Phosani's Nightmare

This fight takes place in an instanced area.

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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.
Combat info
Max hit										73 (melee) 80 (magic/ranged) ~85 (dash)
Aggressive										Yes
Poisonous										No
Attack style										Slash, Ranged, Magic
Attack speed
Combat stats
3,200					150					150					150					150					150
Aggressive stats
+220					+274					+220					+162					+220					+162
Defensive stats
+120						+180						+40						+600						+600
Immunities
Poison										Immune
Venom										Immune
Cannons										Immune
Thralls										Not immune
Advanced data
Monster ID										9416,9417,9418,9419,9420,9421,9422,9423,9424,11153,11154,11155

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. It can only be fought in a solo encounter and the player must have defeated the normal version of the Nightmare at least once.

Compared to fighting the Nightmare alone, Phosani's Nightmare is significantly faster and easier when handling the mechanics properly while mistakes are more punishing. 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. 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.

Difference in mechanics

The difference in mechanics compared to the regular Nightmare encounter are:

• Standard attacks can hit much higher, however successfully praying against the attacks causes them to deal no damage.
• Grasping Claws special covers much more of the arena, and especially around the player.
  • Phosani's Nightmare uses an extended version of Grasping Claws, where she summons them 5 times in a row during the flower phase, and 6 times in a row during the mushroom phase.
• The spores slow attack speed by 2 ticks, and the effects last longer. The player also loses 6 prayer points each time they yawn.
• Husks and parasites are stronger. Husks are more accurate with a max hit of 26 and parasites have 55 rather than 40 health. Like the boss, correct protection prayers cause these monsters' attacks to always hit 0.
  • Weapons on their crush attack style will always hit their max on these enemies now, much like against the sleepwalkers.
  • Only one type of "spawn" special attack (husks or parasites) will be used in a phase. For each phase thereafter (excluding the last phase), the spawn special attack being used will alternate. (e.g. husks-parasites-husks-parasites)
• There are two extra phases to the fight compared to the normal encounter, totalling five phases:
  • Each of the first 4 phases have 400 shield hitpoints each as opposed to the regular encounter's 2000. The last phase has 150 hitpoints for a total of 1,750 damage needed to end the encounter barring the totems.
  • Phases 1-4 uses specials randomly from the normal encounter.
  • After the end of each phase, the number of sleepwalkers spawned increases by one, reaching a maximum of four after the end of the fourth phase.
  • During phase four, Phosani's Nightmare will deactivate the player's protection prayer if they had already had the prayer active before the attack animation started without reactivating it. She also has an increased chance of attacking with melee. As well as this, if husks spawn and Phosani's Nightmare uses melee, their initial attacks are delayed slightly. Rather than attacking the Ranged-using husk first, the player needs to attack the Magic-using husk to avoid Phosani's Nightmare attacking on the same tick of either husk.
  • Phase five causes Phosani's Nightmare to become desperate to survive, summoning endless numbers of sleepwalkers while indefinitely performing Grasping Claws for the phase's duration. One sleepwalker is summoned at a time; should they reach her, she will unleash a blast causing 15 damage.

Drops

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

100%

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Big bones	1	Always	216	0

Uniques

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 ~1/200 chance to roll, and the orb drop table has a ~1/1000 chance to roll (with an effective chance of ~1/167 to receive any item).

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Nightmare staff	1	~1/667	33,419,961	0
	Inquisitor's great helm	1	~1/1,000	104,484,367	300,000
	Inquisitor's hauberk	1	~1/1,000	122,830,113	600,000
	Inquisitor's plateskirt	1	~1/1,000	153,781,666	450,000
	Inquisitor's mace	1	~1/2,000	413,305,590	3,000,000
	Eldritch orb	1	~1/3,000	61,100,395	0
	Harmonised orb	1	~1/3,000	632,201,473	0
	Volatile orb	1	~1/3,000	159,869,083	0

Runes and ammunition

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Cosmic rune	247–420	4/100	39,026–66,360	7,410–12,600
	Nature rune	165–305	4/100	30,855–57,035	17,820–32,940
	Death rune	165–305	4/100	30,690–56,730	17,820–32,940
	Blood rune	343–765	4/100	122,108–272,340	82,320–183,600
	Soul rune	110–228	4/100	18,590–38,532	19,800–41,040
	Cannonball	137–382	4/100	26,030–72,580	411–1,146
	Rune arrow	412–957	3/100	28,840–66,990	98,880–229,680

Resources

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Mithril ore	165–305 (noted)	5/100	20,295–37,515	16,005–29,585
	Coal	220–458 (noted)	4/100	35,640–74,196	5,940–12,366
	Gold ore	165–305 (noted)	4/100	42,570–78,690	14,850–27,450
	Adamantite ore	40–95 (noted)	4/100	45,280–107,540	9,600–22,800
	Magic logs	40–95 (noted)	4/100	41,760–99,180	7,680–18,240
	Grimy cadantine	13–26 (noted)	4/100	20,293–40,586	169–338
	Grimy torstol	13–26 (noted)	4/100	105,053–210,106	195–390
	Snapdragon seed	5–10	3/100	421,390–842,780	180–360
	Uncut emerald	33–75 (noted)	3/100	18,018–40,950	990–2,250
	Uncut ruby	27–60 (noted)	3/100	31,482–69,960	1,620–3,600
	Runite ore	11–26 (noted)	2/100	122,584–289,744	21,120–49,920

Consumables

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Bass	16–29	6/100	1,296–2,349	384–696
	Shark	13–26	6/100	11,882–23,764	1,326–2,652
	Prayer potion(3)	8–15	5/100	75,800–142,125	728–1,365
	Sanfew serum(3)	6–12	5/100	160,278–320,556	864–1,728
	Saradomin brew(3)	8–15	5/100	40,832–76,560	840–1,575
	Zamorak brew(3)	8–15	5/100	18,608–34,890	840–1,575

Coins

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Coins	41,417–72,659	2/100	41,417–72,659	41,417–72,659

Tertiary

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Clue scroll (elite)	1	1/35	Not sold	12
	Slepey tablet	1	1/100	Not sold	45,000
	Parasitic egg	1	1/200	Not sold	0
	Little nightmare	1	1/1,400	Not sold	N/A
	Jar of dreams	1	1/4,000	690,276	0

Combat Achievements

The following Combat Achievement tasks involve Phosani's Nightmare.

Name	Description	Difficulty	Category
Phosani's Veteran	Kill Phosani's Nightmare once.	Elite	Kill count
Phosani's Master	Kill Phosani's Nightmare 5 times.	Master	Kill count
Crush Hour	Kill Phosani's Nightmare while killing every parasite and husk in one hit.	Master	Mechanical
I Would Simply React	Kill Phosani's Nightmare without allowing your prayer to be disabled.	Master	Mechanical
Dreamland Express	Kill Phosani's Nightmare without a sleepwalker reaching her during her desperation phase.	Master	Mechanical
Phosani's Speedchaser	Defeat Phosani's Nighmare within 9 minutes.	Master	Speed
Phosani's Grandmaster	Kill Phosani's Nightmare 25 times.	Grandmaster	Kill count
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.	Grandmaster	Perfection
Can't Wake Up	Kill Phosani's Nightmare 5 times in a row without leaving Phosani's Dream.	Grandmaster	Stamina
Phosani's Speedrunner	Defeat Phosani's Nightmare within 7:30 minutes.	Grandmaster	Speed

Historical

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 Mage and Protect from Melee activated Protect from Missiles.

Trivia

• Phosani's Nightmare had a festive override wearing a red partyhat during the 2021 Christmas event.