Corporeal Beast/Strategies

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A group of players fighting the Corporeal Beast.

The Corporeal Beast is a high level boss monster in Old School RuneScape.

Requirements

There are no strict requirements to killing the Corporeal Beast.

Recommendations

• High combat stats. Although not required, see the skill levels below for an indication of the advised stats:
  • If using Melee:
    • Level 90 or higher
    • Level 90 or higher
    • Level 90 or higher
    • Level 90 or higher
    • Level 70 or higher for the Piety prayer
  • If using Ranged:
    • Level 90 or higher
    • Level 90 or higher
    • Level 74 or higher for the Rigour prayer

Getting there

The Corporeal Beast can be found in a cave at level 19-20 Wilderness, which is surrounded by hostile ents and black unicorns. As the area is frequently visited by PKers, entering through the Wilderness is not recommended. Instead, use a games necklace and teleport to the Corporeal Beast. The cave in which the Corporeal Beast resides is not part of the Wilderness.

Mechanics

Attack styles

The Corporeal Beast attacks with Melee and Magic. Corporeal beast will use a melee attack 40% of the time provided you are in melee range, The magic attacks are all equally common with a 20% incidence in melee range or a 33% incidence outside of melee range.

• The Melee attack is only used when the player is standing in Melee distance and can hit up to 33.
  • The Protect from Melee prayer will negate all damage from this attack.
• The Magic attack has three variations. See the images below on how to identify the different variations.
  • A regular Magic attack that can deal up to 65 damage.
    • The Protect from Magic prayer will negate 1/3 of the damage from this attack.
  • A Magic attack that can deal up to 55 damage and has a chance to drain Magic or Prayer with 1 or 2.
    • The stat drain effect only takes place upon a successful hit.
    • The Protect from Magic prayer will negate 1/3 of the damage from this attack.
  • A Magic attack that splits into six smaller projectiles that both have an AoE of 3x3. The main attack can hit up to 40 if it lands on top of you, or up to 30 if it lands next to you. Each of the projectiles can hit up to 30 if they land on top on you, or 20 if they land next to you. All of these can be dodged.
    • The Protect from Magic prayer will negate 1/3 of the damage from this attack.

If the player steps under the Corporeal Beast, it may perform a stomp attack that will always deal 30–51 damage. This attack is on a timer that checks if any players are under the Corporeal Beast every 7 ticks (4.2 seconds).

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  The Corporeal Beast's regular Magic attack.

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  The Corporeal Beast's stat-draining Magic attack.

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  The Corporeal Beast's AoE Magic attack.

Dark energy core

The Corporeal Beast can occasionally send out a dark energy core. It has a 1/8 chance of spawning whenever the Corporeal Beast is hit for at least 32 damage, or when it attacks while its hitpoints are under 1,000.

The dark energy core leeches hitpoints from any players adjacent to it (in a 3x3 area) to heal the Corporeal Beast. It can deal 5–13 damage every 2 ticks (1.2 seconds). The dark energy core will jump to players if none are adjacent.

It can be weakened significantly by poisoning it. Once it has been poisoned, its attacks will be extremely slow. However, there must be at least one player around the dark energy core or else it will start hopping around again and will attack normally. If the dark energy core was stunned but someone moved away from it and it starts hopping around again, it cannot be stunned again. It will keep dealing damage rapidly until it is killed. If the Corporeal Beast dies, the dark energy core will disappear.

The dark energy core will usually follow the player that stands northernmost. If no players are on the northern side, it will focus on the person that stands on the eastern side of the Corporeal Beast. It is usually advisable for the person who tanks or runs the core to stand north or east of the Corporeal Beast. Players that have experience with the Corporeal Beast typically know that there are specific game tiles that cause the core to prioritise and follow a player.

Damage reduction

The Corporeal Beast has a 50% damage reduction against any weapon that is not a spear or halberd on stab attack style. The crystal halberd special attack is capped at a maximum damage of 50 per hit (for a maximum total of 100). This damage reduction also does not apply to magic or recoil damage (such as Vengeance or rings of recoil) or Retribution.

