Greater demon

Greater demons are strong demonic beings often found in remote places. They follow the god Zamorak. They are the second highest-levelled, third most accurate, and third strongest maximum damage causers free-to-play monster that is neither revenant-, quest and, since there are no more evil chicken random events, greater demons are the third strongest. In attack, accuracy, and maximum damage per hit, they were surpassed by lvl 85 skeleton when stronghold of security came out in 2006, and then all these three records went to the hellhound with the update on 16 June 2009. Greater demons are stronger than lesser demons, with highly accurate melee attacks that hit up to 9. Physically, greater demons have larger dicks and bigger balls than those of the lesser demons. With the release of Summoning many players kill greater demons for crimson charms. They also drop better items than their lesser counterparts.

Locations

 * Demonic ruins in level 45-48 Wilderness.
 * Entrana Dungeon (no armour or weapons allowed) if you bring runes or make your own ranged weapons you can safespot Greater Demons from the Dramen Tree Area.
 * Brimhaven Dungeon
 * Ogre Enclave (caged).
 * Dungeon at the end of the Lava Maze (the dungeon is also wilderness).
 * Kuradal's Dungeon
 * Wilderness Volcano

Strengths and weaknesses
The hardest part about fighting greater demons is getting to them, as they are found in rather remote or dangerous locations. However, the Wilderness Crater just north of Edgeville is usually uncrowded and has four or five greater demons in the area closest to the entrance into the crater, with a bank very close nearby for restocking on food. Though revenants neither spawn nor patrol here, it is possible for a fellow player to lure them into the area. Note: You should be able to run through the entrance in plenty of time in the extremely unlikely event of this happening. They can be maged or ranged fairly easily in most of their locations, with safespots in the crater limited to over volcanic spots or from behind rocks. Since they are demons, Silverlight, Darklight and Holy water will work effectively when fighting these monsters. Bring good food, however, because their melee attacks are very accurate and can hit frequently even against a character with high defensive bonuses, this problem with constant damage is far more dominant in free-to-play. Because of that it's recommended you are either a member, have 80+ defense with best possible armour and food healing at least 10, use safespot tactics, or use the wilderness volcano so you can resupply quickly. Otherwise, you will be spending much of your time for resupplying.

Greater demons are very susceptible to magic attacks.

Demonic Ruins
One of the best f2p locations there is. For those desiring to stay a long trip, there is a nearby caging fishing spot, ideal for players with level 40 and over fishing. However, be very careful as revenants come here very frequently, most notably the Revenant Hobgoblin, and the Revenant Ork, the biggest threat a low-leveled player can encounter. It is definitely not the greatest place for members, as there are safer and less remote places, such as the Brimhaven Dungeon. For f2p, players also have the option of fighting Greater demons in the wilderness volcano.

Entrana Dungeon
This is not a recommended spot for training. It is almost completely unusable for meleers, mages will be stuck with a very low magic bonus due to weapons and armour being banned on Entrana, despite runes being allowed. If you wish to use ranged, bring the unfinished bows and arrows and fletch them in the dungeon. Making weapons or armour on the island itself will result in you being forced out.

(Recommended) The main problem with this area is that it is rather far from the nearest bank; however, there is a good number of greater demons here to kill. This is a decent spot for melee users, but not the absolute best for rangers and mages due to the lack of a large amount of safe spots. Mages and rangers can still get by here, though. It is recommended to only go here if you have a reasonable combat (90+).

Ogre Enclave
Decent spot for Mages and Rangers, It's advised that, anyone who decides to train here, should bring an Anti-dragon Shield as Blue Dragons are located here.

Lava Maze
This location is in debate as one of the worst locations out of all spots due to the fact it's deep into the Wilderness (Lvl 44). You can also find the lever to the King Black Dragon here.

Wilderness Volcano
This is a very useful free-to-play training area. Lower levels can safespot the Greater Demons from behind the piles of bones. The main disadvantage to this area are the Ankous. They can wander into the safespot and interrupt players. On the flip side, there is a banker right outside the volcano, and you can teleport from the majority of the volcano, should you be injured. As this area can be used for all three combat types, it's perfect for quick training.

Although it is located in the Wilderness, revenants don't patrol this area, though they can be led into it (see Wilderness volcano article for more information).

Entrana Dungeon (P2P)
Sail to the island carrying some food. Bring a Crossbow string, an unstrung version of the best Crossbow you can make along with the unfinished ammo of your choice, and the equivalent amount of feathers. Another possibility is to bring an unstrung bow along with arrows, which are allowed even when finished. You can also attack them with magic spells, since runes are allowed on the island. Players can further their preparations by bringing dragonleather or regular leather if they have a high enough level to craft it into armour, however is no thread available on the island. You can find needles by searching the haystacks.

Players should not assemble their weapons or armour until after they have arrived on the island, or else they will be barred from entry until they get rid of all their worn and carried weapons and armour. Once ready players should then proceed to the North-west to the dungeon from Lost City and navigate through it, were they will find the demons. There are some stalagmites which can be used for cover as the player ranges the demon.

