What’s going on guys my name’s Theoatrix and welcome to my complete Zulrah guide for OSRS. This guide goes through everything you’ll need to know to get your first KC and many more.
Zulrah Guide Overview
Requirements
To be able to fight zulrah, you need to partially complete Regicide, up to the point where you go to Port Tyras. To effectively defeat zulrah, you should have at least 75 ranged and 75 magic. Having these levels unlocks better gear and increases your accuracy and damage.
Getting There
Zulrah is located south of Port Tyras in Zul-Andra. These are the best ways to get there:
Zul-Andra Teleport Scroll - Costs 12K on Grand Exchange
BJS Fairy Ring - Requires 76 Agility to get to main land
Charter Ship to Port Tyras - Costs ~3K
Zulrah's Mechanics
Zulrah has set rotations, with 4 different ones, so every time you fight it goes through around 10 different phases, then it starts a new rotation.
Throughout each rotation, Zulrah will become either green, blue or red, each form having different stats and attacks.
The green Zulrah only attacks with ranged, so you should always use protect from ranged on this phase. While Zulrah is green, you should be attacking with magic.
The blue zulrah attacks primarily with magic, but can also attack with ranged. You should use protect from magic for this phase, and you’ll need to tank the unavoidable ranged attacks. And for the blue Zulrah, you need to be attacking with ranged.
The red Zulrah is the melee form, which attacks and stuns you. You need to run out of view from the attacks within a certain time. When zulrah is red, its recommended to attack with magic.
Throughout the battle, zulrah spawns in snakelings which can damage you. They hit up to 15 damage, but they only have 1 hitpoint. To deal with these, you should use a ring of recoil since it instantly kills them for you.
Also, zulrah can create clouds around the arena which deal venom damage every gametick. You need to run out of these or you can quickly die, but if you follow the cheatsheet im showing shortly, which shows you where to stand for each phase, you wont get damaged by these clouds.
Your damage dealt to zulrah is always capped at 50. So youcan never hit more than 50 damage in a single hitsplat, but with that, anything that hits over 50 rolls as a 50.
Zulrah Cheatsheet
When fighting Zulrah, its pretty much essential to use some sort of cheatsheet to show you where to stand and what to pray. It takes hundreds of Zulrah completions to memorize the cheat sheet, but without it, even the best players cant survive.
To access a cheatsheet, theres a number of them online, but also there’s one in runelite in the “Zulrah Helper” plugin.
So when you begin the battle, zulrah starts as her green form. Then it will follow one of 4 different rotations.
Phase Walkthrough
I’m going to go through one rotation so you can get an idea of how it works, and this rotation includes all of the different zulrahs.
So starting off I board the sacrificial boat to enter Zulrah's area.
Then, at the start of every kill, you run to the north east corner and attack with magic with no overhead prayers on.
After this phase, zulrah turns red, so you stay in the corner, and when zulrah is in the red phase, you need to stand on these tiles, and you wait until zulrah starts the attack, then you move to the opposite tile.
Next, zulrah turns blue, so you protect from magic, and you should stay in the same corner youre already in. you should attack zulrah with ranged, and watch out for the unavoidable ranged attacks too.
Then you run to the south western side when zulrah turns green, and you use protect from ranged while casting magic.
Then, you can stay where you are, and swap to protect from magic and into your ranged gear.
Next, zulrah turns red again, but this time you need to utilize the safespot tiles near the pillars. By standing here, zulrah cant hit you and you can continue dealing damage.
Then zulrah turns green, so you protect range and attack with mage, but this time you stand in the center part of the island.
Then zulrah turns blue, and you run to the south western corner area again with protect magic on and ranged gear.
Then youre faced with jad phase, which is where zulrah attacks with ranged and magic and you have to prayer switch. So for this phase, you start by protecting from ranged, which the cheatsheet will tell you. Then you swap your protection prayer every time zulrah bobs its head. So it goes to mage, then range, then mage, so on. If you get out of rhythm, you can die very quickly, so put all your focus on your protection prayers if its your first time.
Then, the final phase of this rotation, is another red zulrah, where you need to run back to the starting position and alternate between the tiles.
Then it starts a new rotation, and you follow a new pathway on the cheatsheet.
Gear & Inventory
Starting with the minimum setup, which involves void magic and void ranged, with the warped sceptre and a magic shortbow. With 75 magic and ranged, it is possible to kill zulrah with this gear, but with lower stats, you are going to struggle. In your inventory, you’ll need to bring an antivenom potion, and you’ll also need a spare ring of recoil.
The mid tier setup for zulrah involves using a trident, better mage gear, as well as crystal with a bowfa. So this setup is a fair increase in cost, but is no where near as expensive as the max setup.
And here’s the max set up, which costs over 2 billion gp, and involves using a thamarrons sceptre, a shadow, a twisted bow, and top tier armour. It’s possible to get zulrah kills in less than a minute with this setup and with good rng.
Loot From Zulrah
There’s a range of notable drops from zulrah, and at max efficiency, zulrah is going to make over 4.5 mil gp per hour. There’s the tanzanite fang, magic fang , serpentine visage and the uncut onyx, each being dropped at a rate of 1 in 512. There’s also the mutagens, which can be used for recolouring, and those are the rarest drop from zulrah. There’s the pet snakeling dropped at a rate of 1 in 4000. There is also the jar of swamp drop, which you get at a rate of 1 in 3000.
Thanks for reading :D
So that was my complete zulrah guide for oldschool. If you want to skip back to any part of the guide, there are links to every section below.
Zulrah Guide Overview
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