OSRS 1-99 Fastest Slayer Experience Guide

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Created - 01.04.2025 Updated - 01.04.2025

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Slayer is one of the most liked and important skills in Old School Runescape. It involves the player taking on tasks to hunt certain monsters for the Slayer experience. As you level up in Slayer, you will be able to damage and kill more high-level monsters such as abyssal demons or Kraken. Some of these monsters are straight-up bosses like Araxxor or Cerberus and you will miss out on great rewards if you don't have the required Slayer level. However, because of how you gain Slayer experience, it is pretty slow to level up this skill. In this guide, we will take a look at how you can maximize your Slayer experience per hour.

Maximising Slayer Experience

Slayer is an RNG skill since we have no control over what tasks we will get from a Slayer master but we can do our best to rig the number in our favour. A few key factors directly affect your slayer experience per hour, those factors are:

• Your combat stats and level: Having a higher combat level will allow you to use better Slayer masters resulting in better experience per hour. Also the higher your combat stats are the faster you can kill monsters which in turn increases your experience per hour.
• Quests: Some quests unlock new monsters and some unlock extremely useful tools for Slayer. Some of the most useful quests to unlock to maximize your experience per hour are as follows:
  • Varrock Museum Quiz: Gets you straight to level 9 Slayer.
  • Horror from the Deep: Unlocks dagannoths.
  • Cabin Fever: Unlocks cave horrors that can drop black masks (really important for Ironman)s
  • Dwarf Cannon: Unlocks multi cannon which greatly speeds up your experience per hour on certain tasks.
  • Desert Treasure 1: Unlocks the ancient spellbook which greatly increases your experience per hour on some tasks.
  • Fairy Tale Part 2: At the start of this quest you unlock fairy rings which is a great transportation system for some slayer tasks.
  • The Slug Menace: Unlocks proselyte armor which is great for tasks that require heavy Prayer usage.
  • Lunar Diplomacy: After this quest, you can use the NPC Contact spell, which allows you to get slayer tasks without any hassle.
• Combat Items: Damage-boosting items in every style of combat are highly recommended for faster kill times.
• Slayer Rewards: Some of the rewards are absolutely a must for higher experience rates. We will talk more about this in this guide.

Slayer Masters & Tasks

Tasks & Points

Completing a slayer task will give you points. The amount of points is different depending on your Slayer master. Here is a list of all the masters in the game and the points that they give per task:

• Turael & Spria: 0 points
• Mazchna: 2 points, requires level 20 combat
• Vannaka: 4 points, requires level 40 combat
• Chaeldar: 10 points, requires level 70 combat
• Nieve/Steve: 12 points, requires level 85 combat / Goes up to 15 with elite western diaries.
• Duradel: 15 points, requires level 100 combat and level 50 Slayer
• Konar: 18 points / Goes up to 20 with elite Kourend diaries.
• Krystilia: 25 points

Konar gives area-specific tasks so it is not recommended to start with her, as some areas that she assigns are anything but efficient. Krystilia gives Wilderness only tasks so take them at your own risk. There are also task milestones. These milestones multiply the amount of points you get from that task. Milestones and their multipliers are as follows:

• 10th task - 5x points
• 50th task - 15x points
• 100th task - 25x points
• 250th task - 35x points
• 1000th task - 50x points

So it is ideal to pick the highest point giving master for these milestones to maximise your Slayer points which will be useful for making Slayer as efficient as possible.

Where To Start

To start your Slayer journey, you want to be at least combat level 85 and have the quests mentioned above completed. Being at level 85 combat will allow you to use Nieve as your first slayer master, which will greatly boost the quality of your slayer tasks and their experience per hour.

If you know what you are doing you can start with Krystilia as Wilderness Slayer is extremely fast and many monsters that reside in the Wilderness are in multi-combat areas where you can use your cannon or barrage spells. Also, there are Wilderness weapons for all combat styles, and they are all best in slot weapons for their respective combat style. This removes a massive load off our shoulders as regular best-in-slot weapons are extremely expensive and require a ton of OSRS gold.

