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Xarpus

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Xarpus

Xarpus
Type Boss
Videos 3 (first 2021-01-29, latest 2023-10-29)
Main source THEATRE OF BLOOD Money Making Guide OSRS (8m+ GP/HR) 2021

Xarpus is a boss topic that Gnomonkey covers in 3 videos between 2021-01-29 and 2023-10-29. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

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Methods

  • At the start of the Xarpus fight he is invincible and graves appear around the room that heal him if not stood on, so spread the team evenly to stand on graves; after a couple of minutes the graves disappear and he hovers, no longer invincible, and begins firing poison blobs at teammates in order top to bottom.1
  • Xarpus's poison blobs damage you if they land within one tile of your character, so you must be at least two tiles away; blobs can also split off from a teammate's splat and chain to someone else, and are only fired or split off on the tick Xarpus turns toward someone, every four ticks.1
  • After Xarpus is damaged to 20 to 30% health (depending on how much graves healed him), he screeches and turns to a random quadrant for short periods; attacking him while he faces your quadrant recoils 60 to 80 damage per splat, and with three hit splats this can almost instantly kill you.2
  • On entering Xarpus each person takes a quadrant and drops a bruise to use a two-handed weapon; first-time players should mark the sixteen tiles around him. Only two graves are active at a time in a four-man (one in a three-man, which makes the start much longer), so step off once the third grave spawns.3
  • When all 15 graves (12 in a trio) are done, drink super combat if not potted, enable Piety and drop both hammer specs on Xarpus; the two BGSers hold their specs and melee until hammers are dropped, and dump BGS if at least three hammers hit, otherwise one BGSer backs up with more hammer hits first.4
  • Learners at Xarpus move to their graves-phase corner after specing and switch to ranged gear, attacking constantly and moving only when he looks at them; teams who are all ranging should move in a zipper pattern to condense painted tiles, while if anyone is scythe walking others should walk the outer edge clockwise in the first and second rows to stay out of their way.5
  • After the screech with a four-tick weapon like a whip, attack Xarpus twice per head turn since he turns every eight ticks, moving between attacks to near where he is facing and then to the marked yellow tiles after the second attack, since he never faces the same area twice in a row; do not paint those yellow tiles earlier.6
  • Scythe walking at Xarpus uses the same four-tick timing as at Verzik, but the cue is reversed: you need to get off Xarpus the tick he turns (when you first see the poison blob leave his mouth) and cue to begin attacking when he turns toward someone; walk clockwise so you do not run into teammates.7
  • A tick-perfect scythe cycle at Xarpus is 2-2-1-2-1: if you hit the same tick he turned you get two hits the next turn, then one, then two, then one, queuing your attack in his face; Gnomonkey says he can usually walk the same tile about four times before moving, and he has not fully learned a harder method that wastes no ticks by ragging the corners on the fourth hit.8
  • Hard mode Xarpus is very similar to regular ToB, except there is far less space to work with, meaning you have to play perfectly.9
  • In hard mode Xarpus the sides are covered, so the poison cannot go there, which leaves less space to work with.10

Stats and numbers

  • Xarpus has the highest defense of any boss in the Theatre of Blood at 250, so intelligent speccing matters; spec from a corner that will not affect scythe walkers, and moving back after the first spec then speccing again after he turns means he paints no tile near him.11
  • According to Gnomonkey, Scythe walking at Xarpus matters less than expected because a blowpipe with dragon darts does more damage than a scythe when Xarpus is reduced to one defense with the standard walk, and rune darts are almost the same DPS as the scythe; the scythe is much better when he has not been drained much (more relevant in trios) and the blowpipe also beats a Twisted bow unless Xarpus was barely drained.12

Tips

  • At Xarpus always click the shadow, since his hitbox goes up and down and the space under him has no hitbox, so misclicking under him can cost large damage; do not keep firing AFK after the screech or you are almost guaranteed to die, and switch to melee gear once he starts turning.6
  • As a learner with a scythe at Xarpus, use a two-to-one cycle (two hits, then one after the turn), since attacking while he faces you is guaranteed death with a scythe; once he is about 5% health the team can all use Crystal halberd specs to finish him.13
  • After Xarpus dies, pick up potions and head to Verzik; someone with an anglerfish can overheal to pick up the staff, otherwise someone drops a brew first to free a slot.13
  • Gnomonkey had to learn how to back tile in entry mode, an awkward attack pattern that allows poison to be placed a little more freely.10
  • Once out of room at hard mode Xarpus, Gnomonkey keeps doing a walk underneath Xarpus, similar to the Vespula technique, and says he would have run out of prayer without playing well; he hit every hammer.14

