How to Prepare for Raids 4 in Old School RuneScape

To prepare for Raids 4 and upcoming roadmap PvM encounters in Old School RuneScape, prioritize maxing your core offensive combat stats, assembling a balanced tribrid gear setup across Melee, Ranged, and Magic, and banking high-demand consumable supplies.

Prioritize Core Combat Levels and Support Skills

Raw combat levels scale your base max hits, accuracy formulas, and defensive rolls across every raid room. Prioritize reaching 99 in Strength, Ranged, and Magic before investing heavily in minor gear upgrades, as stat milestones provide greater offensive returns than individual armor pieces. Training Magic also directly increases your Magic defense roll, which is critical for mitigating magic chip damage and boss spells.

Outside primary combat stats, target these support milestones:

• Hitpoints (Level 99): Provides the maximum pool against untyped burst damage, missed protection prayers, and room mechanics.
• Prayer (Level 77–85+): Level 74 and 77 are necessary to unlock Rigour and Augury via prayer scrolls. Higher overall levels also increase the prayer points restored per potion dose, conserving inventory space during extended runs.
• Herblore (Level 78–90+): Level 78 serves as the baseline for brewing basic in-raid potions, while level 90 ensures access to supreme overloads and revitalizations.

Assemble a Balanced Tribrid Gear Setup

Endgame raids enforce tribrid versatility. Do not sell off your entire inventory for a single mega-rare weapon if it forces you to use inadequate equipment in the other two combat styles.

Acquire essential utility gear alongside your standard armor. Secure either a Dragon Warhammer or a Bandos Godsword for defense reduction, a Lightbearer ring to speed up special attack recovery, and an upgraded Rune Pouch.

Practice Core Mechanics in Existing Raids

Future raid releases build upon the movement, prayer, and gear-swapping requirements established in Chambers of Xeric, Theatre of Blood, and Tombs of Amascut.

• Movement and Tile Precision: Practice true-tile pathing and tick-precise movement. Mechanics such as the 4:1 melee cycle at the Great Olm in Chambers of Xeric and step-back timing at the Maiden of Suginti in Theatre of Blood teach you to avoid falling projectiles, cleaves, and ground hazards.
• Switching and Tick Timing: Drill 4-way, 6-way, and 8-way inventory swaps alongside dynamic prayer changes. Encounters like Akkha and Wardens Phase 2 in Tombs of Amascut, as well as Verzik Vitur Phase 3 in Theatre of Blood, test your ability to swap offensive prayers and gear within a single 0.6-second game tick.

Stockpile Supplies and Recharge Untradeables

Grand Exchange prices for raiding consumables routinely surge around major PvM updates. Stockpile these resources in advance:

1. Potions: Saradomin brews, Super restores, Divine super combat potions, Divine ranging potions, and Extended antivenoms.
2. Ammunition and Runes: Blood runes, Soul runes, Death runes, Dragon arrows, and Amethyst or Dragon darts.
3. Food and Energy: Anglerfish for overhealing before entering encounters, Karambwans for combo-eating, and Purple sweets for emergency run energy.

Before release day, verify that untradeable combat gear has full charges. Maximize charges on your Blood Fury amulet, charge weapons like the Arclight or Emberlight, and stock relevant teleport scrolls to raid staging areas.

Coordinate With a Progression Team

While solo raiding is often viable, blind day-one clears are easiest to solve in coordinated groups of three to five players. Form a group within your clan, establish a dedicated voice channel, determine roles such as primary defense-lowering weapons, and confirm item split rules before entering the raid.