Zorro’s Guide to 55 Slayer for Obby Maulers [March 2019]

Sup. The first version of this guide was surprisingly successful and got some great
feedback, so here I’ve updated it for early 2019. As before, I’ve tried to keep this short and
direct, so you can use it as a cheat sheet on your way toward earning your Slayer’s staff.
First, to answer the most common question I see: “Is this ​really ​faster than regular slayer?”

Yes​. Absolutely. We wouldn’t be doing this if it wasn’t the better method. 55 slayer used to
be extremely tedious, and forced maulers into a difficult position where they had to budget
their xp to avoid becoming range/mage based (if confused, see footnote). Thanks to
updates, you can now do the vast majority of the work through questing and xp lamps
alone. I know this still seems like a lot of work, but keep your eyes on ​the prize​. It’s a rite of
passage for any new obby. If it wasn’t hard to get, it wouldn’t mean anything, right?

Of course, if you prefer, you can still do regular slayer. Just note that everything we do here
has some side perks which you’ll also be missing out on. To elaborate, the three main
components to this guide are ​Fossil Island​, ​One Small Favour​, and ​achievement diaries​.
● If you skip the ​Fossil Island​ method, which will account for the bulk of the xp, you
also won’t be able to access ammonite crabs, which have 40hp more than sand crabs
and are often less crowded. If you don’t want to earn the Fossil Island xp lamps, but
want to access the crabs, you can just do steps 1-7 below, ignoring step 4.
● If you skip ​One Small Favour​, you won’t be able to use Guthix Rests for pking,
which can be incredibly helpful. For those who don’t know, you can drink multiple
sips of Guthix Rests in a single game tick for 5hp each, and you can do this while
mauling. They are popular among maulers because they allow you to heal during
your maul animation to avoid risking too heavily. For this, just do steps 12-14.
● If you skip all of the ​achievement diaries​, you’ll miss out on Varrock Armor 1,
which is currently best-in-slot for 1 defense. You’ll also miss out on a few other
quality-of-life items such as the Explorer Ring and the Falador Shield. Of course, you
can do some diaries without doing others, but which diaries will be up to you.

Last note before getting into the guide: ​WHEN IN DOUBT, CHECK THE WIKI​. We get a
crazy amount of questions in our cc. We’re happy to help clear up any confusions, but
almost anything you might need can be found by typing your question into Google instead.
If you’re unsure about anything on your obby, use the wiki before you make a decision.
Watch out in particular for quest rewards which could give unwanted experience.

The terms ​Range​-​Based, Mage-Based, ​and M ​ elee-Based​ refer to how the game measures an account’s
primary combat attribute. As an obby, you want to keep your range and mage below 2/3 of your combined
strength and attack levels, or your combat level will start to scale with range or mage. Since you need 50 mage
to wield the slayer staff, 1 attack obbies will need at least 74 str to become melee-based again. It’s fine to go
mage-based while earning your staff, but you’ll probably want to train to 75 str before you go pking again.
 ROAD TO 55 SLAYER

You’ll need ​166,636 ​experience for 55 slayer. We’ll be getting ​1k ​xp at the start from the
Varrock Museum, ​120k ​from all of the Fossil Island lamps, ​20k ​from One Small Favour,
and ​23.5k ​xp from the available achievement diaries.

STEP 1) ​To start, go ahead and complete ​Druidic Ritual​, if you haven’t already.

STEP 2)​ Get 10 agility, 10 herblore, and 25 thieving so you can complete ​The Dig Site
quest. This is necessary before you can start earning kudos in the Varrock Museum.

STEP 3)​ With The Dig Site complete, head to the ​Varrock Museum​. Go down one floor
to the Natural history exhibit, and speak with Orlando Smith. Reference ​this link​ for the
answers to the Natural History Quiz, and complete it. If done correctly, you should have
28 kudos at this point. Doing so will also grant you 1000xp in Slayer and Hunter, which
should put each of them at level 9 if you haven’t leveled them previously.

STEP 4) ​Go to the best slayer master for your level, and slay until at least level 20. You
can stop here if you’d like, but if you go ahead and slay until ​5,636 ​xp (just past level
22), you can get away with doing one less achievement diary later. Whatever you
choose, congrats! Complete the rest of this guide and you’ll never have to slay again.

