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Pest Control

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Pest Control

Pest Control
Type Mechanic
Videos 1 (first 2019-07-16, latest 2019-07-16)
Main source Pest Control for Dummies [OSRS 2019]

Pest Control is a mechanic topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2019-07-16. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Contents

Methods

  • The goal is to move from portal to portal killing each as quickly as possible, killing monsters in the downtime; RuneLite shows which portal's shield will drop next so the player can run to it beforehand.1

Stats and numbers

  • The veteran boat gives 5 points a game and requires 100 combat; the intermediate boat gives 4 points and requires 70 combat; the novice boat gives 3 points and requires 40 combat.2
  • On the veteran boat a regular void ranged set costs 850 points and takes about six and a half hours; a full elite void ranged set costs 1250 points and takes 9.5 hours on average; a complete set with all helmets costs 1650 points and takes almost 12.5 hours.3
  • The novice boat is 40% slower than the veteran boat for points; the regular void ranged set would take about 10 hours using just the novice boat.4

Tips

  • A Pest Control game has four shielded portals (Western, Eastern, Southeastern and Southwestern) that spill monsters trying to break through the gate and kill the player and the Void Knight.5
  • If the Void Knight is killed the game is lost immediately; killing all four portals wins the game immediately and returns players to the Pest Control dock. The Void Knight takes the portal shields down one by one over time.5
  • Pest Control is a safe minigame: dying sends the player back to the boat and they can run back in. If a player dies too many times or does not do enough damage they receive no points when the game ends.6
  • To bring best non-degradable armor and weapons, a spec weapon, and optionally stat-boosting combat potions for more XP an hour; food and prayer potions are not needed.6
  • Splatters have low HP and explode upon death dealing damage; Gnomonkey says to ignore them.1
  • Brawlers take up four tiles and cannot be walked through or shot past using ranged or magic.1
  • Defilers fire ranged attacks and can shoot through the wooden walls.1
  • Ravagers destroy barricades and doors, shifters use melee and can teleport like abyssal demons, and torchers use magic and can cast through the wooden walls.7
  • Spinners do not attack players but heal the portals, and Gnomonkey calls them the most important enemy to be conscious of.7
  • With fewer than four players attacking a portal it is best to kill spinners whenever possible; with a larger crowd players can out-DPS the spinners and kill the portal, which Gnomonkey calls the fastest and best option.8
  • If a spinner is alive when its portal is killed it explodes and poisons surrounding players, but the poison damage can be ignored given how short the games are.8
  • Rushing the portals with teammates and killing monsters between shields almost always defeats the portals before the knight dies and makes games faster and more consistent.9
  • Players can repair barricades and doors to gain points without combat, which Gnomonkey says is really only useful for non-combat accounts and barely helps the team.9
  • Games do not take longer on a harder boat, so Gnomonkey says to take the best boat available for faster points.2
  • At level 40 combat, while training melee anyway, Gnomonkey says the novice boat is a fairly efficient place to train and obtain void at the same time, though XP an hour is much worse than Sand Crabs because Pest Control monsters have defence.10

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey does not recommend AFKing with auto-retaliate in front of the Void Knight, since many AFK players dramatically slow games and cause losses, and in his testing AFKing sometimes gets the player detected as a leech and awarded no points.9
  • Gnomonkey says void's power increases with Ranged level; if training early Ranged with Slayer, the Black Mask is more useful, but for cannoning or chinning Void can raise XP an hour by quite a bit.10
  • Gnomonkey thinks getting void on the novice boat while training melee, before having access to Nightmare Zone, is most efficient.4

Revision history

Date Video Change
2019-07-16 Pest Control for Dummies [OSRS 2019] Page created: 22 statements (method, opinion, stat, tip)
## References

  1. Pest Control for Dummies (OSRS 2019), 2019-07-16. ▶ 0:58 ↩↩↩↩

  2. Pest Control for Dummies (OSRS 2019), 2019-07-16. ▶ 4:33 ↩↩

  3. Pest Control for Dummies (OSRS 2019), 2019-07-16. ▶ 5:01 ↩

  4. Pest Control for Dummies (OSRS 2019), 2019-07-16. ▶ 5:53 ↩↩

  5. Pest Control for Dummies (OSRS 2019), 2019-07-16. ▶ 0:00 ↩↩

  6. Pest Control for Dummies (OSRS 2019), 2019-07-16. ▶ 0:30 ↩↩

  7. Pest Control for Dummies (OSRS 2019), 2019-07-16. ▶ 1:28 ↩↩

  8. Pest Control for Dummies (OSRS 2019), 2019-07-16. ▶ 2:02 ↩↩

  9. Pest Control for Dummies (OSRS 2019), 2019-07-16. ▶ 2:29 ↩↩↩

  10. Pest Control for Dummies (OSRS 2019), 2019-07-16. ▶ 5:27 ↩↩

Mechanics

Colosseum invocations • Yama contracts • Invocations (Tombs of Amascut) • Jal-ImKot • Inferno pillars • Jal-Ak • Alt account • Thralls • Nex gear setup • Tempoross • Turael • Inferno waves • Jal-Nib • Doom of Mokhaiotl: rock block method • Monkey Room • Fortis Colosseum pillars • Phantom barrage • Awakened bosses • Melee gear progression • Demonic Brutus • Jal-MejRah • Prayer flicking • Butterfly Tech • Fortis Colosseum setup • Doom of Mokhaiotl: melee punish • Sulliuscep • Botting • Off-ticking • Corner trapping • Doom of Mokhaiotl: car attack • Combat Achievements • Doom of Mokhaiotl: shield phase • Pest Control • Blood Barrage • Nylocas • Great Olm 4-1 method • Nex reset • Triple Jad • RuneScape 3 combat • Tightrope skip

Category: Mechanics