Vet'ion/Strategies

A group of players fighting Vet'ion.

Warning: Like all Wilderness bosses, Vet'ion resides in a multi-way area in moderately high-level Wilderness. You may be attacked at any time during the fight, and death is all but guaranteed in any deep wilderness multicombat area. Do not bring any items that you are not willing to lose. Items like the Dragon defender and Salve amulet (ei) are permanently lost if not protected beyond level 20 Wilderness.

How to get there

Vet'ion resides in Vet'ion's Rest, the entrance of which is located just north of the Bone Yard.

To get there quickly, you can:

• Teleport to the Revenant Caves entrance with a Revenant cave teleport, then run southeast.

Suggested skills

• 70+ (85+ Recommended)
• 75+ (85+ Recommended)
• 80+ (90+ Recommended)
• 75+ (85+ Recommended)
• 70+ (75+ Recommended)
• 70+ (for Piety)
• 94+

Equipment

Always keep risk to a minimum in the Wilderness! - Whenever gearing, check your Items Kept on Death and enable "Wilderness beyond level 20" to make sure important items will not be lost.

The most effective equipment listed below involves a great deal of Trouver parchments and raw risk, but MOST players will prefer a low-risk setup without parchment loss. Thanks to the powerful Salve (e) effect, as long as you bring a strong weapon and 2-3 other high-bonus items, your DPS will be very good with little risk. For a low-risk setup, a Neitiznot, myth cape, and d'hide/proselyte are perfect, risking less than one average boss kill's-worth. From there, Barrows gloves then Dragon boots make great upgrades to the Rune gloves and Climbing boots budget setup.

That being said however, due to the incredible passive effect of the Ursine/Viggora's chainmace stacking multiplicatively with the Salve's bonus, every extra bit of strength and accuracy bonus from equipment will noticeably increase DPS, provided you are willing to risk more. For example, bringing even just one parched item, the Fighter torso (l) for +4 strength, can grant up to 3 additional max hits. These highly multiplied bonuses, coupled with the fact that it is possible to log out mid-fight here, make Vet'ion the most feasible and rewarding of all the wilderness bosses to bring additional risk to. To be totally clear, the expensive armour slots are only worth bringing IF players are confident in their ability to escape PKers.

Lastly, when figuring out your personal setup, keep in mind that some of these equipment recommendations, such as the Avernic defender and Infernal cape, are meant to maximize 4-item protection. These can easily be downgraded if they would be risked, or if the player is not using PK Skull Prevention. Due to the hazard of being smited and having the Protect Item prayer disabled in combat, untradeable items locked with Trouver parchments are particularly effective as the 4th item kept on death, in order. Again, whenever in doubt, "Items kept on death" will show exactly how items are kept, degraded, or lost.

Note: Due to the Salve bonus not stacking, fighting on a skeleton (or hellhound!) Slayer task with a Slayer helmet will not provide as high of an offensive bonus as the Salve amulet (e) will, and is not free to reclaim like the amulet.

Recommended equipment for Melee

Slot	Item (most effective → least effective)
	Torva full helm	Serpentine helm	Helm of neitiznot	Berserker helm	Dwarven helmet
	Salve amulet (e)	Salve amulet	Amulet of strength	Amulet of glory	Amulet of power
	Infernal cape / Fire cape	Mythical cape	Mixed hide cape	Cape of Accomplishment	Ardougne cloak 4
	Fighter torso	Mixed hide top	Black d'hide body	Proselyte hauberk	Monk's robe top
	Torva platelegs	Inquisitor's plateskirt	Black d'hide chaps	Proselyte cuisse / Proselyte tasset	Monk's robe
	Ursine chainmace / Viggora's chainmace	Inquisitor's mace	Abyssal bludgeon / Zamorakian hasta (crush) / Zombie axe (crush) / Soulreaper axe (crush)	Sarachnis cudgel / Elder maul / Dual macuahuitl	Leaf-bladed battleaxe (crush) / Dragon mace
	Avernic defender	Dragon defender	Dragonfire shield	Rune defender / Toktz-ket-xil	Book of war / Falador shield 4
	Rada's blessing 4	Rada's blessing 3/2 / God blessing	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Ferocious gloves	Barrows gloves	Rune gloves	Combat bracelet	N/A
	Dragon boots	Rune boots	Mixed hide boots	Climbing boots	Fremennik sea boots 4
	Ultor ring	Berserker ring (i)	Ring of shadows	Ring of wealth (i)	Explorer's ring 4
	Elder maul	Dragon mace	Barrelchest anchor	N/A	N/A

Inventory

As Vet'ion is possible to defeat without taking any damage, supplies are mostly tailored to surviving PKers, while maintaining high DPS and possibly absorbing damage taken by accident. When deciding what supplies to bring, keep in mind that Vet'ion frequently drops large quantities of un-noted blighted food or potions that replace supplies used during the fight.

