Flyingjj Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 I unlocked dreadnips, goliath gloves, and spellcaster gloves today (Still need to track down the pest queen) and was wondering about best uses. Obviously the gloves provide the highest bonuses in their respective categories, so I should use those all the time, and goliath gloves are great for waterfiends, but are there other uses? How about dreadnips, should I just use them for everday slaying to speed things up? Do dreadnips work in the fight caves? Against Jad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quorra Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Goliath Gloves can replace the barrow gloves if you don't mind the degradation (higher stats) Swift Gloves, whenever you range. I only use Dreadnips on Dragon tasks/long tasks, corp, bandos etc Spellcaster Gloves... useless? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quyneax Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Spellcasters are totally useless, don't buy them (ok, looks maybe?). Dreadnips will hit tormented demons through protect prayers and glacors while the glacytes are up, but they have low dps. I wouldn't bother for slayer, except for mithril dragons, maybe steel. Goliaths are crucial for solo corp. Swifts are a good switch for Nex along with goliaths, too. 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...
J35u5_M4 Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Goliaths are good for Wyvern tasks too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leon S Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Spellcasters are totally useless, don't buy them (ok, looks maybe?). Dreadnips will hit tormented demons through protect prayers and glacors while the glacytes are up, but they have low dps. I wouldn't bother for slayer, except for mithril dragons, maybe steel. Goliaths are crucial for solo corp. Swifts are a good switch for Nex along with goliaths, too. Dreadnips don't hit through a td's melee prayer. It also activates the melee prayer if it does more than 305 damage. Dreadnips don't work on glacors anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quyneax Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 So much for nerfing dreadnips :(. Guess you can stop using those then :P. 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...
Leon S Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 They're still very useful on QBD, GWD bosses, Corporeal beast etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Th e Doctor Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 I use dreadnips on the KBD and they're normally good for ~750 damage a kill including poison damage. Basically they're worth using if you have them on any boss as long as you can do it without deploying them interfering with other combat actions. And yes they work on jad. Besides that spellcaster gloves are useless (+2 magic bonus over Goliath's iirc). Goliath's are for wyverns, waterfiends, corp, and not worth it for slayer (time taken to get them isn't justified by the increase in kill speed) unless you have excess of them from hunting the pest queen/finishing DT achievements. Swift gloves with dragonbane bolts are on par with melee for frost dragons from what I've read and they're supposedly one of the best methods for the qbd. Armadyl Drops : 4 Hilts; 3 Chestplates; 2 Chainskirts; 1 Helmet; 1 Buckler; 2 Shard 1; 2 Shard 2; 1 Shard 3Nex : 1 Zaryte BowKalphite King : 1 Drygore Rapier ; 1 Drygore Longsword : 1 Drygore Offhand Rapier : 1 Drygore Offhand Longsword Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerfrog Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 The main real use for goliaths and especially swifts, is PVP. I personally get about 15 gloves/hour, which puts goliaths at 1.5m/hour value in place of barrows, plus the extra stats really mean a lot in pvp, especially for high risks. Swifts allow you occasionally fire 2 bolts at once, giving you the potential to hit over 990 with every attack. (The 2nd bolt won't be an enchanted bolt) Seeing as you are not max combat, goliaths are definitely worth your time for things like slayer as the combat experience from unlocking them in climber is very good. So instead of wasting ~4 minutes to get a ~2% damage increase for ~6 hours, you're spending ~4 minutes to get ~8k xp and a ~2% damage increase for ~6 hours. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alg Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Spellcasters are totally useless, don't buy them (ok, looks maybe?).Not even for the slightly-higher-than-goliaths magic attack bonus? I painted some stuff and put it on tumblr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Th e Doctor Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Spellcasters are totally useless, don't buy them (ok, looks maybe?).Not even for the slightly-higher-than-goliaths magic attack bonus? No Armadyl Drops : 4 Hilts; 3 Chestplates; 2 Chainskirts; 1 Helmet; 1 Buckler; 2 Shard 1; 2 Shard 2; 1 Shard 3Nex : 1 Zaryte BowKalphite King : 1 Drygore Rapier ; 1 Drygore Longsword : 1 Drygore Offhand Rapier : 1 Drygore Offhand Longsword Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyingjj Posted June 3, 2012 Author Share Posted June 3, 2012 Thanks for all the help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quyneax Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Spellcasters are totally useless, don't buy them (ok, looks maybe?).Not even for the slightly-higher-than-goliaths magic attack bonus?Don't forget 1 pair of spellcaster means 1 pair of goliaths not bought ;). And +2 attack is even less worth it than +2 attack & +1 strength from goliaths. 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...
Leaf Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Spellcasters are good for Glacors if you soa/poly the glacytes rather than meleeing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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