Combat Guide: Difference between revisions

=Introduction=

* {{Skill|Herblore}} - {{Icon|Diamond Luck Potion|Diamond Luck Potions}} are among the highest DPS boosts in the game.

* {{Skill|Thieving}} - There are a multitude of useful item drops from several NPCs, including {{ItemIcon|Chapeau Noir}}, {{ItemIcon|Knight's Defender}}, and others.

* {{Skill|Summoning}} - Tablets provide boosts to combat effectiveness and deal damage on their own. The {{ItemIcon|Dragon}} burn effect is particularly great against high hp enemies.

* {{Skill|Cooking}} - Cook food to eat so you don't die!

=====Lifesteal=====

====Slayer Area Effect Negation====

{{Main|Reference=Area Effect Negation}}

''Slayer Area Effect Negation'' reduces the effect of Slayer Area debuffs when fighting in one of these areas. These can range from annoying ({{ZoneIcon|Forest of Goo}}, {{ZoneIcon|Arid Plains}}) to downright progress blocking ({{ZoneIcon|Dark Waters}}, {{ZoneIcon|Unhallowed Wasteland}}). This stat can be found on:

* {{ItemIcon|Hunter's Ring}} - Drops from {{Icon|Hunting Greater Dragon|type=monster}}.

* {{ItemIcon|Slayer Helmet (Master)|notext=true}} - All {{Skill|Slayer}} armor from the shop (higher tier provides more).

====Attack Bonus/Accuracy Rating====

====Monster Respawn Time====

This timer can be reduced with the following effects:

* {{ItemIcon|Hunters Hat}}

* {{SpellIcon|Charged I}}

* {{PrayerIcon|Battleheart}}

* {{Skill|Astrology}} constellation {{ConstellationIcon|Iridan}}.

* {{ItemIcon|Aorpheat's Signet Ring}} - Made with parts A/B, collected from doing combat/non-combat skills while wearing a {{ItemIcon|Gold Topaz Ring}}

* {{ItemIcon|Chapeau Noir}} - Rare {{Skill|Thieving}} Drop

GP increases can be found on:

Two popular external tools are the Combat Simulator and Can I Idle.

=Base Game Combat=

* The least amount of effort that can be put into Slayer is re-rolling as many times as it takes until the monster the player is fighting becomes the task.  

** This is especially useful against {{MonsterIcon|Plant}}, {{MonsterIcon|Cow}}, and {{MonsterIcon|Chicken}} and other very low level monsters.

===Leveling Guidelines===

* The player must have an appropriate [[Auto Eat]] level and won't run out of food.

* The player has enough [[Damage Reduction]] to survive against enemies when [[Auto Eat]] is not enough by itself.  

For the first section, the player will likely not have any cape, amulet, rings, {{Skill|Prayer}}, {{Skill|Herblore|Potions}}, {{Skill|Astrology}} bonuses, or {{Skill|Agility}} obstacles. With proper bonuses, the player can attempt much more difficult content and make progress a lot faster. Some notes on the first section:

Hitting the same enemy for 2 weeks because they are the "best" is a really boring way to play the game.

===Melee===

{{Skill|Ranged}} has a lot of options to do great damage, particularly to {{Skill|Magic}} enemies that may be very difficult to beat with Melee.  

Crafting armor can be upgraded ({{ItemIcon|Green D-hide Body|notext=true}}{{ItemIcon|(U) Green D-hide Body|notext=true}}) once from the Bank, using more of the raw {{ItemIcon|Green Dragonhide|notext=true}}{{ItemIcon|Blue Dragonhide|notext=true}}{{ItemIcon|Red Dragonhide|notext=true}}{{ItemIcon|Black Dragonhide|Dragonhide}}. Upgrading Ranged armor is always recommended once it's available.

In general, {{Skill|Ranged|Accurate}} is more effective at low levels, while {{Skill|Ranged|Rapid}} is more effective at higher levels. The cutoff is approximately level 40. {{Skill|Ranged|Longrange}} should likely be used before this cutoff to also get an amount of {{Skill|Defence}} XP!

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** {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Magic}} - Drops from {{MonsterIcon|Master Wizard}}.

** {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Looting}} - Drops from {{ZoneIcon|Spider Forest}}.

==The Early Game: Levels 41-75==

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| {{ItemIcon|Rune Arrows}}

| {{ItemIcon|Green D-hide Body|Green D-hide}}

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| {{ItemIcon|Rune Arrows}}

| {{ItemIcon|Blue D-hide Body|Blue D-hide}}

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====Gear Goals====

** {{ItemIcon|Throwing Power Gloves}} - Drops from  {{MonsterIcon|Turkul Throwers}}

** {{ItemIcon|Cape of Ranged Preservation}} - Drops from  {{MonsterIcon|Holy Archer}}

===Magic===

This section will first outline any particularly useful buffs and some crucial pieces of equipment to grab before moving on.

===Major Goals===

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| +3% Global GP, woohoo!

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| The only obstacle on this tier with any benefit to combat.

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| The only obstacle on this tier with a net-positive benefit to combat.

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| These obstacles are decent in the Early Game for squeezing out a little bit of extra power when your HP and Damage Reduction don't really matter.  

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| Use this typically any time when doing slayer, but be aware of the negative modifier and pick and choose when to run this.

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| Can be used as the default combat obstacle, the {{Skill|Prayer}} point increase is really not as bad as it sounds.

