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So I haven't trained combat in forever but I decide to go to waterfiends for some crimson charms and I find out that they are ridiculously hard now. I used a crystal bow, royal d'hide and a bunyip with no food. I tried out black demons too with the same result. Am I doing something wrong?

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Waterfiends and Black Demons are now only weak to Bolt ammo, since the EoC changes.

 

Plus, there was a major defense buff (and consequent rebalance), to many monsters - which included the Waterfiends, so I don't know how much their defensive capability has risen.

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Its all about check monster weakness then use style they are weak for. As Arch saying use bolts vs them, best available crossbow 2 handed will be vest choice, but dual wield also will do fine with momentium on.

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Try using bolts, that should help your accuracy. Royal crossbow is very good, much higher accuracy and a good bit higher damage. Royal dragonhide is low-tier ranging armour, try upgrading to Karil's. Sadly there is no affordable tier 75/80 ranged equipment like ganodermic is for magic.

 

Secondly, waterfiends were never easy to do properly (e.g. chaos tunnels with titan). Now with multicombat everywhere, even less so.

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I did a Waterfiend task this morning and I tore through them with chaotic crossbow, broad bolts (royal bolts are better, but I had loads of broads left over) and momentum. Defensively I used Karil's and a unicorn and lasted the whole task without the need for food or prayer.

 

Obviously I don't know your stats but the important things are:

 

> High magic defence (Karil's top and body are good, costs about 1m for both)

> Bolts + good crossbow (Chaotic, Royal or hand cannon)

> Bunyip/Unicorn

 

You're pretty close to a bank if you kill them in the Ancient Cavern so it's easy to get food/potions if you need them.

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I did a Waterfiend task this morning and I tore through them with chaotic crossbow, broad bolts (royal bolts are better, but I had loads of broads left over) and momentum. Defensively I used Karil's and a unicorn and lasted the whole task without the need for food or prayer.

 

Obviously I don't know your stats but the important things are:

 

> High magic defence (Karil's top and body are good, costs about 1m for both)

> Bolts + good crossbow (Chaotic, Royal or hand cannon)

> Bunyip/Unicorn

 

You're pretty close to a bank if you kill them in the Ancient Cavern so it's easy to get food/potions if you need them.

 

After the defense buff using full armadyl, karil's xbow and extreme ranging potion I was missing +50% of my attacks (98 ranged). Switched to Magic and ripped them appart twice as fast despite them being only weak to Bolts ^^ . ABS + abilities ftw

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Yesterday's update supposedly lowered the defenses of a number of monsters. The patch notes only mentioned steel dragons and dark beasts specifically, but I imagine a good number of Slayer monsters were included. I did tasks of gargoyles pre- and post-update with the same setup, and found the post-update to be ridiculously easy.

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