Slayer training

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This slayer guide will help players train Slayer from levels 1 to 99.

[edit] Starting Out

Slayer Master Duradel

[edit] Access to Slayer Masters

Requirements or quests for accessing different Slayer masters and areas.

• Priest in Peril - Mazchna.
• Smoking Kills - Sumona

• Lost city - Chaeldar
• Shilo Village - Duradel / Lapalok.
• Ancient Cavern - Kuradal

[edit] Access to Slayer Areas

These quests give access to new Slayer monsters. (These slayer monsters will only be assigned after the completion of requirements.) Note that Waterfiends can only be assigned if you have spoken to Otto.

• Horror from the Deep - Dagannoths
• Legacy of Seergaze- Zombie hands, Skeletal Hands and Mutated Bloodvelds
• Lunar Diplomacy - Suqahs
• Priest in Peril - Morytania's monsters and the Slayer Tower.
• Watchtower - Quicker access to Blue Dragons and those caged Greater Demons
• Barbarian Training - Mithril Dragons and single combat Waterfiends.
• Cabin Fever - Jungle Horrors and Cave Horrors.
• The Path of Glouphrie - Warped Tortoise and Warped terrorbird
• Ernest the Chicken - Killerwatts

[edit] Recommended items

[edit] Food

See Calculators/Food healed for detailed cost per hitpoint breakdown.

• High healing and relatively cheaper food such as Karambwan and Monkfish.
• Low healing and cheap food for restoring health at a bank, such as Trout and Salmon/Moonlight Mead.

Recommended equipment for high leveled players.

[edit] Armour

• Black Mask or Slayer helmet - both give a 15% increase to strength and attack when slaying the assigned monsters; a slayer helmet also includes all other slayer headgear and has the same melee defence bonus of Rune full helmet.
• Prayer-boosting armour, such as Proselyte armour. (The body and leg part only, with the combination of the Slayer helmet .)
• Salve amulet or Salve amulet (e) - provides a 15% boost to attack and strength against undead; the enchanted version provides a 20% boost instead. Neither stacks with the Black Mask effect - the larger boost takes effect only.
• Amulet of Fury - gives good bonus for both attack and defence for every style and prayer.
• Skillcapes or Fire Cape - the former gives the best prayer bonus for capes and good defence bonus, the latter gives attack bonus and even better defence bonus for capes.
• Rune defender - gives good melee attack bonus, some defence bonus and little strength bonus, which can speed up your task significantly, it is recommended to use this instead of Dragonfire shield for non-dragon-related tasks.
• Dragonfire shield - gives great defence bonus and good strength bonus. Recommended to use for dragon tasks.
• Barrow gloves - gives good attack and defence bonus, also a massive +12 strength bonus.
• Dragon slayer gloves - gives a 10% increase to attack when slaying the assigned dragon task, the effect stacks with Black Mask or Slayer helmet.
• Dragon boots - gives good defence bonus and little strength bonus.
• Berserker ring or Berserker ring (i) - the former gives +4 to strength bonus while the latter gives +8 to strength bonus.
• Ferocious ring, if slaying creatures given by the ancient cavern slayer master, if killing within her dungeon.
• Any Barrows armour top and bottom - give good melee and range defence bonus. Guthan's set is also useful as it eliminates some of the need for food during tasks.
• Bandos Chestplate and Bandos Tassets - give good melee and good range defence bonus and also give little strength and prayer bonus, also it doesn't degrade like barrows.

[edit] Magic defence armour

This armour is useful for Slayer monsters that use magic-based attacks, such as Pyrefiends or Aberrant spectres.

• Dragonhide armour - especially black dragonhide has excellent magic defence.
• Karil's set is a more expensive option, but has slightly better magic defence that black dragonhide armour.
• Armadyl armour is a lot more expensive, but has just that little bit more magic defence, at a cost of some attack bonus.
• Spectral spirit shield is very expensive, but also very good shield. It has a whopping +30 magic defence bonus.
• Infinity boots has a +5 magic defence bonus. Jester boots give the same bonus.

[edit] Weapons

The following weapons are suggested to use against other tasks, however it is personal preference which you prefer to use, depending on the individual task you have. Some weapons have disadvantages when fighting different tasks, including some two-handed so they are not useful for dragon slaying/shield wielding tasks. However, if a player is a high-levelled herbalist, they can create potions that will allow you to use two-handed weapons for fighting dragons. Other weapons are somewhat difficult to obtain because of expenses or requiring an entire Achievement Diary to obtain. For fighting Turoths and Kurasks, special weapons are required, as mentioned in the below table.

