Mage Slayer

[BabyPunchers]

Considering I'm close to 99 slay, I was looking at other 99s I could get. Mage is one, but I'm only about level 90 in the skill, and my cash pile is limited considering I'm training Summoning a lot. So I have 2 things to ask:

 

1) Is Arcane Stream Necklace really necessary to do Mage Slayer efficiently? Because I really despise Dungeoneering and would rather not train it, but I think I could suck it up if it makes a really big difference.

 

2)What would be a cost effective way to do my tasks? As in which spell?

[LitterBug]

Post your stats?

 

I think the only good spell is fire surge (dps wise)

 

An Arcane Stream Necklace will help you out immensely and probably will save you more time then it takes you to dg for it

[BabyPunchers]

Sorry about that:

 

 

And how much would Fire Surge cost per task? An estimate of course. :o

[LitterBug]

Since you're at 90 slayer - the only way you can cast fire surge is if you pot up with extreme/overloads really

It seems that you can't use either yet - (Vecna's skull may be worth it but yo would have to switch to earth surge in a bit)

 

As I am only 91 mage - I don't have access to fire surge either.

However, in the multiple slayer questions I've seen come up about maging - it seems that Fire Surging is the only reasonable way to go about it.

You should be using a SOL to reduce costs - and Ahrims Robes + FSH.

 

Since your summoning is 93 - some other advice you might get is to burst til 95 then start fire surging your tasks.

You might want to look into using a wolpertinger as well

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Since you're >93 slayer - if you have a fire cape - you should at least be doing your ice strykewrym tasks with fire surge + a cannon

Cost wise, I think on the average - ice strykewryms will profit but I'm not sure about other tasks.

[LitterBug]

Also, check this thread out

http://forum.tip.it/topic/297284-trying-to-get-99-magic-currently-95/page__gopid__4934219#entry4934219

 

The same idea applies really.

You might want to start with earth surge first until you reach fire surge but that's really up to you.

If you farm every chance you get (whether you're slaying or not), do all the dailies, MTK and all that stuff - you should have enough money to support your maging tasks.

[Quyneax]

You can use a wolpertinger to boost to 97 magic, it's a cheap stackable extreme magic potion. For mage slaying you do need an arcane stream necklace. A rapier maxes at around 680-690 in Kuradal's, fire surge around 550 (with sol) and it's one tick slower as well (rapier has 25% more attacks). If you have no arcane stream, fire surge will max only about 490.

 

Fire surge @ 275 damage = 90+55 xp, 600 gp per cast or something (with sol), 4 gp/xp. Going to be a little higher due to accuracy, but it's 6.5 gp/xp even at 0% accuracy. You do lose time compared to melee of course, and get less loot per hour.

[BabyPunchers]

Okay, thank you very much for all the information Litter. I'll take it to heart :D Probably start Earth Surging soon then. But it looks like I'll need a few Dungeoneering levels >.<

 

Thanks again :smile: