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This guide is written for characters playing the [[Game_Mode#Standard|Standard]] game mode. If playing {{Icon|Hardcore}} or {{Icon|Adventure}} modes, preparation for certain events is different, especially for the {{ZoneIcon|Fire God Dungeon}}.

* {{ItemIcon|Damage Reduction Potion IV|Damage Reduction Potions}}

* {{ItemIcon|Famished Potion IV|Famished Potions}}

| {{ItemIcon|Ice Shortbow}} / {{ItemIcon|Ice Longbow}}

- ''See [[Infernal_Stronghold/Guide]]''

It is highly recommended that you have acquired *all* previously available BiS gear for each combat style before attempting ITM.

* {{ItemIcon|Diamond Luck Potion IV}} - As many as possible

Warning: it's heavily recommended to do your Master Slayer tasks before ITM because it will not be trivial to use AutoSlayer for master tasks later - you will need a specific build, and it will take much more time and resources.

{{ZoneIcon|Into the Mist}} consists of 3 set order phases, with pauses in between each phase.

 

 

Notable Drops:

Congratulations on completing {{ZoneIcon|Into the Mist}}! Your reward is one of the best upgrades in the game, the passive slot. This allows you to slot any item with the "Passive Slot Compatible" text into said slot. What this allows you to do is splash extra effects on items with otherwise mediocre stats into your build.

While the original article is more than exhaustive, I'll highlight some of the best choice items here:

* {{ItemIcon|Chapeau Noir}} - Bad stats, but includes item doubling

* {{ItemIcon|Ring of Wealth}} - More item doubling is always great

* {{ItemIcon|Slayer Helmet (Master)|Master Slayer Gear}} - Lets you splash more Flat Slayer Area Reduction

* {{ItemIcon|Elder Crown}} - More attack speed is great when farming low health enemies and you need to hit a DR breakpoint

Following completion of {{ZoneIcon|Into the Mist}}, you now have access to {{ZoneIcon|Dark Waters}}, the penultimate slayer area. These 3 mobs drop fragments for the T90 weapons, the highest level, and often most powerful, weapons in the game that are extremely helpful in completing the following slayer area, as well as the Impending Darkness Event. These are extremely long grinds, and require quite a bit of preparation. Each weapon requires 100 fragments, and the fragments have a 2% drop rate. That's 5,000 kills on average.

We recommend acquiring them while fighting each monster as a slayer task, this will require you to turn OFF auto-slayer, and will encourage semi-frequent check-ins. Doing these on task will increase your damage dealt to them from various buffs, namely {{ItemIcon|Slayer Skillcape}}. This will make the order you obtain the final weapons in effectively random, but if you want to do them in a specific order, we recommend the following  

There are a couple of different orders in which these weapons are normally obtained.  

While it may seem that using these weapons to farm the other weapons would be beneficial, this is often not the case due to the relatively weak power level of {{ItemIcon|Tidal Edge}} and {{ItemIcon|Ocean Song}} compared to other available weapons.

Between those two, the required time is roughly equal, but the second one requires more runes.

Many people combine the grinding of these weapons with the grind for the master slayer gear. An added benefit is the increased damage given by the {{ItemIcon|Slayer Skillcape}} and buffs from {{Skill|Astrology}} while fighting slayer tasks. Another benefit is the ability to buy prayer points, light runes, and food ''at a profit'' with the use of [[Generous Resupply|Generous Resupply]].

There are very few hard requirements beyond the ability to survive and the entry requirement of Level 90 {{Skill|Slayer}}, but there are several skills and items that will make this grind significantly easier, and we would be remiss to not mention them

| Outpaces Rokkens stun

| Highest damage ranged weapon for slayer mobs

Below are some gear suggestions. Depending on {{Skill|Prayer}}, {{Skill|Herblore|Potions}}, and {{Skill|Agility}} buffs), your optimal gear can change.

{{MonsterIcon|Umbora}} can be killed either with Ancient Magicks, or with Normal Magic if you have an {{ItemIcon|Ocean Song}} or a {{ItemIcon|Cloudburst Staff}}. Note that Cloudburst is the fastest method, even if you have to squeeze in extra DR from {{Skill|Prayer}}

With {{ItemIcon|Ocean Song}}, use {{Icon|Fire Surge|type=spell}}, {{Icon|Water Surge|type=spell}}, or {{Icon|Water Wave|type=spell}} (reduced rune cost).

Use of Combination Runes is highly recommended for all methods

! DR%

| {{ItemIcon|Glacia God Helmet}}

| Head

| 8%

| {{ItemIcon|Glacia God Platebody}}

| Body

| 8%

| {{ItemIcon|Glacia God Platelegs}}

| {{ItemIcon|Glacia God Boots}}

| {{ItemIcon|Glacia God Gloves}}

| scope="row" colspan="2" | Subtotal

| 40%

| {{ItemIcon|Slayer Skillcape}}

| Cape

| 0%

| {{ItemIcon|Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs|FEZ}}

| Neck

| 3%

| {{ItemIcon|Ring of Wealth}}

| Ring

| 0%

| {{ItemIcon|Chapeau Noir}}

| Passive

| 0%

| scope="row" colspan="2" | Total

| 55%

 

 

{{ItemIcon|Slayer Wizard Hat (Master)}} and {{ItemIcon|Slayer Wizard Robes (Master)}} do not positively impact the amount of fragments you receive, and even if available, should not be used.

