Theatre of Blood

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Theatre of Blood
Also called		Raids 2, ToB
Released		7 June 2018 (Update)
Type		Raid
Members		Yes
Location		Ver Sinhaza
Participants		1-5
Skills		Combat
Reward currency		None
Tutorial		No
Music		See below
Location

The Theatre of Blood is a large arena located beneath the castle of Ver Sinhaza. It is used by the ruling vampyres to host blood sports. Here, the citizens of Meiyerditch are encouraged to go to the theatre and fight against the various experiments and abominations contained within, with the promise of freedom from the blood tithes and the right to leave Morytania should they succeed. The reward is revealed to be a ruse as the vampyres are unwilling to let go of their primary food source.

While the theatre is only open to citizens of Meiyerditch, this rule is rarely enforced. The vampyres are more entertained by outsiders than the citizens themselves, seeing as these are better prepared compared to the civilians who are inexperienced and poorly equipped.

Bosses

A group of players fighting Verzik Vitur, a powerful vampyre noble.

Wave complete

The jingle that plays once a boss has been defeated.

The Theatre of Blood is a linear raid. Thus, there is no randomization involved, and the bosses will always be encountered in this order.

1. The Maiden of Sugadinti (level-940)
2. Pestilent Bloat (level-870)
3. Nylocas Vasilias (level-800)
4. Sotetseg (level-995)
5. Xarpus (level-960)
6. Verzik Vitur (level-1040, final boss)

Despite some of the bosses being spiders, vampyres and dark beasts, they will not count towards a Slayer task when killed inside the Theatre; thus, the slayer helmet and black mask bonuses have no effect.

The bosses will also have their hitpoints scaled depending on the team size. With a team of three or fewer players the bosses will have 75% of their original hitpoints, with four players the bosses will have 87.5% of their original hitpoints and a team of five players will leave the bosses' hitpoints unchanged.

Death within the Theatre

If players die within the theatre, they are placed outside the fighting area, and can only proceed if other team members succeed in completing the current challenge. If the entire team is killed, players will lose all unprotected items; these can later be reclaimed from a storage chest (similar to Torfinn's item storage) for a cost of 100,000 coins. Untradeable items that are normally kept on death will be placed in the item reclamation chest upon complete team death in the theatre.

If players die a second time without reclaiming the items in the chest, they will be permanently lost, unless the death occurs within a minigame deemed safe, such as Pest Control.

Dying in the Theatre of Blood is a dangerous death - Hardcore Ironmen who die within the theatre will lose their Hardcore status, regardless of whether the team successfully completes the challenges or not. Any disconnection or logout during a fight is treated as a death, and will likewise result in loss of Hardcore status. Should a player logout when not in an encounter, such as in the hallways of the theatre, the player's death will be treated as a safe death. Upon logging back in to an unsafe death, the game will attempt to reunite the player with their party and, if successful, will place the player in purgatory. If unsuccessful, the player will be treated with a full death and will have to pay the item reclamation fee to retrieve any items lost.

All normal forms of teleportation within the Theatre are blocked; however, the Mysterious Stranger outside sells Verzik's crystal shards for 75,000 coins each, and is the only item players can use to teleport away from the Theatre safely.

Spectating

Players can spectate other teams in the Theatre of Blood by attempting to enter the theatre, or by speaking to Abigaila, a Morytanian refugee who can be found upstairs in the Lumbridge General Store or near the spirit tree north-east of the Grand Exchange.

Players can either choose to spectate a specific player's team by typing in a team member's or a spectator's name, or choose to spectate the most recently formed party. Spectators must be on the same world as the party member or spectator they wish to spectate. Spectators must also be on the Friends List of the party member or spectator, should the party member or spectator have Private Chat set to "Friends Only."

In order to spectate, players cannot bring any items with them, excluding the oculus orb, and they must not be poisoned or diseased.

As of an update on 21 June 2018, players can right-click the ledges to view the fight in a better perspective. Players can rotate the camera clock-wise or counter-clockwise via the chatbox.

Other Modes

Story Mode

Main article: Theatre of Blood/Story Mode

An easy variant of the Theatre of Blood is available for players and is intended for beginners to warm themselves up and gain experience before attempting the Theatre in normal mode. Every enemy encountered is significantly weaker than their normal mode counterparts and the mechanics themselves are adjusted to be less fatal.

