Runescape 3 Hybrid Perk, Ability, Spell & Equipment Guide

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Runescape 3 Hybrid Perk, Ability, Spell & Equipment Guide

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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

  • Best F2P hybrid armour.

  • Can be obtained as a rare reward from crystal chests or Triskelion treasures.

42

Void armour

-

  • One of the most iconic, old power armours of the game.

  • Unlike other power armours, this armour provides a percentage based bonus, which makes it scale with your weapons.

  • Only armour in the game that provides an accuracy boost.

  • This set has 3 helmets and each helmet corresponds to a combat style. The bonuses and the style of the entire armour set changes depending on the helmet that you are wearing.

  • Set effect provides a +3% accuracy and +5% damage to the combat style that you have chosen.

  • It can be upgraded into elite void after the completion of the quest “The Void Stares Back”.

  • Can be upgraded further into a superior version which increases the defensive bonuses and the damage boost to +7%.

60

Obsidian armour

-

  • Requires the completion of the quest “The Brink of Extinction”.

  • Untradable and must be crafted by using obsidian bars, these bars are made from shards that can ınly be obtained from the Fight Cauldron minigame.

  • Only degrades in TzHaar areas.

  • Has a set effect that reduces damage taken by 55% (45% without the kiteshield). This only works in TzHaar city and the three minigames that reside in it. 

70

House Drakan Outfit

-

  • Can be obtained by partially completing the “The Lord of Vampyrium” quest.

70

High armour of Hanto

60,000 chimes

90 Taijitu

  • This armour set is augmentable.

70

Akrisae the Doomed’s equipment

4.2M

  • Requires the completion of the quest “Ritual of the Mahjarrat”.

  • Requires level 70 in Magic, Prayer ,Attack and Defence.

  • Has an effect that provides a chance to drain your opponents prayer and boost your own prayer. Drains the prayer based on ⅓ of the damage dealt and boosts yours by ⅕.

  • Degrades and repairs for 450K.

70

Dragon Rider Armour

14M

  • This set has a whooping +46 prayer bonus which is the highest amount out of all the sets in the game.

  • A dragonrider kit can be used to upgrade the sets gloves and boots.

20/50/70

Ghost hunter Equipment

-

  • Depending on your Defence level this set has 3 tiers.

  • It has a unique set effect that increases the experience earned and the damage dealt against any creature that gives Prayer experience through an ectoplasmator. Each piece equipped increases this effect maximum 10%.

  • Creatures that are affected by this effect is as follows:

  • All revenants

  • All spiritual creatures

  • All barrows brothers

  • All shades

  • All ghosts

  • All banshees

  • Ankous

  • Aberrant spectres

  • Edimmus

  • Wights

25/50/75

Armour of Trials

-

  • Can be obtained from May’s Quest caravan by allocating 125 quest points to the combat track.

  • Has three tiers available and will be based on your defence level.

  • Just like the Vanquish, this set is all about quest bosses. It has a set effect that will grant you +1% damage reduction every time you die to a quest boss. This can stack up to a total of +25%.

25/50/75

Warpriest of gods

-

  • There are 5 different warpriest armour sets which are; Saradomin, Zamorak, Bandos, Armadyl and Tuska and each set has the same stats but different passive effects.

  • These armour sets tier will change depending on your Defence level.

  • To obtain the god warpriests simply kill their followers. For Tuska you will need to buy it from the Anima Islands reward shop for 13K reward currency.

  • Set effects (Wearing at least 3 pieces is a must for these effects):

  • Tuska: +1% chance to deal critical hits per piece. 

  • Bandos: Reduces the cooldown of abilities that have a cooldown of 30 seconds or longer by 15%. Chances of this happening are 5% for 3-4 pieces, 10% for 5 pieces and 20% for 6 pieces. Can be worn with Armadyl.

  • Armadyl: Reduces the cooldown of abilities that have a cooldown of 30 seconds or longer by 15%. Chances of this happening are 5% for 3-4 pieces, 10% for 5 pieces and 20% for 6 pieces. Can be worn with Bandos.

  • Zamorak: Has a chance to reduce damage. Each piece of armour increases the chances of this effect happening by 1%. The damage is reduced to 10% of the initial damage. If all armour pieces are worn you only take 4% of the initial damage that you would have taken.

  • Saradomin: Has a chance to reduce damage. Each piece of armour increases the chances of this effect happening by 1%. The damage is reduced to 10% of the initial damage. If all armour pieces are worn you only take 4% of the initial damage that you would have taken.

1/25/50/75

Globetrotter outfit

-

  • This armour can be bought from the Treasure trails reward shop for trail points.

  • It can have defensive bonuses up to tier 75 armour.

  • Has a lot of passieve effects that greatly aid clue scroll hunting so shouldn’t be used for combat.

