Combat Guide

. It goes over the god dungeons and concludes with the guidance for the endgame content.

There are several non-combat skills that improve various parts of your combat experience:

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Agility - Many of the obstacles provide combat bonuses.
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Herblore - Diamond Luck Potions are among the highest DPS boosts in the game.
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Thieving - There are a multitude of useful item drops from several NPCs, including Chapeau Noir, Knight's Defender, and others.
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Astrology - These are easy to obtain bonuses to your character. The hidden levels provide accuracy bonuses, as well as other nice easy to acquire boosts.
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Summoning - The tablets provide boosts to combat effectiveness and do damage. The
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Dragon burn effect is great against hard-to-hit enemies.

Other skills are necessary for smooth progression and to provide the funds for it:

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Fletching,
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Smithing,
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Crafting for jewelry and ranged armor,
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Firemaking because its significant XP boost,
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Fishing/
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Farming/
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Cooking for healing.

In general, the idea is to deal most damage per minute and stay alive because dying will result in losing a piece of gear. Losing the item that takes a month to acquire is not what you want to experience.

Melvor Idle in general is not competitive, so it is recommended to set a goal and work towards it. Things like FEZ are highly satisfying to finish. Clearing God Dungeons also greatly assists the core game skills, so maybe

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Master of Nature

is your goal.

Gear Stats

All gear has certain stats that link it to one of the combat styles:

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Melee

,

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Ranged

, or

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Magic

.

The gear that is more difficult to obtain is usually better. Closer the endgame, the choices become more situational rather than strictly better.

For stat breakdowns and math, use Combat Simulator or read the Combat wiki page.

Shared Stats

Attack Speed

Attack Speed, or AS, is determined mainly by the attack speed of your weapon. It is given as seconds per attack, so lower is better. Things that affect your attack speed are:

Elder Crown - Helmet, drops from Elder Vampire
Sand Treaders - Boots, drops from Turkul Riders
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Surge I /
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Surge II /
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Surge III - Spells
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Otto - Pet from
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Dark Waters
Knight's Defender -
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Thieving from Knight, melee only
Ring of Barrage -
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Craftable ring
Guardian Amulet and Spiked Shell Ring - These negatively impact your attack speed
- Guardian Amulet - Drops from Earth Chests upgraded from
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  Earth Shards,
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  Earth God Dungeon
- Spiked Shell Ring - Upgrade from 10 Guardian Rings and 500 Stinging Essence. Endgame item
Slows

Damage Reduction

Damage Reduction, or DR, is for the majority of the game the stat to optimize for. DR, HP, and Auto Eat tier all determine what is the highest damage hit you can survive, and relatedly what content you can... idle. This is not an exhaustive list, but DR can be found on:

- All gold-trimmed armor pieces
- All Ancient tier gear, trimmed to max
- All god dungeon gear
Silver Diamond Ring - Can be obtained through crafting, battle drops, or thieving
Damage Reduction Potions
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Leonardo - Defense Pet
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Erran - Earth God Dungeon Pet
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Agility Obstacles
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Safeguard/
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Stone Skin - Prayer
Absorbing Shield - Gain DR, lose evasion rating

For the end game, there are some prayers and items that drop from

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Impending Darkness

that affect your enemies DR:

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Battleheart - Prayer, reduces enemy DR
Shield of Ranged Power
Shield of Magic Power
Shield of Melee Power
Ring of Power
Bone

Auto Eat

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Auto Eat

is the built-in upgrade that makes you eat at low health. Upgrading this as quickly as possible is critical. Auto Eat Tier along with your health and damage resistance controls the vast majority of accessible content. You can do dungeons much, much earlier with

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Auto Eat - Tier III

. With Auto Eat, the type of food does not matter as long as you do not run out of it. It doesn't matter if you eat Potatoes or Whale (Perfect): that would only affect how much health you gain per one eaten item and how much time you spend

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Cooking

/

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Farming

instead of fighting monsters.

