Noxx Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Recently started Slaying again and I have a little side goal Of getting all my combat skills to 50m and 25m Slayer exp. I have not done Slayer in a very lOng time and since then many new tasks have been released. I was just wondering which task are to be skipped/blocked. I currently have Aquanites, Kalphites, Hellhounds and Suqahs blocked. I'm not too worried about best exp/h but I'd like to eliminate any task that might make me want to slit my wrists. Now for the main question. Which talks are to be Magee and Ranged? I currently SoA Steels and Irons as well as Miths. I barrage/chin Nechs. I'm stumped for the rest. Also would it be better to use Chaotic xbow and rune bolts or rune knives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Fray Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 I would highly recommend removing kalphites off your block list. If you have done the Do No Evil quest, there is a really nice lair there to cannon them with ease. Does that count as Range slaying? :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerfrog Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 You should cannon kalphites. Hellhounds are actually pretty awesome to semi-afk rune knife with a few prayer potions, and right next to kuradel. Other than that 'SoA everything' comes to mind, but i don't know much money you're willing to throw away. Rune knives are much higher DPS than rune bolts, on extremely low defense creatures. (You hit 2.5 times for every 1 crossbow hit. Bolts are only slightly above double rune knives max hit.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leon S Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 For mage slaying, skip or cancel jungle strykewyrm, desert strykewyrm, spiritual mages and dark beasts. But save for dark beasts, you shouldn't be doing those with Melee either anyway. You can mage everything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quyneax Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 You can cannon hellhounds and kalphites well, and since those are multi the small decrease in dps from using a ranged weapon wouldn't be obvious (or polypore). But in general I'd recommend sticking to cannon + titan ranged wise and give up on darts/knives/xbow altogether. Supporter of Zaros | Quest Cape owner since 22 may 2010 | No skills below 99 | Total level 2595 | Completionist Cape owner since 17th June 2013 | Suggestions 99 summoning (18th June 2011, previously untrimmed) | 99 farming (14th July 2011) | 99 prayer (8th September 2011) | 99 constitution (10th September 2011) | 99 dungeoneering (15th November 2011) 99 ranged (28th November 2011) | 99 attack, 99 defence, 99 strength (11th December 2011) | 99 slayer (18th December 2011) | 99 magic (22nd December 2011) | 99 construction (16th March 2012) 99 herblore (22nd March 2012) | 99 firemaking (26th March 2012) | 99 cooking (2nd July 2012) | 99 runecrafting (12th March 2012) | 99 crafting (26th August 2012) | 99 agility (19th November 2012) 99 woodcutting (22nd November 2012) | 99 fletching (31st December 2012) | 99 thieving (3rd January 2013) | 99 hunter (11th January 2013) | 99 mining (21st January 2013) | 99 fishing (21st January 2013) 99 smithing (21st January 2013) | 120 dungeoneering (17th June 2013) | 99 divination (24th November 2013) Tormented demon drops: twenty effigies, nine pairs of claws, two dragon armour slices and one elite clue | Dagannoth king drops: two dragon hatchets, two elite clues, one archer ring and one warrior ring Glacor drops: four pairs of ragefire boots, one pair of steadfast boots, six effigies, two hundred lots of Armadyl shards, three elite clues | Nex split: Torva boots | Kalphite King split: off-hand drygore mace 30/30 Shattered Heart statues completed | 16/16 Court Cases completed | 25/25 Choc Chimp Ices delivered | 500/500 Vyrewatch burned | 584/584 tasks completed | 4000/4000 chompies hunted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noxx Posted March 19, 2012 Author Share Posted March 19, 2012 Well i think i should have been a bit more clear in my first post. I was a bit distracted hence the poor quality.The idea is not to Range or Mage every task but rather to Range or Mage tasks which would be be good to Range or Mage.I am not looking to spend my entire bank reaching the aforementioned goals, but i do not want to be old and grey still working on them. There are still some tasks i'm going to Melee because either Ranging or Maging would make the task to long (such as Dark Beasts), but my idea is to have a good variety of tasks i can Mage/Range without having to sacrifice too much DPS.Certain tasks i'll use SoA on, because even with the high cost i could still either make a small profit or a small loss which is ideal. The real question though, how does Surge/Polypore Staff compare to SoA? Will it decrease my DPS by such an extent that tasks become twice as long as they are using Surge rather than SoA? Surge/Polypore is a lot cheaper to use so i would prefer using it a bit more often than SoA if it's not going to end up making it to slow.And how do Dragon Darts compare to Rune Knives? Here i'm not too worried about the cost as they are fairly cheap to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyNooblet Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Suqah's are surprisingly cannonable just north east of lunar isle, hell hounds are very afkable and so are kalphites, i would suggest blocking dust devils if you're getting them too often and bloodvelds as well.EDIT: If you havent done the quest for the cannonable area for bloodvelds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerfrog Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Dragon darts are only slightly worse than rune knives, especially when stacked with ferocious ring and I'd recommend them over rune knives to anyone that isn't insanely wealthy (i have a sneaky suspicion you are...