Members? Yes
Combat level 54
Life points 1350
XP per kill 78 (and 26 experience)
Slayer level 15
Slayer XP 15.5
Assigned by Turael or Spria, Mazchna or Achtryn, Chaeldar, Sumona, Vannaka
Aggressive? Yes
Poisonous? No
Immune
to poison? 		No
Immune
to stun? 		Unknown
Attack type Melee
Attack speed Speed 6 (Interval: 2.4 seconds)
Max hit 108
Weakness Arrows
Salve amulet
Always drops None
Examine text A tortured screaming soul.

Banshees are Slayer monsters that require level 15 Slayer to kill. They frequently drop 13 noted pure essence, making them an alternative source of essence. Additionally, banshees tend to frequently drop many different types of herbs. Mighty banshees are a higher-levelled alternative, if this is given as your Slayer assignment.

Locations

Slayer Tower - ground floor (cannot use cannon)
Desert Slayer Dungeon (mighty banshee, after Smoking Kills)

Strengths and weaknesses

Players should use earmuffs, masked earmuffs, or Slayer helmets when fighting banshees, or else their characters' combat statistics (including life points) will be severely reduced. Not having earmuffs, masked earmuffs, or a slayer helmet will cause you to be damaged by your Constitution divided by 10 and your character will cover their ears. Agility is also reduced, which can be annoying for players wishing to use the shortcuts in the slayer tower. Banshees have few Life points and do not hit particularly hard. They are undead, so a Salve amulet works on them.

Banshees use a magic-based melee attack. Their attack can also hit from a distance if players aren't wearing earmuffs. Protect from Melee prayer will work against them, but most players are likely better off using armour with a high magic defence bonus, such as dragonhide armour. Blue d'hide or better renders its attacks basically useless.

Other information

Banshees decrease many stats including: Attack, Strength, Defence, Ranged, Prayer, Magic, Agility, and Summoning.

They are popular for their tendency to drop high level herbs. Aside from banking distance they are a reasonable alternative to the popular chaos druids.

On a quick hunt, these creatures can profit a lower level character very well. Depending on the amount of Pure Essence, a lower levelled character can make anywhere from 50-70k per hour solely on the Pure Essence dropped.

Banshees have a very high restore rate. They will restore 10 life points between attacks with a fast weapon and 20 between slower weapons. They are popular for casting spells such as Weaken on because they will restore the lowered stats extremely quickly, so it can be recast. Crumble Undead also works on Banshees.


Drops


No Charms
89% 2-3% 7% 1% 0.3%-0.4%

Item Quantity Rarity
Iron mace 1 3 Uncommon
Iron dagger 1 4 Rare
Iron kiteshield 1 4 Rare
Adamant kiteshield 1 5 Very rare
Mystic gloves (dark) 1 5 Very rare

Item Quantity Rarity
Air rune 3 2 Common
Chaos rune 3, 6, 7, 17 2 Common
Cosmic rune 2 3 Uncommon
Fire rune 6, 7 3 Uncommon

Item Quantity Rarity
Grimy guam 12 Common
Grimy tarromin 12 Common
Grimy marrentill 12 Common
Grimy harralander 12 Common
Grimy kwuarm 12 Common
Grimy ranarr 13 Uncommon
Grimy irit 13 Uncommon
Grimy avantoe 13 Uncommon
Grimy lantadyme 13 Uncommon
Grimy dwarf weed 13 Uncommon
Grimy cadantine 14 Rare

Item Quantity Rarity
Coins 13, 26 or 352 Common
Anagogic ort 20, 402 Common
Pure essence 13, 23(noted)2 Common
Fishing bait 7, 152 Common
Iron ore 13 Uncommon
Eye of newt 13 Uncommon
Clue scroll (easy) 14 Rare
Spin ticket 14 Rare
Ectoplasmator 15 Very rare
Starved ancient effigy 15 Very rare
Champion scroll (banshee) 15 Very rare