Phantom Muspah

This fight takes place in an instance. On death, all unprotected items will be moved to a grave outside the instance. Any items left on the ground will be lost.

This article has a strategy guide. All information on mechanics and strategy will be on this page.

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Phantom Muspah
Released								11 January 2023 (Update)
Members								Yes
Combat level								741
Size								5x5
Examine								Imagination gone wild.
Combat info
Attribute								Spectral
XP bonus								+107.5%
Max hit								61 (Ranged) 72 (Magic)
Aggressive								Yes
Poisonous								No
Attack style								Ranged, Magic
Attack speed								6 ticks (3.6 seconds)
Respawn time								50 ticks (30 seconds)
Slayer info
Slayer level								None
Slayer XP								1,763.7 xp
Category								Bosses
Assigned by
Combat stats
850				280				280				200				150				280
Aggressive stats
+393				+11				+280				+180				+64				+6
Melee defence
+185								+134								+120
Magic defence
+437												65% weakness
Ranged defence
+56								+56								+56
Immunities
Poison								100% resistance
Venom								100% resistance
Cannons								Immune
Thralls								Not immune
Freeze								33% resistance
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Advanced data
Monster ID								12077
Link								MOID

The Phantom Muspah is a solo boss that can be fought after completion of the quest Secrets of the North. It is the leftover energy of the Strange Creature that manifested after the events of the quest.

The Phantom Muspah is stronger than its quest variant, but otherwise shares the same attacks and mechanics. All forms of the Phantom Muspah have 33% freeze resistance, meaning it will only stay frozen for 66% of the base freeze duration.

Unique drops from the boss include ancient essence, used in the creation of forgotten brews or upgrading the imbued heart into a saturated heart, and the venator shard, of which five can be combined to create the venator bow, a unique bow that shines in multicombat situations.

If players die against the Muspah, their grave will appear outside the lair in the Ghorrock Dungeon. When the Muspah is defeated, it will respawn after 30 seconds.

Location	Levels	Members	Spawns	Map
Ghorrock Dungeon	741		1	Show map

The Phantom Muspah's lair is accessible from Ghorrock Dungeon, with the dungeon itself being accessible from Weiss's Salt Mine. The lair can be entered from a crevice south-west of the dungeon.

A scoreboard by the crevice shows statistics related to the Phantom Muspah.

The Phantom Muspah alternates between a ranged form and a melee form roughly every 100 damage in ranged form and 80 damage in melee form that it takes. In its range form it spits green ranged projectiles, is weakest to ranged, and occasionally charges a powerful magic attack. The magic attack can hit up to 72 and applies corruption which drains prayer over time, but is fully blocked by quickly switching to Protect from Magic. In its melee form it uses melee attacks that deal increasingly more damage the longer the Muspah stays still, even through prayer. In this form it is weakest to magic, and must be frozen or kited around.

When changing forms it spawns a few spikes around the arena including one under the player, which should be dodged or else it will knock the player aside and heal the Muspah based on damage dealt.

It has two special attacks that it uses at 637 (75%) and 425 (50%) health. If it spawns in ranged form it uses Lightning Clouds first, otherwise it uses Homing Spikes first.

• Lightning Clouds - The Phantom Muspah will rapidly teleport around the arena, leaving behind lightning clouds that travel across the area, which also must be avoided.
• Homing Spikes - The Phantom Muspah will slam the ground, causing 1-4 spikes to slowly home in on the player for ~20 seconds.

Upon reaching less than 127 health, the Phantom Muspah will teleport to the centre of the arena and unleash a massive shock wave that must be avoided by standing behind a spike. It then activates a prayer shield; during this shielded phase it attacks similarly to its ranged phase, along with use of the overhead Soul Split prayer and summoning additional spikes that appear under the player. The shield should be drained via using Smite in between its attacks, and/or using enchanted sapphire bolts.

After the shield is depleted it will return to its ranged form. Every four attacks, it will generate spikes onto the arena, and players must defeat it as quickly as possible or the entire arena will be covered in spikes.

