Slayer in RS3

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Slayer training methods

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Chaos giants

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Levels 1–29

23 methods

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Birthright Of The Dwarves
1. 1Kill Chaos giants.
2. 2Birthright of the Dwarves
3. 3Requires Birthright of the Dwarves.
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300kXP/h
Ritual Of The Mahjarrat
1. 1Kill Glacors.
2. 2Ritual of the Mahjarrat
3. 3Requires Ritual of the Mahjarrat.
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High effortMembersYou're here
270kXP/h
One Of A Kind
1. 1Kill Celestial dragons.
2. 2One of a Kind
3. 3Requires One of a Kind.
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200kXP/h
1. 1Kill Grotworms.
2. 2Poor experience rates, you may want to save your points and skip instead of blocking as Laniakea does not assign them.
3. 3Can use bonecrusher and demon horn necklace to keep prayers up.
4. 4Mediocre drops and low experience rates.
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Medium effortMembersYou're here
200kXP/h
1. 1Kill Rune dragons.
2. 2Somewhat slow task.
3. 3Very profitable, with reinforced dragon bones and small plated rune salvage guaranteed per every kill.
4. 4They have reasonably valuable drops.
5. 5Can use bonecrusher + demon horn necklace for unlimited prayer.
6. 6Slow task, use of dragonbane ammunition is mandatory.
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Medium effortMembersYou're here
180kXP/h
1. 1Kill Black demons.
2. 2Poor experience rates and drops, should always be blocked.
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180kXP/h
1. 1Kill Black dragons.
2. 2Skip if not killing King/Queen Black Dragon
3. 3Killing Queen Black Dragon is recommended
4. 4Slow task
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160kXP/h
1. 1Kill Steel dragons.
2. 2Skip
3. 3Very fast, afk, and easy task using aggression potions.
4. 4Can use bonecrusher + demon horn necklace for unlimited prayer.
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160kXP/h
1. 1Kill Waterfiends.
2. 2Skip
3. 3Extremely good source of Crimson charms and extra Slayer experience can be applied when killing in the Wilderness.
4. 4Can deal somewhat high damage.
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1. 1Kill Iron dragons.
2. 2Skip
3. 3Very fast, afk, and easy task using aggression potions.
4. 4Can use bonecrusher + demon horn necklace for unlimited prayer.
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Requires Barbarian Firemaking.
Dragons are always aggressive so potions not required.
1. 1Kill Mithril dragons.
2. 2Barbarian Firemaking
3. 3Requires Barbarian Firemaking.
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High effortMembersYou're here
130kXP/h
100 Slayer
Kalphite King requires a group (which can disrupt experience rates if the slayer doesn't deal enough damage) or solo, both requiring high-level gear.
1. 1Kill Kalphite.
2. 2Skip if not killing the Kalphite King/Queen or corrupted variants
3. 3Reasonably profitable when killing the King or Queen.
4. 4Fairly fast task when fighting exiled kalphites.
5. 5Kalphite King requires a group (which can disrupt experience rates if the slayer doesn't deal enough damage) or solo, both requiring high-level gear.
6. 6Kalphite Queen is fairly slow in task progression.
7. 7Feather of Ma'at and 100 Slayer required for corrupted kalphites.
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Medium effortMembersYou're here
130kXP/h
While Guthix Sleeps
Requires switches and significantly more effort compared to other tasks if not using the Legacy Mode strategy.
1. 1Kill Tormented demons.
2. 2While Guthix Sleeps
3. 3Requires While Guthix Sleeps.
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100kXP/h
Dragons are always aggressive so potions not required.
1. 1Kill Adamant dragons.
2. 2Skip
3. 3Fast, afk, and easy task.
4. 4Dragons are always aggressive so potions not required.
5. 5Can use bonecrusher + demon horn necklace for unlimited prayer.
6. 6Fairly slow task.
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90kXP/h
1. 1Kill TzHaar.
2. 2Fast but spawns are spread apart from each other, you may want to save your points and skip instead of blocking as Laniakea does not assign them.
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Medium effortMembersYou're here
70kXP/h
Horror From The Deep
1. 1Kill Dagannoth.
2. 2Horror from the Deep
3. 3Requires Horror from the Deep.
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1. 1Kill Aviansies.
2. 2Skip if not killing Kree'arra.
3. 3Killing Kree'arra is recommended.
4. 4Kree and all of his minions count as aviansie.
5. 5Moderately fast task.
6. 6Recommended to have an active Totem of Intimidation before fighting Kree'arra.
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1. 1Kill Creatures of Daemonheim (cluster task).
2. 2Should only be blocked if not fighting Edimmu or Kal'gerion demons, since both of these count towards these task.
3. 3Frost dragons also count towards the task.
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1. 1Kill Elves.
2. 2Use halberd to fight Iorwerth scouts and guards for elf tasks.
3. 3Killing them while Voice of Seren is active adds extra experience.
4. 4Properly lure Cadarn elves using Demoralize and Rout chin with a combat dummy for fast afk experience.
5. 5Both scouts and guards can use bleeds and stuns and can disable protection prayers/deflect curses.
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1. 1Kill Greater demons.
2. 2Skip if not killing K'ril Tsutsaroth or Berserkers/Ash Lords
3. 3Killing Berserkers or Ashlord is recommended.
4. 4Although kills are often slow, the very high experience per kill makes up for it.
5. 5It is possible to safespot Berserkers using the slope just North of the path leading to the entrance to the Dragonkin Laboratory.
6. 6When killing K'ril, only K'ril and one of his minions count as greater demons, resulting in a slow task.
7. 7Recommended to have an active Totem of Intimidation before fighting K'ril.
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1. 1Kill Shadow creatures.
2. 2Use 5 Manifest shadows in personal slayer dungeon Sunken Pyramid with an aggression potion or in the Amlodd district in Prifddinas.
3. 3Extremely high experience rates per hour.
4. 4Chance to get part of the Penny pet
5. 5Drops not as good as most other monsters, and players can be overwhelmed with use of an aggression potion.
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Partial completion of Lunar Diplomacy
Requires Partial completion of Lunar Diplomacy.
1. 1Kill Suqahs.
2. 2Partial completion of Lunar Diplomacy
3. 3Requires Partial completion of Lunar Diplomacy.
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Medium effortMembersYou're here
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The Branches Of Darkmeyer
1. 1Kill Vyrewatch.
2. 2The Branches of Darkmeyer
3. 3Requires The Branches of Darkmeyer.

