Best in slot armor guide

[Ralph 208]

Guide is currently out-of-date. It will be updated soon.

Best in slot range

(Picture is currently missing Amulet of ranging (t))

Helmet: 
Lava slayer helmet, this is obtained from the Runecoin machine for the cost of 20k runecoins and a Fused slayer helmet.
Note: While the Lava Chompy hat is a good alternative to the Lava slayer helmet, I prefer the Lava slayer helmet. The 5% damage to all monsters that it gains is definitely more useful than the 5 attack bonus that you lose from wearing the Lava slayer helmet.

Cape:
Ava's assembler/Vorkath max cape, this is obtained by using Vorkath's head on an Ava's accumulator (t). Vorkath's head is obtained as a rare drop from killing Vorkath, which can be teleported to with a Vorkath teleport scroll, which is dropped by rune dragons. Ava's accumulator (t) is obtained from the RuneX points shop for 25,000 RuneX points. The Max cape variant is obtained by using the Ava's assembler on a Max cape along with 250m coins.

Necklace:
Amulet of ranging (t), this is obtained as a rare chance from killing a reanimated Kalphite queen in the achievement guild basement, which is reanimated with the Kalphite queen head which is obtained as a rare chance from killing Kalphite queen.
Note: The Amulet of Nardah has +1 range strength compared to the Amulet of ranging (t). However it also has significantly lower attack bonuses. This is obtained from regular mummies in the Nardah minigame, the Chaos mummy, or Nardah implings which spawn rarely inside of a Nardah instance.

Bow:
Cursed Twisted bow, this is obtained by bringing 50m platinum tokens (50b cash) and a Twisted bow to the platinum trader in ::shops. The Twisted bow is obtained from the chest in the end of the raid after killing olmlet or from Xeric raid boxes.

Arrows:

Dragon arrow, these are obtained many places in the game, but they can be purchased from ::shops from the NPC called "Lowe". They can also be obtained from killing Black dragons.

Top:
Morrigan's leather top, this is obtained rarely from opening the chest after you kill the ancient warriors in the cursed crypt. To access the cursed crypt you need cursed keys which are obtained from a variety of different wilderness activities.

Bottoms:
Morrigan's leather chaps, this is obtained rarely from opening the chest after you kill the ancient warriors in the cursed crypt. To access the cursed crypt you need cursed keys which are obtained from a variety of different wilderness activities.

Note: Tehnically Darkroot top and Darkroot legs are best in slot. But for the minimal bonuses it gains over Morrigan's and Corrupted bracelet (i) (total of +8 attack bonus and +1 range str [with Archon gloves], and 10% reflected damage) as well as the cost of Darkroot (75k rune coins + 10b cash for top, and 60k rune coins + 7.5b cash for legs [platinum trader]) it is not worth it, in my opinion, to get these.

Gloves:
Corrupted bracelet (i), this is obtained from the item enchantment chest north-east of ::home. To make this you need a regular Corrupted bracelet, Cursed blood orb, and 5k Rune coins (65% chance of success).

Boots:
Molten boots/Grand boots, this is obtained from the Vanguard bosses in the raid. You can also get this from the chest in the end of the raid after killing Olm. You can also get this from Grand crests.
Note: Grand boots have identical ranging stats to Molten boots. They're obtained by using each of the "Grand crest boots" (Warria, Archon, and Arcan) with an Ancient relic from Raids 1 at the item enchantment chest (100% chance).

Ring:
Grand Ring (i), this is obtained from the item enchantment chest north-east of ::home. To make this you need a regular Grand ring, and an Imbuing stone (25% chance of success).
Note: The recent update to the ancient rings (3 items for 6.75% total damage and accuracy increase [2.25% per piece]) makes the combination of Grand ring (i) and Morrigan's with Corrupted bracelet (i) best in slot by a substantial amount.
Note: Kharazi ring (i) is a good cheaper alternative to the Grand ring (i). It provides 12 range strength and 16 range attack, as compared to 14 range strength and 14 range attack. It is made with 2 imbuing stones and a Kharazi ring.

