Troacctid

Speaking as the guy with the top most-viewed blog on the site, I recommend writing things that people want to read. That's the most important thing. Once you've got that down, try linking to it in lots of places to build up a readerbase. And see if you can get the official @RuneScape Twitter to retweet you; that usually gets a traffic spike.

Edgeville, 3 Bennath 169 Rangers all over Gielinor rejoiced today with the release of Bakriminel bolts, which finally allow them to aim for the target's head, torso, or legs. Previously, it was only possible to aim for the target's feet or arms. "Oh, yeah, I'm psyched," said R4ng3rno0b889, a local ranger. "Finally, I can aim for someone's torso! I've been trying to shoot their hands this whole time, and let me tell you, it's a right pain in the neck. This new way should be much easier." Said a spokesman for the Ranging Guild, "This is genius! Shooting people in the head. I can't believe we never thought of that. And the torso! That must be so much easier to hit! Wow. Just wow." The new aiming feature is only available when firing Bakriminel bolts. According to a press release by Mami Rimba, attempting to shoot someone in the head, legs, or torso is impossible with any normal ammo.

Don't get hung up on the round 10s. Just get your skills in the general 80-90 vicinity and you should be set.

If you are going for 99 mining and you can already do concentrated gold, it is faster just to do concentrated gold the whole way. The extra time it takes getting slower xp to hunt for a golden mining suit would be greater than the time you'd save from the 2.5% xp bonus. So unless you're going to be training mining past 99, the detour at Lava Flow will only end up slowing you down overall. That being said, it is a pretty stylish outfit.

It's not too hard to imagine a mechanism that would cause this. If we assume the catch rates for tuna and swordfish both increase at an identical linear rate, we'd expect them to trend closer together, relatively, as your level increases. For example, if the ratio started at 3:4 and the catch rate for each went up by 1 per level, you'd get 4:5, then 5:6, then 6:7, and so on--gradually approaching 1:1. And since we do observe a similar pattern in the swordfish/tuna ratio as we level up, with the ratio at 99 being very close to 1, this seems like a pretty likely model, although I don't know that we have enough data to say for sure.

Jack of Trades is the easy one. Then if you're farming herbs, you'll definitely want Greenfingers. Equilibrium would probably boost your kill rate best for most slayer tasks, but it's not as useful against stronger monsters. For bossing, Sharpshooter is probably the best; Vampirism might be decent. Aside from those, I don't think there are any others for the activities you mentioned that would be better than just upgrading Greenfingers. I guess Reverence is worth considering just for its low cost, if you do the math and it turns out you can afford to buy something cheap.

You can't use regular secateurs to pick herbs or allotments or hops. They're only used for pruning tree branches, and magic secateurs are identical to regular secateurs for pruning tree branches. The magic secateurs will take priority for that, but it won't matter because they're the same. And for anything else, there's no priority to take because regular secateurs can't be used at all.

I think the player-owned house should be that transport hub. We've already got portals, add in a fairy ring to a garden, provide more spots to mount teleport jewellery to various walls, grow a spirit tree in the centre of a formal garden. I don't mind having these things, but I want to get the feeling that I earned them. And where are you going to get a charter ship?

http://www.twitter.com/ZamorakRS http://www.twitter.com/SaradominRS http://www.twitter.com/GuthixRS http://www.twitter.com/BandosRS Straight from the horse's mouth. :ugeek:

(Twitter feeds are read from bottom to top) [spoiler=profanity] I've been blinking on and off all week. I wonder what I did to make Bandos mad.

Varrock, 34 Moevyng 169 Representatives on both sides of the ongoing legal procedures between the Gielinor Association for Religions Getting Legal Equality (a religious rights group) and Xuan (proprietor of the Loyalty Programme Shop in Varrock and Burthorpe) announced today that the parties have reached a settlement. The lawsuit was originally filed last Wintumber in response to Xuan's release of two new auras, Salvation and Corruption, and two emotes, Divine Power and Infernal Power, each themed around the two gods Saradomin and Zamorak. Representatives of Guthix objected, alleging discrimination against followers of one of RuneScape's three most popular religions. After a long legal battle, Xuan has agreed to add a third aura, Harmony, and a third emote, Nature's Might, to his stock, issuing the following statement: After the settlement was announced, representatives of Armadyl and Zaros immediately filed a similar suit, and representatives of Bandos immediately threatened Xuan with hefty blunt weapons. Representatives of the various minor gods of RuneScape have issued a joint statement saying that they are currently not pursuing legal action, except for the High Priest of Scabaras, who declined to comment. UPDATE: Several major gods have responded to the settlement via Twitter:

Note that the Master Harmony aura includes glowing green eyes whether or not you have the Vernal Gaze.

