Changes: Dagannoth (Lighthouse)/Strategies

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This article is a strategy guide for Dagannoth (Lighthouse).

Information on mechanics, setups, and tactics is on this page.

Dagannoth are deadly for the unprepared, and will cut your trip very short if you go in assuming you can kill them easily. Soul Split alone is not sufficient to offset their damage. The main damage you will take are from the ranged mobs, thus you should gear up with them in mind.

Players should be very careful when using a Dwarf multicannon, as a lot of Dagannoth will attack. Indeed, so many Dagannoth can attack that they appear to overload the server, preventing players from moving or picking up items, and often forcing multiple clicks on the ability bar. One-click teleports do still work, which makes them a good item to carry just in case.

Note that Protect from Missiles or Deflect Missiles reduces all ranged damage to 1. Protect from Melee or Deflect Melee on the other hand, is not as effective against melee attacks. Therefore, praying ranged is recommended.

Strategies

Shield (no food used) with cannon

Recommended equipment for melee
Item (most effective → least effective)
Full slayer helm	Slayer helm	Black mask	N/A	N/A
Amulet of fury	Amulet of glory	N/A	N/A	N/A
TokHaar-Kal	Fire cape	Skill cape	N/A	N/A
Verac's brassard	Bandos chestplate	N/A	N/A	N/A
Verac's plateskirt	Bandos tassets	N/A	N/A	N/A
Chaotic longsword	Chaotic Claw	Abyssal vine whip	Abyssal whip	Dragon scimitar
Blessed spirit shield	Spirit shield	Dragonfire shield	Dragon kiteshield	Dragon square shield
Goliath Gloves	Culinaromancer's gloves 10	Culinaromancer's gloves 9	N/A	N/A
Steadfast boots	Bandos boots	Dragon boots	Rune boots	N/A
Onyx ring (i)	Sixth-Age circuit	Warrior ring (i)	Berserker ring(i)	N/A
Reverence	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Inventory





			500

		100	1

6 Prayer potions
2 Prayer renewals
2 Overloads (if you can make it) or 2 super sets (the best you can use)
Steel titan > Iron titan > Unicorn stallion > Bunyip (and scrolls)
A few pieces of food (just in case)
One-click teleport
Dwarf multicannon and Cannonballs

Strategy

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)
It's pivotal to use shield-based abilities here: Anticipation and Resonance/Preparation (all basic) are great abilities to reduce damage taken, Revenge (threshold) allows you to deal more damage and Reflect (threshold) reflects damage to all attacking dagannoth. Finally, Rejuvenate (ultimate) should be used if you see your LP drop to half.
Use basic melee abilities to deal more damage and increase your adrenaline. 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)
Bind your prayer potions to your ability bar and keep a close eye on your prayer points while down here.

Melee with 2h weapon (not on task, EoC)

Dagannoths can be a fairly effective method of melee training even when not assigned as a slayer task.

It requires similar setup compared to that for completing slayer tasks, but players are instead limited to train for 10 minutes with low click intensity until dagannoths become tolerant.

The players are recommended to take these equipment for training, but can use any better alternatives. Slayer equipment are not required for non-slayer training.

Recommended equipment for melee
Item (most effective → least effective)
Verac's helm	Dragon full helm	Black mask	N/A	N/A
Amulet of fury	Amulet of glory	N/A	N/A	N/A
TokHaar-Kal	Fire cape	Skill cape	Soul Wars cape	Ardougne cloak
Verac's brassard	Bandos chestplate	Proselyte hauberk	N/A	N/A
Verac's plateskirt	Bandos tassets	Proselyte cuisse	N/A	N/A
Attuned crystal halberd	Verac's Flail	Crystal halberd	Dragon halberd	N/A
Goliath Gloves	Culinaromancer's gloves 10	Culinaromancer's gloves 9	N/A	N/A
Steadfast boots	Bandos boots	Dragon boots	Rune boots	N/A
Onyx ring (i)	Warrior ring (i)	Berserker ring(i)	N/A	N/A
Vampyrism	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Inventory







		100	1

Unicorn stallion or Bunyip. N.B. Swallow whole scrolls are very tough to use in a timely way, don't bother.
Twisted bird skull necklace or better and Bonecrusher, 1 Super-Defence potion, extra 2-4 food.
- Alternate: 1-2 Prayer potions, 1 Super-Defence potion, extra 2-4 food.
- Alternate: Extra 7-10 food.
1-2 Attack, strength and defence potion sets (the best you can use)
4-5 pieces of food (just in case) - Monkfish or better recommended.
One-click teleport

Strategy

Player must use Protect from Missiles or Deflect Missiles. Along with a high melee armour rating, this will reduce most of damage taken from dagannoths.
Player must turn auto-retaliate ON and use revolution mode and EoC abilities, and should put Cleave, Quake and Hurricane and possibly Meteor Strike as the topmost abilities to be used. This will provide the highest amount of area-of-effect damage possible.
The player is expected to run across the area a lot. However, since this is a low click intensity method, you can actually just click on the center of area once, and the player will start running towards every dagannoth that attacks him/her. This will gradually cause dagannoths to be lured toward the center and the player will soon effectively damage plenty of dagannoths in short time.
A halberd deals damage in larger area than a 2h sword. It is recommended to use a slashing weapon even if halberd is not used.
If players are not using weapon that restore life points, they must rely on their familiars' healing abilities, extra damage channelled via Vampyrism or extra food. Abilities that restore health including Sacrifice, Ice Asylum, Guthix's Blessing are recommended. Balanced Strike and Rejuvenate are not recommended, the former being very risky and the latter disallows usage of 2h weapon.
Likewise, without a way to steadily restore prayer, player must use prayer potions to prevent it running out, which causes accurate ranged attacks to deal rapid damage to player, possibly causing death.

