Golden Cloud Mountains/Guide

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t120 Farming

Following the purchase of the   Golden Compass and defeating the

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Necromancers Palace

, you now have access to

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Golden Cloud Mountains

, the penultimate

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Slayer

Area in the  . These 3 mobs drop the highest level, most powerful, weapons in the game that are extremely helpful in completing the following slayer area, as well as the

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Throne of the Herald

. These can be extremely long grinds due to the difficulty of the monsters, and require quite a bit of preparation. Each weapon requires 100 fragments, and the fragments have a 2% drop rate. That's 2,000 kills on average. The player will also need to collect 10 extra fragments to purchase the   Golden Shard adding another 200 kills for a total of 2,200 average kills required with no item doubling.

We recommend acquiring them while fighting each monster as a slayer task, this will require you to turn OFF auto-slayer, and will encourage semi-frequent check-ins. Doing these on task will increase your damage dealt to them from various buffs. This will make the order you obtain the weapons in effectively random, but if you don't want to deal with the hassle of rerolling, or simply want to do them in a specific order, the guide will recommend the following order:

Order

The order you obtain these items in is not particularly important, and considering each separate item can be a huge upgrade individually, it is often recommended to fight each mob for only a short time before equipping the newly obtained armour and switching to the next, repeating this until the player has completed the sets.

Doing these grinds simultaneously with the grinds for the t120 Armor can also be a good idea,

A roughly complete order for finishing   Slayer as efficiently as possible would look like:

  1.   Torvair /   Arctair /   Harkair
  2.   Vorloran Devastator
  3.   Torvair
  4.   Vorloran Watcher
  5.   Harkair
  6.   Vorloran Protector
  7.   Arctair

Many players combine the grinding of these weapons with the grind for the   Slayer Gear Upgrade Kit (Mythical). An added benefit is the increased damage given by buffs like the   Slayer Skillcape and

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Astrology

while fighting Slayer Tasks. Another benefit is the ability to buy

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Prayer

Points,   Light Runes, and Food at a profit with the use of   Bountiful Resupply. Below are some gear suggestions. Depending on what

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Prayer

,

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Potions

, and

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Agility

buffs you use or have access to, your optimal gear can change.

Buffs

Requirements

There are very few hard requirements beyond the ability to survive and the entry requirement of

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 Slayer Level 116

and the completion of the

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Necromancers Palace

, but there are several skills and items that will make this grind significantly easier, and we would be remiss to not mention them

Suggestion Benefit
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Level 120
Less need for DR
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Level 120
Pillar of Combat and Elite Pillar of Conflict
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Level 115
Spectre and Fox Synergies
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Level 118
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Battleborn
  Vorloran Protector Armor High damage reduction
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Melee
armor.
  Vorloran Watcher Armor High damage reduction
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Ranged
armor.
  Vorloran Devastator Armor High damage reduction
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Magic
armor.

Agility

# Obstacle Reason
1 X
2 X
3
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Pipe Climb
No particular reason beyond being the only obstacle that grants any combat benefits.
4
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Coal Stones
No negative modifiers, technically saves some food.
5
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Cliff Balance
+20 HP.
6
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Lake Swim
+5% Damage, +1% DR.
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Rocky Waters
can be used instead.
7
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Boulder Trap
No negative combat modifiers.
8
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Pipe Crawl
More damage.
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Raft Building
can be used instead.
9
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Water Jump
More damage. The 20 HP from
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Ice Jump
is not necessary.
10
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Ocean Rafting
Free damage!
P
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Pillar of Combat
Lots of beneficial combat bonuses.
11  
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Pipe Maze
More damage.
12  
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Boulder Balance
Lower attack interval and more damage for the low price of lower accuracy.
13  
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Balance Trap
This obstacle tier does not grant any direct bonuses to these grinds.
14  
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Freezing Climb
More evasion, accuracy and damage.
15  
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Waterfall Crossing
Is the equivalent of a permanent diamond luck potion, which frees up a potion slot for   Damage Reduction Potion IV It is necessary to have this obstacle at 99 mastery to halve the -100hp modifier.
EP  
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Elite Pillar of Conflict
Lots of beneficial combat bonuses.

Prayer

  • For Melee, use
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    Battleborn
    and
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    Valor
    or the highest level combat style prayers you have available.
  • For Ranged, use
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    Battleborn
    and
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    Avidity
    or the highest level combat style prayers you have available.
  • For Magic, use
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    Battleborn
    and
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    Divination
    or the highest level combat style prayers you have available.

