Runescape Tips And Secrets

To do the phoenix slaying mini game everyday you have to complete the in pyre need quest, which I have already made a guide on if you would like to see it click here. You also have to have 51 slayer to kill the phoenix, you recieve 5k slayer xp the first time and 500 xp there on, aswell as 7.5k firemaking xp per kill aswell.  Everytime you kill the phoenix it gets reborn into a baby phoenix again giving it unlimited life, after you kill it talk to it to get 5 phoenix feathers which can be used to make phoenix pouchs (level 72 summoning required).

Some people might have problems with the equipment I use, so just adjust it to suit your own needs. This is the equipment I use.

You can use any other skill cape or even a fire cape would work great, I just take this armour as karils has a decent all round defence for magic melee and range so I don’t need to pray as much. The falador shield 3 is for the fight against the phoenix as it has a good prayer bonus and can give me full prayer restore once a day. Explorer ring 3 gives prayer and magic defence +1 aswell as 50% energy restore 3 times per day so it comes in handy for the cave aswell, for some people you may want to use a different ring such as a ring of life until you get use to the risks of fighting through the cave.

This is the inventory I take, I would suggest taking some summoning familiars with you, but at the moment there is still the glitch where it disappears after 2 floors and you can’t call it or summon a new familiar til you log out. If you log out or lag out during the cave you have to start all over again. 

For lower levels it might be worth taking tuna potatoes and more of them as the monsters in the cave can hit high and it is multi combat. I take the enchanted excalibur as it gives free defence pot dose aswell as 20 hp or so healing in a quick time period. You need the secateurs, knife and tinderbox at all times or you can’t go through the cave at all. The lunar staff is to get the entrance easier with fairy rings ( the fairy ring is south east of the entrance and the code is AKQ). The prayer potion is just incase I run out of food or need extra prayer on the phoenix at the end. I use the dds if I can on the phoenix, it doesn’t seem to get poisoned, but it does quick damage to it if you get good specials. Use Protect from mage prayer against the phoenix as it can hit 20+s pretty consistantly if you don’t.

Earlier today I killed all the monsters in the cave on the way to the phoenix aswell as the phoenix when I got there and this is the loot I got from it.

The creatures drop the occasional potion and food such as super set range pots, lobsters and curry. Sorry about the picture you can’t see the arrows and bolts very well they were rune and adamant arrows and addy bolts, the herbs were ranarr and dwarf weed. They also drop some talismans and crossbow string at times too.

Anyway I hope this little guide helps, any questions let me know and I’ll see if I can help.

Hi everyone, I acheived 99 defence last night. I thought I’d do a post about it, took a screenshot of getting 99. I made a video about it, will put that on youtube later on this year when I fix it up with the other 99s I achieved in 2008. Below is a screenshot of me getting 99 defence, I am the one in bronze armour with the fire cape on. I had a number of friends come along to my 99 defence party, they were Crowlion, Aj 692, Smiffy287, Halo3316, Slayer 6711 and Zee120. Thanks to everyone that came, couldn’t have done all the training without the support.

I got the last 5 experience for 99 on a level 1 rat in lumbridge with full bronze armour and bronze two hand sword. That’s about it for this post I think, anything else I think of I’ll put in.

I have uploaded the video on youtube, I have embedded it to this post just below. Enjoy!

If anyone wants to know what to train on, I suggest doing slayer if you are a member because it gives you a variety of monsters to kill so you don’t get bored, aswell as all the random loot you get from coins to dragon items or even a draconic visage if you get dragons. Goodluck with all your training and slaying if you choose to do some slayer.

Last night I got my first dark beast task, they took a while for me to find because it’s been ages since I did the mournings end quests but I found it in the long run. To do dark beasts you have to have 90+ slayer and have to atleast started mourning’s end 2. They are level 182 and have 225 hitpoints and also give 225 slayer exp each, aswell as around 900 experience in your method of killing. Dark beasts are always aggressive and attack with magic and melee, the magic attack is only the first attack if you are out of range of their melee attack (if you stand still its only 1, if you move its more then 1). The magic attack looks like a fire blast spell.

