How to Blacklist Slayer tasks and not waste points

[wkw427]

Note that the first portion of this is fact, the second half, where the juicy goodness, is mainly MY option. you may disagree, if so, ok. Don't flame me for it!

First of all, you need to know which master you will be slaying with. The three choices are the fairy, desert, or shilo master.

Fairy gives a large variety of assignments, most of them 110-170
Desert gives a bunch of the same ones, but 120-185. Some of them are harder, some of them are the same as Fairy
Shilo is the hardest. 130-200. Most of them are hard monsters.


The fairy is the only one who can assign lesser demons. Lesser demons let you solo zammy GWD for moneys. This is one of the few perks of useing Fairy

My Option
There are only 5 assignments from the Fairy I CAN NOT STAND!!!
They include:
Aberrant spectres
Dust devils
Fire giants
Gargoyles
Jungle horrors
Warped tortoises*

*I never even tried these, but I don't think I'll like.



Desert is a higher level one. Most of them are the same as Fairy, but not lessers. Which can be good or bad for you, depending on what your goal is. If your goal is to get slayer points, this is the best one. Because she assigns a lower number of monsters, and is on;ly a 2 point/task diffirent then Shilo. AKA faster points.


tasks she gives that I also can't stand:
Aberrant spectres
Dust devils
Fire giants
Gargoyles
Warped tortoises
Hellhounds
Iron dragons*

Note they are the same as Fairy. Downside here is that you might have to kill MORE of what you hate..


Shilo is OK if you want XP and point. Biggest tasks, up to 200, and fairly far from a teleport.


Unlike other masters, he has some tasks that others dont. Most of them I HATE *twitch* They include:
Aberrant spectres
Black demons
Dust devils
Fire giants
Gargoyles
Hellhounds
Iron dragons *
Nechryael
Steel dragons **
Warped terrorbirds

*Iron Dragons are quite hard to kill and are given 60-90. In short, they will take quite a long time.

** Steel Dragons are very hard to kill, and are given 60-90. There are 4 spawns per world, and are SLOW to kill. Unless you like crying in the corner while a lv70 plucks at them with bone bolts, these are one of the WORSE tasks. EVER

END OPTION

Now, when you have 400 points and want to blacklist a task, think about this for a momment.

What master are you going to use? Fairy, Desert, Shilo, or all 3?
What is your goal: slayer xp, combat xp, fun, or points?
What assigmnents don't you like that are shared by all three?


Here is where my option skills kick in.

all 3 assign spectres. So that is one I would block.

All 3 also assign gargs, so that is blocked, too.

Jungle horrors are slow, and have HORRIBLE drops. If your goal is a lesser assignment, I would block this.

If you are useing shilo, steel drags would take you all day. So that should be blocked.

In my option, Irons aren't too hard, and are decent to AFK so long as you have a spawn. There are alot, so that is my option. Block if you would want to, I like them sometimes.





So there. Depending if you are sticking with one master, or going to diffirent ones, you should block what will cover you most.

[ferrariman12]

That's a nice analysis, wkw. I will definitely use this when I get around to doing the quest

As for warped tortoises -- try them out, I think you'd like them. You really only need to chime them once, and with tortoise shells being expensive, and being dropping up to 3 at a time, along with alchable rune picks and warhammers, I think you'd like them They're also easy to get to (GE spirit tree -> poison waste swamp) so it's nice.

Other than that, I like your reasoning behind which tasks you want to block.

[Dragonlordjl]

Spectres are easy. Bring prayer pots and a cannon down to the Smokey Well and you'll be done with even 200 in 40 minutes.

I am going to block:

Steel Dragons
Warped Terrorbirds
Scarabites
Kalphites

I hate hellhounds too, but it's harder to find an empty Kalphite world than a hellhound world, and you are assigned Kalphites more often than Hellhounds, so it's the lesser of the evils.

[Ukraine]

Spectres are easy. Bring prayer pots and a cannon down to the Smokey Well and you'll be done with even 200 in 40 minutes.

I am going to block:

Steel Dragons
Warped Terrorbirds
Scarabites
Kalphites

Im doing same exact accept im ganna block jungle horrors instead of kalephies.

[Dragonlordjl]

Jungle Horrors suck, but they aren't too bad. Kalphites are crowded in most worlds, particularly now that the "slayer craze" is happening... And you are assigned Kalphites fairly often. Some people love them, though, but I personally detest them.

[ikraz55]

blocking kalphites also means you never get them from duradel.

[niperwiper]

I never minded spectres, I've got a nice mage def set + bunyips, combine that with the new slayer mask and they'll be a piece of cake now. Just my two cents.

But anyways, I've always used duradel since I could use him, hardly even considered not using him. I guess this might be a poor strategy, but one thing's for sure, i'm always putting myself in line for a clue scroll or high level drop. That's something I don't mind at all, and I certainly love challenging myself, that said, here's where that becomes a waste of time for me:

Kalphites *
Steel dragons
Jungle horrors
Spiritual rangers **

*It's a personal quirk/peeve of mine that I will never buy/touch a cannon in my rs experience, so that I'll never become one of the many inconsiderate cannon-users who steals kills from others, hence these things are a total waste of time
** God only knows why I haven't seen the spiritual guys up on this list yet, why is everyone leaving out the rangers/warriors? Their drops are god awful, unless I'm missing something with the update.

[ikraz55]

good point with the spiritual rangers, I always skip those....