Brimhaven Dungeon (P2P)
A strategy for players without Guthan's armour is to bring a Super defence potion. Fight per normal but kill the usually aggressive wild dogs for their bones whenever needed to heal oneself, if combined with the Regen Bracelet players would not need much food at all.



There's a semi-safe spot at the very end of the Greater Demon area in Brimhaven dungeon, where attacked demons will mostly position themselves in a spot where they are unable to attack the player.

It is better to kill Greater Demons when 127 Combat or greater, as the Wild Dogs are unaggressive at that point.

Ogre Enclave (P2P)
The Ogre Enclave is a good place to range/mage or even melee them with a Halberd without fear of being attacked. Most of the greater demons here are caged. Bring telegrab runes to retrieve drops. The major downside to this location is that all arrows/bolts are unable to be retrieved by an accumulator making it quite costly to kill them here.

Demonic Ruins (F2P)
A F2P strategy is to wear full rune or green dragonhide armour (to defend against Revenants's magical attacks) and to bring mid-level food (preferably tuna or better). Optionally, bring Strength potions to deal more damage and get drops faster. Fight as normal. If a revenant appears, do this:


 * Revenant comes from the East: On the western side of the ruins is a cross shaped extension. Run into the cross on the south-western square of the southern arm of the cross. This spot is safe from any revenant patrol route. Should it see you and be targeting you, log out and immediately log back in, and simply wait a moment. The revenant will continue on its way. There is no way to be hit in this spot, unless someone lures the revenant inside of the cross. If this happens run OUTSIDE the ruins on the south east side, and get in the corner where the wall meets. Log out and in immediately. This will allow you to be safe again, and give the minimum time for more revenants to possibly arrive.


 * Revenant comes from the West: If you're on the eastern side of the ruins, you don't really have to worry about this spawn, as it won't see you UNLESS your standing north of the building. In any case, if it sees you, doing exactly what you would do if it should come from the east will work to avoid it.

Regardless of your combat level, it's advised to hide, and not fight revenants (Especially higher level ones) as just a 1-3 fights will use a large portion of your food.

Fishing spots (Lobsters and harpooning) are available on the eastern coast of the wilderness, which isn't very far from the ruins. However, the stretch here is highly prone to Revenants, especially of the Knight and Ork species, which means escape won't be easy especially when you meet a patrol group.

Wilderness Volcano (F2P)
Compared to the Demonic Ruins, the wilderness volcano is a better choice. Safe spots are aplenty for rangers, plus a bank is just outside the crater, making banking very convenient. However, the cluster of Greater Demons is surrounded by level 82 Ankous and Lesser Demons and level 122 Hellhounds, which are located near some safe spots, hence making things troublesome for rangers until their aggressiveness wanes. Spawn times are quick being from 90 seconds to less then 1 second.

100% Drops

 * Ashes

Runes

 * 37, 75 Fire runes (75 are more common)
 * 15 Chaos runes (fairly common)
 * 5 Death runes (fairly common)

Weapons and armour

 * Steel hatchet (fairly common)
 * Steel battleaxe (common)
 * Steel two-handed sword (common)
 * Mithril kiteshield (Semi-Common)
 * Adamant platelegs (semi-rare)
 * Dragon spear(m)(very rare)
 * Rune mace (very rare)
 * Rune javelin(m)(very rare)
 * Rune spear(m)(extremely rare)
 * Rune kiteshield (very rare)
 * Rune full helmundefined(rare)
 * Shield left half (m)(extremely rare)
 * Rune scimitar (very rare)

Gems

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

Other

 * 4, 11, 44, 132, 220,310, or 420 Coins (most common)
 * 10 Thread (somewhat rare)
 * 150 Steel arrows (rare)
 * 100 Silver Ore (noted) (rare)
 * Tuna (semi-common)
 * Jug of wine (rare)
 * Gold bar (semi-rare)
 * Chaos talisman(m)
 * Loop half of a key(m) (rare)
 * Nature talisman(m)
 * Level 3 Clue scroll(m) (rare)
 * Tooth half of a key(m)
 * Ferocious ring (only in Kuradal's dungeon)

Different appearance
Since the graphic update on demons, greater demons now appear in at least four different variants. Because of this, some new players think one "species" of Greater demon appears stronger and tougher due to it looking more intimidating than others. However this is not true, as Jagex affirms that they are equally strong and tough and all have the same stats as one another.

Before graphical update


Before demons were updated they had heads which resembled that of a horse, or the old head of all the dragons, as well as long thin limbs, fangs, and a solid red skin tone.

In RuneScape Classic, they had reddish-orange skin with horns, and did not have wings.

Trivia

 * There is a Glitch at the Greater Demon level of the Brimhaven Dungeon while Slaying where the player can use the "Kills-left" option on the Slayer gem and receive the message: I'm already under attack. This also works the other way round, when you may click another demon while in a fight, and may get the message: Your current assignment is: Greater Demons; only XX more to go. There is also sometimes a delay between kills and the Slayer gem's kill count difference.