OSRS Scurrius XP per Hour, Best Gear, Mechanics & Drops

Scurrius XP per Hour and GP per Hour

A solo Scurrius kill is worth 2,360 combat XP and 787 Hitpoints XP before bonuses, counting his 500 hitpoints plus one wave of rats. Damage on Scurrius himself also gets a combat XP bonus: 20% in the private instance and 42.5% in the public room. At the wiki's baseline of 40 kills an hour that is about 94,400 combat XP an hour before the bonus and about 110,400 with it.

GP per hour is close to zero. The wiki's training guide says his drops cover your supplies but do not turn a profit, so treat Scurrius as an XP and clue boss whose loot pays for itself.

Rat bone weapons push this higher: they add +10 to your max hit against rats and attack his rats with no delay. The wiki's melee training page puts base 70 combat stats at 100k+ XP an hour soloing the public-room Scurrius with a bone mace.

Scurrius is a members' boss in the Varrock Sewers with no unlock. Jagex built him for combat levels 60 to 90, and he is the usual first boss for learning prayer switching.

Location and How to Get There

Scurrius is in the Varrock Sewers. Take the manhole just east of Varrock Palace, head east and climb through the broken bars.

Right-click the bars to pick the public room or a private instance, which is free. The public Scurrius has 1,000 more hitpoints and slightly higher stats but a bigger XP bonus; the private one dies faster. If you die, your grave appears next to Historian Aldo just outside the lair. No unlock or carried item is needed, which is why he is the usual first boss for accounts in the 60 to 90 combat range.

Recommended Combat Stats and Gear

The wiki recommends 50+ in your combat stats and 43 Prayer for the protection prayers. For melee a bone mace beats an abyssal tentacle here; without one, a whip, a Sarachnis cudgel or a dragon scimitar does the job. If you have no rat bone weapon, carry bronze knives or darts to clear the rats quickly.

Inventory and Supplies

• Food for falling bricks (up to 22, or 24 in the public room). The right prayer blocks everything else he throws.
• Prayer potions. Bring more of these and less food as you get better at dodging.
• Stat potions: super combat, or super attack, strength and defence.
• Bronze knives or darts for the rats if you have no rat bone weapon.
• No cannon. You cannot set one up in the lair.
• A teleport out.

Mechanics: Attack Styles, Max Hits and Immunities

Phases, Falling Bricks and Rats

Phase one: his tail swipe (melee, max 13) comes with no warning and is his fastest, most accurate attack, so Protect from Melee is the default. At 80% health he walks to a food pile, breaking any bind, and eats for 5 or 10 hitpoints at a time while using magic, ranged and falling bricks.

At 30% (150 hitpoints solo, 450 in the public room) he moves to the centre and uses only ranged and magic, faster than before. Falling bricks hit for 15 to 22 solo (up to 24 in the public room), one always lands on your tile under a shadow, and in this phase they can come several times in a row.

He can also screech and summon six level 46 giant rats. They hit 0 to 1 through Protect from Melee (up to 4 without it), die in one hit, outlive Scurrius, and can stop you eating from a food pile. Out of combat you can eat from a food pile once every 10 minutes to heal to full.

Where Scurrius Sits in Progression

In our index Scurrius is a difficulty 1 of 5 beginner boss, alongside Obor and Bryophyta. The usual next step up is Sarachnis.

Fight Strategy

1. 1

   Protect from Melee until he drops to 30%.

2. 2

   While he eats at a food pile he uses magic, ranged and falling bricks, so pray against the projectile and step off shadows.

3. 3

   From 30%, pray against each projectile and step off every shadow.

4. 4

   Kill the rats as they spawn.

   Rat bone weapons hit them with no attack delay.

5. 5

   After the kill, clear the leftover rats before you heal at a food pile.

Drops and What Scurrius Is Worth

Every kill drops big bones and raw rat meat. The main roll is rune and adamant gear (rune full helm, med helm, sq shield, chainbody and battleaxe, and an adamant platebody, at 6/100 each), runes, arrows and coins. The player who did the most damage also rolls a medium clue at 1/25 and the pet Scurry at 1/3,000.

Scurrius' spine drops at 1/33, and only one player can get it per kill. It is untradeable and makes the rat bone weapons; a bone mace is the spine plus a rune mace, with 35 Smithing or 50,000 coins.

Combat Achievements

Scurrius has five Combat Achievement tasks, two easy and three medium:

• Scurrius Novice (easy): kill him once.
• Sit Rat (easy): finish him off with a ratbane weapon in a private instance.
• Perfect Scurrius (medium): kill him in a private instance without taking damage from Tail Swipe or Falling Bricks, and pray correctly against Flying Fur and Bolts of Electricity.
• Scurrius Champion (medium): kill him 10 times.
• Efficient Pest Control (medium): kill 6 giant rats in his lair within 3 seconds.

Combat Achievements guide

Ironman Notes

Scurrius counts for a rat Slayer task from Turael or Spria, at 600 Slayer XP per private-instance kill (2,137.5 for the public-room version).

Ironmen can join public kills and get kill count, but receive no drops apart from a medium clue if they deal the most damage. Use the private instance, or the shared group instance in Group Ironman.

Common Mistakes and Death Causes

• Praying Magic or Missiles in phase one and eating tail swipes.
• Standing on shadowed tiles in the last phase, where the bricks can chain.
• Leaving rats alive. They outlast Scurrius and block the food pile.
• Trying to set up a cannon. The lair does not allow it.
• Walking in before prayers are on.

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