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Blood Barrage

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Blood Barrage

Blood Barrage
Type Mechanic
Videos 5 (first 2021-05-21, latest 2026-06-25)
Main source Inferno (BOFA) Guide OSRS

Blood Barrage is a mechanic topic that Gnomonkey covers in 5 videos between 2021-05-21 and 2026-06-25. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Contents

Stats and numbers

  • Phantom heal: if you are at least 8 tiles away when you cast Blood Barrage (range 10, same as a twisted bow) and the cast will kill the target, you can send another barrage right before it dies and get the healing for both casts.1
  • Blood Barrage heals for damage you would have dealt even if the monster has low HP, so even 15 HP blobs can give massive healing.2
  • A blob in the phantom position is worth about 40 health, a bat about 15 (20 to 25 with phantom), and a ranger about 30.3
  • Ice barrage is more accurate and has one higher max hit, but that blood barrage is faster overall because it keeps nibblers clumped together.4
  • Zuriel's staff increases blood barrage efficiency by 50% and that blood barrage heals the same amount even if it is prayed against.5

Tips

  • You can always Blood Barrage your health back, so tanking some damage to kill nibblers is fine; the final wave priority is to reach 99 health before the next wave using Blood Barrage or special attacks.6
  • You can get knocked out extremely quickly in the Inferno, so having maximum health on tough waves is a must.7
  • Phantom healing only works with manual casting; autocast never grants a phantom heal.1
  • The Phantom technique: if you kill something from a certain range or further with a cast, you can cast again at its corpse for extra healing, so you effectively get two Blood Barrages on it instead of one.8
  • With a Phantom Blood Barrage on bloblets, all three bloblets are barraged a second time, giving a lot of extra health.8
  • To drag a blob against the pillar to phantom it, since it needs to be in the correct position, and that you can phantom anything in that position, not only blobs.9
  • Blood Barraging a melee is slow because the melee has a high magic level, and that it is the worst thing to barrage if you can avoid it.10
  • Healing off rangers with Blood Barrage is really good because they have very low magic level, and he likes to be above 70 health to be safe.11
  • He originally used thralls for the Quiver run, but with low Prayer and Magic levels he found blood magic better because it saved just enough food to get through the boss.12
  • On the final run Gnomonkey healed using Blood Barrage on mobs (his nickname for one of them was 'Big Beefy') while heading to Sol Heredit.12
  • Gnomonkey barely touches ice barrage in the Inferno run and blood barrages almost entirely, using ice barrage only for a slight damage boost at full health in very rare situations.13
  • Gnomonkey freezes with ice barrage only when targets are already clumped, for the slightly higher kill chance and to stop one reaching the pillar.14
  • Not to use Augury at the beginning of waves, since it adds only one max hit to barrage and wastes prayer; he starts waves with Augury from wave 50 onward for the defence.15

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey says Ice Barrage versus Blood Barrage DPS on nibblers is marginal because you almost always hit; Ice Barrage keeps them in place.16
  • Gnomonkey says to always know how you will get back to full health before the next wave, and never waste brews because of miscalculation after a wave is already solved.17
  • Gnomonkey says Mika's strategy of pure blood barrage mage with Zuriel's staff was the right play against a team with only javelins and no ACBs, and he cannot blame him for it.18

Revision history

Date Video Change
2026-06-25 PVM to PVP: My DMM Allstars Experience (OSRS) Added: 2 statements (opinion, stat)
2025-07-13 EASY INFERNO: SUB 65 MINUTE GUIDE (OSRS) Added: 4 statements (stat, tip)
2024-09-12 EXTREME Hardcore Ironman Quiver (OSRS) Added: 2 statements (tip)
2022-11-04 Inferno (BOFA) Guide OSRS Added: 8 statements (opinion, stat, tip)
2021-05-21 Inferno Guide OSRS (Waves + Triple Jads + Zuk) Page created: 5 statements (stat, tip)
## See also

References

  1. Inferno Guide OSRS (Waves + Triple Jads + Zuk), 2021-05-21. ▶ 22:41 ↩↩

  2. Inferno Guide OSRS (Waves + Triple Jads + Zuk), 2021-05-21. ▶ 24:12 ↩

  3. Inferno (BOFA) Guide OSRS, 2022-11-04. ▶ 10:35 ↩

  4. EASY INFERNO: SUB 65 MINUTE GUIDE (OSRS), 2025-07-13. ▶ 36:10 ↩

  5. PVM to PVP: My DMM Allstars Experience (OSRS), 2026-06-25. ▶ 44:10 ↩

  6. Inferno Guide OSRS (Waves + Triple Jads + Zuk), 2021-05-21. ▶ 17:15 ↩

  7. Inferno Guide OSRS (Waves + Triple Jads + Zuk), 2021-05-21. ▶ 19:02 ↩

  8. Inferno (BOFA) Guide OSRS, 2022-11-04. ▶ 4:50 ↩↩

  9. Inferno (BOFA) Guide OSRS, 2022-11-04. ▶ 12:28 ↩

  10. Inferno (BOFA) Guide OSRS, 2022-11-04. ▶ 35:00 ↩

  11. Inferno (BOFA) Guide OSRS, 2022-11-04. ▶ 38:10 ↩

  12. EXTREME Hardcore Ironman Quiver (OSRS), 2024-09-12. ▶ 27:10 ↩↩

  13. EASY INFERNO: SUB 65 MINUTE GUIDE (OSRS), 2025-07-13. ▶ 3:17 ↩

  14. EASY INFERNO: SUB 65 MINUTE GUIDE (OSRS), 2025-07-13. ▶ 38:10 ↩

  15. EASY INFERNO: SUB 65 MINUTE GUIDE (OSRS), 2025-07-13. ▶ 40:05 ↩

  16. Inferno (BOFA) Guide OSRS, 2022-11-04. ▶ 18:58 ↩

  17. Inferno (BOFA) Guide OSRS, 2022-11-04. ▶ 1:05:10 ↩

  18. PVM to PVP: My DMM Allstars Experience (OSRS), 2026-06-25. ▶ 50:10 ↩

Mechanics

Colosseum invocations • Yama contracts • Invocations (Tombs of Amascut) • Jal-ImKot • Inferno pillars • Jal-Ak • Alt account • Thralls • Nex gear setup • Tempoross • Turael • Inferno waves • Jal-Nib • Doom of Mokhaiotl: rock block method • Monkey Room • Fortis Colosseum pillars • Phantom barrage • Awakened bosses • Melee gear progression • Demonic Brutus • Jal-MejRah • Prayer flicking • Butterfly Tech • Fortis Colosseum setup • Doom of Mokhaiotl: melee punish • Sulliuscep • Botting • Off-ticking • Corner trapping • Doom of Mokhaiotl: car attack • Combat Achievements • Doom of Mokhaiotl: shield phase • Pest Control • Blood Barrage • Nylocas • Great Olm 4-1 method • Nex reset • Triple Jad • RuneScape 3 combat • Tightrope skip

Category: Mechanics