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As mentioned in the introduction, dark beasts are not generally a monster you will fight specifically to make money. They are expensive to kill and their main value drop, the dark bow, is quite rare. They do, however, have some rather nice secondary drops—for example, they seem to be one of the best monsters in the game in terms of dropping half keys—and that can help keep you motivated while you wait for one of those bows (see Figure 464). J

Let’s take a look at the common, uncommon and rare drops from dark beasts. Note that I categorize drops roughly as follows:

• Very Common: The monster drops the item often, and you are almost guaranteed to see it at least once if you kill it 20 times or more.
  
  
• Common: The monster usually drops the item at least once every 20 or so kills.
  
  
• Uncommon: The monster drops the item perhaps 1 in 50 times.
  
  
• Rare: The drop comes about 1 in 100 kills.
  
  
• Very Rare: This designates a drop that is seen only after killing hundreds of monsters, or one I’ve never gotten but others have claimed to seen on rare occasions.

My drop tables are listed roughly in order of increasing value. These value figures are approximations based roughly on current market prices, or alch values for items that a high-level player normally wouldn’t bother to sell. Bear in mind that due to the many major changes that Jagex is making at the time I write this, market prices are very much in flux. These item values will likely change frequently over the weeks after I publish this guide.

Dark beasts drop bones 100% of the time. I take advantage of this by using the Bones to Peaches spell in some of my limited-prayer combat methods, which we’ll discuss later on.

Their other very common and common drops are shown in Table 97, with comments as appropriate.

Dark beasts are a good example of why I prefer to not just list all of a monster’s possible drops, but also to specify each one’s frequency. A quick perusal of its drop list shows an impressive array of high-valued drops, but unfortunately, most of these are exceedingly rare. In fact, despite killing around 500 or so dark beasts to make this guide, I received only a small fraction of the possible very rare drops from this monster, so don’t expect to see most of these items either.

Table 98 shows the uncommon, rare and very rare drops for dark beasts. Due to how long it takes to kill dark beasts and the rarity of so many of its drops, I was unable to determine frequencies for most of them from personal experience. Thus, many of the very rare items in the table are based on reports from other players or websites.

Table 98: Uncommon, Rare and Very Rare Dark Beast Drops

Drop	Approximate Value	Frequency	Notes
(nothing)	0	Uncommon	Occasionally you just get bones.
Attack potion (3)	0	Uncommon	I have no idea why they drop such a useless potion given the level of player required to fight them. A truly pointless drop.
Rune javelins (5)	0	Very rare
Adamant javelins (20)	0	Very rare
Nature talisman	?	Very rare	I have no idea what these are really worth now, but my guess is “not much”.
Air runes (47)	500	Uncommon
Adamant square shield	2,000	Rare	Alchs for 2,304.
Adamantite bar	2,500	Uncommon
Coins (3,000)	3,000	Rare
Steel arrows (150)	3,000	Very rare
Rune arrows (42)	12,000	Very rare
Rune spear	12,200	Very rare	Alchs for 12,480.
Death runes (45)	13,000	Very rare
Law runes (45)	13,500	Very rare
Runite bar	14,000	Very rare
Half key (loop)	15,000	Uncommon	Dark beasts are relatively good monsters for getting half keys.
Nature runes (67)	17,000	Very rare
Silver ore (100)	17,500	Very rare
Rune full helm	21,000	Uncommon
Rune square shield	23,000	Very rare	Alchs for 23,040.
Rune battleaxe	24,700	Very rare	Alchs for 24,960
Rune chainbody	30,000	Rare	This is one of the more common of the rare drops.
Rune 2H sword	38,150	Very rare	Alchs for 38,400
Half key (teeth)	40,000	Uncommon	Dark beasts are relatively good monsters for getting half keys.
Rune kiteshield	45,000	Very rare
Dragonstone	50,000	Very rare
Dragon square shield left half	66,000	Very rare	These have dropped down to their alch value, unfortunately.
Death talisman	50,000 to 100,000	Rare
Dragon spear	100,000	Very rare
Dragon medium helm	150,000	Very rare
Dark bow	2,200,000	Very rare	The big prize.

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