Glacor

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Glacor
Release			14 September 2011 (Update)
Members			Yes
Examine
A mysterious ice creature, infused with power drawn from the Stone.
Combat info
Level			LP			XP			XP
112			40,000			3,979.8			1,313.3
Equipment XP (2H/MH & Armour/OH)
238 / 159 / 79
Aggressive						Poisonous
Slayer
Level			XP			Category
1			1881			Glacors
Assigned by
Offensive
Max hit
1266			1266			1266			Varies
Style						Rate
						5 ticks (3.0s)
Combat levels
80				80				80
Accuracy
1924				1924				1924
Defensive
Armour				Weakness			Susceptible
1924		80
Affinities
90			55			45			65
Immunities
Immune			Immune			Immune			Not immune
Advanced data
NPC ID				14301
Links				bestiary • MRND
FAQ • doc

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5 ticks (3.0s)

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Glacors (pronounced GLAY-soars) are fairly dangerous monsters, described by Beauty as "a rare form of ice elemental". These monsters are only accessible after completing the quest Ritual of the Mahjarrat. You can reach glacors in the Glacor Cave through the fairy ring system by using the code dkq. An army of glacors was summoned by Lucien, although only one actually reached the Ritual, as the others were held back by Kuradal, who had slain a few hundred. According to Zaros, they are originally from Leng.

The ability to have them assigned as slayer tasks by Kuradal, Morvran, and Laniakea can be purchased using 50 slayer points after Ritual of the Mahjarrat.

Glacors are the only creatures which drop the three glacyte boots, worth several million coins each. They are also the only source of Shards of Armadyl, 100 of which can be used to craft an Orb of Armadyl, required to make an Armadyl battlestaff.

Locations

Location	Levels	Members	Spawns	Map
Glacor Cave	112		11	Maplink

Attacks

General combat

Only one player may be engaged in combat with a glacor and its minions at a time, and only one glacor may be fought per player at a time. Players can only fight glacors being fought by other players if the combating player leaves the cave, either via teleporting, walking away from the area, dying, or logging out. Even if the combating player is in a safe-spot and not currently in combat with the glacor or its glacytes, a player trying to attack their glacor will yield the message, "Someone else is already fighting that glacor." This means that glacors must be fought solo.

Glacors will attack with magic, ranged, and melee when in melee distance. Its ranged attack consists of an icicle, whilst its magic attack is a blue sphere. These attacks can be predicted as they always fire ranged attacks with their right arms and magic attacks with their left arms. When they throw both hands down, they are using their icicle special attack.

Use Protect from Magic when the glacor raises its left arm and Protect from Missiles when it raises its right arm. It is also easy to use protection prayers because glacors will not switch attack styles while in combat except for when they use their special attack (after which they will always switch to their ranged attack).

Unlike tormented demons, protection prayers will only block 50% of the damage from glacors as opposed to their whole 100%.

Furthermore, glacors are weak to fire spells in a similar fashion to ice strykewyrms, taking 50% extra damage from the element, including Blood spells from the Ancient Magicks.

When a glacor reaches half health, it will summon its three glacytes, after which it will be invulnerable until they are slain. When all the glacytes are killed, the glacor will inherit the most recently slain glacyte's ability (further explained in Summons), and attack with a faster speed (speed of 4 ticks, from 5).

Special abilities

Icicle - stalagmites

Glacors may slam both arms on the ground and fire a large cluster of icicles, rather like the icicles used with their ranged attacks. The player must run from the square where they are standing to avoid them. When hit by the icicles, you will lose half of your current life points in the form of type-less damage. If a glacor was attacking with magic and then uses this attack, it will always switch to its ranged attack afterward. If the glacor dies before the attack reaches the player, the icicles will do no damage. This attack can hurt other players who stand on the targeted tile.

