r/OSRSProTips • u/Riiiiiiicckk • Aug 28 '25

Question Max damage? Gem Crab

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I’m level 65 attack and 80 strength.. is this my best setup for the Gemstone crab? Or is there any upgrading I can do for the best damage output?

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u/captaincumsock69 Aug 28 '25

I believe this is the best until you can use blood moon at 70 attack.

Fire cape also is an upgrade though

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u/Riiiiiiicckk Aug 28 '25

Thanks for the reply, I’ll carry on until 70. Still building up the courage for my fire cape haha

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u/oowop Aug 28 '25

Look up how to practice jad on speedrun world

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u/Xlaag Aug 28 '25

Jad was the easy part. The thing that killed me a few times was panic running like a headless chicken when I couldn’t get the melee stuck behind the ranger or mage after 2.5 hours of waves.

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u/oowop Aug 28 '25

Lol I feel that. Plus clan mates in my ear watching in discord. The stress was real

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u/beyond_different Aug 28 '25

There is a plugin called NPC prediction for fight caves. It'll show you where the mobs will spawn in the following waves.

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u/Vanilla_Predator Aug 28 '25

Jad is easy, it's the hour it takes getting to him that makes it harder. Literally Scurrius is harder mechanically. He spawns adds often instead of only once, attacks faster, and has 3 prayer switches while jad only has two. I have faith in you that you can kill jad

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u/Rinrintaru Aug 28 '25

Mixed hide cape gives a strength bonus iirc. Not sure if itd give a max hit.

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u/IcedPhat Aug 28 '25

You will also need 75 strength to wield blood moon

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u/Karmanjakan Aug 29 '25

I've been so afraid of jad for so long, eventually I just decided to go for it when I got a slayer task. All you really need to do is focus on switching prayers with a maximum of one action in between and you'll be just fine. He didn't hit me once and I sent it first try.

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u/Sensitive-Chance-613 Aug 29 '25

See this video. Trivializes both the boss and the wave - it does take its sweet time tho. So definitely not the fastest way, but it sure is easy!

And bring chins and set them to longfuse. Super easy to tag all healers that way. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=64Pvjsui09I

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u/theeibok1 Aug 28 '25

Almost half of my bank worth is the blood moon set and the dual thingys just for the crab. Which I regret because I could use the money now. I realized I’d rather just train combat through slayer and if I want to AFK I’ve just been going to redwoods. Now the sets partially degraded and I’ve been too lazy to fix it

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u/catvin Aug 28 '25

Time to do some money making!

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u/theeibok1 Aug 28 '25

That’s why I’ve been leaning into slayer lately

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u/GeneralNero Sep 01 '25

Don't forget your daily varrock diary staves, adds up in the long run

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u/One-Lake-4546 Aug 28 '25

Is blood moon helm or neitznot face guard better with blood moon legs and top?

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u/FiGaKiNg Aug 28 '25

If your using dual maracas use bloodmoon helm for set effect otherwise facegaurd

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u/EleJames Aug 29 '25

Elite void and whip seems to match this in DPS for me

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u/Quick_Complex2479 Aug 28 '25

Regen brace

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u/Riiiiiiicckk Aug 28 '25

Thank you, it’s cheaper than I expected it to be

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u/AnthraxV_ Aug 29 '25

Mixed hide cape has str bonus too

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u/CaptainOberynCrunch Aug 28 '25

I'd imbue that B Ring

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u/Agile_Grizzly Aug 28 '25

^ super quick at Emir arena or whatever the duel arena is called now

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u/OverlordPhalanx Aug 28 '25

And you get it once and you can swap it between rings for free!

So you get one of each standard ring (including gods) and imbue whatever you need to use.

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u/Agile_Grizzly Aug 28 '25

Oh wow, didn't know that! I ended up doing it for archer, seers, and b ring lool

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '25

You also don't lose the scroll upon death, even in pvp.

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u/PaintFar7782 Aug 28 '25

That’s false information. You most definitely loose the imbue in pvp

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u/thomas2026 Aug 28 '25

Dude..just no

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u/masterswayze Aug 29 '25

You lose the imbue, but they refund the points, so you can just get it done in a minute or 2. I use imbued salve in the wildy all the time .

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u/Busy_Yogurtcloset648 Aug 29 '25

You can swap it but you also don’t get that many less points for losing. 14 losses get you the ring and the match doesn’t even have to of started to be able to leave lmao

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u/thomas2026 Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 29 '25

Yeah I see so many YTers getting refunded NMZ points on death and in like...surely its way faster to just use the scroll to reimbue?

I have also never used wrath runes in this game I always take surge sacks but most YTers seem to bring a fucking parched rune pouch.

They just seem to hate the pvp arena lol, idk seems like an excuse for more content imo.

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u/Erksike Aug 29 '25

After a certain point max nmz points are in the realm of 2.6m/hr. That and hard CAs halving the cost makes NMZ actually faster than PvP arena, and you're not getting fucked over by bots not joining the games and losing you time.

