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Hey Guys,

   I haven't played Runescape in quite some time (over 5 years now) and I've noticed that there have been some significant changes such as this new version of the game.  I recently decided to add membership to my account again just for the heck of it and I don't know where to start.  My character's combat is pretty much maxed out (lvl 132 I think) but I don't know what I should be doing to make money etc.  I have 87 slayer but it doesn't seem to be all that useful anymore as abby whips are no longer 10m lol.  Any help on where I should get started again would be helpful.  What armor should I try to get? Weapons? What monsters should I be killing?  Anything would be helpful! 

 

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Slayer is still worth while at higher levels as you can get tasks/access to a variety of decent money making mobs - things like addy dragons, rune dragons, airut, ganodermic beasts.

If you want a simple lazy money maker frost dragons or QBD are good to farm and easy enough that you should do alright whilst learning the new system.

 

In terms of gear and kinda "starting out" I'd recommend

1) Get the full 5 piece Bandos, Subjugation and Armadyl armour sets as reasonbly cheap decent base armour. Worth looking to upgrade this to Anima Core of Seren/Zammy/Zaros later but they are still expensive.

2) Weapons wise I'd assume you probably have chaotics at the moment which are a decent starting point. I'd look to move up to t90 asap though. - T90 being Noxious items (scythe, staff, bow) Drygores (melee) Ascensions (ranged and Seismic (magic)

3) Go get Broken Home done and replay to beat all 3 challenges the Asylum Surgeons Ring is pretty much the best ring you can wear for most combat, atleast until you can afford the Ring of Death

4) Saradomins Hiss, Murmur and Whisper are solid neckslot choices and can all be upgraded via DG until you can buy an amulet of souls

5) The best capes, other than comp, come from Fight Kiln. It's not too hard, just very long, and the cape awarded is decided by what combat style you mostly use (aka melee is kinda a pita)

6) If you want any tank armour for bossing player owned ports is worth getting started as it offers the best "welfare" tank armour going.

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In addition to what Sy suggested I would consider investing in a blood fury - it's quite useful for Slayer and low level bosses. And ports take a long time to get going so start on that ASAP - you'll want that stuff by the time you get there!

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Thanks guys... there's just so much new stuff to this game from when I stopped playing.  I started with just training slayer for now to try to make some money because I don't have much right now (only about 5-10M).  I gave most of my stuff away awhile ago because I hadn't anticipated playing again.  I appreciate all your input, but its still going to take some figuring out on my part as I don't really know what you're talking about with all these new armors and weapons out there.  Any more input on where to start and what I should be doing would be much appreciated.  Like I said my combat is pretty much maxed out with the exception of 94 range and 80 prayer.  I am almost 88 slayer too by the way.

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Well then for a start, can you take inventory of what you do have? I.e. search your bank for 'chaotic' to see if you have any chaotic weapons - since those are untradeable you probably would have left them in the bank.

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Chaotics are from dungoneering.

 

With whip, you might want to get an off hand weapon. Off hand crystal dagger would be good.

 

If you do not have any barrows range or mage weapons, you can go for crystal, too. They are all T70.

 

For range, royal crossbow is T80 and one if the best, cheapest weapons you can get. You need to be able to kill the queen black dragon however.

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When you say T80 etc. what does that mean?  Also, after poking around on here a little bit and looking into armor is Tetsu armor worth buying?  How about the godswords? Are they worth it or should I just stick to the whip?

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T80 (tier 80) just means it requires level 80 in the appropriate level to wield/wear, for example 80 attack for a weapon or 80 defense for armor. Everything is tiered in Evolution of Combat so this makes it easy to compare relative strength of items. There are a few notable exceptions but for the most part it holds true.

 

Godswords are an improvement are a whip, especially the saradomin one for either the active or passive healing special ability. As for the tradeable version of tetsu note that it will eventually degrade to dust with no ability to fix it. I wouldn't really recommend using a set unless you have a good pvm method down and you really need the extra defense.

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