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Nov

2022

ScapeRune

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If you have a house with an altar and a Kharyll portal, then all you need is a stack of house tabs and Drakkan's medallion, and you can recharge your prayer after each chest, get back to barrows without using a charge on your medallion and even do it faster than people who climbed back up the rope.
And all brothers are level 99 in their relevant stats, and only in their relevant stats, so all but Ahrim have a magic level of just 1 which makes them incredibly vulnerable to magic, guaranteeing near 100% accuracy even when you are in negative magic attack bonus. With a polypore staff anyone with 43 prayer can breeze through barrows without a problem.
Cabbage? CABBAGE!

05-Jan-2012 20:23:24

Nesleinevad

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1) Bring baskets of strawberries along with your choice of high healing food or enhanced excalibur. Strawberries heal .7 times your constitution level, and a basket holds 5 strawberries. This is obviously more useful as a higher level. Being somebody with 92 constitution, one basket heals 322HP! That is a large amount for one inventory space. However, this is not a good primary food source. I personally use the enhanced excalibur after each chest loot to heal back up, I bring a few sharks for damage from verac or any other brother if I run out of prayer, and strawberries for small losses in health (which occur more often than large losses).
2) If you are somebody who loots the chest many times with one inventory of supplies, you are best killing verac first, but only after a chest loot. Since verac hits through prayer on occasion, you will take damage whether you use prayer or not. Don't drink a prayer potion before fighting verac, because if you do, your prayer will drain. This is simply a prayer saving option. After killing verac you can use prayer for any brothers you wish. My order is Verac (after chest loot only) > Dharok > Karil > Ahrim > Guthan > Torag > Verac (before a chest loot). This is because Dharok is a high damage dealer, Karil can be downed quickly, Ahrim takes a little bit of time to kill with many techniques, Guthan doesn't require prayer, torag doesn't require prayer, and verac doesn't require prayer.

05-Jan-2012 20:24:05

Sep

2022

Dat Adze

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1. Always bring a ring of wealth. It will increase your chances of getting a barrows item.
2. Always kill ALL of the brothers. If you don't, barrows items will be even rarer
3. As for the kill count, get it up if you're looking for efficiency, but don't work on it if you're looking for more runs (such as hunting for a visage during the update). Remember kill count only affects the chance of getting bolt racks and blood runes.
4. It is advisable to mage Dharok, Verac, Torag and Guthan. Magic or melee will work on Karil, and range is the best tactic for Ahrim.
5. Don't use ancient magics. They will get you faster kills, but they are not cost-effective
6. Don't let your prayer drop below 200. The brothers you have killed can drain your prayer, and running low can be fatal if you're fighting Dharok.
7. 43+ prayer is a must. If you don't have this, don't even bother making the trip to Barrows.
8. Stat boosting potions and expensive armor are not needed. Barrows could possibly be done with just runes, weapons and food.
9. Bring some prayer potions and it helps to have some prayer boosting gear (unholy symbol works very well)
10. Don't take stupid risks. If you're about to kill Dharok, and your prayer empties, he could easily hit a 600 and kill you.
11. If you don't get a barrows item, keep at it. There is an approximate 1/10 chance at a barrows item, so you WILL get it sooner or later.
And finally, have fun. It was meant to be a fun activity, so don't get stressed over it.

05-Jan-2012 20:25:53

Jan

2015

Big Monkfish

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if you have completed branches of darkmeyer it safes alot of time when at reward chest to teleport to barrows or burgh da rot if you want to bank with your drakans medelion and cause its a teleport in the dark lands it free so your medalion doesn't lose charges

05-Jan-2012 20:34:42

Apr

2007

Omniscient

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1) Set your quick prayers to protect melee, protect item, and piety, or if you are using curses select deflect melee, protect item, and turmoil (or whatever combat boosting prayers are available to you based on the style you are using and your prayer level). This will lower the number of clicks required per trip and lessen the chance of missing out on the boosts provided by the above prayers/curses
2) While kill count doesn't directly influence your success with regard to items, attaining a kill count around 6 (not including the brothers) will increase the likelihood and number of runes you obtain from the chest, essentially making the most of a bad situation.

05-Jan-2012 20:37:24

Jul

2019

Courch

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my method involves requirements of 82 magic, 70 defence, and a good strong melee weapon with proselyte or initiate.
obviously, the high-ish requirements would be stuff like; bandos, armadyl, firecape, ahrims, staff of light, zamorak book or arcane and steadfast boots.
however, i only suggest the use of bandos/firecape and ahrims/staff of light with a good magic attack bonus shield, or a prayer item in the shield slot. a guthix book or zamorak book fills this option perfectly, but the latter of the two invloves around 20m gp or so.
firstly i shall introduce you to my barrows set-up, i am combat 119, with 90 attack and strength, 84 defence, and 82 magic.
i use a combination of bandos/firecape/dragon boots/fury/barrows gloves/neitiznot helmet and armadyl godsword to pretty much decimate karil. i then move onto ahrim while wearing my karil top and skirt instead of bandos.
for the 4 melee brothers i have "perfected" a method of barrows that suites me fine, and saves me a lot of money through prayer potions and food (how i used to handle it)
i take my ahrims, and my staff of light, with a guthix book, while leaving on my neitiznot helm and leaving my dragon boots (im too lazy to buy magic boosting boots for switches

