Range Gear Progression
Intro
For this guide, I'm not going to cover Items that have no unlock requirement like quests so that you can just go to the grand exchange and buy it.
Armour
the first thing you wanna consider is Tank vs Power armor. Power armor is your best bet, it's the DPS version of armor which in most situations beats Tank armor. The good thing about tank armor is it's cheap so what I suggest is if you don't have lots of money use tank armor until you can afford Power armor.
For Magic Armor this is how I would progress:
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Royal Dragonhide
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Armadyl if you have the money.
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Deathl lotus if you need something tankier then Armadyl and you can't afford Virtus yet.
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Anima Core of Zamorak as a stepping stone till you can afford Perk then Perk out Pernix
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Pernix is gonna be your Endgame armor until you can afford Sirenic armor for Top level PVM but it's still good to have Pernix for certain content where T90 us to expensive to upkeep like GW1 or GW2.
Item Name | Item Req | Armor Type | |
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Sirenic | 90 | Power | |
Pernix | 80 | Power | |
Anima Core of Zamorak | 80 | Power | |
Death Lotus | 80 | Tank | |
Dinosaurhide | 75 | Tank | |
Armadyl Armor | 70 | Power | |
Karil Armor | 70 | Tank | |
Royal Dragonhide | 65 | Tank |
2H Weapons | Item Req | Accuracy | Damage | Damage With Ammo | Weapon Speed | |
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Decimation Bow | 90 | 2458 | 1147.5 | 2011.5 (Araxyte Arrows) | Average | |
Noxious Bow | 87 | 2287 | 1598.6 | - | Fast | |
Zaryte Bow | 80 | 1924 | 1470 | - | Fast | |
Sunspear (Range) | 78 | 1829 | 1743.3 | - | Average | |
Black Salamander | 70 | 1486 | 892.5 | 1564.5 (Harralander tar) | Average |
Duel-Wield Weapons | Item Req | Main-Hand Accuracy | Off-Hand Accuracy | Main-Hand Damage | Off-Hand Damage | Weapon Speen | |
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Ascension Crossbows | 90 | 2458 | 2458 | 864 (Ascension Bolts) | 864 (Ascension Bolts) | Fastest | |
Shadow Glaives | 85 | 2458 | 2458 | 980 | 490 | Fast | |
Armadyl Crossbows | 75 | 1694 | 1694 | There is no tier 75 Bolts so use Royal Bolts but it will just cap at 75 damage | There is no tier 75 Bolts so use Royal Bolts but it will just cap at 75 damage | Fastest | |
Karil Crossbows | 70 | 1486 | 1486 | 672 (Bolt Rack) | 672 (Bolt Rack) | Fastest |
Overal Gear Progression
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Black Salamander
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Royal Dragonhide armour
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Armadyl armour (Always Keep)
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Ring of Fortune
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Blood Fury
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Royal Crossbow / Zaryte bow
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Anima of Zamorak if you can afford Pernix head, chest and legs (Always Keep)
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Decimation bow Shadow glaves (I personally Think Decimation bow is the best but both are good)
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Keep using Armadyl boots and gloves
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Mazcab Codex Corruption shot ( Can buy at any time)
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Pernix boots and gloves (Always Keep)
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Amulet of Souls
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Cinderbane gloves / Nightmare gauntlets (Check the gloves guide for more info)
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Ring of Death
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Noxious Bow or Ascension Crossbow (id suggest Nox bow first)
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Ring of Death
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Luck of the dwarves
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Reaper necklace (if you don't have a use for it buy it later when you do i.e. Araxxor or Telos)
At this point If you haven't perked your Pernix id suggest you start investing in the following perks. The other thing to consider is working out what sort of content you wanna do if you're more casual, staying with Pernix will serve you well if you doing mostly top level PVM then might be worth investing into T90. But its always good to have GW1, Nex armours and T90 and use them for the right content and not waste money of the upkeep.
