Hey guys, JForge here.
Welcome to Rax Noob to Pro!
In this guide, I'll show you the easiest and most effective way to kill Araxxor, using
semi-automatic combat.
I'll be showing you my gear setup, my action bars and the exact moves I make to defeat
all of the Rax mechanics.
I'll do a complete kill and teach you the mechanics along the way.
So first up, once you enter the Rax cave you are teleport blocked and the only way to leave
is to kill him or die.
So you wanna use Practice Mode, until you master all of the mechanics.
Practice mode is a setting of the instance, and it makes your death safe, so when you
die, you simply get chucked out of the cave, and you can hop back in and have another go.
You don't have to pay Death 500K GP to reclaim your items, you don't even lose your beast
of burden, so this makes the whole Rax learning process easy and fun.
Lets begin with gear.
Rax has no combat style weakness, that being said, it's easiest done with Range and Mage.
In this guide I'll be only be covering Range using a Nox Bow.
If you have the ascension crossbows I highly recommend you swap those for the Nox Bow which
has increased range.
The extra range lets you bypass certain mechanics much easier.
It also lets you do more DPS with less running around.
Also, on phase 4, it increases the chance you can stay within the Death's Swiftness
zone, letting you do twice as much damage during that period.
I've augmented my bow with precise 3 and crackling 3, you read the comments below for more info
on that.
As for armor, I'm using full augmented sirenic, which is T90 power armor and it cost me like
40 mil.
Pernix and Zamorak Anima also cost about the same, but are T80 and have lower attack and
defence stats, so why not get some sirenic?
It costs about 500K GP an hour but if you reserve it only for the high value bosses
in RuneScape, it pays for itself many times over.
I have pernix boots and the amazing ascension grips which are just 2 mil but have full Tier
90 stats with a whopping 108 defence.
Highly recommended.
I have a prayer book which boosts my attack stats, but you can carry a sign of life which
revives you with 2K HP if you die.
You can also purchase an ability from Death which increases this to 4K HP.
I wear the LOTD [Luck of the Dwarves] coz the ring of life has no effect here.
The remaining setup is whatever you have, amulet of souls or a blood ammy, a tiranwin
quiver for the prayer boost, and a kiln cape or 99 cape.
As for auras, I found the sharpshooter series works really well.
My inventory setup is real simple.
I just have rocktails, an ectophail for quick transportation, and a pheromone which makes
Rax spawn weak to my combat style.
I don't carry any saradomin brews as they heal really slowly and are real expensive
too.
You can pay upwards of 100K per inventory, and if you're just learning, its a huge waste
of money.
I have a war tortoise full of rocktails, but you can use a pack yak, which gives you even
more food.
I've got 99 combat, which makes the fight noticibly easier, but at least get yourself
90+ in all combat stats.
You need 80 summoning for the War Tortoise, and if you can afford 95 prayer, the T95 attack
curses act as an additional overload.
With Herblore 94 you can brew overloads, which seriously improve your DPS.
Herblore 99 doesn't have to cost millions and you can actually make a profit, link in
the description.
I have two primary action bars and one secondary action bar with hotkeys assigned to certain
commands.
I recommend you just go ahead and copy my setup until you get good enough to customize
them yourself.
Action bar 3 is a range bar without Damage Over Time abilities, or DOTs, and Action bar
4 is an optimal high-DPS range action bar that I use on Phase 4 when I wanna max out
on DPS.
My secondary bar has hotkeys 1 and 2 for prayer switching, 3 for food, 4 for attack curses.
F1 and F2 trigger the most important Freedom and Anticipation abilities which must be cycled
throughout the fight.
The remaining slots are thresholds and DOTs which I trigger using my mouse.
Surge is on the last slot.
Use the settings page to enable the secondary action bar, and to assign hotkeys to certain
slots.
Most of the Rax special attacks can only be dodged with the mouse.
So I have an optimized UI preset, where my secondary action bar is close to the center
of the screen, allowing me to dodge attacks and manually trigger abilities without using
hotkeys.
