OSRS Vorkath guide: Strategies & Gear Setup For Melee & Ranged

Vorkath is a draconic boss that can only be faced after completing the Dragon Slayer II quest, Vorkath can also be categorized as a blue dragon and can be defeated to complete a blue dragon slayer task.

Due to its consistently high GP/hr, Vorkath is a very popular and enjoyable boss to kill. It is a solo-only boss that is first encountered during the Dragon Slayer II quest, but it is stronger after the completion of the Dragon Slayer II quest.

Location

Vorkath is located in Ungael. To get there, speak with Torfinn on the Relleka docks. This is the only way to get to Ungael; the following are the quickest ways to get to Torfinn: 

• The quickest method would be to use your POH to teleport to Lunar Isle without the seal of passage, then bank with the easternmost banker. This banker will not kick you off the island, even if you don't have the seal of passage. Later on, speak with any other bankers to be expelled from the island and brought to Relleka, where Torfinn is located; this will only occur if you haven't finished the Fremennik Elite diary.

• If you have finished the Fremennik Elite diary, teleport to Relleka with the Fremennik Sea Boots 4 and board the boat to Ungael.
• If you have finished the Dream Mentor Quest, you can use the lunar isle teleport. Once there, talk to a banker to be kicked off and talk to Torfinn to get to Vorkath.

Requirements to fight Vorkath

The completion of Dragon Slayer II is the sole requirement for facing Vorkath. As mentioned, the variant of Vorkath during the Dragon Slayer II quest is weaker, even though it has the same attack bonus. So after the quest, here are the stats that I recommend having if you want to kill Vorkath more quickly and be able to regularly make good GP/hr:

  Recommended stats when using ranged:

85+ ranged

70+ defence

77+ prayer (use rigour)

  Recommended stats when using melee:

85+ attack

85+ strength

85+ defence

70+ prayer (use piety)

At lower levels, it is still feasible to regularly kill Vorkath and earn good GP/hr; however, this ultimately depends on your level of experience. Using melee is likely the most difficult, as it calls for more combat training, as shown above.

Best ranged gear setup

• Head slot: Masori mask 
• Neck slot: Salve amulet (ei)
• Cape slot: Quiver / Ava’s assembler
• Body slot: Masori’s Body / Karil’s top
• Leg slot: Masori’s Chaps / Karil’s skirt
• Weapon slot: Dragon Hunter Crossbow / Dragon c’bow
• Ammo slot: Diamond Dragon Bolt (e) / Broad-bolts
• Glove slot: Zaryte vambraces / Barrows gloves
• Shield slot: Dragonfire ward / Anti-Dragon shield
• Boot slot: Avernic treads (max) / Pegasian boots
• Ring slot: Venator ring / Archer’s ring

Best melee gear setup

• Head slot: Torva Full Helm / Slayer helm (i)
• Neck slot: Salve Amulet (e) / Amulet of Rancour
• Cape slot: Infernal cape / Fire cape 
• Body slot: Torva Platebody / Fighter torso
• Leg slot: Torva Platelegs / Obsidian legs
• Weapon slot: Dragon Hunter Lance / Abyssal whip
• Shield slot: Dragonfire Ward / Anti-dragon fire shield
• Ammo slot: Rada’s blessing
• Glove slot: Ferocious gloves / Barrows gloves
• Boot slot: Avernic treads (max) /  Primordial boots
• Ring slot: Ultor ring / Berserker ring (i)

Budget Gear (ranged)

• Head slot: Ancient coif
• Neck slot: Salve amulet (ei)
• Cape slot: Ava’s assembler
• Body slot: Ancient d’hide top / Karil’s top
• Leg slot: Ancient chaps / Karil’s skirt
• Weapon slot: Dragon c’bow / Rune c’bow
• Ammo slot: Diamond Dragon Bolt (e) / Ruby Dragon Bolt (e)
• Glove slot: Ancient vambraces / Barrows gloves
• Shield slot: Anti-Dragon shield
• Boot slot: Ancient d’hide Boots
• Ring slot: Archer’s ring / Ring of wealth

Budget Gear (melee)

• Head slot: Helm of neitiznot / Serpentine helm
• Neck slot: Amulet of fury / Salve Amulet (e)
• Cape slot: Fire cape / Infernal cape
• Body slot: Fighter torso / Torag’s Platebody
• Leg slot: Torag’s Platelegs / Obsidian legs
• Weapon slot: Zamorakian Hasta
• Shield slot: Dragon Defender / Anti-dragon fire shield
• Ammo slot: Rada’s blessing
• Glove slot: Barrows gloves / Regen Bracelet
• Boot slot: Dragon boots /  Primordial boots
• Ring slot: Berserker ring / Berserker ring (i)

Inventory

The inventory can vary depending on the combat style you are going to use, in this case we will use the Ranged skill as a priority, if you go with melee, make sure to change certain things like not carrying bolts and exchanging the bastion potion for a super combat.

