OSRS Bosses List 2026: 97 Bosses, Requirements and Drops

How This OSRS Boss List Works

This OSRS bosses list covers 97 bosses, mini-bosses, elite monsters and wave challenges in 15 groups, from Scurrius and the Giant Mole up to the Inferno, Yama and all three raids. Each row gives the unlock (a quest, a Slayer level, a key or an item) and the drop people farm it for, and every entry links to its own guide.

If you only want a number, the OSRS Wiki's own list of bosses has 88 entries. The FAQ at the bottom breaks that count down and explains why this page lists more.

Every row lists the hard requirement (a quest, a Slayer level, a key or an area unlock). Recommendations belong in the individual guides, because they depend on your gear and your comfort with prayer switching.

The difficulty column is our own 1 to 5 rating of how punishing a mistake is: a 2 forgives a missed prayer, a 5 usually ends the attempt.

• New to bossing? Start in Beginner bosses, then move through Standalone before touching anything in the Wilderness or a raid.
• Chasing gear? God Wars Dungeon and Desert Treasure II gate most mid-to-late melee, range and magic upgrades.
• Chasing a cape? Wave and challenge bosses hold the fire cape, infernal cape and Dizana's quiver.
• Ironman? Prefer bosses whose drops you cannot buy: Barrows, GWD, Slayer bosses and the skilling bosses.

Beginner bosses (7)

Low requirements, forgiving mechanics and cheap deaths. These are where you learn prayer switching and tick-based movement before anything expensive.

Standalone bosses (21)

The mid-game backbone: single-target bosses with their own instance or lair, reachable without a raid team.

Slayer bosses (10)

Locked behind a Slayer level, and most also need the matching task (Kraken on a cave kraken task, Cerberus on hellhounds, Hydra on hydras). Skotizo is the exception: no Slayer level, just a dark totem, and the kill still counts on a black or greater demon task.

Wilderness bosses (11)

Multi-combat, PK-exposed, and paired: each has a lower-requirement solo variant (Artio, Calvar'ion, Spindel) and a stronger multi variant.

God Wars Dungeon (5)

Four generals behind kill count, plus Nex in the Ancient Prison. Bandos, Armadyl, Saradomin and Zamorak gear comes from here.

Desert Treasure II bosses (5)

The four bosses gated behind Desert Treasure II, their Awakened variants, and the ring/axe pieces they feed.

Raid bosses (17)

Rooms and bosses inside Chambers of Xeric, Theatre of Blood and Tombs of Amascut. Learn the parent raid before drilling individual rooms.

Moons of Peril (3)

Three linked bosses in Neypotzli. Beginner-friendly mechanics with a mid-game armour set and no expensive supply cost.

Gauntlet bosses (3)

A solo, self-supplied prep phase followed by Hunllef. Corrupted Gauntlet is the same fight with tighter timers and stronger stats.

Skilling bosses (4)

These test gathering and production skills instead of combat stats, and they are safe or close to it.

Minigame bosses (1)

The Penance Queen spawns in wave 10 of Barbarian Assault and only takes damage from omega eggs fired from the egg launcher, so your team's roles matter more than your gear. She has no drop table. Her kill counts toward rewards bought from Commander Connad: the fighter torso needs one Queen kill plus 375 honour points in each of the four roles, while penance gloves need 150 points per role and no kill. If the torso is the goal, our Barbarian Assault service plays the waves and the Queen kill by hand on your account.

Wave and challenge bosses (5)

Long single-attempt gauntlets where one mistake ends the run. The capes and quiver from these are the clearest PvM skill signals in the game.

Mini-bosses (1)

Short fights tied to a key, a totem or a quest unlock. Useful for Combat Achievements and collection log entries more than for GP.

Elite monsters and boss-like NPCs (3)

The wiki doesn't list these as bosses. Each one still has several mechanics, and they drop real upgrades: granite legs, zenyte shards and tormented synapses.

Quest-only bosses (1)

Fought once inside a quest. They still deserve prep, because failing them often means redoing a long section.

A Sane Learning Order

Boss lists are easy to read and hard to act on, so here is the order most accounts actually progress in. Each step assumes you can clear the previous one without checking your inventory every kill.

1. 1

   Scurrius and Giant Mole to learn overhead prayers and safe repositioning.

2. 2

   Barrows for a repeatable, low-risk GP and gear source that punishes sloppy prayer usage cheaply.

3. 3

   Moons of Peril for a mid-game armour set with mechanics that teach reading tells rather than memorising ticks.

4. 4

   God Wars Dungeon generals — start with K'ril Tsutsaroth or General Graardor, which forgive the most.

5. 5

   Zulrah or Vorkath for the first genuinely rotational, gear-switching solo fight.

6. 6

   Chambers of Xeric as a learner, because it is the raid most tolerant of one weak player.

7. 7

   Fight Caves for the fire cape, then Desert Treasure II bosses for endgame gear.

8. 8

   Inferno, Fortis Colosseum, Tombs of Amascut and Theatre of Blood once your prayer switching survives 30+ minutes.

If you get stuck for weeks on one step, the problem is usually supplies or gear, not skill. Read the boss requirements checklist and the boss gear progression guide before you grind the same failure again.

FAQ

How many bosses are in OSRS?

Jagex doesn't publish an official count, so the answer depends on what you call a boss. The OSRS Wiki's list of bosses had 88 entries in October 2026: 34 world bosses (9 of them in the Wilderness), 20 instanced bosses including the four DT2 bosses, 8 Slayer bosses, 5 minigame bosses, 3 skilling bosses and 18 raid bosses, six per raid. Five of those entries are pairs, such as Artio and Callisto or The Nightmare and Phosani's Nightmare, so splitting them gives 93. Quest bosses sit on a separate list.

This page has 97 entries because it groups the six Barrows brothers into one row and adds fights the wiki keeps off its main list: elite monsters such as Demonic Gorillas and Tormented Demons, the Gauntlet demi-bosses, the Penance Queen, Triple Jads, the Colosseum waves and the Awakened DT2 variants.

What is the easiest boss in OSRS?

Scurrius in the Varrock Sewers. There is no requirement, the solo version has 500 hitpoints, and it attacks with melee, ranged and magic, which makes it a cheap place to learn prayer switching. The Giant Mole (a spade and a light source), Obor (a giant key) and Bryophyta (a mossy key) are the other usual first kills.

Which OSRS bosses are Slayer bosses?

The wiki lists eight Slayer bosses: Shellbane Gryphon (51), Grotesque Guardians (75), Abyssal Sire (85), Kraken (87), Cerberus (91), Araxxor (92), Thermonuclear Smoke Devil (93) and Alchemical Hydra (95). Each needs its Slayer level and the matching task. Basilisk Knights (60) and Ancient Wyverns (82) also need a Slayer level but are not on the wiki's boss list, and Skotizo needs only a dark totem. Our Slayer bosses ranked guide puts them in order of difficulty and profit.

What are the skilling bosses in OSRS?

Tempoross (35 Fishing), Wintertodt (50 Firemaking) and Zalcano (70 Mining and 70 Smithing, plus Song of the Elves). Hespori is fought for Farming rewards too and needs 65 Farming and a Hespori seed grown in the Farming Guild, though the wiki files it under sporadic bosses.