Banshee

OSWP

Banshee

Release	26 January 2005 (Update)
Members	Yes
Examine
A tortured screaming soul.
Combat info
Level	LP	XP	XP
37	1,350	58.5	19.3
Equipment XP (2H/MH & Armour/OH)
3 / 2 / 1
Aggressive		Poisonous
Slayer
Level	XP	Category
15	15.2	Banshees
Assigned by
Offensive
Max hit
108	0	108	? (edit)
Style		Speed
		4 ticks (2.4s)
Combat levels
27 1 27 Accuracy 409 0 409
Defensive
Armour		Weakness
409	27
Affinities
90	45	65	55
Immunities

Defined properties:

All Life points: 1,350 Life points: 1,350 All Slayer experience: 15.2 Slayer experience: 15.2 All Combat experience: 58.5 Combat experience: 58.5 All Release date: 26 January 2005 Release date: 26 January 2005 All Combat level: 37 Combat level: 37 All Is members only: true Is members only: true All NPC ID: 1612 NPC ID: 1612

[FAQ] • [doc]

Banshees are Slayer monsters that require level 15 Slayer and earmuffs to kill. Additionally, banshees tend to frequently drop many different types of herbs. Mighty banshees are a higher-levelled alternative, if this is given as your Slayer assignment.

When banshees are killed with a normal contract, the player will get 3.1 experience points, and 18.6 on special contracts.

Locations

• Slayer Tower, on the ground floor (cannot use dwarf multicannon)
• Pollnivneach Slayer Dungeon (mighty banshee, after Smoking Kills)

Strategy

Players should wear earmuffs, masked earmuffs, a Slayer helmet, or a Mask of Mourning/Helm of Keening when fighting banshees. Not having the required equipment will cause the player to take damage equal to 10% of their constitution level. Combat statistics and Agility are also reduced, which can be annoying for players wishing to use the shortcuts in the Slayer Tower.

Banshees use a magic attack which hits from a distance. Protect from Magic prayer will work against them, but most players are likely better off using armour with a high magic defence bonus, such as dragonhide armour.

Banshees are considered undead, so a salve amulet or salve amulet (e) will work. An ectoplasmator will also provide the player with Prayer experience.

Morytania legs 4 will provide a 10% boost to slayer experience if in the the slayer tower and on task. A contract with Markus will provide even more additional slayer experience if the task is completed in the Slayer Tower.

Herbicide, Seedicide, the charming imp and a Gem bag are useful.

Champions' Challenge

Banshees are one of the 'races' who have lesser champions in the Champions' Challenge Distraction and Diversion. To fight the Banshee Champion, the player must kill banshees until one drops a Champion's scroll, a very rare drop.

Drops

Charms

No charm
89%	2–3%	7%	1%	0.3–0.4%
Represents a 90% confidence range based on a sample of 82,199 kills. 1 charm is dropped at a time. Add data to the log (requires JavaScript).

Main drop

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Bronze claw	1	Common	1,444
	Off-hand bronze claw	1	Common	328
	Mithril arrow	40	Uncommon	840
	Staff of air	1	Uncommon	2,013
	Iron kiteshield	1	Rare	3,464
	Iron mace	1	Rare	1,964
	Dark mystic gloves	1	Very rare	8,233
	Air rune	3	Common	270
	Chaos rune	3; 7; 10	Uncommon	456–1,520
	Cosmic rune	2	Uncommon	824
	Fire rune	6; 7	Uncommon	954–1,113
	Grimy guam	1	Common	709
	Grimy tarromin	1	Common	105
	Grimy marrentill	1	Common	2,307
	Grimy harralander	1	Common	741
	Grimy kwuarm	1	Uncommon	11,782
	Limpwurt seed	1	Common	5,207
	Marrentill seed	1	Common	179
	Spirit weed seed	1	Common	78,260
	Toadflax seed	1	Uncommon	9,872
	Strawberry seed	1	Common	1,075
	Tarromin seed	1	Common	137
	Wildblood seed	1	Common	189
	Watermelon seed	1	Uncommon	3,590
	Ranarr seed	1	Uncommon	976
	Lantadyme seed	1	Rare	726
	Bittercap mushroom spore	1	Rare	1,768
	Grimy ranarr	1	Uncommon	1,860
	Grimy irit	1	Uncommon	5,008
	Grimy avantoe	1	Uncommon	1,043
	Grimy lantadyme	1	Uncommon	7,551
	Grimy dwarf weed	1	Uncommon	8,476
	Grimy cadantine	1	Uncommon	4,322
	Dwarf weed seed	1	Rare	822
	Whiteberry seed	1	Rare	136
	Cactus seed	1	Rare	1,016
	Belladonna seed	1	Rare	1,007
	Jangerberry seed	1	Rare	79
	Coins	500–1,400	Common	500–1,400
	Thin snail	1–2	Common	1,074–2,148
	Fishing bait	7; 15	Common	35–75
	Pike	1	Common	29
	Iron ore	1 (noted)	Common	449
	Eye of newt	1	Uncommon	10
	Uncut sapphire	1	Uncommon	809
	Rare drop table	1	Rare	Not sold

