Slayer helmet

This article is about the regular slayer helmet. For the imbued version, see Slayer helmet (i).

Slayer helmet
Released							6 January 2014 (Update)
Also called							Slayer helm
Members							Yes
Quest item							No
League region							Morytania✓
Properties
Tradeable							No
Equipable							Yes
Stackable							No
Noteable							No
Options							Wear, Check, Disassemble, Drop
Worn options							Check, Partner, Log
Examine							You don't want to wear it inside-out.
Values
Value							40,000 coins
High alch							24,000 coins
Low alch							16,000 coins
Weight							2.267 kg
Advanced data
Item ID							11864

A Slayer helmet is a piece of headgear made by combining a nose peg, facemask, earmuffs, spiny helmet, enchanted gem, and a black mask together. Reinforced goggles are additionally required only if the quest A Porcine of Interest is completed. The helmet can be created by players with level 55 Crafting (boosts work) and who have unlocked the "Malevolent masquerade" ability for 400 Slayer reward points. It requires 10 Defence to equip. Despite the helmet requiring a nose peg, which requires 60 Slayer to equip, the Slayer helmet requires no particular Slayer level to wear.

The helmet has the same defensive bonuses as a rune full helm. Additionally, while worn, the helmet provides the special effects of all of the Slayer equipment from which it was made.

When worn on a Slayer assignment, the helmet provides the Melee boost of 16.67% (from the black mask used to make it) against monsters assigned as the player's Slayer task. This does not stack with the boosts given by the Salve amulet or its enchanted/imbued variants against undead Slayer assignments. It does however stack with the 20% damage boost of a berserker necklace when using obsidian weapons. The helmet can be imbued through Soul Wars, the Nightmare Zone, or Emir's Arena (with a scroll of imbuing) to provide a 15% boost to Ranged and Magic as well, as detailed below.

When killed by another player, and the helmet is not one of the items protected on death, the Slayer helmet is converted to a black mask and dropped for that player. It does not drop coins and leave the owner with a broken Slayer helmet, like other untradeable gear would.

Players can own more than one Slayer helmet at a time.

Wearing a Slayer helmet will prevent infection from Nex's virus attack.

Combat stats

Attack bonuses
+0	+0	+0	-6	-2
Defence bonuses
+30	+32	+27	-1	+30
Other bonuses				Slot
+0	+0	+0%	+0	List

Slayer helmet and Konar tasks

Konar Slayer master assigns monsters as well as specific areas they must be killed in.

The Slayer helmet's accuracy and damage bonuses do not apply to monsters outside of the designated area, even if the monster type matches the task.

Slayer helmet vs. Salve amulet

For players with undead Slayer assignments, the boosts given by the Salve amulet and its variants do not stack with the effects of a Slayer helmet. If a player owns the enchanted or enchanted-imbued Salve amulet, it may be worth it to switch to a better helmet and wear the amulet instead, since the amulet gives 20% accuracy and damage bonus, as opposed to the 16.67% Melee and 15% Magic and Ranged boosts the helmet grants.

However, this 3.33 - 5% margin from the Salve amulet may be less damage overall than if the player were to wear a different amulet with the Slayer helmet, as most helmets provide less offensive bonuses than comparable amulets. For example, the amulet of torture provides +10 Strength bonus, whereas a helm of Neitiznot only provides +3. Overall, the torture and Slayer helmet combination provides more damage output than a Salve amulet and helm of Neitiznot. This is also the case for the amulets of fury and glory, as well as the necklace of anguish and occult necklace for Ranged and Magic respectively.

Notably, the bonuses of the Salve amulet and its variants do stack with Void Knight equipment. This means that above certain levels, the Void set and Salve amulet have a greater damage output than a Slayer helmet and a torture/anguish/occult neckpiece at places such as ankou or Vorkath. This is not practical for aberrant spectres though, which will drain stats without a nose peg or Slayer helmet.

Creation

Requirements

Skill		Level	XP
Crafting		55 (b)	0
Unlocked Malevolent masquerade from a Slayer master
Members		Ticks	0 (0s)

Materials

Item		Quantity	Cost
	Black mask	1	705,160
	Earmuffs	1	311
	Facemask	1	529
	Nose peg	1	654
	Spiny helmet	1	908
	Enchanted gem	1	1
	Reinforced goggles	1	100
Total cost			707,663
	Slayer helmet	1	N/A

The items used to assemble the Slayer helmet give the following perks:

• A black mask, which provides a 16.67% boost to melee damage and accuracy against the player's current Slayer task. Note that if a black mask with charges is used to make a Slayer helmet, the mask will lose all of its charges.
  • A black mask (i) can also be used, which provides an additional 15% boost to Ranged and Magic accuracy and damage. This will create a Slayer helmet (i) instead.
• A pair of earmuffs, which deafens the screams of banshees.
• A facemask, which allows the player to breathe in the Smoke Dungeon and Smoke Devil Dungeon.
• A nose peg, which blocks the stench of aberrant spectres.
• A spiny helmet, which protects the player from wall beasts when traversing the Lumbridge Swamp Caves.
• An enchanted gem, which allows the player to contact their Slayer master to ask for tips or check their kills on their assignment. Players can right click the helmet to get the same options as right-clicking an enchanted gem, including checking their task progress and their Slayer monster kill log. An eternal gem cannot be used.
• A pair of reinforced goggles (after completion of A Porcine of Interest), which allows players to fight Sourhogs.