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i use one cast of ice blitz, which freezes each brother for 15 seconds. i then stand the opposite side of the crypt and switch to a polypore staff. allowing for 3-4 hits after my ice blitz. by now the brother is usually dead, however, if i take damage, i refreeze and heal using blood blitz.
for me, this has proven to be a massively effective method, using 5 casts per brother and allowing me to save roughly 1-2m gp since the polypore staff release, and the barrows event release. i have done about 50 chests in the process, but i used to just sit and gobble sharks and prayer pot like no tomorrow.
i hope you all enjoy trying my method out, save some money, and get some good loots in the process.

private message me if you wish,always up for helping!

05-Jan-2012 20:42:26

Lord Twonk

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Tip #1 - If you don't have the Branches of the Darkmeyer or In aid of the Myreque quests completed you may find yourself having to run through the mort myre swamp to reach the barrows. Take a charged druid pouch to save wasting valuable food supplies to the clutches of the ghasts, this one space item can save you 3-4 pieces of food, prolonging your stay in the barrows.
tip #2 - Read up on each of the brothers and the barrows area itself before venturing in. The barrows have a nasty habit of trying to surprise unwary adventurers and often succeed. Make sure that you have the right strategy and items. An under prepared adventurer is often a dead adventurer with a large armour replacement bill. Essential items for newer players include:
A one-shot teleport for a speedy exit, food, and prayer potions to prevent the stronger brothers from using up all your supplies.

05-Jan-2012 20:43:57

Jan

2017

Writ Keeper

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-Salamanders are a useful, inexpensive option for fighting the Barrows Brothers; ammo doesn't cost much and they can use range, magic and melee attacks.
-Kill Dharok first, as his effect tends to be the most dangerous. Most of them can be dispatched quickly with magic attacks (Ahrim is an exception - melee works better on him).
-Use prayer, but don't constantly drink potions. Use them when you need them. Super restores are helpful.
-Temple trekking provides some handy shortcuts to the area!

05-Jan-2012 20:47:40 - Last edited on 05-Jan-2012 20:48:27 by Writ Keeper

Imp Butcher

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If this is the first time fighting Ahrim, you will need to enter a maze. Just remember, while there your prayer points will keep dropping, but do not, I repeat, do NOT use prayer potions until the fight with Ahrim. Even if you run out of prayer, do not refill it, as it will be a waste. Save it for the fight.
Second, a good way to effectively and quickly kill the Barrows is magic.
I am level 86, and I barely used any food at Barrows. An effective way to handle them all fairly quickly is by wearing Mystic Robes, Air Staff/Air Battle staff, Amulet of Glory, and carry at least 80 (more are recommended, but just have 80 minimum) Blood runes, and cast Wind Wave, as it seems to be extremely effective. (Requires 62 magic and Default Spell book.) When used with protect from melee/ranged and Mystic Might activated, you'll quickly get your Barrows kills in. Remember, bring lots of Prayer Potions!

05-Jan-2012 20:48:29 - Last edited on 05-Jan-2012 20:49:30 by Imp Butcher

Xi Jin Ping

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TIP: If you have 70 attack, range, 70/82/94 Magic, and access to the Ancient magiks, you can use a combination of a black salamander and freezing spells on the melee brothers. Just freeze them, step diagonal, and attack them with your black salamander on "Magic." If you use Ice Barrage, they will unfreeze after 6 hits. Ice Blitz - 4 hits. Ice burst - 2 Hits. After you have attacked them that many times with the salamander, run behind the sarcophagus and wait a few seconds. Then freeze them again and repeat.
It may be better to bring a dragon dagger instead of dragon claws. A dragon claw special attack is essentially a stronger version of a dragon dagger's special attack, but the claws can only do two special attacks in a row, while the dagger can do four.
Ahrim tends to cast cursing spells more often than fire wave, so protect from magic is not necessarily required against him. However, if you don't think you can kill him fast enough, then protect from magic is recommended.
This is the order I kill the brothers in:
Dharok -> Karil -> Verac -> Ahrim -> Torag -> Guthan
Reasoning: Dharok should go first, while you have full prayer points. Once he is dead, you should have enough points left to pray piety and protect from range long enough to defeat Karil. After those two are dead, prayer is not as important if you use the freezing method, since Verac, Torag, and Guthan can't touch you, and Ahrim spends more time cursing you than he does trying to damage you.
Trivia: My friend used the ring of wealth often at Barrows after the update. He had a huge dry streak while using it (about 50). After that he decided to take off his ring, and on his next chest he got a Barrows item.
One last tip: Kill count does not increase your chances of getting a barrows item, just how many runes/coins/racks you can get.

05-Jan-2012 21:00:02

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