Mischlings

With those stats, I'd have to imagine that z spear+turmoil+soul split+yak full of rocktails should make the fight go pretty easily. And once the yak's inventory is empty, the steel titan would probably be able to help significantly -- if you need it at all.

Wow, never noticed this thread before, and it's quite amazing. I love the lore of this game, so anything that gives a large amount of information about it is something that I love reading. Great job with this, great job. I haven't read through all 52 pages (in fact, I only read the last page), so I'm not sure if this was mentioned, but I don't know if Tolna's dungeon has anything to do with the Dragonkin. Consider the proximity to Senntisten, one of the largest Zarosian strongholds, leading me to believe that it's something Zarosian, not something related to the dragonkin.

Since you obviously haven't been before why are you giving advice on them? I have been there and killed thousands of waterfiends -- the only experience I am lacking is not testing whip against dragon mace there. I know they have a high defence against anything that's not crush, I'm just not so sure that even a dragon mace is better than a whip there. Now, if you will please remove your head from your [wagon] on these forums, can we get on with the rest of the topic?

Is a whip really so horrendous here that even a dragon mace beats it? I find that kind of, well, unlikely. But anyway. Definitely want magic defence, so Karil's is the way to go. Pray ranged and bring a decent amount of prayer potions and some food. As for where to go, ancient cavern (where mithril dragons are), go right down the stairs from the whirlpool and run to the west and the little peninsula there or run all the way around to the other side of the water. There are waterfiends in both places.

Since you only have 17 summoning, Guthan's will work until you do get 68 -- though I would put everything (Tears of Guthix, xp lamps, any other rewards) towards summoning until you get it. It will change how you slay completely. Also, buy the things you haven't crossed off, as they're needed for waterfiend tasks, which are one of the best charm droppers in the game. About 80% of their drops are crimson charms, which is immensely helpful for training summoning. Also, once you get 75 slayer (I'm assuming you'll have 110 combat by then), switch to Kuradal. Her tasks are much longer, but it allows much more time spent on task. The Ferocious Ring is also a massive help, both for fighting within her dungeon and getting to Kuradal quickly to get a new task.

You do need to suck it up and stick with it -- the profit isn't that great until higher levels, when you have 1) access to better monsters and 2) higher stats that allow you to power through tasks faster. As for tasks to cannon, looking at Duradel's list, I see Aberrant Spectres, Bloodveld (mutated bloodvelds after Legacy of Seergaze), Black Demons, Dagannoths, Fire Giants (use cannon and melee in Waterfall), Hellhounds in Taverly, Kalphites, Scabarites, and Suqahs. You don't need to use cannon on all of those, but it speeds up slaying so much that it's hard to argue against using it. Also, if you're not, you really need to use super sets (attack, strength, and use defence on most tasks -- some don't hit hard enough to justify it, though) -- the boost to speed is worth it. Those potions are cheap.

Okay, this is mostly copy-pasted from what I posted in another thread, but I'll try to make it as relevant as possible. Equipment: Slayer Helm/Black Mask -- a must. If you cannot get this, do not slay. The black mask alone will work fine until you get enough points for the helm. Fire Cape/Soul Wars Cape -- the only two that I ever use on melee tasks, though really, just about any cape will do. Torag's Platebody -- good defence, cheap, repairs aren't that expensive Verac's Skirt -- good defence, prayer bonus, no real reason to not use this Dragon Boots, Barrows Gloves -- best overall gloves and best melee boots Abyssal Whip -- see the note next to slayer helm Rune Defender -- see note next to slayer helm Berserker Ring -- +4 strength is a great help, but warrior ring is a decent choice if you can't afford a berserker. If you use Kuradal, Ferocious Ring is a must within her dungeon. Amulet of Fury -- Best amulet for, well, pretty much everything Karil's Top and Skirt -- for when you need magic defence Cannon and cannonballs -- for powering through some tasks. It's expensive, but a huge boost in speed Zamorakian Spear -- for Waterfiend tasks Full Proselyte -- For whenever you need to use prayers (protection prayer or piety) What are your stats? You'll really want 68 summoning for bunyip -- that makes Guthan's pretty much obsolete. The above is all equipment you'll want for serious slaying. Give me some more information and I should be able to help you more.

