Ghast

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Ghasts are undead souls of people that starved to death in Mort Myre swamp. When they first appear they are invisible and have no combat level, and try to turn food into useless rotten food; if players have no food they will do damage instead. Building the Fire of Dehumidification in the area stops these attacks (requires the completion of Making Friends with My Arm).

Ghasts can only be killed after completion of the Nature Spirit quest. You must have a filled Druid pouch to kill them. You must use the ability of the blessed silver sickle near some dead logs or bushes to harvest Mort myre fungi, stems, or pears then put those into a druid pouch by filling it. When your druid pouch has been filled, you can use it to make a Ghast visible, or wait until a Ghast attacks you to make it visible. This renders the Ghast vulnerable to attack; killing it rewards the player with 30 Prayer experience. Higher level ghasts reward more prayer experience upon death.

Ghast hunting notes[edit | edit source]

A ghast dying.

Due to the nature of making the Ghasts visible, they are not good for combat training. They do drop lots of herbs, but so do Hobgoblins. The material drops are pretty weak as well. You do, however, gain reasonable Prayer XP as well as Combat XP for killing them.

The best place to hunt them would be just west of the Nature Grotto from the Nature Spirit quest. This allows you to keep refreshing your prayer points without using valuable prayer potions. A player can use whichever weapon they choose for combat, a silver sickle is not needed to kill them. Fully charge your prayer points, go west of the Grotto (where the Ghasts are) and cast Bloom with the sickle next to the rotten logs. Try and do it between 2 logs, and you will occasionally get 2 mushrooms to put in the Druid pouch. Do this over and over until you are out of prayer points. Now "use" the filled pouch on the ghostly Ghasts - do not wait for them to attack you. Often they will just float around, or the pouch will activate itself, allowing the solid Ghast to float out over the water where it cannot be attacked. The drops will more often than not fall under the rotten logs, so search the ground carefully after defeating the Ghast.

You can actually fill the druid pouch much faster if you cast bloom near fallen tree branches, their trimmings count for 2 in your druid pouch as opposed to mushrooms only counting for one charge.

Drops[edit | edit source]

Drop rates estimated based on 35,328 kills from the Drop Rate Project, unless otherwise cited.

100%[edit | edit source]

Item Quantity Rarity Price High Alch
Bones.png: Ghast drops Bones with rarity Always in quantity 1Bones1Always980

Weapons and armour[edit | edit source]

Item Quantity Rarity Price High Alch
Iron mace.png: Ghast drops Iron mace with rarity 3/128 in quantity 1Iron mace13/1285137
Iron dagger.png: Ghast drops Iron dagger with rarity 2/128 in quantity 1Iron dagger12/1285021
Bronze kiteshield.png: Ghast drops Bronze kiteshield with rarity 1/128 in quantity 1Bronze kiteshield11/1288940

Runes and ammunition[edit | edit source]

Item Quantity Rarity Price High Alch
Body rune.png: Ghast drops Body rune with rarity 2/128 in quantity 3Body rune32/128153
Air rune.png: Ghast drops Air rune with rarity 3/128 in quantity 4Air rune43/128208
Chaos rune.png: Ghast drops Chaos rune with rarity 1/128 in quantity 4Chaos rune41/128208216
Cosmic rune.png: Ghast drops Cosmic rune with rarity 1/128 in quantity 2Cosmic rune21/12828860
Fire rune.png: Ghast drops Fire rune with rarity 1/128 in quantity 7Fire rune71/1283514

Herbs[edit | edit source]

There is a 33/128 chance of rolling the herb drop table.

Item Quantity Rarity Price High Alch
Grimy guam leaf.png: Ghast drops Grimy guam leaf with rarity 1/15.5 in quantity 1Grimy guam leaf11/15.5217
Grimy marrentill.png: Ghast drops Grimy marrentill with rarity 1/20.7 in quantity 1Grimy marrentill11/20.7238
Grimy tarromin.png: Ghast drops Grimy tarromin with rarity 1/27.6 in quantity 1Grimy tarromin11/27.61139
Grimy harralander.png: Ghast drops Grimy harralander with rarity 1/35.5 in quantity 1Grimy harralander11/35.57529
Grimy ranarr weed.png: Ghast drops Grimy ranarr weed with rarity 1/45.1 in quantity 1Grimy ranarr weed11/45.16,43018
Grimy irit leaf.png: Ghast drops Grimy irit leaf with rarity 1/62.1 in quantity 1Grimy irit leaf11/62.171610
Grimy avantoe.png: Ghast drops Grimy avantoe with rarity 1/82.7 in quantity 1Grimy avantoe11/82.71,70710
Grimy kwuarm.png: Ghast drops Grimy kwuarm with rarity 1/99.3 in quantity 1Grimy kwuarm11/99.31,40812
Grimy cadantine.png: Ghast drops Grimy cadantine with rarity 1/124.1 in quantity 1Grimy cadantine11/124.11,64213
Grimy lantadyme.png: Ghast drops Grimy lantadyme with rarity 1/165.5 in quantity 1Grimy lantadyme11/165.51,39513
Grimy dwarf weed.png: Ghast drops Grimy dwarf weed with rarity 1/165.5 in quantity 1Grimy dwarf weed11/165.550814

