Krystilia/Strategies

Although other Slayer master tasks may be completed in both Wilderness and mainland locations, all of Krystilia's tasks must be done in the Wilderness. That means players should only take gear they are willing to lose.

Warning: Assess and mitigate risks, and do not ever take any items you cannot afford to lose!

Getting a task from Krystilia is straight-forward. She is in the cell just north of the Edgeville bank. This means that players can teleport there using:

• Amulet of glory to Edgeville and run north-east.
• Ring of wealth to the Grand exchange, then run north-west and use the underground level-21 agility shortcut
• Monastery teleport, with the Combat bracelet, then run east.

As all tasks are in the Wilderness, the player has many options to teleport there:

• Teleport to the Ferox enclave
• Games necklace to Corporeal beast then leave the cave and run from there
• Tablets such as Carralanger
• Canoes from the river
• Other methods of transportation

See the wilderness map for locations of enemies in a quick and easy manner.

While Krystilia technically has no requirements, players should take into account the speed at which they can kill high defence enemies along with their ability to survive in the Wilderness against both PKers and tough enemies. Those seeking Wilderness slayer tasks should have good stats, as the monsters she assigns can be very high level. Tasks vary substantially; the enemies can be as low combat level as 8, or as high as 470 (especially when it comes to Wilderness boss tasks.)

For this reason, the player should aim for the recommended stats below, ideally:

Note: 43+ prayer for protection prayers, 70/94 magic for burst/barrage spells, and 77+ prayer for piety, augury and rigour

Krystilia's tasks become much more efficient at higher combat levels. Additionally, the player is more readily able to defend themselves against higher level PKers. There are also agility shortcuts that can help to escape from player killers (PKers), the highest of which requires 89 agility. Having 77 will aid in escaping from the Wilderness Slayer Cave, covering most of the important shortcuts. Even access to lower level shortcuts is a bonus.

As you are in the Wilderness, the last thing you want to do is skull, so enable PK Skull Prevention. Skulling in the Wilderness means you are limited to keeping only one item in Items Kept on Death only if Protect Item is activated and not deactivated by Smite. If you die while skulled while Protect Item was deactivated or smited, you will lose all items.

Note: Also, Accept Aid should be set to off, as it can be used by PKers in conjunction with Lunar spells to either distract their target or intentionally heal their target to drain more of their prayer with Smite.

These items are situational, non-essential, or down to personal taste.

• Dinh's bulwark, to tank PKers.
• Knife or a sharp weapon to slash webs in deep Wilderness, to get to the Wilderness lever or mage bank.
• Coins, to enter the resource area in deep Wilderness. This costs 7500 coins normally, but is cheaper with the Wilderness diary. After medium, it's 6000gp to enter; 3000gp with hard, free with elite.
• A fun weapon to switch to, for attacking any monster in single-way combat to try escaping via the X-logging method. This isn't completely reliable and can result in death. This does not work in singles-plus combat like at revenants. Ensure you are high prayer points before X-logging, if using Protect Item. Players can do this when spotting a PKer while in combat with an enemy with high enough remaining health; simply equip the fun weapon and close the client with the X at the top right of the window. After 60 seconds, the player can log back in to another world to see if they survived.
• Summer pies restore 10% run energy as well as increasing agility, possibly allowing the use of higher level shortcuts and aiding in run regeneration slightly.
  • They can also be eaten very quickly (2-ticks per full pie), healing 22. Manta plus karambwan heals 40, but with a 5-tick delay. This means summer pies heal 11 hitpoints per tick, and the manta/karambwan combo eat heals 8 hitpoints per tick (heals 41 with a 5-tick delay if instead using Blighted anglerfish at level 94 hitpoints or higher for the karambwan combo. The main benefit of the karambwan combo is instant large chunk of healing).
  • The 1-tick eat and attack delay per half means that the player faces little delay when eating pies, allowing them to perform actions sooner after eating.
• A lockpick, can be used to open the axe hut to escape a PKer when in deep wilderness. Also used to slay magic axes, a task given by Krystilia.
• Chaos talisman or chaos tiara, to enter the chaos runecrafting altar in level 9 wilderness to escape a PKer. Can be useful if teleblocked in western Wilderness, for example when fighting crazy archaeologist.
• Magical seeds, to allow some movement when frozen. This can help most when close to the teleport of the Wilderness obelisk. Players can juke PKers when frozen one tile away from a teleport by the obelisk by using the seeds last second to get into the teleport range.
  • Mithril seeds can be used to move one square west and get into the range of the obelisk to be teleported away.
  • Adamant seeds can be used to move one square east for the same reason.
• Blighted entangle sacks or ice sacks, to freeze pkers and aid in escapes.
• Dragon spear, to stun enemy pkers, allowing the player to escape. Can also be used to push a player on or off the wilderness obelisk before a teleport activates.

Each slayer master has their own unique block list, allowing the player to choose which tasks are blocked unique to their chosen slayer master. For the full list of tasks, see Krystilia's task list further below. Some tasks provide much lower experience rates and points per hour, and thus are deserving of a block. Wilderness slayer has the added dimension of risk of Player killers. Because of the focus on points per hour associated with wilderness slayer, and the different tasks given, Krystilia's block list will look much different to other slayer masters.

