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
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

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. They can be reached in the Glacor Cave via Master quest cape teleport, option 5, or 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).

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	8,736-13,650	1,984-3,100
	Adamant bolts (unf)		39–98	Uncommon	6,591-16,562	234-588
	Large plated rune salvage		1	Uncommon	30,502	32,000
	Medium bladed rune salvage		1	Uncommon	22,620	24,000
	Large bladed rune salvage		1	Uncommon	30,591	32,000
	Dragon mace (m)		1	Uncommon	28,710	30,000
	Watermelon seed (m)		1–3	Very rare	851-2,553	33-99
	Shards of Armadyl (m)		1	5/48	12,000	12,000
	Water talisman		3–5 (noted)	Common	16,560-27,600	6-10
	Pure essence		62–100 (noted)	Common	3,100-5,000	124-200
	Coins		348–13,999	Common	348-13,999	348-13,999
	Raw shark (m)		4–10 (noted)	Common	8,516-21,290	720-1,800
	Shark (m)		1–6	Uncommon	2,418-14,508	180-1,080
	Blue dragonhide		5–10 (noted)	Uncommon	9,430-18,860	120-240
	Headless arrow		100–600	Uncommon	4,500-27,000	0
	Uncut diamond		2 (noted)	Uncommon	7,006	240
	Runite stone spirit		2; 3	Uncommon	3,764-5,646	Not alchemisable
	Super magic potion (3) (m)		1	Uncommon	8,422	150
	Prayer potion (2)		1	Rare	4,000	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	5,270,459	12,000
	Ragefire boots (m)		1	1/1280	25,663,628	12,000
	Glaiven boots (m)		1	1/1280	23,144,232	12,000
	Coins		4,100–8,199	Very rare	4,100-8,199	4,100-8,199
	Shark (m)		3–4	Very rare	7,254-9,672	540-720
	Kwuarm seed (m)		1	Very rare	17,448	38
	Water talisman		3 (noted)	Very rare	16,560	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 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 Uncut sapphire 1 Common 727 15 Uncut emerald 1 Common 1,928 30 Uncut ruby 1 Common 1,599 60 Uncut diamond 1 Common 3,503 120 Uncut diamond 45–55 (noted) Rare 157,635-192,665 5,400-6,600 Loop half of a key (m) 1 Common 12,929 0 Tooth half of a key (m) 1 Common 12,772 0 Uncut dragonstone (m) 1 Uncommon 10,761 600 Uncut dragonstone (m) 45–55 (noted) Rare 484,245-591,855 27,000-33,000 Dragon longsword (m) 1 Common 57,263 60,000 Off-hand dragon longsword (m) 1 Common 56,484 60,000 Dragon spear (m) 1 Rare 35,974 37,440 Battlestaff (m) 180–220 (noted) Rare 551,340-673,860 756,000-924,000 Rune javelin 5 Rare 885 1,870 Huge plated rune salvage 1 Uncommon 38,601 40,000 Huge plated rune salvage 18–22 (noted) Rare 694,818-849,222 720,000-880,000 Shield left half (m) 1 Rare 64,340 66,000 Dragon helm (m) 1 Uncommon 58,582 60,000 Rune arrowheads 113–137 Common 15,594-18,906 678-822 Onyx bolts (m) 135–165 Very rare 1,042,200-1,273,800 1,104,165-1,349,535 Water talisman 68–82 (noted) Rare 375,360-452,640 136-164 Earth talisman 68–82 (noted) Rare 13,532-16,318 136-164 Raw lobster 135–165 (noted) Common 46,575-56,925 22,950-28,050 Raw shark (m) 225–275 (noted) Uncommon 479,025-585,475 40,500-49,500 Big bones 68–82 (noted) Uncommon 15,776-19,024 0 Dragon bones 180–220 (noted) Rare 302,400-369,600 0 Drakolith stone spirit (m) 25–35 Uncommon 9,650-13,510 Not alchemisable Necrite stone spirit (m) 2 Common 9,510 Not alchemisable Phasmatite stone spirit (m) 25–30 Uncommon 7,575-9,090 Not alchemisable Phasmatite stone spirit (m) 2 Common 606 Not alchemisable Necrite stone spirit (m) 25–30 Rare 118,875-142,650 Not alchemisable Runite stone spirit 3 Common 5,646 Not alchemisable Orichalcite stone spirit (m) 25–35 Rare 7,725-10,815 Not alchemisable Grimy torstol (m) 90–110 (noted) Uncommon 713,250-871,750 0 Grimy snapdragon (m) 90–110 (noted) Uncommon 146,160-178,640 0 Super restore (4) (m) 45–55 (noted) Uncommon 289,170-353,430 8,100-9,900 Prayer potion (4) 45–55 (noted) Uncommon 354,195-432,905 5,130-6,270 Lantadyme seed (m) 14–16 Uncommon 5,488-6,272 532-608 Dwarf weed seed (m) 14–16 Uncommon 107,688-123,072 532-608 Magic seed (m) 4 Uncommon 121,696 1,012 Palm tree seed (m) 10 Rare 292,170 1,520 Flax 450–550 (noted) Common 55,800-68,200 1,350-1,650 Molten glass (m) 45–55 (noted) Common 25,245-30,855 45-55 Soft clay 450–550 (noted) Uncommon 346,500-423,500 450-550 Yew logs 68–82 (noted) Uncommon 15,504-18,696 6,528-7,872 Yew logs 675–825 (noted) Rare 153,900-188,100 64,800-79,200 Teak plank (m) 45–55 (noted) Uncommon 20,115-24,585 13,500-16,500 Mahogany plank (m) 270–330 (noted) Rare 518,940-634,260 243,000-297,000 Vecna skull (m) 1 Rare 432,721 6,000 Blurberry Special (m) 1 Very rare 12,887 18 Cheese+tom batta (m) 1 Very rare 484 1 Hazelmere's signet ring (m) 1 Very rare 2,147,366,173 300,000 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	20,505	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 30 April 2013 (Update):
  • Glacors no longer become aggressive when a player targets them.

• 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.

• update 14 September 2011 (Update):
  • Added to game.

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.