OSRS Abyssal Demon Slayer Guide (2024)

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Abyssal demons are one of the most iconic creatures in Old School Runescape. They are pretty easy to kill and you can get one of the most iconic weapons in the game, which is the abyssal whip. They require a pretty high slayer level of 85 to kill but getting to that level sure is worth it. Here are the best ways to do this and beat these old denizens of the abyss.

Best Places to Kill

There are a lot of locations which abyssal demons can be found in. Here are the best locations for any given slayer task:

Catacombs of Kourend

Catacombs of Kourend is a great location to slay these old abyssal creatures in. There are two separate rooms that contain abyssal demons. The fastest way to kill these creatures is via using ancient magicks, just like dust devils or nechryaels. This place is completely a multi-combat area which is perfect for this. You should always try to use this place and use AOE magic spells for this task, you can still do it with melee or ranged but it will take much, much longer to complete one task.

Wilderness Slayer Cave

If you are using Wilderness, the absolute best place to kill this monster is the Wilderness Slayer Cave. All the monsters in this cave have access to an extra drop table making the gold that you will get from this already lucrative task higher. Also just like the catacombs this place is multi-combat as well. You can use the same method of tagging all the dust devils and stacking them up to kill them in one go. This method also becomes much cheaper and effective here as you can simply use “Blighted Ice Sacks'' to cast ice barrage and use a accursed sceptre to get a massive buff to your accuracy and damage. You can also bring along a looting bag to loot everything. The only downside of this cave is obviously other players. Be ready to escape at any given moment if you see a player. The part that contains abyssal demons in this cave is one of the deepest locations in the cave so do be careful.

Weakness

Abyssal demons are pretty much weak to all styles of combat but they are weakest against magic.

Tag all the abyssal demons with an iron dart or Dinh’s bulwark. Stack them up and start killing them using either ice barrages or ice bursts.

Best Gear Setups

If you can afford it, buy a teleport anchoring scroll from grand exchange and use it.This item will make it so that the demons can’t teleport you around. This will increase your efficiency and increase your quality of life while slaying Abyssal demons.

You can kill abyssal demons with any style you want to here are the styles and equipment you would want to have:

Melee

Killing one at a time tanking with food:

• Helmet: Slayer Helmet

• Neck: Amulet of Torture/Fury

• Ammo: Holy blessing

• Cape: Infernal/Fire Cape

• Body: Torva/Bandos

• Legs: Torva/Bandos

• Weapon: Any tier 70+ weapon or Arclight

• Shield: Avernic/Dragon defender

• Boots: Primordial/Dragon boots

• Gloves: Ferocious/Barrows gloves

• Ring: Ultor/Berserker ring or Lightbearer

Killing in with protection prayers:

• Helmet: Slayer Helmet

• Neck: Amulet of Torture/Fury or Dragonbone necklace

• Ammo: Holy blessing

• Cape: Infernal/Fire Cape

• Body: Proselyte Hauberk or Sunfire fanatic cuirass

• Legs: Proselyte Cuisse or Sunfire fanatic chausses

• Weapon: Any tier 70+ weapon or Arclight

• Shield: Avernic/Dragon defender

• Boots: Primordial/Dragon boots

• Gloves: Ferocious/Barrows gloves

• Ring: Ultor/Berserker ring or Ring of the gods (i) or Lightbearer

If you are going the prayer route do not get all the prayer bonus you can get, it will be an overkill. The best way to get the highest prayer bonus is by switching only your chest and legs slot with prayer equipment.

Range

• Helmet: Slayer Helmet (i)

• Neck: Necklace of Anguish or Dragonbone Necklace

• Ammo: Holy blessing or ammo for your weapon

• Cape: Dizana’s quiver or Ava’s assembler

• Body: Masori/Armadyl or Blessed d’hide

• Legs: Masori/Armadyl or Blessed d’hide

• Weapon: Blowpipe with amethyst darts or Venator bow

• Shield: -

• Boots: Pegasian boots or Blessed d’hide boots

• Gloves: Zaryte vambraces or Barrows gloves

• Ring: Venator ring/Archer’s ring/Ring of the gods (i) or Lightbearer

Magic

As mentioned before this is the best way to slay these abyssal demons.

• Helmet: Slayer Helmet (i)

• Neck: Occult Necklace or Dragonbone Necklace

• Ammo: Holy blessing

• Cape: Imbued God cape

• Body: Virtus robe top

• Legs: Virtus robe bottom

• Weapon: Kodai wand/Master wand

• Shield: Elidnis’ ward (f)/Arcane spirit shield/Elidnis’ ward/Book of darkness

• Boots: Eternal boots

• Gloves: Tormented bracelet or Barrows gloves

• Ring: Magus ring/Seers ring (i)/Ring of the gods (i)

• Tagging monsters: Iron darts/Dinh’s bulwark

Harmonised nightmare staff is the most important part of this setup since it allows you to cast spells a tick faster.

Inventory

• Rune pouch containing runes for your spells

• Prayer potions 2-6

• 1-4 Stat boosting divine potions for your combat style

• Herb sack

• Teleport to safety, like house tabs

• Holy wrench (optional)

• Iron darts

• Dinh’s bulwark

• Ash sanctifier (optional)

• Soul bearer (optional)

• Special attack weapon if using melee

• Imbued/Saturated heart if using magic

Best Drops

These creatures have a superior variant so you should unlock “Bigger and Badder” if possible before this task.

• Imbued heart: 124M - 1/352 drop rate (Only from greater abyssal demons)

• Eternal gem: 11.7M - 1/352 drop rate (Only from greater abyssal demons)

• Abyssal whip: 1.5M - 1/512 drop rate

• Abyssal dagger: 2.8M - 1/32,000 drop rate

• Rune chainbody: 29K - 1/128 drop rate

Other locations

Other locations that abyssal demons resides in are as follows:

• Abyssal area: You can get essence pouches from these as well. Not good for slayer tasks.

• Slayer tower second floor: Great for killing one at a time.

• Slayer tower basem*nt: Slayer task only area, great from killing one at a time.

Happy efficient abyssal demon slaying out there!

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