New Slayer Boss - The Araxyte

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17 June 2024


Arachnophobes beware... our latest boss has eight legs and a whole lot of scares to share!




Araxxor, the Araxyte

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If that title sounds familiar, you’ve either been around a really long while, or you happen to play RuneScape, too. The arachnoid antagonist arrived in our sister game almost a decade ago, where he resides in the aptly-named Araxyte Hive beneath the Haunted Woods.


That’s where the similarities end, we’re afraid: this is not a backport of the RuneScape boss. We’ve given the ol’ cobbler’s nightmare an all-new, Old School spin – and today, you’re getting your first look.


We’ve been waiting to add Araxxor since the release of A Night at the Theatre. You’ll have encountered araxytes there during a segment where you obtained some strange ‘spider’ eggs – although some of the eagle-eyed among you already figured out that these weren’t spiders at all!


With araxytes and their cobwebby cave in place, all that remained was to add an enormous spider to bring the whole thing together. Here he is!


Perhaps the most significant way our Araxxor diverges from his RuneScape counterpart is that we’re not setting out to make him too challenging. Instead, we’re offering him as a new Slayer boss which requires 92 Slayer and an araxyte Task to tackle. His lower-level buddies will also count towards the task, if you’re not in the bossing mood.




The Fight


Slayer bosses can be tricky. As we learned with our last offering, the Alchemical Hydra, they need to be interesting enough to feel engaging without being so tricky that they become a boring grind. Of course, they also need to reward you for all the time you’ve spent levelling Slayer so far!


As is customary, we’re not divulging every mechanic Araxxor has up his many sleeves, but we will give you a little taste of the battle to come.


Right up front, we want to assure you that Araxxor is not as tough as the Awakened Desert Treasure II bosses or the Fortis Colosseum.


Instead, you’ll control the difficulty of the fight yourself. Choose to deal proactively with Araxxor’s minions before they hatch, and you’ll have an easier, but slower time. Set them loose and you’ll kill Araxxor faster, but only if you survive their onslaught. The choice is up to you.


The fight features all the mechanics you’d expect from a big ol’ spider: smaller spiders, venomous acid, ferocious fangs and more legs than you can count. It’s a melee-focused encounter – unfortunately, we haven’t yet released any oversized boots, so you’ll have to settle for your next best spider splatter.


To say any more would reveal too much, but we’re confident that we’re delivering a fight that’s both easy to grind and satisfying to master.


We can however tell you about the treasures lurking in Araxxors lair. Let’s see the rewards!




The Spoils

Broadly speaking, boss rewards are split up into untradeables, consumables, and unique equipment. Araxxor has something in all three categories – so we’ll work our way through them in that order.


Untradeable Rewards

Our first untradeable is the Araxyte Head. This is essentially an Araxxor-themed equivalent of the Kalphite Queen or Hydra Head, and its primary use-case is creating a Slayer Helmet that’ll send your enemies scurrying for cover.




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When I first clicked on this thread, I had to make sure I wasn't on some type of Runescape3 thread.


I do play Runescape3 a lil bit, not much to. Just on occasion and I will say this boss does look very familiar.


I think it's super neat they are adding bosses like this into OSRS


Oh and also that Slayer helm could be a bit cooler, reminds me of KQ but it's not bad.