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Whisperer

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Whisperer

Whisperer
Type Boss
Videos 1 (first 2024-05-10, latest 2024-05-10)
Main source WIKI GUIDES - Whisperer

Whisperer is a boss topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2024-05-10. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Contents

Requirements

  • The Whisperer requires the grandmaster quest Desert Treasure 2, which Gnomonkey says should make many low-tier gear downgrades irrelevant.1

Methods

  • Gnomonkey uses a powered staff on the Whisperer so he can use thralls, and drinks forgotten brews for a 10 magic level boost.2
  • Gnomonkey uses the Rune thrownaxe special attack to kill the Whisperer's Lost Souls.2
  • Gnomonkey used the Gearscape budget tool with a 9 million gp budget; its setup uses void mage and Infinity boots and reaches a max hit of 38 after boosting.3

Stats and numbers

  • Gnomonkey's downgraded setup has a max hit of 26 on the Whisperer with an Amulet of power, and the amulet's effect decays instantly.4
  • In Gnomonkey's setup the powered staff has nine tile range, the same as a Sanguinesti staff or Toxic trident, so he did not need freezes.2
  • The Whisperer's attack that bounces back only hits two targets rather than all three.5
  • In the budget setup Gnomonkey's expected time to kill was 140 seconds, which the calculator says should be about two and a half minutes without downtime.6
  • The wiki's worst downgrade setup had a mage attack bonus of 143 and a 38 max hit; Gnomonkey says the budget setup had about 50% more magic accuracy and 50% higher max hit.7

Tips

  • The Gearscape budget tool lets you export the generated setup straight to a bank tab.8

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey says awakening sanity loss is more concerning than the Whisperer's damage, and the end of the fight is the only scary part.9
  • Gnomonkey was surprised the budget tool recommends Infinity boots (about 400k) and a Sears ring, but says accuracy matters so the choice is plausible.10
  • Gnomonkey says Moon (Lunar-themed) gear is turning out more okay than he expected, and that it is very cheap and great for budgets.11
  • Gnomonkey says the Whisperer is a boring boss in general and that it feels slow without Shadow, since the boss is balanced around having Shadow.12
  • Gnomonkey ranks the Whisperer roughly third among the Desert Treasure 2 bosses, saying Duke Sucellus is definitely worse.13
  • Gnomonkey finds the Whisperer's reduced damage taken while it does its special attack to be what makes the fight annoying.14
  • Gnomonkey says that despite the budget setup having 13 extra max hits, the improvement was smaller than he expected, and speculates bad gear is just bad at the Whisperer.15
  • Gnomonkey suggests mage gear helps little against the Whisperer because there is so much downtime on the boss, so mage just does not do well here until you have Shadow.16

Records

  • The budget setup killed the Whisperer in about 3 minutes 50 seconds, roughly a minute faster and about 20% faster than the worst-gear kill, whereas Gnomonkey expected about two minutes saved.17

Revision history

Date Video Change
2024-05-10 WIKI GUIDES - Whisperer Page created: 19 statements (method, opinion, record, requirement, stat, tip)
## References

  1. WIKI GUIDES - Whisperer, 2024-05-10. ▶ 0:00 ↩

  2. WIKI GUIDES - Whisperer, 2024-05-10. ▶ 1:23 ↩↩↩

  3. WIKI GUIDES - Whisperer, 2024-05-10. ▶ 5:14 ↩

  4. WIKI GUIDES - Whisperer, 2024-05-10. ▶ 0:29 ↩

  5. WIKI GUIDES - Whisperer, 2024-05-10. ▶ 3:14 ↩

  6. WIKI GUIDES - Whisperer, 2024-05-10. ▶ 6:54 ↩

  7. WIKI GUIDES - Whisperer, 2024-05-10. ▶ 9:30 ↩

  8. WIKI GUIDES - Whisperer, 2024-05-10. ▶ 7:37 ↩

  9. WIKI GUIDES - Whisperer, 2024-05-10. ▶ 3:24 ↩

  10. WIKI GUIDES - Whisperer, 2024-05-10. ▶ 5:29 ↩

  11. WIKI GUIDES - Whisperer, 2024-05-10. ▶ 5:38 ↩

  12. WIKI GUIDES - Whisperer, 2024-05-10. ▶ 7:30 ↩

  13. WIKI GUIDES - Whisperer, 2024-05-10. ▶ 8:31 ↩

  14. WIKI GUIDES - Whisperer, 2024-05-10. ▶ 9:45 ↩

  15. WIKI GUIDES - Whisperer, 2024-05-10. ▶ 9:58 ↩

  16. WIKI GUIDES - Whisperer, 2024-05-10. ▶ 10:30 ↩

  17. WIKI GUIDES - Whisperer, 2024-05-10. ▶ 9:46 ↩

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