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Camping abyssal demons is slower moner than runecrafting double nats by a pretty wide margin. Heck, it's slower money than some monsters you can kill without any slayer at all. I've been told that green dragons and aviansies are faster cash than any slayer monster.

^This is true actually, I remember there was this one back in January that ran 13 pages and developed a good argument on it. That reminds me, I should point out that a firemaking cape takes about 85 hours with maples, which for an average player making around 200k gp/hr it takes about the same time to obtain as a set of full dragon. If you think full dragon is a worthy/impressive achievement, that's something to think about.

News flash: almost every 99 skill is gotten just for the cape. How many people were getting 99s before skillcapes were released? What you're talking about has absolutely nothing to do with cooking, fletching, or firemaking. In fact, those aren't even the worst ones. Look at farming. Nobody gets 99 farming by accident because they train it so much. Nobody gets 99 farming because they want to reap the benefits of being able to plant all the exclusive stuff you can plant at level 99. What about 99 farming from herb seeds? Some people enjoy earning money from farming, and some people get 99 just off herbs. It would take about 3500 five-patch snapdragon runs to get 99 farming with only herbs. At an average of three runs a day, that's over three years. Not likely.

Well, as long as we're giving in to peer pressure, if everyone else had a strength skillcape already, maybe you should have been embarrassed not to have it. Now you're finally part of the club. =D>

News flash: almost every 99 skill is gotten just for the cape. How many people were getting 99s before skillcapes were released? What you're talking about has absolutely nothing to do with cooking, fletching, or firemaking. In fact, those aren't even the worst ones. Look at farming. Nobody gets 99 farming by accident because they train it so much. Nobody gets 99 farming because they want to reap the benefits of being able to plant all the exclusive stuff you can plant at level 99.

You want big harvests? You should be looking at allotments. Or hops. Those patches will give you much bigger yields.

It's all a state of mind. Once you accept that every player has the potential to do everything in the game, the only barrier to becoming 2376 is time. By acknowledging to myself that I would be playing Runescape for a long enough period to become a high-level player, it became a simple task to organize my gameplay to become one. Instead of sitting around thinking, "Gee, it would be awesome if I had a fishing cape," I went out and got a fishing cape, because I knew there was nothing stopping me. So now I am high-level and rich with multiple skillcapes and I know pretty much everything I'd ever need to know about the game, and whatever I don't know, I know where to look it up.

I might point out a crucial difference between the Runescape economy and the real-life economy, if it hasn't already been mentioned: Runescape doesn't have unemployment. Everyone can always have a job. Also, it's easy to switch from buying to selling. If pure essence were to rise to 200 gp, I could mine rune essence and make excellent cash. If pure essence dropped to 50 gp, I could switch to runecrafting and still make excellent cash. If prices remain stable, well then there can't very well be an economic doomsday. No matter what happens, it can't stop me from getting rich.

Thieving is faster AND cheaper than any of those three skills. So why isn't thieving right up there above all of them as the least respected skillcape? Because it has fewer people? Well then what about strength, which is the most common by a pretty significant margin, with nearly as many strength cape owners as firemaking and fletching cape owners combined? Maybe it's because cooking, firemaking, and fletching are "useless"...but then why are smithing, herblore, and farming so prestigious? Cooking is much more useful than herblore; I've made millions and millions and millions off of it. Is it because it's just click and wait? No, because then woodcutting and fishing would be even higher up the scale of lameness, and firemaking wouldn't fit at all. Clearly, those who say cooking, fletching, and firemaking are "dirt" are either ignorant, or using some sort of composite criteria based on multiple values. But these people seem to take it for granted that cooking tops the list, as I've never seen or heard of any actual attempt to create an actual, accurate, objective system for valuing a skillcape. Any disdain for these skills is simply irrational. Cooking, as a matter of fact, is one of the game's deepest skills, with a wider variety of training methods than most people give it credit for, and some pretty good moneymaking opportunities. (In f2p, not much outside of runite mining can stand up to anchovy pizzas for cash.) And those who know a little about backwards firemaking can tell you that it takes more dexterity than most other skills. As for fletching, ever see those videos of Zarfot fletching bolts while training agility and firemaking and whatnot? That's skill. So like I said, any disdain for these skills is irrational.

8 HP per kill wouldn't exactly have broken anything, not by a long shot. Besides, he dropped big bones before, and B2P only works on normal bones. He drops Ourg bones because he's an ourg, and ourgs drop ourg bones. End of story, no?

We know they're not around anymore, but that's about it. And we're not even certain about that.

Hazeel and Zemouregal are both mahjarrat, so all it means is that he left out Thammaron entirely. *shrug*

You forgot the part in bold, which clearly refers to Zamorak, thus Sliske is a real ally to Zaros. About SC... Hard to say. That would also mean that if Zaros ever returns there will be no more barrows ? I am eagerly anticipating next epic quest that contains anything about the dragonkin or Mahjarrat . Well actually if you paid close attention during the cutscene in WGS, you'd have noticed Lucien raising the Super Barrow Bros. from the dead for his own army. Not sure how Sliske is going to feel about that.

Duradel doesn't respawn... Oy, that should be in spoiler tags. Anyway, I said "generally," didn't I?

I'm not sure Zaros is even still a god, since Zamorak drained him of enough power to become a god himself. We know from an eyewitness account that Zamorak seemed to become more real, while Zaros seemed to fade away. I would guess that Zamorak quite literally drained away Zaros's divinity for himself. But then again, Zaros is supposed to have been really powerful, so who knows? Maybe even after losing enough of his power to make another guy ascend to godhood, he still had enough left to retain his own godliness. We already know what happens to people in Runescape when they die, of course. They generally respawn. ;) But I still don't think the mystics have anything important to do with anything important.

Whatever god they may be manupilated by, if they are not then they are the most stupid npcs in whole Runescape. Worshiping "spirits" who slaughter everyone, and talking about war like it's a lovely thing... Yes, hence "loony cultist kooks." What does loony and kooks mean? Not part of my vocabulary sorry. Means they're crazy.

Whatever god they may be manupilated by, if they are not then they are the most stupid npcs in whole Runescape. Worshiping "spirits" who slaughter everyone, and talking about war like it's a lovely thing... Yes, hence "loony cultist kooks."

The problem with this is that Movario didn't talk about the other runecrafting altars. Surely he would have at least found and mentioned the ones in Misthalin, Asgarnia, Kandarin, and the Wilderness. Why is the blood altar special?

I think they're just loony cultist kooks, not part of some god's big sinister plot.

If you know the exp/hr, then you know the gp/hr. Just check the price of monkfish (median 330 as of this post), and you see that 30k-40k exp/hr = 82.5k-110.0k gp/hr.

Without a slayer helm it'd be closer to 30-40 crimsons/hr.

Yeah, um, no, sharks are terrible for training. And not even good cash.

I've taken to just buying supercompost on the GE. It takes too long to make and it's cheap to buy anyway.

Charter ships are easily the fastest way. And the fastest way to get to a charter ship is the lunar teleport to Catherby. Failing that, an ectophial or Camelot teleport works fine.

Right, it's fairly obvious that magic, at least in p2p, is not underpowered at all. It's just overcosted. If runes were free, people would be screaming about how overpowered it is.