ADVANCED BOSS GUIDES

Barrows

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Introduction

The Barrows Brothers dharokhead are mainly camped by high-level players in an effort to obtain the Graverobber title. The brothers are relatively weak, with the exception of Linza.

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Useful Unlocks

⬥ Completing all Hard Morytania achievements:

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Doubles rune drops

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Allows you to bank loot directly from the chest

⬥ Completing all Easy Combat Mastery Achievements:

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Portals will permanently appear in corner & central rooms of the underground crypt

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎⬩ Teleporting via these portals circumvents the need to to solve puzzles or open doors

⬥ Bringing a Dragon/Barrows defender allows for additional defender components. Corrupted sigils can be dissasembled for undead components

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The Fight

Suggested order for killing the brothers:

Linza → Ahrim → Verac → Akrisae → Torag → Karil → Guthan → Dharok

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General Strategy

⬥ It is recommended to be on an Undead slayer task to benefit from the slayer helmet slayerhelm and Guardhouse boosts

⬥ You can pre-vuln by using vulnbomb on the ground after clicking the sarcophagus

⬥ Bringing a spade and using it to dig in order to enter the mounds is quicker

⬥ Good movement can improve the efficiency of your runs, below are some examples starting at Dharok's crypt:

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Guthan last

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Akrisae last

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Karil last

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Torag last

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Necromancy

Preset and Relics

⬥ Necromancy Preset Guide illustration

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Rotations

Renew conjures as needed

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Default to soulsap → necrobasic for all regular brothers. Use barrowsamulet to skip Akrisae

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Use invokedeath when moving between brothers

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Linza and Ahrim

splitsoul → invokedeath → commandskeleton + undeadslayer → surge to Linza → (tc) + deathskulls + vulnbomb → volleyofsouls → touchofdeath → omniguard spec → (deathguard90 spec)

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Notes:

⬥ commandskeleton as you click on Ahrim's tomb

⬥ Run over to Ahrim whilst doing the rotation, be sure to not run out of deathskulls range

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Example Kills

⬥ Example Necromancy run

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Magic

Preset and Relics

⬥ Magic Guide illustration

⬥ Augmented gear piece has Equilibrium 4 eq4 Undead Slayer undeadslayerperk

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Rotations

⬥ Autocast crumbleundead

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Lunging is recomended on the orb but not necessary, Linza might take an additional ability without it

⬥ Can use barrowsamulet to skip any brother other than Linza

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• This guide assumes you don't use them

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• This guide assumes you reset at War's Retreat after every run

⬥ Use runic_charge while running to Ahrim, you still want enough time on runic to use the second Linza rotation if Ahrim is in the tunnel

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Ahrim

Use runic_charge while running to Ahrim (tc) + corruptionblast → gsonic

Note: move towards Linza while using the abilities.

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Linza

(tc) + undeadslayer → roarofawakening spec → omnipowerigneous → combust if combust reset combust again otherwise dbreath → gconc

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Ahrim Tunnel

(tc) + corruptionblast → gsonic → roarofawakening spec → omnipowerigneous → combust if combust reset combust again otherwise dbreath

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Dharok

(tc) + wm

Note: use runic_charge while running to Guthan

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Guthan

(tc) + dbreath

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Karil

(tc) + wm

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Torag

(tc) + wm

Notes:

⬥ adrenrenewal if low adrenaline (below 25%)

⬥ Use runic_charge as soon as possible

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Verac

(tc) + wm

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Akrisae

(tc) + dbreath

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Example Kills

⬥ Example Magic run

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Melee

Presets and Relics

⬥ Melee Guide illustration

⬥ Expect approximately 48 kph

⬥ Can downgrade gear, but you may need to use extra abilities

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Rotations

⬥ Pray malevolence + soulsplit

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War's Retreat

dba → 120 adren → zerk → 120 adren

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Dharok

escapemobile + click + surgemobile → dig → meteorstrike

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Ahrim + Linza

undeadslayer + gbargemobile + surgemobile + equip lengmh → TC + gflurry + vulnbomb → chaosroar → cane

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Verac

overpowerigneous

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Akrisae

tumekenslight spec

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Torag, Karil, Guthan

overpowerigneous → pulverise → cane

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Notes:

⬥ If barrowsamulet on Akrisae then skip tumekenslight spec

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Example Kills

⬥ Example Melee run

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Ranged

Presets and Relics

⬥ Ranged Guide illustration

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Rotations

War's Retreat

gdeathsswift → 100% adren → portal

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Dharok

Dig + imbueshadows → bolg spec

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Ahrim + Linza

Spawn Ahrim and run to Linza whilst gricocaroming → (tc) Linza + undeadslayer + galeshot → deadshotigneous → rapid + move towards stairs → gricocaroming

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Verac

snapshot

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Akrisae

barrowsamulet

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Torag, Karil, Guthan

snapshot

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Notes:

⬥ Apart from Linza and Akrisae, you should target cycle + snapshot + click stairs to leave as snapshot one-shots with the given setup

⬥ If you don't have 100% adren leaving Linza, use snipe which also one-shots with this setup

⬥ If Dharok is the tunnel, bolg spec Ahrim

⬥ If Ahrim is tunnel, gricocaroming Linza first

⬥ If you don't want to use barrows amulets, snipe Akrisae

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Example Kills

⬥ Example Ranged runs

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