Ruby/Diamond Dragon Bolts

Prayer Potions

Bastion Potion

Anti-Venom (4)

Extended Super Anti-fire Potion

Dust and chaos runes

Teleport to POH

Cooked Karambwam for double eat

Best food possible

How to fight Vorkath

Vorkarth can hit up to 32 with his normal attacks with high accuracy, even though Vorkarth can hit through prayer, you should always use protection prayers when fighting him to minimize damage. 

Depending on the combat gear you use, you should use a different protection prayer. When using melee and the toxic blowpipe, you should protect from magic but if you want to use a dragonfire ward or anti-dragon fire shield, you should protect from missiles throughout the fight.

Vorkath Attacks

Vorkath can execute two special attacks and six random normal attacks in total. Vorkath launches six normal attacks at first, followed by a special attack, six more random attacks, a different special attack, and so forth.

Here are the Vorkath attacks:

Vorkath’s Normal attacks

  Ranged attack:

This attack looks like a gray spiked ball, as shown above, that can be hit up to 32 times. Using the protect from missiles will reduce the damage.

  Mage attack: 

Vorkath can shoot a blue fireball that hits up to 30

  Melee: Naturally, Vorkath can only use this attack against you if you are within Vorkath’s melee range; he can hit up to 32 with it. Prayer protection against melee lessens this attack's damage.

  Normal dragon fire attack: 

This is similar to the attack done by the king black Dragon; by using anti fire potion and shield, the max hit of this attack can be reduced to 10

  Venom dragonfire attack:

This attack gives Vorkath the ability to poison you with venom; therefore, whenever you encounter Vorkath, you should always take an anti-venom potion.

  A pink dragon fire attack

This attack can disable your prayer when it occurs. You should set quick prayers so that you can quickly activate your protection prayer after this attack. 

  Vertical dragon fire lob

This is an orange dragonfire attack that will fly into the air and land on you. It is a larger and slower attack, so you must move two tiles away from the impact to avoid taking 60 damage if you are only one tile away, and 120 damage if it falls on you.

Vorkath's special attacks

These attacks are predictable, so you should always be ready and anticipate them. If you don't know how to avoid them, they can be dangerous.

Poison Pool

Vorkath may launch this special attack after executing six standard attacks. This attack consists of Vorkath spitting poison pools into the air, which will land on the ground. To avoid this attack, you must move back and forth continuously on the ground where the poison has not spilled. Every 0.6 seconds, Vorkath will launch fireballs at you while using this attack. This can cause up to 40 damage if you don’t move.

When using this method, you should turn off your run energy. If you step on the acid, you will take damage, and Vorkarth will heal you for the HP you lose.

A more difficult tactic would be to attack Vorkath during this attack. As soon as your melee or ranged weapon hits Vorkath, quickly move 2 spaces back and then attack Vorkath again, then continue to repeat this until the special attack is over

When you first start, it's best to learn how this attack operates and attempt to avoid the attacks; however, as you gain experience, you can try hitting it while moving simultaneously, as previously mentioned.

Zombified white Dragonfire

You should also prepare for this attack. Firstly, Vorkath will freeze you with white dragon fire. Secondly, Vorkarth will shoot a zombified spawn, which will land a few spaces away from you and start to crawl towards you, giving you a few seconds to react.

Vorkath will become impervious to attacks during this attack until you destroy the spawn, or it explodes. Your character will unfreeze after it explodes. When facing Vorkath in the Dragon Slayer II quest, this spawn can deal up to 30 damage if it explodes near you; however, it can deal up to 60 damage after the quest. 

Using the crumble undead is the best way to kill the spawn because it will kill it instantly. Using the staff of the dead, which can automatically cast the crumble undead spell, is the quickest way to kill this spawn. 

Gameplay of the fight against Vorkath

• First, ensure your quick prayer is set depending on your combat gear as explained above (in this occasion will be ranged), and if you are using the staff of dead, additionally make sure it is configured to auto-cast the crumble undead. If not, ensure you have runes for crumble undead

• You should drink your combat boosting and extended super anti-fire potions and turn on protection prayer just before you start the fight. Only after completing Dragon Slayer II can you poke Vorkath to start the battle. If you are completing Dragon Slayer II, the fight will start as soon as you enter the arena.

• Start attacking Vorkath with the weapon of your choice. If you have any weapon with special attacks, you should use the special attacks at the start of the fight. Ensure you study the standard and special attacks mentioned above; you will be able to memorize these attacks as you begin to kill this boss more.

• As previously stated, move away when you see the large dragon-fire lob, drink your antivenom if you are poisoned, turn your prayer quickly if his attacks turn it off, and make sure to use the area where there is no acid to walk while he uses his green poison that spills on the ground.

• Additionally, as soon as he shoots the zombie spawn, use the staff of the dead to swiftly attack it. If you are unable to do so, open your spell book as soon as he freezes you and cast the spell on the spawn.

• Eat only when necessary and make sure to attack Vorkath as much as you can. However, I suggest eating more frequently when you are learning because Vorkath can use any of his attacks do damage as much as your current HP. As you gain experience, you should concentrate more on dealing damage and only eat when he launches one of his special attacks because, by that point, he will be immune to your attacks.

