need security stronghold help

[walsby]

hey peeps i need to no what monster on the last floor drops the final bit of the sceptre / staff

[transcript80]

It's the ankou. They can be tough, though so watch out. There are safe spots for ranging/maging if I recall correctly. Good luck!

[walsby]

ah thanks alot im right next to them, cheers :D

[Doomster]

A room near the start has JUST level 75 Ankou, saves dodging the other things, but the "safe" spot is not very safe, until they are no longer aggressive.

 

 

 

They max hit 8, by my count, though a 1 defence pure (Rune weapon) can take one down on a load of food.

 

 

 

Ranging them may be possible, but a pure ranger is gonna get slaughtered before establishing dominace from the safe spot.

 

 

 

 

 

Mage, even worse:

 

While crumble works very well, jumping between spell menu & food will be the death of you - they saw off my pure mage in short order, but on my main, held them off / killed 1 or 2 in melee, then changed to mage kit and used up my spare chaos runes from safe spot.

 

 

 

 

 

One reason for the safe spot problem, compared to Lessers at Karamja, is they are not as busy, often you face a whole room of them single handed. Unless hunting the sceptre piece, there are no "superstar" drops, at least not in F2P - some addy arrows & pairs of laws.

[voncritic]

ankous are my next test out range spot. i am attracted by their addy arrow drop, thinking that i might be having a good time here with sufficient addy arrows, high 80+ range and 80 def.

 

 

 

meanwhile, ankous most valuable drops are addy arrows, noted mith ores and runes. so my inventory will be kinda easy to manage. looking forward to it.