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Nightmare Creatures

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Introduction

Nightmare creatures nightmare can be assigned as a Slayer assignment after purchasing the toggle for 50 Slayer points, this requires completion of the Children of Mah quest. They are mainly killed for Slayer slayer tasks, the Other Worlds collection log, combat combat / invention item experience, and profit.

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⬥ Nightmare creatures can be assigned as a Slayer slayer assignment by Laniakea, Morvran, and Kuradal.

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Stats

⬥ slayer level: 80

⬥ slayer XP per kill: 1540

⬥ Optimal kills per hour: ~870 magic, ~803 melee, ~800 necromancy (All AFK)

⬥ Optimal slayer XP per hour: ~1.34m magic, ~1.24m melee, ~1.23m necromancy (All AFK)

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Desirable drops

⬥ Nightmare gauntlets nightmaregauntlets

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Required for the Slayer collection log.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• 1/2,000 on-task and 1/10,000 off-task.

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Note: if you change the monetary value for custom loot to 5k this will allow you to loot everything relevant (No sharks or Muspah spines). This is achieved by going to Settings > Gameplay > Item Drops > Loot System > Monetary Value 5,000.

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Useful Items and Unlocks

Owning the following increases the efficiency of your sessions, but is by no means mandatory
Items
⬥ Sixth-Age circuit sixthagecircuit     • Allows for an easy teleport to the World Gate. ⬥ Demon horn necklace demonhornnecklace     • Helps sustain your prayer. ⬥ Grace of the Elves gote     • Can be used as a swap when looting to automatically bank Muspah spines. ⬥ Weapon perked with Eruptive 4 eruptive4 Ruthless 3 ruthless3     • Mainly useful if camping Nightmares.
Other
⬥ Dwarven siege engine cannon     • Make sure to have the Restocking Cannon ability unlocked.

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Location and How to Get there

⬥ Nightmare Creatures are located at the Ritual site on Freneskae, accessible through the World Gate after completion of the Children of Mah quest.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Bring a Sixth-Age circuit sixthagecircuit for a quick teleport.

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Method: AFK Magic magic

Killing Nightmare creatures with Magic magic will yield the highest kph but require expensive abilities and gear for optimal results. If wanting to camp Nightmares, this is the preferred setup.

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Guide illustration ⬥ Positioning can greatly impact kph.

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Before loading your cannon and starting the session, check the following:

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⬥ Pray soulsplit and torment or affliction

⬥ Autocast exsanguinate

⬥ Sustain prayer with demonhornnecklace

⬥ Ensure elderovlsalve and weppoison are active at all times.

⬥ Ensure that scriptureofamascut is active.

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Presets and Relics

⬥ Magic preset magic Guide illustration

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Ability Bar

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Example Kills

⬥ AFK Magic magic

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Method: AFK Melee melee

Guide illustration ⬥ Positioning can greatly impact kph.

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Before loading your cannon and starting the session, check the following:

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⬥ Pray soulsplit and turmoil or malevolence

⬥ Upkeep darkness

⬥ Sustain prayer with demonhornnecklace

⬥ Ensure elderovl and weppoison are active at all times.

⬥ Ensure that vampscrim is active.

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Presets and Relics

⬥ Melee melee Guide illustration

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Ability Bar

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Method: AFK Necromancy necromancy

Necromancy necromancy has good sustain with conjurearmy / conjureghost and bloodsiphon, as well as strong aoe damage potential with conjurezombie (poison), soulstrike and spectralscythe. 4-piece T90 Deathdealer Robes dealerhood80 for chance to proc invokedeath

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Guide illustration ⬥ You may be walked backwards one square if you attack a Nightmare that is running towards you.

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Before loading your cannon and starting the session, check the following:

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⬥ Pray soulsplit and sorrow or ruination

⬥ Upkeep darkness

⬥ Sustain prayer with powderofpenance

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• May alternatively use demonhornnecklace

⬥ Ensure elderovlsalve and weppoison are active at all times.

⬥ Ensure that scriptureofwen is active.

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Presets and Relics

⬥ Necromancy preset necromancy Guide illustration

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Ability Bar

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Example Kills

⬥ AFK Necromancy necromancy

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Source & licence

By PvME contributors under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Navigation and typography adapted. Unavailable source links and contributor names are labelled. Embedded media has separate rights.

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