Runescape Tips And Secrets

Here is a updated picture for how bloodvelds look, thanks islay x sara

I just finished a task that was given to me by duradel in shilo village, he assigned me to kill 172 bloodvelds. Usually I would range them but since I’m going for 99 attack through slayer I thought that I would try to melee them for a change. I mentioned in my previous post that bloodvelds were good for experience and for charms, I got around 80-90k attack experience from these, which puts me about 9k from 92 attack.

Bloodvelds are level 76 and have 120hp and give 120 slayer experience per kill, they have low melee stats, but they use a mage type melee attack.This means you will have to use magic defence, I suggest using black dragonhide as it has good defence against magic. Getting all that slayer experience for a quick kill comes in handy when you want to raise your slayer quickly.

The equipment I used to kill them included:

• Full guthans
• 1 super set (4)
• 17 sharks
• enchanted gem
• Quick teleport out, or you can use karmaja gloves 3 for your next task
• black dragonhide body and chaps
• dragon boots
• black mask
• fury amulet, can use glory
• fire cape, you can use a god cape from mage arena, if not a skill cape or obsidian cape
• barrows gloves, or your highest gloves
• ring of wealth
• rune defender
• abyssal whip

Some items I suggest but forgot would be some fire and nature runes so you can alch your drops you get like rune medium helmet, mithril chainbody and mithril square shield. You may also notice that you get some black boots drops, they sell on the general exchange for around 800gp, so they might be worth keeping if you have the room.

At the end of the task I ended up with 95 charms including 15 golds, 68 green, and 11 crimson, unfortunately no blues, but I think I got some last time I killed bloodvelds. They also drop a fair amount of bloods, I finished up with 95 bloods, 2 black boots, 2 rune medium helms, 2 mithril chains, 1 grimy dwarf weed and 1 mithril square shield.

If you ever get this task I highly recommend using melee as it makes the task go alot quicker then using range, and for the experience and the drops you get I don’t see why anyone would want to skip this task.

If you would like to try mutated bloodvelds instead, I have made a guide on this blog also, click here if you want to see it.

Lately I have been doing slayer for 99 attack as some of you may have noticed with my recent posts. While I have been slaying I have come across a few good monsters to get charms from.

For the gold charms, I found that they are good to collect from quite a few monsters, but the best I would have to say would be the ice warriors and giants. A good place to get green charms would be bloodvelds because they drop them regularly and are good training and quick to kill for high levels.

While slaying greater demons, I found that they gave lots of crimson charms, but a mate of mine has told me that waterfiends give crimson charms about 99% of the time, not sure I’d try it, but if any of you have tried it or want to try it please let us know how it goes. As for the blue charms,  I found that gargoyles gave them about 10% of the time, although I was getting other good drops such as rune full helms, granite mauls and other charms. So far they seem to be the best. Another good monster to kill for blue charms is kalphite soldiers as meantioned in crowlion’s comment. Shady Boi, meantioned that rock crabs were another good monster to kill for charms, as seen below in the comments.

After 2 days of doing slayer for attack experience I have gained close to 2 attack levels, 1 hitpoint level, 1 slayer level and have collected in total over 400 charms including 146 gold, 155 green, 83 crimson and 32 blue. For those of you who don’t know how to get the shards that jagex fixed up with the update just talk to the pickupstix guy and he will give you the shards that he owes you, I got around 9k when I spoke to him.

For low level summoners I suggest doing the spirit scorpion pouches as they are quick and good experience, to get the bronze claws for it you can buy them on the general exchange or make them yourselves, I found that you get under 2k experience per load.

To get a gecko you have to catch it just east of the harpie bug swarms on karmaja, you will need a box trap. For a pet puppy you have to talk to one of the pet shop owners and pay 500gp for one. If you want a penguin all you have to do is talk to the penguin keeper at ardrougne zoo and he will give you an egg to put in an incubator at one of the pet shops.

To feed the geckos, they require flies which you can buy at the pet shop, for the puppies they need to be fed raw beef and the penguins likes to eat raw fish.

Happy summoning and goodluck!

I got a task to slay 170 Kalphites the other day and thought that I would try something different for a change.  Usually I just run around madly slaying the low level Kalphite Workers (level 28) and rarely I would try and range the Kalphite Guardians (level 141), but today I decided to slay the Kalphite Soldiers.

Kalphite Soldiers are level 85 and give 90 slayer xp per kill. My task was to slay 170 of them. Most of the Kalphite Soldiers are located at the Kalphite Cave in a room that is multi combat (refer to picture below). After time they stop attacking you automatically. I noticed that many were taking Guthans to this area, but I decided to take some super sets and 2 super anti-poisons instead. I had no problems in completing the task and had 5 sharks to spare. There were others that used cannons in this area, which is probably a good tactic to use against the kalphite soldiers too. I just hopped worlds when a cannon showed up.

The picture above shows what the Kalphite soldiers look like as well as what I collected at the completion of the slayer task.  It is interesting that although only 42 charms were collected from 170 kills, 8 of them were blue charms. This was a large proportion of blue charms compared to my recent ice warrior attempts in getting charms. 19 were gold charms, 9 were crimson charms and 6 were green charms. Also collected were some fire runes, 6 nature runes (although 1 was used to alch a mith chainbody), 12 death runes, 96 chaos runes and 13k coins (including the alch). Some other steel items were left on the ground, as well as some waterskins.

Also in my inventory, you may have noticed that I collected some potato cactus. 3 potato cacti are located in this room, but it appears that after you pick 1 up the Kalphite Soldiers start attacking you again. So it is best to leave them alone until you have finished killing the Kalphite Soldiers. Potato cactus can be used as the second ingredient for magic potions and now they can be used to help make spirit kalphite pouches (for the new summoning skill).

So I did not gain too much from this task, especially compared to the 2 whips that I got from my previous 144 abyssal demon task, but it is all a learning experience.