Ancient Claw/Guide

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Introduction

Ancient Claw is a melee weapon that does not require late-basegame content to obtain. It is also a component for Infernal Claw.

The Ancient Claw is assembled from the fragments that drop only from Pegasus. On average, 3,333 Pegasi kills are required in order to obtain enough fragments.

The question is when to farm it and what combat style is the best for that. The main point of contention is whether to farm it before or after the
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Volcanic Cave
, as this dungeon is farmed with a
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Melee
build and is vital for idling the
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Air God Dungeon
.

To answer these questions, the following builds will be considered:

These builds were chosen to show the changes that the various drops bring into farming Pegasus.
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Ranged
builds were not considered because the Pegasus is
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Melee
and has the highest evasion against Ranged in addition to the Combat Triangle.

There are 2 ways to gain Ancient Claw Fragment from other sources which are well worth doing.

Builds

Each build assumes the following:

  • The ring slot is always occupied with Magical Ring.
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    Auto Eat - Tier III
    is used.
  • Whale (Perfect) is used as the Food of choice because it is considered a middle ground between starting out and being fully levelled in
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    Firemaking
    ,
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    Fishing
    ,
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    Farming
    , and
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    Cooking
    .
  • The character is on the
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    Hardcore
    game mode with all Combat skills at level 60. This means all builds presented here are suitable regardless of the game mode being played.

Skill levels are given so that these simulations may be replicated using the Combat Simulator add-in.


Fire Wave Magic

Combat stats around level 60.

The average time to obtain all 100 Ancient Claw Fragments with this build is approximately 30 hours. However, note that without Slayer gear this increases to 33 hours.

Spell:
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Fire Wave

Prayers:
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Mystic Lore
and
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Mystic Might

Point of Interest: The Academia Arcanum



Sunset Rapier Melee

Combat stats around level 70.

The grind time with this build is approximately 24 hours. Without Slayer gear, this time increases to 26 hours.

Prayers:
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Chivalry
and
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Incredible Reflexes

Point of Interest: Dark Waters



Slicing Winds Magic

Combat stats around level 75.

Reaching at least 20,000 accuracy is key for this build, as this prevents
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Slicing Winds
from missing. Therefore, while the build only requires a minimum of
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Level 72
, and at most
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Level 93
or multiple accuracy bonuses from sources such as:

Worth noting that using a Mystic Air Staff will drastically reduce the amount of runes spent - especially while using Surge Auroras. The staff will be slower, and will require more Food due to the player taking a greater number of hits.

Warning: Swapping Miolite Shield for Book of Eli will not significantly reduce kill times, while also forcing you to spend more runes and therefore more time Runecrafting.

The grind time with this build is approximately 11 hours. Slayer equipment has no impact on the clear speed in this case.

Spell:
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Slicing Winds

Aurora:
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Surge II

Prayers:
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Mystic Might
and
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Mystic Mastery

Point of Interest: The Academia Arcanum


Glacia Magic

Combat stats around level 85.

Summons:
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Dragon
and
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Witch
Increase the kills per hour by about 1, shortening your grind by 20 minutes if you have
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Dragon
unlocked.

The grind time with this build is approximately 5.5 hours.

However, this build implies that the
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Air God Dungeon
would need to be cleared with Sunset Rapier. Spell:
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Water Surge

Curse:
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Anguish III

Aurora:
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Surge II

Prayers:
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Mystic Might
and
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Mystic Mastery

Point of Interest: The Academia Arcanum