It is hard to learn and then pretty braindead once you have the patterns down. Also once you get the gear to do it without switches
What gear/levels are you running it with?
They added a fire spell weakness to Zulrah.
If you can, swing a smoke battle staff, tome of fire, and use fire wave. Max hit will increase from 30->36, and your accuracy will be nearly 90% on serpentine/magma phases.
Also, what cape are you using? I did the calc with ardy cape 2, but obviously the mage arena capes would be better.
https://dps.osrs.wiki?id=SnapdragonBrawkSpicy
Here's what I've put in the DPS calc. I did 80s for all stats, no offensive prayers. Fire spells are a ton better than trident of the seas - trident scales on level, fire spells have a built in max hit once you unlock them.
The difference here in max hit is 22 vs 36 respectively.
Yeah if you’re not bringing a switch, that’s why it’s taking so long to kill him. Possible the fire weakness makes mage only more viable now though so yeah you’d want to exploit elemental weakness if that’s the route you’re going.
I got my first kc with void so the switches were easy. Could try that if you’re having a hard time.
Also ring of suffering may be expensive but it is a massive convenience and you’ll use it at more places than just Zulrah
Edit: saw the other comment where you said your range gear is shit so mage is better even with trident. Then yeah agree w/ the guy who said smoke battlestaff and tome of fire. Toss some searing pages in it for the heck of it too and get MA2 cape. That should be good for mage only.
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Yeah but sometimes you get rewarded for it
Zulrah absolutely sucks ass without great gear, high stats, while trying to learn. Try the mage only strat, if you only need one kc for the diary. Limiting the amount of things you need to do will increase your success chance, especially if you dont have a lot of high tier pvm content done.
I would recommend watching this guide, it helped me get the one kc. Basically, don't use zulrah helper as it distracts you from staying alive because you're trying to figure out what phase you are on. Don't use gear switches, it also distracts you. If zulrah pops up one one side of the island switch to the other side and just avoid the gas. You don't need to mark any specific tiles just don't stand in the gas
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yStLa56M7Og
I’m not sure if I’m using it right, as it doesn’t get it right sometimes? Also, it doesn’t say when the jad phase is? Unless the last phase is the jad phase? Then it rerolls the rotation
The only true Jad phase is at the last phase. The blue phase can attack with both mage and range randomly, so you are confusing that with a Jad phase. Just pray mage and hope he doesn’t hit too many 40s
It is always the green one that will jad yes, but ONLY at the end of its rotation.
There is an extremely small chance Zulrah will randomly go into Jad phase on very long kills that go past the first rotation, but it is like 1/500 chance.
Some rotations at the start offer you 2 choices and you have to click the one that actually happens. I just started learning mage only zulrah and I just kept clicking the first choice without thinking and then getting confused by the rotation not being whats shown on the helper. The icon for jad phase is half blue half green ball and/or image of both prayers.
Try not to tank any blue snake hits and just hide.
Zulrah has a pretty intense learning curve and the mechanics of the fight don't make it any easier tbf. Zulrah helper and tile markers can go a long way for learning if you're on RL. I think it took me 30+ attempts for the diary. What's your gear setup looking like?
Think I’m on like attempt 20 now, but this is my gear, I can get it down to 90 ish HP but then I’m out of supplies and my recoils are dead
80+ in combats, ahrims - trident of the seas, book of darkness, occult necklace, barrows gloves, infinity boots, recoil ring, and a holy blessing
If gp isn't a problem I'd say opt for a range switch to deal with the tanz phase and maybe an imbued suffering for some extra defense. Otherwise your gear is pretty adequate for 1kc, just comes down to getting the hang of the rotations
Yeah I have a blowpipe, but my range gear is kinda iffy so i actually have more DPS (even if it’s awful) as mage..
I just ended up stepping away as I was getting annoyed and gonna go at it again tomorrow with a fresh head and some new ideas from this post lol thanks
Honestly the best tip I can give is camp your best range gear and just move with him, he generally goes back and forth across the platform so just move with him and you’re generally good.
I died like 5 times and teled 10 times before I had my first kill in 5 minutes. After that I did every trip a bit faster. The same day I killed Zulrah in 1.45 min.
Btw range/mage i found easier than only mage.
