Banshee

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Banshee
Release																				26 January 2005 (Update)
Members																				Yes
Actions																				Attack, Examine
Race																				Ghost
Examine																				A tortured screaming soul.
Combat info
Combat level																				37
Life points																				1,350
Aggressive
Poisonous
Combat experience
XP																				58.5
XP																				15.2
XP																				19.3
XP (2H/MH/OH)																				3 / 2 / 1
Slayer info
Level																				15
Assignment																				Banshees
Master
Offensive
Max hit
108															0															108															? (edit)
Style																														Rate
																														4 ticks (2.4s)
Combat levels
27																				1																				27
Accuracy
409																				0																				409
Defensive
Armour																				Weakness															Susceptible
409										27
Base hit chance
90															45															65															55
Immunities
Not immune															Not immune															Not immune															Not immune
Advanced data
NPC ID															1612
Links															bestiary • MRND
FAQ • doc

Banshees are Slayer monsters found in the Slayer Tower that require level 15 Slayer and earmuffs to kill. Additionally, banshees tend to frequently drop many different types of herbs. Mighty banshees are a higher-levelled alternative if seeking greater experience for a slayer assignment.

When banshees are killed with a normal contract, the player will get 3.1 experience points, and 18.6 on special contracts.

Locations

Location	Levels	Members	Spawns	Map
Slayer Tower ground floor[UK]1st floor[US]	37		12	Maplink

Strategy

Players should wear earmuffs, masked earmuffs, a Slayer helmet, or a Mask of Mourning/Helm of Keening when fighting banshees. Not having the required equipment will cause the player to take damage equal to 10% of their Constitution level. Combat statistics and Agility are also reduced, which can be annoying for players wishing to use the shortcuts in the Slayer Tower.

Banshees use a magic attack which hits from a distance. The Protect from Magic Prayer will work against them, but most players are likely better off using armour with a high magic defence bonus, such as dragonhide armour.

Banshees are considered undead, so a salve amulet or salve amulet (e) will work. An ectoplasmator will also provide the player with Prayer experience.

Morytania legs 4 will provide a 10% boost to slayer experience if in the slayer tower and on task. A contract with Markus will provide even more additional slayer experience if the task is completed in the Slayer Tower.

As banshees drop many types of herbs and seeds, players can make use of seedicide and herbicide to convert them to experience. A herb bag, charming imp and gem bag can also be useful for collecting their drops.

Champion's Challenge

Banshees are one of the 'races' who have lesser champions in the Champion's Challenge Distraction and Diversion. To fight the Banshee Champion, the player must kill banshees until one drops a Champion's scroll, a very rare drop.

Drops

Drop rates estimated based on 51,443 kills from the Drop Log Project, unless otherwise cited.

The average Banshee kill is worth 1,033 coins.

Charms

Nothing	1	1	1	1
89%	2–3%	7%	1%	0.3–0.4%
Represents a 90% confidence range based on a sample of 83,610 kills. 1 item is dropped at a time. Add data to the log (requires JavaScript).