Freezing

Occasionally, the glacor's melee attack will have the same effect as the enhanced ice titans from Ritual of the Mahjarrat. If the player avoids the glacor's melee range entirely, it will not be able to use this special attack. This ability results in freezing the player, rather like an ice spell. There will be bright blue text alerting the player when they are frozen. To break free, the player must rapidly click somewhere on their screen five times. A message is shown when the ice bond is weak enough; five of these messages will result in you being freed. If you do not escape in time, you will be dealt with very heavy damage. If the glacor dies while doing this move, damage will not be dealt but you will still need to break free to move. Freedom and Anticipate have no effect on this special attack.

Binds

Similarly, the glacor's magic attack is also capable of binding the player, similar to ancient ice spells. Using protection or deflect magic prayers will prevent the player from getting frozen. Freedom and Anticipate function as normal when dealing with this bind. While this freezing effect will not damage the player on its own, it can be a nuisance if it occurs right before the glacor launches its special attack or an Unstable glacyte is about to explode. Because of this, it is suggested to use anticipate the moment the glacor spawns its 3 glacyte minions.

Summons

When the glacor has half of its life points remaining, it will spawn three different glacyte monsters that must be killed before the player can damage the glacor again.

Once all three glacytes are dead, the glacor will inherit a special ability similar to that of the last killed glacyte. For example, a glacor will take 60% less damage if its enduring glacyte is killed last. Glacors will also attack faster after their glacytes are dead, at speed 6 instead of speed 5. It is recommended to kill the Unstable glacyte last, as this will result in the fastest and most efficient kills.

If any combination of glacytes die at the same time, the glacor will always prioritize inheritance in the same order; enduring, sapping and unstable. For example; if the last 2 glacytes are the enduring and unstable, and they happen to die at the same time, the glacor will always inherit the enduring glacyte's special property. Because of this, it's important to not overuse area of effect abilities, and instead focus on killing the enduring glacyte with single target abilities instead.

Unstable glacyte

The unstable glacyte has a bar above its head, rather like the adrenaline bar seen on players, that indicates when it will use its special ability. Once the bar fills, the glacyte will stop moving and shortly thereafter explode, losing 90% of its current health and making it easy to finish off. The player will lose 1/3 of their current life points if they are standing next to it when it explodes. The free loss of health is deceiving, however; if the glacyte is not killed quickly after it explodes, it will rapidly regenerate its life points and begin to fill its bar once again. Fortunately, the glacyte stops healing once the timer starts.

Be careful of other players' unstable glacytes and explosive glacors, as both can injure you, even if they are on another player. Glacors have a larger explosive reach as well, with a 5x5 explosion as opposed to the 3x3 of the glacyte.

Sapping glacyte

The sapping glacyte will drain 20 of the player's Prayer points each time it hits.

Sapping glacors will drain 50 Prayer points per hit, rather than the 20 of the glacyte.

These mechanics make the Penance aura a useful choice for glacors.

Enduring glacyte

The enduring glacyte takes less damage the closer it is to its glacor. This ranges in effectiveness from complete invulnerability when it first spawns, to taking normal damage after it is around 14 spaces away from the glacor. It is therefore recommended that players draw the glacyte as far out as possible in order to speed up their kills.

Enduring glacors take 60% less damage, regardless of how far away you are from them.

Strategies

Main article: Glacor/Strategies

Drops

Charms

Nothing	1	1	1	1
10–11%	8–9%	8–9%	36–37%	36–37%
Represents a 90% confidence range based on a sample of 15,704 kills. 3 items are dropped at a time. Add data to the log (requires JavaScript).

