Levels, Gear & Preparation

• Levels - https://discord.com/channels/408082929940430858/1137502263577952407/1154234803571408988
• Setups - https://discord.com/channels/408082929940430858/1137502263577952407/1154235004436631562
  • Setup Notes - https://discord.com/channels/408082929940430858/1137502263577952407/1154236247125000288
• Preparation - https://discord.com/channels/408082929940430858/1137502263577952407/1154239518866669639
• Tile Markers - https://discord.com/channels/408082929940430858/1137502263577952407/1154239553775882260
• Useful Plugins and Settings - https://discord.com/channels/408082929940430858/1137502263577952407/1154242458192986272

Waves

• Part 1: Solving Spawns - https://discord.com/channels/408082929940430858/1137502263577952407/1154249559933988865
• Part 2: The Meleer - https://discord.com/channels/408082929940430858/1137502263577952407/1154259463780442202
• Part 3.1: Pathing and Safespotting - https://discord.com/channels/408082929940430858/1137502263577952407/1154260956038303744
• Part 3.2: Pillar Stack Solutions - https://discord.com/channels/408082929940430858/1137502263577952407/1154266121407574057

Bosses

Other Resources

• Combat Achievements - https://discord.com/channels/408082929940430858/1137502263577952407/1154290525235593226
• Speedrunning Beyond Grandmaster - https://discord.com/channels/408082929940430858/1137502263577952407/1154292555333242890

Head Gear:

• The Justiciar faceguard is the recommended helmet for a first caper. It has an excellent combination of defence, prayer, and is not too expensive. You can downgrade to a Verac’s helmet and still get comparable coverage if that means buying a more impactful upgrade (i.e. Empty Nightmare Staff or a Masori Piece)
• Masori Mask (f)/Crystal helm is sometimes used in place of a tank helmet. We generally discourage using this as the odds of a first caper having a run with few enough mistakes to justify the marginally increased offensive power is low.

Amulet Slot:

• ABSOLUTELY no negotiation or swaps should be done as a first caper. An occult and anguish are the only equips you will ever need.

• However, if you own Confliction Gauntlets, you can bank your Occult Necklace as they replace it.

Ranged Armour:

• Masori (f) is best in slot, if you don’t have the money for it Armadyl isn’t worth it, downgrade directly to Blessed D’hide and use the gp on other upgrades.

• If possible, sell other minor gear upgrades for a Masori Piece as the range bonus can mean several max hits on your Twisted Bow.
• If you are using a Bowfa, do NOT use any ranged armour other than Crystal Top/Bottom.

Mage Armour:

• Virtus is best in slot and a lot cheaper than Ancestral with the increased damage to Ancient Magicks.

• If you are an ironman or very poor, Ahrims, Blue Moon, or Bloodbark (in order from best to worst) are all okay.

Mage Weapon:

• Learners very often ask whether or not Eldritch Nightmare Staff is worth taking. While it may seem like a good choice at first, it does not benefit you at all when new to the content, as you will almost always die with restore potions leftover, thus making the time used speccing for extra prayer completely pointless. The blowpipe spec is incredibly strong and can help you stay alive in tight situations.

• In order to prevent wasting time, we strongly recommend against taking Eldritch or SGS until you have seen at least Triples/Zuk. Only then, once you have a chance of completing a run is it worth the additional time sunk into attempts in order to secure the kill. If you take this approach, it may also be worthwhile changing your Brew/Restore ratio in favour of some extra brews.
• An empty nightmare staff is essentially equivalent to a Kodai Wand with slightly less magic attack bonus (accuracy only but negligible on nibblers) and no rune save. In terms of mage strength, they are equivalent. With the introduction of the Divine Rune Pouch from Tombs of Amascut, you lose no inventory slots as you can also bring in water runes for Ice Barrage.
• The Blood Ancient Sceptre should only be used if you are an ironman and/or do not have access to a Kodai Wand or Nightmare Staff. The passive effect might seem like a good reason to bring, but the additional 9 hitpoints will NOT save you if you freeze up or make a very big mistake during a wave. Finally, dropping from 15% to 5% mage damage loses several max hits on barrage, drastically lowering your potential to one shot all three nibblers at the start of the wave.

