Runescape Armadyl and Solo Guide

LOW LEVEL GUIDE: 1-3 Kills

This guide is designed for people who only think they could handle one or two kills a trip. There are many different tatics, stats, gear, pets etc people can use and i’m only expressing MY OPINION. So if you disagree with any of it please tell me and if I agree with you i’ll adjust things

Recommended Gear

There are several things to take into account when deciding what items to take. These include -

What items will you lose when you die

• Mage defence
• Melee defence
• Range attack
• Prayer bonus

Obviously the more + range you have the faster he’s going to die but then again the less defence you have the faster your going to die so it’s nice to try and get a nice balance.

The following equipment will NOT give you the best stats for this but it will save you ALOT of money if you die and will be able to get you through atleast 1 or 2 kills.

Helm: For the helm slot I would suggest either an archer helm, robin hat or a zammy/sara coif. All add + range, have pretty ok mage defence and don’t give to much when you high alch. You could always take a barrows helmet like torag or verac. However these do cost alot to alch and if you die you will be keeping one and therefore losing another item. However they have VERY good melee defence stats and verac gives a very nice + 3 prayer bonus.

Amulet: You have a couple choices here… if you are going for a couple kills at most I would suggest armadyl pendany. It gives no stats but it does stop you being attacked by the amaadyl monsters while getting the kill count. Another option is the glory. You wont keep it on death so you can keep other expencive items and it does give a nice + range attack bonus and mage/melee defencive bonuses. Also gives a small + prayer bonus. You could always take both and have your glory in your inv while your getting the kc.

Cape: Accumulator, picks up your arrows and gives a nice range attack bonus.

Arrow slot: This will have your mit

graple, ruby bolts and diamond bolts.

Weapon slot: Rune crossbow.

Shield slot: Few choices here. Granite shield is very cheap to buy and if you lose it you are only going to have to pay 70-80 k for a new one. It’s defencive stats aren’t great however and it does add a massive – 8 range attack. Other choice is a dragon square, it is the most expencive and you will keep it on death over another item it’s – range is only 3 which is even better than a dragonfire shield. It’s defencive stats also beat obby and granite. I would NOT suggest a god book because the melee guardian will rip you to pieces solo.

Chest: You could either go for a chest with high defence like verac which also adds + pray but I suggest karil’s. Two reasons. First is the mage guardian and kree attack with mage which is very accurate and karil’s adds alot of mage defence. Second the chest adds alot of + range. Karil’s top is expencive and one of the items you may keep when you die.

Legs: Again a skirt like veracs is ok but again i’d suggest karils for the exact same reasons as the chest.

Gloves: Again a couple choices. Rune gloves are good because of the nice defence stats, nice + range, wont keep when you die and they are very cheap. Could also take dhide braces for same reason or zammy/sara braces for same reason and the sara/zammy forces wont attack you when your getting the kill count.

Boots: Dragon boots have nice melee defence but no + range. Snakeskin have nice + range and nice mage defence. Both fairly cheap especially the snakeskin.

Ring: I suggest RING OF WEALTH. Now i’m sure someone will tell me it doesn’t work because they always do. WRONG – IT DOES WORK IN SOLO COMBAT INCLUDING GODWARS. The only time it does not work is when lootshare is active.. but why would you have it active while your on your own?

Recommended Stats

A few stats come into play at arma. These include,

• Hit points
• Defence
• Magic
• Range
• Prayer

Having all 99 in these would be ideal but i’m going to assume people reading the low level guide don’t. So here are what I! recommended the minimum levels should be. Obviously you could maybe kill it with lower but this is just my opinion so no whining

80 + hits

80 + defence

70 + mage

80 + range

60 + pray

Recommended Inventory

Obviously adjust your inv to what you feel best with but you should be looking to take with you -

150-200 diamond bolts

150-200 ruby bolts

200-300 mithril/addy bolts or mithril graple depending on which one you have equiped

4 law/fire runes

1 range potion

6-11 super restore depending on pet choice

15-35 sara brews depending on pet choice

Dueling ring/glory

Teletabs

I will explain what the glory and runes are for in the getting there part of the guide a bit further down.

Recommended Summons

Bull ant: Beast of burden (9) fill with brews and take an extra 3 restores in inventory.

Spirit terrorbird: Beast of burden (12) fill with brews and take an extra 4 restores in inv.

War tortoise: Beast of burden (18) fill with brews and take an extra 5 restores in inv.

Any combat familiar: These are not as good as the beasts of burden but they do a little damage and it’s better than taking no pet at all.

