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This section is still a work in progress, but will be updated with details as the meta develops.

Preliminary Upgrades

The name of the game is to obtain DR from any possible sources. Damage and evasion are secondary to DR. Without access to Smithing, Crafting or Runecrafting, our sources of DR are quite limited, but they exist. Note that all of the items in this section requires Impending Darkness Event to be completed.

The item we seek in this section are Frost Walker Boots, Perfect Sight Legs, Slayer Gear Upgrade Kit (Legendary), which total an additional 16% DR over the gear at the start of this section. Bundled Protection Body can also be used for dungeons.

1. The first item is the Frost Walker Boots from Large Ice Troll in Forsaken Tundra, which requires 105. These monsters are relatively weak and won't cause too much trouble, but the boots they give offer a whopping 12% DR. These count as legendary slayer tasks and so it is worth rerolling legendary tasks to help make a dent in the 20 tasks needed to purchase Slayer Gear Upgrade Kit (Legendary).
2. With the DR offered from Frost Walker Boots, the next easily obtainable item is Perfect Sight Legs from Conda in Jungle Labyrinth, requiring only 100. This monster is easily handled with Melee if your Hitpoints is high enough, allowing us to save on valuable runes. The legs give 12% DR. These count as a master slayer task, so feel free to reroll them to earn some slayer coins. Feel free to take on any Alraune tasks you roll, as the DR from Perfect Sight Legs is not needed for that monster. In addition, any of the other monsters in Jungle Labyrinth will also need to be killed at some point for their respective clue pieces, so killing them when you roll their slayer task is slightly more macro-efficient.
3. Another very easily obtained item is Bundled Protection Body from Alraune in Jungle Labyrinth. While this item is easier to obtain than Perfect Sight Legs, it is less useful as the body slot contests with master and legendary slayer gear. This item will be useful for dungeons, however, as it also gives 12% DR.
4. The next item is Spectral Ice Sword from Spectral Ice Wolf. This monster is quite difficult and requires a lot of DR. It is recommended to have Frost Walker Boots and Perfect Sight Legs first before attempting this monster, although a Guardian Amulet can be used instead of the legs. These are a legendary task and should be completed on task at all times.
5. After all of the above items have been obtained, the next goal is to continue working on Slayer Gear Upgrade Kit (Legendary). We need to complete 20 tasks and they take a long time. The upgrade offers 10% DR and 25% area negation (+4%/+5% respectively over master) per piece and will be a necessary source of DR and negation moving forward. Continue to farm Large Ice Trolls, Spectral Ice Wolves and possibly Polar Bears. The latter has an unavoidable, 2 turn freeze attack which reduces your DPS considerably, so it may be worth simply skipping them.

There are unique drops offered by enemies in Lava Lake, but as the area effect is particularly strong these enemies will waste a lot of food if we tackle them now. Best to wait until we have access to greater slayer area negation. In addition and perhaps more importantly, all of these items are solely for collection log purposes. The Ward of Flame Platebody and Burning Protection Platelegs require (P) Divine Platebody and (P) Divine Platebody respectively, which are unobtainable on a CO.

Next Upgrades

With the preliminary upgrades obtained, we set our sights on Weakness Exploiter Cape, Ethereal Longbow, Slayer Gear Upgrade Kit (Mythical), Lightning Coil 2H Staff and Ethereal Greataxe.

We start with Ancient Sanctuary. To access this dungeon you first must acquire 5 clue pieces, each from the 5 unique enemies in Jungle Labyrinth. You will almost certainly already have Labyrinth Clue 4 and Labyrinth Clue 5 from Conda and Alraune respectively, so now just kill the remaining 3 monsters. You will need to make sure you obtain Weakness Finder Cape from Poison Toad as well before moving on.

With the five clue pieces obtained, purchase Labyrinth Solution from the shop. You will be looking to obtain 100 Weakness Exploiter Cape Material, which will require about 450 Ancient Chest. This cape is very strong for Ranged as it provides hefty range offensive bonuses, a nice 3% DR and -7% enemy DR when using Ranged.

Next, keeping with the theme of Ranged upgrades, we next seek to fight Phantom to obtain Ethereal Longbow. This monster is quite strong and will require a Wasteful Ring, Guardian Amulet and Holy Aegis to just barely stay alive. It will take about 20 hours to reach the drop rate for the item.

With a very good set of Ranged upgrades, it is possible to work on completing Ice Hydra tasks which count as mythical tasks. In fact, Ice Hydra is the only mythical task we have access to. At the time of writing this guide, there is an issue where you can never roll the same Slayer task twice in a row, even if that is the only Slayer task you have available for that tier. There is a mod available in the Official Mod Manager which fixes this issue. If you choose to use the mod to fix the issue, then simply equip you pimped out Ranged gear and begin working towards 20 mythical tasks through Ice Hydra to obtain Slayer Gear Upgrade Kit (Mythical). If you decide not to use the mod fix, then still don your drip and prepare to manually reroll tasks by selecting an easy task after each Ice Hydra task and then selecting another mythical task.

With Slayer Cowl (Mythical) and Slayer Leather Body (Mythical) we can work on limping our way through Lightning Region to obtain Lightning Coil 2H Staff. This dungeon is very dangerous, hence why we must prepare adequately for it. To access this dungeon we need to blitz through Underground Lava Lake once. This dungeon is very easily cleared with Ultima Godsword or possibly with Spectral Ice Sword, however you will have to take care to avoid fighting Magic Fire Demon while using Melee. These can very easily kill you outright, but are easily dispatched by swapping to Ranged. The boss Trogark will outheal our punny damage from Water Strike with Ocean Song, so we have to rely on the raw power of Ultima Godsword instead to get the job done.

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