Tormented Demon

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Tormented Demon
Released								10 July 2024 (Update)
Members								Yes
Combat level								450
Size								3x3
Examine								Lucien must be incredibly powerful if he can bind such demons to his will.
League region								Misthalin✓
Combat info
Attribute								Demon
XP bonus								+77.5%
Max hit								31 (auto) 45 (special)
Aggressive								No
Poisonous								No
Attack style								All
Attack speed								6 ticks (3.6 seconds)
Respawn time								21 ticks (12.6 seconds)
Slayer info
Slayer level								None
Slayer XP								1,065 xp
Category								Greater Demons
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Combat stats
600				255				255				150				255				255
Aggressive stats
+400				+10				+300				+5				+300				+5
Melee defence
+75								+175								+68
Magic defence
+5												30% weakness
Ranged defence
+140								+150								+90
Immunities
Poison								0% resistance
Venom								0% resistance
Cannons								Immune
Thralls								Not immune
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Advanced data
Monster ID								13599
Link								MOID

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Tormented Demons are extremely powerful demons bound into a state of perpetual agony, healing their bodies as they burn, summoned by the Mahjarrat Lucien after he teleports away the Stone of Jas during While Guthix Sleeps. They can be found throughout the Ancient Guthixian Temple after completion of the quest.

Tormented demons count as greater demons for the progression of Slayer tasks. As demons, they are susceptible to the effects of demonbane weapons.

They are primarily killed for their tormented synapses, which are used to create high-tier demonbane weapons, as well as their burning claw drop, two of which are combined into the burning claws, a special attack weapon that sits in between the dragon dagger and dragon claws in terms of power, but are more effective against demons (such as tormented demons).

Location	Levels	Members	Spawns	Map	League region
Ancient Guthixian Temple	450		26	Show map	Misthalin✓

Although the entire Ancient Guthixian Temple is considered a single-way combat zone by the game, the temple is a unique outlier in the fact that some areas are pseudo-multicombat areas. While in the temple, an icon that depicts a tormented demon's head (shown below) can be seen in the user interface, indicating the number of demons the player can engage at one time. Other players will be unable to attack a demon that is engaged in combat with another player until that player leaves by any means.

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  Single-Combat: 10 demons—The plinth chamber in the south-east contains eight demons in a single-combat area. Two additional single-demon rooms can be found in the north-west of the temple (directly west of the temple entrance).
• 
  Double-Combat: 10 demons—The central chamber and the four eastern rooms each contain two demons.
• 
  Triple-Combat: 6 demons—Two rooms in the south-west contain three demons each.

Tormented demons are unaggressive and will not attack unless attacked first.

Tormented demons can pray against and attack using every combat style. They possess the ability to routefind, allowing them to move around objects, and can also stack on top of each other. If they cannot reach the player when attempting to melee, they will instead randomly fire magic and ranged attacks.

Every 150 health lost since their last prayer swap (roughly 25% of their max health), they will change their protection prayer to the last combat style they were damaged with, and will stop attacking for 6 ticks (3.6s).

They will briefly bind the player in place roughly every 60 ticks (36s; 10 attacks) and disable run (Ctrl clicking still allows running), then release two fire bombs: one on the player's position as of the start of the attack, and a second on a random one of the 8 adjacent squares, assuming that it is a walkable tile. The bind will then be released and players have 2 ticks to move off of the target tiles before they explode. Demons always change their combat style after this attack.

Tormented demons usually have a fire shield that reduces damage done by non-demonbane weapons/spells and non-abyssal weapons by 20%. They will drop this shield after the player's first attack and after each fire bomb attack; the shield remains down until they are attacked once. Slower weapons will deal significant bonus damage to unshielded tormented demons. They also become defenseless, indicated by the flames on their body disappearing, approximately 30 ticks (18s; 5 attacks) into the fight until after their fire bomb attack, after which the 30 tick timer begins again. Attacking them while defenseless will provide 100% accuracy meaning guaranteed hits.

The clickbox of a tormented demon will shift whenever their shield animation plays (every few ticks). This can affect clicking away from the demon during a fire bomb. Changing their shift-click to walk through is a good preventative measure for this, as well as tagging Tormented Demons with their tag style set to hull in order to more accurately see their clickbox.

