Demon Flash Mob

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Players attempt to take on the mighty demons

Demon Flash Mobs are a members-only Distraction and Diversion that was released on 28 January 2013. Flash mobs appear every hour in one of 14 locations including the Wilderness. Players with the required combat level get a filtered notice of a surge of demonic energy at a specific location fifteen minutes before the mob spawns, then receive a second message stating that the demons have spawned in that location. Mobs can spawn at any time and are not synchronised across worlds.

Ironman players cannot attack Demon Flash Mobs and will be given the message: You cannot attack a demon flash mob in Ironman mode.

This flash mob consists of a demon boss, two black demons, four lesser demons and eight imp heralds. Once the minions are killed, the boss can be attacked. However, the minions cannot be slain until their lower-ranking counterparts are first defeated; black demons cannot be attacked until all imp heralds and lesser demons are destroyed. If the demon boss finishes off all lesser demons, the imp heralds must still be killed to attack the black demons. The only exception is that imp heralds do not need to be killed to attack the demon boss.

The demon boss will spawn with 50% of his maximum life points. He will restore his lost health by siphoning from his lesser demons, which can be interrupted by killing all of the imp heralds. When all the heralds are killed, the boss stops siphoning his lesser demons and starts siphoning off his black demons instead. If he siphons all of the lesser demons, he will immediately start siphoning off the black demons instead. When all the lesser demons are killed, he will stop siphoning off his black demons and will be unattackable until the black demons are killed. If the demon boss siphons all of his lesser and black demons, he can be attacked immediately even if there are heralds lingering around.

Demon bosses are stronger against players using any sort of prayer or ancient curses, with the exception of Protect Item. If the demon attacks players using prayers, they will do more damage than normal along with having increased accuracy, while ignoring any damage reduction from protect or deflect prayer. Players will be given a chatbox message when the demon damages players using prayers to discourage their usage.

Blood spells from the Ancient Magicks spellbook will heal the demon boss, accompanied by a message from the demon discouraging its use.

A new mob spawns every hour; if the demon general is not slain within one hour of spawning, he will despawn, regardless of the damage dealt on him.

Names

Prefixes

The name of the boss is random. The titles before and after its name will hint at its abilities, as detailed below. This is how the name of the boss will always be shown: "(prefix) (name) the (suffix)", meaning a name such as "General Acidius the Glorious". According to the names shown below, this means this demon boss has very accurate melee attacks and can stun players. Demon bosses of all sorts will use melee and magic attacks. Their magic attacks are multi-targeting, and melee attacks are against one player.

Prefix title	Effect
General	Accurate melee attacks
Executioner	High hitting attacks
Castellan	Very high defence
Deacon	Multi-target magic attacks

Suffixes

The boss of a demon flash mob will also have a suffix to his name. This suffix determines what special abilities this boss demon has. 

Suffix	Effect
Blazing	Burning damage over time (50 magic damage every 2 ticks without damage reduction), can be cleared using Freedom
Corrupting	Poison area of effect (everyone within 3 squares of the boss is inflicted with poison that can deal over 1000 damage)
Frostborn	Ice area of effect (everyone within 3 squares of the boss is stunned for three seconds)
Glorious	Stun (lasts for three seconds at a time)
Infernal	Fire area of effect (5 magic damage every 2 ticks without damage reduction), can be cleared with Freedom
Obscured	Drains stats of nearby players
Pestilent	Poison damage over time (extremely powerful poison, dealing from 600-1100 damage)
Rending	Bleeding damage over time (50 melee damage every 2 ticks without damage reduction), can be cleared with Freedom
Shattering	Melee attacks hit everyone within 3 squares of the boss
Terrifying	Halves adrenaline gain of nearby players

Main names

A boss demon in a flash mob will have a main name, which can either be aligned to Zaros or Zamorak. This name doesn't have any meaning like titles do. The Zarosian Demon's names shown below are in the Infernal tongue, which resembles Latin. The Zamorakian names are not in any known language.

