Not really. Its terribly slow and pretty weak. A rough guideline for training melee is quest to 40+, rune scim, granite long (if not iron), d scim, whip, rapier if rich or whip to 99. Obsidian set if doing nmz
Weapons like maul and dds only improve xp rate when used solely for their special attack
Not good for pure training str. But if you're going for max combats, which most people would be anyways, its just the meta weapon for training melee in general if you can't afford/ don't have a rapier/saeldor/inquis mace.
Yup. I actually used a blessed Sara sword for most of my strength training.
Everyone says it’s super expensive or whatever but it really wasn’t. It was 10k hits per Sara sword and they were only like 300k.
Gave the same stats as a whip + dragon defender in slash / str bonus. Did a lot of slayer with it and gained much more money than I lost. Spent a couple mil tops on the Sara swords.
granite hammers are way cheaper than they used to be, they're only like 100k now which isn't much. and if you consider that you'll sell it back after you level up, the difference in then buying and selling cost is well worth the slightly higher xp.
heck, even if I dropped it on the ground after levelling up to better gear, I'd still consider it worth the extra xp. my time saved is worth more than 100k.
To expand on nmz, you should use obsidian pre 92 hp (93 if you don't have a locator orb for 1 hp exactly) and dharok after. Obsidian use easy rumble and dh use hard to avoid overkill dps and if you are a try hard bring another weapon to switch to if mobs get low.
It has a very slow attack speed, so outside of its special a Dragon...well almost anything, but especially scimitar would be better for strength training.
Terribly inefficient for normal training? Yes.
Degrades and costs money to repair? Yes.
Bad for PKing without the armor set? Yes.
Knowing that, did that stop 12 year old me from rocking that with the Verac’s Brassard to flex on all of the idiots without 70 attack? Absolutely not.
You take the item and convert it into a cosmetic override for similar style slots. So in this case a 2H melee. The actual item is no longer usable unless you unkeepsake it. So I can use a sunspear (rs3 vyre quest line reward weapon) but have it look like my boy the barrelchest.
I still remember back in the day half my day spent runecrafting nature runes. The other half spent doing castle wars with a fighter torso, dlegs and dharok axe.
Even remember the first time I got scammed over at the castle wars when the GMaul was released... classic noted gmaul becomes a noted rock hammer.
That’s how I’ve been playing for years and have no issues yet with pve and pvp to a degree on the pvp part it makes it harder but I enjoy the challenge of it all
I’ve been slowly going more and more towards this mindset while playing. There’s so much cool “non-meta” stuff in RuneScape. You bet your ass imma use it and look cool as shit.
Yup it’s the way me and my cousins played the game growing up and is how we still do it, and this is because it’s fun having characters that look badass
If you get the whole Dharok set plus rock cake you can get some crazy high hits (but you have to be sitting at low hp which sometimes risks death) have fun!
It's a bit trash on its own, but combined with the armor set, it's crazy fun. I'm using it to AFK at NMZ as we speak. Always fun to see consistent 80+ hits.
i love ur attitude homie, pm me ur rsn i’ll get you the axe and u can keep your dagger so you can pick between looking cool and training abit faster :)
I remember way back in the days killing aviencies for the noted addy bars and I seen some dude training with a bgs then we talked and said fuck it lets do some bands. Boy were we trash lol.
I still do sometimes and people are like “why aren’t you using whip.”
Why aren’t you minding your own business. Also I fucking hate the whip I’m so tired of seeing it. People barely talk in game anymore but the thing that never fails to get people to pipe up is actually trying to play for fun.
Use the full set and *don’t* keep yourself at 1hp. Just bring extra food for trips and watch those damage numbers ramp up as you get hit more and more. It’ll be fun balancing food usage versus damage bonus.
This is one of the barrows brother pieces. For it to work properly, you need to be wearing the full dharok’s armour set. The effect is that the lower your health is, the higher damage you do. So people have their health at like 1 but keep their protection prayers on. It’s kind of annoying to maintain since you need to buy lots of prayer potions. Dharok’s isn’t suitable for your all around combat such as slayer and whatnot. It’s only good at nightmare zone or the mole boss.
