Slowly entering the more late game content. As such I noticed that a zammy spear feels very required for the late game content. How does everyone else see this? Trips to zammy are 0-1kc trips at the moment so it can be rough to get the item.
#Is a zammy spear required for tao and cox?
sour urchin
worn plinth
Highly recommend grinding that bowfa, then they become 20-30+kc trips
unkempt fulcrum
hasta is pretty essential for toombs and lance for chambers, yeah. zammy with bowfa is pretty smooth later on
quaint tusk
even if it wasnt really needed for toa it builds into a lance.
also if you are 99 melee and magic doing 2:1 walk under should be at least 4 kill trips if you decided to skip bowfa.
was getting more like 4-8 depending on food drops iirc
sour urchin
@quaint tusk I am more like 95 in melee stats. Doing 2:1 with dwh as spec, but maybe archlight is better? At the moment if I miss dwh I lose to much hp. Do you bring brews or food? And do you pray switch the minions?
quaint tusk
magic lv? cuz that matters a bit.
hammer is good but even if it misses it shouldnt be that big of a deal you should bring at least one brew. prayer switching after the kill makes a big difference in your ability to heal up and is generally worth learning
arclight with max melee+task should shred him either way.
sour urchin
95 magic, I do pray switch after the kill, I do have some trouble stacking the ranger and melee for barrage though. I havent done it on task yet, maybe that is the limiting factor at the moment.
quaint tusk
should always do zammy on task. if you are struggling on task still you can wait for slightly better gear- like tort or fury if you dont have it, divine str/super combat/divine super combat, same for suffering, maybe a lucky karils top, maybe blood fury if you happen to have those.
and 99s in all stats
otherwise its a hard recommendation to wait for bowfa, the item is very good
sour urchin
I have all the 'simple' item I can get expect blood fury, but I think I got enough info thanks! Will try it out on task next time 💪
lost latch
fwiw a lot of people also take not-so-great items to zammy like fury, crystal shield or ring of suffering. If you're using any of those that's some more room for improvement. But it's all peanuts compared to using bowfa
drifting oyster
If you're gonna do melee Zammy honestly the single best thing you can do to extend trips is flicking during kill. Oziris was doing 5 kill trips at mid 70s melee stats on a noob HCIM... not flicking is just gonna destroy you because ranger is rly accurate tbh. Up to you but I'd ideally not do melee Zammy but if you insist then learn flicking -- it'll be miserable otherwise, especially if you go a little dry (e.g. I went 3x)