Main drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Price	High Alch
	Small spiky bronze salvage	1	3/128	306	40
	Staff of air	1	4/128	1,973	900
	Mithril arrow	40	6/128	920	1,800
	Chaos rune	3; 7; 10	9/128	432–1,440	84–280
	Dark mystic gloves	1	1/512	11,340	3,000
	Grimy guam	1	8/128	371	18
	Grimy marrentill	1	7/128	1,144	1
	Grimy tarromin	1	4/128	230	1
	Grimy harralander	1	3/128	939	1
	Grimy ranarr	1	3/128	3,955	1
	Grimy irit	1	2/128	479	1
	Grimy avantoe	1	3/256	846	1
	Grimy kwuarm	1	2/256	2,505	1
	Grimy cadantine	1	1/256	1,905	1
	Grimy lantadyme	1	1/512	3,857	1
	Grimy dwarf weed	1	1/512	4,474	1
	Strawberry seed	1	3/128	343	10
	Watermelon seed	1	1/128	905	33
	Wildblood seed	1	2/128	211	8
	Jangerberry seed	1	2/128	202	36
	Whiteberry seed	1	1/128	235	79
	Poison ivy seed	1	1/512	258	99
	Limpwurt seed	1	3/128	310	7
	Marrentill seed	1	3/128	1,115	3
	Tarromin seed	1	2/128	2,186	4
	Harralander seed	1	1/128	4,780	7
	Ranarr seed	1	1/128	12,377	11
	Spirit weed seed	1	1/128	741	10
	Toadflax seed	1	1/256	1,411	20
	Irit seed	1	1/256	788	38
	Avantoe seed	1	1/512	2,337	38
	Kwuarm seed	1	1/512	473	38
	Snapdragon seed	1	1/1024	2,297	38
	Cadantine seed	1	1/2048	686	38
	Lantadyme seed	1	1/2048	917	38
	Dwarf weed seed	1	1/4096	4,104	38
	Torstol seed	1	1/8192	6,608	38
	Bittercap mushroom spore	1	1/256	1,667	51
	Cactus seed	1	1/512	853	59
	Cave nightshade seed	1	1/256	997	106
	Coins	500–1,400	19/128	500–1,400	500–1,400
	Thin snail	1–2	3/128	2,529–5,058	36–72
	Pike	1	12/128	108	15
	Iron stone spirit	1	8/128	12	Not alchemisable
	Uncut sapphire	1	4/128	516	15
	Rare drop table	1	Very rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable

Tertiary drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Price	High Alch
	Sealed clue scroll (easy)	1	1/128	1	1
	Ghostly essence	1–10	1/512	3,427–34,270	60–600
	Spirit sapphire (m)	1	5/2000	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Spirit emerald (m)	1	3/2000	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Spirit ruby (m)	1	2/2000	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Starved ancient effigy	1	Very rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Banshee Champion's scroll	1	1/5000	1	1
	Ghost hunter goggles	1	Very rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Ghost hunter body	1	Very rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Ghost hunter legs	1	Very rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Ghost hunter backpack	1	Very rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Ectoplasmator (m)	1	Very rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Ghostly essence (m)	1–2	Very rare	3,427–6,854	60–120
	Deployable herb burner (m)	1	Very rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Cremation	1	1/1000	Not sold	Not alchemisable

Rare drop table drops

This monster has access to the rare drop table.
Luck-enhancing items are not required to access the table, but they will increase the chance of accessing the rare drop table and may also improve the loot received from it.

Rare drop table:

