Feral vampyre

This article is about the specific type of attackable monster. For general information about the race, see Vampyre (race).

"Vampire" redirects here. For the former difference between vampires and vampyres, see here.

Vampyre

File:Vampire (level 61).png
Release date	14 October 2004 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	61, 72, 77
Life points	400, 500, 600
Experience for killing	160, 200, 240
Slayer level	Level 1
Slayer XP	40, 50, 60
Assigned by	Mazchna or Achtryn, Vannaka
Aggressive?	Yes, No in God Wars Dungeon if you are wearing a Zamorak item
Poisonous?	No
Immune to poison?	No
Attack style	Melee
Attack speed	AverageInterval: 3.6 seconds
Max hit	74 (level 61), 84 (level 72), 80 (level 77)
Weakness	holy symbolholy symbolholy symbolholy symbolholy symbolholy symbolholy symbolholy symbolholy symbolholy symbolholy symbolholy symbolHoly symbol
Always drops	Vampyre dust
Examine text	It looks really hungry! (level 61 and 77) / Where did that come from? (level 72)

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Vampyres are dangerous creatures found in the Haunted Woods east of Canifis and near the Abandoned Mine. They are aggressive, and will attack anyone. They appear to be a weaker, more animalistic creature than the other vampyres, and can be harmed by all weapons.

They will occasionally bite players' necks, which can sometimes drain combat stats and non-combat stats and will cause the vampyre to recover a small amount of life points. Unlike other types of Vampyre that are vulnerable only to silver weapons, such as Vyrewatch, these vampyres are vulnerable to all attacks.

Locations

• The Haunted Woods (levels 61 & 72)
• The Haunted Mine (levels 61 & 72)
• God Wars Dungeon (level 77)

Hunting and rewards

File:Vampire ambush.png

A vampyre ambushing a player. Note the spider.

Vampyres are usually hunted for the slayer skill. The main reason to hunt vampyres is their relatively high life points and consistently aggressive nature, which ensures good experience per hour, since a player will rarely run out of vampyres to fight. However, the player must have a sufficient defence level, protection prayer and/or healing items to avoid dying. A holy symbol greatly helps when fighting vampyres, as it weakens the vampyres' accuracy and damage.

Vampyres offer mediocre to decent value drops, depending on the price of vampyre dust. Before the discovery of Summoning, vampyre dust had no use and most players refused to collect it. The few who did allegedly made some money in the early days of Summoning, when players levelling up the skill would buy the dust at high prices. The level 72 vampyres are also known to drop clue scrolls very often, a clue scroll is almost guaranteed if you spend at least 15 minutes fighting vampyres.

A good spot to kill vampyres is the south-east corner of the woods, just outside the wall gate of Port Phasmatys. Using a cannon in this area would be useful because there are many safe spots, which include the huge mushrooms and trees, where player may hide and not receive damage.

The level 72 vampyres spawn when a player nears any of the non-attackable spiders in the Haunted Woods. Players can take advantage of this to cause numerous vampyres to spawn.

Players hunting vampyres for Slayer tasks may wish to hunt the vampyres at the Abandoned Mine, due to the presence of leeches in the Haunted Woods which can be frustrating to deal with when trying to finish a task quickly.

Characteristics and history

Vampyres are savage beasts closely related to other members of the vampyre race, but they are considerably less intelligent, and have much less control over their powers. They are driven by their hunger and a kind of primal rage, unlike the other vampyric beings.<ref>Noted in postbag 19, since removed. Recited in full here.
Forum post by Mod Ana stating that this lore is still relevent.</ref> These Vampyres can be harmed with any weapon. It is not known why they differ so much from the other vampyres.

They were used as warriors by Zamorak since the beginning of God Wars, although new evidence has shown they were merely allies with Zamorak and not actually followers as once believed. They were used again in large numbers in Misthalin/Morytania conflicts during the 4th age. Once the River Salve became a barrier to conquest, however, need for vampyre armies diminished.

Vampyres reside outside the settlements in Morytania, likely cast out by the more intelligent beings in the area. Most of them can be found in the Haunted Woods and near the Abandoned Mine.

Drops

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	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Vampyre dust	1	1 Always	193

Weapons

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Black hatchet	1	3 Uncommon	304

Runes

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Chaos rune	3	2 Common	258
	Death rune	2	2 Common	370
	Earth rune	4	3 Uncommon	24
	Blood rune	1–2	3 Uncommon	195–390

Seeds

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Belladonna seed	1	3 Uncommon	29
	Harralander seed	1	3 Uncommon	4
	Irit seed	1	3 Uncommon	100
	Jangerberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	2
	Limpwurt seed	1	3 Uncommon	147
	Marrentill seed	1	3 Uncommon	3
	Bittercap mushroom spore	1	3 Uncommon	7
	Poison ivy seed	1	3 Uncommon	31
	Strawberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	92
	Tarromin seed	1	3 Uncommon	7
	Toadflax seed	1	3 Uncommon	989
	Whiteberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	24
	Wildblood seed	1	3 Uncommon	2
	Cactus seed	1	4 Rare	20
	Avantoe seed	1	4 Rare	1,306
	Morchella mushroom spore	2	4 Rare	992
	Watermelon seed	1	4 Rare	1,861
	Spirit weed seed	1	4 Rare	3,869
	Kwuarm seed	1	4 Rare	1,042
	Dwarf weed seed	1	4 Rare	43,732
	Lantadyme seed	1	5 Very rare	28,328
	Cadantine seed	1	5 Very rare	997
	Ranarr seed	1	5 Very rare	2,935

Herbs

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Grimy marrentill	1	2 Common	41
	Grimy ranarr	1	3 Uncommon	3,508
	Grimy tarromin	1	3 Uncommon	56
	Grimy guam	1	3 Uncommon	521
	Grimy harralander	1	3 Uncommon	385
	Grimy irit	1	4 Rare	1,496
	Grimy kwuarm	1	4 Rare	2,902
	Grimy avantoe	1	4 Rare	2,877
	Grimy cadantine	1	4 Rare	1,336
	Grimy dwarf weed	1	5 Very rare	7,525
	Grimy lantadyme	1	5 Very rare	6,002

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	15	2 Common	Not sold
	Clue scroll (medium)	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Earth talisman	1	4 Rare	826
	Starved ancient effigy	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

See also

• Count Draynor, who is involved in the Vampyre Slayer quest.
• Revenant vampyre, the ghost of a slain vampyre during the God Wars who is located in the Forinthry Dungeon.
• Sinister Stranger, a vampyre found in the fishing contest area in Hemenster. He is unlike this type of Vampyre and is more like a Dracula type, with weakness to garlic.
• Dessous, a powerful vampyre.
• Ruantun, a heavily weakened vampyre found in Draynor Sewers, who assists the player in Desert Treasure with making a silver pot to summon Dessous.

Trivia

• After the Vampyres' graphical update, some players mistakenly thought there was a graphical glitch in which the upper arms were attached to the body; this is however, not a glitch - it is clearly a wing appendage under their arms, as they are after all, bat-like creatures.
• Vampyres were graphically updated on 17 August 2011.
• The different levels of vampyre each have different sounds when attacking, but they all have the same sound when attempting to bite you.
• They appear to wear a damaged version of a Vampyre Juvinate's outfit.
• Vampyres used to be called vampires, but this was changed on 31 August 2011 in a hidden update for an unknown reason. Not even Mod Ana (Developer of The Branches of Darkmeyer) knows why.

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  Level 61 vampire before graphical update

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  Level 72 vampire before graphical update

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  God Wars Dungeon vampire before graphical update

References

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