Volcanic Cave/Guide

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The guide is written with the goal of idling the dungeon. If you want to do it manually, the requirements are much more relaxed, although the more DR you have, the easier it is to do anyway.

Why clear Volcanic Cave?

On each clear, you get the Fire Cape that gives 2% DR.

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Volcanic Cave

is the place where you gear up in preparation for the

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Air God Dungeon

.

It is also a place to farm 10 Amulets of Fury for FEZ. Check the FEZ/Guide to see if it's the best option for you.

After you clear it 100 times, you will unlock Ancient Magicks -

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Slicing Winds

,

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Icicle Volley

, and

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Ignite

- Icicle Volley is by far the strongest. Ancient Magicks is not affected by damage amplification in any way except the Combat Triangle. No curses, no debuffs, no gear buffs. However, it is much stronger than the basic magic at this stage. For instance, when basic magic could clear

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Volcanic Cave

8 times per hour, Ancient Magicks could do it 22 times.

Gear to idle

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Volcanic Cave

contains only

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Melee

monsters. Therefore, clearing it with pre-Volcanic

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Ranged

setups is unfeasible due to the Combat Triangle penalties. It is assumed that you have

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Auto Eat - Tier III

.

Melee

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Volcanic Cave

is usually done with

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Melee

because the dragon armor set requires only

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Level 99

to produce. It then can be trimmed to provide 30% DR. Below is the melee loadout that requires

810
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Hitpoints

to idle the dungeon on any game mode. However, pay attention that even slightly less DR or HP will mean death for this loadout because it hangs 2 HP away from the max hit of Malcs.

Item Slot DR
(G) Dragon Helmet Head 6%
(G) Dragon Platebody Body 6%
(G) Dragon Platelegs Leggings 6%
(G) Dragon Boots Boots 6%
Paladin Gloves Hands 4%
Knight's Cape Cape 1%
Elite Amulet of Defence Neck 2%
Silver Diamond Ring Ring 1%
Any
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Melee
Weapon 0%
(G) Dragon Shield Off-hand 6%
Total 38%

Magic

The other possible option is

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Magic

. Please note that to idle the dungeon with the build below, you must have

800
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Hitpoints

or more and Weakening III active.

Item Slot DR
Fire Expert Wizard Hat Head 5%
Fire Expert Wizard Robes Body 5%
Fire Expert Wizard Bottoms Leggings 5%
Fire Expert Wizard Boots Boots 5%
(U) Ancient D-hide Vambraces Hands 6%
Skull Cape Cape 3%
Elite Amulet of Defence Neck 2%
Silver Diamond Ring Ring 1%
Any
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Magic
Weapon 0%
Miolite Shield Off-hand 2%
Total 34%

Weapon choice

The information in the table below was produced by using the Combat Simulator and the respective builds above.

The clears per hour are counted for a Hardcore character with level 70 in everything except level 81

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HP

. No other buffs.

Item Clears per hour Time to get (95% confidence)
Dragon Sword 6.39 instant
Ancient Sword 7.04 medium
Dragon Claw 7.07 medium
Sunset Rapier 8.49 medium
Ancient Claw 9.23 long
Magic Wand (Powerful) 9.28 fast

The Wand's clear speed was counted without taking

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Runecrafting

into account. The adjusted clear time would definitely be lower than Ancient Claw's.

Gear options

Gloves
Item DR Requirements
Paladin Gloves 4% none
(U) Red D-hide Vambraces 4%
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Level 60
(U) Black D-hide Vambraces 5%
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Level 70
(U) Ancient D-hide Vambraces 6%
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Level 80

Even though you might want the best option for you, think if you really want to farm

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Dragons Den

for it, which can be both time- and food-expensive perspective. The Red and Black Vambraces can be either crafted with

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Crafting

or dropped from

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Spider Forest

. Or you might just farm some Paladins.

Cape
Item Upside Downside
Knight's Cape 1% DR
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Level 88
unique drop
Skull Cape 3% DR Screws up
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Melee
accuracy
Firemaking Skillcape XP boost
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Level 99
, no DR increase
Obsidian Cape Spend less food Rare drop, no DR increase
Fire Cape 2% DR You need to clear
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Volcanic Cave
once
Boots

The choice of boots is small because we don't want to drop in DR too much.

Item DR% Requirements
(G) Dragon Boots 6%
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Level 60
(G) Rune Boots 5%
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Level 40
Ring
Item Benefit
Silver Diamond Ring 1% DR
Aorpheat's Signet Ring 5% chance to double Elite Chest and 100% more money
Ring of Wealth 7% chance to double Elite Chest
Gold Sapphire Ring 30 reflect to clear the dungeon a bit faster