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Which if true is funny because the Soul Wars cape destroys it. BTW, does the Soul Wars cape you get as a reward only get used in the minigame and do Delfect curses deflect damage back on Avatar? I know they don't on Nomad. Soul wars cape won't totally destroy quest cape as status symbol since there always will be fewer quest capes than soul wars capes. Having said that, the soul wars cape is much better looking and more unique, so people may choose to use those as the status symbol. For a long time, anyway, most people who do this quest probably will already have the quest cape.

It almost seems as though this "quest" is designed to do one thing -- make the quest cape a status symbol superior to the fire cape and superior to many (most?) skill capes. This could cut by more than half the number of quest capes you see people walking around with out there. If you were starting from scratch, many skill capes would be much easier to obtain than the quest cape.

because you need level 75+ to use the "lamps that are no lamps at all" =/ Finally getting around to doing this quest -- got 75 pray first and have been waiting for Kuradel to assign me dags. Up to the final battle. I'm wondering why this wouldn't work? What if I stay away from her to avoid melee, pray range, and wear mage gear? This gives me the ability to hit higher with mage on the several spell cycles, and it seems like I wouldn't get hit all that much.

No it doesn't. The trade limit does that. If they took away mint cakes and junk trading tomorrow, people still wouldn't sell partyhats on the GE.

Good point. This is simply the mirror image of junk trading, which they've made no effort to stop. Why would Jagex be upset that people have found a use for an otherwise useless item in the game? Back in the day, I've eaten more than one mint cake just to get rid of them. Now people are actually playing with them. How is that a bad thing?

It is only a matter of time until either 1) Jagex decides to put an end to "mints" by either making them non-tradeable or making them easily obtainable from other sources. 2) Merchants get bored with mints and decide to create some new "bargaining chip" item. 1.) Absolutely no reason for Jagex to make them non tradeable for any reason. None of the other Gnome Delivery Mini game items are non tradeable, so no reason why mint cakes should be. I would lulz if you could make them for cooking though, lol. "Level 95 cooking update: Make Mint cakes with wheat, eggs, milk, and mint leaves that cost 10gp each in a store" 2.) Why...? It has a high street price because it's a fairly rare item from Gnome Delivery, and that's it. Even if another item like it came out, it would still hold its street value. There are other "bargaining chips" in the market. Introduction of a new medium of exchange has never before destroyed another. Masks didn't kill 3rd age. 1. I seriously doubt that they would become untradeable, but Jagex increasing the rate at which you get them or introducing another source(mayeb a drop from a new monster after a quest?) sounds very likely. 2. There is already at least one item just like mints, grand tree seed pods(not sure if that was their name). They seem about as rare if not rarer than mints and are obtained in exactly the same way, yet they're only worth 5k or so. I don't know what makes people think that Jagex would be so stupid. The problem is not with mint cakes. Nerfing mint cakes will only cause people to use something else for currency. The problem is runaway inflation of gp. If Jagex wants to stop people from using mint cakes (or anything else other than gp) as currency, the way to do that is to stop so much gp from coming into the game, iow, to nerf pvp. Only that will cause people to trade with gp again.

Santas did crash durring Christmas but the sheer amout of GP in the hands of newbie merchants sucked it up really quick. It's going down again, 2mil loss in 2 days. :( You haven't lost anything unless you sold. It is highly likely to go right back up. In fact, if you have more money, this would be a good time to buy more.

Actually, mints are related to inflation. Certain high demand items (partyhats, divines and elysians) developed a street value above their GE price. So it became necessary to "junk trade" for them. The problem now is that, because of inflation, gp is itself junk (and crashing junk at that). It has become almost impossible to buy a partyhat with pure cash. Nobody wants the cash. That is where the mint came in. It's a relatively rare item that emerged as a sort of currency allowing the high demand items to be traded for something other than themselves. So you can't buy a partyhat with pure cash (even using junk trading), but, if you can gather enough mints, you can buy one. The problem is accumulating enough mints -- easier said than done.

