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Ow and just as feedback:
"What type of information can I send in?
The sort of things we're looking for are:
What equipment to bring
The best ways of handling each monster or boss
Useful safespots
The easiest way to get there.
Special trivia you think could be of interest.
Basically we want you to send in any information you think could help someone wanting to give the Barrows a go."
You are looking for the wrong content to improve Barrows...and by so asking the wrong question
You should ask "what would make you want to Barrows all day long".
Please excuse me, but from the quote I get the impression that you are searching for a way to make Barrows even easier and just only make it look good....and that will NOT benefit Barrows nor RS.

10-Jan-2012 15:34:04

OllyTheHobo

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For my trips, I use Black d'hide (or whatever color you can use) body and chaps with snakeskin boots and a neitznot/archer helm, ava's accumalator , rune c'bow broad- diamond bolts (e), and either a god book or some kind of shield, Ring of Wealth, Glory, and some kind of vambraces or gloves. My inventory has 2 house teleport tabs because i have a portal to Karyll, (Canfis), damage runes and staff (best spell u can use, although i recommend slayer dart if using low magic attack bonus equipment) 4-5 prayer potions, 2 ranging potions, and the rest monkfish (cheap, effectiv6e food). I kill the brothers in this order: Dharok with protect from melee and using mage attacks, Karil with protect from range and using mage or range, your choice, Verac with protect from melee and using mage attacks, Guthan with protect from melee using mage attacks, Torag with protect from melee and using mage attacks, and finally ahrim using protect from mage or no prayer (d'hide has good mage defence) and using ranged attacks. If you find the tunnel, skip it until you kill the rest of the brothers in the order i described. after killing all but 1 of the brothers, dont bother drinking your prayer potion (it will keep draining every 15 seconds or so) until you find the last brother in the catacombs or get to the treasure room(whichever is 1st) and wait for the brothers' face to appear on the screen and drink it to about 50% prayer points. While in the catecombs, kill 6-8 creatures for a better shot at rare rewards (your chance of finding barrows gear is about 1 in 4 to 1 in 15 trips. Good luck and happy digging.

10-Jan-2012 16:34:47

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Sorasia

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Sorry if it's been said.. i don't have the attention span for crazy amounts of pages D:
1) If you have the Drakan's Medallion, you can recharge your prayer quickly at Darkmeyer after each run to save using so many prayer potions. It takes like, 20 seconds and could save you in the long run

10-Jan-2012 17:35:18

Zeke640

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Always kill Dharok first and Ahrim last. The order which you kill the rest of the brothers does not matter as much.
Reason for this order:
Dharok is the only brother which prayer is required, this is because he can hit extremely high once he is low on health. By killing him first you will have plenty of prayer from praying at an alter between runs and will not need prayer potions.
Ahrim lowers your stats, by doing him last you will not have the penalty of lowered stats while fighting any other brothers. You will also not need to waste an inventory space for a restore potion.

10-Jan-2012 17:55:27

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Stilgar

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If you combine a prayer renewal potion with a high enough prayer bonus you won't lose any prayer when using a protection prayer! This means that you can have a protection prayer on when you only have 3 prayer points. This can be much more effective than taking normal prayer potions since when the prayer drain effect kicks in, you'll only lose 3 prayer points and you'll regain those in about 2 seconds! Do be aware though that you will have to reactivate your protection prayer every time the drain effect activates. If you can manage that, then almost no matter what level you are, all the brothers combined will cost about 1-2 doses of potion total!

10-Jan-2012 18:01:50

Valdurska

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If you have Ardougne cloak 3 or 4 and have Drakans Medallion from the Branches of Darkmeyer quest, you can avoid most or all need for prayer potions, because after each round at barrows, you can teleport to Kandarin monastery to recharge and teleport back to barrows with the medallion.

10-Jan-2012 18:21:02

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Mirzqu

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ring good melee armour and d hides (black ones if possible) couple prayer potions super set and some food. ring of wealth is also huge advantage. and sure you can bring full guthan if you want to get your kill count up in dungeon as more kills you have more runes you will get or even barrows item(s) always bring some kind of teleport (probly house teleport) as if you run out of food and prayer you may want to teleport and not to die and if you have kharyl teleport in your house it is also good as it doesen require anything else than desert treasure quest, ancient magics, runes for kharyl teleport (x100) and also high enough construction level.

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10-Jan-2012 18:40:04

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Daga

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People would for the most like to do more chest loots in one trip. Especially those who cant use Drakan Medallion. So here is my way of only using ONE PRAYER POTION (4) for each chest loot.
You will need:
82 Magic (Even though I EXTREMELY recommend having 94)
70+ Prayer is useful
Some good mage bonus armor. I recommend Ahrims for best defences.
A Polypore Staff
x500 Blood runes
x500 Death runes
Tomb of Frost (Water Runes x1000 if you dont have this item)
Optional: Enhanced Excalibur
A Melee Weapon (For those who can battle Akrisae)
And of course Prayer Potions
If you know how too dig down to a Barrows Brother, your good to go. Now what you should hope for, is getting a melee Barrows Brother in the tunnels. So I use to do them like this: First Akrisae, continiuing with Verac, Dharok, Guthan, Torag, Ahrim then lastly Karil. For the first turn, you probably have full prayer, so you can just go down the Verac/Akrisae tomb. But at the second where its probably empty, drink ONE dose of a Prayer Potion. Now go over to the sarcophagous which is furthest away (If you have done ROTM that is, or else there will only be one). For this one, pray MELEE. At all brothers, attack with the Polypore Staff attack. Whenever Akrisae activates/switches prayer, switch to melee/mage. For the 4 next (Verac-Dharok-Guthan-Torag) you do all in the same way. No prays for these ones. Open the sarcophagous, and when the brother appears, quickly freeze him using Ice Blitz or Barrage. Then attack him from a distance with Polypore Staff till his dead. Be aware of that Dharok can hit you high at low HP, so if you think freeze time will run out, hide at the other side of the sarcophogous. Btw, If you get low on HP, use Blood Blitz to refill. For Ahrim and Karil drink THREE prayer potion doses. Pray Mage (Ahrim) and Range (Karil) and attack them with Polypore. Do not use Ice or Blood for these, its not effective. Do the tunnels you way, and attack the brother as I've teached you. When looted, run back

10-Jan-2012 19:03:53

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Daga

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Of course, if you got the Drakan Medallion with you, you can tele out using it.

10-Jan-2012 19:06:56

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Snafu

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1. I don't know if many people know this, but if using prayer against Karil (which I highly recommend) make sure you put your prayer on before you touch his grave or you risk being hit as the damage he does it calculated before his bolt touches you (as soon as he's got the cross bow ready to shoot at you) so if you prayer on after he has come out, you will be hit 90% of the time even if you think you got the prayer on in time.
2. If you are struggling to find the right puzzle to the chest, just go close to any door bordering the chest room and rotate your camera so that you can see all the doors in the chest room, at this point just hover your mouse over each door and see which one says 'Open', that's where the puzzle door is

10-Jan-2012 19:47:14

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