Phosani's Nightmare

This fight takes place in an instance with a deathbank. On death, you can pay Sister Senga 60,000 to retrieve lost items. Any unsafe death will delete all items left inside the deathbank. Any items left on the ground will be lost.

This article has a strategy guide. All information on mechanics and strategy will be on this page.

Phosani's Nightmare
Released								30 June 2021 (Update)
Members								Yes
Combat level								1,024
Size								5x5
Examine								Sweet dreams are most definitely not made of this.
League region								Morytania✓
Combat info
XP bonus								+0%
Max hit								73 (melee) 80 (magic/ranged) ~85 (dash)
Aggressive								Yes
Poisonous								No
Attack style								Slash, Ranged, Magic
Attack speed								6 ticks (3.6 seconds)
Combat stats
3,200				150				150				150				150				150
Aggressive stats
+220				+274				+220				+162				+220				+162
Melee defence
+120								+180								+40
Magic defence
+600												No elemental weakness
Ranged defence
+600								+600								+600
Immunities
Poison								100% resistance
Venom								100% resistance
Cannons								Immune
Thralls								Not immune
Freeze								100% resistance
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Advanced data
Monster ID								9416,9417,9418,9419,9420,9421,9422,9424,11153,11154,11155
Link								MOID

Phosani's Nightmare
Released								30 June 2021 (Update)
Combat level								1,024
Members								Yes
Race								Unknown
Location								Sisterhood Sanctuary
League region								Morytania✓
Examine								Sweet dreams are most definitely not made of this.
Advanced data
NPC ID								377,9423
Link								MOID

Phosani's Nightmare is a more difficult version of The Nightmare, encountered by selecting Drink-from on the Pool of Nightmares in the Sisterhood Sanctuary.

Phosani's Nightmare can only be fought alone, and the game encourages the player to have at least one normal Nightmare kill before attempting Phosani's Nightmare; trying to attempt the boss without any Nightmare kill count will result in an initial warning advising the player to do so, though they may ignore it and proceed to the boss fight.

Compared to fighting the Nightmare solo, Phosani's Nightmare is significantly faster, with little damage being taken if players master the fight's mechanics, though far more punishing when mistakes are made. Although the boss itself has a lower drop rate for uniques compared to the original, it makes up for it with its faster kill times and increased quantities of normal drops.^[1] It also possesses two unique drops the original lacks; the Slepey tablet, which allows players to access the Nightmare even quicker, and the parasitic egg, an item that unlocks a cosmetic skin for the little nightmare.

There are notable differences in mechanics compared to the regular Nightmare encounter:

• Standard attacks hit significantly higher, but successfully praying against them will fully block the attack.
• Special attacks and minions are stronger and some are used in combination with one another: for example, spores are always summoned before six consecutive claw attacks.
  • Phosani's Nightmare will use multiple consecutive claw attacks in conjunction with Flower Power or Spores.
  • The spores slow the player's attack speed by 2 ticks instead of 1 (doubled if maging), and they also drain 6 prayer points every time the player yawns.
• Crush weapons will always deal their maximum hit against husks and weakened parasites.
• There are four phases instead of three: 3 phases of 400 shield durability and 1 phase of 150 health, along with 3 sets of totems (12 in total) with 200 charge. In total, the player has to deal 1,350 physical damage and 1,200 charge damage (using magic) for a total of 2,550 damage in Phosani's encounter. The original fight, in comparison, requires 7,800 damage (3 phases each of 2,000 shield durability and 600 charge damage (using magic)), making kills ~3x faster on average.
• After each phase, the number of sleepwalkers spawned increases by one, capping at 4 at the end of the third phase, whereas the original fight has sleepwalkers scale to the amount of players present (still 1 for solo).
• Phases 1-3 use a set rotation of specials taken from the original encounter.
• In phase 3, Phosani's Nightmare will deactivate the player's protection prayer if they had already had the prayer active before the attack. She also has an increased chance of attacking with melee.
• In phase 4, the "desperation phase", she indefinitely performs Grasping Claws and summons sleepwalkers until killed. One sleepwalker is summoned at a time; should they reach her, she will unleash a blast causing 15 damage.

The following money making guide is available for Phosani's Nightmare:

Drop rates are estimated based on 651,229 samples from the Drop Rate Project, unless otherwise cited.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Big bones	1	Always	246	0

With each kill, Phosani's Nightmare has a chance to roll two unique drop tables, one containing the armour, mace, and staff, and one containing the orbs; both table rolls can be successful with each kill. The armour, mace, and staff drop table has a 1/140^[2] chance to roll. The orb drop table has a ~1/533 chance to roll. There is an effective chance of ~1/111 to receive any item. On the armour, mace, and staff drop table, there's a 1/10 chance to roll the mace, a 2/10 chance to roll an individual armour piece, and a 3/10 chance to roll the staff. If the staff was rolled, there is a 8/100 chance of switching to the mace.^[3] The effective droprates are listed in the table below.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Nightmare staff	1	69/35,000	32,313,810	360,000
	Inquisitor's great helm	1	1/700	86,547,457	300,000
	Inquisitor's hauberk	1	1/700	132,116,298	600,000
	Inquisitor's plateskirt	1	1/700	145,833,131	450,000
	Inquisitor's mace	1	31/35,000	336,009,476	3,000,000
	Eldritch orb	1	1/1,600	122,485,801	2,400,000
	Harmonised orb	1	1/1,600	412,172,928	2,400,000
	Volatile orb	1	1/1,600	37,740,985	2,400,000

