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I was over 100 combat when I got my first dragon drop -- two sets of d legs on one iron dragon assignment. Recently got my third drop -- a shield half from bloodveld.

I'm one of those players who never buys something that I can get for free on my own. So, for example, I craft my own runes, and I gather my own pure ess. At first, I went through the tiresome process of mining ess. That almost convinced me to break my usual rule and go ahead and buy the ess that I needed. But one day I was playing the temple trekking minigame trying to get full lumberjack (which I did). By the time I had collected full lumberjack, I noticed that I had accumulated a LOAD of pure ess, easily more than I could have mined in the same time. So I vowed never to mine pure ess again (why would I?), and I haven't. Recently, someone suggested that he gets pure ess from killing banshees. (It's hard for me to imagine that this is faster than temple trekking, but to each his own, I guess.) Then I started thinking that this isn't the only commodity that I now harvest as a drop rather than in the traditional way. For example, I get snape grass by killing waterfiends -- I no longer run around picking it up and killing hobgoblins on the side. I don't craft deaths -- doubt I even have the level, but it wouldn't matter because infernal mages drop so many that it doesn't make sense for me to craft (unless I'm training runecrafting). So I thought it might be interesting to hear other people's experiences with harvesting commodities through drops rather than in the traditional way.

Ok, this explains our different experience. I've never fought them there. I always fight them in Brimhaven, usually range them. I've seen them in the tunnels on the way to Bork, though. Still, I don't care about charms -- already got more than I know what to do with. But if you like crimson charm droppers and fast xp, try waterfiends -- I probably have more crimson charms than any other color, mostly from waterfiend assignments.

I am surprised that we have the same slayer level since our experiences are so different. I've found Scarabites to be a worthless assignment. They're easy with a cannon, but who wants to deal with the cannon and getting the cannonballs and going all the way down there and wading through the swamp? Plus the drops are lame. Black Demons one of the best charm doppers in the game? Are you kidding? I've found them to be one of the worst. Honestly, I've found pretty much every other assignment to drop more charms. Isn't there some empirical data on this? Besides, since I do a lot of slayer, charms are not a problem -- I have thousands of every color. The seconds are the problem. I'll probably block the Wyverns -- at my level, I do slayer for xp, not for profit, and these things look SLOW. Maybe I should try them once before spending the slayer points, just to be sure. I've never had a problem with steel dragons. Of course, I am one of the few that mele them, so this may give me an advantage when it comes to holding onto my spawn. They spawn pretty quickly, just enough time to top off my prayer as needed and bury the bone. They are slow killing, but I like the drops. I would never block Greater Demons -- throw on armadyl, grab a crystal blow, go to the cage in the ogre dungeon and slaughter away. They are abundant and die readily. That's the fastest range xp I've ever found. The drops are worthless, but who cares?

I CONSTANTLY agonize over this question. So far, I've blocked only warped terrorbirds. First chance I get, I'm blocking Jungle Horrors. I'll probably also block scarabites. After that, I don't know. I'm torn on Black Demons. I'm presently assigned Skeletal Wyverns. Never had them before. In researching them a little, I can see little reason to kill them, and some serious reasons to block them. I just can't decide whether they're worthy of one of my precious blocking spaces.

No idea which rares are most rare, but I think that price has mostly to do with looks. I like the halloween masks, but there is no reason that I know of that my red mask is worth twice as much as my green mask except that most people think red looks better than green.

Void mace lets you autocast some spells that you can't with an ordinary staff.

One of my threads that got deleted debated the best setup for aberrant specters -- salve (e) with prayer or fury with food. I think that salve (e) with prayer won that debate, but the new slayer helm changes all that. It seems clear now (to me, anyway) that a slayer helm with a fury is a better setup now. In fact, the salve (e) may now be obsolete. I thought it might be interesting to discuss what other common slayer setups have been changed by the availability of the new slayer helm?

I would consider three days patience enough. :wall: Try this. Reduce your price to the minimum. When prices go down, reduce again. I sold a zammy 4 that way.

Or maybe you're just too cheap. Try this. Offer the max price. If the max ever goes up, raise your offer. You'll get your chins. If you're too cheap to pay the going rate, then don't complain. When I want to buy, I offer max price. Almost always successful right away. Selling is the problem.

Don't waste your nats alching something so small. Take them to the amulet shop in Brimhaven to get a decent price.

I have an idea on this one. Jagex may have screwed up the listing. My son and I tried every search that we could think of to find DDS on GE, but we couldn't find any.

What's the high alch on gold bars? I don't think Jagex will let the GE price drop below the high alch price. They might not want to provide a mechanism for free and easy mage training and huge profits to boot. If that's what's going on, there may well be some items that cannot be sold through the GE. If that's what's going on, I'd suggest to Jagex to lower the high alch price.

Thanks! I'll add you next time I can log in. (I'm at work right now.)

Does anyone know a high level crafter set up somewhere who trades items for the materials? I'm trying to get a skills necklace and have the materials but not the level to make it.

I assume that I should go to Brimhaven dungeon for this. What's the best set up to kill these things efficiently? Is it worth bothering with darklight? Will dds help, or should I just go straight to the whip? With lessers, I pretty much just whip them, but I'm assuming that greaters might not die as quickly. Are they susceptible to range? Are there good safespots? Once I start this assignment, I'd like to get it over with as quickly as possible.

I suggest getting the milk free from you POH. If your POH is in Yanille, you have easy access to a churn and a bank. You can also get unlimited potatoes and bowls in your POH. Tuna potatoes rock, and I think that your POH in Yanille is the best place to make them.

The problem isn't too few nests -- it's too many toadflax. I have these things coming out my ears. I'd suggest that you stop wasting your inventory space picking up these seeds. If you ever need toadflax seeds, there's a guy on the forums who trades one seed for one herb. Toadflax seeds are almost as common as guam herbs. Sara brews are a fairly high level pot, so the nests shouldn't be too easy to get. The toadflax is incidental. It's the nest that sets the level of the brew.

Right, I think to truly "beat" the game you would have to max out on every mini-game as well -- earn all possible rewards. Become a white knight "Master." Earn the ultimate chompy hat. So on, and so forth. At the rate Jagex adds content, I doubt anyone will ever do that.

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I'd have to be pretty doggone bored to go for a level 99 for its own sake. But is the cape worth going for, as a cape? How does it compare with other capes like legends or obby or the god capes?

I've been ranging with rune cbow and mith bolts. Wouldn't this be better than bone? I don't really care about cost since I have a ton of mith bars.

I wonder whether Jagex intentionally made the easier capes uglier so that there would be less incentive to get them? It does seem that the harder capes to get look the best and have the best emotes. The prayer emote is one of the coolest things I've seen in Runescape.

Nobody said that getting a 99 in firemaking, cooking, or fletching is "easy." What others said, and what I said was that it is a lot easier than getting a 99 in something like runecrafting or slayer. To be more precise, I included the firemaking cape among the "easiest" quest capes to get. None of them is "easy" (like killing a goblin), but compared to one of the harder capes, those capes are relatively "easy." Does that help clear things up?

I like the d long just because almost nobody uses it, but I don't think it's as good as the d scimmy. Another guy and I, who were of similar levels, did a little test on Moss Giants. First he used scimmy and I used long. Then he used long, and I used scimmy. Scimmy killed faster both ways, but it was close. Long hit a little harder, but, in the end, scimmy's speed won out. Of course, I sold both shortly after getting a whip. I just never found a reason to use either one when I could use a whip instead.