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<p class="noexcerpts">The majority of this guide is written by [[User:Username|Username]], [[User:Mazunki|mazunki]], @ERRORMONSTER#8764 and @Zxv#0157 of the Discord community. If you have any questions, or if anything is wrong, please make sure to reach out to any of us. Feel free to edit the guide or add anything to it as needed.</p>

You should get to about 10 in all melee combat skills (usually expressed as {{Skill|Attack|10|nolink=true}} / {{Skill|Strength|10|nolink=true}} / {{Skill|Defence|10|nolink=true}}) by fighting {{MonsterIcon|Plant|Plants}}. After that, it’s time to start getting your first bit of equipment.

You’ll end the first part of your HCCO journey with {{MonsterIcon|Steel Knight|Steel Knights}}. They drop the {{ItemIcon|Steel Helmet}} (15 in 67 chance), {{ItemIcon|Steel Shield}} (10 in 67 chance), {{ItemIcon|Steel Sword}} (10 in 67 chance), and {{ItemIcon|Steel Scimitar}} (4 in 67 chance). You should be using the {{ItemIcon|Steel Sword|nolink=true}} on {{Skill|Attack|nolink=true}} and {{Skill|Defence|nolink=true}} and the {{ItemIcon|Steel Scimitar|Scimitar|nolink=true}} on {{Skill|Strength|nolink=true}} when killing most monsters, but again, daggers should be used on {{MonsterIcon|Plant|Plants|nolink=true}} due to their fast attack rate. The {{ItemIcon|Mirror Shield}} is a useful item to get around here, but if you decide not to get it, you can avoid ever getting tasks in the {{ZoneIcon|Strange Cave}}. It acts as a decent early Shield, before you get the {{ItemIcon|Mithril Shield|nolink=true}}. However, it's optional.

'''At the end, you should have:''' {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Looting}}, {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat - Tier I}}, Full {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platebody|Mithril Armour|nolink=true}}, {{Skill|Attack|40|nolink=true}} / {{Skill|Strength|40|nolink=true}} / {{Skill|Defence|40|nolink=true}}, {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword}}, {{ItemIcon|Adamant Dagger}}

The next Knight after {{MonsterIcon|Steel Knight|Steel}} is {{MonsterIcon|Black Knight|Black}}. However, you should skip it, as the drop chances are very low, and the next tier is not much harder anyway.

But before you visit the {{MonsterIcon|Mithril Knight}} you'll want to take a detour to fight the {{MonsterIcon|Mummy}} for {{ItemIcon|Silver Ruby Necklace}} and {{ItemIcon|Gold Emerald Ring}} to fill out your neck and ring slots. Your next step, therefore, is {{MonsterIcon|Mithril Knight|Mithril Knights}}. Because they only drop gear a quarter of the time when killed (on average), it can take quite a while to get a full {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platebody|Mithril set}}. You will probably get {{ItemIcon|Mithril Boots|Boots}} (25 in 268) and {{ItemIcon|Mithril Helmet|Helmets}} (15 in 268) quite often, and the eventual {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platelegs|Platelegs}} (5 in 268). The {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platebody|Platebody}} has quite a low drop-chance (1 in 568).

Before getting the {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platebody|Platebody|nolink=true}} you will probably get both a {{ItemIcon|Mithril Scimitar|Scimitar}} (1 in 67) and a {{ItemIcon|Mithril Shield|Shield}} (5/134), too, so equip these once dropped. You may equip the {{ItemIcon|Mithril Sword|Sword}}, too, but consider sticking with the {{ItemIcon|Mithril Scimitar|Scimitar|nolink=true}} for now, to efficiently level up your {{Skill|Strength|nolink=true}} skill before equipping the {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword}} for a long while.

As mentioned, you will want to get the {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword|nolink=true}} after getting full {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platebody|Mithril Armour|nolink=true}}, or even before getting the {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platebody|Platebody|nolink=true}}, as it is a really good upgrade at this point. The drop rate is 10% at the {{MonsterIcon|Ice Monster}} in the {{ZoneIcon|Icy Hills}}. The {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword|nolink=true}} is better at grinding {{Skill|Strength|nolink=true}} than all weapons from a lower tier.

Now, before you go away from the computer, or to sleep, it’s time to upgrade your dagger. You can get a cheap {{ItemIcon|Adamant Dagger}} from the {{MonsterIcon|Purple Goo Monster}}. More damage to {{MonsterIcon|Plant|Plants|nolink=true}}? Good stuff.

