Another thousand kills into the hunt and an update on the results so far

Killing Stats

Total Kills – 3012
Hours Spent Killing – 53

Drops
Chewed Bones – 80
Effigies – 21
Draconic Visage – 0
Dragon Full Helm – 0
Crimson Charms – 2424
Blue Charms – 526

Records

Most kills in a trip – 69
Most chewed bones in a trip – 6
Most effigies in a trip – 2

During the first 2k kills I had been considering the use of the other chaotic weapons (rapier/longsword) but stuck with the maul to save on tokens. After the 2k mark, I decided to just buy a new one anyway and went with the chaotic rapier. The rapier has increased my average kills per hour by a fair amount (up from ~55 kills a trip to ~62 per trip, although a few unsuccessfully tests were made during the early trips after 2k kills so it should actually be a bit higher(testing what combination of equipment/prayers work best with rapier)). So overall I’m quite pleased I decided to buy it, I’ll just have to earn the tokens back later

This 1k kills was the best yet for chewed bones, I beat my previous bones per trip record by 2 (and with only 60 kills in the trip) getting a whopping 6 bones in 1 trip (the trip before I had gotten 5 bones, so I beat my previous record 2 trips in a row and drastically increased the amount of chewed bones I had banked).

Here are some of the drops so far:

2 full rows of effigies, which I am going to be keeping till I have high enough stats to do them all myself (god help me when I need the bank space), I can finish some of them but I’ll be holding onto them all until I’m finished at miths. The 80 chewed bones waiting to be used, but I’ll be saving them for later. Then there’s the rune drops, there would be more but quite often I don’t have the inventory space to pick up everything that gets dropped (priority is usually given to the b-axes). The other main drop that is missing from this are the blood runes, which I’ve had well over 10k of them. I haven’t been too concerned about keeping track of them since I already had a few thousand before starting at miths, so they wouldn’t accurately reflect how many are drops from the dragons.

1k more dragons to match my last attempt, here comes 4k (and most likely more)!

Back in late 2007 I made an attempt to get a dragon full helm from mithril dragons, I killed a fairly large number of them (over 4000) but with no luck. The best drop was a rune kite.

It has been just over 3 years since mithril dragons were added to the game and dragon full helms still remain one of the games most difficult drops to obtain (and may have been worth a bit more than they currently are if it weren’t for them being a possible drop when PvP was first released). No one can help you get one, unlike most other rare items (lootshare system), you just have to be insanely lucky, or plain insane (hi ). It is because of the difficulty of getting one that I really want to get one for myself, not for the money (although it’s a nice little bonus), but for the achievement of having got one of the games most notoriously difficult to obtain drops.

Back in 2007 when I gave the goal my first proper attempt the dragons were much harder to kill, at the time ranging them was the most efficient method of killing them and I was killing usually around 5-10 dragons a trip. Since then a lot of content has been released making the dragons multiple times easier to kill, content such as summoning (healing familiars help massively), the herblore update (super antifires allow use of powerful 2 handed melee weapons, extremes also speed up kills), curses (turmoil also makes them much easier) and more. All this content has made it possible to kill maybe 100+ dragons without banking, but atm I prefer a more comfortable 50-60 kills a trip leaving space to pick up and bank drops.

After killing a few mith drags recently, I have decided to give my goal of getting a helm another shot. So I will be killing plenty more dragons in the hopes of getting the full helm this time. I don’t know how many I am going to kill, I may kill less than last time, or I may kill more, it just depends how many I feel like killing.

I will post updates for every one thousand dragons I kill, so if you’re interested be sure to check back here every now and then. I also have a thread on the forums with more up to date stats and info about killing them.

At the time of posting this I’ve already killed just over 1000 mith drags, so here’s the first batch of results from that first thousand kills.

Killing Stats

Total Kills – 1033

Hours Spent Killing – 19

Drops
Chewed Bones – 24
Effigies – 5
Draconic Visage – 0
Dragon Full Helm – 0
Crimson Charms – 736
Blue Charms – 158

Records

Most kills in a trip – 61
Most chewed bones in a trip – 4
Most effigies in a trip – 1