Syd Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 Hey! I have been training slayer on and off for years, but with my pace of doing things I'm only about to break the 90s. I'm 88 slayer now, and as my ultimate goal I have is to reach 99 slayer eventually. However I have dozen of other skills I need to train to reach other goals I have set for myself. I haven't really bothered trying many things in beta except some duelling, and occasionally trying some fighting. I have yet to find the best ways to use abilities, and best set ups for raw dps that is valuable in slayer. I know some people have already researched about this subject, but I'm just curious how does it look like at the moment. Is slayer training faster or slower in EoC than in current game? I know rates can still change, as it's still beta, but just curious how things look at the moment. There were problems at some point that slayer was way too slow to train on EoC, and then it got updated to be faster. I'm just curious about optimal setups and constant use of abilities (not the afk-type training). If anyone has any knowledge about my question, that would be helpful. Thanks! I'm doing some testing at the moment, but as I know I don't have all the knowledge for optimal training, I'd be glad to hear opinions from other players too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehog Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 Xp rates should be about the same. EOC will just be more effort. It's your choice, really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nico Robin Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 Honestly, your other goals can wait. I would do slayer now, get some out of the way before EoC. That's my opinion. Well that is if you don't enjoy the new combat, if you do, then slayer can wait. 899th to 120 attack! August 9, 2014~! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quyneax Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 Right now, slayer is much faster in EoC but it hasn't been balanced yet. I think the idea is to re-balance all combat xp gain as well as introducing abilities etc. so slayer may well recieve a boost. 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...
Syd Posted September 9, 2012 Author Share Posted September 9, 2012 Well I did a small test with one slayer task. I had steel dragons and I was using maul or 2 rapiers, from which maul seemed to work better (I might be off here), cause it was more accurate and hit more often with abilities. I used only basic and tresholds. In 20 minutes time I managed to get 30k slayer experience, which is like 3x more than I would normally get on steel dragon task. Steel dragons are weak to water magic, so I can only assume using magic spells would've been even more devastating. I know this is very very very small test, but to me shows that training slayer would be alot faster after EoC. So for the time being, I will wait for EoC to come out before training slayer, or wait for slayer to receive some kind of balancing in EoC. I'm off to dg -> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cow Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 How does the current (general) ratio of slayer:combat xp fare in the beta? I realise that it's a beta, but still. I'd like to get 99 slayer before other combat 99s except maybe summoning (because I want to. I don't care if that's inefficient) for a steel titan.I'll probably have 95 or 96 by the time it goes live. Who knows. Sizzling autumn please, minus the wheel and Solomon crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fallstar Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 I recently got 99 slayer and all combats because of the EoC. Even if it is slightly faster in the EoC, it's just so much more effort. Plus slayer is fun in the current combat system IMO. Asmodean <3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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