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Introduction

Combat in the follows a similar progression to the base game, and will be divided into three parts, the Early Game, the Mid Game, and the Late Game for Throne of the Herald.

This entire part of the guide is subject to change and will be updated as time goes by, for now, following some basic guidelines will be a good way to get started: Combat in the Throne of the Herald Expansion revolves significantly around using

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Slayer

areas to prepare to complete a dungeon. Leveling can be done in the first 2 Slayer Areas, the

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Jungle Labyrinth

and

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Lava Lake

- note that Deadly Poison is simply a more damaging version of Poison, it deals 25% of the player's HP over the duration instead of 10%.

A simplistic order for completing Combat:

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Jungle Labyrinth for the Labyrinth Solution
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Ancient Sanctuary - See Ancient Sanctuary/Guide
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Lava Lake and
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Forsaken Tundra
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Underground Lava Lake and
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Lightning Region Dungeons
*optional*:
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Lair of the Spider Queen - must be cleared manually at this stage.
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Foggy Lake for powerful midgame tools
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Midnight Valley for powerful midgame weapons
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Cursed Forest and
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Necromancers Palace for powerful lategame equipment
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Golden Cloud Mountains only until obtaining the Golden Shard
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Millennium Gate for BIS endgame Armor with the highest Damage Reduction
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Golden Cloud Mountains for BIS endgame weapons
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Lair of the Spider Queen
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Throne of the Herald

How Throne of the Herald affects Base Game Combat

All combat skills can be leveled up to 120, providing increased stats as a reward for the time spent:

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Hitpoints 200 extra HP can alleviate pain points in progression and allow the player to accomplish more difficult challenges without needing to make as many equipment tradeoffs.
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Prayer is likely to end up higher than level 99 while completing base game combat, allowing the player to use the extremely powerful
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Battleborn and
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/
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/
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, the highest level "Max Hit" Prayers.
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Attack,
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Strength,
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Defence,
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Ranged,
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Magic allow the player's max hit, accuracy rating, and evasion ratings will all increase, making the player more powerful

All Combat equipment (ie.

from

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Smithing,

from

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Crafting, and

from

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Runecrafting) CANNOT BE EQUIPPED until the defeat of

Bane, Instrument of Fear.

Necromancers Crown from
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Level 102 automatically doubles all Bones, as well as Holy Dust and
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Shards dropped by monsters in the God Dungeons.
The majority of
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Herblore Potions can be created and used without any progression into Combat.
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Agility provides more powerful buffs than previously available and does not require combat progression.
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Waterfall Crossing is an exceptional capstone obstacle that eliminates the need for Diamond Luck Potion to reliably connect with attacks.
Siren and Fox can be created in
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Summoning without requiring high level combat.
The
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Astrology Constellation
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Ashtar.
Superior Max Skillcape is a direct upgrade to the level 99 Maximum Skillcape as a reward for players who have fully leveled all of their skills.

Stats and Buffs

Astrology

At this point in the player's journey it can be safely assumed that they have unlocked the vast majority of bonuses from

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Astrology

, if the player is just starting in the expansion and hasn't completed Astrology, there are some major benefits that can be obtained from

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Ashtar

and some from

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Rosaniya

that should be picked up as soon as possible. Clearing the

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Cursed Forest

for the Sign of the Stars is of course helpful, but is rather deep into Expansion Combat and is likely unnecessary. Similarly, upon the defeat of Bane, Instrument of Fear, the

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Township

worship for Bane will be unlocked which provides the powerful ( Nightfall) Season that reduces the interval of

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Astrology

by 50% for 3 days.