What the player blocks depends on many factors; levels, experience bossing, personal risk tolerance, gear and many other variables. Still, some tasks are fairly universally disliked due to their high time to complete. Tasks being fast to complete is very important for wilderness slayer given that the most common reason for choosing to do wilderness slayer is the high amount of slayer reward points that it offers. As a result, if this is the player's aim in performing wilderness slayer, it is recommended to focus on blocking the tasks that will take an extremely long time to complete. The purpose of this is to maximize points per hour and minimize the need to skip tasks, which greatly cuts into the slayer points per hour the player will gain. The following table shows some tasks that should be blocked by the player:

Info: "Weighting" is how likely the task is to be given, in comparison to other tasks. Tasks with high weight are much more likely to be given than those with lower weights.

If the player is completing wilderness slayer tasks to quickly gain slayer points, it is generally recommended to avoid skipping tasks. This is because all wilderness slayer tasks are fairly completable once bloodveld, spiritual creatures, and aviansies are blocked, and skipping tasks greatly decreases the player's points gained per hour.

While some tasks may seem terrible at first glance, many have alternatives that can be killed that are superior.

• Pirates or Zombies: Zombie pirates at the Chaos Temple (Wilderness) are an incredibly good task, and very profitable. As they're undead, the player can use salve amulet (ei); this doesn't stack with the slayer helmet (i), and should therefore be used in place of the much more valuable helmet. They are found in low wilderness, and can be killed with area of effect attacks like cannons, venator bow, and burst/barrage spells. The permanent buffs from teleport anchoring scroll and Wilderness Medium make a massive difference here, and are practically essential.

• Bears, Spiders, Skeletons: Can kill the Wildernes bosses for each respective task (E.g. Spindel or Venenatis for a spider task). Excellent tasks for mid to higher leveled players.

• Hellhounds: Can kill Vet'ion or Calvar'ion, as they both summon four skeleton hellhounds, which count as both skeletons and hellhounds. Can also kill Wilderness slayer cave hellhounds, which can be killed with venator bow and cannon.

• Scorpions: Setting up a cannon inside of scorpia's lair allows this task to be completed within a matter of seconds.

What the player chooses to block is specific to them. Not having a cannon and venator bow will make some tasks much worse. It's ultimately up to each player to decide what is best for them.

High agility is an advantage in the Wilderness. The energy restoration rate is useful, since you often need to travel longer distances on foot in the Wilderness. Furthermore, run energy may be important when fleeing player killers. Additionally, access to the following shortcuts may make both travel and fleeing easier:

• 46 (Narrow crevice in Deep Wilderness Dungeon)
• 60 (Rocky handholds leading to Wilderness from the God Wars Dungeon entrance)
• 64 (Rocks leading to Wilderness from Trollheim)
• 65 (Easy pillar jump in Revenant Caves)
• 74 (Stepping stone in Lava Dragon Isle)
• 75 (Medium pillar jump in Revenant Caves)
• 77 (Crevices in Wilderness Slayer Cave)
• 82 (Stepping stone to Lava Maze)
• 89 (Hard pillar jump in Revenant Caves)

• The Runelite plugin "Wilderness player alarm" is an excellent way to be notified that a player is nearby, flashing the screen and giving an audible alert.
• Because you will be slaying monsters instead of players, it's advised that you go to Options -> Controls and check the 'PK Skull Prevention'. Doing so negates the chances of being skull-tricked by PKers, as you can no longer accidentally attack players.
• Using the Arceuus spellbook with spare runes to cast the respective reanimation spell of the Slayer monster you are assigned to, provided it drops an ensouled head, can earn you some Prayer experience. This works only if you just recently received the drop, however.
• Along with blighted anglerfish, bringing a couple of saradomin brews, blighted super restore and Anti-venom can lengthen your chance at survival during player-killer encounters. Prayer-switching is essential against PKers with multiple combat styles. To aid in escapes, bringing Dinh's bulwark to wear along with Black dragonhide armour can increase survivability massively. Quick prayers set to defend against enemy PKers (Protect from Magic, Protect Item and your best offensive magic prayer) can increase the chance that they will splash against you, further assisting in an escape.
• If praying, the player may bring blighted super restore for prayer restoration if using fast-draining prayers, such as Piety. As food is crucial to have out in the Wilderness, some players may opt to forgo fast-draining prayers entirely in order to save space for more food. Smite can further increase the risk of overusing certain prayers, hence saving prayer points allows further use of protection prayers and protect item.
• Bank your Larran's keys if you gain multiple and feel as though you could die; they are always risked.
• At 84 Thieving, you can steal from the Chest (Rogues' Castle) to make the rogues aggressive towards you while also making some extra money.
• Aggro is good to have out in the Wilderness especially if you are being flanked by a PKer as it could buy you some time to escape. Also, you could try X-logging in single combat, which is clicking the red X on your screen or game client to close it, before killing a monster or while battling it, depending on how difficult the monster is to take down. Switching to a fun weapon (if brought), auto-attacking and then X-logging is a better tactic of escape when doing this. (Warning: X-logging does not work in a multi-combat area.)
• A clue box can be used to protect your clue scroll within the Wilderness.
• You can also use an imp-in-a-box or two to bank your emblems or other high-risk items, but 71 Hunter is required to catch imps, and it will not work if past level 30 Wilderness or if tele-blocked.
• Use an expeditious bracelet if you want to finish your task faster.
• Use a bracelet of slaughter if you want to extend your task as much as possible, useful if you are hunting for Larran's keys and get an easy task (Spiders, Skeletons, Scorpions for example).
• Players may opt to use a Dwarf multicannon to speed up kills. However, this does add additional risk if encountering Player-Killers. Also, if the player steps outside the Wilderness while the cannon continues to fire, accrued kills will NOT count toward their task. Leave the cannon on the ground if a PKer shows up, as a set up cannon is not lost on death, and even if it breaks and despawns a new set can be reobtained for free from Nulodion.

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