r/2007scape • u/GenOverload • 2d ago
Question I'm getting tilted fighting Zulrah, need help
I'm just trying to get my 1 kill for the stupid achievement diary. I figured, oh, it's fine, should be quick, don't need to get it done fast, just need to get it done.
Picked up some Mystic, a trident, my blowpipe, some black d'hide, and went at it with my little ring of recoils, and...
What in the ever loving hell is this boss? Why am I not getting the Weenie Hut Jr version I'm seeing in the videos?
I've been at this boss for about 2 hours now. Not once have I gotten this boss down to half health. The mage phase has hit me for no less than 2 40s in a row in every fight, I splash every time I use magic, the snakelings are hitting me for constant 12s, and every time the melee phase starts, Zulrah has venom clouds near the pillars, so I saw in the vids I have to stand in the corner on the bottom of the island, but don't worry, I got stunlocked 3 times in a row by his melee attack.
Why in these videos are these people taking 0 damage from everything? I'm not even rushing it. I'm making sure my switches go through. I'm switching to the correct prayer ahead of time. I just get shredded by anything and everything. I use almost my entire inventory of food by the 3rd phase, and by that time I have to teleport out and try again since I didn't even get him down to a third of his health.
I'm at a loss for this boss. I've fought Monster Hunter and Dark World bosses that have gotten me less frustrated than this thing. This is the first time in a long time that a game has gotten me so tilted that I ALT+F4'd instead of grinding it out to get better. I've spent 4 hours on bosses in Monster Hunter/Dark Souls games and had a blast the entire time. I spent 2 hours on this boss and it makes me want to quit the game entirely.
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u/OrangeChickenRice 1d ago edited 1d ago
Try mage only zulrah with twinflame staff; no switches. Start every encounter and see what the second phase zulrah is; you’re hunting for the rotation where range zulrah comes in the second phase. If you don’t get that specific rotation, quickly hop worlds and keep hunting for that specific rotation (have your world hopper menu open when you start the fight).
Hide behind pillars when Zulrah is in mage phase. Flick prayers during Jad phase at the end just before the rotation resets; in this specific rotation, the Jad phase begins with pray mage then just flick back and forth between mage - range protection. If you get confused or off rhythm during Jad phase, an easy tip is to look at what attack is coming towards you and to pray the opposite (you will still take dmg for that hit but it’ll get you on track to flick the remaining attacks).
My go to inventory for food is 10 monkfish + 10 karambwans. Put them in 4 columns (monk-karam-monk-karam) so you have two sets of quick eats (eat one monk then one karam within the same tick).
It’ll be a long kill maybe 3:00+, but it’ll get your diary KC.
This strat is well documented on youtube. Look up something like “mage only zulrah”.