=== Chapter II-A: Amulet of Looting ===

By using {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platebody|Mithril Armour|nolink=true}}, and having around {{Skill|Attack|40|nolink=true}} / {{Skill|Strength|40|nolink=true}} / {{Skill|Defence|40|nolink=true}}, it will take you around 5000 healing from food per run of the {{ZoneIcon|Spider Forest}}. Before you start running the dungeon, you should have a buffer of at least a thousand {{ItemIcon|Potatoes|nolink=true}}, just because RNG might be on your bad side.

It is quite possible to beat the zone without having any form of {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat - Tier I|Auto Eat}}, and just make sure you time your manual eating right, since the damage of the {{MonsterIcon|Spider|Spiders}} in the area is not too high.

Otherwise, if you ''really'' don’t want to manual the dungeon, you should know the base max damage of the zone is 142, requiring {{Skill|Hitpoints|notext=true}} 710 HP for {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat - Tier I|AE1}}, {{Skill|Hitpoints|notext=true}} 480 HP for {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat - Tier II|AE2}}. This requires {{GP|6000000}}, which would require around 30 hours of '''active''' gameplay at {{MonsterIcon|Master Farmer}}, since you still don’t have auto looting. Bad idea.

As soon as you have your hands on an {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Looting}}, you can start to make money. Money making at this stage is a compromise between risk and reward. Consider the time it takes to farm up the food you need, and the time it takes to farm the GP you want.

The safest way to make money, for now, is to kill {{MonsterIcon|Cow|Cows}}, collect their {{ItemIcon|Leather}}, and upgrade it into {{ItemIcon|Green Dragonhide}} through the shop. The selling price for {{ItemIcon|Leather|nolink=true}} is {{GP|50}}, while the selling price for {{ItemIcon|Green Dragonhide|nolink=true}} is {{GP|200}}. By upgrading it, you effectively get {{GP|100}} per piece of {{ItemIcon|Leather|nolink=true}}.

Assuming you’ve got the {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword|nolink=true}}, the average GP yield per {{MonsterIcon|Cow}} is {{GP|203}}.

'''Important''': As you farm {{MonsterIcon|Cow|Cows}} early game, {{MonsterIcon|Master Farmer|Master Farmers}} later in the game, or {{MonsterIcon|Statue|Statues}} for gear upgrades, it is ALWAYS recommended to use free the easy {{Skill|Slayer}} reroll to get your current objective, as all 3 of them are included.

Use {{ItemIcon|Adamant Dagger|nolink=true}} for idling {{MonsterIcon|Plant|Plants|nolink=true}}, and {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword|nolink=true}} for tougher enemies. This chapter ends when you’re at {{Skill|Attack|40|nolink=true}} / {{Skill|Strength|40|nolink=true}} / {{Skill|Defence|40|nolink=true}}.

{{Skill|Hitpoints|notext=true}} '''To start, you should have:''' {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Looting}}, {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat - Tier I}}, Full {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platebody|Mithril Armour|nolink=true}}, {{Skill|Attack|40|nolink=true}} / {{Skill|Strength|40|nolink=true}} / {{Skill|Defence|40|nolink=true}}, {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword}}, {{ItemIcon|Adamant Dagger}} <br>

{{Icon|Combat|notext=true}} '''At the end, you should have:''' Almost full {{ItemIcon|(G) Adamant Platebody|(G) Adamant Armour|nolink=true}}, {{Skill|Attack|70|nolink=true}} / {{Skill|Strength|40|nolink=true}} / {{Skill|Defence|70|nolink=true}}

While your next target is {{MonsterIcon|Adamant Knight|Adamant Knights}}, you should know that leveling {{Skill|Attack|nolink=true}} and {{Skill|Defence|nolink=true}} up to 50 will effectively reduce your healing per Knight from 1700 to 1200.

Important note: '''DO NOT IDLE KNIGHTS'''. Make sure to always have more {{Skill|Hitpoints|HP}} than the max hit of the enemy, and try to eat food right after your attack timer ends, so you don’t reset an attack in progress. Eat until full HP, or at least until you have enough HP to survive any attack. The 2.6s interval of the {{MonsterIcon|Adamant Knight}} is not really a danger provided you’re '''PAYING ATTENTION''' and have enough food.

Your {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword|nolink=true}} is great for leveling {{Skill|Attack|nolink=true}}, and your {{ItemIcon|Adamant Dagger|dagger|nolink=true}} is fine for leveling {{Skill|Defence|nolink=true}}. You may do this at {{MonsterIcon|Statue}}, to prepare for gear upgrades, and thus your first [[Damage Reduction]] points!

Each {{ItemIcon|Adamant Platebody|Adamant|nolink=true}} piece has a 1/48 chance of dropping. Good luck on that! While you don’t really care about the {{ItemIcon|Adamant Boots}} nor the {{ItemIcon|Obsidian Cape}}, you may as well equip them once you get them. It will be a while until you replace the {{ItemIcon|Obsidian Cape|Cape|nolink=true}} for anything else, but there’s no point wasting {{ItemIcon|Silver Bar|Silver}}/{{ItemIcon|Gold Bar|Gold Bars}} on the {{ItemIcon|Adamant Boots|Boots|nolink=true}}. Upgrade the Equipment you get to {{ItemIcon|(G) Adamant Platebody|(G) Adamant|nolink=true}} as soon as you get them, since each piece gives you 4% Damage Reduction.

=== Chapter III-A: Making money early-mid: Master Farmer + Auto Eat II ===

The {{MonsterIcon|Master Farmer|Master Farmer}} gives a total of 14 unique items. You want to prioritize your bank slots for the most rewarding items, taking the price and drop rate into account. This mainly comprises the Tree Seeds, requiring 5 slots. By reserving five slots for the {{MonsterIcon|Master Farmer|Master Farmers}} grind, you get a total of 84% of the GP drops. That’s around {{GP|809}} per kill.

=== Chapter III-B: Late to mid Game food: Slayer ===

It is highly recommended to build up {{Icon|Slayer Coins|qty=150000}} as {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Slayer}} is a great purchase to idly build up {{Icon|Slayer Coins|nolink=true}}. With them, you can purchase {{ItemIcon|Standard Resupply}}, which nets you both a useful {{ItemIcon|Crab|qty=150}} and {{ItemIcon|Magic Bones|qty=500}} per purchase. This tends to be the most efficient HP per {{Icon|Slayer Coins|Slayer Coin|nolink=true}}, and is worth saving up for. These can be used throughout the rest of the game for easy food.

As per usual, free rerolls may be used to acquire {{MonsterIcon|Master Farmer}} as your {{Skill|Slayer|nolink=true}} task.

Beware of {{MonsterIcon|Wizard|Wizards}} when using {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Slayer|nolink=true}}, and ensure they can not bypass your {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat - Tier III|Auto Eat|nolink=true}} threshold. They should be skipped either way, as they will consume a lot of food due to their high accuracy on melee armour.

'''To start, you should have:''' Almost full {{ItemIcon|(G) Adamant Platebody|(G) Adamant Armour|nolink=true}}, {{ItemIcon|(G) Rune Boots}}, {{Skill|Attack|70|nolink=true}} / {{Skill|Strength|40|nolink=true}} / {{Skill|Defence|70|nolink=true}} <br>

'''At the end, you should have:''' Almost full {{ItemIcon|(G) Adamant Platebody|(G) Adamant Armour|nolink=true}}, {{ItemIcon|(G) Rune Boots}}, {{ItemIcon|Desert Wrappings}}, {{ItemIcon|Dragon Scimitar}}, {{Skill|Attack|70|nolink=true}} / {{Skill|Strength|40|nolink=true}} / {{Skill|Defence|70|nolink=true}} {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat - Tier II}}

Now, grind up enough {{Icon|Slayer Coins}} for the {{ItemIcon|Desert Hat}}, and at least {{SkillReq|Slayer|50}}, so you can gain access to the {{ZoneIcon|Arid Plains}}. You may as well kill {{MonsterIcon|Master Farmer|Master Farmers}} for GP, or hit some {{MonsterIcon|Statue|Statues}} for some {{ItemIcon|Gold Bar|Gold}} and {{ItemIcon|Silver Bar|Silver Bars}}, which are both Easy Slayer Tasks, meaning they’re free to reroll.

'''BEWARE''': Do not {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat - Tier II|Auto Eat|nolink=true}} {{ItemIcon|Potatoes|nolink=true}} in the {{ZoneIcon|Arid Plains|nolink=true}} unless you have at least {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat - Tier II|nolink=true}}. You will lose all your {{ItemIcon|Potatoes|nolink=true}} instantly.

Now, why would you want to unlock {{ZoneIcon|Arid Plains|nolink=true}}? Well, there’s a few reasons:

* {{ItemIcon|Rune Boots}} from {{MonsterIcon|Turkul Riders}} — Excellent upgrade, easier to get than from {{MonsterIcon|Rune Knight|Rune Knights}}.

* {{ItemIcon|Desert Wrappings}} from {{MonsterIcon|Turkul Archers}} — 2% Damage Reduction gloves, best until {{ItemIcon|Paladin Gloves}}.

Also, you don’t even need to manual these two enemies! After getting these upgrades, you should hold on to your hat (literally!), because your next weapon upgrade comes from the {{MonsterIcon|Turkul Giant}} in the same area. You could also sell the hat, and buy it again a bit later. The {{Icon|Slayer Coins|Slayer Coin|nolink=true}} cost is not too huge.

Farm up enough GP to upgrade to {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat - Tier II}} at {{MonsterIcon|Master Farmer|nolink=true}}. With {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat - Tier II|AE2|nolink=true}} you can idle {{MonsterIcon|Turkul Giant|Turkul Giants|nolink=true}}, provided you have 23% DR and {{SkillReq|Hitpoints|50}}. With this, upgrade your weapon into the {{ItemIcon|Dragon Scimitar}} or, even better, the {{ItemIcon|Desert Sabre}}.

== Chapter V: (G) Adamant to Full (G) Rune ==

'''To start, you should have:''' Almost full {{ItemIcon|(G) Adamant Platebody|(G) Adamant Armour|nolink=true}}, {{ItemIcon|(G) Rune Boots}}, {{ItemIcon|Desert Wrappings}}, {{ItemIcon|Dragon Scimitar}}, {{Skill|Attack|70|nolink=true}} / {{Skill|Strength|40|nolink=true}} / {{Skill|Defence|70|nolink=true}} {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat - Tier II}} <br>

You can wait to get the {{ItemIcon|Paladin Gloves}} until after getting {{ItemIcon|Rune Platebody|Rune Armor|nolink=true}}, or you can farm it now. At this point, you will use around 65 {{ItemIcon|Potatoes|nolink=true}} per {{MonsterIcon|Paladin}} kill, and the chance to get them is 1/171. Not too hard.

The next step is to farm the feared shiny {{MonsterIcon|Rune Knight|Rune Knights}}, and upgrade your four armor pieces into {{ItemIcon|(G) Rune Platebody|(G) Rune pieces|nolink=true}}, for a total of 29% Damage Reduction with the {{ItemIcon|Paladin Gloves|nolink=true}}. You will need a bunch of {{ItemIcon|Gold Bar|Gold|nolink=true}} and {{ItemIcon|Silver Bar|Silver Bars|nolink=true}}, farmed at {{MonsterIcon|Statue|nolink=true}}.

== Chapter VI: (G) Rune to (G) Ancient ==

=== Chapter VI-A: Ranged ===

{{Skill|Ranged}} is quite straightforward, but we’ve been putting it off for mainly two reasons: It doesn’t provide any real benefit until you start fighting Wizards, or other magic monsters, and getting its gear without having the space in your bank or loadouts for the gear and weapons will be annoying.

Get your first two bows; {{SkillReq|Ranged|5}} lets you use {{ItemIcon|Oak Shortbow}}) from the {{MonsterIcon|Ranged Golbin}} over at the {{ZoneIcon|Golbin Village}}, and use the {{ItemIcon|Ice Arrows}} from the {{MonsterIcon|Frozen Archer}} over at the {{ZoneIcon|Icy Hills}}. These are almost as strong as {{ItemIcon|Rune Arrows}}, which you can start to use at {{SkillReq|Ranged|40}}, but are much easier and cheaper to farm, and can be equipped from the very beginning.

Literally all your next weapon upgrades, except if you go out of your way to get the {{ItemIcon|Yew Longbow}} from the {{MonsterIcon|Holy Archer}} at {{SkillReq|Ranged|40}}, will come from the {{ItemIcon|Bandit Chest}}. At {{SkillReq|Ranged|30}}, you can upgrade to the {{ItemIcon|Maple Longbow}}, at {{SkillReq|Ranged|50}} you can use the {{ItemIcon|Magic Longbow}}, and finally you will get to use the {{ItemIcon|Redwood Longbow}} and the {{ItemIcon|Ancient Longbow}} at {{SkillReq|Ranged|60}} and {{SkillReq|Ranged|70}}.

An alternative (but less efficient) route for early {{Skill|Ranged|nolink=true}} training is to kill {{MonsterIcon|Thief|Thieves}} in the {{ZoneIcon|Runic Ruins}} for {{ItemIcon|Steel Throwing Knife|notext=true}} [[Ranged#Throwing_Knives|throwing knives]], which, due to their higher attack speed and inherent 15% ammunition saving, can help with early training.

Once you get into higher levels you may consider using the {{ItemIcon|Adamant Arrows|Adamant}} (worse than {{ItemIcon|Ice Arrows|Ice}}), {{ItemIcon|Rune Arrows|Rune}} and {{ItemIcon|Dragon Arrows}} you’ve collected from the {{ItemIcon|Bandit Chest}}. If you’re farming {{MonsterIcon|Raging Horned Elite}} for food you may also use {{ItemIcon|Ancient Arrows|nolink=true}} in {{Skill|Ranged}} after {{SkillReq|Ranged|70}}.

Most of your ranged armor upgrades will come from the {{ZoneIcon|Spider Forest}}, moving through {{ItemIcon|Green D-hide Body|Green Dragonhide|nolink=true}} at {{SkillReq|Ranged|40}}, {{ItemIcon|Blue D-hide Body|Blue Dragonhide}} at {{SkillReq|Ranged|50}}, {{ItemIcon|Red D-hide Body|Red Dragonhide}} at {{SkillReq|Ranged|60}}, and finally into {{ItemIcon|Black D-hide Body|Black Dragonhide}} at {{SkillReq|Ranged|70}}.  

Upgrading {{Skill|Ranged|nolink=true}} armor is much easier than {{Skill|Attack|Melee}} armor, as you can buy {{ItemIcon|Leather}} from the shop, which can then be used to buy {{ItemIcon|Green Dragonhide|Green}}, {{ItemIcon|Blue Dragonhide|Blue}}, and {{ItemIcon|Red Dragonhide|Red}} dragon leathers for upgrading their respective armor tiers.

Alternatively, killing dragons in the {{ZoneIcon|Dragon Valley}} can provide all chromatic dragonhide, including {{ItemIcon|Black Dragonhide|Black}}. {{ItemIcon|Ranger Hat}} and {{ItemIcon|Ranger Boots}} are a nice bonus for saving ammunition while training, but after {{SkillReq|Ranged|70}}, ammunition will be plentiful thanks to {{MonsterIcon|Raging Horned Elite|Raging Horned Elites|nolink=true}}, so they aren't necessarily worth the time to grind out.

=== Chapter VI-B: Magic ===

This is a bad thing for us, since we have no real way to farm a lot of runes yet. However, we can get started by farming some catalyst runes from the {{MonsterIcon|Vampire}} and the {{MonsterIcon|Master Wizard}}. The {{MonsterIcon|Vampire|nolink=true}} is probably best for now, since it is a {{Skill|Ranged|nolink=true}} monster, meaning we can strike it with our powerful {{Skill|Attack|Melee}}. Even considering the drop chance and drop rates are lower than from the {{MonsterIcon|Master Wizard|nolink=true}}, this will be faster overall as it will crucially save more food. Killing {{MonsterIcon|Wizard}} until one piece of either {{ItemIcon|Green Wizard Hat|Green Robes|nolink=true}} or {{ItemIcon|Blue Wizard Hat|Blue Robes|nolink=true}} (at {{Skill|Magic|10}}) for each slot is recommended.

Catalyst Runes are the runes you use to power up your spells, while Elemental runes select which element you’re using. You can remove the cost for Elemental runes with staves, which we will abuse to completely nullify the {{ItemIcon|Air Rune}} cost, and thus primarily use air spells. Remember, since prayer points are a lot easier to farm on a CO than runes, you will generally want to run the two highest offensive prayers at all times when training magic. However, it is only worthwhile if the prayers give magic damage boost ({{PrayerIcon|Mystic Mastery}}, {{PrayerIcon|Augury}} and {{PrayerIcon|Battleheart}}) or if you are very low level and your accuracy is low (below 90-95%).

The {{ItemIcon|Staff of Air}} reduces the cost by 1, allowing you to cast all spells up to {{Icon|Fire Strike|type=spell}} for no {{ItemIcon|Air Rune}} cost. {{ItemIcon|Air Rune}} are by far the most valuable elemental rune on a CO, so you should use the other elements to level your magic early on as these runes have little use outside of very late game situations by which point you will have a huge stockpile. You should aim to use most of your mind runes on {{Icon|Fire Strike|type=spell}} and {{Icon|Earth Strike|type=spell}} until you are {{Skill|Magic|30}}. At this point you can equip an {{ItemIcon|Air Battlestaff}} to save {{ItemIcon|Air Rune|qty=5}}/cast, so obtain one from {{MonsterIcon|Master Wizard}} and use that until {{Skill|Magic|50}}. You also have enough magic defence from levelling {{Skill|Magic}} that you can consider clearing {{ZoneIcon|Hall of Wizards}} for some {{Skill|Ranged}} exp and better robes. The {{ItemIcon|Red Wizard Robes}} can be worn at {{Skill|Magic|30}} (levelling from 1 to 30 cuts food usage against magic enemies roughly in half) and the dungeon will be important in the a following section anyway. You can alternatively wait until {{Skill|Magic|50}} for even higher magic defence. Lastly, now that you have some magic defence, gathering 200 {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Magic}} is on the table. You will obtain a lot of catalyst runes in the process which can be put towards levelling, so  it is worth making a dent in this decently long grind now. {{MonsterIcon|Master Wizard}} are the best overall source of catalyst runes, as they have the lowest HP while dropping one of three catalyst runes 85% of the time.

You can now make use of every spell up until {{Icon|Fire Bolt|type=spell}} with the exception of {{Icon|Wind Bolt|type=spell}} as this will still have an elemental cost. Prioritise all other elemental spells until you consume your elemental runes, and then finish training on the highest level air spell that has no elemental rune cost. Make sure to use the highest level Surge aurora that you can that has no elemental cost. This will be {{Icon|Surge I|type=aurora}} from {{Skill|Magic|30}}-{{Skill|Magic|40}} and {{Icon|Surge II|type=aurora}} afterwards. The light runes will be supplied from {{UpgradeIcon|Standard Resupply}} and will be in considerable abundance, so these should not be conserved.

After {{Skill|Magic|50}}, you will now use a {{ItemIcon|Mystic Air Staff}} conserve 7 elemental runes and primarily use {{Icon|Wind Blast|type=spell}} to level up, as this is the new highest no-elemental cost spell available. The relative damage increase between spells is lower as flat damage has diminishing returns, so there isn't much dps sacrificed by sticking to this one spell. However, the only way to obtain this staff is from {{ZoneIcon|Hall of Wizards}} at a relatively low drop rate (~1/191.67). On the plus side, you will get some nice runes along the way and a good pet hopefully. You will also want to obtain a full set of {{ItemIcon|Red Wizard Hat|Red Robes|nolink=true}}. It is debatable whether staying here all the way until full {{ItemIcon|Ancient Wizard Hat|Ancient Robes|nolink=true}} is worthwhile. The robes have a very low drop rate and will likely take awhile to complete, but you will obtain some useful runes and almost certainly obtain the pet. It is also important to maximise rune efficiency by maximising magic damage bonus, as rune gathering is a slow process. If you are completionistic in nature then it may be a good idea, although strictly speaking it would be faster to focus on simply obtaining more {{ItemIcon|Death Rune}} from {{MonsterIcon|Master Wizard}} and {{MonsterIcon|Necromancer}} than worrying about min-maxing the rune efficiency.

Once you have your gear, the best monster to kill is {{MonsterIcon|Raging Horned Elite}} as they are melee and drop valuable food, as well as giving a decent income and ammo. They have 5% DR, so using {{PrayerIcon|Battleheart}} if you have the {{Skill|Prayer}} level is recommended, along with {{PrayerIcon|Augury}}. Kill either {{MonsterIcon|Master Wizard}} or {{MonsterIcon|Necromancer}} for {{ItemIcon|Chaos Rune}} and/or {{ItemIcon|Death Rune}} whenever you need more runes. }. It is both more rune-efficient and time-efficient to gather runes and use them separately, rather than try to kill {{MonsterIcon|Necromancer}} with magic directly to slightly replenish the consumed runes. Making use of the triangle bonus is starting to become very important. You will be here until {{Skill|Magic|85}}. Once you have {{Skill|Magic|85}} you will upgrade to {{ItemIcon|Glacia God Platebody|Glacia Armour|nolink=true}}, and then return to get a single level to {{Skill|Magic|86}}.  

