OSRS Black Mask guide – how to get, requirements, effects

When fighting NPCs in Old School Runescape, the ability to make quests easier or take less time is a major boon. This is even more prevalent when grinding out experience for a level 99 skill like Thieving or completing Slayer tasks where you'll need to kill plenty of strong monsters. For the Slayer tasks, some items can make the job easier, and one of these items is the Black Mask. Below you'll find out what the Black Mask is as well as what you need to do to get your hands on one.

How to get a Black Mask in Old School Runescape

The first and most important requirement for getting a Black Mask is having a Slayer level of 58. Without this, you will not be able to obtain the item due to the strength of the monsters it drops from. From there, you'll need to complete the Cabin Fever quest so that you'll have access to the Mos'Le Harmless island. This island is important because it is the home of Cave Horrors, the mob, the Black Mask, drops from.

After the requirements are met, you simply need to start farming the Cave Horrors. The Cave Horrors themselves are fairly easy to bring down. They have low Defense and HP, but you should find a Witchwood Icon or use Protect From Melee before engaging them. These two effects will protect you from their scream attack, which does 10% of your maximum HP in instant damage. Their melee attacks also deal magic damage, but this is much less of an issue than the scream attack, so you should be fine if you can survive or negate the scream.

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What is a Black Mask in Old School Runescape?

The Black Mask item is a piece of headgear that offers some unique bonuses to the player wearing it. For starters, it offers large boosts to Attack and Strength when fighting NPCs that are a part of Slayer quests. It also has a unique effect that drops monsters' Defense by two to seven percent. However, conditions have to be met for this ability to activate:

• The NPC must be within 10 tiles of the player.
• The NPC must have over 50% health.
• The NPC cannot already have a lowered Defense stat.
• The NPC must attack the player.

Once all of these conditions have been met, the game rolls your Magical Accuracy versus the target's Magical Defense, and if you win this roll, the effect activates and a charge is consumed. The mask has 10 charges of this effect, and once they are used up, they cannot be recharged. However, you can use the mask to create other, more powerful items even after their charges are depleted. Lastly, to wear the Black Mask you must have 20 Strength, 10 Defense, and 40 Combat.

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