Glacor

For the glacor encountered during Rush of Blood, see Wounded glacor.

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Glacor

Release	14 September 2011 (Update)
Members	Yes
Examine
A mysterious ice creature, infused with power drawn from the Stone.
Combat info
Level	LP	XP	XP
112	40,000	3,979.8	1,313.3
Equipment XP (2H/MH & Armour/OH)
238 / 159 / 79
Aggressive		Poisonous
Slayer
Level	XP	Category
1	1881	Glacors
Assigned by
Offensive
Max hit
1266	1266	1266	Varies
Style		Speed
		5 ticks (3.0s)
Combat levels
80 80 80 Accuracy 2178 2178 2178
Defensive
Armour		Weakness
1829	80
Affinities
90	55	45	65
Immunities

Defined properties:

All Life points: 40,000 Life points: 40,000 All Slayer experience: 1881 Slayer experience: 1881 All Combat experience: 3979.8 Combat experience: 3979.8 All Release date: 14 September 2011 Release date: 14 September 2011 All Combat level: 112 Combat level: 112 All Is members only: true Is members only: true All NPC ID: 14301 NPC ID: 14301

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Glacors (pronounced GLAY-soars) are fairly dangerous monsters, described by Beauty as "a rare form of ice elemental". These monsters are only accessible after completing the quest Ritual of the Mahjarrat. You can reach glacors in the Glacor Cave through the fairy ring system by using the code dkq. An army of glacors was summoned by Lucien, although only one actually reached the Ritual, as the others were held back by Kuradal, who had slain a few hundred. According to Zaros, they are originally from Leng.

Killing glacors can be quite profitable, especially since the cost of killing them has dropped dramatically after the Evolution of Combat. They take longer to kill than other monsters of their combat level, but nevertheless, Soul Split or a healing familiar lowers the need for food, and a bank is just through the fairy ring. The ability to have them assigned as slayer tasks by Kuradal and Morvran can be purchased using 50 slayer points after Ritual of the Mahjarrat.

There are several factors that contribute to the popularity of glacors:

• They drop the three glacyte boots, which are worth several million coins each.
• High drop rates of both blue and crimson charms (approximately 35% chance for each colour), and three charms are dropped at a time. Glacors are arguably the fastest source of blue charms.
• Glacors are much easier to kill than tormented demons, and do not require multiple combat styles to deal with.
• Shard of Armadyl drops, which can be used to make an Armadyl battlestaff and dust of armadyl, both of which have high values on the Grand Exchange.
• Ease of access and proximity to a bank.
• Fairly high drop rate of hard and elite clue scrolls.
• Fire spells (including the popular Blood spells from the Ancient spellbook) deal extra damage to glacors, meaning quicker kills compared to Tormented demons. Glacors don't need much equipment to kill, compared to Tormented demons which require Darklight and another combat style.
• They award nearly 4000 experience in the combat skill chosen, usually magic, making them a viable training option.

Attacks

General combat

Only one player may be engaged in combat with a glacor and its minions at a time, and only one glacor may be fought per player at a time. Players can only fight glacors being fought by other players if the combating player leaves the cave, either via teleporting, walking away from the area, dying, or logging out. Even if the combating player is in a safe-spot and not currently in combat with the glacor or its glacytes, a player trying to attack his or her glacor will yield the message, "Someone else is already fighting that glacor." This means that glacors must be fought solo.

Glacors will attack with magic, ranged, and melee when in melee distance. Its ranged attack consists of an icicle, whilst its magic attack is a blue sphere. These attacks can be predicted as they always fire ranged attacks with their right arms and magic attacks with their left arms. When they throw both hands down, they are using their icicle special attack.

Unlike all other monsters (except for TzTok-Jad in the TzHaar Fight Cave and Warped Gulega in Dungeoneering), the damage from the ranged and magic attacks of a glacor is calculated when the attack hits the player, rather than when the attack animation begins. This means that it is possible to change prayers while the attack is coming toward you and still halve the damage, which is impossible with most other monsters. Use Protect from Magic when the glacor raises its left arm and Protect from Missiles when it raises its right arm. It is also easy to use protection prayers because Glacors will not switch attack styles while in combat except for when they use their special attack (after which they will always switch to their ranged attack) – however, using Soul Split is generally more effective and should be used by players with 92 Prayer and access to the Ancient Curses.

