Luminescent icefiend

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Luminescent icefiend



Release				12 April 2010 (Update)
Members				No
Options				Attack, Examine
Race				Fiend
Examine				A large and powerful ice creature.

Combat info

Combat level				1
Life points				500
Aggressive
Poisonous

Combat experience

XP				25
XP				8.2
XP				2 (two-handed) 1 (one-handed and armour)

Offensive
Max hit

8		8			8			0		? (edit)
Style						Rate
						4 ticks (2.4s)
Combat levels

1			1			1			1
Accuracy

110			110			110			0
Defensive
Armour				Weakness			Susceptible
110	1						None
Base hit chance

-			40			40			40
Immunities

Immune			Not immune			Immune			Not immune
Advanced data

NPC ID			9912
Links			bestiary • MRND

The Luminescent icefiend is a boss in the dungeons of Daemonheim encountered while Dungeoneering in the frozen floors, and requires level 5 Dungeoneering to fight. It is found on floors 3-11.

It primarily attacks with Magic and Ranged. It also has a powerful special attack in which it becomes impervious to damage before causing icicles to fall from the ceiling above the player, constantly doing damage until only a small amount of life points remains. This can be avoided by moving around as the icicles follow behind you.

It does not count as an Icefiend for Slayer.

The fight

When the Luminescent icefiend raises it arms and smashes the ground, it is about to use its magic attack. It flings its right fist at players as the ranged attack. These animations are too fast for any prayer switching.

It performs its icicle drop special attack when it has 66% and 33% life points remaining. While the special attack is happening, the Icefiend becomes impervious to damage except from the damage received by a Summoning familiar. The special attack will keep hitting until you are almost dead, but it will not kill you. Protection prayers do not work against this attack. Any level of portent of restoration will not heal you during his special attack. You are not considered to be in combat while being hit by the icicles - towards the end you would exit combat stance and Regenerate would activate to heal you with your adrenaline if you have it set to be automatic.

It is not possible to use a gatestone or the group gatestone to teleport away from the boss room. If you enter the room, you cannot leave it until either you or the boss are dead. Only enter when you are fully prepared.

Strategy

All damage from the special attack can be avoided as long as you keep moving. Begin moving around when you see the Icefiend encase itself in ice; if you stop at any moment, the ice may catch up with you. It is also possible to be hit by ice that is falling behind your team mates, so be careful not to cross paths.

If you get hit once by the special attack, it is difficult, but still possible to escape the rest of its hits. Click rapidly on an opposite corner while being hit. Only eat food once you are not being damaged by the attack. If you cannot escape the attack, make sure you eat immediately after it ends. A swift follow up attack from the Luminescent icefiend could easily kill you.

Running from corner to corner using the minimap is a good way to dodge the special attack. Walking from one wall to the other at the opposite side of room will usually dodge its special attack with one click, but this does not always work. Rotating the view while clicking in one spot will cause you to run in a circle and evade the falling ice, with less chance of misclicking.

Summoning familiars can deal damage while the icefield is immune to other damage. They can even kill the icefield while it is using its special attack.

Drops

Off-hand daggers are dropped with the main-hand dagger of the same metal.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	Novite dagger	1	Random	Not sold	N/A
	Off-hand novite dagger	1	Random	Not sold	N/A
	Bathus dagger	1	Random	Not sold	N/A
	Off-hand bathus dagger	1	Random	Not sold	N/A
	Marmaros dagger	1	Random	Not sold	N/A
	Off-hand marmaros dagger	1	Random	Not sold	N/A
	Kratonite dagger	1	Random	Not sold	N/A
	Off-hand kratonite dagger	1	Random	Not sold	N/A
	Fractite dagger	1	Random	Not sold	N/A
$Off-hand fractite dagger.png: RS3 Luminescent icefiend drops Off-hand fractite dagger with rarity Random in quantity 1$	Off-hand fractite dagger	1	Random	Not sold	N/A
	Zephyrium dagger	1	Random	Not sold	N/A
	Off-hand zephyrium dagger	1	Random	Not sold	N/A
	Argonite dagger	1	Random	Not sold	N/A
	Off-hand argonite dagger	1	Random	Not sold	N/A
	Katagon dagger	1	Random	Not sold	N/A
	Off-hand katagon dagger	1	Random	Not sold	N/A
	Gorgonite dagger	1	Random	Not sold	N/A
	Off-hand gorgonite dagger	1	Random	Not sold	N/A
	Promethium dagger	1	Random	Not sold	N/A
	Off-hand promethium dagger	1	Random	Not sold	N/A
	Primal dagger	1	Random	Not sold	N/A
	Off-hand primal dagger	1	Random	Not sold	N/A
	Environmental effects (part 1)	1	Common	Not sold	N/A
	Mysterious chronicle	1	Common	Not sold	N/A