Best in slot mage

(Picture is currently missing Tormented bracelet (or))

Magic damage %: 110% (multi-target bis [Blood barrage])

(Picture is currently missing Tormented bracelet (or))

Magic damage %: 70% (single-target bis)

Helmet: 
Frost slayer helmet, this is obtained in the rune coin exchange machine north of edge bank. Costs a fused slayer helmet and 20k rune coins. 

Cape: 
3rd Age Cloak, this is obtained rarely from master task scrolls.

Necklace: 
Arcane stream necklace, this is obtained from the "Mage of wisdom"'s rune coin shop for 10,000 rune coins. To access this shop you need to complete either all 4 of the lower tiered exchanges or the 5th exchange alone (when the Mage of wisdom changes his exchange, you need to do this again in order to gain access to the shop).
Note: the Mage of wisdom changes the items available for purchase in his shop every 12 hrs, and changes his exchange every 72 hrs.
Note: the Sanguinesti pendant provides more magic attack bonus than the Arcane stream necklace but sacrifices some magic damage % bonuses. (Sanguinesti has +20 compared to +14 and +10% compared to +15%)

Wand:
Cursed Kodai wand, this is obtained by bringing 50m platinum tokens (50b cash) and a Kodai wand to the Platinum trader in ::shops. The Kodai wand is obtained rarely from the chest in the Chambers of Xeric. It can also be obtained from a Xeric raid box.  (BIS multi target)

Sanguinesti Staff, this is obtained rarely from looting the chest after completing a Theatre of blood raid. It can also be obtained from the Theatre raid box. (BIS single target)

Blessing:
Chaos blessing, this is obtained from the Nardah minigame. It is obtained from using gold tomb keys on the sarcophagi in Nardah (very rare chance), or loot a Nardah impling which have a rare chance of spawning in a Nardah instance.

Off-Hand:
Book of verzik, this is obtained rarely from the Theatre of Blood. Alternatively it could be obtained from a Theatre raid box which is obtainable from the achievement "Defender of the Theatre", mystery tickets, promo packages, or grand promo packages.
Note: previously I had mentioned that Book of chaos was best in slot because the 3% extra magic damage was more worth it once your gear is already best in slot and your accuracy is so high. However after some testing, I found out that 3% damage doesn't affect your max hit. Nice one Ralph.

Top:
Blood shaman top, this was obtained from the 2019 Kharazi event. It is currently unobtainable. (BIS blood barrage)

Ancestral Robe Top, this is obtained from the Vasa Nistirio boss within raids, it can also be obtained from the chest in the end of the raid after killing olmlet. You can also get it from Grand crests and elite tasks. (BIS single target)

Bottoms:
Blood shaman bottoms, this was obtained from the 2019 Kharazi event. It is currently unobtainable. (BIS blood barrage)

Ancestral Robe Bottoms, this is obtained from the Vasa Nistirio boss within raids., it can also be obtained from the chest in the end of the raid after killing olmlet. You can also get it from Grand crests and elite tasks. (BIS single target)

Gloves:
Tormented bracelet (or), this is obtained from elite task scrolls.

Boots:
Molten boots, this is obtained from the Vanguard bosses in the raid. You can also get this from the chest in the end of the raid after killing Olm. You can also get this from Grand crests and Raids mystery boxes.

Ring:
Thermonuclear ring (i), this is obtained from using an imbuing stone on a thermonuclear ring. The thermonuclear ring is obtained from killing the Thermonuclear smoke devil and the imbuing stone is obtained from Teclyn's rune coin shop. It requires 5,000 rune coins and a zenyte gem to purchase.

Best in slot melee

(Picture is currently missing Ferocious gloves & Amulet of Zealots)

Large monster BIS
(Picture is currently missing Amulet of Zealots)

Small monster BIS

Helmet:
Frost slayer helmet/Lava slayer helmet, this is obtained in the rune coin exchange machine north of edge bank. Cost a fused slayer helmet and 20k rune coins.

