best place to kill scabbarites?

[Aresgodowar]

Where is the best place to kill these?

[brunokiller]

The two mages in the upstairs maze under Sophanem.

 

Just use mage pray, their drops pay for it.

[Inuashakent]

Y. Scabarites

 

 

 

This section was orignally written by 1 B L 0 O D. Thanks!

 

 

 

Amount assigned: Duradel, 40-60 (supposed to be 130-200; hopefully it will be fixed ); Sumona, 30-60

 

Hitpoints:

 

Location: East of Sophanem, Sophanem Dungeon

 

 

 

Approximate charm drop percentages-

 

Gold: 8%

 

Green: 3%

 

Crimson: 27%

 

Blue: 2%

 

 

 

The best way to kill these is to cannon and melee them under Sophanem. Another option is to cannon and melee them in the swamp with the reeds, near the large statue, but that is about the same speed, and gives no charm drops.

 

 

 

Contrary to popular belief, Scabarites are absolutely worth doing and are one of the best tasks you can be assigned, in my opinion. They are fast slayer xp (30k+ per hour) and drop tons of crimson charms.

 

 

 

When you get a task of these, use a Pharaoh's sceptre to teleport to Pyramid Plunder and bank at the bank in Sophanem.

 

 

 

I suggest wearing Proselyte and praying Protect from Melee, since they hit hard enough and frequently enough to require a LOT of healing, even in addition to the cooked bass that is dropped! I do not suggest using Piety on these since your cannon does much of the work, and the Locust Riders can only walk up to you at a limited speed.

 

 

 

Use the typical melee equipment with a Proselyte plate and legs.

 

 

 

Suggested inventory-

 

 

 

A teleport

 

Dragon dagger(p++)

 

Holy wrench

 

Tinderbox

 

Bullseye lantern (lit)

 

1 energy potion

 

Cannon

 

2 super attacks or Zamorak brews

 

2 super strength

 

1 range pot

 

4-7 prayer pots

 

Food in extra space

 

 

 

(Familiar: Combat familiar)

 

Zarfot

 

 

 

09-Feb-2008 20:52:04

 

Last edited on 13-Jun-2008 12:37:30 by Zarfot

 

Once ready, go down the ladder from the bank. Run west, avoiding/disabling the [bleep]e traps, and go down the ladder. Turn on Protect from Magic, then run south a few steps, then run northwest until you reach another ladder, and go up it. Go south avoiding wall traps, pitfalls, and pushers, and go down the ladder.

 

 

 

If you fall in a pit, then you will appear in the room you need to be in. If that happens, just run south.

 

 

 

Now set up your cannon one square west and five squares north of the ladder and stand one square west of cannon base. Notice that only melee locusts will attack you because you are south of the "roaming" range of the mage. Therefore, your cannon will kill rangers and mages far out in the room, but they will not attack you. Although these seem hard to get too, it actually can take under two minutes to get from Sophanem bank to the correct location. Once I knew the correct path, I was able to get from the bank screen in Sophanem to the correct location, with my cannon set up, in 105 seconds.

 

 

 

These are a great dropper of crimson charms. In fact, during my tasks I average over 100 crimson charms per hour (tasks don't last an hour, of course ) making this possibly the third fastest way to get crimson charms, behind rock lobsters and waterfiends.

 

 

 

Only go north into the range of the Scarab Mages if you see good drops like crimson charms, since they can hit hard and also extinguish your lantern (that's what the tinderbox is for ).

 

 

 

With maxed stats, about 350 kills (31.5k slayer xp) can be gotten per hour.

 

[wioneo]

You could use the 2 lancers northeast of the swamp. No prayer is required. On a full world, one will respawn while you're killing the other. There are also two archers in the area, and if they attack you flip on range prayer and run west a bit, the rangers seem to have a very limited area that they can see. The rangers WILL own you without prayer, and I guess that you actually could kill all four of the scabarites there, but you would need to leave range prayer on.