Ghast

This article is about the NPC residing in the Mort Myre Swamp. For the familiar, see Ghast familiar.

Ghast

Release date	13 July 2004 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	30, 79, 109, 139
Life points	450, 1070
Experience for killing	240
Slayer level	Not assigned
Aggressive?	Yes (when invisible)
Poisonous?	No
Immune to poison?	No
Attack style	Melee
Attack speed	AverageInterval: 3.6 seconds
Max hit	36 (level 30), 90 (level 79), 120 (level 109), 160 (level 139)
Weakness	druid pouchdruid pouchdruid pouchdruid pouchdruid pouchdruid pouchdruid pouchdruid pouchdruid pouchdruid pouchdruid pouchdruid pouchDruid pouch
Always drops	Nothing
Examine text	Arrghh... a ghast!

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Ghasts are undead souls of people that starved to death in Mort Myre swamp. When first encountered, they are almost transparent, have no combat level, and try to turn food into useless rotten food. If a player has a container of food, such as a hamper, and the ghast is successful, the container and its contents will become rotten. If a player has no food, they deal damage instead.

A player can kill a ghast only after obtaining a Druid pouch from the Nature Spirit quest. A player must charge it with the Cast Bloom ability (uses up to sixty prayer points per cast) of a blessed Silver sickle or the Ivandis flail near some dead logs, branches, or bushes to harvest Mort myre fungi, Mort myre stems, or Mort myre pears. Then put three or more of those harvested items into the druid pouch by filling it. A player may fill it multiple times in a row to contain many charges.

It is more convenient to use an Ouroboros pouch obtained from the Temple Trekking activity, which has similar functions but with infinite charges.

If a Ghast attacks a player with a charged pouch (or a player uses a charged pouch on a Ghast), the Ghast becomes visible and one charge is consumed. In this way, a charged pouch protects a player's food from being rotten. Visibility renders the ghast vulnerable to attack. Killing it rewarded the player with Prayer experience equal to the combat level of ghast, although now all ghast reward the same 30 prayer experience. Killing higher level ghasts from the Temple Trekking activity rewards the player with the same experience as level 30 ghast, which is 30 prayer experience per kill.

Ghast Hunting Notes

Surprise!

A ghast attacking a player.

Although not difficult, it is considered by some to be rather tedious to summon Ghasts for combat training. They do drop lots of herbs, much more so than Hobgoblins. The material drops are rather petty. You do, however, gain reasonable Prayer experience as well as combat experience for killing them. The Salve amulet gives combat bonuses on ghasts.

The best place to hunt them would be just west of the Nature Grotto from the Nature Spirit quest. This allows you to keep refreshing your Prayer Points without using valuable Prayer Potions. The Silver Sickle does not have to actually equipped to gain its benefits, it just has to be in your inventory. However, you must also have a filled druid pouch in your inventory to prevent your food from being rotted. A player can use whichever weapon they choose for combat, not having to use the Sickle. Fully charge your Prayer Points, go west of the Grotto (where the Ghasts are) and cast Bloom with the Sickle next to the rotten logs. Try and do it between as many logs, branches, and bushes as possible, and you will often get several blossomed items to put in the Druid pouch. Do this over and over until you are out of Prayer Points. Now "use" the filled pouch on the ghostly Ghasts - do not wait for them to attack you. Often they will just float around, or the pouch will activate itself, allowing the solid Ghast to float out over the water where it cannot be attacked. The drops will more often than not fall under the rotten logs, so search the ground carefully after defeating the Ghast.

Transformation

Ghasts are in fact humans who have been transformed due to a lack of food, as proven during the Temple Trekking minigame. This explains why ghasts attempt to steal and consume food from players. When one is in the Morytanian environment and does not eat enough, the following will occur:

1. At first the human looks hungry, but normal.
2. The hair colour will begin to fade. The victim's skin will turn to a purple-adjacent colour.
3. The hair will become completely grey and might fall out or grow even more, the cheeks and nose begin to "slump" and the skin turns to a more brown colour. The white of the eye will become slightly yellow.
4. If the person still hasn't eaten, their skin turns blue-grey and completely loses elasticity. The white of the eye is now completely yellow.
5. Finally, the victim turns into a ghast, at which point they can no longer be cured.

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  A healthy human.

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  Stage 2.

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  Stage 3.

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  Final stage before turning into a ghast.

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  A human turning into a ghast.

Drops

Weapons and armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Iron dagger	1	2 Common	13
	Iron mace	1	2 Common	28
	Rune javelin	1	3 Uncommon	257
	Bronze kiteshield	1	4 Rare	30

Herbs

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

Runes and talismans

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Body rune	1–3	2 Common	5–15
	Air rune	1–3	2 Common	8–24
	Fire rune	7	3 Uncommon	98
	Chaos rune	4	3 Uncommon	344
	Cosmic rune	2	4 Rare	220

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	1–125	2 Common	Not sold
	Anagogic ort	20	2 Common	Not sold
Fishing bait	Fishing bait	7	2 Common	63
	Tin ore	1	3 Uncommon	54
	Eye of newt	1	4 Rare	9
	Tinderbox	1	5 Very rare	62
	Summer pie	1	5 Very rare	1,078
	Ectoplasmator	1	5 Very rare	Not sold
	Spin ticket	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

• If a Ghast dies above water, there will be no drop at all.
• The level 30 Ghasts attack at the speed of a whip, but their higher levelled counterparts encountered during Temple trekking attack much slower (same speed as an ogre bow).
• If you finished Deadliest Catch you have access to a bank deposit box somewhat north-west from the grotto where you can bank your herbs and other drops.
• Since their graphical update on 17 August 2011 the ghasts now have same moving, idle and death animations as the aberrant spectres.
• When a Ghast dies, its spirit resembles the way it used to look before their graphical update.
• With the update to Temple Trekking on 17 August 2011, the Ghasts in the events no longer gave prayer experience. This glitch was fixed on 7 February 2012.
• There is currently a glitch where, if you teleport to the Lunar Isle using the lodestone network, are attacked during the animation, arrive on Lunar Isle, log out, and log back in, there will be a Ghast. It does not attack you or follow you; it can only be examined.

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  Artwork depicting Ghasts