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

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

Slayer Areas sometimes require items that must be purchased using [[slayer coins]] from the [[Shop]]. One note, the monsters locked in slayer areas will not be rolled in slayer tasks until the item is purchased from the shop. You can leverage this to control the task rolls.

* {{ItemIcon|Sunset Rapier}} - '''One of the best melee weapons early''', {{ZoneIcon|Deep Sea Ship}} (lv. 177). This can carry you through {{ZoneIcon|Air God Dungeon}} / {{ZoneIcon | Infernal Stronghold}}. '''It's probably the most important drop for Melee.'''

* {{ItemIcon|Dragon Claw}} - Very long grind, {{ItemIcon|Dragon Claw Fragment}} drops from {{Icon|Griffin|type=monster}} (lv. 124).

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

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

Note that it is strongly suggested to complete the [[Slayer#Master|Master]] tier {{Skill|Slayer}} tasks required to unlock {{ItemIcon|Slayer Gear Upgrade Kit (Master)}} before completing Into the Mist for the first time. This is because it will no longer be trivial to use {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Slayer}} for master tier tasks after this, requiring a specific build as well as much more time and resources.

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.

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.

{{MonsterIcon|Umbora}} can be killed with Normal Magic if you have a {{ItemIcon|Cloudburst Staff}} or an {{ItemIcon|Ocean Song}}, or with Ancient Magicks at a much slower rate. Note that Cloudburst is the fastest method, even if you have to squeeze in extra DR from {{ItemIcon|Guardian Ring}} or {{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), {{Icon|Anguish III|type=curse}}, and {{Icon|Fury II|type=aurora}}.

With an {{ItemIcon|Air Imbued Wand}} or a {{ItemIcon|Fire Imbued Wand}}, use {{Icon|Gust|type=spell}} or {{Icon|Incinerate|type=spell}} and {{Icon|Surge II|type=aurora}}.

!colspan="6"|Better to Worse

{{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 if your goal is to collect fragments.

40% slayer area reduction increases your dps against {{MonsterIcon|Ku-tul}}, and therefore, unless it will lead to your untimely demise, at least a {{ItemIcon|Slayer Cowl (Elite)}} should be used.

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.