For many people, the sword excalibur was used in the quests merlin's crystal and holy grail but after the quest was unfortunately chucked away to the corners of their bank.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I just discovered a new nice usage of excalibur's special attack: +10% defence with no other stat penalties, this works well for abyss rcers i have to say, most of the rcers does not use any special attack (unless you bring dds for self protection) and the special attack bar is left unused. However if you actually utilise that bar for the excalibur special, you get an nice defence bonus against abbysal monsters strong attacks and hence you use less food after getting hit less with 10% higher defence \

But if you equip a pick-axe, you can get through some obstacles faster, and carry one extra essence.

Well just do the special at the bank and requip back your pickaxe and deposit your excalibur before you go for another run

going throguh all that hassle of unbank-spec-bank

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i dont think it is worth it lol

Maybe if your defense was high enough you wouldn't have to.

Good find! I recently went into the abyss for the first time, i didnt know it was multi combat zone, and like 11 abyssal monsters jumped me lmao.

 

 

 

Didnt die though.

super def pot...

super def pot...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

waiste? i mean RCing thru the abyss is not really hard... why waiste potions and time for excalibur specials. when you can just eat food occasionally.

good thot. but i think dhide and an ax or pick are enough for the abyss

I use Excalibur at Barrows for extra defence against the melee brothers I don't pray on. :

I use it to train; alternate between dba and excalibur specs :P

if you need to use that to boost def you shouldnt be using abyss

Wow great tip, I'm definatly going to use this. Taking two seconds to bank, spec, and bank is worth it I think. And anyway you can take it out in the process of filling your pouches. Withdraw excalibur, withdraw all pure essence, click x, click excalibur then on three smaller pouches, then spec, click your pickaxe again, bank, put it away, get out more ess, fill up giant pouch, get more ess, then go. Not really that much more than what I was already doing.

nice find i would never of thought of that lol

I've allways loved my excalibur, allways use it when figthing high att but low def npc's.

 

 

 

Currently using it to kill dust devils

In my opinion, it is not worth it. Too much hassle.

You have to withdraw essence from the bank right? So why not use 2 seconds and give yourself a bit extra defence, You don't even have to do it every run, just every couple of runs. Excalibur requires no money besides doing the initial quest, where eating a shark can cost you 1k.

i used it in monkey madness tunnel when i was 1 prayer :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

worked well

Great idea! Now why didn't I think of that. You dont have to spec every trip, because you have to fill up your special bar.

It's also good for BA, if your not the attacker(or even if you are) you can use the special and get the def boost, thus getting hit less by the monsters. :)

It's also good for BA, if your not the attacker(or even if you are) you can use the special and get the def boost, thus getting hit less by the monsters. :)

yeah i was gonna suggest that too. it works for other things like holding the flag in cwars

I guess it's nice because you will be able to not waste money and use it :D

For a rough idea of when your special attack is full again, i checked after my defence has dropped down by 6 lvls and it's definitely full. It may already be full at 5 lvls down. I only had to spec once for like every 5 trips or so.

This has always been there, since the release of the quest. -.-

going throguh all that hassle of unbank-spec-bank

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i dont think it is worth it lol

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

using the bank to get the sword takes about 10 seconds. Unless your doing millions of ess, 10 seconds is not a lot.