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{{Skill|Magic}} in this challenge will mainly consist of casting Air spells, since you can remove one colour from the rune costs. All spells cost {{ItemIcon|Air Rune|Air Runes}}, but {{ItemIcon|Water Rune|Water}}, {{ItemIcon|Earth Rune|Earth}}, and {{ItemIcon|Fire Rune|Fire}} spells additionally cost their respective runes.

== Chapter VII: (G) Ancient to God Dungeons ==

Regardless of your gearing, the goal is full {{ItemIcon|Glacia God Platebody|Glacia Armour|nolink=true}} from the {{ItemIcon|Scroll of Glacia|Scrolls of Glacia}}, with the {{ItemIcon|Warlock Ring}} from {{ItemIcon|Water Chest|Water Chests}} being a neat bonus and the {{ItemIcon|Warlock Amulet}} not being very useful. The {{ItemIcon|Glacia Godsword}} is not worth grinding for, nor is the {{ItemIcon|Cloudburst Staff}}. The staff doesn't provide any {{ItemIcon|Air Rune|Air Runes}}, which are required for all standard spells, so where you can use a staff, you'll likely want to use your {{ItemIcon|Mystic Air Staff}} to prevent needing to farm {{MonsterIcon|Wizard|Wizards}} for {{ItemIcon|Air Rune|Air Runes|nolink=true}}, or {{ItemIcon|Ocean Song}} in the later game for rune-efficient DPS. {{ItemIcon|Water Chest|Water Chests}} are actually the best place to farm {{ItemIcon|Ancient Rune|Ancient Runes}} due to the low drop rate and amount from {{ItemIcon|Magic Chest|Magic Chests}}. You will need enough runes to cast {{Icon|type=spell|Gust}} around 75-100 times, which is upwards of {{ItemIcon|Ancient Rune|Ancient Runes|qty=500}}, {{ItemIcon|Air Rune|qty=1800}} and {{ItemIcon|Havoc Rune|qty=500}} for {{ZoneIcon|Into the Mist}} later down the line. It may be worth stockpiling more than these amounts in case any issues arrise during the fight. If {{Icon|type=spell|Slicing Winds}} is used instead (not recommended), one should collect enough runes for at least 200 casts. Hold on to a {{ItemIcon|Magic Wand (Elite)}} if you get one and have the bank space to spare, as it's the best one-handed wand you'll have access to for awhile.

===Terran===

* Solely {{ItemIcon|Terran God Boots}} and later obtain {{ItemIcon|Hunter's Ring}}

===Ragnar===

The stun effect of the {{ItemIcon|Fighter Amulet}} is one of the strongest combinations with {{ItemIcon|Tidal Edge}} as the first hit of its special attack reliably activates the stun effect while the second hit enjoys a +30% damage increase due to the enemy being stunned. The amulet is borderline required to unlock the full potential of the weapon. This can be farmed later after the passive slot and {{ItemIcon|Shockwave}}, as it is a considerable grind.

== Chapter VIII: Into the Mist ==

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====Alternative gear options====

* Expect about 68 kills/hr, 140 {{ItemIcon|Crab}}/hr, 18k prayer points/hr and -1.2k {{ItemIcon|Sapphire Bolts}}/hr.  

* Due to the increased kill speed, {{MonsterIcon|Ku-tul}} profits both food and prayer but loses bolts.  

===Umbora===

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* For collecting mind runes, the best option is {{MonsterIcon|Master Wizard}}. Luckily this will be a lot faster, obtaining about {{ItemIcon|Mind Rune|qty=2150}}/hr with melee and about {{ItemIcon|Mind Rune|qty=2675}}/hr with ranged. Similar ammo saving considerations can be made as above when farming {{ItemIcon|Air Rune}}. While collecting the {{ItemIcon|Mind Rune|qty=67500}}, you will also snag {{ItemIcon|Chaos Rune|qty=27000}}, {{ItemIcon|Death Rune|qty=8000}} and over {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Magic|qty=400}} for your second and third {{ItemIcon|Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs}}. This will be much faster than {{ItemIcon|Air Rune}}, clocking in around 30 hours to collect all the necessary {{ItemIcon|Mind Rune}}. The {{ItemIcon|Chaos Rune}} when used on {{MonsterIcon|Raging Horned Elite}} should give about 2.3m magic exp and the {{ItemIcon|Death Rune}} around 900k. If starting the T90 grind without having {{Skill|Magic|90}} required to equip {{ItemIcon|Ocean Song}} then one should start the rune farming grind with {{MonsterIcon|Master Wizard}} and use the higher tier catalytic runes to level their magic.

This is actually the next best option, as you are trading dps for no resource gathering time. This requires a {{ItemIcon|Wasteful Ring}} and all up this clocks in around 19 kills/hr with {{PrayerIcon|Protect from Melee}} + {{PrayerIcon|Chivalry}} ({{ItemIcon|Crab|qty=750}}/hr) or 22 kills/hr with {{PrayerIcon|Piety}} + {{PrayerIcon|Chivalry}} instead ({{ItemIcon|Crab|qty=1500}}/hr). All up this would cost about 180k/310k crabs and around 1.4m prayer points, as well as around 241/207 hours depending on whether one can spare to forego {{PrayerIcon|Protect from Melee}}.

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