OSRS: Slayer Levelling Guide (1-99)

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  • Combat Level & Quests
  • Where to Begin
  • Slayer Points
    • Useful Rewards
  • Slayer Tasks For The Best XP
  • Block List and Task Skipping
  • Slayer Items

As someone who’s been through the grind of leveling skills in RuneScape for what feels like an eternity, let me tell you, my friend, that Slayer is one of those skills that can make or break your gameplay experience. And trust me when I say, you don’t want to be on the breaking end!

In many games, mastering the Slayer skill is crucial, as it significantly prepares your character for advanced levels or endgame scenarios.

This skill is among the least dynamic ones in the game, but interestingly, it increases gradually on its own, without requiring any active effort from you. Frequently, you’ll advance levels without even noticing it.

Absolutely, at first glance, Slayer might appear as just a task of slaying monsters and collecting experience points. However, in reality, it involves much deeper layers, and your journey will take you across the vast expanse of Gielinor to uncover its hidden mysteries.

This guide will cover the most important points to help get you from level 1 to level 99 Slayer.

Combat Level & Quests

It’s more beneficial to enhance your combat skills as much as possible before starting Slayer on a new account, since this will enable you to defeat monsters quicker and access stronger Slayer Masters.

Although speed isn’t necessarily vital for a Slayer, beginning the process later on in your adventure can actually quicken the overall progress.

Give attention to significant quests offering early combat experience, such as the Waterfall Quest, Combat Arena, and the Grand Tree. These tasks will provide a substantial improvement to your combat skills right at the start of your gaming journey.

The Dwarf Cannon is also beneficial as it helps you gain access to a cannon, an expensive but essential tool for future Slayer training sessions.

Strive to finish Desert Treasure 1 promptly, as obtaining the Ancient Magicks Spellbook is crucial for effective multi-combat Slayer tasks.

Where to Begin

To kickstart your Slayer adventure, the initial task is to finish the Varrock Museum Miniquest. By successfully answering questions about the diverse creatures living across Gielnor’s expansive territory, you will receive 1000 XP, a substantial amount that propels you from level 1 to level 9 in the Slayer skill.

At lower stages of Slayer, it moves at a snail’s pace because the tasks assigned by the Slayer Masters at those levels are not optimal. As a result, any extra experience points (XP) you can get for free are highly appreciated.

Additionally, you could also fill out another “Porcine of Interest” form to earn an extra 1000 XP, and if you’re unsure about it, there’s a brief explanation of the skill provided.

From now on, it’s best to concentrate on boosting your combat skills. A swift and convenient method for training, especially if you prefer AFK (Away From Keyboard) activities, could be catching sand crabs or ammonite crabs.

Wearing armor makes it seldom that you’ll be struck, and they have numerous Health Points, so you can be away from keyboard (AFK) for extended durations while engaging in activities such as watching a show or working.

Once your Combat skill approaches about 70, focusing on both Melee and Magic abilities, you may begin the formal Slaying. However, it’s possible to initiate it earlier, but progress would be quite gradual.

Slayer Masters

Slayer Master Description Points per Task Combat Bracket
Chaeldar Once you reach 70 combat, you will unlock the ability to be assigned tasks from Chaeldar. She is located in Zanaris, and as such, you will need to complete the Lost City Quest. Consider also doing the Fairy Tale series to unlock Fairy Rings for more efficient travel between tasks. Certain codes like CKS and AJR will lead you to the Slayer Tower and Fremmenik Slayer Dungeon respectively. 10* 70-85
Nieve Upon hitting Combat level 85 you can start slaying with Nieve, who provides better tasks with more respectable quantities. 12* 85-100
Duradel Once you finally reach level 100, it makes a lot of sense to switch to Duradel. He has longer tasks than Nieve with different task weights. This is the first Slayer Master to require you to have a Slayer level, which is 50. Granted, by this time you will surely have passed the level 50 mark. Thankfully, Duradel is the last Slayer Master you will need. No more running around the globe for new tasks. You will need to have completed the Shilo Village quest to use Duradel. Consider using the cart from Brimhaven to get there quickly, or an NPC Contact spell to change tasks on the fly. 15* 100+

Slayer Points

Each time you finish a Slayer assignment, you’ll accumulate points based on the Master you choose. These points can then be exchanged for beneficial perks that speed up your leveling progression and provide access to numerous advantageous new skills.

The jump from Vannaka to Chaeldar is from 4 points per task to 10 points per task. This is another reason why we don’t start Slayer until 70 Combat.

For every 10th, 50th, 100th, 250th, and 1000th task, you will get bonus points.

