This guide will explain how to train and own in Bounty Hunter. If you didnt know already, Bounty Hunter is a Runescape minigame. Only selected few worlds cater for Bounty Hunter. This minigame is for non members also and is a player vs player game only. If you just want the actual Bounty Hunter guide and not the training scroll down until you reach the heading ‘Bounty Hunter. But you can’t own if you are a noob, can you?
Steps
Create an account. Choose a catchy, unique username like ‘D34d Hybr1d’ or D34d R4nq3rz’. Once chosen, complete Tutorial Island.
Head to Barbarian Village and complete Stronghold of Security and Player Safety. You should have acquired 20k and two lamps. Rub both lamps and choose to level up ranged on both of them. You should have level 10 ranged now.
Ranged Training
Start training ranged. Food isn’t really neccesary here as you will be fighting in safe spots a lot, but it wouldn’t hurt to take several foods for the those trips back to the bank, when you have to leave your safe spot.
Take out from your bank, your Amulet of Power, Oak Shortbow, Willow Shortbow, Maple Shortbow and Bronze Arrows. Equipt the Amulet of Power, Oak Shortbow and Bronze Arrows.
Go to the Chicken Coop and train on Chickens until level 20 ranged. Always pick up most of your arrows and arrows are quiet expensive if you are a low level player. If you wish you may want to collect the chicken drops, such as the feathers (stackable) for fletching and fishing or the raw chicken for leveling up your cooking level or the bones if you wish to get up your prayer level.
Once at level 20 ranged equip your Willow Shortbow and train on cows. Remember again, to pick up your arrows. You may wish to pick up the cow hides to sell for 100gp+ each, the bones for prayer,or the raw meat for cooking.
Once level 30 you are ready to move on from the Cows. Head to the Dwarven Mine and find the scorpions. There should be a few rocks (near some stairs) which you can use as a safe spot. Picking up arrows is optional here as you may get attacked by scorpians if you leave the safe spot. Scorpians do not drop anything.
At level 40 Ranged there are three monsters you can train on, Hill Giants,white knights, or you can continue to kill scorpians. Hill Giants are located in Edgeville sewers or you can access the direct Hill Giants lair (Near Varrock) with a brass key. These monsters are level 28. There should be a safe spot at the end of the lair. Again, you may or may not wish to pick up your arrows. Hill Giants give you best drops out of all the monsters you have trained on. Big Bones can be sold for 400-500gp each and if your lucky they may occasionaly drop Limpwurts used for herblore or sold for 600-700gp each.
When you reach 60 Ranged you may wish to stop or have a break from leveling up your ranged. If you you wish to continue to 60+ Ranged it’s suggested to go to Karajama and train on Lesser Demons. These babies are level 82 and hit 8’s, but don’t worry there is a couple of safe spots. Lesser’s drop runes, money (up to 600gp),very rarely rune medium helmets, and other worthwhile items. Here you should pick up your arrows and drops as the lessers are very slow at reacting.
Attack and Strength Training
Take plenty of food with you when training, just incase some monsters are too powerful for your 1 defence. Remember that you will be fighting in close combat, unlike ranged, so you will always be under attack.
If you havn’t already sold or used any of your drops from training on ranged it’s suggestted you do. Once you have done that, go to a bank and take out the following: Iron Scimitar, Steel Scimitar, Black Longsword (scimitar costs 4k and sells slowly), Mithril Scimitar and Rune Scimitar. You can put back all your ranged gear as you will not need it for this part.
Head to the Chicken Coop in Lumbridge and train your attack and strength to level 10. Again, you mayt wish to pick up the feathers (stackable) for fletching and fishing or the bones for prayer or the raw chickens for cooking.
Once you have reached 10 Attack and Strength head north of Falador and enter the monastory. There should be level 5 monks, with 15 HP! These guys are equivelent to the well known, members Rock Crabs or Experiments. If you have 24 prayer ocassionaly you may find a Monk drops a Monk Robe, pick it up, its worth 200-300gp each. They drop bones if you want prayer levels.
If you have reached level 20 attack and strength, congratulations! Head back to cows and go train on cows. Cows drop bones for prayer,raw meat for cooking,and cowhides, which sell for 100gp and over. Cows are a great money maker and monster as they have a hitpoints ratio of 4!
Finally, you may have reached 40 attack and strength, you can finally equip the ultimate weopon, the Rune Scimitar. Now, this is where the strength kicks in by itself. Head to the Stronghold of Security and start fighting the flesh crawlers or zombies, which are located in Level 2 of the dungeon. These guys don’t drop anything, so once you kill one, attack another one! Train on these for a while until you reach level 60 strength. Remember to never, ever get your attack higher the 40!
