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Blog /Runescape 3 Hybrid Perk, Ability, Spell & Equipment Guide
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13.05.2024 - 23:26:43
Game Guides , Runescape
Hybrid is a term used for using more than one style of combat while doing any sort of combat related activity. There are quite a few combat encounters in-game where the game will require you to switch your combat style mid-fight. This can be due to the fact that the opponent is using protection prayers or they have phases that switch their resistances around. For these encounters you can either bring full sets of armour and switch your entire gear alongside your weapons, this will take up a lot of inventory space and will be harder to do, or wear hybrid armour and just change your weapon whenever you need.
Hybrid Weapons & Perks
There are only two hybrid weapons in the game and their tier is quite low, these two weapons are:
Vanquish Tier 75: This weapon can be obtained from May’s Quest Caravan. You need to spend 150 quest points on the combat track to get it. This weapon has a switch option and you can switch to magic, ranged and melee. This weapon has a unique passive that grants 5% damage boost that stacks up to 25% against quest bosses. To stack this damage you need to die to the boss and each death will add +5% bonus damage to your weapon against that boss. Given it’s passive you can already tell that this weapon is not made for regular PvMing.
Sunspear Tier 78: There is a lot to unpack about this spear so here it goes:
Completion of the quest “Rivers of Blood” is required.
Acts as a Sunspear against vampyres.
Acts as a wolfbane against werewolves.
Acts as a spear against corporeal beast.
It has a switch option that can be used to change the spears attack style to magic, ranged or melee.
This weapon can be augmented.
Against vampyres it has the following effects:
Has a chance to deal double damage.
Has +75% hit chance.
It receives +10 damage up to a maximum +100 for every 50 vyre corpses cremated in the Columbarium.
Automatically cremates vyre corpses, this grants 280 Prayer and 200 Firemaking experience. This can be further boosted by 50% if you have completed the Morytania achievements. This process also grants a 20% chance to receive additional loot. Cremating this way will not count towards the cremation done in the Columbarium.
Prevents Vampyre juvinates in Darkmeyer from escaping.
So the short version is these two weapons are easy to get untradable weapons but they are only really useful in certain scenarios. Vanquish is only really useful against quest bosses and sunspear is only really useful against Vampires.
To learn the best weapon switches and perks that you can bring, you can check out our guides on each of the combat styles.
Magic
Ranged
Melee
Necromancy
If you don’t want a full guide just bring the best weapons of each style that you have available. Don’t forget your runes and ammunition.
Hybrid Armours & Perks
Hybrid armour sets are sets that provide bonuses for every combat style rather than only one. Because of this their bonuses are actually much lower than regular armour sets bonuses. This fact can be further compensated by the fact that most of these hybrid armours have unique set effects.
Recommended armours: Dragonrider armour → Warpriest armour → Attuned crystal armour → Refined anima core of Sliske armour
Tier | Armour | Cost | Notes |
50 | Dragonstone armour | 4.8M |
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42 | Void armour | - |
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60 | Obsidian armour | - |
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70 | House Drakan Outfit | - |
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70 | High armour of Hanto | 60,000 chimes 90 Taijitu |
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70 | Akrisae the Doomed’s equipment | 4.2M |
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70 | Dragon Rider Armour | 14M |
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20/50/70 | Ghost hunter Equipment | - |
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25/50/75 | Armour of Trials | - |
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25/50/75 | Warpriest of gods | - |
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1/25/50/75 | Globetrotter outfit | - |
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70 | Crystal armour | 2.9M |
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80 | Attuned crystal armour | 4900 Tarddian crystal |
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80 | Gemstone armour | 14.5M |
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80 | Anima core of Sliske | 133M |
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85 | Refined anima core of Sliske | 316M |
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Slayer helmets
If you are on a slayer task the slayer helmet is the best in slot helmet to use. This helmet has 5 variants, each one being an upgrade from the previous one. Best one is called the Corrupted Slayer helmet. Having a slayer helmet will greatly increase your damage and accuracy against monsters that are on your slayer task while also giving protection against some attacks from the said monsters.
Invention Perks
Perks that you need to know:
Crackling: Deal 50% of your ability damage to a creature per rank. 60 second cooldown.
Biting: Adds 2% critical strike chance to your weapon per rank.
Invigorating: Increases adrenaline gainage with auto-attacks.
Enhanced Devoted: Grants a chance to make protection prayers reduce the damage to 1.
Relentless: Grants a chance to not use adrenaline when using, threshold, ultimate and special attack abilities.
Devoted: Grants a chance to trigger the effects of devotion.
Impatient: 9% chance per rank to add 3% extra adrenaline when using basic abilities.