How to Get There

Two options. Make the long walk from falador or what I suggest is just tele there using Trollheim teleport (level 61 mage on normal spell book.) Once you have used the tele head north down the mountain side. North from the stone throwing trolls is a boulder and agility short cut. Go through either of these, past the wolves down into the godwars dungeon (will require rope for your first time). The armadyl fortress is south west when you enter.

Getting the Kill Count

To enter the armadyl boss chamber you require 40 kill count. I stay outside the fortress hunting down the flying aviansie fighting other monsters that

are on low hp. It does get crowded though so you can also go across to the main fortress using your mithril graple and get the killcount inside. They are higher level but it’s never to busy in there. I personally drink 1 dose of range potion before I start the killcount and 1 dose when I have reached 20 kill count to speed it up a little. The avianse have about a 25 % chance of dropping addy bars which will go along way to paying for your trip if you fail to get an arma armour/hilt drop so I strongly suggest picking these up. Use your mithril or addy bolts to get the kill count so your not wasting valuable money and ammo. Once you have reached 40 kill count head into the fortress if you havn’t already and towards armadyls boss chamber. Wait outside the door. Getting the kill count should take about 20 minutes in total.

Preparing for the Fight

First make sure no one is in there already. Second, sara brew up to full hp or over and then drink a super restore to even up your other stats. Drink another dose of range potion. When you are ready to go in turn on 15 % range prayer, 15 % defence and RANGE PROTECT!

The Fight

There are several different things you can do while fighting armadyl but i’m just going to explain what I do to keep things simple. First rule is NEVER EVER EVER turn range prayer off or let it run out while fighting kree. He can hit up to 69 with range attacks and it gets rather messy.

Kree will always stick to range/mage if you are ranging him. So you are ok until you need to drink a potion and then he may start comming at you in melee. His melee hit’s up to 24 (I think?) and pretty often. To stop him meleeing drink a potion while your character is shooting at him. This doesn’t stop him meleeing you 100 % but he will slowly inch towards you. Once he is finally near you just run through him to the other side of the room, turn and fire again.

I suggest drinking a sara brew when you reach about 60 hp. Drink 3 doses of sara brew

and then 1 dose of restore.

For the first 50-70 % of the fight use your ruby bolts. The special takes off 20 % of krees hp, however it also takes 10 % from yours so be careful. Once he is below 50 % switch to your diamond as ruby starts to become inefficent.

Once he is dead the fight is NOT over. The guardians still attack and they do more damage than you may think. I keep range prayer on but I suppose switching to mage prayer may be the best. Deal with the mage guardian first, then melee then range. Most people I talk to about this say they can never down the 3 guardians in time to use the altar. What you can do about this is leave guardians on low hp after your first kill and then once you have killed kree again you have one or two guardians on very low hp you can just finish off.

Tips

NEVER let your range protect prayer run out while fighting kree.

Keep an eye on your hp and pray at all time. It may seem obvious but if you havn’t took a bit of damage for a while it is easy to let your pray slip and hit 0.

Drink 1 restore to every 3 sarabrews.

I suggest having your sound on, it’s nice to know when you spec, get hit in melee and kill him as he is not always in your line of sight.

It’s easy to panic if you get hit for a fair bit or he stats meleeing. Just keep your cool and you will be fine!

High Level Guide: 3-10 Kills

This will have hardly any detail in as I expect people reading this section to pretty much no what they are doing.

Recommended Gear

Verac helm

Accumulator

Fury

Dia/ruby bolts

rune xbow

Arma chest

Arma skirt

Dragonfire shield

Zammy braces

Ranger boots

Ring of wealth

> RECOMMENDED STATS <

90 + hp

90 + range

90 + defence

80 + mage

70 + pray

Recommended Inventory

200-300 diamond bolts

200-300 ruby bolts

200-300 rune knives / mithril graple

4 law/fire runes

1 range potion

6-13 restores (depending on pet)

8-17 sara brews (depending on pet)

House teletabs

Recommended Summons

War tortoise: Beast of burden (18) fill with brews and take an extra 5 restores in inventory.

Pack yak: Beast of burden (30) fill with brews and take an extra 7 restores in inventory.

Unicorn: Healer – Replace one brew with unicorn healing scrolls. In your inventory take 6 restores and 16-17 sara brews.

Bunyip: Healer – Would not recommend but better than nothing.

Combat familiar – Not as good as BOB or unicorn/bunyip but better than nothing

Getting the Killcount

I use rune knives for the kc seeing as they are very fast. Use one dose of range pot at the start and one half way through at 20. Kill outside fortress until I have 40 then go towards door.

The Fight

Take 1 restore for every 3 sara brews. Run from corner to corner when he gets close to melee. Switch from ruby to diamond bolts when he’s between 30-50 % hp. When he’s dead deal with mage, melee then ranger guardian. Then repeat.

Tips

Don’t die.

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