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey considers Xarpus the easiest room of the Theatre of Blood, a quiet before the storm of Verzik, and says it is the one room where you should use absolutely no supplies; Xarpus should never need food, and Gnomonkey says it is better to die than eat food here.15
  • Gnomonkey says Xarpus is the easiest room in Theater of Blood and he has never wiped there; he hates the start where you walk on graves so it does not heal armour, and suggests letting players poke Xarpus to absorb the grave health and start immediately.16
  • Gnomonkey places Xarpus in A tier because it is still scalable to go fast, even though you almost never wipe there.17
  • Gnomonkey says he loves Xarpus and describes the hard mode version as Xarpus with limited tiles that is really hard.18

Trivia

  • Scythe walking at Xarpus takes skill and has a big learning curve, and a mistake hurts teammates later because it marks tiles, while five-ticking with the Scythe means purposefully raging tiles that do not matter to teammates.19
  • In Xarpus's last phase damage taken facing you is reflected back, so a Scythe hit can kill you, and the 2-2-1 technique gets two Scythe hits tick perfect, another two the next turn, then one.20

Revision history

Date Video Change
2023-10-29 SOLO HMT ft. Cersei Lannister (OSRS) Added: 5 statements (method, opinion, tip)
2022-03-19 PVM Boss Tier List (ALL BOSSES) OSRS Added: 4 statements (opinion, trivia)
2021-01-29 THEATRE OF BLOOD Money Making Guide OSRS (8m+ GP/HR) 2021 Page created: 15 statements (method, opinion, stat, tip)
## See also

References

  1. THEATRE OF BLOOD Money Making Guide OSRS (8m+ GP/HR) 2021, 2021-01-29. ▶ 59:34 ↩↩

  2. THEATRE OF BLOOD Money Making Guide OSRS (8m+ GP/HR) 2021, 2021-01-29. ▶ 1:00:07 ↩

  3. THEATRE OF BLOOD Money Making Guide OSRS (8m+ GP/HR) 2021, 2021-01-29. ▶ 1:00:33 ↩

  4. THEATRE OF BLOOD Money Making Guide OSRS (8m+ GP/HR) 2021, 2021-01-29. ▶ 1:01:07 ↩

  5. THEATRE OF BLOOD Money Making Guide OSRS (8m+ GP/HR) 2021, 2021-01-29. ▶ 1:02:07 ↩

  6. THEATRE OF BLOOD Money Making Guide OSRS (8m+ GP/HR) 2021, 2021-01-29. ▶ 1:03:07 ↩↩

  7. THEATRE OF BLOOD Money Making Guide OSRS (8m+ GP/HR) 2021, 2021-01-29. ▶ 1:05:10 ↩

  8. THEATRE OF BLOOD Money Making Guide OSRS (8m+ GP/HR) 2021, 2021-01-29. ▶ 1:06:12 ↩

  9. SOLO HMT ft. Cersei Lannister (OSRS), 2023-10-29. ▶ 16:24 ↩

  10. SOLO HMT ft. Cersei Lannister (OSRS), 2023-10-29. ▶ 16:50 ↩↩

  11. THEATRE OF BLOOD Money Making Guide OSRS (8m+ GP/HR) 2021, 2021-01-29. ▶ 1:01:37 ↩

  12. THEATRE OF BLOOD Money Making Guide OSRS (8m+ GP/HR) 2021, 2021-01-29. ▶ 1:04:27 ↩

  13. THEATRE OF BLOOD Money Making Guide OSRS (8m+ GP/HR) 2021, 2021-01-29. ▶ 1:04:07 ↩↩

  14. SOLO HMT ft. Cersei Lannister (OSRS), 2023-10-29. ▶ 18:20 ↩

  15. THEATRE OF BLOOD Money Making Guide OSRS (8m+ GP/HR) 2021, 2021-01-29. ▶ 59:04 ↩

  16. PVM Boss Tier List (ALL BOSSES) OSRS, 2022-03-19. ▶ 1:09:31 ↩

  17. PVM Boss Tier List (ALL BOSSES) OSRS, 2022-03-19. ▶ 1:11:31 ↩

  18. SOLO HMT ft. Cersei Lannister (OSRS), 2023-10-29. ▶ 41:54 ↩

  19. PVM Boss Tier List (ALL BOSSES) OSRS, 2022-03-19. ▶ 1:10:04 ↩

  20. PVM Boss Tier List (ALL BOSSES) OSRS, 2022-03-19. ▶ 1:11:03 ↩

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