Sometimes, other players' glacors can be used as a temporary safespot.

Unlike tormented demons, protection prayers will only block 50% of the damage from glacors as opposed to their whole 100%.

Furthermore, glacors are weak to fire spells in a similar fashion to ice strykewyrms, taking 50% extra damage from the element, including Blood spells from the Ancient Magicks. (Notes: Unlike ice strykewyrms, the fire cape and TokHaar-Kal have no damage boost on glacors.) Therefore, it is advised to use magic at a distance while switching prayers in conjunction to the glacors' attacks in order to achieve the fastest kill rates. Due to the unique property of the glacors' attacks mentioned above, standing further away will give the player more time to swap prayers.

When a glacor reaches half health, it will summon its three glacytes, after which it will be invulnerable until they are slain. When all the glacytes are killed, the glacor will inherit the most recently slain glacyte's ability (further explained in Summons), and attack with a faster speed (speed 6 from 5).

Special abilities

Icicle - stalagmites

Glacors may slam both arms on the ground and fire a large cluster of icicles, rather like the icicles used with their ranged attacks. The player must run from the square he or she is standing in to avoid them. When hit by the icicles, you will lose half of your current life points in the form of type-less damage. If a glacor was attacking with magic and then uses this attack, it will always switch to its ranged attack afterward. If the glacor dies before the attack reaches the player, the icicles will do no damage. This attack can hurt other players who stand on the targeted tile.

Freezing

Occasionally, the glacor's melee attack will have the same effect as the enhanced ice titans from Ritual of the Mahjarrat. This ability results in freezing the player, rather like an ice spell. There will be bright blue text alerting the player when they are frozen. To break free, the player must rapidly click somewhere on their screen five times. A message is shown when the ice bond is weak enough; five of these messages will result in you being free. If you do not escape in time, you will be dealt with very heavy damage. If the Glacor dies while doing this move, damage will not be dealt but you will still need to break free to move.

Similarly, the glacor's magic attack is also capable of freezing the player. This will happen more often compared to when the glacor uses its melee attack, however using protection or deflect magic prayers will prevent the player from getting frozen. In addition, when the player gets frozen by the magic attack, they will not need to click repeatedly in order to break free; the freezing effect will end automatically after a few seconds. While this freezing effect will not damage the player on its own, it can be a nusiance if it occurs right before the Glacor launches its special attack or an Unstable glacyte is about to explode. Using the Freedom ability will allow the player to quickly escape if this happens.

Summons

When the glacor has half of its life points remaining, it will spawn three different glacyte monsters that must be killed before the player can damage the glacor again. It is advised to lure all three glacytes away from the glacor and hide behind a pillar, so that you may kill them without being attacked by the glacor. Switch to protect from melee once you are in a safe-spot.

Once all three glacytes are dead, the glacor will inherit a special ability similar to that of the last killed glacyte. For example, a glacor will take 60% less damage if its enduring glacyte is killed last. Glacors will also attack faster after their glacytes are dead, at speed 6 instead of speed 5. It is recommended to kill the Unstable glacyte last, as this will result in the fastest and most efficient kills.

Unstable glacyte

The unstable glacyte has a bar above its head, rather like the adrenaline bar seen on players, that indicates when it will use its special ability. Once the bar fills, the glacyte will stop moving and shortly thereafter explode, losing 90% of its current health and making it easy to finish off. The player will lose 1/3 of their current life points if they are standing next to it when it explodes. The free loss of health is deceiving, however; if the glacyte is not killed quickly after it explodes, it will rapidly regenerate its life points and begin to fill its bar once again. Fortunately, the glacyte stops healing once the timer starts. The experience obtained for killing this glacyte depends on how much damage you dealt to it. Thus, waiting for the glacyte to explode and then quickly finishing it off will net less experience than if you deal all of the damage and kill it before it explodes.

Tip: Be careful of other players' unstable glacytes and explosive glacors, as both can injure you, even if they are on another player. Glacors have a larger explosive reach as well, with a 5x5 explosion as opposed to the 3x3 of the glacyte. Also, do not attack an unstable glacyte right after it stops moving and is about to explode. If you do this, the glacyte will move next to you and continue attacking you, making it difficult to dodge the explosion.