This is the equipment I took to the dark beasts.

I took the strength cape (t) because I was after prayer bonus more then strength, you can use fire cape if you prefer. The proselyte armour is for prayer bonus, and the saradomin sword is for an extra inventory spot for when you have to wear the mourners gear to enter the area aswell as extra prayer bonus. You can use a whip and shield if you like, but I prefer taking an extra prayer potion then having an extra free space. There is a rune mining rock located in the far north west section as seen in the picture below so if you have 85+ mining it might be worth taking a rune pickaxe aswell for the occasional runite ore.

The only things I missed with my inventory was to swap the ardrougne teleport tablets to the karmaja gloves and to take a holy wrench to make the prayer pots last more, but the 16 prayer potions I took was enough for the 167 dark beast task, with 2 doses to spare.

The dark beasts are the only monster that drops the dark bow, I was lucky enough to get one on my first task, pretty quickly too I think it was within the first 50 kills or so. They drop alot of adamant square shields, and death talismans and a decent amount of chaos, death and blood runes. Dark beasts seem to be good for blue charms too as you can tell from my loot picture below.

I used protect from melee prayer all the time as that is what they mainly attack with, be careful if you see someone else slaying dark beasts, as the dark beasts can swap opponents if someone gets to close to each other. If you need space while killing the dark beasts, you can drop the new key because you can always get another one from the desk near the head mourner which is near the entrance of the dark beasts.

To enter the dark beast lair you have to be in full mourner gear and have no other visible items on and the new key to unlock the door. An example of this is in the picture below.

Slaying dark beasts can be very long and boring but well worth it in experience and loot wise, this task took about 2-3 hours. If you have any questions about the guide let us know and we will try to help as much as we can.

Have fun slaying dark beasts and good luck with your dark bow drops.

When I first had a waterfiend task I blocked them because I thought that they would be too hard, kinda like I did with skeletal wyverns, but after a little research on other sites I found out that they weren’t as bad as they looked. The waterfiends are level 115 and give 128 slayer experience per kill, they attack with magic and range.  I recommend having 80+ in melee stats aswell as hitpoints, and atleast 40+ prayer and 70 range and defence for the karils armour. If you want to do these for training instead of slayer change the slayer helmet to neitznoit. I don’t recommend going to the waterfiends in the chaos tunnels, as it is multi combat, and waterfiends can be a handful with just 1v1.

(NOTE: to do waterfiends using this method you have to do some of the barbarian training from the barbarian on the lake outside the cave). I don’t recommend doing these if you lag alot, as they can kill pretty quickly if your not careful.

The easiest way to get to the waterfiends is to use a games necklace to barbarian outpost then put it in the bank in the deposit box inside the barbarian assault building. Then head south til you get to a pier with a whirlpool at the end of it. Enter the whirlpool, before you go down the stairs on the next level pot up and put your protect from magic prayer on to avoid the mage attacks from the brutal green dragons, and make sure you have a anti dragon breath shield or dragonfire shield on or you won’t make it to the waterfiends (you can drop the anti dragonbreath shield if you are only going to use 2handed weapons as there won’t be anymore brutal green dragons to worry about while in this area).

Above is the equipment I used to kill them, except for the sgs for specials, you can change the slayer ring to another ring if you like, I use this ring now if I have a long slayer task like this one was.

Once your ready to go down, head south past the brutal drags then west when you can til you get to the waterfiends, put on range prayer and your weapon, unless your using a 1 handed weapon of course. Waterfiends are weak against crush attacks so I recommend using a saradomin sword as it is fast and very accurate for the crush style attack. If you can’t afford to buy a saradomin sword, I recommend using a zamorakian spear as it is the second best crush weapon in my opinion besides the godswords, but they’re too slow for the waterfiends except they are good for specials (especially the saradomin godsword as it heals hitpoints and prayer with 1 special).

