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This section is still a work in progress, but will be updated with details as the meta develops.
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.
1. 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 | |||
 |  Hunter's Ring |  Burning Madness Ring |  Warlock Ring |  Wasteful Ring |
 |  Ocean Song | |||
 |  Shield of Magic Power | |||
 | Third Master Slayer Piece | |||
As usual, the spell of choice will be
.
2. 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.
3. 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.
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.
4. 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 Melee Power | ||
 |  Jadestone Bolts |  Diamond Bolts |  Sapphire Bolts |
| | Third Master Slayer Piece | Guardian Amulet | |
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
+
to make up for the lost DR.
5. 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.
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, 
Slayer Gear Upgrade Kit (Mythical), 
Lightning Coil 2H Staff and 
Ethereal Greataxe.
We start with
. 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 the five clue pieces obtained, purchase 
Labyrinth Solution from the shop. 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
. Next, 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. With a 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). 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.
With 
Slayer Cowl (Mythical) and 
Slayer Leather Body (Mythical) we can work on limping our way through
to obtain Lightning Coil 2H Staff. 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, 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
. 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.
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