My method was similar to others', but here's what worked for me:

 

• Equipment: Helm of Neitznot; Black dragonhide body & chaps; Ranger boots; Barrows gloves; Skill cape (t); Amulet of Glory; Rune Crossbow; Ruby Bolts (e)
  
• Inventory: Abyssal whip; 11 Super Restores (4); 16 Saradomin Brews (4)
  
• War Tortoise: full Saradomin Brews (4)
  

 

I set my one-click Summoning option to 'Take BoB'. I potted with Super Ranging & Defence potions before I left. Right before I spoke with Nomad, I turned on Leech Attack, Ranged, Magic, and Defence curses (all my leeches at level 81).

 

Once the battle started, I didn't move at all and had no problems with the bombs. I just made sure I had 75+ for the first special attack. When he froze me, I brewed up to 100+, and because of the risk of the enchanted ruby bolt special, I didn't attack but took the opportunity to drop empty vials and move Brews over from the war tortoise. Other than that, I just kept shooting away and maintaining with the brews and restores. I'd say it took 5 cycles of his attacks before I got him to berserk.

 

After Nomad went berserk, I switched over to my whip and added the Deflect Melee curse (not sure if it worked, but prayer drain was not a problem even with all the leeches). At the end, I was left with 2 full Super Restores and about 8 full Saradomin Brews. It only took me about 100 ruby bolts, which were definitely worth it for me because I got the 75 damage special at least 6 times.

 

Even though I have maxed melee, most of the battle rested on my 87 ranged. I would certainly be doable with the normal prayer book and a lower prayer level. I didn't get fancy with running around, and I think the extra damage I took was offset by the more shots I got in, plus I was able to concentrate on keeping my HP up.

 

I understand everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion, but I come down on the side of saying this was definitely a grandmaster quest. Whatever the various factors you use, I think most people would agree that it certainly separates a higher echelon player more than any other quest.

Finally beat him on my eighth attempt. Here's what I used:

 

Full void melee with void ranged helm in inventory.

Fire cape, dragon boots, fury, berserker ring, Zamorakian spear, with hand cannon in inventory.

About 16 brews, 7 restores, two phoenix necklaces, fire titan pouch, titan's constitution scrolls.

Res of the my inventory was full of rocktails. I had a tortoise full of rocktails, brews, etc.

 

I prayed piety and rapid heal.

 

I took doses of the following before going in: Sara brew, super restore, super set.

 

I melee'd him with ZS until he started laying mines, then I ran backwards and towards the pillar to drag him over. I continued melee'ing him until tele'd and charged, at which point I hid behind the pillar. Once he used his hyper beam (it's super effective!) I came out from the pillar and continued to melee him. When he used his illusions, I would hide behind a pillar and wait for them to disappear. This gave me ample opportunity to heal up, drop vials, and calm my nerves. As soon as his illusions disappeared, I ran out from behind the pillar and continued to melee him. When he tele'd and barraged me, I'd switch to my void range helm and hand cannon, put on my phoenix necklace, get my HP to 113 (from 97), and start firing. This is when I would use my specials. He'd hit me, I'd heal up, rinse and repeat. When my tort was empty I dismissed it and summoned my fire titan. I had my quick-button for summoning set to familiar info so I could call and heal.

 

When Nomad went beast mode, I flicked on protect from melee and tanked him. I finished with four brews and one dose of super restore left over. Close one!

 

IF YOU'RE USING MELEE AND YOU CAN'T USE SOUL SPLIT, USE PIETY. I used curses my first seven attempts, and switching to piety made a HUGE difference. I'm absolutely in love with my new cape, and I'm still debating what I'll spend my zeal points on.

Finally beat him on my eighth attempt. Here's what I used:

 

Full void melee with void ranged helm in inventory.

Fire cape, dragon boots, fury, berserker ring, Zamorakian spear, with hand cannon in inventory.

About 16 brews, 7 restores, two phoenix necklaces, fire titan pouch, titan's constitution scrolls.