Levels 30–49

4 methods

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Medium effortMembersIn 31 levels
No rate given
Requires Mogre (lore activity).
1. 1Kill Mogres.
2. 2Mogre (lore activity)
3. 3Requires Mogre (lore activity).
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Medium effortMembersIn 36 levels
No rate given
Ernest The Chicken
1. 1Kill Killerwatts.
2. 2Ernest the Chicken
3. 3Requires Ernest the Chicken.
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Medium effortMembersIn 39 levels
No rate given
Haunted Mine
1. 1Kill Terror dogs.
2. 2Haunted Mine
3. 3Requires Haunted Mine.
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Medium effortMembersIn 41 levels
No rate given
Partial completion of Rum Deal
Requires Partial completion of Rum Deal.
1. 1Kill Fever spiders.
2. 2Partial completion of Rum Deal
3. 3Requires Partial completion of Rum Deal.

Levels 50–69

4 methods

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Medium effortMembersIn 55 levels
No rate given
The Path Of Glouphrie
1. 1Kill Warped tortoisess and warped terrorbirds.
2. 2The Path of Glouphrie
3. 3Requires The Path of Glouphrie.
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Medium effortMembersIn 66 levels
320kXP/h
1. 1Kill Cres's creations (Automatons).
2. 2Any combat style can be used but magic or ranged are recommended to stay out of range of random special attacks.
3. 3Can be forced via the Mask of the Automatons once every three days.
4. 4Special attack may happen randomly for any automaton within the area and hit very hard.
5. 5This can be avoided by taking off AOE abilities (including Corruption shot/blast) as any automaton that has been targeted immediately sets off their special attack timer, even if they haven't been hit.
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High effortMembersIn 66 levels
280kXP/h
1. 1Kill Vyrewatch.
2. 2Relatively fast task with the Sunspear, which also provides decent Firemaking and Prayer experience.
3. 3Endlessly aggressive, allowing for continuous kills.
4. 4Ivandis flail, Blisterwood weapons or the Sunspear is mandatory.
5. 5May be overwhelmed if not paying attention, tends to be crowded.
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Medium effortMembersIn 66 levels
No rate given
The World Wakes The World Wakes
1. 1Kill Cres's creations.
2. 2Full completion of The World Wakes
3. 3Requires Full completion of The World Wakes.