I usually take 2-3 bunyips (depending on amount assigned) 10 p pots 1 super restore/summoning potion, 1 super set, holy wrench, teletab or another quick teleport out, 100-200 swallow whole scrolls for the bunyips as the watefiends drop alot of raw sharks and lobsters and the rest sharks or tuna potatoes. I use berserker ring now instead of the ring of life, although you could use an explorer ring aswell as it gives a teleport and +1 prayer bonus, I recommend using ring of life the first time you go down there as it might be tricky at first.

Keep the range prayer on all the time until they become unaggressive, which is usually about 8-10 minutes of killing. Then turn on and off after you kill them. There is a log near the waterfiend spot that takes you out of the cave if you happen to forget a teleport. Some people take guthans with them to help, I tested it out and found that you get hit more with guthans on no matter what prayer you have on, if you do use guthans its best to use mage prayer as it doesnt have that great of mage defence but has a good range defence.

The picture above is from a 181 waterfiend task I completed a couple days ago, the godsword is a saradomin godsword which I borrowed from a friend, it works great there, rarely need to eat or use prayer potions. On this occasion I forgot to take the swallow whole scrolls, but it didn’t seem to make much difference, and I only took 5 prayer potions aswell. I accidently took 5 bunyips thats why there is 2 leftover in the inv still. The herb seeds were lantadyme and ranarr.

Some people range these when they get the waterfiends unaggressive, but in my opinion it just doesnt keep up with the rate of crimsons that melee gives. I haven’t tried it though, the waterfiends give heaps of mithril arrows so I guess it’s endless arrows there. Waterfiends also give heaps of crimson charms about 80% of kills have crimsons, and 90% are atleast a charm. They also drop alot of water orbs, water runes, mithril ore, seaweed, snape grass, blood and death runes which makes them very profitable and suitable for summoning and ancient supplies aswell as you can see in the above picture.

I hope this guide comes in handy for people wondering about waterfiends. I will add a map of how to get to the spot in the cave aswell as an inventory picture of what I take there.

If you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask I’m sure I can help you out.

Goodluck with your waterfiend slaying.

Recently we recieved a mithril dragon guide from Aj 692. It is up and running now, if anyone wants to see it click here. I will add equipment pictures later this week.

In other news we have added the monster guides made on the blog onto the slayer guide and added some more information about the slayer masters click here if you want to check it out.

I just finished my second abberant spectre task in a row, I kept a log of what I got from both tasks and I will talk about them later on in the guide. Abberant Spectres can be found at the slayer tower or the smokey dungeon underneath pollinviech on the second floor past the mighty banshees and require 60 slayer to get assigned them. They are 94 combat and have 90 hitpoints and give 90 slayer experience aswell. Abberant Spectres use a magic attack that can hit up to 8, and also lowers your stats if you don’t have a nosepeg or slayer helmet on. The Inventory picture below is for my second task of 178 abberant spectres, for the first task I had 158 so take off a super restore if you need to do so.

The pouch is a war tortoise pouch, you can use any other pouch that can hold items for you. I use the magic protection prayer for these as it seems to get it done quicker and less hassles with carrying food and balancing space for herbs. Below is a picture of the equipments I took, you can take a prayer book instead of dragonfire shield if you like I took the DFS because of its strength bonus. You can swap the cape for a trimmed skill cape if you want the prayer bonus aswell. If you don’t have a slayer helmet yet you will have to take a nose peg because they lower your stats and go through prayer if you don’t have one on. The dragon scimitar is there because I am still going for 99 strength, you can take a godsword or saradomin sword or a whip if you like.

