Maniacal monkey/Strategies

Maniacal monkeys have a Magic defence of 1 and so increasing magical accuracy will increase hit accuracy by no more than 1%. Therefore, the objective is to increase the max hit of the spell with the largest magic damage bonus. The base hit of Ice Burst is 22. The maximum hit with all magic damage bonuses is 33. Items to bring for Ice Bursting are prioritised as follows:

• Equipment that increases max hit
• Equipment that increases prayer bonus
• Equipment that increases magical accuracy

Players who have completed the Morytania Hard Diary also have the option of using a Bonecrusher necklace to completely remove the need to pick up prayer potions. This option is not fully AFK, however, as NPC aggression must be reset every 10 minutes. If you are on a budget, the order in which to buy the equipment is as follows:

• Royal seed pod (or transportation to Ape Atoll and teleport out)
• Kandarin headgear (or any other light source, with tinderbox if necessary)
• Holy wrench (if you do not have a ring of the gods (i))
• Monkey greegree, if you have not completed Monkey Madness II
• Rune pouch optional - note that it can only hold 4,000 spell casts worth of runes
• 4 chaos runes per spell cast
• 2 death runes per spell cast
• 4 water runes per spell cast (not needed if you use a kodai wand)
• Optionally, a bonecrusher
• 4 prayer potion(4)

Experience rates are slightly variable by method used (see general information above). The following calculations are obtained from 6 hours of the low-intensity method. A reasonable number of casts/hr is 1085 as opposed to the theoretical maximum of 1200 given the time taken to loot prayer potions, position monkeys, as well as to leave and return to the area to restore NPC aggression. Note that Prayer and Magic levels do not have a significant impact on experience rates.

• 1085 casts/hr
• Cost per hour using kodai wand: 732,266.50
• Cost per hour using master wand: 883,190

Maniacal monkeys have a Magic defence of 1 and so increasing magical accuracy will increase hit accuracy by no more than 1%. Therefore, the objective is to increase the max hit of the spell with the largest magic damage bonus. The base hit of Ice Barrage is 30. The maximum hit with all magic damage bonuses is 47. Items to bring for Ice Barraging are prioritised as follows:

• Equipment that increases max hit
• Equipment that increases prayer bonus
• Equipment that increases magical accuracy

Players who have completed the Morytania Hard Diary also have the option of using a Bonecrusher necklace to completely remove the need to pick up prayer potions. This option is not fully AFK, however, as NPC aggression must be reset every 10 minutes. If you are on a budget, the order in which to buy the equipment is as follows:

• Royal seed pod (or transportation to Ape Atoll and teleport out)
• Kandarin headgear (or any other light source, with tinderbox if necessary)
• Holy wrench (if you do not have a ring of the gods (i))
• Monkey greegree, if you have not completed Monkey Madness II
• Rune pouch optional - note that it can only hold 4,000 spell casts worth of runes
• 2 blood runes per spell cast
• 4 death runes per spell cast
• 6 water runes per spell cast (not needed if you use a kodai wand)
• Optionally, a bonecrusher
• 4 prayer potion(4)

Experience rates are slightly variable by method used (see general information above). The following calculations are obtained from 6 hours of the low-intensity method. A reasonable number of casts/hr is 1085 as opposed to the theoretical maximum of 1200 given the time taken to loot prayer potions, position monkeys, as well as to leave and return to the area to restore NPC aggression. Note that Prayer and Magic levels do not have a significant impact on experience rates, however having 77 prayer for Augury makes the bonecrusher necklace comparable in DPS to the Occult necklace, without losing prayer points if AFK.

• 1085 casts/hr
• Cost per hour using kodai wand: 1,372,308.00
• Cost per hour using master wand: 1,647,030

In order to provide reference experience rates and costs, the experience per hour here is calculated by extrapolating from Ice Bursting data (scaling based on damage). However, this data is representative.

Maniacal monkeys have a Defence level of 10. Because of this, equipping best-in-slot ranged accuracy gear versus no items at a Ranged level of 80/99 will only increase accuracy by 0.75%/0.60%. In the worst case scenario, this translates to a negligible 14 missed hits per hour.

Because of this, prioritising prayer bonus over ranged accuracy results in 23-42 fewer prayer potions doses per hour or less time spent without a necklace of anguish or rupture equipped if using the bonecrusher method. If you instead use max ranged bonus gear and are able to pick up prayer potions and continue throwing chinchompas without losing any ticks or unstacking the monkeys significantly, you would gain no more than an extra 5,000 experience per hour. It is much more likely that players will spend more time picking up and consuming prayer potions than the minimal extra damage output of ranged accuracy gear. For this reason prayer bonus gear is considered superior to having higher ranged accuracy, and it also makes training less intense.

