Category: Runscape

The Dagannoth Kings are some of the most dangerous monsters in Runescape, due to the multi-combat nature of their lair. You will be under constant attack at all times, and even the most experienced players can die in seconds. You should never attempt to fight the kings with items you are not willing to risk losing.
Waterbirth Island is the place where Fremennik warriors go to fight the infestation of dagannoth that threatens their city and harbour. While the island itself is interesting for various reasons, this guide focuses on the three bosses located in the island depths. For more information on Waterbirth Island, check out our Waterbirth Island Dungeon.

The island has many monsters that can be extremely dangerous, including Dagannoth, Giant rock crabs, Rock lobsters, and Wallasalki.

The Dagannoth Kings are three bosses, each using a specific style from the combat triangle, and provide one of the most consistent ways of making money in the game. Rex attacks with melee, Supreme attacks with ranged, and Prime attacks with magic. While dangerous, the profit is well worth the risk.

The lair is a round piece of land surrounded by a monster-filled moat. The kings only wander in specific areas of the islet, so it is possible to avoid attacks by certain kings for the most part, provided you step carefully, but you’ll eventually be spotted. If they spot you, all Kings can follow you to any part of the islet, where they won’t stop attacking you until you kill them, leave, or die.

The Dagannoth Kings count towards a Dagannoth slayer assignment. A Full slayer helmet or Slayer helmet can be used in any of the following set-ups to get the usual slayer task boosts.
Waterbirth Island hosts a pleasant combination of low-level and high-level boss hunting. The simplest way to kill the Dagannoth Kings is killing only one king and avoiding the others. Of all kings, Rex is the easiest to kill without taking a lot of damage. Killing only Prime or Supreme is not viably worth it and also quite hard to do as their spawns are quite close, potentially getting you attacked by up to all 3 kings at once.
This gear emphasizes magic damage and defence. With Rex being both weak to magic, and immune to range and melee damage, you want to focus on magic defence from the Spinolyp attacks, and magic attack to kill Rex off as quickly as possible. You will have to wait between Rex spawns. It is recommended that you take a partner to get Supreme and perhaps Prime off you at least for the first kill, because there is only a small chance of getting into the lair without getting one or both aggressive towards you. After that you can solo or share the room with a hybrid.

Which spell you choose should depend on what you want more: magic experience or money. The Polypore staff is usually the cheapest spell as a whole to usewhile if you want experience more, use Storm of Armadyl with an Armadyl battlestaff. If you use a polypore staff you can be on any spellbook, allowing you to use blood barrage from the ancient spellbook, for healing, or Waterbirth teleport from the Lunar spellbook, for quick banking. Rex has a weakness to fire spells too, so using your best fire spell (fire surge or bloodfire barrage) is extremely effective.

Suiciding
The suicider is a partner whose only job is to provide the mage with a safe entrance to the King’s Lair. Their job consists entirely of entering the lair, killing Supreme as fast as possible, then killing Prime if he gets on the mage, and then teleporting out. To do this easily it’s suggested to bring the following:

Some armour focusing on offence (see Prime and Supreme hybrid gear below).
A powerful melee and ranged weapon (such as an Upgraded Balmung and a Crystal bow
A prayer potion.
One dose each of super/extreme attack, strength and ranged potion.
Teleport to house tablet.
Some Rocktail.
Overall this is a very easy thing to do and you shouldn’t worry too much about what you bring provided you have enough food. 

The Chaos Dwarf Battlefield is an underground cavern filled with menacing Red Axe Chaos Dwarves in perpetual battle with Keldagrim’s Black Guard. Players can choose a side amongst the confusion and join in on the fight, with potential for great rewards! You must have completed the Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf quest to access this area.
The chaos dwarves occupy the western half of the battlefield, continually attacking the persistent and determined Black Guard troops. They have superior weaponry and numbers, making them a fearsome enemy you do not want to engage unprepared. There are multiple methods of attacking the chaos dwarf monsters, one which exploits their varying aggression behaviours, and another that focuses on killing as many monsters as fast as possible. Before these are explained, it is important to note that upon entering the battlefield, no monsters are aggressive towards you, as you have not shown favor towards a particular side. Once you attack a dwarf, that dwarf’s entire army will become aggressive to you. This applies to both the Black Guard and chaos dwarf forces. The critical exception, however, is that the chaos dwogres may be attacked without arousing the suspicion of the rest of their army. The melee praying method takes advantage of this. The blood barrage method attempts to deal sufficient damage to keep your character’s life points at a safe level while he or she takes on the full force of the chaos dwarf army.

To summarize, here are the fundamental rules to remember about fighting here:

Attacking a dwogre will cause only the dwogre to target you.
Attacking a chaos hand cannoneer or chaos dwarf will turn the entire chaos army aggressive for about fifteen minutes.
Attacking any Black Guard member will turn their entire army aggressive for about fifteen minutes.
If at any point you would like to reset your aggression status, you should leave the battlefield, log out, and log back in.
One should be familiar with the attack styles of the chaos dwarves. The dwogres use a mage-based melee attack when fighting close, and a magical attack when they are unable to reach their target. The hand cannoneers use a ranged attack, but will switch to a less damaging melee attack if you are praying against it. The lower level chaos dwarf soldiers will always use a weak and comparatively trivial melee attack. If you plan on attacking any monsters other than dwogres, you need to be able to withstand all three styles of attack.
he tactics for dwogre slaying are relatively simple. Once you enter the battlefield from Keldagrim, run all the way to the west side and attack a dwogre of your choice. To stay safe, you should follow some key guidelines. You should right click every time you plan to attack a dwogre, or do any left click action. Slightly inaccurate left clicking can sometimes cause your character to unintentionally attack a dwarf, which can lead to a quick death from multiple hand cannon shots.he tactics for dwogre slaying are relatively simple. Once you enter the battlefield from Keldagrim, run all the way to the west side and attack a dwogre of your choice. To stay safe, you should follow some key guidelines. You should right click every time you plan to attack a dwogre, or do any left click action. Slightly inaccurate left clicking can sometimes cause your character to unintentionally attack a dwarf, which can lead to a quick death from multiple hand cannon shots. 

