The great kebab guide - Updated!

[Sorry]

The great kebab guide

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Introduction

 

 

 

 

 

Hello tip.it.

 

 

 

When I am fighting around at my training spot, alot of people talk to me. Usually, the question which food I use comes up. When I answer the food Im using is kebab, it amazes most people because they all think kebab is "nooby" food.

 

 

 

Last time, a lvl 80 with a santa hat comes up and when he hears about the food I'm using, he laughs at me for using such "noobish" food. Kebab is actually great food and I'm surprised so many people don't know about it so that's why I'm making this (my first) guide.

 

 

 

Furthermore, this guide is best suitable for F2P'ers, and with high HP levels (85+) who are training combat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kebab?

 

 

 

Kebab is one of the many foods in runescape.

 

Occasionaly a drunken dwarf will hand you a kebab and a beer, so you must have at least seen one, maybe you even ate it and you might got angry when it turned out to be a damaging kebab. :boohoo:

 

 

 

Kebab isn't regarded as highly as it should be.

 

Kebab could potentially heal a great deal of HP, but also damage HP, you'll never know unless you eat it.

 

I have written this guide so more people can enjoy the virtues of kebab (on runescape) this guide might also turn you to kebab in real life!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why kebab?

 

 

 

Many people use trouts and salmons, they give great fishing xp and are easy to come by, but the downside is that all of the banking is a huge waste of time, and the foods only heal 7 and 9, so you have to bank alot, this reduces your XP-rate in your combat style. For people who don't like fishing at all and don't want to train anyway, using these fish are even worse.

 

 

 

Ofcourse you can also do it the expensive way. Lobsters cost about 220gp each and they heal 12 hitpoints, you don't need to bank much, but 220gp each bite, that hurts. Especially for a higher combat goal you need a really big pile of cash to finance it, and for most F2P'ers, money is pretty hard to come by.

 

 

 

Then we have got a third possibility: kebab!

 

It heals a whopping 11 and it is very cheap and easy to come by. You need absolutely no skills to get kebabs fast and for only 1gp each kebab, it doesn't even matter how high your combat goal is, it is almost free anyway! And for 11 HP average per bite, you don't have to bank much so you can get really high XP-rates in combat!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How to get kebab?

 

 

 

I'm glad you asked it!

 

You can buy kebabs in Karim's kebab shop, it is located next to the furnace in Al Kharid, close to the Kharidian bank.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The kebab shop is located in the red circle.

 

It is close to lumbridge, you can teleport to lumbridge for free and you will be at Karim's shop very fast.

 

Note that you need 10gp to pass the gate to Al Kharid.

 

 

 

Unfortunately there is no market for kebab, if you type kebab in the official forums, you'll get zero hits, except for those occasional rants about how bad kebab is, written by people who have just eaten a single bad kebab. If there would be a market for kebab, kebab will be worth at least 50gp each, but very likely it would be over 100gp each! So you can't buy it yet, lucky for you, I have these tips to getting kebab fast!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Getting kebab fast!

 

 

 

Once you are there, you should buy kebabs as fast as possible, so you don't waste so much time.

 

 

 

For most people, it is a major issue that you have to buy one at a time, but this can be done relatively fast and the shop is close to bank.

 

It is still alot of clicking though, but it's worth it! :wink:

 

I have made a list of tips and tricks so you can buy kebabs as fast as possible.

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you can see the kebab shop is also home of a popular cooking furnace, so you won't be alone.

 

Note that the bank is only one click away, so you'll bank the kebabs really fast!

 

 

 

Obvious:

 

- Always keep 27 spots empty in your inventory, one for a cash pile.

 

- Don't put on equippables with wheight, without you should be able to run 80% of the time, 100% if you're a member with agility.

 

- Put chat off, you have plenty of time to talk when you are combatting anyway, on your quickly bought kebabs.

 

 

 

Less obvious:

 

- Turn you screen to the south, often Karim is in the northern part of the store, this means when you turn your screen south, he is closer to the text bar, this means you have to move your mouse less and you can buy kebabs faster.

