Hobgoblin

This article is about the hobgoblin outside Daemonheim. For the hobgoblin in Daemonheim, see Hobgoblin (Daemonheim).

Hobgoblin

Release date	6 April 2001 (Update)
Members?	No
Combat level	23, 28, 36, 42, 47
Life points	280, 290, 490, 510, 520
Experience for killing	Unknown edit
Slayer level	Level 1
Slayer XP	29, 49
Assigned by	Mazchna or Achtryn
Aggressive?	Yes
Poisonous?	No
Immune to poison?	No
Attack style	Crush, spear-bearers use Stab attacks.
Attack speed	AverageInterval: 3.6 seconds
Max hit	Level 28: 38 (approx), level 42: 51, level 47: 53
Weakness	slash, ranged, [[]]slash, ranged, magicslash, ranged, magicslash, ranged, magicslash, ranged, magicslash, ranged, magicslash, [[]], magicslash, ranged, magic[[attack types|]], ranged, magicslash, ranged, magicslash, ranged, magicslash, ranged, magicSlash, Ranged, Magic
Always drops	Bones
Examine text	An ugly, smelly creature. An ugly, smelly creature with a spear.

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Hobgoblins are strong, agile goblin-like creatures,but however are not as intelligent as their goblin counterparts. They can be aggressive to lower-level players, especially when several are in the area. Generally only Level 42 hobgoblins wield spears, although there are exceptions. Players may find that they are good monsters to train on, mainly because they give decent free-to-play drops for a low-level creature. They also reside in the God Wars Dungeon, and when killed in there they will count as a kill of Bandos. Hobgoblins may also be purchased at level 78 Construction to guard a players dungeon (see Hobgoblin (POH).

In the quest Fur 'n' Seek, its' skin must be collected and cleaned for the Odd Old Man.

If hobgoblins are assigned, Revenant hobgoblins may take their place.

Characteristics and history

Hobgoblins are said to be a crossbreed between goblins and orks and were apparently bred by Bandos to fight as soldiers in the God Wars. While not as tenacious as goblins or as strong as orks, hobgoblins have strength that exceeds that of a goblin significantly and are agile, mobile units in battle unlike lumbering orks and ogres, making them a good all-round fighter. They also possibly threw their spears/javelins as ranged support for Bandos's armies. After the God Wars, when Bandos left Gielinor, they were left leaderless and now mainly live in desolate areas or caves, being uncivilised and unorganised. Hobgoblins live mainly on a diet of limpwurt roots, which explains why they drop many limpwurt roots. Hobgblins are also presumably flesh-eating carnivores, given their likeness to goblins. They are also known for dropping gold charms often. Players that can defend themselves against these monsters adequately may find that the limpwurt roots can be a sufficient source of money if sold. When sold, limpwurt roots are worth coins. Descendants of the hobgoblins who have survived the God Wars can be found in the Wilderness among other locations, such as:

Locations

• Asgarnian Ice Dungeon
• Crandor
• Daemonheim while Dungeoneering
• Hobgoblin Peninsula west of Crafting Guild
• Edgeville Dungeon (Level 42 and 28)
• God Wars Dungeon (Level 47)
• The Hollows (Beware! There are also Poison spiders)
• Near the Karamja Hunter area (South of Two Bai Wannai).
• North of the Outpost
• North of Rellekka (Includes hobgoblins which can be hit with long-ranged attacks on islands: Ranged, Magic)
• Player owned houses
• Gnome Village Dungeon
• Waterbirth Island
• Wilderness (Hobgoblin Mine at level 36-37 wilderness.) (Level 28 hobgoblins only.)
• Witchaven Dungeon

Champions' Challenge

Hobgoblins are one of the races who have a champion in the Champions' Challenge activity. To fight the Hobgoblin Champion, the player must kill hobgoblins until one drops a Champion's scroll, an exceptionally rare drop.

