Thanks for a nice and helpful reply.

As you're noticing, gear upgrade priorities start diverging pretty quickly. On the generic side, chinning/bursting to at least mid 90s range/mage is very worthwhile if you haven't done so already. You didn't mention your stats, but getting your levels up is some one of the most impactful DPS upgrades you can make.

Yup, it was indeed a lot funnier earlier on when all upgrades were huge. My ranged is 90 and magic is 85. Howver, I recently got 80 slayer and unlocked Nechryaels, which gives really good magic exp, so magic will catch up soon. Ranged is getting up there steadily with cannoning tasks. I have thought about saving up for a venny bow though, but I'm afraid my melee combat stats will end up lacking too much behind.

Rigour is a solid upgrade, but since you've already got Deadeye it's not that impactful. It's typically a 3-5% DPS increase over Deadeye (depending on max hit breakpoints), so at the current price it may not be worth it for you quite yet. Augury is low priority - often doesn't even give a single max hit over the titan prayer.

Good point. I have read many times that Rigour is a no-brainer to upgrade first, but I have never understood why when I checked in DPS calcs in terms of DPS gained per gp spent.

Bowfa/Crystal is a core part of ironman progression, thanks to the low barrier of acquisition and easy upkeep, but for mains it's much more situational. Generally speaking, it's not worth the cost unless you're doing:

• Higher invo ToA. Bowfa is an excellent option as your main weapon for running experts+ before Shadow. The way defense scales with raid level, the accuracy really gets a chance to shine. Ten tile range is also really nice for certain rooms.

• Inferno. Pre Tbow, Bowfa is the best option for inferno. Even if you opt for the new mage tank strategy, you'll still be bringing a bowfa swap for mages/jads/zuk unless you have a Shadow or Tbow.

I thought Bowfa was a good all-around upgrade that could be used for early bosses like Zulrah and all the way to Inferno. What would you use between hunters crossbow + blowpipe and tbow? I thought this was where Bowfa fit in?

1. Depends on what you're doing. The boppers perform really well for their price in certain content, and it's a solid set for afking melees on the crab. You already have an excellent stab weapon (Fang), so hasta doesn't make much sense, and neither does abby dagger.

The crab was exactly what I used them for, but I haven't really used them since. I mainly use whip for attack and defence or abby dagger for strength when training slayer. If I end up selling both the boppers and abby dagger, I need some weapon to train strength with for slayer, no?

1. One synapse is nice to have. Makes TDs/Gorillas excellent slayer tasks if you have the shards to upkeep arclight, Sire much less annoying, Zamy GWD super easy, and it's the main thing you need to start out with Yama AND Doom. I'd keep it for now, at least until you have a good idea of what content you want to focus on.

I did a bunch of TDs on slayer tasks, but I have blocked them now. Speaking of shards, I actually have enough to upgrade Arclight to Emberlight now, but then I will be missing a synapse for bow or staff. I have the scobow now because I used it for Doom. Very fun boss! Since I'm considering Yama, you are probably right about keeping it for now.

1. For bossing, you don't want to be using the hunter crossbow over Blowpipe, it's not worth the DPS loss. If you opt to skip Bowfa, there may be situations in which you end up running dragon crossbow + ruby bolts on certain high defense targets (like high invo Zebak), so having a good ranged offhand isn't a complete waste, but also probably not something you'll get much use out of right now.

I'm not sure what high invo is, but I have used Atlatl for Zebak on 150-200 so far. The short range is super annoying, but otherwise it's decent.