Guthans?

[Cheat]

Well I returned to runescape after a very long break last week and have gone from my 1mil I had in the bank to some reasonable equipment (whip, defender, guthan top and bottom, neitznot, dragon skirt, torso). I have completed all my minigames and got my torso etc.. Fully charged horn, anyway thats enough about my current situation. Today was my first day back on barrows seriously trying to get some money to get myself started on slayer and to start training my stats for proper boss hunting. Anyway I had good luck getting a Verac's Helm, Guthan's Spear and Dharok plate all in about 18 chests. So anyway this means I've got 6.5m in my bank now in raw cash. Im hoping to start slayer again soon maybe after a bit more barrows and was wandering about buying guthan's complete set. I was wondering if it was worth it. I am hoping to continue barrows for a few days and then start slayer in real. So my two questions are:

 

1. Shall I buy the full guthans for barrows as I have heard its good for healing in the tunnels and letting you do extra trips. I was wondering how effective this would be for me at 80 all melee stats. Is there a guide on how to effectively use guthans at barrows and how many chests can I expect to do a trip?

 

2. Shall I buy guthans for slayer? - I left runescape a very short while after summoning was introduced and have only got lvl 41 so this means no bunyip. So, I was wondering if guthans would be useful for training my slayer and combat effectively or should I just save the money for better gear/boss hunting gear?

 

Thankyou very much for help!

[Zephy]

1. Sorta. It lets you do more chests, but it slows down the speed of each chest. It's also quite finicky. There's way too many factors that determine how many chests you can do.

 

There's a whole full guthan barrows fanclub. Then there's an equally large group which says you should just bank more often for the sake of faster individual chests.

 

2. No. Guthan's works but it slows you down, and it's limited in what it can be used for. Summoning is far more generally useful on task. Get 68 summoning quick, even if it means spending significant gp on it.

[Knight_Zaros]

Bunyip rocks I use it on almost all melee tasks and because of it I get almost all tasks done in one trip, save on prayer pots and food. Guthans is the same idea, sometimes on harder tasks I stack them both.

 

Thing about guthans is you can use it then sell it back for some profit or a little loss, but its a very old peice with the same use it stays pretty constant price wise.

[eyeye]

Even to buy just for barrows, guthans is worth it.

 

added with that, i use it on 95% of slayer tasks, purely because i don't have bunyip. Yes, we all aspire for bunyip, but guthans lasts longer than a bunyip, has excellent defense as far as the pl8 and legs are concerned, and saves me a large amount of time.

 

by the way, it's not that slow. :mrgreen:

 

also, amazing luck at barrows