With herbs, it's better to sell them and make other potions that are more efficient. Now onto the next point. Slayer is horrible when it comes to instant gratification. It's something that don't really pay off unless you're willing to put a lot of time into it, so I don't think it's exactly what you're looking for. You'll need a relatively large investment to be able to slay at a high rate, and there are times where you will lose money in the short term, but overall it is a money making skill. For example, you could get a dagannoth task followed by a black demon task, both of which are best done with a cannon, and lose a large amount of money between those two tasks, but then get a blue dragon task, which will probably pay for all the cannonballs you just used on those tasks. It requires patience and a bit of luck. Now, if you want a setup... Slayer Helm/Black Mask -- a must. If you cannot get this, do not slay. The black mask alone will work fine until you get enough points for the helm. Fire Cape/Soul Wars Cape -- the only two that I ever use on melee tasks, though really, just about any cape will do. Torag's Platebody -- good defence, cheap, repairs aren't that expensive Verac's Skirt -- good defence, prayer bonus, no real reason to not use this Dragon Boots, Barrows Gloves -- best overall gloves and best melee boots Abyssal Whip -- see the note next to slayer helm Rune Defender -- see note next to slayer helm Berserker Ring -- +4 strength is a great help, but warrior ring is a decent choice if you can't afford a berserker Amulet of Fury -- I don't know what the market for this is like, so get this if you can, if not just use a glory That will work on 90% of tasks. Other things you'd want: Karil's Top and Skirt -- for when you need magic defence Cannon and cannonballs -- for powering through some tasks. It's expensive, but a huge boost in speed Zamorakian Spear -- for Waterfiend tasks Guthan's is not recommended -- since you have 68 summoning, you won't need Guthan's -- bunyip will work much better. If you have more questions, ask -- I'll be able to answer in the morning, or maybe someone else can answer for me in the meantime. EDIT: http://forum.tip.it/topic/254632-daily-activities/ -- guide to daily activities -- not all of them are necessary and some of them aren't really worth the time.

Thanks for the quick answers -- the task went by no problem. As for the food thing, SGS+bunyip was way more than enough healing -- in fact, I think it's possible to do the task with SGS alone, like many others.

1) Herb runs (see this guide: http://forum.tip.it/topic/242787-mother-gaia-an-in-depth-manual-to-farming/) 2) Do as much of the Varrock Achievement Diary as you can and then buy battlestaves daily 3) Buy unfinished broad bolts from slayer masters http://www.runescoop.com/html/rs_TheRuneScoopDynamicMoneymakingGuideforRuneScape.htm Amazing moneymaking guide -- do whatever in there strikes you as a good idea at the time. But seriously, the three things listed first can make a ton of money daily -- probably over a million per day, depending on how many herb runs you can get in a day. They also usually take less than an hour of time actively playing.

1) Since gargoyles are weak to crush, is it worth it to use Zamorakian Spear over Whip? 2) Kuradal's Dungeon with Ferocious Ring or Chaos Tunnels with combat familiar? (Best I have right now is obsidian golem) Haven't done a task of these in a while, so I'm not sure how best to do this task. If it makes any difference, I plan on using piety throughout the task.

Other than making a couple thousand potions during the event, I don't plan on doing much specifically for it. I'll let the whole world get worked up into a frenzy while I just play how I normally do -- doing whatever I feel like at the moment. It's not that big of a deal -- everyone gets the faster xp, either you use it or you don't, get off your high horse and play the game as it goes.

Well, since you want to smith and mine, knock out two birds with one stone: get a ton of nature runes and superheat gold while you mine. That seems like the best idea given your current goals, assuming that you won't change your mind from those three. Just make sure that you have goldsmithing gauntlets and go wild. Superheating doesn't slow down your mining, so you can get the boost in mining and smithing at the same time, along with some magic xp.

Well, finally reached the milestone of 2000 total level. Spring break starts tomorrow although I have already checked out of school in my mind. No idea what I'll spend spring break doing, as I'll probably be home alone most of the time (I hope, I need a break from school). And that's all I have to say for now.

I would also use fast throwing weapons (darts/knives) on greaters, hellhounds, and blue dragons in Kuradal's dungeon with the ferocious ring if you need more ranged xp. If you do a serious amount of slaying, you'll want to raise ranged as well as melee stats so you don't end with something like 95 ranged and 15 million xp in each melee stat. But most things should be killed using whip on controlled. It's the best overall way to raise combat.

I remember reading in Zarfot's guide that he estimated 40m if you piety and cannon every task and 80m if you use superhuman strength and cannon every task. I don't think that estimate included slayer points, and also consider that the Soul Wars Cape, Kuradal and her dungeon, and some other updates have been made since then that might change that number, whether slightly or significantly.

