The Barrows Prayer Method:

Guide by: Andreka0

Hi all, It's me (that strange lad from the last forum). Now what's all this guide talk about you say? Well simply, when I tried guides of barrows, they usually have expensive armour, weapons, food and tactics. For the less rich of us members, and ones with less experience I thought I'd create a guide unlike any other barrow guide this is (this is my first guide so bear with it). So without further babbling here it is:

What to bring:

The simple idea is that you need to up your prayer to the max, and not worry about lugging lots of food and heavy armour. I have comprised to contrasting suits used to show a lower level, and higher lvl suit. Both can be varied and adapted like so:

The suits:



These can all vary, and these are some alternatives (prayer is needed more than defense though):

Helm: Initiate, Farseer, Berserker, Warrior, Helm of nitiznot.
Torso: Initiate, Robes (zamorak, druid, monk etc).
Legs: Initiate, Robes.
Boots: Armoured (Bronze-Rune), White Knight, Climbing.
Gloves: Armoured (bronze-Barrow), Gauntlets (from Family Crest), White Knight, Klanks Gauntlets.
Ring: Wealth, Life, Recoil, Lunar, freminik.
Amulet: Glory, Fury, Magic, Defense, Strength, Lunar, Holy/Unholy, Salve .
Cape: Skill cape, Obsidian, God cape, Legends, Bone bag.
Quiver: Mithril-Rune, Bolt racks, Bolts.
Weapon: Battle/Mystic staff, Crozier, Ahrim staff, Iban, God staff.
Sheild: Elemental, Defender, Kite sheild, Square sheild.

Inventory:

Both are still varied, and can be broken down, mixed around and altered. It consist of the food you'll need, extra armour, potions and other gizmo's to help you on your journey (The wrnch is highly suggested, as it extends your prayer consumption). Have a look:



Alternatives:

Food: Sharks, Lobsters, swordfish, monkfish, salmon, trout etc.
Potions: 2-4 prayer potions (extras to be safe), super sets, normal sets.
Ranged gear: Dragonhide (green-black), magic short bow, magic composite bow, seercull bow, yew bow (and below).
Melee gear: Rune armour (maybe adamant), granite armour, warrior or berserker helmets, dragon longsword, scimitar, or a (++) dagger, abyysal whip.
Teleportation method: Ectophial, Elf crystal, house teleports.

Now that you know the equipment needed, it's time to learn about how it works. My suggestion is that you ready a teleport to house tablet, use it, use your alter (if you have one), and use a kharyll (canifis) portal to get straight to the bar, and also the bank to re-stock your items. Pictures are below: (If you need to know routes etc, please check the main barrows guide for details).


The Big Bad Brothers:

This section goes into detail of how to kill and attack the 6 brothers in order of when they should be defeated.

Verac: He is out of the six, the most lethal as your prayer won't work 100% on him. To kill him, I suggest you do it at full prayer, and then you can concentrate on healing, and not constantly checking your prayer. Get your spell ready, and use the special move on excalibur (to boost your defence). Now, simply mage him, and do not heal unless you are at critical health (20 or so). The reason for being so reckless, is Verac can only do a max of 15 on his attacks. Therefore, you can heal outside his crypt instead of waste prayer-drain time inside it. This is also why I break my food up into different types, sharks for emergencies, and lobsters for when i need a boost.



Dharok: Though he is not lethal with prayer on, he is resiliant. Sometimes he will do a trick where his health hangs on by a small amount, and can trick you into removing your prayer. DO NOT turn off your prayer until he lies dead, and you are out of the crypt. Maging him is easy and efficient (takes around 10 slayer darts for me), and shouldn't take off much of your prayer but check it incase.



Guthan: You may think "with piddly robes like those vestaments Andreka, he'lll just keep healing. Well I found something very interesting. With my new method, Guthan has NEVER AT ALL healed, and makes himself a very easy target. Maging him is yet again the best, and without his healing, he's a gonner (your prayer should run out near here, so be ready).



Karil: A little different from the others, and even though he has a lower combat level, his attacks are some of the best. Use your ranged protect, draw out your melee weapon, drink a super/normal attack potion and give him hell (the dd ++'s specials are very effective).



Torag: He's slow, he's heavy, he's inaccurate, he's no idiot. Don't try to be a hero in your robes and turn off your protection prayers. Yes he's one of the worst fighters of the brothers, but he'll still say differently if you give him the chance. Mage him and move on.



Ahrim: He's the Big Bro, and the only magic weilder in town. His spells are pretty accurate, as well as powerfull. So prep with your dragonhide and bow and shoot him into submision. (Try to take him out last because of his strength draining special).



The Grand Finale:

This is the bit where your effort pays out. You'll have to rack up our kill count to get some shiny prizes, and also make it to the maze (details of prizes can be found on Rarius' experimental barrows runs). However one of the brothers has done a runner, and is content on protecting that large chest with his life (again). So, use process of elimination to figure out who it is. You'll find their tomb and upon clicking it, it will ask you to enter, or ignore the lower levels. Kill the remaining brothers THEN enter. If you do it properly, you should get to the centre with minimul problems. Use your prayer, and run to the center (keep topping it up), until you get there, or you run into the fiesty undead opponent. Kill him in the explained methods, and make your way to the chest.
Your kill count may not seem important, but if you can balance your kills each go, you can earn all the required runes for slayer dart. This is why it's the most usefull spell to use, as it's renewable. The armour you should be carrying in your inventory is now ready for use. Put it on and kill some monsters and then go to the chest. I reccomend using a ring of wealth as it seems to help for me, and it's worth the effort (bring a ring of life when you're trying this out untill you can do it with experience).



And there we have it, my method of barrows. If you do it as well as me, you can use up 1 prayer potion, and about 4 pieces of food a turn. Not bad eh? With the runes you get you can therefore easily pay for what you've used and earn a tidy sum for future endeavors.

(Still being edited)

-Andreka0