Melee attacks are inaccurate against them, and all attack styles only inflict up to 25% of your normal max hit (For example, if you had a max hit of 280, you could only hit up to 70 against a Broodoo victim). Their snare spell also drains your stats, but these monsters can be poisoned as usual, so it is possible to fight them without the items listed above with a poisoned weapon and prayer.