* {{Skill|Magic|1}} - {{Skill|Magic|30}} using strike spells, gathering runes and gear from {{MonsterIcon|Wizard}} & {{MonsterIcon|Master Wizard}}

* {{Skill|Magic|30}} - {{Skill|Magic|50}} using bolt spells, gathering runes and gear from {{MonsterIcon|Master Wizard}}

* {{Skill|Magic|50}} - {{Skill|Magic|90}} using {{Icon|Wind Blast|type=spell}} on {{MonsterIcon|Raging Horned Elite}}, gathering runes from {{MonsterIcon|Master Wizard}} & {{MonsterIcon|Necromancer}} and gear from {{ZoneIcon|Hall of Wizards}} & {{ZoneIcon|Water God Dungeon}}

==== Afflicted Monsters ====

====Mysterious Figure - Phase 1====

Recommended Gear: {{ItemIcon|Terran God Platebody|Terran}} or {{ItemIcon|Ragnar God Platebody|Ragnar}} Armour, {{ItemIcon|Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs|FEZ}}, {{ItemIcon|Guardian Ring}} or {{ItemIcon|Fighter Ring}}, {{ItemIcon|Darksteel Dagger}}, {{ItemIcon|Earth Layered Shield}}, {{ItemIcon|Infernal Cape}}<br>

Recommended Prayers: {{PrayerIcon|Protect from Melee}}, {{PrayerIcon|Chivalry}}<br>

With 56% DR, you can survive Reap and Return using just {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat|nolink=true}} even at maximum affliction stacks. This fight is a race due to the healing the boss receives from Reap and Return. For this reason we use {{PrayerIcon|Protect from Melee}} to limit the amount of healing the boss can do. It is important to not use {{ItemIcon|Sandstorm Ring}}, since the special attack will stop you from clearing the Mark of Death stacks before being hit. {{ItemIcon|Darksteel Dagger}} is very strong here due to how the bleed scales with enemy max HP.

==== Mysterious Figure - Phase 2 ====

Recommended Gear: {{ItemIcon|Aeris God Platebody|Aeris Armour}}, {{ItemIcon|Deadeye Amulet}} or {{ItemIcon|Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs|FEZ}}, {{ItemIcon|Deadeye Ring}} or {{ItemIcon|Guardian Ring}}, {{ItemIcon|Ancient Throwing Knife|Ancient Throwing Knives}}, {{ItemIcon|Earth Layered Shield}}, {{ItemIcon|Infernal Cape}} or {{ItemIcon|Cape of Prat}}.<br>

==== Ahrenia ====

Recommended Gear: {{ItemIcon|Glacia God Platebody|Glacia Armour}}, {{ItemIcon|Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs|FEZ}}, {{ItemIcon|Warlock Ring}} or {{ItemIcon|Guardian Ring}}, {{ItemIcon|Magic Wand (Elite)}}, {{ItemIcon|Miolite Shield}} or {{ItemIcon|Earth Layered Shield}}, {{ItemIcon|Skull Cape}} or {{ItemIcon|Infernal Cape}}<br>

Recommended Prayers: {{PrayerIcon|Mystic Might}}, {{PrayerIcon|Augury}}<br>

Spell: {{Icon|Gust|type=spell}} or {{Icon|Slicing Winds|type=spell}}

For this fight, you will first and foremost need to achieve accuracy higher than 33,334. This allows us to stay above the 20,000 accuracy requirement for [[Ancient Magicks]] while accounting for max stacks of the Shadow Burst debuff. Once you achieve the required accuracy, you should then try to get at least 50% DR. How you achieve this combination of stats will depend or your exact {{Skill|Magic}} level and which [[Pets|pets]] and [[Equipment|gear]] you have currently collected. It isn't possible to reach the DR needed to survive Shadow Burst even at low affliction stacks, so you will need to spam eat whenever you see Shadowburst (this will be most attacks).