Drops

100% drop

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Bones	1	1 Always	105

Weapons/Armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Bronze spear (m)	1	2 Common	145
	Iron javelin (m)	5	2 Common	30
	Steel dagger	1	2 Common	20
	Iron sword	1	2 Common	26
	Iron longsword	1	3 Uncommon	28
	Iron spear (m)	1	3 Uncommon	571
	Steel spear (m)	1	3 Uncommon	940
	Steel longsword	1	3 Uncommon	191

Runes

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Water rune	2	3 Uncommon	14
	Body rune	6	3 Uncommon	30
	Fire rune	7	3 Uncommon	98
	Cosmic rune	2	3 Uncommon	220
	Chaos rune	3	3 Uncommon	258
Template:ExchangeItemNat	Nature rune	4	3 Uncommon
	Law rune	2	3 Uncommon	298

Seeds (members only)

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
Potato seed	Potato seed	4–8	2 Common	4–8
Onion seed	Onion seed	4	2 Common	4
Cabbage seed	Cabbage seed	4	2 Common	12
Sweetcorn seed	Sweetcorn seed	3	2 Common	9
Strawberry seed	Strawberry seed	1–2	2 Common	92–184
	Harralander seed	1	2 Common	4
	Tarromin seed	1	2 Common	7
Tomato seed	Tomato seed	3	3 Uncommon	3
	Watermelon seed	1–2	3 Uncommon	1,861–3,722
	Jute seed	1	3 Uncommon	3
Wildblood seed	Wildblood seed	1	3 Uncommon	2
Jangerberry seed	Jangerberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	2
	Whiteberry seed	1–2	3 Uncommon	24–48
Poison ivy seed	Poison ivy seed	1	3 Uncommon	31
	Bittercap mushroom spore	1	3 Uncommon	7
Cactus seed	Cactus seed	1	3 Uncommon	20
	Belladonna seed	1	3 Uncommon	29
Limpwurt seed	Limpwurt seed	1	3 Uncommon	147
	Toadflax seed	1	3 Uncommon	989
	Spirit weed seed	1	3 Uncommon	3,869
	Marrentill seed	1	3 Uncommon	3
	Irit seed	1	3 Uncommon	100
	Kwuarm seed	1	3 Uncommon	1,042
	Cadantine seed	1	4 Rare	997
	Dwarf weed seed	1	4 Rare	43,732
	Ranarr seed	1	4 Rare	2,935

Herbs (members only)

	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 avantoe	1	3 Uncommon	2,877
	Grimy irit	1	3 Uncommon	1,496
	Grimy ranarr	1	4 Rare	3,508
	Grimy kwuarm	1	4 Rare	2,902
	Grimy cadantine	1	4 Rare	1,336
	Grimy lantadyme	1	4 Rare	6,002
	Grimy dwarf weed	1	4 Rare	7,525

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	1–71	2 Common	Not sold
	Limpwurt root	1	2 Common	844
Trading sticks	Trading sticks (m)<ref>Only on Karamja</ref>	Unknown	2 Common
	Goblin mail	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Clue scroll (easy) (m)	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Grapes	1–3	3 Uncommon	823–2,469
	Spin Ticket	1	4 Rare	Not sold
Casket	Casket (m)	1	5 Very rare	4,040
	Starved ancient effigy (m)	1	5 Very rare	Not sold
File:Champion's scroll (hobgoblin).png	Hobgoblin champion scroll (m)	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

• In mythology, hobgoblins are intelligent and helpful versions of goblins. In the game, it is quite the contrary.
• On 23 September 2009, hobgoblins and their revenant counterparts received a graphical makeover.
• Hobgoblins bear a very close resemblance and may be a reference to Moblins from The Legend of Zelda, particularly the ones from Ocarina of Time. They also look very similar to Ganon from the non-canon television series, except that he wore a robe in the series, whereas hobgoblins in RuneScape wear bulky armour.
• In Armies of Gielinor, before summoning a hobgoblin, this text will appear: "The hobgoblin occupies the rung on the evolutionary ladder between goblin and ork, and so displays the best and worst traits of both races."

See also

• Revenant hobgoblin
• Hobgoblin Champion
• Goblin
• Hobgoblin Geomancer

References

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