Barrows Setup

[epitaph_o]

Hello,

 

I haven't been to Barrows in quite a while and since all the Barrows items seem to be higher in price than they were when I did it, what is the recommended setup for my levels? My stats are in my signature. Please excuse my melee levels. :D

 

I have approximately 26M to spend on gear.

 

Also, which of the brothers should I pray on?

 

Thanks.

[AndJusticeForOne]

You'll have to get 75 Attack if you want the Staff of Light.

 

If you Ice Barrage the four melee brothers, you shouldn't have to pray much other than for Ahrim and Karil.

 

The best gear would probably be Ahrim's or battle robes from Fist of Guthix, I suppose. I don't know much about mage gear :/

[Sir_Squab]

Get a black salamander IMO. Cheap way to mage them. You should have the stats for one. I heard that Ice Barrage to freeze them and then black Salamander them works well - lizards have the range of a halberd. For gear, um, torags with mage boosting gloves/boots etc? All the brothers except Ahrim are REALLY weak to magic so a high magic bonus isn't really needed. Use range or melee for Ahrim.

 

I've also heard Fire Surge works well, so if you got Ahrims, 75 att and a SoL might work well.

[Aslan]

Mystic hat(same stats as Ah hood and cheaper).

Fury(can be replaced with glory if you wish)

Salamander(black with marrentil tarrs as ammo, these have to be equipped just like arrows/bolts)

Ahrim top/bottom

Ring of life

Dragon boots

Best RFD gloves you have.

^ This is for maging the melee brothers.Swap to ancients before going to barrows.Barrage the melee brother once,then move near him, in a diagonal position, not face to face.Set the sally on blaze from the beginning.Attack the brother, let the sally hit him 6 times.If he isn't dead go behind the coffin, opposite from the brother.He should recover from the barrage and move a bit.Wait 2-3 seconds, then barrage him the 2nd time and repeat the diagonal movement.Drink a sip of ppot before Ahrim and Karil(due to your low melee stats you won't be able to kill Ahrim then Karil in the same sip).

Pray on Ahrim(mage) and use your dds specs.Drink a sip before Karil aswell, go in pray melee and whip him.For Ahrim/Karil use dds,whip and rune defender.

Full guthan set to heal.After 5 of the brothers are dead and you have your tunnel go down, wear guthan and heal up on the monsters and head towards the chest.I take baskets of strawberries with me, 2-3 just incase I have problems with one of the melee brothers.When checking the coffins their first hit can be ugly(you're wearing Ahrims for them, remember).

3 situations for the tunnels.

1.Dharok.Get to the chest.Use the poles with the fire on top of them as the coffin as in click open chest, barrage him, sally 6 times.If he's not dead run behind either the chest or one of those poles and wait a few seconds.Barrage once again, sally until dead.

2.Ahrim.Just drink a sip of ppot when he spawns on you but don't use all the special bar of the dds as you need it in the next run.

3.Karil. ^, don't use any dds specs on him.

 

I prefer speccing Ahrim as he reduces melee stats rather than Karil which reduces agility.

The setup will fit in your budget if you don't buy a fury, as the Ahrim parts are roughly 6m,Guthan set is 6m.I suppose you have the other parts(except for sally ofc).

I bought ~5k marrentill tar for the sally(about 800k) should last you quite a lot of runs.

Don't forget houseteles, you never know.

Happy barrowing.

 

Read my other post(s) for corrections.

Edited June 23, 2010 by Aslan

[notasoupbowl]

Salamanders do not have the range of a halberd - they can attack diagonally though.

 

Mystic hat does not have same mage bonus as ahrim hood, it has +4 compared to +6, you may be thinking of infinity hat which has +6 mage or farseer helm which also has +6 mage.

It should be noted that farseer helm has -5 in melee atk and range atk, and ahrim's hood has -2 range atk since you didn't suggest a different helm for other brothers.

Some nice alternatives are neitz helm and full slayer helm, or a barrows helm.

 

Black salamander uses harralander tar, not marrentil.

[Aslan]

I kill the brothers in this order:Dharok,Ahrim,Karil,Verac,Torag,Guthan.

It's just how I got used to doing this thing,don't mind it.

[epitaph_o]

Has the slayer staff become obsolete in Barrows? I remember I used to use it to kill the brothers.

 

Thanks for all the replies.

[Aslan]

Well SOL(Staff of Light) can cast the same spells as it and it has a 15% damage boost, so yes.

Ancients+sally->you wield the sally.

[schmuall]

Aslan's technique but he's not specifying an order (which is more important than many people seem to think).

 

For example, if you start with Karil and end with Ahrims, you'll be able to dds spec both of them as by doing the mellee brothers in between your spec bar should have restored.

[Aslan]

I kill the brothers in this order:Dharok,Ahrim,Karil,Verac,Torag,Guthan.

It's just how I got used to doing this thing,don't mind it.

 

Misedited a post because of this but it'll be ok.