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None of the pages sell for anything near GE price. For items that are not traded in excessive amounts (and then some, like broad arrowheads), GE is irreparably broken since EoC. Take ceremonial robes, for example. You will never buy them for GE price; and nobody will be stupid enough to sell them for any less than they bought it.

I thought god books are made useless now and pages have crashed?

A higher tier weapon is always better than one targeting a specific weakness (air/thrown/crush/etc). Moreover, you will have better results using a high-tier weapon of a style a monster should be resistant to than using a low/mid-tier weapon that matches the general weakness (magic/ranged/melee).

I would suggest reading this article. Especially the section entitled "Maximum FPS". You will find a nice description (along with a demonstration) why video games actually look better on a higher frame rate. Of course, if using motion blur and/or film grain, even framerates of around 30 FPS may look completely natural. As a laptop user, I am stuck with frame rates up to 60 FPS (higher ones just waste (heat) the GPU). Most of the time, I find frame rates acceptable from high teens (18+), although in some games a natural feel starts at 25 or more. Typically, a stable frame rate of 40+ is enough to have a smooth gameplay.

1. There is Ava's device, which largely eliminates the need to pick up bolts. 2. Metal dragons (except mithril) are really easy now. Just take a sip of super antifire and do not enter melee range. They will not deal any damage. This allows using abs (with water runes for extra 15% accuracy) to kill them without needing any extra food/potions/stuff.

I had an account banned for [unknown legacy reason] with [no evidence to support the claim] in early 2004. I tried appealing at that time, then when the offense/blackmark system was upgraded, then via an account review thread in the forums. All appeals were denied, stating that a permanent ban is not reversible. After the account review thread my account was also removed from the high-scores AND they changed the evidence description to tell they cannot show evidence (all those ~5-6 years prior is clearly stated no evidence was recorded). However, when I try to login to the game, it shows a temporary (long term) ban. Best to give that account up, and wait until the timer expires. Unless the timer marks the end of RuneScape, which nears every second.

I bought Armadyl Battlestaff and can say it works for general slaying very well. Even recently buffed monsters, like steel dragons, are quite easy to kill. Not to mention you get free standard air spells. However, this staff is essentially worthless against level 170+ monsters, since you splash (including abilities) half the time with 99 magic and magic-type armor (the increased 2h damage is not worth it over faster casts using wand + akhn). You can test this on the level 170 Double Agent. Where you would splash at most 1/20 on 144 level steel dragons, you will splash ~50-55% on that level 170 non-boss monster.

I tend to report bots, but it is essentially a waste of time. For example, the encouragers and/or advertisers, who manage to sustain writing 3 different lines in 1,5 seconds and repeating are obvious bots. Do they get banned? You know how it is. The same goes for other bots: monster killing bots, skilling bots, minigame bots etc. They have completely swarmed RS and merely removing free trade and wilderness again (the latter is useless anyway) will not rectify the current situation. This needs to take more extreme measures, such as identity validation and 1 account per person enforcement. After all, it is MEMBER accounts that are sold and MEMBERS are able to make money much easier. One can argue that this will hurt players who want to have different playstyle accounts. Yet that is a neccessary sacrifice. Just like free trade was. Perhaps if bots were not so dead obvious... But nah, extreme measures are needed. What happened to the "we don't want your computer to play with our computer" attitude?

The 6 hour timer starts when you launch the runescape client. As soon as it ends and you are in-game or in lobby, you will be ruthlessly kicked out without the ability to relogin. That is how it always worked. Typically it is treated as if you lost connection: instant (less than 5 seconds) disconnection while not in combat or in combat with NPCs, 20-30 seconds (to ensure you die) while in PvP combat or if attacked after kicked). However, if your client crashed, then it is an entirely different story. Sorry to hear that.

They should have also made it so that the Kalphite King, which drops level 90 equipment, would be able to 1 hit any player who is not wearing a full set of level 90 gear (even through abilities: resonance, immortality, barricade - like Nomad) and it would be settled. EDIT: I see this tautological trick has been already pointed out in this thread. Sorry.

whip < korasi < vine whip

It is not possible to kill steal in EoC. All attackers get the same amount of XP. However, first hitter will get items.

I also did this a few days ago. Here's how I got access to Nex: 1. Frozen key pieces Zamorak -> imps: melee (any gear, since they are very low level) Saradomin -> Spiritual Knights/Warriors: magic + safespot Bandos -> Ogres: magic + safespot Armadyl -> Spiritual warriors: magic (they have a ranged, very low hitting melee type attack, so no safespotting). Be careful not to hit a spiritual mage in the process. Saradomin took the longest, roughly 20 minutes. Others dropped in less than 10 minutes. I was welfare gearing, with dagon hai robes, lucky bandos boots, armadyl cloak, zamorak/saradomin arrows (as required), RFD barrows gloves, pendant of magic and air staff. I was using air surge as a primary attack, but mainly spamming/channeling abilities. 2. Reaching Nex Buy the ceremonial for 200% GE price (you have no chance to buy it for GE price, +5%, +15% or similar nonsense). When you are finished, resell for the prices you got it for. That's how it works. I was welfare gearing: black dragon hide, aforementioned god items, praying protect magic + steel skin. No big deal. Didn't have to use a single food item. 3. Entering the room Bank all your items, except fate cards (or darts), take a BoB, find an empty world. Do not risk crashers near the bank. There are many worlds, and while there are crashers everywhere (incl. non-lootshare), you may find a free one. Go in, approach Nex so it would be in range and just keep clicking as it talks. You will get a kill, pick up what you need and wait for a respawn. After you are done, just teleport out. You should earn a few mil as minimum.

