Blood reaver (familiar)

For the monster, see Blood reaver.

Blood reaver
Release		30 March 2020 (Update)
Summoning level		73
Duration (mins)		64
Points cost		100
Familiar size		2x2
Race		Demon
Abilities		Deals 33% of your healing done as damage to its target.
Special moves		Blood Siphon
Combat level		101
Examine		A strange and twisted creature.
Combat stats
Life points		Max hit
20,000		672
Attack	Defence	Ranged	Magic
70	75	1	70
Immune to poison		No
Attack style		Magic/Melee
Attack speed		5 ticks (3.0s)
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The blood reaver is a familiar that requires 73 Summoning in order to use.

If the familiar is set to auto-fire its scroll ability, it will not activate its scroll ability until the player is missing at least 1001 life points. The player and familiar do not need to be engaged in combat for auto-fire to work.

Mechanics

The blood reaver comes with a passive ability that turns health gained into damage against the player's primary target, up to 33% of the health restored.

This passive synergizes very well with cinderbane gloves. Each hitsplat, including the reaver's, has a chance to inflict poison. For each form of healing used (such as soul split, scrimshaw of vampyrism, or vampyrism aura) the blood reaver will provide an additional hitsplat. If all three are being used at the same time, the blood reaver can multiply the hits by up to 4 times, nearly quadrupling poison damage. This interaction is less effective when lifepoints are full, since any potential healing past the lifepoint cap will not trigger additional hits from the blood reaver. This can be circumvented by having a black crystal (reduced healing) in the inventory, which deals damage equivalent to 25% of any healing received, preventing the player from being at full lifepoints after being damaged at least once.

The blood reaver passive also has a chance to proc God books, which can help for consistency with getting book procs when you want them, such as a book of law proc on a Nex minion.

Binding contract (Blood reaver)

A Binding contract (blood reaver) is obtained via Archaeology.

Binding contract (blood reaver)

	Shards	Cost/XP	Charm	Tertiary
	200 ( 5,000)	650.2 coins		2 Hellfire metal, 2 Blood of Orcus
	Create XP	Use XP	Low alch	Hi alch	GE price
	64	5	2,000	3,000	98,500 (info)
	GE Database	Cost to make	Bogrog shard return		Shard return level
	Look up price	41,615	140 (3,500)		57
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	Examine text
	I can summon a blood reaver familiar with this.

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In order to make the Ancient Summoning pouch, the mystery Dagon Bye must be completed. Once this mystery is solved, players may begin creating binding contracts, requiring 1 blue charm, a normal pouch, 2 Bloods of Orcus, 2 hellfire metal, and 200 spirit shards.

Upon making the binding contract, players must then kill blood reavers in order to bind the blood reaver into the contract resulting in binding contract (blood reaver). Unlike normal Summoning, Ancient Summoning does not require use of Summoning obelisks to infuse pouches.

Blood Reaver scroll (Blood Siphon)

Blood Reaver scrolls (Blood Siphon) allows the player to transfer 5% of the familiar's maximum health (up to 1000 life points healed) to them.

• Blood Siphon always removes 5% of the blood reaver's maximum health.
• If the blood reaver has less than 5% of its maximum health when using Blood Siphon, Blood Siphon will continue to heal the player up to 1000 life points, killing the familiar in the process.
• If the player heals less than 1000 life points from using Blood Siphon, the blood reaver will still lose 5% of its maximum health.
• For continued scroll use, it is important to periodically heal your familiar.
  • Prism of Restoration will fully heal a blood reaver within 21 seconds.
  • Praying at the altar in War's retreat or the tribute stone by Falador will fully heal a blood reaver.
  • Spiritual Healing will heal a blood reaver 6000 life points. This can only be done once per familiar.
• If planning to auto-fire scrolls, it can be helpful to use the "Store X scrolls" option to only store 20 scrolls at one time. This will stop auto-fire from using 21 scrolls and killing the blood reaver.

Blood Reaver scroll (Blood Siphon)

	Create XP	Use XP	Special move points
	1	31	6
	Low Alch	High Alch	GE Price
	2,000	3,000	5,277 (info)
	GE Database	Bogrog shard return	Shard return level
	Look up price	Unknown edit	Unknown edit
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	Examine text
	A scroll for a blood reaver familiar.

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Dialogue

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Update history

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• patch 28 March 2022 (Update):
  • The blood reaver familiar's special ability now correctly provides the healing effect when auto-fire is active.

• patch 31 January 2022 (Update):
  • HP increased from 8,300 to 20,000.
  • Scroll effect decreased from 10% to 5% (Total healing overall increased).
  • Healing-to-damage passive effect increased from 25% to 33%.

• patch 8 June 2020 (Update):
  • The blood reaver familiar will now apply its passive ability to lifepoint boosting effects such as Saradomin Brews and rocktail.

• update 1 June 2020 (Update):
  • Fixed an issue where the blood reaver familiar would stretch when overridden by a pet.

• patch 27 April 2020 (Update):
  • Fixed an issue that was causing the blood reaver familiar to take damage from players when stacking multiple instances of healing.

• hidden 6 April 2020 (Update):
  • Players can now renew an ancient familiar's timer by sacrificing a binding contract, just as they would with a pouch for a normal summoning familiar.

• update 30 March 2020 (Update):
  • Ancient Summoning was released with Archaeology.

Trivia

• Its dialogue refers to the real-life issue of mercury in fish, with animals high on the food chain like sharks accumulating more in their bodies.
• Blood Reaver is the only healing familiar to have its auto-fire trigger off of seconds rather than number of attacks, as well as being the only familiar that can automatically trigger its scroll ability when not engaged in combat.
• There is a rare case where auto-fire will be turned off when the familiar has no scrolls to use if the player is eligible to heal. The player will have to reconfigure auto-fire again for it to turn back on.