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Well, that's interesting, thanks. Anyone can put anything into an RS wiki page but I'll do some testing and see how that holds up. Even if they are weak to mage, though, meleeing them will be much faster.

There really are no free lunches when it comes to Herblore. If it's fast and easy, it's not cheap. If it's fast and cheap, it's not easy. If it's easy and cheap, it's not fast. On my site I have an optimization guide that assesses all of the possible methods based on current prices; here's the level 85 activity index. This includes obscure methods like cleaning herbs, making herb tars, making Barbarian potions, etc. It also tries to take into account the value of untradeable potions. Which activity you should do depends on how much you value your time, thus the four columns reflecting opportunity costs of 100k, 250k, 500k and 1M per hour. It also depends on what you like doing and how much clicking you can tolerate. Good luck...

I think some of you are missing his point. There's nothing wrong with deciding to do something "not totally efficient" because you want to do it yourself. As many have pointed out, this is a game, not a job. He's complaining about people who claim to be doing something efficiently when they aren't, and don't even understand why they aren't. More specifically, he's complaining about people who do not understand opportunity cost.

Afraid I can't really agree with either of these points. The Heroes Guild has but one dragon, and usually people fighting over it. And color dragons are not especially weak to magic -- think about what you make with their hides. If speed is what you're after, do either the Ogre Enclave or the ones in Taverly using the shortcut. Bring a beast of burden. Use super attack and strength potions. Use full Veracs with protection from magic and Piety, using antifire potions. This entry in my Beastopedia has lots of useful advice, drop logs and more. Good luck!

Herblore is an expensive skill unless you want to do slow options like cleaning herbs (very subject to market fluctuations) or making Barbarian potions (tedious and may be hard to sell). You may find this index useful. You can sort it based on the criteria that are most important to you.

The major drive makers all make pretty good quality products. I've had good success with most brands; I prefer WD but that's just out of habit. You'll get the most benefit out of replacing your main system drive, but that requires transferring data which is more work and has to be done carefully.

On my site I have a Crafting skill optimization guide. It uses current GE prices to compute the costs and speeds of various training options. This is the P2P index for level 56 and should give you some ideas. I recommend figuring out roughly how much money per hour you value your time at, then clicking one of the columns on the far right to sort the table to show the most cost-effective options. Good luck.

Yes. But... You cannot poison bound arrows. You need to poison them and bind them, then poison more and bind those, etc.

Maybe I am asking a lot. But it hardly compensates for the vast majority of players who ask for nothing. Jagex are the ones who presented this as a "thank you" to customers. They have since done *nothing* consistent with that. They are charging a fortune for the event, which benefits them, not customers. They are excluding most people and not doing anything to include players who can't come. Certainly not a way to thank customers. The "secret venue" bullsquat only three months before the event is not only not a kind gesture to customers, it's flat out obnoxious. The flagstaff is even worse -- it's an overt slap in the face to everyone who can't go. Everything about this event says "Jagex is throwing Jagex a big party, and if you want to pay a small fortune they'll let you watch". If that's not the message the company wanted to send, then they should have taken an approach that actually puts customers first, not their own desires and interests.

Your hard drive is in trouble. It needs to be replaced. What is happening is this. It is normal for an occasional bad spot to appear on a drive where data can't be read back properly. In the old days the operating system would mark this area as bad and you'd see it as a "bad block" when you looked at the drive's stats. Now what happens is that the drive has a small area of "extra" storage that isn't part of the main storage area. When a bad spot is found, the drive controller marks it as bad in an internal table, and instead substitutes one of the spare areas -- a "reallocated sector". When this happens too often, it means the drive has a problem. In this case you may even have exhausted the available spares. Hard drives are cheap; data is not. Back up the drive and replace it immediately. Just getting that message should be sufficient for your warranty to cover the cost of a replacement drive.

The best way to go depends on whether you are F2P or P2P, whether you are after speed or trying to save money, etc. Need more info.

Wergali at the moment. Updated daily.

If I were making $25,000,000+ a year off my members? Absolutely I would. That's what most companies do when they are fabulously successful. They give a little bit back. It's no different than a businessperson taking out clients to a dinner or sending them a nice Christmas gift -- they don't generally include the bill and expect the client to cover the cost. Heck, I've been using Google AdSense for years and Google sends me a gift every Christmas. Likely to thousands of other people/companies too. It doesn't come with a price tag attached or postage due. Jagex claimed that this was about thanking their customers. It is more like they are throwing *themselves* a party and having their customers pay for it. Luckily for them, people will line up to not only go along with it, but defend the behavior. And that's why companies these days pretty much do whatever they want. ETA: There is one place where Jagex is very generous and deserves credit: F2P. They give people a nice, free game with no time limits. But otherwise, the company is remarkably stingy.