Res of the my inventory was full of rocktails. I had a tortoise full of rocktails, brews, etc.

 

I prayed piety and rapid heal.

 

I took doses of the following before going in: Sara brew, super restore, super set.

 

I melee'd him with ZS until he started laying mines, then I ran backwards and towards the pillar to drag him over. I continued melee'ing him until tele'd and charged, at which point I hid behind the pillar. Once he used his hyper beam (it's super effective!) I came out from the pillar and continued to melee him. When he used his illusions, I would hide behind a pillar and wait for them to disappear. This gave me ample opportunity to heal up, drop vials, and calm my nerves. As soon as his illusions disappeared, I ran out from behind the pillar and continued to melee him. When he tele'd and barraged me, I'd switch to my void range helm and hand cannon, put on my phoenix necklace, get my HP to 113 (from 97), and start firing. This is when I would use my specials. He'd hit me, I'd heal up, rinse and repeat. When my tort was empty I dismissed it and summoned my fire titan. I had my quick-button for summoning set to familiar info so I could call and heal.

 

When Nomad went beast mode, I flicked on protect from melee and tanked him. I finished with four brews and one dose of super restore left over. Close one!

 

IF YOU'RE USING MELEE AND YOU CAN'T USE SOUL SPLIT, USE PIETY. I used curses my first seven attempts, and switching to piety made a HUGE difference. I'm absolutely in love with my new cape, and I'm still debating what I'll spend my zeal points on.

 

But did you think of maxing out the curse effects to 10% before going into Nomads chamber? :wink: I never used Curses but I'm pretty sure attacking those thingers would do the trick. And I'm pretty sure that would be more powerful than Piety/Turmoil if I'm correct.

 

But did you think of maxing out the curse effects to 10% before going into Nomads chamber? :wink: I never used Curses but I'm pretty sure attacking those thingers would do the trick. And I'm pretty sure that would be more powerful than Piety/Turmoil if I'm correct.

 

That won't work cause you need to be in continuous combat with the same enemy for the 10% to occur

Really? Knocks your HP down to 1 you say? I went through the entire fight without ever dropping below 30 HP.

And how exactly did you accomplish that?

 

However, good defensive gear basically nullifies his chance of killing you.

Of course it does. That must be why so many players die several times before killing him, whereas I know of NOBODY who died to the Avatar of Boredom.

 

Just by paying attention to this, his ability to actually just kill you outright is nullified entirely.

As opposed to the Avatar, which doesn't even require that you pay attention, and never had any ability to kill you at all? LOL

 

I measure the difficulty of boss battles in three ways: risk, cost, and annoyance.

 

There's an old saying in the world of computing: "Garbage In, Garbage Out". This means simply that no matter how good a program is, it won't produce valid output given invalid input.

 

And so it is here: when you start with that sort of ridiculous premise, it's no wonder you end up making bizarre arguments like this. The Avatar is a monster that you can beat while posting on a forum; if you suddenly had to rush to the bathroom in the middle of the fight, even that wouldn't matter. And you claim this is more difficult than a boss with multiple attacks, who can reduce you to 1 HP, who can kill you in a few seconds if you lag or stop paying attention, and who requires most players to exploit all of their skills and abilities and try several strategies before beating him.

Woot, I've dont it first try, but I used guides and tips from other people. I got pretty lucky at the berserk part, because he didn't hit me all that much (was wearing full bandos). Used around 35 brews though. I would really advise to bring a cbow and ruby bolts. I downed him over 200 hp easily this way while being frozen.

 

And the cape totally rocks. Verac skirt + prossy top + fire cape combo for piety/turmoil slaying is now easily beaten by verac skirt, bandos chestplate and new cape (same strength, more prayer, more defence).

Well I'm 116 combat, and I took 8 tries at it before I beat nomad.

