OSRS Barrows Gear & Best in Slots/Budget Setups

Have you been trying the Barrows again and again in OSRS but despite your smart strategies, you keep getting destroyed in the end? What might be missing from your attempts are the right gear. A good setup can help destroy the challenge relatively easier but of course, there are certain builds that work perfectly well with this challenge.

If you're struggling to beat the Barrows, you've come to the right place as we're listing down the best gear setups for this OSRS favorite. Before anything else though, let's talk about what you need to prepare.

Barrows Preparation

The only quest you need to do for access to the Barrows is Priest in Peril. This gives you access to Morytania where you can find the graves of the brothers. Before we talk about how you can get there though, make sure your skills are up to the levels below. These are required to give you access to certain skills and pieces of gear.

How To Get To Barrows

This area is distinguished by a series of six burial mounds that's located east of Mort'ton in Morytania. The challenge is difficult but the good news is that there are various ways to get to it.

1. The easiest and quickest way to get to it is by using the Barrows Teleport within the Arceuus spellbook. The only problem is that this requires 83 Magic to use.
2. You can also use a Barrows teleport tablet or portal to get straight to the entrance.
3. While on a house party, visit a player-owned house that has a portal nexus.
4. From Mort'ton, head east to get to the Barrows. This will require a Mort'ton teleport scroll.
5. From Burgh de Rott or Morytania legs 3 and 4, continue running north to get to Barrows.

While there are many other travelling methods out there, these 5 are the most convenient to use.

OSRS Best Barrows Gear

Now comes the most important part, picking the best gear for Barrows. The setups you'll see below will consider your budget. Of course, more expensive builds are going to be more efficient for the entire challenge. We highly recommend building up a sizable budget before doing this.If you don't want to grind long hours to get the OSRS GP you require, consider buying from RPGStash!

Best Barrows Gear For OSRS

The best Barrows gear for OSRS is very expensive. Just the Tumeken's Shadow alone is more expensive than the rest of the items on this list. As heavy as it is on your gold, it's still worth getting however. If you may have noticed, this build features most of the best in-slot items for Magic builds too. If you have the budget for it, you can also add an Elidini's Ward for an off-hand gear.

Head: Ancestral Hat

Neck: Occult Necklace

Back: Imbue Guthix Cape

Body: Ancestral Robetop

Legs: Ancestral Robe Bottom

Weapon: Tumeken's Shadow

Shield: N/A

Hands: Tormented Bracelet

Boots: Eternal boots

Ring: Magus Ring

Inventory:

• Bring the dragon claws for its special attack which is highly effective against Karil.
• For Ahrim, you can use the Toxic Blowpipe.
• Use your rune pouch for death, blood, and chaos runes only as most of the effective magics will be using these up.

High-End Barrows Gear

This gear setup remains relatively the same as above but the difference is that we're switching out the Tumeken's Shadow for the Trident of the Swamps. The weapon is relatively weaker than the Tumeken's Shadow but the build will be so affordable because of it. With this setup, getting the Elidini's Ward is going to be more viable.

Head: Ancestral Hat

Neck: Occult Necklace

Back: Imbue Guthix Cape

Body: Ancestral Robetop

Legs: Ancestral Robe Bottom

Weapon: Trident of the swamp

Shield: Elidinis' ward (f)

Ammo/Spell: Rada's blessing 4 / Holy Blessing

Hands: Tormented bracelet

Boots: Eternal boots

Ring: Magus ring

Alternative High-End Barrows Gear

If the above build is still a bit more expensive, this setup below gives you more options to customize. All of the equipment here is intended to help with increasing your Magic bonus damage overall. While getting good defenses is a good start, we highly suggest focusing on getting the Trident of the Swamp weapon first. The key to winning the Barrows is to take them out quickly, hence, a good weapon is a must.

Head:

• Ancestral hat
• Neitiznot faceguard
• Serpentine helm
• Helm of neitiznot

Neck:

• Occult necklace

Back:

• Imbued god cape

Body:

• Karil's leathertop
• Blessed body
• Black d'hide body

Legs:

• Karil's leatherskirt
• Blessed chaps
• Black d'hide chaps

Weapon:

• Trident of the swamp
• Trident of the seas
• Warped sceptre

Shield:

• Elidinis' ward (f)
• Elidinis' ward
• Arcane spirit shield
• Mage's book

Ammo/Spell:

• Rada's blessing 4
• God blessing / Rada's blessing 2 or 3

Hands:

• Tormented bracelet
• Barrows gloves

Boots:

• Pegasian boots
• Blessed boots

Ring:

• Ultor ring
• Berserker ring (i)
• Brimstone ring

Special Attack:

• Dragon claws
• Voidwaker

Mid-Ranged Barrows Gear

At this point, we're going with the second-best alternatives for most of the highly recommended gear for Barrows. The armor pieces for this build are a lot more affordable now but as you can see, we're still sticking with the Trident of the Swamp as the most recommended weapon for this build.

