I don't see why everyone complains about the snails, think to yourself for a moment, does that look like melee to you? No, mage is a bit more understandable, until you notice that those are balls of slime. Or you could have read the guide in the quide on the runescape site itself. It tells you about all the monsters you encounter. :) The real thing I hate about route three, is that no matter how good you are, you can still lose if your npc is a moron. Take for example this incident, I was fighting the sea monster, my guy gets attacked (not too surprising, as there are 5 things that attack you there.) So as always, I quickly kill the tentacel attacking him, and he then wanders into the path of two other. By this time, there is no way of saving him That is just the most irritating, once he walking right up to 4 of the shades in one of the encounters, and got himself killed in less than a seconed. And, you can use food on these guys to heal them. :)