As you get better you can just use hotkeys and eliminate this altogether.
All my chat windows are closed to eliminate any distractions.
You'll need to give Rax your undivided attention, coz unlike the other bosses in RuneScape,
Rax is not something you can AFK.
We'll quickly cover some really basic Rax mechanics and then we'll jump in to an actual
fight.
Rule #1.
Rax does a special attack every 5 auto attacks.
Rule #2.
Manually trigger 3-4 threshold abilities and then use Freedom or Anticipate.
This lets you avoid most of his special attacks with minimal damage.
Rule #3.
Smash DPS the moment his spec completes.
Rule #4.
When Rax goes into a protective web mode, stop attacking him immediately.
Any damage you do to him now will be instantly reflected back to you.
So lets jump right in and look at a complete Rax kill.
Preparation Hop to the fastest world.
This is the most important step, coz server latency plays a huge part in combat mechanics.
If the server is laggy, you may not dodge a special attack and get hit for a whopping
4K HP+ even though you clicked out to avoid it.
So exit to lobby, click the refresh button to calculate server latencies, sort by latency,
and hop to the fastest server you can.
Get a bonfire boost by burning some logs.
Summon a bob and fill it with a bunch of rocktails.
Replenish prayer points using the statue at canafis.
Teleport using the ectophail, and then run south to reach the Rax cave.
You can use surge to help you get there faster.
Enter the cave and hop over the gap.
Run along the path to reach the arena entrance.
Enter a Practice Mode instance after clicking the start/join button.
Its actually free even though it incorrectly says it costs 200K.
Activate your aura, and have a sip of your overloads.
You're now ready.
Hop into the arena, and wait for Rax to appear.
The moment Rax appears, burn the web to the Light Path.
This is the easiest path, but once you get the hang of it, the other paths are about
as easy too.
Press hotkeys 2 and 4 to activate protect from magic, and your attack curse.
This is the web special attack, if you attack now, all damage will be reflected back to
you.
As you can see my Corruption Shot was active and all that damage got reflected back to
me.
This is why you don't want DOT abilities on action bar 3, and this is why you wanna manually
trigger your DOT abilities the moment his spec completes, to avoid those abilities bleeding
over into the web phase.
Rax does a special attack after every 5 auto attacks.
Manually trigger 3-4 thresholds, and then hit F1 or F2 to dodge or weaken his spec.
This is the cleave spec, but because I had anticipation active, I avoided it altogether.
Smash DPS the moment his spec completes, by manually triggering thresholds and DOTs abilities.
I missed hitting F1 or F2 and the cacoon spec got me.
You have spam click anywhere to escape the cacoon.
If you have Freedom or Anticipation active, you exit the cacoon much faster.
If Rax pulls you in for a cleave, spam click away from him the moment he does.
If you do this fast enough, you will dodge the attack and take no damage.
You just have to move one square for the dodge to take effect.
Just DPS away, and dodge his attacks by cycling F1 and F2.
And when Rax reaches under 10K HP, run down the path to begin the next phase.
Phase 2.
Stay in the spotlight and prayer switch.
Press 4 to turn off your attack curse coz you won't be attacking anything.
During this phase, Rax does a basic ranged or mage attack.
He shoots off a little bolt, and if you can prayer switch to match the type of the bolt,
you will take far less damage.
This is also a skill you'll need to master for phase 4.
This is what a ranged bolt looks like.
And this, is what a magic bolt looks like.
Keep these in mind and get really good at prayer switching to avoid these.
You'll need to be a real master at prayer switching if you wanna survive phase 4, so
practice practice practice!
When Rax drops in the eggs special attack, you have 10 seconds to reach them.
If you stand near the eggs when the bomb detonates, it will destroy the eggs and do minimal damage
to you.
If you don't, you will take a lot of damage and then you'll have to kill those little
spider minions that spawn too.
At this point you just press hotkeys 1 or 2 depending on the type of the bolt.