STEP 5) ​Go back to the main floor of the Varrock Museum, and go through the gate to
clean some some digsite finds. You’ll need an ​ancient coin​, an ​old coin​, an ​old
symbol​, an ​ancient symbol​, and ​pottery​. Show each one of these to one of the
archaeologists sitting at the tables, and then ​put it in its display case​ outside of the gate.
The pottery case will already have some pottery in it; just place the pottery you find
inside the same case. Each one of these will give you 10 kudos when completed. By the
end of this section, you should have 78 kudos total.
● While not completely necessary, it is also ​highly​ recommended that you keep
searching until you find a ruby necklace. The chance of finding one is 1/51, but
it’s worth it when you do, because the archaeologist will teach you how to
enchant ruby necklaces so you can teleport to the digsite, and eventually to a
central location on Fossil Island. You cannot buy an already-enchanted ruby
necklace on the Grand Exchange, and you’ll need 49 magic to enchant your own,
but you’ll need 50 magic to wield your slayer staff anyway, so you may as well
get it done now. You can also use ​ruby enchant tablets​ or the ​Fountain of Rune
to save magic xp, if you prefer. The latter is mostly only useful for ironmen.
STEP 6)​ Go up the stairs, and talk to Minas, the historian. Here, you’ll be able to turn in
certain quests for 5 kudos each. You only need 100 kudos total, so you’ll want to turn in
5 quests. For the full list of quests he’ll accept for kudos, look at the ​Varrock Museum
wiki page. Here is what I would personally recommend you complete:
● Demon Slayer​ will eventually be a requirement if you intend to go for mithril
gloves, so you might as well get it done here.
● Rune Mysteries​ is easy enough, and will eventually be a prerequisite for One
Small Favour and the Enter the Abyss mini-quest, which is required to complete
the easy Wilderness diary.
● Hazeel Cult​ is very quick, and very easy. You can knock this out in a few
minutes and claim your kudos.
● Merlin's Crystal​ is another simple one. Note that you don’t actually need 20
attack to do this quest - you can simply right click on Excalibur from your
inventory, and use it on the crystal.
● Priest in Peril​ will grant you prayer experience, but if you’re aiming for 13 prayer
or higher, this is a great one to get done. If you don’t want the prayer xp, you can
replace this with ​Shield of Arrav​, or another quest in the list.
○ If you need a partner for Arrav, try the “osrs soa” clan chat.
○ If you choose another quest, watch out for unwanted xp rewards.
Observatory Quest, for example, has a chance to grant you
prayer/attack/defense xp. Check your starsign carefully before completing
the quest.

STEP 7)​ Congratulations, you should now be at 103 kudos. Go ahead and talk to
Curator Haig Halen on the main floor, and do the ​Bone Voyage​ quest. This will grant
you access to ​Fossil Island​.
● At this stage, you can also talk to the information clerk on the main floor for 3500
free Mining xp and 2500 Crafting xp. ​Warning​: If you do this after you have 151+
kudos, she’ll give 4000 prayer xp, among other types. Don’t talk to her after 151
kudos unless you want a high prayer account.
● If you have at least 21 Construction, you can build the bank chest and cleaning
bench on the island. They’re convenient for later. ​You can learn more on the wiki​.

STEP 8)​ Go ahead and get 65 woodcutting for this next part. I’d recommend
shift-dropping willows starting at 30, or teaks starting at 35, until you’ve reached 65. You
can enable shift-dropping in your settings if you haven’t already. While there are other
methods of collecting fossils on the island, the woodcutting method is ​by far​ the
quickest, and will be the only one discussed in this guide.
STEP 9)​ When you’re set up on Fossil Island, bring your dragon axe, antipoisons, a
rake, and a partial inventory of food. ​Click here for a video guide​ on how the area works,
or ​read about it here​. If you made a digsite necklace, bring it with you to unlock the
teleport shown at the end of the video. You can use it after runs to get back there
quickly. I’d recommend doing this, using rings of dueling to bank after the last
mushroom in the circuit. You should be able to go around a few times on one inventory.
● You’ll be getting a mixture of ​small​, ​medium​, ​large​, and ​rare​ fossils. The
sulliusceps are fairly good xp, but to get all the fossils you need will take you from
around ~65-77 woodcutting. Just an estimate.
○ Small​ fossils are the most common, and you’ll need at least 70.
○ Medium ​fossils have a decent drop rate, and you’ll need at least 60.
○ Large ​fossils may slow you down for a woodcutting level or two, but
they’re worth it. You’ll need at least 50.
○ Rare​ fossils are of no use to you, just trade them to the fossil collector by
the bank chest for some extra numulite.
● To make a bit of cash, trade all extra fossils to the fossil collector after you
complete the museum exhibits later, and sell your numulite on the GE.
● A ​regen brace​ goes a long way here, as you’ll be idling a lot while chopping.
● If you don’t have the health to tank the mushroom launcher the first time you
arrive (it hits 50+), just run backwards through the area to the first mushroom.

