What is the best block list for cannon and steel titan power slaying? And which tasks should I skip.

 

I can't seem to find anything current. I am currently 91 slayer, so I don't yet have ice-strykes or ganodermic beasts yet.

You'll want to prioritize blocking the most common tasks. In your case, I'd recommend:

 

Ganodermic creatures (Before 95)

Abyssal demons

Dark beasts

Ice strykes (drop fire cape/tokhaar before getting a task)

Gargoyles

Nechryaels

Grotworms

 

Skip:

 

Fire Giants

Living rock creatures (You can cannon, but I'm not sure that they're fast)

Spiritual mages

Iron dragons

Warped Tortoises

Jungle Strykewyrms

Mutated Jadinkos

Steel dragons

Desert Strykewyrms

Vyrewatch

Blue Dragons

Skeletal Wyverns

 

You'll notice that a lot of tasks are skipped. You probably won't have enough points to keep up with that, so I suggest doing wyverns, dark beasts (afk), and blues if you need the money.

Ice strykes and dark beasts are worth it, being around 50k xp/hr (dark beasts little more, ice strykes little less), wyverns are a lot slower and less profitable than strykes afaik. Fire giants are 50k xp/hr and up as well. Jungle and desert strykes are better blocks, and vyres are pretty common too, so replace polypore with vyres when you get ganodermics.

Polypores are the most common task when you add pines and roos, so they're an obvious block before 95. After 95 you'd replace them with the first monster on the skip list (fire giants/lrc/spiritual mages).

 

Id recommend doing wyverns unless you have enough points to justify skipping them. They're rare and decent enough crims.

 

Blocking vyres is dumb cuz they're one of the rarest tasks. Just skip them.

 

 

Fire giants are not the first on the skip list, that's still jungle/desert strykes and spiritual mages. And vyres are pretty common, I've had 7 tasks (equal to nechryael!) going from 93-99 and they were only introduced halfway.

 

Just because wyverns are rare doesn't mean they are worth doing... it means they aren't worth blocking. You won't lose many points skipping them, and the slayer xp is really low (under 35k/hr last I checked).

Fire giants are not the first on the skip list, that's still jungle/desert strykes and spiritual mages. And vyres are pretty common, I've had 7 tasks (equal to nechryael!) going from 93-99 and they were only introduced halfway.

 

Just because wyverns are rare doesn't mean they are worth doing... it means they aren't worth blocking. You won't lose many points skipping them, and the slayer xp is really low (under 35k/hr last I checked).

 

If you value crimsons though I would say do them, its ~100 crimsons an hour and up at my stats.

I wouldn't skip/block dark beasts, they're really fast with a cannon.

 

Fire giants are about 40k exp/hour with a steel titan, so really not bad.

 

Then again I haven't slayed for quite a while, so maybe exp/hour standards are higher... I just know that I never had enough points to keep up with all of the tasks that needed to be skipped.

Fire giants are not the first on the skip list, that's still jungle/desert strykes and spiritual mages. And vyres are pretty common, I've had 7 tasks (equal to nechryael!) going from 93-99 and they were only introduced halfway.

 

Just because wyverns are rare doesn't mean they are worth doing... it means they aren't worth blocking. You won't lose many points skipping them, and the slayer xp is really low (under 35k/hr last I checked).

 

Don't say that vyres are a common task when they're not.

If you're really concerned about a block list, you could try to utilize the new social slayer thing. Find someone to train with and set up your combined blocked lists to cover more creatures. Although, this might be sacrificing your earned experience in the end.

Only the blocklist of the person who gets the task is taken into account.

Your Ban list should reflect what you'd never do. While the ones you're skipping are the ones you might do, like Grotworms if ever need points you could finish the task quick by killing the small ones.

 

In general these:

Abyssal Demons

Grotworms

Living Rock Creatures

Gargoyle

Warped Tortoise

Polypores

Desert and Jungle strykewyrms

Mutated Jadinkos

Spiritual Mages

 

 

Also don't listen to them about Vyrewatches, they're great tasks, kill the regular ones east of burgh though.

The vyres in burgh are even lower kph.

Interesting. However, being 99 summoning I don't value charms. Vyrewatches I have usually been doing because they are decent melee xp. Grotworms I skip because they are impossibly crowded. I have currently blocked Polypores, Grotworms, Jungle/Desert Strykes, and I can't recall the other two at the moment.

 

I can't skip ice wyrms by dropping cape as I have too many, and don't really want to lose them.

 

As for greaters, isn't the only good place to cannon them in the wild? Not sure I'm that comfortable about doing that.

 

Here's what I am thinking of doing

Block List

1. Abyssal Demons

2. Gargoyles

3. Nechryael

4. Grotworms

5. Living Rock Creatures

6. Spiritual Mages

 

Skip:

Warped Tortoises

Grifalopines

Grifaloroos

Waterfiends

Jungle Wyrms

Desert Wyrms

Mutated Jadinkos

Vyrewatch

Skeletal Wyverns

 

I will do steels/irons since I can yak the bones and I enjoy the tasks usually they aren't that long. What are the spots for doing dust devils and greaters though?

Block polypore creatures and skip spiritual mages.

Fire giants are not the first on the skip list, that's still jungle/desert strykes and spiritual mages. And vyres are pretty common, I've had 7 tasks (equal to nechryael!) going from 93-99 and they were only introduced halfway.

 

Just because wyverns are rare doesn't mean they are worth doing... it means they aren't worth blocking. You won't lose many points skipping them, and the slayer xp is really low (under 35k/hr last I checked).

Don't say that vyres are a common task when they're not.

I assume that data was gathered at 99 slayer only? Vyres and lower strykes should be more common at lower levels afaik. Anyway, looking at that list, vyres would not be a block, you're right there. But your suggested block list including dark beasts and ice strykes is pretty inaccurate too :P. Also, has the suggestion that relative task frequencies are affected by blocks been researched yet?

I assume after I hit 95 slayer I should unblock polypores so that I can get ganodermics?

 

And I am still not sure where I should be doing dust devils and greater demons. Previously I was skipping these as I didn't know good locations.

I do them cuz I find them kinda fun, but I don't think the xp rates are too great.

Depends really on gear.

Rock Creatures are quick if you find a decent crush weapon ( Goliaths/Cmaul )

Depends really on gear.

Rock Creatures are quick if you find a decent crush weapon ( Goliaths/Cmaul )

 

No...just no. They have almost ZERO defense. They are weak to everything, not just crush.

Depends really on gear.

Rock Creatures are quick if you find a decent crush weapon ( Goliaths/Cmaul )

 

No...just no. They have almost ZERO defense. They are weak to everything, not just crush.

 

True but there weakness is still crush. There a high hp monster really.

Depends really on gear.

Rock Creatures are quick if you find a decent crush weapon ( Goliaths/Cmaul )

 

No...just no. They have almost ZERO defense. They are weak to everything, not just crush.

 

True but there weakness is still crush. There a high hp monster really.

I'll go easy on you because you're Zooey Deschanel, but rapiers are much better there.

Depends really on gear.

Rock Creatures are quick if you find a decent crush weapon ( Goliaths/Cmaul )

 

No...just no. They have almost ZERO defense. They are weak to everything, not just crush.

 

True but there weakness is still crush. There a high hp monster really.

I'll go easy on you because you're Zooey Deschanal, but rapiers are much better there.

 

I won't. The weakness to crush isn't high enough to even be noteworthy. To the point of being an out and out fabrication. You should use your highest raw dps weapon period. And the fact that they have high HP doesn't really have any bearing on this at all.