Rewards

Uniques

  Dragonbone necklace (1/1,000)

  Jar of decay (1/3,000)

  Vorki (1/3,000)

  Draconic visage (1/5,000)

  Skeletal visage (1/5,000)

  Vorkath’s head (1/50)

  Clue scroll (elite) (1/65)

  100% Drops
Superior dragon bones (2, Always), Blue dragonhide (2, Always)

  Weapons and Armour
Rune longsword (2–3, 2 × 1/30), Rune kiteshield (2–3, 2 × 1/30), Battlestaff (5–15 noted, 2 × 1/37.5), Dragon battleaxe (1, 2 × 1/75), Dragon longsword (1, 2 × 1/75), Dragon platelegs (1, 2 × 1/75), Dragon plateskirt (1, 2 × 1/75)

  Runes
Chaos rune (250–350, 2 × 1/25), Death rune (200–300, 2 × 1/25), Wrath rune (30–60, 2 × 1/50)

  Dragonhide
Blue dragonhide (25–30 noted, 2 × 1/18.75), Green dragonhide (25–30 noted, 2 × 1/21.43), Red dragonhide (20–25 noted, 2 × 1/21.43), Black dragonhide (15–25 noted, 2 × 1/21.43)

  Fletching Materials
Dragon bolts (unf) (50–100, 2 × 1/18.75), Dragon dart tip (10–50, 2 × 1/25), Dragonstone bolt tips (11–25, 2 × 1/30), Onyx bolt tips (5–10, 2 × 1/37.5), Rune dart tip (75–100, 2 × 1/50), Dragon arrowtips (25–50, 2 × 1/50), Diamond bolt tips (25–30, 2 × 1/109.2), Emerald bolt tips (25–30, 2 × 1/136.5), Ruby bolt tips (25–30, 2 × 1/136.5), Dragonstone bolt tips (25–30, 2 × 1/195), Onyx bolt tips (25–30, 2 × 1/390), Sapphire bolt tips (25–30, 2 × 1/546)

  Seeds
Snapdragon seed (1, 2 × 1/112.3), Torstol seed (1, 2 × 1/118.7), Ranarr seed (1, 2 × 1/416.7), Watermelon seed (15, 2 × 1/595.2), Willow seed (1, 2 × 1/625), Mahogany seed (1, 2 × 1/694.4), Maple seed (1, 2 × 1/694.4), Teak seed (1, 2 × 1/694.4), Yew seed (1, 2 × 1/694.4), Papaya tree seed (1, 2 × 1/892.9), Magic seed (1, 2 × 1/1,136.4), Palm tree seed (1, 2 × 1/1,250), Spirit seed (1, 2 × 1/1,562.5), Dragonfruit tree seed (1, 2 × 1/2,083.3), Celastrus seed (1, 2 × 1/3,125), Redwood tree seed (1, 2 × 1/3,125)

  Fishes
Raw shark (35–55 noted, 2 × 1/100), Shark lure (70–110, 2 × 1/100), Manta ray (35–55 noted, 2 × 1/150)

  Other
Adamantite ore (10–30 noted, 2 × 1/21.43), Coins (20,000–80,000, 2 × 1/30), Grapes (250–300 noted, 2 × 1/30), Magic logs (50 noted, 2 × 1/30), Dragon bones (15–20 noted, 2 × 1/37.5), Diamond (10–20 noted, 2 × 1/37.5), Dragonstone (2–3 noted, 2 × 1/50), Wrath talisman (1, 2 × 1/50)

Rare Drop Table
Coins (3,000, 2 × 1/182.9), Loop half of key (1, 2 × 1/190.5), Tooth half of key (1, 2 × 1/190.5), Uncut sapphire (1, 2 × 1/768), Runite bar (1, 2 × 1/768), Nature rune (67, 2 × 1/1,280), Rune 2h sword (1, 2 × 1/1,280), Rune battleaxe (1, 2 × 1/1,280), Uncut emerald (1, 2 × 1/1,536), Law rune (45, 2 × 1/1,920), Death rune (45, 2 × 1/1,920), Steel arrow (150, 2 × 1/1,920), Rune arrow (42, 2 × 1/1,920), Adamant javelin (20, 2 × 1/1,920), Rune sq shield (1, 2 × 1/1,920), Dragonstone (1, 2 × 1/1,920), Silver ore (100 noted, 2 × 1/1,920), Uncut ruby (1, 2 × 1/3,072), Rune kiteshield (1, 2 × 1/3,840), Dragon med helm (1, 2 × 1/3,840), Rune spear (1, 2 × 1/4,054), Shield left half (1, 2 × 1/8,108), Nature talisman (1, 2 × 1/8,192), Dragon spear (1, 2 × 1/10,810), Uncut diamond (1, 2 × 1/12,288), Rune javelin (5, 2 × 1/24,576)

  Tertiary
Scaly blue dragonhide (1, 1/10), Brimstone key (1, 1/50)