Spiritual mage

The Spiritual mage is a potent magic user that can easily kill low-level players. Protect from Magic or Deflect Magic is highly recommended. Like all monsters in the God Wars Dungeon, they are aggressive to any players that do not show affinity to their god. For example, a Zamorak spiritual mage will be aggressive to all players that are not wearing a piece of Zamorak equipment. Spiritual mages require 83 Slayer to kill.

Tips
Like most monsters in the God Wars Dungeon, these creatures may be safely attacked when they are engaged against another monster. Players should be careful when using this strategy, as when their opponent does die, their next target may be the player. This method is most effective against the Saradomin spiritual mages in the southeast corner of the main area of God Wars Dungeon, as they are commonly found fighting the werewolves (which have fairly quick respawn time). Their attack hits very high and rarely misses, even when a player has a high Magic defence, so Protect from Magic is a must.

The spiritual mage is known for being the only source of Dragon Boots. They also drop a large variety of runes, but only in small quantities. The only runes they don't drop are Soul, Cosmic, Steam, Earth, Smoke and Lava runes.

Most slayers slay the Zamorakian Spiritual Mages using Mage prayer, since the uncommon Dragon Boot drops pay for the Prayer Potions.

A common alternative is the Saradomin Spiritual Mages. They are commonly camped because players never need food or potions. As long as a player is wearing the appropriate armour they can camp there for days. However, this is not a good strategy if a player wishes to level up their Slayer; sometimes the Werewolf or Bloodveld in the area gets the kill causing the player to not get Slayer xp.

The Bandos Spirit Mages have high defence and spawn far away from each other. Few players fight these because they are not possible to camp.

The Armadyl Spirit Mages cannot be meleed, but are good for Range experience. (they are unaffected by magical attacks)

Previously it was possible to camp Spiritual Mages in the Saradomin Encampment without any food or prayer potions. The Mages would always be in combat with the werewolf and never quite able to kill it. A hidden update made it so the Spiritual Warriors in the area would always be agressive towards the werewolf, and now the werewolf dies before much can be done to the mages.

Types
There are four types of Spiritual mages:
 * Saradomin (Level 120)
 * Zamorak (Level 121)
 * Bandos (Level 121)
 * Armadyl (Level 123).

Habitat

 * Saradomin, Armadyl, Zamorak and Bandos bases of the God Wars Dungeon
 * The Saradomin Spiritual mages are the only ones that will wander in the main section of the God Wars Dungeon.

Warning: All monsters in the God Wars Dungeon are aggressive to any players that do not show affinity to their god. The entire dungeon is a Multicombat area, so failing to wear the proper gear can result in being attacked by melee, ranged, and magic by multiple monsters.

Runes

 * Chaos rune (1, 2, 3)
 * Nature rune (4, 9)(common)
 * Death rune (2)
 * Blood rune (2)
 * Astral rune (3)
 * Law rune (2)
 * Mist rune (3)
 * Dust rune (1)
 * Mud rune (2)
 * Body rune (5, 12)
 * Mind rune (5)
 * Air rune (11, 13)
 * Water rune (5, 9)
 * Fire rune (7)

Weapons and armour

 * Dragon boots (about 1 in 110)
 * Dragon shield half (1 in 1000)
 * Dragon Spear (very rare)
 * Rune javelin (5) (rare)

Gems

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

Other

 * Nothing (Uncommon)
 * Pure essence (noted) (23) (Very Common)
 * 5 Antipoison (3) (Very Common)
 * Nature talisman(Uncommon)
 * Half of a key (Rare)
 * Clue scroll (level 3)

Trivia

 * Although their attacks are accurate and powerful against players, Saradomin spiritual mages are very weak against other NPCs in the main room of the God Wars Dungeon, hitting rarely and with a maximum hit of 100.
 * There appears to be a graphical problem with Zamorakian Spiritual Mages. A small piece of what appears to be skin can be seen from the robe tops of the mages.