HCCO/Guide/9
Chapter IX: T90 Grind
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Recommended stats
The most important skills are 99 and
99, as HP is needed to meet the DR thresholds and the slayer cape perk is very beneficial. Bare minimum stats are
80 to equip
Darksteel Dagger, around
80,
85 for Ragnar/Terran God Armour,
66 for Chivalry,
90 and
90 for God Armours,
Shockwave and
Ocean Song. It is also assumed that
Finn, the Cat and
Leonardo are owned. The reason why the offensive requirements are relatively low is that farming T90s takes a very long time on a CO account (about 3 weeks of continuous play all up), so a lot of experience will be gained during this section anyway. For example, by the time the first T90,
Shockwave, is completed the player will have earned about 4m prayer and 9.5m melee exp. Therefore it is not essential to have maxed offensive stats, as those can be effectively trained along the way. 99 slayer however is very important for the cape perk. It is still possible to do without the cape, but a lot of food will be wasted in compensation and a lot fewer kills/hr on
Rokken if the player's attack speed is 2.2 or above. A
Hunter's Ring is highly recommended in this case for full area effect negation.
You must complete Into the Mist to make use of the passive slot for this section. The food and dps loss from not having this slot is simply not worth it. You will complete 40 master slayer tasks while farming T90s and
Dark Waters enemies are easier than
Perilous Peaks enemies once the DR threshold from gear has been met.
Perilous Peaks enemies are designed to consume a large amount of food (which is precious on a CO account) and so tackling them with T90 gear is optimal.
The recommended order for farming T90s is: Rokken (ranged) →
Ku-tul (magic) →
Umbora (melee). Both
Rokken and
Ku-tul can be completed at roughly the same kills/hr without any T90 items, but
Darksteel Dagger +
Elder Crown combo will result in about 2.5x less food usage on
Rokken, as well as
Shockwave having more immediate value than
Ocean Song which requires a lot of farming to make use of.
Umbora is by far the most difficult monster due to the scarce nature of runes, so tackling this monster with doubling and % damage from
Slayer Gear Upgrade Kit (Master) will have the most benefit out of all three mobs.
Umbora first is highly discouraged as runes are very difficult to obtain on a CO account, making it vital to use
Ocean Song to maximise rune efficiency. A comparison of alternative
Umbora methods is presented below in the dedicated section and it should be clear that
Ocean Song is by far the best option.
Method
You will be manually selecting tasks to avoid unfavourable tasks while farming T90s. There are many reasons to be on a slayer task:
- You always profit slayer coins even when factoring in reroll costs
- You can passively work towards 40 master slayer tasks
- Slayer cape damage bonus to help with farming
When starting out it is recommended to remove your slayer cape, toggle auto slayer ON and manually roll tasks. This will remove Perilous Peaks enemies from the potential pool of slayer monsters, leaving only a 1/2 chance of obtaining the correct slayer task.
WARNING: MAKE SURE TO TOGGLE AUTOSLAYER BACK OFF AFTER SELECTING A TASK, AS INCORRECT COMBAT TRIANGLE MANAGEMENT IS CERTAIN DEATH IN THE WATERS AND A LOT OF FOOD WASTED IN PEAKS, POSSIBLY LEADING TO DEATH.
You will always profit slayer coins as each Dark Waters task gives about 250k coins on average (382.5k if extending the task) and costs about 65k on average (77.5k if extending) to manually select. This leads to an average profit of 185k/task or 305k/task if extending. These numbers equate to extended tasks being about 10% more efficient coins/kill. The player has the choice of earning more slayer coins by extending slayer tasks, or obtaining master slayer gear faster by leaving tasks unextended. On average, one will complete 20 tasks per T90 item or 12.5 if extending. Since it is highly recommended to have
Slayer Wizard Robes (Master) and
Slayer Wizard Hat (Master) before
Umbora to save on runes, it is recommended to not extend tasks. Alternatively, one can make up the extra tasks at
Perilous Peaks while farming out
Peri or any of the three unqiues. Even with this in mind, it is always better to be running a task than not. Try to manage extensions so that a task will end shortly before the player expects to away from the game (such as overnight), as this will ensure that a fresh (possibly extended) task can be undertaken for the duration of the inattentive period. Expected kills/hr are listed in each section and this can be used as a guide to figure out when a task will be completed.