Run to the spotlight whenever it moves, or you'll take continuous damage while in the
dark.
If you bring an additional shieldbow like the dark bow, equip it, and then use Resonance
to heal you for some of these attacks.
After a couple minutes Rax will come down from the ceiling and charge at you.
There are 4 different attacks he does, and you need to respond by pressing the corresponding
arrow key.
You have about 2 seconds to react to his posture.
When his legs point left, you wanna spam press the LEFT arrow key to escape the attack.
When his legs point right, spam press RIGHT.
When his legs touch the floor, spam press DOWN.
And when his legs spread out, spam press UP.
For the eggs spec, a pro tip is to stay in the spotlight for at least 6 seconds, and
then run to the eggs.
This maximizes the time you stay in the spotlight and you take less far damage.
You can also use surge to run to the spotlight quicker.
If you respond with the correct action, Rax will only charge at you twice and then you
can move on to the next phase.
If you fail you'll get hit for upwards of 4K HP and you'll have to wait until Rax charges
at you again.
Phase 3.
Have a sip of your overloads and press 4 to turn on your attack curse.
This is where the mechanics of all the open paths are active at once..
In this video I have the Light path and Minion path open, so Rax will do special attacks
spawing little minions or activating the light beam.
You only need to kill a total of 20 minions for the entire fight, and no more will spawn
after that.
Highly acidic spiders.
These little guys are totally harmless.
You just need to click em, lure em under Rax and then Rax absorbs them and that makes phase
4 a little easier.
Ideally, you need to absorb 4 of these spiders, but its not a requirement for moving on.
Now watch closely.
Rax shoots off a little ranged bolt, and that creates a little green acid pool.
This is the beginning of the dreaded "one hit spider", a tiny little guy that instantly
kills you the moment it touches you.
So keep your eyes peeled for the ranged attack, or the moment you spot the acid on the floor,
run away as far and as fast as you can.
Do not move in the direction of the one-hit or you risk getting killed.
Forget about everything for a moment and just run!
It will walk a short distance towards you and then it will self destruct.
You can now resume combat as usual, but keep your eyes peeled, it can appear again!
When you kill Araxxor, he hops over to the final arena and Araxxi does her "death from
above" move.
This whole animation is designed to psyche you out, so just ignore the whole "shock and
awe campaign" and try to calm your nerves as much possible.
You only need 10 to 15 rocktails to complete this phase, and the calmer you are, you can
respond to the mechanics with much greater ease.
The moment you enter, get to full health and full prayer points.
Sip an overload and wait exactly halfway between Rax and the arena boundary.
If you're too close, Rax does a melee attack, and if you're too far, it messes up your prayer
switching.
Switch to preset 4 which maximizes your DPS and eliminates the need for manually triggering
thresholds, so all you need to focus on now is prayer switching.
When Rax does a ranged attack, use protect from ranged.
When she does a magic attack, use protect from magic.
When a spotlight appears, run to the spotlight.
At 50% HP, Rax stops doing all her special attacks.
At this point you just wanna do as much damage as possible to end the fight quickly.
Keep your eyes locked to the center of the screen and just focus on prayer switching
based on the attack.
At 25% HP Rax spaws the dreaded "putrid acid", which hits you consistently if it touches
you.
Look at it closely, as you can see it has a bouncing core, and a tail.
You only get hit if the core actually touches you.
Learn to follow it with your eyes and to predict its movements.
Firstly, do not move when the acid spawns.
Don't move at all.
Secondly, prayer switch using keys 1 & 2 while keeping your eyes casually on the acid.
3, When the acid touches you, you'll see a 2K damage hit splat.
Now move a few squares and spam press 3 to eat a few rocktails and get yourself back
to full HP.
Click on Rax to continue attacking.
4, If you kill Rax fast enough, the putrid acid will only hit you once or twice for the
duration of this fight.
Lets watch a quick recap.
The acid hits me for 2K HP, I move one square, and resume attacking.
Just DPS away and in a few seconds the lumbering beast collapses, its rotting carcass a symbol
of your might!
