Deadly red spider/Strategies

Free-to-play Melee Training
For higher levels (recommended 70+ attack, strength, and defence), deadly red spiders provide the best melee experience for free players, up to 160k xp/hr, when killing them in the Varrock Sewers. By only using momentum, this reduces to the still-hefty 120k xp/hr at high levels (90+). Below is a guide for training melee at the deadly red spiders:

Equipment:

Inventory: Action Bar: Method
 * Gravite 2h sword > Rune 2h sword
 * Amulet of Strength>Amulet of Power
 * Explorer's ring 4>Explorer's Ring 3
 * Team cape
 * Rune full helm
 * Rune platebody
 * Rune platelegs
 * Rune gauntlets>Blue d'hide vambraces>Batwing gloves
 * Fighting/Fancy boots>Batwing boots
 * Gravite Rapier>Rune mace and Rune Kiteshield
 * 2 Attack potions, 2 Strength potions, 2 Defence potions (optional)
 * Expensive spices (optional)
 * Lobsters/Swordfish for rest of inventory
 * Slice
 * Punish
 * Cleave
 * Smash
 * Sever
 * Slaughter
 * Overpower
 * Rejuvenate
 * Lobster/Swordfish

Starting from Varrock East Bank, walk north, climb down the manhole to enter the Varrock Sewers, and run all the way to the end until you see the deadly red spiders, one-hitting the lower-levelled monsters along the way. Once you arrive, hop worlds if there are two or more players already there.

Before you start attacking, take a sip of your attack, strength, and defence potions. Drink your potions again each time the boosted levels have dropped by 5 levels. (For example, if you have 99 strength and the strength potion boosts you to 107, drink the potion again after it decreases to 102.) Be sure to constantly monitor your boosted levels to immediately drink the potion after the boosted level has dropped by 5 levels. This will maximize the time of the maximum boosted level. (For instance, this could mean having 20 seconds of 107 strength versus 20 seconds of 102 strength for each sip.)

Attack the deadly red spiders with your abilities as follows:


 * Slice, Punish, Cleave, Smash, and Sever when they are ready, with preference towards Sever


 * Slaughter when the deadly red spider has high health - make sure you walk onto the square of the deadly red spider as you are swinging your sword for the attack (this forces it to move so it takes 3x damage for 3 of the 4 bleeds) -> this means the total damage will be 10x the original hit, so if you initially hit 340+, you should move on to the next spider as Slaughter will deal a total of 3400+ damage, which is all of the deadly red spider's life points


 * Overpower when the deadly red spider has full health, wait for a new kill if necessary


 * Use Rejuvenate when it is ready (switch to your Gravite Rapier/Rune mace and Rune Kiteshield and attack the deadly red spiders until Rejuvenate fully completes, then immediately switch back to your Rune/Gravite 2h sword)


 * Eat Lobsters/Swordfish when you have low health

As you eat food and free up inventory space, you can pick up the red spiders' eggs for decent money. When you have consumed all of your food, return to the bank and repeat.

Free-to-play Magic Training
For very high levels (recommended 90+ magic and 70+ defence), deadly red spiders provide an alternative source of magic experience, although training at lesser demons is still better. Below is a guide for training magic at the deadly red spiders:

Equipment:

Inventory:
 * Gravite staff=Nature staff=Bat wand with Bat book
 * Arcane pulse necklace>Amulet of Magic>Amulet of Power
 * Explorer's ring 4>Explorer's Ring 3
 * Team cape
 * Batwing hood
 * Batwing torso
 * Batwing legs
 * Batwing boots
 * Batwing gloves

Action Bar:
 * Bat wand and Batwing shield
 * Air runes and fire runes for Fire Blast
 * Law runes for Varrock teleport
 * 2 Defence potions (optional)
 * Expensive spices (optional)
 * Lobsters/Swordfish for rest of inventory

Method
 * Wrack
 * Sonic Wave
 * Impact
 * Combust
 * Chain
 * Asphyxiate
 * Omnipower
 * Rejuvenate
 * Lobsters/Swordfish
 * Varrock teleport
 * Protect from Missiles
 * Defence potion

Teleport to Varrock and go to Varrock East Bank to collect the above supplies. Equip your batwing shield before you leave the bank (so you will start out with more life points). Walk north to the church to recharge your prayer points at the altar. Walk southwest, climb down the manhole to enter the Varrock Sewers, and run all the way to the end until you see the deadly red spiders. Once you arrive, switch to your primary weapon. Hop worlds if there are three or more players already there.

Before you start attacking, take a sip of your defence potion. Drink your potion again each time the boosted levels have dropped by 3 levels. (For example, if you have 99 defence and the defence potion boosts you to 107, drink the potion again after it decreases to 104.) Be sure to constantly monitor your boosted levels to immediately drink the potion after the boosted level has dropped by 3 levels. This will maximize the time of the maximum boosted level. (For instance, this could mean having 20 seconds of 107 strength versus 20 seconds of 104 strength for each sip.)

Attack the deadly red spiders with your abilities as follows (be prepared to miss and do no damage very often): As you eat food and free up inventory space, you can pick up the red spiders' eggs for decent money. You want to stay as long as possible, so make sure that you have used all of your prayer points on protect from missiles before you cast Varrock teleport to leave (this should be done when you have about 500 life points remaining). When you have consumed all of your food, return to the bank and repeat.
 * Wrack, Sonic Wave, and Impact when they are ready
 * Combust when the deadly red spider has medium to high health - combust will do 5x the initial damage (for example 160 x 5 = 800 total), take advantage of this since you don't want to be attacking (and also constantly missing) deadly red spiders that would be dead anyway
 * Chain when the deadly red spider has low health - be careful to not attract too many deadly red spiders, if you are being attacked by more than one at once, turn on protect from missiles
 * Asphyxiate when the deadly red spider has medium to high health
 * Omnipower when the deadly red spider has full health
 * Use Rejuvenate when it is ready (switch to your Bat wand and Batwing shield and attack the deadly red spiders until Rejuvenate fully completes, then immediately switch back to your Gravite staff or other primary weapon)
 * Eat Lobsters/Swordfish when you have low health

Tips:
 * You can safespot the single deadly red spider on the other side of the water, attacking it while being out of its range to attack you
 * Take advantage of the botters (who will leave the main area and cross the water in the middle to attack the single deadly red spider on the other side, even if there are deadly red spiders close by in the main area)