Zamorakian Demons	Zarosian Demons	Zarosian meaning
Av'aar	Acidius	Poisonous
Bra'k	Brutio	Brutal
C'tcho	Cluacael
Dr'end	Detiel	Detaining
Eflu'vya	Effluxam	Vanishing
Fah'lth	Fractiel	Shattering
Gro'dd	Grindus	Grow
H'stur	Haereticus	Heretic
Ik'uur	Impeso	Charging
Jah'shu	Janio	Janus (Double Faced)
Kla'tu	Klepto	Thief
Lim'uul	Lucius	Shining
Mord'uun	Morbiel	Disease
Na'ash	Nullius	'No-one'
Org'one	Oblator	Oblates
Per'yl	Pupio	Orphan
Qr'rel	Quietus	The silent
Ra'hasp	Rectus	Upright
Sud'er	Salumnos
T'lon	Thantio	Sweet Death
Urga'l	Ulcus	Avenging
V'lac	Visony
We'al	Wendio	Wendie
X'ppe	Xarkael
Ykr'ee	Yahiel
Z'shuu	Zonos

Locations

See Distractions and Diversions/Locations/Demon Flash Mob for all possible locations.

A new demon flash mob will spawn every hour. When it does so, players will be given a notification in the chatbox that states the alignment and the location of the demons. This will spawn an Evil Symbol in the location, which signifies a flash mob will spawn at this location, and will stay for 15 minutes from when it is announced. About a minute prior to an Evil Symbol appearing, any previous demon boss will despawn.

An example of a message broadcast: News: Zamorakian demonic energy is building up west of Daemonheim!

Both the Evil Symbol and the demon boss will show a demon symbol on the world map, making them simple to locate. Demon bosses will wander like most NPCs, so a demon map symbol moving around signifies that the demon boss is wandering and is unlikely to be in combat.

Wilderness mobs

Some demon flash mobs may spawn in the Wilderness. These demon bosses can drop resources not dropped by mainland demon bosses as well as increased amounts of resources, such as dragonhides or larger stacks of herbs respectively. Players demon hunting should be aware that some areas that the demons may occupy are multi-way, so players looking to fight flash mobs in those locations should be aware of Player killers in groups. It is not advised to bring anything that you are not willing to lose to these demon flash mobs.

Strategy

Main article: Demon boss/Strategies

Drops

In order to receive a drop, the player must deal at least 500 damage to the demon boss in a single hit, once this condition is met a notification will be given to the player. The player must also stay in combat with the boss until it dies to be eligible for the rewards. If the player leaves or dies, the hit of 500 damage needs to be done again to still get a drop. Players will only be able to do this until the boss reaches 1/10th of its total health (40,000); any attempts to initiate combat with a demon boss after this threshold will notify the player they are too late to be elegible for a reward from this fight.

Fighting a flash mob in the Wilderness gives you a greater chance of getting a demon slayer gear drop, and other drops will be worth around three times as much as other spawn locations. 

Demon slayer gear is dropped alongside the drop it was going to give you. For example, a player that receives an Off-hand demon slayer crossbow can also get any of the other normal drops it gives.

100% Drop

Outside of the Wilderness

	Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High alch value
	Infernal ashes (m)		1	Always	1,469	1

Inside of the Wilderness

	Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High alch value
	Infernal ashes (m)		5	Always	7,345	5

Main drop

Outside of the Wilderness

	Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High alch value
	Huge plated rune salvage		1	31/128	38,923	40,000
	Large plated rune salvage		1	30/128	30,804	32,000
	Dragon longsword (m)		1	20/128	58,239	60,000
	Grimy irit (m)		14	25/128	42,966	0
	Grimy avantoe (m)		8	23/128	5,536	0
	Grimy lantadyme (m)		5	24/128	21,830	0
	Grimy torstol (m)		3	Unknown	12,654	0
	Lantadyme seed (m)		2	15/128	682	76
	Torstol seed (m)		1	Unknown	885	38
	Yew logs		60	38/128	9,720	5,760
	Maple logs		200	24/128	20,600	9,600
	Coal stone spirit		80	31/128	2,080	Not alchemisable
	Mithril stone spirit		40	37/128	1,840	Not alchemisable
	Mithril stone spirit		20	26/128	920	Not alchemisable
	Uncut ruby		10–20	17/128	11,300-22,600	600-1,200
	Coins		20,000	21/128	20,000	20,000
	Infernal ashes (m)		30; 40	6/128	44,070-58,760	30-40
	Demon claw (m)		6–9	40/128	51,234-76,851	9,000-13,500

