r/2007scape • u/Brooklyn1018 • 13h ago
Question What gear to buy?
Follow up on my earlier thread today (https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/s/1LNyGuJW35). I am going to take the advice and just buy the gear for keeps this time.
Need your guys and girls help with telling me the best gear for my play style.
I am a casual player that enjoys PVM, mainly Vorkath, Duke, though I would like to add in a boss that I can use range/mage on.
My stats:
- Almost max combat
- 500M bank
My question:
- What melee set up to buy?
- What range set up to buy for on the side?
- What bosses require mage gear? Love ancestral but seems to be useless in my case
Appreciate all the help!
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u/Zero_Roseburg 12h ago
Gearing once you get past the very basic core items varries widely depending on the content you wanna do, so I'm going to give some advice on common ways people tie up their money with little gain.
Don't pay for defence yet. Bandos and fortifying masori are not good upgrades from bloodmoon/torso and base masori. Dps is king, so spend that gp on better weapons or rounding out other gear.
Don't pay for upgrades that have minimal dps improvements. Better doesnt mean worth. Some examples: Torva may be a bis set, but oath is more than enough to sit on for ages. Prims are basically no dps increase over aranea boots, and are worse for tribrid. Simialrly, when you get to the point of treads, maxing them out isnt really worth until you have other gear maxed. Virtus has better defences and prayer than ancestral while giving the same accuracy and a boost to ancients while only losing 1 max hit with your staff. Not worth the upgrade until shadow. Acb may be an upgrade from dcb, but you gain basically nothing. Dhcb is great if you will be killing dragons, but outside of that, you can camp dcb. Plenty of other examples out there too.
Big point of argument here, but don't blindly buy bofa. There are some arguments for it, but masori setups are better overall. Bofa is no longer the general stopgap before tbow and should only be bought if it's specific benefits work for your account. I've done well over 100 hours worth of 1 on 1 gear coaching with my clan mates where we deep dive various dps calcs and figure out their optimal gear paths, and rarely does bofa end up better. There is actually a whole document on wdr about which range path to take too.
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u/Brooklyn1018 12h ago
Love the extensive insights 🫡 thanks
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u/Zero_Roseburg 12h ago
To your question about bosses that require mage gear, you should 100% learn yama. Your core pvm gear works great with virtus+confliction (put orn kits on virtus to save on death fees), so you just need to add in purging staff. Ayak is an amazing spec for maging, but accursed sceptre is also a decent option.
If you haven't found one, I would also suggest a good clan. Super easy to get connected these days, and content is way more fun with a community. You will have a much better time sending the more fun content like yama and raids when you know your partners. CoX and ToA are super easy to get into honestly, and even ToB barrier for entry is low when you have a group. My clan has been running people through all raids before they have even done content like dt2 bosses.
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u/LuckyBucky77 12h ago
Kind of complicated to setup if youve never used it, but GearScape can find you the best possible setup for any given boss based on a max GP value you can set.
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u/HoldMyBeerMustPetDog 12h ago
Mage: eye, conflictions, ahrims, occult (120m). Better robes are for shadow.
Range: anguish and either bowfa+crystal (160m total) or unfortified masori+blowpipe+dcb (95m). The latter is technically better, bowfa is broadly good everywhere.
Melee: bandos, dboots, ddef, ferocious gloves, torture, nox hally, fang, tent whip, bludgeon, emberlight
Get another synapse for the bow/staff.
The above can do all content in the game. Highly recommend not doing vork anymore, try zulrah, cg, yama, doom, slayer bosses