Nomad

[Big_Stingman]

Ok, so I already know about all his special attacks, using the pillar, and all that good stuff. My question is how should I kill him? I hear ranged is pretty good, but I have heard z spear is good as well. If it helps, I DO have full elite void ranged (this drops if I die and I can just get it from my grave right?).

 

Also, should I use brews/restores? They are super inflated right now, so I am thinking about waiting for the bnxp weekend to be over, and they should go down in price as everyone floods the market with their newly created potions...

 

Any other advice is greatly appreciated. Stats in sig too btw.

 

~Thanks in advance.

[Helm_Lardar]

The method I heard of was ranged with ruby bolts, and combining that with a special attack from a bandos godsword(whcih presumably works nicely for melee too).

 

Brining summoning into play, I've heard a kyatt is very useful, but I can't remember how that works.

[Big_Stingman]

Ok yeah I think I will use a bgs for specing, considering they are very cheap now anyway (can always sell right after I use it). I also plan on using a kyatt. Should I wear black dhide or elite void though for the fight?

 

So ruby bolts are the best then? Use them the whole time or should I switch over to something like diamond ones when he gets to a certain point?

 

Considering also just using the bgs to melee him...so meh.

[vettro]

Elite void ^

 

I'm not Nomad pro but I've stalked enough threads to hear that unless you melees significantly are better than your range, ranging is the better option. Pray piety and BGS spec initially, if not a good hit, tele out. A solid hit with a BGS will reduce his defense. Then I believe ranging him diamond (e) bolts is the best. Pray melee, dismiss war turtle and summon kyatt when he goes into rage mode at the end. I've heard the kyatt tears him up. Keep your LP up and spam those scrolls. Good luck. I'll be trying Nomad myself quite soon.

[Sy_Accursed]

Elite void ^

 

I'm not Nomad pro but I've stalked enough threads to hear that unless you melees significantly are better than your range, ranging is the better option. Pray piety and BGS spec initially, if not a good hit, tele out. A solid hit with a BGS will reduce his defense. Then I believe ranging him diamond (e) bolts is the best. Pray melee, dismiss war turtle and summon kyatt when he goes into rage mode at the end. I've heard the kyatt tears him up. Keep your LP up and spam those scrolls. Good luck. I'll be trying Nomad myself quite soon.

 

 

The best method uses ruby (e) up until beserker at which point diamond (e) are used.

However (it depends on lukc a bit) some people find they are failing due to supplies running out; in this case diamond (e) all the way makes for a slower fight overall but massively saves on supplies.

[Quyneax]

I'd say you can melee or range as you prefer, melee will likely have higher dps if you get a chaotic rapier, I'm not sure on whip vs. rcbow, the whip is one speed faster of course.

 

Use elite void (deflector) with an Armadyl chestplate and bgs spec. Unfortunately you wouldn't get the void effect on the spec but I don't think it's worth giving up all that inventory space for one spec.

 

Before you start the fight, drop one brew in front of Nomad then equip bgs - it might be the one brew that saves your life.

[Th e Doctor]

Use a BoB. Elite void with ACP(black d hide) + deflector, ranger boots, archer ring, ava's device, fury/ranging ammy and ruby bolts (e). For your inv you will have a kyatt pouch with~ 100 ambush scrolls, diamond (e) bolts and then brews/restores/super restores. The regular restore potions restore on a 1:4 ratio per brew dose while super restores are 1:3 so alternate 4 brews, 1 restore, 3 brews, 1 super restore etc until you and your best BoB are full. This allows you to bring more healing.

 

Stat boosting potions arent worth it unless its overloads because of the stat reduction from the brews. Set your left click familiar option to scroll ability. You should be combining doses/withdrawing from your BoB while safespotting his multiform attack, which does not require you to be attacking him so you can hide the whole time.

 

As soon as he enrages/your BoB is out of supplies you want your kyatt out. I personally did this during a multiform stage because of the message confirming familiar dismissing getting closed when he attacks you.

 

Switch to diamond (e) during the maxhp-1 attack so that a unlucky spec doesn't take you below max hp by accident, and also when he berserks.

 

When he berserks spam ambush scrolls and focus more on healing. Your kyatt will tear him to shreds.

[AxiSyn]

The strategy that worked best for me I found here on an old thread last summer, but I'll give you an outline and what I ended up doing.

Just tank all his damage and have a kyatt out and left click to special attack. I wore black dhide body and legs, neitz helm, snakeskin boots, barrows gloves, rune cbow, and ruby (e) bolts. Inventory was kyatt scrolls 5-8 super restores, and rest brews. When i first tried I had 72 pray or so and read that leeches/soul split/turmoil helped big time so after 15+ deaths trying to safe spot and other "accepted" strategies, and 5-10 deaths using the tank method (which, by the way got me better results then safe spotting :shame: , actually getting him to heal back to 50% and several berserks, only to have 2-3 doses of brew left and dying :wall: :wall: ) that I said to hell with this, and went crazy herb farming, doing clue scrolls, and dailies to get soul split in roughly 2 months (mid-September to the Tuesday before thanksgiving).

Just use the best eq you have and keep at it, or do what I did and think "well getting my Prayer level up is good in the long run anyway" and use it as an excuse to level/money make.

[Jowah]

I took a war tort and filled it with brews/restores and the last two spaces were kyatt + scrolls, once those were in my inventory i dismisssed the tort and summoned the kyatt and started to spam the special. worked pretty good for me.

[Kthx]

You guys are over complicating it.

 

I beat him with lower stats than you on my second try. I ranged besides the pillar, but I still ate while I tanked his attacks. I used sap curses, deflect melee on his berserker stage, and a 3:1 brew ration.

 

My armor was basic. Neitiznot helm, Black d'hide top and bottom, amulet of ranging, archer's ring, ava's accumilator, snakeskin boots, obsidian shield, rune c'bow, and ruby bolts throughout the whole fight. I summoned a kyatt after my tortoise was over, but I still forgot to spam click his spec half of the time. And I messed up my brew ration.

 

Simplistic strategy, horrible armor, worse stats, and horrible implementation. I still had 9 brews left at the end of the fight.

[Big_Stingman]

Would just to thank everyone for their input. Beat Nomad my first try and got my quest cape!

 

Btw I just used black dhide/war tortoise/kyatt/brews/and bgs.

[Assassin1357]

I diamond bolts, health is too important for ruby and a kyatt which made a HUGE difference

[Sado]

Use elite void ranged along with 50 diamond bolts e when Nomad is about to do his -1 lifepoints attack and 50 ruby bolts e when is doing anything but that. Summon a war tortoise and fill it with saradomin brews. Now in your inventory have diamond bolts e, a kyatt pouch, ambush scrolls ( ~50 will do fine), 10-12 super restores and the rest saradomin brews.

 

Have your familiar left click option on "Special Move."

Have your quick prayers on: Leech defence, Leech ranged, berserker and protect item if you want.

Make sure to have atleast 500+ lifepoints when you are dismissing you're tortoise. Click on the "Followers Details" and right click on "Dismiss Familiar" and choose the option "Dismiss now."

 

Now I'll link you to a video which I watched before I killing Nomad. Basically do what the person does, except for when Nomad is berserk. Just deflect melee and face him. That person did not have as high defence, as much food as you, and a kyatt, so you'll survive even if you face Nomad with deflect melee when he is berserk. Good luck on getting a SW cape! :)

 

 

 

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Ah! You've already beaten him. Oh well sorry for not paying attention :P Good job!

Edited March 12, 2011 by Sado