Demonic Gorillas (for that sweet zenyte set)

[tanktoptiger]

Demonic Gorillas

 

---

1. Overview of Demonic Gorillas

Demonic Gorillas are a unique type of monster/semi boss that tests your ability to hybrid/tribrid and switch prayers, Similarly to the gauntlet. 1 key difference is that the gorillas attack with all 3 styles instead of 2 and their protect pray is determined by damage threshold done to them in the style you used instead of hit counts. To get there, simply teleport to crash site cavern under monster teles. Demonic gorillas drops a bunch of coins and zenyte shards which are required for zenyte jewellries (Anguish, tormented bracelet, Ammy of torture, ring of suffering). These jewelries are mostly BiS (currently, until things like rancour comes in the future) in its respective slots and are highly sought after. 

---

2. Requirements

The Demonic gorillas can be completed with slightly lower stats, but the following are recommended for the smoothest experience:

• Ranged: 90+ 
• Melee: 90+ 
• you can technically use mage but melee + range seems to be best given the gears we have currently (mage is just ass right now sadly) 
• Prayer: 45 (for Protection Prayers) preferably 74+ with piety and rigour;
• Hitpoints: 90+

 

---

3. Gear and Inventory Setup

A variety of gear can be used here depending on how comfortable you are with switching and availability of your gears. for armors I'd focus more on range based as the accuracy bonus is more apparent in ranged armor vs melee bonus provided by melee armors, unless you are willing to do more switching. 
Helmet slot : slayer helm (if on black demons task) > Void ranger/melee (my personal fave off task, less switching involved too) >  Serpentine helmet/ crystal helmet (if using bowfa) > netiznot
Body slot + Leg slot : elite void (if using void sets)/ crystal armor (if using bowfa) >  statius and/or arma (bring both if you want to switch,else stick to just arma) > karils 
Gloves : Barrows / Void (if using void set)
Boots: Prims/Pegs
Ring: Berserker(i) / suffering/ brimstone(best for hybrid)
cape: infernal/ assember > fire cape
Necklace : Bloodfury > Torture/anguish > Fury
Weapons (Ranged): Bowfa > arma/dragon/rune crossbow + dstonebolts (e) / Blowpipe > magic shortbow 
Weapons (melee): Blade of saeldor > Tent whip > normal whip 
Offhand : dragon defender > dragonfire shield, any ranged offhand (if you are using crossbows) 
Inventory : Divine super combat + divine ranging (substitute with normals if you dont have divines), 6-8 prayer pots , weapon switch, 6-8 anglers + 6-8 karambwans (can substitute foods with sara brew + super restores), bring less food/prayer pots if you are using more switches but this usually leads to less kills per trip. 

This is what i personally bring for gear + inventory setup :
 https://imgur.com/a/b0IaPEf

 

---

4. Fight mechanics

• Prayers: Demonic Gorillas will pray to all 3 styles based on how much damage it received from a particular style. when it receives 50 or more damage off pray, it will switch to the prayer of the last used combat (e.g. If it's praying melee and you hit it 40 with ranged 1st then use mage to hit 15, it will pray mage). Demonic Gorillas always starts with Melee pray. 
• Attacks: Demonic Gorillas generally start the fight with melee if you attack it in melee range, otherwise it will use either its range attack (rock throw) or mage attack (some green ball /vomit thingamabob). The gorilla will attack at least 3x with its current style (it will swap its attack after 3 missed hits a.k.a player takes no damage. so it does not necessarily only count if it hits you on pray. as long as it is a 0 it counts towards the 3 hits. Special boulder drop does not count to the 3 attacks.) then switches to another style most of the time. It is extremely rare that it sticks to its current style after 3 failed hits (special circumstance may cause it to use the same hits e.g. after 3 failed ranged attack, it attempts to use melee but cant get into melee range in time, it will then attempt to use range/mage. not sure if it's intended like in OSRS or not). If you do not pray correctly to his hits, it may hit you a a max hit of 30~
  
  Special attacks: In addition to above, the Gorilla will occasionally drop a boulder on your spot which hits you for 33% of your current hp. Do note that since this is based on your current hp, this attack cannot kill you. but it still hurts like a mother. just step away from your original tile and you're good to go 

 

---

5. Strategy and Tips

• Turn on the Demonic gorilla plug in, it will have the indicator on top of it's head, showing which style it is using. (do note that melee plugin is bugged as it counts towards the hit even when it successfully hits or when it drops a boulder, so you have to manually count the hits yourself. 

• Do not panic if you miss the prayer, just quickly switch to the style he is using. 

• You can minimize the damage you take by doing some moves to help you narrow down which style he is using next. the Rule of thumb here is that 1) Demonic gorilla rarely use the same style after 1 cycle, 2) when they are attempting to use Melee, it will try to move towards you. 
  Thus, using this you can predict majority of its attacks and use far less food in your trip. After a range/mage cycle by simply walking away before his new cycle starts. If you see him chase you, quickly switch to melee pray as it is an indicator that melee attack is coming, if he stays put, switch to style that he did not use previously.

 

---

6.  Rewards and Conclusion

Demonic gorillas drop ballista parts and other goodies but what you are here mainly for is the Zenyte shards. They also drop a good amount of noted supplies (mid-high level herbs) and coins (around 100k~ ish per kill). 

---

 

 

[Ben]

Geez, 
Where was this when I needed it, had to learn demonics the hard way 😕

Nice guide, keep it up!

- Ben

[Bae]

Love the guide! gonna be super helpful for new players great work!