Potions

For all combat styles, use   Damage Reduction Potion IV

Summoning

For all combat styles, use   Spectre and

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Occultist

. This synergy adds a ridiculous amount to the player's chance to hit, even with otherwise maxed stats, and helps a lot in actually landing hits. Alternatively, use   Fox and

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Dragon

to deal a significant amount of unavoidable damage when the player is otherwise having trouble hitting the target

Notes

Checking your setups with the Combat Simulator before engaging any of these monsters is highly recommended. These setups have not been fully tested, and may not prove to be perfectly optimal.

While the Slayer Area Effect of

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Golden Cloud Mountains

provides a large amount of Lifesteal, each monster ALSO has a passive ability that grants them +500% Lifesteal from Bleed. This makes Area Effect Negation not particularly effective, coupled with the fact that wearing

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Slayer

armor can also prove detrimental to the player's Damage Reduction, it is best to not worry about the regular lifesteal, and focus on reducing the amount of ticks of Bleed the player takes.

This make   Bleed Burner Cape critically important for defeating these enemies efficiently. Possibly due to a bug, the way this cape's effect works causes each tick of bleed (there are 20 over the duration of a typical bleed) to each have a chance of completely removing the effect. For example, while the   Bleed Burner Cape gives the player a 50% chance to completely ignore the bleed before it is applied, it is also possible for the bleed to suddenly expire after only dealing 1 or 2 ticks of damage, massively reducing the damage the player takes, and therefore the Lifesteal the enemy receives.

Torvair

  Torvair drops   Agile Wings Rapier Shard to create the   Agile Wings Rapier

To be able to idle   Torvair with

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Magic

, the following build has 99% Damage Reduction out of combat (75% in combat) and

1,220
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Hitpoints

. With   Slicing Maelstrom Wand, use

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Slicing Maelstrom

,   Despair, and

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Surge II

. With   Archaic Wand or   Calamity Wand, use

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Infernal Power

,   Despair, and

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Surge II

.

Post-120s

Slot Better to Worse
Head   Vorloran Devastator Helmet   Mask of Despair
Body   Vorloran Devastator Platebody   Freezing Touch Body
Leggings   Vorloran Devastator Platelegs   Lightning Mythical Bottoms
Boots   Vorloran Devastator Boots   Frostspark Boots
Hands   Vorloran Devastator Gauntlets   Gloves of Greater Shade Summon
Cape   Bleed Burner Cape
Neck   Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs   Allure Amulet
Ring   Burning Madness Ring   Blood Ring
Passive   Ring of Power   Gauntlets of Rage
Weapon   Slicing Maelstrom Wand   Archaic Wand
Offhand   Shield of Magic Power   Leviathan Shield

Arctair

  Arctair drops   Feather Storm Crossbow Shard to create the   Feather Storm Crossbow

To be able to idle   Arctair with

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Melee

, the following build has 95% Damage Reduction out of combat (70% in combat) and

1,220
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Hitpoints

.

Post-120s

Slot Better to Worse
Head   Mask of Madness   Vorloran Protector Helmet
Body   Ward of Flame Platebody   Vorloran Protector Platebody
Leggings   Vorloran Protector Platelegs   Burning Protection Platelegs
Boots   Frostspark Boots   Vorloran Protector Boots
Hands   Vorloran Protector Gauntlets   Gloves of Greater Shade Summon
Cape   Bleed Burner Cape
Neck   Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs   FrostSpark Amulet
Ring   Ring of Power   Blood Ring
Passive   Fighter Amulet   Shield of Melee Power
Weapon   Agile Wings Rapier   FrostSpark 1H Sword
Offhand   Leviathan Shield   (P) Divine Shield

Harkair

  Harkair drops   Slicing Maelstrom Wand Shard to create the   Slicing Maelstrom Wand

To be able to idle   Harkair with

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Ranged

, the following build has 93% Damage Reduction out of combat (67% in combat) and

1,220
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Hitpoints

.

With   Feather Storm Crossbow, use   Zephyte Bolts or   Decay Bolts.

With   Divine Crossbow, use   Meteorite Bolts.

Post-120s

Slot Better to Worse
Head   Mask of Madness   Vorloran Watcher Helmet
Body   Vorloran Watcher Platebody   Bundled Protection Body
Leggings   Vorloran Watcher Platelegs   Perfect Sight Legs
Boots   Vorloran Watcher Boots   Frostspark Boots
Hands   Vorloran Watcher Gauntlets   Gloves of Greater Shade Summon
Cape   Bleed Burner Cape
Neck   Deadeye Amulet   Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs
Ring   Blood Ring   Poison Virulence Ring
Passive   Ring of Power   Gauntlets of Rage
Weapon   Feather Storm Crossbow   Divine Crossbow
Offhand   Shield of Ranged Power   Leviathan Shield