Boots:

• Maxed Avernic Treads are strongest in terms of damage output, but have no prayer bonus and are lacking in defensive stats.
• Echo boots are a combination of prayer and defense. It should be noted that the "recoil" effect is not useful in the inferno, as it only acts in melee distance of your character, therefore keeping it on is optional.
• If you are an ironman and do not have any of the above options, use your best ranging boots.

Shield Slot:

• An ely is technically best in slot, but incredibly expensive and not much better than a Crystal Shield.
• The Crystal Shield is very good, practically free, and almost equivalent to an Elysian.
• An Elidinis Ward (f) is not recommended as the defensive bonuses of the Crystal Shield will be more beneficial than a max hit on barrage.

Cape Slot:

• Dizana's Quiver is outright BIS, but the Fortis Colosseum is around the same tier of difficulty as the Inferno and therefore is NOT worth taking a detour for if you are already committed to learning. Either way, both capes benefit the other piece of content, so the order does not really matter.
• Assembler is the recommended cape as it provides the most DPS behind Dizana's Quiver.
• If prayer is still an issue, one can opt for either a Max cape or TRIMMED Ranging cape for the benefit of more prayer bonus and some defense if the following is applicable:
  • Your personal best is Zuk or Triple Jads
  • You are having a serious issue with the number of restores entering the mentioned bosses above
  • You have already swapped to Ring of the gods (i) to increase your prayer longevity

Ring Slot:

• Ring of Suffering (ri) is a great choice as it has a combination of defensive stats and prayer bonuses. Ensure recoils are on, as the recoil damage provides a very small, but positive boost to dps in a scenario where you make a mistake.
• Ring of the gods (i) is much worse for your defensive stats and should not be considered UNLESS you are still consistently struggling with prayer later into the run.

Glove Slot:

• Zaryte Vambraces are best in slot.
• Barrows Gloves work well if you are on a tight budget.
• Confliction Gauntlets replace the Occult Necklace.

Ammo:

• At the time of this guide being published, Dragon Darts are less than 1k each. These are the go to darts if you can afford them. However, if you have money issues, using Amethyst Darts is completely fine. Switch to Dragon Darts once you start to see Triple Jads/Zuk.
• Dragon Arrows should always be used since they are extremely cheap and you consume them very slowly.

• If you have a quiver, ensure your arrows are in the quiver's slot. This allows you to bring a blessing alongside it for extra prayer.

• Start on this tile for low waves: 1 through 49.
• Gives good access to nibblers while being exposed to relatively few spawns on wave start.

• Start on this tile for complicated waves, such as 31, 48, and always for waves 50+.
• Exposed to fewest spawns on wave start, as a tradeoff for having less access to nibblers. You will get dragged out if nibblers go south.
• Any combination of a mager or ranger north + a melee north (W/NW/NE) will automatically be offticked if you stand still on the column kelvino tile is on (be aware a SW mage can see you on Kelvino tile if south pillar is still alive, so take a step south if so).

• Ground Markers

• NPC Indicators

• Metronome

• Entity Hider

• GPU

• Anti Drag

• Inferno Stats

• Mute the In-game Area Sounds

• Low Detail

LoS Tool

Zuk Simulator

• Three of these will spawn on every wave, with 6 spawning the wave before a new monster is introduced.
• They target one of the three pillars at random, slowly chipping away at its health.

• Protect from Range.
• Max hit is 19, however it may increase if not protected against.
• Attacks on a 3 tick cycle, the fastest of any monster in the Inferno.
• They have an attack range of 4 tiles, one less than a blowpipe.
• They drain 3 run energy with every hit and they have a chance to steal stats with each unprotected hit, including hitpoints.

• Protect from Range AND Magic.
• Max hit is 29.
• Attacks on a 6 tick cycle and has an attack range of 15 tiles.
• They will attack with either mage or range, unless you are in melee range in which case they can also melee.
• They have a unique attack pattern: after coming into line of sight with a blob, your prayer is checked on the first tick to see if it is mage or range.
• The attack itself then happens on the fourth tick (3 ticks later), with the opposite style of what you prayed against.
• They will then read your prayer again three ticks after attacking, and repeat the pattern.
• After a blob dies, three bloblets will spawn in its place, each attacking with a different style and have a max hit of 18.