Useful Rewards

Name Description Slayer Point Cost
Bigger and Badder This should be one of your first unlocks. This will allow Superior Slayer monsters to spawn when killing certain monsters. These creatures will give you bonus XP and drop crucial items like the Imbued Heart and the Eternal Crystal. 150
Malevolent Masquerade This allows you to combine many important items required for killing monsters into one helmet. Due to the damage buff this helmet gives, you will wear it throughout your entire journey to 99 Slayer. 400
Broader Fletching This will unlock the ability to create broad-ranged weaponry. These bolts are fantastic and cheap ammo for crossbows, allowing you to hit high and reliably without worrying about the cost. They can also hit monsters like Turoths and Kurasks. 300
Auto-Slaying Perks You can also unlock the ability to kill certain monsters that require finishing blows with items automatically. This is particularly useful for Gargoyles, which need to be smashed with a rock hammer. 120 or less
Task Extensions You can also use points to extend the tasks that you enjoy or that give you a lot of experience. More monsters to slay means more experience. What’s not to love? 150 or less

Slayer Tasks For The Best XP

In case you recall our discussion on Dwarf Cannon and Desert Treasure 1 earlier in this manual, let me clarify their relevance now.

In a bustling battleground, blasting away with my trusty cannon will significantly up my monster takedown rate each hour, while simultaneously piling on heaps of range-focused experience points to level up faster as a gamer.

The cannonballs may be a little pricey, but they are worth it for the time that you save.

Great tasks for this include Dagannoths, Ice trolls, and Suqahs.

In the same vein, employing spells such as Ice Burst or Ice Barrage against monsters in concurrent battle zones like The Catacombs of Kourend proves to be an excellent approach for swiftly completing tasks and generating numerous superiors.

Moving diagonally across a key spot on the map allows you to pile up opponents and attack them simultaneously with a single powerful blast.

You will want to focus on tasks like Jellies, Dust Devils, Smoke Devils, and Nechryaels for the best XP and chance of spawning superiors.

Using this approach might seem pricey at first, but it offers an impressive quantity of Slayer XP and Magic XP in return. Plus, a good deal of the loot will assist in offsetting your spell costs.

After mastering the Burst technique, levels will zip by like a breeze, and I’ll have 99 squarely in my crosshairs.

It is always worth bringing stat-boosting potions and praying while you are on task. It may be expensive, but it will dramatically increase your XP per hour.

Block List and Task Skipping

Indeed, not every task carries the same weight. Occasionally, you may encounter a task that seems painstakingly slow or simply uninteresting, making you feel less inclined to tackle it. In such situations, introducing the concept of a “Task Ignore List” could be beneficial.

As a dedicated fan, I’d like to share a handy tip: You can actually alter the tasks offered by Slayer Masters by using your points. Here’s the catch, you can only do this up to seven times, and each time costs 100 points. That means, with a total of 700 points, you have the power to customize your Slayer experience!

The key here is blocking tasks that are single-target and that have a high “Task Weight”. The task weight is a number that determines how often a task is going to be given.

Of course, this list can be personalized depending on whether you like to AFK or get the maximum XP per hour.

Popular block options include Hellhounds, Greater Demons, Metal Dragons, and Spiritual Creatures.

As an alternative, when your Block List is already filled up, you may opt to bypass a task worth 30 points instead. This can apply to tasks that aren’t so disliked as to warrant inclusion in the block list, but are nevertheless not particularly enjoyable to perform.

Commonly skipped tasks include Aberrant Spectres, Elves and Mutated Zygomytes, among others.

Slayer Items

Finally, some items are crucial for any budding slayers who are looking to seriously invest in the skill. These will make the levelling experience a lot smoother.

Item Name Description
Black Mask This can be bought on the Grand Exchange, or for Ironmen, dropped by Cave Horrors at 58 Slayer. This can be built into the Slayer Helm and will give accuracy and damage against Slayer targets.
Bracelet of Slaughter This Bracelet can be used to extend Slayer Tasks that give you a good amount of XP. Every kill will have a 25% chance of not being deducted from your Slayer task.
Expeditious Bracelet This item effectively does the opposite, giving the chance of a single kill counting for double when slaying. This is particularly useful for tasks you want to get done as quickly as possible.
Rune Pouch This can be bought from a Slayer Master for 750 points. It’s a steep price, I know, but worth it. The pouch can store up to 3 different types of runes, perfect for casting many Ice spells, or using NPC Contact. This will help free up your inventory so you can pick up more loot before having to teleport away. In addition, the Rune pouch is a great investment, as you will use it for the entire game. (It can later be upgraded to hold 4 types of Rune in the Tombs of Amascut)
Slayer Ring This ring is more of a quality-of-life feature, being able to teleport you to a lot of important Slayer locations.

Generally speaking, you’ll find yourself relying on Proselyte Equipment for your spiritual needs. Regardless of whether you employ magic for a barrage, the magic accuracy bonus is not crucial in this scenario. Therefore, even when utilizing magic, Proselyte gear remains suitable as well!

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2024-12-27 15:39