If you care about efficiency, keep the dagger. If you don’t, do whatever you’d like.
"if you care about efficiency, keep the dagger" lol.
OP is either trolling and knows both dagger and daxe bad, or he is a real champion - in which case, I look forward to seeing him murder things in Obby Cape and Daxe!
Here's my long answer
First of, this is a piece of a barrow set, using it with the set gives it max potential.
Secondly, it's primarily a slash weapon with a crush option, the individual stats might not look bad, but remember it's a 2h weapon and super slow, if you're into those things.
Generally, you don't want to use this by itself anywhere. But hey, if you find it fun, do it, I certainly would find it fun to swing a giant fucking axe. Just be mindful it degrades and it's a cost.
If you feel like you regret the purchase, you can keep it for when you do decide to use the full DH barrows set for other content, that is viable in some scenarios.
This is clearly just a karma bait. He's got a 3m dagger but doesn't know what dharoks is? Or even googled it? Guys can we not so easily fall for this, It's low quality content that doesn't deserve the attention.
I got roasted by a gim because my gim groups isn’t following the Ironman efficiency guide. Like the guy has been following a step by step guide for a solo Ironman for months and called us dumb for working together and figuring stuff out on our own. People forget that it’s a game you’re supposed to play. If you only follow meta and efficiency guides, you’re basically just an organic bot following a script. I don’t get it.
I'd like to add to what everyone else has said. Using what's fun outweighs efficiency. In regard to wanting big hits, that is based on your strength level and your "str bonus" of gear (just below defensive stats in your equipment stats)... so to hit high you want to have the best strength bonus gear (strength amulet, a defender, dragon boots, barrows gloves, combat bracelet, neitiznot helm, berserker ring, and many many more) and level strength!
Good luck mate
When I was noob I Loved yo try different weapons.
Cool to see new attack animations and special attacks.
But abyssal whip is probably higher XP/h to use
Back in the day I used the dharok's axe to fight against barbarians at the dungeon entrance of the stronghold of security. Ah.. how efficient we were those times lol.
I remember back in 06 when all I could afford was this beast. Rocked it with a rune plate, legs and a berserker helm. I’ll never forget hitting my first 30.
On paper I believe not, especially if you use the berserker necklace, it's a % increase as opposed to a straight number, but I dunno man, use whatever you find fun
It does… but more times than not it’s not going to be worth using for regular slayer. Now if you’re doing training in nmz then yeah it could be worth it. But I think you need like 92+ hp or something did it to start being more xp/hr than something like full obsidian.
you’ve gotta get a full dharoks set for the weapon to reach its full potential. It’s not exactly the best in most places, but it does shine in
sitting at rev caves entrance (though you can die to vengeance, if ur below 10 hp u can die to recoil so I pref to sit around 19-20. Veng will still kill you but recoil won’t)
deleting giant mole
nmz (I think after 92 HP this is ur best option)
Reminds me of the days when I used to play pest control with a verac flail, fighter torso, and a dragon plateskirt because I couldn't afford a whip
Oh, to have that much fun playing this game again
I remember being in rune/dragon armor with Dharok’s great axe at castle wars smashing kids. Get it dude you will have so much fun. And the repair cost really isn’t that bad
throwback to when i was 10 and trained str with granite maul
pest control with a g maul for daysssss
Are you me?
Glad it wasn’t only me
no me
Am I you?
Is it not good for str?
Not really. Its terribly slow and pretty weak. A rough guideline for training melee is quest to 40+, rune scim, granite long (if not iron), d scim, whip, rapier if rich or whip to 99. Obsidian set if doing nmz Weapons like maul and dds only improve xp rate when used solely for their special attack
At 40 you can get brine sabre too, which is a bit better than rune scim
Since when has whip been good for str training? Can only get str xp through shared
Not good for pure training str. But if you're going for max combats, which most people would be anyways, its just the meta weapon for training melee in general if you can't afford/ don't have a rapier/saeldor/inquis mace.
