Revenant maledictus

Revenant maledictus
Released								2 February 2022 (Update)
Members								Yes
Combat level								397
Size								5x5
Examine								One ghost to rule them all.
League region								Wilderness✓
Combat info
Attribute								Undead, Spectral
XP bonus								+65%
Max hit								30
Aggressive								Yes
Poisonous								No
Attack style								Ranged, Magic
Attack speed								5 ticks (3.0 seconds)
Slayer info
Slayer level								None
Slayer XP								920 xp
Category								Revenants, Ghosts
Assigned by
Combat stats
1,250				106				126				90				130				130
Aggressive stats
+72				+78				+60				+60				+265				+60
Melee defence
+201								+206								+188
Magic defence
+101												No elemental weakness
Ranged defence
+231								+231								+231
Immunities
Poison								Immune
Venom								Immune
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Advanced data
Monster ID								11246

The Revenant maledictus is the demi-boss variant of the ethereal revenants, an undead spectral being shrouded in Zarosian power. It has a rare chance to appear whenever any revenant is slain in the Revenant Caves. It guarantees an ancient emblem or ancient totem drop for the top-damaging player, in addition to giving the player the Forinthry Surge buff if they had an amulet of avarice worn.

Mechanics

Spawning

There is a small chance of the maledictus appearing whenever any revenant is slain in the Revenant Caves. This chance is calculated each kill with the total accumulated combat levels of revenants slain by all players on that world, divided by a flat spawn rate. Once the maledictus appears, this chance is reset and the boss is prevented from appearing for 45 minutes, after which the spawn chance begins accumulating once again.

While the maledictus is active, all players in the cavern will be notified of its presence and given a hint as to where it appeared: northern, middle, or southern areas of the caves. Players in range will also see a flashing arrow on their mini-map pointing to the boss's location, making an encounter with other players all but guaranteed. The maledictus will remain active for 10 minutes before disappearing, if not killed.

The maledictus can spawn in the following areas:

• Revenant cyclops/Revenant demon chamber (north)
• Revenant dragon's chamber (north)
• Northern revenant imp's area (north)
• Revenant hellhound's/old revenants' ruins (middle)
• Eastern revenant pyrefiend's area (middle)
• Western revenant pyrefiend's chamber (middle)
• Revenant dark beast's chamber (middle)
• Northern revenant ork's chamber (middle)
• Southern revenant ork's chamber (south)
• Southern revenant demon's chamber (south)
• Outside the southern revenant demon's area (south)

Attacks

Despite the caves being singles-plus combat, the maledictus itself is functionally multi-combat; it can be attacked by any number of players, and will attack all players in range simultaneously. The maledictus will cycle through its three special attacks after every few standard attacks, telegraphing each attack with the Zarosian symbol on its back. Protection prayers will reduce damage taken by half. Its attacks are as follows:

• Standard attack: a white, spike-shaped ranged attack.
• Ice spell: When the symbol glows blue, it will target players' current tiles, then freeze anyone who doesn't move, dealing damage and preventing them from moving or attacking.
• Blood spell: When the symbol glows red, it will target players' current tiles, then deal damage and heal itself for half of the total damage dealt.
• Air surge: When the symbol glows white, it will launch a typeless area-of-effect at one player. The spell explodes outward from where it lands, and deals up to 25 damage to anyone in a 5x5 area, but less near the edges.

Forinthry Surge

Upon death, top-damaging players wearing an amulet of avarice will receive the Forinthry Surge () skull, which provides an additional 15% accuracy and damage buff against all revenants for 30 minutes. The Forinthry Surge skull can also be acquired by killing another player who has it, as long as both players are wearing an avarice. Taking the amulet off will remove the buff, while changing worlds will reduce its duration by 1 minute. The equipped amulet can be checked to show the Surge's time remaining.

Bonus drop

The revenant maledictus rolls three drops for the top-damaging player: one for either an ancient totem or emblem, and the remaining two are rolls taken from the revenant dragon's drop table and rates. All players that dealt damage to the boss receive one blighted super restore and two pieces of blighted food, dropped under them (even after leaving the area). Ironmen as normal can only obtain drops when killing the boss by themselves, but can still receive the Forinthry Surge. The drop table shown below has been copied from the revenant dragon, and only represents one of the two non-guaranteed loot rolls.

