Black dragon

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For black dragons found in Daemonheim, see Black dragon (Daemonheim).

Black dragon

Release date	27 February 2002 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	227
Life points	1900
Experience for killing	760 (253 Constitution experience)
Slayer level	Level 1
Slayer XP	199.4
Assigned by	Duradel or Lapalok, Kuradal
Aggressive?	Yes
Poisonous?	No
Immune to poison?	No
Attack style	Melee, Dragonfire
Attack speed	AverageInterval: 3.6 seconds
Max hit	Melee - 214 Dragonfire - 500+
Weakness	stab, rangedstab, rangedstab, rangedstab, rangedstab, rangedstab, rangedstab, [[]]stab, rangedstab, ranged[[]], rangedstab, rangedstab, rangedStab, Ranged
Always drops	Dragon bones, Black dragonhide
Examine text	A fierce dragon with black scales!

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Black dragons are powerful monsters, and, like all other adult dragons, an anti-dragon shield, a dragonfire shield, or an antifire potion or even both of them is highly recommended when fighting them as it can reduce the maximum hit of their breath from about 500+ to around 50. They are level 227 in RuneScape and level 200 in RuneScape Classic. They are not as popular as the weaker blue dragons and green dragons, but their chance of dropping the much coveted Draconic visage and the cost of black dragonhide makes them worthwhile to kill. Players must kill a Black dragon during the Freeing Sir Amik Varze part of Recipe for Disaster. If one gets black dragons as a slayer task and doesn't want to kill them, baby black dragons or the King Black Dragon can be killed instead. It is advised to bring many prayer potions and antifire potions.

Killing Black Dragons may be profitable, as they drop various runes and rune equipment. Each kill is also profitable as their Black dragonhide is worth much more then their bones, as a result of very few players kill Black dragons outside of Slayer. Every kill has a guaranteed drop value of at least 9,869 coins.

Locations

Black dragons can only be found in four locations across RuneScape:

• Taverley Dungeon - Requires dusty key or level 70/80 agility for use of shortcuts (Only 2 are there).
• Lava Maze Dungeon in level 42-43 Wilderness.
• Evil Chicken's Lair after starting the Sir Amik Varze subquest of Recipe for Disaster. (A raw chicken is required to enter the Evil Chicken's lair, and a rope to access the baby black dragon.)
• Daemonheim - Warped floors.

Taverley Dungeon

This location is usually not crowded, because of the distance from a bank, and, furthermore, there are only two dragons. However, if a player has yet to complete the Sir Amik Varze subquest of Recipe for Disaster, which is needed for the Evil Chicken's lair, this is the best location. It is highly recommended that players have at least 70 agility (65 if you eat a summer pie) for the shortcut to the blue dragons to save yourself a lot of walking. The other shortcut is the "Taverley Dungeon Spiked Blade Shortcut" which requires an Agility level of 80 (75 with a summer pie) to overcome the obstacle. Players may want to bring an antipoison in case they get poisoned by a spider. Use the Taverley Lodestone for a quick banking method. If players want to hunt these dragons, its highly advisable that you gain access to the Evil Chicken's Lair. If a player has been assigned black dragons as a task and have yet to unlock the chicken's lair, its advisable that you kill baby black dragons to finish the task. Players less than level 90 should use the Fire obelisk to safespot them, as the Monk of Zamoraks will attack the player and can deal large amount of random damage at times.

It is possible to safespot black dragons by standing inside the entrance and using either range or magic to kill them.

File:Safespot(BD).png

Safespotting Black dragons.

Lava Maze

The main problem with this location is not pkers (they are rare in such deep wilderness, especially if in an unpopulated world) but the remote location. Antipoison is recommended incase you are poisoned by spiders. You must get past the Lava Maze above, which makes it undesirable for PKers to kill players. The nearest banking spot would be the Mage Arena, but is still dangerous. You can use the Wilderness obelisks to teleport into the level 18 or 13 one to teleport out with a Home teleport spell.

