The Mimic

This article is about the boss. For the item, see Mimic.

This fight takes place in an instance with a deathbank.

On death, you can pay the strange casket 90,000 to retrieve lost items.
Any unsafe death will delete all items left inside the deathbank.

Any items left on the ground will be lost.

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The Mimic
Released										11 April 2019 (Update)
Donator										Yes
Combat level										186
Size										5x5
Examine										Oh great, it's a casket that's come to life.
Combat info
XP bonus										+25%
Max hit										23
Aggressive										No
Poisonous										No
Attack style										Crush, Magic
Attack speed										3 ticks (1.8 seconds)
Combat stats
230					185					120					120					60					1
Aggressive stats
+135					+48					+180					+0					+0					+0
Defensive stats
+160						+165						+150						+30						+145
Advanced data
Monster ID										8633

The Mimic is a sporadic boss who can be fought by presenting a mimic casket to the strange casket found upstairs in Watson's house. Mimics can be obtained from an elite or master reward casket after asking the strange casket to enable the chance to obtain a mimic casket (which is disabled by default). The elite reward casket has a 1/35 chance of being a mimic, while master reward caskets have a 1/15 chance.

File:The Mimic fight area.png

The area in which the player fights The Mimic.

Players have six chances to kill The Mimic from a master clue, five from an elite clue, which corresponds to the item rolls from the obtained casket. Every time a player leaves or dies, the amount of rolls on the drop table is decreased by one. If a player fails every attempt, they will not receive any loot from the original clue scroll. If the player dies at the same time as the mimic, the number of rolls is not decreased, but you will still need to retrieve your items from Watson's house.

Fight overview

Main article: The Mimic/Strategies

With the right strategy, The Mimic is very easy to defeat for any high-level player. However, at combat stats around 70, The Mimic can pose a real challenge.

Always use Protect from Melee, move around the room when the Mimic throws sweets, and ignore the spawned Third Age minions. Use stat-boosting potions and prayers as well.

• The quickest way to slay The Mimic is to bring dragon claws or a dragon dagger with full melee gear, then after using the two/four special attacks, switch into a full magic setup with a powered staff. With high melee stats and Piety, you can switch to a whip or better and kill the boss before minions even spawn.
• Alternatively, using magic, The Mimic can be frozen using ice spells or Entangle evading the melee attack completely. Powered staves can then be used to quickly kill The Mimic.
• Although The Mimic is weak to Magic, players can also opt to use Ranged with a toxic blowpipe.

File:Fighting The Mimic.png

A player faces The Mimic.

The Mimic has three different attacks:

• Melee attack: The Mimic can hit you with a normal melee attack if you are standing beside it.

• Candy Attack: The Mimic throws six candies at you. If you fail to step out of the way, you will receive about 10 damage. Three candies are purple, and there is one red, one blue, and one green candy. The red, blue, and green candies spawn the Third Age Warrior, Third Age Mage, and Third Age Ranger respectively. There is no benefit to killing them as they drop nothing and, when killed, they instantly respawn when another candy attack occurs.

• Stomp Attack: Sometimes, The Mimic will step one tile forward onto you. Alternatively, this attack is activated when you walk under The Mimic. For every tick (0.6 seconds) that you stand under The Mimic, you will receive damage. The damage scales as follows: 1-1-1-2-2-2-3-... and so on, capping out at 6 damage. Simply step away from The Mimic to stop and reset the damage counter.

Drops

100%

Item		Quantity	Drop rate	Donator 15% boosted drop rate	Super Donator 25% boosted drop rate	Extreme Donator 30% boosted drop rate	Legendary Donator 35% boosted drop rate	Royal Donator 40% boosted drop rate	Price

Other

Bonus loot is occasionally received in addition to the regular 1-6 clue scroll rolls when opening the Mimic casket.

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Item		Quantity	Drop rate	Donator 15% boosted drop rate	Super Donator 25% boosted drop rate	Extreme Donator 30% boosted drop rate	Legendary Donator 35% boosted drop rate	Royal Donator 40% boosted drop rate	Price

3rd age drop table

The chance to roll the mimic 3rd age table is 1 in 228 for masters and 1 in 250 for elites.

Item		Quantity	Drop rate	Donator 15% boosted drop rate	Super Donator 25% boosted drop rate	Extreme Donator 30% boosted drop rate	Legendary Donator 35% boosted drop rate	Royal Donator 40% boosted drop rate	Price

Changes

Date	Changes
[[{{#explode:9 December 2021| |0}} {{#explode:9 December 2021| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:9 December 2021| |2}}]] (update)	The minimum HiScores killcount required for The Mimic has been lowered from 2 to 1.

Trivia

• Mimics made their first appearance in the 1977 Monster Manual for the game Dungeons & Dragons and have become one of the most iconic creatures from the franchise.