Black demon

Black demons are large monsters that inhabit a few dungeons across RuneScape. They are combat level 172, jet-black, and have a melee attack that can hit up to 16, or up to 20 on Familiars. They are much stronger than their Greater Demon cousins. They are often assigned by Sumona and Duradel as Slayer tasks, and a good way to kill them is to bring Prayer-boosting gear and Prayer potions, and use the Protect from Melee prayer. The player can also use the Guthan armour set so the player won't need food or prayer potions. If there are lower level creatures next to the Black demons then the player can fight against them to heal them self in case of emergency. Still it's recommended to have at least one piece of food (shark or better) with you for the safety of the player.

Like other demons, they are affected by the magical abilities of Silverlight and Darklight.

Locations
Black demons inhabit the following locations:
 * The deeper half of Taverley Dungeon
 * Underneath Edgeville, in the Wilderness section of the dungeon
 * Chaos Tunnels-- it is recomended that you kill them here if you want more charms, look out here because it is a multi-combat area
 * Brimhaven Dungeon, right before the Iron and Steel dragons, and with the Bronze dragons.

In each location is at least one safespot from which the demons can be fought safely with Ranged, Magic or a halberd.

Tactics
The best way to fight them is to mage or range these at Taverley dungeon, as there are a lot of safe spots behind stalagmites and walls. Another tactic to fight them is to use a cannon combined with full guthan to heal. A common way that players use to fight them is to use prayer potions; Wear armour that gives a good prayer bonus such as proselyte, and fight while the Protect from melee prayer is on. This is a good way for players with a high level prayer (55+) and if you need to kill a lot for slayer tasks.

100% drops

 * Ashes

Runes and talismans

 * 50 or 75 air runes
 * 37 or 40 fire runes
 * 10 chaos runes
 * 45 death runes
 * 7 blood runes
 * 3 or 45 law runes
 * 67 Nature runes
 * Chaos talisman

Armours and weapons

 * Black axe (common)
 * Black sword (common)
 * Dragon med helm (very rare)
 * Dragon spear (very rare)
 * Mithril kiteshield (semi-rare)
 * Rune kiteshield (rare)
 * Rune longsword (rare)
 * Rune med helm (uncommon)
 * Rune platelegs (rare)
 * Rune spear (very rare)
 * Rune 2h sword (rare)
 * Rune battleaxe (uncommon)
 * Rune chainbody (uncommon)
 * Steel battleaxe (semi-common)
 * Rune sq shield (semi-rare)
 * Shield left half (very rare)

Ammunition

 * 1-200 adamant javelins
 * 135-345 bronze arrows
 * 5 or 10 rune Javelins
 * 12, 42, or 64 rune arrows
 * 150 steel arrows

Ores and bars

 * Adamant bar
 * 20 Noted Coal
 * Runite bar
 * 100 Noted Silver ore

Herbs

 * All Herbs

Others

 * 30, 132, 460 or 3,000 coins
 * Defence potion, (1) or (3)
 * All gems (except onyx)
 * Tooth half of a key
 * Loop half of a key
 * 1 or 2 Cooked lobsters
 * Gold charm
 * Green charm
 * Blue charm
 * Crimson charm (common)
 * 10 Thread
 * Dragonstone (very rare)

Trivia

 * Most black demons were level 156 in RuneScape Classic. The boss of the Grand Tree quest was level 175.  It was the strongest quest monster until the release of the Legends quest.


 * The spelling of the regular demon is Black demon with lowercase second word. However for The Grand Tree quest, it is spelled Black Demon with 2 uppercase words.