Mage Training at Ape Atoll

[Cheat]

My current plan is to train mage at rock lobsters but just for some comparison and because I like to know things I've got a couple of questions about mage training on ape atoll skele's.

 

1. Whats the best setup? Excluding Virtus as thats a bit too pricey for me but anything else goes pretty much. Void mage any good?

2. Whats the xp/hr or casts/hr?

3. Whats a rough cost of this from say 85-99 magic switching from burst to barrage once able to overload boost to 95.

4. Are any other spells other than ice ones viable?

 

Cheers for the help.

[Quyneax]

Void mage isn't very good, but it does have a good prayer bonus. I'd use Akrisae + Ahrim's over void, but if you don't have that, void works fine.

 

Sol > cstaff naturally. Otherwise just mix prayer bonus and mage attack with arcstream.

 

Xp/hr should be 350-400k. 1100-1200 casts (1200 theoretical max).

 

About 50m? 60m?

 

Smoke is alright, more so for lobsters (because poison doesn't give xp, it's not useful for skeles, but extra kills at lobs means more charms). Blood is very expensive, shadow less so but still much more than ice.

[Artemis1330]

Void mage isn't very good, but it does have a good prayer bonus. I'd use Akrisae + Ahrim's over void, but if you don't have that, void works fine.

 

Sol > cstaff naturally. Otherwise just mix prayer bonus and mage attack with arcstream.

 

Xp/hr should be 350-400k. 1100-1200 casts (1200 theoretical max).

 

About 50m? 60m?

 

Smoke is alright, more so for lobsters (because poison doesn't give xp, it's not useful for skeles, but extra kills at lobs means more charms). Blood is very expensive, shadow less so but still much more than ice.

 

just wondering why Akrisae? Ahrim's has higher mage attack.

 

Also why is void mage worse then ahrims? By how much?

 

Not saying you're incorrect on either (I have no idea), just curious.

[Quyneax]

Akrisae's hood has one less mage attack for 4 prayer bonus, the rest Ahrim's is probably best.

 

Void mage is a bit worse, I don't recall the exact amount but you can approximate the difference by multiplying the mage attack bonus with void by 1.3 and adding 64*.3, and comparing that to the mage attack without void. You lose hood/legs/shield/gloves, totalling 53 mage attack (48 with mage's book instead of arcane). Works out to 198 vs. 145*1.3, which is 188,5, which is a difference of 5%. You also gain only 1 prayer bonus (arc+Akrisae hood vs. elite void top&legs).

[Artemis1330]

Yes just checked and you are absolutley correct. Difference is 5.267%. The prayer difference is 23 with void and 19 with ahrim top+bottem and akrisae hood, which will probably only shorten a trip by 20 mins.

[Hedgehog]

To my knowledge, no one's published any data on void mage's accuracy boost. The number we use now is 30%, which most people are certain is wrong.