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The base slayer gear is as follows (alternatives in brackets): [For all slayer monsters except those mentioned under other weapons] Chaotic rapier (whip) Bandos body + legs (Verac's skirt with either fighter torso or proselyte top) [Depending on prayer/accuracy needs] Fire cape/Soul Wars cape/Ardougne cloak 3 Barrows gloves (your best rfd gloves, at least rune) Dragon boots (rune boots) Amulet of fury (glory) Dragon defender (rune defender) Berserker ring (i)/ferocious ring if slaying in Kuradal's Dungeon (berserker ring, warrior ring) [Most important] Full slayer helmet. [For magic defence on waterfiends/aquanites] Karil's top and elite void skirt (black dragonhide body and chaps) [Crush attacks to use on waterfiends] Chaotic maul (Saradomin sword, Zamorakian spear) [stab attacks for higher-levelled dragons, when not using rapier] Korasi's sword (Zamorakian spear, leaf-bladed sword) Task-specific items such as mirror shields, antifire shields/potions, elemental shields, rock hammers, crystal chimes Cannon (optional, up to personal preference) Slayer setups generally emphasise strength bonus, which increases the average damage of each succesful hit (slayer monsters usually having rather low defence, hitting is not a problem). Secondly, prayer bonus is important to keep the cost of prayer potions down (as you slay with piety on, to increase the speed of your kills. This is cost-effective and highly recommended). As a rule of thumb, +10 prayer bonus or above is good, but don't overdo it (anything above +20 is a waste). Defence and accuracy bonus are usually not fretted over (any defence bonus over 200 will do; if you get hit too often you should be using a protection prayer). Dagganoth, black demon, black dragon, blue dragon, lesser demon, hellhound, bloodveld and spectre tasks should be cannoned, as it dramatically increases xp rates (although it costs a bit). Some notes on gear: You'll want a fury and a berserker ring before you get bandos plate, and get that before tassets. You'll want accuracy bonus on higher-levelled dragons; if using stab attacks (which you should) you can use the Ardougne cloak 3 which provides you with +6 stab and +6 prayer bonus. Torso + sw cape and fire cape + proselyte are common cheap top/cape combinations; the former is better. Some levels to get for slayer (in approximate order but I'm not sure on the summoning): 68 summoning - bunyip 81 dungeoneering (you need 2 million xp, which takes you to level 80, but allowing some tokens for the scroll of life) - rapier 89 herblore (85 with a +4 stew boost) - extreme potions, superantifires 95 prayer - turmoil and soul split 88 summoning - unicorn 96 herblore (91 with a +5 stew boost) - overload 99 summoning - steel titan I'm sure I missed something but this is most of it. In your case that means sell the dfs and dragon armour, get fury, berserker ring, Verac's skirt, proselyte top, and finish RFD for the gloves.

I'd like all further posts about this to stop here, thank you. I have the following to say on this: No it's not efficient, not even irl efficient because chopping ivy or fishing rocktail would be better afk uses of your time. Edit@xpx: Saw you were already posting when I posted this so I guess you're good. But no more!

He's going to get 200m xp, then give a 53 dungeoneering party :D.

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Even at cave crawlers and dags, your primary weapon and familiar (assuming steel titan) take care of around 30% of your total damage output. Since frosts are single combat (and you'd want to use a yak anyway) you can't use a familiar. And your familiar should be included in primary weapon dps in this case as they don't depend on your gear bonus at all. http://forum.tip.it/topic/280097-effigyscape-wip/ That shows that even though the cannon is very close to the highest damage it can do (5k cannonballs per hour, max is 6k) melee + familiar is still 30% of the kills. At frosts, ranged is 40% of the kills. So I don't think the comparison is that far off really.

I think Zarfot popularised the idea that cannons use your active gear bonus, but I doubt you can ask him how he found out. I noticed it when my handcannon blew up at frost dragons.

Haven't seen me there then. Rapier >>> spear. I'm not entirely sure but I noticed that I can't last very long flashing 'occasionally', with a yak.

When the new wilderness was introduced I believe. The best gear is elite void deflector with barrows gloves & rapier, salve amulet (e) and a bunyip or two. Don't use the altar if you have extremes.