Rare drop table Item Quantity Rarity GE price High alch value Coins 250–500 Common 250–500 250–500 Coins 50 Common 50 50 Uncut sapphire 1 Common 516 15 Uncut emerald 1 Common 330 30 Uncut ruby 1 Common 391 60 Uncut diamond 1 Common 936 120 Uncut diamond 45–55 (noted) Rare 42,120–51,480 5,400–6,600 Uncut dragonstone (m) 1 Uncommon 5,829 600 Uncut dragonstone (m) 45–55 (noted) Rare 262,305–320,595 27,000–33,000 Loop half of a key (m) 1 Common 9,013 1 Tooth half of a key (m) 1 Common 9,016 1 Crystal triskelion fragment 1 (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Crystal triskelion fragment 2 (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Crystal triskelion fragment 3 (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Dragon longsword (m) 1 Common 57,275 60,000 Off-hand dragon longsword (m) 1 Common 57,002 60,000 Dragon spear (m) 1 Rare 36,394 37,440 Battlestaff (m) 180–220 (noted) Rare 633,780–774,620 756,000–924,000 Rune javelin 5 Rare 930 1,870 Huge plated rune salvage 1 Uncommon 38,353 40,000 Huge plated rune salvage 18–22 (noted) Rare 690,354–843,766 720,000–880,000 Shield left half (m) 1 Rare 76,317 66,000 Dragon helm (m) 1 Uncommon 57,954 60,000 Rune arrowheads 113–137 Common 23,730–28,770 678–822 Onyx bolts (m) 135–165 Very rare 837,135–1,023,165 1,104,165–1,349,535 Water talisman 68–82 (noted) Rare 49,640–59,860 136–164 Earth talisman 68–82 (noted) Rare 13,328–16,072 136–164 Raw lobster 135–165 (noted) Common 52,920–64,680 22,950–28,050 Raw shark (m) 225–275 (noted) Uncommon 204,300–249,700 40,500–49,500 Big bones 68–82 (noted) Uncommon 31,144–37,556 68–82 Dragon bones 180–220 (noted) Rare 675,000–825,000 180–220 Drakolith stone spirit 25–35 Uncommon 5,075–7,105 Not alchemisable Necrite stone spirit 2 Common 526 Not alchemisable Phasmatite stone spirit 25–30 Uncommon 6,375–7,650 Not alchemisable Phasmatite stone spirit 2 Common 510 Not alchemisable Necrite stone spirit 25–30 Rare 6,575–7,890 Not alchemisable Runite stone spirit 3 Common 2,793 Not alchemisable Orichalcite stone spirit 25–35 Rare 4,750–6,650 Not alchemisable Lantadyme seed (m) 14–16 Uncommon 12,838–14,672 532–608 Dwarf weed seed (m) 14–16 Uncommon 57,456–65,664 532–608 Magic seed (m) 4 Uncommon 155,412 1,012 Palm tree seed (m) 10 Rare 33,490 1,520 Grimy torstol (m) 90–110 (noted) Uncommon 277,200–338,800 90–110 Grimy snapdragon (m) 90–110 (noted) Uncommon 105,570–129,030 90–110 Super restore (4) (m) 45–55 (noted) Uncommon 159,165–194,535 8,100–9,900 Prayer potion (4) 45–55 (noted) Uncommon 388,980–475,420 5,130–6,270 Flax 450–550 (noted) Common 42,750–52,250 1,350–1,650 Molten glass (m) 45–55 (noted) Common 39,735–48,565 45–55 Soft clay 450–550 (noted) Uncommon 918,900–1,123,100 450–550 Yew logs 68–82 (noted) Uncommon 28,696–34,604 6,528–7,872 Yew logs 675–825 (noted) Rare 284,850–348,150 64,800–79,200 Teak plank (m) 45–55 (noted) Uncommon 30,285–37,015 13,500–16,500 Mahogany plank (m) 270–330 (noted) Rare 511,380–625,020 243,000–297,000 Vecna skull (m) 1 Very rare 775,214 6,000 Cheese+tom batta (m) 1 Very rare 608 1 Blurberry Special (m) 1 Very rare 17,069 18 Hazelmere's signet ring (m) 1 Very rare 2,147,483,647 300,000

Universal drops

Universal drops are dropped by nearly every monster and skilling action outside of Daemonheim.

These items are dropped alongside main drops.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Price	High Alch
	Key token	1	Rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Mimic kill token (m)	1	1/10000	82,656	Not alchemisable

Gallery

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  Concept art for a banshee

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  Concept art for a banshee

Graphical updates

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  Banshee after 26 January 2005 (update)

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  Banshee after 5 June 2008 (update)

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included—see here for how to help out!

• patch 5 July 2021 (Update):
  • Slayer Masters are now able to assign banshee tasks to players wearing the Mask of Mourning.

• ninja 26 October 2020 (Update):
  • Monsters with multiple variants will now consistently spawn as those variants when newly placed in the Personal Slayer Dungeon.
    • This includes banshees.

• patch 18 March 2013 (Update):
  • Grotworms, moss giants, banshees, jungle spiders, shadow spiders, spiders, giant spiders, deadly red spiders, ice spiders, scorpions, poison scorpions and pit scorpion will no longer hit for 1 hit point worth of damage.

• update 26 January 2005 (Update):
  • Added to game.