Dragonlordjl
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How has this game turned into a subscription based with micro-transactions model? Jagex are getting as greedy as Activision/Blizzard :(
Sub + micro-transactions is the way of the future. There are very few truly subscription-based games left anymore because companies realize that by selling in-game benefits to people who are after immediate gratification, they can make boatloads more money.
Runecoins are undoubtedly to become Jagex's version of "<company name> points," an in-house currency only redeemable for game benefits. Right now, it's just cosmetic gear but mark my words, this is the beginning of a full micro-transactions model.
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Am I the only one that used to pronounce it as Ar-Dog-Knee?
I did find out its proper pronounciation quite a few years back now though.
Thats how I've always pronounced it.
Although Karamja.
I always pronounced as Karajama lol
I pronounce it as Karajama too lol.
Are - dug - knee and Karajama.
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Figured this would be worth posting here:
As a part of our Social Slayer update (that is planned for this week) we will be adding degradation to the Slayer Helmet. This will work the same as the Barrows degradation. As compensation for this the Slayer Helmet in it's 'Full' form will now give a 20% bonus to all combat styles instead of 15%. The Black Mask, Focus Sight and Hexcrest in their original state will still only give 15%
What?!? why Jagex why?
Indeed. Simply put, there's no reason for this. It doesn't make any kind of sense.
Unless...
"Once fully degrded, the slayer helmet no longer provides any bonus. To recharge it, you must find a slayer master and trade in 500 slayer points. But if you don't quite have that many, don't fret because we've added a brand-new Recharge Token to uncommon slots on the Squeal of Fortune! And because we care so much about the players, we'll do even better than that: for the next week, Recharge Tokens will instead occupy the common slots.
Happy gaming!
-JaGeX."
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Just some of my recent achievements :3
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Which got me this:
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Omnom 300k
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I got myself this =d:
I can't even tell what most of that is. :|
Since I quit playing, it seems like they did an 'update' that drastically reduced the quality of item pictures. :(
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Well, one day after the update regarding rares in beta and things have not changed. People are still gambling but now play just other silly games. The players have also found 'new' rares: 3rd age items + spirit shards, RotM boots. Basically everything you can not get for free in the beta and requires effort to get. Some gamblers seem to have given up hope though, as the amount of players online in beta was incredibly low today: +- 200 today, whereas other days would easily have 500+ players at the same time.
The beta itself is pretty fun tbh. The combat system is something to get used to, but I like it. I especially love the hotbar: the fact that you can drag anything to it (drink prayer pot, drink overload, high alch, turn on quick prayers.. etc.) All the different abilities make combat much more interesting.
Just add consumables to stores for free and make it impossible to trade with other players in Beta + institute the "nothing over 3k shows up if dropped" rule outside the Wilderness. That'd put an end to the ridiculous gambling.
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I never fought her. What made her so difficult?
Her Miltank is fast and very bulky, and for something you'll fight in the third gym, very powerful. Stomp and attract can pretty much prevent you from attacking at all due to the computer's shameless cheating, and rollout picks up power very quickly since you probably can't kill it quickly enough to stop it (due to the previously mentioned bulk). There's really only one pokemon at that point that resists rollout (And many, many things that are weak to it, especially things you'll want to be using), and if you're playing the remakes, you can't wall her with a ghost due to Scrappy. Worst of all, it can heal with milk drink once you finally get close to killing it.
Really, your best hope is using geodude/graveler or spamming accuracy-lowering attacks.
Tl;dr: Lightning bruiser with healing abilities. You won't be ready.
Definitely a wake-up call boss.
I doubt that very many people who weren't forewarned about it won against her on their first try.
In fact, I'd rate that fight as probably the second-toughest fight in the whole game. The only one more difficult at the time you can first do it is Red, and that's mostly because his Snorlax cheats.
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OMFG no update to the Squeal, it's a goddamn miracle!
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Fun little thing, if you're PvMing, and kill a boss, you can keep you adren bar up by alternating Freedom and the Jump back ability, you can add a few more in if you want to start the boss with a full bar.
Interestingly, any ability counts as entering cmbat, so you get the 10 second logout warning at ge.
Oh, and me and some radom guy got b2b Acp and Ahilt. Why does my luck exist in the beta? :sad:
Well, once beta converts to live the Ahilt will no longer have much value. In fact, I expect Arma armor to actually go up quite a bit since most people will probably stop doing Arma. There will be no reason to do it, if the other bosses are easier and the hilts are all identical except for aesthetics...
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Has anyone tried out TDs in Beta? How much different are they?
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Steps to be good at new combat:
Fill your action bar with offensive abilities you can use with your weapon(s)
Mash 1234567890-= until everything is on cooldown, prioritizing stronger skills.
If something comes off cooldown, use it immediately.
Continue mashing until monster dies
I think new combat is kind of fun, and everything looks cool, but I don't like that you have to literally button mash CONSTANTLY to do any appreciable damage. They made it sound like attacking was pretty much the same, with abilities being an occasional boost. However, auto attacks do absolutely nothing and abilities are 99% of your damage.
Sounds a lot like Dragon Age lol.
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I think it's really dumb that you can no longer use OVL without the herb level.
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Woo we can finally make our rs character look like a Demon Hunter from D3! And we will get orbs just like in D3! Maybe they will add Diablo as a boss next?? /troll
Seriously looking forward to this update. I just hope the wands release have a glowing/particle effect and orbs come in various colors bc all I care about is cosmetic as I don't skill/pvp/pvm and i just stand around gambling.
Peace,
Vann
The sad thing is, despite the technological superiority present in D3, RS is still a vastly superior game.