• Protect from Melee.
• Max hit is 49.
• Attacks on a 4 tick cycle and can only hit you if you’re adjacent to it.
• Meleers have the ability to dig to a spot within melee range of you after they have been out of combat for a while. The first melee dig is always 50 ticks after spawn, the next digs are always between 40 and 60 ticks, and they attack 12 ticks from the moment they dig.

• Protect from Range.
• Range max hit is 46, melee max hit is 19.
• Attacks on a 4 tick cycle and has an attack range of 15 tiles.

• Protect from Magic.
• Max hit is 70, melee max hit is 52.
• Attacks on a 4 tick cycle and has an attack range of 15 tiles.
• Magers have the ability to respawn monsters you have killed before in the wave, with the exception of nibblers.
• The respawn can only happen if the mager has line of sight, it replaces the current attack AND the next attack, and keeps it in cycle.
• Each monster can only be respawned once, and it will be at half health. This does not apply to bloblets when a respawned blob dies.
• The respawn will always happen within a small area south of the north pillar.

• Max hit is 113.
• Attacks on an 8 tick cycle on Single Jad and during Zuk, and a 9 tick cycle during Triples.
• They will attack with either mage or range, unless you are in melee range in which case they can also melee.
• Their attack pattern works exactly the same as Fight Caves Jad.
• Once they reach 50% hitpoints, Yt-HurKots will spawn to heal Jad. You will have to tag the healers.
• Getting meleed messes with their attack cycle, potentially same ticking two Jads on Triple Jads.

• Max hit is 14.
• 5 will spawn on Single Jad, 3 will spawn per Jad on Triples and the Jad at Zuk.

• Bats, Blobs, Rangers, and Meleers are best killed with a blowpipe.
• Magers, Jad and Zuk are best killed with the Tbow.
• If you are doing a Bowfa cape, use Bowfa the same places you would use a twisted bow.
• If you are doing an Armadyl crossbow cape, use it on Zuk and his respective Jad only.

• Not learning them is going to cost you an unearthly amount of wasted time.

• Switch your prayer from mage-range or range-mage every tick.
• If you are dealing with a ranger or a mager, make sure you pray against it on the first tick, then begin alternating.

• Pattern 1: Pray on the ranger/mager attack tick, and the tick after that.
• Pattern 2: Pray on the tick before the ranger/mager attack, and the attack tick. One of these patterns will correctly pray against all blobs, while the other will incorrectly pray against all blobs - this depends on which tick the blob gains line of sight on you.
  • If the monsters are stuck behind the pillar, they will automatically be set up for pattern 1 since they will gain line of sight on the same tick.
• Two tick alternating will give you more time to click things that are not your prayers, so it is much more comfortable to move and attack while doing it.

• One way to practise this is by waiting for the meleer to dig to you while you are flicking a ranger or a mager, and flicking between the two.
• If the meleer digs on the same tick as the ranger/mager attacks, they will attack on the same tick. Refer to “The Meleer” section of the guide to handle this situation.

• To do it, you first must be at least 8 tiles away from your target.
• If you are at the north pillar with your target safespotted at the south, you must be hugging the far north wall.
• Your last hit must be a blood barrage.
• As the killing barrage is travelling, manually cast another blood barrage, and then wait for the second barrage to go off.
• This will heal you off the now dead enemies.

• Triple Jads (Wave 68).
• Start of Zuk fight (Wave 69).
• Before healers.
• As necessary post healers.

• At the start of waves 1-49, start with your mage gear equipped and get ready to throw an ice barrage on the spawn of nibblers, from wave 50 onwards you want to start in your range top and bottoms for the extra defence against north ranger spawns.
• Start on xZact tile on waves 1-49, and Kelvino tile from wave 50 onwards, you can also start on Kelvino on earlier waves if you are not comfortable.
• Begin by manually casting an ice barrage on the clump of nibblers - just one, if you do not get all of them, it is fine.

