Gear Progression

This will cover information on armour and weapons and where to get them and their upgrade paths if applicable.

A range of early to mid game weapons and armour can be found at ;;Shops North of the Grand Exchange. This typically ranges from Bronze to Dragon, up to Black Dragonhide, Mystic Robes and God Capes.

• For an Ironman, these gear shops are unavailable. Most items can be purchased at their Old School Runescape locations, such as the Dragon scimitar can be located on Ape Atoll and Helm of neitiznot from Mawnis Burowgar on Neitiznot, or the Ancient Staff from Elbis in the Desert.

The Vote Shop is available to all account types and can be found in ;;shops. Gear upgrades available here are the Fighter Torso, Magic Shortbow(i), Ring of Wealth(i), Tome of Fire, Dwarf Multicannon and the Rune Defender.

• These can be obtained elsewhere, potentially allowing you to save your vote tickets for something else, or to sell them to other players.

The Blood Money Exchange can be located west of the Grand Exchange at the PvP Arena, or by typing ;;pvp. Speak to Mandrith. You can obtain a lot of good items here in exchange for Blood money. This shop is available to all account types. Most notably, you can obtain a Statius' warhammer, Dragon defender, Ring of wealth(i) and the Imbued God capes.

The Slayer Shop can also be used to exchange your Slayer Points for various goods. Shayzien armor, Black mask and Slayer helmet components, Fighter torso, Salve amulet(e), Abyssal Whip and Dragon boots amongst some others. This can be used by any account type.

The various Mystery Boxes can also award you with gear upgrades. These can be obtained from the Zeah Store, Voting rewards, Trivia questions, certain Event rewards and World Bosses.

Melee

Armour

Barrows is the likely first upgrade over your base gear pre God Wars Dungeon. The bosses themselves are very accessible with a low gear/skill requirement. Barrows sets can also be created in Xeric's Forge for 7,500 Fragments per set.

Obsidian can be purchased for Tokkul in Mor ul Rek and provides a moderate strength bonus.

Bandos is the first major gear set in heading towards end game pvm. It provides good strength bonus and good defense. It's a very good all-round melee set. Pieces dropped by General Graardor.

Inquisitor's will be used when you want to prioritise crush damage. Inquisitor's great helm, hauberk and plateskirt have a set effect which boosts your crush accuracy. Best paired with the Inquisitor's mace, the Scythe of Vitur or Annihilation. This can be obtained as a rare drop from The Nightmare.

Justiciar armour from the Theatre of Blood is a very defence focused set with lower strength output.

Torva is a step beyond Bandos in terms of strength and defence. Torva armour is dropped by Nex. This can be further upgraded into Sanguine Torva by obtaining an Ancient Blood Ornament Kit from the Theatre of Blood (Hard).

Weapons

Abyssal Whip is the first staple weapon you'll likely move on to after the Dragon scimitar. It requires 70 Attack and is Slash based. It can be obtained from the Slayer Shop or killing Abyssal Demons (85 Slayer)

Arclight is very strong against any demon type enemies, ie. Cerberus, K'ril Tsutsaroth. It can be obtained by using 3 ancient shards on Darklight while next to the altar in the Kourend Catacombs. Darklight can be purchased from ;;shops or from Sir Prysin in Varrock Castle. Arclight can further be upgraded into Emberlight with a Tormented Synapse drop from Char.

Zamorakian Hasta/Spear can be obtained as a relatively common drop from K'ril Tsutsaroth. The spear is a very good option for taking on the Corporeal Beast and can be turned into a Hasta by taking it to Otto Godblessed at the Barbarian Fishing spot. The Hasta has solid stab and crush bonuses.

Dragon Hunter Lance an upgrade from the Zamorakian Hasta, made by combining it with a Hydra Claw from the Alchemical Hydra. Provides additional accuracy and damage when fighting Dragons such as Vorkath or Olm.

Godswords are mostly used for their special attacks. Bandos Godsword reduces defence, Sara domin Godsword heals and restores your prayer, Armadyl Godsword deals an attack with increased accuracy and damage, Zamorak deals an attack which freezes the target. The Godsword hilts are obtained from their respective God Wars bosses.

Inquisitors mace is obtained from The Nightmare and is the best crush weapon in the game currently aside from a kitted Scythe. Paired with the set effect of full Inquisitors armour it becomes incredibly powerful.

Noxious Halberd is a powerful Halberd with good slash and stab bonuses, and grants you an extra 1 tile range on your melee attacks. The parts for this can be obtained from Araxxor.