King Black Dragon

King Black Dragon

Release date	24 September 2002 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	276
Life points	2,400
Experience for killing	960 (320 Constitution experience)
Slayer level	Level 1
Slayer XP	258 (296.7 with dragon slayer gloves)
Assigned by	Sumona, Duradel or Lapalok, Kuradal
Aggressive?	Yes
Poisonous?	Yes (80)
Immune to poison?	No
Attack style	Magic (dragonfire) and Melee
Attack speed	Very slowInterval: 4.8 seconds
Max hit	254 with Melee and its magical dragonfire (650+ (dragonfire) without an anti-dragon or dragonfire shield)
Weakness	stab, rangedstab, rangedstab, rangedstab, rangedstab, rangedstab, rangedstab, [[]]stab, rangedstab, ranged[[attack types|]], rangedstab, rangedstab, rangedStab, Ranged
Always drops	Dragon bones and black dragonhide
Examine text	Was the biggest, meanest dragon around.

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The King Black Dragon (often abbreviated to "the KBD") is a monster that players may fight in his lair in the wilderness; at the time of release he was the strongest monster available to kill. He was the second dragon ever created by one of Kerapac's fellow dragonkin. One century later, he was released into the wild due to the failed experiments, but the Queen Black Dragon was held in captivity due to her being more close to dragonkin. Recently, the King Black Dragon has regained a lot of popularity, as new items such as the Dragon rider gloves were added to his drop table and a teleport straight to his lair was added.

The King Black Dragon was the highest level monster in the game until 7 September 2004 when it was replaced by the Kalphite Queen. Afterwards, it was the highest level monster in the Wilderness, but it was soon replaced by the Chaos Elemental. Afterwards, it was the highest level dragon but was replaced by the mithril dragon. It is now the highest level dragon in the Wilderness, as well as the second highest level chromatic dragon next to the Queen Black Dragon. The King Black Dragon is still the highest level monster in RuneScape Classic.

The King Black Dragon can also be killed for Slayer if a player's task is black dragons. The bonuses of the slayer helm and the dragon slayer gloves apply on this monster if on a Black Dragon task. If players enter by the Wilderness, and currently have Black dragons to kill and dragon slayer gloves, the player will gain a decent sum of damage bonus (the black mask/slayer helm effect, dragon slayer gloves effect and 10% boost when coming from the Wilderness). This boost can be increased with a Dominion Marker.

The King Black Dragon has similar charm types as demons and Waterfiends. The drops are somewhat similar to that of mixed boss monsters, though a little bit rarer and less in quantity.

The King Black Dragon is often killed by high-level players looking for profit or charms. This is primarily due to the fact that the average value of the King Black Dragon is anywhere from 15,000 coins to 30,000, and the fact that it is much more easier to kill than any of the God Wars generals.

Getting there

There are two ways that player's can reach the King Black Dragon's Lair.

• Northwest of the Edgeville lodestone is an Artefact. Activating it teleports the player to the lair.
• There is a ladder in level 42 of the Wilderness, near the western part of the Lava Maze. Wilderness Obelisks may be useful in reaching it. Players using this method may want to bring an antipoison for the poison spiders that they will encounter. Entering the lair via the Wilderness will give players a 10% damage boost against the King Black Dragon. Players must be wary of player killers, although the chance of encountering one is slim.

File:King Black Dragon location.png

The king black dragon location

Attacks

The King Black Dragon uses melee when fighting and also uses 4 different types of dragon breath attack that have fairly devastating effects, which makes him a well-rounded and difficult foe. His 4 dragonbreath attacks consist of the following:

• Regular dragonfire. (All adult dragons use this)
• Shock-like breath that can reduce your stats. It is suggested that you have 75 defence or higher and good magic defence armour. All stats will be lowered by 1 or 2 points. Super restores should be used but are not required.
• Ice breath that can stop players from moving or attacking for approximately 5 game ticks.
• Poison breath that will deal 88 poison damage. You should bring at least 1 anti poison potion if you want to kill him.

All of these breath attacks can deal heavy damage to unprepared players. Unlike other adult dragons, there is no possible way to negate any form of attack except the melee and regular dragonfire. The breaths can deal various damage, though using an Anti-dragon shield and a dose of Antifire or Super antifire will take the damage from the special breaths down to 100.

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  Normal dragonfire

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  Poisonous dragonfire

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  Freezing dragonfire

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  Shocking dragonfire

Suggestions for Fighting

An anti-dragon/dragonfire Shield is essential as all dragons can deal well over 500 life points of damage to a player not wielding one (unless you use a super antifire). Using an antifire potion in conjunction with an Antifire shield or a Dragonfire shield completely protects the player from the dragon's basic breath.