Levels 70–89

15 methods

Levels 90+

16 methods

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High effortMembersIn 89 levels
440kXP/h
1. 1Kill Kal'gerion demons.
2. 2Recommended to use upgraded Darklight for fast kill rates.
3. 3Can be killed at The Shadow Reef as there are four respawnable demons in fairly close proximity.
4. 4Very high defence even with best-in-slot gear.
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High effortMembersIn 89 levels
360kXP/h
115 Dungeoneering
1. 1Kill Edimmu.
2. 2Extremely fast and profitable task, use a halberd to kill edimmu faster.
3. 3Requires 115 Dungeoneering to enter Edimmu Resource Dungeon.
4. 4Very profitable task.
5. 5Affected by the Salve amulet and its enhanced version.
6. 6Use of Spring cleaner, Attuned ectoplasmator, and Auto-sanctifier recommended.
7. 7Elite edimmu has chance of dropping Eddy.
8. 8Use a Statius warhammer eof for elites.
9. 9Use of cannon over aggression potions is preferred.
10. 10Cost of cannonballs can add up.
11. 11Players may be overwhelmed by numerous edimmu if using a cannon.
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High effortMembersIn 89 levels
340kXP/h
1. 1Kill Dark beasts.
2. 2Extremely fast and profitable task.
3. 3Can use cannon within for a faster task at all locations except Kuradal's Dungeon.
4. 4Stronger dark beasts in the hobgoblin mine for slightly better experience.
5. 5Can be forced via the Mask of gloom.
6. 6Drops big bones which allow the use of bonecrusher + demon horn necklace for unlimited prayer.
7. 7Use of aggression potions discouraged as damage taken is often too high.
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High effortMembersIn 89 levels
No rate given
1. 1Kill Dinosaurs (cluster task).
2. 2Use halberd with a cannon and aggression pot.
3. 3Pray protect from melee and use Turmoil/Malevolence and use a scrimshaw of vampyrism.
4. 4Kill feral or Venomous dinosaurs for fast task completion; do not kill brutish or ripper dinosaurs for experience rates.
5. 5Extremely profitable task around 14M gp/h.
6. 6Potentially difficult and lethal task for beginners.
7. 7When using aggression potions and cannon, the player may get overwhelmed.
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High effortMembersIn 91 levels
470kXP/h
1. 1Kill Airut.
2. 2Extremely fast and profitable task with tier 90+ melee, scrimshaw of vampyrism and a blood nihil.
3. 3High experience and profit task.
4. 4Task can be forced via the Mask of airut.
5. 5Use of a bonecrusher and a demon horn necklace, along with auto-sanctifier, also yields significant prayer experience.
6. 6The Spring cleaner is highly recommended for salvage drops.
7. 7Frequent drops of sharks which may be used if food is needed.
8. 8Special attacks dealing rapid and high damage, which can overwhelm players using aggression potions.
9. 9Can also increase their defence as their health lowers which makes them harder to hit without tier 90+ weapons and a nihil.
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High effortMembersIn 92 levels
310kXP/h
Require a fire cape, Kiln cape, or Igneous cape to do any damage, if the perk to damage them without either cape has not been bought.
1. 1Kill Ice strykewyrms.
2. 2Use fire spells and a fire/kiln/igneous cape for increased damage output
3. 3Can be forced via the Mask of white wyrm.
4. 4Extremely fast to kill due to the increased damage output from capes and fire spells.
5. 5Require a fire cape, Kiln cape, or Igneous cape to do any damage, if the perk to damage them without either cape has not been bought.
6. 6Elemental spells other than fire deal reduced damage.
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Medium effortMembersIn 93 levels
200kXP/h
1. 1Kill Lava strykewyrms.
2. 2Highly profitable task but reside only in the Wilderness and Dragonkin Laboratory.
3. 3Can be slow however.
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High effortMembersIn 94 levels
No rate given
1. 1Kill Ganodermic creatures.
2. 2Very fast task with an oldak coil in the bottom level of east part of the dungeon through agility shortcut (resource/main dungeon has too many ganodermic runts).
3. 3Can be forced via the Mask of the Ganodermic once every three days.
4. 4Drops big bones which allow the use of a bonecrusher and demon horn necklace to replace prayer potions.
5. 5Clustered with ganodermic runts who have less valauble drops.
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AFKMembersIn 94 levels
No rate given
Shilo Village
1. 1Kill Gemstone dragons.
2. 2Shilo Village and hard Karamja achievements
3. 3Requires Shilo Village and hard Karamja achievements.