Protect from Magic does not fully block its magic attacks; it only reduces the damage by 33.33%. It has very high accuracy, damage, and Defence for its level. It attacks normally every 4 ticks, but it can occasionally attack 3 ticks after its last.

Stat regeneration

By default, the Corporeal Beast regenerates each drained stat once every 20 ticks (12 seconds), regardless of if there are players in the room. If there are no players in the cave, it will heal 25 hitpoints every 7 game ticks (4.2 seconds), and will fully heal after three minutes if no one has attacked it.

If there are eight or more players in the room simultaneously, it will regenerate an additional 5 Hitpoints per player every 7 ticks (4.2 seconds), which coincides with the stomp attack timer.

Ironmen room

Ironmen with a combat level of 90 or higher have a separated Corporeal Beast room. All other accounts use the normal room. This is to reduce griefing and ironmen using normal accounts to use stat-reducing special attacks.

Tips

Dark energy core

Using melee to permanently kill the dark core

To deal with the dark energy core, a number of strategies can be used:

• Use a crossbow that can fire emerald bolts (e); if the special goes off, it will reduce the speed at which the dark energy core can sap players' hitpoints and prayer points. This requires a person to stay near it though, as failure to do so will result in the core bouncing around and the bolts' effects being removed.
• Move at least two tiles away whenever it jumps towards the player.
• Attack it as soon as it lands and immediately move away from it so it jumps; if it dies while midair, it will not respawn (this can be confirmed by its lack of ash drop). A dwarf multicannon can also be used to attack it midair, but this requires more timing as well as cannonballs.

Stat draining

While weak to stab attacks, the Corporeal Beast has a very high Defence level. A common method to lower its Defence is to use the dragon warhammer, arclight and Bandos godsword's special attack at the start of the fight.

• The dragon warhammer's special attack will lower the target's current Defence level by 30% on a hit other than zero.
• The arclight's special attack will lower the opponent's Strength, Attack, and Defence levels by 5% on a successful hit.
• The Bandos godsword's special attack will lower the opponent's combat levels equivalent to the damage hit in the following order: Defence, Strength, Prayer, Attack, Magic, Ranged.

The dragon warhammer's special attack is very useful in significantly increasing the player's damage output while fighting the Corporeal Beast.

The other special attacks are especially useful to players soloing the Corporeal Beast, as this will increase the player's damage output significantly while almost nullifying the Corporeal Beast's damage output. To achieve this, the special attacks have to be used in the following order:

1. Three successful dragon warhammer special attacks. Although not required, this step is highly recommended to increase the accuracy of the arclight's special attacks.
2. Twenty successful arclight special attacks. These attacks will completely drain the Corporeal Beast's Strength, Attack and Defence levels.
3. A total damage of 200 with the Bandos godsword's special attack. These attacks will completely drain the Corporeal Beast's Magic level to almost completely negate its magical accuracy (although its maximum hit will be unaffected) and drastically reduce its overall damage output.
   • The special attack's stat reduction effect is calculated before the damage reduction, meaning 175 damage is enough to drain its 350 Magic levels. The remaining 25 damage is done to nullify the passive stat regeneration during the process.

It is recommended to bring item switches for gear that boost crush accuracy while using the dragon warhammer's special attacks, such as the tyrannical ring (i), mythical cape and dwarven helmet.

For teams, it is often recommended to only reduce the Corporeal Beast's Defence level before proceeding to killing it, as it takes more time than it is worth to further reduce its stats in bigger groups.

Player-owned house

As most Corporeal Beast strategies heavily rely on using special attacks in quick succession, it is highly recommended to have a restoration pool or better in the player-owned house. Alternatively, players can pray at the Elidinis Statuette in Nardah after completion of Spirits of the Elid quest. Both methods will restore the player's special attack energy.

To return to the Corporeal Beast quickly, it is highly recommended to have a basic jewellery box or better in the player-owned house. Alternatively, bring enough games necklaces in the inventory.