 

1st try: I used void with whip and dds for specs. Got him under 1/2 hp

2nd try: I used void with whip and bgs for lowering defence. Got him under 1/2 hp

3rd try: I only used bgs with void. I got him down to 1/4 hp when he healed to 1/2. I only got this far because I hit a good spec with bgs

4th try: I used zammy spear and bgs for spec with void. I did not do as well as my previous attempts and only managed to get him to 3/4 hp

5th try: I used void ranger with ruby bolts and got him to 1/4 hp when he healed

 

Up to this point I had 20 sharks in my inventory and 18 in my tortoise. I was just testing which method was the best option for my first five runs.

 

6th try: I ranged him with ruby bolts wearing void. My inventory was a bgs, 3 super restores, 8 normal restores, 16 sara brews and 18 brews in tortoise. I got koed by the 75 attack when I tried to run behind the pillar and forgot to eat over 75

7th try: Same inventory as above. Could of easily killed nomad but I stayed behind the pillar for too long and he healed to full hp. Also, something interesting happened when he froze me for the minus max hp attack I brewed over max hp and then the ruby bolt special activated. I took another sip of brew right before he hit me and the attack hit 79 when it was supposed to be 86.

8th try: Same inventory except I felt like using full armadyl. This time I didn't make any mistakes and killed nomad with 4 and a half brews left. Armadyl didn't really make much of a difference really

And the cape totally rocks. Verac skirt + prossy top + fire cape combo for piety/turmoil slaying is now easily beaten by verac skirt, bandos chestplate and new cape (same strength, more prayer, more defence).

 

I know, the cape is awesome. Though some people dont get how good the cape is and say the rewards are lame. :P

 

And also @ Qeltar, by using Divine spirit shield, you reduce the damage he does on the 75 and 98 hit by 30% or with elysian you have a 70% chance of reducing 25% of his damage on those attacks.

And also @ Qeltar, by using Divine spirit shield, you reduce the damage he does on the 75 and 98 hit by 30% or with elysian you have a 70% chance of reducing 25% of his damage on those attacks.

Well, I thought that might be what was going on. But I was really giving him the benefit of the doubt that he wouldn't base a monster difficulty comparison even in part on an item worth more than the entire banks of 99.9% of RS players....

Finally killed him, pretty much did it the same way that I've put below, so thanks a lot Louisc111 :razz: After coming close a few times and getting nowhere near alot more times, my final attempt i killed him and still had around 5 brews and 3 super restores left. I think luck plays a large part in killing Nomad, particularly with the special hits of ruby (e) bolts :razz:

 

 

Ok, I've just done Nomad over! I am rather happy. Here's the details:

 

 

 

Relevant Stats: Att, def, str, hp all = 90, Range = 80, Summon = 86, Pray 73, Combat lvl 123.

 

Kit: Helm of Neitiznot, black d-hide body, black d-hide chaps, barrows gloves, archer ring, rune crossbow, legends cape, mind sheild, fury amulet, dragon boots, ruby bolts(e) (It took me <100 bolts per attempt).

 

Inventory: Zamorakian spear, 11 super restores, 8 Saradomin Brews, 8 rocktails.

 

Beast of Burden familiar (war tortoise): 4 rocktails (at the top of the BoB), 14 Saradomin Brews.

 

Tactics:

 

1) I potted up with a range pot before I left the bank, obviously depositing the range pot back in the bank and filling the space accordingly. I had "take from BoB" set as my left click summoning option. I (quick) prayed steel skin and eagle eye from just after I first talked to Nomad, I used rapid ranged and was on auto retaliate the whole time.

 

2) When Nomad says "Let's make things interesting" and starts thowing bombs I ran south through the 1 square gap and switched to long range range attack.

 

3) When Nomad says "You cannot esape my wrath" I click to the far, diagonal side of the nearest pillar. (I typically used the west side pillar, I could see it the easiest with my compass facing north. If you take the pillar as the centre square, i.e. square 5, of a 9 square box, I stood on square 7, i.e. the south west square) This square could easily be seen from where I was standing outside the circle of bombs, so it was one click (and no compass realignment) away. Whilst stood on the square I switched back to rapid range attack.

 

4) When Nomad's 75 hit mage attack has splashed on the pillar I run straight out and started attacking him again, he usually had run over to me by that point, so we met in the middle.

