I would like to kill some ancient mages to try to get the robe pieces.

 

I looked at all the info I could find on them, and the monsters in the dungeon with them.

 

 

To get the key pieces, I just kill a monster form each of the gods, right? Do I have to go into their portion of the dungeon to do so?

 

Once I have the key what should I wear to kill the mages, and what should I have in my inventory. prayer and anti poison pots?

 

How do I get defense bonuses high enough to make other monsters not aggressive?

Yes, you have to go inside the section of each faction to make them non-aggro. I think I wore nomads cape, veracs helm/skirt, d boots, barrow gloves, fury, arcane ss (same defensive stats as bss I think) and used a super def pot and nothing but the mages attacked me. That is, till the super def pot wears off enough.

Also interested to know setups for killing the mages.

Your setup should have 200+ range+melee defence along with 100+ mage defence to be safe from everything except Ancient Mages. Karils top + armour of your choice should work.

 

Since there are only 2 ancient mage spawns, and since the spawn time is *very* long, I don't think you're going to get a lot of robe drops. Also remember that each trip uses a charge of the Frozen key (50k).

 

For a setup, I would wear the gear mentioned with a yak. Scroll your frozen key as soon as you get in so that you don't have to worry about dying and not being able to get back. I suspect the bulk of your time will be spent world hopping, but you will need p pots to keep protect mage and some emergency food.

Instead of a yak you can use an imp box.

 

There are 3 mage spawns.

 

You need quite a bit of defence for things to be unagressive, a simple +200 defence won't cut it if your defence level is too low. Use karil's top w/ regular melee gear etcetera as Jettrider said, use pots & pray piety.

Would this work?

(I'm 99 Defense btw)

 

And for getting the key pieces should I wear an item form each god to keep the monsters form attacking me while I try to get the key pieces? Can I use the bank near Nex to switch to this gear pictured above once I have the key?

I guess that would work, but we can't say for sure. You may need to use karil's skirt for example. Oh, and get a berserker ring, please.

 

I would get the key pieces in one melee trip (Zamorak, Saradomin, Bandos. Simply borrow bcp, and use sara/zammy arrows) and one range trip (armadyl only).

I was able to get the full key in one trip, I used karil top and veracs for the rest, using bandos pool, sara cape, arma ammy and zammy arrow, switching to broads for when I went into the arma lair

That works but it's slower, and certainly messier as you have to bring gear switches etcetera. Also because the best gear for Bandos & Zamorak is heavy melee, and you can kill Saradomin warriors in that gear as well, but for Armadyl you want void range. That's like 5-6 items to switch already.

Would this work?

(I'm 99 Defense btw)

 

And for getting the key pieces should I wear an item form each god to keep the monsters form attacking me while I try to get the key pieces? Can I use the bank near Nex to switch to this gear pictured above once I have the key?

 

Your gear would work fine - change the ring though to berserker or better if you are meleeing.

 

I wear Neitz helm, Arma Plate, Bandos Legs, DFS, Nomad cape, Dragon boots, Sara Arrow, Fury & Berserker ring - Mages are the only aggressive monsters with that set up

 

When getting the pieces I would certainly suggest wearing 1 item of each god armour - don't forget you get the drops in their actual encampments, so need to bring hammer & grapple. You can easily do in 1 trip. Once you have the key parts tele home to gear up. As mentioned previously bank your key with Yak or imp box as soon as you get in to ensure you can get back into area if killed :)

 

You can only get to bank when you have 40 KC - you can't then go back through to Ancient encampment.