Money making guide/Killing Zulrah

Killing Zulrah

Requirements
Skills
None
Items
Magic gear for the green and red forms Ranged gear for the blue form A Serpentine helm or anti-venom Food, prayer restores and combat potions
Quest
None
Other
None. You fight Zulrah alone in your own instance.
Results
Profit	Experience gained
2,740	Varied
Inputs	Outputs (2,740)
	0.0013 × Tanzanite mutagen (52.08)0.0013 × Magma mutagen (52.02)0.0039 × Toxic blowpipe (empty) (195)0.0039 × Magic fang (97.02)0.0039 × Serpentine helm (uncharged) (19.33)0.031 × Amulet of fury (30.8)16.17 × Dragon dart (16.17)1.48 × Magic logs (741) (noted)3.4 × Torstol (679) (noted)93.43 × Pk Point (93.43)2.8 × Anti-venom+(4) (14.01) (noted)750 × Zulrah's scales (750)

The profit shown is the average Pk Point value of one kill, worked out from Zulrah's drop table with today's prices and standard drop rates (no donator rank or other bonus). It is an average: every kill gives 500–1,000 Zulrah's scales, roughly a fifth of kills also give dragon darts, magic logs or torstol, most of the rest give 200–300 Pk Points or a few noted anti-venom+ potions, and the uniques are rare. Supplies, and the scales your weapons use up, are not counted.

Zulrah is a solo boss outside the Wilderness. Nobody can attack you while you fight it, and if you die the priestess keeps your items for you, so the only real cost is your supplies. It always follows the same pattern (see Rotation), which makes it a steady money maker once you know it.

Recommended gear

Zulrah has 500 Hitpoints and changes form during the fight. Each form has different defences:

Form	Attacks with	Magic defence	Ranged defence	Attack it with
Green (serpentine)	Ranged (ranged and magic in the "Jad" phase)	−45	+50	Magic
Red (magma)	Tail slam	0	+300	Magic
Blue (tanzanite)	Mostly magic, sometimes ranged	+300	0	Ranged

Every form is weak to fire: Fire Strike, Bolt, Blast, Wave and Surge are 50% more accurate and hit 50% harder against Zulrah.

• Magic: Trident of the swamp, Sanguinesti staff or Tumeken's shadow, with an Occult necklace, Ancestral robes, an imbued god cape, a Tormented bracelet and a Magus ring. If you cast fire spells, a charged Tome of fire raises their max hit against monsters by another 10%.
• Ranged: Toxic blowpipe, Twisted bow, or an Armadyl crossbow or Zaryte crossbow with Enchanted dragon bolts, together with Masori armour or Armadyl armour, an Ava's assembler, a Necklace of anguish and Pegasian boots.
• Venom: a charged Serpentine helm (or its tanzanite or magma version) stops Zulrah's venom completely.
• Tanking: in its Block style, a Dinh's bulwark cuts the damage you take from monsters by 20%, starting 8 ticks after you put it on.
• Supplies: Food, prayer potions or super restores, magic and ranging potions from Potions, and anti-venom+ if you do not wear a serpentine helm.

For complete setups, see Zulrah#Equipment.

Getting there

Zulrah's Shrine, where every kill starts.

• Type ::zulrah or pick Zulrah in the Teleport interface. You arrive at Zulrah's port.
• Click the sacrificial boat just east of where you arrive and choose to enter Zulrah's shrine. The priestess rows you to the shrine, where you fight Zulrah on your own.
• When Zulrah dies, a Zul-Andra teleport appears next to you. Click it to go back to the port; it also cures your venom. Take the boat again for the next kill.
• If you die, talk to Priestess Zul-Gwenwynig at the port and choose Collect to get back the items you lost, free of charge. You cannot take the boat again until you have collected them.

Valuable drops

Every kill drops 500–1,000 Zulrah's scales. On top of that, each kill rolls the drop table once, starting with the rarest drop, and stops at the first drop you hit. If you hit nothing, you get either 200–300 Pk Points or 5–10 noted anti-venom+ potions. The Profit figure in the table above already takes this into account. Drops land on the tile you are standing on.