 

5) Very shortly after this he does his clone special attack. I wait and shoot the last clone to attack (this is always the real Nomad as others have noted). Keep shooting him!

 

6) When he teleports himself and me to the centre of the room I make sure my health is well above full hp (my max with brews is 105, I got it as close to this as possible whilst not wasting a dose, keeping my hp above 100 because of potential ruby bolt special attacks was vital). Keep shooting!

 

7) Repeat from 2) until he hits 1/4 health for the second time! (For those not in the know, when you get Nomad to ~1/4 health he heals back to ~1/2 health). Food strategy: Up until this point I had mixed using rocktails and brews/super restores for healing. I used the rocktails as quick emergency heals and early on in the fight.

 

8) When Nomad goes beserk and starts hitting with melee only very fast, switch to Zamorakian spear and go toe to toe with him, switch quick prayers off (I had eagle eye and steel skin on quick prayers) and pray protect from melee and piety (not sure prot from melee does anything, maybe it reduces the frequency of his hits, I was too distrated to tell!), and switch attack style to stab with the spear.

 

9) Keep on trucking!

 

 

 

This method (with small variations in the ratio of brews:super restores: rocktails) got Nomad down to <10% health 4 times. The 4th time, I killed him with 2 doses of super restore left, no food, no brews and only 30 hp remaining. Plenty of prayer points left. In total I made 10 attempts at Nomad, of the last 4 attempts (8 on the first day, 2 today), numbers 7, 8 and 9 I got him to <10% health as mentioned. Obviously attempt 10 I got the {insert naughty word} . He didn't seem like he had been nerfed to me, he behaved, hit and took damage just like he did on the first day in my opinion. I had 6 ruby bolt specials happen in the attempt in which I beat him. That was about average.

 

Hope this helps someone

 

ADDED IN EDIT: Oh and btw this fight was (in my opinion) very hard and required a good bit of luck with his hits and mine. As you can see I had 6 attempts trying to figure him out, and 4 attempts (including the winner) where I got his health very low. All that separated a successful attempt from 3 failures was changing the ratio of brews:super restores:rocktails and getting lucky with a few hits/misses. I dodged all the 75 hp hits and never once hit a bomb from attempt 3 onwards.

 

Finally killed him, pretty much did it the same way that I've put below, so thanks a lot Louisc111 :razz: After coming close a few times and getting nowhere near alot more times, my final attempt i killed him and still had around 5 brews and 3 super restores left. I think luck plays a large part in killing Nomad, particularly with the special hits of ruby (e) bolts :razz:

 

 

Ok, I've just done Nomad over! I am rather happy. Here's the details:

 

 

 

Relevant Stats: Att, def, str, hp all = 90, Range = 80, Summon = 86, Pray 73, Combat lvl 123.

 

Kit: Helm of Neitiznot, black d-hide body, black d-hide chaps, barrows gloves, archer ring, rune crossbow, legends cape, mind sheild, fury amulet, dragon boots, ruby bolts(e) (It took me <100 bolts per attempt).

 

Inventory: Zamorakian spear, 11 super restores, 8 Saradomin Brews, 8 rocktails.

 

Beast of Burden familiar (war tortoise): 4 rocktails (at the top of the BoB), 14 Saradomin Brews.

 

Tactics:

 

1) I potted up with a range pot before I left the bank, obviously depositing the range pot back in the bank and filling the space accordingly. I had "take from BoB" set as my left click summoning option. I (quick) prayed steel skin and eagle eye from just after I first talked to Nomad, I used rapid ranged and was on auto retaliate the whole time.

 

2) When Nomad says "Let's make things interesting" and starts thowing bombs I ran south through the 1 square gap and switched to long range range attack.

 

3) When Nomad says "You cannot esape my wrath" I click to the far, diagonal side of the nearest pillar. (I typically used the west side pillar, I could see it the easiest with my compass facing north. If you take the pillar as the centre square, i.e. square 5, of a 9 square box, I stood on square 7, i.e. the south west square) This square could easily be seen from where I was standing outside the circle of bombs, so it was one click (and no compass realignment) away. Whilst stood on the square I switched back to rapid range attack.

