Tormented Demon

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Tormented Demon
Released								10 July 2024 (Update)
Members								Yes
Combat level								450
Size								3x3
Examine								Lucien must be incredibly powerful if he can bind such demons to his will.
League region								Misthalin✓
Combat info
Attribute								Demon
XP bonus								+77.5%
Max hit								31 (auto) 45 (special)
Aggressive								No
Poisonous								No
Attack style								All
Attack speed								6 ticks (3.6 seconds)
Respawn time								21 ticks (12.6 seconds)
Slayer info
Slayer level								None
Slayer XP								1,065 xp
Category								Greater Demons
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Combat stats
600				255				255				150				255				255
Aggressive stats
+400				+10				+300				+5				+300				+5
Melee defence
+75								+175								+68
Magic defence
+5												30% weakness
Ranged defence
+140								+150								+90
Immunities
Poison								Not immune
Venom								Not immune
Cannons								Immune
Thralls								Not immune
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Advanced data
Monster ID								13599
Link								MOID

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Tormented Demons are extremely powerful demons bound into a state of perpetual agony, healing their bodies as they burn, summoned by the Mahjarrat Lucien after he teleports away the Stone of Jas during While Guthix Sleeps. They can be found throughout the Ancient Guthixian Temple after completion of the quest.

Tormented demons count as greater demons for the progression of Slayer tasks. As demons, they are susceptible to the effects of demonbane weapons.

They are primarily killed for their tormented synapses, which are used to create high-tier demonbane weapons, as well as their burning claw drop, two of which are combined into the burning claws, a special attack weapon that sits in between the dragon dagger and dragon claws in terms of power, but are more effective against demons (such as tormented demons).

Locations

Location	Levels	Members	Spawns	Map	League region
Ancient Guthixian Temple	450		26	Show map	Misthalin✓

Multi-combat mechanics

Although the entire Ancient Guthixian Temple is considered a single-way combat zone by the game, the temple is a unique outlier in the fact that some areas are pseudo-multicombat areas. While in the temple, an icon that depicts a tormented demon's head (shown below) can be seen in the user interface, indicating the number of demons the player can engage at one time. Other players will be unable to attack a demon that is engaged in combat with another player until that player leaves by any means.

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  Single-Combat: 10 demons—The plinth chamber in the south-east contains eight demons in a single-combat area. Two additional single-demon rooms can be found in the north-west of the temple (directly west of the temple entrance).
• 
  Double-Combat: 10 demons—The central chamber and the four eastern rooms each contain two demons.
• 
  Triple-Combat: 6 demons—Two rooms in the south-west contain three demons each.

Tormented demons are unaggressive and will not attack unless attacked first.

Fight overview

Main article: Tormented Demon/Strategies

Tormented demons can pray against and attack using every combat style. They possess the ability to routefind, allowing them to move around objects, and can also stack on top of each other. If they cannot reach the player when attempting to melee, they will instead randomly fire magic and ranged attacks.

Every 150 health lost since their last prayer swap (roughly 25% of their max health), they will change their protection prayer to the last combat style they were damaged with, and will stop attacking for 6 ticks (3.6s).

They will briefly bind the player in place roughly every 60 ticks (36s; 10 attacks) and disable run (Ctrl clicking still allows running), then release two fire bombs: one on the player's position as of the start of the attack, and a second on a random one of the 8 adjacent squares, assuming that it is a walkable tile. The bind will then be released and players have 2 ticks to move off of the target tiles before they explode. Demons always change their combat style after this attack.

Tormented demons usually have a fire shield that reduces damage done by non-demonbane weapons/spells and non-abyssal weapons by 20%. They will drop this shield after the player's first attack and after each fire bomb attack; the shield remains down until they are attacked once. Slower weapons will deal significant bonus damage to unshielded tormented demons. They also become defenseless, indicated by the flames on their body disappearing, for approximately 30 ticks (18s; 5 attacks) into the fight until after their fire bomb attack, after which the 30 tick timer begins again. Attacking them while defenseless will provide 100% accuracy meaning guaranteed hits.

The clickbox of a tormented demon will shift whenever their shield animation plays (every few ticks). This can affect clicking away from the demon during a fire bomb. Changing their shift-click to walk through is a good preventative measure for this, as well as tagging Tormented Demons with their tag style set to hull in order to more accurately see their clickbox.

If the player chooses to attack multiple tormented demons simultaneously, their attack behaviour changes: one will use melee if possible, and the other magic or ranged, and their attacks start out staggered so they can be prayed against. If three or more demons are attacking the player, the third and any more demons will release single bombs at the player.

If demons are forced out of combat due to teleportation or being unable to attack their target, they will restore their health to full.

Money making

The following money making guide is available for Tormented Demons:

Method	Hourly profit	Skills
Killing Tormented Demons	5,268,182	80+ , 85+ , 80+ , 80+ 85+ for Ranged 82+ for Magic 74+

Drops

Drop rates are estimated based on 110,286 samples from the Drop Rate Project, unless otherwise cited.

