PP, hunter and slayer

[zoth01]

1. What's the most efficient way to do PP? I thought it was loot urns in the 2nd best room you could do and at 1/4 time move to best room and check urns before looting them, or should I always just loot for max experience per hour?

 

2. How many sceptres should I buy? Can I get the needed items to recharge one within 3 trips?

 

3. For hunter, should I farm secondary ingredients for the 10% hunter xp juju right at lvl81, or should I get a few more lvls at draconics without using it?

 

4. As for slayer, I'm currently with 30k cannon balls stored. Is the whole fury/bandos/claws/berserker ring that relevant in order to speed up slayer? I'm concerned that when I run out of cannonballs, the profit made from slayer is so low that I'd have sell the gear in order to buy more :P I farm snaps the entire time so not sure if they could cover it up.

[purekilljoy]

1. What's the most efficient way to do PP? I thought it was loot urns in the 2nd best room you could do and at 1/4 time move to best room and check urns before looting them, or should I always just loot for max experience per hour?

 

2. How many sceptres should I buy? Can I get the needed items to recharge one within 3 trips?

 

3. For hunter, should I farm secondary ingredients for the 10% hunter xp juju right at lvl81, or should I get a few more lvls at draconics without using it?

 

4. As for slayer, I'm currently with 30k cannon balls stored. Is the whole fury/bandos/claws/berserker ring that relevant in order to speed up slayer? I'm concerned that when I run out of cannonballs, the profit made from slayer is so low that I'd have sell the gear in order to buy more :P I farm snaps the entire time so not sure if they could cover it up.

 

Unfortunately I only can help with slayer:

- For speed slaying you always want the best gear that you can comfortably afford. That being said, claws are always good, but their speed and efficiency imo is only worth it if you have spec restores to back them up. I always used to slay with claws and spec restores, nothing quite like it!

[zoth01]

Won't using spec restores a lot of banking? It's around 40 potions (3) per hour 0o I haven't done slayer for ages, so I'm kinda clueless what tasks/drops make most of the profit, so it's a bit hard to plan the inventory with spec restores :P

[Quyneax]

[hide=Slayer guide]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.[/hide]

When you're slaying with special restores, you bring maybe 8 potions (now that a yak can hold them, full yak probably, but only when you're not using an iron titan/steel titan) and you'll use them up quickly, 16 minutes for the lot, leaving plenty of space for rune chains and whatnot. It's possible Korasi's sword is actually superior to claws, in single combat of course.

 

For PP refer to this topic.

 

Ideally you would hunt draconics so you have just enough vines to last you one level, then catch more for the next level, because you'll catch them faster at higher levels. Trouble is you have to bank/re-attract them each time so it's probably better to just catch a few dozen at the time.