Killerwatt

Killerwatt

Release date	20 February 2006 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	71
Life points	510
Experience for killing	204 (68 Constitution experience)
Slayer level	Level 37
Slayer XP	51
Assigned by	Vannaka
Aggressive?	No
Poisonous?	No
Immune to poison?	No
Attack style	Magical melee, Ranged
Attack speed	Very slowInterval: 4.8 seconds
Max hit	64
Weakness	meleemeleemeleemeleemeleemeleemelee[[]]meleemeleemeleemeleeMelee
Always drops	Impious ashes
Examine text	Before being attacked: A ball of Electrical energy. While attacking: An angry electrical shock!

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Killerwatts are Slayer monsters that require level 37 Slayer to kill. Players are suggested wear insulated boots to enter the Killerwatt plane and to fight them; If you are not wearing insulated boots before you enter the portal, Professor Oddenstein will warn the player; giving them the option of whether or not to go in. If you take them off after you are inside, you will get hit for up to 140 life points by the thunderclouds inside the area.

Note: As soon as you select it as an attack target it will move towards you and attack you as if it was aggressive (similar to aviansies), sometimes attacking you first. They are a fairly underrated monster, with common Nature rune drops and the occasional air or fire battlestaff drop. At around 70 Defence, they do not hit as often. Players that can cast high level alchemy can utilise the fire and nature rune drops to turn the other drops of this creature into gold.

Warning: Killerwatts are much more dangerous than what their combat level may suggest; both their ranged and melee attacks are faster than the speed of an abyssal whip or Scimitars, and their melee attacks are exceptionally accurate. These melee attacks do not take into account what armour you wear, similar to the effect of Dragonfire. Their ranged attacks however, are less accurate. Therefore, the usage Ranged or Magic to combat Killerwatts from a distance, and the use of Protection Prayers such as Protect from Melee and Protect from Missiles are advised. For more details, see Strengths and Weaknesses for how to use Prayer against them. Players cannot use the Dwarf multicannon in the Killerwatt plane.

Warning: Killerwatts also have a common glitch that causes them to attack at the same speed as a Dragon dagger if you are to begin combat with your Dragon daggers special attack. This can seriously drain your Health, not to mention food.

Note: Killerwatts are not recommended to train on considering their fast and accurate attacks, however, when a player gets them as a slayer task they are very vulnerable to the slayer helmet or black mask abilities.

A storm cloud

Location

The portal

Killerwatts can be found on the Killerwatt plane, which is found by stepping through a portal on the top floor of Draynor Manor.

During the Enlightened Journey quest, it was revealed by the balloon travelling screen that killerwatts also inhabit clouds. However, players cannot engage them in battle here.

Strengths and weaknesses

Killerwatts use both ranged and melee, and can hit very rapidly. At distance, they will always attack with ranged so if you can, use the Protect from Missiles or Protect from Melee prayers when appropriate, and pack several vials of Prayer potion. Your second best option is to be as aggressive as you can since these monsters use a special type of melee damage that ignores melee defence bonuses, allowing them to be more accurate in melee than in ranged. Because they attack extremely rapidly and accurately, eating while killing them is not recommended, instead heal before each fight.

Slayers who don't want to spend the money to consistently pray or without the patience to have to possibly make multiple trips generally change, skip or remove this monster.

They attack fast, but it should be easy to use Prayer against them. However, this is not true if you melee them and then run and try to use ranged, in which the killerwatt may switch between the two attack styles. Simply click on a faraway killerwatt and click on the ground near you to make sure he hits you in melee first. Being in walk mode will prevent you from running up to him and hitting him first. Protect from Melee will work when they are attacking you from afar.

Because of how the killerwatt will only attack you with melee up close, these can be fought fairly easily with prayer potions and a little bit of food. Be sure to enable Protect from Melee, and disable your run option. Wielding full void is also a great option, considering its unique accuracy and damage bonuses (depending on helmet chosen). Remember that Killerwatts attack with magic melee, so the highest level dragonhide is recomended.

Drops

100% drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Impious ashes	1	1 Always	39

Armour/Weapons

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Air battlestaff	1	3 Uncommon	8,790
	Fire battlestaff	1	3 Uncommon	9,106
	Staff of air	1	3 Uncommon	786
	Staff of fire	1	3 Uncommon	1,195
	Mystic fire staff	1	3 Uncommon	28,054

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	3 Uncommon	1,336
	Grimy lantadyme	1	4 Rare	6,002
	Grimy dwarf weed	1	4 Rare	7,525

Runes

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Air rune	5,17	2 Common	40–136
	Fire rune	18,45	2 Common	252–630
	Chaos rune	4	3 Uncommon	344
Template:ExchangeItemNat	Nature rune	4,8,16,37	3 Uncommon	–
	Steam rune	2	3 Uncommon	74
	Death rune	2	3 Uncommon	370

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	11–21, 44, 127, 156, 200	2 Common	Not sold
	Cannonball	3	3 Uncommon	855
	Fire orb	2	3 Uncommon	2,812
	Soda ash	4	3 Uncommon	1,508
	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

Trivia

• The name is a play on "kilowatt", a unit of power, with the word "killer" included to imply its hostility. Or that they may give a deadly amount of watts.
• If a killerwatt is derived from the unit "kilowatt", then they would have an amperage of 8.3, assuming that their voltage is 120, the standard of America.
• If a storm cloud moves onto the square of a Killerwatt you are fighting, the Killerwatt will disappear into the storm cloud, and your character will appear to be fighting empty space.
• When you attack Killerwatts they change (just like Werewolves) and show a pair of arms and a little tail, and also become aggressive (like Aviansies). Their examine texts also change.
• If you attack the first form you will stop after moving 2 squares. The second form acts like every other monster in the game.
• During the Enlightened Journey quest, it is revealed that Killerwatts live in the clouds over Gielinor
• "Killerwatt" is a super villain that harnesses electricity in MARVEL comics 2 (The time of Spider-girl).
• Occasionally when the Killerwatt casts its ranged attack its arms stretch in odd directions.
• Killerwatts can move from one cloud to another in some occasions.
• Sometimes when killed, their drops appear to be under the ground.
• In the Balloon transport system, the images of Killerwatts are what they looked like before their graphical update.
• There is currently a glitch that when ranging Killerwatts, you can switch targets in the middle of a fight even though the area is not multi-combat; also, if you switched targets in the middle of a fight, you can not go back and attack the one you originally attacked until you finished killing the second.
• Like the Pyrefiend, killerwatts sometimes appear to be attacking from a distance even with their melee attack, possibly due to their fast attack speed.
• Although its Ranged attack looks like the Magic spell Wind Strike, it still counts as Ranged damage.
• On a few rare occasions if you fight a Killerwatt near a Storm Cloud the Killerwatt will disappear.
• Killerwatt is the name of an electricity based ghost in The Real Ghostbusters.