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Okay. Jad already hits extremely high. Higher damage isn't really an avenue they can take for making a new, stronger monster. Way to be petty [wagon] instead of discussing anything I actually said.

This is pretty amazing. I hope the Fire Cape gets a graphical update to restore its status as best looking cape in the game. I can't really imagine something more powerful than Jad though. Jad can already one-hit you and uses all forms of combat as well as heals. I realize there's Nex, but she's soloable up to the blood phase, no? I don't consider her when I'm thinking of monsters meant for a single-player challenge. Then again - and this is for everyone saying they can't get a Fire Cape - Jad is now extremely easy with Ganodermic armor. If they made a new monster, the only way they could make it more powerful would be through gimmicks like ignoring your gear, prayer switching itself, ARMOR switching itself, etc. Lol, can you imagine having to practically brid a monster that becomes immune to one style, highly resistant to another, and changes its own attacks based on your own armor all at the same time? Okay. Now I know how they can make something tougher than Jad. :P

VERY impressive. And yeah, the pictures with the dogs are most definitely Brimhaven. If you click more images, you get a few more for each area, and some of the further ones have Red Dragons (and Baby Red Dragons) and a bridge in the same setting.

In that case you should probably do a few different overlapping items just so there's no confusion.

How big can it be? I could easily whip something up pretty quickly. I'm thinking Graardor's face. He seems to be the official monster mascot, anyway... Lol.

This seems considerably random... I am holding Tome of Frost by the way. It and the shoes for that matter are only subtly affected. I'm really just questioning why they applied it randomly to things like these but not to the Fire Cape, for example... :-|

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Whereas I may not have any sympathy for the botmakers, I do have some for SOME of the botters themselves. For a very long time it seemed JaGEx was doing nothing or very little to enforce the rule. So long, in fact, that many players who might not have botted a few years ago were tempted to do so during the lax period from 2010-2011 or so, perhaps thinking if they didn't, they would be at a disadvantage which no longer had much risk. Actually, yeah, I would say that JaGEx not punishing botting for so long supported it. It looked like they'd given in and no longer cared. Of course now we know that wasn't the case from the more inside info we have, but yeah. Enter obligatory "I've never botted" disclaimer here :rolleyes: I just don't train skills I don't like... lol... Of course, it would be fair to see all ill-gotten gains disappear. IF they have all customer info, it seems like they could track it back, see what bots they bought, and reset those skills. But it sounds like you just want some burning land here...

Thanks. :) Well I'm happy now. Is there anything wrong with putting this in my signature if I want?

Indeed. [item=12003] Thanks for pointing that out. Yay! That was timely. :) So, about the worn interface: Are we meant to be able to click the items to open their respective pages from the hover text? It goes away too fast to do that for me...

This is pretty cool actually. I remember archaically hotlinking pictures to items when I first signed up lol. Is this feature going to be added as a button? Will the Amulet of Fury (OR) be added to the items database so I can quicklink it??

Well, yes - eventually. I thought we were talking about next week, since Mod Emilee specified low level armor. (2 pages back or so?) It wasn't "announced" by the BTS so I doubt the update'll be very comprehensive. By that I mean I don't suspect that they'll update "special" armor sets like Init, Pros, white, Rock-shell, Sacred Clay or other lower-leveled ones in the initial update.

I dunno :mellow: Went ahead and picked up a set of Gilded and Black (T) anyway. Will probably opt for Zamorak as well, and sell or keep each of them based on whether they get updated and rise or actually look good. A better idea might be to grab up some Zaros, Armadyl, or Bandos god armor. At the moment, they're just ugly generic sets of rune that are p2p only and thus very cheap. They're probably the only sets, if any, that will see greater use from a graphical update. I'm guessing they plan to have normal armor do the same as Dungeoneering armor in the sense that each tier will look more impressive than the last. I'm pretty sure the concept art from Runefest supported this, but I can't seem to find it. If this is the case, they might not update past black or mithril. We don't really know what they consider low leveled, exactly, when it comes to armor.

Maybe it was JaGEx's plan all along to seize the brothers' house. They just needed some nice real estate in the U.S. for Runefest 2012. :thumbsup:

Makes me wonder what would've happened if the botmakers had stopped of their own accord and just disappeared, so to speak. But obviously there was no way they could have known their golden goose would end up losing them EVERYTHING. It was a gamble on their part from the start and you never quit while you're ahead. So, from the looks of this, the botmakers really did end up with nothing? Like, they've lost all profit and then some? Wow...

Then how do you get onto that square long enough to drop something in the first place? So you're telling me you can stand back over the item you just dropped, but not pick it back up?

What keeps you from just opening your notes page to get back onto that square, like in the first place?

