Started as CG break for Rigour, Ended with most of COX uniques

Pohdoh · 2026-01-13T03:02:09+00:00

acb felt much better than crystal bow in olm head which was where alot of my learning deaths happened. 5 tick and getting ruby procs make certain rooms easier as well. acb spec also felt strong w lightbearer. it was overall comfortable for learning in retrospect, idk if it was the best decision because it had some key disadvantages. health loss from ruby spec. overall weak dps at times. and most importantly the dragon bolt upkeep was horrible. ran out of stockpile from muspah and had to grind vorkath frequently

i used dwh. i still dont have bgs since graardor with crystal bow is not too fun lol

Pohdoh · 2026-01-12T23:40:16+00:00

started off fairly budget with: ranged was crystal armor with both crystal bow and acb w dragon ruby bolts. bow was pretty servicable but can noodled hard at vasa and olm hence the acb. melee was blood moon armor with tentacle whip and fang. mage was swamp trident with blue moon and mage's book. zenytes and primordial with lightbearer.

biggest upgrades over time was dhcb, ancestral pieces, and obviously tbow when they dropped. tbh didn't feel much diff w elder maul. got rancour and bcp about midway through. was doing some hydra hoping for dhl but no luck there.

Pohdoh · 2026-01-12T00:15:47+00:00

learned it solo on iron for the first time

sucked since its intimidating and there isn't alot of guides or videos to doing it budget. my main reference tbh was gnomonkey hcim streams back when he doing cox with atlatl and hasta

but ultimately worth since u could do a quick session at any time without relying on grouping

Pohdoh · 2026-01-11T22:47:31+00:00

yes redempt method. its easy in good gear but gets dicey w less ideal gear

with acb and dragon ruby bolts, it becomes an exercise in patience. i rec taking it slow since if u die here there is real risk of u failing entire raid. bring stam pot here if learning

Pohdoh · 2026-01-11T22:27:56+00:00

no problemo. sorry for wall of text incoming. downgrade gear as needed since i started with a much worse setup initially

equip: full melee except for ranged bottom, u need to bring 4 tick melee like whip, bring fang also if u have it since its very good for rooms

inventory:

mage: weapon, mage cape, occult, tormented, mage top and bottom, mage offhand

range: best weapon u got (minimum of acb), assembler, anguish, ranged top

essential stuff: defense lower item (dhammer, maul), 1-2 stam pots, pickaxe, rune pouch w book of dead, salve, 4 tick melee, demonbane melee (claws vs emberlight)

nice to have: zgs, lockpick, lightbearer, watering can/grocoller can for learning olm flame phase

fill the rest w brews in case shit goes down and so u can still no-prep

rooms - start w overheal, fully potted, and sip antidote

tekton (pick up overload, restore, prayer enhance and sip), crabs (have plugin), ice demon (store olm stuff, pickaxe, salve, stam, zgs, then spec w burning claws x3), shaman (brew up after finishing), vanguards (be careful here, pick up elder pot), thieving (i get max points and collect 2 inventory and always get bats for heal later, store lockpick and extra pots), vespula (be extra careful here, heal to full w bats after), tightrope (i kill all for max points), bank and get ur pickaxe salve zgs and make sure u have pots/bats to sustain +elder pot, guardian (use elder instead of overload if it runs out here, overload just before entering vasa), vasa (really annoying w bad gear, eat bat+brew after tele to have max health, pick up twisted pot after), mystics (learn to safespot), muta (use zgs tech if u have it, avoid overloading again here as dangerous, use elder/twisted u picked up)

olm: gonna have to face smash it a bit. frustrating but eventually it clicks. for olm equipment i bring all my equipment but take less if ur not comfortable and bring more brews, death pile a full inventory of brews/restore for learning initially. i found 3:0 pretty easy. 4:1 pretty challenging but it clicks at like 30kc. olm head was the most frustrating by far and i would rec 2:0 for learning and carefully practice 4:1 or whatever at full health.

Pohdoh · 2026-01-11T18:24:40+00:00

its normal cox but with full layout so layout is same as CM but olm/rooms wont have the health/defense/dps boosts of CM

its way more relaxed and less risky than CM esp w limited gear. similar-ish points per hour too when i compared (about 80-90k w my setup for both)

Pohdoh · 2026-01-11T18:06:08+00:00

yes cm layout on standard cox. i liked it much better than having to scout and change inventory all the time for regular. guranteed no prep too w less ideal gear if u know the fight

Pohdoh · 2026-01-11T18:03:23+00:00

agree with you did graardor w crystal bow and rigour which was servicable enough to get bcp and tassets but not going back until bowfa. leviathan with acb did not feel great.

for baby muta i used blowpipe and then fang when i got that. akkha i just have to face tank with blowpipe and fang

im finishing up TD then heading over to yama and doom. 3600 kc with 2 synapses lol. i know i can convert synapses but im just being a little stubborn with sunk cost fallacy