At 60+ strength you may have some difficulty trying to find a good training monster as you want fast xp but you dont want to fight a high level monster; as you have 1 defence. Well… the solution is; Red Spiders. These can be found in Varrock Sewers or Stronghold of Secrurity on level 3. The good thing about these creepy crawlys is that they always stay in a close knit group, so you will always find a kill. Food is important here as they hit a couple of 3’s every few kills. Spiders usually have a few egg respawns. Red Spider Eggs sell for 450gp.
Congratulations, if you have mastered 40 attack and at least 60 strength you have completed this part of training. Melle attack will be your most effective form of attack in Bounty Hunter, as most of your opponents will be Rangers.
Magic Training
The only reason to get your magic up is to use bind (20) and Bounty Locate (32). Magic isn’t effective in Bounty Hunter as most of your enemies will use ranged attacks.
Go to a bank and sell or use all your drops you got from training attack and strength. Desposit all your equipment except your Amulet of Power. Withdraw your Staff of Air, Mind Runes and Chaos Runes.
Go to the Cow Farm in Lumbridge and stand outside the fence. As magic attacks can be casted from a fair distance away, standing outside walls stop you from getting hit. Put your auto cast on to wind strike; attack the cows.
You are one or two more steps away from completing your beginner training to own in Bounty Hunter. Now, you will be using your chaos runes. Put auto cast on to wind bolt. Attack the cows until level 32 magic. Now you can use all the strike attacks, most bolt attack, low alchemy, Varrock Teleport, Lumbridge Teleport and the one and only… Bounty Locate!
You have finished your Magic training.Don’t worry about getting your magic level up anymore as magic isn’t effective against rangers, unless it is bind (5 second freeze).
Bounty Hunter
Hopefully you have succefully completed your training without dieing, and getting up your stats to: 40 attack, 60+ strength, 60+ Ranged, 32 Magic and you are under level 55 combat!
Bounty Hunter is a replacement for pking in the wilderness. Although this minigame is greatly disliked by a minority (pures), it is still very popular and competitive. What you are aiming for is to own in the low level crater. If you exceed level 55 combat your pure is ruined for life if your main objective is to player kill.
Put your run and have your maple shortbow and 100 adamant arrows equited. Step inside the low level Bounty Hunter crater.
Imediately upon entering you will be invincible for 6 seconds. In that 6 seconds use Bounty Locate spell and start ranging your opponent.
When your opponent gets to 1/3 of his/her health wield your Rune Scimitar and continue to attack your target. When she/he reaches 1/4 of there health pull out your Rune 2h Sword and kill them!
If they do not die. Start Ranging them until they get to 1/4 of there HP,
KO them and hopefully it should kill them. If you attempt to KO them
more then two times repeat the range then 2h method.
Once you kill them imediately eat again, to full health. Pick up the most valuable items first until you have no more inventory space. If you need to eat food to pick up something, access the risk: ‘Is it worth more then the swordfish?’ and ‘Can I sell it quickly or wear it?’ if you think yes to one of the following, pick it up.
If you have a team member, friend or another person ask to have something, do not reply and run out of the crater. If you did not kill your target then you will have a 180 sec penalty, which means you can’t leave the arena for 3 minutes. In that time people may attack you, so let them chase you around. When you lose them or cover a fair distance apart teleport to your target and repeat it need be. Thats why you need 5 Bounty Locate teleports.
MAX HIT CALCULATOR
Str / Rnged Lvls: 40 45 50 55 60 65 70
Maple Shortbow: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Rune Scimitar: 10 11 11 12 13 14 15
R Scimitar (Pot): 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Rune Two Hander: 12 13 14 15 16 17 19
R 2 Hander (Pot): 13 14 15 17 18 19 21
PRICING
NOTE: All prices are affective from 18th May, 2008. I take no liablilty if costs are wrong. These figures come straight from the Grand Exchange Database on www.runescape.com.
Coif: 100,000gp
Amulet of Power: 3,196gp
Leather Body: 9gp
Green D’hide Vambs: 1,376gp
Green D’hide Chaps: 2,179gp
Leather Boots: 17gp
Team-17 Cape: 150gp
Maple Shortbow: 1 mil gp
Rune Scimitar: 15,400gp
Rune 2h Sword: 40,100gp
Adamant Arrow: 125gp x 50 = 6,250gp
Air Rune: 15gp x 5 = 75gp
Fire Rune: 9gp x 5 = 45gp
Law Rune: 329gp x 5 = 1,645gp
Swordfish: 411gp x 22 = 9,042gp
Strength Potion: 758gp
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Total: 80,536gp
You don’t have to train on cows until level 32,you can go fight zombies in varrack sewers across the river.
You don’t have to eat just when this guide says so,you may find yourself in a emergency where you need to eat.
If you want to,you can train on dwarves from 30-40 attack and 30-40 strength.
