, other weapons work fairly well, as these monsters have very low defence in general. A player around 80-85 attack can hit almost as often with stab or slash attacks as they can with crush, provided their attack bonuses are high enough.

Lower levels can use Protect from Melee or Protect from Range depending on combat style, as the strikers do not react to protection prayers.

For a miner, the Striker can be annoying with its damaging range attack, one trick to erase its memory is to run to the entrance, then go up the rope and back down. Alternatively, players can run to a safe place (bank deposit, behind rocks) and log out and back in.

Strikers are not aggressive if you are not near its melee range, unlike other counterparts like the metal dragons. If you favour less melee damage, kill these, but be sure not to wander outside the melee range without activating Protect from Missiles first. This is the weakest living rock creature, due to that most players prefer melee over other parts of the combat triangle, and its melee attack is somewhat accurate but very low.

The best spot on a slayer task is the east side. Go to the rope, then go NE to a big area. In that area should be 4 Living rock strikers grouped tightly together. It is a respawn spot for the Patriarch, so that is a nice spot. Players can fetch themselves around 1.3k's worth of Slayer experience from there. That spot is also not near any Protectors, so it won't affect the experience rate or profit.

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Trivia

 * When Living Rock Strikers stand still, at a set amount of time they would either scratch their left chest, or pluck a rock from itself, and take a short look at it before putting it back.

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