What armour is good nowadays

[RichardG]

I've only recently come back to the game after a long break and there are many new additional armour sets. I'm looking to train slayer but I'm unsure as to what to wear.

 

I'm going to level my strength and my combat is 106. Any suggestions?

[Quyneax]

Your combat level doesn't tell me much tbh but you linked your rs hiscores :).

 

The base slayer gear is as follows (alternatives in brackets):

• [For all slayer monsters except those mentioned under other weapons] Chaotic rapier (whip)
  
• Bandos body + legs (Verac's skirt with either fighter torso or proselyte top)
  
• [Depending on prayer/accuracy needs] Fire cape/Soul Wars cape/Ardougne cloak 3
  
• Barrows gloves (your best rfd gloves, at least rune)
  
• Dragon boots (rune boots)
  
• Amulet of fury (glory)
  
• Dragon defender
  
• Berserker ring (i)/ferocious ring if slaying in Kuradal's Dungeon (berserker ring, warrior ring)
  
• [Most important] Full slayer helmet.
  
• [For magic defence on waterfiends/aquanites] Karil's top and elite void skirt (black dragonhide body and chaps)
  
• [Crush attacks to use on waterfiends] Chaotic maul (Saradomin sword, Zamorakian spear)
  
• [stab attacks for higher-levelled dragons, when not using rapier] Korasi's sword (Zamorakian spear, leaf-bladed sword)
  
• Task-specific items such as mirror shields, antifire shields/potions, elemental shields, rock hammers, crystal chimes
  
• Cannon (optional, up to personal preference)
  

Slayer setups generally emphasise strength bonus, which increases the average damage of each succesful hit (slayer monsters usually having rather low defence, hitting is not a problem). Secondly, prayer bonus is important to keep the cost of prayer potions down (as you slay with piety on, to increase the speed of your kills. This is cost-effective and highly recommended). As a rule of thumb, +15 prayer bonus or above is good, but don't overdo it (anything above +25 is a waste). Defence and accuracy bonus are usually not fretted over (any defence bonus over 200 will do; if you get hit too often you should be using a protection prayer). Dagganoth, black demon, lesser demon, hellhound, bloodveld and spectre tasks should be cannoned, as it dramatically increases xp rates (although it costs a bit).

 

Some notes on gear: You'll want a fury and a berserker ring before you get bandos plate, and get that before tassets. You'll want accuracy bonus on higher-levelled dragons; if using stab attacks (which you should) you can use the Ardougne cloak 3 which provides you with +6 stab and +6 prayer bonus. Torso + sw cape and fire cape + proselyte are common cheap top/cape combinations; the former is better.

 

Some levels to get for slayer (in approximate order but I'm not sure on the summoning):

• 68 summoning - bunyip
  
• 81 dungeoneering (you need 2 million xp, which takes you to level 80, but allowing some tokens for the scroll of life) - rapier
  
• 89 herblore (85 with a +4 stew boost) - extreme potions, superantifires
  
• 95 prayer - turmoil and soul split
  
• 88 summoning - unicorn
  
• 96 herblore (91 with a +5 stew boost) - overload
  
• 99 summoning - steel titan
  

I'm sure I missed something but this is most of it.

 

Right now what you want to do is get 70 prayer and either/both Korasi's sword or a Saradomin sword (ss is somewhat better but more expensive, ks is very nice for dragons) but it'd be even better to get a chaotic rapier.

[RichardG]

Thanks for that, I think I'll have to stick to the cheaper options for the time being though =[

[Quyneax]

My post sort of assumes you have all stats at 60-70ish already, I might add a bit about earlier slaying but it'd make the post rather long and it's only a tiny bit of the slaying you will do anyway.

 

For now, you can use 15% strength if you don't want to get piety.

[RichardG]

My post sort of assumes you have all stats at 60-70ish already, I might add a bit about earlier slaying but it'd make the post rather long and it's only a tiny bit of the slaying you will do anyway.

 

For now, you can use 15% strength if you don't want to get piety.

 

Ahh darn, I'm very particular about what skills I level.

[Quyneax]

You don't need the stats but I just wrote it that way because I had those stats at the time :). Hence why I don't mention piety in the list of levels but I did mention a bunyip (soul split before bunyip ftw).

[RichardG]

What about quests. What is a generally decent build for that?

[glasscube]

What about quests. What is a generally decent build for that?

Quests are easy and as long as you come prepared I doubt you'll have any troubles with all but like 2-3 of them.