Auto Eat Threshold

Auto Eat Threshold reduces the effective HP necessary to trigger your auto eat, lowering the necessary HP/DR required. If you hinge on this mechanic, it is advised to test your build in the Combat Simulator before using it. Currently, only one item affects the Auto Eat threshold:

Wasteful Ring - Drops from Wicked Greater Dragon

Auto Eat Efficiency

Auto Eat efficiency increases the amount of HP healed per piece of food eaten. This can be found on:

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Cooking item mastery
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Astrology constellation modifiers
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Agility Obstacles
Famished Potions

Slayer Area Effectiveness Reduction

Slayer Area Effectiveness Reduction reduces the effect of the slayer area effects on your character when fighting in one of these areas. These can range from annoying (Forest of Goo, Arid Plains) to downright progress blocking (Dark Waters, Unhallowed Wasteland). This is another stat where Combat Sim testing is highly effective. This stat can be found on:

Pillar of Combat - Agility capstone
Hunter's Ring - Drops from Hunting Greater Dragon
- All slayer armor from the shop (higher tier provides more)
Slayer Skillcape / Max Skillcape - Max out the skills

Armor/Evasion Rating

These are included on all pieces of armor, and are heavily connected to the Combat Triangle. The higher the number, the better.

It's important to note that the evasion rating does not affect what content you can idle! It simply affects how often you are hit and thus how much food you need.

It helps to kill enemies faster only if they can stun, slow, or sleep you because in this case you would evade their disabling attacks more often.

Class-related Stats

Melee Stats

Melee gear focuses on 4 stats:

Strength bonus: One of the factors that determines max hit
Stab/Slash/Block bonus: Determines the accuracy (chance to hit) of that particular attack style. Every weapon favors one of the styles, and using the correct one will boost your effective DPS.

Magic Stats

Magic armor and weapons focus on 2 stats:

Magic Damage Bonus: A % increase in max hit
Magic attack bonus: Determines your accuracy

Additionally, magic also benefits from Rune Preservation Chance and Rune Cost Reduction. These can be found on:

- All staves
- All imbued wands. Crafted via
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Runecrafting from Magic Wand (Elite)
Book of Eli - Drops from
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Hall of Wizards dungeon
Book of Occults - Drops from Necromancer (lv. 110)
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Salem - Magic Pet
Skull Cape - Slayer Shop

Ranged Stats

Ranged armor and weapons focus on 2 stats:

Ranged strength bonus: Determines your max hit
Ranged attack bonus: Determines your accuracy

Additionally ranged gear also benefits from Ammo Preservation. This can be found on:

Ranger Boots - Drops from Spider Chest,
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Spider Forest (lv. 158)
Ranger Hat - Drops from Spider Chest,
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Spider Forest (lv. 158)
Ranged Skillcape - Skillcape for 99 Ranged
Cape of Ranged Preservation
Marahute - Ranged Pet
/ - All Throwing Knives and Javelins
Throwing Power Gloves - Negatively impacts ranged preservation using throwing weapons

Special Attacks and Loot Passives

Beyond stats, many pieces of equipment have Special Attacks or passive effects.

Special Attacks have a percentage chance of triggering when in combat and will replace your standard attack. A list of equipment and spells with special attacks can be viewed on the Special Attacks page.

Loot Passive effects are bonuses that are always in play. These will increase your GP/hr as well as provide more loot to speed up many of the long grinds in the game. Item doubling is the most critical. These can be found on:

Ring of Wealth - With the advent of the
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Thieving update, Aorpheats has finally been dethroned as the one-stop-shop for combat item doubling. This gives an extra 2%, which adds up!
Aorpheat's Signet Ring - Made with parts A/B, collected from doing combat/non-combat skills while wearing a Gold Topaz Ring
Chapeau Noir - Rare
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Thieving Drop
Pillar of Generosity -
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Agility capstone

Gold doubling is much more niche. This can be found on:

Gold Topaz Ring - Made in
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Crafting, or common drop
Gloves of Silence - Drops from Thief (lv. 86)
Fine Coinpurse - Thieving
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Woman (lv. 1)
Gold Crested Shield - Thieving
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King (lv. 95)
Jeweled Necklace - Low Town
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Thieving Drop (lv. 1)
Ring of Wealth - Royal Castle
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Thieving Drop (lv. 79)
Sneak-Ers - Rare
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Thieving Drop

External Tooling

The two popular external tools are the Combat Simulator and the site called Can I Idle.

Combat Simulator is a browser extension maintained by TinyCoyote that allows you to estimate many attributes of combat, such as death rate, XP/hr, drops/hr, DPS, and so on. With Combat Simulator, it is trivial to check if your setup is going to work or not. It uses the same webworker as the game itself, so it's quite accurate.

Can I Idle is a site built and maintained by Silber. You enter some of the stats found on the combat page and see which enemies you can or can't idle. It's a very useful tool throughout the game.

This section will be expanded in the future.