Jagex doesn't need any "sponsors" for this event if it's really about thanking customers, as they said. They aren't some struggling startup. This company has, as the old expression goes, "more money than God". They should have subsidized the event -- not only would it have barely dented their bottom line, they'd have gotten back what they spent in PR value.

Pretty nice article on RuneFest; reasonably balanced, and mercifully not full of apologetics like most RuneFest articles are. Couple of quick points: 1. No, it's not reasonable for people to "whine" that they can't attend an event in a different country. But that's exactly why it should have had an online component to it, even if a minimal one, to help the community all feel involved. This was a totally missed opportunity. 2. The cost of the food and drink etc. does not justify the high ticket price of this event. This was supposed to be an event to thank customers -- you don't thank people by inviting them to a party and then making them pay for it. Add to that the fact that Jagex is an exceedingly wealthy company, and most of their customers are poor students, and it's just that much worse. 3. No mention of the Flagstaff of Fiascos, though that might have been deliberate.

quelmotz -- I said that there are people who both overestimate *and* underestimate how hard it is to do things in RuneScape. I didn't personally attack anyone on this thread. You responded by calling me an idiot and talking about my ego. Try staying on topic. Hint: the topic is not your personal feelings about me, which I couldn't care less about (I get flamed here on a daily basis by better than you) and I doubt anyone else cares about either. I don't know how you expect me to "substantiate" my point any better. I already gave the example of the 40 second world switch delay due to "profile transferring", which anyone who knows anything about the Internet knows is total BS. But people still say it's really needed.

I don't particularly love them, but I also think the "aquanite hate" is overdone. They aren't that bad, nor are they that slow. There are certainly worse assignments IMO. Though I agree that Kuradal shouldn't assign them if they aren't unlocked...

The answer is that it depends entirely on how much money per hour you can make doing other things. This is a skill activity index using recent prices for Herblore level 73. On the right side are columns that show efficiency indexes for various hourly opportunity cost figures. Based on this data, the breakeven between Serum 207 and ranging pots is somewhere around 750k/hr. The breakeven between Serum 207 and super strengths is similar.

Someone who had a computer engineering degree and a decade's worth of programming experience before most of you were born. Thanks very much for the childish personal attacks -- while simultaneously lecturing me about "respect", neat trick there -- but my point remains: there are people who both overestimate *and* underestimate the difficulty of updates.

I dunno. I think I'd rather pick up ammo off the floor occasionally than have to constantly count how many shots I've taken to swap the bow to avoid it degrading. That sounds like a real hassle. Rune crossbows hit much harder than the crystal bow if you are using broad or better bolts. In the tests I have done so far, darts and knives are not appreciably faster even on low-def monsters, even in Kuradal's. They *are* more expensive (though many people have unsellable rune darts rotting in the bank anyway). Now that my Dungeoneering marathon is over I'll consider looking at that again. The hunter crossbow's attraction is cheap ammo and fast shooting speed. It is *far* superior to the bone crossbow.

The reason monolith rooms give everyone fits is that they fight in metal armor with no prayer. It's basically the same as walking into the waterfiends room in the Chaos Tunnels in full rune and thinking you'll survive for long. Try it in decent ranged armor with Prot/Ranged on. Very different fight. :)

People are going to have a hard time advising you until you get more educated about how the skill works overall. Fortunately, your timing is good.. after a full month of work, I just posted a very comprehensive guide to the Dungeoneering skill. It has everything you need to know: http://www.runescoop.com/html/rs_TheRuneScoopUltimateSkillGuideDungeoneering.htm Start with the Core Concepts section and proceed from there; feel free to post any questions.

If you like teaming, do teams on all floors, rushing the lower-numbered floors on small maps, then switching to larger floors later. If you dislike teams, solo-rush lower floors, then switch to teams for higher-numbered floors at around floor 25-30 (depending on taste).

The tiers of the items on the tables is based on combat levels, not Smithing levels. You can't get anything above tier 8 regardless -- maxed players get katagon. No gorgonite or promethium on the tables.

So you agree with / support everything your government does?