Necromancer's Guide to Normal Mode Zuk
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- I've been getting a lot of questions about how to kill Zuk, so I made this guide without a Zuk cape so you guys could (hopefully) get your own cape and start putting out that BIG damage. Expect a Rasial guide tomorrow. The Zuk guide is coming out first because you need a Zuk cape to kill Rasial effectively.
0:00 Intro and Gear
6:00 Wave 1
6:48 Wave 2
7:51 Wave 3
8:40 Wave 4
9:56 Wave 5 (First Challenge)
10:23 Wave 6
11:38 Wave 7
12:57 Wave 8
14:10 Wave 9
15:16 Wave 10 (Second Challenge)
15:43 Wave 11
17:31 Wave 12
18:45 Wave 13
19:51 Wave 14
21:02 Wave 15 (Third Challenge)
21:23 Wave 16 (Triple Jad)
22:45 Wave 17 (Har-Aken)
24:54 Wave 18 (TzKal-Zuk)
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You are genuinely one of the best people I've seen at teaching players who know the basics of RS3 combat but are looking to get better at the game. I seriously hope that your channel grows and gets the recognition you deserve, because all of these guides you've been putting out are incredible.
We should all take note of how calm he was putting damage on zuk with 1k hp left lol. I think that's where a lot of people go wrong with pvming is the panicking lol. Good work man
I found your channel just last week while looking for a necro rotation guide and I must say you're easily one of the best among RS3 youtubers out there.
So comprehensive and legit! Subbed :)
I love comments like this so much! Thanks for the support :)
Woah this is by far the best guide. Watched it 3 times, went in and got it 1st try. I even forgot my runes to use darkness or threats of fate, and still got it! Thanks you so much!
That's awesome! If you decide to pursue hard mode, those abilities are much more important so definitely remember to bring the runes for that lol. Good luck!
Thanks soooo much for your guides Raph! You really helped give me the confidence to go and get these things completed finally. Amazing guides
Mate that’s amazing!! Thank you for the really simple and straightforward walkthrough! Love your work.
Been trying this boss for so long now...watched your guide and got it done just a few attempts later. Thanks so much for the help, and fantastic instruction! Subbed!
Great guides. I love that you go in with a minimum viable build for most players rather than just using end-game BIS.
The goal for my guides is always accessibility. I want to show people that you don't need a big bank to make big bank. Since I forgot to turn on my Scripture of Wen, this entire setup is the necro gear you should have anyway + cinders and amulet of souls which you're going to need for every style anyway. A 180m setup (which is entirely hybrid gear) should be very doable, especially for an endgame boss like Zuk.
Shout to your channel and content. Just got my first flawless Zuk for Igneous stone. Watched your vid at least 20 times or even more but it's so helpful. Keep going!!!
Thank you for the guide, your setups and explanations have been an enormous help
Stopping by to add a comment of appreciation for this guide, whilst it still took me a number of tries, and a lot of food! (lol) I finally managed to get my first Zuk kill today with this guide, with only 1 pizza phase too!, much love bro! top content!
Thanks for the guide man. I'm looking to head in there soon to try my luck. I'm sure I will be rewatching this video a few times before that attempt lol.
Loving necromancy, it's taken me from a skiller to a PVMer. I've gotten so many first time boss kills this week. Looking forward to unlocking t90 power as well as my necro Zuk cape, have already unlocked t90 tank upgrades.
Also, your Telos guide helped me a lot too with getting my first kill earlier today.
Thanks Raph!!! You're the best, literally got my first zuk kill from this guide :D
You are awesome ive recently returned after a long time away I stumbled on your videos a few days ago and now I'm doing better then I was before thank you keep the guides coming
I really like how you explain everything in detail!
I find myself running into a lot of your videos as i’ve been progressing through the game’s mid to late game content and and I must say, Every time I do I always find exactly the information I was looking for and really have trouble finding elsewhere. Great Stuff Bro!
That's awesome! I'm really glad to hear that :)
The best guides, thanks for the zuk cape and ability to run ed3 solo.
First video I've found that thoroughly walks you through it step by step. Thanks man. Stone inbound
stone achieved. 1st kill since watching this vid. YOU THE MAN
thank you! not a big bosser but this was def the easier video guide from the few i seen. took a few tries but finally got to zuk. had to do pizza twice but i did it thank you so much
Just got my first Zuk kill. You helped me a lot, i was trying to beat zuk for like 3-4 days
this guide was so much more convenient for me! thanks a bunch, got pet on first kill!