70

Crystal armour

2.9M

  • Requires the completion of the quest “Roving Elves”.

  • Requires level 50 Agility.

  • Each piece worn will increase your chances of getting an ancient elven wedding ring.

  • Wearing more than two pieces will increase your damage by 5% against crystal shapeshifters. It will also increase your chances of activating your attuned crystal weapon by 3%. Also the maximum amount of Tarddian crystals dropped and crystal fragments gathered are increased by 1 per piece.

  • While wearing 3 or more pieces, it increases your chance of activating Tarddian fury which deals damage to all surrounding enemies. The chance of this happening are 1% per piece up to 5%.

  • While wearing 4 or more pieces, tarddian fury also removes bleeds and makes stuns ineffective.

80

Attuned crystal armour

4900 Tarddian crystal

  • Requires the completion of the quest “Roving Elves”.

  • Requires level 50 Agility.

  • Each piece worn will increase your chances of getting an ancient elven wedding ring, this attuned version doubles this effect.

  • Wearing more than two pieces will increase your damage by 10% against crystal shapeshifters. It will also increase your chances of activating your attuned crystal weapon by 6%. Also the maximum amount of Tarddian crystals dropped and crystal fragments gathered are increased by 1 per piece.

  • While wearing 3 or more pieces, it increases your chance of activating Tarddian fury which deals damage to all surrounding enemies. The chance of this happening are 1.5% per piece up to 7.5%.

  • While wearing 4 or more pieces, tarddian fury also removes bleeds and makes stuns ineffective.

  • While wearing all 5 pieces, you have a chance of activating the Harmonious Resonance which is a 10 second buff:

  • This buff can be activated when taking damage, when casting crystallise or when casting crystal mask.

  • Aurora spells are twice as effective.

  • Seren prayers will not drain prayer points.

  • Crystal mask will last 20% longer.

  • Crystallise will last 50% longer.

80

Gemstone armour

14.5M

  • This armour set has a unique effect called enchanted touch. To use this effect the armour should first be charged with gems. Depending on your choice you can charge it with uncut dragonstones, onyxes or hydrixes.

  • When charged with a specific stone the armour gains its enchanted bolt effect. Wearing the full set will grant you the same chance of effect activation of any enchanted bolt. You will need to wear at least 3 pieces for this effect to work.

  • Armour will gain 10 charges per uncut dragonstone, 100 per uncut onyx and 1000 per uncut hydrix.

  • This armour is pretty good but will cost a lot to operate.

80

Anima core of Sliske

133M

  • Can gain the set bonus of any warpriest armour set if you own it.

  • Lucky perk can't be used if you are using either the Saradomin or Zamorak set effect.

  • Biting perk can’t be used together with the Tuska set effect.

85

Refined anima core of Sliske

316M

  • Can gain the set bonus of any warpriest armour set if you own it.

  • Lucky perk can't be used if you are using either the Saradomin or Zamorak set effect.

  • Biting perk can’t be used together with the Tuska set effect.

  • Best hybrid armour in the game.

  • Can be augmented.

  • Current repair cost for this armour is 50M.

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

  • Strongest tradable range and magic cape.

Cape of legends

17.3 Hybrid

  • Requires Legends’ Quest

Spirit cape

17.3 Hybrid

  • Requires 50 Defence, Summoning, Dungeoneering.

  • Costs 45K Dungeoneering tokens.

  • Reduces the familiar’s special moves cost by 20%.

Skill Cape

21.6 Hybrid

  • Requires level 99 in a skill.

  • Should be decided depending on the passive effect.

Max cape

31.5 Hybrid

  • Requires level 99 in all skills.

  • Can be imbued with 3 skill cape perks.

Igneous Kal-Zuk

43 Hybrid

  • Requires 90 Crafting.

  • Requires completing a flawless hard mode run against Zuk.

  • Grants effect of its constituent capes.

Pocket Slot

Pocket Item

Style Bonus

Cost

Hourly Cost

Notes

Scrimshaw of elements

None

831K

272K

  • Requires level 80 Magic.

  • Grants +5% damage.

  • Untradable once activated and lasts for 3 hours.

  • Requires 92 Fletching to make.

  • There is a superior untradable version that has more powerful effects and lasts longer.

Scrimshaw of magic

None

845K

287K

  • Requires level 85 Magic.

  • Grants +2% Magic accuracy.

  • Untradable once activated and lasts for 3 hours.

  • Requires level 95 Fletching to craft.

  • There is a superior untradable version that has more powerful effects and lasts longer.

Holy wrench

None

N/A

N/A

  • Requires the completion of the quest “Rum Deal”. Increases the number of Prayer points restored by potions.

Adrenaline urn

None

N/A

N/A

  • Obtained as a drop from Kal'gerion demons, this item accumulates charges when the player's adrenaline surpasses 100%. Upon exiting combat, these charges are utilized from the urn instead of draining the player's adrenaline. Notably, this functionality operates from both the pocket slot and the inventory.

