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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, namely {{ItemIcon|Slayer Skillcape}}. This will make the order you obtain the final weapons in effectively random, but if you want to do them in a specific order, we recommend the following:

Item fragments are very rare drops, and you should attempt to sneak in as much item doubling into your gear as possible. Using Combat Sim to measure your Drops/hr with no deaths is highly recommended. It can make the difference in literal days of grinding.

While it may seem that using these weapons to farm the other weapons would be beneficial, this is not the case due to the relatively weak power level of {{ItemIcon|Tidal Edge}} and {{ItemIcon|Ocean Song}} compared to other available weapons. The only suggestion here is to obtain {{ItemIcon|Shockwave}} and use it to obtain {{ItemIcon|Ocean Song}}

The common orders are:

| Outpaces Rokken's stun

| Powerful ranged weapon comparable to slayer's crossbow

| {{Skill|Agility|Spike Jump}}

| +5% Chance to Double Items. {{Skill|Agility|Pipe Crawl}} will be slightly faster, but the negative to slayer coins hurts, especially for Magic sets using the {{ItemIcon|Cyclops}} synergy.

For all combat styles, use {{ItemIcon|Diamond Luck Potion IV|Diamond Luck Potions}}

To be able to idle {{MonsterIcon|Umbora}} with {{Skill|Magic}}, you'll need 47 DR assuming you have 1000 HP.

{{MonsterIcon|Umbora}} can be killed with Normal Magic if you have a {{ItemIcon|Cloudburst Staff}} or an {{ItemIcon|Ocean Song}}, or with Ancient Magicks at a much slower rate. Note that Cloudburst is by far the fastest method, even if you have to squeeze in extra DR from {{ItemIcon|Guardian Ring}} or {{Skill|Prayer}}

{{ItemIcon|Slayer Wizard Hat (Master)}} and {{ItemIcon|Slayer Wizard Robes (Master)}} will kill you if used with {{ItemIcon|Cloudburst Staff}} and the normal build above. If all you care about is fragments, it is possible to equip a build with Master Slayer armor that is approximately 4% faster than the above recommended build. This is accomplished by equipping {{ItemIcon|Slayer Wizard Hat (Master)}}, {{ItemIcon|Slayer Wizard Robes (Master)}}, {{ItemIcon|Skull Cape}} AND {{Skill|Agility|Rocky Waters}} - all 3 pieces of equipment must be worn to outpace Glacia armor, and the agility course keeps you from dying. You need 1090 HP and 44 DR.

To be able to idle {{MonsterIcon|Ku-tul}} with {{Skill|Ranged}}, you'll need 48 DR assuming you have {{formatnum:1000}} HP.

To most efficiently kill {{MonsterIcon|Ku-tul}} you'll use one of {{ItemIcon|Shockwave}}, {{ItemIcon|Slayer's Crossbow}} or a {{ItemIcon|Stormsnap}}. Use of {{ItemIcon|Jadestone Bolts}} is recommended, {{ItemIcon|Emerald Bolts}} are not recommended as jadestone bolts should be plentiful enough at this point in progression.

{{MonsterIcon|Rokken}} is by far the most dangerous and is both willing, and able to kill you if you are not extremely careful in your setup. This monster is able to buff itself to an attack speed of 2.2s, and is able to stun you, which massively increases its damage against you. Your goal here is either to be able to survive the increased stun damage, or to never actually take the stun damage by having an equivalent or faster attack speed than the monster.  

You need to use Melee for this grind, and as said before, it is highly recommended that you use an {{ItemIcon|Infernal Claw}} to complete this. {{ItemIcon|Tidal Edge}} is too slow to reliably survive Rokken's stun without significant extra work, requiring you to put on more DR that will massively affect your kill time. Assuming you were able to use the exact same setup with no {{Skill|Astrology}} buffs, {{ItemIcon|Infernal Claw}} is only 1-2% slower than {{ItemIcon|Tidal Edge}}. Adding buffs from {{Skill|Astrology}}, adding the additional DR or attack interval reduction required for Tidal Edge, and using summoning combat familiars invert this difference and make Tidal Edge up to 20% slower with no tangible benefit.

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|colspan="8"|{{ItemIcon|Infernal Claw}}

The {{ItemIcon|Fighter Amulet|Fighter}}/{{ItemIcon|Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs|FEZ}} is the best passive/neck setup, even beating out the item doubling from {{ItemIcon|Chapeau Noir}}. Note that wearing {{ItemIcon|Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs|FEZ}} is required to wear Master Slayer armor.

For this set-up to work safely without risk of death, the player's attack interval while in combat with this enemy '''must''' be less than or equal to 2.2 seconds, as this means the player is quick enough to avoid taking extra damage when {{MonsterIcon|Rokken}} attacks with the Shockwave special attack. To achieve this, we use a weapon that has a base 2.2s interval, and gather 40% total slayer area negation through {{ItemIcon|Slayer Skillcape}} and {{ItemIcon|Slayer Helmet (Elite)}}.