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[SirIzenhime]

without a fire cape, fire spells do 1.5X damage to them. Maging them is pretty simple, you jsut stand near a wall or obstacle so they can't dig and pray from magic.

 

You can also use a cannon there, it would greatly speed up the tasks, Ice Strykes also have a good drop table, so it wouldn't dent your cash very much at all.

 

Without a Unicorn and SS, don't try to tank them. If you wish to melee, use a mix of prayer and magic resistant gear, and pray melee. take some healing familiar so help heal from their magic attack.

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1.5 times the damage the spell would normally hit without any boosts (E.g, pots or staves) Just maximum base damage.

Or 1.5 times the max damage already increased with pots, staves and whatnot?

 

You say they can mage pray, can they also melee pray?

How often do they cast their magic attack compared to the times they use their melee attack and what is the maximum hit of the magic attack?

 

 

Thanks for the answers so far. :D

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1.5 times the damage the spell would normally hit without any boosts (E.g, pots or staves) Just maximum base damage.

Or 1.5 times the max damage already increased with pots, staves and whatnot?

 

You say they can mage pray, can they also melee pray?

How often do they cast their magic attack compared to the times they use their melee attack and what is the maximum hit of the magic attack?

 

 

Thanks for the answers so far. :D

They don't mage pray, or melee pray.

 

If you don't have fire cape, it's pointless to mage them unless you are after mage xp- you'd be getting it done much cheaper and faster with melee. They aren't particlarly strong monsters in terms of damage, but annoying in terms of digging and freezing. The bonus 50% multiplier works just like any other multiplier does, but, as i said, the 50% still doesn't make it worthwhile. If you don't have the cape, cannoning helps quite a bit because you are losing alot compared to having fire cape for the task. If you don't have soul split, you'll be using melee prayer for the task so the familiar doesn't matter, most likely a BoB will do you justice in terms of not banking half way trough the task.

 

By the way....why not get a fire cape....?

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I'm 99 magic, i have a cannon and bandos,fury,zerker,dfs(defender better in this case?), ardy cape, dragon boots, whip.

I'm not really after any magic exp and i'll be 98 str/atk/def 99hp 85 summon by then i don't have any fancy prayers so i'll be using prot melee.

Would i use food to heal or will an enhanced excalibur be enough or would a dragon dagger be better for the spec?

 

Thanks :D

 

Oh cba to get fire cape, my pc lags a little bit and that's all fine untill i reach jad, i get to jad only using 10 sweets and 1 pray pot but then on jad i immediatly die first hits usually :D

I switch on prayer but i'm already to late because i lagged, it looks like his spell is still being casted but he already shot it :(

But screw fire cape :P

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Well i guess proselyte/whip/EE with proc melee/piety will be enough for you then, as the EE spec should heal you enough to counter their rare mage attacks at close range.

Do also remember that they aren't a particularly fast task with melee, as max melee with every toy you can bring still totals barely 35k slayer xp an hour, cannon would add around 10k to your hourly rate there(so around 50k slayer xp an hour with maxed mage+cannon there).

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Okay cool, thanks for the answers i'll give both a try but i think i'll stick with melee.