I have recently got 70 attack and defence, and will most likely have 70 strength in a few hours.

 

My other skills are prayer - 60 and magic - 72 and constituion - 71.

 

I am looking to upgrade my melee outfit for slayer tasks but I've only just recently returned to the game and I'm pretty clueless on what my best outfit strategy should be.

 

What barrow armour would you guys reccommend for day to day general slayer training and melee training?

 

Is barrow armour my best option or are there other melee options out there that are a better fit?

 

Currently I wear, Black mask, Granite body, dragon defender, whip, plateskirt, dragon gauntlets, dragon boots, amulet of glory, ring of life.

 

Any help at all would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

Roseiah

Well, the general standard outfit for slayer these days are either Bandos top and Bottom or Proselyte top and Verac skirt and use Piety or turmoil throughout the task (assuming you have the access to either). Failing those, Fighter Torso from BA and either Verac skirt or Bandos Tasset.

 

Barrows armor are hardly used these days, even the old days of Guthan are long gone (even torags are more expensive than Guthan), but if cannot afford a Bunyip (level 69 summoning), then Guthan would be your main source of healing.

 

If you don't mind questing, I'd highly suggest at least making some decent progress into the Recipe for disaster for at least the rune gloves (requires all but 1 of the delegates saved).

 

Lastly, I highly recommend doing the Smoking Kills quest, and get the Slayer Helmet from the points you get there after, the helm makes certain tasks much faster (notables include Spectres and Dusties).

I normally use

 

Full Slayer Helm

Ammy of strength or glory

Bandos Cloak

Fighter Torso or proselyte top if praying

Veracs skirt or proselyte legs if praying (because they dont degrade)

Barrows Gloves

Dragon Boots

Zerker Ring

DFS

Whip

^ no arguments there except:

 

1. Saradomin's Whisper is better than either of the above when not praying, +8 all melee attack and +12 strength, maybe somewhat expensive, but still a better choice regardless

 

2. Dragon Defender > DFS. The only time DFS is truly useful is boss hunting or when you don't have access to Super Anti-dragonfire potions during a Dragon task, otherwise Defender is superior, (+20 to all melee attack easily offsets the 1 strength difference, and defence usually is not an issue during slaying).

^ no arguments there except:

 

1. Saradomin's Whisper is better than either of the above when not praying, +8 all melee attack and +12 strength, maybe somewhat expensive, but still a better choice regardless

 

2. Dragon Defender > DFS. The only time DFS is truly useful is boss hunting or when you don't have access to Super Anti-dragonfire potions during a Dragon task, otherwise Defender is superior, (+20 to all melee attack easily offsets the 1 strength difference, and defence usually is not an issue during slaying).

If you don't have super antis, use a ddef and antis and just keep ss on the whole time.

If you don't have super antis, use a ddef and antis and just keep ss on the whole time.

 

Does require ss...

My outfit is as follows:

BCP and Tassy

Fury

Zerker (i)

Dragon Boots

Slayer Helm

SW Cape

Barrows Gloves

Whip/ D skim (depending if I am training att/str)

Dragon Defender

 

This setup works well for me.

Your def is low so use Verac's. Get 70 prayer ASAP using ALL resources available to you.