Slayer training

Slayer is a skill that allows players to kill monsters that may otherwise be immune to damage. Players must visit a Slayer Master, who will assign them a task to kill certain monsters. Slayer experience is roughly equal to a slain monster's Hitpoints and is awarded each time the player kills an assigned monster.

This guide focuses on the fastest ways to train Slayer. While there are no real requirements to begin Slayer training, it is strongly recommended to have fairly high combat stats and to have completed many quests. This enables the ability to block more undesired Slayer assignments (known as "block slots," which are applied using the "block task" option, and have quest point requirements). High combat stats increase damage output considerably and allow the player to use the best equipment available. Having a higher combat level also gives access to better Slayer Masters, as the low-level Slayer Masters have worse task lists and give fewer Slayer reward points than the higher-level ones. Alternatively, players may choose to train combat stats while in the process of training Slayer.

When slaying for the best experience rates, players will generally want to stick in multicombat areas such as the Catacombs of Kourend. Stacking high level Slayer monsters and hitting them with multi target damage will result in the best damage per second, and thus Slayer experience rates. This is done typically with barrage spells but can also be done with chins and Dinh's bulwark special attacks. Against 1x1 and 2x2 monsters, such as araxytes, using both the dwarf multicannon and venator bow will allow for experience rates that compete with barrage tasks. When neither of these options are available, cannonable spots with ranged or melee are preferable. Use Slayer reward points or Turael to skip undesirable tasks as often as possible.

Slayer provides lots of passive experience in combat skills. Because of the bonuses given by the Slayer helmet (i), it offers some of the best rates of melee combat experience in the game. It also has the potential to be highly profitable.

Slayer is a skill in which one can very heavily customise their experience. While this page focuses on efficiency, there is a great degree of variance of what can be done based on enjoyment, money made, wanting tasks for specific bosses, and any number of other considerations.

In general, obtain tasks from the highest-level Slayer master that your Combat and Slayer levels allow. The monsters they assign generally give more experience than lower-level Slayer masters. Duradel is the best Slayer master to use for the fastest experience, but some players may find that Nieve's (or Steve's) task weighting better suit their preferences. Note that just because the player can access better Slayer masters, this does not directly translate to more experience per hour. That is, maximising experience per hour is not simply a matter of always taking tasks from the highest-level Slayer master that is currently available to the player.

Some players train Slayer using only one master. However, players typically train Slayer by switching between two masters. They do this by using one specific Slayer master that is appropriate for (or lower than) their level, and then switch to using a different higher-levelled Slayer master in order to take advantage of completion milestones. There are Slayer completion milestones for every 10th, 50th, 100th, 250th and 1000th task completion that award additional Slayer points. Higher-levelled masters will assign more difficult tasks than the typical Slayer master would, either in monster assigned or quantity given, but the reward is a greater bonus of Slayer points.

Each Slayer master usually assigns various monsters based on a weight rating, which determines how likely the player is to get that task. Some Slayer masters have unique tasks to themselves, such as Konar quo Maten, who is the only one who assigns hydras. The latter three Slayer masters usually have a shared pool of assignable monsters, albeit with modifications to either the quantity or weighting.

Requirements or quests for accessing different Slayer masters and areas include:

Some Slayer task monsters can be found during a quest or in other locations but require quests to be completed before they can be assigned as Slayer assignments.

By default, Slayer masters will assign tasks based on the player's combat level, essentially blocking tasks that are significantly higher until the player reaches the recommended level. The player can speak with Slayer masters regarding their combat level by choosing the option "Let's talk about the difficulty of my assignments.", and they will let players know if combat level checking is enabled or disabled. By default, players will receive the message,The Slayer Masters will take your combat level into account when choosing tasks for you, so you shouldn't get anything too hard.If combat level checking is disabled, players will receive the message, The Slayer Masters may currently assign you any task in our lists, regardless of your combat level.This option can be changed at any time by speaking to them again.

Slayer masters can sometimes assign players a task that may be difficult in combat level to complete. Such examples include blue dragons from Vannaka, which can be a challenging task for low-level players. While baby blue dragons are an option, there are a few requirements to access them. By making sure that combat level checking is enabled, a player will find themselves in fewer difficult combat situations.

It is strongly recommended to have fairly high combat stats and to have completed a lot of quests for block slots before starting Slayer training. High combat stats increase damage output considerably and allow the player to use the best equipment available. Low-level Slayer masters also have poor task lists and give fewer Slayer reward points than the higher-level ones.

A mid-level account with a combat level of 70 can start at Slayer master Chaeldar or with Konar quo Maten at level 75, and work their way towards higher-level Slayer masters such as Nieve and Duradel. An account with a combat level of 3 can start at Turael, but it is much more efficient to start at a higher level Slayer master after gaining combat levels and better equipment.

Completing the following quests can improve the overall Slayer experience:

• Animal Magnetism gives an Ava's device, which reduces ammunition used while using Ranged weapons, and can be upgraded at higher ranged levels.

• Desert Treasure I grants access to Ancient Magicks, allowing the use of Ice Burst/Ice Barrage for Slayer tasks
• Fairytale II - Cure a Queen grants access to fairy rings, granting easy access to many Slayer locations
• Dwarf Cannon gives the ability to use a dwarf multicannon, speeding up tasks at the cost of cannonballs
• Knight Waves Training Grounds unlocks the Piety prayer, boosting your melee stats

• Bear Your Soul unlocks the Soul bearer, which can transport ensouled heads to your bank

Use the best equipment available for the fastest rates. If the player cannot afford best-in-slot equipment, it is best to prioritise melee strength and magic damage upgrades, with neck slot and ring slot items typically offering the most efficient upgrades by cost, followed by other armour upgrades.

The black mask is a very useful item for training Slayer, as it provides significant boosts to melee accuracy and strength when killing monsters on the player's current Slayer task. When imbued through the Nightmare Zone, it provides additional bonuses to ranged accuracy and strength as well as magic accuracy and damage. Both versions of the black mask can be turned into a Slayer helmet after the ability to do so is unlocked from a Slayer master for 400 reward points. It is highly recommended that this upgrade be prioritised as soon as possible, as doing so will allow the player to enjoy the bonuses while killing Slayer monsters requiring special headgear, such as aberrant spectres, banshees, wall beasts, dust devils and smoke devils.

The bracelet of slaughter and expeditious bracelet are popular choices for extending good tasks and quickening bad tasks respectively. Bracelets of slaughter are commonly used for extending barrage tasks like smoke devils which provide valuable experience; expeditious bracelets are often used for tasks which players might otherwise skip, such as waterfiends. Due to their limited charges, it is often helpful to bring more than one per task. As they provide no combat bonuses, they are commonly equipped only as monsters die (if practical), with gloves with better bonuses being used for the rest of the kill, to maximize damage.

Slayer rings can be used to access the Stronghold Slayer Cave, Slayer Tower and the Fremennik Slayer Dungeon. The first teleport also leads directly to Nieve, making her easily accessible to players using her as their current Slayer master. The ability to craft Slayer rings may be unlocked for 150 reward points. After completing the Haunted Mine and Mourning's End Part II quests, the ring will also have teleports to Tarn's Lair and the Mourner Tunnels, providing quick access to terror dogs and dark beasts respectively.

If the player acquires an eternal gem, they may instead use that to create the eternal slayer ring, sharing all of the benefits of a normal slayer ring but with unlimited teleports.

Slayer reward points are awarded for the 5th consecutive task and every task thereafter. These can be used to cancel undesirable tasks, permanently block assignments and unlock useful rewards.

When training Slayer for the fastest experience, this is generally an optimal order for spending Slayer reward points:

1. Blocks (including the special Fossil Island Wyvern block)
2. Superior Slayer monsters
3. Slayer helmet
4. Extensions
5. Extra unlocks (such as Slayer rings)

Slayer reward points are mainly used to cancel undesirable tasks, which offer slow experience, poor profit or mediocre experience but take too long to complete. Cancelling a task costs 30 reward points each time, making it potentially expensive to try and get a specific assignment.

Tasks that the player does not wish to ever do can be permanently blocked. The cost to block a task differs depending on the Slayer master:

• Turael/Aya and Spria: 40 points
• Mazchna/Achtryn: 50 points
• Vannaka: 60 points
• Chaeldar: 70 points
• Konar quo Maten: 80 points
• Nieve/Steve: 90 points
• Duradel/Kuradal: 100 points
• Krystilia: 100 points

Each Slayer master has their own individual block list. Up to seven assigned monsters (or monster groups) can be blocked per Slayer master. To block an assignment, 50 quest points are required per slot, totaling up to 300 quest points for six slots. A seventh slot is available only with the completion of the elite Lumbridge & Draynor Diary. For toggled tasks like lizardmen, the player should simply cancel the toggle and the task itself, so that they cannot obtain the task anymore, which essentially acts as a block. With 500 Slayer points, a block can be applied to Fossil Island Wyverns. While significantly more expensive than any task block in-game, the player has the ability to freely toggle on and off this block as they desire.

The main goal for Slayer training is to spend as much time as possible doing good tasks, and as little time as possible doing bad tasks. As such, it is best to make use of all the available blocks as soon as possible, and then use the cancel option as often as it can be used while maintaining a stable level of Slayer reward points. Players are also strongly advised to keep enough points in reserve to cancel several tasks in a row, in case of multiple undesirable assignments being given.

The undesirable tasks with the highest weighting (highest chance of being given) should be blocked, as these will appear more often resulting in players burning through skips much faster compared to a task with a lower weighting. If the task is one given via toggle, the player can "block" the task in the future by simply toggling off, though points will need to be used again if the player wants to be assigned them. Otherwise, block tasks as needed; for example, between the choice of spiritual creatures (7) or zygomites (2) from Duradel, blocking the former would be more beneficial than the latter.

While the guide assumes that the player is training with Duradel, Nieve has a similar task list to him, albeit with the addition of some less desirable tasks such as brine rats and scabarites along with less weighting on other tasks. Simply adjust the task list to whatever slayer master is being used. Nieve, Konar and Duradel should be put into one group for non-Wilderness slayer, while Krystilia should be put in another due to being Wilderness-only slayer.

An example of a block list for non-Wilderness slayer with these three masters in consideration could be:

• Wyrms (bad task in general when accounting for efficient slayer, though with 60 Sailing, Lava Strykewyrms offer more reasonable xp and good gp.)
• Drakes (same as above)
• Trolls
• Suqah (good for experience, very poor drop table)
• Any remaining tasks up to preference

For Krystilia, a block list would likely have the following:

• Bloodveld
• Spiritual creatures
• Green dragons
• Any remaining tasks up to preference

When slaying for the fastest experience, spend the majority of the time doing high experience tasks, and spend the rest of the time doing relatively fast tasks for points. Even though a certain task offers decent experience in itself but takes fairly long to complete, such as black demons, it is likely not worth doing as this would mean spending less time doing tasks that offer much better experience per hour, thereby decreasing overall experience rates. The use of an Expeditious bracelet will help speed up undesirable tasks that need to be done.

If slaying solely for money-making purposes, the block list should be adjusted to ensure that the desired task(s) have a better chance of being assigned. For example, if a player was looking for araxytes from Duradel (having a weight of 10), their chances of getting it would improve if they blocked abyssal demons and dark beasts (who have a weight of 12 and 11 respectively). This list would be subjected to personal preference and thus does not account for slayer experience.

It is also required to have good gear before attempting a variant of the assigned monster, since these are generally stronger than their base variant in question.

Examples of alternate slayer would include:

• Cerberus (hellhounds)
• Demonic gorillas, Skotizo (black demons)
• Kree'arra (aviansies)
• Abyssal Sire (abyssal demon)
• Thermonuclear smoke devil (smoke devil)
• Araxxor (araxyte)
• Tormented demon, K'ril Tsutsaroth, Skotizo (greater demons)
• King Black Dragon (black dragons)
• Vorkath (blue dragons)
• Kraken (cave kraken)
• Kalphite Queen (kalphites)
• Dagannoth Kings (dagannoth)
• Alchemical Hydra (hydras)

Note that alternate slayer with Konar is more complicated, due to her location-only requirement. Many options become inaccessible, while the ones she does offer will also require that specific location to allow it. For example, if the player wanted to kill the Abyssal Sire on her tasks, she would have to assign them to slay them in the Abyss in order to do so; any other location would not allow it.

With unlocking, you do not need a quest to access them. Instead, you pay with Slayer points to get these monsters for your Slayer assignment. Be aware that these task unlocks generally apply to high level Slayer Masters.

If you decide to stop doing assignments which are toggleable, consider if you will do the task again, or if alternatives are allowed, as these tasks generally have a high weight value and can potentially intercept a desirable task. TzHaar and lizardmen should generally not be blocked, as the former can be easily "cancelled" by entering and leaving the Fight Caves, while the latter is a very fast cannon task. Others, like red dragons and basilisks, should not be toggled on at all if not planning to kill them, since they are quite far from a bank and take a while to clear.

Some tasks can be extended for Slayer points, which will greatly increase the number that you can be assigned if they give you that creature for a task. Extending a task will significantly increase the amount of monsters assigned across all slayer masters, even if they normally assign less than another master would.

Only extend tasks that have good value to them, especially if they offer good money or experience. For example, Duradel normally assigns 60-80 araxytes. However, unlocking the extension will cause him to instead increase the amount to 200-250 araxytes. Araxytes are an already lucrative task, as they have a superior, a boss variant, can be mostly AFK'ed and offer good experience. On the other hand, extending a task such as metal dragons is discouraged, since they don't have a lot of good drops or offer reasonable experience to justify extending them.

With the Task Storage perk unlocked (requiring 500 Slayer points), players may store their current Slayer task, saving it for later. They may swap their current task and stored task when desired for no charge. Purchasing Task Storage is up to the player's preference; while the perk has a high upfront cost, it allows the player to break up long and monotonous Slayer tasks with potentially shorter ones.

With the Bigger and Badder perk unlocked (requiring 50 Slayer points), several monsters have a 1/200 chance of attracting a superior variant of the monster after they are killed. Superior monsters are stronger than their normal counterparts, typically having a higher max hit and some of them may have a simple mechanic. They can also drop the valuable and sought-after eternal gem and imbued heart, both of which sell considerably well on the Grand Exchange, along with a 10x increased drop rate on clue scrolls should the monster be capable of dropping clue scrolls.

Activating this perk is optional, but recommended since you can toggle it off without penalty if you do not want to fight superior monsters.

The only recommended killing perk to obtain is Gargoyle Smasher should the player do gargoyle tasks. High levelled Slayer masters will assign gargoyles quite frequently, and players will save a large amount of time by automatically smashing Gargoyles whenever they reach 9 hitpoints or lower, and automatically smashes Dawn and Dusk when they reach 8 hitpoints. 'Shroom Sprayer can also be unlocked, but only if the player completes mutated zygomite tasks.

The dwarf multicannon adds a significant amount of extra damage output, and it should be used whenever viable. Using the cannon can be quite expensive, but the cost is justified by the saved time compared to not using one. For example, certain Melee tasks like suqahs, dagannoth, and kalphites offer good experience per hour with the cannon as the cannon does a lot of damage in these multi-combat areas, but without the cannon the experience rates would be mediocre at best. The player will also gain some passive Ranged experience while getting nearly as much Melee experience per hour as the player would without using a cannon.

The dwarf multicannon is typically used to speed up Melee tasks, and to lure smoke devils. For Melee tasks, it is best to find the best spot to stand to allow double cannon shots against one monster. This allows faster kills, slightly increasing experience rates. Around 750–1,500 cannonballs are used on an average task given by Duradel in a non-multiway combat area, whilst tasks which take place in a multiway combat area can exceed over 1,500.

Should the player not be able to afford to use the cannon at all, it is better to simply make the money for the cannonballs rather than train Slayer without the cannon. Players should also consider how much time they will spend on tasks where the cannon is used, as having a cannon-heavy task list is much more expensive and generally less efficient than doing a lot of barrage tasks. For example, it may be a good idea not to extend tasks where little to no money is made back from the drops, such as black demons or suqahs. On some cannonable tasks monster drops will cover some of the cost of using the cannon, but usually not enough to break even. Most barrage tasks on the other hand usually break even or even profit slightly.

Use protection and offensive prayers when training Slayer. Players will need to bring prayer potions or super restores to every task, and have a good supply of them in the bank. It is also recommended to have a high Prayer level, as it allows you to pay less attention to your Prayer points, and having a higher Prayer level allows you to restore more prayer points per prayer potion dose. The holy wrench also boosts the amount of prayer gained from prayer potions, thus reducing the number of prayer potions used. These make the overall lifespan of your potions much higher, and save a lot of money in the long run.

Having the rejuvenation pool (or better) in the player-owned house or a quick access to any altar to restore Prayer points before starting a new task is useful. However, players should not constantly teleport out from the task area to restore Prayer points and run back there, as this lowers experience rates significantly and it is worth the money to simply drink prayer potions whenever needed. Furthermore, if a player leaves an area where they were fighting a popular slayer creature, it may open up the location for another player to "take their spot".

The best available offensive prayers should always be used for Melee and Ranged, and also for Magic if having a higher Magic accuracy makes a notable difference on damage output (such as against smoke devils and warped jellies). It is recommended not to use offensive Magic prayers against monsters with low Magic defence, as this would have a negligible benefit to damage output unless the prayer offers one or more max hits. However, for Melee and Ranged, offensive prayers increases the max hit and thus the damage output considerably, and using them is worth the cost.

Use protection prayers on dangerous tasks where the monsters would deal heavy damage. Such tasks include all barrage tasks and most tasks in multi-combat areas, metal dragons, dark beasts, aberrant spectres, and other damage-heavy tasks. Protection prayers along with Prayer-boosting armour (such as Proselyte armour) can also be used as a low-effort alternative to defensive armour and food. This requires paying less attention overall as the player will not take damage and the Prayer points are drained at a slower rate.

Prayer flicking is a tedious and click-intensive albeit extremely efficient way of saving Prayer points. If you are willing to put in the effort, it can more than triple the lifespan of your Prayer points.

While some Slayer monsters are found in one or multiple habitats, there are dungeons throughout Gielinor where many monsters a Slayer master can assign can be found.

The following transportation methods help players get to their tasks faster.

• Fairy ring teleport system - grants quick access to many high-level Slayer tasks. You can use the fairy rings after starting Fairytale II - Cure a Queen with a Lunar/Dramen staff. Not needed if you have completed all the Lumbridge & Draynor Village sets.
• Lunar Magic - used for Astral Contact, allowing you to talk to any Slayer master without travelling to them. However, the rewards interface cannot be accessed this way, so travel to any Slayer master may be necessary to cancel. Also used for Spellbook Swap to access non-tablet teleports like Trollheim Teleport and Ghorrock Teleport in the Ancient Magicks book. You must complete Lunar Diplomacy to use Lunar Magic. You must complete Desert Treasure I for Ancient Magicks.
• Slayer ring - can be used to teleport to several Slayer locations (obtained from a Slayer master for Slayer points). Slayer rings should be made in batches and treated as disposable to allow more loot to be banked. Players who wish to skip or block a task should use the Slayer ring to teleport to the Stronghold Slayer Cave, which is right next to Nieve.
• Karamja gloves 3 - Reward for Hard Karamja Diary. (It allows you to teleport to Shilo Village for quickly getting a new task from Duradel). Karamja gloves 4 allows the player to transport directly to Duradel.
• Xeric's talisman - can be used to teleport around Great Kourend to enter the Catacombs of Kourend or to fight Lizardmen.

Player-owned houses are a great asset for Slayer training, though it does take considerable input to get the required Construction levels.

At 50 Construction, portal chambers can be built. The portals can then be constructed and set to teleport to various destinations around Gielinor, covering many of the teleports that the spellbooks have. You need to have the respective Magic level and other requirements completed to attune a portal to a specific location.

At 72 Construction, a portal nexus can be built. The nexus combines the various portals into a single object and room.

At 80 Construction, an Ancient, Lunar, or Dark altar can be built. These can be used to swap to Ancient Magicks, the Lunar spellbook, or the Arceuus spellbook, respectively, or to swap from any spellbook back to the Standard spellbook. At 90 Construction, these can be upgraded to the Occult altar, providing access to the other two spellbooks.

At 90 Construction, the ornate rejuvenation pool can be built, regenerating the player's special attack energy, run energy, prayer points, reduced stats, and health when interacted with. This saves a lot of supplies if you use the house a lot.

At 91 Construction, the ornate jewellery box can be built, providing unlimited uses of the ring of dueling, games necklace, skills necklace, combat bracelet, amulet of glory, and ring of wealth teleports.

At 95 Construction and 83 Farming, the spirit tree & fairy ring can be built. This provides the perks of both the spirit tree and fairy ring at once, which when combined with the ornate rejuvenation pool will save lots of supplies and essentially allows you to reach anywhere in Gielinor without having to use other items. It is worth noting two superior gardens can be built for a spirit tree in one and one fairy ring in the other garden before level 95 Construction with a crystal saw and stew Construction boosts.

Scrolls of redirection can be used to teleport to player-owned house portals other than the house's current location.

This is a list of monsters assigned by Duradel, along with the pros and cons of completing the task. This table aims to empower players in choosing their tasks based on the pros and cons of each task reflecting on experience rates, profit and the amount of effort required.

Aside from quest rewards and traditional slayer training, the Temple Trekking minigame can provide Slayer XP at a low hourly rate via the XP rewards, alongside Agility, Firemaking, Fishing, Mining, Thieving, and Woodcutting. This may be useful for some accounts in niche scenarios - resource-lacking / Ironmen / combat focused accounts moving to skilling, or quest requirements.

The money-making guide for Temple Trekking contains a profitable route and good process, though it can be adjusted to take easier companions instead of the recommended Hard ones if focusing purely on the XP tome rewards. XP tomes grant between 1100 and 1650 in one of the skills listed above (randomly selected, you do not get to choose which skill), and can be claimed once per trek as a reward.

Around 40 treks an hour are possible fully focusing (and if skipping all combat), and with the average XP tome granting 1375 XP, 55,000 XP across all skills can be expected, an average of around 7800 XP per skill. A more leisurely 30 treks / hour results in around 41,250 - around 5800XP / skill.

A popular strategy to gain Slayer reward points faster is called Turael boosting. Tasks that will award bonus points are taken from higher level masters who award more points. The tasks in between are taken from Turael instead, making them easier and quicker to complete. However, taking these lower level tasks will result in slower experience.

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