Living rock striker
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| Release date | 17 September 2009 (Update) |
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| Members? | Yes |
| Combat level | 140 |
| Life points | 2750 |
| Experience for killing | 1100 (367 Constitution experience) |
| Slayer level | Level 1 |
| Slayer XP | 316 |
| Assigned by | Kuradal |
| Aggressive? | Yes (no if you're not at melee range) |
| Poisonous? | No |
| Immune to poison? |
Yes |
| Attack style | Melee up close / Range at a distance |
| Attack speed | AverageInterval: 3.6 seconds
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| Max hit | 140 (approx, ranged), 84 (approx, melee) |
| Weakness | Crush > Ranged > Slash |
| Always drops | Living Minerals (must be mined with 73 mining) |
| Examine text | A being of ore and minerals. |
Living rock strikers can be found throughout the Living Rock Caverns. They were released along with the Living Rock Caverns on 17 September 2009. They have very high lifepoints, decent drops, and are fairly easy to kill, despite looking threatening and defensive. Players with 75+ Attack will find a whip very suitable. A person with 75+ Defence, with rune or better armour, could easily kill a Living rock striker without taking much damage. A player with 80+ Defence may instead choose to use a Bunyip with the weaker Fighter torso. A set of guthans armour is very effective here as a player can stay the whole task with a good defence level. Living rock strikers will only use their ranged attack if you attack it and are not within melee range. This attack hits much more frequently and consistently harder than their melee attack. As with all other living rock creatures, the strikers are immune to the effects of poison. In addition, they are aggressive, but the player must be right next to them to be targeted. A player with good clicking skills could navigate the cavern without being attacked at all. These can generally be really annoying to deal with when fishing rocktails or mining gold and coal deposits.
Their remains can be mined to receive living minerals and 25 Mining experience. A Mining level of at least 73 is required. The minerals serve as bait for fishing rocktails at level 90 Fishing. The minerals also give a decent amount of money for players, providing upwards of 100k per hour.
One way to stay here for very long is to bring a bunyip familiar and lots of swallow whole scrolls and fish either rocktail or cavefish and eat them with the swallow whole scrolls. However, this requires high fishing and cooking levels.
Another effective method is to bring full guthans to stay for long periods of time. You can switch to full slayer helm and/or a better weapon such as a chaotic maul or barrelchest anchor for the better crush stats, and then switch back to guthans to heal when needed. If swapping weapons, make sure to change attack style to crush each time you switch for maximum accuracy.
The easiest and cheapest way to heal is to bring an enhanced excalibur and use the special attack if you get damaged. You can use the special attack every 5 minutes, and the special attack heals 200LP (Hard tasks completed) or 400 LP (elite tasks completed). This weapon only takes up one inventory space and doesn't degrade.
The vampyrism aura also helps, due to the strikers' high health, although it may not be enough to heal alone.
If you cannot afford crush type weapons, or don't want to use the lower-levelled crush weapons, then other weapons work fairly well, as these monsters have very low defence in general. A player with around 80-85 attack can hit almost as often with stab or slash attacks as they can with crush, provided their attack bonuses are high enough.
Lower levels can use Protect from Melee or Protect from Range depending on combat style, as the strikers do not react to protection prayers.
For a miner, the Striker can be annoying with its damaging range attack, one trick to erase its memory is to run to the entrance, then go up the rope and back down. Alternatively, players can run to a safe place (bank deposit, behind rocks) and log out and back in.
Strikers are not aggressive if you are not near its melee range, unlike other counterparts like the metal dragons. If you favour less melee damage, kill these, but be sure not to wander outside the melee range without activating Protect from Missiles first. This is the weakest living rock creature, due to that most players prefer melee over other parts of the combat triangle, and its melee attack is somewhat accurate but very low.
The best spot to go to while on a slayer task is the east side. Go to the rope, then go NE to a big area. In that area should be 4 Living rock strikers grouped tightly together. It is a respawn spot for the Patriarch, which provides extra money and experience. Players can get 1,300 Slayer experience here for every four of the Strikers killed. This spot is also not near any Protectors, so it won't affect the experience rate or profit.
Drops
100% Drop
Item Quantity Rarity GE Market Price 
Living minerals 5–24 Always <ref>You must mine the Living rock remains.</ref> 625–3,000
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Runes
Item Quantity Rarity GE Market Price 
Mud rune 3,8 Common 591–1,576 
Death rune 3–8 Uncommon 555–1,480 Template:ExchangeItemNat Nature rune 3–10 Rare Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".–Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".
Ores (noted)
Item Quantity Rarity GE Market Price 
Gold ore (noted) 3 Common 684 
Coal (noted) 3 Common 789 
Mithril ore (noted) 3 Common 1,230 
Adamantite ore (noted) 1 Common 1,655 
Silver ore (noted) 3 Rare 276
Gems
Item Quantity Rarity GE Market Price 
Uncut sapphire (noted) 1 Uncommon 810 
Uncut emerald (noted) 1 Uncommon 1,295 
Uncut ruby (noted) 1 Rare 2,613 
Uncut diamond (noted) 1 Rare 9,520
Charms
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Pickaxes
Item Quantity Rarity GE Market Price 
Mithril pickaxe 1 Uncommon 670 
Adamant pickaxe 1 Rare 1,812 
Rune pickaxe 1 Very rare 19,136
Other
Item Quantity Rarity GE Market Price 
Spin ticket 1 Rare Not sold 
Starved ancient effigy 1 Very rare Not sold 
Court summons 1 Very rare Not sold
Trivia
- When Living Rock Strikers stand still, at a set amount of time they would either scratch their left chest, or pluck a rock from itself, and take a short look at it before putting it back.
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Living rock protector • Living rock striker • Living rock patriarch • Rock critter |