To be able to idle {{MonsterIcon|Ku-tul}} with {{Skill|Ranged}}, you'll need 48 DR assuming you have 1000 HP.

! DR%

| {{ItemIcon|Slayer Cowl (Elite)}}

| Head

| 4%

| {{ItemIcon|Aeris God Platebody}}

| {{ItemIcon|Aeris God Platelegs}}

| Leggings

| 8%

| {{ItemIcon|Aeris God Boots}}

| Boots

| 8%

| {{ItemIcon|Aeris God Gloves}}

| Hands

| 8%

| scope="row" colspan="2" | Subtotal

| 40%

| {{ItemIcon|Slayer Skillcape}}

| Cape

| 0%

| {{ItemIcon|Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs|FEZ}}

| Neck

| 3%

| {{ItemIcon|Ring of Wealth}}

| Ring

| 0%

| {{ItemIcon|Chapeau Noir}}

| Passive<br />

| 0%

| {{ItemIcon|Scaled Shield}}

| Off-hand<br />

| 8%

| scope="row" colspan="2" | Total

| 51%

 

 

{{ItemIcon|Slayer Cowl (Master)}} and {{ItemIcon|Slayer Leather Body (Master)}} positively impact the amount of fragments you receive, and if available, should be used

his mob is by FAR the most dangerous and is both willing, and able to kill you if you are not extremely careful in your setup. This mob is able to buff itself to an attack speed of 2.2s, and is able to stun you, which massively increases its damage against you. Your goal here is either to be able to survive the increased stun damage, or to never actually take the stun damage by having an equivalent or faster attack speed than the monster.  

You need to use Melee for this grind, and as said before, it is highly recommended that you use an {{ItemIcon|Infernal Claw}} to complete this. {{ItemIcon|Tidal Edge}} is too slow to reliably survive Rokkens stun without significant extra work, requiring you to put on more DR that will massively affect your kill time. Assuming you were able to use the exact same setup with no {{skill|Astrology}} buffs, {{ItemIcon|Infernal Claw}} is only 1-2% slower than {{ItemIcon|Tidal Edge}}. Adding buffs from {{skill|Astrology}}, adding the additional DR or attack interval reduction required for Tidal Edge, and using summoning combat familiars invert this difference and make tidal edge up to 20% slower with no tangible benefit

! DR%

| {{ItemIcon|Infernal Claw}}

| Weapon

| 0%

| {{ItemIcon|Slayer Helmet (Elite)}}

| Head

| {{ItemIcon|Ragnar God Platebody}}

| Body

| {{ItemIcon|Ragnar God Platelegs}}

| {{ItemIcon|Ragnar God Boots}}

| Boots

| 8%

| {{ItemIcon|Ragnar God Gloves}}

| Hands

| 8%

! scope="row" colspan="2" | Subtotal

| {{ItemIcon|Slayer Skillcape}}

| Cape

| 0%

| {{ItemIcon|Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs|FEZ}}

| Neck

| 3%

| {{ItemIcon|Ring of Wealth}}

| Ring

| 0%

| {{ItemIcon|Fighter Amulet}}

| Passive

| 0%

| {{ItemIcon|Dragonfire Shield}}

! scope="row" colspan="2" | Total

If able the {{ItemIcon|Slayer Skillcape}} should be replaced with a {{ItemIcon|Max Skillcape}}, and if necessary, the {{ItemIcon|Ragnar God Platebody}}, Platelegs, Gloves, and Boots can be replaced with their Terran equivalents.  

If necessary the {{ItemIcon|Guardian Ring}} can be used for extra DR. The {{ItemIcon|Fighter Amulet}} can be replaced with a {{ItemIcon|Chapeau Noir}}

For this set-up to work safely without risk of death, the player's attack interval while in combat with this enemy '''must''' be less than or equal to 2.2 seconds, as this means the player is quick enough to avoid being stunned when {{MonsterIcon|Rokken}} attacks with the Shockwave special attack. To achieve this, we use a weapon that has a base 2.2s interval, and gather 40% total slayer area negation through {{ItemIcon|Slayer Skillcape}} and {{ItemIcon|Slayer Helmet (Elite)}}

After completing the T90 weapon grinds, you are ready to face the final content in Melvor. {{ZoneIcon|Unhallowed Wasteland}} is the final {{Skill|Slayer}} area. To access, you will need to purchase a {{UpgradeIcon|Map to the Unhallowed Wasteland}}. This area requires maximizing a different stat than DR. All of the monsters here will heal a % of their HP every 2 attacks, which will outpace your DPS regardless of setup. To mitigate this, you will need the following example Melee set for use versus the {{Icon|Legaran Wurm|type=monster}}:

! Slayer Area<br>Effect Negation%

| {{ItemIcon|Ragnar God Platelegs}}

| Leggings

| 0%

| 40%

| Pillar

For the other gearing, should be pretty similar. For the neck slots:

* {{Skill|Magic}} - {{ItemIcon|Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs}} - Slot in the neck for extra DR and accuracy

For the shield slots, you should stick with {{ItemIcon|Dragonfire Shield}}, or the style shield from {{ZoneIcon|Impending Darkness Event}} ({{ItemIcon|Shield of Melee Power}} / {{ItemIcon|Shield of Magic Power}} / {{ItemIcon|Shield of Ranged Power}}).

It should be noted that while UW is listed first, '''completing the {{ZoneIcon|Impending Darkness Event}} will strictly make this grind faster!''' You can complete ID without any of the UW gear sets, and the shields greatly speed up these grinds.