• For now, your nibblers are dealt with, you have got to look after yourself.
• To effectively solve a spawn, you will need to identify what the threat is and figure out how to deal with it within a short span of time.

• Blobs first appear on wave 4
• There will be a lot of situations in which you will have to deal with a singular blob: here are two good methods.

• The meleer appears on wave 9. Use the pillar to safespot it.

• Starting from wave 18, the biggest threat is the ranger. It has a high max hit and can attack from a large distance. However, you are going to be praying against it, so it is no longer a problem. The issue now is that you must work out how the other monsters will be dealt with, revolving around having your ranged prayer up for the tick the ranger attacks on.
  • As mentioned previously, blobs can always be countered with one tick alternating, so they are the lowest priority threat - you can always deal with them alongside a ranger.
• Bats cannot be properly flicked due to their 3 tick attack speed. They have a very low health pool, so if it is not favourable to safespot them, you should immediately gun them down with a blowpipe when you are able to.

• Proper use of the pillar safespots will solve most situations.
• If not, he still attacks on a 4 tick cycle, so he can be effectively flicked against a single ranger or mager. There will be a section of the guide dedicated specifically to the meleer and to pillar safespots, so keep in mind these two strategies when we go further into it.

• Mager waves begin on 35.

• Keep in mind that as the mager respawns enemies, the wave slows down with you having to kill the same enemy twice. If it is safe to do so, prioritize killing the mager above everything else first.

• Waves 50 and above can be a little more complicated.
  • There is now a mager and a ranger.
• You are almost guaranteed to have to deal with at least two monsters at once the further you go.
• This is something you are going to have to be able to deal with by flicking, so the strategy has now changed to revolve around getting rid of things you will not be able to flick against. The ranger has now become the true greatest threat, and you can get killed very quickly if you are not paying attention.

• When dealing with the mager and ranger at the same time, you must offtick them or take massive damage.
  • If a mager and a ranger attack one tick apart from each other, they can be flicked with blobs as well, just make sure you are praying against the mager and ranger’s attacks on the correct ticks and begin the alteration pattern.

• If they attack two ticks apart, they can be flicked with two tick alternating against blobs as well. Make sure you are using the correct pattern as described earlier.

• Get rid of bats and meleers.
• In higher waves, kill, safespot, or off-tick one of the two greater threats: either the mager or the ranger.
• As long as you flick correctly, it will be completely safe to leave the pillar and kill nibblers, while not taking so much time that they are able to chunk down the pillar in one go.

• Pray augury at the start of a wave. This increases your chance to one shot all three nibblers, and also increases your defense should you tank something. After the ice barrage cast, pray rigour to kill any nearby dangerous enemies.
• You can pre-brew waves 60-63.
• You can tick-eat as a last resort.

• Begin by praying melee on the meleer’s attack tick.
• Switch to range pray on the next tick.
• Switch to mage pray on the following tick.
• Return to range pray.
• Finally, return to melee prayer for the meleer’s next attack. Repeat.

• However, you can manually off-tick the meleer by stepping under him. From here, manually click out right as the ranger or mager attacks, and he should now be off-ticked. If this fails, try again.
• You should exercise caution doing this in the later waves as it can path you out into the LoS of other monsters.

• Pray melee on every single tick other than the ranger/mager’s attack tick - this will help you to notice if they are actually off-ticked. Note: Standing still on the Kelvino tile and its row mentioned earlier will allow you to offtick any combination of north meleers and north rangers/magers directly after the wave starts.

• In relation to you, an NPC will always move east and west before moving north or south.
• They will move diagonally whenever they can. Because of that, you can manipulate line of sight by standing next to the pillar, blocking out the “key tiles” that would have allowed the NPC to see and attack you. For example, this far southwest spawn mager is not able to attack me only because I am right next to the pillar. If I were one tile further north, it would attack me.

• Green tiles: your position.
• Red tiles: corner safespotted monster - from these tiles, an NPC is unable to attack you, and you are unable to attack it.
• Orange tiles: you can attack a safespotted meleer from any of these.
• You can manually de-safespot a corner by moving one tile in the north or south direction, depending on the side of the pillar.
• You can then move back to the original tile to re-safespot it.
• Moving east or west for any corner safespot will result in the NPC moving and making it so that they cannot be safespotted there again.