Drops

The following drop rates are provided by Jagex, unless otherwise specified.

All revenants share the same drop list. Higher level revenants have a higher chance to drop a unique item as well as valuable common loot instead of coins. Wearing an amulet of avarice will cause all drops in the Revenant Caves to be noted.

Average drop value

	Unskulled	Skulled
Uniques	1,158.37	2,106.13
Statuettes	5,270.30	8,840.82
Main drops	29,705.89 (HA: 21,657.22)
Blighted	780.50
TOTAL	36,915.05	41,433.33

100%

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Revenant ether.png: Revenant maledictus drops Revenant ether with rarity Always in quantity 2-24	Revenant ether	2–24	Always	356–4,272	300–3,600

Unique

There is a 1 in 5,333.4 chance of rolling the unique drop table when unskulled and a 1 in 2,933.37 chance when skulled. When this table is rolled, there is a 2 in 5 chance of receiving an amulet of avarice and a 1 in 5 chance each of receiving a weapon.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Amulet of avarice	1	1/13,333.5; 1/7,333.5	396,652	27,000
	Craw's bow (u)	1	1/26,667; 1/14,667	19,008,294	72,000
	Thammaron's sceptre (u)	1	1/26,667; 1/14,667	2,701,949	72,000
	Viggora's chainmace (u)	1	1/26,667; 1/14,667	8,386,691	72,000

Unique (on-task)

Whilst on a revenants Slayer task, there is a 1 in 1,066.6 chance of rolling the unique drop table when unskulled and a 1 in 586.6 chance when skulled. When this table is rolled, there is a 2 in 5 chance of receiving an amulet of avarice and a 1 in 5 chance each of receiving a weapon. The boosted on-task rates do not apply to a ghosts Slayer task.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Amulet of avarice	1	1/2,666.5; 1/1,466.5	396,652	27,000
	Craw's bow (u)	1	1/5,333; 1/2,933	19,008,294	72,000
	Thammaron's sceptre (u)	1	1/5,333; 1/2,933	2,701,949	72,000
	Viggora's chainmace (u)	1	1/5,333; 1/2,933	8,386,691	72,000

Ancient statuettes

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Ancient emblem	1	1/1,333.33; 1/4,400	499,143	300,000
	Ancient totem	1	1/2,000; 1/1,100	998,353	600,000
	Ancient statuette	1	1/4,000; 1/2,200	1,998,070	1,200,000
	Ancient crystal	1	1/2,666.67; 1/1,466.67	152,928	150,000
	Ancient medallion	1	1/8,000; 1/4,400	3,996,578	2,400,000
	Ancient effigy	1	1/8,000; 1/4,400	7,993,025	4,800,000
	Ancient relic	1	1/8,000; 1/4,400	15,982,716	9,600,000

Weapons and armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Bracelet of ethereum (uncharged)	1	1/6.63	44,026	43,200
	Battlestaff	4	1/19.9	33,236	16,800
	Rune full helm	2	1/49.75	41,066	42,240
	Rune platebody	2	1/49.75	77,014	78,000
	Rune platelegs	2	1/49.75	75,694	76,800
	Rune kiteshield	2	1/49.75	64,262	65,280
	Rune warhammer	2	1/49.75	49,534	49,800
	Dragon platelegs	1–2	1/198.99	161,230–322,460	162,000–324,000
	Dragon plateskirt	1–2	1/198.99	161,405–322,810	162,000–324,000
	Dragon dagger	2	1/99.5	34,844	36,000
	Dragon longsword	2	1/99.5	118,350	120,000
	Dragon med helm	1	1/615.38; Never	59,006	60,000

