Tormented demon



Tormented demons, also known as TD (plural TDs), require the completion of the While Guthix Sleeps quest to fight. They are currently the eleventh strongest monster in RuneScape. A tormented demon's body is odd in that it is part organic and part dragon metal. They are known for being the only monsters to drop dragon claws and the 3 parts of the dragon platebody.

The monster can hit up to 269 with Magic and Ranged; Melee tends to hit less often, up to 189.
 * The magic attack indicates the demon "spits" a fireball at the player: this attack draws an orange line; it sounds like a fire titan doing its animation.
 * The ranged attack is where they snap their ribcage and throw it as a projectile; there will be a snapping sound.
 * The melee attack is only used if the demon is within melee range. It slices with its claws drawing a white line through the air.
 * The monster also has an area-based magic attack, which looks the same as its standard magic attack. It can shoot this over obstacles. Before using this attack, the demon will use the same animation as when it switches attacks. It should be noted that this attack may be used even if the demon is not after someone.

Tormented demons reside in a multicombat area, so it is possible to attack it as a team. However, there are multiple demons in the one area, so it is also possible for more than one demon to attack a player. They have very high life points, but they are demons, so their defence is only moderately high. Because these demons have had their flesh burned away, leaving their skeletal feature, these monsters are very vulnerable to crush and stab attacks.

Habitat

 * In the former area of the Stone of Jas inside the Ancient Guthix Temple.

Strategy
In total, there are 6 tormented demon spawns in the Ancient Guthix Temple. As the demons are very dangerous, it is vital to a player's survival that he/she is only under attack from one demon at a time. This can be accomplished by trapping nearby demons behind obstacles and "luring" a single demon away from the others to fight it one-on-one. The danger of fighting more than one demon at once is that they may attack with different styles, and it is generally impractical to try and tank a particular attack style using just armour rather than prayer.

Tormented demons are surrounded by a fire shield which reduces the damage it takes by roughly 75%. The shield can be removed by a non-zero hit with Darklight, although occasionally a 0 will lower the shield. After the shield has been taken down, other weapons may be used for approximately 60 seconds before the shield returns. Hitting the demon with Darklight again while the shield is down will reset this 60 second counter.

Tormented demons will also use protection prayers to block against the attack style they are currently receiving the most damage from. Upon spawning, the demon will first protect against melee attacks. The demon will switch prayers after it receives 310 damage from one attack style. Every attack whether successful or not will add 20 damage to this counter. For example, if a player does 270 damage with his first attack, then misses with the next two attacks the demon will switch prayers because the two unsuccessful attacks count as 20 damage each. Any hit under 20 lifepoints will be counted as 20, for example 14 lifepoints. The demon's protection prayers can never run out or be bypassed by any means including a dragon scimitar special attack. The Verac's set of armour can bypass the demon's melee prayer, but this is not recommended for taking down the demon's fire shield. Sometimes when using Verac's set, a glitch will occur and the demon will not change prayer style no matter how much damage you inflict on it. This can cause problems when its fire shield comes back up.

Upon spawning, the demon will first attack with magic. Randomly, it will do a "roar" emote, and the demon will most likely switch to another style of attack. Additionally, every time it does the "roar" emote, there is a chance it will attack with an area-effect magic spell that is capable of going over obstacles and damaging anyone in the area for up to 260 damage. It is important to have sound and area sound effects on as a 'special' attack roar emote is accompanied by a roar sound, while such emote without the special attack does not produce any sound.

Having sound effects on is vital to hear whenever a second demon beging to attack the player, as the demons may attack from a large distance and most often you won't notice them attacking untill they start to fire attacks at you.

Tormented demons are immune to Holy Water and poison. Additionally, dwarf multicannons cannot be set up in the area.

Drops

 * 3000-13000 coins (3000 is rare, 7000+ is common)
 * Ashes (100%)

Weapons/Armour

 * Adamant battleaxe (Very common)
 * 20 Adamant javelin (extremely rare)
 * 42 Rune arrows (very rare)
 * Rune battleaxe (very rare)
 * Rune chainbody (uncommon)
 * Rune mace (very common)
 * Rune med helm (uncommon)
 * Rune spear (very rare)
 * Rune sq shield (uncommon)
 * Rune sword (common)
 * Rune two-handed sword (extremely rare)
 * Rune kiteshield (extremely rare)
 * Dragon med helm (extremely rare)
 * Dragon spear (extremely rare)
 * Shield left half (extremely rare)
 * 150 Steel arrows (very rare)
 * Dragon claws (rare) (said to be about 1/200)

Dragon armour pieces

 * Ruined dragon armour slice (very rare)
 * Ruined dragon armour lump (very rare)
 * Ruined dragon armour shard (very rare)

Food/Potions

 * 5-15 Shark (uncommon)
 * 1-6 Super defence potion (3) (uncommon)
 * 1-3 Prayer potion (3) (uncommon)

