Dagannoth (Lighthouse)/Strategies

You'll quickly find that the Evolution of Combat brought along changes to monsters, and this very noticable to the lighthouse Dagannoth. They are now far more deadly for the unprepared, and will cut your trip very short if you go in assuming you can kill them as you used to. Momentum and Soul Split simply are NOT sufficient to offset their damage, you will NEED to use abilities to stay alive. Unlike pre-EoC, the main damage you will take are from the ranged mobs, they are also more prevalent, thus you should gear up with them in mind. Using the area for general training is ill-advised. Players should be very careful when using a canon, as a lot of Dagannoth will attack them.

Shield (no food used) with cannon
(1): If you don't have Chaotic longsword (or comparable one-handed slash weapons) simply bring your best one-handed melee weapon. The 15% accuracy bonus from slash isn't that significant since the Dagannoth don't have much defence to begin with.=====
 * Helm:Full slayer helm > Slayer helm > Black mask
 * Body: Verac's brassard > Bandos chestplate
 * Legs: Verac's plateskirt > Bandos chestplate
 * Weapon: Chaotic longsword> Chaotic rapier (1)> Abyssal vine whip > Abyssal whip > Dragon scimitar
 * Amulets:Amulet of fury > Amulet of glory
 * Gloves: Goliath Gloves > Culinaromancer's gloves 10 > Culinaromancer's gloves 9
 * Aura: Reverence
 * Boots: Steadfast boots > Bandos boots > Dragon boots > Rune boots
 * Ring: Onyx ring (i) > Warrior ring (i) > Berserker ring(i)
 * Offhand: Dragonfire shield > Blessed spirit shield > Dragon kiteshield/Dragon square shield
 * Cape: TokHaar-Kal > Fire cape

Inventory Strategy
 * 6 Prayer potions
 * 2 Prayer renewals
 * 2 Overloads (if you can make it) or 2 Attack, Strength and Defence potion sets (the best you can use)
 * Steel titan > Iron titan (and scrolls)
 * 4 pieces of food (just in case)
 * One-click teleport
 * Cannonballs
 * 1) Make sure your prayers are set to include either Protect from missiles or Deflect Missiles, use your best damage-increasing melee prayer on the side (ideally: Turmoil)
 * 2) It's pivotal to use shield-based abilities here: Anticipation and Resonance (basic) are great abilities to reduce damage taken, Revenge (Treshold) allows you to deal more damage. Finally, Rejuvenate (ultimate) should be used if you see your LP drop to half.
 * 3) Use basic melee abilities to deal more damage and increase your adrenaline. Pretty much any will do. Don't forget to bind your Summoning button to your ability bar as well if you bring offensive-based scrolls (like Iron/Steel titan's)
 * 4) Bind your prayer potions to your ability bar and keep a close eye on your prayer points while down here.

Melee with Saradomin Godsword

 * Helm:Full slayer helm > Slayer helm>Black mask
 * Body:Verac's brassard>Bandos chestplate
 * Legs:Verac's plateskirt>Bandos chestplate
 * Weapon:Saradomin godsword
 * Amulets:Amulet of fury> Amulet of glory
 * Gloves:Goliath Gloves>Culinaromancer's gloves 10>Culinaromancer's gloves 9
 * Aura:Vampyrism
 * Boots:Steadfast boots>Bandos boots>Dragon boots>Rune boots
 * Ring:Onyx ring (i)>Warrior ring (i)>Berserker ring(i)
 * Offhand: not applicable
 * Cape:TokHaar-Kal>Fire cape

Inventory Strategy
 * Buniyip? in case vampyrism is not available
 * One-click teleport
 * 1) Make sure your praying either? Protect from missiles? or? Deflect Missiles.
 * 2) Use as much as possible the abilities? Hurricane? and? Quake? when surrounded with Dagannoths as then the SGS will generate enough damage to keep your health and prayer up.