Phantom Muspah
Level required					40
Prayer XP					170 xp
Type					Spectral creature
Required tool					Ectoplasmator

The following money making guide is available for Phantom Muspah:

	Unique drop sound effect
The sound that plays when receiving a unique drop.

Drop rates are estimated based on 1,129,584 samples from the Drop Rate Project, unless otherwise cited.

In addition to the unique drops, the player will also have two rolls on the Phantom Muspah's secondary drop table. If the player gets a Venator shard, they will not get any other drop.

The average Phantom Muspah kill is worth 267,804.5.

Excluding the Venator shard, the average kill is worth 146,559.39.

The expected amount of ancient essence received per kill is 759.4. This does not include the expected 6.1 essence per kill from frozen caches, the average 100 essence per kill from broken-down ancient icons, or the average of 500 essence per kill from broken-down Venator shards. If you include all sources of ancient essence the expected essence per kill is 1365.5.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Ancient essence	540–599	60/100	9,720–10,782	8,640–9,584
	Ancient essence	885–995[d 1]	23/100	15,930–17,910	14,160–15,920
	Ancient essence	1,970–2,060[d 2]	10/100	35,460–37,080	31,520–32,960
	Frozen cache	1	4/100[1]	Not sold	60
	Ancient icon	1	2/100[1]	Not sold	N/A
	Venator shard	1	1/100[1][d 3]	12,124,511	90,000

There is a 2/9 chance to roll the supplies table. When rolled, the player will receive 3 drops from it: either sharks or summer pies, either ancient brew or ranging potion, and either super restore or prayer potion. It replaces one of the normal loot rolls.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Shark	4–6	1/9	3,928–5,892	408–612
	Summer pie	4–6	1/9	2,672–4,008	336–504
	Ancient brew(3)	1–2	1/9	2,041–4,082	105–210
	Ranging potion(3)	1–3	1/9	1,303–3,909	172–516
	Super restore(3)	2–3	1/9	14,572–21,858	288–432
	Prayer potion(3)	2–3	1/9	14,352–21,528	182–273

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Rune kiteshield	3 (noted)	2 × 10/235	95,991	97,920
	Dragon plateskirt	1	2 × 5/235	161,268	162,000
	Rune platelegs	3 (noted)	2 × 5/235	113,409	115,200
	Black d'hide body	1	2 × 5/235	7,310	8,088
	Dragon platelegs	2	2 × 4/235	322,360	324,000
	Rune sword	1	2 × 1/235	12,046	12,480

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Law rune	146	2 × 10/235	17,812	21,024
	Soul rune	380	2 × 10/235	148,580	68,400
	Death rune	428	2 × 10/235	80,464	46,224
	Smoke rune	314	2 × 15/235	20,724	3,768
	Chaos rune	480	2 × 5/235	50,400	25,920
	Fire rune	1,964	2 × 5/235	9,820	3,928
	Steel cannonball	670	2 × 5/235	179,560	2,010

There is a 3/235 chance to receive grimy toadflax and a 5/235 chance to roll the combat herb drop table.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Grimy toadflax	40 (noted)	2 × 3/235	84,280	440
	Grimy kwuarm	6 (noted)	2 × 5/752	13,632	72
	Grimy dwarf weed	6 (noted)	2 × 4/752	7,578	84
	Grimy cadantine	6 (noted)	2 × 4/752	12,894	78
	Grimy lantadyme	6 (noted)	2 × 3/752	6,888	78