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noxx Posted March 20, 2012 Author Share Posted March 20, 2012 Dragon darts are only slightly worse than rune knives, especially when stacked with ferocious ring and I'd recommend them over rune knives to anyone that isn't insanely wealthy (i have a sneaky suspicion you are...)Well i try to save money where i can. If it's only slightly worse then i guess i will go with them instead. I have a few goals ahead of me that will cost a lot so if i can save now it's better later :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quyneax Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Cannon is definitely far better than darts for hellhounds so I don't know how darts are relevant here... Surge is half the dps of SoA I think, except on ice strykes where it's 1.1-1.2x the dps or so. Polypore is 70-80% of soa or thereabouts? All combats to 50m and 25m slayer means: melee + cannon + titan slayer, barrage rock lobs for charms (finish up charms @ wfs if you get 50m mage first). Since 50m summ takes much longer. Then titan + salve @ ape atoll skeletons (titan for range xp) and finish up range with chins. If you want 50m combats through slayer, melee + cannon + titan all tasks but metals and abyssals and SoA those. Supporter of Zaros | Quest Cape owner since 22 may 2010 | No skills below 99 | Total level 2595 | Completionist Cape owner since 17th June 2013 | Suggestions 99 summoning (18th June 2011, previously untrimmed) | 99 farming (14th July 2011) | 99 prayer (8th September 2011) | 99 constitution (10th September 2011) | 99 dungeoneering (15th November 2011) 99 ranged (28th November 2011) | 99 attack, 99 defence, 99 strength (11th December 2011) | 99 slayer (18th December 2011) | 99 magic (22nd December 2011) | 99 construction (16th March 2012) 99 herblore (22nd March 2012) | 99 firemaking (26th March 2012) | 99 cooking (2nd July 2012) | 99 runecrafting (12th March 2012) | 99 crafting (26th August 2012) | 99 agility (19th November 2012) 99 woodcutting (22nd November 2012) | 99 fletching (31st December 2012) | 99 thieving (3rd January 2013) | 99 hunter (11th January 2013) | 99 mining (21st January 2013) | 99 fishing (21st January 2013) 99 smithing (21st January 2013) | 120 dungeoneering (17th June 2013) | 99 divination (24th November 2013) Tormented demon drops: twenty effigies, nine pairs of claws, two dragon armour slices and one elite clue | Dagannoth king drops: two dragon hatchets, two elite clues, one archer ring and one warrior ring Glacor drops: four pairs of ragefire boots, one pair of steadfast boots, six effigies, two hundred lots of Armadyl shards, three elite clues | Nex split: Torva boots | Kalphite King split: off-hand drygore mace 30/30 Shattered Heart statues completed | 16/16 Court Cases completed | 25/25 Choc Chimp Ices delivered | 500/500 Vyrewatch burned | 584/584 tasks completed | 4000/4000 chompies hunted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Fray Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Polypore is horrible xp by the way. If you are at all concerned with magic experience (I dont value it as I just want 99)then SOA>>>Polypore, even if the cost is much higher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noxx Posted March 20, 2012 Author Share Posted March 20, 2012 I know this isn't exactly Mage/Range related but i was also wondering which cape would be better for Slayer. The TokHaar or Max Cape? I like the idea of having that little bit extra Prayer Bonus as well as the bit of extra Stab Attack. It has a slightly lower Str bonus though which is where i get lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quyneax Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Tokhaar is the best cape for melee and ice strykewyrms, max cape is best for magic and ranged, comp cape beats both ;). Supporter of Zaros | Quest Cape owner since 22 may 2010 | No skills below 99 | Total level 2595 | Completionist Cape owner since 17th June 2013 | Suggestions 99 summoning (18th June 2011, previously untrimmed) | 99 farming (14th July 2011) | 99 prayer (8th September 2011) | 99 constitution (10th September 2011) | 99 dungeoneering (15th November 2011) 99 ranged (28th November 2011) | 99 attack, 99 defence, 99 strength (11th December 2011) | 99 slayer (18th December 2011) | 99 magic (22nd December 2011) | 99 construction (16th March 2012) 99 herblore (22nd March 2012) | 99 firemaking (26th March 2012) | 99 cooking (2nd July 2012) | 99 runecrafting (12th March 2012) | 99 crafting (26th August 2012) | 99 agility (19th November 2012) 99 woodcutting (22nd November 2012) | 99 fletching (31st December 2012) | 99 thieving (3rd January 2013) | 99 hunter (11th January 2013) | 99 mining (21st January 2013) | 99 fishing (21st January 2013) 99 smithing (21st January 2013) | 120 dungeoneering (17th June 2013) | 99 divination (24th November 2013) Tormented demon drops: twenty effigies, nine pairs of claws, two dragon armour slices and one elite clue | Dagannoth king drops: two dragon hatchets, two elite clues, one archer ring and one warrior ring Glacor drops: four pairs of ragefire boots, one pair of steadfast boots, six effigies, two hundred lots of Armadyl shards, three elite clues | Nex split: Torva boots | Kalphite King split: off-hand drygore mace 30/30 Shattered Heart statues completed | 16/16 Court Cases completed | 25/25 Choc Chimp Ices delivered | 500/500 Vyrewatch burned | 584/584 tasks completed | 4000/4000 chompies hunted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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