• Abyssal Whip - works outstandingly with Rune Defender for most of the tasks.
• Saradomin Sword - gives same bonus as Abyssal Whip, however it is a 2-handed weapon, therefore Rune Defender cannot be used. Good for training strength.
• Zamorakian spear - is the best non-PvP stab weapon. Useful Aquanite and Waterfiend tasks.
• Dragon Scimitar - a cheap weapon for training strength, sometimes works as well as Saradomin Sword.
• Dragon Dagger (p++) - has a good special attack.
• Enhanced Excalibur - has a special that heals you 20 hp in a short period of time and gives a boost for defence. It is a 1-handed weapon, safer for using it in shield-required tasks.
• Saradomin Godsword - main use is its useful special attack, see article for more information.
• Dwarf Multicannon and cannonballs, for faster killing in multi-combat zones. However, it is moderately expensive to keep up, although your task might speed up considerably.

[edit] Other useful items

• Dramen staff or Lunar staff for transportation through Fairy rings.
• Combat stat-boosting potions (such as a Super set).
• Teleport runes and other methods of teleportation.
• Bones to Peaches is useful for monsters that drop bones.
• Energy potions and/or Super energy potions for getting around quickly.
• Summoning pouches - Beasts of Burden to carry extra supplies or drops; Healers to reduce food consumption or eliminate the need for it altogether.
• Slayer ring for teleports and contacting masters for updates on current task.
• Combat bracelet - Updates the wearer of amount remaining ever 10 kills, and has teleports.
• Regen Bracelet - Doubles HP regeneration (Stacks with Rapid heal). Can be very useful for Slayer tasks by saving money and inventory space for food, but the bonuses of Barrows gloves are usually considered much better.
• Holy wrench - Helps preserve prayer potions. Useful for Dark Beast and Metal dragon tasks.

[edit] Strategies

Slayer tasks have different versions of monsters to kill. The table below shows the different monsters offered by the different slayer masters, the charms they drop most frequently, and a good strategy to beat them efficiently, including good locations to fight them.

Found in the Slayer Tower or Desert Slayer Dungeon. They use a Magic-Based melee attack.
Can be both meleed and ranged easily.

[edit] Summoning

Beasts of Burden have extra inventory space, which can be useful when on a long slayer task.

Pouch	Familiar	Summoning Level Required	Inventory Space	Time (min)
	Bull Ant	40	9	30
	Spirit Terrorbird	52	12	36
	War Tortoise	67	18	43
	Pack Yak	96	30	58

Certain Summoning familiars have the ability to heal the summoner. This effect can be particularly useful if the player is on a long slayer task and running low on food.

Pouch	Familiar	Summoning Level Required	Healing Rate	Time	Total HP Healed
	Void spinner	34	1 per 15 seconds.	27	108
	Bunyip	68	2 per 15 seconds.	44	352
	Fruit bat	69	Spawns eatable fruit.	45	N/A
	Fire titan Ice titan Moss titan	79	8 per scroll	62 64 58	8 times the amount of scrolls used
	Unicorn stallion	88	15% of total hitpoints (scroll required).	54	15% times the number of scrolls used

Although the Bunyip has a better healing rate than the Void Spinner, the Void Spinner can be useful for the player if he/she doesn't have 68 Summoning.

The Titans are also aggressive to the monster you are attacking, be careful.

Note - The healing ability still works even if a player does not have any remaining Summoning points.

Combat Familiars come in handy for certain slayer tasks that are multi-combat to increase experience per hour. Listed below are some of the more useful combat familiars.

IMPORTANT!: If a combat familiar gets either the final hit on a target or deals majority damage you receive Half the normal amount of xp for that kill.

Pouch	Familiar	Summoning Level Required	Combat Level	Special Attack	Time (min)
	Obsidian golem	73	126		55
	Adamant minotaur	76	133		66
	Fire titan Ice titan Moss titan	79	139		62 64 58
	Hydra	80	141		49
	Spirit dagganoth	83	148		57
	Lava titan	83	148		61
	Swamp titan	85	152		56
	Rune minotaur	86	154		151
	Geyser titan	89	200		69
	Wolpertinger	92	210		62
	Iron titan	95	220		60
	Steel titan	99	230		64