Giant ent

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Giant ent

Release	15 January 2008 (Update)
Summoning level	78
Duration (mins)	49
Points cost	80
Race	Ent
Abilities	Forager - oak logs Nature link - converts pure essence into nature or earth runes Increased yield (50%) when harvesting fruit trees, belladonna, and cacti
Special moves	Acorn Missile
Combat level	93
Examine	He ent such a bad guy.
Combat stats Life points Max hit 8800 1022 Attack Defence Ranged Magic 71 63 71 71 Immune to poison Yes Attack style Melee

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Giant ents are level 93 combat Summoning familiars. They are foragers that have a random chance to forage for oak logs, have the ability to convert pure essence into either an earth rune or a nature rune, and have a 50% chance to find an extra item when harvesting fruit trees, belladonna, bushes and cacti. Giant ents are useful in the Farming skill.

Giant ent pouch

Giant ent pouch

	Shards	Cost/XP	Charm	Tertiary
	124 ( 3,100)	45.1 coins		Willow branch
	Create XP	Use XP	Low alch	Hi alch	GE price
	136.8	1.6	1,409	2,114	2,548 (info)
	GE Database	Cost to make	Bogrog shard return		Shard return level
	Look up price	6,175	87 (2,175)		82
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	Examine text
	I can summon a giant ent familiar with this.

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Giant ent pouch is made by using a Summoning pouch on a Summoning obelisk with 124 spirit shards, a Green charm and a willow branch in the inventory, and 78 Summoning. Making the pouch earns 136.8 experience points. Using the pouch to summon a Giant ent gains 1.6 experience points, and costs 80 Summoning points.

Acorn missile scroll

A player activating the scroll.

Acorn missile scroll

	Create XP	Use XP	Special move points
	1.6	1.6	6
	Low Alch	High Alch	GE Price
	140	211	241 (info)
	GE Database	Bogrog shard return	Shard return level
	Look up price	6 (150)	82
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	Examine text
	A scroll for a giant ent familiar.

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Acorn missile scroll enables the use of the Acorn Missile special move for a Giant ent. Using the pouch on a Summoning obelisk creates 10 scrolls.

Acorn Missile

Acorn Missile is a special move for giant ents. The ent attacks your opponent with magic for up to 1022 damage.

Nature link

If a piece of pure essence is used on the Giant ent, it will turn into either an earth rune or a nature rune. However, experience is not gained from doing this. It is also required to use each pure essence individually on the Giant ent which can be a very tedious effort.

A good method is to mine pure essence and give it directly to the ent to convert. This can yield upwards of 400 earth runes and 500 nature runes an hour if the player is proficient at clicking.

Farming

Giant ents have a 50% chance to double yield when harvesting fruit from fruit trees, belladonna, and cacti. As such, it is effectively a 50% yield boost according to formula (1.5x-x)/x where x is the amount normally harvested. However, the bonus yield will not award experience. For example: on average, a fruit tree will give 9 pieces of fruit instead of 6, but experience will only be awarded for harvesting the 6.

Dialogue

This article on a Summoning familiar has an associated dialogue page. Click here for a transcript of possible conversations with this familiar.

Trivia

• In The Lord of the Rings, an ent named Treebeard says "Don't be hasty." Ents in the Lord of the Rings converse notoriously slowly. The dialogue of the giant ent may be a parody of this.
• Even though the giant ent's tertiary ingredient is willow branches, its special move is acorn missile, implying it would be made of oak.
• As with many other creatures and objects, the giant ent's examine is a pun.
• In the Funorb game Armies of Gielinor, the Titan Ent uses the giant ent's image.
• Currently both the ent's foraging ability and ability to spawn acorns with a scroll are broken. The special move also used to be able to hit multiple enemies.
• If talking to Quercus with the giant ent, extra dialogue can be heard.
  • Oddly enough, this dialogue can be understood without the normal 10 Level Requirement, despite not being able to understand the familiar any other time without it.
  • Unlike when a player speaks to it directly, the giant ent is able to communicate with Quercus in full, normal sentences, rather than slow, one-worded spurts.