Cape:
Meteorite cape/Grand max cape, the Meteorite cape is obtained from the Item enchantment chest by using an Inferno cape, Enchanted cape, Champion's cape, and an imbuing stone (30% success rate). The Grand max cape has the same stats as the Meteorite cape but has the added benefits of the Max cape perks. The Grand max cape is obtained from the Item enchantment chest by using a Grand crest, Meteorite cape, Infernal max cape, and Infernal max hood (25% success rate).

Necklace:
Amulet of Zealots, this is obtained from the mage of wisdom's shop for the price of 10,000 rune coins.
Note: the Sanguinesti pendant is close in damage but the 5% boost to prayer's that zealots provides makes it best in slot.

Sword:
Dark sunspear, this is obtained by using a Dark horn, which is a rare drop from Skotizo, on a Sunspear, which is a rare drop from the boss Jungle Demon. Alternatively obtained in minigame mystery boxes or donator mystery boxes
Note: this is only for monsters who DO NOT occupy more than a 1x1 tile space.

Scythe of Vitur, this is obtained rarely from opening the chest at the end of a Theatre of Blood raid. It can also be obtained from Theatre raid boxes.
Note: this is only for monsters who DO occupy more than a 1x1 tile space.

Blessing:
Efficiency blessing, this is obtained from the rune coin machine for 5,000 rune coins.
Note: this is only best in slot for Dark sunspear.

Kharazi blessing, this was obtained from the 2019 Kharazi event.
Note: this is only best in slot for Scythe of vitur.

Off-hand:
Avernic defender, this is obtained from using an Avernic defender hilt (obtained through Theatre of blood) on a Dragon defender (t) which is obtained from either the warriors guild (2,500 warriors guild tokens + dragon defender) or the Runex point shop (75,000 Runex points)
Note: Both the Scythe of vitur and the Dark sunspear are 2h weapons. However the Avernic defender is still best in slot when using a 1h weapon.

Platebody:
Draconic platebody, this is obtained by using a Draconic lump (obtained from the raids chest after killing Olm) on a Dragon platebody (obtained from Vorkath or Rune dragons)

Platelegs:
Draconic platelegs, this is obtained by using a Draconic chunk (obtained from the raids chest after killing Olm) on a pair of Dragon platelegs.

Gloves:
Ferocious gloves, this is obtained by using Hydra leather, which is a rare drop from the Alchemical Hydra, on a pair of Warria gloves, which is received from opening Grand crests. (Large monster BIS)

Karamja gloves 3, this is obtained by trading in 2,500 trading sticks by clicking on them. This is better than Ferocious gloves when using a spear or hasta. Using this with the Dark Sunspear increases its damage by 15%. (Small monster BIS)

Boots:
Grand boots, this is obtained from the Item enchantment chest by using Warria boots, Archon boots, Arcan boots, and an Ancient relic (100% success rate).
Note: Warria boots, Archon boots, and Arcan boots are all obtained rarely from Grand crests.

Ring:
Grand ring (i), this is obtained from the Item enchantment chest by using Grand ring (obtained from Grand crests rarely) and an imbuing stone (25% success rate).

Best in slot experience bonus

Cape:
Grand backpack, this is obtained from the item enchantment chest north-east of ::home by using a Skilling backpack (t), Lava backpack, Frozen backpack, Spirit cape, and an Ancient relic (33% chance of success). Skilling backpack (t) is obtained from the item enchantment chest, Lava and Frozen backpacks from Grand crests, Spirit cape from the Mage of wisdom, Ancient relic from Chamber of xeric. This will provide 15% bonus experience.
Credit goes to @Asuna for being the first player to receive a Grand backpack.
Note: Both the Skilling backpack (t) and Skilling backpack are acceptable alternatives for a Grand backpack. The Skilling backpack is obtained from the rune coin machine at a cost of 500 rune coins (5% experience boost). While the Skilling backpack (t) is obtained from the item enchantment chest, requiring a Skilling backpack, Ring of wealth (i), and 2,500 rune coins (40% chance of success) (10% experience boost).

