Obtaurian

That's fair enough, but that's also the reason why Jagex announced these things ahead of time in very public and well-covered ways. It seems a shame to essentially 'nerf' the nice give-back aspect of these events because of a completely unrelated issue: merchanting clans and the grand exchange. That, I think, is more unfair than just asking people to plan for the future. After all, is the every day casual player really going to get so distressed about not being able to grind out 'til the end of the multiplier as someone who is making long-term goals and going for maxed stats? Not really. I disagree; I think merchanting clans and the broken GE are completely related, as they directly affect a player's ability to prepare for such a weekend. But it's not just clans, it's thousands of individuals all attempting to do the same thing: buy supplies. Everyone is affected, casual or otherwise. EDIT: I take that back; DIY'ers aren't affected to any significant degree as far as I can tell. EDIT 2: I stand corrected. ^^^

I feel that that's unfair to the players, who shouldn't be expected to hoard things in fear of being left behind come the next bonus weekend.

Nobody is forcing you to do it. Your doing it of your own free will yet complaining about being forced to participate. And that's really sad. But it'd be much less work and money to simply hoard my charms, so why wouldn't I do it if I knew to expect another bonus weekend within a reasonable amount of time? One of the clinches of MMOs is that you do feel forced to do certain things, and bonus exp weekends are one of those things (many MMOs have them regularly). Are there any skills that you do not enjoy doing? Do you train those skills? Why? Because you feel that you have to. And that's really sad. :rolleyes:

If we get another bonus weekend this year, I will be making it a habit to hoard and never use my charms in anticipation of these weekends. I'll probably do the same for herblore. I'm actually already starting to hoard summoning seconds since reading this thread. And that's really sad.

Ahahahaha, South Park.

Didn't N0valyfe, Zezima, and The Old Nite duke it out for #1 years ago, the order always switching around?

Why would they feel disadvantaged? They might not be pleased but this is only because they would have wanted to raise their buyables instead of other skills. The only players that will arguably be disadvantaged are people who have lower levels in the skills I named and therefore have less possibilities to train. Or people who aren't able to amass enough charms before the weekend swings around. Summoning is the skill most affected by bonus weekends.

I absolutely do not want another bonus exp weekend. It's so stressful to have to worry about whether or not I should hoard my charms in anticipation of one. I would just really rather not spend two or three weeks grinding for charms and buying up seconds and shards after the announcement.

These are both great ideas, and ones that I've suggested on the RSOF with lukewarm support. <_<

Many solo'ers do just that.

I agree. When I first started dungeoneering, I was stoked to get my hands on a tier 10 bow, only to realize that I was frequently hitting under 100 with tier 8 arrows.

Wow, I had no idea that Aasiwat was so close to overtaking Gertjaars. We're finally gonna have a new #1, at least until Zarfot catches up (and he will).

Your just glad because F2P was finally given a good mini-game to play. You would be just as happy with Stealing Creation, which in my opinion is more fun because it is PvP. This is just another piece of content that is a grind. Just because each dungeon is different, doesn't mean it won't be a grind. Every room has a monster or two to kill. You find a place to make some armour, then you get some food. You get to the end, and then kill a boss. Then repeat. It's the same thing over and over again. I know exactly what you mean, because PVP is exactly the same way. Every fight may be different, yeah, but at the end of the day you're just killing dudes in rune with AGS' over and over again. LOLOLOLOOL AMIRITE. :rolleyes:

Hunt red salamanders, catch butterflies, or do something else to 77, then use those fruit bats. It's not really worth catching pawyas by themselves.

Seriously? [bleep]ing KB. <_<

This is what I'm talking about. Not some "my opinion is..." or "my experience is..." with bogus conclusions based on feelings and "how it seemed". Sara Sword has been proven to be faster. The zamorakian spear may have 5 more crush, but you should realize that an increase in 5 crush attack when you're 99 attack, potted to 125, using piety, and already hitting 95% of the time anyway is going to have a much smaller increase in kills/h than even an increase in your max hit by 10 lifepoints. EDIT: If you were hitting 90% of the time with a saradomin sword, you'd hit about 90.3% of the time with a zamorakian spear. You would need to average around 1700 damage per hit (absurd) for the increased accuracy of the spear to outweigh the increase of 5 average damage per hit. This, and I can confirm that the Saradomin is better than a ZS against fiends by way of my own testing (slayer).

This. Runescape actually died last Thursday, but due to wormholes and tears in the fabric of the space/time continuum, it continues to exist in an alternate universe, projecting itself onto ours in a state of constant chaos, or what we call a pime taradox. You're just not thinking fourth dimensionally.

Source? This. I've driven about 4,000 miles in the past three months alone (a few round trips from LA to San Francisco, with some whipped cream on top). Typical American amirite. :rolleyes: Once again, I would really like to attend Runefest. I'm curious as to how many Americans will be visiting the UK just for that.

I'm really hoping that batch 2 introduces chaotic armor.

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Wow, that's actually a pretty good guess. I really hope it's right. It's not fun having a quest cape if they never release quests, and a Myreque quest would be great right now.

It's clearly a fletching update. You heard it here first, folks.

10/10. Farming is awesome. Good luck on maxing. Gonna be a long road ahead for 120 dungeoneering.

They didn't add anything new for Kuradal, so they didn't "double up" on anything. They just added the equivalent of a Jad task to all of the other slayer masters. We just got a bunch of slayer updates, so it doesn't bother me at all (I'm 95 slayer; it's my favorite skill). Jad tasks are great, and you should really learn to do them quickly, 'cause they're definitely worth doing (and fun, too).

That one-handed drum roll looks like a gravity blast.