AlexDT

Pretty much falls in the same category as challenge scrolls and dragon eggs - i.e completely random.

Cockroaches are apparently quite good. Never tried them myself, but they're supposedly like AZs for lower-leveled players.

Or at least give them a use. When they were first released, all I could manage was a "lol wut :| ".

Yes, but that completely ignores the fact that most people with a 99 also have many of the other quest requirements.

[hide=]First, you're basing that on nothing more than the time it takes to achieve the capes. Right off the bat, the quest cape is easier because it's engaging, and doesn't involve grinding. Time flies when you're having fun, as they say - even if the identity of 'they' is disputed. Second - and this is where it goes into a slightly grey (or gray, I guess) area - most people with a 99 probably already have the requirements to complete half the available quests. A lot have probably finished half (or more) of the quests. Unless you have a total level of around 1000, you're probably pretty close to stopping the requirement-getting part and starting the questing itself. I don't think most people with a quest cape have level 92 or more in a particular stat - which sort of leads me to point three. The process of getting a quest cape is different to that of getting a 99. I'd say that about 70% of quests offer a reward that would compel a player to complete it for no other reason than the reward itself. This means that by the time a casual player has decided that he wants a white cape with a strange emote but doesn't want to barrage rock lobsters for eons, he's probably already more than halfway there. The only skill you can really apply this phenomenon to is HP, and even then you're more set on getting a combat 99 before you even reach level 92 and don't realise that you're sort of getting to be halfway there. With any other skill, you probably realise that you want to get it to 99 at about the 2-3 million exp mark, which is around level 83. That leaves you with 10-11 million experience to go, and when you realise the RSI-inducing repetitiveness and vastness of the task, you're more likely to give up. I'd say your analogy holds if a player is straight off tutorial island and the two choices are cooking and quest cape, but for the average, reasonably balanced player, the quest cape is probably closer and more enjoyable, and thus easier. Also, the only skills with a high enough exp rate to make this frankly messy comparison competitive are fletching, cooking, thieving and perhaps firemaking. Runecrafting takes about 600 hours, compared to cooking's ~80. Melee skills are about 200, slayer is 1,000+, construction requires 80m before starting...[/hide] TL;DR it's a difficult comparison to make, due to the starting number of quests/starting experience, how much the player likes skilling/questing, etc. But I'll say that most 99s are more difficult than a quest cape.

The quest cape is far easier than a 99, lol.

What is this I don't even... Once you get out of middle school people become violently sociopathic and do anything to put other people beneath them. If that's maturity, then I'll eat my own... Oh wait, it is. Darn my naivety.

While I can't help you with your arborphilia or sadism (should probably get that checked out or something), I do know that you can only handle normal evil trees at your current woodcutting level.

Last April Fools' Day they made that cabbage-themed BTS, so I guess that's a possibility. I'll edit in the screenshot if I can find it...

Depends entirely on how good you are at the minigame. I think Qeltar managed to get about 40k/hr there, or maybe a bit higher. Most I ever managed was about 20, but if you manage to get your head around Vinesweeper and Minesweeper at the same time, and also do regular farming, you could probably manage a feesable exp rate. Well, assuming you don't succumb to boredom. Imagine playing Minsweeper for 300 hours.

I don't see why there wouldn't be. People usually post them in BlogScape/Rate This!, try looking there.

The only things that don't use a hammer are plants (hedges, magic trees, etc) and dungeon monsters (guards and treasure room bosses). Also the Rocnar in the oubliette. Anything else requires a hammer.

I'd advise using proselyte top and bottom over karil - partly because it's cheaper if you die, but mostly because higher mage defence doesn't seem to have much effect on the KBD's attacks. My trips have lasted much longer in proselyte, and I know that a few other KBD hunters agree.

According to a friend that got 99 agility there, you'll never stop failing.

We need to increase the effectiveness of stats, and lower the power of items. That's all I'll say.

...Go for it? I don't really see the point in this thread, seems like you're just trying to advertise that you've got 99 strength.

I get the same thing at 99 defence. It's luck, and when you camp a monster for that long, strings of hits are going to happen. Just increase your ranged defence bonus and statistics will be on your side.

The Wildy course is faster until 75, because if you fail the last 2 obstacles, you lose the lap bonus and a significant amount of hourly exp. Although, at 73 I started to fail mcuh less, so 73+ is probably the way to go. 70 is just not worth it.

Moderately Crunchy. It always has, and always will be, my custom forum rank of choice.

Agility: 30 Attack: 40 Strength: 40 Defence: 60 Construction: 30 Cooking: 50 Crafting: 20 Farming: 40 Firemaking: 15 Fishing: 20 Fletching: 20 Herblore: 1 Hunter: 30 Magic: 40 Mining: 1 Prayer: 1, with 0 exp Ranged: 30 Runecrafting: 1 Slayer: 10 Smithing: 1 Summoning: 1 Thieving: 30 Woodcutting: 40 There's no bard skill, I'd be like level 90 in that.

Keep going, the defence cape is awesome.

So don't retaliate :| Honestly, if you only approach the subject from a purely objective standpoint (which you claim to be doing), they will not have an opportunity to 'bash' you because you haven't directly said anything negative about the skill. If you say "cooking is 250k exp/hr, whereas defence is 70k exp/hr", they can't refute it. But if you say "defence is harder than cooking", they're unlikely to say "you are correct, I am indeed inferior to you".

61 is possible, 60 is not. For 61 to work you'd still need a +6 boost, since you need the leeway of the extra level due to the distance traveled to get to the altar.

Just camp Mos Le'Harmless. For the hour I went there, I earned about 900k from the dragon and ninja imps. There's a wheat field, and it's an island, so they're in a fairly small area. Oh no, I've revealed the imp hunting industry's biggest secret :-#