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If you have {{Skill|Slayer|45}}, you can consider obtaining a set of {{ItemIcon|Gloves of Silence}} to help with fundraising. This item alone almost doubles the gp/hr of {{MonsterIcon|Cow|Cows}} and it turns {{MonsterIcon|Plant|Plants}} surprisingly into one of the best early money makers. | If you have {{Skill|Slayer|45}}, you can consider obtaining a set of {{ItemIcon|Gloves of Silence}} to help with fundraising. This item alone almost doubles the gp/hr of {{MonsterIcon|Cow|Cows}} and it turns {{MonsterIcon|Plant|Plants}} surprisingly into one of the best early money makers. | ||
At {{Skill|Slayer|50}}, save up enough {{SC | At {{Skill|Slayer|50}}, save up enough {{SC}} slayer coins to purchase a {{ItemIcon|Desert Hat}}. You will also transition from {{UpgradeIcon|Basic Resupply}} to {{UpgradeIcon|Standard Resupply}} for the rest of the game at this point. This item gives you access to {{ItemIcon|Rune Gloves}}, {{ItemIcon|Desert Wrappings}}, {{ItemIcon|(G) Rune Boots}} and {{ItemIcon|Sand Treaders}}, as well {{ItemIcon|Desert Sabre}} that you may want to farm at one point. You will want to farm for at least {{ItemIcon|Rune Gloves}} and {{ItemIcon|(G) Rune Boots}} from the respective creatures in {{ZoneIcon|Arid Plains}}, as these have relatively common drop rates and won't take long. {{ItemIcon|Desert Wrappings}} offer a nice 2% DR which will help with {{ZoneIcon|Spider Forest}}, but can be skipped as they will soon be replaced with {{ItemIcon|Paladin Gloves}}. It is possible to kill {{MonsterIcon|Turkul Giant|Turkul Giants}} at this point to obtain {{ItemIcon|Dragon Scimitar}} or {{ItemIcon|Desert Sabre}}, but these upgrades are relatively minor over the {{ItemIcon|Rune 2H Sword}} and will soon be replaced with items from {{ZoneIcon|Deep Sea Ship}} anyway. | ||
'''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 as they will round down to 0 healing. | '''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 as they will round down to 0 healing. |
Latest revision as of 15:54, 27 April 2024
To start, you should have:
Auto Eat - Tier I, Full
Mithril Armour,
40 /
40 /
40,
Ice Sword,
Adamant Dagger
At the end, you should have: Almost full
(G) Adamant Armour,
Amulet of Looting,
Rune 2H Sword,
70 /
70 /
70
While your next target is Adamant Knights, you should know that levelling
Attack and
Defence up to 50 will effectively reduce your healing per Knight from 1700 to 1200.
Important note: DO NOT IDLE KNIGHTS. Make sure to always have more HP than the max hit of the enemy, and try to eat food right after your attack timer ends, so you don’t reset an attack in progress. Eat until full HP, or at least until you have enough HP to survive any attack. The 2.6s interval of the
Adamant Knight is not really a danger provided you’re PAYING ATTENTION and have enough food.
Your Ice Sword is great for leveling all of your combat stats. You may do this at
Statue, to prepare for gear upgrades, and thus your first Damage Reduction points!
Each Adamant piece has a 1/48 chance of dropping. Good luck on that! You don’t necessarily care about the
Adamant Boots as there are reliable sources in
Turkul Riders which also drop
Rune Boots very soon from now. If you are lucky enough to snag an
Obsidian Cape, rejoice as this item offers the biggest evasion upgrade of any item dropped by
Adamant Knights. Its very low drop rate (1/240), however, may deter you from grinding for it. It will be a while until you replace the
Cape for anything else, so you will get a lot of use out of it. There is no point wasting
Silver/
Gold Bars on the
Boots. Upgrade the rest of the equipment you get to
(G) Adamant as soon as you get them, since each piece gives you 4% Damage Reduction. Since you will be using 2H weapons for awhile you may skip
(G) Adamant Shield, but it will still be a useful shield until
(G) Rune Shield or
Dragonfire Shield so it is worth upgrading.
Your next goal after full adamant is a weapon upgrade. This will come from
Elerine Warriors and are the
Rune 2H Sword and the
Elerine Spear. With 3 out of 5
(G) adamant pieces and a
Silver Diamond Ring from
Mummies totalling 13% DR, this monster can be safely idled with
Auto Eat - Tier I, 13% DR and 540 hitpoints. Of the two drops we seek, the former is a relatively common drop (1/36) and a considerable step up from the
Ice Sword (yielding double the clears/hr of
Spider Forest). The
Elerine Spear is a slight upgrade over the
Rune 2H Sword, but it is a much lower drop rate (1/180), so it may not really be worth grinding for. It is worth noting that while both weapons are fantastic when used on their correct style(s), they are utterly abysmal at the other style(s). The
Elerine Spear should only ever be used on stab to train
Attack, while the
Rune 2H Sword can be used to train
Strength and
Defence equally.
