Priorities

[Ishamael]

I've been thinking about the future of my account, and I can't really decide where to start. Here's things that I would like:

 

- Turmoil

- Overloads

- Yak

 

The thing is, I'm not sure which to start with. Once the overload stash that I make on the way to 99 herb runs out, I'll have to spend a lot of money to make more, while Turmoil would be a one-time cost. Yaks are something that I would love, so I can "camp" monsters for longer lengths of time, but the only way I get charms is with slayer, so I can't really get this tomorrow. I currently have:

 

70 herblore

70 prayer

70 summoning (about level 76-77 banked in charms)

 

 

 

Also, my current slayer equipment is as follows (for most tasks):

 

 

Should I get rid of the Torags and buy Bandos? I'm wondering if the defense bonus difference will make me get hit a lot more often.

 

Edit: Forgot to mention that I only have about 20m cash right now.

[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)
  
• Steadfast/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, 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):

• 70 prayer and King's Ransom - piety
  
• 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.

 

You won't notice the defence difference of Bandos vs Barrows.

[Th e Doctor]

I would say work on turmoil first.

 

The defense loss from torags -> bandos is trivial for most slayer, especially once you get soul split.

 

Your best path would be work on dungeoneering for a rapier whilst farming herbs and doing profitably dailies/MTK for cash. Starting from lvl 50 dg you should be able to make over 40 mil just from that. Sell torags for a prossy top and veracs bottom. Then either continue dg whilst herbs/dailies/mtk til 85 for frosts to make more cash or go kill green dragons for cash in the ct. For herblore I did 70 to 81 cleaning herbs with AHK and making them into unf potions which got me enough profit along with all the other stuff I listed to get turmoil.

 

Then keep camping frosts for cash for herblore. Yaks are good, turmoil is better.

[Ishamael]

Wow, thanks Quyneax. Much appreciated.