Practical Barrows Guide (Minimal Resources + Advanced tips)

[skere]

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For starters

Stats:   40+ prayer  |  70+ magic  |  70+ melee  |  70+ hp (up to this point dharok's has maxed a 54 on me)

Inventory:   1-2 prayer restoring potions  |  1 super combat* |  2 15+ healing food source  |  SPADE  | 

Freezing spell runes →   +  ice barrage  |  ice blitz  |  entangle  |  ice burst  -   (any other spell would be unpractical)

Gear:   + Elite void  |  void  |  barrows  |  initiate+mystics  |  ghostly (pure)   -

Weaponry:   +  whip+sotd  |  dscimi+ancient staff  |  iron dagger+teacher wand*   -

Ex:

Note: You can right click over home teleport and as third option the previous one will appear, to avoid interfaces.

Brief explanation: There are 5 barrows brothers, one of them will give you access to the reward room, although, you will need to kill the rest of the brothers in order to access it. Stand over each mountain and dig with a spade to enter each tomb. You want to use magic against every melee brother and melee against both range and mage ones.

Advanced tips:

Regarding spells: Multi target spells freeze opponent for more time, barrage for nearly 5+ seconds compared with blitz, burst same if we compare with rush. It's almost inevitable that each brother will land 1 hit on you at first, considering this, to freeze the crackhead use the best spell you can, and use the OK spell for the rest of the fight. You can land approximately 6 hits in-between freeze, if you haven't killed it by then just repeat and avoid melee distance. 

Regarding prayer: As the tombs drain your prayer, you will want to prioritize the brothers against whose you need to use protection, the prayer potions you bring are to zip when reward chest is either on karil's or ahrim's name, using at least 1 zip to avoid taking damage. Of course you want to use a special attack weapon to finish off both of these brothers ASAP.

Regarding the reward room: Assuming that you have to kill a melee brother here, you can use an npc in-between you and the brother to avoid melee distance, it must be attacking you and facing the brother. 

Ex:

[pending]

Other: 

- After every run teleport home to restore on the rejuvenation box in order to avoid wasting supplies, specially if you any kind of IM.

- If you wish to sell runes do it either via the g.e or directly to the mage store, selling them to the general store not only decreases their price as you sell them but offers way less gp.

- While i cannot tell if it's worth to fill the reward potential % in the long run, i can give you an example of my rng at barrows filling the % up to 102.5% (max) every time.

However, if you wish to go for max potential, there are two ideal methods; you either first kill the brother and continue killing npcs until you reach desired % or kill npcs until you get up to 92.5% and then kill the brother, both will have same result, up2u.

 

Hopefully this boosted your "gains", feel free to submit your loot tracker barrows loots and up to what point you filled the % on average for comparison.

Note: * stands for optional.

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Edited December 14, 2020 by skere

[November]

Nice gains in only 42 KC 😮 great guide man, maybe later on when you are able to, do like "tiered" upgrades on the gear?

[Baccus]

Great in depth guide for the lower tier guys. Very nice

[Extasy]

barrows guide on a rsps? also 73-88% is best to roll for runes (best for ironmen) and anything over 88% is more rolls for bolt racks and less runes which isn't ideal as nobody uses bolt racks for anything. Also if you want specific items like on a iron, you can kill only the bosses that you want to avoid duplicate drops.

[Panlux]

“Freeze the crackhead”

looooool

[Most Wanted]

I'm sure it'll help some beginners. Thanks

[dzoodz]

nice guide man

[skere]

22 hours ago, November said:

Nice gains in only 42 KC 😮 great guide man, maybe later on when you are able to, do like "tiered" upgrades on the gear?

Ty, i would but rather keep it simple too

 

15 hours ago, Extasy said:

barrows guide on a rsps? also 73-88% is best to roll for runes (best for ironmen) and anything over 88% is more rolls for bolt racks and less runes which isn't ideal as nobody uses bolt racks for anything. Also if you want specific items like on a iron, you can kill only the bosses that you want to avoid duplicate drops.

Didn't knew about that %, will search and change if necessary, also, wdym by only the specific brothers? are they in a dzone or something?

[Willy]

18 hours ago, Extasy said:

barrows guide on a rsps? also 73-88% is best to roll for runes (best for ironmen) and anything over 88% is more rolls for bolt racks and less runes which isn't ideal as nobody uses bolt racks for anything. Also if you want specific items like on a iron, you can kill only the bosses that you want to avoid duplicate drops.

it's probably not advisable to only kill the barrows brother that you want the respective gear for because every brother that isn't killed drastically decreases your overall chance of receiving any item, including those from the one that you killed. Assuming the mechanics on Zaros work according to OSRS

In other words, if you're looking to get a guthan's spear, with respect to time efficiency you are better off killing every brother rather than just guthan

[Iron Omi]

Great guide man!

 

On 12/14/2020 at 10:02 PM, Extasy said:

barrows guide on a rsps? also 73-88% is best to roll for runes (best for ironmen) and anything over 88% is more rolls for bolt racks and less runes which isn't ideal as nobody uses bolt racks for anything. Also if you want specific items like on a iron, you can kill only the bosses that you want to avoid duplicate drops.

Ideally, this is how it works, but it is clearly bugged. You can get blood runes and bolt rack rolls on any potential. Also, on Zaros you are forced to kill all 6 barrows brothers before looting the chest, so it doesn't matter anyway.

[11v11]

Nice guide, don't stop doing it.

[Melloh]

I'm going to try to fill the reward bar now... am like 32 runs dry atm lol