The lone exception to this may occur at certain ranged levels and with certain setups (DPS calculation required) when the player does not gain a max hit from wearing the necklace of anguish or rupture. In this specific case, wearing the bonecrusher necklace with a preference for high ranged accuracy equipment over prayer bonus (ex: pegasian boots, archers ring (i)) becomes slightly better, as your prayer will remain almost full the entire time due to the effects of the bonecrusher necklace.

While the monkeys do drop Bass, Rapid Heal will negate the divine potion damage.

• Transportation to Ape Atoll and teleport out such as royal seed pod
• Light source such as Kandarin headgear, Firemaking cape or bullseye lantern
• Monkey greegree if you have not completed Monkey Madness II
• Bonecrusher necklace switch for restoring Prayer points (recommended)
• 1-2 prayer potion (4)
• Holy wrench (only if picking up prayer potions and you do not have a ring of the gods (i))
• Stamina potion for accounts with lower agility levels to reach the arena. If solo stacking, Rune Pouch with runes for Vile Vigour allows for prolonged trips
• Divine ranging potion (4)
• Players can throw around 1,900 chinchompas per hour on Medium fuse (Rapid), so 11,400 chinchompas would be needed for a 6 hour chinning trip (or 8,550 chinchompas on Long fuse).

Unlike other hunter creatures, chinchompas do not run away on death.

In order to reach maximum experience rates, you should actively stack the maniacal monkeys so that each attack hits the maximum number of targets. This can be automatically done by using 2 dancing accounts.

• 1866 chinchompas/hr (with Medium Fuse, equivalent to Rapid)
• Cost/hour using chinchompas: 1,686,864
• Cost/hour using red chinchompas 2,744,886
• Cost/hour using black chinchompas 5,758,476

In order to provide reference experience rates and costs, the experience per hour here is calculated by extrapolating from red chinchompa data at Ranged levels 80-90, a Prayer level of 99, while using Ranged potions every 6 levels, with Protect from Melee, Preserve and Eagle Eye activated, with the best-in-slot prayer and ranged gear as described above. Experience rates for low levels may be slightly higher due to fewer monkey overkills, and conversely experience rates for high levels may be slightly lower due to overkills. These experience rates assume using the high-intensity training method described above.

• Having no necklace of anguish or rupture reduces experience rates and increases costs by about 10%.
• Using Rigour instead of Eagle Eye should increase experience rates and reduce costs by about 7%, assuming no additional time is spent gathering prayer potions. Realistically, costs should be reduced by about 7% but the experience rate would be increased by less than 7%.
• Using long-ranged for defensive chinning, the gp/xp for Ranged+Defence combined should be the same, but expect 37.5% the experience rate for Ranged as well as Defence each (e.g. 600,000 experience per hour on rapid would translate to 225,000 experience per hour for Ranged as well as Defence while on long-range)
• Using the method with dragonbone necklace and bonecrusher mentioned above will give almost the same experience rates as in the table below.

Hallowfell deals damage to two additional enemies for half the player's maximium hit (within the three front and two adjacent tiles to the player), which gives the highest melee experience rate in the game when consistently applied here.
High strength bonus should be prioritized for other item slots, with prayer bonus as a secondary focus. A bonecrusher necklace (or dragonbone necklace with a bonecrusher) is particually useful here, as it restores 2 prayer points per monkey killed and can nearly sustain Piety usage by itself. Players should bring super strength potions over super combat potions, as the extra accuracy is not needed against the very low defence monkeys.

Players should aim to attack a maniacal monkey with full health. This minimizes the damage lost from overkill: hitting a weakened monkey with a damage roll higher than its current hitpoints "wastes" the excess damage, and this is more likely to happen with the full damage hit rather than the half damage splash.

As discussed above, the Crystal halberd special hits up to 10 monkeys at once and provides a large increase in experience, upwards of an additional 50,000 experience per hour. This does require more active stacking of the monkeys.

The prayer potion drops do not quite sustain Piety usage. This can be remedied either by bringing some external prayer potions, or by bringing a bonecrusher necklace and occasionally equipping it while waiting for prayer potion drops.

Alternatively: players can also simply turn on auto-retaliate, drinking prayer potions and resetting aggression (every 10 minutes) as needed. This gives substantially less experience but is much less active.

A bonecrusher necklace variant is highly recommended for this; the necklace can nearly sustain Piety by itself, and the remaining points can be covered by picking up recent prayer potion drops when the player resets aggression every 10 minutes. Without the necklace, the player will need to actively pick up the prayer potion drops roughly every 2 minutes.