Slayer

If you play actively, you can start with

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Slayer

early. If you want to progress in it, unlocking

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Auto Slayer

should be your first goal. You will also level your combat skills along the way. If you idle, it is okay to leave Slayer until you need the bonuses from its gear or drops from its monsters. The Slayer activity picks up closer to the time of

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, and you will be able to catch up quickly with all the gear that you have at that point.

It takes 15 Normal Slayer tasks to buy the Basic Slayer gear. The Slayer Gear Upgrade Kit (Strong) / Slayer Gear Upgrade Kit (Elite) / Slayer Gear Upgrade Kit (Master) take 25 Hard Tasks / 30 Elite Tasks / 40 Master Tasks respectively.

Slayer Areas sometimes require items that must be purchased using slayer coins from the Shop. One note, the monsters locked in slayer areas will not be rolled in slayer tasks until the item is purchased from the shop. You can leverage this to control the task rolls.

Early Game (Pre-Volcanic Cave)

Before

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, the game is primarily about leveling up your core combat stats, getting a feel for the combat systems, and acquiring items for non-combat skills.

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is the first real challenge the game presents to you, and preparing for it will likely take a couple of weeks of grinding for standard accounts. This may be faster nowadays, but it took me about a month from setting my mind to the grind and completing it.

All three combat styles are connected. It is impossible to use only one style throughout the game if you wish to complete all content. Most people start with melee because it is the easiest style in terms of gear.

It is highly recommend to level all styles to not be in the position where you finished

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and then have to level your

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Ranged

from level 1 for 2 weeks.

Leveling Guidelines

The leveling guidelines below assume that your character is using an appropriate Auto Eat level and won't run out of food. Auto Eat tiers are listed out when buying the next tier would allow you to clear a dungeon you otherwise couldn't.

The assumed gear is at absolute bare minimum: full armor of the selected tier, base scimitar and shield, no cape, amulet, rings, prayers, potions, astrology stars, or agility obstacles. With all unaccounted bonuses, you often can go higher than what is given in the guide.

All assumed skill levels are equal to the ones required by the set of gear.

Each combat style has a subsection that lists out all of the best XP/hr monsters and idleable dungeons at this gear breakpoint.

The monster levels are listed where possible. It should roughly guide you on what item to work towards next.

For choosing a proper mob to farm, it is recommended to follow a priority rule:

Mob that drops what you want,
Slayer Tasks,
Highest Combat XP/hr.

Hitting Frozen Archers for 2 weeks is a really boring way to play the game.

And finally, using Combat Simulator and Can I Idle should be your guide over anything printed here. This guide accepts no responsibility for your untimely demise.

Gear Goals

An early goal for most players is the Amulet of Looting, found in the

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Spider Forest

, which will make combat a fully automated activity. Beyond that, it's mainly a matter of learning how combat works and leveling up your skills. Please note that the following items are not mandatory, but they help in progression:

Sand Treaders - Drops from Turkul Riders (lv. 56)
Elite Amulet of Defence - Drops from combining 100 Amulet of Defence or from
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Undead Graveyard. Provides the defence bonus and 2% DR. Aside from being generally good, it's the amulet that will help you to reduce the food expenditure when fighting as Magic versus Melee. For the optimal way to get it, refer to the FEZ/Guide. Check with the Combat Simulator to be sure.
Desert Wrappings - Drops from Turkul Archers (lv. 80)
Amulet of Looting - Drops from
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Spider Forest (lv. 158)

Melee

Leveling

For melee, your goal is to wear and wield the highest level gear available to you. I have replicated the tables here, abbreviated for the point where you're going to need to start clearing the higher-level dungeons.

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1	Bronze	Bronze	Cow	-
	Iron	Iron	Cow	-
	(Using Iron)	Slayer (Basic)	Cow	-
5	Steel	Steel	Skeleton	-
10	Black	Black	Frozen Archer (Skip Black Armor, it's hard to gear for)	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Chicken Coop (Requires Error creating thumbnail: File missing Auto Eat - Tier II)
20	Mithril	Mithril	Frozen Archer	-
30	Adamant	Adamant	Frozen Archer	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Undead Graveyard
30	(Using Adamant)	Slayer (Strong)	Frozen Archer	-
40	Ice	Ice	Frozen Archer	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Spider Forest / Error creating thumbnail: File missing Frozen Cove / Error creating thumbnail: File missing Bandit Base
	Rune	Rune	Frozen Archer	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Miolite Caves (Requires Error creating thumbnail: File missing Auto Eat - Tier III)
	(Using Rune)	Miolite	Frozen Archer	-
50	Desert Sabre	(Using Rune)	Bandit	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Deep Sea Ship / Error creating thumbnail: File missing Hall of Wizards
50	Miolite Sceptre (Using Error creating thumbnail: File missing Surge II & Error creating thumbnail: File missing Anguish II)	(Using Rune)	Bandit	-
60	Dragon	Dragon	Bandit	-
60	Dragon	Slayer (Elite)	Vampire	-

