HCCO/Guide/4
To start, you should have: Almost full 
(G) Adamant Armour, 
(G) Rune Boots, 
Desert Wrappings, 
Rune 2H Sword, 
70 / 
70 / 
70 
Auto Eat - Tier II
At the end, you should have: Full 
(G) Rune Armour, 
Paladin Gloves, 
Elite Amulet of Strength, 70 / 80 / 80, 
Sunset Rapier / 
Ancient Claw, 
Auto Eat - Tier III
The first thing you should do in this part of the story is to upgrade your 
Amulet of Strength into an Elite one, simply by farming more 
Mummies. On average you need to kill around a thousand of them.
You can wait to get the Paladin Gloves until after getting 
Rune Armor, or you can farm it now. At this point, you will use around 6 
Lobster per 
Paladin kill, and the chance to get them is 1/171. Not too hard.
The next step is to farm the feared shiny 
Rune Knights, and upgrade your four armor pieces into (G) Rune pieces, for a total of 29% Damage Reduction with the Paladin Gloves. You will need a bunch of 
Gold and 
Silver Bars, farmed at 
Statue or at 
Purple Goo Monster to make headway towards 
Elite Amulet of Defence. Considering the amount of bars needed to upgrade this armour, you may wish to wait until 
Ancient armour instead, as (G) adamant armour is sufficient for clearing 
Volcanic Cave (with a higher but still manageable HP requirement).
You should get Auto Eat - Tier III and a second 
Extra Equipment Set. You should also consider getting the third set now, too.
The last thing to get before moving onto the next section is a better weapon. 
Deep Sea Ship is your next stop for a Sunset Rapier, a great upgrade that will be the primary weapon up until 
Darksteel Dagger from 
Rancora Spider. Don't bother getting any 
Dragon Claw Fragments from 
Griffin yet as it will be awhile before you can obtain the necessary 
Infernal Cores to make it worthwhile. If you're lucky enough to get an 
Ancient Sword before the Sunset Rapier, then feel free to use it, as it will drastically reduce your food consumption and the associated food farming time. You'll probably only want to use it outside of dungeons, because the high burst damage from stronger enemies heavily reduces effectiveness of the lifesteal and makes the bonus damage impossible to reliably utilise.
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