Banshee

Banshee

Release date	26 January 2005 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	23
Life points	220
Experience for killing	88 (29 Constitution experience)
Slayer level	Level 15
Slayer XP	22
Assigned by	Turael or Spria, Mazchna or Achtryn, Chaeldar, Sumona, Vannaka
Aggressive?	Yes (to players under level 47)
Poisonous?	No
Immune to poison?	No
Attack style	Magical melee
Attack speed	AverageInterval: 3.6 seconds
Max hit	29 (80 without earmuffs)
Weakness	salve amulet, crumble undead, slashsalve amulet, crumble undead, slashsalve amulet, crumble undead, slashsalve amulet, crumble undead, slashsalve amulet, crumble undead, slashsalve amulet, crumble undead, slashsalve amulet, crumble undead, slashsalve amulet, crumble undead, slashsalve amulet, crumble undead, [[]]salve amulet, crumble undead, slashsalve amulet, crumble undead, slashsalve amulet, crumble undead, slashSalve amulet, crumble undead, Slash
Always drops	Nothing
Examine text	A tortured screaming soul.

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Jagex's concept art for the Banshee.

Banshees are Slayer monsters that require level 15 Slayer to kill. They frequently drop 13 noted pure essence, making them an alternative source of essence. Additionally, banshees tend to frequently drop many different types of herbs. Mighty banshees are a higher-levelled alternative, if this is given as your Slayer assignment.

Locations

• Slayer Tower - ground floor (cannot use cannon)
• Desert Slayer Dungeon (mighty banshee, after Smoking Kills)

Strengths and weaknesses

Players should use earmuffs, masked earmuffs, or Slayer helmets when fighting banshees, or else their characters' combat statistics (including life points) will be severely reduced. Not having earmuffs, masked earmuffs, or a slayer helmet will cause you to be damaged by your Constitution divided by 10 and your character will cover their ears. Agility is also reduced, which can be annoying for players wishing to use the shortcuts in the slayer tower. Banshees have few Life points and do not hit particularly hard. They are undead, so a Salve amulet works on them.

Banshees use a magic-based melee attack. Their attack can also hit from a distance if players aren't wearing earmuffs. Protect from Melee prayer will work against them, but most players are likely better off using armour with a high magic defence bonus, such as dragonhide armour. Blue d'hide or better renders its attacks basically useless.

Other information

Banshees decrease many stats including: Attack, Strength, Defence, Ranged, Prayer, Magic, Agility, and Summoning.

They are popular for their tendency to drop high level herbs. Aside from banking distance they are a reasonable alternative to the popular chaos druids.

On a quick hunt, these creatures can profit a lower level character very well. Depending on the amount of Pure Essence, a lower levelled character can make anywhere from 50-70k per hour solely on the Pure Essence dropped.

Banshees have a very high restore rate. They will restore 10 life points between attacks with a fast weapon and 20 between slower weapons. They are popular for casting spells such as Weaken on because they will restore the lowered stats extremely quickly, so it can be recast. Crumble Undead also works on Banshees.

Champions' Challenge

Banshees are one of the 'races' who have lesser champions in the Champions' Challenge activity. To fight the Banshee Champion, the player must kill banshees until one drops a Champion scroll, which is a very rare drop.

Drops

Weapons/Armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Iron mace	1	3 Uncommon	28
	Iron dagger	1	4 Rare	13
	Iron kiteshield	1	4 Rare	54
	Adamant kiteshield	1	5 Very rare	3,103
Exchange:Mystic gloves (dark)	Mystic gloves (dark)	1	5 Very rare

Runes

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Air rune	3	2 Common	24
	Chaos rune	3, 6, 7, 17	2 Common	258–1,462
	Cosmic rune	2	3 Uncommon	220
	Fire rune	6, 7	3 Uncommon	84–98

Herbs

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Grimy guam	1	2 Common	521
	Grimy tarromin	1	2 Common	56
	Grimy marrentill	1	2 Common	41
	Grimy harralander	1	2 Common	385
	Grimy kwuarm	1	2 Common	2,902
	Grimy ranarr	1	3 Uncommon	3,508
	Grimy irit	1	3 Uncommon	1,496
	Grimy avantoe	1	3 Uncommon	2,877
	Grimy lantadyme	1	3 Uncommon	6,002
	Grimy dwarf weed	1	3 Uncommon	7,525
	Grimy cadantine	1	4 Rare	1,336

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	13, 26 or 35.	2 Common	Not sold
	Anagogic ort	20, 40	2 Common	Not sold
	Pure essence	13, 23 (Noted)	2 Common	1,391–2,461
Fishing bait	Fishing bait	7, 15	2 Common	63–135
	Iron ore	1	3 Uncommon	216
	Eye of newt	1	3 Uncommon	9
	Clue scroll (easy)	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Ectoplasmator	1	5 Very rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	5 Very rare	Not sold
File:Champion's scroll (banshee).png	Champion scroll (banshee)	1	5 Very rare	Not sold

Rare drop table drops

This monster drops items from the rare drop table.
The ring of wealth improves the chances if equipped but is not required to access the table.

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Item Quantity Rarity GE Market Price Coins 250; 381; 450; 3,000; 9,000; 12,000 2 Common Not sold Uncut sapphire 1 2 Common 810 Uncut emerald 1 2 Common 1,295 Uncut ruby 1 2 Common 2,613 Loop half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 9,402 Tooth half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 12,758 Uncut diamond 1 3 Uncommon 9,520 Uncut dragonstone 1 4 Rare 13,572 Dragonstone 1 4 Rare 10,393 Dragon dagger 1 2 Common 17,356 Rune javelin 5 4 Rare 1,285 Adamant javelin 20 5 Very rare 800 Rune spear 1 5 Very rare 12,130 Dragon spear 1 5 Very rare 40,021 Dragon dagger 50 (noted) 5 Very rare 867,800 Rune kiteshield 1 5 Very rare 34,977 Shield left half 1 5 Very rare 65,553 Dragon helm 1 5 Very rare 60,107 Adamant bolts 200 3 Uncommon 31,600 Rune arrow 150–200, 500 4 Rare 28,500–95,000 Onyx bolts 150 4 Rare 1,315,350 Battlestaff 200 (noted) 4 Rare 1,612,200 Air orb 1000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,216,000 Fire orb 1000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,406,000 Vecna skull 1 5 Very rare 457,724 Water talisman 1 3 Uncommon 4,485 Earth talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 20,650–28,910 Fire talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 48,450–67,830 Chaos talisman 1 3 Uncommon 137 Nature talisman 1 3 Uncommon 165 Pure essence 500–15000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 53,500–1,605,000 Template:ExchangeItemNat Nature rune 47–77 4 Rare – Soul rune 20 4 Rare 6,360 Death rune 50, 121 4 Rare 9,250–22,385 Blood rune 50 4 Rare 9,750 Raw swordfish 125 – 250, 1000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 37,875–303,000 Raw shark 250–500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 129,750–259,500 Big bones 150 – 500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 52,650–175,500 Coal 150–7500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 39,450–1,972,500 Adamantite ore 150–800 (noted) 3 Uncommon 248,250–1,324,000 Silver ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 9,200 Adamant bar 1000–7000 (noted) 4 Rare 2,175,000–15,225,000 Runite ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 1,067,100 Rune bar 1,50,150 (noted) 4 Rare 13,029–1,954,350 Clean ranarr 33 (noted) 3 Uncommon 115,665 Clean toadflax 25–250 (noted) 3 Uncommon 69,100–691,000 Clean snapdragon 30–120 (noted) 3 Uncommon 168,210–672,840 Clean torstol 10–100 (noted) 3 Uncommon 277,960–2,779,600 Saradomin brew (4) 250 (noted) 5 Very rare 854,750 Watermelon seed 3 3 Uncommon 5,583 Yew seed 1–50 4 Rare 84,903–4,245,150 Magic seed 1–6 4 Rare 294,483–1,766,898 Palm tree seed 10 4 Rare 1,219,220 Snapdragon seed 1 4 Rare 26,078 Torstol seed 1–31 4 Rare 274,040–8,495,240 Fellstalk seed 2 4 Rare 2,052 Yew logs 100–20000 (noted) 4 Rare 49,400–9,880,000

Trivia

• Unlike other monsters in non multi-combat areas, when you try to attack another Banshee while still in combat with one, it will say "I'm already under attack!" when it normally would say "I'm already under attack."

See also

• Mighty banshee