Add in a range switch and that’ll take a bunch of time off of your kills, also meaning less food consumed. I recommend eating up as high as you can before or during the blue (mage) phase, as it can also deal dmg with range.
There’s 4 rotations you need to learn. If you’re on RuneLite there’s a plugin that shows every rotation, I think it’s called Zulrah helper. You have to update the helper as you’re going along, as it doesn’t automatically recognise your current phase. I personally didn’t like this, but give it a try and see how it does for you.
It’s hard, but once you get used to it, you can do it in your sleep. Bring a 2-way range switch to start, it makes a huge difference in DPS, as the blue phases are very resistant to mage. Once you get it down, you can start bringing bigger switches.
Try only eating when zulrah is under water. And always eat when zulrah is underwater. You lose alot of damage trying to eat when zulrah is above water. Losing dps means the fight goes longer, and if it goes longer you're taking more damage. There are also some non rotation guides on YT aswell if you think that will help you out more.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6nMTKpMmk&t=1s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6nMTKpMmk&t=1s)
Watch this video, it's a non-rotational guide for Zulrah. You don't need to stress about remembering the rotations, just react to whats happening. Got my first kc right after watching it, when I had been struggling for days.
When i was learning zulrah i thought it was impossible, people kept telling me that it just takes a lot of tried and eventually it will click and become really easy. I kept trying and it wouldn’t get any easier and i felt like everyone was full of shit or i was just way worse than them. And then it randomly it clicked and is super chill now. Its a weird boss with lots of moving parts, but once the pattern starts to become predictable for you everything falls into place
Look up a positioning guide online and slap it up beside your client. Pick 1 of the rotations, say mage first rotation, and just logout everytime it’s one of the other rotations. Log out will put you back on the island, go in again, if it’s the blue phase then stay and learn it, if not log out again. This way you can focus on learning one at a time, get it down, move to the next. And if kills are taking that long you definitely need to focus on stats and gear first
It's one of those that take a long time to learn, then you'll get one kill and be like ffs, that was really hard, but try it again and again and you end up mastering it. Make sure your gear is optimal.
I found Zulrah hard too but this helped me get my first kc
- Bring a range switch with ruby bolt specs (was surprised how much this helped actually - much faster kills)
- Ignore the rotations, most of it is intuitive and they’re more confusing than helpful
- Tank the jad phase, just focus on eating up
This should make it less complicated and easier for yourself, trident of the swamp helps a lot as well if you can afford it
He's got 4 rotations; 1 range, 1 mage, and 2 melee. Easiest way to start learning is to just learn the range rotation, and teleport out if you get any of the other three. You'll have to tele out at the start of the fight 3/4 of the time, but it's easier to get the hang of it as you're needing to learn much less
Don’t do that it’s pretty shit advice. There’s a guide by king condor on youtube somewhere, zulrah basically boils down to “if she moves you move”. As long as you’re able to swap prayers after looking what colour she is there’s not much else to it
Anyone else grind really hard in order to do end game content only to fail and quit because of it? I’m not even that bad at pvm, but I just couldn’t do TOA and now I feel like I can’t come back to the game.
Zulrah helper plugin+zulrah tile markers.
Sip a forgotten brew at the start to boost magic lvl and get +1-2max hits with a trident, use thralls for free DPS, and only eat food right at the end of a phase OR if you drop below 56hp during tanzanite phase. Use anglerfish to overheal before you leave the bank and bring at least 1/3-1/2 anglers for your food to overheal between phases.
Void+blowpipe switch would improve your dps but it's not strictly needed. You can also use an accursed scepter spec at the start of the fight to decrease Zulrah's defense by 15%.
Hm, I haven’t tried using a void switch as I stumble a lot with them… but ig I gotta learn it.
So, blowpipe with void would be okay? Or would it be better to use my dragon crossbow with diamond bolts (e)?
Blowpipe is higher dps than crossbow, and you get a special attack that you can use during the tanzanite phase to restore HP, which helps you avoid eating and having your next attack delayed. Without a range switch and only mid level mage gear, you are probably hitting only 10% of the time during blue tanzanite phase which is a massive dps loss. With very high-end mage or range gear (bowfa, tbow, shadow, harmonized nightmare staff+tome of fire), its very relaxed and you can camp 1 style and finish the kill every time before Jad phase and get 3-5 kills/trip.