Agility

#	Obstacle	Reason
11	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Frozen Maze	A great all-rounder with the primary bonus of additional Damage Reduction.
	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Water Maze	Global doubling is fantastic for monsters that die very quickly.
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	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pipe Maze	Fantastic for killing enemies of all kinds, can be detrimental to how fast the player can collect items due to its high negative doubling.
12	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Boulder Balance	More damage and a faster Attack Interval making the player deal even more damage and possibly able to avoid dangerous Stun, Freeze or Sleep effects.
13	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Rope Trap	Particularly useful for the earlier stages of Expansion Combat where the player can be hampered by the dps requirement of dungeon bosses.
13	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Balance Trap	Great for general use.
14	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Freezing Climb	Great for Expansion dungeons, deal more damage, take damage slightly less often!
14	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Gap Climb	Great for Error creating thumbnail: File missing Slayer, adding more damage and Area Effect Negation.
15	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Waterfall Crossing	This grants the effect of Diamond Luck Potion IV for an generally inconsequential penalty of Error creating thumbnail: File missing Hitpoints.
15	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Freezing Rafting	This should be the player's absolute last line of defence for survivability, and should not be considered unless absolutely necessary.
EP	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Elite Pillar of Expertise	The default pillar for nearly all of the Expansion - immensely powerful buffs for all skills, Global Doubling being very powerful in combat particularly.
EP	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Elite Pillar of Conflict	This Pillar is only recommended if Error creating thumbnail: File missing Slayer Area Effect Negation is 'required', its effects are rather lacklustre otherwise.

Herblore

With

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Waterfall Crossing

active, Diamond Luck Potion IV are no longer a near-necessity for the amount of damage they provide, this opens up many new options for which potion the player can use.

Max Hit potions can be a solid and reliable source of increased damage.
Damage Reduction Potion IV is incredibly useful for meeting DR requirements, especially for Late Expansion monsters and dungeons.
Slayer Bounty Potion IV is a hugely powerful buff for farming .
Area Control Potion IV can be useful for negating harmful Slayer Area Effects like those of
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Lava Lake,
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Forsaken Tundra or
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Foggy Lake.
Penetration Potion IV are potentially the highest amount of raw dps that can be gained from a potion and, once unlocked, can be used as the default combat potion for all Expansion Combat as soon as Ectoplasm is easily farmed.
Critical Strike Potion IV are about equal to Penetration Potions in most situations, but require a material that is easier to obtain without doing difficult combat.
Adaptive Potions feature a mechanic originally found on Pegasus, these potions should generally never be used as their effect actually decreases the player's stats if they fall below 57% of their max
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Hitpoints, and the effect is lacklustre compared to the myriad available options.

Summoning

Some particular synergies of note are:

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and Spectre - a lot of bonus damage, particularly against enemies with high Damage Reduction.
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and Fox - a lot of bonus damage, particularly against enemies with less Damage Reduction.
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and Siren - Extra damage with the added benefit of CC, most useful with multi-hit special attacks - monsters that are asleep can't deal damage!
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Occultist and Spectre - generally add up to an insane amount of raw accuracy and chance to hit, one of the few places where simply getting more accuracy is actually a tangible benefit instead of a minor change in power.
Fox and
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Dragon - Great with multi-hit special attacks against enemies with high HP.
Spider and
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Dragon - particularly when paired with Hinder Potion IV and the Royal Toxins Spear,
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Poison Pods or
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Natures Bloom

Consumable Slot

Explorers Map and Explorers Map II for a very powerful group of buffs for
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Slayer.
Whetstone let the player deal more
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Melee damage.
Wizard's Scroll and Wizard's Scroll II to preserve Runes.
Slayer Torch and Mystic Lantern to unlock the
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Afflicted City and
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Midnight Valley
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Slayer Areas. These consumables can be avoided by equipping the Superior Slayer Skillcape - the Slayer Skillcape will not work for these items.

Throne of the Herald Combat

Early Game Throne of the Herald: Levels 100-110

After defeating Bane, Instrument of Fear in the

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Impending Darkness Event

, the player unlocks the ability to wear all level 100+ weapons and armor. The immediate goals will be gearing up with new equipment and beginning the journey into expansion combat by defeating the monsters in the

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Jungle Labyrinth

to unlock the Clues required to unlock the

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Ancient Sanctuary

.