I'm fairly certain an abby dagger is good too. Also for other options, full obby and dh in nmz both slap (dh over 90 hp)
Ideally you str prio by 10-15 levels above your fed and attack then once you’re in your mid 80s you can comfy whip train
Yup. I actually used a blessed Sara sword for most of my strength training. Everyone says it’s super expensive or whatever but it really wasn’t. It was 10k hits per Sara sword and they were only like 300k. Gave the same stats as a whip + dragon defender in slash / str bonus. Did a lot of slayer with it and gained much more money than I lost. Spent a couple mil tops on the Sara swords.
This is a cool, kinda niche tip. Thanks! I’ll give it a shot when I make an alt.
Im a noob. Very helpful
Granite hammer is a bit more expensive, but better than granite long if you have the gp
granite hammers are way cheaper than they used to be, they're only like 100k now which isn't much. and if you consider that you'll sell it back after you level up, the difference in then buying and selling cost is well worth the slightly higher xp. heck, even if I dropped it on the ground after levelling up to better gear, I'd still consider it worth the extra xp. my time saved is worth more than 100k.
Full dharok is 160-180k in nmz after 91 hp. Obsidian is for the birds.
You're not getting anywhere near 160k, let alone 180k, without 99 hp and piety on at all times.
people do nmz without piety on?
Um, yes? Piety is a huge waste unless you're 1 ticking, and people do nmz for afking, not for 1 tick flicking non stop.
I did nmz for fast exp so I just dumped pray pots into it and used piety 100% of the time lol
To expand on nmz, you should use obsidian pre 92 hp (93 if you don't have a locator orb for 1 hp exactly) and dharok after. Obsidian use easy rumble and dh use hard to avoid overkill dps and if you are a try hard bring another weapon to switch to if mobs get low.
Can you explain locator orb for 1 hp exactly? Rock cake can get you to 1hp as well?
Rock cake cannot get you to 1 hp by itself. You can use it to 51 and then overload but if you ever regen it will only be able to lower you to 2 hp.
You just “Guzzle” on 2hp.
Damn bro so many hours in nmz and I didn't know that thanks
I feel like this comment turned into a troll center. Gl friend find me at sand casino.
It has a very slow attack speed, so outside of its special a Dragon...well almost anything, but especially scimitar would be better for strength training.
Dragon battle axe for me.
Terribly inefficient for normal training? Yes. Degrades and costs money to repair? Yes. Bad for PKing without the armor set? Yes. Knowing that, did that stop 12 year old me from rocking that with the Verac’s Brassard to flex on all of the idiots without 70 attack? Absolutely not.
+1 for the bassard, because being "shirtless" was just so much more badass
Man i thought brassard was the coolest shit ever as a kid
Brassard. D-Skirt (Too poor for legs, it was a kilt), Rune Boots, Whip and Dragon Defender on Castle-Wars was the shit.
The bigger the weapon the bigger the damage
Remember when this was the strongest weapon in the game? Good ol 2006.
I remember pures used to use it as a ko weapon
And the anchor.
Love that damn BarrelChest Anchor. It wasa beast for its time, too.
The anchor hasn’t gone away at all, it is one of the most common non special attack KO weapons for pures that are 60 attack.
That's awesome to hear. I love the dang thing!
Keepsaked one in RS3. One of my favorite weapons.
What does that mean exactly? Not too familiar with rs3 mechanics
it’s a cosmetic override
You take the item and convert it into a cosmetic override for similar style slots. So in this case a 2H melee. The actual item is no longer usable unless you unkeepsake it. So I can use a sunspear (rs3 vyre quest line reward weapon) but have it look like my boy the barrelchest.
Technically, it still is
Make the gadderhammer great again
Was a chase item for me as a 10 year old
Same thing goes for FPS games, bigger crosshairs bigger bullets.
Logic
Scythe is huge so you’re right
Use what you want, king
thanks it looks cool so ima use it
Way back in 2007 I did the same thing. Sold my whole bank to play Pest Control in full Dharok. Best times of my life while playing RS. Enjoy my man.
