Runescape Game Play

After my recent success at Barrows where I got a Guthans war spear I decided to purchase the complete set, I do not buy expensive items so would not spend 5m on a weapon that I stood a chance of getting myself, I did spend 2.7m on a whip but that was well before I had 85 slayer so had no other chance of getting one.

I already had the helm so only needed skirt and body which is very cheap, in fact that is one of the common scams people try trading the Guthans items for whips because Guthans is so dear the scammers hope you think it must be worth it and trade, the usual sells spiel is buying whip for 2.4 million and when you trade they but up a Guthans skirt, if you decline they trade again and put up skirt and body both together are not worth the price of a whip.

Anyway I have added this guide as list of my first experiences of using Guthans as a training aid, I will try it on other monsters as I go along and advise the ones that it can or can not be used on effectively.

Obviously it can not be used on Abberant specters, Banshees, and any monster in the smoke well including the Dust Devils, these require the head gear appropriate to fight them with.

Guthans special will add the hit point damage inflicted on your foe to your own hit points, this is very random and at my present level I can add over 27 hp to my health in 1 hit, its not a very affective weapon to fight with because it is slow and does not allow the use of a shield, the most expensive weapon on Runescape is rarely used as a weapon, normally people fight with a whip or scimmy or any other attack method and only use the spear when hp is low.

The way I use it at Abyssal Demons is to wear full Guthans have the spear in my inventory and fight using a whip and dragon square shield, I take superset and fight until half health and then use the spear to heal, because Abyssal Demons don't hit often or hard it is quite safe to use Guthans.

Healing can be a problem on some monsters because it can take a long time to spec on them, if you have a high hitting monster make the most of any randoms you get, attacking an evil chicken or security guard is very effective with Guthans spear and can repeatedly heal large amounts.

Monsters such as the Kalphite Guardian can hit very hard and using the spear to heal is a bit dangerous, I tested it on them by using Keris to attack and the spear to heal at half health, I repeatedly needed to use sharks to avoid being killed while waiting for the spear to heal.

Attacking mage based attack monsters is a problem as you have minimal mage resistance, I had mage defence of 10 when fighting Bloodvelds so I was constantly taking damage with Guthans on, swapping with dragon hide was a pain so I just used full Guthans and kept it on taking damage and healing constantly.

I will add sections to our monster database advising what monsters are easy to use Guthans on as I go along, sorry it is a tiny database at present but I will be adding more as I go along, please check out our sponsors regularly use the search box on the right hand side to help cover the cost of this blog.