Kalphite Queen

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Kalphite Queen
Released										7 September 2004 (Update)
Also called										KQ
Members										Yes
Combat level										333
Size										5x5
Examine										I don't think insect repellent will work...
Combat info
Attribute										Kalphite
XP bonus										+5%
Max hit										31
Aggressive										Yes
Poison										No
Attack style										Stab, Ranged, Magic
Attack speed
Slayer info
Slayer level										None
Slayer XP										535.5 xp
Category										Kalphite, Boss
Assigned by
Combat stats
255					300					300					300					150					1
Aggressive stats
+0					+0					+0					+0					+0					+0
Defensive stats
+50						+50						+10						+100						+100
Immunities
Not immune to poison															Converts to poison
Advanced data
Monster ID												963,4303,6500

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SMW Subobject for AirborneMagic defence bonus: 10Immune to venom: PoisonsAttack bonus: 0Magic Damage bonus: 0Ranged Strength bonus: 0Stab defence bonus: 100Defence level: 300Uses infobox: MonsterNPC ID: 965, 4304, 6501Crush defence bonus: 100Version anchor: AirborneRanged level: 1Attack level: 300Combat level: 333Is variant of: Kalphite QueenImage: File:Kalphite Queen 2nd form.pngSlayer experience: 535.5Attack style: Stab, Ranged, MagicImmune to poison: Not immuneSize: 5Slash defence bonus: 100Hitpoints: 255Range defence bonus: 10Slayer category: Kalphite, BossMagic attack bonus: 0Assigned by: turael, spria, mazchna, vannaka, chaeldar, konar, nieve, duradelAttack speed: 4Monster attribute: kalphiteRange attack bonus: 0Magic level: 150Name: Kalphite QueenStrength bonus: 0Experience bonus: 12.5Strength level: 300Is members only: trueMax hit: 31

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The Kalphite Queen (Kalphiscarabeinae pasha), also called the KQ, is the strongest of the Kalphites. The Kalphite Queen, along with dust devils and smoke devils, is notable for dropping the Dragon chainbody. The Kalphite Queen can inflict large amounts of damage with her Ranged and Magic attacks as they always result in a successful hit. It is recommended for players to bring an emergency teleport such as an Ectophial or teleport tablet, or only bring items into the lair for which they are willing to pay the gravestone fees.

Location

Location	Levels	Members	Spawns	Map
Kalphite Lair	333		1	Maplink

How to get there

The Kalphite Queen resides in her lair south-west of the Shantay Pass. If you are lucky and fast, you can run from the Shantay Pass to the Kalphite Lair fast enough so that the desert heat does not affect you. Alternatively, the fairy ring BIQ can take you to right outside the Lair entrance. You will require a rope to enter the dungeon, which will be used in the process. A second rope is required to reach the lower level where Kalphite Queen resides. Completion of the hard Desert Diary removes the need to bring ropes each time.

In addition, those with access to Dorgesh-Kaan can find a tunnel in the Dorgesh-Kaan South Dungeon that leads through to the Kalphite Lair, emerging near the Kalphite workers.

Fight overview

Main article: Kalphite Queen/Strategies

A player fights the airborne form of the Kalphite Queen.

The Kalphite Queen has a combat level of 333. Each form has 255 Hitpoints, and her Ranged and Magic attacks have 100% accuracy. She may also use a decently accurate melee attack. The Queen has two forms: in the first, she is an immense scarab beetle, and in her second, a giant wasp. She switches forms only after the first has been fully defeated.

As a beetle, she is extremely resistant to Magic and Ranged attacks, as indicated by her overhead prayers. As a wasp, she is resistant to Melee attacks. Therefore, players should be prepared to use both Melee as well as Ranged or Magic.

Each of her attacks have a max hit of 31. Her Ranged attacks consists of her shooting barbed spines from her abdomen. Her Ranged attacks will drain 1 prayer point (which may be reduced by spectral spirit shield). If there are players close to the person being targeted with this attack they will also be hit, to avoid this players can stand on opposite sides of the Kalphite Queen. Her Magic attack bounces from player to player. Her Melee attack can also hit high, but is much less accurate than the Magic and Ranged attacks.

Drops

The player will always receive two items from the Kalphite Queen's drop table: one from the regular drop table, and one from the Consumables table.

Drop rates estimated based on 27,711 kills from the Drop Rate Project, unless otherwise cited.

The average Kalphite Queen kill is worth 57,891.

Consumables

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Monkfish	3	1/9	891	414
	Shark	2	1/9	1,408	204
	Dark crab	2	1/9	2,324	384
	Saradomin brew(4)	1	1/9	5,509	120
	Prayer potion(4)	2	1/9	16,276	228
	Super restore(4)	1	1/9	10,685	180
	Super combat potion(2)	1	1/9	5,480	54
	Ranging potion(3)	1	1/9	181	172
	Superantipoison(2)	1	1/9	129	129

Weapons and armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Battlestaff	10 (noted)	5/128	82,230	42,000
	Rune chainbody	1	4.5/128	29,470	30,000
	Red d'hide body	1	4/128	6,089	6,738
	Rune knife(p++)	25	4/128	7,175	2,475
	Lava battlestaff	1	2/128	9,437	10,200
	Dragon chainbody	1	1/128	195,160	150,000
	Dragon 2h sword	1	1/256	131,973	132,000

Runes and ammunition

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Death rune	150	6/128	28,950	16,200
	Blood rune	100	6/128	38,700	24,000
	Mithril arrow	500	5/128	4,500	9,500
	Rune arrow	250	3/128	11,500	60,000

Herbs

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Grimy toadflax	25 (noted)	2/128	61,700	275
	Grimy ranarr weed	25 (noted)	2/128	151,800	450
	Grimy snapdragon	25 (noted)	2/128	223,350	300
	Grimy torstol	25 (noted)	2/128	207,850	375