 

- Tilt your screen down a little, this makes Karim a little bit larger so you won't click past him so often, don't go to low, or you'll find it harder navigating and banking and clicking Karim in the first place.

 

- Stay away from crowded worlds, always take the empty ones, each time you click in the text bar to buy a kebab, you have to wait a fraction of a second, if you are in a crowded world, this can take a second or even more! That surely slows the buying down!

 

 

 

And ofcourse, don't forget the cash!

 

 

 

 

 

Even if you follow these tips & tricks, at first you won't buy the kebabs as fast, but after 100 or so, you'll get the hang of it!

 

 

 

I have timed, and the fastest I could do is 1 run in 1:20 minutes (27 kebabs) ofcourse everyone makes mistakes, so on average you'll make a rune in 1:30 minutes. Thats about 1100 kebabs an hour, not bad eh! :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How to eat kebab?

 

 

 

Just click on it and you eat it. Haha!

 

 

 

 

 

No actually, because kebab is not reliable like other foods, you need to keep some things in mind to make optimal use of it. Sometimes it heals a mediocre amount of HP, but sometimes it gives you a huge amount of HP back, it can even damage you somtimes!

 

 

 

There is a small chance a kebab will heal you for 30 HP, this is the highest. There is also a small chance a kebab will damage your stats for -3.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You must make sure that you:

 

 

 

- Don't eat kebab when your current HP is not lower then 30 points below your HP skill level. (you might waste a lot of potential HP, you could get a kebab that heals 30 HP!)

 

- Eat kebab when your health gets to low, else a high monster hit + a damaging kebab can finish you off. Take 20 HP as a limit, take at least 30HP if you are going AFK, keep a higher HP limit the less often you are going to check in on runescape.

 

- Don't eat kebab when your current HP is 4 or lower.

 

 

 

A damaging kebab might knock you out, when you don't pay attention for some time at aggresive NPC's and when you check back you see your health at 4 or lower, immediately switch your protect from melee prayer and run from the NPC's, wait until your HP regenerates to 5, you might want to use prayer to speed up the process. When your health is 5 again, eat kebab. THere is a small chance you are knocked to 1 or 2 HP, in this case, wait until HP regenerates to 5 again, or run to the bank for other foods, do not try your luck!

 

 

 

- Don't eat kebab when your strength potion improves your max hit. You might get a damaging kebab which drops your strength by 3.

 

 

 

I assume you use strength potions for training. Without strength potions you are wasting alot of time.

 

Strength potions, they raise your strength with 12.5% of your total level.

 

Your level will slowly go back to your Strength skill level for 1 point/minute.

 

 

 

Here is a list of which strength level you need for a certain max hit (assuming you use strength amulet + rune scimitar)

 

 

 

83+ strength: 17

 

88+ strength: 18

 

93+ strength: 19

 

98+ strength: 20

 

103+ strength: 21

 

108+ strength: 22

 

(NOT taken from the tip.it max hit calculator :P )

 

Note that training strength (aggresive style) gives you +3 strength, so if you are lvl 95 strength you can already hit 20s! (95+3=98 which means you're in the 98+ category!)

 

 

 

For example if you have got 99 strength, your potion will improve your strength to 111, if you have bad luck and you get a damaging kebab, your strength drops to 108, you are missing 3 valuable levels there where you can hit 22. Instead, you must wait and start eating kebabs at 102, then your strength potion doesn't improve your max hit anymore, you can't hit 21 anymore and you can hit 20 without strength potion, from that point you can start eating kebab, your 102 might drop to 99, but that doesnt matter. If you wouldnt have got a damading kebab, you would've drank another strength potion anyway, because at that point your strength potion no longer improves your max hit.

 

 

 

You mught get 2 damaging kebab in one row (very, very rare), lowering your strength below 99, when you would take strength potion now, it won't give you the full bonus.

 

You could use beers to neutralise this, they're occasionaly handed out by drunken dwarves.

 

 

 

 

 

Kebab in numbers

 

 

 

Ofcourse this guide wouldn't be good if I hadn't got some numbers to back my guide up. As you know kebab is unreliable, it sometimes give great HP, sometimes it does bad things. That's why I tried some kebabs out to see for the results. I ate one 1000 kebabs for accurate results. (note that I have almost eaten 20.000 kebabs in total, but ofcourse I haven't recorded all them :P )

 

 

 

 

 

Possible results:

 

 

 

Normal kebab, this is by far the most common outcome, this kebab heals you for 9 HP.

 

 

 

 

Good kebab, altough not as common as a normal one, you'll enjoy many good kebabs. They heal 19 HP each.

 

 

 

 

Neutral kebab, rarely you'll encounter a kebab with no effect. This one heals you for 0 HP.

 

 

 

 

Bad kebab, also rare, this kebab has got the same effect as neutral kebab since the update.

 

 

 

 

Very bad kebab, about as uncommon, this kebab gives you a temporary -3 for Attack, Strength and Defence (altough this will regenerate for 1 point per minute)

 

It used to damage health before the update.

 

 

 

 

Amazing kebab, this kebab is pretty rare as well, but it heals you for a whopping 30 HP points!!! And that's not it, it also gives a temporary +2 for Attack, Strength and Defence.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now for the numbers, I have eaten 1000 kebabs, so each 10 kebabs which turned in a certain outcome counts for 1 percent.

 

 

 

Normal (9): 63.3%

 

Good (19): 23.4%

 

Neutral (0): 2.8%

 

Bad (0): 3.2%

 

Very bad (0): 3.4%

 

Amazing (30): 3.9%

 

 

 

(note that if your HP is lower then 85, the normal, good and amazing outcome will heal less HP)

 

 

 

If you multiply the percentage with the amount of HP it heals (in the brackets) you will find out the average amount a kebab will heal.

 

You will see the outcome is 11.333 (it used to be 11.081 before the update), so the kebab heals 11 on average!

 

 

 

11HP for only 1gp costs and 3 seconds of buying, isn't it amazing! :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kebab in the wilderness?

 

 

 

This is the newest section for my guide, I added this a bit too late, but I hope it's useful information nonetheless.

 

 

 

Kebab is very good for it's costs when it comes for average healing. It heals 11 points and costs only 1 gp (+ some time) the main pking food, the lobster, it costs 200gp and it heals 12 (just one point more).

 

Swordfish is much more expensive for a little extra healing points, these are not commonly used in the wilderness. Salmons/trouts could also be an option for the low budget pker, but the kebab's extra healing power makes up for it's lack of reliability.

 

 

 

So far so good, when it comes to raw healing power vs costs, kebab is THE pking food. But we have forgotten one factor: it's lack of reliability.

 

For example, if you are in a fight and somebody hits you high when you are already at mid HP, you eat a kebab and it damages you! Then you might be hit high after and you are brought to 0 HP, without even eating all your kebabs!

 

 

 

But since lobsters are so expensive, it would be a waste to eat them, so I have made a list of situation where you should or shouldn't use kebabs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hunting:

 

This is when you and a group friends (or a small clan) go out and hunt lone pkers or smaller/lower groups with the sole purpose to hunt as much money as you can (and have a little bit of fun ofcourse :wink: )

 

 

 

In this situation it is important that you are not heavily packed (light armor or nothing) this so that you can chase for longer and you won't lose as much if you run into a clan, you'll also pk exclusively in multi-combat areas.

 

 

 

When hunting you shouldn't count for much resistance, you won't be hit hard and by several people at once, and when you run into a clan you flee/log. That means you shouldn't worry so much for being killed without being able to eat all your food. Still you have got a chance to be KO'ed (killed without being able to eat all your food), you also have a chance of getting an amazing kebab (+30 HP), so the best compromise would be to eat when your HP falls below your max HP - 30 when hunting.

