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CONGRATS AMI WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT Steal me a thieving cape too please. cbf to do it myself.

Based on a trip I took with Soma, amongst other Tipiters, I think we all found the following to be true.... Here's a rough guide. Not comprehensive. Nex starts in the middle of the room, and will occasionally use her little gravity attack to bring you to the center and disable your protection prayers. Safe up and get those protection prayers back up ASAP. STAY OUT OF THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM. She has an attack where she says "There is...", then she f***s anyone who is in the middle of the room with a high hit. Best to range her from a distance around the little cross, on the outside. If someone has the virus on them, don't stand in any adjacent squares, or you will start to *cough*, and will lose stats / prayer rapidly. Range this form. Initial starting portion (Smoke) Pray Mage / Range Nex When Nex calls for Fumus, most typically when meleeing, the virus will catch everyone and everyone will start rapid *cough*ing aka losing stats / prayer. We're pretty sure it's best to "tank" that out and just pile Fumus until he dies. So: When Fumus becomes attackable Pray Mage / Melee Fumus With Fumus down, Nex begins to range you. Nex is weak to Melee, Crush specifically during the Shadow Portion, but with shadows appearing under players and dealing in the 500's of damage, a well as being dealt constant rapid damage when the room goes dark and when you are by Nex, it's still advised to range. Therefore: Second portion (Shadow) Pray Range / Range Nex We found that even with Nex ranging, Umbra will deal more consistant damage, so once Nex calls for Umbra, you're better off protecting from Magic again. So: When Umbra becomes attackable Pray Mage / Melee Umbra After Umbra dies, Nex cycles between a Siphoning move, which will heal whatever you would have hit her for. So don't attack her when she does this. (Purple splats). She also can summon Blood Reavers which will heal her. We weren't sure whether it was better to kill them off, or to just get them attacking a player, so I can't advise either. Finally, she can mark certain players entirely red, and while that doesn't do much damage, it drains everyone's prayer by around 20. She is very vulnerable to Crush attacks in this stage. It's recommended to use any Melee Special attacks in this form, simply to get her out of it as fast as possible, since the longer she's in this form, the more opportunities she has to heal. Third portion (Blood) Pray Mage / Melee Nex (Crush / Spec only) [GET THIS FORM DOWN ASAP] Nothing changes when she calls for Cruor. When Cruor becomes attackable Pray Mage / Melee Cruor With Cruor down, Nex will begin freezing everyone with Ice Barrages (which won't deal damage if you pray, but will still freeze you). She can also trap herself / possibly someone with her in an ice cage, so melee is not a viable attack style for this form. If she surrounds you in a square of icicles, in which you can't move, safe to over 990, because that following attack can hit up to it, though usually hits in the 700s. Team mates can attack the ice cage you're stuck in and break the icicles so you don't get hit, but this must be done very quickly. Don't hit icicles diagonal from whoever is stuck, it won't help them escape. Nex seems more vulnerable to range in this form than in any other, she should call for Glacies quickly. Fourth portion (Ice) Pray Mage / Range Nex When Nex finally calls for Glacies, nothing changes. Continue watching your health and safing to over 990 if you get stuck in a tiny ice cage. When Glacies becomes attackable Pray Mage / Melee Glacies Now that all 4 minions have been killed, Nex enters her final stage, where she switches between Soulsplit, Protect Melee, and no overhead. THE ABSOLUTE BEST METHOD TO KILL HER FINAL FORM IS TO FORM A DEATHDOT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM. This means have everyone go to the center so she follows you there, and everyone stands on the same square and attacks her. She is extremely weak to ALL forms of melee in this final portion, so when she has soulsplit / no overhead on, Melee her. ONLY range her when she protects melee. Verac's / meleeing her during protect form isn't advised, as her deflects can hit 300s. She will ocasionally do an AoE magic attack in this form, but not too often. She usually melees and picks a target and stays on them a while. Protect melee doesn't seem to reduce her melee damage, but it DOES make her switch to someone else faster. In this final portion, I advise you pray Soulsplit instead of protecting from anything, unless she is meleeing you. If you're on normal prayers protect from Magic, and then Melee when she melees you. She will go down very fast. Final portion (SS / Prot Melee) Curses: Pray SS / Melee if she's on you Prayers: Pray Magic / Melee if she's on you Melee unless she puts on Protect Melee, then range. so ya.

Keep in mind Barrow sets are said by Jagex to last 15 hours, as opposed to most new gears, which are given 10 hours. May be why it seems less.

Buy nothing but Disks, Eggs, and Pumpkins Zomoor

I'm not picky to be fair, as long as you have a basic idea of what you're doing, and you've read most of this thread, which basically outlines prime ways to kill Nex. It helps having 99 in the stats that are used (Irony being that I am 95 Ranged, and hate training i dearly) Anyways, I don't want to hijack the thread any further.... Apparently it's confirmed yes that max hit is 500. Checked with some players who went in void and mauls etc.

