Getting back into the game, typical questions like, "woah, what's Summoning/Dungeoneering?"

[AngryNoiseDude]

Anyways, first off I have lots of money. I did RS for a couple years and stopped in ,09 because I was bored. I merched more than anything else and have relatively low skills. Now I'm looking to get back in and start doing stuff like Slayer seriously, because I found that a lot of fun. So I have somewhat low combat skills, and have 5 questions.

 

1: Smoking Kills = essential for getting efficient Slayer XP, right?

 

2: I need to get my ranged from 63 to at least 70 for Black D'hide or whatever the good ranging armor is. What's the fastest way to do so? I have money so I don't care if it's expensive.

 

3: I have 70-72 for Atk/Def/Str/HP, 66 Magic and 43 Prayer, those good enough for starting getting serious about Slayer? (Currently 56 in Slayer)

 

4: Do people still bot?

 

5: So yeah, Dungeoneering and Summoning, useful or not? I see lots of stuff about BoB's ?

 

Btw, other than hunter/summoning/dungeoneering/whatever new skills they've made since 09, I have 55+ in all my skills. If that matters.

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Anyways, first off I have lots of money. I did RS for a couple years and stopped in ,09 because I was bored. I merched more than anything else and have relatively low skills. Now I'm looking to get back in and start doing stuff like Slayer seriously, because I found that a lot of fun. So I have somewhat low combat skills, and have 5 questions.

 

1: Smoking Kills = essential for getting efficient Slayer XP, right?

Not for good xp per se. The black mask is strongly recommended for melee, and it doesn't require any quests. For the full slayer helmet (FSH) that enables the same bonusses for ranged and magic, you need the points. The slayer points are especially good for blocking or skipping bad tasks (low xp/h) or tasks you don't like (fun/h) so indirectly they increase slayer efficiency

 

2: I need to get my ranged from 63 to at least 70 for Black D'hide or whatever the good ranging armor is. What's the fastest way to do so? I have money so I don't care if it's expensive.

Chinchompas are fast ranging xp, but I don't know how efficient it is at lower levels. Maybe you should use grey chinchompas to begin with. Using a cannon while on slayer tasks also gets your ranged up pretty fast at lower levels.

 

3: I have 70-72 for Atk/Def/Str/HP, 66 Magic and 43 Prayer, those good enough for starting getting serious about Slayer? (Currently 56 in Slayer)

Sure. You'll get them up while training slayer. As you can not use the higher level slayer masters, the monsters you have to slay are more suitable for your lower combat level.

 

4: Do people still bot?

shortly: yes

 

5: So yeah, Dungeoneering and Summoning, useful or not? I see lots of stuff about BoB's ?

Yes. Especially summoning from level 52 (spirit terrorbird BoB) and slayer will also bring in the charms that are required to train te skill. As for dungeoneering, it is the only method of getting the new best weapons in the game, the chaotic weapons. It has a pretty steep learning curve, and especially in the lower levels the xp/h is slow. It was designed as a group activity, but finding GOOD teams at lower levels is kind of difficult. There is a clan here on tip.it that you might want to investigate, it's called DGS.

 

Btw, other than hunter/summoning/dungeoneering/whatever new skills they've made since 09, I have 55+ in all my skills. If that matters.

 

Answers in bold. Enjoy you new stay here in RS and TIF.

 

I suggest you start reading some skill guides for the summoning and dungeoneering skills. You have a lot of catching up to do!

[My_Eggs]

1. Yes, do it as soon as possible, and save all the slayer points you get from doing slayer tasks that way you can buy the ability to make a Slayer Helmet as soon as possible. You'll wear that helmet on every single slayer task from now until 99, and beyond if you wish to continue slaying.

 

2. Cannon whatever tasks you can while you melee them too. Other than that, try using darts/knives at yaks in Neitiznot possibly.

 

3. Yeah, that should be fine. The combat stats will get higher as you slay more. Try to get 70 prayer as soon as possible for Piety. It really helps speed up slayer tasks.

 

4. YES.

 

5. At 80 dungeoneering you gain access to Chaotic wepons. The Chotic Rapier takes 80 dungeoneering and 80 attack to use, and is the best wepon for slayer. Summoning is also very useful for slayer. Completion of the Wolf Whistle quest is required to start leveling the skill, but even before you complete that, monsters will still drop charms. Pick up every charm you get, they're used in training summoning. Summoning will give you access to a lot of helpful familiars. Some of them will fight for you in multi-combat areas, some will heal you, some can carry items for you, and others can have useful teleports that help a lot while training skills other than combat.

[Quyneax]

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 (rune 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, +10 prayer bonus or above is good, but don't overdo it (anything above +20 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, black dragon, blue dragon, 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.

 

If you don't know an item or level, you can use the Tip.It database, RSwiki or just Google :).