OSRS ToA Bowfa/Trident, no Blood Fury (400RL) Commentary & Bandage Propaganda

Hope this helps out the irons!
-- Please note that I brought in the Sun Keris but ended up not remotely needing it, I only used it to stab P3 skulls due to a tripping mistake --
Forgot to include supplies used -- See below
52 Trident Charges used
23 Dragon Darts used
119 Scales used overall (from both BP/Trident combined)
2 Saradomin Brews (8 doses)
3.5 Super Restores (14 doses)

[@ImHat9]

hold up this man pulled off a 5min akkha with no shadow god damn

[@tubax926]

the rng is insane

[@Xakto187]

Very articulate and informative! Thanks for the upload!

[@rjmbowie]

Great video man. Really clear explanations and very clean run!

[@dangitnicky]

Nice to see a fellow Dark Vanilla enjoyer! You're an amazing teacher!

[@bass.music.]

Was hoping to see a 400 vid from you! Thank you. Love your content. I dont know how you cut 10 mins off my time with the same gar. Need to up the skill and knowledge

[@bass.music.]

@Reynold Can you post a link to the invos please. going to be referring back to this vid alot for inspo

[@dill6078]

Did you ever shave time off your runs? I have similar gear and getting 35-40 minute runs doing 355s, am so bad. Also dying a ton to dumb shit like Baba room, zebak pools, ahhka balls because I just zone out

[@bass.music.]

@@dill6078 i did but also just kept sending 400s. Helps so much with the purp rates and not being as bored, which should help with the zoning out. I didnt care about making time until i eventually got my shadow though. Rather finish a chiller run where im not stressed by time. Then eventually when I was able to time my runs under 40, by learning how to cut time, not missing ticks, using dds on core, etc, then i turned timer on. But my reco is increase the invo level and dont care about time for right now

[@JakePlays1912]

Even as a non ironman definitely something to be gained here.

[@ferrariramsgobrrr]

Ok you've earned a sub with this one! Just came up in my suggestions. I've got like 100 expert kc (300-350s, I'm not the best pvmer) and learned so many things in this video that I somehow didn't know

[@roastedmallow6019]

The Gunz the duel main lobby music tho. Epic bro

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

Goated music

[@Abubaidah]

Damn that gunz ost gave me so much nostalgia

[@alexlinthicum]

i am desperately trying to figure out an even inventory swap for magic/mellee for the full bowfa set up. the 2 handed bow messes everything up for me

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXPFpqJtn8l2ptk This video is for ToB, but will likely help you in figuring out your setup for all content. It explains the corresponding switch concept which basically keeps your inventory static based on the common switches you have between the 3 combat styles.

[@EnlightenedOne90]

Nice vid. FYI blowpipe spec can be used at any HP. Just like SGS it will still heal based on what it would have hit if the monster had more HP. So it's still possible to heal a 20 when you spec a monster that has only 1 HP.

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

I was referring to my own HP at akkha in this case! I had over 80HP, so it wouldn't heal to it's max potential if it did roll above 40.

[@EnlightenedOne90]

@@ReynoldsFoiled Ah ok my bad.

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

@@EnlightenedOne90 No worries :)

[@rok8204]

Great guide!

[@bass.music.]

I cant tell you how many times i've watched this vid and your other content trying to figure out how you're getting this time haha. Got any tips to speed up Akkha? I'm usually in the 6-7 min range. Sameish gear with ZCB, VW. Also my warden time is ~12mins w/ 3 down and skull skip. Why do you say it's not worth to skull skip at 400? I've been improving, generally getting 40-42 mins but consistently under 40 at this invo is proving challenging. Thanks in advance!

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

Skull skip becomes worth it once your dps & drop rate are high enough to spend the extra time at warden. At your current times/gear, you'd be better off with the time-save and ideally getting to the point you can consistently S35 it. Once you're at 29-32min average mark, you'll generally find it efficient to re-push your invocations higher. Akkha, ZCB is the best ranged weapon there on him, but blowpipe is better for the shadows. Do your best to feel out his 6t attack cycle and always be ready to switch the prayers -> gear quickly and minimize ticks lost. Don't worry about nailing every switch, just the most impactful ones (such as Defender, amulets, top/bottoms for non melee styles) before switching the rest in. He is allowed to switch on the 2nd attack onwards of any cycle. Do not butterfly unless you own a shadow. Warden is expected to be a bit slow, but you can significantly speed it up by starting P3 off with a BGS. I'd also aim for 2d at this raid lvl, similar mindset to skull skip where the invocation isn't high enough to warrant it. A 3d especially without shadow is very slow, and will make your wardens a lot longer. Personally, I'd add on a S40 timer, and 2d warden + drop the skull skip for a quick time-boost to bring you to S40 consistency, and you can allocate the +10 points to dropping another invocation that's potentially slowing you down. Practice until you can hit S35.

