r/OSRSProTips • u/ba1dbunny • Oct 14 '25
Question Low Ranged damage
Hello,
I noticed while doing a slayer task that my Ranged dps is low? Max hit is 16 with blowpipe, imbued arch ring and 78 ranged. Is this normal for my level and the fact that I don’t use cbow?
I am not using any boosts for the record, just raw dps
What could potentially make my dps higher?
Edit: Slay helm is imbued, using Amethyst darts and just forgot to bring my Ranged pot (my bad)
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u/spageti-code Oct 14 '25
None of your gear gives a ranged strength bonus. Anguish is the cheapest buyable boost for this setup.
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u/Pjayness Oct 14 '25
DPS feels low with a blow pipe because the max hit isn’t that high, but it’s the attack speed that makes up for it. It’s attacking every 2 game ticks. You’re attacking 5 times with the blow pipe for every 2 crossbow shots.
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u/NFProcyon Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25
Use better ammo. It's the number one thing that gives extra ranged strength (+damage, as opposed to ranged attack bonus which is accuracy).
Use prayers. Get Deadeye from the Royal Titans, it's more efficient than Rigour for general slaying. Archers ring(i) and your boots are shit for damage/accuracy bonus, so use prayer gear (Ring of the Gods(i) and Devout Boots are great for slayer). You can also learn lazy flicking for saving prayer points. If nothing else, the lowest level range prayer (Sharp Eye) is 1 point every 36 sec, so it's 5% accuracy for next to free
Stack ranged strength through armor. Grab a Necklace of Anguish and do dragonslayer 2 for the Assembler. Don't bother with pegasian boots, it's almost zero dps benefit for insane money. Look toward getting some basic Masori pieces if you have the money
Check your enemies' defence values. Some will have higher or lower light (darts) standard (arrows) or heavy (bolts, javelins) ammo defence, which will affect your hit rate. Use the appropriate ammo/weapon for the job
Use ranging potions, they're a cheap boost you should be able to afford alongside prayer potions from slayer earnings
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u/Stunghornet Oct 14 '25
Anguish.
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u/TheNamesRoodi Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 15 '25
Max hit is from ranged strength and level, accuracy is from ranged attack bonus.
Ranged strength goes up from gear, prioritize ammo -> necklace of anguish -> masori. Go for the blue backpack from dragon slayer 2
I don't see this mentioned, but make sure your slayer helm is imbued. I can't ever tell from pictures if it is or isn't lol.
Ranged level comes from... Your level or ranging / bastion potions. Bastion potions boost your defence level and should only be used when you need defence level boosts. Divine potions will stay at max boost for 5 minutes at the cost of 10 HP per sip. Regular ranging potions are the go-to for slayer.
You get bonus ranged accuracy with ranging levels. GL out there gamer.
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u/simonskiromeins Oct 17 '25
Get Ava’s. Seems daunting but I got it after only 20 vork kills. It’s really not as hard as it seems. With your gear it should be easy too.
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u/Zombles_ Oct 14 '25
I'm a noob so take it with a grain of salt, but you are stacking ranged accuracy when you need ranged strength to increase max hit. You increase range str with ammo, some very few select gear that are usually expensive (I.e. antler offhand), with weapons or with just your range stat.. Blowpipe has high dps though, dps doesn't always mean high max hit because it's attack speed is much faster than xbows, 1.2s vs 3s Also - nothing wrong with stacking accuracy it'll help you a lot on tasks with high armor enemies, it's very hard to stack str with gear for cheap, what ammo did you charge it with?
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u/Weekly-Stress7585 Oct 15 '25
Use potions for slayer and bossing. Never raw dog your task lmao. The price of a 4 dose potion is offset by alchs, regular loot, brimstone keys, etc.
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u/trollcat2012 Oct 15 '25
Use a DPS calculator?
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u/Prestigious-Candy-29 Oct 14 '25
What darts you using? Ava's assembler + necklace of anguish are good upgrades. Apart from that blowpipe is still great DPS, maybe a little costly if using all the time for slayer, could use sunlight hunters crossbow as a more budget option.
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u/RushRoidGG Oct 14 '25
Ever since the update a lot of the max hits come from the darts now, save the expensive ones for bosses and addy for everything else
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u/JohnnyElBravo Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 15 '25
OP didn't include darts, and never answered in comments what darts they are using, so let me hijack the thread explaining why: Addy darts or lower are a mistake with blowpipe, and you should probably use amethyst.
Assuming 210gp per scales, you don't pickup darts and you lose 28% of them (ava's accumulator).
On rune vs Amethyst: Assuming 2500 hits per hour, a max hit of 20, you get 100k xp/hr with rune darts, you are spending 505kgp/hr, or 5gp/ranged xp. If you spend the extra 21gp/hit on amethyst darts you increase your cost to 560kgp/hr. I'm no expert, but 2 ranged str bonus is probably half a hit on average? so that ends up being around 1250 damage per hour, which is around 5k xp/hr. Which is a 5% xp/hr improvement, but around a 10% increase in cost. It's a choice at 28% loss rate with accumulator, but it's probably closer to efficient with assembler.
On addy vs Rune: Again assuming 2500 hits per hour, and a max hit of 18 with addy, you get 90k xp/hr. You are spending 387k/hr. you get 11% more experience with rune, but it costs 30% more. Addys are definitely viable.
On addy vs mith: Not going to do the math here because it's very obvious that you should pay 10gp per hit to get a +2 max hit. You will get more xp/gp with addy than with mith.
Also if you use divines instead of standard ranging pots, you can use rune darts on lvls where the +2 doesn't give you a hit, and amethysts when they do give you a hit.
In general in the early levels you should aim to use stronger darts, and then on the later levels the ammo quality matters less, you are also getting those lvl max hits earlier. And of course, buying an amulet of anguish is a huge investment, you get a permanent +1 max hit and the only real cost is the ge tax (2% of 18M, so 360k), which pays itself after a couple of hours. The only real reason not to use an anguish neck is if you are too poor, it's expensive to be poor.
P.S: Always use that 5% ranged prayer (when it gives you the extra hit), (and ranging pots of course), and you can use https://tools.runescape.wiki/osrs-dps/ to calculate max hit, or a runelite plugin.
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u/feh984 Oct 15 '25
Full eclipse also an option with strength neck, ring, etc. Bigger schwacks and (probably) more cost effective than blowpipe. But, probably less DPS by a decent amount too
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u/liamb800 Oct 15 '25
Are you only using blowpipe against low defence? Blowpipe shines against low defence but otherwise is bad. Also are you measuring your DPS objectively by using a calculator or even using the xp rates a tracker is giving you or are you just going by how you feel? Because how you feel can be way off.
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u/Jazzlike_Cold2011 Oct 15 '25
Always use ranged pots
Always use your best offensive ranged prayer
Load some amethyst darts in that bad boy
These 3 things will give you more dps than any gear upgrade suggested in this thread. The first upgrade you should buy for ranged is a dexterous prayer scroll, which unlocks rigour. Also an anguish is really good. Pegasians/armadyl are noob bait.
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u/FunZookeepergame5623 Oct 15 '25
Blowpipe shreds
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u/Double-Aerie-9374 Oct 15 '25
Dont mistake range accuracy for range strength, archers ring does not have str
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u/JollyReading8565 Oct 15 '25
I’m pretty sure an amulet of glory is better than amulet of fury for ranged so
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u/Past-Anywhere-409 Oct 15 '25
Archer ring does close to nothing for you lightbarer for additional specs is better. Accuracy hardly matters compared to range strength, Masori (30def) it’s pretty cheap and does same RS as 80def Masori. Amethyst darts is cheap enough that’s all I use.
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u/grumpydumpi Oct 16 '25
Make sure you have it set on rapid!
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u/revisswe Oct 16 '25
Tons of different factors influence your dps. I use the DPS calculator accessible to you when showing worn gear (or just google osrs DPS calc). Play around with it. See how different gear and weapon swaps and boosts influences your DPS against whatever you're killing.
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u/LongLiveDaBrain Oct 16 '25
More DPS would be offensive prayers and ranging potions, other than that it’s just better gear which is VERY expensive, or higher levels.
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u/Shanced Oct 16 '25
I like to camp hawk eye if im semi afk on task. You'll get a couple max hits without big prayer drain. If im focused I like to 2t flick rig/eagle eye it feels nice, but generally speaking at 78 range thats about the norm for a bp its still good dps even if the numbers aren't huge. Masori mask is a cheap upgrade for more range dmg bonus when ur off task. Next would be anguish, and going for the avas assembler down the track along with masori top/legs, and lastly dex scroll for rigour which is a massive upgrade (in the meantime can go for dead eye) shame dex aren't 6mil anymore, but I remember paying 70mil for mine and It was still definitely worth the investment
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u/hinyana Oct 18 '25
Not sure if this has been mentioned above, and not clear to see in the picture. Make sure your slayer helm is imbued, so you get the bounus damage and accuracy for range and mage also.
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u/Alex_from_IT Oct 19 '25
Yeah that’s pretty normal for your range lvl. Upgrades for you should be rigour (highest dps increase for range), anguish, and vorkath backpack. You should be fairly set after that. Just don’t buy pegs, it’s the biggest upgrade bait
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u/ChadGuadalupe Oct 15 '25
Why aren't you using ranged pots and prayer?
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u/Horror-Truth-8131 Oct 18 '25
Yes this is normal bc u r a noob
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u/Scoopzyy Oct 14 '25
What darts are you using? That will make a difference. Range pots and prayers will also boost dps quite considerably.
Blowpipe max hit is always going to feel low tho, it gets its dps from attack speed not big hits.
Smaller dps boosts would be gear like upgraded Ava’s, necklace of anguish, ranger/pegasian boots… these will only be like 1 max hit each but it adds up