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Best mage setup

casualjohn
in Help and Advice

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Haven't played in over a year and I was just wondering what the best mage set up is ingame atm.

 

Thanks, John.

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Third-age mage hat

Ahrim's robetop and robeskirt

Arcane stream necklace

Chaotic staff

Mage arena cloak

Barrows gloves

Infinity boots

Seers ring (i)

Arcane spirit shield

 

That's max magic offence, taking no other things into account. A more suitable (safe) pvp setup would use a barrows melee helmet and perhaps a fire cape/ardy cape 3 to hybrid with melee.

Supporter of Zaros | Quest Cape owner since 22 may 2010 | No skills below 99 | Total level 2595 | Completionist Cape owner since 17th June 2013 | Suggestions

99 summoning (18th June 2011, previously untrimmed) | 99 farming (14th July 2011) | 99 prayer (8th September 2011) | 99 constitution (10th September 2011) | 99 dungeoneering (15th November 2011)

99 ranged (28th November 2011) | 99 attack, 99 defence, 99 strength (11th December 2011) | 99 slayer (18th December 2011) | 99 magic (22nd December 2011) | 99 construction (16th March 2012)

99 herblore (22nd March 2012) | 99 firemaking (26th March 2012) | 99 cooking (2nd July 2012) | 99 runecrafting (12th March 2012) | 99 crafting (26th August 2012) | 99 agility (19th November 2012)

99 woodcutting (22nd November 2012) | 99 fletching (31st December 2012) | 99 thieving (3rd January 2013) | 99 hunter (11th January 2013) | 99 mining (21st January 2013) | 99 fishing (21st January 2013)

99 smithing (21st January 2013) | 120 dungeoneering (17th June 2013) | 99 divination (24th November 2013)

Tormented demon drops: twenty effigies, nine pairs of claws, two dragon armour slices and one elite clue | Dagannoth king drops: two dragon hatchets, two elite clues, one archer ring and one warrior ring

Glacor drops: four pairs of ragefire boots, one pair of steadfast boots, six effigies, two hundred lots of Armadyl shards, three elite clues | Nex split: Torva boots | Kalphite King split: off-hand drygore mace

30/30 Shattered Heart statues completed | 16/16 Court Cases completed | 25/25 Choc Chimp Ices delivered | 500/500 Vyrewatch burned | 584/584 tasks completed | 4000/4000 chompies hunted

Staff of Light is also generally more useful than the Chaotic Staff in pvm situations, especially during combat training like bursting rock lobbies, but yeah the setup above is the best possible for safe pvp if money is no object.

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99 Strength since 6/02/10 99 Attack since 9/19/10 99 Constitution since 10/03/10 99 Defense since 3/14/11

99 Slayer since 8/30/11 99 Summoning since 9/10/11 99 Ranged since 09/18/11 99 Magic since 11/12/11

99 Prayer since 11/15/11 99 Herblore since 3/29/12 99 Firemaking since 5/15/12 99 Smithing since 10/04/12

99 Crafting since 9/16/13 99 Agility since 9/23/13 99 Dungeoneering since 1/1/14 99 Fishing since 2/4/14

99 Mining since 2/28/14 99 Farming since 6/04/14 99 Cooking since 6/11/14 99 Runecrafting since 10/10/14

9 Fletching since 11/11/14 99 Thieving since 11/14/14 99 Woodcutting since 11/20/14 99 Construction since 12/03/14

99 Divination since 2/22/15 99 Hunter since 2/23/15 99 Invention since 01/20/17 99 Archaeology since 5/14/22
99 Necromancy since 11/22/25 Quest Point Cape since 08/20/09 Maxed since 2/23/15 Fire Cape since 02/27/13
Slayer: 3 Leaf-Bladed Swords, 8 Black Masks, 2 Hexcrests, 26 Granite Mauls, 5 Focus Sights, 33 Abyssal Whips, 9 Dark Bows, 1 Whip Vine, 3 Staffs of Light, 15 Polypore Sticks

Dragon: 10 Draconic Visages, 7 Shield Left Halves, 20 Dragon Boots, 40 Dragon Med Helms, 8 Dragon Platelegs, 6 Dragon Spears, 20 Dragon Daggers, 5 Dragon Plateskirts, 1 Dragon Chainbody, 63 Off-hand Dragon Throwing Axes, 19 Dragon Longswords, 27 Dragon Maces, 1 Dragon Ward
Treasure Trails: Saradomin Full Helm, Ranger Boots, Rune Body (t), Saradomin Vambraces, Various God Pages
Misc:1 Onyx,1 Ahrim's Hood, 1 Guthan's Chainskirt, 1 Demon Slayer Boots

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Any of these require quests? I only have just over 100 QP as I do not enjoy them at all.

 

Cheers, John.

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Barrows gloves require the completion of Recipe for Disaster

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Fisher/Woodcut------Me-----Miner/crafter----Stabber----Leecher

^Golvellius must be so proud^

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Thanks again, I take it the rest I can buy from GE?