Experience Enhancing Slayer Items

Here are some items that will be of great help to you in your Slayer journey:

• Black mask (i): Before you even start your Slayer grind get a black mask and imbue it using your preferred minigame points. This item will greatly boost your damage and accuracy against all Slayer creatures. Later on, you can combine this item with other items to craft a Slayer helmet.
• Expeditious bracelets: These bracelets are extremely cheap and super useful. When worn it provides a 25% chance for a monster kill to count as two instead of one towards your Slayer assignment. You can use this to get past annoying tasks as quickly as possible.
• Bracelet of slaughter: This bracelet is the opposite of the expeditious bracelet. Equipping this will give you a 25% chance for a slayer assignment kill to not count towards your slayer task, prolonging those fast experience tasks.

Always equip these bracelets just before landing the final blow on a monster to avoid missing out on the benefits of damage-boosting gloves. If you are on a burst task, however, you can always keep them on.

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Spending Slayer Points

There are a lot of uses for Slayer points. As you are starting out it might be overwhelming to decide what you want to unlock first so, here is a generalization of what you should do:

1. Unlock bigger and badder: Generally speaking this is the best thing you can do. This unlock gives a chance for a superior creature to spawn while you are on certain Slayer tasks. These superior variants of the monsters give off an incredible amount of slayer experience and they also have a chance to drop an imbued heart which is around 100M. So the sooner you unlock this perk the better.
2. Block Tasks: Each Slayer master has their own list of monsters that they assign you a task from. These lists can be found in the OSRS wiki. Each slayer master has also a chance to assign certain monsters more than others. For example, Naive has more chance to assign you a tzhaar task rather than a suqah task. Depending on your Slayer master of choice you can block the annoying tasks that have the highest probability of being assigned first to have a smoother Slayer journey. Here are some of those monsters that slow down your Slayer experience per hour:
   • Wyrms
   • Drakes
   • Kraken
   • Gargoyle
   • Spiritual creatures
3. Task Extension: After blocking the most annoying tasks, you should focus on extending the best ones being the dust devil task and the nechryael task. Both of these tasks are burstable and they benefit from the bigger and badder perk so they are perfect for an extension.
4. Slayer Helmet: At this point of your journey you can unlock the Crafting method for a Slayer helmet which is a direct upgrade to the black mask. The bonuses of this helmet surpass that of the black mask and also as a bonus the Slayer helmet combines every item you need to fight creatures into one making it extremely convenient for fighting against something like aberrant spectres.
5. Slayer Rings: After that you can unlock slayer rings which will give slight quality of life improvements such as being able to teleport to certain Slayer dungeons.
6. Skipping tasks: This should be used whenever you need it. You won't be able to block every annoying task so sometimes it is best to spend some points to skip the annoyance. Here is a list of monsters that are worth skipping:

• Turoths
• Kurasks
• Wyverns
• Waterfiends
• Drakes
• Wyrms
• Gargoyles
• Krakens
• Spiritual creatures
• Dragons

If you are doing strictly Wilderness Slayer your block/skip task should look like this:

• Aviansies
• Magic axes
• Spiritual creatures
• Moss giants
• Fire giants
• Bloodvelds
• Lava dragons
• Revenants (if you don't want to take risks)

Gear

Gear is really important as it will make you kill monsters quicker resulting in more experience per hour. To maximize this experience per hour make sure to have your imbued black mask or Slayer helmet, dwarf multi cannon, and ancient magicks. Make sure you always have the most damage-boosting gear equipped, and always check the monster's weakness to use an appropriate weapon against them. Here are the commonly used weapons for each style:

• Melee: Ghrazi rapier, Inquisitors mace, Abyssal whip, Abyssal bludgeon, Emberlight/Arclight, Ursine chainmace
• Ranged: Toxic blowpipe, Venator bow, Webweaver bow
• Magic: Kodia wand, Nightmare staff, Ancient sceptre, Master wand, Blue moon spear, Ancient staff, Accursed sceptre

Combat Style	Recommended Weapons
Melee	Ghrazi rapier, Inquisitors mace, Abyssal whip, Abyssal bludgeon
Ranged	Toxic blowpipe, Venator bow, Webweaver bow
Magic	Kodia wand, Nightmare staff, Ancient sceptre, Master wand