 

 

 

Solo pking (deep wilderness)

 

Solo pking is just as hunting, except you don't pk in a group but alone. Because it is so hard to chase a full rune armored opponent, you won't encounter much high lvl solo pkers. The most popular form of solo pking is rune miner pking. Because you'll beat a runeminer from here to tokio (because you can carry much more food), you won't be hit alot. This means kebabs are fine, as long as you eat when your hitpoints fall below your max HP - 30.

 

 

 

Clan wars

 

Clan wars are fights between often big clans, also in most clan fights, you are required to bring full rune along. You could be hit by much people at the same time, one bad kebab and you could be gone. Also when you are taking full rune, you shouldn't use kebabs at all, the costs of a load of lobsters is in no comparison to the costs of a suit of rune armor.

 

 

 

Deathmatches

 

Deathmatches are 1vs1 fights, running is often forbidden. Because only 1 person is hitting you, the lack of reliability form a kebab is not much of a factor. So if you fight unarmored deathmatches where you've got nothing to lose you might as well bring kebabs along (unless you want to win for your honor, in that case you should buy lobsters or maybe even swordfish)

 

If you have got something to lose, for example rune armor, you should use at least lobsters

 

 

 

Funning

 

When you have nothing to lose anyway, or can't be killed but neither can you kill your opponent, you're just there for fun.

 

Most people at the black knights castle are funning, if they are losing, they can teleport to safety anyway.

 

If you're funning you should bring kebabs, you won't make kills/deaths anyway. If you are funning in rune armor, you shouldn't use kebabs when you're in multicombat areas, in single however, you're free to kebab.

 

 

 

 

 

-You shouldn't use kebabs in wilderness if you're max hitpoints are lower then 85, because then the kebabs won't heal as much anymore, when below 85, you might as well use salmons for wilderness.

 

-Also, when you are pking in full rune armor you should bring at least lobsters in most of the cases, because the cost of a full load of lobsters is a tiny fraction of the price of a rune armor suit.

 

-When you are in multicombat areas you could be KO'ed, in most of the cases you should take lobsters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope this guide was of any use to you. :D :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy kebapping!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[JAMjE]

lol awesome guide :XD:

[juicce]

Amazing guide, but one thing I want to know...

 

 

 

How much they heal for us below 85 hp'ers?

 

 

 

9/10

[mhosseins]

Good guide you mgith watn to mention taht there is another kebab shop in polivaneich

[Wachtwoord]

Good guide you mgith watn to mention taht there is another kebab shop in polivaneich

 

That shop is incredible useless. It's far from almost everything. Only usefull if you're fighting something in the smoke dungeion.

 

 

 

OT: Very nice guide. I can remember reading a similar guide somewhere too, maybe it was on salmoneus, I just don't now.

 

Anyway, kebabs own on f2p!

[Sorry]

Ehm I am not sure but my estimate:

 

 

 

10 HP 3 7 12

 

11-25 HP 4 9 15

 

26-40 HP 5 11 18

 

41-55 HP 6 13 21

 

56-70 HP 7 15 24

 

71-85 HP 8 17 27

 

 

 

First number for normal, second for good, third for amazing.

 

The outcomes for bad and neutral are the same for any HP skill level.

 

 

 

Note that this is just a estimate, I can be very far off.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the shop in pollvineach, I dont really know much about member things, but is that pollvineach store closer to bank then Karim's store? Can you buy more kebabs at a time?

[Wachtwoord]

It's not anywhere near some kind of a bank and the buying process is excactly as fast. So it's totally useless IMO.

[Elessar3019]

Awesome! I've never heard of this method, but it sounds really cool!

 

 

 

Unfortunately, I'm a member using swordies who heal 14 each, and getting fishing exp and cooking exp.

[mujtaba]

ahahah this is a great guide :XD:

[Ryuuka]

This guide is ALMOST as good as the cabbage guide : (Don't fight cabbage, you can't win)

[Dragontotem]

rofl, nice guide yaa :D

[dkjestrup]

good guide! the pollvineach one is good if you're KOing, Pickpocketing, pickpocketing bandits/menaphites (spell?) like it shows in Steiners Master Thiefing Guide (which is an awesome guide btw.)