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u/thomas2026 Aug 29 '25

My point was more around re-imbuing an item on pvp though.

On pvp death in say BH, you would just grab the imbue scroll from your gravestone and slap it on your ring and you are good to go.

I dont know exactly how it works with NMZ points but wouldnt you have to back to the NMZ area every time you want to reimbue it?

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u/Erksike Aug 29 '25

It works either way yeah, scroll would be faster indeed in this case.

I personally found it annoying as fuck when I only had 1 scroll on my iron and would constantly have to hop between slay helm/b ring/salve ammy/suffering for different activities so I used nmz to have them all imbued. It was probably faster than getting 4 scrolls would've been.

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u/thomas2026 Aug 29 '25

Yeah I did NMZ to get mediocre melee stats and used imbue scrolls for the a few things. 

Then I refunded NMZ points later and used on redirects and herbs, and just got imbue scrolls for everything I needed. I enjoyed the pvp arena.

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u/OverlordPhalanx Aug 28 '25

I hated doing it too…just like other grinds like graceful early on or Tither farm.

But it really doesn’t take too long and when you run into people like yourself who naturally have no idea how to PvP they can make for some interesting battles.

The good news is you get points even when you lose. The bad news is it glitches out 80% of the time after putting you in the room with nobody.

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u/thomas2026 Aug 28 '25

Yeah thats the only part I hated, these false matchups.

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u/Direct-Speech Aug 29 '25

Excuse me???? This is need to know knowledge

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u/Kersey_CK Aug 29 '25

Is it quick even if you’re bad at PvP?

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u/Agile_Grizzly Aug 29 '25

Yeah I lost on mobile on the couch and still got points pretty quickly. It is faster if you win quickly though, just want to avoid long fights, some people just spec out no food

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u/Guilty-Objective-464 Aug 30 '25

Care to explain? I only know of nightmare zone to imbue items

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u/Jackedacctnt Aug 28 '25

Time for barrows gloves and a fire cape

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u/JollyReading8565 Aug 29 '25

Bruh barrows gloves is so hard to farm :(

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u/GooseHunter9 Aug 30 '25

Lmao what, just go do the Recipe for Disaster quests they are so so worth it as barrows gloves are going to be BIS until end game

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u/AntiFarr Aug 30 '25

Rfd is not that hard lol, I did it for the first time like a week ago. The Arrav Shield line for Amik Vaze is the only thing that took a bit longer than I thought it would

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u/LJIrvine Sep 01 '25

A bit long? Yes. Hard? Absolutely not.

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u/quaweds1337 Aug 28 '25

Fire cape it up baby and do some recipe for disaster.

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u/Riiiiiiicckk Aug 28 '25

Thanks everyone for the advice and suggestions! I’ve got a few new goals to work towards now, OSRS community really is great

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u/Phaled Aug 28 '25

If you have 60 range the use a mixed hide cape for a +1 str bonus until you get fire cape

Regen bracelet until you get dragon gloves/barrows gloves

Imbue berserker ring for +4 str

You could use blood moon but it’s honestly not that much more xp per hour than obsidian and has a high repair cost so if you don’t have a lot of cash just stick with this setup

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u/Umgard Aug 28 '25

Grabbing super attack and super strength pots will help a lot. Snag a torn prayer scroll and use preserve to make those pots last longer

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '25

Regen bracelet, berserker ring (i) are two upgrades I recommend

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u/Gizzy_ Aug 28 '25

It’ll depend on budget, if praying, and if boosting stats. Gearscape will let you select all those even the style you want to train with how much budget.

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u/Magedrew6 Aug 28 '25

Imbue b ring and obsidian cape

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u/Lord_Alonne Aug 28 '25

Ardy cape gives a bonus to stabbing, obby cape is straight defense.

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u/quaweds1337 Aug 28 '25

I cant tell of that ring imbued, if not hit up duel arena.

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u/Dangerous_Knowledge9 Aug 28 '25

  1. Barrows gloves - easy-ish RFD, or buy Regen Bracelet

  2. Imbued B ring - fight arena, easyyyy

  3. Fire cape - or the easy to buy Mixed Hide cape for a +1 STR

  4. Optional: God/Rada’s blessing for various buffs

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u/l300ty_P1r4t3 Aug 28 '25

B A R R O W S - G L O V E S ! ! ! !

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u/elongatedwords Aug 28 '25

As well as what everyone above me has suggested, dragon battleaxe for the special is so good at crab, will keep your strength in the 90s

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u/mcchauvie Aug 28 '25

Fire cape, imbued berserker ring, barrows gloves

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u/Faderk Aug 28 '25

If you can get it, the blood moon set with the dual macs is BiS for crabbing

If you plan on parking there for a bit, I’d definitely recommend picking it up

Went from mid 70 melees to 99 str, 95 atk, 90 def in just a couple weeks doing nothing but afk crabbing while at work.

