Salamander

Salamanders are versatile, two-handed magic, melee, or ranged weapons that facilitate the training of the Ranged, Magic and/or Strength. Unlike other range and magic weapons they can only attack creatures or players in the next square, but they can attack over fences and similar barriers or opponents diagonal from them even in melee mode. Salamanders may be obtained through net trapping and must be fuelled using a variety of herb tars made with the Herblore skill. They assume the affiliation of the Combat triangle with what the player trains (i.e. If players use mage training then it works well on meleers, strength training on rangers and range training on mages.) Many people have found Black Salamanders to be very effective at Barrows. Since it uses the 3 attack styles of the combat triangle, it can be used effectively to attack the 6 brothers.

Note that the magic-based attack depends on your magic attack bonuses; a full set of rune armour is not as effective as using a full set of mystic robes.

When you die or drop a salamander it runs away. Strangely, when a beast of burden holding any salamanders is dismissed or dies, the salamanders are dropped on the ground and can be picked up as items.

A player holding a Black salamander

Weapon (creature)	Magic, Range and Attack Level	Slash / Range / Strength / Ranged Strength Combat Bonuses	Ammo
Swamp lizard (hunter)	30	+10 / +20 / +22 / +16	Guam tar
Orange salamander (hunter)	50	+19 / +29 / +31 / +22	Marrentill tar
Red salamander (hunter)	60	+37 / +47 / +49 / +31	Tarromin tar
Black salamanderBlack salamander (hunter)	70	+59 / +69 / +71 / +49	Harralander tar

Attack styles

Attack style	Skill exp
Scorch	Strength
Flare	Ranged
Blaze	Magic

Trivia

• Listed on the 17/1/10 patch notes, salamanders had their idle animation stance updated.
• When moving around, a salamander becomes a one-handed weapon rather than a two-handed one.
• When Salamanders were first released players would purchase them for 12k to upwards of 65k depending on the tier.
• There was a glitch where any damage you did (regardless of how much) always showed a critical hit (orange bar). This has now been fixed.
• When you attack with salamanders, you appear to be pulling their tail.

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