STEP 10) ​When you’re feeling comfortable about the amount of fossils you have, you
can start cleaning them on the cleaning bench you built, or on the one in the Varrock
Museum. They’ll convert into one of five types of more specific fossils. Large fossils,
when cleaned, will either turn into regular large fossils or plant fossils. When they’re all
cleaned, take them to the bottom floor of the Varrock museum, where you can store the
fossils in the crate by the staircase for later.
● You’ll need ​5​ of each type of large fossil and and ​5​ of each type of plant fossil to
complete their displays. You’ll need ​12​ of each type of medium fossil and ​14​ of
each type of small fossil to complete their displays. Keep cutting mushrooms until
you get the fossils you need.
● If you built the bank chest and cleaning bench on Fossil Island, clean everything
there. You can place your cleaned fossils in the nearby ​Fossil Storage crate​ to
teleport them to the bottom of the Varrock Museum. It’ll save you some running.

STEP 11) ​When you have all of the fossils you need, you can start filling in the displays.
Just take some fossils, and click the displays. Do the small ones first, then the medium,
then the plant & large, and use all of your xp lamps on slayer. When you’re finished,
congratulations, you’re most of the way to your goal and done with Fossil Island.
 ● You can’t bank the xp lamps after they’re in your inventory. If you complete a
display before you have the level requirement, you’ll have to keep the lamp in
your inventory until you can use it.
○ The ​small lamps​ have a level requirement of 20, and will get you past 30.
○ The ​medium lamps ​have a requirement of 30, and will get you past 35.
○ The ​large lamps ​have a level requirement of 35.

STEP 12)​ Complete the ​Jungle Potion​ quest. Also, complete ​Rune Mysteries​ if you
haven’t by this point. These are prerequisites for One Small Favour.

STEP 13) ​ Get 32 agility (boostable), 20 crafting, and complete ​Shilo Village​.
● Use the safespot against the boss. I found the Crumble Undead spell (lvl 39)
worked very well.
● The quest reward should give you the crafting level needed for your next quest.

STEP 14) ​ Get 36 agility (boostable), 18 herblore, and 30 smithing. Complete ​One
Small Favour​ and use the lamps on slayer.
● Note that the lamps have a level requirement of 30, and cannot be banked. Don’t
complete this quest until you can use them.
● Use the safespot on the rock boss, and bring enough food to handle the gang.
● When talking to the gnome pilot on White Wolf Mountain, world hop until you find
a world where the wolves won’t interrupt your conversation, and click fast.
● The Knight's Sword​ quest will take you from 1-29 smithing, which is an easy way
to handle the requirement.

STEP 15)​ Complete all of the easy achievement diaries except Fremennik and
Morytania. There are too many tiny requirements to list, but ​you can read about all of
the diaries here​. Each of these will give you a lamp that grants ​2.5k ​xp, except for
Karamja’s lamp, which only grants ​1k ​xp. The Varrock diary is the most important for
the armor, but some of the others offer nice perks. You can replace any of these with
regular slayer, if you wish.

With all of your lamps turned in, you should finally have 55 slayer, and be able to wield
your Slayer’s staff (with 50 magic). Congrats! You’re now officially an obby.

I hope this guide helped you out. If you have any questions, or you’re just looking for a
clan chat to join, come by “Obby Elite” cc, or ​our Discord​. We can surely help you out,
or at least entertain you for the grind. Take it slow, don’t get burned out, and good luck.

-Zorro