Slaying Dust Devils
My latest task was to slay 172 Dust Devils, so I thought that I would share it with you. Dust Devils are renown for a way of getting a dragon chain. Will I get one this time? I know that a friend of mine got one with his 1st ever slayer task with them.
Here I am fighting dust devils in the smoke dungeon
Dust Devils are combat level 93 and have 105 hit points and 105 slayer points. They are not aggressive and can be found in the chaos tunnels or the smoke dungeon to the west of the southern carpet ride place at Pollnivneach. I went to the later, but did so by climbing down the well in the middle of Pollnivneach and walking west.
This shows what I was wearing to slay dust devils
There are a few ways to slay dust devils. When I was a lower combat level I used to slay them using range. There are some safe spots for ranging, but they seem to change every now and then. However I chose to melee them this time. If I was a few points higher in the slayer tasks rewards, I would have learned the mask skill whereby I could attach the black slayer mask with the face mask. Otherwise I have my normal melee gear on with a face mask. The face mask is needed for the smoke dungeon. The photo below shows me looking at someone ranging at a safe spot.
You can see me behind someone ranging at the dust devil safe spot.
What items did I bring? If I had a high enough summoning level, then a bunyip would have been handy, because dust devils can take some hit points off you at times. However, I was still a few levels below what was needed, so I just took some good food. I also took 200 coins for the carpet ride, super pots and also 10 natures in case of rune dagger, earth battle staff or red dragonhide vambrace drops.
These are the items I bought with me to slay dust devils.
One handy thing that you get while slaying dust devils is Ugthanki Kebabs. These kebabs heal 18 hitpoints and you often get 2 per drop. This saved me having to use all of my tuna potatoes. On this occasion I used 2 nature runes to alch a red dragon vambrace and an earth battlestaff. Often there is the potential for many more alchable items. There is some fire elementals in the dungeon too which may drop some nature runes too if you need some and you get lucky. 46% of the drops had charms and most of them were crimson. Not showing in the item list below was 48 rune arrows, which were loaded on me to save space. I also dropped many gems and herbs. Did I get a dragon chain??? Not this time, maybe next time?
This is what I was rewarded with after the end of the 172 dust devil slayer task.
August 9th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
nice dust devils guide.. helped me alot
… gotta look at some more guides on slayer monsters 
September 17th, 2008 at 10:18 am
dude.. this is amazing
September 17th, 2008 at 10:19 am
this thing owns dude..
September 17th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Nice guide! Lots of detail!
This should prove helpful for anyone planning to venture into that Smokey Well. I like how you included the Ranged spots, for the lower levels. The only thing I can add is that you can also use Bones to Peaches (tabs or actual spell) to heal (if you don’t have food or Bunyips).
Great pictures too! Keep those guides coming.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Hey guys, thanks for your comments.
I did a 189 dust devil task recently, but this time I had the use of a slayer helmet, slayer ring and a bunyip. In fact the slayer helmet was that effective that I really did not need a bunyip in the end, even with less food. The slayer ring was handy too, as it teleported me to the slayer master just north of where the well is.
Jeffsterz, great addition about using Bones to Peaches.
I am sure that will help many.
For interest, the 189 dust devil task netted 23 gold charms, 11 green charms, 48 crimson charms and 3 blue charms. I also got 33K from coin drops and alchs. Unlike last time, I had 8 alchs… mostly red dragon vambraces.
March 18th, 2009 at 1:38 am
I now find that using an sgs along with a slayer helm means that I do not need any food or bunyips at all.
March 18th, 2009 at 4:35 am
Nice guild, using gs would save alot alot alot alot of time and foods, yesterday 03-17-09 i got my first task of Dust Devils. I keep changin inv n telein to bank n run back to dustys…
If you have over 80 def and you can summon bunyip, brin a summon pot with 2-3 bunyip with about 4-8 foods, 50 nats, just 100- fire runes, few btp(bones to peaches) tabs and a sup set. very useful. just try it XD wish me luck to get a dragon chainbody! ty everyone.
March 18th, 2009 at 9:41 am
Thanks for your comments g2g200909 and good luck in getting a dragon chain from the dust devils. I have not had any luck in getting one after doing many dust devil slayer tasks, but a friend of mine did get one in his very 1st task.
Remember, if your cb is not all that high, there are some safe spots for ranging. Initially I ranged dusties, until my cb increased.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
I use the dust devil spot in the chaos tunnels now, more dust devils to slay, multi combat so you can use a familiar to help you and you don’t have to worry about the face mask.
Good luck to anyone trying for a dragon chain, I still haven’t got one after around 5k kills roughly from slayer.
August 14th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Nice guide mate, Helped me out, I got 2 dragon chains in one task. IDK how this worked but sold for 13m, Ty so much for guide.