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Once Shockwave is obtained the Slayer Skillcape can be left on as farming
Perilous Peaks is perfectly manageable with access to a T90 weapon. Around 40k
Crab should be earned by the time
Shockwave is obtained, so this food can now be spent on these monsters.
Wicked Greater Dragon are very straightforward as
Shockwave destroys them. The setup is the same as the
Ku-tul setup below, but the
Slayer Cowl (Elite) is swapped for a
Aeris God Helmet and
Protect from Magic is replaced with
Battleheart, as the majority of damage comes from dragon breath.
Hunting Greater Dragon can also be killed with
Shockwave (around 105 kills/hr) or with
Infernal Claw (for around 95 kills/hr) with a typical melee build.
Darksteel Dagger is around 80 kills/hr so it is viable but a bit slower than the others. It is not necessary to wait for
Tidal Edge, as that only marginally increases the kills/hr to 115 while being substantially more difficult to obtain. Melee methods save more food, with
Tidal Edge being the least food usage,
Darksteel Dagger second,
Infernal Claw in third and
Shockwave consuming the most food. These results are summarized in the following table:
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81.5 | 1175 | 14.5 |
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115 | 1425 | 12.5 |
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95 | 1700 | 18 |
105 | 2325 | 22 |
One can also choose to farm Chaotic Greater Dragon to obtain a
Recoil Shield or to waste less coins on rerolls. These are a fair bit slower at 50 kills/hr with
Darksteel Dagger and 57.5 kills/hr with
Infernal Claw, so one may choose to only undertake such tasks if the quantity is low and 40 Master Slayer tasks are still needed. Due to combat triangle penalty,
Shockwave is considerably more food usage, but it is faster kills/hr at around 80-90/hr. Melee is preferable for this task, as the time spent gathering runes is not worth the increased dps of magic, even with
Ocean Song. This task is significantly faster with
Tidal Edge (around 93 kills/hr) as the unavoidable special attack is very useful, so this task can be skipped until that point if preferred.
With a 3/6 to 4/6 chance of favourable tasks, very little should be wasted on rerolling tasks. Umbora tasks should be skipped until
Ocean Song and
Rokken tasks should be skipped unless they are very short (around 150 or less). There is only a 1/5 to 2/5 chance of receiving an unfavourable task after completing a slayer task (the automatic task assigned is free, saving 25k slayer coins), which further adds to the savings.
Once the player has received the Perilous Peaks uniques,
Peri and completed 40 master slayer tasks, they can return to removing the cape + toggling auto slayer on to skip
Perilous Peaks tasks.
Rokken
Recommended gear (expansion/UGS)
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Prior builds relied on avoiding Rokken's stun with enough attack speed. However, UGS is too slow, so we will need to eat the stun which results in a higher DR requirement. Wasteful Ring and Guardian Amulet will be required, the latter can be substituted with enough HP. The loadouts below are separate and based off a minimum HP threshold (assumes both DR pets have been acquired).
Take care when interpreting this table.
The loadout on the right (~101/kph) assumes the player has at least 1000 max HP ( 99) resulting in a DR requirement of 52% when coupled with Guardian Amulet & Wasteful Ring - There isn't any wiggle room here.
Protect from Ranged will be used to greatly mitigate food cost (~382 crabs/hour) and, for this specific build,
Valor outperforms even
Battleborn by ~1.5/kph.
The left loadout (~116/kph) assumes the player has at least 1100 max HP ( 109) which lowers the DR requirement to 49% and let's us to ditch
Guardian Amulet for
Fighter Amulet resulting in faster kills and even lower food cost. With higher HP levels we can substitute up to 3 Terran pieces for Ragnar gear at 1130 -> 1180 -> 1210 HP (Chest -> Legs -> Boots). For this build,
Battleborn is used over
Valor and
Protect from Ranged is still recommended for the lower food cost (~186 crabs/hour); however, if food is in surplus, you can use battleborn/valor to increase kph to ~132 at the cost of ~562 crabs/hour.
With the above builds, it will take anywhere between 32-48 hours for this grind. UGS is truly OP and this is the reason we rush ITM then immediately farm all the godswords before Shockwave.
Recommended gear (pre-expansion)
Take care when interpreting this table. Rokken requires a very specific setup as both the DR threshold and the full Slayer area effect negation thresholds must be met. The two loadouts shown will achieve both requirements (with the leftmost one being more kills/hr), but pieces are not interchangeable between each set. For example, a
Ragnar God Platebody cannot be swapped for
Slayer Platebody (Elite) in the first setup, nor can a
Hunter's Ring be swapped for a
Fighter Ring in the second setup. The only advantage of the second setup is that it does not require
99 or a God platebody, so it is easier to achieve.
Alternative gear options
Rokken requires 47% or more DR, so any 3 Terran pieces will achieve this. The
Ragnar God Platebody has the best increase in stats over its respective Terran counterpart so this layout is chosen. Additionally,
Fighter Ring + 2x Terran is better than
Guardian Ring + 2x Ragnar, but you may want to use the latter or some intermediate combination if you do not have full Terran or Ragnar. The swap priority goes: boots < gloves < helmet < legs < ring < platebody < amulet. This means that if one needs 2% more DR over their Ragnar setup, the best choice would be to swap to Terran boots and gloves.
Sandstorm Ring and
Hunter's Ring respectively are the next best options for the ring slot. Consider using
Hunter's Ring and two pieces of Elite Slayer gear if you do not have
Slayer Skillcape for full 40% slayer area negation. DO NOT use a guardian amulet unless you have
Otto, as this will put your attack speed low enough to where you risk being stunned and attacked (see below).
Earth Layered Shield with full Ragnar is better DPS, but farming Earth God is very difficult and expensive on a CO so it is best saved until after
Tidal Edge or
Ocean Song.
Earth Layered Shield requires 48% DR due to the HP lost by removing
Dragonfire Shield.
Recommended prayers
Protect from Ranged +
Chivalry.
Protect from Ranged is very important as this heavily mitigates the raw damage the enemy does and it also results in less frequent stuns. This makes the prayer higher dps than
Piety or
Battleheart as more time is spent doing damage. The food usage drops from 600
Crab/hr to less than 100
Crab/hr with
Protect from Ranged alone, as
Darksteel Dagger +
Elder Crown combo will take care of the majority of damage incurred.
Chivalry is better than
Battleheart and
Piety as it has the most accuracy, which will help keep the
Darksteel Dagger bleed applied more often.
Method
This method relies on having faster attack speed than Rokken (2.2 seconds/attack) to avoid the stun → basic attack combo. If stunned, the DR threshold is increased to 57%. This setup with full slayer effect negation, crown and dagger is 2.1 seconds/attack.
Efficiency notes
- This setup is about 36 kills/hr with 95 crabs used and 18.5k prayer points used per hour, assuming max stats. This drops slightly below max.
- Expect 35.5k slayer coins/hr in return, 18.5k prayer exp/hr, 75.5k melee and 57k slayer exp/hr.
- The player can expect to complete 20 master slayer tasks (12.7 if extending) by the time they finish 100 shockwave pieces, netting 3.5m (3.9m if extended) slayer coins when factoring in manual selection (and extension) fees. If spent solely on standard resupplies, the player can expect to profit about 39k (45k) crabs and spend about 820k (620k) prayer points.
- It will take on average about 140 hours which is almost 6 days of continuous farming.
Ku-tul
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Off-hand | 8% |
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Head | 4% |
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Body | 8% |
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Leggings | 8% |
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Boots | 8% |
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Hands | 8% |
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Cape | 0% |
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Neck | 3% |
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Ammo | 0% |
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Ring | 0% |
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Passive | 0% |
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Pet | 0% |
Pet | 1% | |
Total | 48% |
Gear alternatives
The DR requirement for Ku-tul is 48%.
Guardian Ring and
Hunter's Ring are perfectly viable options if the player does not own
Deadeye Ring.
Deadeye Amulet can be worn in the passive slot for 72 kills/hr (+6%) in exchange for more than doubling the food usage (300/hr).
Recommended prayers
Protect from Magic +
Rigour.
If the player has an abundance of food, they can opt for
Battleheart over
Protect from Magic. This will increase the dps by about 16% in exchange for 470% more food usage.
Efficiency notes
- With access to the T90, this is the easiest monster of the three by far.
- Expect about 68 kills/hr, 140
Crab/hr, 18k prayer points/hr and -1.2k
Sapphire Bolts/hr.
- Expect to earn 220k ranged exp/hr, 130k prayer exp/hr, 110k slayer exp/hr.
- Due to the increased kill speed,
Ku-tul profits both food and prayer but loses bolts.
- From the 3.5m (3.9m if extending) slayer coins after completing
Ocean Song, standard resupply yields 42k (48k if extending)
Crab, 425k net prayer points profit and -19k (-11k)
Sapphire Bolts.
- This mob takes about 74 hours, or about 3 days of continuous farming.
Umbora
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Recommended gear
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Weapon | 0% |
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Off-hand | 8% |
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Head | 6% |
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Body | 6% |
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Leggings | 8% |
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Boots | 8% |
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Hands | 8% |
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Cape | 3% |
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Neck | 0% |
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Ring | 0% |
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Passive | 0% |
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Pet | 0% |
Pet | 1% | |
Pet | 0% | |
Pet | 0% | |
Pet | 0% | |
Pet | 0% | |
Pet | 0% | |
Total | 48% |
The DR requirement for Umbora is 47%. Note that because
Umbora takes so long to farm compared to the other monsters, any small efficiency is highly beneficial. This is why Pets that offer loot doubling or rune saving are highly recommended.
Because the vast majority of the damage done is due to the special attack of Ocean Song, which is unaffected by damage increases and has 100% accuracy, we opt to sacrifice the
Warlock Ring in favour of
Hunter's Ring. The dps downgrade is minimal (less than 0.5% fewer kills/hr) but the additional slayer coins help pay for the prayer points used and can be put towards remaining master slayer purchases.
Additionally, this is one of the few situations (or perhaps the only one) where a Warlock Amulet is useful. For the same reason as above,
Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs does not contribute very much to our DPS, but
Warlock Amulet saves around 50
Crab/hr. Strictly speaking the
Crab end up being worth more than the fraction of a kill in terms of time-to-obtain efficiency, but
Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs is still fine to use if one prefers to complete the
Umbora slightly faster in exchange for about 20% more food usage.
Recommended prayers
Protect from Melee +
Battleheart
Augury does not increase dps by very much as the
Ocean Song special cannot miss, while
Protect from Melee cuts food usage by 80%.
Method
This setup relies on using Water Strike and
Fury II on
Umbora for 63 kills/hr. This may seem decent, but when factoring in rune acquisition this is by far the most painful of the three.
Water Strike is the most rune efficient spell, as the dps increase by upgrading to
Water Bolt is only about 7.5%, yet requires 50% more runes that are harder to obtain. The reason for the small upgrade in DPS is due to
Ocean Song special attack and the aurora both adding flat damage. The story is similar for
Water Blast, but with even more exaggerated downsides.
Chaos Rune and
Death Rune are best saved for magic exp with a
Mystic Air Staff on
Raging Horned Elite.
Umbora also does by far the most damage and consumes around 310
Crab/hr, but again resupplies come in clutch as they generate about 910
Crab/hr so it is still net profit.
Rune farming
Overall farming Umbora consumes roughly 1,000
Air Rune, 1,000
Mind Rune, 2,000
Light Rune per hour. Over the 3 days it takes to farm
Umbora, expect to consume 67,500
Air Rune, 67,500
Mind Rune and 135,000
Light Rune. The latter is abundantly obtained from standard resupplies, but the two former must be obtained manually.
The following two setups are recommended for farming runes. The expansion buffed Big ol Ron to 100% combat doubling which now makes melee the superior build. Do note that exceeding 100% item doubling has no additional benefit, so Slayer gear is no longer needed except as a combat stat boost.
Melee
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Ring |
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Ranged
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- The best option for obtaining
Air Rune is
Wizard. With the previous gear setup, one can expect to obtain about 1,200
Air Rune/hr using melee and around 970
Air Rune with ranged. The ranged setup will consume about 600
Ancient Throwing Knife per hour, so it essentially trades
Ancient Throwing Knife for
Air Rune at basically a 1:2 ratio. Javelins are also viable, as
Ancient Javelin will result in around 950
Air Rune/hr and consume slightly fewer javelins (around 500/hr). A
Cape of Prat is also an option, but this almost doubles the ammo usage to around 1,100
Ancient Throwing Knife/hr while only increasing the runes gained to around 990
Air Rune/hr. It should take about 70-85 hours to obtain all the
Air Rune necessary, depending on the method used.
- For collecting mind runes, the best option is
Master Wizard. Luckily this will be a lot faster, obtaining about 2,150
Mind Rune/hr with melee and about 2,675
Mind Rune/hr with ranged. Similar ammo saving considerations can be made as above when farming
Air Rune. While collecting the 67,500
Mind Rune, you will also snag 27,000
Chaos Rune, 8,000
Death Rune and over 400
Amulet of Magic for your second and third
Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs. This will be much faster than
Air Rune, clocking in around 30 hours to collect all the necessary
Mind Rune. The
Chaos Rune when used on
Raging Horned Elite should give about 2.3m magic exp and the
Death Rune around 900k. If starting the T90 grind without having
90 required to equip
Ocean Song then one should start the rune farming grind with
Master Wizard and use the higher tier catalytic runes to level their magic.
- Opting for Ragnar (or Aeris) over Master Slayer is perfectly viable (A Ragnar setup nets about 740
Air Rune/hr instead of 800). However, over the 115 hours spent farming runes, the time saved (about 9-10 hours) is quite considerable. With
Ragnar Godsword, full Ragnar,
Hunter's Ring and
Prayer Skillcape one earns around 65k slayer coins per hour doing elite slayer while spending only 6.5k prayer points. This means the 9-10 hours saved contributes around 500k slayer coins (minus points spent on resupplies to replenish prayer) towards the 2m total coin cost of the melee master slayer set. Master slayer is also required for the next stage of the game which is farming
Unhallowed Wasteland, so this is the best time to obtain it.
- Combined, the total grind will be about 70 hours farming
Umbora, 85 hours for
Air Rune and 30 hours for
Mind Rune totalling 185 hours. This is on par with the previous two items combined, which is fitting as it is the most useful for a CO-account with limited resources.
- The player will easily get from 90-99 magic while farming
Umbora. Expect around 200k magic xp/hr, which ends up around 14m after
Tidal Edge is obtained.
Alternatives
Cloudburst Staff using
Water Strike clocks in only around 45 kills/hr at 2.5x the rune usage. All up it would require 100+295 = 395 hours (2.5 weeks). This also burns 500
Crab/hr while only producing 663
Crab/hr, barely profiting. Requires
Guardian Ring for those insane enough to try in order to meet the DR requirement, as it is not as necessary to mitigate all of the area effect due to
Cloudburst Staff not heavily scaling with attack speed.
This method obtains a whopping 12 kills/hr, while consuming a total of 380k death runes. Farming these would take around 250 hours of Necromancers, and then another 415 hours to use them up.
This is actually the next best option, as you are trading dps for no resource gathering time. This requires a Wasteful Ring and all up this clocks in around 19 kills/hr with
Protect from Melee +
Chivalry (750
Crab/hr) or 22 kills/hr with
Piety +
Chivalry instead (1,500
Crab/hr). All up this would cost about 180k/310k crabs and around 1.4m prayer points, as well as around 241/207 hours depending on whether one can spare to forego
Protect from Melee.
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