Bloodveld

A Bloodveld is a Slayer monster requiring level 50 Slayer to kill. They have very similar drops to Lesser demons, including Rune med helms and Steel scimitars, and a decent drop rate of Green charms.

Their appearance changed upon release of the Smoking Kills quest on 5 June 2008.

Habitats

 * Morytania Slayer Tower, 2nd floor (level 76)
 * God Wars Dungeon (level 81)
 * Meiyerditch Dungeon (level 76)

Strengths and weaknesses
The bloodveld's attack, though melee, is based upon a player's magical defence. It is strongly recommended players wear Dragonhide armour or other armour with high magical defence bonuses to take as little damage as possible. However, the Protect from Melee prayer will fully protect players from the bloodveld's attack.

Bloodvelds have rather low Defence and Strength for their levels and can only hit a maximum of 5 (level 76) or 7 (level 81), though they are fairly accurate.

Bloodvelds are an excellent source of Green charms, dropping them thirty to forty percent of the time. They are also a good source of Blood runes, which can be used for magic or sold for profit.

Range and Magic
These monsters may be safely fought using Ranged, Magic, or melee with a Halberd, as there are several safe spots available in all their habitats. Their high Hitpoints make them a very good training method for Ranged, with more experience per hour than with Fire giants. Bloodvelds are difficult to fight effectively using magic for players at or below level 60 magic.

The Slayer Tower is a popular place to fight bloodvelds, and safe spots can be found behind chairs, at the wall that separates the two southern rooms, and at the turn in the corridor to the north.

There also are safe spots in the Zamorak area of the God Wars Dungeon, near the entrance. Bloodvelds also have higher hitpoints there, which means more experience.

Melee
Guthan's set, with its healing ability, may be used, especially by players who have high magic levels. Although Guthan's gear itself does not give magic defence bonuses, the set special effect will activate as usual, healing the player. However, using the spear as a weapon, rather than a faster weapon, may be required more often than normal. To save wear-and-tear on Guthan's armour, some players also bring armour with high magical defence and only switch to Guthan's set when hitpoints are low.

Bones to Peaches is also an effective way of healing whilst slaying Bloodvelds. These creatures always drop bones, sometimes more than one set at once.

Allegedly Demonic
Slayer Masters sometimes mention that a bloodveld is a "strange, demonic creature" or a "half-ton demon". However, bloodvelds drop bones and big bones 1-4 when killed, whereas all or almost all other demons drop ashes. Furthermore, demons drop many Crimson charms, whereas these are the second least common charm from bloodveld drops. This calls into question whether they are truly demonic. It is unconfirmed whether magical swords Silverlight and Darklight have their special effects when fighting bloodvelds.

Drops
Coins
 * 10, 40, 120, 200 or 450 Coins

Charms
 * Green charm {the most common of their charm drops)
 * Gold charm
 * Crimson charm (uncommon)
 * Blue Charm (rare)

Bones
 * Bones (100% drop)
 * 3 bones and 4 Big bones
 * Bones and big bones
 * 2 Bones and big bones

Weapons
 * Dragon spear (very rare)
 * 5 Rune javelins (rare)
 * Steel scimitar
 * Steel axe
 * Rune Spear (rare)

Armour
 * Shield left half (very rare)
 * Rune medium helmet
 * Mithril chainbody
 * Mithril square shield
 * Black boots
 * Steel full helmet

Runes
 * 60 Fire runes
 * 3, 10 or 30 Blood runes

Other
 * Meat pizza
 * Half of a key
 * Nature talisman
 * Gems:
 * Uncut Sapphire
 * Uncut Emerald
 * Uncut Ruby
 * Uncut Diamond
 * Gold ore
 * Herbs:
 * Grimy Guam
 * Grimy Irit
 * Grimy Kwuarm
 * Grimy Lantadyne
 * Grimy Marrentill
 * Grimy Ranarr

Trivia

 * The bloodveld's examine text is a pun on the saying 'Roots of all evil'.