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High effortMembersIn 95 levels
600kXP/h
1. 1Kill Acheron mammoths.
2. 2Extremely fast and profitable task.
3. 3Use Soul Split and stab weapons.
4. 4Dodge ranged and charge attacks (Devotion/Debilitate helps).
5. 5High experience rates and profitable task due to drops of mammoth tusk and cursed Amascut sand.
6. 6Potentially difficult and lethal task for beginners, as players can be easily killed by charges and ranged attacks which can deal very high damage.
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High effortMembersIn 95 levels
530kXP/h
1. 1Kill Living wyverns.
2. 2Extremely fast and moderately profitable task.
3. 3Use melee with a blood nihil and scrimshaw of vampyrism as ranged/magic is significantly slower and players take more damage.
4. 4It is highly recommended to fight them in melee distance regardless of equipment used, because the wyvern's melee attack is weaker and easier to predict, whereas the magic and ranged attacks are nearly impossible to predict and the attack immediately deals damage before the projectiles even hit the player.
5. 5Kill wyverns until 90% freeze then return to a fire to warm up.
6. 6Heavy damage inflicted by both the monsters, can often be overwhelmed.
7. 7Stay in melee range as they deal considerably less damage.
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Medium effortMembersIn 95 levels
390kXP/h
1. 1Kill Camel warriors.
2. 2Mirages slow down kill time but can be dealt with easily.
3. 3Can drop cursed Amascut sand.
4. 4Desert heat if not killing in the Sunken Pyramid (unless Crocodile Tears is completed) and fairly spread out spawns.
5. 5Also considerably tedious compared to the other raptor mobs, with very slow kills and lots of food generally being needed.
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Medium effortMembersIn 95 levels
No rate given
1. 1Kill Ripper demons.
2. 2Use upgraded Darklight and have low ping to dodge instant-kill attack.
3. 3Extremely high experience per hour, especially when killed in the Wilderness.
4. 4Chance of receiving cursed Amascut sand, which is quite valuable, along with other valuable drops.
5. 5Miner's journal drops for the master quest cape.
6. 6Good money when using Binding contracts.
7. 7Potentially difficult and lethal task for beginners, requiring players to stay focused to avoid death.
8. 8Players can be swarmed in the Wilderness.
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Medium effortMembersIn 101 levels
No rate given
Will require more food than usual if not using devoted or Vampyrism/scrimshaw of vampyrism as the accuracy/damage is high.
1. 1Kill Vile blooms (cluster task).
2. 2Ensure you can kill them before they spawn healers (6 auto attacks, or 21.6 seconds)
3. 3Stand in a spot where you can target 3, while avoiding the dinosaur pathing as best as possible.
4. 4Pray protect from magic and use Torment.
5. 5Enhanced Devoted recommended on gear.
6. 6Has a chance to drop dinosaur tooth for base camp upgrade.
7. 7Will require more food than usual if not using devoted or Vampyrism/scrimshaw of vampyrism as the accuracy/damage is high.
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AFKMembersIn 103 levels
No rate given
May require a significant amount of food as all monsters in this category can hit extremely high (over 3,500 damage in a single hit).
1. 1Kill Creatures of the Lost Grove.
2. 2Kill golems or bulbous crawlers for higher experience rates.
3. 3Enhanced devoted perk is highly recommended.
4. 4Legacy blood barrage moss golems with a cannon and aggro pots to get fast afk experience.
5. 5Profit/experience rates are reversed - vinecrawlers provide the least experience but most valuable drops, while golems provide the most experience but least valuable drops.
6. 6Bulbous crawlers are a mix of the two, with fairly equal experience and profit rates.
7. 7All monsters in this category can drop cinderbane gloves, the ancient elven ritual shard and a torn grimoire page.
8. 8May require a significant amount of food as all monsters in this category can hit extremely high (over 3,500 damage in a single hit).
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AFKMembersIn 104 levels
680kXP/h
Partial completion of Icthlarin's Little Helper
Requires Partial completion of Icthlarin's Little Helper.
The Magister may be killed for more experience but players must account for the price of keys and short-term profit loss.
Require a Feather of ma'at to be killed (if not killing the Magister).
1. 1Kill Soul devourers.
2. 2Partial completion of Icthlarin's Little Helper
3. 3Requires Partial completion of Icthlarin's Little Helper.

