OSRS Boss Gear & Inventories

Kalphite Queen

Combat level 333 · 255 hitpoints

Two forms in one fight, and they demand different styles. Form 1 is grounded and meleeable; form 2 goes airborne with Protect from Melee active, so your melee weapon stops working entirely. Bring two styles or you will stall out halfway through every kill.

Requirements

• Rope + Lit candle (or the Kalphite lair shortcut)
• ~80+ combat
• Two combat styles needed

Pointers

• FORM 1 (grounded): melee it. Standing next to her actually lowers her DPS, so being in her face is both faster and safer.
• FORM 2 (airborne): she turns on Protect from Melee. Swap to ranged or magic. This is not optional, it is every kill.
• Form 1: Protect from Missiles (her ranged hits hardest). Form 2: Protect from Melee.
• She has a magic attack in both forms that goes through your overhead. Expect chip damage always.
• Her defence is high; a Dragon warhammer or Bandos godsword spec at the start pays for itself.
• The Kalphite lair rope entrance saves a long desert run. Bring waterskins if walking.
• The Dragon chainbody and Kalphite drops are the reason to be here; her Dragon 2h is the jackpot.

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.

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: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:seedWeapon (sim): the weapon the ascent BEGAN from, taken off the dps-ranked weapon shortlist, or the forced weapon of a multi-start seed. Never off a start loadout.
• 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.

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