To'Kash the Bloodchiller

To'Kash the Bloodchiller is a Boss in the Dungeoneering skill. A Dungeoneering Level of 17 is required to encounter him. He uses a combination of Melee and Magic. As his attacks are capable of ignoring protection prayers, one of the best tactics for slaying To'kash is to melee him with Piety on and use a weapon with a crush attack (a warhammer or a maul works best). Players may also find it convenient to range this boss, using the magic defence bonus of the leather armour to defend against his magic. Another good strategy is to bring mage armour and exploit his weakness against magic. If you bring the best fire spell you can and food, Flatfish or better, this boss should be no trouble. Just make sure you have at least enough runes for 50 casts of the spell you are using and make sure you eat when he yells "DEEP FREEZE!"

A good strategy while fighting To'Kash the Bloodchiller is to have a Gatestone set outside of the chamber, when he yells "Sleep now in bitter cold" teleport out, as his freeze ability will do nothing, thus allowing you to reenter without taking massive damage.

Special attack
To'Kash has a special attack known as 'Deep Freeze'. He says it before he uses it. Note that he also says "Sleep now in the bitter cold" beforehand. This move freezes you solid, similar to Ice barrage.

The duration of this Deep Freeze depends on the number of players inside the room; a person soloing this boss can free himself almost immediately (However this is done by To'Kash, so it can be treated as guaranteed damage). When raiding the dungeon with a team of 5, players may find themselves frozen for several seconds. However, you can click "Free" on your character to free yourself (although it is difficult), once free you can click your fellow teammates to free them as well. One person will always be broken free due to the bosses attacks breaking the ice, once done so that player should break out one of his teammates and continue attacking, this cuts down the time that players are locked within the ice blocks and avoid them from dealt heavy damage.

With a team, everyone becomes frozen from the spell. To'Kash goes after one person only during the time. When To'Kash uses melee on a character that is frozen in place, he breaks the ice, allowing them to run freely. During this time, it is heavily advised to take the remaining five seconds to help free the other teammates, so they will not be dealt additional damage, ranging as high as 350 LP. Doing this saves food in your inventory and gets tension off the players. Alternatively, To'Kash may attack the player breaking the ice. This causes the player to be hit twice at the same time and may result in an instant-kill if the boss is of a higher level variant.

To'Kash is weak against magic, like other Demons.

The Anti-Dragon Shield may drastically cut the damage from being broken after Deep Freeze.

Another of his specials is prayer draining. He only prayer drains when the player is using a protect prayer. This does not include the other prayers which may be useful. He only drains when he says "I will shatter your soul!" With this sentence he also smashes open any players which are frozen from his Deep Freeze special attack, dealing heavy damage. Mostly the draining prayer attack will not have any effect on soloers as they are often unfrozen by the boss before.

If you decide to solo To'Kash, High level Mage armour combined with an Anti-Dragon Shield provides excellent protection and also renders To's freezing abilities useless (assuming you're using Magic).

Quotes

 * "I will shatter your soul!" (During Prayer drain attack, also causes Special Attack to shatter, dealing up to 350LP damage)
 * "Sleep now, in the bitter cold..." (Before Special Attack)
 * "DEEP FREEZE!" (During Special Attack)
 * "RAAAAAAAAGH!" (Upon defeat)

Armour

 * Salve gloves
 * Wildercress gloves
 * Blightleaf gloves
 * Roseblood gloves
 * Bryll gloves
 * Duskweed gloves
 * Soulbell gloves
 * Ectogloves
 * Runic gloves
 * Spiritbloom gloves
 * Celestial gloves

Other

 * Parts of the Dungeoneering journals

Trivia

 * This monster looks very similar to the Balrog of Morgoth in Moria from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
 * This monster is extremely similar in appearance to the God Wars Dungeon boss K'ril Tsutsaroth, the leader of the Zamorak army, except that he is blue. But since K'ril is also Kal'Gerion general, the similarities are explained easily.
 * Occasionally, To'Kash shouts out phrases similar to the God Wars Dungeon bosses.
 * If you eat food right as he yells out "DEEP FREEZE" you can avoid being frozen.
 * If he is in view, regardless of whether anyone is fighting him or you are in a different room, he will, from time to time, use his Deep Freeze attack on nothing.
 * When he uses "Deep Freeze" attack, the snow is sometimes mistaken for particles. This is a misconception. The bits of snow are actually just small triangular polygons.
 * According to some soloing players, To'Kash's Deep Freeze can be entirely avoided if you are ranging/maging the boss from beside a pillar, where the boss is diagonal from you (with the pillar partially in the way). The boss will cast Deep Freeze, but that spell will not affect you. This is hypothesized since when To'Kash freezes you, he is the only one that can unfreeze you by striking at you with a melee attack. He is unable to damage you though, since he cannot attack you melee style at a diagonal from you, with a pillar partially in the way. (This tactic is commonly used from the entrance, if To'Kash is either on the far right or left of the boss room.) This is mostly likely a glitch.
 * There is a glitch that sometimes occurs in which, shortly before being frozen by the monster's special attack, the player temporarily turns invisible. Player one.png
 * It is mentioned in Bilrach's journal that he is one of the five generals of the Kal'Gerion army.
 * While soloing, it is possible to get the 'Free frozen adventurer' option. This can be done by killing To'Kash immediately after it shouts Deep Freeze and using a gatestone to teleport. The frozen solid will remain there for around 5 seconds and in the meantime, you would be able to see the 'Free frozen adventurer' option. The ice block would show up as a yellow dot on the mini map, which usually indicates an NPC.
 * There is a glitch where if you kill this boss as he does his deep freeze attack you will be frozen for about 30 seconds and unable to move