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Jennica has been dead 400 years. The Strange Old Man, is still alive. So if the Strange Old Man had Jennica at 18, and Jennica died at 25 (judging by Summer age) That makes the Strange Old Man 443. He may be old, but he aint that old!

I think it will be a quest reward. The ability to go to the Chaos Tunnels without risk of wildy. Surok will probably try to rob the GE or something.

According to posts on the RSOF the ring increases the chance of a Barrows drop. One guy claims to have had 3 barrows drops in a row, and another clams it ended his dry-spell on the first attempt. Obviously it could just be luck, but I'm willing to spend a night doing a few runs.

Don't listen to this troll. All great tasks. EDIT: Dark Beasts are brilliant XP in melee and slayer. 225 slayer XP per kill?, yes please!. They drop blue charms quite often and have some good alchable items (although they don't drop them very often). They also drop the Dark Bow, which netted me an easy 950k last week. They also are always aggro so you can semi AFK them with prayer.

Which is exactly what I meant with "you will profit eventually". Most tasks won't actually cost you anything to do, the few that do you can normally make back during the task, and if you don't, you will in the next one. You don't have to use a cannon, melee will still work.

The first two are true, at least before 88 summoning. But warped terrorbirds, you talk as if you have never even done a task. While cannoning these using a combat familiar I can return PROFIT covering both the prayer pots, super sets, and the cannonballs. They also come up to 50k+ slay xp/hour if you cannon. Please explain to me how they don't have good drops if you profit while cannoning, how they have rubbish XP if they are one of the fastest tasks with a cannon. It's true you cannot block all of their attacks, but by praying range you won't even need food because of the obscene amount of gnome foods they drop. I've done them twice and burned lots of prayer pots and food for very little reward. I'd like to know how you manage to cannon and still cleanse them all and still profit. Maybe you should write a guide if they are that good.

Skeletal Wyverns drop 2 crimson charms at a time and pretty often, not too hard to kill and there's a safespot when they arent aggressive. Steel dragons do take a long time and theres not a lot of spawns like iron dragons so I agree with you there. Warped Terrorbirds are supposedly annoying to kill because you have to use a chime and a lot of people dont prefer them but you usually make back the money you spend on prayer pots. Like I said it's all preference. Wyverns are pain in the bottom to melee. The safe spot requires 20 mins to use whilst they go non-aggro and the charms are not worth it if it's slayer XP you want. If you want crimsons, Waterfiends. I totally disagree regarding Hellhounds. They are great melee XP and with super def/Bunyip you whizz through without getting hit much. Yes sometimes it's crowded but bring a cannon along to scare people off then melee again. The drops are poor yes, but your not spending a lot on the task and getting 80+ golds. Plus you're almost guaranteed a clue scroll which could lead to 3rd age!

Eventually yeah. You will get herbs and stuff. Only do that til you get the helm though. Rings and Broad bolts/arrows are not worth it.

I agree.

and you won't get any items from a death anymore.

If you pray melee he will mage you. If you pray mage he will melee you with a DDS. I wear usual melee defence gear and pro-mage with an anti-pot in my inven. I also use a DDS and the specs, piety doesn't hurt either. Well it does the wizard :twisted:

70 cooking is very easy to get. Just spend the hour or so getting it.

For a start don't go by anyone elses blocks. Everyone is different, take everyones advise into consideration and then try them yourself. My 3 blocks (and reasons) are: Skelly Wyverns - Annoying to get to and kill. Steel Dragons - Few spawns and you have to fight other players and Iron Dragons for them. Plus they are slow. Warped Terrobirds - No good drops, rubbish XP and no way to block all attacks. My fourth is empty currently as all other tasks are bearable.

Just slay. You will make money eventually.

I have a Sara Sword. Bought it when it was 12mil and I don't regret it as it is brilliant for strength training. People say dragon scimmy is fine but trust me it isn't. SS speeds it up no end. Anyways once I get 99 strength I will sell the Sara Sword and use the Zammy Spear.

Lol sorry for all the confusion Basically I need a weapon which trains Def or Atk via a crush option. SS will get me to 99 strength without issues and is ideal for Waterfiends, however post-99 strength I would like to maximise my XP when I get Waterfiends and just adding to strength XP is kinda a waste when the XP could go to attack or defence. Anyways it looks as if the Zammy Spear is the best option, as it will train both so it's not a total waste.

You misunderstood. I'm training slayer period. However currently I am training strength via slayer so Waterfiends are cool when I get assigned them. However when I do hit 99 strength and get a Waterfiend task I don't want to "waste" XP by still using a SS and just adding to the 99 strength. I'd rather be able to train def or attack efficiently but I guess there's no serious option. Will have to do some digging. Cat, I wouldn't worry about being assigned Waterfiends - I slay all the time & I've still never been assigned them (I have completed Barbarian training) !! If however, you are fortunate not to be stuck in 'The Duradel Loop' & do actually get assigend Waterfiends i'd try to invest in a Zammy Spear (although the price is still rising), as this is the fastest 'Crush' weapon out there. Use this to speed through task & then revert to Whip / Rune Def combo for Att / Def training. Guess I'm lucky, get Waterfiends quite often.

Zammy spear it is then. I don't mind attack XP either if I wasn't clear.

Yeah speed is still of the essence. If Zammy Spear is comparable to SS then I will use that no issue. Not going to surrender speed over XP and use a mace, rather stick to SS and lose out.

I use Taverley as there are more spawns and currently slayer xp is more important to me than charms.

You misunderstood. I'm training slayer period. However currently I am training strength via slayer so Waterfiends are cool when I get assigned them. However when I do hit 99 strength and get a Waterfiend task I don't want to "waste" XP by still using a SS and just adding to the 99 strength. I'd rather be able to train def or attack efficiently but I guess there's no serious option. Will have to do some digging.

Did a task of Black Demons last night. 1 rune spear was the best drops I had, realised I still had my Warrior Ring on, which I only really have for Dark Beast tasks. Usually I use a wealth and get 4-5 rune drops of med/chain. I have another of task of them now, and have switched to a wealth so will let you know how it goes.

Far too slow, like the flail.

Poo. Anyone know what the crush option on the dragon scimmy trains? Ta

OK so I am pretty close to 99 strength which I will get within 2 weeks. I train with a Sara Sword via slayer only so once I get 99 it poses a problem on Waterfiend tasks as ideally I want all my XP focused into Def or Attack and a whip has no crush option. Basically I need to know what the other options are for Waterfiends. I've heard Zammy spear is used a lot and also God Swords. Do these have a crush option? and if so whats it train? A Zammy Spear is in my price range but the God Sword isn't, even when I sell the Sara Sword I still have better use for the cash and cannot really justify the 20mil for the sake of Waterfiends. Ta