Basic Perks
Top Anima core: Gizmo 1: Crackling 4, Relentless 3 - Gizmo 2: Biting 3
Bottom Anima core: Gizmo 1: Impatient 4 - Gizmo 2: Enhanced Devoted 4
End Game Perks
Top Refined anima core: Gizmo 1: Relentless 5, Crackling 4 - Gizmo 2: Biting 4
Bottom Refined anima core: Gizmo 1: Devoted 4, Impatient 4 - Gizmo 2: Invigorating 4, Mobile
Capes
Cape | Style Bonus | Notes |
Obsidian cape | 13.4 Hybrid |
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Cape of legends | 17.3 Hybrid |
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Spirit cape | 17.3 Hybrid |
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Skill Cape | 21.6 Hybrid |
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Max cape | 31.5 Hybrid |
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Igneous Kal-Zuk | 43 Hybrid |
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Pocket Slot
Pocket Item | Style Bonus | Cost | Hourly Cost | Notes |
Scrimshaw of elements | None | 831K | 272K |
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Scrimshaw of magic | None | 845K | 287K |
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Holy wrench | None | N/A | N/A |
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Adrenaline urn | None | N/A | N/A |
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Blood essence | None | 312,109 - 376,648 | Varies |
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God book | 5 | 57,907 - 392,051 | 16,885 - 117,096 |
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Illuminated god book | 7 | 57,907 - 392,051 | 16,885 - 117,096 |
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Erethdor's grimoire | 7 | 217,539,374 | 6,239,072 |
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Scripture | 8 | 23,059,797 - 320,732,953 | 13,032 - 999,100 |
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Necklaces
Necklaces | Style Bonus | Cost | Hourly Cost | Notes |
Reaper Necklace | 36.8 Hybrid | 56M | 37K |
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Amulet of Souls | 46.3 Hybrid | 56M | 37K |
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Essence of Finality amulet | 56 Hybrid | 258M | 512K |
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Rings
Rings | Style Bonus | Cost | Hourly Cost | Notes |
Ring of vigour | 12 Hybrid | 50K Dungeoneering token | - |
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Luck of the Dwarves | 17.3 Hybrid | 78M | - |
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Sixth-Age circuit | 21 Hybrid | - | - |
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Asylum Surgeon Ring | 21 Hybrid | - | - |
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Ring of Death | 25.2 Hybrid | 56M | 37K |
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Reaver’s ring | 27.7 Hybrid | 149M | - |
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Aura Slot
Aura Slot | Cost | Tiers | Duration | Cooldown | Notes |
Vampyrism aura | 5k Marks of War | 2 | 1 Hour | 3 Hours |
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Dark magic aura | 12.5K Marks of War | 3 | 1 Hour | 3 Hours |
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Mahjarrat aura | 1K Reaper points or 3 Bonds | 5 | 1 Hour | 23 Hours |
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Penance Aura | 23K Loyalty points | 2 | 1 Hour | 3 Hours |
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Inspiration aura | 23K Loyalty points | 2 | 1 Hour | 3 Hours |
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Invigorate aura | 4.2K-155K Loyalty points | 1-4 | 1 Hour | 3 Hours |
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Action Bar
For hybriding you will be constantly changing your action bar depending on your weapon. There is actually a option on your combat options to automatically switch to a pre-selected bar when you equip a weapon that is of a different style. Turning this on is a must for hybriding as it will make your life so much easier.
If you are looking to optimise your combat bars for each style please do check our guides on those styles.
Magic
Ranged
Melee
Necromancy
Familiars![Runescape 3 Hybrid Perk, Ability, Spell & Equipment Guide (72) Runescape 3 Hybrid Perk, Ability, Spell & Equipment Guide (72)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==)
Storage
Spirit terrorbird - 52 Summoning, 12 storage slots.
War tortoise - 67 Summoning, 18 storage slots.
Pack yak - 96 Summoning, special move sends items to your bank, has 30 storage slots.
Pack mammoth - 99 Summoning, has 32 storage slots. It’s special move will heal you using the food stored in his storage.
Damage Enhancer![Runescape 3 Hybrid Perk, Ability, Spell & Equipment Guide (73) Runescape 3 Hybrid Perk, Ability, Spell & Equipment Guide (73)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==)
Blood/Shadow/Smoke/Ice nihil - 87 Summoning
Blood reaver - 73 Summoning, deals damage to the enemy when the player character is healed.
Kal’gerion demon - 90 Summoning, 1% forced critical strike chance.
Ripper Demon - 96 Summoning, Increases your damage by 0-5% depending on your target's lost health. Special move deals 200%-320% of ripper demons max hit to the target. This familiar is the strongest in game even without using the special move scrolls.
Tank
Bunyip - 68 Summoning, passively heals you.
Unicorn stallion - 88 Summoning, special move heals you.
Hellhound - 45 Summoning, tanks 20% of any damage dealt to the player.
Archaeology Relics
Basic
Requires level 70 Archeology.
Shadow’s Grace: Cooldown of Surge, Escape, Bladed Dive and Barge is reduced by 50% but they no longer generate adrenaline.
Berserker’s Fury: Your damage increases up to 5.5% the lower your life points are.
Font of life: Increases maximum health by 500.
Intermediate
Requires level 97 Archaeology.
Fury of the Small: All basic abilities generate 1% more adrenaline.
Blessing of Het: Food and potions are 10% more effective.
Advanced
Requires level 120 Archeology.
Conservation of energy: After using an ultimate ability, regain 10% adrenaline
Best combination is Conservation of energy, Berserker’s fury and Font of life.
Best In Slot Magic Gear
Refined anima core of Sliske
Best in slot weapons for all combat styles.
Essence of finality (or)
Reaver’s ring
Igneous Kal-Zuk
Elder God Scripture
The total cost of this depends highly on your weapons of choice and your hybrid armour will function better with the best weapons in the game so an estimated total cost of 5-6B can be made. If you want to jump straight to the end game of Runescape 3 without wasting your time making money please consider buying gold on our website, with cheap rates!
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