If you have 45, you can consider obtaining a set of
Gloves of Silence to help with fundraising. This item alone almost doubles the gp/hr of
Cows and it turns
Plants surprisingly into one of the best early money makers.
At 50, save up enough
slayer coins to purchase a
Desert Hat. You will also transition from
Basic Resupply to
Standard Resupply for the rest of the game at this point. This item gives you access to
Rune Gloves,
Desert Wrappings,
(G) Rune Boots and
Sand Treaders, as well
Desert Sabre that you may want to farm at one point. You will want to farm for at least
Rune Gloves and
(G) Rune Boots from the respective creatures in
Arid Plains, as these have relatively common drop rates and won't take long.
Desert Wrappings offer a nice 2% DR which will help with
Spider Forest, but can be skipped as they will soon be replaced with
Paladin Gloves. It is possible to kill
Turkul Giants at this point to obtain
Dragon Scimitar or
Desert Sabre, but these upgrades are relatively minor over the
Rune 2H Sword and will soon be replaced with items from
Deep Sea Ship anyway.
BEWARE: Do not Auto Eat
Potatoes in the
Arid Plains unless you have at least
Auto Eat - Tier II. You will lose all your
Potatoes instantly as they will round down to 0 healing.
Killing Paladins for
Paladin Gloves at this stage is somewhat viable, but they have a low drop rate and the Auto Eat threshold is quite high. Over a long period, the chance of making a mistake and dying is quite high, so it would be better to wait until you can rely on auto eat to do its thing. Around 20% DR and 660 HP.
Chaper III-B: Amulet of Looting
With a hefty chunk of upgrades under your belt, it is time to fight the first early game milestone in the Spider King. This monster drops the
Amulet of Looting which is a special amulet which automatically loots gear acquired from Combat Areas and
Slayer Areas. You may get it from the
Spider Chest, with a 1/22 chance. This item marks the first paradigm shift in the HCCO game mode, as manual looting is now a thing of the past. Now is a good time to obtain the
Amulet of Looting as before this point most monsters either wouldn't drop 100 items in a reasonable time frame, or their drops were largely not important enough to prioritise picking up consistently. Our main food source up until now has been
Basic Resupply (or
Standard Resupply at
50 and beyond) which do not need to be looted, so the benefit of the amulet was minimal.
As a point of comparison, by using Mithril Armour, and having around
40 /
40 /
40, it will take you around 5000 healing from food per run of the
Spider Forest. With access to
gilded adamant &
(G) Rune Boots for DR and a trusty
Rune 2H Sword or
Elerine Spear, this boss can be idled with 18% DR and 590 HP for around 10 kills/hr. It is quite possible to beat the zone without having any form of
Auto Eat, and just make sure you time your manual eating right, since the damage of the
Spiders in the area is not too high. This may be appealing to players wishing to quickly eliminate manual looting from their routine.
Without any DR, the boss can instead be tackled with 710 HP and AE1. Check Can I Idle for any particular combination of requirements you happen to have. If you wanted to try obtain
Auto Eat - Tier II before this dungeon, know that this requires 5,000,000
, which would require around 25 hours of active gameplay at
Master Farmer, since you still don’t have auto looting, or around 40 hours of
Plant farming with
Gloves of Silence. Bad idea.
Chapter III-B: Making money early-mid: Master Farmer + Auto Eat II
The 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
Master Farmers grind, you get a total of 84% of the GP drops. That’s around 950
per kill.
Alternatively, equipping Gloves of Silence increases the base GP/kill of every monster by 150
. This makes low HP enemies such as
Plants and
Cows a great source of income too, albeit with lower xp/hr compared to
Master Farmers.
Later on at 70 you have access to
Raging Horned Elite, which drop a reasonable amount of sellable items (worth about 2,000
each kill) as well as a huge supply of
Trout. You will likely kill tens of thousands of this monster while gathering food, which can easily fund the more expensive upgrades remaining, so it is not important to over-focus on earning GP at this point.
Chapter III-C: Late to mid Game food: Slayer
Now is a good time to build up 150,000 Slayer Coins as
Auto Slayer is a great purchase to idly build up
Slayer Coins. With them, you can purchase
Standard Resupply, which nets you both a useful 150
Crab and 500
Magic Bones per purchase. This is the most efficient HP per
Slayer Coin (even moreso than
Generous Resupply!), 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 Master Farmer as your
Slayer task.
As noted before, beware of Wizards and
Fairies when using
Auto Slayer, and ensure they can not bypass your
Auto Eat threshold. They should be skipped either way, as they will consume a lot of food due to their high accuracy on melee armour.
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