Getting 90 range from 85

[SpikeStr1ke]

Ok so at the moment im going to cancel my TD trip and get my range up. I have 2 full crystal bows as well as a rune c'bow with 4k broads and spirit shield. I was wondering if it would be worth it to use up my 2 crystal bows (only costs me 180k/recharge anyways) before using my broads or should i just go straight for the broads and rune c'bow? Ill be ranging all the tasks possible.

 

This will be my setup:

 

FSH

Fury

Black d'hide top

Black d'hide legs

Dragon boots

Barrow's gloves

Archer's ring/kuradel's ring

Rune c'bow / Crystal Bow

Spirit shield (if im using rune c'bow)

Broad Bolt's (if using rune c'bow)

Accumulator / Ardoughne Cloak 3 (if i need to pray)

 

Also on some task's ill be praying Eagle Eye and protect from melee if i need to.

[Quyneax]

The advantage of the crystal bow is that you can use a soul wars cape. As you don't have that I'd go with the crossbow.

[tigershelby2]

All you need to know is right here. It is a bit outdated (no FSH or some of kuradals tasks), but you shouldnt have a problem figuring out what to change.

[SpikeStr1ke]

Thank you Tiger, that guide actually helped me because i just got a waterfiend task and i wasnt sure if i could range it or not.

[Madouge]

Yeah you range waterfiends, it's easy. As far as I'm aware, Broad bolts are both cheaper and better than crystal bow. Also, buy some rune darts, they're great for tasks in Kuradal's dungeon due to the effect of the ferocious ring.

 

I got 99 ranged through slayer and it was fun as hell.

 

[hide=Taken from my Ranged Slayer blog (which I kinda stopped updating at around 98 Ranged XD):]

 

 

These guys can be quite tricky. You need to fight them in this spot. You can't safespot them while they're aggressive so when you first come, you'll need prayer pots ( I take two 4 dose pots) and a bit of food (instead of food I take a bunyip and Enhanced Excalibur). Protect from ranged and just kill them until they aren't aggressive. After that, safespot them to your hearts content. Although their attacks are ranged, the range of their attacks is less than the rune crossbow.

 

Here is where to stand to safespot them, the different coloured squares are where the waterfiends are, and the corresponding coloured circles are where to stand to be out of their range. For example. in this picture, the waterfiend is in the yellow square, so I am standing on the yellow circle spot. This spot is far north of the fairy ring.

 

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I also have a few tips/saefspots for other monsters if you wanna check my (discontinued) blog (link in my sig)

[SpikeStr1ke]

Cool thank you =]

 

EDIT: nvm on the arma not only is it dropping but ill have to sell my fury to get it and atm i dont want to do that. Should i upgrade to karil's or is the loss of melee def to big to justify the extra range offence + mage def it offers?

 

P.S I also decided to go for 99 instead of stopping at 90, double xp weekend is coming up too so that will help me on my goal. Also if ur wondering why im not going to chin its because pots and chins are almost impossible to get ahold of right now.

[Madouge]

Are you planning on tanking or safespotting? Also, Karil's has the same range offence bonus as black dragonhide last time I checked.

 

You should buy Ancient/Armadyl Dragonhide and range in style ; :shades:

[SpikeStr1ke]

haha i thought about it tbh :P i checked and karil's does have the same range offense so its not worth it :) I wanted to buy Armadyl but i dont think i can afford it atm UNLESS u think the price is going to pop up again, because atm its around 15.5m ea and it was 19m ea

 

Are any of the other books worth getting for ranging? At the moment i have Unholy, Holy, and Balance. I was wondering if the Ancient or Armadyl one's are worth it? I got the damaged ancient book but i dont have the damaged arma (i'll have to complete my ancient one to get arma but i dont mine spending the money to complete them both.

[Madouge]

As far as I'm aware unholy has the best range bonus so stick with that.

[SpikeStr1ke]

K, i looked at Armadyl Chest/Skirt and their only slightly better in def (with exception to mage) than black d'hide and same range bonus so why do people use it?

 

Hmm arma and ancient gear wont buy haha, wonder how good bandos looks :P

[Quyneax]

K, i looked at Armadyl Chest/Skirt and their only slightly better in def (with exception to mage) than black d'hide and same range bonus so why do people use it?

 

Hmm arma and ancient gear wont buy haha, wonder how good bandos looks :P

People use it because it's the best range bonus out there. ACP has 3 more range atk and 20 more magic defence than other range gears. All the blessed gears are just black hide.

[Infi]

What I would personally recommend is to not to range most of your slayer tasks (barring some in Kuradal's dungeon, which with darts are surprinsgly fast Range exp/hour) but to rather cannon them with melee (an exception to this would be black demons, fastest done with range in a safespot + a cannon). You'd be surprised how much range exp you'll rack up, as well as Slayer hourly rates far more imperssive than solely ranging. If you have your eyes set on actually physically training range up front on slayer, then just be aware that it's going to be slow - in both Slayer and Ranged hourly rates ;)