 

4) When Nomad's 75 hit mage attack has splashed on the pillar I run straight out and started attacking him again, he usually had run over to me by that point, so we met in the middle.

 

5) Very shortly after this he does his clone special attack. I wait and shoot the last clone to attack (this is always the real Nomad as others have noted). Keep shooting him!

 

6) When he teleports himself and me to the centre of the room I make sure my health is well above full hp (my max with brews is 105, I got it as close to this as possible whilst not wasting a dose, keeping my hp above 100 because of potential ruby bolt special attacks was vital). Keep shooting!

 

7) Repeat from 2) until he hits 1/4 health for the second time! (For those not in the know, when you get Nomad to ~1/4 health he heals back to ~1/2 health). Food strategy: Up until this point I had mixed using rocktails and brews/super restores for healing. I used the rocktails as quick emergency heals and early on in the fight.

 

8) When Nomad goes beserk and starts hitting with melee only very fast, switch to Zamorakian spear and go toe to toe with him, switch quick prayers off (I had eagle eye and steel skin on quick prayers) and pray protect from melee and piety (not sure prot from melee does anything, maybe it reduces the frequency of his hits, I was too distrated to tell!), and switch attack style to stab with the spear.

 

9) Keep on trucking!

 

 

 

This method (with small variations in the ratio of brews:super restores: rocktails) got Nomad down to <10% health 4 times. The 4th time, I killed him with 2 doses of super restore left, no food, no brews and only 30 hp remaining. Plenty of prayer points left. In total I made 10 attempts at Nomad, of the last 4 attempts (8 on the first day, 2 today), numbers 7, 8 and 9 I got him to <10% health as mentioned. Obviously attempt 10 I got the {insert naughty word} . He didn't seem like he had been nerfed to me, he behaved, hit and took damage just like he did on the first day in my opinion. I had 6 ruby bolt specials happen in the attempt in which I beat him. That was about average.

 

Hope this helps someone

 

ADDED IN EDIT: Oh and btw this fight was (in my opinion) very hard and required a good bit of luck with his hits and mine. As you can see I had 6 attempts trying to figure him out, and 4 attempts (including the winner) where I got his health very low. All that separated a successful attempt from 3 failures was changing the ratio of brews:super restores:rocktails and getting lucky with a few hits/misses. I dodged all the 75 hp hits and never once hit a bomb from attempt 3 onwards.

 

 

Glad to be of service!

 

I am utterly rubbish at combat, so I figured if I can do it with a little bit of work, some relatively nooby gear and a bit of luck, anyone of similar levels can.

And also @ Qeltar, by using Divine spirit shield, you reduce the damage he does on the 75 and 98 hit by 30% or with elysian you have a 70% chance of reducing 25% of his damage on those attacks.

Well, I thought that might be what was going on. But I was really giving him the benefit of the doubt that he wouldn't base a monster difficulty comparison even in part on an item worth more than the entire banks of 99.9% of RS players....

 

Indeed, I ment those shields are the only way he couldnt have been hit the full hits.

And also @ Qeltar, by using Divine spirit shield, you reduce the damage he does on the 75 and 98 hit by 30% or with elysian you have a 70% chance of reducing 25% of his damage on those attacks.

Well, I thought that might be what was going on. But I was really giving him the benefit of the doubt that he wouldn't base a monster difficulty comparison even in part on an item worth more than the entire banks of 99.9% of RS players....

 

Indeed, I ment those shields are the only way he couldnt have been hit the full hits.

 

Or, he could have gotten his Hp past 99 with either Rocks or Brews, and thus when hit, did not end up with 1 HP. Faily simple.

It could also be a combination of both by the way.

And also @ Qeltar, by using Divine spirit shield, you reduce the damage he does on the 75 and 98 hit by 30% or with elysian you have a 70% chance of reducing 25% of his damage on those attacks.