Melee with Balmung/Saradomin godsword

Recommended equipment for melee
Item (most effective → least effective)
Full slayer helm	Slayer helm	Black mask	N/A	N/A
Amulet of fury	Amulet of glory	N/A	N/A	N/A
TokHaar-Kal	Fire cape	Skill cape	Soul Wars cape	Ardougne cloak
Verac's brassard	Bandos chestplate	Proselyte hauberk	N/A	N/A
Verac's plateskirt	Bandos tassets	Proselyte cuisse	N/A	N/A
Goliath Gloves	Culinaromancer's gloves 10	Culinaromancer's gloves 9	N/A	N/A
Steadfast boots	Bandos boots	Dragon boots	Rune boots	N/A
Onyx ring (i)	Warrior ring (i)	Berserker ring(i)	N/A	N/A
Vampyrism	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Inventory







		100	1

Unicorn stallion or Bunyip. N.B. Swallow whole scrolls are very tough to use in a timely way, don't bother.
6 Prayer potions. Alternate: 1-2 Prayer potions, 1 Super-Defence potion, extra 2-4 food.
2 Prayer renewals
1-2 Attack, strength and defence potion sets (the best you can use)
4-5 pieces of food (just in case) - Monkfish or better recommended.
One-click teleport

Strategy

Make sure you're praying either Protect from missiles or Deflect Missiles (which means no Soul Split). Since the release of EoC, Rapid Heal has no effect when you are in combat, so don't use it.
Turn OFF auto-retaliate, or you can't fight effectively. The flip side is that you'll need to target and re-target enemies after they die, costing you attacks. The alternative is a relative inability to fight coherently, as you chase attackers randomly.
Use your 2h abilities. Cleave (basic) is handy if you target the middle of a line of ranging dagannoth, and Hurricane (threshold) and Quake (threshold) as much as possible when surrounded by dagannoths. Position yourself so this happens often.
If using a Saradomin godsword, enough damage can often be generated using these abilities to keep players' prayer up, using the Alternate Prayer equipment strategy which boosts your Prayer bonus past 20. With that combination, it's possible to do an entire slayer task at med-high level with a net loss of under 200 prayer points total, and no prayer potions. Take at least 1, though, just in case.
Players using a balmung must rely on their familiars' healing abilities, extra damage channelled via Vampyrism, and prayer via more prayer potions.

Notes

Using bonecrusher and a suitable dungeoneering necklace will maintain prayer points (even using Rapid renewal), freeing inventory slots for other purposes.
With good enough stats and armour a bunyip provides sufficient healing, without the vampyrism aura.
The Dagannoth do eventually become non-aggressive, making the area easy, until they become aggressive again.
With the charming imp equipped, as well as the bonecrusher, much time can be saved picking up drops. A number of the seed drops are valuable, and should not be missed.

Magic

The level 112 melee dagannoths are weak against air spells. As magic armour offers high melee resistance, players may use magic to kill level 112s while negating almost all damage from level 110s with Protect from Missiles or Deflect Missiles.

Because of this, this area is good for high-level magic. Barraging the Dagannoths is a useful strategy, specifically using a combination of Blood Barrage and Protect from Missiles or Deflect Missiles. As long as you keep the prayers active, a majority of the damage taken in from the melee attacks is healed with the effects of Blood Barrage.

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 ====Strategy====
 # Player must use [[Protect from Missiles]] or [[Deflect Missiles]]. Along with a high melee armour rating, this will reduce most of damage taken from dagannoths.
-# Player must turn auto-retaliate ON and use revolution mode and EoC abilities, and should put [[Cleave]], [[Quake]] and [[Hurricane]] as the first three abilities to be used. This will provide the highest amount of area-of-effect damage possible.
+# Player must turn auto-retaliate ON and use revolution mode and EoC abilities, and should put [[Cleave]], [[Quake]] and [[Hurricane]] and possibly [[Meteor Strike]] as the topmost abilities to be used. This will provide the highest amount of area-of-effect damage possible.
 # The player is expected to run across the area a lot. However, since this is a low click intensity method, you can actually just click on the center of area once, and the player will start running towards every dagannoth that attacks him/her. This will gradually cause dagannoths to be lured toward the center and the player will soon effectively damage plenty of dagannoths in short time.
-# A halberd deals damage with Cleave, Quake and Hurricane in larger area than a 2h sword. It is recommended to use a slashing weapon even if halberd is not used.
+# A halberd deals damage in larger area than a 2h sword. It is recommended to use a slashing weapon even if halberd is not used.
-# If players are not using weapon that restore life points, they must rely on their familiars' healing abilities, extra damage channelled via Vampyrism or extra food.
+# If players are not using weapon that restore life points, they must rely on their familiars' healing abilities, extra damage channelled via Vampyrism or extra food. Abilities that restore health including [[Sacrifice]], [[Ice Asylum]], [[Guthix's Blessing]] are recommended. [[Balanced Strike]] and [[Rejuvenate]] are not recommended, the former being very risky and the latter disallows usage of 2h weapon.
 # Likewise, without a way to steadily restore prayer, player must use prayer potions to prevent it running out, which causes accurate ranged attacks to deal rapid damage to player, possibly causing death.