Glacor

For the glacor encountered during Rush of Blood, see Wounded 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
56	1881	Glacors
Assigned by
Offensive
Max hit
1266	1266	1266	Varies
Style		Speed
		5 ticks (3.0s)
Combat levels
80 80 80 Accuracy 1924 1924 1924
Defensive
Armour		Weakness
1924	80
Affinities
90	55	45	65
Immunities
FAQ • doc

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 and Morvran 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.

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 6 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 he or she is standing in 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

No charm
10–11%	8–9%	8–9%	36–37%	36–37%
Represents a 90% confidence range based on a sample of 15,704 kills. 3 charms are dropped at a time. Add data to the log (requires JavaScript).

Main drop

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Death rune	32–50	Uncommon	3,904–6,100
	Adamant bolts (unf)	39–98	Uncommon	7,410–18,620
	Large plated rune salvage	1	Uncommon	30,994
	Medium bladed rune salvage	1	Uncommon	22,725
	Large bladed rune salvage	1	Uncommon	30,930
	Dragon mace	1	Uncommon	28,295
	Watermelon seed	1–3	Very rare	1,457–4,371
	Shards of Armadyl	1	Common	Not sold
	Water talisman	3–5 (noted)	Common	23,400–39,000
	Pure essence	62–100 (noted)	Common	1,426–2,300
	Coins	348–13,999	Common	348–13,999
	Raw shark	4–10 (noted)	Common	3,884–9,710
	Shark	1–6	Uncommon	822–4,932
	Blue dragonhide	5–10 (noted)	Uncommon	14,360–28,720
	Headless arrow	100–600	Uncommon	3,200–19,200
	Uncut diamond	2 (noted)	Uncommon	5,950
	Runite stone spirit	2; 3	Uncommon	3,260–4,890
	Super magic potion (3)	1	Uncommon	4,393
	Prayer potion (2)	1	Rare	1,254
	Rare drop table	1	Rare	Not sold

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
	Steadfast boots	1	Very rare	9,951,960
	Ragefire boots	1	Very rare	6,219,341
	Glaiven boots	1	Very rare	11,477,128
	Coins	4,100–8,199	Very rare	4,100–8,199
	Shark	3–4	Very rare	2,466–3,288
	Kwuarm seed	1	Very rare	10,077
	Water talisman	3 (noted)	Very rare	23,400

Tertiary drops

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	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Sealed clue scroll (hard)	1	Rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Sealed clue scroll (elite)	1	Very rare	Not sold

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.

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	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Coins	250–500	Common	250–500
	Uncut sapphire	1	Common	452
	Uncut emerald	1	Common	1,589
	Uncut ruby	1	Common	1,238
	Uncut diamond	1	Common	2,975
	Uncut diamond	45–55 (noted)	Rare	133,875–163,625
	Loop half of a key	1	Common	13,653
	Tooth half of a key	1	Common	13,288
	Uncut dragonstone	1	Uncommon	12,314
	Uncut dragonstone	45–55 (noted)	Rare	554,130–677,270
	Dragon longsword	1	Common	57,435
	Dragon spear	1	Rare	36,043
	Battlestaff	180–220 (noted)	Rare	1,122,300–1,371,700
	Rune javelin	5	Rare	910
	Huge plated rune salvage	1	Uncommon	38,992
	Huge plated rune salvage	15–25 (noted)	Rare	584,880–974,800
	Shield left half	1	Rare	64,346
	Dragon helm	1	Uncommon	58,845
	Rune arrowheads	113–137	Common	16,724–20,276
	Onyx bolts	135–165	Very rare	1,065,825–1,302,675
	Chaos talisman	1	Rare	986
	Nature talisman	1	Rare	990
	Water talisman	65–82 (noted)	Rare	507,000–639,600
	Earth talisman	65–82 (noted)	Rare	141,050–177,940
	Fire talisman	25–35 (noted)	Rare	47,325–66,255
	Raw lobster	135–165 (noted)	Common	20,520–25,080
	Raw shark	225–275 (noted)	Uncommon	218,475–267,025
	Big bones	68–82 (noted)	Uncommon	13,600–16,400
	Dragon bones	180–220 (noted)	Rare	326,160–398,640
	Coal stone spirit	200–1,100	Uncommon	20,400–112,200
	Gold stone spirit	90–110	Common	25,380–31,020
	Adamantite stone spirit	180–220	Uncommon	78,840–96,360
	Adamantite stone spirit	14–16	Common	6,132–7,008
	Adamantite stone spirit	135–165	Rare	59,130–72,270
	Runite stone spirit	90–110	Rare	146,700–179,300
	Runite stone spirit	3	Common	4,890
	Runite stone spirit	45–55	Rare	73,350–89,650
	Grimy torstol	90–110 (noted)	Uncommon	318,510–389,290
	Grimy snapdragon	90–110 (noted)	Uncommon	86,760–106,040
	Super restore (4)	45–55 (noted)	Uncommon	121,545–148,555
	Prayer potion (4)	45–55 (noted)	Uncommon	106,065–129,635
	Lantadyme seed	14–16	Uncommon	2,576–2,944
	Dwarf weed seed	14–16	Uncommon	4,326–4,944
	Magic seed	4	Uncommon	170,604
	Palm tree seed	10	Rare	482,450
	Flax	450–550 (noted)	Common	31,050–37,950
	Molten glass	45–55 (noted)	Common	7,020–8,580
	Soft clay	450–550 (noted)	Uncommon	188,550–230,450
	Yew logs	68–82 (noted)	Uncommon	8,840–10,660
	Yew logs	675–825 (noted)	Rare	87,750–107,250
	Teak plank	45–55 (noted)	Uncommon	19,665–24,035
	Mahogany plank	270–330 (noted)	Rare	249,210–304,590
	Blurberry Special	1	Very rare	8,517
	Cheese+tom batta	1	Very rare	381
	Vecna skull	1	Rare	189,188
	Hazelmere's signet ring	1	Very rare	2,138,409,151
	Brawling gloves (Melee)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Magic)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Ranged)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Agility)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Cooking)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (FM)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Fishing)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Hunter)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Mining)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Prayer)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Smithing)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (Thieving)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Brawling gloves (WC)	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Crystal triskelion fragment 1	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Crystal triskelion fragment 2	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Crystal triskelion fragment 3	1	Very rare	Not sold

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
	Key token	1	Rare	Not sold
	Mimic kill token	1	Very rare	5,105

Trivia

• 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.