New slayer tasks?

[Tempest Mike]

I slayed the other day for the first time in at least a year, and I got aviansies and vyrewatch for tasks. Obviously some new tasks got added while I was gone; which ones of all these new tasks are actually worth doing?

And how important is attacking with your tasks weakness? I have dust devils right now which are weak to crush - if I used crapier and eee, would that be a lot slower? I don't really have a good crush weapon but might get a cmaul soon.

[Chwish]

To speak about weaknesses, chaotics have enough accuracy that you can essentially ignore slayer monster weaknesses and be fine, even if they're weak to mage or range. Once you get higher tier weapons, you can use whatever style you want really, although barraging is generally the fastest.

[cowmaster187]

avianesee are generally not worth doing, however if you want the addy bars you can go ahead and do em. or if you wanna do kree you could that as well i think. that could be some fun bossing for you to do.

vyres are meh, but can be fast if you have done branches of darkmeyer.

 

it is kind of hard to say from my point of view but i am sure that Q or one of the others would know better than I

 

~~~legoman187~~~

[Tempest Mike]

How many new tasks did they add? Just a few or a lot? Seems unlikely for me to get two new ones in a row if there's only a few.

[Aiel]

aviansies, vyres, automatons, and the new ascension things are all I think

[Sy_Accursed]

Yeah Avisansies, Vyres, Automatons, Acension and Grotworms pretty much cover the new slayer content of the past year.

[Tempest Mike]

Oh ok, so there aren't too many and they're mainly worth doing. Thanks.

[Quyneax]

Aviansies are good if you want to kill some Kree'Arras.

Vyres have never been good afaik. Maybe you can barrage them with a blisterwood staff.

Automatons are semi-interesting monsters with some good high-value drops and the untradeable cresbot (a pet) so if you want that, go for it.

Ascension monsters aren't great xp either afaik, but the bosses are again pretty decent (if you can get keys at a reasonable price).

 

I don't think Jagex has added any 'good' tasks in forever, speed-wise. Abyssal demons and nechryaels and some other tasks got buffed a lot now that barrage is so good, though.

[Tansuo]

You can also do QBD for Black Dragon tasks, that was added at the same time as Aviansies were to the slayer task list.

[Tempest Mike]

Does K'ril still count as a lesser demon? I think I read that fire surge is good against vyre's, and I know about Auto's so that's all good. :P

[Ulysses]

Kril is greater...suppose slayer helm makes it slightly better..but I'd just skip them.

[Th e Doctor]

Hopefully someone can confirm but last I heard Kril got buffed in the GWD update and uses his prayer smashing technique constantly if you're using soul split as well as deflect/protect prayers making him much harder to solo even on task to the point where it more than likely warrants a skip. This may have gotten fixed without my knowledge though.

[Levells]

He smashes me anywhere from 1-3 times per kill, using soulsplit. It hits ~2300-3800. You definitely need food now, and lower levels can't camp him like before. I stayed for 2 hours and still had plenty of supplies, but I'm near maxed and was using drygore/tetsu/seasinger/virtus gear. You go through prayer like nothing, though. My usual amount of restores didn't even come close. Thankfully he kept dropping restores, and the food drops are fairly consistent.

[Ginger_Warrior]

I usually do my Vyre tasks because it provides bodies to burn for the flail/blisterwood boost but, if I had already cremated 500, I wouldn't be bothering. It's easily one of my worst tasks experience rate-wise.

 

Which I suppose is counter-intuitive but... hey hoh.

[Quest_Cape_K]

Vyres are a fast task though, like 12 kills/minute meleeing with blisterwood polearm.

Cres' Automatons are very good slayer xp, blood barrage the guardians, should be able to hit 2 or 3 at a time.