Head:

• Helm of neitiznot
• Berserker helm

Neck:

• Occult necklace
• Amulet of fury

Back:

• Ava's assembler
• Ava's accumulator
• Ava's attractor

Body:

• Dharok's platebody / Torag's platebody

Legs:

• Verac's plateskirt
• Dharok's platelegs / Torag's platelegs
• Dragon platelegs / Dragon plateskirt

Weapon:

• Trident of the swamp
• Trident of the seas
• Warped sceptre
• Iban's staff (u)

Shield:

• Ghommal's hilt 2
• Book of darkness
• Unholy book

Ammo/Spell:

• Rune arrow

Hands:

• Barrows gloves
• Dragon gloves
• Rune gloves

Boots:

• Dragon boots

Ring:

• Ring of dueling(8)

Special attack:

• Dragon dagger

Low-End Barrows Gear

Going for this build will make the fight a lot more difficult as compared to the other builds above but it's still a doable build to begin with. At this point, you're going to get a good enough defense so that you don't get easily killed by any of the brothers. The Trident of the Swamp and of the Sea are no longer choices here as they are very expensive.

Head:

• Helm of neitiznot
• Berserker helm

Neck:

• Amulet of fury
• Amulet of glory
• Amulet of power

Back:

• Ava's accumulator
• Ava's attractor

Body:

• Dragon chainbody
• Rune platebody

Legs:

• Dragon platelegs / Dragon plateskirt
• Rune platelegs

Weapon:

• Warped sceptre
• Iban's staff (u)
• Slayer's staff

Shield:

• Ghommal's hilt 2
• God book
• Broodoo shield

Ammo/Spell:

• Rune arrow

Hands:

• Barrows gloves
• Dragon gloves
• Rune gloves
• Granite gloves
• Adamant gloves

Boots:

• Dragon boots
• Rune boots

Ring:

• Ring of dueling(8)
• Special attack:
• Dragon dagger

Most Affordable Barrows Gear

This is the most affordable Barrows gear that you can suit yourself up with. The fight is going to be a lot harder with this build but it's still possible so long as you have the right strategy as well. If you're looking to farm Barrows for loot or pieces of Barrows' armor, this isn't the most ideal set to bring as the challenge will last considerably longer.

Head:

• Rune full helm

Neck:

• Amulet of glory
• Amulet of power

Back:

• Ardougne cloak 1
• Ava's accumulator

Body:

• Rune platebody

Legs:

• Rune platelegs

Weapon:

• Iban's staff (u)
• Slayer's staff

Shield:

• God book
• Broodoo shield

Hands:

• Combat bracelet

Boots:

• Mystic boots

Ring:

• Ring of dueling(8)
• Special attack:
• Dragon dagger

Although you're free to mix and match any gear that you want to use for the Barrows, it's still highly advisable to choose from the equipment above.

Is The Barrows Worth Doing?

You get a Barrows' chest as a reward for completing the challenge. Assuming that you're able to open 12 Barrows' chest per hour, you can have a profit of over 750,000. If not for money making, players do the Barrows for the purpose of getting the pieces of armor from the brothers. The items in the Barrows set are very powerful and can provide pretty decent bonuses. Before we talk about that, let's check out the drop table for the challenge first.

Barrows Chest Drop Table

Barrows Armour

Each of the Barrows equipment provides great bonuses for your character. For Ahrim's set, you'll gain access to the Blighted Aura set bonus. This gives your Magic-based attacks a 25% chance to lower the enemy's Strength by 5.

Dharok's set isn't as popular as other sets because it's a double-edge sword. With the Wretched Strength set bonus, you can do more damage the less your health is. As you can see, this forces you to play a rather risky playstyle that could backfire if you don't have good switches prepared. Still, this is a powerful melee gear to have especially for PVP.

Guthan's set bonus is called Infestation. With it, there's a 25% chance to heal yourself every time you successfully land a melee strike. This is the second best set on the Barrows gears next to Ahrim's. It's also one of the best equipment to have for Melee-focused Ironmen because it makes you rely less on items and Magic for healing.

Karil's Tainted Shot bonus is similar to the effects of Ahrim's set. Only this time, your Ranged attacks have a 25% chance to lower the Agility of the targets by 20%. That's a pretty huge decrease as it's based on percentages instead of points.

Torag's set bonus is called the Corruption. With it, your melee strikes have a chance to lower the run energy of any target that it hits. It is pretty useless overall.

This set's bonus is called the Defiler. What it does is it gives you a chance to ignore armor and protection prayers per successful melee hit. It's not as great as other Barrows melee sets but the bonus is still good enough especially when used against bosses with high HP and defense.

A Better Chance Against The Barrows

Hopefully, our guide has helped you create the perfect setup that you can take against the Barrows brothers. This guide is up-to-date so you can expect it to work with today's meta.

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