This rumor is false. Confirmed false. You can kill Nex with a dart as soon as it finishes talking. It will die and drop stuff as usual.

Well, you would better start moving stuff to your alt/new account. It is called pathfinding, not routing. Yep, in RuneScape's 2D world that is possible; yet all the shortcuts have to be added manually. Which makes this idea useless... ... for now.

One of these skills will be sailing, even though they said they might name it differently.

Hello everyone, I decided to check out the new RS during the holidays and found out quite much has changed. In fact, mostly everything I knew (aside from runespan) no longer applies. Therefore, I need your advice. 1. What is the best non-degradable weapon and armor combination for each combat style and is it viable for high-level monster/boss killing? For example, I guess best non-degradable melee weapons would be godswords (which are just as bad as they were) and Korasi + EE[E]. But these don't really work even against low/mid level, melee-weak monsters. 2. What would be the best boss to instakill at the moment? 3. Is there any reason to buy prayer levels or to level it at all? 4. Is it still better (xp/h wise) to do F2P dungeoneering? 5. Do catalytic runes (mind/chaos/death/blood) have any use left? If they do, is it even worth the cost?

a) there are some areas *cough*all red chin spots*cough* where (in eng worlds) no players last more than a minute. That's why you can surely ban them all at once. b) 3rd party RWT and/or account sharing is still not allowed. However, I understand that the ban reason should reflect the reality, but... The bots are here and will be no matter what is because so much is done to avoid false positives. That includes legit* botting software that so many players are using, be it for prayer switching or inventory dropping. * – macroing on a MMO is supposedly legal as long as the action performed can actually be performed with the mouse/keyboard in the same fashion and each macroed action is initiated by the user. I can understand that this helps to keep casual players, but people are greedy and will abuse this system (a great example is the whole XP-Waste portal of borderline practices). Then JaGeX has to make further exclusions and so on.

If someone manages to get your password and your recoveries (which can be changed) right, he will definitely pass through another set of Q&As that can never be changed.

I like how JAG is essentially *AG. More Q&A challenges? There's already enough of that. So you will have to understand why it is *AG. Failed Account Guardian.

As I already stated in another thread: if you think about holding the mask(s) for less than 5 years, you are better off without them. You should only invest in all (others coming soon) new rares if you are serious about it [investing]. And you definitely aren't.

JaGeX claims they will be creating new rares, so in that light your statement is simply... wrong. Absolutely not worth it. I would correct 'might' to 'will', but because it is not possible to know whether jagex will reintroduce them in the future (in spite of their statements), I reserve judgement. IFF they will become real discont. items, then by 2020 they will be a rare worth more than it's 'real' 'cosmetic' value (like* santa, h'ween mask, etc.). * not to be confused with 'their price will be absolutely equal to' I am holding onto these masks just because I can keep them for an arbitrary amount of time (>5 years) and with upcoming ways to gain GP without actively participating in game, I have good reasons to believe that one day I can sell one for a nonsensical, ludicrous, funny, droll, comical, farcical price.

Nevermind

Unless they decide to re-continue discontinued items (which would be sad, as it would be too late to do anything about it), this mask will become a rare. About other points, you have them all wrong right. Yes, the massive ad campaign about a new 'peahat' is to make sure people spend much real cash on gambling via SoF and in the end the mask would not be worth anything anytime in the near future (few years). Everybody wins, except for the gambling addicts. Who will spend real cash just to discover they wasted it and quit (eventually, perhaps spending more first). Which is another reason why, given enough time, this mask will be rare.

I have reasons* to believe it will be worth much more in the future. On the other hand, I am not going to sell it until it becomes very expensive. It is kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. What people didn't discuss much in this thread is that this mask is just one of many NEW discontinued items. That makes it one of many and effectively prolongs the 'worth nothing' stage considerably, but not indefinitely. Yes, not indefinitely. Yep, you heard that right. * - there are just so many ways for it to leave the game, most notable are: a) a cheating stockpiler gets banned b) a serious stockpiler gets cleaned (with those 'rares' ending up in a dead account) c) a serious stockpiler leaves 'for real' d) accidents e) serious stockpiler buying cheap and destroying stockpiling them just before a temporary leave (which turns out to be much, much longer) AND unlike classic rares, after they become discontinued, there is no way to produce extraordinary amounts of these and go off giving them away to everyone after which JaGeX would not be able to track which ones were created as a result of bug abuse (object versus item ID).