#How much does defence level matter?

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tiny adder
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So I'm about to do bands with bowfa, tried a few times and sometimes I get destroyed by the minions. I'm 93 defence, how big of a difference would getting 99 be ?

eager salmon
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very very very little

vital ingot
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Are you using steel skin and flicking at least 2 of the minions after the kill?

placid oar
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You're chilling at 93, minions sometimes rng you but can't help it. Try using steel skin if you're not already

tiny adder
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Yeah steel skin is active, ring of suffering on too. I guess it's just down to rng then (yes I pray flick melee and mage minion) but sometimes grarrdor is like 20%hp when I'm around 30, and it starts to get spicy, that's the situation I'm worried about

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Melee and range*

placid oar
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Are you not flicking the ranger?

tiny adder
placid oar
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Mager/melee has a max of 15 so you're generally fine untill that point, shouldn't get hit much by meleer during kill. Sometimes they just hit harder and sometimes it's very reclined, can't help that much. As long as you're flicking minions after kill you should be able to get long trips

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I was avging 30-35+ kill/trips during my grind at same def level and just flicking minions after kill, nothing during

tiny adder
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Yeah maybe it's just down to the rng. I've just experiences it a few times where I'm very low and have to eat during a kill, but I'm not too comfortable getting back into cycle (6:0 bowfa)

jaunty marlin
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93 defense vs 99 won't be a big difference
99 vs 70 will be a more noticeable difference
I'd say you're fine

slender lagoon
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id get at least level 70. After that you'll be fine. So at 93 you should not have any issues

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imo the defensive prayer really doesnt matter that much, in that its not likely to rescue you if you regularly make mistakes

wooden musk
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I personally didn't run steel skin all the time, but when I immediately got ragged for like 20 damage at the start of a kill I would turn it on to try and salvage the kill from having to eat mid kill. I did my bandos grind with like low 80s defence I think.

tiny adder
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So it's just a pure rkg thing ?

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Rng

jaunty marlin
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well
if ur not making mistakes and are willing to flick a lot more to conserve prayer, then steel skin will lower the variance on the kills where you get bad rng on hits

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but like bruh said if u are making mistakes then that's not gonna save you from getting whacked a 60

stray ibex
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its not a big deal, eat once and skip the next hit