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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. Because of the tight DR windows, this section of the guide assumes 120 and 
Finn, the Cat. It may be possible to supplement lower Hitpoints levels with 
Holy Aegis, 
Stone Skin, 
Guardian Amulet or a 
Wasteful Ring. Each of these options incurs a relatively large efficiency penalty or opportunity cost so they should used be a last resort. With lower Hitpoints it will be up to the user to consult the Combat Simulator and proceed with caution.
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. The monsters we focus on are 
Large Ice Troll, 
Conda, 
Alraune and 
Spectral Ice Wolf.
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).
| Slot | Item (most effective → least effective) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |  Slayer Wizard Hat (Master) | |||
 |  Slayer Wizard Robes (Master) | |||
 |  Glacia God Platelegs | |||
 |  Glacia God Boots | |||
 |  Burning Madness Gloves |  Glacia God Gloves | ||
 |  Superior Slayer Skillcape |  Slayer Skillcape | ||
 |  Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs | |||
 |  Hunter's Ring |  Burning Madness Ring |  Warlock Ring |  Wasteful Ring |
 |  Ocean Song | |||
 |  Shield of Magic Power | |||
 | Third Master Slayer Piece | |||
 |  Battleborn | |||
| | Holy Aegis | |||
As usual, the spell of choice will be 
Water Strike.
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 slightly 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.
It is not necessary to use 
Magic against either of these monsters, as it is easy to meet the DR requirements with obtained gear. With 
Ultima Godsword the 
Shield of Melee Power is the best option for the passive slot. With a 1h weapon instead, then the shield should be equipped in the offhand slot while wearing other typical passive slot items such as 
Elder Crown.
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. These are a legendary task and should be completed on task at all times.
| Slot | Item (most effective → least effective) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| |  Slayer Cowl (Master) | ||
| |  Slayer Leather Body (Master) | ||
| |  Perfect Sight Legs | ||
| |  Frost Walker Boots | ||
| |  Poison Virulence Gloves |  Aeris God Gloves | |
| | Superior Slayer Skillcape | Slayer Skillcape | |
| |  Guardian Amulet |  Deadeye Amulet | Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs |
| | Wasteful Ring | ||
| |  Shockwave | ||
| |  Shield of Melee Power | ||
 |  Jadestone Bolts |  Diamond Bolts |  Sapphire Bolts |
| | Third Master Slayer Piece | Guardian Amulet | |
| | Battleborn | ||
| |  Avidity | ||
Note that if you use an amulet other than Guardian Amulet for the necklace slot, then you will have to wear it in the passive slot or use Holy Aegis+ Stone Skin to make up for the lost DR.
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 last monster has an unavoidable, 2 turn freeze attack which reduces your DPS considerably, so it may be worth simply skipping them. You will eventually need 15 Frost Walker Boots and 5 Spectral Ice Sword for upgrades in future, so farm either monster that you prefer. The gear will be the same as the relevant sections for the monsters while substituting any upgrades made along the way.
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 Platelegs respectively, which are unobtainable on a CO.
Next Upgrades
With the preliminary upgrades obtained, we set our sights on 
Weakness Exploiter Cape, 
Ethereal Longbow, all of the items from 
Static Chest,
Ethereal Greataxe and eventually 
Slayer Gear Upgrade Kit (Mythical).
1. 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 Legendary slayer gear and other gear upgrades from the previous section it is extremely easy to bypass the DR requirements for these monsters, just make sure to use 
Ranged for the Magic enemy, Poison Toad.
2. 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.
If you are using a 1h weapon then the 
Fighter Amulet is best worn in the passive slot to free the neck slot for 
Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs, or an Elder Crown.
3. 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. It is worth killing this monster on task, as you will overall profit slayer coins.
| Slot | Item (most effective → least effective) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| |  Slayer Cowl (Legendary) | ||
| |  Slayer Platebody (Legendary) | ||
| | Perfect Sight Legs | ||
| | Frost Walker Boots | ||
| |  Relentless Fury Gloves |  Ragnar God Gloves | |
| | Superior Slayer Skillcape | Slayer Skillcape |  Infernal Cape |
| |  Fighter Amulet | Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs | |
| | Wasteful Ring | ||
| |  Ultima Godsword |  Spectral Ice Sword | |
| | Shield of Melee Power | ||
| | Third Legendary Slayer Piece | Guardian Amulet | |
| | Battleborn | ||
| | Avidity | ||
With some good Ranged upgrades under our belt, we can work on clearing our way through 
Lightning Region to obtain all of the goodies within. 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 using the same setup as Ancient Sanctuary, 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 and then switching back afterwards. 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.
| Slot | Item (most effective → least effective) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| | Slayer Cowl (Master) | ||
| | Slayer Leather Body (Master) | ||
| | Perfect Sight Legs | ||
| | Frost Walker Boots | ||
| | Poison Virulence Gloves | Aeris God Gloves | |
| | Superior Slayer Skillcape | Slayer Skillcape | |
| | Guardian Amulet | Deadeye Amulet | Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs |
| | Wasteful Ring | ||
| | Shockwave | ||
| | Shield of Melee Power | ||
| | Jadestone Bolts | Diamond Bolts | Sapphire Bolts |
| | Third Master Slayer Piece | Guardian Amulet | |
| | Battleborn | ||
| | Avidity | ||
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. It is ```strongly``` recommended to reroll lengthy tasks (above 150 or so).
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