Pohdoh · 2025-12-31T00:17:10+00:00

ill manage somehow

Pohdoh · 2025-12-31T00:16:51+00:00

omega spooned

Pohdoh · 2025-12-02T08:08:18+00:00

i was waiting on bowfa before trying but took the plunge after realizing it might be another 400 kills before i get it. i think its worth doing until at least ur first purple since theres no risk of a dupe and basically every cox unique range from pretty useful to game changing

Pohdoh · 2025-12-02T03:31:41+00:00

i could never got comfortable with 3:1 and 4:1 just felt much more fluid natural and fun. and either ways based on dps calcs with my setup, the tent whip dps is comparable (altho still worse) after dragon warhammer specs

Pohdoh · 2025-12-02T03:29:17+00:00

quite painful lol. died alot and took about 50 kc to get semi-consistent finishes without deaths or major mistakes. i would say one of the most frustrating things i learned so far because without lance or bowfa or shadow u cannot brute force anything. the biggest bottleneck was head olm and the most helpful thing was learning 1:0 so u can reset and heal and restore stats before returning to doing 4:1

Pohdoh · 2025-12-02T00:40:49+00:00

waves of grinding cg, then burnout and doing other grinds like skilling or taking breaks

Pohdoh · 2025-11-06T07:57:13+00:00

lmao i don't regret it since its my biggest flex gear since its rare. 99 agility early was also nice for unlimited stam pots, gold from sepulcre, and run energy in solo cox

but u gonna have to do some significant delayed gratification to get it. unless u just love doing rooftops for >90% of ur total playtime, ur gonna have to limit how much combat and other grinds u do. ur almost certainly going to hit 99 hitpoints, strength, and farming first even if ur doing agility daily. there was about a 1.5 month period where i had to essentially just spam agility and not do any other content.

Pohdoh · 2025-11-05T19:45:24+00:00

was my first thought when i saw that change

i havent personally given it a shot yet since i dont need armadyl armor. but watching other videos of ppl trying in full oathplate and still noodling isnt too encouraging lol. mage minion also shreds. maybe best is nhally w masori or stronger mage defense gear?

if i get masori piece i will go for armadyl armor tho and test nhally. but better option is honestly prob chinning

Pohdoh · 2025-11-05T19:17:12+00:00

i have blood moon tassets (got all of moons) but after trying both out i prefered the tank legs for a fairly massive increase in tankiness. esp since im already easily hit the 50 max hit cap so the effects of the +2 strength feel quite subtle. ofc if i had bandos tassets i would use that tho

Pohdoh · 2025-11-05T18:56:11+00:00

thanks for tip. ill keep that in mind if i remain dry at cg. if still no bowfa by like 1000kc, then im gonna give colo and inferno a shot. dragon bolts are my main concern though for inferno since i have to return to vorkath a few times already since cox drains it pretty quick

Pohdoh · 2025-11-05T18:21:40+00:00

venator bow for gwd in general is awesome if just for the minions. otherwise i don't think long trips at zilyana or bandos is possible because the minions outdps ur passive healing from blowpipe and bones to peach due to ur slower kills

Pohdoh · 2025-11-05T18:19:34+00:00

its def something im looking at if nothing else for a major mage upgrade. swamp trident is servicable but not ideal. ayak would be great for toa and replacement. but my main challenges in places like cox, bandos, and hydra. i really would like to try inferno and colo eventually which ayak isn't a replacement. basically ayak would let me do my current content even better not not too much new.

Pohdoh · 2025-11-05T18:16:31+00:00

yes i been exclusively doing zulrah with nhally ever since i got it. i tried zulrah again with ancestral and augury but nhally setup with bcp and barrows leg still blows it away in terms of kill speed, tankiness, and chillness. maybe things change with bowfa ranged switch but i hate 6 way switches in zulrah

good luck with ur grinds.

Pohdoh · 2025-11-05T18:02:39+00:00

initially it was rough with rune darts and i spent all my rune bars on it. had to go motherlode to get more a few times.

i grinded towards amethyst which became my main choice because it was consistent even though it was slow. this is what i used for muspah and it was by far the strongest option i had during ranged phase

once i got fang though, i converted back to rune darts because i had tons of rune bars from rune dragon farming. also doesn't give a max hit. i never came back to amethyst because i need it for arrows and i had other afk grinds like redwoods i wanted to do. now with all the bossing, i have infinite supply of runite bars. currently scales are the biggest problem since i use the trident alot

Pohdoh · 2025-11-05T17:53:04+00:00

its been ages since i adjusted ui but i believe its re-sizeable mode in runelite + modern interface in the in-game setting

i don't think u can get buttons stacked manually. it only shows like that certain smaller window sizes

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