[@bass.music.]

@@ReynoldsFoiled Thank you brotha!! Beautiful advice. Watched your TOB vid to get the switch concept down a bit more. Time to put this to good use. Appreciate the reply 🙏

[@bass.music.]

@@ReynoldsFoiled even just the swtiches are getting me close to 3min monkey rooms, which is huge. ty

[@bass.music.]

dude... PB achieved! 33.29 challenge time with definite room for improvement when I get more comfortable with the new invent setup. Thank you!!!

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

@@bass.music. Glad to hear it! Massive improvements

[@JakePlays1912]

I still don't understand the zebak puzzle.... seems like I take damage randomly

[@caliqe]

W, time for the 500🌚

[@tubax926]

Bro like how do u do some stuff there without fail? 1: you swarm on the 2nd minions in kephri, let mage minion go up to 7 charges and still able to kill it in time. I frequently hit like 3 0s in a row sometimes and i get hit by the mage attack then. Max stats and the same gear you're wearing except i have fire cape. What would you do if you hit 3 0s in that situation and mage failed to proc? 2: on baba you comfortably do a whole phase with 40 hp. Sometimes i get shredded so hard and take over 80 damage per phase. 3: I've done a 5 minute akkha but its not the norm at all. 6 minutes is what i normally get. I rarely miss ticks (2-3 tick 8way) and i brew up during memory puzzle.

[@robc4662]

i don't get how you are getting such good times i have the staff and i'm only getting around 42mins

[@JoonaN]

Nice video! I have voidwaker. What is the optimal way to use it with this setup?

[@rok8204]

curious as well, do we bring voidwaker over dds/bgs?

[@sevro13377]

Do you mind sharing your object marker settings? They look nice.

[@RumblingStarter]

I gotta get this bow one day

[@BBBallern]

Hey Reynold, thanks for the guide! Could u pls explain why said that you can't butterfly at akkha ?

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

Butterfly lets you mage akkha while taking no damage, but since mage is your weakest damage option until you get shadow, this is a massive dps loss on the room

[@BBBallern]

@@ReynoldsFoiled Thank you for the fast answer. So Obvious but I never have thought about it, thanks man!

[@Adamlissmano]

Would you say Bowfa is more DPS on Akkah (him and his shadows) compared to BP (Amethyst darts)? Doing 300's if that helps.

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

This likely depends if you're using masori, I recommend checking with a DPS calculator. A lot of irons would opt for bowfa since it's also free and keeps the ddarts sustainable

[@ColinHerna]

Why did we elect to not butterfly with trident on Akkha?

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

Unlike shadow, trident on Akkha is very bad dps. Although you can get some "free damage" on him, you waste too much time extending a low dps phase.

[@jordanatkin6607]

Thanks for the video! How do you show the hp and hp% of the boss?

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

"Opponent Information" plugin!

[@jordanatkin6607]

@@ReynoldsFoiled thanks a lot for the reply :)

[@RubenGoesSurfing]

Awesome vid man, whats the plugin called again that if you kill an npc they instant fade

[@RubenGoesSurfing]

And whats the plugin for the chatbox invisible and health percentage? That would really help me man

[@IamMrSimQn]

For me on my iron I basically needed a blood fury to crack 300s before I got my fang. Hasta was just too inaccurate. But post fang it's just qol

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

For anyone having trouble at Ba-Ba with hasta (hopefully you have a breaching for Kephri), I highly recommend bringing a bone dagger (if you dont have a BGS) to guarantee a defence reduction, and using blowpipe specs on boulders to heal in between phases.

[@aaronvongsa8421]

Is this with the new puzzle room update? Pre update I felt like I had enough skill, now I’m not sure how to improve because they spawn all attack styles so fast

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

This is pre update. I have some newer videos on the puzzle room if you want to review those

[@numerousactuary6640]

Seems like max combat clearly makes a huge difference.

