Bulwark beast

The Bulwark beast is a Dungeoneering boss and the second of the Behemoths encountered in Daemonheim, with the first being gluttonous monkey behemoth. It has an armour plating which completely protects it from melee and ranged attacks. The armour can be broken using a pickaxe (equipped in weapons slot), which you can find in a rock at a corner of the room, if you haven't already bought one. The plating does not block any magic attacks though, so players can directly use magic to fight the beast. This is not recommended, as the beast seems resistant to magic attacks both before and after its armour is broken.

It attacks with all three styles, including melee (crush), ranged (falling rocks, green breath attack) and mage (electrical attack). The melee attack targets one player, but both the ranged and magic attacks are multi-targeted. The lightning attack is similar to the Kalphite queen's magic attack. It bounces from player to player, however, players behind the Bulwark beast will be damaged by this attack. Magic attacks, deflection curses, Retribution, Wrath and summoned familiars' attacks will hit through the beast's armour and damage its life points. It hits often and quite hard, but has surprisingly low defence after its armour is removed. Due to this it is advised to take the best melee armour and food to help. If a player runs underneath the beast it will deliver a powerful, unblockable stomp attack. When this boss changes target, it will move and force players to move according. This will not count as stomping and players should continue attacking.

When soloing, it is best to fight the Bulwark beast with melee armour and the Protect from magic/Deflect Magic prayers as melee armour provides the best protection against the other two styles. He is weak to stab and crush attacks after his armour has been broken. Mages should not worry about the armour and use the best spells and food while keeping a distance of at least 2-3 spaces and using Protect from ranged/Deflect Missiles.

This boss drains the Prayer of those he is not focused on if they are using the Protect from magic/Deflect Magic prayers. This only occurs when they get hit by the recoil of a spark attack. Whoever the boss is not focused on should pray Protect from ranged or Deflect Missiles, otherwise they will have no prayer points left to pray anything with.

Once the armour has been removed with pickaxes, players should switch to more powerful weapons.

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Trivia

 * There is a glitch where if you hit the beast with melee after the armor has been broken off, it may appear as reflected damage instead of melee damage.
 * The word "bulwark" means the same as "rampart", which is "a wall of earth or other material built for defence".
 * The sound effect for the Bulwark Beast's lightning attack is the same as the one for a player's 'Idea' emote.
 * There was once a glitch where magic attacks would do no damage unless the armour was removed. This has been fixed.
 * You can occasionally hit through its armour with a crush weapon, but this is very rare, and may be a glitch. In addition, it would still a better tactic to use a pickaxe to destroy the armour first.
 * This is the only Dungeoneering boss who drops more than one type of weapon.
 * Sometimes when using a pickaxe to break its armour some melee damage would be dealt to the Bulwark beast. In addition, after the armour is destroyed, the Bulwark beast may also take deflect damage, even if the player is not using Deflect curses or Vengeance. This is most likely a glitch.
 * There is a glitch where sometimes, while outside of the boss room, it will show the gluttonous behemoth and not the Bulwark Beast. Though extremely rare, this has not been fixed.
 * There is a glitch that when attacking you may get attacked back with 4 hitsplats instead of one. THIS has been fixed since 2019

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