Resources

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Blighted super restore(4)	1–3	1/33.17	5,074–15,222	1–3
	Blighted manta ray	10–15	1/24.87	5,990–8,985	10–15
	Coal	30–60 (noted)	1/16.58	4,560–9,120	810–1,620
	Adamantite bar	4–6	1/16.58	7,684–11,526	1,536–2,304
	Runite ore	2–4	1/24.87	22,050–44,100	3,840–7,680
	Runite bar	2–3	1/33.17	24,934–37,401	6,000–9,000
	Black dragonhide	4	1/24.87	21,440	360
	Mahogany plank	8–16 (noted)	1/33.17	18,064–36,128	7,200–14,400
	Yew logs	20–40 (noted)	1/24.87	5,200–10,400	1,920–3,840
	Magic logs	8–16 (noted)	1/49.75	8,368–16,736	1,536–3,072
	Uncut dragonstone	2–5	1/99.5	30,840–77,100	1,200–3,000
Yew seed.png: Revenant maledictus drops Yew seed with rarity 1/2,000 in quantity 2-6	Yew seed	2–6	1/2,000; 1/1,100	52,898–158,694	170–510
Magic seed.png: Revenant maledictus drops Magic seed with rarity 1/2,000 in quantity 2-6	Magic seed	2–6	1/2,000; 1/1,100	194,576–583,728	506–1,518

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Revenant cave teleport	1–5	1/19.9	564–2,820	6–30
Dragonstone bolt tips.png: Revenant maledictus drops Dragonstone bolt tips with rarity 1/33.17 in quantity 20-40	Dragonstone bolt tips	20–40	1/33.17	19,620–39,240	8,000–16,000
Onyx bolt tips.png: Revenant maledictus drops Onyx bolt tips with rarity 1/33.17 in quantity 3-6	Onyx bolt tips	3–6	1/33.17	26,181–52,362	1,800–3,600
	Law rune	20–45	1/19.9	2,540–5,715	2,880–6,480
	Death rune	30–60	1/19.9	4,800–9,600	3,240–6,480
	Blood rune	50–100	1/19.9	10,700–21,400	12,000–24,000

Secondary

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Blighted ancient ice sack	1–10	1/11.5	439–4,390	1–10
	Blighted entangle sack	1–10	1/5.75	48–480	1–10
	Blighted teleport spell sack	1–10	1/11.5	57–570	1–10
	Blighted vengeance sack	1–10	1/11.5	92–920	1–10
	Blighted manta ray	1–2	1/7.67	599–1,198	1–2
	Blighted anglerfish	1–2	1/7.67	338–676	1–2
	Blighted karambwan	1–2	1/11.5	191–382	1–2
	Blighted super restore(4)	1	1/23	5,074	1
	Revenant cave teleport	1	1/23	564	6

Tertiary

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Looting bag	1	1/3	Not sold	N/A

Wilderness Slayer tertiary

The following drops are only accessible while on a Slayer task given by Krystilia.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Larran's key.png: Revenant maledictus drops Larran's key with rarity 1/89 in quantity 1	Larran's key	1	1/89	142,895	1
	Slayer's enchantment	1	1/196	1,686	720

Changes

Date	Changes
[[{{#explode:9 March 2023| |0}} {{#explode:9 March 2023| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:9 March 2023| |2}}]] (update | poll)	Players can now obtain loot from Revenant maledictus even if the player with the most damage has left the cave before the boss died.
[[{{#explode:10 August 2022| |0}} {{#explode:10 August 2022| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:10 August 2022| |2}}]] (update)	Fixed a bug where players could not attack the player that just killed the revenant maledictus.
[[{{#explode:11 May 2022| |0}} {{#explode:11 May 2022| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:11 May 2022| |2}}]] (update)	The revenant maledictus will no longer despawn in the middle of a fight.

Gallery

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  Concept art of the revenant maledictus by Mod Jerv.
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  Early concept of the revenant maledictus with a PKer-based design, by Mod Jerv.

Ideation sketches

As Mod Jerv's first project, multiple sketches of the revenant maledictus were drawn in order to learn the game's artstyle.

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Trivia

• "Maledictus" is a Latin word meaning "accursed [one]".
• Its examine text is a reference to The Lord of the Rings.
• The design of the revenant maledictus references the visual language of a typical Magic-based player killer: its horns evoke the elongated shoulder pads of a mystic robe top, while the large Zarosian icon carried on its back alludes to the ancient staff.