Into the Mist healing the boss means this fight is a race against time. This is why we're going to use 100% accuracy [[Ancient Magicks]]. {{Icon|Gust|type=spell}} is a good choice, but {{Icon|Slicing Winds|type=spell}} will also get the job done. Fallen Light can be survived with {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat|nolink=true}} at max affliction as long as you have at least 50% DR. It is important to use {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat|nolink=true}} for Fallen Light since that will allow you to attack without being interrupted by manual eating.

| {{ItemIcon|Cape of Prat}}

* The best option for obtaining {{ItemIcon|Air Rune}} is {{MonsterIcon|Wizard}}. With the previous gear setup, one can expect to obtain about {{ItemIcon|Air Rune|qty=800}}/hr using melee and almost {{ItemIcon|Air Rune|qty=1000}} with ranged. The ranged setup will consume about {{ItemIcon|Ancient Throwing Knife|qty=1000}} per hour, so it essentially trades {{ItemIcon|Ancient Throwing Knife}} for {{ItemIcon|Air Rune}} 1:1. Lower tier knives are perfectly viable, as even {{ItemIcon|Bronze Throwing Knife}} is still better than the melee setup (around 840 {{ItemIcon|Air Rune}}/hr in the worst case scenario). A {{ItemIcon|Ranged Skillcape}} is also worth considering, as this drops the knife usage to around 650/hr, or down to around 400/hr if {{ItemIcon|Throwing Power Gloves}} are swapped for {{ItemIcon|Aeris God Gloves}}. This will cut the kills/hr by a noticeable amount. It should take about 70-85 hours to obtain all the {{ItemIcon|Air Rune}} necessary, depending on the method used.

The overall {{Skill|Slayer}} task strategy is similar to the previous section, except there is no longer a preferred order for any of the monsters as the upgrades each one gives is minor. This means that if the {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Slayer}} task trick is employed again (detailed above in the T90 guide), there is a good chance (4/6) of rolling at least one task that you can tackle at any given time, and there is a 3/9 chance of rolling another {{ZoneIcon|Unhallowed Wasteland}} monster for free after completing a task. As master slayer gear has already been obtained, one should always extend their {{Skill|Slayer}} tasks here. All of these effects massively reduce the slayer coins needed to spend on rerolls. Doing this section on task is highly recommended, as the average amount of {{ItemIcon|Crab}} needed to complete this section is around 250k. Buying {{UpgradeIcon|Standard Resupply}} will almost entirely replenish all of the food used. One can further macro-maximise their rerolls by farming {{MonsterIcon|Hunting Greater Dragon}} tasks as they arise while farming {{ItemIcon|Jadestone Bolts}} as detailed in the {{MonsterIcon|Cursed Lich}} section. Because of the overall complexity of reroll strategies, reroll costs will '''not''' be factored into the overall calculations below. A very rough estimate for the total amount spent on rerolls for this entire section would be in the ballpark of around 750k-1m, essentially equating to 11.25-15k {{ItemIcon|Crab|notext=true}} and 1.5-2m prayer points over the cumulative values reported in the sections below.

|passive1 = Slayer Wizard Hat (Master)

|passive2 = Slayer Wizard Hat (Master)

|passive1 = Slayer Helmet (Master)

|passive1 = Slayer Cowl (Master)

|passive1 = Slayer Cowl (Master)

<span style="color:red;font-weight:bold;size:32px;">Due to the nature of affliction stacks, there is currently no 100% safe way to idle this monster. There will always be an extremely low chance of death (estimated around 1/16.7k per fight from combat simulator) if the enemy can stack enough affliction stacks on us before we kill it.</span>

If you are comfortable with that risk and plan to make regular backups of your character, then proceed. If you are not a HC character, you can swap {{PrayerIcon|Stone Skin}} for {{PrayerIcon|Protect Item}} and accept the occasional death while farming. Unfortunately without {{PrayerIcon|Stone Skin}} the death rate rises considerably to around 1/300, so it is a trade-off. Similarly, {{PrayerIcon|Battleheart}} can be used for an additional +4 kills/hr with the same increased death rate. {{PrayerIcon|Protect from Melee}} is non-negotiable (compared to the other monsters where it can technically be substituted for offensive prayers), as the dodge chance drastically slows the rate of affliction stacks accumulating. Without {{PrayerIcon|Protect from Melee}} the death rate is around 1/6.