Killing gladii

Killing gladii

Requirements
Skills
81  80  recommended 80  recommended 92  recommended 55  recommended
Items
Tier 80+ Ranged weapon  Tier 70+ Ranged armour  Luck of the Dwarves recommended
Quests
The Temple at Senntisten recommended
Other
None
Intensity
High
Results
Profit	ROI	Experience gained
3,972,741 after tax	2171%	100,000 33,000
Inputs (182,963)		Outputs (4,155,703 after tax)
Item Quantity GE price Super restore flask (6) 13 182,780 Fire rune 1.41 75.94 Nature rune 0.28 106.59		Item Quantity GE price after tax Daily volume Ascension Keystone 3.91 455,277 5,522 Ascension shard 875 2,443,875 569,482 Adamantite stone spirit 62.5 2,438 304,303 Acadia wood spirit 152.34 18,738 164,667 Yew wood spirit 78.13 5,781 270,064 Medium plated adamant salvage 23.44 106,359 4,055 Huge plated adamant salvage 23.44 236,789 234 Tiny blunt rune salvage 31.25 190,313 14,856 Medium bladed rune salvage 15.63 335,984 15,804 Large plated rune salvage 7.81 229,773 15,426 Coins 103,125 103,125 N/A Sirenic scale 0.63 27,250 5,687

Members of the Order of Ascension are killed for their ascension keystone drops. Gladii are slightly harder than rorarii, and are more spread out, but this is compensated for their high drop rates of noted and alchable items. With high-end gear, you can kill 250 gladii per hour.

When attacking gladii, they will try to move backwards until they reach approximately 6 squares away from you and then charge at you. This attack does no damage, but it will cause a 3 second stun and bind (unless you are still fighting nearby gladii, which will cause a 1 second stun and 3 second bind). To counter this, you can use Freedom or Anticipate to bypass their stuns.

Avoid using Rapid Fire unless Freedom or Anticipation is used against them, as it will cause them to move back rapidly before stunning you, wasting the ability's effect. Fragmentation Shot is a helpful ability when killing gladius, as their constant movement while taking heavy damage will cause the 2x damage effect to activate.

Gladii are usually near capsarii, who are the healers. There are three spots without capsarii, but the gladii there are slightly spread out and can stun you. If one does not mind killing the capsarii, there are a large number of spots to kill gladii. Optional areas for uninterrupted combat are the narrow passageway near the level 70 Agility, the jail section at the bottom left corner or the caverns near Legio Primus' laboratory. For a clearer overview of gladii locations you can use this map.

The gladius's main drops are the ascension keystones, which are believed to be dropped at a 1/64 rate. This means if you kill 250 gladii per hour, you should get around four keystones per hour. They drop a large number of items, especially mid-high level alchables often and mid-high level noted items to compensate for their increased difficulty and numbers.

A spring cleaner or pack yak can be used instead of bringing runes for High Level Alchemy.