Coins[edit | edit source]

Item Quantity Rarity Price High Alch
Coins_5.png: Ghast drops Coins with rarity 10/128 in quantity 10Coins1010/1281010
Coins_5.png: Ghast drops Coins with rarity 21/128 in quantity 18Coins1821/1281818
Coins_25.png: Ghast drops Coins with rarity 8/128 in quantity 26Coins268/1282626
Coins_25.png: Ghast drops Coins with rarity 6/128 in quantity 35Coins356/1283535
Coins_1.png: Ghast drops Coins with rarity 2/128 in quantity 1Coins12/12811

Other[edit | edit source]

Item Quantity Rarity Price High Alch
Fishing bait.png: Ghast drops Fishing bait with rarity 26/128 in quantity 7Fishing bait726/128287
This does not exist.NothingN/A3/128N/AN/A
Tinderbox.png: Ghast drops Tinderbox with rarity 2/128 in quantity 1Tinderbox12/128900
Eye of newt.png: Ghast drops Eye of newt with rarity 1/128 in quantity 1Eye of newt11/12851
Tin ore.png: Ghast drops Tin ore with rarity 1/128 in quantity 1Tin ore11/128861

Gem drop table[edit | edit source]

There is a 1/128 chance of rolling the gem drop table.

Item Quantity Rarity Price High Alch
This does not exist.NothingN/A1/256.47; Never[d 1]N/AN/A
Uncut sapphire.png: Ghast drops Uncut sapphire with rarity 1/512 in quantity 1Uncut sapphire11/512; 1/260[d 2]38515
Uncut emerald.png: Ghast drops Uncut emerald with rarity 1/1,024 in quantity 1Uncut emerald11/1,024; 1/520[d 2]63130
Uncut ruby.png: Ghast drops Uncut ruby with rarity 1/2,048 in quantity 1Uncut ruby11/2,048; 1/1,040[d 2]1,27160
Chaos talisman.png: Ghast drops Chaos talisman with rarity 1/5,461.33 in quantity 1Chaos talisman11/5,461.33; 1/2,773.33[d 2][d 3]5262
Nature talisman.png: Ghast drops Nature talisman with rarity 1/5,461.33 in quantity 1Nature talisman11/5,461.33; 1/2,773.33[d 2][d 3]1,1152
Uncut diamond.png: Ghast drops Uncut diamond with rarity 1/8,192 in quantity 1Uncut diamond11/8,192; 1/4,160[d 2]3,073120
Loop half of key.png: Ghast drops Loop half of key with rarity 1/16,384 in quantity 1Loop half of key11/16,384; 1/8,320[d 2]10,39660
Tooth half of key.png: Ghast drops Tooth half of key with rarity 1/16,384 in quantity 1Tooth half of key11/16,384; 1/8,320[d 2]11,20160
Rune javelin.png: Ghast drops Rune javelin with rarity 1/16,384 in quantity 5Rune javelin51/16,384; 1/8,320[d 2]8051,200
Rune spear.png: Ghast drops Rune spear with rarity 1/262,144 in quantity 1Rune spear11/262,144; 1/15,600[d 2][d 4]11,91612,480
Shield left half.png: Ghast drops Shield left half with rarity 1/524,288 in quantity 1Shield left half11/524,288; 1/31,200[d 2][d 4]65,40466,000
Dragon spear.png: Ghast drops Dragon spear with rarity 1/699,050.67 in quantity 1Dragon spear11/699,050.67; 1/41,600[d 2][d 4]38,38137,440
  1. The "nothing" drop is removed while wearing a ring of wealth.
  2. 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 The drop rate is increased while wearing a ring of wealth due to the "nothing" drop being removed.
  3. 3.0 3.1 The talisman dropped depends on where the monster is located: monsters above ground level drop the nature talisman, and monsters below ground level drop the chaos talisman.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Only dropped if Legends' Quest has been finished; if not, a talisman is dropped instead.

Changes[edit | edit source]

Date Changes
6 January 2021
(update | poll)

Ghasts were made into spectral creatures.

5 March 2015
(update | poll)

There is now a 50% chance that a ghast will ignore you instead of attacking if you have completed the Morytania Easy Diary.

5 March 2013
(update)

The food-rotting special attack of ghasts has been adjusted slightly to fix a bug.

22 February 2013
(update)

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