• For the meleer, make sure you are at the centre tile of the pillar or further away. You can also use the corner safespots above to move around the pillar while keeping the meleer safespotted.

• For the bat, you will have to be five tiles away to avoid its attacks.

• If you kill a blob in one of these positions, the bloblets will spawn clumped up together, as long as you are at least 3 tiles away. Only the range bloblet will be able to see you until you kill it, so prepare to pray ranged.

• These solutions are for monster stacks south of the pillar, although the same principle applies if they are stacked west of the pillar as well.
• If you are at the south pillar, the stack and direction you run will appear differently than in the clips listed below, but should always path out WEST.

• When a mager respawns fallen monsters, their positions may get a bit janky since they can be respawned inside the hitboxes of other monsters. Be wary of this when coming out from behind the pillar.
• Whenever you find yourself dealing with a stack, try and kill the mager first if you can. It will prevent a lot of monsters from respawning, which will keep the stack clean and shorten the amount of time you spend in the waves.
• This is also when you will want to take the time to heal up with blood barrage - you should not be using it at any point in which you can take damage, since killing the threat faster with pipe or Tbow will save you more hitpoints.
• Do not stand next to pillars on wave 66. They will immediately collapse when the wave ends and deal damage equivalent to half of your current hitpoints. Do not stand next to them if they are about to fall to nibblers either.

• Simple one tick or two tick alternation, start alternating after the mager/ranger attacks.

• Works for mager + ranger as well.
• Stand on the middle tile north of the pillar.
• Turn on your protective prayer against the back monster.
• Click to move out two tiles west.
• They will be off-ticked, switch prayer for the next tick. This cycle will continue, even if the mager revives something.
• If you want to make sure you are on cycle, pay attention to the back monster’s attack animation and switch prayers as soon as it happens.

• Blob can be either in the middle of the stack, in the back, or anywhere else where it has line of sight on you. It cannot be in front of the stack.
• Same procedure as ranger + mager, but begin a one tick alternation pattern instead of praying only when the mager and the ranger attack.
• Make sure you alternate correctly, starting with the prayer against the back monster.
• It is okay to tank a blob hit while setting up the offtick, as you will immediately protect against it for every cycle afterwards. If this is not true, get behind the pillar and try again.

• Stand in the middle.
• Move one tile north.
• Run two tiles west, praying against the back monster.
• If you have a tbow or bowfa, you will always be able to hit the mager from the bat safespot.

• Stand in the middle.
• Move one tile north. If you are using a blowpipe on the mager, you will need to be two tiles north.
• Run two tiles west and begin the alternation pattern, praying against the back monster.

• This can only happen on wave 65.
• Stand in the middle.
• Move two tiles north.
• Pray range and run out westwards, moving to tile ‘1’ as illustrated in the clip.
• You will then immediately return to the pillar middle tile, then you will go out west again without any delays, switching to mage prayer as you go out the second time, then switching back to range prayer. This cycle has you doing one action per tick for five ticks in total.
• Continue flicking the stack, praying mage after the back ranger attacks, then switching back to range prayer after the mager attacks.

• An alternate solution is to use the splash off-tick solve.
• By splashing ONLY on a mager that has not respawned anything, its attack will be delayed.
• This method has a slight risk, as if you do not splash you will get hit with an off pray mage hit, make sure you are brewed up to full.
• Start on the easternmost tile on the north side of the north pillar.
• Equip your gear with the lowest mage attack stats to get your accuracy as low as possible. Effectively you will be wearing full ranged gear along with a crystal shield if you have it, with no weapon in hand.
• Pray range.
• Manually select the lowest possible spell you can cast, then cast it on the mager. You have about a 90% chance to splash.
• Switch your prayer to mage after the rangers attack.

• Relogging to try and get a different stack is a viable strategy if you do not want to use either of the solutions above.
• Note that relogging does not change spawns, the monsters will spawn in the same locations.
• If you are unsure as to how to handle relogging, feel free to ask for help in #inferno. Be sure to post the spawn locations in the LOS tool, and mention what pillars you have up.

