The Branches of Darkmeyer

Wasn't bad, hardest quest boss yet, was nice having to do something other than DDS spec and watch die or push a pillar on it

Portus:-

hardest quest boss yet

Justin, Justin, JUSTIN!!!

NOOOOOOOEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please tell me Nomad was harder?!?!? PLEASE!!!!!

*hides under bed*

Yes, Nomad is harder.

This boss is easy And really fun imo, it was the nicest fight I've done in RS ^^

Died two times, went in with prossy gear instead of veracs because it got destroyed and without tort because I was tired of loosing them when I died. Killed him with low hp and one dose brew left. Didn't notice my OVL running out so I had like 1str/att when I killed him :x

Overall was a good quest and I did it without a guide, but I feel that it was a bit short for the massive XP reward it gave. And the new weapons are just awesome for killing vyres

Took me 6 tries to do the boss.

However, I found on my last try (the first time I used BoB with Rocktails), it was alot easier, I even had 7 Sara Brews and 7 Super Restores left at the end

The lag is the main problem when trying to kill the boss though, he isn't actually difficult.

Can't wait to try this quest, but gonna start on it after BXP weekend probably, since RC skill week and BXP will keep me busy until then.

Ubersantaclaus:-

The lag is the main problem when trying to kill the boss though, he isn't actually difficult.

Absolutely right!

Nomad is still the hardest in my opinion. Lag is the true difficulty factor here.

Didn't enjoy it as much as others seemed to.
I found myself wasting a lot of time waiting for paths to clear of Vyrewatch and Werewolves, along with the usual utter frustration of trying to find out how to get down again from the top of a room in town...

Rewards were massive.

Hopefully I don't struggle too much on the boss, looking forward to doing this clan!
Will do it later this week.

I went ahead and did the quest, just to knock it out. Must say that it was very fun and I was able to nail the boss in my first attempt. He was pretty easy, nowhere near as bad as Nomad was. Just be prepared to run around a lot (go to the hot springs and get infinite run energy before the fight) and bring brews/super restores with a beast of burden carrying them as well. I didn't even need to use my BoB's supplies, but it's nice to have in case something goes wrong.

My strategy for beating the boss (Click to View)

I used leech defense, deflect melee (when he was on the ground), deflect magic (when he was in the air), hot springs for infinite run energy, blisterwood polearm (obtained in the quest), BCP and tassets (thanks, Meg!), dragon boots, barrows gloves, neitznot helmet, war tortoise, saradomin brews, super restores, and glory ammy.

Make sure you turn game sounds on, because you need to listen for when he says things.

"Stare into the darkness." Turn around and face the opposite way, if you are meleeing, it is easiest to run to the wall and face away from him.

"Let the blood consume you." He teleports you into a pool of blood, just keep running away from it and he will follow you, just hit him when you're out of it. People say that luring him onto the blood and tanking him does quite a bit of damage, but I found this difficult to do because the blood disappears pretty quickly.

"Come, fiends, and aid your master!" He will summon two of his minions from either sides of the room, they walk really slowly towards him. Just kill them really fast, they have low HP. If they make their way to him, they will heal him, so try to kill them off as quickly as you can.

He also does an attack where he will fly up in the air and throw blood bombs at you. Just run around the room as much as you can, don't hold still. If you can manage to time things right, you can hit him while he's in the air and while you're dodging the bombs. He is weaker when he's in the air so you'll hit a bit higher damage on him, but if you can't time it right, don't worry. It's not worth dying over, just wait 'til he lands again and then you can attack.

In his mist form (final form), keep throwing your holy water out and lure him onto it. He will eventually die after doing this a few times. Just don't let him get too close because he does rapid magic-based attacks.

That's about it, really. As for ranging and magic, I'm not too sure what the best procedure is, but with melee I just described everything I did and it was pretty damn easy. Good luck!

The teleport medallion given by the quest is epic for getting around morytania. When inside morytania it has unlimited teleports and it gives teleport to burgh de rot, darkmyre, barrows, the myreque base in meiryditch, and the laboratory in meiryditch that goes to mutated bloodvelds. And you recharge it in burgh de rot so it teles right to recharge. But the big significance is darkmyre to barrows unlimited teleports. Darkmyre has an altar and a bank meaning you can do barrows runs easily without using any prayer pots or any food(except on verac who hits through prayer). Also makes it good for say collecting sacred oil for making pyre logs as you can tele to burgh de rot to bank saving some time.