The average Tormented Demon kill is worth 103,270.

Excluding unique drops, the average Tormented Demon kill is worth 17,448.

Upon death, a drop will be rolled until the roll results in a success, as described below:

• Roll 1/500 for the tormented synapse drop.
  • If unsuccessful, roll for a burning claw drop.
  • If unsuccessful, roll for a smouldering part (Smouldering pile of flesh, Smouldering gland, Smouldering heart).
• If all the above rolls are unsuccessful, the standard drop table is rolled.

100%

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Infernal ashes	1	Always	2,760	1

Unique

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Burning claw	1	499/250,000	3,317,754	240,000
	Tormented synapse	1	1/500	39,593,578	480,000

Weapons and armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Dragon dagger	1	~3/51	17,234	18,000
	Rune kiteshield	1	~2/51	32,027	32,640
	Battlestaff	1 (noted)	~3/51	7,676	4,200
	Rune platebody	1	~4/51	38,416	39,000

Runes and ammunition

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Chaos rune	25–100	~4/51	2,775–11,100	1,350–5,400
	Soul rune	50–75	~2/51	20,350–30,525	9,000–13,500
	Rune arrow	65–125	~4/51	4,810–9,250	15,600–30,000

Herbs

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Grimy kwuarm	1	~10/408	2,521	12
	Grimy dwarf weed	1	~8/408	1,786	14
	Grimy cadantine	1	~8/408	2,802	13
	Grimy lantadyme	1	~6/408	1,652	13
	Grimy avantoe	1	~5/408	1,719	10
	Grimy ranarr weed	1	~4/408	5,383	18
	Grimy snapdragon	1	~4/408	7,989	12
	Grimy torstol	1	~3/408	3,583	15

Seeds

There is a 1/51 chance of rolling the tree-herb seed drop table.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Ranarr seed	1	~1/425	25,874	30
	Snapdragon seed	1	~1/455.4	50,992	36
	Torstol seed	1	~1/579.5	12,569	42
	Watermelon seed	15	~1/607.1	1,530	495
	Willow seed	1	~1/637.5	77	9
	Mahogany seed	1	~1/708.3	256	28
	Maple seed	1	~1/708.3	3,471	28
	Teak seed	1	~1/708.3	75	28
	Yew seed	1	~1/708.3	22,576	85
	Papaya tree seed	1	~1/910.7	1,501	69
	Magic seed	1	~1/1,159.1	89,142	253
	Palm tree seed	1	~1/1,275	18,380	152
	Spirit seed	1	~1/1,593.7	Not sold	0
	Dragonfruit tree seed	1	~1/2,125	180,275	258
	Celastrus seed	1	~1/3,187.5	20,248	324
	Redwood tree seed	1	~1/3,187.5	30,053	390

Consumables

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Smouldering gland	1	~1/25	Not sold	0
	Smouldering pile of flesh	1	~1/25	Not sold	0
	Smouldering heart	1	~1/125	Not sold	0
	Manta ray	1–2	~4/51	1,534–3,068	120–240
	Prayer potion(4)	1	~1/51	8,597	114
	Prayer potion(2)	2	~1/51	8,440	136

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Guthixian temple teleport	2	1/12	33,876	12
	Magic shortbow (u)	1 (noted)	~29/255	679	480
	Magic longbow (u)	1	~1/255	910	768
	Malicious ashes	2–3	~2/51	1,940–2,910	2–3
	Fire orb	5–7 (noted)	~2/51	8,690–12,166	900–1,260
	Dragon arrowtips	30–40	~1/51	94,800–126,400	9,000–12,000

Tertiary

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Clue scroll (elite)	1	1/128	Not sold	12

Combat Achievements

There are 5 Combat Achievement tasks (totalling 21 points) available for tormented demons.

Name	Description	Type	Tier	Comp%
Rapid Reload	Hit three Tormented Demons within 3 seconds using a ballista or a crossbow.	Mechanical	Elite (4 pts)	4.6%
Two Times the Torment	Kill two Tormented Demons within 2 seconds.	Restriction	Elite (4 pts)	3.7%
Through Fire and Flames	Kill a Tormented Demon whilst their shield is inactive.	Restriction	Elite (4 pts)	28.2%
Unending Torment	Kill a Tormented Demon.	Kill Count	Elite (4 pts)	29.2%
Three Times the Thrashing	Kill three Tormented Demons within 3 seconds.	Restriction	Master (5 pts)	2.6%