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| This obstacle is '''extremely powerful''' in the early game, and is always viable for Combat. This obstacle can single-handedly let you do Dungeons much earlier than normal.

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| Damage reduction is great, so is doing more damage and preserving {{Skill|Prayer}} points! In the later stages of the game, this obstacle is typically more useful than Rocky Waters, but will rarely, if ever, provide more survivability.

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| Used for {{Skill|Slayer}}.

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| More well rounded, and can help making damage reduction breakpoints. This obstacle can safely be the default.

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| Used for completing Dungeons.

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| Primarily used for killing weak enemies as quickly as possible, particularly when the enemy dies in one or two hits. The negative modifiers make this unappealing for any other use

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| The most well rounded for all Skills including, and can be used as the default.

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| Competes with a bunch of heavy hitters, there should be no reason to use this instead of the other options.

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| The most well rounded for combat, not as useful for non-combat and can be used as the default.

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| Well rounded and often best for non-combat skills, this can be used as the default.

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| Primarily used for killing weak enemies as quickly as possible, particularly when the enemy dies in one or two hits.

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| Always useful for combat, not as useful for non-combat and should generally only be used if you really need extra Damage or {{Skill|Slayer|Slayer Coins}}.

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| Does everything you want it to.

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* {{ItemIcon|Hunter's Ring}} - Drops from {{MonsterIcon|Hunting Greater Dragon}}.

* {{ItemIcon|Wasteful Ring}} - Drops from {{MonsterIcon|Wicked Greater Dragon}}.

* {{ItemIcon|Elder Crown}} - Drops from the {{MonsterIcon|Elder Vampire}}.

* {{ItemIcon|Magic Wand (Elite)}} - Drops from {{MonsterIcon|Cursed Maiden}}, used for creating {{ItemIcon|Air Imbued Wand|notext=true}}{{ItemIcon|Water Imbued Wand|notext=true}}{{ItemIcon|Earth Imbued Wand|notext=true}}{{ItemIcon|Fire Imbued Wand|Imbued Wands}}.

===Dungeon Guides===

- '''This dungeon has a guide at [[Infernal Stronghold/Guide]]'''

The primary reason to do this dungeon is the {{ItemIcon|Infernal Cape}} which grants 4% Damage Reduction and works well for each combat style. The {{ItemIcon|Infernal Core|Infernal Cores}} dropped here can be used to upgrade and {{ItemIcon|Ancient Claw}} into an {{ItemIcon|Infernal Claw}}, a critical and powerful one-handed Melee weapon.

- '''This dungeon has a guide at [[Air God Dungeon/Guide]].'''

from the {{ZoneIcon|Volcanic Cave}}.

- '''This dungeon has a guide at [[Water God Dungeon/Guide]].'''

- '''This dungeon has a guide at [[Earth God Dungeon/Guide]].'''

- '''This dungeon has a guide at [[Fire God Dungeon/Guide]].'''

- '''This dungeon has a guide at [[Into the Mist/Guide]].'''

To start, the player must first fight 20 Afflicted versions of randomly chosen monsters between combat level 165 and 677. Any monster, including bosses, save those from {{ZoneIcon|Unhallowed Wasteland}} or {{ZoneIcon|Dark Waters}}, can be chosen.

The {{ZoneIcon|Dark Waters}} drop valuable materials to make powerful weapons, generally consume equal or less food than greater dragons, and an average of about 40 hours each to complete with optimal setups. Therefore, even though they cannot be done on Auto-slayer, completing your Master tasks while working on your t90 weapons will most likely consume less food, and generally take less overall time on on task by killing two birds with one stone. The major downside here is that you will want to check back in every 2-3 hours to swap your equipment and manually change to the next task. This is not mandatory, but it is recommended as you will be earning Slayer XP and Slayer Coins all the while, and you will be able to purchase [[Prayer|Prayer Points]] and [[Generous Resupply|Food]] at a profit.

==The Late Game: Levels 96-99==

* {{ItemIcon|Poison Virulence Ring|notext=true}}{{ItemIcon|Burning Madness Ring|notext=true}}{{ItemIcon|Spiked Shell Ring|notext=true}}{{ItemIcon|Relentless Fury Ring|Upgraded God Rings}}

- '''This Slayer area has a guide at [[Dark Waters/Guide]]'''

* {{ItemIcon|Tidal Edge}} - Made from {{ItemIcon|Tidal Edge Fragment}}, dropped by {{Icon|Umbora|type=monster}}

- '''This Slayer area has a guide at [[Unhallowed Wasteland/Guide]]'''

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While you are here, you will be working to acquire all of the set bonus gear, dropped from each of the UW monsters:

* {{ItemIcon|Relentless Fury Gloves}}/{{ItemIcon|Relentless Fury Ring}} - Upgrades from {{ItemIcon|Desecrated Bones}}/{{ItemIcon|Undead Essence}} respectively, dropped by {{Icon|Greater Skeletal Dragon|type=monster}}

- '''This dungeon has a guide at [[Impending Darkness Event/Guide]].'''

* {{PetIcon|Bone}} - Pet

Q: No Monsters are spawning!

:A: Make sure you select a Slayer area! Monsters do not spawn on their own here.

Q: How do I beat this event?

:A: Keep your {{Skill|Hitpoints|HP}} above 0 while lowering your enemy's {{Skill|Hitpoints|HP}} to 0. Works every time!

={{TotH}} Throne of the Herald Expansion=