Gear Goals

Before Volcanic, you can grind the

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Castle of Kings

area to find most of your upgrades to supplant any gear not gained from

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smithing

. You can also get some very good melee weapons in pre-Volcanic Cave areas. Drops to look for:

Ice Sword - Drops from
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Frozen Cove (lv. 191)/ Ice Monster (lv. 75)
Elerine Spear - Drops from Elerine Warrior (lv. 96)
Amulet of Torture - Rare drop from Fierce Devil (lv. 100),
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Deep Sea Ship (lv. 177)
Warberd - 2H, Drops from Seething Horned Elite (lv. 161)
Desert Sabre - Drops from Turkul Giant (lv. 125)
War Axe - 2H, Drops from Raging Horned Elite (lv. 125)
Ancient Sword - Drops from
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Deep Sea Ship (lv. 177)
Sunset Rapier - One of the best melee weapons early,
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Deep Sea Ship (lv. 177). This can carry you through
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Air God Dungeon /
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Infernal Stronghold. It's probably the most important drop for Melee.
Miolite Sceptre - Drops from
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Miolite Caves (lv. 178) dungeon
Sandstorm Ring - Drops from Sand Beast (lv. 197)
Dragon Claw - Very long grind, Dragon Claw Fragment drops from Griffin (lv. 124).
Ancient Claw - Very long grind, Ancient Claw Fragment drops from Pegasus (lv. 182).

Ranged

Same as Melee, you should be doing the highest XP/hr monster with the highest possible gear. Due to the slower attack speed and the relative difficulty of

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Fletching

large amounts of bolts, you shouldn't use crossbows until you have the Dragon Crossbow or better. For bolts, anything worse than Emerald Bolts is sellable. Save the Diamonds for Diamond Luck IV Potions.

Leveling

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1	Normal Shortbow / Normal Longbow	Bronze Arrows	Leather	Cow	-
		Iron Arrows	Slayer Cowl (Basic)/ Slayer Leather Body (Basic)	Cow	-
		Ice Arrows	(Using Leather)	Cow	-
5	Oak Shortbow / Oak Longbow	Steel Arrows	(Using Leather)	Ranged Golbin	-
10	(Using Oak Shortbow)	(Using Steel Arrows)	Hard Leather	Tentacle	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Chicken Coop (Requires Error creating thumbnail: File missing Auto Eat - Tier II)
20	Willow Shortbow / Willow Longbow	Mithril Arrows	(Using Hard Leather)	Frozen Archer	-
30	Maple Shortbow / Maple Longbow	Adamant Arrows	Slayer Cowl (Strong) / Slayer Leather Body (Strong)	Wizard / Bandit	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Undead Graveyard
40	Yew Shortbow / Yew Longbow	Rune Arrows	Green D-hide / Ranger Hat/ Ranger Boots	Bandit	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Spider Forest
40	Ice Shortbow / Ice Longbow	Rune Arrows	Ice	Master Wizard	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Bandit Base / Error creating thumbnail: File missing Hall of Wizards / Error creating thumbnail: File missing Frozen Cove / Error creating thumbnail: File missing Deep Sea Ship / Error creating thumbnail: File missing Miolite Caves(Requires Error creating thumbnail: File missing Auto Eat - Tier III)
50	Magic Shortbow / Magic Longbow	(Using Rune)	Blue D-hide + Ranger gear	Master Wizard	-
50	Desert Shortbow / Elerine Longbow	(Using Rune)	(Using Blue D-hide)	Master Wizard	-
60	Redwood Shortbow / Redwood Longbow	Dragon Arrows	Red D-hide	Master Wizard	-
60	Poisoned Shortbow	(Using Dragon)	Slayer Cowl (Elite) / Slayer Leather Body (Elite)	Master Wizard	-

Gear Goals

Ancient Longbow - Drops from
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Bandit Base (lv. 115) dungeon
Ranger Hat/ Ranger Boots - Drops from
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Spider Forest (lv. 156) dungeon
Desert Shortbow - Drops from Turkul General (lv. 164)
Elder Dragonhide gear - Drops from
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Dragons Den (lv. 272) dungeon
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Ancient Crossbow - Drops from
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Dragons Den (lv. 272) dungeon
Slayer's Crossbow - Great for
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Slayer tasks. The necessary part drops from all Horned Elites in Desolate Plains.

