Runeology

hello, welcome to my barrows guide /happy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="^_^" border="0" alt="happy.gif" />
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1. Wearing and inventory
2. Usefull things before you go
3. How to get there
4. Who are the brothers?
5. Tunnel?!
6. @#$% puzzles
7. Win!
8. Ladder trick
9. Random tips


Wearing and inventory

lets start out with what to wear and bring.

if you dont know the barrows i suggest maging the 4 melee brothers.

so you need magic boosting stuff, some plate for the tunnels, some range armour for ahrim and a melee wep and crossbow/bow.

and of course a prayer potion, spade and teleport are 100% musts.
other usefull stuff includes runes for the spells you'll wanna cast and food.

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you can of course use mystic instead of the infinity (especially for your first runs), and a scim instead of the whip.


Useful things before you go

i like to use my house when i do lots of barrows, i have it set up so the chapel is right next to the entrance, and the portal room adjacent to that, with a canifis portal in it.

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this means when you teleport to your house from the barrows you can quickly recharge prayer and teleport back to canifis and bank for another run.

How to get there

the easiest bank to use is the canifis one, while the burgh de rott bank is closer, running back and forth, and out of the tunnel makes it longer in the long run.

there are two paths from canifis, the red one is the secret tunnel from "in search of the myreque", and the blue one requires no quests.
the red one is faster, and brings you through less ghouls, which means less food lost to rotting.

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Who are the brothers?

there are 6 "bosses" in the barrows, the 6 barrows brothers Ahrim, Dharok, Verac, Karil, Guthan and Torag.
they were legendary warriors who fought valiantly to defeat the armies of evil during the godwars, and for a long time they slew the evil hordes, but in the end they perished. and were buried in big mounds where they now reside.

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1: Verac
2: Dharok
3: Ahrim
4: Torag
5: Guthan
6: Karil

as you go around you will want to stand at the top of a mound, and dig with your spade, this will drop you into a crypt, with a big coffin in the middle.
in this coffin lies a brother.
when you search it he will of course jump up and attack you. they have different abilities, similar to those of the barrows set bonuses.
once you've killed him make sure to leave quickly as every 15 or so seconds down there it drains 10 prayer points!

i will describe them in the order i usually kill them, i usually kill Verac, Dharok and karil first, because you really need prayer for these, and then Ahrim, Guthan and Torag where prayer isn't quite as neccesary at 80+ def.

Verac: (melee prayer, mage him)
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verac will occationally hit through your prayer, but it happens rarely, once or twice in a fight usually.

without prayer he tends to hit straight 20's.

Dharok: (melee prayer, mage him)
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Dharok will hit harder and harder as his HP goes down, with a max hit of 57! so watch out and dont let your prayer drop just before he dies.

Karil: (range prayer, melee him)
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Karil will drain your agility level when he shoots you, nothing major, however he hits VERY hard, so range prayer is very much suggested.

Ahrim: (mage prayer and/or Dhides, range him)
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Ahrim will drain your defense level every now and then, again nothing major, and if you wear black d hides his hits aren't that bad (he can still throw a couple of 20's so watch your health!)

Torag: (mage prayer or plate armour, mage him)
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torag will occationally drain your run energy, very dangerous!
he can like all others hit 20's... but it usually only happens once every 5-6 kills.

Guthan: (mage prayer or plate armour, mage him)
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Guthan will heal himself occationally, just keep hitting him and he will eventually die.

Tunnel?!

as you go down and up these crypts, you will always find one where you get a message popping up instead of an angry pink ghost.
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when you find this you should skip that crypt and kill the other 5 brothers before going down into it.

once down there you will find yourself in a maze! and while you navigate this maze the fifth brother will pop up behind a random door and attack you!

its a very simple maze, with 9 rooms (3x3) with tunnels between them.

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basically you will come down in one of the corner rooms with ladders (only this ladder will be visible to you), and 3 doors in the room will be locked.
which means you have to go through the last door, and usually you have to go all the way around to get the the puzzle door(marked red) that you can open.

@#$% Puzzles

when you want to open the door to the middle room in the tunnel you will be presented with a puzzle, these are very simple, but made annoying by the fact that there's 5 skeletons queueing to get to you they can be quite stressing, so have a good look at them before you go.

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Win!

you should now be in the middle room, with a big chest.
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inside this is your loot! but beware, if you have not yet encountered the sixth brother he will pop up as you open the chest.

and once you click it again to loot your items the tunnels will start to shake and you will take periodic damage from falling rocks (just a 1 here and there, it wont kill you)
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Ladder trick
of course with melee brothers you can just trap them behind some rocks or the ladder in the tunnels and mage them without potting to keep prayer up.
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however! as you know, there is a ladder in all four corner rooms, and while it is not visible to you, you cannot walk in this spot. hence, trapping brothers on thin air!
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also see the video in the bottom for how to do this.

Random tips
its can be a good idea to bring a DDS for specs, and a whip or scim for most of the fighting.
remember your prayer pot! even if you are high level and can do without it its a very good backup plan.
you can of course use house tele tabs instead of runes like i did.
you can watch this video to see it all done in action, including the ladder trick.
killcount does not affect chance of barrows items, only the ammount of brothers you killed.
its suggested that you get about 15 killcount, as less than 10 will mean drastically less runes, and more than 20 is a waste of time.

thanks for reading, and i hope you get lots of phat lewts like i did! =D
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(i've had nearly all drops at least twice)

Skjoldfetter.