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Anytime son, bring it! :-P But seriously, we do need to have our deathmatch sometime

Lol thanks, but didn't I already show you these :-P Here's a new kill to add: Gromhell5, dead by my hand!

Real men don't need a def pot?

Get Some! Got Some! Get Some More! And now for the money kill... GET SOME!

I think for me at least that feeling is still alive and well. I've had several "magical dragon experiences," including my first dragon drop ever when I got dragon skirt and platelegs on consecutive Iron Dragons, or getting a Dragonm Medium Helm on my first ever KBD (even tho my buddy got the drop, it was before Commiescape and he was able to share the drop), or despite having played since RS1, getting my first ever Dragon Half Shield drop earlier this year. I'm not gonna lie, I still get that warm fuzzy feeling every time I see that delightful red color on top of a stack of loot. In fact just today during a clan Bandos trip, I got a Godsword Shard 3 from Sergeant Grim[bleep]e. Sure, it's only worth 150k, but it totally made my day just seeing it lying there next to an eyepatch and some bones and being like "YES! I'M AWESOME!"

I had a fun idea. Insted of using the GE, they should just allow people to trade player to player without restrictions, and perhaps designate a couple worlds for trading, that way all the traders could gather in falador and varrok and sell to eachother without having to worry if a mutally acceptable trade was within the arbitrary limits of the grand exchange.

I can't wait to get my Dragon Defender from the eastern lands! (oh don't give me that, you know it's comming) As for mining, I'd love nothing more than a Dargon Pickaxe. Hopefully they might fix the requirements for producing armour, and equal out the power of smithing and crafting compared to eachother. Crafting is so overpowered, as it lets you produce Lvl 40 Armour at only lvl 63 crafting, where as smithing you have to be 99 to make lvl 40 defense armour. Hopefully, they'll either bump the crafting requirements for all dragonhide to 99 or lower smithing rune armour to the mid-sixties. Now that macros are gone, they can return to us all the good stuff they had to take out preventing macros, since GE still prevents RWT. In 2009, let's look forward to: Return of Hard Rocks, Removal of Random Events, and the removal of Pure Essence. Finally, Wilderness Tag, a PK minigame promised to us in 2007 had better be comming out soon. It is perhaps the longest update in comming in the history of Runescape. DISCLAIMER: there may be some ranting/sarcasm contained in this post.

You've touched upon what is possibly the single most annoying aspect i encountered while training when i was f2p.

JaGex's legal issues not withstanding, I think the game was better BEFORE the removal of unrestricted trading. I'm willing to accept that some nerd who lives in his mom's basement is RWTing, and while it bugs me, I'm simply looking at the positives in that unrestricted trade made it so much easier to buy sell stuff at it's actual value without having to junk trade. I remember I got an expensive furnatiure item from a level 3 clue. I put in on the GE since I had no use for it. The initial price was 990k. It took over a month for the price to degrade to where I could finally sell it, somewhere around 46k. Seriously. just let us trade like big kids jagex.

50 Hours (3k tokens) seems like quite a long dry steak. Most likely, they're droppping and you're ignoring them :-P Don't forget: Defenders have no cash value, and as such appear UNDER the big bones and are quite hard to see. Always right-click cyclops drop piles, you might be surprised whats lurking under the bones! As for gear, Sacred Clay Platebody and Legs + Warrior/Zerker/Nieznot Helm and whip with your current defender adds up really, really fast xp even if you arent getting the drops. The most annoying part is that I can't get back my stupid Black Defender without surrendering my rune one! Why should I have to work my way up to rune again just so I can go retrieve my black defender!