Main page/Bestiary/Bossing index/Mutant tarn

Difficulty: Hard

Combat level	677
Always drops	Zogre Bones
Combat info
Hitpoints	620
Aggressive	Yes
Poisonous	Yes
Max hits
Melee	37
Magic	79

Mutant Tarn

The Mutant Tarn is a powerful and deadly boss that drops Dragon Claws and Twisted Bows. It can use a wide variety of damaging attacks, and it has a large store of hitpoints and excellent defense. Solo kiling Mutant may be difficult so it is advised to Duo. However, you may be able to solo it depending on gear used. The Mutant Tarn has the following attacks:

• A single-target melee attack that does up to 40 damage
• A multi-target range attack that does up to 79 damage (3x 20+ hits)
• An area-of-effect burn attack that covers the floor with pockets of smoke. Anyone standing in a square where smoke spawns will take massive tick damage
• You are able to get stacked with a melee and range hit for a total of 54+ hp down. It is recommended to stay above this health for a successful kill.

Overall, you should protect from range.

Players who are soloing Tarn will most likely need a bit of food in order to get the kill. If you're able to, bring a dwarf multicannon

The only main attack style that should be used is magic. Having maxed or near-maxed gear is highly recommended. Only that setup will do sufficient damage to give you a good chance of getting the kill.

Getting There

Step 1: Teleport to "Mutant Tarn" under the "Bosses" teleport option

After that, walk through the room with the terror dogs and take the stairs on the right. Inside is Tarn in a small room.

Banking between kills

It is advised to bank between every kill as Tarn has a long spawn timer (approximately 2 minutes). The Spawn area (::home) has a healing chest to the left of ::shops, which will heal any damage, BUT will also reset your stats to their original values, and end any timer you might have, both good and bad (antifire, anti-poison, teleblock etc.)

If you have Super Donator, ::hp is heavily recommended to use in between kills.

If you have Extreme Donator, ::bank will render you possible to stay in the room for an unlimited amount of kills, or at least, until you run out of food/potions.

Note: If you're maxed, you have a direct teleport to Tarn.

Inventory & Prayer

Inventory

Prayer

Tarn has a relatively simple setup. Stat boosting item for your combat style (Imbued Heart or Super Combat Potion), some prayer restoration and anti-poison. If using melee, a rune pouch with Vengeance runes can also prove beneficial!

A cannon can also be recommended, but isn't needed.

Mechanics

Tarn is not as hard as he might seem to be. You're going to want to pray range. The main thing you want to remember when doing this boss is to be constantly moving. Once you've attacked, you'll want to move to a different spot. This prevents his cloud attacks from doing too much damage and you getting combo'd. He sends 3 boulders at you as his primary range attack, and each boulder can do upwards to 25 damage. Tarn also has a melee attack that he will do at random times. Bringing vengeance for this can help do a little bit more damage to him. The main attack that you're going to want to watch for is the clouds. He has 2 primary cloud attacks.

Tarn uses range as his primary attack. But he is able to melee (max hit of up to 40) and sends clouds under you which do fast tick damage that hit constant 6-10 damage.

His first cloud attack looks almost like a cone ability. He sends out a bunch of clouds to random spots, with one of them landing directly under you. You will need to move out of this ability or it will do massive damage over time.

His second cloud attack is a single cloud that follows you 3 times for 6 seconds. Standing in this does massive damage over time. You'll want to move right away once you see this under you and continue moving to keep the other clouds from getting under you.

Note: Since Tarn is not an instanced boss, you are able to do kill him with friends. Duoing this boss is definitely significantly faster than trying to solo and can result in more kills per hour.

Gear Setup

	Max Setup	Mid Setup 1	Mid Setup 2	Low Setup
Head	Ancestral Hat	Void Mage Helm	Neitiznot faceguard	Helm of neitiznot
Torso	Ancestral Robe Top	Elite Void Top	Vesta's chainbody	Bandos chestplate
Legs	Ancestral Robe Bottom	Elite Void Bottom	Vesta's plateskirt	Bandos tassets
Gloves	Tormented Bracelet	Void Knight Gloves	Ferocious gloves	Barrows gloves
Boots	Eternal Boots	Eternal Boots	Primordial boots	Guardian boots
Amulet	Occult Necklace	Occult Necklace	Amulet of eternal glory	Amulet of torture
Ring	Seers Ring (i)	Seers Ring (i)	Berserker ring (i)	Brimstone ring
Cape	Any Imbued God Cape	Any God Max Cape	Infernal cape	Fire cape
Offhand	Tome of Fire (Fire Surge)	Arcane Spirit Shield	Avernic defender	Dragonfire shield
Weapon	Kodai Wand	Sanguinesti Staff	Dragon whip	Scythe of Vitur
Spec Weapon	Dragon whip	Dragon whip	Dragon whip	Dragon whip
Ammunition slot	Rada's blessing 4	Unholy blessing	Any Blessing	Any Blessing

Drop Table

Tarn has a very wide range of valuable drops, which make him a good boss to farm.

The most important drop from the Mutant Tarn are the Zogre Bones that it drops every kill as these offer a decent amount of prayer experience when offered on an altar, because of this they are very valuable to players. Luckily, the bones are not the only great reward from the Mutant Tarn, as there are plenty of unique drops that will boost the amount of money you make killing this boss even more. These includes the Twisted Bow and Dragon Claws.

Item	Image	Ammount	Drop Rate
Earth Rune		69	1 : 2
Death Rune		56	1 : 2
Rune Kiteshield		1	1 : 2
Rune Med Helm		1	1 : 2
Rune Platelegs		1	1 : 2
Rune Sq Shield		1	1 : 2
Coins		20,922	1 : 2
Black Boots		1	1 : 5
Shark		28 (Noted)	1 : 5
Dwarf Weed Seed		7	1 : 5
Lantadyme Seed		7	1 : 5
Cadantine Seed		7	1 : 5
Snapdragon Seed		7	1 : 5
Kwuarm Seed		7	1 : 5
Yew seed		3	1 : 5
Magic Seed		3	1 : 5
Willow Seed		5	1 : 5
Dragon Med Helm		1	1 : 5
Primordial crystal		1	1 : 18
Amulet of avarice		1	1 : 21
3rd Age Full Helm		1	1 : 48
3rd Age Platebody		1	1 : 48
3rd Age Platelegs		1	1 : 48
3rd Age Kiteshield		1	1 : 48
3rd Age Amulet		1	1 : 48
Elder Maul		1	1 : 48
Clue scroll (Elite)		1	1 : 48
Tyrannical Ring		1	1 : 48
Amulet of eternal glory		1	1 : 68
Dragon Claws		1	1 : 70
Twisted Bow		1	1 : 80