• Royal seed pod or any other level 30 Wilderness teleport
• Divine super combat/super set
• Stamina potion, some running is involved
• 3+ prayer potions
• Saradomin brews with Super restores can help
• Rest food — Monkfish or better
• Looting bag (optional, recommended)

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For more advanced setups, if players are confident in their ability to tank PKers to safety and are comfortable risking more and/or staying longer, an inventory could look more like the second example. None of these are required for the boss fight and may add some risk, but can be worthwhile additions for players barely failing to escape.

• Dinh's bulwark and/or black d'hide switch — greatly increase survivability against multiple attackers and freezes
• Phoenix necklace — emergency healing whilst tanking
• Bones to peaches (tablet)s — allow recovery from mistakes without wasting valuable combo eats
• Anti-venom or Sanfew serums — cures/prevents venom from the commonly used Toxic staff of the dead
• Blighted super restores — restore magic levels drained by Saradomin brews, restore more prayer points and are cheaper than regular Prayer potions

Attacks and abilities

Vet'ion has several attacks and abilities:

• Magic attack: Bolts of lightning strike various tiles across the arena, much like the Grotesque Guardians' lightning attack. Each lightning bolt deals damage in a 3x3 area, but any tile that is about to be struck glows, giving players the chance to dodge the attack. When soloing, one bolt will always target the player's tile or an adjacent tile, while four more will target random tiles around the arena. In groups, one bolt will appear for every player in the chamber, capped at seven.
• Hellhounds: Upon reaching half health, Vet'ion will summon two skeletal hellhounds to attack players. They will provide him with complete damage immunity while present. He will do the same again in his enraged form.
• Shield Bash: Vet'ion will raise his shield to bash an area in front of and underneath him; shadows will appear forewarning the AoE of the attack. If the player doesn't move out of range, they'll take up to 35 damage and be unable to attack for the next 4.8 seconds. This attack is only used when in melee distance.
• Enraged Form: Upon losing all health in his first form, Vet'ion will summon orange lightning bolts (which share his standard lightning bolts' 3x3 area damage) in a circle around him and restore his health to full. In his second form the hellhound mechanic is repeated again, but he will die after losing all of his health in this form.

Strategies

All of Vet'ion's attacks are AoE, meaning that if the player avoids them, they can essentially take no damage from his attacks. Vet'ion will yell quotes whenever he attacks as a fairly easy and simple way to dodge the attacks. The shield bash is the only major concern due to its larger AoE, but is still otherwise easy to dodge since it is only used in melee distance.

When Vet'ion reaches 50% of his health, he will summon skeletal hellhounds to assist him in battle. The hellhounds will channel immunity to Vet'ion until they are killed. While they deal powerful melee hits, they are not durable, with both the normal and greater versions only having 30 health. Vet'ion will yell a quote pertaining to their demise as an indicator that the immunity has been lifted.

When Vet'ion reaches 0 health in his standard form, he will charge up lightning around him as he yells that the player defeat him a second time. The player(s) can simply stand underneath him to avoid the reach of the lightning as normal. Vet'ion will restore his health to full and increase his max hit and attack speed, and any drained Defence levels will be restored.

Vet'ion will move towards a player between attacks, so in solo encounters the player can manipulate him into walking towards the exit to his arena and keeping him there for the majority of the time. This is useful for small teams and solo players not relying on a "scout" outside the entrance to his tomb, as it ensures a fast escape, as getting frozen in the middle of the room will likely result in certain death from both player killers and Vet'ion's attacks. It is still recommended to leave a secondary account if possible outside, as players cannot hop inside the tomb; doing so will eject them to one of the three random exits of the Escape Caves instead, and leaving one outside can sometimes cause other players to ignore whoever is inside.

Unlike his lesser counterpart Calvar'ion, Vet'ion resides in a Multicombat area and in level 35 Wilderness, so teleports cannot be used to directly escape player killers. The only chance a player has to escape is by running out the exit, which will take them into the Escape Caves where they must navigate their way to an exit. The Escape Caves are full of aggressive monsters, such as Grizzly bears and poison spiders, so antipoison is recommended.

In the event you are targeted by player killers and are leaving via the escape caves, the fastest exit to level 30 Wilderness for a teleport is the southern exit from the caves. However, the north-eastern exit is much safer, as teams may wait at the southern entrance to attack players; the north-eastern exit is also near a single-way combat zone to lessen threat.