Sapping glacyte

The sapping glacyte will drain 20 of the player's Prayer points each time it hits. To avoid this expensive prayer drain, it is recommended to kill the sapping glacyte first, ideally with the Asphyxiate threshold ability, which deals a large amount of damage in a short period of time.

Sapping Glacors will drain 50 Prayer points per hit, rather than the 20 of the glacyte.

Enduring glacyte

The enduring glacyte takes less damage the closer it is to its glacor. It is invulnerable when it first spawns to taking normal damage after it is around 14 spaces away from the glacor. It is therefore recommended that players draw the glacyte as far out as possible in order to speed up their kills. Be careful, though; glacytes that are lured too far from their glacor will quickly glide back to it and must be lured again.

Enduring glacors take 60% less damage, regardless of how far away you are from them.

Strategies

Main article: Glacor/Strategies

Drops

Charms

No charm
10–11%	8–9%	8–9%	36–37%	36–37%
Represents a 90% confidence range based on a sample of 15,704 kills. 3 charms are dropped at a time. Add data to the log (requires JavaScript).

Main drop

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Death rune	32–50	Uncommon	7,424–11,600
	Adamant bolts (unf)	39–98	Uncommon	4,797–12,054
	Rune plateskirt	1	Uncommon	37,061
	Rune longsword	1	Uncommon	17,883
	Rune battleaxe	1	Uncommon	24,988
	Dragon mace	1	Uncommon	28,487
	Steadfast boots	1	Very rare	6,485,000
	Ragefire boots	1	Very rare	23,262,442
	Glaiven boots	1	Very rare	16,522,720
	Grimy guam	2–4 (noted)	Very rare	1,418–2,836
	Grimy marrentill	2–4 (noted)	Very rare	4,614–9,228
	Grimy tarromin	2–4 (noted)	Very rare	210–420
	Grimy harralander	2–4 (noted)	Very rare	1,482–2,964
	Grimy irit	2–4 (noted)	Very rare	10,016–20,032
	Grimy cadantine	2 (noted)	Very rare	8,644
	Grimy ranarr	2–4 (noted)	Very rare	3,720–7,440
	Grimy avantoe	4 (noted)	Very rare	4,172
	Grimy lantadyme	2 (noted)	Very rare	15,102
	Grimy kwuarm	2–4 (noted)	Very rare	23,564–47,128
	Grimy dwarf weed	2–4 (noted)	Very rare	16,952–33,904
	Kwuarm seed	1	Very rare	12,857
	Watermelon seed	1–3	Very rare	3,590–10,770
	Maple seed	1	Very rare	8,519
	Shards of Armadyl	1	Common	Not sold
	Water talisman	3–5 (noted)	Common	7,584–12,640
	Pure essence	62–100 (noted)	Common	1,860–3,000
	Coins	348–13,999	Common	348–13,999
	Raw shark	4–10 (noted)	Common	5,708–14,270
	Shark	1–6	Uncommon	1,933–11,598
	Blue dragonhide	5–10 (noted)	Uncommon	12,480–24,960
	Headless arrow	100–600	Uncommon	4,700–28,200
	Uncut diamond	2 (noted)	Uncommon	9,686
	Runite ore	2; 3 (noted)	Uncommon	2,838–4,257
	Super magic potion (3)	1	Uncommon	11,787
	Prayer potion (2)	1	Rare	1,395
	Rare drop table	1	Rare	Not sold

Tertiary drops

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	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Clue scroll (hard)	1	Rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Clue scroll (elite)	1	Very rare	Not sold

Rare drop table

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

Trivia

• In the Hallowe'en 2011 event, the player had to choose a glacor to represent Frank in statue form.
• The glacor fought during the quest can be killed and it will give usual drops.
• There was a glitch that enabled you to be in combat with 2 glacors at once using Chain. Normally, the ability would ignore other glacors; however, it was able to hit multiple glacors if it was used to initiate combat. This has been fixed on 13 April 2015.
• Prior to Legacy Mode, Glacors had 30,000 life points.
• The Promised Gift revealed the existence of arch-glacors 100 times larger than regular ones on the plane of Leng.