[LeonardMart]

you didnt make it too clear in your guide, but id reccomend that you only use kebabs for training on monsters that dont hit too high. never kill high lvl quest monsters with such a risky food! :XD:

[aznmidget448]

When training with kebabs, always be sure to bring 1 or 2 normal foods. It might cost you a couple gp, but it's worth it when you get down in hp.

 

 

 

Nice guide. You should put up the little statements that appear when you eat the kebab like: "You eat a kebab. You feel ill." or whatever it says in the chat box.

[tired_emu]

Great guide, when i run out of lobsters i shall go stock up on a thousand or so kebabs :D One thing though, the str/max hit table are you sure that's correct? I've been hitting 19's with str ammy + scimmy since 90 str I think. I had the impression it was 90 str for 19's 96 for 20's and i don't know from then on (This is without a pot) You also said this I believe in your goals & achievements thread.

 

 

 

Edit: Taken from runehq (Information on kebab)

 

Normally heals 10% of HP when eaten. Occasionally it will taste "dodgy" and you'll lose 5% of your health. On rare occasions you'll get a really good kebab, which gains you 20% of your health back. Whether it hurts you or heals you determines the Stat Gain/Loss.

 

 

 

If you work out 20% of 95 + hp it works out to be around 19

 

 

 

So i'm guessing an amazing kebab would be 30% of your health back, but then that dosen't seem quite right because even if you had 99 hp you'd only get 29.7 (Maybe it rounds up to 30?) Or maybe these percentages are not right at all :?

 

 

 

Also taken from rune hq are the effects:

 

 

 

It can either heal you, or hurt you (chance).

 

+2 Attack, + 3 Strength, +2 Defence OR -3 Attack, -3 Strength, - 3 Defence.

 

 

 

I've never eaten enough to know the accuracy of the stated effects so these could be wrong.

 

 

 

Also tip.it has a page somewhere which tells you that the chance to get a very bad kebab hurting you for 4 hp and lowering your stats is approximately 1/32 and it also says that the damage the kebab deals cannot be fatal, it states that if you are below 2 hp it will not damage you (Why 2 hp I don't know? when it deals 4 damage :? ) Maybe something to try out if you had enough patience/time :P

 

 

 

Also i've hit several 20's in the last hour at 96 str, and i even hit a 20 just now at 95 str :shock: didn't think that was possible.

[jwrm22]

i dont think they can heal that many :wall: got to test it meself later...

[darkblob0]

great albeit strange guide. its one of a kind though :D

[Owned_Nex]

7/10 LOL. There is also another shot in bandit village. The kebabs there are better :P

[fakeitormakeit]

hehe, awesome guide! :thumbsup:

[hoffman]

No! Your making shark prices drop!!! :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

9/10

 

 

 

 

 

Love that you recorded eating 1000 kebabs

 

 

 

If my memory serves me right there also a kebab store in kelderam (darwfen city)

 

Maybe include that shop too.

[shurikennin]

This guide is ALMOST as good as the cabbage guide : (Don't fight cabbage, you can't win)

 

you took the letters right of my keybord :

[reaper88888]

Kebab is good, but looted food is better. :P Seriously, awesome guide! :XD:

[katakid1]

excellent job. If I ever go ftp I will use that guide tons. Lots of pictures, statistics, descriptions, tips, no flaws whatsoever.

[skeroh]

thats a good guide, but i've seen one like it before. i still need to try it though

[Aresgodowar]

Good guide you mgith watn to mention taht there is another kebab shop in polivaneich

 

That shop is incredible useless. It's far from almost everything. Only usefull if you're fighting something in the smoke dungeion.

 

 

 

OT: Very nice guide. I can remember reading a similar guide somewhere too, maybe it was on salmoneus, I just don't now.

 

Anyway, kebabs own on f2p!

 

 

 

you buy hotsause from him which if i am not mistaken will raise the hp giving capapabilities of the kebabs.