So i have 99 melees now and want to start range slaying. However, my task is waterfiends. Is there a reasonable approach to ranging them?

No. They have very high range defense.

In short, yes.

 

There's a guide in AOW, I'll find you a link in a minute, it's by robin hoodie and it's the BEST guide you'll find for serious range slaying.

 

If I remember correctly, his advice is to range them up close until unaggresive and then to safespot them (not 100% sure how this works as they attack with range too...)

 

Anyway, treat this guide as your bible and you'll be well on your way to range slaying fun!

 

(also, I believe that it is slightly out of date and as such you should be able to use a amulet of ranging pretty much anywhere he says fury)

 

EDIT: here is the link

 

and here is what he has to say on the topic

 

[hide]Waterfiends are a task I thought were unrangable, and now, it seems ridiculously easy. The Method requires you to up-close Range them for 10 Minutes until they're unagressive and then you can safespot them. For this reason, a good Defense and Magic level is needed. Well not so much needed as reccomended. You'll only be fighting them with damage for about 10 Minutes.(Took 10:17 for them to stop being agressive to me, but that could be because I wasn't paying much attention to the clock) So it's okay to go in there with low Defense and Mage, just be wary. I fight them in the Whirlpool in Baxtorian Falls and in the spot marked on the map near the bottom of this section, you need to fight them there for this method to work.

 

 

 

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Full Range Bonus, which also has a bit of Magic Defense, which makes staying alive for 10 Minutes that much easier. Not much else to say except that the range attack is for hitting through the Waterfiends massive defense.

 

 

 

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The Prayer pots and food are for you to last the ~10 Minutes while they're agressive. You will get hit by the Mage attack a bit, that's what the food is for. The Prayer Potions are for you to Pray Protection From Range. That'll keep you alive until they go Un-Aggressive. The obvious Games Necklace is to get to the spot. You may want to use a Bunyip in place of food. Doesn't really matter though.

 

 

 

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That's the way to get to the spot. You'll be fighting besides a clump of rocks. Know them,love them, make love to them, I don't care which. The last one might be painful but I don't judge you. Once they're unaggressive, there are a lot of spots around to fight them without damage. Here are just a few of the spots that I use. Using these, you’ll be able to find a few that you discover yourself.

 

 

 

In one hour, I can kill a meager 68.531 Waterfiends, resulting in 35,088 Range Experience and 8,772 Slayer Experience. Below average exp, but with great drops. Why can they never be both? :( Oh well. This test was conducted at 99 Range and Potting up at 105 Range.

 

 

 

Voidable: Nope. I don’t recommend ranging Waterfiends because of their raw defense power. It may not be as much as their Slash defense, but it’s sure enough to make this task Unvoidable. Trust me, you’ll do better with Dragonhide or Armadyl.

 

 

 

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There is a safespot that allows you to range them, but they can't range/mage you. RobinHoodie shows one spot, but there's another spot in the closer waterfiends (the first batch you see, not the ones across the river).

 

 

There's a link to a guide made by one of my friends.

 

It shows how he ranged Waterfiends for 99 Summoning, it has melee methods and ls methods in there too but just ignore those.

He uses a Wolpertinger/Iron Titan but you can just use Geyser Titan.