Dust devil

The Dust Devil is a very popular training monster for slayers of level 65 and up. A Face mask, Masked earmuffs or Slayer helmet is required to reach them safely in the Smoke Dungeon; however, no headgear is needed to kill Dust Devils in the Chaos Dungeon. The Slayer helmet offers the same benefits as the Black mask when the Dust Devil is your current slayer assignment. It is vulnerable to ranged attacks and has very good drops. It is most commonly killed for the fact it can drop the much sought after dragon chainbody. However, it is very rare. Jagex has not released any information on the rate of the chainbody drop.

It is advised that players use the low detail setting when fighting dust devils, as this will remove the dust screen effects.

Locations

 * Smoke Dungeon west from Pollnivneach in the Kharidian Desert.
 * Chaos Tunnels

Strengths and weaknesses
Dust Devils attack with melee type damage, close range. You need at least level 65 Slayer to fight these creatures as well as a Facemask, slayer helmet or masked earmuffs to survive in the Smoke Dungeon. The Smoke Dungeon has many safe spots where players can use range, magic or halberds to defeat them.

Melee is also effective, a good strategy for which is using the spell Bones to Peaches to maximize one's stay in the dungeon. It is possible to use Guthans armour to heal, although players must be careful switching the helm with the face mask, otherwise the dungeon will hit them for 20 damage every 12 seconds or so, only allowing 3-4 hits in before having to switch back to the face mask. Please note that you can only use Guthans armour to heal on nearby Fire Elementals, Pyrefiends, or Fire Giants, as attacking a Dust Devil without a face mask causes your melee stats to be drained to 0, and deals 14 damage to you every few seconds.

Drops
100% Drop: Bones

Weapons and Armour

 * Dragon chainbody (extremely rare)
 * Dragon spear (rare)
 * Shield left half (very rare)
 * Rune spear (very rare)
 * Rune dagger (fairly common)
 * 12 Rune Arrows
 * 5 Rune Javelins (very rare)
 * Earth battlestaff (common)
 * Red dragonhide vambraces (fairly uncommon)

Runes

 * 37 or 150 Fire runes (quite common)
 * 2 or 5 Soul runes (common)
 * 5 Chaos runes

Charms

 * Crimson charm  (very common)
 * Gold charm (fairly common)
 * Green charm
 * Blue charm (uncommon)

Other

 * 15-300 Coins (common)
 * Half of a key (rare)
 * Herbs (very common)
 * Nature talisman
 * Mithril bar (common)
 * 1 or 2 Ugthanki kebab
 * Uncut gems
 * Steel axe