Congrats on your first Rax kill!
If you've done it in practice mode, you'll get no loot.
If not, I recommend carrying a ring of forture or an LOTD and then wearing it just before
you click the corpse, to maximize your chances of getting rare and exotic loot.
The average kill gives you 500K to 2 mil worth of loot, not counting rares which are assembled
to form noxious weaponry.
When you're done admiring the results of your hard work, right-click Rax and select Leave.
As always, teleports don't work within the arena.
Okay, so now that we've seen a complete kill, lets understand the Rax path mechanics.
Rax has 3 possible paths, and at any given time 2 of these are open.
You can select one path of the two that are open, and you do this by burning its web.
The Light path has a spotlight that you need to follow, and the ranged or mage attack that
you need to prayer switch.
The Acid path needs you to lure Rax into an acid pool, and then lure him up the ramp when
the acidity is at 100%.
This dissolves the ramp and you can move on to the next phase.
The Minions path spaws a total of 20 spider minions, of which the mirrorback is the extremely
dangerous spider you need to kill first.
The Minions path is unique in that phase 2 can be done anywhere in the whole arena.
Phase 1 and 4 are about the same for all paths.
But phase 2 and 3 are affected by the paths that are open.
Phase 2 is entirely dependant on the path that you select.
In the last video, the open paths were the Light path and the Acid path, of which I selected
the Light path.
We'll now do a kill with the Acid path and the Minion path open, of which we'll select
the Minion path.
So we enter the arena, and burn the web to the Minions path.
Phase 1 remains exactly the same for all paths.
The moment Rax goes under 10K HP, we run to the next section to begin phase 2.
And then we run back, coz its easier to fight in a larger arena than in the little pathway.
Rax does an egg spec, so we move to the eggs, destroying them and taking minimal damage.
Instead of a special attack, Rax spits out a bunch of spiders.
This signals the start of a spider minion wave.
5 spiders will spawn, of which 1 of them will be a special spider, either the pulsing spider
or the deadly mirrorback spider.
Stop attacking Rax immediately, coz if the mirrorback spawns, it will reflect all damage
you do to Rax back to you.
You can however freely attack the other spiders.
The moment a spider appears, right-click and attack it.
If you left click, you might accidentally attack Rax and then the mirrorback will reflect
all that damage back to you.
Right-clicking also displays the type of the spider, so if you spot a mirrorback or a pulsing
spider, attack it with all you got.
Then peacefully kill the other spiders using your thresholds, coz they are pretty much
harmless.
Rax does the egg spec, so I leave everything and run to the eggs.
Right click and select "walk" if the eggs are under Rax.
Another wave of minions spawn, and this time its the pulsing spider.
I quickly dispatch him and then focus on the rest.
The moment Rax drops under 10K HP, I run all the way to the phase 3 arena.
Sometimes, phase 3 can get a little nasty.
Here, I'm luring an acidic spider under Rax when a one-hit appears.
I turn around in panic, and then eggs appear.
So I have to remain close to the eggs, and yet keep my distance from the one-hit spider.
The rest of the fight plays out as before.
If you've killed all of the 20 spider minions in the previous phases, none will spawn in
phase 4, letting you kill Araxxi in peace.
Its therefore highly recommended you dispatch all of the spider minions before phase 4.
When its about time for the putrid acid to spawn, I rotate my camera such that I get
a clear top-down view of the battle.
I found this angle really helps me keep track of the putrid acid that's bouncing around,
and it really helps me distinguish it from the range and mage attacks too.
Phase 4 is about the same in all the paths.
Rax topples over and we've completed our second kill.
Congrats!
I'll leave you with a screen of my top Rax reminders.
You wanna use Practice Mode over and over until you get pretty good at all of these
mechanics!
Then attempt a real Rax kill and you should be pretty smooth by then.
And lastly, don't sweat it, its just a game!
So I hope you enjoyed the tutorial, and I hope to see you again.
Cheers!
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