Inside of the Wilderness

	Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High alch value
	Demon claw (m)		6–9	40/128	51,234-76,851	9,000-13,500
	Huge plated rune salvage		1	31/128	38,923	40,000
	Large plated rune salvage		1	30/128	30,804	32,000
	Dragon longsword (m)		1	20/128	58,239	60,000
	Large bladed rune salvage		1	3/128	30,552	32,000
	Dragon helm (m)		1	2/128	59,065	60,000
	Magic logs		40	3/128	15,200	7,680
	Runite stone spirit		4–5	3/128	2,080-2,600	Not alchemisable
	Adamantite stone spirit		25	5/128	1,250	Not alchemisable
	Green dragonhide		30	3/128	49,590	360
	Red dragonhide		15	3/128	41,835	540
	Black dragonhide		10	2/128	33,270	480
	Lantadyme seed (m)		3	15/128	1,023	114
	Grimy irit (m)		30	25/128	92,070	0
	Grimy avantoe (m)		20	23/128	13,840	0
	Grimy lantadyme (m)		10	24/128	43,660	0
	Grimy torstol (m)		3	Unknown	12,654	0
	Coins		45,000	21/128	45,000	45,000
	Infernal ashes (m)		60	6/128	88,140	60
	Torstol seed (m)		1	Unknown	885	38
	Yew logs		60	38/128	9,720	5,760
	Maple logs		200	24/128	20,600	9,600
	Coal stone spirit		80	31/128	2,080	Not alchemisable
	Mithril stone spirit		40	37/128	1,840	Not alchemisable
	Mithril stone spirit		20	26/128	920	Not alchemisable
	Uncut ruby		10–20	17/128	11,300-22,600	600-1,200

Tertiary drop

These are dropped in addition to the above tables.

	Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High alch value
	Demon slayer circlet (m)		1	1/256	56,724	2,400
	Demon slayer torso (m)		1	1/256	61,540	3,000
	Demon slayer skirt (m)		1	1/256	73,752	2,700
	Demon slayer gloves (m)		1	1/256	2,370,769	1,800
	Demon slayer boots (m)		1	1/256	138,659	1,800
	Demon slayer crossbow (m)		1	1/256	103,218	4,800
	Off-hand demon slayer crossbow (m)		1	1/256	41,966	4,800

Titles

Not to be confused with Kal'gerion battle commendation.

The name of the demon boss killed determines which demonic title scrolls it can drop. For example, a demon named General Acidius the Blazing can drop Demonic title scroll (general) and Demonic title scroll (blazing).

	Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High alch value
	Demonic title scroll (terrifying) (m)		1	Rare	10,435,481	Not alchemisable
	Demonic title scroll (shattering) (m)		1	Rare	16,111,721	Not alchemisable
	Demonic title scroll (rending) (m)		1	Rare	537,071	Not alchemisable
	Demonic title scroll (pestilent) (m)		1	Rare	2,629,726	Not alchemisable
	Demonic title scroll (obscured) (m)		1	Rare	4,031,262	Not alchemisable
	Demonic title scroll (infernal) (m)		1	Rare	23,924,712	Not alchemisable
	Demonic title scroll (glorious) (m)		1	Rare	25,973,515	Not alchemisable
	Demonic title scroll (frostborn) (m)		1	Rare	107,350,176	Not alchemisable
	Demonic title scroll (corrupting) (m)		1	Rare	4,301,230	Not alchemisable
	Demonic title scroll (blazing) (m)		1	Rare	63,565,730	Not alchemisable
	Demonic title scroll (castellan) (m)		1	Rare	3,276,126	Not alchemisable
	Demonic title scroll (deacon) (m)		1	Rare	3,965,464	Not alchemisable
	Demonic title scroll (executioner) (m)		1	Rare	12,100,583	Not alchemisable
	Demonic title scroll (general) (m)		1	Rare	13,193,006	Not alchemisable

Achievement

• Daemonology of Celerity ( 10) – Claim the malleus daemoniorum.

Update history

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• patch 8 June 2015 (Update):
  • Demon Flash Mobs have been added to the Minigames tab.

• patch 16 February 2015 (Update):
  • Demon Flash Mobs will now spawn hourly instead of every 2 hours.
  • Players will no longer receive rewards from a Demon Flash Mob boss if they join the fight especially late.
  • Demon Flash Mob bosses will now deal less damage to familiars.

Trivia

• Prior to an update on 2 February 2015, demon bosses with the 'Glorious' or 'Frostborn' suffixes could stun players for nine seconds instead of three. The same update allowed damage over time effects applied by demon bosses with the 'Blazing', 'Infernal', and 'Rending' suffixes to be removed via the use of Freedom. Also, the demon boss previously would hit extremely hard on players using Protect Item prayers, making its use risky when hunting demon mobs in the Wilderness. Other prayers still cause high damage if used though.

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