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Cosmic rune	247–420	4/100	30,628–52,080	7,410–12,600
	Nature rune	165–305	4/100	28,215–52,155	17,820–32,940
	Death rune	165–305	4/100	30,525–56,425	17,820–32,940
	Blood rune	343–765	4/100	128,282–286,110	82,320–183,600
	Soul rune	110–228	4/100	41,800–86,640	19,800–41,040
	Steel cannonball	137–382	4/100	37,264–103,904	411–1,146
	Rune arrow	412–957	3/100	19,364–44,979	98,880–229,680

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Mithril ore	165–305 (noted)	5/100	24,915–46,055	16,005–29,585
	Coal	220–458 (noted)	4/100	32,120–66,868	5,940–12,366
	Gold ore	165–305 (noted)	4/100	23,760–43,920	14,850–27,450
	Adamantite ore	40–95 (noted)	4/100	21,600–51,300	9,600–22,800
	Magic logs	40–95 (noted)	4/100	30,560–72,580	7,680–18,240
	Grimy cadantine	13–26 (noted)	4/100	26,988–53,976	169–338
	Grimy torstol	13–26 (noted)	4/100	38,402–76,804	195–390
	Snapdragon seed	5–10	3/100	218,865–437,730	180–360
	Uncut emerald	33–75 (noted)	3/100	15,609–35,475	990–2,250
	Uncut ruby	27–60 (noted)	3/100	29,349–65,220	1,620–3,600
	Runite ore	11–26 (noted)	2/100	112,475–265,850	21,120–49,920

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Bass	16–29	6/100	752–1,363	384–696
	Shark	13–26	6/100	13,689–27,378	1,326–2,652
	Prayer potion(3)	8–15	5/100	53,504–100,320	728–1,365
	Sanfew serum(3)	6–12	5/100	75,750–151,500	864–1,728
	Saradomin brew(3)	8–15	5/100	40,056–75,105	840–1,575
	Zamorak brew(3)	8–15	5/100	3,160–5,925	840–1,575

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Coins	41,417–74,500	2/100	41,417–74,500	41,417–74,500

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Clue scroll (elite)	1	1/35[d 1][d 2][4]	Not sold	12
	Slepey tablet	1	1/25[d 3]	Not sold	N/A
	Parasitic egg	1	1/200[4]	Not sold	0
	Little nightmare	1	1/1,400[4]	Not sold	N/A
	Jar of dreams	1	1/4,000[4]	1,101,216	1

There are 10 Combat Achievement tasks (totalling 53 points) available for Phosani's Nightmare.

Name	Description	Type	Tier	Comp%
Phosani's Veteran	Kill Phosani's Nightmare once.	Kill Count	Elite (4 pts)	5.5%
Phosani's Speedchaser	Kill Phosani's Nightmare within 7 minutes and 30 seconds.	Speed	Master (5 pts)	4.2%
I Would Simply React	Kill Phosani's Nightmare without allowing your prayer to be disabled.	Mechanical	Master (5 pts)	4.2%
Dreamland Express	Kill Phosani's Nightmare without a sleepwalker reaching her during her desperation phase.	Mechanical	Master (5 pts)	4.4%
Phosani's Master	Kill Phosani's Nightmare 5 times.	Kill Count	Master (5 pts)	4.7%
Crush Hour	Kill Phosani's Nightmare while killing every parasite and husk in one hit.	Mechanical	Master (5 pts)	4.5%
Can't Wake Up	Kill Phosani's Nightmare 5 times in a row without leaving Phosani's Dream.	Stamina	Grandmaster (6 pts)	2%
Perfect Phosani's Nightmare	Kill Phosani's Nightmare while only taking damage from husks, power blasts and weakened Parasites. Also, without having your attacks slowed by the Nightmare Spores or letting a Sleepwalker reach Phosani's Nightmare.	Perfection	Grandmaster (6 pts)	3%
Phosani's Grandmaster	Kill Phosani's Nightmare 25 times.	Kill Count	Grandmaster (6 pts)	3.8%
Phosani's Speedrunner	Kill Phosani's Nightmare within 6 minutes.	Speed	Grandmaster (6 pts)	2.8%

Phosani's Nightmare was initially released as a competition lasting one week from 5 March 2020, allowing players to win free membership and signed artwork. Like the currently existing Phosani's Nightmare, it had more punishing mechanics and could only be fought solo, although it did not have reduced health, reduced damage when fought correctly, or phase randomisation. Its loot table was unchanged from the regular encounter.

• Its standard magic and ranged attacks could hit up to 90, while its slashing attack could hit up to 115.
• The Grasping Claws and Surge attack would instantly kill the player if hit.
• The spores would slow attack speed by 2 ticks, and last longer.
• Two sleepwalkers spawned instead of one.
• The husks were much more accurate and dealt more damage.
• Parasites could heal Phosani's Nightmare over 100 health, even when weakened. In addition, the damage taken when it burst out was 10 instead of 5, even when weakened.
• The Curse attack shuffled the protection prayers by one to the left rather than the right: clicking on Protect from Magic activated Protect from Melee, Protect from Missiles activated Protect from Magic and Protect from Melee activated Protect from Missiles.

The encounter was later offered in a poll blog on 4 May 2021, as a piece of end-game content that would take less development time to create than a brand new boss. The boss was then polled in Phosani's Nightmare Poll and passed with 89.1% support.

• Phosani's Nightmare's examine text is a reference to the song Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by British pop duo Eurythmics.
• Phosani's Nightmare had a festive override wearing a red partyhat during the 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 Christmas events.