Quickly Muad'dib! Get The Thumper!

First of all I finally hit 85 slayer this weekend



Now when I logged on today I discover that there was going to be a system update in nine minutes. The first conclusion I jumped to when I saw this was that we were about to see the end result of the glowing hands incident and get a new skill. However at about four minutes before the update a fellow member in my clan chat discovered a forum post stating that it would be a new slayer update. I hadn’t expected this of all things seeing as slayer had just gotten the hook up with Kuradel and her new slayer clubhouse. Of course I am never against a slayer update and what this brought made me really happy. I’ve been saying for a long time that there should be a range equivalent of the slayer mask (Who cares about mage, go string some amulets). So the fact that they added it all into the same helm and added more magic defense sits just fine with me.
For those that don’t know a new slayer monster was added called strykewyrms. These wyrms of course dropped the components needed for the new and improved slayer helmet. But I couldn’t just go and kill them to get the gear; it turns out that you have to be assigned strykewyrms to be able to kill them. That being the case I decided to start canceling tasks Kuradel gave me until I got some strykewyrms. However for a second task I received 238 abby demons. And canceling those was bordering on one of the stupidest things I could do. So I decided to take them out before I went searching for wyrms as a task. Well it turns out that not canceling them was an excellent choice.



Not only did I get the hook up with a whip drop, but my very next task was 144 desert strykewyrms. So I grabbed my bunyip and headed out to the desert to fight some wyrms. Once I arrived I started thumping on the ground and out came a giant worm….. wait, what does this remind me of?



Well it turns out that fighting the wyrms involves slightly more than just auto attacking. They have a burrowing special attack that hits for thirty and has a chance to bug out and hit you twice for sixty. Once I figured this out it was fairly easy to dodge it. However some other people were not so quick to figure this out. A level 138 proved just how slow people can be as he ate two back to back sixty blows and toppled over dead. Congratulations, your max levels and hundreds of millions in gear can’t save you from your inability to juke. But I blessed his grave and he made it back in the end and started dodging the attacks.

While I didn’t get a piece of the new slayer helmet I did get a phenomenal amount of drops. Almost everything was noted and the drops came in huge amounts. I still prefer abby demons and gargs but these new monsters definitely get my seal of approval.