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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
,
or
, our sources of DR are quite limited, but they exist. Note that all of the items in this section requires
to be completed. Because of the tight DR windows, this section of the guide assumes
and 
Finn, the Cat. It may be possible to supplement lower
levels with
,
, 
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
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.
Boots
The first item is the Frost Walker Boots from Large Ice Troll in
, which requires
. 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 | |
 |  Wasteful Ring | |
 |  Ocean Song | |
 |  Shield of Magic Power | |
 | Third Master Slayer Piece | |
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As usual, the spell of choice will be
.
Body / Legs
With the DR offered from Frost Walker Boots, the next easily obtainable item is Perfect Sight Legs from Conda in
, requiring only
. This monster is easily handled with
if your
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
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.
Another very easily obtained item is Bundled Protection Body from Alraune in
. 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.
| Slot | Item (most effective → least effective) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
|  Slayer Helmet (Master) | ||
|  Slayer Platebody (Master) | ||
|  Ragnar God Platelegs | ||
|  Frost Walker Boots | ||
|  Relentless Fury Gloves |  Ragnar God Gloves |  Terran God Gloves |
| Superior Slayer Skillcape | Slayer Skillcape |  Infernal Cape |
|  Fighter Amulet | Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs | |
|  Relentless Fury Ring |  Hunter's Ring |  Fighter Ring |
|  Ultima Godsword |  Spectral Ice Sword |  Tidal Edge |
|  Shield of Melee Power | ||
| Shield of Melee Power | Third Master Slayer Piece |  Elder Crown |
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It is not necessary to use
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.
Weapon
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 | ||
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|  Shield of Ranged Power | ||
 |  Jadestone Bolts |  Diamond Bolts |  Sapphire Bolts |
| Third Master Slayer Piece | Guardian Amulet | |
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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
and potentially
to make up for the lost DR.
Legendary Slayer Gear
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
, 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).
Ancient Sanctuary
We start with working towards
. To access this dungeon you first must acquire 5 clue pieces, each from the 5 unique enemies in
. 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
for the
enemy, Poison Toad.
With the five clue pieces obtained, purchase 
Labyrinth Solution from the shop in order to access
. You will be looking to obtain 100 
Weakness Exploiter Cape Material, which will require about 450 
Ancient Chest. This cape is very strong for
as it provides hefty range offensive bonuses, a nice 3% DR and -7% enemy DR when using
. This grind is quite lengthy.
| Slot | Item (most effective → least effective) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
|  Slayer Helmet (Legendary) | ||
|  Slayer Platebody (Legendary) | ||
| Perfect Sight Legs | ||
| Frost Walker Boots | ||
| Relentless Fury Gloves | ||
|  Superior Strength Skillcape | Infernal Cape | |
| Fighter Amulet | Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs | |
| Wasteful Ring | ||
| Ultima Godsword | Spectral Ice Sword | |
| Shield of Melee Power | ||
| Shield of Melee Power | Fighter Amulet | Elder Crown |
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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. At this point it is no longer recommended to use 
Ragnar God Gloves, as the stun chance from the relentless combo is useful in stopping the boss 
Morellia from healing. You should not need a Wasteful Ring for this fight.
Phantom
Keeping with the theme of
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
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 as the legendary task pool is quite small. The increased DPS from the 
Superior Slayer Skillcape is very useful too.
