Hazzah
2012-07-06 15:05:16
Disclaimer: This is personally how I do slayer and I would like to hear what other people have to say about it and I would like to try to help other people with one of the few skills that cannot be botted here on SRL. My method requires good gear + levels and a healthy understanding of Runescape with a healthy cash stack. Another thing to note is that the combat beta may make this guide outdated, by which time I hope to be 99 slayer and will not be willing to update it!
SRL's beta release of a slayer task completer!
Some of you might be wondering why cash is required to do slayer while people you know in game have made millions with slayer. I can simplify my answer down to one word: efficiency. Efficiently leveling up slayer requires the use of a cannon and prayer potions WITH extremes. If you do not have access to the following, you will probably never break 30k xp/hr with slayer.
The cannon is one of the most useful tools for a slayer to have, along with a healthy supply of cannonballs. Personally I have use ~50k cannonballs and am only just cresting 50% of the way to 99 slayer. YOU SHOULD NOT PLAN TO CANNON EVERY TASK
Good gear is a requirement because it allows you to kill things faster, and killing them faster means better xp/hr. Good gear can be seen below, of course things can be upgraded; Kuradels ring if in Kuradels Dungeon.
Finally herblore is one of the most important non-combat skills to have while doing slayer. Herblore allows for the use of extremes and overloads and for the use of super prayers. While super prayers are not exactly required, using them is not frowned upon by me either. I use regular prayer potion simply because I can't be bothered to grind the bones for super prayers.
While not typically included in slayer guides, I include it for one reason. Questing unlocks new creatures, which are typically annoying to kill. If you can I would avoid quests like The Tale of Muspah and The Path of Glouphie as these quests unlock monster that should always be skipped. However, it is important have high quest points as well because it allows you to block more tasks.
Quests that should be done, in my opinion, are quest that allow you to unlock gear, like Culinoromancers Gloves 10, the TokHarr-Kal, Nomads Requium, ect.
*It should be noted that any and all quest xp rewards should be used on slayer. Things like While Guthix Sleeps experience reward can save you ~6 hours or more of time that you would have otherwise spent slaying!
Really, this ranges from person to person. I do some monsters simply because I can easily be away-from-keyboard while still getting slayer experience. This is a list of monster that I do kill along with what my reasoning is behind killing them. This list only includes task for Kuradel and will never include tasks that other slayer masters assign, simply because other slayer masters are not as efficient.
*Tasks assume you use melee unless otherwise stated
**SOA can be downgraded to polypore, but should not be downgraded further, if you don't have either then you are better of just meleeing the task.
***Anything labeled with Skip/block should probably be skipped or blocked.
Tasks in alphabetical order
1. Abberant Spectres- Reasons are obvious, using a cannon you can manage 60-70k slayer experience/hr. This inventory should be the exact same as Dagganoths, without the games necklace. Use the above melee setup while praying mage and turmoil.
2. *Abby Demons- Drop whips, pretty bad experience/hour however, for those who would rather make back some of the money they wasted on cannonballs, then you can get upwards of two to three whips in a single 200 abby demon task.
Aquanites- Don't do these
3. Black Demons- Good experience/hour and good charms. (do these in taverly dungeon with a cannon).
Use the above melee setup with an inventory like this.
Alternatively, those with a steel titan might find that the kills go quicker in the chaos tunnels. I don't have one so I am not sure.
4. For Black dragons, remove 4 prayer potions and insert cannon with cannonballs. Do these in the evil Chickens lair.
5. Bloodveld- Only do these after the Legacy of Seergaze and use a cannon on mutated Bloodvelds, otherwise skip them. Use the above melee setup with the following inventory
6. Blue Dragons- Always do these. Cannon dragons where you can, use super antifires if need be. Avoid taverly dungeon for blue dragons. Use the above Melee setup with this inventory for blue dragons.
Dagganoth- cannon these underneath the light house, pray melee and turmoil
7. Dark beasts- Super AFK and can be cannoned after the completion of Within the Light.
I haven't finished within the light so my inventory looks like this, and I use the above melee setup.
8. Desert Strykewyrms- skip these
9. Dust Devils if 95 or 99 summoning, kill these in the chaos tunnels, otherwise cannon them in smoke dungeon in the desert
10. Fire Giant - cannon these in the waterfall dungeon or use a steel/iron titan in chaos tunnels
11. ganodermic creatures- sadly these along with all other polypore creatures should be blocked
12. Gargoyles- Do these since they drop a good amount of blue charms and are quick to get to and kill (Purchasing Killing blow is highly suggested). Use Goliath gloves if you have access to them, otherwise use the above melee setup
13. Greater Demons- Cannon these in the Forinthy dungeon.
Pray melee and protect item. Items can be upgraded, but you might lose them because the cannon skulls you on peoples familiars.