Think about that one for a minute :3
Pretty much, they took everything that made D2:LOD awesome and replaced it with dumbed-down features from WoW.
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I commend your use of the Nexus Mod Manager :)
And also the GDapp too :D
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yay, the cancer has finally entered stage 4.
I like this analogy.
As someone who recognizes the serious nature of cancer, I don't like the over the top and frankly immature analogies the RuneScape community is prone to making. Why not make a hitler reference while you're at it? "oh man hiding from Jagex's cash shop, now I know how Anne Frank felt."
We're going to have to start paying extra for membership to cover Jagex's gas bill
I did Nazi that one coming.
*runs*
Really though, the increasing pervasiveness of the Wheel of Greed is quite concerning. It really makes you wonder if selling GP isn't right around the corner.
Also, they missed a GREAT gold sink opportunity with this wheel. If they had made it, say, 50k gp to buy one spin... Quite a few people would have done that. But of course, that wouldn't make Jagex any money.
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(I get that you can go F2P as a form of boycott, but it wouldn't be very effective, and it kinda ruins the "Time Saved" bit of that siggy if you're still playing at all.)
I don't think that's how boycotts work... :???:
Your new RSN is awesome.
Anyway, speaking of boycotts just about all my 'oldest' RS friends have quit over this. These are people who have played since classic, and many of them have been members for many consecutive years. One of them is maxed and was a dual-mod before Jagex decided to strip her of her titles for speaking her mind in the hidden forums about the Wheel of Greed. It wasn't the wheel itself that caused them to quit. It was how Jagex has shoe-horned this crap into every single update since it came out, and the "new rare" is the last straw.
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What people also fail to realize is that discontinued items take literally years to amass high value (i.e. over a hundred mil). It doesn't happen over a course of weeks or even months. And as mentioned, with the large playerbase this game has now there will be a very high amount of these items floating around for a long time.
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Looks like the worst month in quite some time.
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Lold.
Vine Whip is a smart idea. I like it, may have to take a few more attempts at the Queen further down the line and see if I can improve myself!
Wow...
That guy is pro.
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DragonlordJ is ludicrously wrong about Blizzard. Shows his lack of any understanding about why case sensativity isn't necessary, as well as how he doesn't understand the authentactors and how they work, nor how prevalent they are among players of Blizzard games.
I know exactly how authenticators work-- I use one. What I am saying is that it seems to me that a whole lot of people are getting hacked, and in every single case they do not have an authenticator. While I am sure a lot of the people making threads about it are full of shit and are trolling, there seems to be a whole lot of smoke and where there is smoke there is usually a fire. It shouldn't be necessary to have an authenticator to protect your account, but it seems like with Blizzard games it is.
Case sensitivity isn't necessary though it is helpful, but password lockout thresholds ARE. Diablo 3 is the ONLY instance I have ever seen where there wasn't a lockout threshold on wrong passwords. Every business, every game, every place where you need to log-in to something has a lockout threshold. It's SOP, and I am pretty sure most server OS have it enabled by default in the group policy settings. Lockout thresholds are one of the biggest safeguards against brute force crackers like Cain and Abel. Without them, someone can run the program endlessly and it drastically increases the likelihood it will successfully crack a password.
You know nothing about security if you think people brute force passwords compared to the other ways of compromising account security. Which based on everything you've said, means you know nothing about security.
You sure do make a lot of assumptions. I know quite a bit about security and am Security+ certified. Are you?
Yes, it is true that brute force is not the most common way to steal passwords but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen now and then. You can't underestimate end-user stupidity, and there are still quite a lot of people who use stupid, simple passwords.
Also, session spoofing is a bullshit conspiracy theory created by ignorant people and perpetuated by fear-mongering trolls.
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DragonlordJ is ludicrously wrong about Blizzard. Shows his lack of any understanding about why case sensativity isn't necessary, as well as how he doesn't understand the authentactors and how they work, nor how prevalent they are among players of Blizzard games.
I know exactly how authenticators work-- I use one. What I am saying is that it seems to me that a whole lot of people are getting hacked, and in every single case they do not have an authenticator. While I am sure a lot of the people making threads about it are full of shit and are trolling, there seems to be a whole lot of smoke and where there is smoke there is usually a fire. It shouldn't be necessary to have an authenticator to protect your account, but it seems like with Blizzard games it is.
Case sensitivity isn't necessary though it is helpful, but password lockout thresholds ARE. Diablo 3 is the ONLY instance I have ever seen where there wasn't a lockout threshold on wrong passwords. Every business, every game, every place where you need to log-in to something has a lockout threshold. It's SOP, and I am pretty sure most server OS have it enabled by default in the group policy settings. Lockout thresholds are one of the biggest safeguards against brute force crackers like Cain and Abel. Without them, someone can run the program endlessly and it drastically increases the likelihood it will successfully crack a password.
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Got this picture from another forum:
Meh, not that impressive.
Then again, I think all dragon armor looks like crap since they did the big graphical upgrade on armor. I miss the more simple version with all the visible white spikes.
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osnap you just became a billionaire.
Can you show a pic of it when worn?
Unfortunately I didn't care enough to even wield it once :P only doing it to get my comp cape back then back to Diablo 3 for me.
What do you have to do for the comp cape? Get all the journals?
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osnap you just became a billionaire.
Can you show a pic of it when worn?
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Yup. The primary focus of almost all of their updates now is how they can incorporate more RWT-based crap in the game. There is VERY little actual content being released any more. I also think that because of the precedent Jagex set of releasing their best high-level content in the Summer, many people are feeling disappointed and let down by the lack of useful updates.