Unlike normal mode, there are three safe deaths per boss, allowing the player to tackle them again in the event of death. If the player dies once more after these tries are used up, the death is considered a normal death and players must repay to reclaim their items. Hardcore Ironmen will lose their status if they die or disconnect at any of the bosses, akin to how the raid treats them in normal and hard mode.

As a result of being easier than normal mode, raids completed in this manner give fewer rewards than normal mode, and there is no chance of obtaining any unique item, including the Lil' zik pet.

Hard Mode

Main article: Theatre of Blood/Hard Mode

A hard variant of the Theatre of Blood is also available for players up to the challenge. Similarly to the Chambers of Xeric "Challenge Mode", all enemies in the Theatre of Blood are significantly stronger, this time with new or modified mechanic(s) in play. Completion of the mode can yield Sanguine dust to reskin Lil' Zik, and the Holy and Sanguine ornament kits to recolor the sanguinesti staff, ghrazi rapier and scythe of vitur, with the latter kit only working for the latter weapon. Teams are also awarded with better common drops, further increased if completed in a specific time, along with greater chances of obtaining unique items, with the avernic defender hilt being less common in hard mode than normal mode.

In order to access this mode, players must have completed the Theatre in normal mode at least once.

Rewards

Verzik Vitur's treasure vault.

Upon defeating Verzik Vitur, a trapdoor will open under her throne, leading to her treasure vault.

Inside will be up to five large chests based on the amount of players in the team, with each player being able to loot one chest. An arrow will point to which chest is for that player to search.

A monumental chest, with the arrow denoting the player's chest.

If a unique reward is obtained, a purple aura will emit from the chest, much like how the ray of light turns purple for the player who obtains a unique reward in the Chambers of Xeric. If no unique reward is found, players obtain up to three different common rewards instead depending on their performance.

Players can also search the grand bookshelves in the treasure vault to find six books:

1. Serafina's Diary
2. The Butcher
3. Arachnids of Vampyrium
4. The Shadow Realm
5. The Wild Hunt
6. Verzik Vitur - Patient Record

Loot table

Story Mode

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Vial of blood	7 (noted)	3 × 2/30	25,879	420
	Death rune	Unknown	3 × 1/30	196	108
	Blood rune	84	3 × 1/30	32,508	20,160
	Swamp tar	Unknown	3 × 1/30	7	0
	Coal	Unknown	3 × 1/30	149	27
	Gold ore	Unknown	3 × 1/30	164	90
	Molten glass	Unknown	3 × 1/30	108	1
	Adamantite ore	Unknown	3 × 1/30	1,058	240
	Runite ore	9	3 × 1/30	100,755	17,280
	Wine of zamorak	8	3 × 1/30	7,664	0
	Potato cactus	Unknown	3 × 1/30	559	0
	Grimy cadantine	Unknown	3 × 1/30	1,647	13
	Grimy avantoe	Unknown	3 × 1/30	1,712	10
	Grimy toadflax	Unknown	3 × 1/30	1,959	11
	Grimy kwuarm	Unknown	3 × 1/30	1,106	12
	Grimy irit leaf	Unknown	3 × 1/30	553	10
	Grimy ranarr weed	Unknown	3 × 1/30	6,556	18
	Grimy snapdragon	Unknown	3 × 1/30	8,789	12
	Grimy lantadyme	3	3 × 1/30	3,411	39
	Grimy dwarf weed	3	3 × 1/30	1,647	42
	Grimy torstol	Unknown	3 × 1/30	7,431	15
	Battlestaff	Unknown	3 × 1/30	8,157	4,200
	Mahogany seed	Unknown	3 × 1/30	931	28
	Rune battleaxe	Unknown	3 × 1/30	24,424	24,960
	Rune platebody	Unknown	3 × 1/30	38,430	39,000
	Rune chainbody	Unknown	3 × 1/30	29,459	30,000
	Palm tree seed	1	3 × 1/30	29,522	152
	Yew seed	Unknown	3 × 1/30	44,745	85
	Magic seed	1	3 × 1/30	120,400	253

Normal Mode

Drop rates estimated based on 65,505 Theatre of Blood completions from the Drop Rate Project, unless otherwise cited.

The average Theatre of Blood deathless 4-player completion is worth 6,953,762.17.

