So I haven't played in a while, and I'm working with only about 2.8 mil, I have torag's plate and legs, dragon boots, and slayer mask that I was using for training slayer.

 

So my question is for training slayer, are those still good defense options, and what weapons are good for my price range? I have a dragon hatchet I can sell to give me a budget of around 3.5 mil.

 

Thanks for the help!

Whip is always good unless you want to train strength, and the price dropped a lot. If you get dungeoneering up to 80 you can use chaotics. For armor I normally use fighter torso and veracs skirt if I am using melee, but torags will work just fine.

You are pretty close to 80 attack, so you could work on dungeoneering to get a chaotic rapier. This will take a while, but it is the best weapon for almost all of the slayer tasks.

 

Defense isn't really needed for slayer since you'll be praying the protection prayers on tasks that require lots of healing. Once you hit 70 prayer and start praying piety constantly, you could switch to proselyte to save some money, and you still won't need much healing on the majority of tasks.

 

[spoiler=Necessary post from 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.

 

Thanks!

 

I bought a whip because I'll probably get 80 atk first, but when I want to train str, is the dragon scim still the best bet for my price range?

And I will definitely check out dungeoneering as it looks pretty cool.

 

 

edit: What should I wear for an amulet?

Glory for now until you get a fury.

 

I don't know the price on Saradomin sword, but it's better than d scim for training str

You want to use the Sara Sword (Not to be confused with the Sara Godsword) or the Korasi Sword if you have the reqs for the quest. And I suggest getting a Dragon Defender because it has some good bonuses and is awesome when it comes to training slayer.

wish I could afford a sara sword!