• This can only happen on wave 65.
• Stand in the middle.
• Move one tile north.
• Go out west, praying against the ranger. Pray mage on the next tick.
• Note that this stack is prayed against in reverse to traditional stacks.

• This can only happen on wave 65.
• This stack is functionally identical to the basic mage + range stack. Treat it as such.

• This can only happen on wave 65.
• This stack’s setup is identical to the blob front + mage + range stacks. Treat it as such.

West side of the pillar

• Stacks on the west side of the pillar are treated exactly the same as any stack mentioned above, the only difference is that you run two tiles south (as opposed to moving west when there is a stack south of the pillar).

• Pray range when he smashes his front legs on the ground.
• Pray mage when he lifts his legs up in the air dangling,

• Move north and south to have one healer on you and to trap the rest on either Jad or the healer attacking you.
• If all the healers are clumped on you or lined up behind you, you can run through Jad to trap them all on him. The Jad challenges south of Inferno bank are great for practising this.

• Prioritise your prayers against Jad.
• For safety, wait until his attack lands on you if you do not know the exact tick.
• Run through him praying melee afterwards.
• You will have enough time to react to the next attack by the time you have reached the other side.

• While you are still paused inside the Inferno, you can brew to 115, restore, and bastion. Since Jad’s max hit is 113, you cannot die to a single missed prayer until you have been hit by healers. Realistically, it does not make a difference, but the insurance can really help you out psychologically.
• Make sure you are standing in the centre when you log out for good.
• You should use the tile marked in the “Preparation” section - it will make it so that only 1 healer from the first Jad attacks you after tagging them.
• When you eventually log back in, you will want to use rigour for the whole wave. If you have 5 or less restores, you will want to be more conservative with your rigour usage, having it on solely for the first jad.

• Start by attacking the southern Jad, with your camera facing east.
• The most important step of the fight is to identify which Jad attacked last and whether they are attacking in a clockwise or counterclockwise rotation.
• This is random for each run, but remains the same for the whole wave, so as long as you do not lose track, you can always expect which Jad will attack next.

• These Jads only have 3 healers each.
• When healers eventually spawn, remember your priority is always prayers.
• Only tag a healer when you are absolutely sure you have prayed against the Jad attacking you and you will be ready to pray against the next Jad.
• There is a 3-tick window between each attack, so do not stress over it, you will have time, just stay in the rhythm.
• Tag one healer at a time, you do not need to rush.

OVERVIEW:

• Zuk has 1200 hit points.
• The shield has 600 hit points. It has no defence and cannot be healed - its death means your death.
• A set of mager and ranger will spawn 45 seconds (two and a half rotations) into the fight.
• A following set will spawn 3 minutes and 30 seconds after the previous set spawns. This timer repeats itself.
• The timer is paused when Zuk falls below 600 hitpoints.
• The timer is unpaused and 1 minute and 45 seconds are added when Zuk falls below 480 hitpoints.
• When the timer is unpaused, a single Jad will spawn.
• Healers will spawn when Zuk falls below 240 hitpoints. Zuk also becomes enraged, and stays enraged until he is dead.

SETS:

• A set is a spawn of a mager and a ranger, which will always spawn west and east respectively.
• They have the same properties as the ones found in the waves.
• The mager cannot revive monsters.
• They will naturally target the shield, but their aggro will be shifted towards you when you attack them.

JAD:

• A single Jad spawns in the north-centre when Zuk falls below 480 hitpoints.
• It will naturally target the shield, but its aggro will be shifted towards you when you attack it.
• It will spawn 3 healers - these always appear north of it.

HEALERS

• Four healers spawn when Zuk falls below 240 hit points.
• They will begin healing Zuk, but their aggro will be shifted towards you when you attack them.
• They attack with three fireballs, which hit in a 3x3 area. One will target your current position (if you are in range) and two will fire randomly.
• These attacks cannot be prayed against and each one deals 5-10 damage.
• After healers spawn, Zuk becomes enraged for the rest of the fight, meaning he attacks more frequently.