Tertiary drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Sealed clue scroll (easy)	1	Rare	Not sold
	Ghostly essence	1–10	Rare	6,423–64,230
	Spirit sapphire	1	Rare	Not sold
	Spirit emerald	1	Rare	Not sold
	Spirit ruby	1	Rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Banshee Champion's scroll	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Ghost hunter goggles	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Ghost hunter body	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Ghost hunter legs	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Ghost hunter backpack	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Ectoplasmator	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Deployable herb burner	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Cremation	1	Very rare	Not sold

Rare drop table drops

This monster has access to the rare drop table.
Luck-enhancing items such as a ring of wealth or luck of the dwarves are not required to access the table.

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	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Coins	250–500	Common	250–500
	Uncut sapphire	1	Common	809
	Uncut emerald	1	Common	2,555
	Uncut ruby	1	Common	1,842
	Uncut diamond	1	Common	4,843
	Uncut diamond	45–55 (noted)	Rare	217,935–266,365
	Loop half of a key	1	Common	11,053
	Tooth half of a key	1	Common	11,538
	Uncut dragonstone	1	Uncommon	12,077
	Uncut dragonstone	45–55 (noted)	Rare	543,465–664,235
	Dragon longsword	1	Common	56,212
	Dragon spear	1	Rare	35,861
	Battlestaff	180–220 (noted)	Rare	542,160–662,640
	Rune javelin	5	Rare	905
	Rune platebody	1	Uncommon	37,480
	Rune platebody	15–25 (noted)	Rare	562,200–937,000
	Shield left half	1	Rare	64,399
	Dragon helm	1	Uncommon	58,601
	Rune arrowheads	113–137	Common	14,916–18,084
	Onyx bolts	135–165	Very rare	1,003,725–1,226,775
	Chaos talisman	1	Rare	1,923
	Nature talisman	1	Rare	1,473
	Water talisman	65–82 (noted)	Rare	164,320–207,296
	Earth talisman	65–82 (noted)	Rare	12,025–15,170
	Fire talisman	25–35 (noted)	Rare	5,225–7,315
	Raw lobster	135–165 (noted)	Common	47,655–58,245
	Raw shark	225–275 (noted)	Uncommon	321,075–392,425
	Big bones	68–82 (noted)	Uncommon	13,804–16,646
	Dragon bones	180–220 (noted)	Rare	384,480–469,920
	Coal	200–1,100 (noted)	Uncommon	22,400–123,200
	Gold ore	90–110 (noted)	Common	52,830–64,570
	Adamantite ore	180–220 (noted)	Uncommon	40,860–49,940
	Adamant bar	14–16 (noted)	Common	24,654–28,176
	Adamant bar	135–165 (noted)	Rare	237,735–290,565
	Runite ore	90–110 (noted)	Rare	127,710–156,090
	Rune bar	3 (noted)	Common	8,955
	Rune bar	45–55 (noted)	Rare	134,325–164,175
	Grimy torstol	90–110 (noted)	Uncommon	485,010–592,790
	Grimy snapdragon	90–110 (noted)	Uncommon	161,010–196,790
	Super restore (4)	45–55 (noted)	Uncommon	125,910–153,890
	Prayer potion (4)	45–55 (noted)	Uncommon	130,950–160,050
	Lantadyme seed	14–16	Uncommon	10,164–11,616
	Dwarf weed seed	14–16	Uncommon	11,508–13,152
	Magic seed	4	Uncommon	209,856
	Palm tree seed	10	Rare	396,000
	Flax	450–550 (noted)	Common	43,200–52,800
	Molten glass	45–55 (noted)	Common	27,585–33,715
	Soft clay	450–550 (noted)	Uncommon	188,550–230,450
	Yew logs	68–82 (noted)	Uncommon	11,356–13,694
	Yew logs	675–825 (noted)	Rare	112,725–137,775
	Teak plank	45–55 (noted)	Uncommon	16,740–20,460
	Mahogany plank	270–330 (noted)	Rare	356,670–435,930
	Blurberry Special	1	Uncommon	12,008
	Vecna skull	1	Very rare*	124,871
	Hazelmere's signet ring	1	Very rare*	1,432,268,388
	Brawling gloves (Melee)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Magic)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Ranged)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Agility)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Cooking)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (FM)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Fishing)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Hunter)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Mining)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Prayer)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Smithing)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Thieving)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (WC)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Crystal triskelion fragment 1	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Crystal triskelion fragment 2	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Crystal triskelion fragment 3	1	Very rare	Not sold

Universal drops

Universal drops are dropped by nearly every monster outside of Daemonheim.

These drops are dropped alongside main drops.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Key token	1	Rare	Not sold
	Mimic kill token	1	Very rare	5,575

Gallery

Concept art for a banshee

Concept art for a banshee