All non-stackable items obtained are in the form of bank notes, unless it is a unique reward. If the player obtains a unique reward, it will replace all common rewards. If not, the common reward table is rolled three times, possibly granting the same reward multiple times.

To calculate the expected loot based on a player's specific scenario, please refer to the rewards calculator.

Pre-roll

Without any deaths, there is a 1/9.1 chance of a unique reward across the team; dying will decrease this chance. The displayed drop chances below assume no deaths. The drop rate is the same regardless of the number of players completing the raid. The item is allocated to one player, with the weighting based on deaths and damage dealt to each boss. The MVP is the most likely to receive the item.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Cabbage	1	Always	41	0
	Message (Theatre of Blood)	1	Always	Not sold	0
	Avernic defender hilt	1	1/21.6125	30,953,650	1,500,000
	Ghrazi rapier	1	1/86.45	96,365,737	3,000,000
	Sanguinesti staff (uncharged)	1	1/86.45	57,653,421	3,000,000
	Justiciar faceguard	1	1/86.45	12,540,089	1,200,000
	Justiciar chestguard	1	1/86.45	6,310,697	3,600,000
	Justiciar legguards	1	1/86.45	8,213,261	2,700,000
	Scythe of vitur (uncharged)	1	1/172.9	514,995,922	2,400,000

Common rewards

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Vial of blood	50–60 (noted)	3 × 2/30	184,850–221,820	3,000–3,600
	Death rune	500–600	3 × 1/30	98,000–117,600	54,000–64,800
	Blood rune	500–600	3 × 1/30	193,500–232,200	120,000–144,000
	Swamp tar	500–600	3 × 1/30	3,500–4,200	0
	Coal	500–600 (noted)	3 × 1/30	74,500–89,400	13,500–16,200
	Gold ore	300–360 (noted)	3 × 1/30	49,200–59,040	27,000–32,400
	Molten glass	200–240 (noted)	3 × 1/30	21,600–25,920	200–240
	Adamantite ore	130–156 (noted)	3 × 1/30	137,540–165,048	31,200–37,440
	Runite ore	60–72 (noted)	3 × 1/30	671,700–806,040	115,200–138,240
	Wine of zamorak	50–60 (noted)	3 × 1/30	47,900–57,480	0
	Potato cactus	50–60 (noted)	3 × 1/30	27,950–33,540	0
	Grimy cadantine	50–60 (noted)	3 × 1/30	82,350–98,820	650–780
	Grimy avantoe	40–48 (noted)	3 × 1/30	68,480–82,176	400–480
	Grimy toadflax	37–44 (noted)	3 × 1/30	72,483–86,196	407–484
	Grimy kwuarm	36–43 (noted)	3 × 1/30	39,816–47,558	432–516
	Grimy irit leaf	34–40 (noted)	3 × 1/30	18,802–22,120	340–400
	Grimy ranarr weed	30–36 (noted)	3 × 1/30	196,680–236,016	540–648
	Grimy snapdragon	27–32 (noted)	3 × 1/30	237,303–281,248	324–384
	Grimy lantadyme	26–31 (noted)	3 × 1/30	29,562–35,247	338–403
	Grimy dwarf weed	24–28 (noted)	3 × 1/30	13,176–15,372	336–392
	Grimy torstol	20–24 (noted)	3 × 1/30	148,620–178,344	300–360
	Battlestaff	15–18 (noted)	3 × 1/30	122,355–146,826	63,000–75,600
	Mahogany seed	8–12	3 × 1/30	7,448–11,172	224–336
	Rune battleaxe	4 (noted)	3 × 1/30	97,696	99,840
	Rune platebody	4 (noted)	3 × 1/30	153,720	156,000
	Rune chainbody	4 (noted)	3 × 1/30	117,836	120,000
	Palm tree seed	3	3 × 1/30	88,566	456
	Yew seed	3	3 × 1/30	134,235	255
	Magic seed	3	3 × 1/30	361,200	759

Tertiary rewards

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Clue scroll (elite)	1	3/25	Not sold	12
	Lil' zik	1	1/650–1/6,500	Not sold	N/A

Hard Mode

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Sanguine dust	1	Unknown	Not sold	0
	Sanguine ornament kit	1	Unknown	Not sold	5,700
	Holy ornament kit	1	Unknown	Not sold	5,700

Rewards calculator

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MVP Bonus Points
Most Damage on	Points
Maiden	2
Bloat	2
Nylocas Boss	1
Sotetseg	1
Xarpus	2
Verzik (phase 1)	2
Verzik (phase 2)	2
Verzik (phase 3)	2

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Performance & records

Performance Details

Performance Details for a performance within the Theatre of Blood.

