Talk:Slayer task/Drake

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Hello everyone, I've been checking this strategy guide but noticed they're was some mystake probably. Sorry for my english i'm a french talker.

I think the setup recommanded is not appropriate. First for the boots unless people have elite diary you still need protection boots for all rooms in the karuulm dungeon.

Also it's impossible to fully pray as they attack with 2 style in melee distance: range and melee. I tryed to count a bit the attack on 20 drakes and had like 70% of range attack in total. I already noticed it before that range attack is a lot more common but wanted to count it first. So 20 is of course not enough to get a correct idea but i really think it's better to pray range and tank melee attack, if praying. So i would more recommand a typical melee armour (Bandos, barrows,...) and not the proselyte.

You can fully pray and have no dammage if you range the drakes and have full antifire protection. As they use only the range attack in range distance. Kills are a bit slower but it's duable easily for thoose struggling to melee them or thoose wanting no damage at all.

I haven't really find a coherent schema in the special attack in melee. I already had it as a first attack. Usualy, i count the special after 10 or 7 normal attacks, regardless of if i got hit or not. Looked random to me but it's probably not. Just can't figure out the schema.

Maybe someone could verify thoose informations and edit the guide page. Eventualy make a melee set up and a range set up to not have just the pray set up.

Thank you,

BlastYa BlastYa (talk) 14:02, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

I remember this page being made in a rush, I'll go through and fix it when I have a moment if no one has done it by then —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Luna Lana (talk) on 14:27, 6 July 2020 (UTC).

It looks like someone is working on rewriting it? (Edit: I guess Luna got this one. *thumbs up*) First of I'd just like to say the boots are fine, you can use Brimstone boots without having done the diary. There's basically two different strategies as you pointed out. 1) magic/ranged while praying protect against missiles. if you dodge the fireball you don't even need antifire, and will take little to no damage. However this is slow. method 2) is tanking with melee. there i'd just recommend praying piety/chivalry. no point it praying protection prayers there as it will just drain your prayer faster. also full antifire protection is needed so players can opt to just tank the fireball, I find that the most convenient. --The scribe

14:53, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, didnt saw boots where changed :) last week it was still holy sandals, primordial, dragon... That's why i said that. For the rest i let all of you think of best strategy, i'm usualy here to learn and i learn a lot. Just really tought for people who don't know them and come here for info that the setup was not really the best. Good continuation all of you! BlastYa (talk) 16:59, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

I'm currently fixing it up, it's a massive mess but it'll be sorted soon Luna Lana (talk) 17:00, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Use of magic is a viable strategy at drakes

Magic level notwithstanding, Drakes have 20 magic defense. Plug it into any DPS calculator to see for yourself, or better yet go do a trip. Magic is at least as good DPS as most range setups and should be included in the strategy section.

73.239.87.88 11:18, 12 November 2021 (UTC)Whiler

Edit: 20 magic defense, not 0. Fact remains, magic works well here.

I see. Though I've raised the magic level recommendation from 50, which was rather really low, to 85. Do note that Drakes also have a magic level of 112, that is 'combined' with their magic defence which makes their effective magic defence much higher. - Shayani (talk) 06:48, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Range boots

Other boots (pegs and blessed d'hide boots) say they aren't recommended unless you have kourend elite. Why are ranger boots exempt from this? Do they provide protection like boots of stone? Richman4 (talk) 05:07, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

someone added the boots without adding the ref about kourend elite, that is all Fjara_{_talk} 12:51, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Setup description

The inventory sections of melee and range does not match their image. Ancestor7 (talk) 18:07, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

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hasta listed as possible weapon?

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Good idea, I added the zhasta as an option below the Ghrazi rapier in the table. It's pretty similar to the Blade of saeldor in DPS, depending on other gear, so I put them in the same spot. BigDiesel2m (talk) 21:36, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

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In the magic section for strategies, the Harmonised Nightmare Staff is not listed, despite the 50% water vulnerability that drakes have.

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updated with new gear

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BowFa

BowFa and Cannon shread these, probably moreso than some of the recommended ranging methods Vahnx (talk) 11:46, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

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on the melee equipment recs, the pictured inventory does not have a holy wrench while the text list suggests one

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the gear is faulty, at least for ranged the inventory and picture don't agree, and the best boots are wrong because only boots of stone or brimstone can be used, others simply cannot due to the whole volcano thing

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The elite Kourend diary disables the floor damage when not using boots of stone/brimstone boots. All setups have a note on other boots mentioning this. Vroomstick (talk) 22:54, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

Made some additions to ranged setup but not aware of any other issues. Crabby (talk) 23:14, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

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Footnote style for the ranged boots section, and all of the magic equipment section, is inconsistent with the rest of the wiki (negatively affects the quality of the ranged section in particular).

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Any particular reason the slayer helm isn't shown as imbued for the melee setup?

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Imbuing it does nothing for the melee style but might as well list it as imbued anyways Data (talk) 20:56, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

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seems like it should be made more clear that you will take constant damage unless you have the Elite Kourend diary complete with all the gear suggestions you give.

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dh wand + tome of water appears to be higher dps than eye of ayak/tumeken even at 99 magic

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Going by the revision history, it looks like the recommended melee spec weapons haven't been updated since drakes were given +2 flat armour. Are dragon/burning claws still the appropriate top recommendation after this change, or should the list be revised?

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I think so yes - but b claws really do look much better than d claws so I'm going to make that a little clearer. https://dps.osrs.wiki?id=LyreiSandwormsNuggets

Crabby (talk) 16:56, 1 February 2026 (UTC)