Major Goals

New weapons and armor from non-combat skills. All level 100+ armor is a direct upgrade from Aeris, Glacia, and Terran God Armors with better offensive stats and Damage Reduction. Unfortunately, the extra accuracy and damage of the Ragnar God Armor is lost, but the large amount of extra damage reduction is more than worth the tradeoff:
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  Smithing is used to create Corundum, Augite, Meteorite, and Divinite armor and weapons. All armor except Meteorite must be upgraded with Iridium and Palladium Bars to get Damage Reduction and higher Defensive stats.
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  Crafting is used to create Elderwood, Revenant, and Carrion. All armor must be upgraded with the same logs used to create the original pieces to get Damage Reduction and higher Defensive stats. Carrion Armor requires Carrion Bark from the
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  Ancient Sanctuary.
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  Runecrafting is used to create Poison, Lightning, and Infernal Wizard robes of Master, Legendary, and Mythical tier. Robes do not need to be upgraded to acquire new stats. There are also new Runes and Weapons that facilitate the usage of the new Archaic Magicks - the first of which is unlocked after defeating the
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  Ancient Sanctuary.
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Jungle Labyrinth monsters drop the items required to purchase the Labyrinth Solution as well as the earliest gear upgrade options.

Melee

Melee training should typically be done on Alraune.

Ranged

The first few slayer areas have lots of potential

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Magic

monsters to be killed for

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Ranged

experience.

Magic

The first few slayer areas have lots of potential

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Melee

monsters to be killed for

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Magic

experience. Unfortunately none hold items that are either rare or simply take a long time to obtain - so the choice comes down to whatever is most convenient or is simply the best XP rate.

Mid Game Throne of the Herald: Levels 111-120

Here the players goal is to finish collecting as many special pieces of equipment to fully kit out their character in preparation for the final stretch of combat. This will include all of the non-final boss Dungeons and all but the last two Slayer Areas.

Major Goals

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Foggy Lake monsters drop the Allure Amulet, Bleed Burner Cape, and pieces to make the Leviathan Shield.
The Goliath Werewolf drops the Gauntlets of Rage.
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Lair of the Spider Queen drops the powerful Royal Toxins Spear.
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Cursed Forest drops the powerful Mask of Madness, Mask of Torment, and Mask of Despair that are designed to be used with
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Melee,
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Ranged, and
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Magic. These masks can be worn for the rest of the game.
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Necromancers Palace drops items that are not particularly powerful, and can be avoided except for completion purposes.
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Midnight Valley Each monster also drops Ectoplasm as their Bones drop, which can be used to create Spectre Summoning tablets.

Melee

Cockatrice will typically be the best source of XP, but it is always important to make sure you have all the items you need/want before exclusively chasing XP.

Ranged

Siren will typically be the best source of XP, but it is always important to make sure you have all the items you need/want before exclusively chasing XP.

Magic

Gret-Yun will typically be the best source of XP, but it is always important to make sure you have all the items you need/want before exclusively chasing XP.

Late Game Throne of the Herald: Levels 118-120

Here we beat up the final, toughest monsters the game has to offer, then we kill the The Herald and put an end to his reign.

Major Goals

Torvair, Arctair, and Harkair drop fragments of the most powerful weapons in the game - the Agile Wings Rapier, Feather Storm Crossbow, and Slicing Maelstrom Wand. A guide for these monsters can be found at Golden Cloud Mountains/Guide
Vorloran Protector, Vorloran Watcher, and Vorloran Devastator drop the highest damage reduction armor in the game - the Vorloran Protector Armor, Vorloran Watcher Armor, and Vorloran Devastator Armor. A guide for these monsters can be found at Millennium Gate/Guide
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Throne of the Herald contains the The Herald. The guide for this dungeon can be found at Throne of the Herald (Dungeon)/Guide

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Contents

Introduction

How Throne of the Herald affects Base Game Combat