There are no specific levels required to fight this monster, but for players who wish to Melee in a team, having a combat level in the mid 80's should be enough and for players who wish to fight using Ranged in a team, having a Ranged level in the mid 60's will suffice for two to three kills if in a two man team with 70+ defence and using ruby bolts (e). If not then ranged level 85+ is recommended. It is also recommended for players to stand on either side of each other. This way the KBD will have to turn constantly to attack someone. (You can not use dwarf cannon, it will be destroyed)

Drops

100% drop

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

Weapons

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Rune longsword	1	3 Uncommon	18,916
	Rune battleaxe	1	3 Uncommon	24,735
	Dragon dagger	1	4 Rare	17,356

Arrows and Runes

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Blood rune	15, 50	2 Common	2,925–9,750
	Death rune	7–50	2 Common	1,295–9,250
	Law rune	15,45,50	3 Uncommon	2,235–7,450
	Mithril arrow	250	3 Uncommon	5,750
	Rune arrow	50	3 Uncommon	9,500
	Runite bolts	25	3 Uncommon	16,975

Armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Rune sq shield	1	3 Uncommon	22,884
	Rune platebody	1	3 Uncommon	38,859
	Dragon helm	1	3 Uncommon	60,107
	Dragon rider boots	1	5 Very rare	2,338,742
	Dragon rider gloves	1	5 Very rare	3,755,057

Ores and Bars

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Adamant bar	1, 5 (noted)	3 Uncommon	2,175–10,875
	Rune bar	2 (noted)	3 Uncommon	26,058
	Silver ore	100 (noted)	3 Uncommon	9,200
	Gold ore	50 (noted)	3 Uncommon	11,400
	Runite ore	3 (noted)	3 Uncommon	32,013

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	1000–3000	2 Common	Not sold
	Yew logs	50 (noted)	2 Common	24,700
	Magic logs	10 (noted)	2 Common	14,030
	Black dragon tail-bone	1	3 Uncommon <ref>Tail-bone drops only during the Fur 'n' Seek wish list.</ref>	Not sold
	Last riders	1	5 Very rare <ref>Last Riders is dropped for everyone in the room when Dragon rider gloves or boots are dropped, unless the player has one in the bank or inventory.</ref>	Not sold
File:Kbd heads.png	King Black Dragon heads	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Spin ticket	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Court summons	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Clue scroll (hard)	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Clue scroll (elite)	1	5 Very rare	Not sold
	Draconic visage	1	5 Very rare <ref>Estimated at 1/4,754 using gathered Adventurer's Log data as of 18 September 2012.</ref>	4,299,605
Dragon kite ornament kit (or)	Dragon kite ornament kit (or)	1	5 Very rare	614,109
Dragon kite ornament kit (sp)	Dragon kite ornament kit (sp)	1	5 Very rare	542,231

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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

Gallery

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  A group of players fighting the dragon as depicted in art.

• The king black dragon stuffed head.

  The king black dragon stuffed head.

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  Concept art of the updated dragon.

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  The King Black Dragon statue in a Clan Citadel.

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  KBD Concept Art

Trivia

File:KBD stamp.gif

A stamp featuring the King Black Dragon from a postbag

• There is currently a graphical glitch that does not allow the player to see the King Black Dragon's drop when it drops along the edge of the rock in the middle.
• The King Black Dragon can talk, as seen in A Tail of Two Cats. During the final cutscene he is visited by Bob the Jagex Cat. During the chat between the King and Bob, a range player attempts to solo the King, is unable to damage him, and is killed in one hit as he had no visible fire protection.
• Each head is used for a specific type of dragonfire. The middle head is used for the shocking dragonfire, the one that seems to have ice around it does freezing and the pale green head uses poison.
• The King Black Dragon received a graphical update, along with more refined drops that a player would expect from a high level monster. Before the update, it dropped low-level runes and other various items like iron arrows. After it was updated, it dropped rune armor and the dragon helm more frequently along with new drops.
• When the King Black Dragon uses its corrosive breath, a belch can be heard.
• If the King Black Dragon freezes you with his ice breath, you will be able to eat. However, you cannot move (as with other ice spells and binding spells), but unlike the freezing/binding spells, you are unable to fight back. This may be a glitch.
• Despite being able to poison players, the King Black Dragon can be poisoned. This may be an oversight from Jagex.
• Flametongue, a King Black Dragon that fought during the God Wars, shows that the King Black Dragon may not be the only of his kind.
• A while after the Queen Black Dragon was released, when you killed a King Black Dragon, the Adventurer's log said: "I killed a King Black Dragon, the biggest, meanest dragon around." After it's graphical update the adventurer's log was also changed to "I killed a King Black Dragon, which was once the biggest, meanest dragon around."
• The King Black Dragon, Queen Black Dragon and Mithril dragons are currently the only dragons where they will show on your Adventurer's log.
• In a letter in the Postbag from the Hedge, the King Black Dragon makes references to "The Kin", possibly referring to the Dragonkin.
• The King Black Dragon has a unique melee, dragonfire and death animation unlike the metallic and chromatic dragons.
• It was revealed in the April 2011 BTS that the Kalphite Queen and the King Black Dragon were due to be married on 29 April 2011, to coincide with the wedding of Prince William of Wales and Miss Catherine Middleton in the United Kingdom. However this turned out to be a marketing ploy by Diango.
• The examine text "The biggest, meanest dragon around" wasn't true after Queen black dragon was released, as the Queen black dragon is much, much bigger than KBD. His examine was changed due to this, to 'Was the biggest, meanest dragon around.'
• According to the Third dragonkin journal the King Black Dragon is a failed project of a Dragonkin to copy the Queen Black Dragon that had been created by Kerapac.
• According to the Last riders book, Hannibus rode the King Black Dragon.

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Black Dragon	Strongest monster in RuneScape	Kalphite Queen