Gargoyles
Combat level 111 · 105 hitpoints
Slayer Tower top floor. A steady, low-drama alching task. The profit comes from constant rune item drops you alch as you go, plus the Granite maul.
Requirements
- 75 Slayer
- Attack 70+ (80+ preferred)
- Magic 55 for High Alchemy
- ROCK HAMMER REQUIRED to finish them
Pointers
- A ROCK HAMMER (or granite hammer) IS REQUIRED. At low HP they stop dying and you must smash them with the hammer to finish the kill.
- A granite hammer doubles as both your finisher and a real weapon, which saves an inventory slot.
- They are weak to CRUSH. A bludgeon or the granite hammer itself is ideal.
- The method is alch-as-you-go: they drop rune items constantly, so bring nature runes and alch between kills.
- The Brittle key drop is what you take to the Grotesque Guardians.
- No special mechanics beyond the hammer. This is a low-effort, consistent-income task.
What the sim brings here
Every worn slot and every inventory row below is the combat simulation's own output, at the style it ranks fastest for each account tier. Each line carries the channel that chose it: sim means the model solved it, and inherited means the value came through from the hand-authored loadout the solver starts from. Riding through a generator does not make a value derived, so those are marked rather than presented as the model's answer. A line marked unattributed carries a channel the model's own vocabulary no longer declares, so no word is put on it at all rather than one being read off the channel's spelling. Where the model has not answered a row, its own refusal is printed instead; where it has answered a row it doubts, the answer is printed with the doubt attached rather than withheld.
max tier, melee (Melee is fastest)
Worn gear: 11 of 11 slots chosen by the sim.
- Head: Torva full helm sim
- Cape: Infernal cape sim
- Neck: Amulet of rancour sim
- Ammo: Ancient blessing sim
- Weapon: Holy scythe of vitur sim
- Body: Inquisitor's hauberk sim
- Shield: nothing sim
- Legs: Inquisitor's plateskirt sim
- Hands: Ferocious gloves sim
- Feet: Avernic treads (max) sim
- Ring: Ultor ring sim
The model doubts this gear (tied with an identical item, so enumeration order decided): the head, ammo, weapon slots each hold an item the model cannot tell apart from an alternative the search could equally have taken, re-scored identical in this row's own bag. Enumeration order decided it, so the sim had NO REASON; that is not the same as the pick being wrong. SOLVED_GEAR_TIES names them.
Inventory: 5 of 6 rows chosen by the sim, 1 carrying no channel at all.
- Super combat potion(4) sim
- Prayer potion(4) x20 sim
- Zamorak brew(4) x2 sim
- Rune pouch sim
- Rock hammer sim
- Max cape ruled
Spellbook: Standard, claimed by High Level Alchemy (a purpose the boss page names). Grants High Level Alchemy. Cannot cast Vengeance. Vengeance is on Lunar and High Level Alchemy (utility) has claimed Standard. One book per trip.
Open question, not a ruling: Shane: whether runes the page tells the player to carry (alching, telegrab, a mechanic closer) outrank a thrall or Vengeance the damage model ranked on value, when the two live on different books. Default (a) utility wins, chosen by the session-53 coordinator, 2026-09-14, pending Shane
Trip: about 507.61 kills in 59 minutes, limited by prayer.
mid tier, melee (Melee is fastest)
Worn gear: 11 of 11 slots chosen by the sim.
- Head: Torva full helm sim
- Cape: Infernal cape sim
- Neck: Amulet of torture sim
- Ammo: Ancient blessing sim
- Weapon: Soulreaper axe sim
- Body: Inquisitor's hauberk sim
- Shield: nothing sim
- Legs: Inquisitor's plateskirt sim
- Hands: Ferocious gloves sim
- Feet: Avernic treads (max) sim
- Ring: Ultor ring sim
The model doubts this gear (tied with an identical item, so enumeration order decided): the head, neck, ammo slots each hold an item the model cannot tell apart from an alternative the search could equally have taken, re-scored identical in this row's own bag. Enumeration order decided it, so the sim had NO REASON; that is not the same as the pick being wrong. SOLVED_GEAR_TIES names them.
Inventory: 5 of 6 rows chosen by the sim, 1 carrying no channel at all.