Item		Amount	Drop rate	Price
	Tanzanite mutagen	1	1/768	40,000
	Magma mutagen	1	1/768	40,000
	Toxic blowpipe (empty)	1	1/256	50,000
	Magic fang	1	1/256	25,000
	Serpentine helm (uncharged)	1	1/256	5,000
	Amulet of fury	2	1/64	1,000 each
	Magic logs (noted)	10–30	1/12	500 each
	Torstol (noted)	50	1/12	200 each
	Dragon dart	100–300	1/12	1 each
	Pk Points	200–300	One of these two when nothing above drops	1 each
	Anti-venom+(4) (noted)	5–10		5 each
	Zulrah's scales	500–1,000	Always	1 each
	Pet snakeling	1	1/1,500	Untradeable pet

The pet is rolled on its own, so you can get the pet and another drop from the same kill.

Using the uniques

• Use the Magic fang on a Trident of the seas (full) to make the Trident of the swamp, or on a Staff of the dead to make the Toxic staff of the dead.
• Use a Tanzanite or Magma mutagen on a Serpentine helm (uncharged) to make the Tanzanite or Magma helm (see Serpentine helm).
• The blowpipe, the trident, the toxic staff and the helms all use Zulrah's scales as charges, so the scales from every kill keep your gear running.

Rotation

Zulrah has only one rotation on Roat Pkz, and it always starts the same way. It moves between three spots, seen from where you arrive: north, south and west. After step 11 it goes back to step 1. Toxic clouds and snakelings come up during several steps.

Step	Form	Surfaces	What it does	Pray
1	Green	North	Spits toxic clouds over the platform. No attacks.	–
2	Red	North	Two tail slams.	Stand away from it
3	Blue	North	Four attacks, mostly magic.	Protect from Magic
4	Green	South	Five ranged attacks, then four snakelings and two volleys of clouds.	Protect from Missiles
5	Red	North	Two tail slams.	Stand away from it
6	Blue	West	Five attacks, mostly magic.	Protect from Magic
7	Green	South	Three volleys of clouds and four snakelings. No attacks.	–
8	Blue	South	Five attacks, mostly magic, then snakelings and clouds.	Protect from Magic
9	Green ("Jad" phase)	West	Ten attacks that alternate ranged and magic, starting with ranged, then four volleys of clouds.	Protect from Missiles, then switch after every attack
10	Red	North	Two tail slams.	Stand away from it
11	Green	North	Five ranged attacks, then back to step 1.	Protect from Missiles

An overview of the fight's pattern.

Strategy

See the Zulrah article for more information.

• Switch styles with the form. Use magic on the green and red forms and ranged on the blue form.
• Tail slam. The red form stares at you before it slams its tail. If you are standing close to it, you take up to 41 damage and are stunned for a moment, so keep your distance.
• Toxic clouds. Standing in a cloud deals 1–4 damage every tick. Step out of them.
• Snakelings hit through protection prayers. Kill them or keep moving.
• Venom. Hits from the green form can venom you (6 damage) unless you wear a charged serpentine, tanzanite or magma helm.
• Loot. A Collector's ring picks up drops worth more than 25 PKP for you.
• Drop bonuses. A donator rank, the voting bonus and the clan Monster slayer perk improve your drop rates (see Donator ranks, Voting and clan perks). Type ::dropbonus to see your current bonus and ::drops to open the drop tables in game.

Risks

• No player killers. Zulrah's shrine is not in the Wilderness and you are alone in your instance.
• Dying. The items you would lose are kept by Priestess Zul-Gwenwynig at the port, and you can collect them for free. You only lose the supplies you used.
• Its hits. Its ranged and magic attacks can hit up to 41, and the tail slam up to 41 as well, so keep your protection prayers up and your Hitpoints high.

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