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XP milestones

From 1 to 50: 101,333 XP

Level	Share of 99	Total XP	From last
50		101,333
60		273,742	+172,409
70		737,627	+463,885
80		1,986,068	+1,248,441
90		5,346,332	+3,360,264
92		6,517,253	+1,170,921
99		13,034,431	+6,517,178
110	3.0× 99	38,737,661	+25,703,230
120	8.0× 99	104,273,167	+65,535,506

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Chaos giants

Levels 1–29

Chaos giants

Glacors

Celestial dragons

Grotworms

Rune dragons

Black demons

Black dragons

Steel dragons

Waterfiends

Iron dragons

Mithril dragons

Kalphite

Tormented demons

Adamant dragons

TzHaar

Dagannoth

Aviansies

Creatures of Daemonheim (cluster task)

Elves

Greater demons

Shadow creatures

Suqahs

Vyrewatch

Levels 30–49

Mogres

Killerwatts

Terror dogs

Fever spiders

Levels 50–69

Warped tortoisess and warped terrorbirds

Cres's creations (Automatons)

Vyrewatch

Cres's creations

Levels 70–89

Stalker creatures

Skeletal wyverns

Strykewyrms (cluster task)

Gargoyles

Crystal shapeshifters

Muspah

Nihil

Desert strykewyrms

Aquanites

Nightmare creatures

Crystal shapeshifters

Nechryael

Demons (cluster task)

Abyssal demons

Corrupted creatures

Levels 90+

Kal'gerion demons

Edimmu

Dark beasts

Dinosaurs (cluster task)

Airut

Ice strykewyrms

Lava strykewyrms

Ganodermic creatures

Gemstone dragons

Acheron mammoths

Living wyverns

Camel warriors

Ripper demons

Vile blooms (cluster task)

Creatures of the Lost Grove

Soul devourers

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