• RIGHT CLICK ZUK DURING THE CUTSCENE. Click the “attack” button after the fight begins and hit him once in the centre.
• Identify which direction the shield is headed towards and move to that corner safespot.
• Do three hits at the corner.
• Run to the nearest safespot and do a single hit.
• Keep running and do another hit somewhere after the middle, in between the two central safespots.
• Move towards the next safespot for another single shot.
• Finally, run to the opposite corner and do another three hits there.

• This will spawn after 2 and a half rotations of the shield (45 seconds).
• Since the shield may start off by going either west or east, there are different strategies involving each one.
• These strategies assume you will NOT flick sets. It is both unrealistic and unnecessary to pull it off on a first cape.

• When the shield reaches the middle, switch to blowpipe and tag the ranger.
• Move in between each blowpipe hit on the ranger. Stop at the corner.
• Use blowpipe specs for healing. Brew if you ever fall below 60 hit points.
• Once the shield moves west, follow it and continue attacking until the middle again.

• If the ranger is still alive after leaving blowpipe range, you will have to wait until the shield travels east again.
• Make sure you use your brews to tank it. You should equip your shield until you can reach it.

• Move in between each blowpipe hit on the ranger. Stop attacking once you reach the middle.
• Pray mage, tag the mager, and put on your shield. Do NOT attack anything with it on.
• Keep moving towards the west corner safespot, brewing as necessary.
• When the shield travels east and reaches the middle again, immediately start attacking the ranger again.

• If you are oversupplied with brews (6+), you should tag the mager as early as you can.

• Continue attacking Zuk using the method from before - pray mage and ignore the mager.
• Get Zuk below 600 hitpoints.
• Afterwards, you can turn off Rigour.
• Kill the mager - the maximum distance you can hit with a Tbow is at the middle-east safespot.
• You can still attack Zuk at the east corner, but do NOT get Zuk below 480 hit points.

• Get Zuk below 480 hit points. Jad will spawn.

• Tag Jad instantly so your shield does not take unnecessary damage.
• Attack Jad as you would attack Zuk.
• Jad healers will always clump up north of Jad - tag them using barrage.
• Barrage counts as a hit, so make sure you move to the next safespot after using it.
• Do not use barrage from the east corner, you will get dragged out. West corner is safe.
• Prioritise moving to the next safespot and overhead prayers before anything else.

• After killing Jad, return to attacking Zuk,
• Do NOT get Zuk below 240 hit points.
• Once you can no longer attack Zuk, patiently follow the shield until the second set spawns.

• Kill the ranger as you did before.
• Leave the mager alive.
• Brew up to 115 afterwards.
• Restore and sip a bastion dose.
• Attack Zuk ONLY at the corners. If you fail to hit him below 240 at a corner, wait to attack until the next corner.
• Get Zuk under 240 hitpoints - equip blowpipe for healers.

• Prioritise being with the leading edge of the shield at all times.
• Tag healers with blowpipe when they spawn.
• Move in between each blowpipe hit on the healers to ensure you are caught up with the shield.
• Try to tag the next healer ASAP - the goal is to get them all off Zuk.
• Move one tile towards the wall near the corner safespots to dodge extra fireballs.
• Use blowpipe specs to heal before you start brewing.

• Kill all the healers.
• Keep in mind that Zuk is now enraged, and your strategy to attack him will have to change to keep up. More info is detailed below.

• The 3-1-1-1-3 method is no longer viable, neither are the middle safespots. Corners are still safe.
• Stay slightly in front of the shield at all times. Never stay near the back.
• Do not attack Zuk between corner safespots and the middle safespots (which are no longer safe) - you will get dragged out in either direction.

• If you cannot deal enough damage to finish off Zuk, you may encounter a third set.

• NOTE: You can simply left click the “pile” of magers - the one that has just spawned will be on top, unless the previous mager was moved.
• If you moved the previous mager, barrage the pile instead of left clicking.
• If you have at least 1 brew, kill the ranger as you did before.
• Otherwise, focus on finishing off Zuk. ONLY DO THIS IF HE IS BELOW 100 HP.
• Finish off Zuk.