14. Grifolapine + Grifolaroo- these should be blocked, along with ganodermic (under one heading of polypore creatures)
15. Grotworms- until the botnuke comes out, these should be skipped
16. Hellhound - Cannon these in the taverly resource dungeon, otherwise do them in Kuradel with the above melee setup except with a Ferocious ring.
17. Ice Strykewyrms- decent experience/hour, however should only really do this if you are looking for some massive hits and a change of scenery.
18. Iron Dragons - Amazingly fast with Storm of Arma, polypore is a good alternative (I always suggest you mage these).
Use the above Mage setup with this inventory
19. Jungle Strykewyrms- skip these
20. Kalphites - Cannon these in the dungeon next to the kalphite queen. For a setup, see Dagganoth. But add in super antipoisons.
21. Living Rock Creatures - Skip them or do them, If you choose to do them cannon them north east of the entrance to the LRC
22. . Mithril_dragon - SOA these with the above mage setup, gl with a DFH drop
23. Mutated Jadinko- Skip/block these
24. Nechryael - cant cannon them and no decent drops- if you do these, kill them in the chaos tunnels with a steel/iron titan
25. Skeletal wyverns- skip these
26. Spiritual mages- skip these
27. Steel dragon - Same as iron
Suqahs- cannon these east of Livid Farm- bring some food since you can be frozen and killed
Terrordogs- Steel + iron titan- bring extra prayer potions because of the prayer draining effect (skip them if you don't have access to a slayer ring)
28. Tzharr - always do the fight caves if you can, if you are bad at it, skip this task
29. Vyrewatch- Not sure, never done them
30. Warped Tortoises/Terrorbirds- skip/block these
31.Waterfiends - if under 89 slayer and have goliaths do these in the ancient cavern, if 89+ summoning, do these in the chaos tunnels with the following melee/mage setup.
Maul can be swapped for Zamorak Spear or Goliaths.
Notes
Ancient Effigies- use the friends chat "Fasteffigy" to open them if you cannot open them yourself. After level 90 slayer you can save about an hour by using the Dragonkin lamp on slayer.
To get yourself a few thousand points, it might be worth it to do a lower slayer master for the first 9 tasks, then switch to kuradel for the 10th task. Repeat this until you have as many point as you want!
To efficiently get Co-op points you should do the lowest Slayer master that gives them out which is [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvYYY_gT_sU"]Turael/Spria.[/url]
The 400 point slayer reward should only be purchased if you have enough points left before hitting 99. Otherwise, conserve these points!
An interesting read, and a much better guide, in my opinion, can be found [URL="http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Slayer_training_guide_%28high-levelled%29"]here
*****Some of the formatting may be off because I wrote this in word first. Also, this guide will have more pictures in the future and links to the Wiki page for each monster.
SRL's beta release of a slayer task completer!
Part 1: The importance of cash.
Some of you might be wondering why cash is required to do slayer while people you know in game have made millions with slayer. I can simplify my answer down to one word: efficiency. Efficiently leveling up slayer requires the use of a cannon and prayer potions WITH extremes. If you do not have access to the following, you will probably never break 30k xp/hr with slayer.
The cannon is one of the most useful tools for a slayer to have, along with a healthy supply of cannonballs. Personally I have use ~50k cannonballs and am only just cresting 50% of the way to 99 slayer. YOU SHOULD NOT PLAN TO CANNON EVERY TASK
Good gear is a requirement because it allows you to kill things faster, and killing them faster means better xp/hr. Good gear can be seen below, of course things can be upgraded; Kuradels ring if in Kuradels Dungeon.
Finally herblore is one of the most important non-combat skills to have while doing slayer. Herblore allows for the use of extremes and overloads and for the use of super prayers. While super prayers are not exactly required, using them is not frowned upon by me either. I use regular prayer potion simply because I can't be bothered to grind the bones for super prayers.
Part 2: The importance of Quests
While not typically included in slayer guides, I include it for one reason. Questing unlocks new creatures, which are typically annoying to kill. If you can I would avoid quests like The Tale of Muspah and The Path of Glouphie as these quests unlock monster that should always be skipped. However, it is important have high quest points as well because it allows you to block more tasks.
Quests that should be done, in my opinion, are quest that allow you to unlock gear, like Culinoromancers Gloves 10, the TokHarr-Kal, Nomads Requium, ect.
*It should be noted that any and all quest xp rewards should be used on slayer. Things like While Guthix Sleeps experience reward can save you ~6 hours or more of time that you would have otherwise spent slaying!
Part 3: Which monsters should I do?
Really, this ranges from person to person. I do some monsters simply because I can easily be away-from-keyboard while still getting slayer experience. This is a list of monster that I do kill along with what my reasoning is behind killing them. This list only includes task for Kuradel and will never include tasks that other slayer masters assign, simply because other slayer masters are not as efficient.
Tasks
*Tasks assume you use melee unless otherwise stated
**SOA can be downgraded to polypore, but should not be downgraded further, if you don't have either then you are better of just meleeing the task.