I'd get the maul and work on 81 summoning, also 95 prayer would be a huge benefit to you as dungeoneer, but of course I hardly need to remind you of that.

Well at a multicombat cannon task you should be using a cls or maul to increase the cannon's accuracy, and a rapier would be worth it for this over whip anyway. Not true, for example rapier > cls at frosts, heck even void handcannon > void deflector + ccbow (63 ranged attack difference, but you also lose like 20% primary weapon dps). Just use a rapier or a whip. Now that's obviously single combat, but there is very little difference between the setups in terms of cannon xp/hr.

Varrock armour, penance horn and urns do not work on the lava. Not sure about SC yet.

So far it seems urns don't work there, also, Castle Wars has a neat look going.

It's only the best for 9/10 hp pures as ranged is easy to train with a cannon & sighted bow is available quite early & is most accurate. Otherwise, stick with your personal tools of onslaught.

What are the xp rates like and what does a gilded pickaxe do (if it's cosmetic, then it's useless, dragon looks much better red)?

^I honestly wouldn't bother at lighthouse dags or abberant spectres, everywhere else rapier.

You should be able to kill waterfiends, try Karil's + prot ranged (if you can afford it). Otherwise I agree with Litterbug that it won't be very fast to gather a lot of charms now - of course you won't have a bunyip for longer, but I think you best stick to familarization + Bork + slayer.

Very nice screenshots, but the hits are a bit low :P. No fire cape and that's potted to ~115 str (no ovl, just went there for a joke). Also note the use of a 'chick' familiar.

Defensive would be a 3/13th higher max defence roll at level 1 defence (increase from 13 to 16). That's not the difference between hitting straight zeroes and straight damage. Also, monsters that have major melee style weaknesses probably have some gear, such as dragons, waterfiends etc. I also suspect many bosses have some gear bonusus - to double your defence you only need +64 defence bonus, but if you wanted to do that by levels you'd have to double your level and more. E.g. to double your defence roll at 99 defence takes another 107 levels or +64 gear bonus. At a certain point your combat level just gets way too high, especially if you are talking corp/nex style health and accuracy and damage (iirc the 3k hp levels Nex has are like 500 combat levels?).

Well I enter at the portal of course - then run east to restore summoning (the room is rotated so the obelisk is close). Then I move one room south to restore prayer (gilded altar for training prayer, not ideal due to the one room difference but it's to keep the menagerie open to the garden as I have 10 pets roaming), one room west to my glory. If I need a portal I go one room further west or one west and one north. My study is north of the portal for easy tab making (but I never make tabs so yeah). I replaced the dining room with a study by the way, as it turned out they really have 3 doors (lol my mistake). My second study has one door against the portal room wall, the most northern study is a bedroom. I made it so that there are no doors to the outside. Since I barely use the workshop I put it up there, works nicely with the no outside doors scheme. I should make a row of gardens around there but I haven't bothered yet. I also expanded the costume room area to hold a training kitchen & dining room as well as a combat ring for fun :P. There's also some remains from my old house there I haven't removed yet, I might if I ever need the space. Since my house is in Yanille I have all portals but watchtower, the arrangement is pretty random tbh.

It won't be very good money - corping is only okish if you solo it in something like torva helm/pernix body/virtus legs (funny setup :P), but I'm afraid you'll probably still need a swh for that which is rather costly.

Your problems are mainly that you won't instantly be a maxed monster hunter type of person straight away - well don't worry no new member is. There's a lot for you to do and imo it's worth it very much.

Guys, the next persons to suggest slayer only gets an official warning, right? If the OP asks for no slayer, he gets no slayer. OT: Dharoking is best, ape atoll skeletons will offer high xp rates. 70 prayer is highly recommended. If you're reasonably close to getting a soul wars cape that's nice to have (unless you already have a fire cape). Use dragon boots, barrows gloves, a salve amulet (e) (be sure to get this, it's crucial!) and a berserker ring. Read http://forum.tip.it/topic/222890-melee-ranging-and-two-slight-diversions/

Turoth bots are after level 3 clues I think.

Glory and strength are a lot closer yeah, probably worth it on LRC, maybe greaters and such. If you want to know monster defence levels just vid every task you do and write a hit/miss counting bot to analyze the tape while you sleep (or do it live I guess, but I'm not sure if that makes it more difficult or not).

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