Maniacal monkey/Strategies

Maniacal monkeys are good monsters for training Ranged on with chinchompas, or Magic with the Ice Burst spell. Given their low magic defence and low physical defence, the strategy is generally to maximize your max hit. Their drops include prayer potions and as such, when training using Protect from Melee, provide a low click-intensive form of training, somewhere on par with Nightmare Zone.

Requirements

Partial completion of Monkey Madness II. (reached Kruk's Dungeon)

Location

Route to Maniacal Monkeys. The yellow square indicates the spot to which to run when the monkeys lose aggro

To reach the best spot to kill Maniacal monkeys, navigate to the second hole with vines, marked as a "2" in the map of Kruk's Dungeon. Climb down and head southeast until you reach a large room.

• If you have completed Monkey Madness II, use the royal seed pod to teleport to the Grand tree, and then take the glider to Ape Atoll. The dungeon entrance is right beside the glider landing spot.
• If you have not completed Monkey Madness II, you must head to Ape Atoll using an Ape atoll teleport tablet, the Ape Atoll Teleport Arceuus spell, the Teleport to Ape Atoll standard spell, or by speaking to Daero on the first floor of the Grand Tree.

General strategy

Low-intensity training strategy at the Maniacal monkeys using auto-retaliate. You may run northeast and then back to this spot every few minutes to clump the Maniacal monkeys for more damage.

Medium-intensity training strategy at the Maniacal monkeys. After every spellcast, click on a 3x3 clump of Maniacal monkeys.

Once you reach the location indicated by the map, you can use Ice Burst or Ice Barrage, or throw chinchompas at stacks of Maniacal monkeys.

There are different methods to stack the Maniacal monkeys. Higher click-intensity methods may provide higher experience rates as you will hit larger amounts of monkeys. While Ice Burst and Ice Barrage hit a maximum of 9 targets, chinchompas have no limit, and so the high-intensity methods are more important when training Ranged compared to Magic. The most high-intensity training method involves moving after every attack so that the Maniacal monkeys stack onto the same square for maximum damage.

Use Protect from Melee and loot the 1-dose prayer potions that are dropped by the Maniacal monkeys to replenish your prayer indefinitely. Although you may create full-dose potions (4), it may be more efficient to simply pick up and use the individually-dosed potions.

When the Maniacal monkeys stop aggroing you, run west along the south passage to the yellow box indicated on the map above. Once the adjacent Maniacal monkeys start attacking you, the aggro has been reset and you may return to your training spot. This may happen before or after the bend in the path.

Note that as chinchompas are live animals, if you die, they will not drop onto the ground, and so you will lose your whole stack of chinchompas. For that reason, it is recommended not to bring very large amounts of chinchompas and to instead bank when necessary. On the other hand, when training Magic, you have 60 minutes to pick up your items from the ground and so there is no problem with bringing as many runes as you would like, as long as you are able to return pick up your items.

Generally the 6-hour log should not present a real danger as long as your stats are not particularly low. Simply turn on Protect from Melee when you log back in.

Setup

• Ice Burst
• Ice Barrage
• Ranged

Maniacal monkeys have a Magic defence of 1. Therefore, increasing magical accuracy will increase the hit accuracy by no more than 1%. However, more time is wasted by collecting prayer potions. Therefore, the objective is to increase the max hit of the spell with the largest prayer bonus.

The base hit of Ice Burst is 22. The maximum hit with all magic damage bonuses is 29. Having a second or third piece of ancestral robes equipped will *NOT* increase the max hit and so are unnecessary.

Items to bring for Ice bursting are prioritized as follows

• Equipment that increases max hit
• Equipment that increases prayer bonus
• Equipment that increases magical accuracy

The best recommended equipment below provides the following: Max hit of 29, prayer bonus of 38, Magic attack bonus of 81

If you are on a budget, the order for which to buy the equipment is as follows:

No Staff of the dead			Staff of the dead (no autocast)
Equipment	Increase	Max hit	Equipment	Increase	Max hit
Occult necklace	2	24	Occult necklace	2	24
Tormented bracelet	1	25	Staff of the dead	3	27
Kodai wand	3	28	Tormented bracelet	1	28
Ancestral hat	1	29	Ancestral hat	1	29

Ice bursting

Skills:

• 70+
  
• 43+
  

Equipment
Slot	Most effective -> Least effective
	Ancestral hat	Mitre	Helm of neitiznot or Halo	Magic armour with best Magic attack bonus
	Occult necklace	Stole	Unholy symbol	Amulet of fury	Amulet of glory
	Vestment robe top		Monk's robe (top)
	Vestment robe legs		Monk's robe (bottom)
	Holy sandals	White boots or Eternal boots	Infinity boots	Wizard boots	Mystic boots
	Ardougne cloak 4 > 3 > 2	Skillcape (trimmed)	Vestment cloak	Ardougne cloak 1	God cape
	Book of darkness	Unholy book	Book of balance	Broodoo shield	Any other God book
	Tormented bracelet	Holy wraps	White gloves	Barrows gloves or Infinity gloves
	Ring of the gods (i)	Ring of suffering (i)	Explorer's ring	Seers ring (i)
	Kodai wand	Staff of the dead (no autocast)	Master wand	Ancient staff
	God blessing

Inventory:

• Royal seed pod (or transportation to Ape Atoll and teleport out)
• Kandarin headgear (or any other light source, with tinderbox if necessary)
• Monkey Greegree, if you have not completed Monkey Madness II
• Holy wrench (only if you do not have a Ring of the gods (i))
• Rune pouch optional - note that it can only hold 4,000 spell casts worth of runes
• 4 Chaos runes per spell cast
• 2 Death runes per spell cast
• 4 Water runes per spell cast (not needed if you use a Kodai wand
• 4 Prayer potion(4)

In order to reach maximum experience rates, you should actively stack the maniacal monkeys so that each spellcast hits 9 targets. However, by standing in the center of the room and playing the game using a low-intensity method, you can reach somewhat comparable experience rates. The following experience rate calculations are obtained from 6 hours of bursting at 86 Magic and 80 Prayer, assuming you are playing using a low-intensity method, with the best recommended gear. The Magic level should not significantly change experience rates, and the Prayer level only decreases the number of prayer potions that you need to collect. The number of casts/hr was 1,085 as opposed to the theoretical maximum of 1,200 given the time taken to loot prayer potions, position monkeys, as well as to leave and return to the area to restore aggro.

• 1085 casts/hr
• Cost per hour using Kodai wand: 702,754.5
• Cost per hour using Master wand: 844,130

Items	Max hit	Experience/hour			Gp/xp
						+
(def)	29	180400	103000	137000	3.9	2.48
(def)	28	175700	99400	132300	4	2.55
(def)	25	161500	88800	118100	5.23	3.37
(def)	24	156800	85200	113400	5.38	3.49
(def)	22	147300	78100	103900	5.73	3.74
	29	249400		137000	2.82
	28	242300		132300	2.9
	25	221000		118100	3.82
	24	213900		113400	3.95
	22	199700		103900	4.23

Maniacal monkeys have a Magic defence of 1. Therefore, increasing magical accuracy will increase the hit accuracy by no more than 1%. However, more time is wasted by collecting prayer potions. Therefore, the objective is to increase the max hit of the spell with the largest prayer bonus.

The base hit of Ice Barrage is 30. The maximum hit with all magic damage bonuses is 40. Having a third piece of ancestral robes equipped will *NOT* increase the max hit and so is unnecessary.

Items to bring for Ice barraging are prioritized as follows

• Equipment that increases max hit
• Equipment that increases prayer bonus
• Equipment that increases magical accuracy

The best recommended equipment below provides the following: Max hit of 40, prayer bonus of 33, Magic attack bonus of 104

If you are on a budget, the order for which to buy the equipment is as follows:

No Staff of the dead			Staff of the dead (no autocast)
Equipment	Increase	Max hit	Equipment	Increase	Max hit
Occult necklace	3	33	Occult necklace	3	33
Tormented bracelet	1	34	Staff of the dead	4	37
Ancestral hat	1	35	Tormented bracelet	2	39
Kodai wand (sell the hat)	4	39	Ancestral hat + Ancestral robe bottom	1	40
Ancestral hat + Ancestral robe bottom	1	40

Ice barraging

Skills:

• 94+
  
• 43+
  

Equipment
Slot	Most effective -> Least effective
	Ancestral hat	Mitre	Helm of neitiznot or Halo	Magic armour with best Magic attack bonus
	Occult necklace	Stole	Unholy symbol	Amulet of fury	Amulet of glory
	Vestment robe top		Monk's robe (top)
	Ancestral robe bottom	Vestment robe legs		Monk's robe (bottom)
	Holy sandals	White boots or Eternal boots	Infinity boots	Wizard boots	Mystic boots
	Ardougne cloak 4 > 3 > 2	Skillcape (trimmed)	Vestment cloak	Ardougne cloak 1	God cape
	Book of darkness	Unholy book	Book of balance	Broodoo shield	Any other God book
	Tormented bracelet	Holy wraps	White gloves	Barrows gloves or Infinity gloves
	Ring of the gods (i)	Ring of suffering (i)	Explorer's ring	Seers ring (i)
	Kodai wand	Staff of the dead (no autocast)	Master wand	Ancient staff
	God blessing

Inventory:

• Royal seed pod (or transportation to Ape Atoll and teleport out)
• Kandarin headgear (or any other light source, with tinderbox if necessary)
• Monkey Greegree, if you have not completed Monkey Madness 2
• Holy wrench (only if you do not have a Ring of the gods (i))
• Rune pouch optional - note that it can only hold 4,000 spell casts worth of runes
• 2 Blood runes per spell cast
• 4 Death runes per spell cast
• 6 Water runes per spell cast (not needed if you use aKodai wand
• 4 Prayer potion(4)

In order to reach maximum experience rates, you should actively stack the maniacal monkeys so that each spellcast hits 9 targets. However, by standing in the center of the room and playing the game semi-afk you can reach somewhat comparable experience rates. A reasonable number of casts/hr is 1085 as opposed to the theoretical maximum of 1200 given the time taken to loot prayer potions, position monkeys, as well as to leave and return to the area to restore aggro.

• 1085 casts/hr
• Cost per hour using Kodai wand: 1,425,798.5
• Cost per hour using Master wand: 1,703,450

In order to provide reference experience rates and costs, the experience per hour here is calculated by extrapolating from Ice bursting data (scaling based on damage). Note that the real experience per hour is expected to be less than the numbers here as the Maniacal monkeys will die more often and you will more often overkill the monkeys.

Items	Max hit	Experience/hour			Gp/xp
						+
(def)	40	245400	142100	189000	5.81	3.68
(def)	39	240700	138500	184200	5.92	3.76
(def)	35	221800	124300	165300	7.68	4.92
(def)	34	217000	120800	160600	7.85	5.04
(def)	33	212300	117200	155900	8.02	5.17
(def)	30	198100	106600	141700	8.6	5.59
	40	340600		189000	4.19
	39	333500		184200	4.28
	35	305000		165300	5.58
	34	297900		160600	5.72
	33	290800		155900	5.86
	30	269500		141700	6.32

To be completed. Use void.