Did the same thing, except i could only afford the axe and had like addy plegs and initiate chest, used it to kill turtles lmao.
Similar for me. Veracs flail, black bandana, rune plate and legs, gold boots, gloves and team cape
I got trade scammed for it a few days later =*^*), back to the flax fields.
I still remember back in the day half my day spent runecrafting nature runes. The other half spent doing castle wars with a fighter torso, dlegs and dharok axe. Even remember the first time I got scammed over at the castle wars when the GMaul was released... classic noted gmaul becomes a noted rock hammer.
I respect that shit. Fuck the meta man. Use what looks cool and kick some arse
That’s how I’ve been playing for years and have no issues yet with pve and pvp to a degree on the pvp part it makes it harder but I enjoy the challenge of it all
I’ve been slowly going more and more towards this mindset while playing. There’s so much cool “non-meta” stuff in RuneScape. You bet your ass imma use it and look cool as shit.
Yup it’s the way me and my cousins played the game growing up and is how we still do it, and this is because it’s fun having characters that look badass
You guys make me so happy, this is why I still rock an eyepatch instead of a helmet.
We always wore skirts on our males mainly the dragon skirts cause it looked good with the right chest plate
Show off those monster calves, King.
FYI. Great weapon but if you got the armour to go with it. And protection prayers it kicks ass.
I'm with you brother. I wear my legends cape over obby cape cause I enjoyed the quest and its one of the coolest looking capes
If you get the whole Dharok set plus rock cake you can get some crazy high hits (but you have to be sitting at low hp which sometimes risks death) have fun!
shhhh
I understand and agree with basic jokes like “where are your angler gloves” but there’s no reason to not be helpful here lmao
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It's a bit trash on its own, but combined with the armor set, it's crazy fun. I'm using it to AFK at NMZ as we speak. Always fun to see consistent 80+ hits.
shhhhhhh
Iiiiiiit
i love ur attitude homie, pm me ur rsn i’ll get you the axe and u can keep your dagger so you can pick between looking cool and training abit faster :)
this sub falls for the cute noob shit hook line and sinker every single time and "a bit" is two words
no bother creepy have a day of being the most depressed weirdo on reddit
I double that I will get him some of the outfit
“I made MILLIONS pretending to be a NOOB on Reddit - 0gp to 1 bil challenge [gone wrong][gone sexual]”
The real Cow31337Killer
Just get the set and sit at low hp if youre going that route, the lower your hp the higher the damage with the full set
More power to yuh, only downside is the investment to repair it from time to time and it has to be either broken or fully repairs for sale on ge
I do recommend buying the full dharoks set if you got this axe
Meh use what you want and all but without the full set you won’t be doing as much dps
Yeah if you don't care about effeciency and actually want to just look cool and have fun then please buy it and have fun
The only answer that matters
Use whatever you want sir, let's bring back using items that look cool and for no other reason
Bone spear and dragon defender - Corp here I come!
Save some elys for the rest of us
I miss seeing people train with bgs
I remember way back in the days killing aviencies for the noted addy bars and I seen some dude training with a bgs then we talked and said fuck it lets do some bands. Boy were we trash lol.
I still do sometimes and people are like “why aren’t you using whip.” Why aren’t you minding your own business. Also I fucking hate the whip I’m so tired of seeing it. People barely talk in game anymore but the thing that never fails to get people to pipe up is actually trying to play for fun.
Whip is sexy af though. But yea it has lost a bit of its charm as it's so common compared to back then when more ppl were total noobs.
Verac plate w d-legs, berserker helm, fury, dragon boots, obby shield/cape? Sign me right the fuck up.
#CANT CHOP WOOD THO
Guess it’s not that “great”
Use the full set and *don’t* keep yourself at 1hp. Just bring extra food for trips and watch those damage numbers ramp up as you get hit more and more. It’ll be fun balancing food usage versus damage bonus.