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The chaotic staff and arcane stream necklace require 80 and 70 dungeoneering and 200k and 30k tokens, respectively. The arcane spirit shield is 60m, the mage hat 31m, the ring 500k, the top + skirt about 7m, the boots 1.3m. The ring still needs imbuing (300 Mobilising Armies rank required), the cloak needs getting at the mage arena.

Supporter of Zaros | Quest Cape owner since 22 may 2010 | No skills below 99 | Total level 2595 | Completionist Cape owner since 17th June 2013 | Suggestions

99 summoning (18th June 2011, previously untrimmed) | 99 farming (14th July 2011) | 99 prayer (8th September 2011) | 99 constitution (10th September 2011) | 99 dungeoneering (15th November 2011)

99 ranged (28th November 2011) | 99 attack, 99 defence, 99 strength (11th December 2011) | 99 slayer (18th December 2011) | 99 magic (22nd December 2011) | 99 construction (16th March 2012)

99 herblore (22nd March 2012) | 99 firemaking (26th March 2012) | 99 cooking (2nd July 2012) | 99 runecrafting (12th March 2012) | 99 crafting (26th August 2012) | 99 agility (19th November 2012)

99 woodcutting (22nd November 2012) | 99 fletching (31st December 2012) | 99 thieving (3rd January 2013) | 99 hunter (11th January 2013) | 99 mining (21st January 2013) | 99 fishing (21st January 2013)

99 smithing (21st January 2013) | 120 dungeoneering (17th June 2013) | 99 divination (24th November 2013)

Tormented demon drops: twenty effigies, nine pairs of claws, two dragon armour slices and one elite clue | Dagannoth king drops: two dragon hatchets, two elite clues, one archer ring and one warrior ring

Glacor drops: four pairs of ragefire boots, one pair of steadfast boots, six effigies, two hundred lots of Armadyl shards, three elite clues | Nex split: Torva boots | Kalphite King split: off-hand drygore mace

30/30 Shattered Heart statues completed | 16/16 Court Cases completed | 25/25 Choc Chimp Ices delivered | 500/500 Vyrewatch burned | 584/584 tasks completed | 4000/4000 chompies hunted

The chaotic staff and arcane stream necklace require 80 and 70 dungeoneering and 200k and 30k tokens, respectively. The arcane spirit shield is 60m, the mage hat 31m, the ring 500k, the top + skirt about 7m, the boots 1.3m. The ring still needs imbuing (300 Mobilising Armies rank required), the cloak needs getting at the mage arena.

 

I might add that it takes 30 hours to get 300 rank in 'Mobilizing Armies', and doubles the ring's bonuses from +4 magic defense/attack to +8.

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Thankyou for all your replies. I stuck to the following; Farseer helm, Ahrim Robe top and bottom, Staff of light, Ferocious ring, D/fire shield, Mystic boots, Fury amulet.

 

Thanks again, John.

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Thankyou for all your replies. I stuck to the following; Farseer helm, Ahrim Robe top and bottom, Staff of light, Ferocious ring, D/fire shield, Mystic boots, Fury amulet.

 

Thanks again, John.

Mystic boots and Ahrim's: bad decision. I'd suggest getting infinity boots if you've spent so much on SoL and Ahrim's.

Depends on the situation, but for PvP the best setup is:

 

Veracs helm

Ahrims/zuriels top and bottom

zuriels staff (miasmic) + SoL/chaotic staff

arcane spirit shield

infinity boots

barrows gloves

seers ring (i)

arcane stream necklace

god cape or soul wars cape

 

that setup can beat pretty much any opponent except for another mage... miasmics are ridiculously powerful hah

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Not using chaotic is understandable but the arcane stream really is worth getting. It's +14 magic attack and has a 15% damage boost.

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Thankyou for all your replies. I stuck to the following; Farseer helm, Ahrim Robe top and bottom, Staff of light, Ferocious ring, D/fire shield, Mystic boots, Fury amulet.

 

Thanks again, John.

 

If you are on a slayer task, a hexcrest / full slayer helm would be better than any hood / mage helm

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Barrows Drops:....................................................Dragon Drops:...............Other Drops:

Dharok: 2 Helms, 1 Top, 2 Legs, 4 Axes.......................2 Claws Split..................1 Bandos Tassets

Karil: 1 Coif, 1 Top, 2 Skirt, 2 Crossbows......................3 Plate legs...................4 Berserker Rings

Ahrim: 3 Hood, 2 Top, 3 Skirt, 1 Staff..........................2 Plate Skirts.................2 Warrior Rings

Verac: 1 Helm, 3 Tops, 2 Skirts, 1 Flail..........................1 Med........................1 Archer Ring

Guthan: 2 Helm, 5 Tops, 1 Skirt, 0 Spear.....................1 Shield Half.................1 Seers Ring

Torag: 2 Helms, 2 Tops, 5 Legs, 1 Hammer....................4 Hatchets..................1 Missed Divine Sigil (was at bank -,- fml)

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