Temple Trekking Guide on Forums?

[Dax]

Is there one? I want one with more options than the one on the site. :-k

[aspeeder]

Well Troacctid made a miniguide in his woodcutting guide geared towards getting full lumberjack, and he does a pretty good job of that : .

 

 

 

[hide=~ Troacctid's Woodcutting Guide ~]The trick is to take the easiest route through the swamp (the blue one) and bring the weakest follower (Forester, Woman-at-Arms, Smiddi Ryak, or Rolayne Twickit). On the easiest route, you can dodge all the combat events without needing to fight, which speeds things up considerably. Also, in the combat events you don't skip, the enemies will be low level and easy to kill. And bringing the weakest follower gives you the best rewards for trekking, as well as increasing the number of monsters you fight against.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wield your standard melee combat gear. Whip and barrows armour is fine--Verac's is good for the prayer boost. If you have a slayer ring, bring that. And make sure your inventory includes a knife. If you don't have a slayer ring, you will need to bring a well-stocked druid pouch and some sacks of vegetables. (Cabbages, onions, potatoes, whatever. Baskets of strawberries are also good, since they double as excellent food for healing yourself.) Please note that this setup should ONLY be used for the easy path.

 

 

 

The events:

 

 

 

If you come across a combat event, you will want to skip it with two exceptions: snakes and nail beasts.

 

 

 

Snakes are worth fighting because using a knife on their corpse will reward you with bulk quantities of snakeskins worth 2k each. A single snake event can give you anywhere from 20-50k gp profit, which makes it well worth your time. They can attack you all at once, but if you have good defence bonuses, you can probably tank. You might need to use pro melee though, so watch out.

 

 

 

Nail beasts are worth fighting because they drop rare and valuable talon beast charms, which are the best charm in the game. You can use them to make talon beast pouches for a whopping 1k summoning experience each, more than any other pouch! Even if you don't have 77 summoning, you will eventually end up kicking yourself at some point if you throw them away.

 

 

 

You'll take some damage in these fights, so you can either use pro melee, bring Guthan's, or tank them and heal with cheap food at the Burgh de Rott bank when you need to.

 

 

 

Not all events are combat events. Most of the other ones are simple and easy, but there are two annoying ones to watch for.

 

 

 

First is the bog where you have to find a path across by trial and error. Use your knife on the bush to get some sticks to test the ground before you try to cross it. If you forget your knife, it can take ages to get across, and even if you have it, it's still the slowest event. This is the main reason why I advise bringing the ring of slayer: if you get this event, simply use it to teleport to the Slayer Tower, then run south and start a new trek. It's much faster than slogging though the bog.

 

 

 

The other annoying one is the "Birth of a Ghast" event, where you come across starving travellers that you need to feed. This is why you have your veggies. Pull a few cabbages out of their sack and force feed them to the starving dudes so you can be on your way. It's not all that bad, it just means you need to spend extra inventory space on it, so don't forget. Again, if you have a slayer ring, you can skedaddle from this event if you don't want to carry food or druid pouches to protect the food.

 

 

 

Well, that's probably all you really need to know about how to do Temple Trekking. If you want, you can go on the harder routes for better rewards for each trek and a tougher, more entertaining challenge. That would take a different setup, which I'd rather not go into. It would also get you your lumberjack a lot slower. You can refer to the Game Guide article on Temple Trekking here if you want to get deeper into it.[/hide]

[Dax]

Mmmm. That's pretty much just for Lumberjack, and i'm going for everything, thought it'd be a different way to gte Vyre Corpses.

[GibberEsh]

It's essentially the same thing as getting lumberjack. Take the weakest follower on the longest route so you can get 5 weakest enemies and evade the ones you don't like. Perhaps give this guide a look (I didn't read it so I don't know if it's good or not): 98-99-336-56873176

[aspeeder]

Also, be careful on the vyre events if you do chose the weakest follower, if they decide to be brave and try to kill them (Darwin award... :wall: ) they will get killed off very quickly if you do not grab the vyre's attention soon enough.

 

EDIT: Or you could use the spec I suppose, I've never used it personally but it seems like it could be very useful there.

[JoeDaStudd]

The vrye watch events are pretty damn annoying tbh I played it for 1 to 2 hours and had 3; 2 of which killed the follower instantly and the other one I managed to get them first, but it extended the trip by a good 2 minutes if not 3.

 

 

 

For vyres just kill them on the lower level of the town (the vyre one) or right next to the village. That way there either lower level or you have fast access to the bank if you need to.

[winthern]

The vrye watch events are pretty damn annoying tbh I played it for 1 to 2 hours and had 3; 2 of which killed the follower instantly and the other one I managed to get them first, but it extended the trip by a good 2 minutes if not 3.

 

 

 

For vyres just kill them on the lower level of the town (the vyre one) or right next to the village. That way there either lower level or you have fast access to the bank if you need to.

 

 

 

I disagree for two reasons: (1) the vyre corpses are more valuable than completing a run anyway and (2) i think they just takes a little practice. The vyre events are a nice way to get the corpses as if you go the easy route then the level is only about 80 (can't remember exactly) vs a lowest lvl of 110 when you fight them anywhere to east of the town.

 

 

 

Also, having played a lot over the last fortnight I now almost never lose the lowest lvl companions to vyres as long as you pre-stack with food and you concentrate on killing the vyre attacking your companion whilst standing in front of the companion to block the other vyres. Get the vyre attacking your companion to sub-50% health and then special it to stop it attacking your companion to save food but usually they don't get attacked at all.

 

 

 

In my view the choice depends on how focused you are. If you're purely looking to collect corpses to get to the magic 500 for the maxing of the flail, I wouldn't choose this though (I'm trying to get lumberjack and keeping all the corpses I get along the way and it was much quicker for me to get the flail up just focusing on them east of BDR). If you're happy to do general stuff (so collect the snake hides, talon charmsand lumberjack) as well as getting some corpses then this would work out quite well.

[thragon13]

Mmmm. That's pretty much just for Lumberjack, and i'm going for everything, thought it'd be a different way to gte Vyre Corpses.

 

Are you just going for vyre corpses or do you want to go for the rewards more, because if you narrow it down I can help you more as I have a little over 200 runs on this and am currently making a guide in the AOW beginners forum for how to make money off of this fun minigame.

[Dax]

Mmmm. That's pretty much just for Lumberjack, and i'm going for everything, thought it'd be a different way to gte Vyre Corpses.

 

Are you just going for vyre corpses or do you want to go for the rewards more, because if you narrow it down I can help you more as I have a little over 200 runs on this and am currently making a guide in the AOW beginners forum for how to make money off of this fun minigame.

 

 

 

Just got bored of the slow killing of Vyrewatch and decided to mix it up a bit with Temple Trekking, hopefully getting Lumberjack along the way.

[winthern]

Just got bored of the slow killing of Vyrewatch and decided to mix it up a bit with Temple Trekking, hopefully getting Lumberjack along the way.

 

 

 

The vyrewatch are faster to kill but don't come along too often - I wish I had got my flail up this way too - if I did it again I definitely would :)