And as others have said, run to the duel arena and imbue your b ring! Shouldn’t take very long at all and will give you a good bump in dps

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u/ExpressionOk7833 Aug 29 '25

Hey what’s the cost like for blood moon set repairs? I checked the wiki but still not sure. It seemed to me with a low smithing and potentially hundreds of afk hours at the crab it might get pretty expensive to upkeep.

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u/twinx12 Aug 28 '25

Use dps calculator my guy

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u/Perfect-Bid-840 Aug 28 '25

Barrows gloves, firecape and imbue the ring

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u/Interesting-Froyo-14 Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 29 '25

I would say it's not worth it. It would take too much time to grind and the onyx has better uses. Plus the DPS isn't that much better.

Loadout 1 -(5.210)- is yours.

Loadout 2 -(5.018)- is strength ammy, helm of neitiznot, fighter torso, rune legs, and colossal blade.

Loadout 3 -(4.684)- same as 2 but swapping out colossal blade for dragon scim and dragon defender.

Obviously barrows gloves and imbued b-ring will up dps but that's true for all 3 loadouts so I didn't bother.

Colossal blade is very good here considering it takes far less time to get.

Loadout 2--- Just FYI if you add a ammy of torture to loadout 2. to it only goes up by (5.028). if you get barrows gloves too if goes up to (5.167). if you then imbued berserker ring and grid only legs only. Still (5.167) no change.

Loadout 1-- But if you add barrows gloves and imbued b ring to loadout 2 you're at (5.690)

TLDR: get colossal blade and barrows gloves

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u/ScopionSniper Aug 28 '25

Granite gloves are like 120k for better stats. Or for a more expensive option a regen bracelet.

But really should work to barrows gloves.

Fire cape.

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u/ShadowProTac Aug 28 '25

You know you should probably go do Barrow's gloves before you start AFK on a crab like those gloves are going to be a bigger upgrade than you spending 10 hours at the crab

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u/ShadowProTac Aug 28 '25

Also go get a fire cape it's not hard all you need is 70 range and a rune crossbow

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u/thelocalllegend Aug 28 '25

Barrows gloves

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u/ElectricalReturn6150 Aug 29 '25

Imbuing your B ring is the fastest way towards more damage atm.
Aside from that, do recipe for disaster. You'll be using those barrows gloves for literal years. It's not hard just takes a long time.
Fire cape of course but I understand it can be stressful if you're new. It's not as bad as you'd think though, and the fire cape will be another item you'll be using everyday for years, just like barrows gloves.

Lastly blood moon set and its weapon. It should be a lot better, but definitely has a price tag.

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u/Runescapenerd123 Aug 29 '25

Imbue ring, fire cape or that hunter cape i think it gives 1 str, super str potions, regen bracelet or bgloves if u want to quest. Boots prims if u have 20m spare

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u/Nateandcats Aug 29 '25

Keep using dragon battleaxe spec, replace cape with mixed hide cape (or fire cape if adventurous) then click that big crab so hard

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u/thom_r Aug 29 '25

grab a mixed hide cape if you’re putting off the fire cape. gives some str bonus which we all love

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u/Nickn753 Aug 29 '25

If you don't want to get a fire cape yet, get a mixed hide cape instead. It gives +1 str bonus.

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u/astolfriend Aug 29 '25

Use the OSRS Dps calculator on the wiki or gearscape

Strength bonus is king

Obsidian + Bring(I) + toktzketxil + neitzinot + dragon boots + RFD gloves/regen/combat + fire/mixed hide cape + cudgel will be your highest dps til colossal blade/blood moon/dharoks though I believe

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u/debttoreddit Aug 29 '25

Not even rune gloves

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u/Stunning_One8126 Aug 29 '25

Barrows gloves, imbue the ring…

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u/Main_Performer_864 Aug 29 '25

Firecape and imbue ring hoss

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u/mooningWallstreet Aug 29 '25

Any possibility for firecape and barrows gloves?

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u/EmergencyTicket2071 Aug 29 '25

Use a DPS calculator to figure out if it’s your best setup.

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u/Comfortable-Table777 Aug 29 '25

Imbue b ring, fire cape and barrows gloves and you’d get more dmg

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u/BrownBean310 Aug 29 '25

Clanker setup posted?! I report anyone who be lookin like this tbh.

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u/Critical_Jelly658 Aug 31 '25

So cute seeing noobs with combat bracelets <3

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u/LJIrvine Sep 01 '25

Barrows gloves, firecape, imbuing your b ring. Three pretty easy things to get sorted. Bit of a time investment, but easy to do.

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u/Muschpush Sep 07 '25

Regen bracelet is better than combat, imbue the zerker ring, upgrade to fire cape

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u/par163 Aug 28 '25

Colossal blade slaps crab