Magic

Leveling

- See Magic/Training

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1	Base Staves
1	Magic Wand (Basic)
30	Battlestaves
30	Magic Wand (Powerful)
40	Mystic Staves
60	Magic Wand (Elite)

Gear Goals

Mystic Staves - Craftable,
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Runecrafting (lv. 70)
Nature's Call Staff - Drops from Elerine Mage (lv. 103) and Druid (lv. 63), combine both halves
- Upgrades into Nature's Wrath Staff with materials from Giant Moth (lv. 223) and
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  Miolite Caves (lv. 178)dungeon
Shaman Ring - Drops from Shaman (lv. 93)
- Upgrades into Nature's Blessing Ring with 10,000 Nature Rune
Magic Wand (Powerful) - Drops from Dark Wizard (lv. 108)
Ancient Magic Gear - Drops from
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Hall of Wizards (lv. 121) dungeon
Book of Eli - Drops from
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Hall of Wizards (lv. 121) dungeon
Miolite Gear - Drops from
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Miolite Caves (lv. 178) dungeon

Volcanic Cave

Your first target after reaching

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Level 99

is the

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.

To prevent issues with duplicating content, all information about it was put into a dedicated page.

- See Volcanic Cave/Guide

Infernal Stronghold

Congratulations on beating the

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!

You now have the Fire Cape that provides 2% DR and slightly improves your defences.

Next, you need to clear the

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Infernal Stronghold

once to get the Infernal Cape - the best combat cape at this stage of the game.

Use the build for manual eating from the linked guide to clear the dungeon.

- See Infernal_Stronghold/Guide

Mid Game (God Dungeons)

While somewhat intimidating, all four god dungeons are handled in the same way - the next one is beaten with the gear from the previous one.

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Air by Ancient gear from
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Volcanic,
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Water by Aeris gear from
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Air,
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Earth by Glacia gear from
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Water,
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Fire by preferably Aeris gear or by Glacia, but that requires much more DR.

Some additional useful drops for the midgame are the following, found in Elite-tier slayer areas:

Elder Crown - Drops from the Elder Vampire,
Magic Wand (Elite) - Drops from the Cursed Maiden, used for Imbued Wands,
Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs - Bounty Hunter greatly accelerates this grind,
Elite Slayer Gear - Purchased in shop.

None of the above are needed, but definitely worth obtaining here. You should also be nearing max combat as you progress through the dungeons.

To unlock the ancient spells, you will need to run each of the God Dungeons 100 times. Each dungeon also provides extremely useful drops, some of which are Best-in-Slot (BiS).

Additionally, completing the God Dungeons unlocks the skill upgrades:

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Perpetual Haste

,

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Expanded Knowledge

,

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Master of Nature

, and

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Art of Control

. These reduce the related skill intervals by 15%, which makes them excellent for anyone going for mastery. It might take around a month to complete all God Dungeons in preparation for

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.

Air God Dungeon

Item	Slot	DR%
(G) Ancient Helmet	Head	7%
(G) Ancient Platebody	Body	7%
(G) Ancient Platelegs	Leggings	7%
(G) Dragon Boots	Boots	6%
(U) Ancient D-hide Vambraces	Hands	6%
Infernal Cape	Cape	4%
Elite Amulet of Defence	Neck	2%
Sandstorm Ring	Ring	0%
Dragonfire Shield	Off-hand	8%
Total		46%

The order of actions to get this build is the following:

For the vambraces, check the Dragons Den/Guide.
DPS-wise, get at least Sunset Rapier. Check the Deep Sea Ship/Guide for that.
Get the Sandstorm Ring. It's an immense DPS boost for Melee builds.
For the amulet, check the FEZ/Guide. Ideally, compare your options with the Combat Simulator because Bounty Hunter has large DPS. Your food expenditure might be not worth it.
Clear
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Volcanic Cave 100 times.
Now might be the time to farm Pegasi for the Ancient Claw. You need 20k accuracy on
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Slicing Winds. For instance, by getting the set, , , , and
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Level 91. The Ancient Claw/Guide explains why farming it now may be the best option.
Get the Dragonfire Shield - its DR and HP buff will be useful throughout the whole game. To get dem bonez, give a Green Dragon some
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Icicle Volleys treatment because it has the best DPS at the moment. Or you can use
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Slicing Winds if you don't want to bother with water runes.
Collect a full Ancient set from the
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Volcanic Cave.
Ideally, manually farm
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Infernal Stronghold for 10 Infernal Cores to get an Infernal Claw. There's a guide about it: Infernal Stronghold/Guide.
Whack the hell out of the
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Air God Dungeon.

