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Barrows

Introduction

The Barrows Brothers dharokhead are mainly camped by high-level players in an effort to obtain the Graverobber title. The brothers are relatively weak, with the exception of Linza.

Useful Unlocks

⬥ Completing all Hard Morytania achievements:

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Doubles rune drops

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Allows you to bank loot directly from the chest

⬥ Completing all Easy Combat Mastery Achievements:

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Portals will permanently appear in corner & central rooms of the underground crypt

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎⬩ Teleporting via these portals circumvents the need to to solve puzzles or open doors

⬥ Bringing a Dragon/Barrows defender allows for additional defender components. Corrupted sigils can be dissasembled for undead components

The Fight

Suggested order for killing the brothers:

Linza → Ahrim → Verac → Akrisae → Torag → Karil → Guthan → Dharok

General Strategy

⬥ It is recommended to be on an Undead slayer task to benefit from the slayer helmet slayerhelm and Guardhouse boosts

⬥ You can pre-vuln by using vulnbomb on the ground after clicking the sarcophagus

⬥ Bringing a spade and using it to dig in order to enter the mounds is quicker

⬥ Good movement can improve the efficiency of your runs, below are some examples starting at Dharok's crypt:

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Guthan last

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Akrisae last

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Karil last

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Torag last

Necromancy

Preset and Relics

Necromancy Preset

Rotations

Default to soulsapnecrobasic for all regular brothers. Use barrowsamulet to skip Akrisae

Use invokedeath when moving between brothers

Linza and Ahrim

splitsoulinvokedeathcommandskeleton + undeadslayersurge to Linza → (tc) + deathskulls + vulnbombvolleyofsoulstouchofdeathomniguard spec

Notes:

commandskeleton as you click on Ahrim's tomb

Run over to Ahrim whilst doing the rotation, be sure to not run out of deathskulls range

Example Kills

Example Necromancy run

Magic

Preset and Relics

Magic

⬥ Augmented gear piece has Equilibrium 4 eq4 Undead Slayer undeadslayerperk

Rotations

⬥ Autocast crumbleundead

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Lunging is recomended on the orb but not necessary, Linza might take an additional ability without it

⬥ Can use barrowsamulet to skip any brother other than Linza

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• This guide assumes you don't use them

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• This guide assumes you reset at War's Retreat after every run

⬥ Use runic_charge while running to Ahrim, you still want enough time on runic to use the second Linza rotation if Ahrim is in the tunnel

Ahrim

Use runic_charge while running to Ahrim (tc) + corruptionblastgsonic

Note: move towards Linza while using the abilities.

Linza

(tc) + undeadslayerroarofawakening specomnipowerigneouscombust if combust reset combust again otherwise dbreathgconc

Ahrim Tunnel

(tc) + corruptionblastgsonicroarofawakening specomnipowerigneouscombust if combust reset combust again otherwise dbreath

Dharok

(tc) + wm

Note: use runic_charge while running to Guthan

Guthan

(tc) + dbreath

Karil

(tc) + wm

Torag

(tc) + wm

Notes:

adrenrenewal if low adrenaline (below 25%)

Use runic_charge as soon as possible

Verac

(tc) + wm

Akrisae

(tc) + dbreath

Example Kills

Example Magic run

Melee

Presets and Relics

Melee

⬥ Expect approximately 48 kph

⬥ Can downgrade gear, but you may need to use extra abilities

Rotations

⬥ Pray malevolence + soulsplit

War's Retreat

dba → 120 adren → zerk → 120 adren

Dharok

escapemobile + click + surgemobile → dig → meteorstrike

Ahrim + Linza

undeadslayer + gbargemobile + surgemobile + equip lengmh → TC + gflurry + vulnbombchaosroarcane

Verac

overpowerigneous

Akrisae

tumekenslight spec

Torag, Karil, Guthan

overpowerigneouspulverisecane

Notes:

If barrowsamulet on Akrisae then skip tumekenslight spec

Example Kills

Example Melee run

Ranged

Presets and Relics

Ranged

Rotations

War's Retreat

gdeathsswift → 100% adren → portal

Dharok

Dig + imbueshadowsbolg spec

Ahrim + Linza

Spawn Ahrim and run to Linza whilst gricocaroming → (tc) Linza + undeadslayer + galeshotdeadshotigneousrapid + move towards stairs → gricocaroming

Verac

snapshot

Akrisae

barrowsamulet

Torag, Karil, Guthan

snapshot

Notes:

Apart from Linza and Akrisae, you should target cycle + snapshot + click stairs to leave as snapshot one-shots with the given setup

If you don't have 100% adren leaving Linza, use snipe which also one-shots with this setup

If Dharok is the tunnel, bolg spec Ahrim

If Ahrim is tunnel, gricocaroming Linza first

If you don't want to use barrows amulets, snipe Akrisae

Example Kills

Example Ranged runs