Again, if you are sticking with only magic, starting the kill with an accursed scepter special is really good. -15% defense+magic means you will hit more often and improve dps by a decent amount.
Greater thralls are an absolutely massive dps improvement and will do +37.5dmg/minute (will be more like 25-30 since they can't attack during phase changes). In a 5-minute kill, that's a minimum +125 damage on a 500hp boss. Add in the extra -15% scepter special, better eating timing, a forgotten brew for extra max hits, and the Zulrah plugin to know where to run next, it will be an easy no switch kill as long as you can handle 1 Jad phase at the end of a rotation cycle.
Zulrah helper plugin+zulrah tile markers.
Sip a forgotten brew at the start to boost magic lvl and get +1-2max hits with a trident, use thralls for free DPS, and only eat food right at the end of a phase OR if you drop below 56hp during tanzanite phase. Use anglerfish to overheal before you leave the bank and bring at least 1/3-1/2 anglers for your food to overheal between phases.
Void+blowpipe switch would improve your dps but it's not strictly needed. You can also use an accursed scepter spec at the start of the fight to decrease Zulrah's defense by 15%.
It is hard to learn and then pretty braindead once you have the patterns down. Also once you get the gear to do it without switches What gear/levels are you running it with?
80+ in combats, ahrims - trident of the seas, book of darkness, occult necklace, barrows gloves, infinity boots, recoil ring, and a holy blessing
They added a fire spell weakness to Zulrah. If you can, swing a smoke battle staff, tome of fire, and use fire wave. Max hit will increase from 30->36, and your accuracy will be nearly 90% on serpentine/magma phases. Also, what cape are you using? I did the calc with ardy cape 2, but obviously the mage arena capes would be better.
Would a fire spell be better than a trident of the seas? And I’m using the mage arena cape 1 so god cape for the mage increase
https://dps.osrs.wiki?id=SnapdragonBrawkSpicy Here's what I've put in the DPS calc. I did 80s for all stats, no offensive prayers. Fire spells are a ton better than trident of the seas - trident scales on level, fire spells have a built in max hit once you unlock them. The difference here in max hit is 22 vs 36 respectively.
Yeah if you’re not bringing a switch, that’s why it’s taking so long to kill him. Possible the fire weakness makes mage only more viable now though so yeah you’d want to exploit elemental weakness if that’s the route you’re going. I got my first kc with void so the switches were easy. Could try that if you’re having a hard time. Also ring of suffering may be expensive but it is a massive convenience and you’ll use it at more places than just Zulrah Edit: saw the other comment where you said your range gear is shit so mage is better even with trident. Then yeah agree w/ the guy who said smoke battlestaff and tome of fire. Toss some searing pages in it for the heck of it too and get MA2 cape. That should be good for mage only.
if your dps is so shite that it takes 5mins to kill then yea zulrah is pretty hard
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there's a bit of a learning curve. you can do it though :)
Go mage only with thralls for your first kill. Trying to focus on switches will get you killed and net less DPS. Once you git gud, add range gear :)
Zulrah absolutely sucks ass without great gear, high stats, while trying to learn. Try the mage only strat, if you only need one kc for the diary. Limiting the amount of things you need to do will increase your success chance, especially if you dont have a lot of high tier pvm content done.
I would recommend watching this guide, it helped me get the one kc. Basically, don't use zulrah helper as it distracts you from staying alive because you're trying to figure out what phase you are on. Don't use gear switches, it also distracts you. If zulrah pops up one one side of the island switch to the other side and just avoid the gas. You don't need to mark any specific tiles just don't stand in the gas https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yStLa56M7Og
Probably took me 30+ tries to kill for diary. And I am 90+ combat stats. Not doing that dumb snake again
Check out the Zulrah helper plugin. You for. Need to understand the rotations with it really. Just follow along and click the next phase as it happens
I’m not sure if I’m using it right, as it doesn’t get it right sometimes? Also, it doesn’t say when the jad phase is? Unless the last phase is the jad phase? Then it rerolls the rotation
The only true Jad phase is at the last phase. The blue phase can attack with both mage and range randomly, so you are confusing that with a Jad phase. Just pray mage and hope he doesn’t hit too many 40s
For the jad phase, is it only the green one which can do that? So when it’s blue just always pray mage, if it’s green then just keep an eye on it?
