I Love My Cannon
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Please note that this series of four entries about Slayer, of which this is the third, happened between the 18th and 26th of February, so mentioned item prices may be slightly out of date
With Dagannoths as my Slayer task and a feeling that I wasn't going to be able to complete it in a reasonable time at the Dagannoth Kings, I decided to do it the 'proper' way - with a Cannon in the room under the Lighthouse.
I headed off to the Grand Exchange and put in an offer for a Cannon at max. It took a couple of hours for the offer to fill, but that wasn't a problem. I then started an offer to buy some Cannonballs. For as long as I can remember, these had a value of 200gp or 180gp if you were buying in huge quantities, so it was a massive shock to see that they'd set me back 400gp each - twice what I was expecting. Oh well, money is easy to come by, so I bought 5k of them.
Off to the Lighthouse I headed, then hopped worlds a couple of times to find an empty one. I set up the Cannon and off it fired.
Pwning Dagannoths with a Cannon
Fairly quickly, I noticed that they drop huge numbers of valuable Herb Seeds - Lantadyme, Dwarf Weed, Snapdragon. The only problem with these is that they're tiny and with the Dagannoths dying so rapidly, it's easy to miss one that's dropped. It was with a strange grin on my face that I right-clicked on a Snapdragon Seed, clicked to pick it up, ran over and found that it had disappeared. Maybe I can make money too easily on RS if I can let 100k disappear with little more than a 'meh'. 
The task ended quickly, then I was off to fetch another one. This time it was Black Demons - those big things that take ages to kill and are horribly boring. Of course, I had my Cannon, so felt a need to use it. Looking around, it appears that all their locations outside the Chaos Tunnels are in single combat. The Cannon would still be speeding up kills, so that's a good thing.
I headed off to Taverley Dungeon and set myself up. It's still horribly tedious and I hate the task, but the kills are faster so the boredom doesn't last as long. Over the course of the task, I averaged about 10 Cannonballs per kill, not cheap, but I'd say it was worth it.
The Cannon speeds up Black Demon tasks significantly, even though it's a single combat area
A couple of tasks later and I was assigned Bloodvelds. For this, there was an option of heading to an overcrowded Slayer Tower or traversing the Meiyerditch Tunnels and finding the Mutated version to kill with a Cannon. Clearly, the latter was favourable. It's a long trek to get there, but the tunnels look great, so it isn't a problem. Once there, I managed about 3/4 of my task before running out of Prayer Potions, so had to tele out. Because of the long walk to head back, I used the Slayer Tower to finish off the task.
After a gap of a few days, I was given another task to kill 210 Bloodvelds. This time, I was determined that I wouldn't run out of supplies, so over-stocked on everything and headed in. An hour later, the task was finished. 40k Melee, 60k Range and 40k Slayer xp in a hour. Amazing speed and well worth the cost of 3k Cannonballs!
Cannoning Mutated Bloodvelds is extremely fast experience
The ammo may cost a fortune, but it is a truly amazing weapon.
I love my Cannon.
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