I usually do spiritual warriors because they are easy and drop tons of alchables+rune hallys. Although, the lack of charms is certainly annoying.

[pogo935]

When you take a slayer task off your slayer task is there any way possible to get it back on your list or is that the point of no return for the slayer task that you took off?

[Ghost Phoenix]

To remove a task you have to "ignore" it, which costs 100 points.
On the tab with the cancel and ignore options, there's an X at the end of the name of the assignment.
By clicking the X, you stop ignoring that task and put it back on your Slayer list.
Be aware that this does not refund the 100 points you spent to ignore it in the first place.

Personally I like Kalphites - I just find it so much fun to beat up the Guardians.

Alsowhen I'm assigned Spectres I may take a healing familiar, cannon and nosepeg into the new dungeon with prayer equipment and see if I can actually kill a decent number before I choke to death.

Edit: typo.

[Qeltar]

Spectres are easy. Bring prayer pots and a cannon down to the Smokey Well and you'll be done with even 200 in 40 minutes.

Do you have the new helmet already? Never tried them down there as I assumed you needed it because of the need for face mask for the dungeon and nose peg for the monsters.

As for the blacklists.. it's a very personal decision. I wouldn't choose many of the monsters you folks have.

I certainly won't waste points on that until I've learned all the new stuff.

[Qeltar]

BTW, dunno if it's a mistake but spiritual rangers are no longer on any of the assignment lists. Anyone gotten any since the update? From whom?

[Dragonlordjl]

Spectres are easy. Bring prayer pots and a cannon down to the Smokey Well and you'll be done with even 200 in 40 minutes.

Do you have the new helmet already? Never tried them down there as I assumed you needed it because of the need for face mask for the dungeon and nose peg for the monsters.

As for the blacklists.. it's a very personal decision. I wouldn't choose many of the monsters you folks have.

I certainly won't waste points on that until I've learned all the new stuff.

Nope. I don't. The smoke can't kill you, so you just risk dying by a random/stupidity.

And tmk, they completely removed Spiritual Rangers, as many people complained about them.

[alphakoldes]

You can cannon the spectres in the new dungeon without the mask.

You just get down to 1 hp by wearing the nosepeg, pray mage so the spectres do no damage to you and cannon away. The smoke effect won't kill you, just like when dharoking fire giants in the well.

Just don't let that mage pray run out!

[Doomedrusher]

I sense nerf...

[wkw427]

My god, I posted this at two other forums and I was told I was wrong because it was option.

Maturity counts. Some people didn't even read that it was depending on your goal and master.. gee

Thanks

[Noxrid]

My god, I posted this at two other forums and I was told I was wrong because it was option.

Maturity counts. Some people didn't even read that it was depending on your goal and master.. gee

Thanks

I think you mean opinion not option right?

[sk3l3t0r711]

For me I am sticking with Sumona purely on the nice choice of dragon tasks: Blue, Red and Iron are my favorite dragon slaying monsters!

I am going to black list only 2 monsters that I hate and avoid, Terror Dogs and Kalphites, but only after I spend points to learn how to make slayer equipment.

On the black listing aspect, If you really want to save the points on blacklisting monsters you hate simply do not do the quests that unlock the monster (If that is an option for you)

Terror Dogs - Unlocked during Haunted Mine to access Tarn's Lair
Warped Tortoise / Terrorbird - Unlocked during The Path of Glouphrie
Scabarite - Unlocked during Dealing with Scabaras and Smoking Kills
Junbgle / Cave Horrors - Unlocked during Cabin Fever
Suqahs - Unlocked during Lunar Diplomacy

There might be a few more I believe I missed a few...

[ikraz55]

I honestly don't know what monsters I will block. Most of the popular blocked monsters are simply underrated. For instance, Suqahs are apparently the second fastest slayer exp in the game (after dagannoths) with a cannon in a certain spot. I can usually find a world to cannon kalphites after a few hops. Warped tortoises almost never hit and have very low defence, using the chime is no worse than rock hammer for gargoyles. If you don't like black dragons, baby black dragons are fast exp (but no good drops). Terrordogs are only bad because of how hard they are to get to (Guthans provides enough healing for me). If the slayer ring really teleports you to them, they won't be too bad.

The only monsters I constantly burthorpe are:
Warped terrorbirds
Spiritual rangers
Jungle horrors (unless I want a lvl 2 clue)
Any task that I've gotten bored of lately (cant burthorpe those anymore )

[Dragonlordjl]

I honestly don't know what monsters I will block. Most of the popular blocked monsters are simply underrated. For instance, Suqahs are apparently the second fastest slayer exp in the game (after dagannoths) with a cannon in a certain spot. I can usually find a world to cannon kalphites after a few hops. Warped tortoises almost never hit and have very low defence, using the chime is no worse than rock hammer for gargoyles. If you don't like black dragons, baby black dragons are fast exp (but no good drops). Terrordogs are only bad because of how hard they are to get to (Guthans provides enough healing for me). If the slayer ring really teleports you to them, they won't be too bad.

The only monsters I constantly burthorpe are:
Warped terrorbirds
Spiritual rangers
Jungle horrors (unless I want a lvl 2 clue)
Any task that I've gotten bored of lately (cant burthorpe those anymore )

Spiritual Rangers are no longer assigned. If you use Duradel, I recommend blocking Steel Dragons and Warped Terrorbirds, otherwise, don't bother. Sumona never assigns either.