Outfitscape, early 2000s. Probably minus trimmed amulet but plus Gilded depending on release dates. Strange to see how much the hair has changed... :mellow:

Although quite an easy mistake to make when talking about an online game, you're letting the secondary act of gambling overshadow the actual event. By all means, if you chose to stake money on the outcome of a chess match, it would be the same, but a fight to the death in the Duel Arena should not be considered synonymously with gambling itself. I think the distinction here is that the actual act of dicing is pure gambling; it has no meaning whatsoever outside of gambling. ___ But I feel everyone's missed the point entirely. Perhaps you all play RS so casually that you don't consider it to have an atmosphere. Just like bots (I feel like I've said this before about them, actually), dicers (or what have you) denigrate the game into something shallow that it was never meant to be and ruin the atmosphere. RuneScape was never intended to be a casino, and for that matter I find it incredibly ridiculous you can make more money by cheating naive people out of their belongings than by actually playing the game. This leans far more towards exploitation than emergent gameplay. There is a reason that the Duel Arena and Conquest (who even plays that, much less gambles in it?) are perfectly acceptable while dicing is not: They fit within the game, but more than that, they're isolated. If people want to fight and bet money on the outcome, they know where to go, and they have a specific place to do it at. Dicing can happen anywhere, but most obviously at highly populated hubs like the Grand Exchange. People who want nothing to do with it can't avoid it like they can with staking, and it's not a pretty sight anyway. Giving dicers (using this as generic term for all un-anchored gamblers) a specific place where dice bags, flowers, etc behaved normally wouldn't work either, at least not without any official game constraints. For one (out of a myriad of problems) there are still autoadvertisers and you could expect a ton more to spring up if the natural exposure dicers have were to be negated by forcing them to congegrate in a certain location. However, I should expect that if dicers had no method of advertisement, the entire system would eventually crumble. This is because, as I said already, dice hosts rely on the constant saturation of curious and naive individuals (who individually don't have a lot of money). One could liken dicing hosts, rather ironically, to parasites: they need a constant influx of hosts (the naive) because they quickly kill (bankrupt) them off. If quarantined, they would eventually run out of hosts and die. This is, of course, a pointless thought to entertain because it's less than likely that JaGEx would ever create a quarantine zone for this to happen.

I don't think awarding bonus experience is really the answer for Summoning, when the main complexity of the skill comes with actually obtaining the charms and shards. Maybe offering something that lets you teleport to the spirit plane released on the Day of the Dead, like visiting the Church Graveyard in Lumbridge and praying at one of the tombs decorated with candles, to collect a certain amount of shards for free each day for a week etc etc. But I agree with the concept, Summoning could use a bit of help here and there. It gets shafted compared to every other skill where money is the main component for obtaining raw materials (like construction for example.) I'd be quite happy if the gloves simply gave you an increased charm drop chance, or added a charm or few on top of normal drops, but it seems completely skipped over. I'm really just mad that I've probably access to millions of generic bonus combat XP and a legitimate combat skill that I still need XP in that I can't use it on. Eh, at least the boots are nice.

So I read the above about how charges stayed from last year, about 10 min after I've already killed both wolves, so I'm like "Oh, dang." Then I remember that I had 100% charge because I never needed to use them. :rolleyes: Thank you JaGEx. Thank you for your continued convoluted bullshit logic about how Summoning is a full-blown combat skill but can't be trained with retarded amounts of bonus XP like all of the others, even though it's the only combat XP I need. Not with PC. Not with BXPW. Not with the Dominion Tower. Not with these gloves. It was understandable when Summoning was new, but not now.

Tif name:Blutters Runescape Name:Blutters Picture: Url:http://i40.tinypic.com/df9jzc.png DL'd GIMP, did not work as straightforward as on first page. Selected to save as .png without excess removed, but for some reason GIMP elected to make it an invalid file type that I've never heard of instead. Had to retake it... :|

I couldn't find a guide for getting the Firemaker's costume so I just went and tried it myself. Very simple, just do 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 99. No emotes. Failing 1-2 probably won't hurt, but if you do fail, you might want to throw in a few emotes. I got my pieces from the Ranged and Magic events. The point is not to get too high. I got about 700 in both Magic and Ranged just adhering to the above. The clothing needs between 501-1000. If you haven't already gotten the Acrobat clothing you may get get that before you can get Firemaker's. Fortunately, you have 5 events now that can each give a piece of clothing if you score correctly. :) There are only two pieces of Firemaker however. Edit: So I guess this is just what you would do for max XP normally? That makes it very easy and convenient to get the new things. I scored within the 700s on 4/5 events not failing at all, and 613 on one event failing the highest obstacle (I can't breathe Rubium it seems :(). So you can probably fail the 2 highest events without doing any emotes and still get a piece.

Right. But then you step off then back on, and the next one is the topmost log. And you can step between two stacks of like 14 and barely be moving, instead of taking the time and dexterity to lay them out in lines.

Could the Book of Char's effect be used on a single large pile of logs, stepping back and forth, or possibly 2 piles of logs next to eachother, again stepping between each other? Or maybe there's something better already figured out...? Meh, haven't gotten to use mine at all yet. Activated it as soon as I got it... <_< Lol I hope they used a similar animation for Aegis though.