If the player chooses to attack multiple tormented demons simultaneously, their attack behaviour changes: one will use melee if possible, and the other magic or ranged, and their attacks start out staggered so they can be prayed against. If three or more demons are attacking the player, the third and any more demons will release single bombs at the player.

If demons are forced out of combat due to teleportation or being unable to attack their target, they will restore their health to full.

The following money making guide is available for Tormented Demons:

Drop rates are estimated based on 110,286 samples from the Drop Rate Project, unless otherwise cited.

The average Tormented Demon kill is worth 79,988.

Excluding unique drops, the average Tormented Demon kill is worth 15,377.

Upon death, a drop will be rolled until the roll results in a success, as described below:^[1]

• Roll 1/500 for the tormented synapse drop.
  • If unsuccessful, roll for a burning claw drop.
  • If unsuccessful, roll for a smouldering part (Smouldering pile of flesh, Smouldering gland, Smouldering heart).
• If all the above rolls are unsuccessful, the standard drop table is rolled.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Infernal ashes	1	Always	3,322	1

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Burning claw	1	499/250,000	1,536,440	240,000
	Tormented synapse	1	1/500	30,769,662	480,000

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Dragon dagger	1	~3/51	17,092	18,000
	Rune kiteshield	1	~2/51	32,110	32,640
	Battlestaff	1 (noted)	~3/51	7,180	4,200
	Rune platebody	1	~4/51	38,547	39,000

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Chaos rune	25–100	~4/51	2,650–10,600	1,350–5,400
	Soul rune	50–75	~2/51	19,000–28,500	9,000–13,500
	Rune arrow	65–125	~4/51	3,055–5,875	15,600–30,000

There is a 2/17 chance of rolling for herbs.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Grimy kwuarm	1	~10/408	1,814	12
	Grimy dwarf weed	1	~8/408	1,343	14
	Grimy cadantine	1	~8/408	2,076	13
	Grimy lantadyme	1	~6/408	1,232	13
	Grimy avantoe	1	~5/408	1,341	10
	Grimy ranarr weed	1	~4/408	5,262	18
	Grimy snapdragon	1	~4/408	7,218	12
	Grimy torstol	1	~3/408	2,954	15

There is a 1/51 chance of rolling the tree-herb seed drop table.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Ranarr seed	1	~1/425	28,028	30
	Snapdragon seed	1	~1/455.4	43,773	36
	Torstol seed	1	~1/579.5	15,463	42
	Watermelon seed	15	~1/607.1	3,510	495
	Willow seed	1	~1/637.5	54	9
	Mahogany seed	1	~1/708.3	208	28
	Maple seed	1	~1/708.3	3,365	28
	Teak seed	1	~1/708.3	68	28
	Yew seed	1	~1/708.3	19,451	85
	Papaya tree seed	1	~1/910.7	1,369	69
	Magic seed	1	~1/1,159.1	69,558	253
	Palm tree seed	1	~1/1,275	16,421	152
	Spirit seed	1	~1/1,593.7	Not sold	0
	Dragonfruit tree seed	1	~1/2,125	136,077	258
	Celastrus seed	1	~1/3,187.5	16,427	324
	Redwood tree seed	1	~1/3,187.5	14,337	390

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Smouldering gland	1	~1/25	Not sold	0
	Smouldering pile of flesh	1	~1/25	Not sold	0
	Smouldering heart	1	~1/125	Not sold	0
	Manta ray	1–2	~4/51	1,453–2,906	120–240
	Prayer potion(4)	1	~1/51	9,165	114
	Prayer potion(2)	2	~1/51	9,038	136

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Guthixian temple teleport	2	1/12	18,544	12
	Magic shortbow (u)	1 (noted)	~29/255	563	480
	Magic longbow (u)	1	~1/255	769	768
	Malicious ashes	2–3	~2/51	2,090–3,135	2–3
	Fire orb	5–7 (noted)	~2/51	9,760–13,664	900–1,260
	Dragon arrowtips	30–40	~1/51	51,660–68,880	9,000–12,000

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Clue scroll (elite)	1	1/128[d 1][d 2]	Not sold	12

There are 5 Combat Achievement tasks (totalling 21 points) available for tormented demons.

