Skeleton - Access and Combat Recommendations

Access Directions

Enter the Chaos Tunnels at the gargoyle entrance, northwest of Edgeville. Enter the portal right at the entrance and you'll be in a narrow room with both the skeletons and also level 40 zombies.

If you take the portal just north of the entrance in the gargoyle room you get to a different room also containing the same monsters, but more of them. This is useful if chinning, but bad if meleeing!

Equipment

Very high-level players (combat 120+) can get by with regular melee gear (granite/dragon), especially if using a healing familiar or Saradomin godsword. Others should either use Guthans or prayer gear. Fighting with chinchompas should be done with a balance of prayer and range attack enhancing equipment.

A Salve amulet should be useful here as well, since these are undead.

Supplies

For meleeing, super sets and a load of good food are essential. If not using Guthans, also bring Bones to Peaches runes or tablets. If praying, substitute Zamorak brews and super strengths for the super sets, and bring prayer potions (about five 4-dose per hour, depending on gear and Prayer level.)

Bring about 20 sets of alching runes per hour, and a one-click teleport in case of trouble.

Familiar

A combat familiar can help here, since the Chaos Tunnels are multicombat, and a healing familiar is an obvious choice as well.

Combat Notes

Taken one at a time, these are no big deal for a high-level player. The problem is that when you first enter the tunnels they are aggressive, and the area is multicombat so you get swarmed. To make matters worse, the level 40 zombies are also aggressive, even to high-level players, and they hit higher than their level would lead you to believe. For this reason you will use a fair bit of healing until they become unaggressive. After that, they are fairly easy. Beware, though, that if you get kidnapped by a random, when you return they will all attack again.

During their aggressive phase, try to maneuver yourself so that you don't have too many attacking. Of course, if you're using Protection from Melee, it doesn't matter anyway.

If you are using chinchompas, then of course, you want as many of them on you as possible. You may even wish to leave and re-enter when they stop being aggressive.

Drop Notes

These monsters drop an odd selection of potions, bars, alchables (low-level weapons and armor) and other items. Overall you get little of value, so these are killed more for XP than drops. That said, they are a decent source of blue charms for Summoning.