• Keep in mind that your blowpipe is still better DPS, only use it on these monsters when you cannot reach them with your blowpipe.

• Use blood barrage to tag clumps of healers. Use your Bowfa to tag lone healers.

• The same idea from the waves applies to the sets, allowing you to tag and attack long before you can start blowpiping, at least for the ranger.

• Zaryte crossbow: The ZCB is strictly worse DPS than a Bowfa, and is much more expensive. Unless you cannot complete SOTE to unlock the Bowfa but still really want an infernal cape, then a ZCB is okay.

• Although seemingly unimportant, this is usually what will make ACB runs considerably longer than Tbow runs. The waves are going to feel slower than they should be - be prepared to spend a lot of time here.
• On rare occasions, you might have to use ACB on long range, but dragging the enemy closer is always preferable.

• Tag healers with blood barrage, you can alternatively use your ACB.

• While at the west corner, you must tag the mager in the set with your ACB. If you try to blowpipe at the safespot, you WILL be dragged out of the shield’s protection.

• While at the West corner safespot only, you MUST be on long range to attack Jad. This does not apply to the east corner.
• Switch to this style manually while only at the corner. In order to win the fight, your ACB must be on rapid outside of the corner.

• Switch to diamonds at 700 HP (prevents triggering timer pause).
• Switch to diamonds at 580 HP (prevents triggering Jad spawn).
• Switch to diamonds at 340 HP (prevents triggering healers spawn).
• Switch to diamonds at 250 HP (becomes better DPS than rubies).

• If not, wait for your second set before pausing the timer. If you are not doing damage to Zuk and waiting for the next set, kill the mager from the first set.
• After dealing with the second set, get zuk below 600 HP. Continue as normal up until healers.
• Wait for your second/third set before spawning healers.
• Depending on how quickly you tagged each healer, and depending on your DPS, you might have a fourth set before finishing Zuk off. As usual, leave the mager alone after tagging and only kill the ranger as quickly as you can.

• The Inquisitor Mace is simply a 4t weapon used for cleaning up straggler nibblers and bloblets, but can be replaced with any other 4t weapon (i.e. Tent Whip).
• The Noxious halberd is useful if you want to afk an enemy or stack while flicking.
• The scythe is used for large monsters (Mager, Ranger, Jads) for DPS.
• Make sure to step back for magers, but you can face tank rangers in melee range as their melee max is only a 19 and they are very inaccurate. Important: DO NOT equip the Twisted Bow until the Zuk Cutscene ends, otherwise you will fail the task.

• Getting a task makes this a lot easier as the faster you kill things, the less chance you have of making a mistake in a tougher wave. Prayer gear such as devouts is also recommended as the less you have to flick, there is less chance of a potential misflick.
• Bring a sufficient amount of brews. Blood barrage to full after each wave if needed, overheal with a brew before waves you find difficult (60s, 31 or 48 if needed).
• Due to the way this task actually calculates if you are eligible or not, you can fall under 50 hp through non-enemy damage and not fail the task. This includes pillars falling, drinking a divine potion, and most importantly, Zuk's healer attacks. IF you fall under through any of these means, you will NOT fail so long as:
  • You pray correctly against all incoming attacks from regular monsters (if at zuk, all enemies and jads).
  • If you fail to pray correctly, the attacks roll a zero.

• Blood sceptre is not recommended to use for this task as a brew is significantly better, and you bring plenty of brews as is.

• An example setup is shown below. The main emphasis of this task is to always be bastion potted, to use rigour as much as possible, and to always be attacking something. No fancy solves are needed, as this task is considered to be free for the most part. Try not to log out at any point during the waves as this will lose you time when resuming. The time is VERY doable and even generous for a novice Inferno runner.
• You may need to adjust your brew/restore ratio as you will be consuming more prayer. The ward is nice for better bloblet and nibbler DPS, but not a hard requirement.
• A Jad skip is not needed unless your Zuk entry is grim. Focusing on good boss protocols will definitely help such as good healer tags on Jads and Zuk alongside minimal tick loss. Watching full runs is helpful and recommended, see the two below videos from Aaty: