Slayer

Slayer is a members only skill. The key to Slayer is learning the enemy's weakness and killing it accordingly. You receive assignments from a Slayer master to kill a specific number of a certain type of monster. These assignments can vary from 10 Spiders to 230 Black demons, depending greatly on which Slayer master you choose. To get started on the skill, go to a Slayer master and ask for an assignment. He/she will tell you what monster to kill. The Slayer experience for each kill roughly equals 1/10 of the monster's life points. If you and at least one other person attack the same monster, the person that does the most damage will get half the experience and the one that inflicts the final blow will get the other half. If you do both, or attack it on your own, you get the full XP. Also, there are various monsters that can only be assigned and killed at certain Slayer levels.

Slayer can be profitable since many Slayer assignments drop valuable items, such as the Abyssal wand dropped by Abyssal demons, and razorback gauntlets from airut. Ganodermic beasts are the highest slayer level requirement in the main game, beaten only by Daemonheim's Soulgazer. Generally, the stronger the monster, the more valuable its drops will be. Many Slayer monsters drop herbs and other useful, valuable items like runes, charms and clue scrolls, giving players an opportunity to advance such expensive-to-train skills as Herblore and Summoning.

Slayer is one of five skills which are not used in the Stealing Creation minigame; this list also includes Firemaking, Farming, Dungeoneering, and Divination. However, Slayer is a crucial aspect in the Soul Wars minigame. Soul Wars has also shown to be an effective place for players to train Slayer, due to the large number of Slayer runescape skill signature monsters located in the area.