Salarin the twisted

Salarin the twisted
Released								12 December 2002 (Update)
Members								Yes
Combat level								70
Size								1x1
Examine								Twisted by name, twisted by nature.
Combat info
XP bonus								+0%
Max hit								7
Aggressive								Yes
Poisonous								No
Attack style								Crush
Attack speed								4 ticks (2.4 seconds)
Respawn time								50 ticks (30 seconds)
Combat stats
70				58				58				62				1				1
Aggressive stats
+0				+0				+0				+0				+0				+0
Melee defence
+0								+0								+0
Magic defence
+0												No elemental weakness
Ranged defence
+0								+0								+0
Immunities
Poison								Not immune
Venom								Not immune
Cannons								Not immune
Thralls								Not immune
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Advanced data
Monster ID								304

Salarin the twisted is a chaos druid found at the end of the Yanille Agility Dungeon. Reaching his cave requires level 67 Agility; this can be boosted from as low as 62 with a summer pie. Additionally, players will need to bring a blade to cut the webs near the dungeon entrance.

Salarin is one of the two NPCs that drop the sinister key on death, alongside the Chaos Fanatic. This key opens the Sinister chest, located nearby, which rewards the player with a guaranteed noted drop of nine grimy herbs (see below), including a torstol. The key is dropped at a rate of 7.8%, making him a common target for low-level ironmen who can't yet grow the herbs.

Unlike other druids, Salarin can only be damaged by strike spells, which have increased damage scaling based on the corresponding bolt spell. For example, a player with level 23 Magic using Water Strike against him will have a base max hit of 10 instead of 8.

Location

Location	Levels	Members	Spawns	Map	League region
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Strategy

Salarin must be killed with Strike spells; melee and ranged cannot harm him, nor can any other magic attacks. When using wind, water, earth, or fire strike, the spells will always deal 9, 10, 11, or 12 damage, depending on the highest tier of spell unlocked, as long as the player does not splash. This damage is not affected by items that would normally increase spell damage, such as the smoke battlestaff, occult necklace, tome of fire, or the set effect of Ahrim the Blighted's equipment.

There is a safespot in the corridor, located on the tile next to the middle skull lantern on the eastern wall. Should the player mage Salarin from this tile, he will try to retreat rather than attack; this can be useful for players with low magic defence. Note, however, that sometimes Salarin will wander out of the safespot range, requiring the player to be able to tank a few hits as they reset the safespot.

Food is useful for long trips, but high-level players will be able to easily kill Salarin with little or no food.

Training and Rewards

In addition to the herbs, the guaranteed max hit from using Strike spells makes Salarin a decent NPC for low-level Magic training through combat, offering over 10,000 experience an hour. However, this is only recommended as a training method for those who need herbs, as other magic training methods at the same level offer more than twice the experience for a lower amount of effort; Salarin's slow respawn timer means that much less damage can be done per hour.

Salarin's 30-second respawn time means that, assuming no splashes and the highest-level strike spell, it will take a minimum of 80 ticks (48 seconds) for him to die and respawn. This results in a maximum of 75 kills per hour (not including banking) if the player doesn't hop worlds. Killing the nearby chaos druids while waiting for Salarin to respawn can greatly increase your profit and herbs gained per hour, at the cost of needing to bank several times. This is advised over world-hopping, and brings more profit and herbs per hour.

Players training for profit are advised not pick up the coins, black daggers, vials of water, or the grimy guams, marrentils, or tarromins that Salarin drops, as they only add up to 5,086.76 an hour. This will allow players to reduce banking time, and increase profit per hour.

Those who can complete elite clues, which drop at a rate of 1 in 500, can expect an additional adjusted profit of 64,192.95 per hour, on top of the normal herb drops and sinister keys.

Sinister Key

Players with average drop luck will receive just under 6 sinister keys an hour, assuming consistent 48-second kills. For each sinister key used, the player will be rewarded with two harralander, three ranarr, one irit, one kwuarm, one avantoe, and one torstol; this chest will reward players with a total of 31,814.37 worth of herbs per chest opened, or 190,886.22 worth of herbs per hour, not including the cost of food and runes.

Cleaning and turning one hour's worth of herbs into potions will give 6628 experience per hour at level 79 Herblore (the level required to fully process all of the herbs). As soon as a herb can be grown, it becomes inefficient to hunt for herbs from Salarin, as long as you can obtain a seed an hour (or two seeds per hour, in the case of harralander and ranarr).

Drops

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

100%

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Bones	1	Always	113	0

Weapons

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Black dagger	1	1/128	383	144

Runes

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Water rune	12	5/128	60	24
	Law rune	2	4/128	254	288
	Nature rune	3	1/128	321	324
	Fire rune	36	1/128	180	72

Herbs

There is a 39/128 chance of rolling the herb drop table.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Grimy guam leaf	1	1/13.1	326	7
	Grimy marrentill	1	1/17.5	398	8
	Grimy tarromin	1	1/23.3	379	9
	Grimy harralander	1	1/30	676	9
	Grimy ranarr weed	1	1/38.2	6,709	18
	Grimy irit leaf	1	1/52.5	1,472	10
	Grimy avantoe	1	1/70	3,263	10
	Grimy kwuarm	1	1/84	3,574	12
	Grimy cadantine	1	1/105	2,987	13
	Grimy lantadyme	1	1/140	1,861	13
	Grimy dwarf weed	1	1/140	2,036	14

Materials

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	White berries	1	5/128	962	6
	Snape grass	1	1/128	560	6
	Vial of water	1	1/128	3	1

Coins

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Coins	3	5/128	3	3
	Coins	24	3/128	24	24
	Coins	10	3/128	10	10

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Nothing	N/A	37/128	N/A	N/A
	Super defence(1)	1	11/128	1,240	79
	Sinister key	1	10/128	30,028	48

Gem drop table

There is a 1/128 chance of rolling the gem drop table.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Nothing	N/A	1/256.47; Never	N/A	N/A
	Uncut sapphire	1	1/512; 1/260	238	15
	Uncut emerald	1	1/1,024; 1/520	463	30
	Uncut ruby	1	1/2,048; 1/1,040	988	60
	Chaos talisman	1	1/5,461.33; 1/2,773.33	309	2
	Uncut diamond	1	1/8,192; 1/4,160	2,142	120
	Loop half of key	1	1/16,384; 1/8,320	11,919	60
	Tooth half of key	1	1/16,384; 1/8,320	11,925	60
	Rune javelin	5	1/16,384; 1/8,320	950	1,200
	Rune spear	1	1/262,144; 1/15,600	11,871	12,480
	Shield left half	1	1/524,288; 1/31,200	65,394	66,000
	Dragon spear	1	1/699,050.67; 1/41,600	38,854	37,440

Tertiary

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Clue scroll (elite)	1	1/500	Not sold	12

Changes

Date	Changes
[[{{#explode:5 June 2024| |0}} {{#explode:5 June 2024| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:5 June 2024| |2}}]] (update)	Salarin the Twisted will now respect strike spell's damage scaling.
[[{{#explode:14 August 2014| |0}} {{#explode:14 August 2014| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:14 August 2014| |2}}]] (update)	The Trident of the Seas no longer damages Salarin the Twisted.

Trivia

• Before the release of the Farming skill, killing Salarin for the Sinister key was the only way to obtain Torstol.
• He will sometimes say, "Your pitiful attacks cannot hurt me!" even when the player is using Strike spells.
• While he can only be directly attacked with Strike spells, he can also be harmed by recoil damage.