Golden Cloud Mountains/Guide

t120 Farming

Following the purchase of the Golden Compass and defeating the

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

Necromancers Palace

, you now have access to

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

Golden Cloud Mountains

, the penultimate

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

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

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

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 5,000 kills on average. The player will also need to collect 10 extra fragments to purchase the Golden Shard adding another 500 kills for a total of 5,500 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:

Guides for the
Error creating thumbnail: File missing
Millennium Gate monsters can be found at Millennium Gate/Guide

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

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

Astrology

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

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

Prayer

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

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

Prayer

,

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

Potions

, and

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

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

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

Slayer Level 116

and the completion of the

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

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
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level 120	Less need for DR
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level 120	Pillar of Combat and Elite Pillar of Conflict
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level 115	Spectre and Fox Synergies
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level 118	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Battleborn
Vorloran Protector Armor	High damage reduction Error creating thumbnail: File missing Melee armor.
Vorloran Watcher Armor	High damage reduction Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ranged armor.
Vorloran Devastator Armor	High damage reduction Error creating thumbnail: File missing Magic armor.

Agility

#	Obstacle	Reason
1	X
2	X
3	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pipe Climb	No particular reason beyond being the only obstacle that grants any combat benefits.
4	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Coal Stones	No negative modifiers, technically saves some food.
5	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cliff Balance	+20 HP.
6	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lake Swim	+5% Damage, +1% DR. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Rocky Waters can be used instead.
7	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Boulder Trap	No negative combat modifiers.
8	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pipe Crawl	More damage. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Raft Building can be used instead.
9	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Water Jump	More damage. The 20 HP from Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ice Jump is not necessary.
10	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ocean Rafting	Free damage!
P	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pillar of Combat	Lots of beneficial combat bonuses.
11	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pipe Maze	More damage.
12	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Boulder Balance	Lower attack interval and more damage for the low price of lower accuracy.
13	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Balance Trap	This obstacle tier does not grant any direct bonuses to these grinds.
14	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Freezing Climb	More evasion, accuracy and damage.
15	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 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	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Elite Pillar of Conflict	Lots of beneficial combat bonuses.

Prayer

For Melee, use
Error creating thumbnail: File missing
Battleborn and
Error creating thumbnail: File missing
Valor or the highest level combat style prayers you have available.
For Ranged, use
Error creating thumbnail: File missing
Battleborn and
Error creating thumbnail: File missing
Avidity or the highest level combat style prayers you have available.
For Magic, use
Error creating thumbnail: File missing
Battleborn and
Error creating thumbnail: File missing
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

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

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

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

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

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

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

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

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

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

Magic

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

1,220

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

Hitpoints

. With Slicing Maelstrom Wand, use

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

Slicing Maelstrom

, Despair, and

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

Surge II

. With Archaic Wand or Calamity Wand, use

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

Infernal Power

, Despair, and

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

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

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

Melee

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

1,220

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

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

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

Ranged

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

1,220

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

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