Seeds
This monster drops 4-10 random seeds at a time. (very common)
 * Belladonna seed (common)
 * Cactus seed (uncommon)
 * Harralander seed (common)
 * Jangerberry seed (common)
 * Limpwurt seed (uncommon)
 * Marrentill seed (common)
 * Mushroom spore (common)
 * Ranarr seed (uncommon)
 * Spirit weed seed (uncommon)
 * Strawberry seed (uncommon)
 * Snapdragon seed (rare)
 * Toadflax seed (uncommon)
 * Watermelon seed (uncommon)
 * Whiteberry seed (uncommon)
 * Wildblood seed (common)
 * Kwuarm seed (common)
 * Torstol seed (rare)
 * Dwarf weed seed

Herbs
This monster drops 8-10 random herbs at a time.
 * Grimy avantoe (common)
 * Grimy cadantine (common)
 * Grimy guam (common)
 * Grimy harralander (common)
 * Grimy irit (common)
 * Grimy marrentill (common)
 * Grimy ranarr (uncommon)
 * Grimy tarromin (common)
 * Grimy lantadyme (common)
 * Grimy kwuarm (common)
 * Grimy dwarf weed (uncommon)

Ores/Bars

 * 3-5 Adamantite bar (common)
 * Runite bar (extremely rare)
 * 100 Silver ore (noted) (extremely rare)

Gems

 * 3-5 Diamond (noted) (common)
 * Uncut gem (very rare, up to diamond)
 * Dragonstone (extremely rare)

Runes

 * 10-20 Blood runes (common)
 * 20-40 Death runes (common)
 * 20-40 Lava runes (very common)
 * 20-45 Law runes (common)
 * 67 Nature runes (extremely rare)

Other

 * 2-5 Fire talismans (common)
 * Half of a key (very rare)
 * Nature talisman (very rare)
 * Starved ancient effigy (uncommon)

Trivia

 * The Balrog from the Lord of the Rings got the most votes on the question "Which of these monsters would you most like to make an appearance on RuneScape?" (Player submitted poll #11) shortly before While Guthix Sleeps was released, so it is possible that the tormented demon's appearance is based off the Balrog.
 * It should be noted that this is the highest level monster in the game where there are multiple of the same one (There is only one Kalphite Queen, King Black Dragon, Etc.)
 * On 4 December 2008, Jagex changed the drop tables for tormented demons and made them more difficult to kill by changing their behaviour toward mage and range attacks.

Tormented demon
 * On 9 December 2008, a silent update made tormented demons considerably more dangerous. Among other things, their boundaries had been widened, which makes it more likely that multiple demons will attack players in spots that were previously considered safe spots.
 * On 20 January 2009, another update was made that fixed a known bug that would allow players to weaken the tormented demons' shields by attacking with a preferred weapon and quickly switching to Darklight. This allowed players to use ranged weapons such as a crossbow and take down a tormented demon's defence without actually hitting it with Darklight.
 * After 12 July 2009, many people have reported that the demons have been changed yet again: the area upon in which they wander had been increased. Some players reported that up to 5 tormented demons attacked them at once.
 * After the RuneTek Game Engine update on 2 September 2009, tormented demons became even more dangerous; they were made more difficult to safe-spot as their movement pattern had been changed.
 * The armour on a tormented demons's upper body is similar in colour and design to Barrows armour.
 * The various ruined dragon armour pieces and dragon claws that the tormented demons drop closely resemble various parts of their anatomy. Lump is the head piece, slice is the left arm, shard is the right foot, and claws are the hands.
 * An update made tormented demons slightly easier to fight: they will occasionally do a Silent Roar which resembles their multi-combat magic attack. This will indicate when it will switch styles, giving players a good opportunity to change prayers.
 * Tormented demons on the wallpaper have a look very similar to that of an Ifrit, which in real life are supernatural fiery demons in Arabic and Islamic cultures.
 * Verac's set effect does work on tormented demons, but it doesn't mean players who only use Verac's set will kill tormented demons faster than players who constantly switch combat styles.
 * Close examination of the demon's shield reveals the face of a demon embedded into it.
 * If a player teleports away from the ancient guthix temple after killing at least one demon, the fire-sound of the demons will still be heard at random places. This lasts for a few minutes. This bug has yet to be fixed.
 * A recent glitch causes the life points bar and protection prayers of the demons to appear at their feet, this has yet to be fixed.
 * While using lootshare, ashes will not show up, even though it is a 100% drop from demons. This is odd because other 100% drops from things like the King Black Dragon or the bones from other NPC's will show on screen.
 * A recent hidden update makes tormented demons' attacks somewhat harder to predict: They now randomly roar throughout the fight, not just when they change attacks.
 * During the quest, there is a different version of the tormented demon. Their skin appears darker red than the normal demon and it has a gaping, jagged mouth line.
 * A Ruined dragon piece is more rare than Dragon claws as a drop, even though Dragon claws are priced up to 9-10 times as much as a Ruined dragon piece.