Done and done, anyone else want to start forming the Tipit dream team?

Honestly, I think we'd all be better off just forming a team out of the players on this forum. We all seem to know what we're doing, and while some of us may have differing choices, gear wise, I think the simple fact that we all kind know wassup would put us at a better advantage than from finding an RSOF team. We could fill any extra spots needed with our own friends whom we know are good too. If you're interested, throw me a Private Message on here or just say so in the thread. I can't turn my private on in game, unfortunately I still get spammed by people, for various things. Unless someone has a better idea for accessibility.

Well they don' sell for max now so

Uses Blood Barrage and Shadow barrage from what I've seen. Probly the other two ( / three) as well Oh and as seen above, he yaks his good drops if you don't kill him fast enough. trolololol

Friend's telling me drops are fairly common, but fights are stupidly long and hard (inb4 joke)

WRONG, WEARING BARROWS MAKES THEM ALL ATTACK YOU

all across america are nerds crying that they have to go to school. ahhhhh dat college. trolololol meanwhile 120 kc so far at zammy keyless, where all the other 3 gave me it in 5 or less.

Check out the kill counts, first off gettin trolled by zamorak HARD

Now the question is do I care enough to bother selling my Bandos, or do I just keep it for now. Ehhhhhhhhhhhh I'll keep it, I'll either be earning all the sets myself, or I won't be getting them for some time hah.

This March I will have played for 10 years. On my first account, I have like 10 of each tradeable rare / edible, and some disks, but can't remember it's password. I was like 9 or 10 lol. On Logdotzip I have everything from rubber chicken onward. And I have an account with only a yoyo. I was grounded the day scythes were dropped and was on Vaca when ears were dropped, they are the only two rares I've never had.

You don't get reimbursement for un-imbuing. Just keep one, sell the other. Right now I have Onyx(i) and Zerker(i). I appreciate having the option.

I'll probably end up trying to fight him the first week or so and will get nothing, then I'll try again in a month and get nothing, then will head back to frosts and just earn the money to buy it. It's no big loss for me, all the supplies I had I didn't buy in prep for Nex. I already had them. I buy supplies before I need them so when something comes up, I got nothin' to sweat, while everyone else starts stressin that their brews etc. don't buy.

I'm pretty sure they went from 1800 ish to 2200 ish as a result of a QandA where MMG mentioned a future prayer update, followed by inflation because of PVP statuettes, etc. (3500 - 4200), followed by the actual update to prayer (4200 - 4800). They rose again when Double XP was mentioned (5200), and dropped back down when it was said it would be better to just do altars as normal, but they didn't drop back down completely to what they were Pre XP weekend announcement. (4900) Been a steady drop since. Those are all estimated btw. I think the problem with the speculation is that the wilderness coming back could go two ways, bot wise. Bots will return to the wild to kill the dragons, but whether or not that will severely affect bone prices is yet to be determined, because there's already bots everywhere in the wilderness / chaos tunnels. MORE bots may come, but now there's Green Dragon Pkers to worry about, and most Pkers I know won't bother banking for the Dragon Bones. So more bots, yes, more effective, maybe not. And then, like everyone else is saying, general demand for dragon bones will increase as old Pkers with 70 / current players who didn't care enough before will be wanting Turmoil. Then there's general deflation when statuettes are removed. My personal opinion is that prices will for the most part stay the same, IE, gradually drop very slowly until they get TOO low.

You justbsaid that dragonfire shield is better then dragon defender. LOL. Last time I checked the defender has more total attack and strength bonus than the dragonfire shield... I was obviously referring to equal bonusus. DFS has higher strength bonus. Look out, it's the semantics police! A strength bonus will always be better than an equal attack bonus under any circumstances. This is clearly what Quyneax was talking about. Can we move on now? Look out, it's the usual typical smartass at large! Ever have something to say without all the added doucheyness? I didn't disagree with what he had to say, I just pointed out his error before someone else got to it. Bar extremely high defense monsters, of which few to none exist currently, strength always wins over accuracy bonus, at least when both are in close proximity of each other bonus wise.

Short term, instanced rooms would be great. Long term, depending on drop rate and etc. etc., it may be bad due to constant teams driving down the price of drops. It all depends on factors none of us know about yet.

You justbsaid that dragonfire shield is better then dragon defender. LOL. Last time I checked the defender has more total attack and strength bonus than the dragonfire shield... I was obviously referring to equal bonusus. DFS has higher strength bonus.

Add me and if I find a good cc/irc channel I'll let you know and vice versa. done deal, my dg perm team is probably gonna hunt the boss together too I might have myself + 3 - 4 others who are all maxed gear, OVLs, etc, who could join, if you like / if we were invited. Dependant on how many are needed to effectively kill the mofker. To answer whoever asked about golden hammer placeholders; all I will say is that they are one of the only items with a destroy option that actually stays in your deathpile.

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