OSRS: Stymphike Hunter Guide

Losing interest of operating round Gielinor, chasing critters nonstop? Fancy one thing a bit of extra chilled, a bit of extra laid again? Properly, you’ve come to the best place.

In the latest replace, upon competitors of the Blood Moon Rises quest, gamers will achieve entry to a brand new hunter coaching methodology, which is probably some of the relaxed strategies in your entire recreation. And don’t fear, you won’t have to sacrifice XP both!

Stymphikes are a brand new kind of creature in Old School Runescape, solely out there within the blood-soaked realm of Vampyrium. Fortunately for us, they aren’t precisely conscious of their environment, permitting us to hunt them with little or no effort. Let’s check out this new hunter methodology and how you can set it up!

Conditions

As I discussed, earlier than you begin this, you’ll have to have accomplished Blood Moon Rises, which is a problem in and of itself, being maybe the trickiest of all quests to this point!

Moreover, you’ll want 82 Hunter to truly catch these birds, so I’d advise coaching with Hunter Rumours till you attain that time.

Lastly, you may’t catch Stymphikes with regular bait. As an alternative, you’re going to wish to carry alongside a stack of Letveks, that are one other kind of hunter creature present in Vampyrium. For this, carry as many Field Traps as you need to use at your degree.

For those who haven’t unlocked any shortcuts but, carry a pickaxe.

Catching Letveks

Earlier than we get into the strategy itself, we have to cowl how you can get hold of the bait.

For those who’re taking part in a traditional account, you may merely purchase the Letveks from the Grand Change, though it isn’t precisely low-cost, particularly seeing what number of you undergo per hour. If you wish to avoid wasting cash, you may catch the Letveks your self as an alternative.

First, you’ll want to go to the southern hunter space in Vampyrium, proven on the map above. To get there, head east by means of Sangvesti and throughout the bridge, in the direction of the Maggot King enviornment. Maintain heading east, after which take the woodland route south, after which west. For those who haven’t saved the Scout from the mosquito enemies but, achieve this now to unlock a shortcut.

When you attain the Apsul Searching Floor, head northwest to the agility shortcut icon. Right here you’ll see a bridge blocked by rubble. Use your pickaxe to mine it, and also you’ll now be capable to journey to this location immediately from Sangvesti as an alternative of looping by means of the woods.

Now, head to an space stuffed with Letveks, and begin inserting down your Field Traps. For those who’ve hunted Chinchompas earlier than, this works in precisely the identical method.

After an hour of searching these creatures, I caught about 500 and averaged round 100k xp per hour. Actually, whereas this definitely isn’t the perfect methodology on the planet, by way of XP per hour, it’s nothing to scoff at both.

Catching Stymphikes

Core Technique

OK, now you’ve bought a very good stack of Letveks, it’s time to go over to the subsequent Hunter location. The realm that you just’ll discover the Stymphikes is a contact west of the Maggot King enviornment, simply north of the Scout shortcut.

Earlier than you begin, it is best to seize a very good quantity of the Makeshift Spears. You will discover these in a bundle on the bottom close to one of many timber. Seize as many as you need, as these are fully free and limitless.

Subsequent, select one of many red-tipped Stymphike timber and bait it with a left-click. Right here you’ll skewer one of many Letveks onto a department. Notice that whilst you’ll usually use just one Letvek at a time, it’s attainable {that a} couple will crawl out of your stock, which means you may really use 2 or 3.

At this level, discover one of many close by purple bushes and conceal inside it. Now all it’s a must to do is wait. After a short time, usually about 30-40 seconds, a Stymphike will seem. Throughout this wait, your character will continually peer out of the bushes, granting you 125 Hunter XP every time.

As quickly because the fowl lands. You’ll be able to both wait on your character to look out of the bush, the place they’ll instantly assault and kill the Stymphike, or click on on it your self to skip the wait.

XP Per Hour and Rewards

Killing the Stymphike grants 1350 Hunter XP, together with bones, meat, and 15 Stymphike Feathers. Nonetheless, it’s additionally attainable that you just don’t kill the Stymphike together with your spear throw. It’s fairly unlikely, however should you don’t kill it, the Stymphike will fly away, supplying you with much less XP and forcing you to re-bait the tree.

After an hour of catching Stymphikes, I used to be averaging wherever from 125k-130k Hunter XP per hour, with a Hunter degree of 96. I wasn’t actually paying that a lot consideration both, which is an enormous bonus if you wish to placed on an episode of a present or do one thing else whilst you’re coaching. With a decrease hunter degree, you will doubtless fail to kill Stymphikes extra usually, however it shouldn’t have an effect on your XP per hour a lot.

As for feathers, they are often given to the Aranei. One in every of these scouts could be discovered within the Fort Courtyard, proper subsequent to the portal. For each 30 feathers given, you may kill 1 Venator off-task.

These Venators, discovered within the 2 Southern Searching Grounds, are killed for his or her ≈1/900 probability of dropping a Blood Shard. After all, if you kill them off-task, you gained’t see any superiors, which have a higher probability of dropping Blood Shards, so take that into consideration.

In abstract, this can be a fairly superb coaching methodology, excellent for mains and ironmen in search of heavily AFK methods. For those who haven’t gotten 99 Hunter but, that is your probability!