Blood essence

None

312,109 - 376,648

Varies

  • Requires the completion of the quest River of Blood. 

  • Must be charged with congealed blood.

God book

57,907 - 392,051

16,885 - 117,096

  • Requires level 30 Prayer and completion of Horror from the deep. 

  • Created by filling a damaged book with corresponding god pages. When charged with pages, it grants special effects.

Illuminated god book

57,907 - 392,051

16,885 - 117,096

  • Upgraded variant of the god book, requires, One Piercing Note.

Erethdor's grimoire

217,539,374

6,239,072

  • When charged with torn grimoire pages, it grants 12% critical hit chance and increases the critical hit cap to 15K.

Scripture

23,059,797 - 320,732,953

13,032 - 999,100

  • Has different versions, “Ful” being the best one. Each version has a different power when activated.

Necklaces

Necklaces

Style Bonus

Cost

Hourly Cost

Notes

Reaper Necklace

36.8 Hybrid

56M

37K

  • After every effective strike, you gain a bonus of 0.1% to your chance of hitting, capped at a maximum of 3%. This bonus persists for up to 54 seconds following your most recent strike. 

  • Once equipped, the item becomes untradable.

  • It wears down over time and requires onyxes for recharging. 

  • It can be upgraded by an ornament kit, this increases the style bonus by 2.

Amulet of Souls

46.3 Hybrid

56M

37K

  • Has a 50% chance to increase soul split heals for 25-50%.

  • Protection prayers block 10% more damage.

  • Repairs with onyxes.

  • Can be further upgraded with an ornament kit, this increases the style bonuses by 2.

Essence of Finality amulet

56 Hybrid

258M

512K

  • Has the effects of amulet of souls and reaper necklace.

  • After sacrificing your weapon, you can special attack whilst using any weapon of the same style.

  • Becomes permanently untradable.

  • Must be repaired with alchemical hydrix dust.

  • Can be upgraded with the essence of finality ornament kit. This increases the bonuses by 3.

Rings

Rings

Style Bonus

Cost

Hourly Cost

Notes

Ring of vigour

12 Hybrid

50K Dungeoneering token

-

  • Requires level 62 Attack and Dungeoneering.

  • When an ultimate ability or a special attack is used, it consumes 90% of the adrenaline instead of 100%.

Luck of the Dwarves

17.3 Hybrid

78M

-

  • Tier 4 luck ring.

  • Can be imbued, this makes the ring untradable and this process is irreversible. Costs 7500 Teci. Increases the style bonus by 2.5.

Sixth-Age circuit

21 Hybrid

-

-

  • Requires the completion of the following quests:

  • The World Wakes

  • Ritual of the Mahjarrat

  • The Firemaker’s Curse

  • The Branches of Darkmeyer

  • The Void Stares Back

  • The Chosen Commander

Asylum Surgeon Ring

21 Hybrid

-

-

  • Requires level 85 Defence.

  • Requires the completion of the Broken Home quest and all 3 replay challenges.

  • Grants 10% chance to prevent adrenaline loss when using threshold abilities and 40% chance to save 25% of a special attack’s cost.

  • Can be upgraded with 10k Teci, this increases the bonuses by 2.4.

Ring of Death

25.2 Hybrid

56M

37K

  • Has a 50% chance to restore 5% adrenaline when a target is killed.

  • Instead of dying, you’re teleported to your spawn with all your items when you die. Costs 15% charge.

  • Can be recharged with onyxes.

  • Can be upgraded to with 15K Teci, Increases its style bonuses by 2.5.

Reaver’s ring

27.7 Hybrid

149M

-

  • Created by combining 10 Berserk rings and a Heart of the berserker.

  • Requires level 70 Crafting.

  • Has a 5% critical hit chance and -5% accuracy.

Aura Slot

Aura Slot

Cost

Tiers

Duration

Cooldown

Notes

Vampyrism aura

5k Marks of War

2

1 Hour

3 Hours

  • Heal for 5% of the damage you deal.

Dark magic aura

12.5K Marks of War

3

1 Hour

3 Hours

  • Has a chance to inflict corrupting damage.

Mahjarrat aura

1K Reaper points or 3 Bonds

5

1 Hour

23 Hours

  • Increases damage dealt by 5%.

Penance Aura

23K Loyalty points

2

1 Hour

3 Hours

  • Gain prayer points equal to 5% of the damage you receive.

Inspiration aura

23K Loyalty points

2

1 Hour

3 Hours

  • Your attacks that hit generates an additional 0.5% adrenaline.

Invigorate aura

4.2K-155K Loyalty points

1-4

1 Hour

3 Hours

  • Your ultimate ability uses 90% instead of 100%.

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

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


  • 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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