Mysterious shade

The Mysterious shade is a monster found in Daemonheim. It was released along with the Dungeoneering skill.

It uses a mixture of Magic (blue-coloured) and Magical Ranged (yellow-coloured) attacks, which is powered evenly. Care should be taken when engaging the higher level variants, as these use their attacks with a high accuracy and max hit; they have very low defence towards all attack styles to compensate. It is recommended to wear Range armour to block its attacks. For using prayer against exceptionally strong shades, either use Protect from Ranged or Protect from Magic or their respective Curse equivelents. Range armour offer the best defence for both their attacks.

There is a sort of warning for each attack; the shade will surround itself with a blue aura before its magic attack, and a yellow aura before its ranged attack.

This is one of the monsters within Daemonheim that will switch targets when in a multi-combat area, instead of continuing to attack the first player it sees.

Weapons and armour

 * Kratonite dagger
 * Anti-dragon shield (Dungeoneering)
 * Novite Boots

Food

 * Food of some kind is almost always dropped. Food always comes in various amounts. (Ex: 5 Dusk eels)

(see Dungeoneering/Cooking for more info)

Herbs

 * Grimy wormwood leaf

Seeds

 * Edicap mushroom spore
 * Cave potato seed

Runes
All kinds of rune, if dropping, it usually follows pattern of a combat spell, such as dropping air, mind, and fire runes.

Others

 * Torn bags
 * Rune essence
 * Coins (Dungeoneering)
 * M and thok letters (all parts)


 * Knife (Dungeoneering)
 * Vial (Dungeoneering)

Trivia

 * The Mysterious Shade looks a lot like Echned Zekin, the 'captured' form of the demon Nezikchened, which the player has to fight during the Legend's Quest.
 * Mysterious shades DO count for slayer if a player is given a task of shades.
 * A Room with 2 or more Mysterious Shades in it, with a decent combat level, can easily take down a player.
 * There's a ghost wandering on the north shore of Daemonheim that looks a lot like a Mysterious Shade. Mysterious shade ghost.png