For the gear options and notable drops, see Air God Dungeon/Guide.

Water God Dungeon

Link to guide: Water God Dungeon/Guide

Item	Slot	DR%
Aeris God Helmet	Head	8%
Aeris God Platebody	Body	8%
Aeris God Platelegs	Leggings	8%
Aeris God Boots	Boots	8%
Aeris God Gloves	Hands	8%
Subtotal		40%
Infernal Cape	Cape	4%
Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs	Neck	3%
Silver Diamond Ring	Ring	1%
Dragonfire Shield	Off-hand	8%
Total		56%

At this point, you should have a full set of Aeris God Gear. For your weapon, you should be using

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Ancient Crossbow

, or Slayer's Crossbow/ Dragon Crossbow if you don't have one. Dragonfire Shield as well makes this a breeze so you can use Aorpheat's Signet Ring in the ring slot.

Emerald Bolts are probably your best bet. Jadestone Bolts work too if you have those.

This dungeon is a breeze if you have the above gear. Notable drops:

Cloudburst Staff - One of the BiS weapons for magic. Situationally useful.
Glacia God Gear - Magic BiS. Save at least 10 for Unhallowed Wasteland ring upgrades ( Burning Madness Gloves)
Warlock Ring - Save at least 10 for Unhallowed Wasteland ring upgrades ( Burning Madness Ring)
Magic Wand (Elite) - Useful for imbued wand crafting

After completing this dungeon, you should absolutely complete the Infernal Claw grind if you have not already. This weapon is necessary for

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, and is one of the highest DPS weapons in the game, whilst also allowing you to wield Dragonfire Shield. Full Glacia +

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Gust

should kill Griffin / Pegasus quite easily if you hit the accuracy breakpoint.

Minimal Clearing Combat Sim
Not Done

Pre-ITM Farming
Not Done

Post-ITM Farming
Not Done

Earth God Dungeon

Link to guide: Earth God Dungeon/Guide

Item	Slot	DR%
Glacia God Helmet	Head	8%
Glacia God Platebody	Body	8%
Glacia God Platelegs	Leggings	8%
Glacia God Boots	Boots	8%
Glacia God Gloves	Hands	8%
Subtotal		40%
Skull Cape	Cape	3%
Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs	Neck	3%
Aorpheat's Signet Ring	Ring	0%
Dragonfire Shield	Off-hand	8%
Total		53%

Same ordeal as the

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Water God Dungeon

. Equip the previous set of armor, then get to work. By now, you should likely have Skull Cape, one of the BiS capes for magic. Air Imbued Wand is highly recommended so you can use

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Gust

for cheap along with the Dragonfire Shield.

Again, this dungeon is easy. Notable Drops:

Terran God Gear - The defense-oriented melee set. Helps you splash melee pieces to hit DR thresholds. Save at least 10 for Unhallowed Wasteland glove upgrades ( Spiked Shell Gloves)
Guardian Ring - Save at least 10 for Unhallowed Wasteland ring upgrades ( Spiked Shell Ring)
Guardian Amulet - Situationally useful melee amulet
Earth Layered Shield - BiS melee shield. Provides *12%* DR

Minimal Clearing Combat Sim
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Pre-ITM Farming
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Post-ITM Farming
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Fire God Dungeon

Link to Guide: Fire God Dungeon/Guide

Item	Slot	DR%
Aeris God Helmet	Head	8%
Aeris God Platebody	Body	8%
Aeris God Platelegs	Leggings	8%
Aeris God Boots	Boots	8%
Aeris God Gloves	Hands	8%
Subtotal		40%
Infernal Cape	Cape	4%
Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs	Neck	3%
Aorpheat's Signet Ring	Ring	0%
Dragonfire Shield	Off-hand	8%
Total		54%

This dungeon is a bit harder than the previous, as it mixes both melee and magic enemies. For that reason, use the Aeris god set. Gear setup is similar to the

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Water God Dungeon

, but focuses primarily on DR breakpoints. Consider using the

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Stone Skin

prayer or Damage Reduction Potion IV's. Getting enough DR without using prayer or potions will severely hamper your clear times, as you won't be equipping the proper DPS gear.