Main drop

	Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	Death rune		32–50	Uncommon	8,640-13,500	1,984-3,100
	Adamant bolts (unf)		39–98	Uncommon	4,797-12,054	234-588
	Large plated rune salvage		1	Uncommon	30,858	32,000
	Medium bladed rune salvage		1	Uncommon	22,973	24,000
	Large bladed rune salvage		1	Uncommon	30,921	32,000
	Dragon mace (m)		1	Uncommon	28,827	30,000
	Watermelon seed (m)		1–3	Very rare	2,534-7,602	33-99
	Shards of Armadyl (m)		1	Common	12,000	12,000
	Water talisman		3–5 (noted)	Common	9,948-16,580	6-10
	Pure essence		62–100 (noted)	Common	3,410-5,500	124-200
	Coins		348–13,999	Common	348-13,999	348-13,999
	Raw shark (m)		4–10 (noted)	Common	7,832-19,580	720-1,800
	Shark (m)		1–6	Uncommon	2,157-12,942	180-1,080
	Blue dragonhide		5–10 (noted)	Uncommon	12,370-24,740	120-240
	Headless arrow		100–600	Uncommon	4,600-27,600	0
	Uncut diamond		2 (noted)	Uncommon	12,880	240
	Runite stone spirit		2; 3	Uncommon	2,458-3,687	Not alchemisable
	Super magic potion (3) (m)		1	Uncommon	10,872	150
	Prayer potion (2)		1	Rare	1,776	68
	Rare drop table		1	Rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable

Glacyte boots drop table

The player has a 1/128 chance of accessing this table. Every drop on this table then has equal chance of being accessed, making every individual drop 1/1280. In addition to the 7 drops displayed on the table below, the player also has a chance at receiving 1 random tree seed, 4 random noted herbs and 2 random noted herbs, effectively making this table have 10 possible drops.

	Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	Steadfast boots (m)		1	1/1280	6,184,834	12,000
	Ragefire boots (m)		1	1/1280	33,545,328	12,000
	Glaiven boots (m)		1	1/1280	31,141,938	12,000
	Coins		4,100–8,199	Very rare	4,100-8,199	4,100-8,199
	Shark (m)		3–4	Very rare	6,471-8,628	540-720
	Kwuarm seed (m)		1	Very rare	11,430	38
	Water talisman		3 (noted)	Very rare	9,948	6

Tertiary drops

	Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	Sealed clue scroll (hard) (m)		1	10/1280	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Starved ancient effigy (m)		1	Very rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Sealed clue scroll (elite) (m)		1	2/1280	Not sold	Not alchemisable

Rare drop table

This monster has access to the rare drop table.
Luck-enhancing items such as a ring of Wealth or luck of the Dwarves are not required to access the table.

Rare drop table:

