A black mask requires 10 Defence, 20 Strength, and 40 Combat to wear. Similar to the focus sight and hexcrest, when worn it gives the player a 12.5% Melee damage increase and 12.5% Melee accuracy bonus against their current Slayer task. Black masks are dropped by cave horrors (level 58 Slayer required), found in the Mos Le'Harmless Caves. They can also be purchased from the Grand Exchange with either 0 or 10 charges.
The black mask has ten charges that are supposed to be invoked at random against any combat opponents, not just slayer task monsters. A charge reduces the opponent's Defence level by 3-10. However, currently black mask charges may be bugged and will not be used. Once the charges are gone, there is no way to recharge it, although its Attack and Strength bonuses remain after being uncharged. The charge is only lost when initiating combat, so fighting a single opponent cannot be used as a way of uncharging it. As of 2 November 2010, the charges can be removed with the "remove-charges" option. Note that the removal of charges is permanent and cannot be reversed.
With the release of Smoking Kills, players were allowed to craft a black mask and other slayer items into a slayer helmet, provided they had acquired the ability to make the helmets. Slayer helmets are valued because of their effects and the fact that they are not tradeable. The black mask has been steadily increasing in price due to the update which added the hexcrest and focus sight used in the making of the full slayer helmet which also requires a black mask to make.
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10  20  40  | |||||||||||
| Class | Slot | ||||||||||
 Melee |  | ||||||||||
| Tier | Type | ||||||||||
| 10 | Tank armour | ||||||||||
| Weapons | Main | Off | |||||||||
| Damage | - | - | |||||||||
| Accuracy | - | - | |||||||||
| Style | - | ||||||||||
| Range | - | ||||||||||
| Attributes | Damage reduction | ||||||||||
| Armour | 40 | PvM: 0.4% | PvP: 0.75% | ||||||||
 Life points | 0 | Style bonuses | |||||||||
 Prayer | 0 | 0 |  0 |  0 | |||||||
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Drop sources[]
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| Source | Combat level | Quantity | Rarity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cave horror | 77 | 1 | Very rare |
| Cave horror (elite) | 86 | 1 | Very rare |
| Unspeakable horror | 105 | 1 | Very rare |
| Unspeakable horror (elite) | 112 | 1 | Very rare |
Disassembly[]
| Disassembly XP | 6.0 |
|---|---|
| Item quantity required | 1 |
| Material count | 6 |
| Base junk chance | 78.0% |
| Possible materials | |
| Often | |
 Cover parts | 35% |
 Plated parts | 30% |
 Deflecting parts | 30% |
| Rarely | |
 Strong components | 3% |
 Protective components | 2% |
Trivia[]
- Dean Vellio from Temple Trekking wears this mask when he is in his lower levels.
Horrors | |
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| Horrors | |
| Drops |
 Black mask Scare Tactics |
| Deities |
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| Journals |
 Decaying journal Festering journal Rotten journal Pestilent journal Blasphemous journal Old diary |
| Hooded pirate miniquest |
 Odd Old Man Crumpled note (perfumed) Crumpled note (stained) Black coin |
| Miscellaneous |
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| Tank |
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| Power |
 Elite black Berserker Rock-shell Bandos (Lucky) Statius's (Corrupt • Superior) Anima Core of Zaros (Refined) Torva Malevolent | ||||||
| Barrows |
 Dharok's Guthan's Torag's Verac's Linza's | ||||||
| Minigame |
 Zamorak halo Ram skull (Enchanted) Sacred clay Fighter (Hardened) Void knight (Superior) Obsidian warrior | ||||||
| Promotional |
 Starfire Starfury | ||||||
| Trimmed |
 Black Adamant Rune | ||||||
| Gold trimmed |
 Black Adamant Rune | ||||||
| Black heraldic |
 H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 | ||||||
| Adamant heraldic |
 H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 | ||||||
| Rune heraldic |
 H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 | ||||||
| Rune god |
 Ancient Armadyl Bandos Guthix Saradomin Zamorak | ||||||
| Dragon |
 Ornamental Spiked | ||||||
| Dyed |
 Barrows Blood Ice Shadow Third Age | ||||||
| Other |
 Spiked Bandos mitre Gilded Third-age | ||||||
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