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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

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Smithing

,

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Crafting

or

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Runecrafting

, our sources of DR are quite limited, but they exist. Note that all of the items in this section requires

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Impending Darkness Event

to be completed. Because of the tight DR windows, this section of the guide assumes

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120

and   Finn, the Cat. It may be possible to supplement lower

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Hitpoints

levels with

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Holy Aegis

,

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Stone Skin

,   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

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Hitpoints

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

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Forsaken Tundra

, which requires

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105

. 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).

As usual, the spell of choice will be

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Water Strike

. 2. With the DR offered from   Frost Walker Boots, the next easily obtainable item is   Perfect Sight Legs from   Conda in

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Jungle Labyrinth

, requiring only

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100

. This monster is easily handled with

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Melee

if your

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Hitpoints

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

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Jungle Labyrinth

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

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Jungle Labyrinth

. 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

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Magic

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.

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

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Holy Aegis

+

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Stone Skin

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

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Lava Lake

, 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

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Ancient Sanctuary

. To access this dungeon you first must acquire 5 clue pieces, each from the 5 unique enemies in

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Jungle Labyrinth

. 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

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Ranged

as it provides hefty range offensive bonuses, a nice 3% DR and -7% enemy DR when using

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Ranged

. Next, keeping with the theme of

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Ranged

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

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Holy Aegis

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

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Ranged

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

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Slayer

task twice in a row, even if that is the only

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Slayer

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

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Ranged

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

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Lightning Region

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

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Underground Lava Lake

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

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Melee

. These can very easily kill you outright, but are easily dispatched by swapping to

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Ranged

. The boss   Trogark will outheal our punny damage from

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Water Strike

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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