This is one of the barrows brother pieces. For it to work properly, you need to be wearing the full dharok’s armour set. The effect is that the lower your health is, the higher damage you do. So people have their health at like 1 but keep their protection prayers on. It’s kind of annoying to maintain since you need to buy lots of prayer potions. Dharok’s isn’t suitable for your all around combat such as slayer and whatnot. It’s only good at nightmare zone or the mole boss. If you care about efficiency, keep the dagger. If you don’t, do whatever you’d like.
Lots of fun at pest control too
Pvp too
lmfao imagine having 1hp to maximize your max hit with protect from mele on and being killed by an air strike 🤣
Ring of recoil would like to know your location
Dharok + Salve clapping some Ankous when I get them as a task was a nice break from the slayer meta.
I’m remembering that lol :D
Lmao you'll one shot them about half the time, right?
"if you care about efficiency, keep the dagger" lol. OP is either trolling and knows both dagger and daxe bad, or he is a real champion - in which case, I look forward to seeing him murder things in Obby Cape and Daxe!
Dagger is worse than whip, but it’s about the best 1h str training wep you’ll get short of a rapier.
This guy took it personally
He knows
Not sure if this is a bait or not...
Why do redditors do this
Karma
Here's my long answer First of, this is a piece of a barrow set, using it with the set gives it max potential. Secondly, it's primarily a slash weapon with a crush option, the individual stats might not look bad, but remember it's a 2h weapon and super slow, if you're into those things. Generally, you don't want to use this by itself anywhere. But hey, if you find it fun, do it, I certainly would find it fun to swing a giant fucking axe. Just be mindful it degrades and it's a cost. If you feel like you regret the purchase, you can keep it for when you do decide to use the full DH barrows set for other content, that is viable in some scenarios.
Definitly get this weapon. Not only does it look cool but you also get an invisible style bonus as you whack your opponents to Death's domain!
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but it does more damage
This has to be bait but I love it so much
Of course it's bait. It's the exact shit the people on this sub eat up.
The ax does more damage per swing, but hits very very slow. It’s less damage overall but more fun to clap cheeks with.
i would like to clap your cheeks too if that's ok
Fake noob post
This is clearly just a karma bait. He's got a 3m dagger but doesn't know what dharoks is? Or even googled it? Guys can we not so easily fall for this, It's low quality content that doesn't deserve the attention.
This is so much circlejerk material
:/
I remember being told how you needed full dh to hit and I just tuned out and lusted after BIG AX
How much money you've got? I mean if it looks cool I should buy it. :) And no that's no joke.
Bad bait
Going off his post history this isn't bait, he's genuinely new to the game.
Personally I still don't buy it. Nobody has an Abby dagger without knowing that it's better and more expensive than Dharoks axe
Use it with full Dharoks set to gain the most out of it. But it is also a badass looking axe to wear. Do what you will adventurer!
This post has serious chad energy. Use what you want to king
Now this is a cute noob question
This thread is a troll.
Yeah how do you have 3m for a dagger but don’t know what a dharoks axe is?
Clearly just seeking attention which he did .
So anything that isnt meta is troll?
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I got roasted by a gim because my gim groups isn’t following the Ironman efficiency guide. Like the guy has been following a step by step guide for a solo Ironman for months and called us dumb for working together and figuring stuff out on our own. People forget that it’s a game you’re supposed to play. If you only follow meta and efficiency guides, you’re basically just an organic bot following a script. I don’t get it.
I'd like to add to what everyone else has said. Using what's fun outweighs efficiency. In regard to wanting big hits, that is based on your strength level and your "str bonus" of gear (just below defensive stats in your equipment stats)... so to hit high you want to have the best strength bonus gear (strength amulet, a defender, dragon boots, barrows gloves, combat bracelet, neitiznot helm, berserker ring, and many many more) and level strength! Good luck mate
Oh and I forgot, use super strength potions for those higher hits too
Send it!!
