Method Description, Instructions and Tips for Success

General Description

Vampires used to be a fairly pointless monster to fight, but now that vampire dust is in high demand as a Summoning secondary ingredient, they are a great combat monster. They provide the dust with each kill, and in addition also provide runes, herbs, strawberry and watermelon seeds, and herb seeds as well. (The seeds are dropped in rather small quantities so I have approximated the value of these in the gold output figure.) They also drop level 2 clue scrolls.

These monsters are a bit slow to kill with level 50 skills but still worth doing, provided that you have the ability to use the Burgh de Rott bank and the Agility shortcut (over the fence) to the mine area. With level 70 skills they are easy to kill, and at level 90 skills and above you can mow them down quite quickly.

Specific Method Details

Get to Burgh de Rott by taking the shortcut from Canifis to Mort'ton and then heading south. At the bank equip standard melee gear and take out a 2-dose super set, a small amount of food (4 salmon or so will do) and a spirit terrorbird pouch.

Run west to the fence and jump over it; go a bit to the west and the vampires are right there -- it takes only a few seconds. Take your first super set dose and start fighting the vampires. Since the bank is so close by, I recommend taking all reasonably valuable drops, even guams and tarromins, as well as good herb and allotment seeds. Take death, blood and chaos runes but don't bother with earth runes since you only get 4 at a time. Summon the terrorbird when you have at least 12 vampire dust and put them in the familiar. When your inventory is full, return to the bank, store your goodies and repeat the process.