***Anything labeled with Skip/block should probably be skipped or blocked.
Tasks in alphabetical order
1. Abberant Spectres- Reasons are obvious, using a cannon you can manage 60-70k slayer experience/hr. This inventory should be the exact same as Dagganoths, without the games necklace. Use the above melee setup while praying mage and turmoil.
2. *Abby Demons- Drop whips, pretty bad experience/hour however, for those who would rather make back some of the money they wasted on cannonballs, then you can get upwards of two to three whips in a single 200 abby demon task.
Aquanites- Don't do these
3. Black Demons- Good experience/hour and good charms. (do these in taverly dungeon with a cannon).
Use the above melee setup with an inventory like this.
Alternatively, those with a steel titan might find that the kills go quicker in the chaos tunnels. I don't have one so I am not sure.
4. For Black dragons, remove 4 prayer potions and insert cannon with cannonballs. Do these in the evil Chickens lair.
5. Bloodveld- Only do these after the Legacy of Seergaze and use a cannon on mutated Bloodvelds, otherwise skip them. Use the above melee setup with the following inventory
6. Blue Dragons- Always do these. Cannon dragons where you can, use super antifires if need be. Avoid taverly dungeon for blue dragons. Use the above Melee setup with this inventory for blue dragons.
7. Dark beasts- Super AFK and can be cannoned after the completion of Within the Light.
I haven't finished within the light so my inventory looks like this, and I use the above melee setup.
8. Desert Strykewyrms- skip these
9. Dust Devils if 95 or 99 summoning, kill these in the chaos tunnels, otherwise cannon them in smoke dungeon in the desert
10. Fire Giant - cannon these in the waterfall dungeon or use a steel/iron titan in chaos tunnels
11. ganodermic creatures- sadly these along with all other polypore creatures should be blocked
12. Gargoyles- Do these since they drop a good amount of blue charms and are quick to get to and kill (Purchasing Killing blow is highly suggested). Use Goliath gloves if you have access to them, otherwise use the above melee setup
13. Greater Demons- Cannon these in the Forinthy dungeon.
Pray melee and protect item. Items can be upgraded, but you might lose them because the cannon skulls you on peoples familiars.
14. Grifolapine + Grifolaroo- these should be blocked, along with ganodermic (under one heading of polypore creatures)
15. Grotworms- until the botnuke comes out, these should be skipped
16. Hellhound - Cannon these in the taverly resource dungeon, otherwise do them in Kuradel with the above melee setup except with a Ferocious ring.
17. Ice Strykewyrms- decent experience/hour, however should only really do this if you are looking for some massive hits and a change of scenery.
18. Iron Dragons - Amazingly fast with Storm of Arma, polypore is a good alternative (I always suggest you mage these).
Use the above Mage setup with this inventory
19. Jungle Strykewyrms- skip these
20. Kalphites - Cannon these in the dungeon next to the kalphite queen. For a setup, see Dagganoth. But add in super antipoisons.
21. Living Rock Creatures - Skip them or do them, If you choose to do them cannon them north east of the entrance to the LRC
22. . Mithril_dragon - SOA these with the above mage setup, gl with a DFH drop
23. Mutated Jadinko- Skip/block these
24. Nechryael - cant cannon them and no decent drops- if you do these, kill them in the chaos tunnels with a steel/iron titan
25. Skeletal wyverns- skip these
26. Spiritual mages- skip these
27. Steel dragon - Same as iron
Suqahs- cannon these east of Livid Farm- bring some food since you can be frozen and killed
Terrordogs- Steel + iron titan- bring extra prayer potions because of the prayer draining effect (skip them if you don't have access to a slayer ring)
28. Tzharr - always do the fight caves if you can, if you are bad at it, skip this task
29. Vyrewatch- Not sure, never done them
30. Warped Tortoises/Terrorbirds- skip/block these
31.Waterfiends - if under 89 slayer and have goliaths do these in the ancient cavern, if 89+ summoning, do these in the chaos tunnels with the following melee/mage setup.
Maul can be swapped for Zamorak Spear or Goliaths.
Notes
Ancient Effigies- use the friends chat "Fasteffigy" to open them if you cannot open them yourself. After level 90 slayer you can save about an hour by using the Dragonkin lamp on slayer.
To get yourself a few thousand points, it might be worth it to do a lower slayer master for the first 9 tasks, then switch to kuradel for the 10th task. Repeat this until you have as many point as you want!
To efficiently get Co-op points you should do the lowest Slayer master that gives them out which is [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvYYY_gT_sU"]Turael/Spria.[/url]
The 400 point slayer reward should only be purchased if you have enough points left before hitting 99. Otherwise, conserve these points!
An interesting read, and a much better guide, in my opinion, can be found [URL="http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Slayer_training_guide_%28high-levelled%29"]here
*****Some of the formatting may be off because I wrote this in word first. Also, this guide will have more pictures in the future and links to the Wiki page for each monster.