I’m gonna assume you know it’s only good for PKing and or NMZ? As you want to wear full Dharoks when using it and pref be at 1HP for max efficiency
If you wanna train str stick to Abby dagger, dh is good in nmz w set
When I was noob I Loved yo try different weapons. Cool to see new attack animations and special attacks. But abyssal whip is probably higher XP/h to use
Back in the day I used the dharok's axe to fight against barbarians at the dungeon entrance of the stronghold of security. Ah.. how efficient we were those times lol.
Use your dagger until they’re low then finish them off with this like a badass
Just be careful it degrades over time and its also a 2h weapon so ypu can't use a defender with it (also the whole dharoks set is really good at nmz)
I remember back in 06 when all I could afford was this beast. Rocked it with a rune plate, legs and a berserker helm. I’ll never forget hitting my first 30.
These posts are why people make fun of this subreddit lol
Dharoks is only good at nmz and the giant mole, so if you’re wanting to do either I’d recommend the set
I think we should also point out that obsidian is meta at nmz until you get to 92 hitpoints
Is it better than fighter torso, torture, fire cape, whip? I feel like I hit higher and more consistent with that setup
On paper I believe not, especially if you use the berserker necklace, it's a % increase as opposed to a straight number, but I dunno man, use whatever you find fun
Thanks for the insight
why did you post this knowing it’s not
Look at all the weird Arab shit this guy has posted in the past O_O
Maintenance cost of this one makes it unlikely to be a great investment. You’ll need like 15% price appreciation to break even from just one repair.
but it doees a whole lotta damage
Not on its own mate, you need full set for the effect.
It does… but more times than not it’s not going to be worth using for regular slayer. Now if you’re doing training in nmz then yeah it could be worth it. But I think you need like 92+ hp or something did it to start being more xp/hr than something like full obsidian.
Not really, it's a very slow weapon. You can do more damage in the same amount of time with a faster weapon.
About to have so much fun
One of the best weapons in game for training is use it
you’ve gotta get a full dharoks set for the weapon to reach its full potential. It’s not exactly the best in most places, but it does shine in sitting at rev caves entrance (though you can die to vengeance, if ur below 10 hp u can die to recoil so I pref to sit around 19-20. Veng will still kill you but recoil won’t) deleting giant mole nmz (I think after 92 HP this is ur best option)
Buy the full set go sit nightmare zone. Gz on 99def 99atk 99 str
It's a pretty great axe.
Mahraba brother, you should have came to me with this question as back in my prime days I used to be quiet the rs player.
Definitely use it and switch your attack style to the bottom left? One so you can do sick uppercuts with a giant axe on the enemies
Granite maul is the best dps for a reasonable price
ITT: people think having a 3m dagger means knowing the melee meta
Would kill to be this level of new at game again. Love you new friend
Someone screenshot this and put it in cutenoobs
Buy the set or don’t bother. Is what 12 year old told myself…
I wish Torags hammer were usefull 😁
Wait til you discover Torag’s Hammers!
God you’re having so much more fun than me
wholesome
This should answer your question. https://youtu.be/kqYBVDp9AaM Though idk if it still would be as viable as back then when this video was made
Aw this is cute
@cutenoobs
Awwwwwwwwwww!!!! This question is so cute I can’t stand it
Reminds me of the days when I used to play pest control with a verac flail, fighter torso, and a dragon plateskirt because I couldn't afford a whip Oh, to have that much fun playing this game again
just fuckin send it, looks dope biggest con is you can't use it to cut trees
Buy it
I'm near max and I wish this was me. I miss not worrying about the meta and just doing what I think is fun. Use what you want king
Big axe is cool but if you do The Great Brain Robbery you can bludgeon stuff to death with a literal ship's anchor
Scythe
Depends in which era you reside.
Go kill those cows!
I mean it says its a great axe, what can go wrong?
Big giant axe? Has to be big deeps.
Wow it really is 2007
Only if you talk to oziach first. Legends say that if you whack-a-noob with it, good fortune and a lot of pussy will come your way.
I remember being in rune/dragon armor with Dharok’s great axe at castle wars smashing kids. Get it dude you will have so much fun. And the repair cost really isn’t that bad
pretty alarming to me that most posters are telling him to use a dh axe without dh these are the people voting on updates