Most versatile barrows armour?

[Pwn_4_free]

I want a barrows set for tanking slayer tasks and possibly doing bosses soon. I will have a bunyip soon if that influences anything <3

[Aiel]

verac's skirt, torags/dh/guthans plate, v helm.

[Vulxai]

verac's skirt, torags/dh/guthans plate, v helm.

 

Replace Verac's with FSH/SH/Black Mask for Slayer.

[SirIzenhime]

if you want full set only, I'd say Guthans is more versitile.

 

As for individual pieces

Verac Skirt

Guthan body

Verac helm

[onedaysoon]

I would buy a set of Veracs and a DH/Torags plate. Mixing and matching that will work at a lot of places.

[Pwn_4_free]

i was actually considering buying a full set of torags, verac, guthans and ahirms, minus all the weapons except spear?

 

Edit: or is this useless if im getting a bunyip?

[SirIzenhime]

I would buy a set of Veracs and a DH/Torags plate. Mixing and matching that will work at a lot of places.

 

Guthan platebody is a bit cheaper, and gives the same defence :thumbup:

[Nifflin]

No single set is very versatile, they each serve a distinct purpose. For slayer though Verac is best because the prayer boost will help as you should be prayer boosting all the time while you slay. For tanking use Torags, but that shouldn't be used for slayer.

 

If you have a Bunyip, you shouldn't need Guthans.

[crashNburn]

The set effect of guthan's wastes a lot of time, no boost from slayer helm/fsh, and the spear has really terrible DPS.

 

A bunyip/EE can keep you up a decent amount of the time, just bring some food with you in addition to that.

[Troacctid]

All the set effects are obsolete. Only the chest and leg pieces are worth using for slayer.

[notasoupbowl]

Dharoking is still the fastest melee xp in the game, though not very useful for slayer..

Veracs is the best armour for zilyana.

Guthans is great for solo maging rex, allowing you to stay there without worry - now that I have 88 def / uni / ee it doesn't matter much, but it helps lower lvls a lot.

 

But in most cases, the set effects aren't useful. The other 3 were never really useful.

 

If you get multiple sets, getting torag's is useless:

T helm = G helm = V helm - some range def but + pray

G plate = T plate = Dh plate

Dh legs = T legs = V skirt - some range def but + pray

[Grimy_Bunyip]

Dharoking is still the fastest melee xp in the game, though not very useful for slayer..

I don't think this much is true anymore. Especially with chaotic rapiers, void melee + deflector, and such.

dharoks never more than doubles the damage you would normally deal.

a chaotic rapier in proper gear, assuming no slayer task/void, already has a higher strength bonus than a dharok's greataxe.

and it attacks 1.75x for each time the greataxe swings.

 

not to mention rapier + defender higher accuracy than the great axe.

 

edit: did calculation

assuming max stats and gear, and ideal conditions for dharoks, and no overkill loss, dharoks is still 3.3% better dps than say, a chaotic rapier.

but it's pretty outdated at any rate. Getting to those ideal conditions would be pretty tough.

[onedaysoon]

Dharoking is still the fastest melee xp in the game, though not very useful for slayer..

 

While it is good, thanks to recent updates that simply isn't the case. To my amazement last night on a slayer task with a Whip, Prossy, Turmoil, Extremes and a ferocious ring I got 95k attack experience in 30 minutes. That is with max stats however, but thats an average of at least 180k experience per hour, and this was on Abyssal demons.

 

I assume that a rapier would beat that by at least 10k per hour. Don't really see DH getting up there lol.

 

Just thought I'd throw that in there.

[Sinkhan]

I'd probably say veracs is still somewhat useful. Using it on mithrils and of course the KQ is still a legitimate application.

[Troacctid]

I'd probably say veracs is still somewhat useful. Using it on mithrils and of course the KQ is still a legitimate application.

Nah, because a Zammy Spear is better for miths and the KQ, well, I don't know, but the KQ isn't going to be efficient no matter how you kill her, so meh.