The combination between the karmaja gloves 3 and the ring of slaying worked out well as it was quick teleports to and from banking. Now for the drop logs. For the first task I got:

• 8 Kwuarms, 9 irits, 6 cadatines, 11 ranarr weeds, 5 dwarf weeds, 2 lantadymes
• 3 avantoe seeds, 4 irit seeds, 1 kwuarm seed
• 1 Lava battlestaff
• 1 Black mystic bottom
• 1 Rune full helmet
• 23 gold, 10 green, 1 crimson and 7 blue charms

Now for the second task:

• 4 Kwuarms, 15 irits, 9 cadatines, 17 ranarr weeds, 2 dwarf weeds, 5 lantadymes
• 1 cadatine seed, 1 snapdragon seed, 3 irit seeds, 2 dwarf weed seeds, 2 lantadyme seeds
• 1 lava battlestaff
• 2 rune full helmets
• 1 adamant platelegs
• 24 gold, 12 green, 9 crimson and 6 blue charms

As you can see they drop alot of herbs and seeds. There were heaps of others herbs but these are the only ones I collect now. Both times I used the war tortoise when I got full of herbs then banked when I got another load worth of herbs, it worked out to be over 34 herbs a trip.

Goodluck with your Abberant Spectre slaying.

I use to skip the scabarite tasks all the time till I found out that there is an easy way to do them without having to worry about multicombat. I use the dungeon underneath the sophaneum bank (which is in the north east corner below some stairs near the broken altar). The map below shows the position of the map I use, it is just south of the scabarite mage near the start of the dungeon. The locust rangers are 98 combat and give 102 slayer xp and have 102 hp, they eventually stop attacking so you can save prayer after a while, they spawn pretty quickly so it is advisable to keep the range prayer on til they stop attacking.

I used protection from range against these as they can be pretty deadly if you arn’t careful. If you want to save prayer, you can stand in the respawn spot and have your prayer off, and mentioned by Smiffy in the comments part of this guide.

Here is the inventory I used. I take a tinderbox because they can put out your lantern now and then, the lantern is a must if you want to get to this area as it is a dungeon. The swordfish are for incase I forget to turn on the protection from range prayer.

And this is the equipment I used. You can use a prayer book if you like, I took the dragonfire shield because of the strength bonus.

Locust rangers can be good for gems and crimson charms, I forgot to take a chisel on this occassion though. They also drop rune arrows, addy arrows, battlestaffs, raw and cooked bass and lava runes. This is what I got after 41 locust rangers.

The herb is a dwarf weed. 14 rune arrows and 32 addy arrows, they dropped 7 rune and 16 addy at the same time.

Well thats the last of the guide, hope it helps and goodluck with your scabarite battles.

I just completed my task of 176 hellhounds and thought that I would make a guide on how I did them. I used the taverly dungeon hellhounds (which are north of the poison spiders) as there are alot more of them to kill then the spot at the perfect gold dungeon east of ardrougne.

Hellhounds are 122 combat and have 116 hitpoints and give 116 slayer experience. You can range these but as I am doing 99 strength I meleed them. The equipment I used is in the picture below.

The reason why I took a DDS or dragon dagger p++ as they are called these days is because I like to test how high I can hit with it as my strength level rises aswell as it comes in handy if you need a couple quick kills if you are low on food. Below is a picture of the armour I took to kill them, the ring is a ring of slaying as they don’t drop anything except clue scrolls and charms I decided not to take the ring of wealth like I do in most tasks.

At the end of the task I ended up with heaps of charms as you will see in the next picture below, I didn’t recieve any clue scrolls though because I already have one in my bank from when I did skeletal wyverns.

The uncut sapphire was from a random event, good luck with hellhounds and the clue scrolls if you are after them.

My latest task was to slay 172 Dust Devils, so I thought that I would share it with you. Dust Devils are renown for a way of getting a dragon chain. Will I get one this time? I know that a friend of mine got one with his 1st ever slayer task with them.

Here I am fighting dust devils in the smoke dungeon

Dust Devils are combat level 93 and have 105 hit points and 105 slayer points. They are not aggressive and can be found in the chaos tunnels or the smoke dungeon to the west of the southern carpet ride place at Pollnivneach. I  went to the later, but did so by climbing down the well in the middle of Pollnivneach and walking west.