General Graardor resides in Bandos’ Stronghold in the God Wars Dungeon, along with his bodyguards, who represent the three points of the combat triangle: Sergeant Steelwill (magic), Sergeant Grimspike (ranged) and Sergeant Strongstack (melee). You need to bash on the door of the Stronghold with a hammer to enter it (requires 70 strength). To enter the room containing General Graardor and his bodyguards, you must first kill 40 of his followers, who are found in Bandos’ Stronghold and in the central area of the God Wars Dungeon. The best spot for killcount is outside the Stronghold, near the ice bridge to Zamorak’s Fortress, on goblins and hobgoblins (red square). For this spot you will need to bring a Zamorak item to protect yourself from Zamorak’s followers’ aggression. A Zamorak arrow is most convenient. The other spot is on hobgoblins, outside the Stronghold, but just south of the Bandos boss room (yellow square). You do not need an item for this spot.
To protect yourself from Bandos’ soldiers’ aggression, you must wear a Bandos item, any of the unique items dropped by Nex or take a bath in the Bandos pool at Oo’glog. The latter is recommended if you can’t use Bandos chestplate, tassets or Torva items when they are listed in the set-ups below. The pool will protect you for one hour.

All set-ups in this guide are approximates and you should adjust them to suit your needs, especially the amount of potions you bring.
Warriors are the damage-oriented companions to a single tank. Their job is to kill Graardor as quickly as possible while the tank draws Graardor’s melee attacks away from them. Because Graardor’s ranged attack is the most dangerous to them, warriors pray protect from ranged.
Strategy – Warrior
At all times, when Graardor is alive: Pray protect from/deflect ranged and piety/turmoil.

As warrior, your main function is damaging the General. Part of this job is dealing more damage than any competition you might face. To make sure you get a kill, use your special recover potions and unleash two dragon claw special attacks every kill as long as the competition is serious. If you do not have dragon claws you can replace the special recover potions with others as you prefer. Dreadnips can be a powerful addition to your offensive power – use them if you have them. They must be directed to attack Graardor each kill.

The minions are best killed with a chaotic rapier, however due to your teammates they will probably die quickly enough that your maul will do fine. Use soul split to heal if you have it, and kill the minions in this order to minimize damage taken: Sergeant Steelwill (magic), Sergeant Grimspike (ranged), and finally Sergeant Strongstack (melee). Use the correct protect prayer if you do not have soul split.

Make sure to have one familar summoned before travelling to the God Wars Dungeon. If you bring a beast of burden, fill it with prayer potions and bring more overloads or attack/strength potions and prayer renewal potions in your inventory. If your bob is a yak, bring a spare yak pouch in its last space – you will be able to last for almost three hours, so bring potions accordingly. 

he Slayer Tower is an imposing sight for new arrivals to Morytania, and it’s even more so after today’s graphical update. As ever, the Slayer Tower’s a great place to complete Slayer Assignments for a range of RuneScape’s more macabre monsters.

From today, you’ll also be able to complete Slayer Contracts within the tower. These work in a similar way to Slayer Assignments, as they involve killing a set number of specific creatures, although they must be completed within the Slayer Tower, and the rewards work differently.

You can take on a Slayer Contract by speaking to Markus, just outside the Slayer Tower. Markus will show you his list of normal contracts. You can then choose whichever of these you like best, take a contract scroll from Markus and head into the tower to get slaying. Be sure to keep the scroll with you, as kills won’t count towards the contract otherwise. This won’t affect any Slayer Assignment you already have; kills that count towards a normal contract will not count towards your assignment.

Once the contract is complete, bring the scroll back to Markus to claim your payment. He’ll offer you a choice between a healthy helping of coins or XP in the core combat skill of your choice (with some limitations). You’ll also get a little Slayer XP as you kill each monster: 20% of the amount you’d have received if you killed the monster for a Slayer Assignment.

If you already have a Slayer Assignment to kill suitable creatures, Markus will offer you a special contract instead of the normal list. His special contracts match the type of creature that you’ve been assigned, effectively giving you a 20% uplift to your Slayer XP, plus a choice of combat XP or coins.

There’s an Early Bird bonus available for the next two weeks, doubling the combat XP or cash that you’ll receive from the first normal contract that you complete within that time.
Our Graphics Team have done some superb work on the Slayer Tower, and its spooky Second Age look fits in well with the new lore we’ve introduced. Keep an eye out for books written by the tower’s architect – General Viggora – and by the mage responsible for populating the tower with its monstrous residents. We’ve also replaced some of the old agility shortcuts with stairs for easier access, but we’ve added a new one which grants access to a new rooftop, where more of the highest levelled enemies are available for those of you with at least 71 Agility.

Whether you’re looking to bullseye some banshees, knock out some nechryaels or take an axe to some Abyssal demons, the Slayer Tower’s the place to go. Head on over there now and start slaying! 

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