Upon entering the treasure vault, players may read the strategy table by the grand bookshelves to view the overall performance of the team, while spectators can read the war table to view it.

Here, players may view the death counts of each team member, the total deaths in the performance, as well as the time spent in each wave.

The Most Valuable Player (MVP) is listed on the top of the interface, and is determined based on the performance of the individual player, such as damage dealt and the number of deaths.

The challenge time (the time spent fighting the bosses) and the overall time, which includes the time spent between waves, can be seen on the bottom of the interface.

Scoreboard

The Theatre of Blood scoreboard found next to the entrance of the theatre.

Next to the entrance to the Theatre of Blood is a scoreboard, which displays personal and global statistics for the Theatre of Blood, such as number of attempts, number of completions, number of deaths, and completion times.

Theatre of Blood records

An official records page existed, which showed all-time global records, such as most completions by an individual and total Hardcore Ironman deaths within the theatre, as well as fastest completion times for each boss and the raid as a whole. The page has since been decommissioned.

Music unlocked

Players are not required to participate in the raid to unlock all of the music, and may spectate one to do so.

Name	Unlock details	Music track
Welcome to the Theatre	Unlocked at Ver Sinhaza
The Maiden's Sorrow	Unlocked in The Maiden of Sugadinti's arena
The Maiden's Anger	Unlocked during the fight with The Maiden of Sugadinti
Welcome to my Nightmare	Unlocked in the Pestilent Bloat's arena
The Nightmare Continues	Unlocked during the fight with the Pestilent Bloat
Dance of the Nylocas	Unlocked in the Nylocas' nest
Arachnids of Vampyrium	Unlocked during the fight in the Nylocas' nest
The Dark Beast Sotetseg	Unlocked in Sotetseg's arena
Power of the Shadow Realm	Unlocked during the fight with Sotetseg
Predator Xarpus	Unlocked in Xarpus' arena
Last King of the Yarasa	Unlocked during the fight with Xarpus
It's not over 'til...	Unlocked upon entering Verzik Vitur's throne room
The Fat Lady Sings	Unlocked during the battle with Verzik Vitur
The Curtain Closes	Unlocked upon the entering Verzik Vitur's treasure vault

Gallery

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  Artwork of the Theatre of Blood

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  Concept art of Lady Verzik Vitur

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  Several concepts of Lady Verzik Vitur

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  Some early paint-overs of the Theatre of Blood

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  Artwork of Lady Verzik's throne room

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  Artwork of Lady Verzik Vitur

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  Artwork of The Maiden of Sugadinti

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  Artwork of Pestilent Bloat

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  Artwork of Sotetseg

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  Artwork of Xarpus

Work-in-progress

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  Placeholder graphics while testing the generation of Theatre of Blood dungeons

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  Placeholder graphics while testing the entering of Theatre of Blood dungeons

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  A screenshot of the Ver Sinhaza bank, shown during a livestream on 22/02/2018

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  A screenshot of the Theatre of Blood recruiting board, shown during a livestream on 22/02/2018

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  A screenshot of the Theatre of Blood entrance, shown during a livestream on 22/02/2018

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  A screenshot of a room within the Theatre of Blood, shown during a livestream on 22/02/2018

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  A screenshot of the nylocas, shown during a Q&A stream on 12/04/2018

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  A teaser showing the entrance to the arena of The Maiden of Sugadinti

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  A teaser from Mod Ry showing the nylocas nest

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  A teaser showing a room within the Theatre of Blood

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  A screenshot of an early wire frame of Sotetseg's arena.

