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OSRS Callisto Guide: Strategy & Gear Setup

OSRS Callisto Guide: Strategy & Gear Setup

Callisto is a level 470 bear in its den, the Callisto’s Den, which is in level 40 Wilderness. Killing Callisto is quite profitable as it has several valuable drops like the voidwaker hilt, claws of Callisto, tyrannical ring, and Callisto cub. Players can fight Callisto solo or as a group with up to 10 players, but it’s best to kill it with a group when learning its mechanics.  Since it is a bear, players can kill it when assigned to a bear slayer task.

 

Location of Callisto

Callisto’s Den is a multi-combat in the Wilderness, south of Demonic Ruins. Accessing Callisto’s den requires a one-time fee of 50,000 GP, which can be taken directly from your bank. Afterward, players don’t need to pay the fee unless another player kills them. The fee also decreases by 10,000 GP for the player who deals the most damage to Callisto with each kill.

location of callisto

Here are the fastest ways to get here:

  • Wilderness crabs teleport: this is the fastest way to get to Callisto. It will teleport you to the dark crab fishing spot, south-east of the lair.
  • Annakarl teleport: Players with 90 magic on the Ancient spellbook can teleport to the Demonic Ruins with the Annakarl teleport. Run south to get to Callisto. Watch out for Pkers as there is a good chance you would run into one there.
  • Waka canoe: With 57 woodcutting,  players can make a waka canoe which can take them to the Wilderness. Go northeast from there to get to Callisto
  • Games necklace: players can use the games necklace to teleport to the Corporeal beast’s lair, exit the cave, then run north to Callisto.
  • Wilderness Sword: Players who have completed the Hard or Elite Wilderness Dairy can use the Wilderness sword to teleport to the Fountains of Rune and run south-west to Callisto

 

  • hitpoints90 hitpoints
  • defence70 defence
  • prayer43+ prayer
  • ranged icon75 ranged
  • magic94+ magic

 

Gear and Inventory Setups for Callisto

Ranged Gear Setup for Callisto

ranged gear setup for Callisto

Head slot: Karil’s coif

Neck slot: Necklace of anguish

Cape slot: Ava’s accumulator

Body slot: Black d’hide body

Leg slot: Black d’hide chaps

Weapon slot: Webweaver bow/Craw’s bow

Ammo slot: Rada’s blessing 4

Glove slot: Barrows gloves

Boot slot: Saradomin d’hide boots

Ring slot: Ring of shadows

 

Inventory Setup for Callisto for ranged

ranged inventory setup for Callisto

  • Looting bag
  • Wilderness sword 4
  • Divine ranging potion
  • Blighted ancient Ice pack
  • Phoenix necklace 
  • Stamina potion
  • Saradomin brews
  • Super restore potions
  • Antidote++
  • Prayer potions
  • A royal seed pod or amulet of glory to teleport in level 30 wilderness

 

Magic Gear Setup for Callisto

magic gear setup for Callisto

Head slot: Ahrim’s hood

Neck slot: Occult necklace

Cape slot: Imbued God cape

Body slot: Mystic robetop

Leg slot: Mystic robe bottom

Weapon slot: Book of Darkness

Ammo slot: Rada’s blessing 4

Shield slot:  Ancient book

Glove slot: Barrows gloves

Boot slot: Mystic boots

Ring slot: Ring of shadows

 

Inventory Setup for Callisto for Magic

magic inventory setup for Callisto

  • Looting bag
  • Wilderness sword 4
  • Imbued heart
  • Blighted ancient Ice pack
  • Phoenix necklace 
  • Stamina potion
  • Saradomin brews
  • Super restore potions
  • Antidote++
  • Prayer potions
  • A royal seed pod or amulet of glory to teleport in level 30 wilderness

 

Strategy for Fighting Callisto

Callisto has several attacks, but his melee is the most dangerous, since it can hit through prayer and has a maximum hit of 55. Players are advised to keep a distance and attack with ranged or magic, but he will always attempt to approach the player to use his melee attack. Use spells such as Ice Barrage or Entangle to freeze him in place and continue attacking with magic or ranged while praying against missiles. During the fight, always maintain your distance, freeze him, and pray against ranged until he performs the Knockback attack, then switch to protect from magic. Make sure to switch back to protect from ranged after the Knockback attack.

Here are Callisto’s attacks and the strategy to avoid them. 

