Glacors

[Thorgmir]

I've spent the last few days trying my luck at glacors, and had a few questions about maximizing my profit:

 

1. At what level is it worth using fire surge over fire wave? I'm 90 mage atm, and have access to extreme magics and overloads. Is it worth using overloads just to be able to switch to fire surge sooner, or should I stick with fire wave for a few more levels?

 

2. How much of a help is a celestial surgebox? I'm currently using an illuminated unholy book. Is it worth doing the extra dung to get the surgebox? I plan on being at glacors until 99 mage.

 

3. Once I get 92 prayer and soul split, and hence don't need my uni anymore, which combat familiar would be best? I expect to have access to everything up to Wolpertingers by then.

 

Thanks!

[jayc3399]

Fire surge makes a huge difference. You'll want to boost for that but it will start to get annoying after a while if your using overloads. It was how I started till I broke down and barraged for 95. By switching to fire surge you can kill the sapping first then enduring then the exploding one because you can kill the glaccor fast enough. This saves on prayer.

 

Not sure about the csb. If your going to pot a wolper isn't worth it. Before I got titans I just stuck with the uni to make things easier.

[Leik]

Definitely use fire surge and also definitely use CSB. As for familiars, the familiars before iron/steel titans are generally pretty bad and not all that useful for combat.

[Quyneax]

To add to what Leik said, iron/steel are great for kill speed, unicorn is great if you lack SS, but with SS pre-titan you can use a wolper to save on magic pots (it's also the best combat familiar at that level). However you still need to boost melee stats if you melee the glacytes.