While it might be theoretically possible to buy these things with mints, it would not be easy to come up with enough mints to buy even the lowest level edible.

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Kuradel, both because it's a nice enhancement of slayer, which really is a drudgery after 85, and because of the interesting things this new npc portends for quests.

They appear to have stabilized. I'm still flipping them, but have been unable to buy below mid and have had no trouble selling above mid.

In the interest of full disclosure, I have over 500m in santas. I've been flipping them lately. It is getting harder to buy them below mid, so they seem to be stabilizing for now. But it's impossible to predict what effect the holiday might have.

Yeah, it appears that someone is trying to make the red halloween mask like a seventh partyhat. I had a dozen reds in November -- guess I shoulda kept them a little longer. It will be interesting to see how long they can make the buyout stick. My guess is not very long.

Wouldn't it have been better to avoid melee attacks by standing away and pray something else? You have to melee her if she turns a certain color. Still, it wouldn't be a bad idea to stand a few spaces back, pray range/mage, and attack her with the necessary spells/type of attack. When you have to melee her, get Balmung and move in close quarters for a few seconds, then take a step back. Of course, she probably will follow you back unless there's a safe spot. Somebody said she doesn't move. True?

Wouldn't it have been better to avoid melee attacks by standing away and pray something else?

Void's an interesting idea, but that just means that you need to switch weps AND helms, right? Worth the added complication?

This raises an interesting question -- will it replace more conventional weapons for dagganoth hunting? I don't know anyone who uses keris to kill kalphites. Frankly, the only reason I keep keris at all is that I think it's the best-looking weapon in the game. This axe won't win any awards for its looks. So will this axe be stowed away in banks and never used like keris? Or are the bonuses so huge that someone would be crazy to use something like a whip instead?

I like santas here. In fact, I've spent all my available cash buying santas. I sifted through this thread and saw that I bought thirteen santas back in October when I thought that they were relatively cheap. After halloween, they went up, and I sold them all and bought haloween masks (which were relatively cheap at the time). Now halloween masks are way up, and I sold them all and bought (eighteen) santas again. So in this process of buying and selling santas and masks, I went from thirteen santas in October to eighteen santas two months later. That's not really huge returns, but it is positive, and I don't have to feel like I've cheated anyone. Just simple buying low and selling high. Plus I think that I've done a service to the economy by helping to stabliize the price of these small rares. When the price gets too low, I buy, helping to drive the price up. When the price gets too high, I sell, helping to drive the price down.

The same as the original mother. What hurts her is based on colour. White - Air magic owns, all else is fail Blue - water magic brown - earth magic red - fire magic green - ranged orange - melee Maybe I'm using the wrong terminology. I didn't mean "mage" or "range" or mele." I meant stab or crush or slash.

WAY tmi! Not really, unless you consider by liking of girls to be too much information. Other than that, I'm talking about bra, which are just matieral you wear on your body like any other clothing. Well, ok then. I buy my underwear at Walmart 'cause it's cheap there. I also like girls (one, actually). I doubt anyone cares what my underwear looks like. Not sure what this has to do with Runescape, but there you have it.

Is it possible to poison the mother? Also, does she appear to be susceptible to any particular attack style?

WAY tmi!

I have heard rumours of a certain group af players that each have well over 200 pumpkins each. So They aren't rarer then crackers, they were just alot easier to buy out when they were considered junk. An addition to our player profiles (or whatever Jagex calls them) that would be really interesting and, I would think, doable, would be a total value of each player's bank. There are some really big numbers out there.

This seems to be the standard approach, but I'm wondering why? (I haven't tried it yet.) It seems to me that against something that uses three attack styles, you wear mele armour (which protects against both mele and range) and pray mage. This is especially so if, as I've heard, you do the big damage with the axe. So if I wear full bandos (or torags), dragon boots, zerker ring, it seems I could withstand most attacks and get better hits. Is the answer that her mele attacks are stronger than her mage?