Xarpus is the fifth encounter in the Theatre of Blood. The Yarasa King, Xarpus is the last of its kind, and was captured by Lord Lowerniel Vergidiyad Drakan to be used as a boss in the Theatre. Despite his connection to bats, Xarpus does not count for a batSlayer task.
Recovery (Phase 1): Severely weakened, Xarpus will channel the energy of the ground by exhuming a total of 25 skeletons to heal him for rapid bits of 6 health per tick for 15 ticks. This can be temporarily halted by standing on top of the exhumed remains.
Poison (Phase 2): Xarpus starts attacking the players after enough time has passed from phase 1 and starts off with the amount of health he had starting from phase 1. He will launch poison at players which lightly damages anyone in a 3x3 grid centred around the player Xarpus was focusing. This poison then occupies that tile for the rest of the fight and deals 4-8 base damage each tick a player stands on or crosses over it, which is further scaled up based on the number of exhumed that Xarpus was able to absorb.[1] Skipping over a poisoned tile will deal a delayed hit.
Counter (Phase 3): Xarpus screeches once lowered below 33% of his health after healing and stops launching poison around the arena, instead staring intently at one quadrant at a time. If a player attacks him from the area Xarpus is looking at, he will retaliate using a poison attack with a base damage of 50-75 per hit.[2] The base damage is then scaled up by a percentage equal to 40% of the relative increase to Xarpus' stats brought about by absorbing the exhumed.[3]
^Only received if players do not have it stored in their bank.
Changes
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Changes
[[{{#explode:24 July 2024| |0}} {{#explode:24 July 2024| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:24 July 2024| |2}}]] (update)
Xarpus can now be affected by burn damage.
[[{{#explode:3 June 2021| |0}} {{#explode:3 June 2021| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:3 June 2021| |2}}]] (update | poll)
Hard mode and entry mode versions of the Theatre of Blood encounters added.
The word "Yarasa" in its examine text was changed to "yarasa."
[[{{#explode:16 May 2019| |0}} {{#explode:16 May 2019| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:16 May 2019| |2}}]] (update)
The difficulty of phase 1 was reduced, especially for solo-trio teams.
Trivia
"Yarasa", the species that Xarpus is classified as, means "bat" in Turkish.
When examined, the acidic miasma that Xarpus shoots at the players reads Tread softly because you tread on miasma. This is a reference to the poem "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" by W. B. Yeats.
References
^Jagex. Mod Kieren's Twitter account. 10 May 2019. Archived from the original on 30 June 2023. Mod Kieren: "The base damage for poison is 4-8 & is buffed by a percentage based upon how many exhumed absorbs you missed, I imagine people didn't miss enough to have that have much effect."
^Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 25 September 2021. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Mod Ash: "This one? "Xarpus is staring in your direction and retaliates with a powerful attack!" The base damage is a random number 50-75. A percentage buff is then calculated off 40% of the percentage uplift applied to his stats by absorptions in the pre-fight phase."
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