Really appreciate this guide. I had failed ~15 attempts before finding your guide and I got it after 2 attempts and got my first 2 igneous stones in a row. Going to unlock the rest of the igneous capes and then start thinking about hard mode on your other guide and look into Rasial as well. Thanks again.
I'm happy to hear it!
Another great video just in time, thank you.
Your guides have all been amazing. idk how you can play and explain so clearly at the same time lol.
Hours of practice lol, I have 250+ hours on Zuk, so it's pretty much muscle memory at this point
I had already got my necromancy zuk cape with The RS Guy's guide but was somehow constantly failing at getting another igneous stone so I gave your setup a shot. It's insane how helpful blood reaver is on pizza phase.
The extra poison damage really adds up and makes dpsing it so much easier.
Very nice thanks for making this guide!
Just subbed to your channel. I've enjoyed your necro guides so much. I have no idea how you haven't blown up yet. I never see you in my YT feed on my PC. I eventually just did a search for your name after seeing your vids on my phone several times.
I'm really happy to hear that :) thanks for the support!
Hey thanks for the guide. Kept dying on the boss the first time through until I rewatched the boss a few times. Eventually I was able to get the kill. Just finished my 2nd run through and was able to get a stone. Thanks
I think you might be the world guardian :o
I've been starting to get consistent kills!! Thank you
Finally got first igneous stone with a pr of 28 mins woot wooot
Great guide! Succinct and clearly explained (play-by-play). Nex used to own me, now I own her thanks to your Nex Necro guide. Hopefully, the same will happen to Zuk now. Subbed!
Literally just found this video as I got the kiln necro cape and am going to try Zuk right now.
Let me know how it goes! If you have any questions, comment them here and I'll do my best to answer them.
Yeah im subscribing I’ve used your videos 3 times now
10/10 guide as always
Can we get a fight kiln necro guide? Loving all the guides! I hope the channel explodes man, you deserve it.
I'll look into it, the issue is that I'm 114 necro right now and the best time to do kiln is around 70, so I don't know if me just using t70 gear is going to accurately represent what a Kiln will look like, but I'll definitely look into it.
Thanks for your telos guideman
good stuff, thanks
the boy genius has some talent!
you know I had to do it to em
You actually helped me with Nex using Necro, hope I can try my luck on the ol zukerberg flaming ginger soon! Still need to get the fight kiln done though 😅
(I play on mobile so shit is tough 💀)
Kiln isn't too bad, you don't need kiln cape to kill him, so I wouldn't worry about it until you get your igneous stone.
@@raphtheboygenius Ohh, I honestly wasn’t aware of that… good to know 👍🏻 but I think I’ll be doomed unless there’s another Thok event or I just get my ass onto a PC to have a chance.
I got my cape on my third kill. Your guides helped a lot. If I may offer any advice, the blood reaver with prism of restoration makes it much easier. With the reaver, you don't need to worry about prayer flicking. I'm not even good at the boss and got my kill eating only 4 food pieces, and thats because i wanted to have my hp full to make it safer. I could probably have done it without food if i wasn't so careful because the reaver really helps a lot.
Oh and since everyone is doing necromancy right now, its good to mention that i did it with magic. I don't know which one is easier but magic does the job pretty well, so if you're struggling with necromancy, maybe trying magic would be a good idea.
Something also worth mentioning is that at first this boss seemed impossible to kill but it ended up being easy. I killed him 3 times but i died many times training his fight, but at last, it was worth it. So don't give up if it seems too hard for now, you'll get it at some point.
My only issue with blood reaver is that it teaches you bad habits. There are bosses where you need to properly deal with mechanics, and if you condition yourself to let blood reaver heal you up, it may be harder later on to unlearn certain things. Besides that, it's also extremely expensive to use blood reaver scrolls so I try to stay away from using them unless it's absolutely mandatory. I appreciate the feedback!
Do you have thresholds set to autocast in the revo bar? I find that sometimes I don't have the adrenaline I want with command vengeful ghost costing 70%
Currently yes, but Zuk gives you so many opportunities to cast it with no target that I just manually cast basics until I kill something. Sometimes if you revo too hard, then you waste 70 adren but, it happens lol.
Just started bossing. Keybinding is a must I’m guessing? I still play old school layout too… recommendations on where to start to prep Zuc - tried once and got obliterated wave 8 about 10 times in a row before I quit.
