Loar Shade

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Loar Shade

Release	18 October 2004 (Update)
Members	Yes
Examine
The shadowy remains of a long departed soul.
Combat info
Level	LP	XP	XP
58	4,200	114.6	37.8
Equipment XP (2H/MH & Armour/OH)
6 / 4 / 2
Aggressive		Poisonous
Slayer
Level	XP	Category
1	38	Shades
Assigned by
Offensive
Max hit
403	0	0	0
Style		Speed
		4 ticks (2.4s)
Combat levels
42 1 1 Accuracy 668 0 0
Defensive
Armour		Weakness
668	42
Affinities
90	55	45	65
Immunities

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Defined properties:

All Life points: 4,200 Life points: 4,200 All Slayer experience: 38 Slayer experience: 38 All Combat experience: 114.6 Combat experience: 114.6 All Release date: 18 October 2004 Release date: 18 October 2004 All Combat level: 58 Combat level: 58 All Is members only: true Is members only: true All NPC ID: 1241 NPC ID1: 1241 All NPC ID: 1240 NPC ID2: 1240

[FAQ] • [doc]

Loar Shades lurk around Mort'ton and the nearby swamp regions surrounding the shade catacombs. They initially appear as dark greenish moving shadows (known as Loar Shadows) on the ground and then rise from the depths to attack or retaliate. Their remains can be cremated with any pyre logs.

The Salve amulet, Salve Amulet (e) and Gadderhammer work well on this shade and are very useful if shades are assigned for a slayer task. They are easy to defeat for players with a combat level of 70 or higher, but they have no standard drops besides their remains. Up to a point the gadderhammer will be useful. If you are a low level player then it is worth using. However once your melee combat stats get much higher it is a better option to use other weapons. This is because the gadderhammer has low combat stats, which make it less effective than higher level weapons. Because they are weak to water, ice spells from the Ancient spell book can prove effective.

Loar shades' attacks are quite accurate and may temporarily reduce your Strength level by one. When fighting large groups of shades, such as during the Shades of Mort'ton minigame, the stat drain can quickly stack up, leaving the player with an enormous drain on their Strength level in minutes. It is a good idea to attack shades from a distance, or use fast hitting melee attacks to defeat this enemy as quick as possible to minimise food consumption. The combat boost from a god banner will also give a Strength boost which constantly refreshes for 30 minutes, completely negating the stat drain from the shades during that time, though the boost can only be used once per day.

Drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Loar remains	1	Always	186
	Congealed blood	6–7	Uncommon	414–483
	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

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

A Loar Shadow

• Loar Shades have an extremely large wander radius and can go over terrain such as water. They can follow players to as far as the Barrows entrance and the Burgh de Rott entrance. They are also capable of moving from water onto bridges in sections where the fence is broken.
• If attacked by one of these, after about a minute of not retaliating, Loar Shades will again become Loar Shadows and remain unaggressive for a few seconds.
• Loar Shades used to be aggressive. This was changed in a hidden update.
• On 18 April 2016, Loar shades and all other shades had their stats rebalanced. Their weakness also changed to water spells; before the update they were weak to arrows.