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

Max combats are very impactful indeed

[@numerousactuary6640]

@@ReynoldsFoiled im 99 range 95 mage 92 att 99 str and 90 def and cannot do these in this time. haha

[@hangazak]

​@@numerousactuary6640yeah that's a skill issue with those levels 😂

[@OmniscientThe]

Do you have the invocations link? And if getting good at 400s what’s the next step 425s? Any progress videos you’d recommend from you to go higher after this?

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

2:42 goes over the invocations. Typically, adding stuff like double trouble + keep back is recommended, but that is for players who have a shadow (as they can now butterfly and deal damage efficiently). After that, dehydration + on a diet, and lastly More overlords is okay to have. If pushing past 500s, pathfinder and overly draining (with shadow + ultor/magus rings) are good. It'd probably be a bit tough on a bowfa setup to run all that though, so I recommend camping 400s until you are able to scale it up with a shadow.

[@OmniscientThe]

thank you, what raid level did u get your staves at?@@ReynoldsFoiled

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

@@OmniscientThe 425s for two of em, and a 450 for my 3rd one. I'm very dry on the high invos runs, although overall purple rate has been good

[@oxygenabuser2924]

are ferocious gloves and a normal elidnis' ward not worth the inv slots?

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

Ward not so much for solos (sepecially since most players dont have the fortified version), but ferocious is definitely worth if you can fit them in. I prefer to pak yak when making videos to allow more leniency

[@Tsaebahcus]

What runelite settings do you use? Doesn't look like the average stretched + fixed

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

Iirc this is just base runelite resolution (like 1050sh x 750ish?). GPU w/ 2x anti aliasing, FPS uncapped w/ a 240hz monitor

[@itstriplec2219]

How do you have the monkey room show the ones not to focus as invisible?

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

Entity hider, hide dead NPCs

[@OneGriff_]

bro i dont get how u take like no damage on baba while ignoring the baboons too. im just constantly getting smacked through prayer and baboons hitting me like crazy too

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

If you want, can try looking at my more recent videos/stream vods on 5t red X, which is still max DPS for much lower damage taken

[@tubax926]

​@@ReynoldsFoiledstill doesn't solve the question. You didn't 5:1 here and barely took any damage, only needed to brew up once.

[@Juicer138]

Does anyone know how he makes his UI larger?

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

I don't use any plugins to make my UI larger. My game window is approx 1000 x 730ish. You can change this on Runelite's base plugin settings

[@petc0smith660]

Bro i don't understand, even with shadow I'm at like 45 minuet raids. At akkah, I'm getting destoried by his melee and you are taking no damage compared to me, I don't understand :o. Also, I've never had a bandage, no idea how you get that honestly.

[@Akwler]

You should be substantially faster than 45 minutes. Learn to butterfly akkha and you take no damage as long as he doesn’t rng swap. Probably also need to learn kephri swarming, baba puzzle. Other than that it’s be potted, offensive prayers click boss don’t afk

[@joshuamason8992]

@@Akwler you should be substantially faster than 45 minutes without knowing gear set up or levels.. smh people just too quick to remind you that your shit without even knowing whats what lol

[@petc0smith660]

@@Akwler I do butterfly pretty well. I also get out DPS a shit ton at baba, dude rams me like a fucking truck.

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

Bandage is only provided if you have "on a diet" off! Keep practicing, you'll make sub 40s soon :)

[@mikeoxowhopper2091]

iron man friendly....uses imbued heart 🤣🤣

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

At 1:30, I state that the heart is non important to the overall run.

[@hangazak]

Jeeez dude imagine having to overthink so much while playing 😂 you make it sound like it's the greatest accomplishment ever 😝😝

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

I have no idea what you mean by this comment this video is a commentary on purpose, I dont explain my gameplay as much when I actually play, nor do I think it's "the greatest accomplishment ever". This video is catered towards players with similar gear/levels.

[@kakakakkakakafuck]

would you still bring dds with voidwaker for p2?

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

yes

[@woljangN]

@@ReynoldsFoiled does that mean we ought to bring dds, voidwaker and bgs?

[@ReynoldsFoiled]

@@woljangN yes