Generally speaking, you want access to abilities you use all of the time and important abilities. For necro, that means you'll want to keybind your defensive abilities, your overhead prayers, volley of souls, and finger of death. Once you get Zuk cape, you'll also want to keybind living death and death skulls.
no homo thank you my guy you the goat
I found it really interesting that my First Time running the Fight Kiln with full T95 Necro, when I completed it I was presented with the option to claim either a Necro or Melee Kiln Cape. From my understanding the cape(s) offered is/are determined by the combat style that you contributed the most damage with, or in the case of two styles having contributed roughly equal damage you will be presented both of those capes as options.
The thing is, The only source of melee damage that I had contributed was solely on behalf of my Ripper Demon Familiar which had maybe 50 scrolls stored and was set to use it’s special attack every 5 attacks, so not very frequently. And yet I somehow qualified for both Melee and Necromancy capes? Obviously i choose the Necro Cape as it was the reason I was there in the first place. But is it really possible that my Ripper Demon somehow managed to output roughly equal damage to full T95 Necro???
Or am I missing something?..
I think it's just a bug with necro, I haven't personally experienced that, but I have a lot of friends who have.
How difficult would it be to defeat this boss for the first time using T80 weapons and power armour? I noticed a lot of guides mention you should have T90 tank armour
you might struggle to clear pizza phase without t90 weapons at the very least, so i would look into that first. You could do it with t80 armor youll just be quite a bit squishier
Great guide. Thoughts on this? Bring obsidian MAGE helm and you can use animate dead for another 25% damage reduction.
unfortunately, you can't use animate dead with darkness :( otherwise it would definitely be worth looking into
@@raphtheboygenius I was thinking instead of Darkness, since you get like 46% damage reduction from AD versus 20% dodge from Darkness.
I might be misunderstanding how AD reduction is calculated, though.
Edit: yeah lol I was totally misunderstanding AD. I thought it was percent, not flat numbers.
The big thing about darkness is also that you get a lot of effective DR by dodging big hits. Reducing 200 damage on a bunch of 2k hits is pretty good, but dodging 20% of the 2k hits is so much stronger imo. The other thing to consider is you have a lot of built in sustain, so darkness ends up being more effective HP by (hopefully) preventing you from getting bursted.
Hey, do you not use auto threshold on the revo bar? You didnt mention it
it doesnt automatically cast my ults, it auto casts everything else. If my vengeful ghost is coming up or its ability is coming up, ill try to spam auto attacks until the thing im hitting is dead so i get a free summon/activate, but other than that I'm on revo
@@raphtheboygenius AHHH smart, ty
I had no idea necromancy had a skill called putrid goblin... XD
Joke aside, this guide is going to come in clutch for me. I have yet to do anything with ZUk successfully. Here's hoping!
it looks like a goblin okay lmao
Quick note because I can't find it mentioned on Wiki or in any guides. For first kill you can't use War portal so you'll have to go in normally. The entrance is at the Senntisten digsite, no idea why the Wiki doesn't say this.
that's totally fair, I didn't think to list it but if people are asking about where to find zuk, I'll pin a comment
You using necro power or necro tank?
I use tank armor for all my guides since I don't own another set of t90 power armor
What was that pot at the start of the video with 170m on it ?
I'm not able to find what you're referring to, can you link to it with a time stamp?
on your buff bar
@@raphtheboygenius
@@raphtheboygenius at the very start of the video there are 2 buffs on your buff bar at the bottom of the screen above your ability bars 1 is the bone shield the other is some sort of pot with a timer of 170m
oh! that's a perfect plus potion. It's a skilling potion that is not useful for Zuk lmao
@@raphtheboygenius oh ok thanks lol was trying to find what this was for so long haha
i keep commenting on all your videos lol. but why does my thread of fate do so little damage? only 2k per hit
So Threads of Fate doesn't actually do any damage on its own. It makes your next 3 abilities do aoe damage. So you need to follow up your threads with big damaging abilities like volley with 3 stacks, finger of death, and weapon special attack. Let me know if this helps!
@@raphtheboygenius oh wow. Good info. I'm currently dying at the magic phase. I keep forgetting to use Darkness and keeping my minions up. So much going on
Yeah, zuk is a pretty involved fight, but the best thing about getting stuck on a certain part is that you get so much practice on all the stuff before it. Once you pass that, I'm sure you'll feel a lot more comfortable.
