Elite Dark Mage

Elite Dark Mage

Release	26 November 2008 (Update)
Members	Yes
Examine
An elite dark mage with lots of combat experience.
Combat info
Level	LP	XP	XP
98	3,500	440.7	145.4
Equipment XP (2H/MH & Armour/OH)
26 / 17 / 8
Aggressive		Poisonous
Offensive
Max hit
262	0	350	0
Style		Speed
		5 ticks (3.0s)
Combat levels
52 0 70 Accuracy 525 0 1486
Defensive
Armour		Weakness
1486	70
Affinities
90	45	65	55
Immunities

Defined properties:

All Life points: 3,500 Life points: 3,500 All Combat experience: 440.7 Combat experience: 440.7 All Release date: 26 November 2008 Release date: 26 November 2008 All Combat level: 98 Combat level: 98 All Is members only: true Is members only: true All NPC ID: 8.3208321832283e+15 NPC ID: 8.3208321832283e+15

[FAQ] • [doc]

Elite Dark Mages are monsters found in the Black Knights' Catacombs. The dungeon is only accessible during and after While Guthix Sleeps. He uses magic attacks, so armour with a decent magic defence bonus is helpful. However, Elite Dark Warriors and Elite Dark Rangers are in the same area, and they may very well attack you too. During Nomad's Requiem, a mage, ranger and warrior are sent to kill Nomad, but he defeats all of them with great ease.

Wearing full Elite black armour or the full Dagon'hai robe set will make this Mage not aggressive.

When fighting this monster, you might want to bring 2 fighting styles, as he uses protection prayers against any type of combat.

Strategy

Elite dark mages attack with a large variety of combat spells, the most powerful of which is Earth Wave. They also have the ability to use prayer, so it is suggested to bring at least 2 forms of attack style to kill them with. Eventually they will run out of prayer so players can kill them. It will just take a little longer to do so. Also, there is a short break between their attacks when they switch their protection prayers. Wearing full Dagon'hai robes or full Elite black armour will make them and others in the dungeon non-aggressive.

• Their prayers block all incoming damage of the style they are praying against, unlike players' prayers which only reduce damage.
• Smite does not help drain their prayer, and neither does the ability Smash.
• They will switch prayer against a particular combat style after taking a total of 1000 to 1500 life points of damage since the last prayer change, poison excluded.
• They run out of prayer eventually and become vulnerable to every attack style.
• They will only run out of prayer after they have been hit 20 times.
• This monster uses Weaken, Confuse, and Curse to lower stats, so restore potions are advised.

Drops

Charms

No charm
96–99%	0.1–2.6%	0–1.6%	0.1–2.6%	0.1–2.6%
Represents a 90% confidence range based on a sample of 167 kills. 1 charm is dropped at a time. Add data to the log (requires JavaScript).

100% drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Big bones	1	Always	203

Main drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Black wizard robe top	1	Uncommon	482
	Battlestaff	1	Rare	3,012
	Mystic air staff	1	Rare	24,179
	Super attack (1)	2	Uncommon	3,206
	Prayer potion (1)	1	Rare	651
	Fire rune	5–28	Common	795–4,452
	Dust rune	4–10	Common	3,940–9,850
	Air rune	11–40	Common	990–3,600
	Chaos rune	25	Uncommon	3,800
	Nature rune	1–6	Rare	405–2,430
	Blood rune	1–2	Rare	678–1,356
	Death rune	3–6	Rare	696–1,392
	Fire talisman	2	Rare	418
	Soul rune	4	Very rare	5,380
	Coins	81–300	Common	81–300
	Apple pie	1	Rare	251
	Earth orb	2	Rare	13,708
	Sealed clue scroll (medium)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Spirit sapphire	1	Rare	Not sold
	Spirit emerald	1	Rare	Not sold
	Spirit ruby	1	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

Trivia

• Since they run out of prayer after 20 hits, if you attacked one Elite dark mage once and leave it alone, then the prayer would last forever. This also applies to the other monsters in the dungeon.
• The Elite Dark Mage's model and chat head are identical to Nomad's prior to his rework for Nomad's Requiem.