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Update: Sailing slayer monsters

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Update: Sailing slayer monsters

Update: Sailing slayer monsters
Type Update
Videos 1 (first 2025-11-26, latest 2025-11-26)
Main source Sailing's Future in OSRS

Update: Sailing slayer monsters is an update topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2025-11-26. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Stats and numbers

  • Lava Strikeworms take 50% extra from water spells and are healed by fire spells, which Gnomonkey says is the whole mechanic after Jagex teased that elemental spells would weaken or empower them.1
  • Frost Dragons have a 100% fire weakness; with the Dragon Hunter wand, which stacks with the elemental weakness, Gnomonkey says you can get almost 200 kills per hour, but it is still only about a 40k Slayer XP per hour task with a low Slayer weight.2
  • Frost Dragons and the other new monsters drop Sailing materials such as dragon metal sheets, dragon nails and dragon cannonballs but nothing useful outside Sailing; Frost Dragon dragon metal sheets are about 1 in 180, Lava Strikeworm sheets about 1 in 500.2

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey calls the Sailing Slayer monsters (Aqua Knights, Lava Strikeworms, Frost Dragons) and the Shellbane Gryphon boss a disappointment, with very simple mechanics and nothing that teaches or prepares players for other content.3
  • Gnomonkey says the Aqua Knight hopper's double bolt proc is roughly equal to the Stalker offhand in a calculator and nowhere good, so there is not much reason to unlock the new monsters.4
  • Gnomonkey predicts most of the new Slayer monsters will be dead content in a month or two once the hype of going for 200 million Sailing XP fades.5
  • Gnomonkey would like more Slayer monsters with several mechanics and good XP rates, like Tormented Demons, and is sick of cannoning and bursting every task; he notes RS3 monsters such as Frost Dragons and Lava Strikeworms had mechanics that Jagex did not copy.6
  • Gnomonkey criticises that an 87 Sailing requirement monster still gives a worse Slayer XP rate than the average Slayer task, at about 40k an hour with max gear.7

Revision history

Date Video Change
2025-11-26 Sailing's Future in OSRS Page created: 8 statements (opinion, stat)
## References

  1. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 1:05:37 ↩

  2. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 1:06:10 ↩↩

  3. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 1:04:04 ↩

  4. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 1:08:05 ↩

  5. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 1:09:09 ↩

  6. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 1:09:40 ↩

  7. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 1:10:12 ↩

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