Seeds

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Torstol seed	2	4/128	119,538	84
	Watermelon seed	25	3/128	475	825
	Papaya tree seed	2	3/128	4,210	138
	Palm tree seed	2	3/128	63,384	304
	Magic seed	2	3/128	330,236	506

Resources

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Runite bar	3 (noted)	5/128	37,137	9,000
	Bucket of sand	100 (noted)	4/128	3,900	100
	Gold ore	250 (noted)	4/128	30,750	22,500
	Magic logs	60 (noted)	4/128	58,860	11,520
	Uncut emerald	25 (noted)	3/128	15,350	750
	Uncut ruby	25 (noted)	3/128	30,925	1,500
	Uncut diamond	25 (noted)	3/128	63,700	3,000

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Wine of zamorak	60 (noted)	10/128	74,940	0
	Potato cactus	100 (noted)	8/128	65,100	0
	Coins	15,000–20,000	5/128	15,000–20,000	15,000–20,000
	Grapes	100 (noted)	5/128	4,900	0
	Weapon poison(++)	5 (noted)	5/128	19,655	1,295
	Cactus spine	10 (noted)	3/128	15,980	0

Rare drop table

There is a 1/128 chance of rolling the rare drop table.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Nothing	N/A	1/705.48; Never	N/A	N/A
	Coins	3,000	1/780.19	3,000	3,000
	Loop half of key	1	1/812.85; 1/806.79	10,366	60
	Tooth half of key	1	1/812.85; 1/806.79	10,791	60
	Uncut sapphire	1	1/3,276.8; 1/1,664	389	15
	Runite bar	1	1/3,276.8	12,379	3,000
	Nature rune	67	1/5,461.33	12,060	7,236
	Rune 2h sword	1	1/5,461.33	37,694	38,400
	Rune battleaxe	1	1/5,461.33	24,497	24,960
	Uncut emerald	1	1/6,553.6; 1/3,328	614	30
	Law rune	45	1/8,192	5,670	6,480
	Death rune	45	1/8,192	8,685	4,860
	Steel arrow	150	1/8,192	1,500	1,050
	Rune arrow	42	1/8,192	1,932	10,080
	Adamant javelin	20	1/8,192	1,280	1,920
	Rune sq shield	1	1/8,192	22,520	23,040
	Dragonstone	1	1/8,192	11,900	6,000
	Silver ore	100 (noted)	1/8,192	4,000	4,500
	Uncut ruby	1	1/13,107.2; 1/6,656	1,237	60
	Rune kiteshield	1	1/16,384	32,029	32,640
	Dragon med helm	1	1/16,384	58,936	60,000
	Rune spear	1	1/17,296.1; 1/2,006.83	11,863	12,480
	Shield left half	1	1/34,592.2; 1/4,013.67	65,329	66,000
	Chaos talisman	1	1/34,952.53; 1/17,749.33	582	2
	Dragon spear	1	1/46,122.93; 1/5,351.56	39,556	37,440
	Uncut diamond	1	1/52,428.8; 1/26,624	2,548	120
	Rune javelin	5	1/104,857.6; 1/53,248	780	1,200

Tertiary

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Kq head (tattered)	1	Always	Not sold	30,000
	Ensouled kalphite head	1	1/20	2,145	259
	Brimstone key	1	1/53	Not sold	N/A
	Clue scroll (elite)	1	1/100	Not sold	12
	Kq head	1	1/128	Not sold	30,000
	Jar of sand	1	1/2,000	918,205	0
	Kalphite princess	1	1/3,000	Not sold	N/A

Changes

Date	Changes
25 November 2020 (update)	Permanent ropes at the entrance to and inside the Kalphite Lair now require the completion of the Desert Hard diary instead of Elite.
27 February 2020 (update)	Players can no longer use mithril seeds in the Kalphite Queen's chamber.
16 July 2015 (update)	The peek option now works when a rope is attached to the tunnel entrance.
2 July 2015 (update)	Slayer XP for killing the boss now is awarded to the player who deals the most damage to both forms.
25 June 2015 (update | poll)	A "peek" option was added to the entrance. Drops are now assigned to the player who has done the most damage to both forms, rather than just the second.
18 December 2014 (update | poll)	The drop table was buffed and reworked: the Kalphite Queen now always has two drops with the first being food or a potion and the second being a standard drop. The average value of each kill was increased to be roughly 50% higher (based on prices at the time of the update). Most of the drops remained unchanged with some of the lower value loots replaced with new, more valuable drops. Elite clue scrolls were made twice as common.
17 July 2014 (update | poll)	Players can now receive a pet version of this boss after defeating it.
26 June 2014 (update | poll)	The Kalphite Queen now offers a much more rewarding range of drops.
6 February 2014 (update | poll)	All nearby players are now notified of the dropped loot.

Trivia

• The Kalphite Queen was previously the only known entity able to use multiple simultaneous overhead protection prayers.
• The Kalphite Queen's original drops were much worse, similar to the King Black Dragon's before their drop tables were updated due to player feedback.
• Prior to a poll, only the second form counted towards the damage needed to obtain drops after her death. This upset players as crashers would come when a player was on the second form, taking the drop from them with minimal effort. This has since been changed, and now players who did the most damage to both forms will obtain the drop.
• If the second form stays alive for a long period of time, it will revert back to the first form and retain the second form's remaining Hitpoints. When the first form is killed again, a second form with full health will emerge, akin to Vet'ion.
• If stat-draining special attacks are used on her first form, the stat reductions will carry over to the second form.

References

Predecessor	Title	Successor
King Black Dragon	Strongest monster in RuneScape	TzTok-Jad