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  A screenshot of Verzik Vitur's throne in comparison to the size of a player

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  A screenshot of a glitched Sotetseg model, with a work-in-progress environment as a background

Models

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  A work-in-progress model of The Maiden of Sugadinti

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  A completed set of animations for The Maiden of Sugadinti

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  A teaser showing the idle, attacking and death animation of a Nylocas Hagios

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  A teaser showing the idle, attacking and death animation of a Nylocas Toxobolos

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  A teaser showing the idle, attacking and death animation of a Nylocas Ischyros

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  A completed model of Xarpus

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  A preview of Sotetseg's walking animation, shown during a design stream on 26/04/2018

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  A preview of Verzik Vitur's vampyre form's idle animation

Changes

Date	Changes
3 June 2021 (update)	Story and hard modes added. Story mode provides an easier fight but less rewards and no chance of obtaining any unique, while hard mode provides a harder fight, but with a better chance of obtaining uniques and better common drops if completed in a specific time.
28 April 2021 (update)	The Theatre of Blood is now a safe zone on PvP worlds.
7 April 2021 (update | poll)	There's now a chest just opposite the bank booths, that allows one to obtain any loot they forgot to claim after defeating Verzik Vitur.
3 March 2021 (update)	The quota of daily party formations in the Theatre of Blood has increased.
18 June 2020 (update)	The death animation of Nylocas Athanatos and Matomenos has been reduced.
12 March 2020 (update)	If players are attempting to start a Theatre of Blood wave, but some of their party members are still in the previous wave's arena, the warning screen that appears will now make this more explicit.
2 May 2019 (update)	The Pestilent bloat within the Theatre of Blood should now fall down in the correct position. One of the Nylocas walking toward the centre of the arena will no longer incorrectly change into a smaller Nylocas. Verzik should now correctly move at the correct times during attack animations, to prevent her from appearing in the wrong location. Xarpus' exhumed phase has been made shorter and scaled better for smaller team sizes. To keep it balanced, each absorption is now more powerful. Odd pathing in Verzik's third phase caused by occasionally appearing to target a dead player has been fixed.
6 September 2018 (update)	Elite clue drop rate was changed, as it was previously 1/750.
21 June 2018 (update)	Bosses' Hitpoints now scale to four and three player teams. Resource chests now use a point system instead of giving random supplies. The Nylocas encounter was shortened by removing some earlier waves as they made the encounter needlessly long. The boss of the encounter was also buffed by making damage dealt with the incorrect style reflect and heal 100% instead of 50%, as well as increasing its Hitpoints and damage dealt. Other minor tweaks were made regarding balance and QoL.

Trivia

• The Theatre of Blood was first mentioned in game in the book The Tale of Serafina, found in the Myths' Guild Library.
• The names for many of the monsters in the raid mostly come from Eastern and Southeastern European words:

Name	Original word	Meaning
Ver Sinhaza	Vér Színháza	Hungarian for "Blood Theatre"
The Maiden of Sugadinti	Sugadinti	Lithuanian for "ruin" (verb)
Nylocas	Nyolcas	Hungarian for "eight"
Nylocas Athanatos	ἀθάνατος (transliterated as "athánatos")	Greek for "undying" or "immortal"
Nylocas Hagios	ἅγιος (transliterated as "ágios")	Greek for "holy" or "saintlike"
Nylocas Ischyros	ἰσχυρός (transliterated as "ischyrós")	Greek for "strong" or "mighty"
Nylocas Matomenos	ματωμένος (transliterated as "matoménos")	Greek for "bloody" or "bleeding"
Nylocas Prinkipas	πρίγκιπας (transliterated as "prínkipas")	Greek for "prince"
Nylocas Toxobolos	τοξοβόλος (transliterated as "toxovólos")	Greek for "archery"
Nylocas Vasilias	βασιλιάς (transliterated as "vasiliás")	Greek for "king"
Sotetseg	Sötétség	Hungarian for "darkness"
Yarasa (the name of Xarpus's race)	Yarasa	Turkish for "bat"
Verzik Vitur	Vérzik	Hungarian for "bleeding"

• The release date for the Theatre of Blood was silently announced in an update on 3 May 2018 via a leaflet just north of the Ectofuntus, which displayed the following message when read:

The leaflet found north of the Ectofuntus.

“

Lady Verzik cordially invites you to the Theatre of Blood! The greatest collection of powerful beasts are here for your entertainment. Tickets available from June 7th!

”

• The date was then changed to "Pentember 15th" after a player complaint of the leaflet not using the canonical in-game calendar.
• Upon the release of the Theatre of Blood, there was a bug which would cause players to drop the item in the top right corner of their inventory on the floor upon death, if they were in possession of Dawnbringer. This bug was hotfixed within one hour of discovery.