Beginners barrows guide! for low lvls on up (Aug 2006) (AoW)

well... my first barrows run was when i was at lvl 77 and though it was hard i dont think its as hard as most people think it is. so this a guide i'm making for people that are at lower lvls.

information on barrows

well when i started i looked through some guides and i noticed something. they dont help at all for a your first trip. they dont really explain what to expect or anything. so this is what you will be looking forword to.

first barrows is where you kill 6 brothers to get a prize. the main thing is to get a barrows item. (armour or weapon of the 6 brothers) but most of the time you'll just get runes and a little cash. so once you get there you dig and fight the first brother. (it doesn't matter what order you fight them in) i always do ahrim the mage first because my range is low and i prefer to do hardest first. then when your done get out quickly. something i didn't know is that when you are inside your prayer is drained. it takes 10 pray about every minute or so. i dont know the exact time. and you dont get any drop from the brothers so the moment they start to die just leave.

go to the next brother kill him and so on. and on one random brother you get a message saying "you found a tunnel are you fearless?" leave. this is the last thing you do. so kill the rest of the brothers and come back. once inside its a small maze to the middle. the problem is that the last attacks at random. kinda. the monsters repawn when you open doors. so if your just standing there you will not be attacked. but when you open another door be ready for a fight. the main point is the find the middle where you be met with a simple puzzle to open the door. these are really easy so dont worry about them. but if you get it wrong the door will change place. once inside just open the chest and search it. if you havn't found the last brother yet he will attack you when you open the chest. and thats it! so now i will got into some detail for you.

requirements for barrows, (and suggestions)

quests: preist in peral, and have atleast started nature spirit

stats: you must have atleast 43 prayer. but higher is suggested.

i would say 55 mage plus is a good idea. and if you have 55 slayer you should use slayer dart as your main tactic.

money: you will need at least some start up money for barrows. p pots are 7k each and when i started i was using around 5 a trip until i figured out what i was doing. so for starters 100k - 200k would be good (maybe more, but dont worry you should be able to get it back)

range: i would strongely suggest you have atleast 50 range. mostly so you can use blue armour and mage bow. plus i always bring range pots to. but you dont have to if you have decent range. (my isn't very good)

agility: high agility can help you but you dont need it. when you can run all the way to barrows and still have energy left over its a good bonus. plus you dont want to walk through tunnel if you dont have to. so i would suggest some agility.

what to bring

well i have looked at alot of guides and i pretty ignore everything they all say about what to bring. but thats just me. you will probably want to change a few things depending on your stats. but this is what i bring on my trips.

(also i forgot a way to tele out in this pic. so the best is any tele tablet as they take only 1 space. so just remember some way to tele out)

inventory

you must have prayer pots! they are the most important thing. even if your above lvl 90 you could still be killed in about 5 seconds flat if you unlucky. so you must bring p pots. i bring 4 or 5 on my trips and my prayer 49. so depending on your prayer and everything else you might want to bring a few more or less. but for your first few times i would bring about 7 or 8 until you get the hang of things.

this is optional. i bring these to make things a little easyer but you dont really need them. if you dont know thats strength pot, range pot and attack pot. they just speed things up a little.

spade! you must bring a spade to get in!

armour and weapons

well 4 of the brothers are melee so mostly you'll be maging. but 1 is range and 1 is mage. and trust me the mage is hardest. (atleast for most people. he might be easyer if you range is high enogh) so bring range armour and a bow and arrows. it doesn't matter what it is so just bring what you can. and a melee weapon is good if you want to get your kill count up. this will make the secondery item you get better. so rather than say 30 death runes with a kill count of 6 you can get 100 with a kill count of 20. (this is just an example, there is no set amount) oh and the stat restore is also if you plan on melee because ahrim decreases your str. if your slow on him you could find your str around 20.

and of course you need runes for killing all 4 melee brothers. i use fire blast as it is pretty good and deaths dont cost to much. but i have also used chaos and done fire bolt and that actualy works better than you would think. so you dont really need extremely high mage and chaos works fine. but 40+ would be good.

food

food is also if you want your kill count up. cause you just need to kill rats or skele and stuff. so bring for that. (and verac can brake through prayer so you might some food to fight him as well) i just got a whole bunch of sharks in a trade but you can use whatever you want as food. (i would suggest though sword fish or better)

equiped

prayer bonus! this is the most important thing! do not bring any armour for defence bonuses. all you want is a prayer bonus. thats all. so holy or unholy symbol and monk robes are the best. (intitiote or whatever its called has same bonus but it decreases mage so its not to good)

those are boots of lightness. these are just great. mostly i use them for anything i'm doing because they decrease your weight by 4kg so you can run longer. and you dont want to walk to barrows so these are good. if you dont know to get them check the quest guide under "temple of ikolv"

ya thats probably spelled wrong but whatever. and you DONT need to complete the quest to get them.

fire staff is for the fire blast. if your not using fire then just get the staff for whatever you are using.

arrows... thats it

you must bring a ring of life! it is extremely important!

you do not ever want to go without ring of life... EVER! it is a great thing that will save you if your health drops below 10% this has saved me several times. for one i lagged once. lost the connection and when i came back... falador. but! thanks to ring of life i didn't die! so you must bring ring of life.

killing the brothers!

wow this is getting longer than i thought. so! how to kill the bros and other stuff.

how to get to barrows

here's a map for everyone. (ya this is from the tipit guide)

just make sure your running because the ghasts in the swamp will get rid of your food. and you dont want that. so mostly just run to the boat. its easyest.

here is a pic of where the brothers are. (if you didn't know, just stand on little hill and dig with spade to get to brother)

