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There is one item ive found really useful at barrows and thats a black salamander since it can use all 3 attack types so no need to switch weapons, and it's damage isnt based on stats so you can wear the best armour you can. Just remember to bring a lot of harralander tar for ammo.

07-Jan-2012 22:59:02

Kickpuncher
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there are too many tips of mine to put in one post!
Tip 1: magic is your best friend.
4 of the brothers have extremely low magic resistance-take advantage of it!
Tip 2: prayer is your second best friend!
these ghosts are in the level 100's, meaning they can hit extremely hard! even verac will have trouble hitting through a good "protect from melee" prayer!
EDIT: oops, didn't see the no more than two tips!

07-Jan-2012 23:02:07 - Last edited on 07-Jan-2012 23:03:06 by Kickpuncher

Roytaro
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-If you're using fire surge, slayer dart, or polypore, entangle first! It's saves a prayer potion sip and some health! But look out! If you're hitting bad it can be unentangled!
-Drink 1 sip of prayer potion at karil, after karil go to ahrims, after those, you've only melee barrows that you can use my first tip.
-Bring vampire aura to heal yourself with 5% of your hit
-bring EE (enhanted excalibur) to heal yourself with 200 or 400 lifepoints if you've seers elite completed. Special cost 100%. So 1 special per round!
-If your need to do the puzzle and a npc is attacking you, step away and entangle it to buy some time.
- Make sure after looting the chest if nothing on the ground, because the armour will be dropped if your inventory is full.
-If you do not have the medalion to teleport to barrows, remember the route in the tunnel from the rope to the chest! And look where the rope is (NE-SE-SW-NW)
-Bring your best ring as a main ring, and a Ring of Wealth to increase your loot at the chest.
Why only 2 tips? It's a tip thread so you may post all your tips.
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07-Jan-2012 23:12:36 - Last edited on 07-Jan-2012 23:20:29 by Roytaro

jaklumen
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From everything I've read on Barrows, and my own experience, most strategies can be summarized by two factors, based on the combat triangle:
1. The strength and weakness of each Brother
2. The strengths and weaknesses of your stats as a player and the setup method you choose (many have already been listed here).
The brothers using melee (Dharok, Verac, Torag and Guthan) are vulnerable to magic. Karil is vulnerable to melee weapons (especially stab attacks), and Ahrim is vulnerable to range. Akrisae uses protection prayers, so a weapon that can switch combat attacks is useful (salamander and Saradomin sword + special attack are popular).

07-Jan-2012 23:31:46

jaklumen
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Roy Boy106: Did you read through each and every tip posted here?
If you said "no", then consider why the Jmods made that request, and then see about reading them until you can say "yes". Then consider how tedious that was.

07-Jan-2012 23:34:56 - Last edited on 07-Jan-2012 23:36:35 by jaklumen

Iodine

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Kill the brothers in the following order:
1. Dharok (depends how skilled you are at not letting Dharok go near you with ice spells or entangle, or keeping your prayer up, otherwise Karil)
2.Karil (Dharok if you killed Karil first)
3.Verac (again, all depends on your combat style, if using magic don't bother praying)
4.Guthan (pray here to avoid Guthan healing)
5. and 6. Torag and Ahrim, whichever order, you can pray but to conserve prayer tank Torag with melee armour and Ahrim with dragonhide, unless your magic level is below 75 in which case you should pray against Ahrim.
Suggested approach: wear full black d'hide.
Melee brothers: use slayer dart (runes can and will be replenished from the rewards chest) and entangle, ancients (very effective due to the ice spells' freezing effect) or Polypore staff; wield the Staff of Light (unless using the Polypore staff.
Karil: melee him.
Ahrim: range him with a crystal bow.

07-Jan-2012 23:52:38

[#TBRSJ8JIR]

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i have been pounding the barrows brothers (back) into the dirt since i was a meek newbie, and after much trail and error found these tips quite useful.
if you have the slayer requirement slayer dart is very effective and you can get all the runes from slayer masters with rewards points if you've got them, otherwise they are fairly cheap.
i found its always easiest to take Dharok first unless his crypt is the tunnel since he can hit the highest and fight him using magic.
after him go through Guthan and Torag all using magic and make sure you've got good melee defence.
using prayer throughout all the fights will reduce damage but it can get very costly. for me praying is only necessary when facing Dharok and Ahrim because they can hit very hard.
bringing black dragonhide armour a bow with mithril or better arrows and a dragon scimitar will make quick work of Arhim and Karil.
i recommend fighting Verac last before going into the tunnels since at that point you will probably be out of prayer and his attacks have a good chance of ignoring your prayer anyways
my recommended setup is full rune with slayer staff (for slayer dart) for the melee brothers, dragon hide and ranged for Ahrim/Akrisae (if you have him available and be sure to bring more than 1 type of attack to akrisae since he prays) and full rune with melee for Karil. bringing at least monkfish or higher food (filling your inventory-- you will most likely be eating anyways so it will free up inventory for rewards) and about 3-4 4-dose prayer potions works well (don't forget your spade) and the above equipment, although this takes up a lot of space high level players will get around 5-10 trips per inventory. costs can be cut if you have enhanced Excalibur and a Falador shield since they can heal and restore prayer respectively.
getting access to burgh de rott helps with shortening restocking time between runs.
more than 2 tips but i hope it helps!

07-Jan-2012 23:58:42 - Last edited on 08-Jan-2012 00:09:05 by [#TBRSJ8JIR]

Kohn

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Barrows 101!
: Ring of wealth, chest loot increase!
: If you have NOT done Branches of Darkmeyer, try building a "Kharyrll" portal in your house for fast transportation to canifis.
----Best of luck to you fellow scaper!---

08-Jan-2012 00:11:58

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