Well, I thought that might be what was going on. But I was really giving him the benefit of the doubt that he wouldn't base a monster difficulty comparison even in part on an item worth more than the entire banks of 99.9% of RS players....

 

Indeed, I ment those shields are the only way he couldnt have been hit the full hits.

 

Or, he could have gotten his Hp past 99 with either Rocks or Brews, and thus when hit, did not end up with 1 HP. Faily simple.

It could also be a combination of both by the way.

 

He said he never got it below 30 though.

Ok, wtf is going on.

After my 3rd last trip today, I got him nearly dead.

 

But the two trips after that, I didn't hit A SINGLE DAMAGE on him, never...

Really, what is happening, my tortoise was the only thing who got about 30hp of him before I ran out of pots.

Now you are going to say "yeah, but you didn't drank your super restores, so your att and str would probably be extremely low". Well guess what, it wasn't, I always do 3 sips brew, 1 sip restore and I check my stats every now and then.

I'm really getting fed up by it, wasted 7.5m on pots, torts, bolts and rocktails on this Nomadbeast, had more than 70 trips to kill him, yet I can't get him killed.

And because of this unfinished quest, I can barely do anything on RuneScape longer for half an hour before I want to try to complete it again...

So I guess this means a break for me...

Hunter, that's a brutal break. I feel like if you get him that close, he shouldn't be so condescending. Instead of "Pathetic", maybe "Phew, Gotcha!".

It's more the two last trips I'm so cranky about.

But yeah, this also annoyed me, already like 5-10 times that I got him at that HP.

You should not be having that much difficulty with your stats. 70 tries? Ouch.

 

Maybe you should look at some of the suggestions made by players who have had a bit more luck and see if a change in tactics would help? For starters, if you are always ranging him, try meleeing instead.

You should not be having that much difficulty with your stats. 70 tries? Ouch.

 

Maybe you should look at some of the suggestions made by players who have had a bit more luck and see if a change in tactics would help? For starters, if you are always ranging him, try meleeing instead.

 

Meleeing, ranging, hybriding, tried almost everything I can do at my levels, except a godsword and a rubber chicken. Would be great if I could get my hands on a BGS, for the special, but all 3 of my friends with an BGS sold them during this week...

There must be something with your technique that is lacking. Are you using piety? Are you restoring and repotting frequently?

 

I doubt a godsword would really make that much of a difference, but I'm sure someone here can lend you a BGS if you think it will.

Why is everyone using a zammy spear? I used a whip and it was fine.

I use piety, I repot every time healing is needed and I take the necessary sips from my sup restores. I go hide for the 75, if I need severe healing, I hide, I never hit the lava bombs, attack the last attacking Nomad between his clones, I have a tortoise filled with 18 brews, got ruby (e), zammy spear for stabbing, semi-trap Nomad during the berserk mode (at the picture above you can see where I'm getting out of the spot so he wouldn't tele away).

Really, I'm doing it the way everyone it is doing, with the only exception that I fail in the end. XD

 

Another theory is that Jagex really hates me. XD

Rejected all my letters to the Postbag (I've written a ton of them), my drops at monsters are to be counted on one hand (won't sum it up, it's too sad :P) and the removal of the gnome copters, my favourite transportation. Just joking, but meh, it does make me a little bit sad. :P

That's a bummer. What are you wearing?

I see in the picture you have black dragonhide, but maybe you wanna consider also bringing a barrows top and bottom for the last part if that's where you're having a ton of trouble? I know it means 2 less brews/restores, but when I got him to berserker form the difference between him hitting on my karil's and on my torag's was extreme. It might be the small edge you need.

Fury, firecape, barrow gloves, warrior (i), black d'hide/void set, d boots/snakeskin boots and as weapons I tried things with 1)whip, ruby(e), broad 2)zammy spear and ruby(e), tried different spec weapons, but none were very efficient.

I use an inv full of 11 super restores, rest brews and a tortoise full of brews.

 

@Max, considering my many deaths I'm a bit uncomfortable with barrowsitems, because they break if I die, which pushes my costs also up.