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Carl

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Hi, I'm really interested in doing some Barrows runes while the bonuses are in effect, but I'm afraid I'm completely lost on what I should bring! I'm not too fond of combat anymore, so I don't really have much equipment.

 

I have no Chaotic items. I have no RFD gloves. I don't have a Fire Cape. Cash-wise I have around 23M (Money stuck in a Partyhat, sadly.).

 

On the up-side, I have 99 Prayer & 99 Herblore..

 

Attack Level: 86

Strength Level: 96

Defence Level: 80

Magic Level: 99

Ranged Level: 73

Constitution: 89

Summoning: 73

 

Any setup ideas would be very much welcomed; I am a newb at this, as stated already.

 

Thanks in advance! (I have browsed at other guides/threads, but they contain gear and stuff which I can't access! And I'm no use at finding alternates)

 

-Carl

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You have all the right stats to do barrows. What I've been doing recently is using a Polypore staff on every brother and just praying. Bring melee gear for the tunnels. I was managing 8+ trips on like 5 ppots but with your prayer and magic levels you can do way more most likely.

 

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Okay, thanks guys. I've bought a staff. But what armour should I bring? How many pieces of food, what kind of potions (Amount, also please!). Every little helps, I'm really not used to this kind of thing. :rolleyes:

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Melee armor only, mage armor is a waste of inventory space and weight.

 

I suggest using Verac armor.

 

If you use melee to kill Karil or Ahrim, use Overload. If you don't have it, Extreme set with vecna skull works. Or a super set at least.

 

Bring 1 prayer potion in case Dharok is the tunnel.

 

Use Ardy cape 3 and Drakan's Medallion if possible. Super fast and free prayer recharge.

 

Fill your inv with food like monkfish, but leave 5 inventory spaces for loot.

 

Possibly a one-click emergency teleport, I suggest Ectophial if you use Drakan's Medallion, else House tablet

 

OT: Are you Northside or Southside?

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Still setting up an invent, getting information from many sources. A lot of contradictory information, at that.

 

Northside 4 life, Tim. Are you from Dublin?

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What I suggested is from experience, some people will suggest Magic Armor, Some will suggest melee armor, some suggest mixture of both, some void.

 

All of their merits, you can call me biased, but generally everyone will agree with me that at low or even light negatives, you will have no issues whatsoever with hitting the brothers, except Ahrim (because he is a mage, so his magic defence is naturally higher due to his higher magic level). Hence why I always advise against wearing magic gear, it provides very limited effect.

 

It all depend on what you have and what you are willing to get.

 

 

 

I used to live in Dublin for 13ish years, Southside (D4) unfortunately :P, moved back to Taiwan though, couldn't get a job to stay :(

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6,924th to 30 hunting, 13,394th to 30 summoning, 52,993rd to 30 Divination

Kiln Record (Post-EoC): W 25 - L 0, 14 Uncut Onyx, 8 Jad hits received (Best record: Two in the same kiln)
Obby set renewed post update #2: 0

QBD drops: 21 crossbow parts, 3 Visages, 1 Kites, 2 Kits

Max Port Score [2205] Achieved: 27th April 2013 (World 2nd)

 

Farmyard Rampage ranking: 12th, 50,000 Kills.

 

Dragon Pickaxe Drops: 1 (Times after I first entered Battlefield: 2h)

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Melee armor only, mage armor is a waste of inventory space and weight.

 

I suggest using Verac armor.

 

If you use melee to kill Karil or Ahrim, use Overload. If you don't have it, Extreme set with vecna skull works. Or a super set at least.

 

Bring 1 prayer potion in case Dharok is the tunnel.

 

Use Ardy cape 3 and Drakan's Medallion if possible. Super fast and free prayer recharge.

 

Fill your inv with food like monkfish, but leave 5 inventory spaces for loot.

 

Possibly a one-click emergency teleport, I suggest Ectophial if you use Drakan's Medallion, else House tablet

 

OT: Are you Northside or Southside?

Would house > canafis be better in long term? - As you don't have to charge drakan's if teleing from canafis.

 

 

But with a rapier the ardy cape is a natural choice.

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Charging Drakan's Medallion is trivially easy and takes 10 seconds to do, and you can do it as part of your banking run, which makes House -> Canifis unnecessary.

 

If running out of charges is an issue, I'd use an Ectophial instead, eliminates the cost of the tablet/runes

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6,924th to 30 hunting, 13,394th to 30 summoning, 52,993rd to 30 Divination

Kiln Record (Post-EoC): W 25 - L 0, 14 Uncut Onyx, 8 Jad hits received (Best record: Two in the same kiln)
Obby set renewed post update #2: 0

QBD drops: 21 crossbow parts, 3 Visages, 1 Kites, 2 Kits

Max Port Score [2205] Achieved: 27th April 2013 (World 2nd)

 

Farmyard Rampage ranking: 12th, 50,000 Kills.

 

Dragon Pickaxe Drops: 1 (Times after I first entered Battlefield: 2h)

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1) Mage everything but Ahrim.

2) Melee Ahrim.

3) Switch between melee and magic for Akrisae (if you did the quest).

4) Wear melee chest, legs and helm with a defender and the rest magic attack/damage boosting items.

5) Bring a whip and amulet of fury/glory in your inventory (glory as a switch for arcane stream necklace).

6) Bring 1 prayer potion per overload dose. You can last for however long you have those two potions left.

7) Heal with soul split. Tank Guthan, Verac and Akrisae.

8) Do not kill Torag if you can kill Akrisae.

9) Don't get kill count unless you need to heal a lot and have spare prayer.

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Thank you all for your help, I had been doing Mage + a bit of Melee and probably getting two runs out of an invent. After reading your post, Quyneax, I managed to get far more runs out of it. But I was falling short on health, which I had to bring Brew + Rocktail to heal.

 

Did it for a few hours today, gave up after a while. Rubbish loot! :(

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Dry runs are normal, but eventually they will come rolling in

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6,924th to 30 hunting, 13,394th to 30 summoning, 52,993rd to 30 Divination

Kiln Record (Post-EoC): W 25 - L 0, 14 Uncut Onyx, 8 Jad hits received (Best record: Two in the same kiln)
Obby set renewed post update #2: 0

QBD drops: 21 crossbow parts, 3 Visages, 1 Kites, 2 Kits

Max Port Score [2205] Achieved: 27th April 2013 (World 2nd)

 

Farmyard Rampage ranking: 12th, 50,000 Kills.

 

Dragon Pickaxe Drops: 1 (Times after I first entered Battlefield: 2h)

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