Evil Chicken's Lair

This Location is highly recommended. This lair is accessible during and after the Sir Amik Varze Subquest of Recipe for Disaster and requires a raw chicken to access, although there are two chickens near the altar. This is the best location to hunt them, as the Zanaris bank is close by. There is a safe spot at the eastern portion of the lair. Rangers should stay at the entrance of the passageway leading to a mine. Because of the surrounding rocks, dragons will be unable to harm you. There are several spawns to satisfy several players. For players who use Super-Antifire potions are recommended to use it before entering the lair, as one of the dragons spawns close to the portal.

Note: If you haven't finished the subquest, you could still kill the black dragons as many times as you wish. However, the drops will be black dragonhide, dragon bones, and the dragon token.

Drops

100% drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Dragon bones	1	1 Always	2,104
	Black dragonhide	1	1 Always	7,765

Weapons and armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Mithril hatchet	1	3 Uncommon	204
	Adamant javelin	30	3 Uncommon	1,200
	Black hatchet	1	3 Uncommon	304
	Mithril battleaxe	1	3 Uncommon	854
	Mithril kiteshield	1	3 Uncommon	1,086
	Mithril 2h sword	1	3 Uncommon	1,324
	Adamant platebody	1	3 Uncommon	9,727
Rune longsword	Rune longsword	1	4 Rare	18,916
	Rune sq shield	1	4 Rare	22,884
	Rune battleaxe	1	5 Very rare	24,735
	Rune 2h sword	1	5 Very rare	38,245

Ammunition

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
Exchange:Adamant dart (p)	Adamant dart (p)	16	2 Common
	Adamant javelin	30	2 Common	1,200
	Rune knife	2	3 Uncommon	1,908
	Rune dart	10	3 Uncommon	1,030

Runes/Talismans

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Air rune	75	3 Uncommon	600
	Blood rune	15	3 Uncommon	2,925
	Death rune	5–50	3 Uncommon	925–9,250
	Fire rune	50	3 Uncommon	700
	Law rune	10–12, 45	3 Uncommon	1,490–6,705
Template:ExchangeItemNat	Nature rune	67–79	3 Uncommon	–
	Chaos rune	90	3 Uncommon	7,740

Gems/Ores/Bars

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Adamant bar	1–2	3 Uncommon	2,175–4,350
	Steel bar	1	5 Very rare	882

Other Items

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	129–3000	2 Common	Not sold
File:Perfect black dragon scale.png	Perfect black dragon scale	1	2 Common <ref>Only while on a Slayer challenge from Vannaka.</ref>	Not sold
	Runite limbs	1	3 Uncommon	9,427
	Clue scroll (hard)	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Black dragon tail-bone	1	3 Uncommon <ref>Only during the Fur 'n' Seek wish list.</ref>	Not sold
	Chocolate cake	1	3 Uncommon	299
	Anagogic ort	20, 40	3 Uncommon <ref>Only with RDT drops.</ref>	Not sold
File:Black dragon egg.png	Black dragon egg	1	4 Rare <ref>Must be 99 Summoning.</ref>	Not sold
	Spin Ticket	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	5 Very rare	Not sold
	Draconic visage	1	5 Very rare <ref>Estimated at 1/13,099 using gathered Adventurer's Log data as of 18 September 2012</ref>	4,299,605

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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

• In RuneScape Classic black dragons were the strongest monsters in RuneScape until the release of the King Black Dragon.
• They are the only chromatic dragon to drop the draconic visage.
• Like all other dragons in RuneScape, besides the King Black Dragon, the black dragons received a graphical update on July 5, 2010.
• Black dragons are the only chromatic dragons that are lowest in number, compared to other dragons. There are 4 in the Evil Chicken's lair, 2 in the Wilderness, and 2 in Taverly Dungeon.
• They were, for a long time, regarded as the weakest monsters in the game that drop the draconic visage, due to the difficulty in killing Iron dragons and Skeletal Wyverns. Although Frost dragons are easier to kill, they require 85 Dungeoneering and a reasonably higher combat level to fight then Black dragons. Frost dragons use all three types of combat and dragonfire, as opposed to the black dragon's regular attack and dragonfire, therefore making them quite an easy target for Draconic visages.

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