I have my first spiritual mages task; what inv do I need and what armour etc?

I have my first spiritual mages task; what inv do I need and what armour etc?

 

Zamorak mages go fast, imo.

 

Just bring pray boosting armor, holy wrench, and about 7 p pots (depending on prayer level and how many you have to kill).

Falador shield is recommended because when you first enter Zamorak's area, it automatically drains all your prayer. With the shield (depending on which one you have) will be able to get some of those prayer points back without using a dose of the prayer potion.

 

You've been to Godwars, right?

If you want to make money: kill saradomin mages.

 

If you want fast exp: kill zamorakian mages.

 

Cheap way to go would be maxing your mage def and bringing a fruit bat. Fast way to go would be maxing your strength bonus and praying mage with similar inventory setups like Eldest recommended.

Setup:

Slayer helm / Full Slayer Helm / Black Mask

Saradomin Stole

Prosilite Plate

Zamorak Robe Bottom (TT one NOT the one from underground pass)

Dragon Boots

Barrows Gloves

Soul Wars Cape / Fire Cape / Ardy Cloak 3 / Trimmed Skillcape

Whip

Rune Defender

RoL / Warrior ring / Zerker Ring (whatever your prefrence may be)

 

Invo:

5-10 prayer potions (4)

Spec Weapon (DDS or EE does well here)

Food for emergancys

Teleport out

Falador Shield 2/3 if you have it

 

with this invo i can easily do a full task in 1 run with no problems

 

Start by killing the saradomin Mages until your out of prayer then once out cross the bridge into the zamorak encampment, restore prayer with falador shield OR p pot if you dont have the shield and start killing zamorak mages.

I use:

 

Whip

Defender

Slayer helm

Prossy Plate

Zammy Robe Bottom (from underground pass, It still gives +3 prayer. TT robe gives +4 prayer and cost 500k more)

Warrior ring

D boots

Sw cape

Barrows Gloves

 

Zammy mages are fine for cash, I got 3 boots last trip.

 

I can kill 240 mages with 5 prayer pots, 2 super att, 2 super str. Use dds to spec.

I like to use zammy book over rune defender, it provides a prayer bonus and they barely have any defence anyway, so the offensive loss isn't noticable. It also means you can wear both prossy legs and plate.

If you want to make money: kill saradomin mages.

 

If you want fast exp: kill zamorakian mages.

 

Cheap way to go would be maxing your mage def and bringing a fruit bat. Fast way to go would be maxing your strength bonus and praying mage with similar inventory setups like Eldest recommended.

 

What's the difference?

Depending on whether or not you've done nomads requiem soul war capes give +12 prayer, makes a big difference and also if you are doing zammy mages then be sure to find a world that has a team killing Kril so that when you get 40 kc you can go in and restore pray.

If you want to make money: kill saradomin mages.

 

If you want fast exp: kill zamorakian mages.

 

Cheap way to go would be maxing your mage def and bringing a fruit bat. Fast way to go would be maxing your strength bonus and praying mage with similar inventory setups like Eldest recommended.

Even though you spend a little bit on prayer potions, you actually make more money at zamorak mages because they are much faster kills. So there's no reason to kill saradomin mages unless you're getting killcount for saradomin GWD.

 

Not only will using a fruitbat slow you down and annoy you, it will actually be more expensive per kill than praying. The mages are very accurate and fruitfall is not very cheap healing (about 42 gp/hitpoints if you only eat papaya) - monkfish are only 40 gp/hitpoints and unicorn scrolls are only 23.

 

If you just pray protect from magic the entire time, you'll use about 45k in prayer potions per hour.

Just as a small detail I prefer using 2 doses of super restore to get back ppoints once I enter the Zammy GWD area, since it also restores my drained melee stats from the cold and it boosts slightly more than a ppot. Also you should have 2 super sets for one mages task.

when I do spirit mages, I wear

 

Slayer helm

Zamorak Stole

Pros top

Monk robe bottom

D boots

Whip

Rune defender

Soul wars cape

 

I personally kill saradomin mages, just because I don't like using prayer potions, so I'll use the Saradomin Boss alter (it's easy to find a world with people there), it also makes my Titan more worth using since if I was killing Zammy mages, I'd only get 2 hits from his spec and it'd be dead :rolleyes:

 

Anyways.

 

Zammy mages are easier to kill with less HP, which means a much faster task

Sara mages have a 'slightly' higher drop rate, and often are fighting other things

 

(note: I'm not talking about the Mages in the main area, I kill them in the encampment)