PvM Encyclopedia Guides - Dinosaurs (2024)

⬥ There are 4 types of dinosaurs (slayer monster), all of which are found on Anachronia:

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Feral dinosaurs - 90

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Venomous dinosaurs - 105

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Brutish dinosaurs - 99

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Ripper dinosaurs - 114

⬥ Dinosaurs are only assigned by Laniakea and CANNOT be placed in the player owned dungeon.

⬥ All of them attack with

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• This makes the best style to use against them , followed by

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• should not be used for any dinosaur tasks.

Desirable Drops

All dinosaurs have the same drop rates for unqiues and Totem pieces. It is thus recommended to kill Venomous Dinosaurs if your level is high enough as they have the highest KPH.

⬥ Dinosaur tooth - 1/800

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Needed for T3 Slayer Lodge for Slayer Helmet stand

⬥ Blowpipe pieces - 1/6,000 on-task, 1/20,000 off-task

⬥ Totem of auras middle - 1/300

⬥ Totem of summoning middle - 1/300

⬥ Totem of intimidation base - 1/300

⬥ Dinosaur rib bone - 1/1,000

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Needed for T3 Player Lodge for Skillcape stand

During the Roar of Osseous, blowpipe and totem pieces have a 10% increase in drop rate.

Useful Items

Useful Items and Unlocks

Improves KPH/Exp rates/QoL.

Items

⬥ Abyssal Armour Spikes (alloy) • Increases hits and healing via the • Other tiers of armour spikes work as well.⬥ Essence of Finality with a Dragon Halberd • Good AoE spec to use if killing them actively with ⬥ Necklace of Salamancy • Provies a 15% accuracy and damage buff wild fighting dinosaurs.

Passive unlocks

⬥ Restocking Cannon Ability• Allows restocking without user input.⬥ Anachronia slayer lodge• Tiers 1, 2 and 3 increases damage dealt on Anachronia monsters by 1%. 3%, and 6% respectively.

Venomous dinosaurs are the go-to for dinosaur tasks as they have the highest kills per hour of any dinosaur.

Stats

⬥ XP per kill : 1378 + 454.7

⬥ XP per kill : 1332

⬥ Optimal kills per hour: 480

⬥ Optimal XP per hour : ~640k

Location and How to Get There

Venomous Dinosaurs are located on the northwestern part of Anachronia. They can be accessed by 3 methods, arranged fastest to slowest:

Where to Stand

Place the cannon on the yellow square and stand on the green square shown in the image below. This effectively aggros 5 dinosaurs. This works for all three methods.

To prevent taking too much damage, is helpful, as you will be praying . If using the Corbicula Rex perk from the Ranch out of Time, excess adrenaline can be used in the form of the or if actively slaying, rotating between these greatly increases the damage dealt. This method provides ~450 KPH if done semi-actively.

Preset

Preset Suggestion & Breakdown

⬥ Melee

Action Bar

Note: It is assumed certain abilities such as , and are accessible on other action bars, or ability books, for manual use if actively slaying. The player may also prefer to manually cast if needed.

Thanks to the Venomous Dinosaurs' higher affinity to (and susceptibility to ) and damage reduction provided by and Cryptbloom Armour , can achieve a similar or slightly higher KPH than melee at ~480 KPH, while being both very safe and AFK.

Preset

Preset Suggestion & Breakdown

⬥ Magic

Note: Prism of Restoration should be cast at least every 5min to keep alive.

Note: This preset assumes the player has their in the Anachronia Stand.

Action Bar

Note: if and/or are not owned, simply ignore them and move the remaining abilities closer to the left. is by no means a requirement, but can slightly improve KPH.

Thanks to Necromancies sustain with and , as well as its strong aoe damage potential with and , it can effectively AFK Venomous Dinosaurs. Around 450-470kph can be achieved on task with this method while being safe and AFK with low input costs.

⬥ Pray and /

⬥ Upkeep , , and at all times.

⬥ Use to help aggroing the dinosaurs.

Preset

Preset Suggestion & Breakdown

⬥ Necromancy

Action Bar

Video Example

Melee active - https://youtu.be/wSqeBdw2cVE

Necromancy AFK - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z3n6q4v0ps

It is only recommended to kill other dinosaurs if you do not have the level for Venomous dinosaurs or if collecting their souls in . Bars for all these dinosaurs might be sub-optimal, if you find a better bar please make a post in #suggestions.

Rates

⬥ Feral Dinosaur ~300kph

⬥ Brutish Dinosaur ~200kph

⬥ Ripper Dinosaur ~200kph

Location and How to Get There

⬥ See the map in the section.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• are located Southeast of , along the yellow path.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• are located Northeast of , along the red path.

⬥ For , teleport to using the and walk north.

Method: Melee AFK - Feral and Brutish

This method is viable for both and , but not

⬥ Pray and /

⬥ Upkeep and at all times.

⬥ Bring some emergency food or for healing if having issues with HP.

⬥ Ensure is active.

⬥ Use for aggro.

Preset

Preset Suggestion & Breakdown

⬥ Melee

Where to Stand

Player position (yellow) and cannon position (red) for Feral and Brutish dinosaurs respectively.

Action bar

⬥ Feral dinosaurs - Remove and if off-task.

⬥ Brutish dinosaurs - Remove if off-task.

Method: AFK Magic - Ripper

Ripper dinosaurs are highly damaging and generally not worth doing unless getting a soul . They can only be reliably AFK'd with multiple pieces of Cryptbloom and with Vampyrism aura . The method below may not work if cutting corners such as not having