@@raphtheboygenius the pizza phase may mess me up. I only have 0 - 12 hotkeys and I can't really sacrifice an ability for surge. And on my other hotbar that I have to manually click I tend to forget they are even there
it could be worth putting another bar on your screen for utility abilties and defensives. maybe you can put your movement there?
Man i hope u keep making different Rs vids
I'm doing my best :) I'm redoing my rasial video, going to try to have it up tomorrow at noon.
How do you have 13250 HPs?
I am wearing the necromancy tank armor which boosts your HP quite a bit
@@raphtheboygenius gave up and will never fight Zuk again. Can you please make a video T90 power / Rasial with no Zuk cape KC. I prayed melee but he hit's too hard through prayer and devotion.
wear obsidian boots not helmet... magic helmet gives you magic accuracy not necromancy?
Helm gives better DR
You're right that it doesn't give accuracy. It doesn't really matter for necro since accuracy = linear increase in damage, but the real reason to wear it is the 19% DR. That combined with your 26% dodge chance makes you extremely tanky and hard to burst.
i just cant kill him bro, he does tons of damage every auto is like 1k+ damage even with the melee pray so i use a lot of food and when the food ends you know what happens lol
The important thing to remember is to make sure you turn on protect melee when he starts swinging his sword and to use soul split after the damage shows up. This is your best way of sustaining your hp along with the vengeful ghost. Toward the end, my hp was really low, but because I was doing a good job of using soul split and keeping my vengeful ghost alive, I never died. The biggest thing to remember is that as long as your HP is above 0, you can still fight. If your HP is above 1500, you don't NEED to eat, so being more conservative with your food may also help as well. Let me know if you have any questions!
@@raphtheboygenius yeah i tried the prayer flicking but i think it's a bit advanced for me i never did any pvm before only had ranger equips but never used them properly don't have grico either so im trying to learn necromancy. my first step was to get zuk cape then go to ambassador but is not going so well lol. But thanks for your advices i think i need more practice in general since i get lost all the time in my keybiddings trying to get the right pray or using defensive abilities + do damage at the same time hahaha
@@gabrielguerra193using yak to learn is rly useful. U can also try blood reaver with scrolls and prism of restoration to keep it alive but that will be quite a bit more expensive but imo better for flawless but for learning id use yak. I really don't think prayer flicking is necessary for zuk I've never used it and have killed him about 20 times. If your not using obsidian armor bring atleast a piece of it and donate tokkul for extra dmg resistance. You might also prefer hellhound with I've never used but provides 20% dmg reduction i believe
@@gabrielguerra193also if you haven't learned them yet id learn other 2 eds before ed3 cause amby is definitely a tier above them and zuk imo ed2 is easiest then 1 and then 3
@@TheRealNiko thanks for the tips bro. I've managed to kill him but not in a single run i'll just continue trying. As for ed3 is just for the t90 power upgrade i know that i could go in trio or call any mate for help but i'm trying to do it myself like a challenge to me i knew that rs3 pvm was hard because i've never killed raksha too but now it's my turning point not going so well for now but i'll just keep trying
I like you I jus wish your shit had time stamps dawg.
I can definitely get that done. I'll have timestamps on my longer videos in the next few days!
Just added time stamps to this video and the HM Zuk video, let me know if it helps.
Do hardmode plz
I'm working on it off-stream! I haven't killed HM Zuk in a VERY long time so I need to practice lol. Expect it by the end of the week!
Yah actually we need hm
hard mode guide coming out in 2 hours :)
Dude, i cant do this shit. You end up the fight with a full inventory of food. how in the f. i am dumb as shit at this game
I also have 300 hours of practice so it's a lot easier for me to know exactly what's coming and how to deal with it. Once you get to Zuk, the biggest thing to work on is your soul-split flicking and properly dealing with his mechanics that force you to move. The best place to practice both of these things is arch-glacor.
Thanks fam
I hope you don't take offense to this but it's refreshing to see you mess up an ability cast or something here and there. It reminds us that mistakes are okay and it's still possible to pull through.
I totally get it lol, some of the best moments are when I'm learning something on stream or dying at a boss that I'm very familiar with because I made a dumb mistake (i.e. forgetting to special action button at Vorkath).
Are u on revo++?
I'm on revo+ can't seem to stop the ghost from autocasting, so if im waiting for a unit to die, ill spam basics until he does so I can resummon ghost/zombie for free
Too many "guides" are just blatant showoffs of the uploader's skill and are not beginner- or learn friendly at all. Your guides on the other hand, ARE. And that's what people need.