There is a 5/235 chance of rolling the tree-herb seed drop table.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Yew seed	2	2 × 5/235	43,294	170
	Torstol seed	2	2 × 5/235	28,308	84
	Palm tree seed	2	2 × 5/235	34,170	304
	Ranarr seed	3	2 × 5/235	97,482	90
	Snapdragon seed	5	2 × 4/235	231,485	180
	Ranarr seed	5	2 × 3/235	162,470	150
	Spirit seed	1	2 × 2/235	Not sold	0
	Ranarr seed	3	2 × 1/391.7	97,482	90
	Snapdragon seed	3	2 × 1/419.6	138,891	108
	Torstol seed	3	2 × 1/534.1	42,462	126
	Watermelon seed	49	2 × 1/559.5	4,508	1,617
	Willow seed	3	2 × 1/587.5	180	27
	Mahogany seed	3	2 × 1/652.8	561	84
	Maple seed	3	2 × 1/652.8	9,873	84
	Teak seed	3	2 × 1/652.8	240	84
	Yew seed	3	2 × 1/652.8	64,941	255
	Papaya tree seed	3	2 × 1/839.3	3,651	207
	Magic seed	3	2 × 1/1,068.2	226,914	759
	Palm tree seed	3	2 × 1/1,175	51,255	456
	Spirit seed	3	2 × 1/1,468.8	Not sold	0
	Dragonfruit tree seed	3	2 × 1/1,958.3	451,110	774
	Celastrus seed	3	2 × 1/2,937.5	51,231	972
	Redwood tree seed	3	2 × 1/2,937.5	46,434	1,170

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Adamantite ore	22 (noted)	2 × 10/235	12,342	5,280
	Gold ore	180 (noted)	2 × 10/235	28,260	16,200
	Teak plank	22 (noted)	2 × 10/235	19,844	6,600
	Molten glass	89 (noted)	2 × 15/235	7,832	89
	Pure essence	2,314 (noted)	2 × 5/235	4,628	4,628
	Coal	163 (noted)	2 × 5/235	23,146	4,401
	Runite ore	18 (noted)	2 × 3/235	182,952	34,560
	Silver ore	101 (noted)	2 × 2/235	6,767	4,545
	Water orb	21 (noted)	2 × 15/235	20,286	3,780
	Dragon bolts (unf)	89	2 × 10/235	227,039	7,476
	Limpwurt root	21 (noted)	2 × 3/235	4,746	84

There is a 10/235 chance of rolling the shark drop table.^[2]

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Raw shark	28 (noted)	2 × 3.75/235	19,376	2,856
	Shark lure	56	2 × 3.75/235	12,824	336
	Manta ray	28 (noted)	2 × 2.5/235	38,332	3,360

There is a 5/235 chance of rolling the rare drop table.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Nothing	N/A	2 × 1/259.04; Never[d 1]	N/A	N/A
	Coins	3,000	2 × 1/286.48	3,000	3,000
	Uncut sapphire	1	2 × 1/1,203.2; 1/611[d 2]	206	15
	Loop half of key	1	2 × 1/298.47; 1/296.24[d 2]	9,737	60
	Tooth half of key	1	2 × 1/298.47; 1/296.24[d 2]	9,917	60
	Uncut emerald	1	2 × 1/2,406.4; 1/1,222[d 2]	416	30
	Uncut ruby	1	2 × 1/4,812.8; 1/2,444[d 2]	1,011	60
	Runite bar	1	2 × 1/1,203.2	12,185	3,000
	Nature rune	67	2 × 1/2,005.33	9,112	7,236
	Rune 2h sword	1	2 × 1/2,005.33	37,862	38,400
	Rune battleaxe	1	2 × 1/2,005.33	24,603	24,960
	Law rune	45	2 × 1/3,008	5,490	6,480
	Death rune	45	2 × 1/3,008	8,460	4,860
	Steel arrow	150	2 × 1/3,008	1,350	1,050
	Rune arrow	42	2 × 1/3,008	1,848	10,080
	Adamant javelin	20	2 × 1/3,008	1,060	1,920
	Rune sq shield	1	2 × 1/3,008	22,613	23,040
	Dragonstone	1	2 × 1/3,008	10,989	6,000
	Silver ore	100 (noted)	2 × 1/3,008	6,700	4,500
	Nature talisman	1	2 × 1/12,834.13; 1/6,517.33[d 2]	159	2
	Uncut diamond	1	2 × 1/19,251.2; 1/9,776[d 2]	2,455	120
	Rune kiteshield	1	2 × 1/6,016	31,997	32,640
	Dragon med helm	1	2 × 1/6,016	56,692	60,000
	Rune spear	1	2 × 1/6,350.91; 1/736.88[d 2][d 3]	11,769	12,480
	Rune javelin	5	2 × 1/38,502.4; 1/19,552[d 2]	650	1,200
	Shield left half	1	2 × 1/12,701.82; 1/1,473.77[d 2][d 3]	65,429	66,000
	Dragon spear	1	2 × 1/16,935.76; 1/1,965.03[d 2][d 3]	37,749	37,440