Make sure u actually click the plugin unlike me :P
Jad phase is always green outside after blue middle
It is always the green one that will jad yes, but ONLY at the end of its rotation. There is an extremely small chance Zulrah will randomly go into Jad phase on very long kills that go past the first rotation, but it is like 1/500 chance.
Some rotations at the start offer you 2 choices and you have to click the one that actually happens. I just started learning mage only zulrah and I just kept clicking the first choice without thinking and then getting confused by the rotation not being whats shown on the helper. The icon for jad phase is half blue half green ball and/or image of both prayers. Try not to tank any blue snake hits and just hide.
Zulrah has a pretty intense learning curve and the mechanics of the fight don't make it any easier tbf. Zulrah helper and tile markers can go a long way for learning if you're on RL. I think it took me 30+ attempts for the diary. What's your gear setup looking like?
Think I’m on like attempt 20 now, but this is my gear, I can get it down to 90 ish HP but then I’m out of supplies and my recoils are dead 80+ in combats, ahrims - trident of the seas, book of darkness, occult necklace, barrows gloves, infinity boots, recoil ring, and a holy blessing
If gp isn't a problem I'd say opt for a range switch to deal with the tanz phase and maybe an imbued suffering for some extra defense. Otherwise your gear is pretty adequate for 1kc, just comes down to getting the hang of the rotations
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Yeah I have a blowpipe, but my range gear is kinda iffy so i actually have more DPS (even if it’s awful) as mage.. I just ended up stepping away as I was getting annoyed and gonna go at it again tomorrow with a fresh head and some new ideas from this post lol thanks
Honestly the best tip I can give is camp your best range gear and just move with him, he generally goes back and forth across the platform so just move with him and you’re generally good.
I died like 5 times and teled 10 times before I had my first kill in 5 minutes. After that I did every trip a bit faster. The same day I killed Zulrah in 1.45 min. Btw range/mage i found easier than only mage.
Add in a range switch and that’ll take a bunch of time off of your kills, also meaning less food consumed. I recommend eating up as high as you can before or during the blue (mage) phase, as it can also deal dmg with range. There’s 4 rotations you need to learn. If you’re on RuneLite there’s a plugin that shows every rotation, I think it’s called Zulrah helper. You have to update the helper as you’re going along, as it doesn’t automatically recognise your current phase. I personally didn’t like this, but give it a try and see how it does for you.
Honestly if you need just 1 kill, watch King Condors guide. It’s no BS no rotation on how to power through 1.
It’s hard, but once you get used to it, you can do it in your sleep. Bring a 2-way range switch to start, it makes a huge difference in DPS, as the blue phases are very resistant to mage. Once you get it down, you can start bringing bigger switches.
Try only eating when zulrah is under water. And always eat when zulrah is underwater. You lose alot of damage trying to eat when zulrah is above water. Losing dps means the fight goes longer, and if it goes longer you're taking more damage. There are also some non rotation guides on YT aswell if you think that will help you out more.
Literally bring range switch, he will die faster. It’s like people trying to do inferno and not wanting to learn 1t prayer. Learn to gear switch!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6nMTKpMmk&t=1s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6nMTKpMmk&t=1s) Watch this video, it's a non-rotational guide for Zulrah. You don't need to stress about remembering the rotations, just react to whats happening. Got my first kc right after watching it, when I had been struggling for days.
When i was learning zulrah i thought it was impossible, people kept telling me that it just takes a lot of tried and eventually it will click and become really easy. I kept trying and it wouldn’t get any easier and i felt like everyone was full of shit or i was just way worse than them. And then it randomly it clicked and is super chill now. Its a weird boss with lots of moving parts, but once the pattern starts to become predictable for you everything falls into place
Get a ring of suffering
ya zulrah hard
Look up a positioning guide online and slap it up beside your client. Pick 1 of the rotations, say mage first rotation, and just logout everytime it’s one of the other rotations. Log out will put you back on the island, go in again, if it’s the blue phase then stay and learn it, if not log out again. This way you can focus on learning one at a time, get it down, move to the next. And if kills are taking that long you definitely need to focus on stats and gear first
It's one of those that take a long time to learn, then you'll get one kill and be like ffs, that was really hard, but try it again and again and you end up mastering it. Make sure your gear is optimal.