The helmet is assembled by using any component on another while all components are present in the player's inventory. The helmet can be disassembled with a right-click option, turning it back into its component items.

Upgrading

Players can attach a pair of reinforced goggles to a Slayer helmet to gain its benefits. If players already own a Slayer helmet upon completion of the quest A Porcine of Interest, the goggles' benefits are automatically added to the helmet.

At the cost of 1,250,000 Nightmare Zone reward points, 500 Soul Wars Zeal Tokens, or a Scroll of imbuing, the Slayer helmet can be upgraded to a Slayer helmet (i), adding a 15% damage boost to both Magic and Ranged. The Slayer helmet (i) also has a +10 magic defence bonus, a +3 magic attack bonus and a +3 ranged attack bonus.

Upon completion of the hard Kourend & Kebos Diary, players can speak to Captain Cleive to teach them how to use a Slayer helmet in place of a Shayzien helm when fighting lizardman shamans. The player must have obtained the Shayzien helm (5) before being able to do it.

Cosmetics

With 1,000 Slayer reward points, the player can learn how to recolour the helmet (or its imbued variant) by using certain special items on it. Each recolour ability is purchased separately, meaning 8,000 Slayer reward points are required to fully access all the recolours, provided the player has the items readily available. Players can disassemble the recoloured helmet to retrieve the items back. All recolours have the same stats and bonuses as the original Slayer helmet and are thus purely cosmetic.

With the elite tier or above of Combat Achievements claimed, players may recolour their helm with the visage of certain bosses by bringing a Slayer helmet to Ghommal. The list of recolours offered by Ghommal depends on the tier of rewards claimed. Players may freely change this recolour at any time by speaking with Ghommal, or remove the recolour by disassembling the helm, upon which the un-coloured version will be returned.

The variants that can be created are as follows:

Upgraded item		Requirements
		Unlock	Item
	Araxyte slayer helmet	Eye see you	Araxyte head
	Black slayer helmet	King black bonnet	King Black Dragon heads
	Green slayer helmet	Kalphite khat	Kalphite Queen head
	Red slayer helmet	Unholy helmet	Abyssal demon head
	Purple slayer helmet	Dark Mantle	Dark claw
	Turquoise slayer helmet	Undead Head	Vorkath's head
	Hydra slayer helmet	Use more head	Alchemical hydra heads
	Twisted slayer helmet	Twisted Vision	Twisted horns
Upgraded item		Tier claimed
	Tztok slayer helmet	Elite Combat Achievements
	Vampyric slayer helmet	Master Combat Achievements
	Tzkal slayer helmet	Grandmaster Combat Achievements

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Treasure Trails

Tier	Emotes	STASH location	Items	Cost
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Changes

Date	Changes
[[{{#explode:30 August 2023| |0}} {{#explode:30 August 2023| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:30 August 2023| |2}}]] (update)	All slayer helmet variations now correctly show as lost on death in the Items Kept on Death interface.
[[{{#explode:21 June 2023| |0}} {{#explode:21 June 2023| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:21 June 2023| |2}}]] (update | poll)	Wearing a slayer helmet will now prevent players from becoming infected by a player infected from Nex's choke attack.
[[{{#explode:13 September 2018| |0}} {{#explode:13 September 2018| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:13 September 2018| |2}}]] (update | poll)	The slayer helmet received a graphical update.
[[{{#explode:26 May 2016| |0}} {{#explode:26 May 2016| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:26 May 2016| |2}}]] (update)	The item's inventory sprite was adjusted with the release of recoloured helmets.
[[{{#explode:11 February 2016| |0}} {{#explode:11 February 2016| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:11 February 2016| |2}}]] (update)	The "Check" option was added, allowing players to see their current Slayer task.
[[{{#explode:8 October 2015| |0}} {{#explode:8 October 2015| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:8 October 2015| |2}}]] (update)	The message shown when trying to create a slayer helm now correctly refers to the enchanted gem, rather than the slayer gem.
[[{{#explode:16 July 2015| |0}} {{#explode:16 July 2015| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:16 July 2015| |2}}]] (update)	The slayer helm now connects to a female character's neck line.
[[{{#explode:20 February 2014| |0}} {{#explode:20 February 2014| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:20 February 2014| |2}}]] (update)	The slayer helm's chathead model has had a green tint removed from its jaw.
[[{{#explode:16 January 2014| |0}} {{#explode:16 January 2014| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:16 January 2014| |2}}]] (update)	The item's value was increased from 1 to 40,000.

Gallery (historical)

6 January 2014 – 20 February 2014	20 February 2014 – 26 May 2016	26 May 2016 – 13 September 2018	13 September 2018 – present

Trivia

• The Slayer helmet was the first item to conform (either by remodelling or conversion [unclear from source]) to the Old School model format (from a later undefined format) and to be introduced to the game.
• Despite the fact that reinforced goggles are added as a component of the Slayer helmet after completion of A Porcine of Interest, neither the player model nor the chathead model reflect this, as they both display open eye sockets in the helmet.
• The Slayer helmet's examine text is identical to the Spiny helmet.