Blessing:
Scholars blessing, this is obtained from the rune coin machine for 5,000 rune coins. This does not provide any direct experience boost, but while equipped it will double the experience cap per experience token (see experience tokens section below) of all experience tokens.
Ex: Instead of getting 3x experience for 5,000 experience gained per catalyst token, you'll receive 3x experience for 10,000 experience gained per catalyst token. 
Note: the Efficiency blessing also helps you get more experience per hour (increases speed of gathering raw materials by 25%) but the Scholars blessing is best in slot as long as you are using experience tokens. If you aren't using experience tokens, the Efficiency blessing would be best in slot.

Platebody:
Varrock armour 4, this is obtained from the achievement point shop for 100 achievement points. It provides a 20% experience boost.
Note: the lower tier Varrock armors (1, 2, and 3) cost less achievement points (10, 25, and 50 respectively) and provide less % experience boost (5%, 10%, and 15% respectively)

Off-hand:
Skiller's tome IV, this is obtained from the skilling point shop for a total of 1,000 skilling points (500 for the tome itself, 500 collectively for the previous 3 tomes). This will provide 15% bonus experience.
Note: the lower tier Skiller's tomes (I, II, and III) cost less Skilling points (50, 150, and 300 points respectively) and provide less % experience boost (2.5%, 5%, and 10% respectively).

Gloves:
Safety gloves, this is obtained from the achievement "Land Inhabitant II" which is completed after you have 50 hours (2 days 2 hours) playtime. It provides a 2.5% experience boost.

Boots:
Fighting boots, this is obtained from the achievement "Land Inhabitant III" which is completed after you have 200 hours (8 days 8 hours) playtime. It provides a 2.5% experience boost.

Pet:
Epic pet with 4 master experience accessories, this is obtained by using 3 "Accessory upgrade"s on any epic pet. Once you've added 3 more slots to your epic pet you can add 4 master experience accessories to it. The pet will provide a 60% experience boost (15% per master experience accessory).
Note: due to the rarity and price of master experience accessories, regular "Experience accessory"s provide a 5% experience boost per accessory and are more easily obtainable.

Skill specific achievement experience gear:
Note: all of this gear is obtained from achievements which are unlocked from achieving a certain level in the respective skill. All skill specific experience gear provide 5% experience per piece in their respective skill. For this reason, any tier of Varrock armor will remain best in slot for experience boosts.
Lumberjack set, this set is for the woodcutting skill.
Golden tinderbox, this is used in the firemaking skill.
Mining helmet, this is helmet is used in the mining skill.
Rogue set, this set is for the thieving skill.
Magic secateurs, this item is for the farming skill.
Note: Magic secateurs don't directly boost farming experience, instead they increase the speed at which crops grow. Thus increasing your average experience/hour.

Skill specific skilling point experience gear:
Note: all of this gear is obtained from the skilling point shop from the skilling equipment boxes (25 skilling points ea). All of this gear provides a 5% experience boost per piece in their respecitve skill. For this reason, any tier of Varrock armor will remain best in slot for experience boosts.
Angler outfit, this is used for the fishing skill.
Prospector outfit, this is used for the mining skill. (The mining hat is better than the mining helmet from achievements).
Farmer's outfit, this is used for the farming skill.
Pyromancer outfit, this is used for the firemaking skill.

Experience tokens:
Note: all experience tokens calculate the experience gained before the experience multiplier is added. For example, Skiller tokens will crumble into dust after 20,000 total experience is gained (40,000 with Scholar's blessing).
Skiller tokens, these are obtained from various places such as, mole skin/claw exchange, black chest, bag of tokens, vote reward shop, and prize boxes. These will provide 2x experience for 10,000 experience gained per token. These tokens will only work for non-combat skills.
Combat tokens, these are obtained from various places such as, black chest, bag of tokens, vote reward shop, and prize boxes. These will provide 2x experience for 10,000 experience gained per token. These tokens will only work for combat skills.
Note: combat skills include attack, strength, defense, ranging, prayer, magic, hitpoints, and summoning.
Catalyst tokens, these are obtained from various places such as, bag of tokens, vote reward shop, prize boxes, and the cursed caverns. These will provide 3x experience for 5,000 experience gained per token. These tokens will work for any skill.
Mystic tokens, these are obtained from Teclyn's rune coin shop. They require 1 catalyst token and 10 rune coins per mystic token. These will provide 5x experience for 5,000 experience gained per token. These tokens will work for any skill.

