How am I supposed to build a zerker?

Cutepuppy666's Berserker Pure Training & Quest Guide

I am working on my own Berserker pure for Old School Runescape Servers, so I thought I'd share what I've found out.

Contents
i. - What this guide will get you / Introduction
ii. - Required skills for full completion
iii. - Required quests for Recipe for Disaster
iv. - Required quests for Lunar Diplomacy
v. - Quests & training methods to get requirements
vi. - Getting Started & Combat Training
vii. - Update log & credits
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i. - Introduction

This guide will give you a full list of quests needed to obtain Barrows gloves, which has a prerequisite of Ancient Magicks, Lunar spells, which has a prerequisite of quests needed for Freminnik helms. Near the end I also have a list of recommended quests you can use to level your skills, and recommended training methods.

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ii. - Skills required for full completion of Recipe for Disaster, and Lunar Diplomacy, including all prerequisites:
61 Crafting
10 Slayer
50 FM
55 WC
65 Magic
48 Agility
25 Herblore (Greenman's Ale +1, or Greenman's Ale (m) +2, or Spicy Stew up to +5)
40 Smithing (Dwarven Stout +1, or Dwarven Stout (m) +2, or Spicy Stew up to +5)
40 Ranged
40 Defence*
53 Fishing (Fishing Potion +3, or Admiral Pie +5)
10 Fletching
70 Cooking (Chef's Delight +1, or Chef's Delight (m) +2, or Spicy Stew up to +5)
60 Mining
53 Thieving
* - In order to be a Berserker pure, you should do Lunar Diplomacy after questing to 40 defence.
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iii. - Quest Requirements for Recipe for Disaster



* - You only need to be able to start Legend's Quest.
** - If you are planning on staying 60 attack you must complete Monkey Madness & all other quests that give attack Xp before 28288 total Attack Experience. (See bottom of section V. for list of quests required)
Quests directly to the right (on the same line) of other quests are required for the corresponding quest on the left.
Quests in list form:

Spoiler:

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iv. - Quest Requirements for Lunar Diplomacy



Quests directly to the right (on the same line) of other quests are required for the corresponding quest on the left.
Quests in list form:

Spoiler:

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v. - Quests & training methods to get requirements

Agility
@1 Freminnik Trials, 2.8k Xp
@1 Icthlarin’s Little Helper, 4k Xp
@1 Recruitment Drive, 1k Xp
@1 Underground Pass, 3k Xp
@25 The Grand Tree, 7.9k Xp
@28 Troll Romance, 8k Xp=35
1-25 Toy Mice
35-40 Barbarian Course
40-48 Brimhaven Arena

Cooking
@1 Gertrude’s Cat, 1525 Xp
@1 Cook’s Assistant, 300 Xp
@30 Big Chompy Bird Hunting, 1470 Xp
@53 Heroe’s Quest, 2825 Xp
In between quests I recommend fishing first and cooking the fish you catch.

Crafting
@1 Sheep shearer 150 Xp
@1 Goblin Diplomacy, 200 Xp
@1 Dwarf Cannon 750 Xp
@10 Observatory Quest, 2250 Xp
@18 Nature Spirit 3k Xp
@19 Animal Magnetism 1k Xp
@20 Shilo village, 3875 Xp
@20 Elemental Workshop I, 5k Xp
@20 Elemental Workshop II, 7.5k Xp
@36 Enlightened Journey, 2k Xp
@40 The Freminnik Trials, 2.8k Xp
@49 Hand in the Sand 9k Xp = almost 50
Almost 50 – 61 = 5448 coif’s I recommend buying the cowhides or leather.
Alternatively, you could spin 13438 flax, again I strongly recommend buying it.

Fishing
@1 The Freminnik Trials, 2.8k Xp
@1 Sea Slug, 7175 Xp
@10 Fishing Contest, 2437 Xp
1-5 Shrimp (Net fishing, Draynor)
5-20 Bait fishing, Draynor
20+ Fly fishing, Barbarian Village or Shilo Village

Firemaking
@1 Heroe’s Quest, 1575 Xp
@20 Enlightened Journery, 4k Xp
Burn the highest level logs possible.

Herblore
@1 Druidic Ritual, 250 Xp
@1 Recruitment Drive, 1k Xp
@3 Jungle Potion, 775 Xp
@10 The Dig Site, 2k Xp
Clean whatever herbs you can after completion of The Dig Site, bank those you can’t. You can buy eye of newt in Port Sarim from the magic shop for 3Gp each and Water filled vials from the general store in Ardougne for 3-12 Gp each. You can kill Unicorns for their horn near the fishing spots in Barbarian Village. Sell any herbs leftover after level 25.

Mining
@1 Plague City, 2425 Xp
@1 Doric’s Quest, 1.3k Xp
@1 The Dig Site, 15.3k Xp
@50 Heroe’s Quest, 2575 Xp
15-45 Powermining Iron in Al Kharid, or Varrock.
45-60 Powermining Granite in the desert.

