DKs Solo Rex with Polypore staff

[Saladin643]

So I went to barrows and made a bit of money, then they released the polypore dungeon. People have said that the staff works well on rex, I want to try and solo him but I'm not sure how.

 

For healing I can use;

Bunyip

Guthans

Blood spells

Poison purge (lasts 10 mins)

 

Which of these will I need?

 

For gear I'm thinking something like this;

 

Helm: Neitz/Guthans/Ahrims hood/Veracs/Slayer helm (on task)

Amulet: Arcane Stream

Cape: Ardy 3

Ammo: Ruby/diamond/runite/addy/broad

Body: Guthans/Veracs/ahrims/grifo poncho

Weapon: Poly/Whip/Rune Xbow

Gloves: Barrows

Shield: Crystal/obby

Ring: Seers/Rol

Legs: Grifo legs/Guthans/Veracs

Boots: Infinity

 

What should I use/improve I have most of these and 5 mil or so cash.

 

Once I'm there what do I do?

I've seen people go down kill supreme then prime then lure rex, is this the best method?

 

I've also seen people use a cannon? will this work or is that only for the stand in the middle and tank like a boss method?

 

What sort of inventory should I bring? I really have no idea.

 

I'm nowhere near uni/overloads/soul split so none of those are an option.

 

I also have 70 pray banked so if that would be useful I can get that.

[Ambler]

You want to have a near positive magic attack, along with decent magic and ranged defense, I will post my setup later, can't access Runescape right now...

[Quyneax]

If you are on task, fsh. Otherwise Neit.

Verac's top and skirt, sw cape (Ardougne does work, sw is just better), mage-boosting boots (infinity is good), barrows gloves, arcstream, pps on ancients with blood barrage OR lunars with Waterbirth tele.

Any shield, blessed spirit shield has a nice prayer bonus as well. It also doesn't degrade.

Ring wise I'd go with wealth.

 

For healing you should go with a bunyip and you can bring blood spells since pps doesn't require a spellbook, but ideally you wouldn't use it too much. You can also use ice barrage to freeze Rex.

 

Bring Vecna's skull to boost your magic level. It'd also be worthwhile to get some other magic boost, like the dominion standard thingy, since ice barrage is much better than blitz. Magic potions wear off a bit quickly.

[Sinkhan]

Bring Vecna's skull to boost your magic level. It'd also be worthwhile to get some other magic boost, like the dominion standard thingy, since ice barrage is much better than blitz. Magic potions wear off a bit quickly.

 

The boost is only +6 while the CD is 7 mins, so they'd only get 1 min of casting :unsure:

[Saladin643]

Bring Vecna's skull to boost your magic level. It'd also be worthwhile to get some other magic boost, like the dominion standard thingy, since ice barrage is much better than blitz. Magic potions wear off a bit quickly.

 

The boost is only +6 while the CD is 7 mins, so they'd only get 1 min of casting :unsure:

What would I cast that needs 96 magic? I thought I was using ice/blood barrage which are 92 and 94?

So I'll wear what Quyneax said except I'll wear ardy 3 till I get around to sw cape. Once I'm there I just kill supreme then prime then lure and kill rex right? Would tribrid killing all 3 be efficent without yak, ss and overloads?

[chenw]

The idea of Boosting magic is not just being able to cast Higher level spells, but boosted magic also increases magic damage by 3% for every level that is boosted above your maximum. So let's say you have base 90 magic, and Vecna boosts to 96, you will gain +18% damage while its at 96, +15% at 95, etc until it falls back down to 90 again. So you can consider the Skull as Damage boost CD.

 

Also, increasing Magic level means greater accuracy. Lastly, The damage of the staff scales with Magic level (+5 for every level), so you are increasing the staff substantially

[Sinkhan]

Bring Vecna's skull to boost your magic level. It'd also be worthwhile to get some other magic boost, like the dominion standard thingy, since ice barrage is much better than blitz. Magic potions wear off a bit quickly.

 

The boost is only +6 while the CD is 7 mins, so they'd only get 1 min of casting :unsure:

What would I cast that needs 96 magic? I thought I was using ice/blood barrage which are 92 and 94?

So I'll wear what Quyneax said except I'll wear ardy 3 till I get around to sw cape. Once I'm there I just kill supreme then prime then lure and kill rex right? Would tribrid killing all 3 be efficent without yak, ss and overloads?

 

Whoops. I've had getting 96 for bookswap on the mind on top of getting 94 for ice barrage lately so I flubbed there #-o Even then, you would still have 4 minutes of downtime for casting ice, although you could probably just straight blood barrage for those two minutes, but that still leaves around 2-3 mins of downtime. I personally view the vecna only as a damage booster like chenw says as using it to reach higher spell will always leave you not being able to cast that spell for at least a minute.

[Saladin643]

Ok, would ice blitz work while vecna is on cool down? I don't really have 10mil to get 94 magic atm (Monkeys).

[Ambler]

There are plenty of safe spots for rex, so blitz would be fine! I may test out staff there later if I can be bothered, if I go, Ill be sure to let you tag along, teach you the basics and stuff.

[Quyneax]

The trouble (not a big trouble but still) of maging is that there are so few good level boosts. If you melee, you can keep your level boosted by at least 80% of your highest boost using just extremes (21/26 boost at 99) potting every 5 minutes. For magic, 5 minutes takes the boost of extremes down to 2/7th of the original boost, and completely nullifies magic potions. Which means that magic is much harder on your inventory or much lower damage until wolpertinger/overloads.