Experience Elixirs:
Note: All of these elixirs can be obtained by elixir crafting. Check this link out for more information. All elixirs will also stack with experience gear, and experience tokens.
Studious Elixir, this is obtained from the donator shop, prize boxes, or through elixir crafting. This elixir will provide 25% bonus experience in non-combat skills for 60 minutes.
Training Elixir, this is obtained from the donator shop, prize boxes, or through elixir crafting. This elixir will provide 25% bonus experience in combat skills for 60 minutes.
Knowledge Elixir, this is obtained from the donator shop, prize boxes, or through elixir crafting. This elixir will provide 33% bonus experience in any skill for 60 minutes. 

Huge thanks to @Matt, @Abigail, @Basil, @Woox, @Rolla, @Kong, @Asuna, @Raw, @Nickoo, @TravisCruz, @God, and @Happysun51 for assisting with the making of this guide.

[Hazer 4]

Perhaps add in a second or third best as well. Player such as myself still want the best equipment available to use within our budget.

[Dragon Paws 64]

few issues i see here, looking at mage... thermo ring (i) and chaos blessing does 15% damage against the 10% rod gives, as well with the shield slot, chaos book has 8% dps over that book, but less accuracy.. also technically mage arena 1 cape on max cape is better than the mage arena 2 capes. might wanna have accuracy/dps setups. same with the ranged amulet you have there, thought it was trimmed ranged ammy..

Edited May 4, 2018 by Dragon Paws

[Matt 74]

There are no trimmed range ammy ingame. Coming to the mage gear, I’d gladly make the different setups when we get a max hit dummy so we can actually see it for sure. 

Where is this infamous accuracy people talk about? I don’t see it anywhere. Invisible stat. If you refer to the stats on the top, then it clearly state «attack bonus». 

The ones shown above is calculsted to be best in slot. It’s not possible to find the exact best if we don’t know what the max hits are. 

I’ll see if I can make 2nd and 3rd tier setups too, but not sure if I have the equipment for it. 

[Abigail 55]

So after testing both setups, its no doubt chaos blessing and book of chaos thermonuclear ring i, is alot better then ring of darkness with blessing and book.

there is litteraly no doubt about it anymore.

Edited May 11, 2018 by Abigail
wrong ring name

[Rolla 188]

1 hour ago, Abigail said:

So after testing both setups, its no doubt chaos blessing and book of chaos thermonuclear ring i, is alot better then ring of darkness with blessing and book.

there is litteraly no doubt about it anymore.

Impossible to say unless you tested the same mob for over 100 hours, we are talking about a difference of +10% to an invisible stat here. The RNG also involved would make it almost impossible to observe. We need the coding to truly know.

[Raw 685]

2 hours ago, Rolla said:

Impossible to say unless you tested the same mob for over 100 hours, we are talking about a difference of +10% to an invisible stat here. The RNG also involved would make it almost impossible to observe. We need the coding to truly know.

That's actually quite wrong. Most youtubers that do max hit tests and calculations don't have the actual code to know differences between things. They do an hour or so of testing each weapon and calculate the difference in damage. 

[Abigail 55]

there is no need for 100 hours of testing when you can litteraly see how huge the dmg difference is.

[Rolla 188]

2 hours ago, Raw said:

That's actually quite wrong. Most youtubers that do max hit tests and calculations don't have the actual code to know differences between things. They do an hour or so of testing each weapon and calculate the difference in damage. 

So how do you know what a max hit is? If there was a dummy i'd agree but again if you are just hitting mobs there are to many variables to actually know what a max hit is.

10 minutes ago, Abigail said:

there is no need for 100 hours of testing when you can litteraly see how huge the dmg difference is.

Again its like saying OH i rolled a 10 sided dice and got 10 everytime it so much better than roling this 20 sided dice which i only rolled 5 and below on. RNG has alot at play.

[Raw 685]

6 hours ago, Rolla said:

So how do you know what a max hit is? If there was a dummy i'd agree but again if you are just hitting mobs there are to many variables to actually know what a max hit is.