Smithing
@1 Heroe’s Quest, 2575 Xp
@1 The Knight's Sword, 12275 Xp
@20 Elemental Workshop I, 5k Xp
@30 Elemental Workshop II, 7.5k Xp
34-35 Smith Steel Bars
35-40 Smith Cannonballs

Thieving
@1 Biohazard, 1250 Xp
@1 Hazeel Cult 1.5k Xp
@1 Fight Arena, 2175 Xp
@1 Icthlarin’s Little Helper, 4.5k Xp
@17 The Hand in the Sand 1k Xp
@25 Creature of Fenkenstrain 1k Xp
@25 The Golem, 1k Xp
@30, The Feud, 15k Xp=37
1-10, man or 1-5 man
5-20 cake stall or 10- 20 farmer
20-38 silk stall
Or 20-38 Al Kharid Warriors
38+ master farmer

Woodcutting
@1 Icthlarin’s Little Helper, 4k Xp
@1 Heroe’s Quest, 1575 Xp
@1 Monk’s Friend, 2k Xp
@1 Enlightened Journey, 1.5k Xp
@35 Animal Magnetism, 2.5k Xp
@40 Freminnik Trials, 2.8k Xp
1-15 Normal Trees (Catherby, or wherever)
15-30 Oak Trees (Draynor or Varrock)
30-45 Willow Trees (Barb Outpost or Draynor)
45-55 Maple Trees (Seers Village)


Quests that give Attack Xp & required for Zerkers

Spoiler:

These are not skill guides, simply recommendations. There are probably better ways to train these skills. I have left out combat skills and skills with low requirements, such as fletching since these do not need much explanation.

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vi. -Getting Started

Okay, so you’ve just arrived in Lumbridge after Tutorial Island, but now what?
You’re going to need some money, so I recommend you begin training a skill that can get you a little bit. Don’t fret, you don’t need too much money so this won’t take too long. Some good money makers are things like:
Thieving, either pick pocketing or stealing from stalls (Biohazard Quest)
Woodcutting, you might get a lucky birds nest seed, but if not the logs are still worth a pretty penny. (Monk's Friend Quest)
Mining, everyone needs some raw materials. (Doric's Quest)
Or Fishing, we gotta eat, don’t we? (Fishing Contest - requires 10 fishing ~ Sea Slug - requires 30 firemaking)
I recommend you avoid training skills starting at level 1 like the plague, this will speed up your training a lot, and overall, I find this is more enjoyable. So I have put links to good beginner quests, with very low requirements by each skill.

Moving On –
Now that we’ve got some cash we have a choice to make, we can either begin training our combat or continue skilling toward the requirements we’ll need, all the while doing quests along the way that’ll benefit us and knock off some of the required quests.

Combat –
So you chose to start training combat? Well hold on for a second, all that hard earned Gp wasn’t necessary for an iron scimmy. Let’s kick-start this a little with some quests.
I recommend you start off with Waterfall Quest, this will get you to level 30 attack & strength.
Ok, now that we’re done with Waterfall Quest we have some attack and strength levels, but still only 10 hitpoints. We should probably start off easy. I recommend either training up magic and safe spotting creatures or some easy melee.

Magic.
The Varrock Guards are an unsuspecting foe, you can easily safe spot them behind a fence or rock.


A great place to buy some runes is at the Void Knight Outpost.


And make sure to pick up a staff from Zaff!


Melee.
It’s your first time, so make sure to bring lots of food and bank your coins. We can either try the Chaos druids north of Ardy (req 46 thieving to get in), or in the Taverly dungeon. Alternatively, we could just kill some dark wizards in Draynor.



Once we’ve got some HP levels, we can move on to.. you guessed it, more questing! But this time we can look at quests where we might have to do a little combat to get our reward.


Now we should be getting pretty close to 40 attack, so we might need more money for a rune scim. That’s no problem because we’ll be making money while we train, at flesh crawlers. Just pick up the herb and essence drops, bank and repeat.
Once we can afford a rune scim, why not upgrade?
We can even try out harder training spots, like hobgoblins and fire giants.

End-Game:
Training on Fire Giants is currently one of the best Xp/Gp spots in the game, since they have the rune scimitar as an uncommon drop you should be able to get over 100k Gp/Hr here on average, along with Xp rates reaching over 60k Xp/Hr. There are plenty of Fire Giants in the Waterfall dungeon you explored during Waterfall Quest. I would recommend having at least 40 defence before starting to train here, since it is quite a ways from a bank and you don't want to have to leave unnecessarily.

Fire Giant
Combat: 86
Xp/Hr: 50-60k+
Notable drops: Fire runes, Rune scimitars, Big bones.

Alternatively, a lot of players choose to train with Slayer for some great Gp once they reach higher levels.
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vii. - Update Log & Credits
-Posted 02/3/13
-Fixing formatting issue 02/3/13
-07 Guide links added, not all guides available. 02/3/13
-Added what is now, part vi.
-Added monster info & death plateau combo 03/3/13
-Added stat enhancers for skill requirements 09/3/13 :: Thanks to 0hey
-Added The Knight's Sword 10/3/13 :: Thanks to A Ruined Pure
-Added Mice Toy Training to Agility 10/3/13
-Added Quests for Attack Xp to section V 10/3/13 :: Thanks to A Ruined Pure
-Added Sea Slug quest for fishing Xp & Underground pass to Attack quests 23/3/13


If I have missed anything please notify me.
All links lead back to Zybez, from 2007.