If no special attacks hit, players may typically restore their special attack through a restoration pool (or higher) and teleport back.

Instance

Players can pay 200,000 coins to host an instance. Players ranked as Captain or above in a clan chat can pay the instance cost for their clan. Once the instance is opened, anyone from the clan chat will be able to enter the instance for no cost. As long as there is one player present in the instance, it will remain open.

Note that ironmen cannot enter this instance.

Solo and duo strategy

For solo players (or small teams with low stats), killing the Corporeal Beast without massively reducing its stats can prove difficult as they may run out of food before killing it. Therefore, it may be more beneficial to drain its combat stats to zero by using their player-owned house to restore special attacks and teleport back repeatedly. An effective strategy is to hit three dragon warhammer special attacks to lower its Defence to approximately a third, then hitting twenty arclight special attacks to reduce its melee stats to zero, and then deal a total of 200 damage with Bandos godsword special attacks to reduce its Magic to 0. Following this, the Corporeal Beast can be killed with relative ease and little food required. As a downside, the process is very slow; including the time to reduce its stats, solo players will take approximately 10 to 15 minutes per kill. However, it is the only realistic option for ultimate and hardcore ironmen to kill the boss.

An alternative strategy is only lowering its Defence and dying in the boss room with an inventory full of food; because of the changes to death mechanics, it will stay on the floor for 60 minutes. This will supply the player with enough food to outlast the boss. This strategy requires more effort and supplies, but it results in faster kills. Gear with a higher emphasis on magic defence is highly recommended, as the Corporeal Beast will be able to deal damage as normal.

Though the beast will regenerate its stats throughout the fight, it usually does not have enough time to regenerate much before it is killed. However, as it regenerates its Magic level, the chance of its attacks becomes more likely, and its maximum hit remains the same regardless of its Magic level. Therefore, using Protect from Magic and gear with high magic defence is beneficial even if its stats are reduced to prevent taking high damage hits.

Melee

This is the best-in-slot available equipment for soloing the Corporeal Beast. This section assumes that the player is using the stat draining method to completely reduce the Corporeal Beast's damage output. The setup shown in this section currently costs approximately 227,541,319 coins (or 114,688,844 without the Inquisitor's great helm and avernic defender, which are only marginally better for their high cost). See the table below for an overview of equipment alternatives in case this setup is not accessible or too expensive.

Notes

• Bring a dragon warhammer for its special attack. Optionally, bring the best available defender, as well as a mythical cape, tyrannical ring (i) or brimstone ring, and inquisitor's great helm or dwarven helmet as item switches to increase the dragon warhammer's accuracy.
• Bring the arclight for its special attack. Optionally, bring the best available defender, as well as a warrior ring (i) or brimstone ring and warrior helm to increase the arclight's accuracy for the first ten special attacks (after which gear that increases strength bonus becomes more effective).
• Bring a Bandos godsword for its special attack.
• Bring a divine super combat potion or super combat potion for boosting combat stats.
• Bring prayer restore potions to restore prayer points, unless prayer flicking.
• Bring high healing food as backup; typically only a couple are needed per kill.
• Bring a teleport to house (either runes for casting Teleport to House, house tablets or Construction cape).
• Bring rune pouch with runes for Vengeance if using house tablets or Construction cape.

Equipment upgrades and downgrades

Slot	Item (most effective → least effective)
	Neitiznot faceguard	Serpentine helm	Inquisitor's great helm	Helm of neitiznot	Berserker helm Obsidian helmet
	Amulet of torture	Amulet of fury	Amulet of strength	Amulet of glory	Amulet of power
	Infernal cape	Fire cape	Mythical cape	Ardougne cloak 4	Ardougne cloak 3
	Karil's leathertop	3rd age range top	Armadyl d'hide body (or other blessed d'hide body)	N/A	N/A
	Karil's leatherskirt	3rd age range legs	Armadyl chaps (or other blessed chaps)	N/A	N/A
	Zamorakian spear	Dragon spear	Guthan's warspear	Leaf-bladed spear	N/A
	Rada's blessing 4	God blessing Rada's blessing 3/2	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Ferocious gloves	Barrows gloves	Dragon gloves	Rune gloves	Regen bracelet
	Primordial boots	Dragon boots	Spiked manacles	Guardian boots	Granite boots
	Berserker ring (i)	Brimstone ring	Berserker ring	N/A	N/A
	Crystal halberd	Dragon claws	Bandos godsword (to negate stat regeneration)	Saradomin godsword	N/A

This sections assumes that the player is using the stat draining method to completely reduce the Corporeal Beast's damage output. Otherwise, this gear's Magic defence stats are too low. The setup shown in this section currently costs approximately 129,253,838 coins (or 87,488,351 without the avernic defender, which is only marginally better for its high cost). See the table below for an overview of equipment alternatives in case this setup is not accessible or too expensive.

Note that elite void robes do not provide any additional offensive bonuses for melee compared to normal void; the only difference is the +3 prayer bonus per piece.

Notes

• Bring a dragon warhammer for its special attack. Optionally, bring the best available defender, as well as a mythical cape, tyrannical ring (i) or brimstone ring, inquisitor's great helm or dwarven helmet, and ferocious or barrows gloves as item switches to increase the dragon warhammer's accuracy.
• Bring the arclight for its special attack. Optionally, bring the best available defender, as well as a warrior ring (i) or brimstone ring, warrior helm, and ferocious or barrows gloves to increase the arclight's accuracy for the first ten special attacks (after which gear that increases strength bonus becomes more effective).
• Bring a Bandos godsword for its special attack.
• Bring a divine super combat potion or super combat potion for boosting combat stats.
• Bring prayer restore potions to restore prayer points, unless prayer flicking.
• Bring high healing food as backup; typically only a couple are needed per kill.
• Bring a teleport to house (either runes for casting Teleport to House, house tablets or Construction cape).
• Bring rune pouch with runes for Vengeance if using house tablets or Construction cape.

Equipment upgrades and downgrades

Slot	Item (most effective → least effective)
	Void melee helm	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Amulet of torture	Amulet of fury	Amulet of strength	Amulet of glory	Amulet of power
	Infernal cape	Fire cape	Mythical cape	Ardougne cloak 4	Ardougne cloak 3
	Elite void top	Void knight top	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Elite void robe	Void knight robe	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Zamorakian spear	Dragon spear	Guthan's warspear	Leaf-bladed spear	N/A
	Rada's blessing 4	God blessing Rada's blessing 3/2	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Void knight gloves	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Primordial boots	Dragon boots	Spiked manacles	Guardian boots	Granite boots
	Berserker ring (i)	Brimstone ring	Berserker ring	N/A	N/A
	Crystal halberd	Dragon claws	Bandos godsword (to negate stat regeneration)	Saradomin godsword	N/A

This method focuses on draining only a part of Corporeal Beast's defence and dying in the room to have an extra supply of food. As the majority of the time is used on killing the boss as opposed to draining its stats, this method is slightly faster but requires more high-end gear and is more resource and skill intensive.

Before equipping this setup, use three dragon warhammer and four to six arclight special attacks on the boss, then purposefully die within the room (preferably close to the entrance) with a full inventory of cooked karambwan two or three times; unless picked up and dropped again, these will stay on the floor for a full hour before despawning and serve as extra supplies that will be needed due to the boss's high damage output.

The setup is based on a mix of magic defence and strength gear. For ironmen, including the time to obtain the extra food used, this method may not be faster effective kills if you do not have some of the demonstrated equipment such as Armadyl armour. It also requires more practice to become a consistent method; a large portion of mitigating damage taken, and therefore needing to heal less which takes time away from damaging the boss, is switching between a shield and a magic staff (for their added magic defence) and the spear between attacks, and optionally switching between a magic prayer (e.g. Augury) and Piety. Making mistakes is also more punishing due to the increased risk of dying and effectively resetting the fight.