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Brimstone key	1	1/50[d 1]	Not sold	N/A
	Clue scroll (hard)	1	1/30[d 2][d 3]	Not sold	12
	Clue scroll (elite)	1	1/45[d 4][d 3]	Not sold	12
	Charged ice	1	Always[d 5]	Not sold	N/A
	Muphin	1	1/2,500[1]	Not sold	N/A

The Phantom Muspah has 6 collection log items.

Item	Collections	Comp%
Muphin	Phantom Muspah, All Pets	1.8%
Venator shard	Phantom Muspah	14.7%
Ancient essence	Phantom Muspah	26.5%
Frozen cache	Phantom Muspah	20.7%
Ancient icon	Phantom Muspah	20.2%
Charged ice	Phantom Muspah	18.4%

There are 13 Combat Achievement tasks (totalling 61 points) available for the Phantom Muspah.

Name	Description	Type	Tier	Comp%
Phantom Muspah Adept	Kill the Phantom Muspah.	Kill Count	Hard (3 pts)	32.4%
Versatile Drainer	Drain the Phantom Muspah's Prayer with three different sources in one kill.	Mechanical	Elite (4 pts)	18.3%
Phantom Muspah Veteran	Kill the Phantom Muspah 25 times.	Kill Count	Elite (4 pts)	25.6%
Can't Escape	Kill the Phantom Muspah without running.	Restriction	Elite (4 pts)	15.4%
Phantom Muspah Speed-Trialist	Kill the Phantom Muspah in less than 3 minutes without a slayer task.	Speed	Elite (4 pts)	22.1%
Walk Straight Pray True	Kill the Phantom Muspah without taking any avoidable damage.	Perfection	Master (5 pts)	23.4%
Space is Tight	Kill the Phantom Muspah whilst it is surrounded by spikes.	Mechanical	Master (5 pts)	19.8%
Phantom Muspah Master	Kill the Phantom Muspah 50 times.	Kill Count	Master (5 pts)	22.4%
Essence Farmer	Kill the Phantom Muspah 10 times in one trip.	Stamina	Master (5 pts)	10.4%
More than just a ranged weapon	Kill the Phantom Muspah by only dealing damage to it with a salamander.	Restriction	Master (5 pts)	7.5%
Phantom Muspah Speed-Chaser	Kill the Phantom Muspah in less than 2 minutes without a slayer task.	Speed	Master (5 pts)	8.8%
Phantom Muspah Manipulator	Kill the Phantom Muspah whilst completing Walk Straight Pray True, Space is Tight & Can't Escape.	Perfection	Grandmaster (6 pts)	6.9%
Phantom Muspah Speed-Runner	Kill the Phantom Muspah in less than 1 minute and 30 seconds without a slayer task.	Speed	Grandmaster (6 pts)	3.5%

• 
  Concept art of the Phantom Muspah, by Mod Jerv.
• 
  Model of the Phantom Muspah by Mod Soffan.
• 
  An early concept of the Phantom Muspah, by Mod Jerv.

• Muspah are beasts known and feared by the Mahjarrat.^[3] No other muspah have appeared or been referenced in Old School RuneScape, so little more is known of them.
  • In RuneScape 3, the muspah were created by the Elder God Mah, an amalgamation of the most fearsome creatures in her nightmares.
• The Muspah may have been named after Muspelheim, the land of raging fire in Old Norse mythology.
• Physical similarities and a previous steel cannonball drop of 666 may be a reference to Diablo II's demon Duriel.
• The scoreboard plaque across from the entrance contains Morse code that translates to "YOU GOT THIS BUDDY".
• Per Mod Arcane, the 'Lightning Cloud' special attack was inspired by the Shaper boss fight from the game Path of Exile.^[4]