I was training slayer at god wars using a high lvl familiar beast and notice that if it got the death blow I didnt get any slayer points for killing it. Im not totally sure about this. Some guy at the Chaos tunnel Black demons said it wasnt true and was using his familiar there. Has anyone else tried this? Post here if you have because a little confirmation would be nice.

Was your lootshare turned on?

Nope. I was just doing slayer. Why would that matter anyway?

Wrong forums.

 

 

 

Anyway, maybe he means that if you have lootshare on familiars don't give slayer xp... not sure.

Im testing it now with black demons. Looks like I get slayer exp no matter who hits last. Couldve been a bug with spiritual mages at sara gwd.

This happens indeed, though not all the time. If my Titan hits last on a Black demon or Nech in the Chaostunnels, I get slayerexp in about only 50% of those kills.

 

 

 

I posted this 1 month ago in Help&advice, but didnt got replies with similar experiences then

if another monster makes the killing blow you do not get the splayer exp.

 

by monster i do not mean the summon, but for example werewolf fighting sara mage.

 

 

 

maybe that was your case

Lootshare has strange effects on things - like for slayer tasks, every two kills counts as one kill off your list and the black mask won't work

 

 

 

It won't let you get a casket from a coordinate clue either - it just keeps spawning Zammy/Sara mages

 

 

 

You get half the slayer XP for dealing the killing blow on the monster and half the slayer XP for doing more than half the damage... so the familiar's probably stealing half of it from you (bug)

That'd be a crappy bug, I've been slaying with familiars for a while.

 

 

 

 

 

That might be why I'm getting such slow exp.. :x

It won't let you get a casket from a coordinate clue either - it just keeps spawning Zammy/Sara mages

 

Woah!

 

 

 

If I recall correctly, Zamorak mages drop a lot of nature runes somewhat frequently... But that would be bug abuse.

The damage that your familiar deals does not count towards your slayer in the long run

 

 

 

It's a bit hard to explain, but combat familiars provide no help to slayer whatsoever

 

 

 

Suppose that your familiar deals 20 damage to each 100 hp red demon

 

 

 

After 5 kills, your familiar will have dealt 5*20 or 100 hp, and so has killed the equivalent of 1 red demon

 

 

 

Thus, every 6 kills that you and your familiar do, only 5 are counted for slayer

 

 

 

Has always been like this for as far as I know

This happens indeed, though not all the time. If my Titan hits last on a Black demon or Nech in the Chaostunnels, I get slayerexp in about only 50% of those kills.

 

 

 

I posted this 1 month ago in Help&advice, but didnt got replies with similar experiences then

 

 

 

me:slayer lvl?

 

 

 

artic bear: 64,almost dusties ftw \

 

 

 

 

 

OT: so i shouldnt use a familiar who attks on a task?

I've been training slayer with combat familiars since the update, and as they help me finish tasks faster, i doubt it's true. But i can say this, that when killing spiritual mages as a slayer task at saradomin mages that are attacking the werewolf, me and all of my mates always have to get a few more kc than how many the task was.

 

 

 

It won't let you get a casket from a coordinate clue either - it just keeps spawning Zammy/Sara mages

 

 

 

 

 

 

i just tried that and i got a casket

I have noticed the lack of xp from when a familiar hits the last blow at dagannoths. I was using a terrorbird which was killing some dags by itself. It got the entire kill and I did not get slayer xp from it.

well technically shouldn't we get the exp from it, although we don't cause it is our "combat" familiar. I mean isn't that what slayer is all about?

I use combat familiars every chance i get when training slayer. They greatly help speed up tasks if you know how to use them correctly, and I just checked at dust devils and i indeed do get full xp even when they deal the killing hit.

i usually use a spinner on tasks, as at my low summoning lev the combat monsters dont really do jack....

if you get combat exp from your familiar i dont get why you shouldnt get slayer exp if your familiar dealt the final blow

 

 

 

maybe the slayer exp the familiar gets goes to his slayer level? lol. all familiars have 99 slayer anyway and can even attack some un-attackable randoms

Well this is becoming clear as mud :? The only reason I used a combat familiar was because this guy was there stealing my kills with one at chaos black demons. Honestly if summoning counts toward our combat lvl then it is us doing the damage so it really should count.

The damage that your familiar deals does not count towards your slayer in the long run

 

 

 

It's a bit hard to explain, but combat familiars provide no help to slayer whatsoever

 

 

 

Suppose that your familiar deals 20 damage to each 100 hp red demon

 

 

 

After 5 kills, your familiar will have dealt 5*20 or 100 hp, and so has killed the equivalent of 1 red demon

 

 

 

Thus, every 6 kills that you and your familiar do, only 5 are counted for slayer

 

 

 

Has always been like this for as far as I know

 

 

 

i dont think it works like this.

 

slayer xp is given in 2 parts, 50% for the one that does the most hits and 50% for the one that does the last blow, so it would help kill the demons considerably faster, and will get you the same xp as long as it doesn't give the finishing blow.