farmer1975 Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Hello all,This is my first post here, please correct me if i put this in the wrong section.I'm looking for advice on some mage-armor to go on a few barrows runs. I did alright at barrows pre-eoc but now i don't seem to hit much and get hit a lot more ;-) There is a catch though. I won't buy it off the GE or an other player. So i need to craft it myself, get it as a drop or some other way. Does anyone have some good suggestions on what to try to get? My levels are: mage 85, ranged 90, att 72, str and def 73 (dg 63...) Thank you all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunokiller Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 What weapon are you using? And I have no idea why you wouldn't want to buy armour, but batwing would be easy to get. My blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ammako Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 If you have the required Slayer and Crafting levels, you could go to the Polypore dungeon and craft a set of Grifolic armour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rinc3Wind Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Ahrims armor is pretty good, but it degrades.Gano is good too, but you need to gain 2 def levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmer1975 Posted February 15, 2013 Author Share Posted February 15, 2013 I use a black saly or water/air b-staff as a weapon. I probably need to upgrade that to.....Ahrims is indeed very good, but getting it is the problem. It was the reason i was at barrows anyway.Gaining 2 def-levels isn't to much of a problem so i might do that and look into gano. First i'll have a look at batwing though, I like making my own armor. I'm off slaying bats! Thank you all for your reply's, If anyone has some more ideas, they are more than welcome. I used to use ancient magic (ice-spells) and/or black saly, is this stilla viable option? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saradomin_Mage Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Black salamander is now a ranged weapon so that doesn't really fit with your mage armour. The accuracy on battlestaves is terrible; viable alternatives at higher levels are probably the bat wand (level 45), ancient staff (level 50), one of the god staves from the Mage Arena or the Toktz-Mej-Tal (level 60). Probably only the level 60 staves will be close to usable at Barrows though, due to the vast difference in tiers. Another good option is the Lightning staff 4, though you'd have to have obtained that from a promotion, and I don't know if it'd fit with your playstyle. In real life MMO you don't get 99 smithing by making endless bronze daggers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmer1975 Posted February 15, 2013 Author Share Posted February 15, 2013 An ancient staff i can get, no problem. one of the god staves shouldn't be to hard either, I just have to get through the wildernes :-) Thanks Saradomin_Mage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saradomin_Mage Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 It'd of course be better if you could get a polypore staff/staff of light/Ahrim's staff, but I assume you're DIY so those would be much harder to get a hold of. In real life MMO you don't get 99 smithing by making endless bronze daggers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmer1975 Posted February 15, 2013 Author Share Posted February 15, 2013 DIY poses some interesting problems. I would like to get Ahrim's staff....so i can easely get Ahrim's staff ;-) But i'll get it in the end, the journey is always more interesting than the destination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quyneax Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Very theoretically, you could go straight for a chaotic staff :D. It's really the best DIY magic weapon, because it's 100% guaranteed, requires only one skill and only up to 80, and it's (tied for) the best staff in the game. 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...
farmer1975 Posted February 15, 2013 Author Share Posted February 15, 2013 That would indeed be very theoretical, Quyneax. :wink: I,m currently 63 dg, mostly from Juna and a few solo dungeons. I'm not online regularly enough to get into a decent group so getting around 80 dg would take me a lot of time. (that, and the fact that i **** at dg, lol) Then again, i want to get my dg up sometime anyway so i might need to look into this option. But not just yet, i got my batwing armour and will try it out soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ammako Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Oh my, they actually did fix the god staves on the 14th :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmer1975 Posted February 16, 2013 Author Share Posted February 16, 2013 Does this mean they are a decent option pingouin7?Edit: I just realized i might have to dust off my lunar gear. If i read it correctly that staff is level 65? would the armour be a good option? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ammako Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Lunar gear is not worth using, since it's bonuses are lower than Batwing's. Also, Lunar staff only has ~600 accuracy or something, compared to God staves and Toktz-Mej-Tal, which have ~1.1kSince you plan on DIY-ing your equipment, the god staves are probably your best bet (Then you can upgrade to Ahrim's once/if you get one from the chest.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmer1975 Posted February 16, 2013 Author Share Posted February 16, 2013 Thanks Pingouin7, i'll have a go at it with a god-staff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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