Changes

Date	Changes
8 January 2025 (Update)	Tormented Demons now correctly appear in the Combat Achievements monster drop-down list.
23 October 2024 (Update)	The flames on the tormented demons are now visually extinguished to indicate that the player's attacks are 100% accurate.
21 August 2024	Hotfix Fixed an issue with the demons' overhead prayers not appearing properly upon respawning.
7 August 2024 (Update)	Tormented demons are now less likely to lose aggression with the player when they run out of range. If they do, they will attack the player correctly if the player re-engages them.
31 July 2024 (Update)	The visuals on the tormented demon's fire shield effect has been adjusted to alleviate reports of eye strain and motion sickness by players: Shifted the hue from yellow to orange. Added more transparency. Reduced the turning speed of the shield by 50%. The shield animation now plays for two ticks instead of three. Removed the floor symbol and fire circle elements during the shield formation animation.
24 July 2024 (Update)	The Guthixian temple teleport has been added as a drop with a rate of 1/12. A new multi-combat icon has been added within the temple, which indicates how many demons a player can simultaneously fight.
18 July 2024	Hotfix Tormented demons are no longer permanently aggressive. Unstrung magic longbows were added to the drop table. The malicious ashes drop is no longer noted.
17 July 2024	Hotfix The following changes have been made to the Tormented Demon's drop table: Removed low tier herbs Removed some lower value seeds Removed fire runes Removed vile ashes Adamant alchables have become rune Rune alchables have become dragon Additional rune alchables have been added Shortbows, battlestaves, and malicious ashes now drop as noted Improved the drop rate of a burning claw by ~17%.
17 July 2024 (Update)	Tormented Demons will now no longer lose focus on their original target when a new player enters the area. Tormented Demons will no longer switch to another player during their special attack if the player they’re already attacking has been in the area a long time.

Development history

Tormented demons were released alongside While Guthix Sleeps on 26 November 2008. They are nearly the same as their RuneScape 3 counterparts but with several differences:

• There are significantly more tormented demons throughout the entirety of the Ancient Guthixian Temple. In RuneScape 3, there are only six demons, all of whom are near the plinth where the Stone of Jas once was, while in Old School RuneScape, there are twenty-six; eight by the plinth, two by the door leading to the inner section of the temple, eight to the western section of the temple (one each to the north-western chambers, and two sets of three to the south-west) and another eight to the eastern dolmens, in four sets of two.
• The tormented demons in Old School RuneScape are unaggressive, whereas those in RuneScape 3 never become tolerant to the player.
• In Old School RuneScape, tormented demons are considered greater demons for the purpose of a slayer assignment. In RuneScape 3, tormented demons were not an assignable Slayer task for a considerable amount of time after release. Later on, they were allowed to be assigned as part of a Slayer task, though the player had to pay 50 slayer points to be assigned them; they could also be killed as part of a demon cluster task on 8 July 2019.
• While the demons in both games attack with multiple combat styles, their special attacks are quite different:
  • The demons in RuneScape 3 would periodically throw an AoE magic attack when changing combat styles. In Old School RuneScape, they instead bind the player before launching magical fire around them, dealing heavy damage if not avoided.
  • If the demon was using melee but was attacked from a distance, in RuneScape 3 it would change combat styles immediately. In Old School RuneScape, they will only do so if they cannot reach their target, but would quickly revert to melee once they returned in range.
• The demons in RuneScape 3 would change overhead prayers after taking a minimum of 30 (3,000) damage, while the demons in Old School RuneScape do so after taking a minimum of 150 damage.
• The demons' shield effects were much stronger in RuneScape 3, it would reduce damage by 75% of the original amount, necessitating darklight or holy water to remove it. In Old School RuneScape, the shield only reduces non-demonic damage by 20%.
• The demons in Old School RuneScape take additional damage from 5/6/7-tick weapons at specific intervals (which likewise attack faster at these intervals), whereas this mechanic is not featured in RuneScape 3.
• The demons in RuneScape 3 originally had four unique drops on release: in addition to the dragon claws, they also dropped the ruined dragon armour slice, ruined dragon armour lump and ruined dragon armour shard, which would be used to create the dragon platebody. A fifth drop, dragon limbs, was added on 20 November 2012. As these rewards were already present in Old School RuneScape (the dragon claws from the Chambers of Xeric, the dragon platebody from Dragon Slayer II with a dragon metal shard and dragon metal lump, and the dragon limbs from adamant and rune dragons), the demons were instead given different rewards, namely the tormented synapse and burning claw, as their unique drops.
• Tormented demons in RuneScape 3 were originally released with 326 hitpoints and zero offensive or defensive stats. The demons in Old School RuneScape have 600 hitpoints and have offensive and defensive stats added to give them a distinct weakness:

Combat stats
2008	326							255							166							300							255							255
2024	600							255							255							150							255							255
Aggressive stats
2008	+0							+0							+0							+0							+0							+0
2024	+400							+10							+300							+5							+300							+5
Defensive stats
2008	+0						+0						+0						+0						+0						+0						+0
2024	+75						+175						+68						+5						+140						+150						+90

Trivia

• Tormented demons are the second non-boss monster to have a Master Combat Achievement (Three Times the Thrashing) the other being the Deathly rangers and Deathly mages from the Chambers of Xeric (No Time for Death), though they are the first non-boss monster that requires the player to actually kill them in order to complete the task.