| Slot | Item (most effective → least effective) | |
|---|---|---|
| Slayer Helmet (Legendary) | |
| Slayer Platebody (Legendary) | |
| Perfect Sight Legs | |
| Frost Walker Boots | |
| Relentless Fury Gloves | |
| Superior Slayer Skillcape | Slayer Skillcape |
| Fighter Amulet | Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs |
| Wasteful Ring | |
| Ultima Godsword | Spectral Ice Sword |
| Shield of Melee Power | |
| Guardian Amulet | |
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Lightning Region
With a lot of good
upgrades under our belt, we can work on clearing our way through
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
once. This dungeon is very easily cleared with Ultima Godsword or possibly with Spectral Ice Sword using the same setup as
, however you will have to take care to avoid fighting 
Magic Fire Demon while using
. These can very easily kill you outright, but are easily dispatched by swapping to
(wearing 
Aeris God Platelegs / 
Aeris God Boots if you only have one set of Perfect Sight Legs / Frost Walker Boots) and then switching back afterwards. The boss 
Trogark will outheal our punny damage from
with 
Ocean Song, so we have to rely on the raw power of Ultima Godsword instead to get the job done.
We can now work on clearing
. The boss will stun you frequently and heal a lot, but with the setup listed below you will be able to clear it. This dungeon is extremely lucrative, as every single item is useful. The 
Lightning Aura Helmet is our first 12% DR for the helmet slot and synergises with stuns so it is useful for
and
. 
Lightning Coil 2H Staff with
(any elemental spell is fine, but
uses 2 
Air Rune while the other strike spells only use 1 Air Rune and you will likely have an abundance of the other elemental runes) completely replaces Ocean Song and you cannot leave this dungeon without it. You will want 5 
Lightning Strike 1H Sword in order to make 
FrostSpark 1H Sword, which heavily synergies with stuns and the rest of the gear from this dungeon. This sword will probably replace Ultima Godsword as our go-to
weapon. You will want 15 
Lightning Boots and 15 
Lightning Amulet, as those upgrades are very useful and help with dealing with stuns and capitalising on enemy stuns.
| Slot | Item (most effective → least effective) | |
|---|---|---|
|  Slayer Cowl (Legendary) | |
|  Bundled Protection Body | |
| Perfect Sight Legs | |
|  Frostspark Boots | Frost Walker Boots |
| Poison Virulence Gloves | Aeris God Gloves |
|  Weakness Exploiter Cape | Infernal Cape |
| Deadeye Amulet | Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs |
| Wasteful Ring | |
|  Ethereal Longbow | |
|  Ancient Arrows | |
| Shield of Ranged Power | |
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After obtaining the relevant items from Static Chest, now is a good time to return to Legendary slayer and obtain the remaining frost items. With all the gear upgrades obtained so far, using
against Large Ice Trolls is perfectly safe. Ethereal Longbow will obliterate Spectral Ice Wolf, which yields considerable slayer coin income. Keep killing these monsters until you obtain 15 Frost Walker Boots and 5 Spectral Ice Swords.
Ice Hydra
STILL TESTING THIS SECTION
With our very good set of
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
task twice in a row, even if that is the only
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
gear and begin working towards 20 mythical tasks through Ice Hydra to obtain Slayer Gear Upgrade Kit (Mythical), leaving
on for the first time since elite slayer (feels wrong somehow). 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 200 or so) in order to expedite this process. Even with rerolling, this is expected to take about a week of continuous
, and even more time to replenish the food wasted.
| Slot | Item (most effective → least effective) | |
|---|---|---|
| Slayer Cowl (Legendary) | |
|  Slayer Leather Body (Legendary) | |
| Perfect Sight Legs | |
| Frost Walker Boots | |
| Poison Virulence Gloves | Aeris God Gloves |
| Superior Slayer Skillcape | Slayer Skillcape |
| Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs | |
| Wasteful Ring | |
| Ethereal Longbow | |
| Ancient Arrows | |
| Guardian Amulet | |
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The alternative to tackling Ice Hydra now would be to manual one completion of
in order to obtain access to
to fight 
Plague Doctors. This monster drops 
Area Control Potion III which can be used to combat the intense slowing aura of
. This will speed up the Mythical tasks by about 30-40%, but farming Plague Doctor does end up taking more time overall than the time saved on Ice Hydra. The advantage is that you will also accumulate a healthy stack of 
Penetration Potion III in doing so, which will be helpful for future dungeons.
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