I am a college student and a video gamer. Therefore, I must be sleep deprived. Why that is the case, I am not completely sure, but it is, and so I am here saying some things while sleep deprived. Oh well. 1991/2000 skill total at the moment. Just happened to have enough penguin points to get 74 prayer today, so I decided that it would be a good idea to do so. Now 1 prayer level, 1 summoning level, 1 smithing level, 2 hunter levels, and 5 construction levels from all 75+. Would put me at 2001 skill total, so all 75+ may or may not be my next goal. I would say that I'll go for all 80+ after that, but that would start to get both expensive and time consuming, so for now I'll stick to trying for all 75+. Maybe after I train slayer a bit more. I'm not sure what exactly I'm going for at the moment, I just do various skills in between all the intermittent activities that make a ton of money without even noticing. My cash pile hasn't fallen under 40 million in about a month and I don't know how as I spend money pretty often. I don't know what else I have to say. Maybe sometime soon I'll have something significant to say.

I haven't posted here since December? Well, I think that I need to fix that. For the first of two updates that no one but me will care about: my break is long since over and I'm back in school, with all the hassles and stresses that come with it. Mondays come from hell (classes from 9-5 with a total of 90 minutes of break, which isn't much considering the walk between some buildings on campus), other days aren't as bad (3 days a week I end at 1 or 2, and the other day I end at 4), so it's not horrendous, but 17 credits isn't the easiest thing. I'm actually typing this while sitting in a lecture (but don't tell them that). As for RuneScape, I haven't been doing all that much. I don't have huge amounts of time to play most days, so my playing is often limited to herb runs, dailies like battlestaves, broad bolts, Bork, getting my favour up, some merchanting, and fishing for cavefish with whatever time I have left. That might sound like a lot, but herb runs and dailies take up around an hour and I'm often multitasking while I do. Still, it's amazing. I've noticed that I'm making a ton of money even with only these small investments of time -- 1 million a day would be a good guess, quite possibly more. Enough of my rambling -- I'll stop wasting your time now. Maybe I'll have something more interesting to say here in the near future.

@Gandalf -- depending on the time frame, that shouldn't be too difficult. @Daavorian -- that shouldn't be too bad for you either -- next year is way more than enough time. @ABC -- it does feel good, now I just need to figure out a new goal to shoot for. In the meantime, killing tormented demons seems like a good option to put on the menu for now.

Decided at about midnight that I'd finish getting all my skills to 70 or higher, saw it would cost less than 1.5 million to get this from 65, so here I go: Nothing major, I know, but it's an accomplishment.

He never said a word the entire time, so I wasn't sure what he was doing because he was doing such a bad job of getting me killed -- it worked, but only because I thought that I could finish the kill and refused to teleport out. I lost nothing except some sharks/pots because I couldn't carry everything after I got back to my gravestone.

Came back to members around the time finals ended, and I finished While Guthix Sleeps yesterday, so predictably I've been killing Tormented Demons. Bit of a steep learning curve, took a while to figure out the right tactics, but I'm enjoying it. About 10 minutes ago, I'm killing some and someone comes in to my spot. Fine, he can just hop worlds. I expect him to be a jackass and try to steal my kill. If only. Instead, he decides to lure the demons over to pile on and kill me. He seems to barely know what he's doing, but it manages to work. I didn't lose anything since I'd prepared for the possibility of death there before, but still. Good job being a jackass. I have half a mind to go back there and do the same to him, but I'm better than that.

Had my first final today -- philosophy, pretty easy. But that's school, not this. My membership runs out tomorrow -- perfect timing to give me more time to study (not that I'll use it all, I'm like that). While I'm f2p, while I have time, I'll probably spend my RS time on Great Orb Project -- should help once I get members back, good amount of money can be made off the right tabs. But that's all I can think of off the top of my head.

Ohio: God's blind spot.

Okay, I decided that I'd start a blog just for the hell of it. Might not get too much done in the all too near future, as I have finals coming up, but I figured that I might as well start up a blog. The obligatory about me: I'm 17 and almost at the end of my first semester at college. I go to the University of Michigan, but you're not getting much more info than that out of me. I've played Runescape since Classic (not sure exactly when, but I know I remember when the RS2 beta was first released), became a member sometime not too long after the release of construction (I think), and have taken many hiatuses in the interim. I love combat in this game, Slayer being one of my favorite skills, but I also enjoy some of the noncombat aspects of the game. One of my favorite hobbies is barrowing, as I've probably made most of my fortune there. I'm worth around 130 million with most of it being in combat items. I'm currently level 125 combat with a total level of 1953 (I think) and my membership is running out soon, but considering that finals are soon, that's all for the best. I currently have no real goal in RS -- right now, I'm just playing and doing whatever whenever I decide to do it. Currently: Slaying (Kuradal)