 

Melee attack

callisto melee attack

Callisto will swipe his paw at the player. This attack has AoE capabilities and can deal high damage. Always stay away from Callisto’s melee range, as protect from Melee will only reduce the attack’s damage by 50%. This has a maximum hit of 55.

 

Ranged attack

callisto ranged attack

Callisto will launch crescent-shaped projectiles at everyone in the den when they are not in melee range. Protect from ranged will prevent damage from this attack. This has a maximum hit of 31.

 

Knockback

callisto knockback attack

Callisto will release a magical attack as a white orb-like projectile at a targeted player, pushing them back and inflicting damage. This attack will also damage other players within a 3x3 square of where it hits. The attack knocks the player back by 3 tiles and deals 5 damage if no object is behind the player. However, if the knockback is interrupted by an object, the damage increases by 15 for every tile of interrupted movement. For example:

  • If the player is 2 tiles away from an object, they take 20 damage.
  • If they are 1 tile away, they take 35 damage.
  • If the player is directly next to an object and cannot be pushed back at all, the attack deals a maximum of 50 damage.

Turn on protect from magic when you see Callisto lean back as he is about this attack.

Bear Traps

callisto bear traps

At 66% health, Callisto will release red circles known as bear traps around the arena. Players caught in them will be binded and receive up to 15 damage. It will release the traps again when it is at -33% health, but this time, the bear traps will appear after every attack he makes.

Avoid the traps to prevent damage. You can also walk over them if you stand one tile next to it and click on the opposite side.

 

GP per hour from Killing Callisto

Players with the suggested combat stats and gear above can kill Callisto 25 times per hour. Each Callisto kill is worth 219K GP. This results in a profit of 4.8M GP per hour after the costs of potion and food has been deducted. 

 

Drops from Callisto

100% Drop
big bone1 Big bones (Always)

Unique Drops
claw of callisto1 Claws of Callisto (1/196), 1 Dragon 2h sword (1/256), 1 Dragon pickaxe (1/256), 1 Voidwaker hilt (1/360), tyrannical ring1 Tyrannical ring (1/512)

weaponWeapons and Armour
5 (noted) Rune pickaxe (1/15.75), 1 Rune 2h sword (1/42), 4 (noted) Mystic earth staff (1/63), 4 (noted) Mystic robe top (1/63), 4 (noted) Mystic robe bottom (1/63), 4 (noted) Rune kiteshield (1/63), 4 (noted) Rune platebody (1/63)

runesRunes and Ammunition
500 Blood rune (1/18), 700 Death rune (1/18), 900 Chaos rune (1/18), 600 Soul rune (1/25.2), 600 Cannonball (1/31.5)

materialsMaterials
600 (noted) Mahogany logs (1/21), 100 (noted) Limpwurt root (1/25.2), 225 (noted) Magic logs (1/25.2), 75 (noted) Uncut ruby (1/31.5), 35 (noted) Uncut diamond (1/42), 170 (noted) Red dragonhide (1/42), 5 (noted) Uncut dragonstone (1/63), 135 (noted) Coconut (1/63), 150 (noted) Grimy toadflax (1/126), 45 (noted) Grimy dwarf weed (1/126), 45 (noted) Grimy ranarr weed (1/126), 45 (noted) Grimy snapdragon (1/126)

seedsSeeds
11 Ranarr seed (1/25.2), 8 Snapdragon seed (1/25.2)

coinOther
50,000 Coins (1/12.6), 50 (noted) Dark crab (1/25.2), 10 (noted) Super restore(4) (1/25.2), 225 (noted) Supercompost (1/31.5), 75 (noted) Dragon bones (1/42), 4 Wilderness crabs teleport (1/42), 100 (noted) Blighted anglerfish (1/126)

Secondary Supply Roll
5–6 Blighted anglerfish (1/18), 5–6 Blighted karambwan (1/18), 3–4 Blighted super restore(3) (1/18), 3–4 Blighted super restore(4) (1/18), 2–3 Ranging potion(2) (1/18), 2–3 Super combat potion(2) (1/18)

Tertiary
looting bag1 Looting bag (1/3), 1 Brimstone key (1/50), 1 Clue scroll (elite) (1/100; 1/50 with ring of wealth), 1 Long bone (1/400), 1 Callisto cub (1/1,500), 1 Curved bone (1/5,013)

Wilderness Slayer Tertiary
slayer enchantment1 Slayer’s enchantment (1/30), 1larren's key Larran’s key (1/50)




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