Highly recommend using combat sim to ensure you aren't killed by Ragnar or Ignis. This dungeon probably has the most variety in setups out of any of the dungeons, just ensure that you aren't in danger of dying.

Notable drops:

Fighter Amulet - One of the BiS amulets for melee. CC is absolutely critical at high level combat.
Fighter Ring - Save at least 10 for Unhallowed Wasteland ring upgrades ( Relentless Fury Ring)
Ragnar God Gear - Offensively oriented BiS melee gear. Save at least 10 for Unhallowed Wasteland glove upgrades ( Relentless Fury Gloves)

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Pre-ITM Farming
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Post-ITM Farming
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Preparing for Into the Mist

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is one of the most difficult challenges in the game. The Insane difficulty is accurate. It cannot be idled. To start, you first fight 20 Afflicted versions of randomly chosen monsters between combat level 165 and 677. Any monster, save those from

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Unhallowed Wasteland

or

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Dark Waters

, including bosses, can be chosen.

Affliction is a special status effect applied by monsters that reduces your max HP. This means that the encounters are a race against the clock, forcing you to kill the enemy before your affliction stacks get too high. Due to this, it is recommended that you focus on DPS above all else when choosing your three gear sets.

This dungeon cannot be completed without the Dungeon Equipment Swapping upgrade purchased from the shop.

It is highly recommended that you have acquired *all* previously available BiS gear for each combat style before attempting ITM.

Recommended Gear from Best to Worst:

All BiS God Dungeon Gear
Diamond Luck Potion IV - As many as possible
Combat Agility Obstacles
Ragnar Godsword, Terran Godsword, Darksteel Dagger
Stormsnap, Ancient Longbow, or
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Ancient Crossbow
Jadestone Bolts, Ancient Arrows, Dragon Arrows
Dragonfire Shield, Scaled Shield (Upgraded (U) Ancient D-hide Shield with materials from
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Toxic Swamps)
Miolite Shield
Skull Cape
Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs
Air Imbued Wand
Level 84
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Prayer

At this point you can probably begin to make your way towards one of the longest grinds in the game, Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs. FEZ, as it is often called, is made from the upgrading process by combining:

2 Elite Amulet of Defence - Made by combining 100 Amulet of Defence
2 Elite Amulet of Magic - Made by combining 100 Amulet of Magic
2 Elite Amulet of Accuracy - Made by combining 100 Amulet of Accuracy
2 Elite Amulet of Strength - Made by combining 100 Amulet of Strength
2 Elite Amulet of Ranged - Made by combining 100 Amulet of Ranged
2 Elite Amulet of Glory - Made by combining 100 Amulet of Glory
10 Amulet of Fury
10 Amulet of Torture

This item is by no means necessary, but it is very useful as a "catch all" type of amulet. No matter what situation you're in, FEZ is probably a good choice. See the following link for best practices while farming for the amulet.

Link to Guide: Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs/Guide

Into the Mist

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consists of 3 set order phases, with pauses in between each phase.

Link to the guide: Into_the_Mist/Guide

There is too much information on ITM to copy to this guide, definitely worth reading the above, which is excellent.

Notable Drops:

Access to the
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Dark Waters slayer area, where the T90 weapons can be obtained
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Pablo - Drops after 5 completions

Passive Slot

Main Article: Combat Passive Slot

Congratulations on completing

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! Your reward is one of the best upgrades in the game, the passive slot. This allows you to slot any item with the "Passive Slot Compatible" text into said slot. What this allows you to do is splash extra effects on items with otherwise mediocre stats into your build.

While the original article is more than exhaustive, I'll highlight some of the best choice items here:

Chapeau Noir - Bad stats, but includes item doubling
Ring of Wealth - More item doubling is always great
Master Slayer Gear - Lets you splash more Flat Slayer Area Reduction
Sand Treaders - More attack speed is great when farming low health enemies and you need to hit a DR breakpoint

T90 Farming

Following completion of

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, you now have access to

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Dark Waters

, the penultimate slayer area. These 3 mobs drop fragments for the T90 weapons, the most powerful weapons in the game. These are extremely long grinds, 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.

We recommend acquiring them in the following order, as the high evasion on Rokken makes it extremely hard to complete without Tidal Edge:

Ocean Song - Made from Ocean Song Fragment, dropped by Ku-tul
Tidal Edge - Made from Tidal Edge Fragment, dropped by Umbora
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Shockwave - Made from Shockwave Fragment, dropped by Rokken

Additionally, you should also acquire the pet

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Otto

whilst doing this grind.

