Been doing wilderness slayer since before the 300qp additional block was added. Wanting to focus mostly on imbued heart tasks while I continue to level up. Will be using Duradel, do not need Hydra.
#7 blocks for reg slayer, 95+, focus on burst tasks and imbued heart chance?
keen cedar
dull gust
Just block the 7 highest weight bad tasks?
Maybe Dark Beasts, Hellhounds, Kraken, Dagannoths, Greater Demon if you cba Kril, Kalphite, your choice of weight 8 garbage
daring stream
arent dark beasts pretty decently fast?
wild grove
Dagannoths are good for barrage too right?
dull gust
Why
ocean needle
dark beasts are not fast
incidentally I updated the slayer guide recently to account for the extra block slot
the 97-99 segment might be relevant
dusk oar
I'd probably block:
- hellhounds
- cave kraken
- greater demons
- kalphite
- black demons
- drakes
- wyrms
This has a very good overlap with Konar's list for 50th tasks, though you have to deal with veld tasks that you'll have to skip from her. The problem is that velds are 8 at Duradel, greaters are 9 at Duradel, and blacks are 8 at Duradel. On the other hand, velds are 9 at Konar, greaters are 7 at Konar, and blacks are 9 at Konar. So velds + blacks have the same weight at both, and you can't justify swapping out greaters for velds at Duradel so you have to take the L on skipping velds at Konar
dusk oar
I'd probably block:
- hellhounds
- cave kraken
- greater demons
- kalphite
- bla...
If you somehow have a million cannonballs and Arclight charges that you can afford to lose, then cannon velds is a fast task. However, you burn so many supplies that it is absolutely not worth it at all. I did some investigation of the task with 3 sample tasks around 2.5 years ago:
daring stream
dark beasts are not fast
Oh really? I think I was usually taking like 5 mins for task and that didn't seem too bad for +15 points but maybe it's different if just hunting heart?
dull gust
If you're taking 5m for a dark beast task you're killing them in 20s
They have 220hp so that woud put you on 11 DPS
Which is doable I guess
daring stream
Typically a 1 divine task for me iirc
daring stream
Oh it might have been 2 sips maybe I'm misremembering lol
keen cedar
Sorry, asked this and then bailed for the whole day. Appreciate the responses though.
keen cedar
If you somehow have a million cannonballs and Arclight charges that you can affo...
I have essentially unlimited arclight charges for the time being. Only about 40k cballs left though after wild slayer.
dusk oar
Ye the bigger issue is the cannonballs but also arclight charges are always better used on nechs anyway
keen cedar
Arclight the preferred melee wep for those, over fang or blade? I've still been bursting mine - or was, in any case.
Haven't done a non-wild Nech task in ages
Either way I should be set on those for a while. full 10k charges + 97 shards currently.
dusk oar
Arclight the preferred melee wep for those, over fang or blade? I've still been ...
Fang is probably close but Arclight is still better
Blade also "OK" but again that's definitely the number one use for Arclight
daring stream
maybe save arclight charges for duke now? but might be a post scythe angle too
pliant chasm
why not burst nechs?
ocean needle
It's quite a lot better to melee them in the slayer tower
Prayer xp, herb seeds, melee xp, gp
pliant chasm
sorry if i dont understand but dont u get those things while bursting
not the melee xp ofc but the rest
ocean needle
The drop table in the slayer tower is different
Plus you can use the offering spell on the ashes
pliant chasm
i see ty
dusk oar
Also you shouldn't ever use ice burst
Ice barrage is good but if your only option is burst in cata then meleeing in tower is way better
Meleeing is still better than barrage too from a macro perspective but I've seen OK arguments for barraging if you don't care about prayer. Bursting is just way slower though since you're losing 11 max hits and that gets distributed in an AoE
pliant chasm
i see i see
also in the slayer guide this is said
But i dont really get with see above i dont see anything above
ocean needle
ah mb, that was a reference to occult altar, I'll fix it ty
ocean needle
yes