Notes

• An imbued heart or a magic potion is recommended to increase Magic level which subsequently increases magic defence and reduces damage taken.
• Vengeance and ring of suffering (i) charged with rings of recoil are highly recommended.
• A shield and a staff or wand with high magic defence are highly recommended for "shield switching" (as detailed above); examples include elysian/spectral spirit shield, twisted buckler, and dragonfire ward, and master/kodai wand, staff of the dead and trident of the swamp.
• Cooked karambwans are more effective than higher healing food due to their lower delay after eating: as opposed to most other foods, a karambwan adds a 2-tick attack delay after eating as opposed to 3 ticks. They are also more easily obtained in bulk.
• A dwarf multicannon is recommended to deal more damage and deal with the dark energy core while focusing all player damage on the boss; the cannonball drops from the boss should largely sustain them.
• It is recommended to have the supply piles six tiles east of the entrance and lure the boss to the entrance before starting the fight, then moving east of it. The Corporeal Beast moves randomly during the fight, which will drag the player away from the supply piles if it is not trapped between the player and the entrance.

Equipment upgrades and downgrades

Slot	Item (most effective → least effective)
	Neitiznot faceguard	Serpentine helm	Helm of neitiznot	N/A
	Amulet of blood fury Amulet of fury	Amulet of torture	Amulet of glory	N/A
	Infernal cape	Fire cape	Imbued god cape	N/A
	Armadyl chestplate	Karil's leathertop	N/A	N/A
	Armadyl chainskirt	Karil's leatherskirt	N/A	N/A
	Zamorakian spear	Dragon spear	Guthan's warspear	Leaf-bladed spear
	Rada's blessing 4	God blessing Rada's blessing 3/2	N/A	N/A
	Barrows gloves	Ferocious gloves	N/A	N/A
	Primordial boots	Dragon boots	N/A	N/A
	Ring of suffering (i)	Berserker ring (i)	Brimstone ring	N/A
	Arclight (to negate stat regeneration)	Bandos godsword (to negate stat regeneration)	Dragon claws	Saradomin godsword

3–7 players strategy

Make sure to successfully hit three dragon warhammer special attacks before starting killing the Corporeal Beast.

Melee

This is the best-in-slot available equipment for killing the Corporeal Beast in small teams. The setup shown in this section currently costs approximately 219,265,391 coins (or 106,412,916 without the Inquisitor's great helm and avernic defender, which are only marginally better for their high cost). See the table below for an overview of equipment alternatives in case this setup is not accessible or too expensive.

Notes

• Bring a dragon warhammer for its special attack. Bring the best available defender, as well as a mythical cape, tyrannical ring and inquisitor's great helm or dwarven helmet as item switches to increase the dragon warhammer's accuracy.
• Bring a divine super combat potion or super combat potion for boosting combat stats.
• Bring prayer restore potions to restore prayer points.
• Bring high healing food as well as cooked karambwans for combo food.
• Rune pouch with runes for the Teleport to House spell.
• Bring a teleport to house (either runes for casting Teleport to House, house tablets or Construction cape).
• Bring rune pouch with runes for Vengeance if using house tablets or Construction cape.

Equipment upgrades and downgrades

Slot	Item (most effective → least effective)
	Neitiznot faceguard	Serpentine helm	Inquisitor's great helm	Helm of neitiznot	Berserker helm Obsidian helmet
	Amulet of torture	Amulet of fury	Amulet of strength	Amulet of glory	Amulet of power
	Infernal cape	Fire cape	Mythical cape	Ardougne cloak 4	Ardougne cloak 3
	Karil's leathertop	3rd age range top	Armadyl d'hide body (or other blessed d'hide body)	N/A	N/A
	Karil's leatherskirt	3rd age range legs	Armadyl chaps (or other blessed chaps)	N/A	N/A
	Zamorakian spear	Dragon spear	Guthan's warspear	Leaf-bladed spear	N/A
	Rada's blessing 4	God blessing Rada's blessing 3/2	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Ferocious gloves	Barrows gloves	Dragon gloves	Rune gloves	Regen bracelet
	Primordial boots	Dragon boots	Spiked manacles	Guardian boots	Granite boots
	Berserker ring (i)	Brimstone ring	Berserker ring	N/A	N/A
	Dragon warhammer	Dragon claws	Bandos godsword	N/A	N/A

Mass strategy

Melee

This is the best-in-slot available equipment for killing the Corporeal Beast in masses. The setup shown in this section currently costs approximately 118,379,276 coins. See the table below for an overview of equipment alternatives in case this setup is not accessible or too expensive.