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.

Order

There are a couple of different orders in which these weapons are normally obtained.

Basically, a Tidal Edge is heavily suggested for Rokken.

The most standard orders are:

- Tidal Edge then

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then Ocean Song - Ocean Song then Tidal Edge then

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Below are some gear suggestions. Depending on

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Prayer

,

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Potions

, and

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Agility

buffs), your optimal gear can change.

This whole guide assumes you either use SEMI to pick up items, or are active enough to pick up all pieces.

Many people combine the grinding of these weapons with the grind for the master slayer gear. An added benefit is the increased damage given by the slayer cape on task.

Tidal Edge

To be able to idle Umbora with

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Magic

, you'll need 47 DR assuming you have 1000 HP.

Umbora can be killed either with Ancient Magicks or with Normal Magic if you have an Ocean Song.

With Ocean Song, use

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Fire Surge

(reference),

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Water Surge

(+2% kill time) or

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Water Blast

(+9% kill time, strongly reduced rune cost). With an Imbued Wand, use

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Gust

(+40% kill time) or

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Incinerate

(+45% kill time).

Item	Slot	DR%
Glacia God Helmet	Head	8%
Glacia God Platebody	Body	8%
Glacia God Platelegs	Leggings	8%
Glacia God Boots	Boots	8%
Glacia God Gloves	Hands	8%
Subtotal		40%
Slayer Skillcape	Cape	0%
FEZ	Neck	3%
Aorpheat's Signet Ring	Ring	0%
Earth Layered Shield	Off-hand	12%
Chapeau Noir	Passive	0%
Total		54%

Use the appropriate Elemental Imbued Wand for Ancients, and the Ocean Song for Normal magic. The Slayer Skillcape can be replaced with a Max Skillcape or Skull Cape. The FEZ can be replaced with a Warlock Amulet. If you hit the DR goal, you can opt for a Elder Crown, Slayer Wizard Hat (Master), Slayer Wizard Robes (Master)...

Shockwave

While the other two weapons are pretty straightforward in terms of gear, the

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is not.

You need to use Melee for this grind, and as said before, it is highly suggested that you have a Tidal Edge before you start the Rokken hunt.

Standard Method

This method will require the highest DR, as you need to be able to tank the Shockwave special attack of Rokken while the player is stunned. At 1,000 HP, this will require 56 DR.

Item	Slot	DR%
Tidal Edge	Weapon	0%
Terran God Helmet	Head	8%
Terran God Platebody	Body	8%
Terran God Platelegs	Leggings	8%
Terran God Boots	Boots	8%
Terran God Gloves	Hands	8%
Subtotal		40%
Slayer Skillcape	Cape	0%
FEZ	Neck	3%
Aorpheat's Signet Ring	Ring	0%
Dragonfire Shield	Off-hand	8%
Chapeau Noir	Passive	0%
Total		51%

Besides this tank gear set-up, you will need extra DR. This can be achieved by using a Fire Cape, Infernal Cape, DR potions/prayers... The use of DR potions should be avoided if possible, so that DL potions can be used.

Reduced DR Method

For this method to work safely without risk of death, the player's attack speed must be less than 2.24 seconds, as this means the player is quick enough to avoid being stunned when Rokken attacks with the Shockwave special attack. To achieve this, Elder Crown should be equipped into the Combat Passive Slot and

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Otto

should be unlocked, bringing the player's attack speed down to 2.2 seconds. The method also makes use of Ragnar God Armour and the Fighter Amulet in order to increase DPS and therefore the kills per hour.

At 1,000 HP, this method requires 48 DR.

Item	Slot	DR%
Tidal Edge	Weapon	0%
Ragnar God Helmet	Head	7%
Ragnar God Platebody	Body	7%
Ragnar God Platelegs	Leggings	7%
Ragnar God Boots	Boots	7%
Ragnar God Gloves	Hands	7%
Subtotal		35%
Slayer Skillcape	Cape	0%
Fighter Amulet	Neck	0%
Aorpheat's Signet Ring	Ring	0%
Dragonfire Shield	Off-hand	8%
Elder Crown	Passive	0%
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Total		43%

To obtain the missing 5 DR,

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Prayer

and

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Agility

can be used. Another possibility is to use 5 Terran God Armour pieces.

Ocean Song

To be able to idle Ku-tul with

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Ranged

, you'll need 48 DR assuming you have 1000 HP. Depending on your chosen route, you'll be killing Ku-tul with either a

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