Again its like saying OH i rolled a 10 sided dice and got 10 everytime it so much better than roling this 20 sided dice which i only rolled 5 and below on. RNG has alot at play.

Yeah, there's a lot of variables. You're able to come to a consensus based on hours of testing something. Say a dragon dagger for example. With max str the gear the dagger should be able to 45 45 in PvP. Obviously higher taking into account pvm when you factor a slayer helmet in. 

People are able to come to conclusions on what gear is/should be better by the output they get from it. 

[karlyla 5]

Does best gear for magic necessitate highest damage?

Why would you use not use fire tome (i) for highest damage output?

If not, what spell are you using to achieve max hit in magic?

 

Thanks,

K.

EDIT:

Another comment just for visualization purposes.. why are you not including the stat bonus display ??

Seems a bit counter intuitivate you stating what each best item is, yet most people don't even have those items don't know what it will equate to when they compare the bonuses of the best items in comparison to their own items. I think this is poor representation of a "guide" for people to use if they even know what the bonuses are.

Edited May 12, 2018 by karlyla
Additional Commentary

[Abigail 55]

I also have been asking around,  with ppl that use darkness,blessing and inf book for a loong time, they maxed 52-55

Chaos blessing and book, you go up to 65-67  there is no 0% chance darkness will be bis by miles. 

Just facts,just don't want to argu. but it says it for itself when someone uses darkness for more then month, and get 55 max 

Compared to a 65-67 very common hits.

[Ralph 208]

25 minutes ago, Abigail said:

I also have been asking around,  with ppl that use darkness,blessing and inf book for a loong time, they maxed 52-55

Chaos blessing and book, you go up to 65-67  there is no 0% chance darkness will be bis by miles. 

Just facts,just don't want to argu. but it says it for itself when someone uses darkness for more then month, and get 55 max 

Compared to a 65-67 very common hits.

Thank you for letting me test it out.

Changing guide now.

[Uncle 68]

This is cool to see, I like the above idea from Karlyla to show the stats too- it would be interesting to also see BiS for every style of build like Accuracy, Prayer & Defence. 

[Iron Logic 910]

3 hours ago, Nate said:

This is cool to see, I like the above idea from Karlyla to show the stats too- it would be interesting to also see BiS for every style of build like Accuracy, Prayer & Defence. 

Time to code some more content that would make use of a high defence or high prayer bonus set up  

[Safi 78]

"Sorry for the image quality, I blame @zFireshots"

No i blame you ralph yoou posted the guide so fix the picture

Nice guide overall tho 

[Rolla 188]

It's because of how stretched you have the imagine.

 

But also if you are going into maxed skilling outfits, I would mention the two blessings and how they impact xp/h as well as tokens. Might be a little more in-depth than you originally wanted to go, but I think it would help the newer players out for sure.

Edited May 16, 2018 by Rolla

[Ralph 208]

On 5/12/2018 at 10:15 AM, karlyla said:

Another comment just for visualization purposes.. why are you not including the stat bonus display ??

Planning on incorporating stats in the future, since currently I do not own the best in slot gear.

Thanks for the suggestion.

[Java 86]

Thank you for updating this!

I will make a huge request though to make this guide 10x better IMO, add the 2nd BIS gear for those who can not afford the BIS gear. I'm sure a majority of newer players would appreciate that.

Well done @Ralph!

[Angeljr 4]

12 hours ago, Java said:

Thank you for updating this!

I will make a huge request though to make this guide 10x better IMO, add the 2nd BIS gear for those who can not afford the BIS gear. I'm sure a majority of newer players would appreciate that.

Well done @Ralph!

I'm a new player and i would appreciate to see 2nd best and 3rd maybe even 4th at possible for the super poor as my self  

[Java 86]

Pin location? 

EXTREMELY useful. 

[Tricky Spit 3]

@Matt i could join you and we could provider 2nd and 3rd bis Just so People can see them

Pm in game if you'd like to join that

[Matt 74]

@Tricky Spit I don't have much time this month, quite busy. 

[Balerion 4]

Extremely useful guide, better than the gear viewer ingame.