Examples:
Doing slayer: GW1 armor and t90 weapon will be perfect
GW1-GW2: Nex armor will serve you well without it being overkill and not costing you too much.
T90 Armors: Should only be used in high level Bossing i.e Telos, Araxxor, AOD and Raids and so on.
Arrows are used for ammunition with bows. They do not affect accuracy but do add damage bonuses. A higher level arrow adds more damage but can make ranged combat very expensive. The type of bow wielded may limit the amount of damage that arrows add. For example, if a tier 50 bow is used with tier 60 arrows, the damage added by the arrows will not be tier 60 but rather tier 50 (i.e. the level of the bow). Non-members cannot use Saradomin, Guthix, Zamorak, Dragon, Dark or Araxyte arrows. All arrows except for the God arrows and Araxyte arrows can be fletched by members.
Bolts are used for ammunition with crossbows. They do not affect accuracy but do add damage bonuses. A higher level bolt adds more damage but can make ranged combat very expensive. The type of crossbow wielded may limit the amount of damage that bolts add. For example, if a tier 70 crossbow is used with tier 80 bolts, the damage added by the bolts will not be tier 80 but rather tier 70 (i.e. the level of the crossbow). Gem tipped bolts can be enchanted using the Enchant Crossbow Bolt spell.
Perks
Chest: Biting 3 and Crackling 3 + Dragon Slayer or Mobile
If you do a lot of ED2 up to you Mobile is a good all rounder. Personally, Mobile won't impact you too much because your range and you can use a mobile switch. There's a lot of dragon content like ED2, QBD, KBD. But overall just look at what your situation is.
Legs: Enhanced Devotion 3 Impatient 3 / Impatient 3 + Devotion
(only use the Impatient combo if you got lucky no need to fuss over getting the combo. it does stack a Jagex mod has confirmed it but it's super rare that it will benefit you. Essentially, enhanced take priority to proc, and if on cooldown devoted can then proc but the cooldowns are pretty low even more so at lvl 20 item level you will rarely see benefits. I've only personally noticed it happen once or twice may be something to change after you got nothing else to buy and improve.)
2H Weapon: Precise 5 and Aftershock 3
Main-Hand: Aftershock 3
Off-Hand: Precise 5
If Aftershock 3 is too expensive you can live without it and save it for later. Same with biting 3. I personally put biting 3 on my T90 armours and only put biting 2 + Venomblood on my Nex gear and GW1 Armours. It's a little bit cheaper but id say it depends on your invention lvl at 120 it will probably cost you anywhere from 1-30m its all RNG.
Also, when you disassemble a Nox weapon for biting 3 at item level 9+ you get 20 noxious components which is enough to make 4x Bitting 3 gizmos. so you're paying whatever a Nox weapon divided by 4 so it will be about 30-40m per Biting 3.
At this point, all you have to buy is Codexs and T92 weapons
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Mazcab Codex Corruption blast (Can buy at any time)
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Mutated Dazing Shot
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Reprisal (is optional but only buy if you have a use for it.)
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T99 Curse
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T92 Weapons and then perking it.
Shields and Defenders
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Spirit Shield
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Malevolent
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The best defender you can get
When to use them:
Resonance - Shield (always t90)
Barricade - Shield (always t90)
Debilitate - Shield (always t90, switch to Defender after for good DPS whilst keeping Debil effect)
Reflect - Defender
Immortality - Defender
Revenge - Shield with full Achto, Defender with DPS gear
Spirit Shields are used when not doing defensive thresholds. then when you need to do a defensive threshold you switch to defender or t90 essentially you switching shields.
Spirit shields are used when not doing defensive thresholds. Then when you need to do a defensive threshold you switch to defender or t90 essentially you switching shields. You can combo Spirit Shields with Penance Aura and you will almost have unlimited prayer points depending on the content which will help with the prayer being drained to fast from all incoming damage while wearing the shield (with sufficient prayer points) will be reduced by 30%. Simultaneously, 6% of the damage received will be reduced from one's prayer points.