What I did do was take samples of monsters, mostly from slayer assignments, trying to find a monster that I could kill with my stringent requirements (specifically, great charm drops and great "other drops"). I then grouped them by charms per kill, (i.e. gold, green, crimson, and blue were recorded separately), and then gave the monster a total "score" based on a heuristic: Gold got 1.3 points, Green gets 1.75, Crimson 4.4, and Blue 8.8. These seemingly arbitrary values were taken from the following formula:
Charm Value * Summoning Level ~= XP per charm
This deals with the issue that some charms are worth more than other charms (and even better...quantifies it). Obviously some monsters will take longer to kill than others, so my "score" gets divided by the time in seconds that it takes to kill the monster.
For reference, my scores for the following creatures are as follows (and the time taken to kill them is in brackets). Note that all "kill times" have bank time built in (but, of course, all are approximations somewhat):
1) Bork(300 seconds) - 939.60
2) Waterfiend(40 seconds) - 347.38
3) Skeletal Wyvern(90 seconds) - 272.47
4) Black Demon (Chaos Tunnels) (40 seconds) - 256.72
5) Dust Devil (30 seconds) - 199.85
*With a full set of verac armour and constant piety, or full dharok and constant piety, my waterfiend killing time drops to around 35 seconds.
Here on out is where I could use some help.
I want to kill a wyvern faster than 90 seconds. Much faster. My current method is to use a whip, mind shield, and verac armour with constant piety. If I could bring the time down to an average of 70 seconds, then they would be approximately equal to waterfiends in terms of charm usefulness per hour, and I like visage hunting
. I do know that with a familiar such as a terrorbird or war tortoise I could extend my trips (currently I am slowed down by my habit of banking all my bones, and my other habit of running out of food), but that is not enough. I want to use a cannon there, and I want to use it well.For the record, I argue that a cannon is definitely worth bringing to the wyverns. My argument goes as follows: Let us suppose that the chance of obtaining a draconic visage is not worse than 1/5000, the cost of a cannonball is 180 gp per, and that the visage is worth (again, for arguments sake) 22M. This means that any additional kill has 4400 gp worth of "visage", equivalent to 24 cannonballs. I believe that 24 cannonballs should be sufficient to kill a wyvern, so I pick up the wyvern bones (1.6k, last time I checked), charms, other drops, and ranged xp essentially for free. Of course, I've never tried a cannon there , so I may be wrong about the number of cannonballs...and of course, nobody really knows the drop rate of a visage
.In essence, I want to know two things. Firstly, I've seen some technique on these boards of pros like Mochag who put these cannon-double-hit pictures up. Those look impressive
. Could I see one on a wyvern? (If one was posted, please forgive my ignorance, and provide a link to the appropriate post). Secondly, I would like to know, from anyone that has used a cannon there, approximately how effective they are (and whether they would take more, less, or about 24 cannonballs to kill).Oh, and to Qeltar's blanket statement that "Wyverns = Burthorpe", it might be easily surmised from this post that I intend to out-do his own charm-collecting techniques with these "Burthorpable monsters". Whether I am successful or not in beating waterfiends and power-dharoking will be interesting, but I *am* convinced that the charm drops from these are worth some thought.
Well you get around 2 hides + 1 'unique' item every time you kill the kbd, so killing him like 7 times is enough, I mean just bring a beast of burden, fill it with sharks and just store hides & bones etc. in it afterwards. then killing it a couple of more times won't be that hard.
. Note also that the "percentage of usefulness" is calculated on a per-monster basis, and requires the original data...