This shows what I was wearing to slay dust devils

There are a few ways to slay dust devils. When I was a lower combat level I used to slay them using range. There are some safe spots for ranging, but they seem to change every now and then. However I chose to melee them this time. If I was a few points higher in the slayer tasks rewards, I would have learned the mask skill whereby I could attach the black slayer mask with the face mask. Otherwise I have my normal melee gear on with a face mask. The face mask is needed for the smoke dungeon. The photo below shows me looking at someone ranging at a safe spot.

You can see me behind someone ranging at the dust devil safe spot.

What items did I bring? If I had a high enough summoning level, then a bunyip would have been handy, because dust devils can take some hit points off you at times. However, I was still a few levels below what was needed, so I just took some good food. I also took 200 coins for the carpet ride, super pots and also 10 natures in case of rune dagger, earth battle staff or red dragonhide vambrace drops. 

These are the items I bought with me to slay dust devils.

One handy thing that you get while slaying dust devils is Ugthanki Kebabs. These kebabs heal 18 hitpoints and you often get 2 per drop. This saved  me having to use all of my tuna potatoes. On this occasion I used 2 nature runes to alch a red dragon vambrace and an earth battlestaff. Often there is the potential for many more alchable items. There is some fire elementals in the dungeon too which may drop some nature runes too if you need some and you get lucky. 46% of the drops had charms and most of them were crimson. Not showing in the item list below was 48 rune arrows, which were loaded on me to save space. I also dropped many gems and herbs. Did I get a dragon chain??? Not this time, maybe next time?

This is what I was rewarded with after the end of the 172 dust devil slayer task.

I have been doing some slayer tasks lately due to the points system they now have. I aim to be able to craft slayer masks first, then I will use the points to avoid monsters and learn how to make other items.

What I found interesting was that  I got Fire Giants as a task for the very first time with Duradel. Not only that, I was given them twice in a row. The 1st time 199 and the 2nd 193. I shall discuss mostly the 2nd task on this occasion.

This was good news for me, as fire giants give 109 slayer points per kill, which is quite good.

There are a number of places where you find Fire Giants, including the Chaos Tunnels, Brimhaven Dungeon, Wilderness, Smoky Dungeon and Baxtorian Falls. As a matter of habit I chose the Baxtorian falls location. You need to have done the waterfall quest in order to get there, as you need glarials amulet to enter.

Fire Giants appear in 2 areas underneath Baxtorian Falls and they can be seen where the white, yellow and red dots are in the picture below.

The smaller area to the right is where most of the rangers kill fire giants, although there are some safe spots in the larger area to the left too. Pure rangers used to spend a lot of time here. I decided to melee them though, as my combat is high enough now and it is much quicker to finish the task.

I decided to take my normal melee gear with a whip and a black slayer mask. It was also essential to take Glarial’s amulet andalso a rope, so that you can get onto the Island after the raft breaks. Below is the items that I took. I only took 1 super strength potion, as the fire giants tend to drop strength potions. I also took some nature runes to alch any fire battlestaffs I collected. Guthans was used for short periods to give some health back.

There are some level 52 spiders in the passageway leading to the 2 areas that reduce your prayer by half each time they hit you, so anyone with combat under 105 may need to take some prayer potions too. If you are at those levels, then I suggest that you range and/or bring a hally. The picture below shows what the fire giants look like and also the table that rangers often use. In fact one was using it at the time of the picture. At the top of the photo is the doorway to get in. This is a safe spot for rangers to be at before the fire giants stop being aggressive.

I have not slayed fire giants for a while, so I was not used to getting charms from them. In the task with 199 fire giants I got 99 gold charms, 16 green charms, 9 crimson charms and 3 blue charms. On the 193 task I got 122 gold charms, 11 green charms, 3 crimson charms and 3 blue charms. So they gave quite a number of charms for each task.

I did not get any rune scimmys. I remember getting quite a few rune scimmys with fire giants in the past, so this was a surprise to me. I also got my 1st dragon drop with a fire giant, a dragon med helmet, but not this time.

Below is a list of the items that I got with the second task. Gems and herbs were mostly dropped, but I kept some closer to the end of the task.

So good luck with your fire giant battles.