Notes

• Some clans will not allow strength boosting armour or infernal capes during mass events. If that is the case, Karil the Tainted's equipment and fire cape are the best options.
• Bring a divine super combat potion for boosting combat stats.
• Bring prayer restore potions to restore prayer points.
• Bring high healing food as well as cooked karambwans for combo food.
• Bring a teleport to house (either runes for casting Teleport to House, house tablets or Construction cape).

Equipment upgrades and downgrades

Slot	Item (most effective → least effective)
	Neitiznot faceguard	Serpentine helm	Inquisitor's great helm	Helm of neitiznot	Berserker helm Obsidian helmet
	Amulet of torture	Amulet of fury	Amulet of glory	Amulet of strength	Amulet of power
	Infernal cape	Fire cape	Mythical cape	Ardougne cloak 4	Ardougne cloak 3
	Bandos chestplate	Inquisitor's hauberk	Obsidian platebody	Karil's leathertop	3rd age range top
	Bandos tassets	Inquisitor's plateskirt	Obsidian platelegs	Fremennik kilt	Karil's leatherskirt
	Zamorakian spear	Dragon spear	Guthan's warspear	Leaf-bladed spear	N/A
	Rada's blessing 4	God blessing Rada's blessing 3/2	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Ferocious gloves	Barrows gloves	Dragon gloves	Rune gloves	Regen bracelet
	Primordial boots	Dragon boots	Spiked manacles	Guardian boots	Granite boots
	Berserker ring (i)	Brimstone ring	Berserker ring	N/A	N/A
	Dragon claws	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Ranged

Killing the Corporeal Beast with Ranged should only be done at masses or in very large teams.

This is the best-in-slot available equipment for ranging the Corporeal Beast in masses. The setup shown in this section currently costs approximately 1,009,145,369 coins. See the table below for an overview of equipment alternatives in case this setup is not accessible or too expensive.

Notes

• Divine ranging potions for boosting the player's Ranged level.
• Bring high healing food as well as cooked karambwans for combo food.
• Rune pouch with runes for the Teleport to House spell.

Equipment upgrades and downgrades

Slot	Item (most effective → least effective)
	Armadyl helmet	3rd age range coif	Robin hood hat	Blessed coif	Karil's coif
	Necklace of anguish	Amulet of fury	Amulet of glory	Amulet of power	Amulet of accuracy
	Ava's assembler	Ava's accumulator	Ranging cape	Ava's attractor	Fire cape Infernal cape
	Armadyl chestplate	Blessed body	Black d'hide body Karil's leathertop 3rd age range top	Red d'hide body	Blue d'hide body
	Armadyl chainskirt	Blessed chaps	Black d'hide chaps Karil's leatherskirt 3rd age range legs	Rangers' tights penance skirt	Red d'hide chaps
	Twisted bow	Armadyl crossbow	Dragon hunter crossbow	Dragon crossbow	Rune crossbow
	Twisted buckler	Dragonfire ward	Odium ward	Book of law	Unholy book
	Dragon arrow	Ruby dragon bolts (e)	Ruby bolts (e)	N/A	N/A
	Barrows gloves	Blessed vambraces	Black d'hide vambraces Ranger gloves 3rd age vambraces	Red d'hide vambraces	Blue d'hide vambraces Dragon gloves
	Pegasian boots	Ranger boots	Blessed boots	Boots of brimstone	Snakeskin boots
	Archers ring (i)	Brimstone ring	Archers ring	N/A	N/A