Name	Description	Type	Tier	Comp%
Rapid Reload	Hit three Tormented Demons within 3 seconds using a ballista or a crossbow.	Mechanical	Elite (4 pts)	4.5%
Two Times the Torment	Kill two Tormented Demons within 2 seconds.	Restriction	Elite (4 pts)	3.6%
Through Fire and Flames	Kill a Tormented Demon whilst their shield is inactive.	Restriction	Elite (4 pts)	27.4%
Unending Torment	Kill a Tormented Demon.	Kill Count	Elite (4 pts)	28.3%
Three Times the Thrashing	Kill three Tormented Demons within 3 seconds.	Restriction	Master (5 pts)	2.5%

Tormented demons were released alongside While Guthix Sleeps on 26 November 2008, during the period often referred to as RuneScape 2. The version found in Old School is very similar, but has several differences both with the original RuneScape 2 version and their modern RuneScape 3 counterparts:

• There are significantly more tormented demons throughout the entirety of the Ancient Guthixian Temple. In RuneScape 3, there are only six demons, all of whom are near the plinth where the Stone of Jas once was, while in Old School RuneScape, there are twenty-six; eight by the plinth, two by the door leading to the inner section of the temple, eight to the western section of the temple (one each to the north-western chambers, and two sets of three to the south-west) and another eight to the eastern dolmens, in four sets of two.
• The tormented demons in Old School RuneScape are unaggressive, whereas those in RuneScape 3 never become tolerant to the player.
• In Old School RuneScape, tormented demons are considered greater demons for the purpose of a slayer assignment. In RuneScape 3, tormented demons were not an assignable Slayer task for a considerable amount of time after release, and later became unlockable through Slayer points or killable as part of a demon cluster task.
• Tormented demons in both games attack with all three combat styles, but have somewhat different mechanics:
  • When changing attack styles in RuneScape 3, they use an AoE magic attack in their immediate area. This occurs every 16 seconds. In Old School RuneScape, they instead bind the player in place before launching a fire bomb attack at them. This occurs every 36 seconds.
  • If using melee but attacked from a distance in RuneScape 3, a tormented demon will immediately change combat styles. In Old School RuneScape, they will only do so if they cannot reach their target, and will randomly switch between magic and ranged to discourage safespotting.
  • Tormented demons switch their overhead prayer more frequently in RuneScape 3, doing so after taking 3100 damage (about 15% of their total life points). In Old School RuneScape, they switch after taking 150 damage (25% of their total hitpoints).
  • Their fire shield is much stronger in RuneScape 3, reducing all damage by 75% until destroyed by Darklight or holy water. In Old School RuneScape, the shield reduces non-demonbane damage by 20% and is dropped after being attacked or after using a fire bomb attack for one attack.
    • Additionally, when a tormented demon is attacked while their shield is down, a damage bonus is given based on weapon speed, with slower weapons receiving higher bonuses. This allows for significant bonus damage from non-demonbane weapons, if timed correctly.
• On release in RuneScape 2, tormented demons had four unique drops: dragon claws and three pieces of the dragon platebody. Later, dragon limbs were also added to their drop table. As all of these items were already present in Old School RuneScape when tormented demons were added, their droptable is significantly different, instead featuring the tormented synapse and burning claws.
• Tormented demons in RuneScape 2 were originally released with 326 hitpoints and zero offensive or defensive stats. The demons in Old School RuneScape have 600 hitpoints and have offensive and defensive stats added to give them a distinct weakness:^[2]

Combat stats
2008	326							255							166							300							255							255
2024	600							255							255							150							255							255
Aggressive stats
2008	+0							+0							+0							+0							+0							+0
2024	+400							+10							+300							+5							+300							+5
Defensive stats
2008	+0						+0						+0						+0						+0						+0						+0
2024	+75						+175						+68						+5						+140						+150						+90

• Tormented demons are the second non-boss monster to have a Master Combat Achievement (Three Times the Thrashing) the other being the Deathly rangers and Deathly mages from the Chambers of Xeric (No Time for Death), though they are the first non-boss monster that requires the player to actually kill them in order to complete the task.