Rare drop table Item Quantity Rarity GE price High alch value Coins 250–500 Common 250-500 250-500 Uncut sapphire 1 Common 863 15 Uncut emerald 1 Common 2,258 30 Uncut ruby 1 Common 2,178 60 Uncut diamond 1 Common 6,440 120 Uncut diamond 45–55 (noted) Rare 289,800-354,200 5,400-6,600 Loop half of a key (m) 1 Common 14,505 0 Tooth half of a key (m) 1 Common 14,627 0 Uncut dragonstone (m) 1 Uncommon 11,965 600 Uncut dragonstone (m) 45–55 (noted) Rare 538,425-658,075 27,000-33,000 Dragon longsword (m) 1 Common 57,634 60,000 Off-hand dragon longsword (m) 1 Common 57,334 60,000 Dragon spear (m) 1 Rare 36,193 37,440 Battlestaff (m) 180–220 (noted) Rare 559,440-683,760 756,000-924,000 Rune javelin 5 Rare 925 1,870 Huge plated rune salvage 1 Uncommon 38,875 40,000 Huge plated rune salvage 18–22 (noted) Rare 699,750-855,250 720,000-880,000 Shield left half (m) 1 Rare 98,086 66,000 Dragon helm (m) 1 Uncommon 58,801 60,000 Rune arrowheads 113–137 Common 15,481-18,769 678-822 Onyx bolts (m) 135–165 Very rare 1,029,105-1,257,795 1,104,165-1,349,535 Water talisman 68–82 (noted) Rare 225,488-271,912 136-164 Earth talisman 68–82 (noted) Rare 8,908-10,742 136-164 Raw lobster 135–165 (noted) Common 50,760-62,040 22,950-28,050 Raw shark (m) 225–275 (noted) Uncommon 440,550-538,450 40,500-49,500 Big bones 68–82 (noted) Uncommon 15,096-18,204 0 Dragon bones 180–220 (noted) Rare 341,640-417,560 0 Drakolith stone spirit (m) 25–35 Uncommon 9,500-13,300 Not alchemisable Necrite stone spirit (m) 2 Common 5,578 Not alchemisable Phasmatite stone spirit (m) 25–30 Uncommon 11,225-13,470 Not alchemisable Phasmatite stone spirit (m) 2 Common 898 Not alchemisable Necrite stone spirit (m) 25–30 Rare 69,725-83,670 Not alchemisable Runite stone spirit 3 Common 3,687 Not alchemisable Orichalcite stone spirit (m) 25–35 Rare 7,300-10,220 Not alchemisable Grimy torstol (m) 90–110 (noted) Uncommon 480,600-587,400 0 Grimy snapdragon (m) 90–110 (noted) Uncommon 153,090-187,110 0 Super restore (4) (m) 45–55 (noted) Uncommon 109,890-134,310 8,100-9,900 Prayer potion (4) 45–55 (noted) Uncommon 178,200-217,800 5,130-6,270 Lantadyme seed (m) 14–16 Uncommon 9,660-11,040 532-608 Dwarf weed seed (m) 14–16 Uncommon 30,450-34,800 532-608 Magic seed (m) 4 Uncommon 121,776 1,012 Palm tree seed (m) 10 Rare 263,370 1,520 Flax 450–550 (noted) Common 57,150-69,850 1,350-1,650 Molten glass (m) 45–55 (noted) Common 26,865-32,835 45-55 Soft clay 450–550 (noted) Uncommon 307,800-376,200 450-550 Yew logs 68–82 (noted) Uncommon 13,532-16,318 6,528-7,872 Yew logs 675–825 (noted) Rare 134,325-164,175 64,800-79,200 Teak plank (m) 45–55 (noted) Uncommon 24,750-30,250 13,500-16,500 Mahogany plank (m) 270–330 (noted) Rare 550,530-672,870 243,000-297,000 Vecna skull (m) 1 Rare 206,567 6,000 Blurberry Special (m) 1 Very rare 11,161 18 Cheese+tom batta (m) 1 Very rare 436 1 Hazelmere's signet ring (m) 1 Very rare 1,400,846,250 300,000 Brawling gloves (Melee) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (Magic) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (Ranged) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (Agility) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (Cooking) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (FM) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (Fishing) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (Hunter) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (Mining) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (Prayer) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (Smithing) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (Thieving) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (WC) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable 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

Universal drops

Universal drops are dropped by nearly every monster 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	Very rare	9,839	Not alchemisable

Update history

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• patch 15 July 2019 (Update):
  • Glacytes no longer count towards a Glacors slayer task.

• patch 11 March 2019 (Update):
  • Tuska's Wrath now deals additional damage on Glacors, Nihils and Muspahs when assigned them for a slayer task.

• ninja 3 April 2018 (Update):
  • The Enduring Glacyte will now be aggressive to the player when they spawn when fighting Glacors.

• patch 24 August 2015 (Update):
  • Glacors can no longer be lured into attacking their own kin.

• patch 28 January 2013 (Update):
  • Fire magic now does more damage against Glacors.

• patch 22 November 2012 (Update):
  • The difficulty of combat with Glacors has been modified.

Trivia

• Glacors name likely comes from the french word "glace" which means ice.
• In the Hallowe'en 2011 event, the player had to choose a glacor to represent Frank in statue form.
• The glacor fought during the quest can be killed and it will give usual drops.
• There was a glitch that enabled you to be in combat with 2 glacors at once using Chain. Normally, the ability would ignore other glacors; however, it was able to hit multiple glacors if it was used to initiate combat. This has been fixed on 13 April 2015.
• Prior to Legacy Mode, glacors had 30,000 life points.
• The Promised Gift revealed the existence of arch-glacors 100 times larger than regular ones on the plane of Leng.
• As of 1 February 2018, the highest kill count for this monster was 61,648 kills.
  • This had not increased by 6 May 2018.