- Super combat potion(4) sim
- Prayer potion(4) x21 sim
- Zamorak brew(4) sim
- Rune pouch sim
- Rock hammer sim
- Teleport to house (tablet) ruled
Spellbook: Standard, claimed by High Level Alchemy (a purpose the boss page names). Grants High Level Alchemy. Cannot cast Vengeance. Vengeance is on Lunar and High Level Alchemy (utility) has claimed Standard. One book per trip.
Open question, not a ruling: Shane: whether runes the page tells the player to carry (alching, telegrab, a mechanic closer) outrank a thrall or Vengeance the damage model ranked on value, when the two live on different books. Default (a) utility wins, chosen by the session-53 coordinator, 2026-09-14, pending Shane
Trip: about 348.59 kills in 53 minutes, limited by prayer.
budget tier, melee (Melee is fastest)
Worn gear: 11 of 11 slots chosen by the sim.
- Head: Void melee helm sim
- Cape: Ardougne cloak 3 sim
- Neck: Amulet of strength sim
- Ammo: Rada's blessing 2 sim
- Weapon: Soulreaper axe sim
- Body: Elite void top sim
- Shield: nothing sim
- Legs: Elite void robe sim
- Hands: Void knight gloves sim
- Feet: Primordial boots sim
- Ring: Ultor ring sim
The model doubts this gear (tied with an identical item, so enumeration order decided): the neck, ammo slots each hold an item the model cannot tell apart from an alternative the search could equally have taken, re-scored identical in this row's own bag. Enumeration order decided it, so the sim had NO REASON; that is not the same as the pick being wrong. SOLVED_GEAR_TIES names them.
Inventory: 6 of 7 rows chosen by the sim, 1 carrying no channel at all.
- Super combat potion(4) sim
- Zamorak brew(4) sim
- Super restore(4) x20 sim
- Ancient brew(4) sim
- Rune pouch sim
- Rock hammer sim
- Ring of dueling(8) ruled
Spellbook: Standard, claimed by High Level Alchemy (a purpose the boss page names). Grants High Level Alchemy. Cannot cast Vengeance. Vengeance is on Lunar and High Level Alchemy (utility) has claimed Standard. One book per trip.
Open question, not a ruling: Shane: whether runes the page tells the player to carry (alching, telegrab, a mechanic closer) outrank a thrall or Vengeance the damage model ranked on value, when the two live on different books. Default (a) utility wins, chosen by the session-53 coordinator, 2026-09-14, pending Shane
Trip: about 329.09 kills in 56 minutes, limited by prayer.
What each of those badges means
- derived:ascent (sim): an accepted coordinate-ascent move: betterThan() preferred this candidate over the incumbent under the row objective and band. The weapon+ammo+shield pairing and the crystal set arrive here too, because both are offered to the same acceptance test.
- derived:cheapestEqual (sim): cheapestOfEquals(): at budget, an exactly-tied cheaper item replaced the one in this slot. It changes the price and, by construction, not the score.
- derived:composed (sim): balanceInventory() sized this row from the derived supply menu. The menu enumerates CONSUMABLES and narrows by style, tier and price; it is not the authored bag.
- derived:empty (sim): the finished loadout leaves this slot EMPTY, and that is an ANSWER rather than a gap: a two-handed weapon forfeits the shield and a weapon that stores its own ammunition frees the ammo slot. Recorded so a null slot is never read as unprovenanced.
- derived:killMechanic (sim): KILL_MECHANICS: the item without which the kill cannot happen (the gargoyle finisher, a light source in a dark area), chosen out of the encounter's own stated disjunction after the account gate the source states, and reserved only where the loadout did not already satisfy the requirement worn or carried.
- derived:obtainable (sim): canonicaliseObtainable(): the finished loadout named a variant the model cannot state a route to, and this pass swapped it for the obtainable equal.
- derived:pouch (sim): derivePouchInto(): the rune pouch and its loose overflow, from the spell the build actually casts and the pouch slot criterion. Not from a pouch a human typed.
- derived:voidSeed (sim): the Void set offered assembled, because an all-or-nothing set effect pays nothing until four slots are right and every single step toward it is a strict loss. The pieces come from VOID_SET in combat.js, the same names its own predicate tests.
- ruled:escape (ruled): escapeLeg(): the way OUT, taken from the typed per-tier table ESCAPE_PLAN and judged against the account, with nothing substituted and no fallback ladder. The ACCOUNT CHECK is a derivation; the CHOICE of item is not, so this is not a `derived:` channel. ESCAPE_PLAN carries no attributedTo field (PROVENANCE_BACKLOG: silent-and-unattributed), so this channel does not claim one either.