Mentioned

This list is compiled as a part of an ongoing project and may be incomplete.

Transcripts Luminescent icefiend is mentioned in:

M. and thok letter (part 7)

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included – see here for how to help out!

patch 6 November 2023 (Update):
- Reduced the number of times the luminescent icefiend uses its special attack.

patch 11 March 2019 (Update):
- The following message now gets shown once and then filtered for 10 seconds: "The Luminescent ice fiend is encased in ice and cannot be harmed!"

patch 7 February 2012 (Update):
- This boss now always plays its freezing animation.

patch 28 March 2011 (Update):
- Some new sound effects have been added to this boss.

update 12 April 2010 (Update):
- Added to game.

Trivia

If a player is already injured to the point where the special attack can no longer deal damage, the duration of the attack will be shorter.
Damage from Retribution will not make an Icefiend start its barrage of icicles, even if it damages the Icefiend past one of the health "milestones". However, the Icefiend would immediately unleash its special attack when it is hit by any normal attack, even a miss.
Sometimes the icicles would continue to fall after the icefiend has came out of its invincible state. If you damage the icefiend fast enough it is actually possible to have two series of icicles falling down. However, the "old" set of icicles would only fall repeatedly in their square where they are when the Icefiend comes out of its invincible stage. This might be a glitch.
The icefiend can still take damage if it becomes invincible while a player's magic spell is airborne. If you time your spell right, you will be able to bypass the last special attack by killing him JUST AFTER he becomes invincible.
If damage from blood necklace kills an icefiend, its barrage of icicles will not happen, even if it had more than 1 life point remaining.

v • d • e RS3 Dungeoneering bosses
Frozen	Gluttonous behemoth Astea Frostweb Icy Bones Luminescent icefiend Plane-freezer Lakhrahnaz To'Kash the Bloodchiller
Abandoned 1 & 2	Skeletal Horde ^{(Divine skinweaver)} Hobgoblin Geomancer Bulwark beast Unholy cursebearer
Furnished	Rammernaut Stomp Har'Lakk the Riftsplitter Lexicus Runewright Sagittare Night-gazer Khighorahk
Abandoned 2	Shadow-Forger Ihlakhizan Bal'lak the Pummeller
Occult	Skeletal trio ^{(Archer • Sorcerer • Warrior)} Runebound behemoth Gravecreeper Necrolord Flesh-Spoiler Haasghenahk Yk'Lagor the Thunderous
Warped	Blink Warped Gulega Dreadnaut Hope devourer World-gorger Shukarhazh ^{(Mage-eye • Ranger-eye • Warrior-eye • Engorged eye)} Kal'Ger the Warmonger

v • d • e RS3 Elemental creatures
Elementals	Air Earth Fire Water Ice
Fiends	Icefiend ^{(Revenant • Luminescent)} Pyrefiend ^(Revenant) Waterfiend Galefiend
Seasons	Autumn Summer Spring Winter
Warriors	Ice warrior Shadow warrior Earth warrior ^(Champion) Fire
Wizards	Air Water Earth Fire
Elder Kiln	Fire/Obsidian Holy Obsidian Holy Fire
Other	Balance Chaos Elemental creature Ice Ice demon ^{(Ritual of the Mahjarrat)} Sakadagami