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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’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}} (note this only applies to manually rolling tasks and doesn't affect {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Slayer}}). However, it's optional, and the {{SC|slayer coins}} can be spent on {{UpgradeIcon|Basic Resupply|Basic Resupplies}} instead.

'''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}}

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 Topaz Ring}} to fill out your neck and ring slots. The {{ItemIcon|Gold Topaz Ring}} enables your character to obtain {{ItemIcon|Signet Ring Half (b)}} while in combat, which can be sold for {{GP|850000}} and will cut out a large portion of the {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat - Tier I|Auto Eat}} grinds. If you want to grind an {{ItemIcon|Elite Amulet of Strength}} from {{MonsterIcon|Mummy|Mummies}}, you may as it will help with {{ZoneIcon|Spider Forest}}, but it will be a little faster to do so in a bit. Note that the {{ItemIcon|Silver Ruby Necklace}} and the {{ItemIcon|Silver Topaz Necklace}} are both better than {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Strength}} in the early game.

{{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.

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.

== Chapter IV: Upgraded Boots, Gloves, and Weapon ==

'''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|Sand Treaders}} from {{MonsterIcon|Turkul Riders}} — -0.1s to all attacks, good for farming lower level monsters.

* {{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 ===

====Preliminary phase====

=====Ammo=====

=====Weapons=====

=====Gear=====

====Training phase====

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

{{Icon|Gust|type=spell}} at {{Skill|Magic|86}}. It is highly recommended to wait until {{Icon|Gust|type=spell}} to speed the fight up, which saves on runes and reduces the chance of dying due to affliction stacks ramping up, but if the player accepts these downsides then {{Icon|Slicing Winds|type=spell}} can just barely out dps the healing of the boss and can be used. Having a lower {{Skill|Magic}} level will also necessitate an offensive magic shield in order to meet the accuracy requirement.

Besides accuracy, the next consideration—as always—is DR. You want to try to get at least 50% DR in order to be able to auto-eat through the Fallen Light special attack even at full affliction stacks. The above setup with {{PetIcon|Leonardo}} gives 55% DR. With this DR, you can survive Shadow Burst as long as your max HP is still above 900. As soon as your max HP drops below this threshold due to affliction, you will need to hold to spam eat through Shadow Burst attacks. Hopefully you will be able to dodge enough attacks due to {{PrayerIcon|Protect from Magic}} to prolong this phase and maximise your DPS. Without {{PetIcon|Leonardo}}, the threshold is 920 HP instead.

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]], as the magic defence on {{MonsterIcon|Ahrenia}} is extremely high. {{Icon|Gust|type=spell}} is a good choice, but {{Icon|Slicing Winds|type=spell}} will also get the job done, albeit with a much, much longer fight. 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.

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.