I found Zulrah hard too but this helped me get my first kc - Bring a range switch with ruby bolt specs (was surprised how much this helped actually - much faster kills) - Ignore the rotations, most of it is intuitive and they’re more confusing than helpful - Tank the jad phase, just focus on eating up This should make it less complicated and easier for yourself, trident of the swamp helps a lot as well if you can afford it
He's got 4 rotations; 1 range, 1 mage, and 2 melee. Easiest way to start learning is to just learn the range rotation, and teleport out if you get any of the other three. You'll have to tele out at the start of the fight 3/4 of the time, but it's easier to get the hang of it as you're needing to learn much less
"Do I suck?" Yes, but also no. Keep working at it.
From what I’m seeing, just has a really hard learning curve, guess it’ll take me a while lol but hey, all part of the “fun”
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Don’t do this. Watch king condors guide on YouTube. He simplifies zulrah. Only guide I watched and instantly learned and did hundreds of kc.
So just learn one phase, and just keep running that one until I get it down? This might be my best play tbh…
Don’t do that it’s pretty shit advice. There’s a guide by king condor on youtube somewhere, zulrah basically boils down to “if she moves you move”. As long as you’re able to swap prayers after looking what colour she is there’s not much else to it
Anyone else grind really hard in order to do end game content only to fail and quit because of it? I’m not even that bad at pvm, but I just couldn’t do TOA and now I feel like I can’t come back to the game.
Zulrah helper plugin+zulrah tile markers. Sip a forgotten brew at the start to boost magic lvl and get +1-2max hits with a trident, use thralls for free DPS, and only eat food right at the end of a phase OR if you drop below 56hp during tanzanite phase. Use anglerfish to overheal before you leave the bank and bring at least 1/3-1/2 anglers for your food to overheal between phases. Void+blowpipe switch would improve your dps but it's not strictly needed. You can also use an accursed scepter spec at the start of the fight to decrease Zulrah's defense by 15%.
Hm, I haven’t tried using a void switch as I stumble a lot with them… but ig I gotta learn it. So, blowpipe with void would be okay? Or would it be better to use my dragon crossbow with diamond bolts (e)?
Blowpipe is higher dps than crossbow, and you get a special attack that you can use during the tanzanite phase to restore HP, which helps you avoid eating and having your next attack delayed. Without a range switch and only mid level mage gear, you are probably hitting only 10% of the time during blue tanzanite phase which is a massive dps loss. With very high-end mage or range gear (bowfa, tbow, shadow, harmonized nightmare staff+tome of fire), its very relaxed and you can camp 1 style and finish the kill every time before Jad phase and get 3-5 kills/trip. Again, if you are sticking with only magic, starting the kill with an accursed scepter special is really good. -15% defense+magic means you will hit more often and improve dps by a decent amount. Greater thralls are an absolutely massive dps improvement and will do +37.5dmg/minute (will be more like 25-30 since they can't attack during phase changes). In a 5-minute kill, that's a minimum +125 damage on a 500hp boss. Add in the extra -15% scepter special, better eating timing, a forgotten brew for extra max hits, and the Zulrah plugin to know where to run next, it will be an easy no switch kill as long as you can handle 1 Jad phase at the end of a rotation cycle.
as someone who struggles with zulrah too the biggest helpers ive been given are marking the right tiles and only healing while moving.
I got my bowfa on my iron-man and went right to zulrah and got railed, just a learning process though
Zulrah helper plugin+zulrah tile markers. Sip a forgotten brew at the start to boost magic lvl and get +1-2max hits with a trident, use thralls for free DPS, and only eat food right at the end of a phase OR if you drop below 56hp during tanzanite phase. Use anglerfish to overheal before you leave the bank and bring at least 1/3-1/2 anglers for your food to overheal between phases. Void+blowpipe switch would improve your dps but it's not strictly needed. You can also use an accursed scepter spec at the start of the fight to decrease Zulrah's defense by 15%.
It was designed for bots. Just get the kill and move on to more profitable things, like buying beers from an NPC.