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Challenge Mode setups

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Challenge Mode setups

Challenge Mode setups
Type Item
Videos 2 (first 2023-06-14, latest 2024-11-08)
Main source SOLO CM COX GUIDE + Shadow Running! (OSRS)

Challenge Mode setups is an item topic that Gnomonkey covers in 2 videos between 2023-06-14 and 2024-11-08. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Contents

Methods

  • Gnomonkey's beginner-to-intermediate speed setup uses Brimstone ring and Blood Fury, which helps survive Vanguards and Olm, plus a stamina potion.1
  • An advanced setup skips the stamina: torture plus Brimstone (with Berserker ring) gets to 60 max hit on guardians, and Gnomonkey says you want the accuracy from torture and the max hits from Berserker ring.2

Tips

  • To use one stamina dose at Vespula and keep the three other doses for Olm.3
  • Brimstone plus Blood Fury is a max hit threshold setup, and with it you put the scythe on accurate instead of aggressive; he says Brimstone is a little better than Berserker ring with Blood Fury.3
  • Dragon pegs (Pegasian boots) are quite good in CM because they add three to four percent DPS with the Twisted bow.4
  • Void waker is a really good all-round spec weapon in CM because it goes through defence, and it doubles as the stab weapon for Vasa's crystals.5
  • You can get away with two stamina potions in solo CM.6

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey says he used to run a Thieving cape but now runs the Lightbearer because it gets an extra Ice Demon spec, an extra claw at Vanguards and Muttadiles and a bunch of hammers at Olm.7
  • Gnomonkey does not like camping the Light bearer with Blood Fury, saying it costs a lot of max hit on the scythe for little gain; bringing it as a switch makes sense.8
  • Gnomonkey says Eternal boots are only worth bringing if you are using a shadow.5
  • Gnomonkey does not use a Lightbearer in CM because you recharge spec running between rooms and cannot spec Vespula, Tightrope or Guardians, so it just sits in your inventory.9
  • Gnomonkey recommends a melee strength ring such as Ultor ring; without it he suggests Berserker ring or Brimstone ring (for its accuracy for maging).10
  • Gnomonkey recommends using Amulet of blood fury at first rather than Amulet of torture or Necklace of anguish-style Rancor options, because the healing lets you brew less; torture or Rancor become good once you can time brewing perfectly.11
  • Gnomonkey would not bring a Bandos godsword in CM or even regular Chambers, saying a Dragon warhammer is really important.12

Revision history

Date Video Change
2024-11-08 SOLO CM COX GUIDE + Shadow Running! (OSRS) Added: 8 statements (opinion, tip)
2023-06-14 COX CM Solo Teaching Stream OSRS Page created: 6 statements (method, opinion, tip)
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References

  1. COX CM Solo Teaching Stream OSRS, 2023-06-14. ▶ 32:25 ↩

  2. COX CM Solo Teaching Stream OSRS, 2023-06-14. ▶ 33:22 ↩

  3. COX CM Solo Teaching Stream OSRS, 2023-06-14. ▶ 32:52 ↩↩

  4. SOLO CM COX GUIDE + Shadow Running! (OSRS), 2024-11-08. ▶ 2:57 ↩

  5. SOLO CM COX GUIDE + Shadow Running! (OSRS), 2024-11-08. ▶ 3:58 ↩↩

  6. SOLO CM COX GUIDE + Shadow Running! (OSRS), 2024-11-08. ▶ 58:20 ↩

  7. COX CM Solo Teaching Stream OSRS, 2023-06-14. ▶ 33:54 ↩

  8. COX CM Solo Teaching Stream OSRS, 2023-06-14. ▶ 34:51 ↩

  9. SOLO CM COX GUIDE + Shadow Running! (OSRS), 2024-11-08. ▶ 4:25 ↩

  10. SOLO CM COX GUIDE + Shadow Running! (OSRS), 2024-11-08. ▶ 5:22 ↩

  11. SOLO CM COX GUIDE + Shadow Running! (OSRS), 2024-11-08. ▶ 5:51 ↩

  12. SOLO CM COX GUIDE + Shadow Running! (OSRS), 2024-11-08. ▶ 1:10:07 ↩

Items

Inferno gear • Bow of Faerdhinen • Burning claws • Tumeken's shadow • Toxic blowpipe • Atlatl • Dagannoth Kings • Scythe of Vitur • Soulreaper axe • Confliction gauntlets • Mixed hide armour • Voidwaker • Perilous Moons • Twisted bow • TzHaar-Ket Breaker • Osmumten's fang • Eclipse atlatl • Oathplate armour • Eye of Ayak • Venator bow • Bone dagger • Emberlight • Heka of Tumeken • Rubium • Sanguinesti staff • Dark crab • Eldritch veil • Void Knight equipment • Avernic treads • Crossbow bolts • Blood fury • Daeyalt Essence Mine • Noxious halberd • Torva armour • Divine potion • Soulflame horn • Surge potion • Ascension crossbow • Dharok's armour • Amulet of rancour

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