OSRS Slayer training guide
Assigned monster tasks. The main route to the game's best drops and strong combat experience.
About Slayer
Slayer gives you tasks from a master and unlocks the ability to damage certain monsters at all. It is the primary source of high-value drops in the game, and the main reason most accounts train combat at all.
It is slower per hour than dedicated combat training, but it pays for itself many times over and unlocks content nothing else can reach.
Fastest training
Rates assume an attentive player with the gear and unlocks that make each method work. Real sessions include banking, breaks and mistakes.
Tasks from Duradel or Nieve
Take tasks from the highest master you qualify for, block the worst assignments, and use the Slayer helmet. Efficiency here is mostly about task selection.
Barraging in the Catacombs or Nightmare Zone
Multi-target tasks barraged in a confined space give the highest Slayer experience available.
Other approaches
- Profitable
- Slayer is the backbone of mid and late-game income. Abyssal demons, gargoyles and the boss tasks all pay well.
Useful quests
Quest experience is often worth far more than the time it takes, particularly at low levels where the curve is shallowest.
- Priest in PerilThe gateway to Morytania. Required for Slayer, Barrows, and a large amount of members content.
- Lost CityUnlocks Zanaris and the ability to wield dragon weapons.
- Monkey Madness IIA grandmaster quest that unlocks maniacal monkey hunting — the fastest Ranged experience available.25,000 xp
- Desert Treasure IUnlocks the Ancient Magicks spellbook, including Ice Barrage — the most important Magic unlock in the game.
- Animal MagnetismUnlocks Ava's device. Effectively mandatory for anyone training Ranged.1,000 xp
- Horror from the DeepUnlocks the god books, a useful shield-slot alternative with a prayer bonus.
Making money with Slayer
- Gargoyle Slayer tasksA safe, low-attention Slayer task with consistently valuable drops including granite mauls and alchable equipment.Level 75
- Brutal black dragonsSafespottable dragons in the Catacombs of Kourend, dropping bones, hides and a steady flow of alchable equipment.Level 77
- Grotesque GuardiansA two-target boss on the Slayer Tower roof, requiring a gargoyle task. Drops granite equipment and the Noon pet.Level 75
- Abyssal demonsThe Slayer task most associated with the abyssal whip. Low attention, safe, and consistently paid.Level 85