(yes i got that pic from the tipit guide as well hope no one minds)

so here i will tell you how to kill each bro

ahrim: he is the mage and in my opinion the hardest. so dig, turn on protect from magic and open cript. make sure you have on all your range stuff and prepare for the fight. (if you brought a range pot i drink a dose now, you should only need 1) and make sure that you keep a constant eye on your prayer! if you run out your dead! well... if your quick you can drink a dose of p pot and be ok but i wouldn't risk it. (thats how i died once at dhorak) mostly i just drink a dose of p pot when i fall below about 15. once he's dead grab the arrows and get out.

oh and a freind who used this guide told me that because he trained pretty much nothing but his str that ahrim was really easy for him to melee. so i dont know myself but if your str is say higher than 75 you might want to try to melee him.

karil: well they say melee him but i think mage works just as well. so if you mage is a little low i would melee him. just do the same thing just remember protect from arrows. and keep an eye on prayer!

guthan: he is very easy. just come in ready with mage armour and fire blast or whatever spell your using ready. and with melee protect on. but the thing about guthan is he can heal himself. so when he's getting low dont go and think the battles over cause he can come back. but most of the time its easy.

dhorak: same as guthan just he doesn't heal. but! the thing to remember the lower his health the higher his str gets! so if he gets below half health and if you run out of prayer he will 1 hit you! its happened to me!

verac: same thing. the only difference is he can brake through prayer. he wont do as much damage but he will damage you. so keep an eye on your prayer and health on him.

torag: easyest of all. mostly... just kick his [wagon]. so far i have never had any trouble with him at all. uxcept for some reason he attacked me in tunnel... still dont get that.

the tunnel: this is where you get a small maze. in the middle your reward! i think i moslty covered all this above. just rememeber kill count does not effect whether you get a barrows item. it means you will get more runes or whatever. barrows item is just luck, (but of course you must kill all brothers)

CONGRADULATIONS! you've completed barrows!

well thats mostly it. i'll be editing this alot. (i typed the whole thing at once so my fingers hurt and i bet there are alot of errors to fix) so if you have any questions please ask me. oh! please msg me (nversaydie13) if you would like to do a run or two with me! its always funner with more people! plus if one of you dies the other can get your stuff back... that happened to me once :XD:

so i hope you liked it and i really hope i helped some people out! please post a thank you or bump or anything!

but please i beg of god do not flame me... please! i spend over 2 hours typing this and how would you feel if you sat and typed for 2 hours and some guy tells you how much it sucks? so please be nice

edit: well headhunter had a good point so here are some pics from a few of my recent barrows runs.

missed the pic of lvl.

boy was having a bad day here

my first barrows item! (i know sad it took me so long)

so hope you guys liked it. and please the if anything just leave a bump or tell me what you think of it.

3 things. Pictures, Punctuation, Proof (that it works for you).

OK, it looks usefull, but i still dont know if u killed 6 bro's will u automatically be teled to tunnel? :-k

why the attack and strength pots if you are maging?

OK, it looks usefull, but i still dont know if u killed 6 bro's will u automatically be teled to tunnel? :-k

why the attack and strength pots if you are maging?

bump? :mrgreen:

sweet i liked it as ive only barrowed 1 time it helped in some spots where i was confused. right now im trying to get whip but if u add me i could barrow with u.

why the attack and strength pots if you are maging?

i just use them to kill the other monsters for kill count. i made over 500 str pots to get to lvl 38 herblore so i need to use them for something

ill buy your str pots lol, msg cast3l

sweet i liked it as ive only barrowed 1 time it helped in some spots where i was confused. right now im trying to get whip but if u add me i could barrow with u.

anyone wanna come with me i'm really bored... you know do a few runs? please i need someone to talk to :ohnoes:

Not bad, not good. I'll be happy to come with you once I get my ancients :D You should get your mage up more to do barrows. I think 59 is the bare minimum, but I suggest not going until about 70. 71 mage at 79 combat ftw!

Btw, you should put in more equiptment options. This is what I take:

Monk robes

Fire staff ( change for different spells :wink:)

Guthix book( Zammy is reccomended)

Mystic gloves and boots

Farseer helm

Ranging equiptment

Spade( duh)

I take 200 casts so I dont have to bank as often.

ROL( ring of life)

3 prayer pots

Sara cape

And of course food ( I use sharks)

That is what I use, kinda exspensive for lower lvls (prayer book is majority)

Overall rating of this guide: 7/10. You have everything essencial, but nothing spectacular.

good guide

Hey good guide man next time I will be member I'll use this guide :)

hell ya! just finished a run and guess what!!! guthans helm!! oh man i'm so happy. i got so happy i just gave 400 chaos runes to a random noob just for fun!! :mrgreen: sorry i didn't get the pic at barrows cause i was getting attacked and had to tele, but here is inventory pic. if you dont beleive that i really got it well... whatever thats your choice

bump

Can you please tell me how to get to the boat? I get to the bridge, but it's broken, and I don't know how to cross it...

Can you delete this post please? Was supposed to be a private message.

bump

Seems like a nice beginer's guide, add some spaces in your big paragraphs, as that'll likely make it much easyer to read.

Good guide, but Leesters has done one that contradicts yours a bit, and I can't help not going with Leesters one over yours, he is to special.

I might go on some runs with you after I level up a bit, It would be very usefull having someone to get your stuff if you die, and have fun with more people.

This is awsome! I will start barrowing following this guide =D>

I'll build up abit of cash then I'll barrow wiv u sumtime.

Add me ingame (Sworddude198)

Thanks for the awesome guide - i did my first run using it last night and am addicted now \

Thanks! =D> =D> =D>

nice..perrty noob but nice.