Who anticipated 9%? I thought everyone knew it would be 10%.

Hehe nah it's not actually interesting, you just messed up. :P Greenfingers and Juju both trigger on the herb-picking action. Each time you pick an herb, you get a 1/20 chance for Greater Greenfingers to activate and a 1/3 chance for Juju to activate, and they're independent of one another. It's pretty intuitive...you're basically just rolling two dice. And as your data shows, this prediction stands up to experimentation; the log in question is consistent with the "two dice" model. If it were multiplicative, we would expect the extra herbs from the one to trigger off of the extra herbs from the other. And of course that isn't what we observe.

What are you looking at? Looks like it's working fine to me. Ah whoops, I actually meant greater greenfingers. :oops: And I am looking at the activation rate, which should be close to 5%. It's a good 50% off, which is substantial. No, that's just a calculation error. You've done the math as if the aura stacks multiplicatively with juju pots. They stack additively. Re-jigger the equation and it pops out the right number.

What do you mean? It's been working fine for me. I'd definitely recommend Greenfingers if you're going to farm torstol. 3% is pretty relevant. This is what I'm referring to. Both are done with master greenfingers. What are you looking at? Looks like it's working fine to me.

What do you mean? It's been working fine for me. I'd definitely recommend Greenfingers if you're going to farm torstol. 3% is pretty relevant.

I'm mostly only writing this to make a YtHaar pun. But in any case, I'm a YtHaar and proud of it. Got me some sweet level-ups from the xp rewards, too. That's Promethium weapons, Spellbook Swap, and...uh...88 ranged. Not bad. I'll take it! I don't understand why the quest expected me to be indignant at the TzHaar culture. All the time they'd be like, "Yep, we send Ga'al off the the Fight Pits because they're useless to our society," and I see a chat option that goes (paraphrase) "NOES THAT GA'AL HAS HOPES AND DREAMS AND HE GONNA GROW UP TO BE UNICORN MAGIC WIZARD MASTER SOMEDAY!" And then the Ga'al is like, "Actually, Fight Pits sounds fine, I really don't mind," and then I get a chat option like (paraphrase) "FOLLOW YOUR HEART YOUNG GA'AL DON'T LET THE MAN KEEP YOU DOWN!" I mean, there's idealistic, and there's unrealistic. Have you ever seen a TzHaar? I don't care what your hopes and dreams are. If you're a TzHaar-Hur, you aren't going to be able to train until you become a TzHaar-Ket. We're not just talking social classes here...we're talking serious physical, biological (geological?) differences. The Ga'al have no phlebotinum, which means they won't grow up to become a TzHaar. Not as in "They won't be accepted into TzHaar society." We're talking as in "They will never physically mature into an adult TzHaar." Don't get me wrong, if this kid actually wanted to go out and see the world and blaze his own trail, I'd be all for it. But he doesn't. I think it's a little offensive, honestly, that the player character would be encouraging him to, like, abandon his whole...civilization, basically, and...well, the point is, that's dumb. You don't go up to a dragon and say "Killing knights is wrong!" You don't go up to an impling and say "Stealing is immoral!" The TzHaar have been doing their thing since before the dawn of mankind. They're a caste-based society. They have combat rituals. Let them do their thing. Yeesh. Anyway, the combat portion was really easy. I ate a few sharks on my way to the Kiln, and I was gonna go back to refill my inventory, but then I thought "What the hell, I'll give it a shot." Ended up breezing through it easy-peasey. Well, except for a little lag on the last wave--that was a scary spot, but I pulled through. Not so tough. Made me wonder why I still haven't done the Fight Caves. The new ring is pretty nice too. Unlimited bank teleports, faster than a glory. Seems sweet. I approve. Very good rewards. Definitely worth doing this quest. On an unrelated note, we got our T5 Fishadel. Check it: If you want a piece of sweet weekly free summoning and crafting xp (or mining, woodcutting, smithing, and/or firemaking), visit the W22 Fishing clan chat. We'll hook you up. We also have a lovely clan theatre, and a clan battlefield with +10 agility and +10 summoning boosts for all your effigy needs.

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You should get the Zammy staff because Zammy is cool. Red and black are stylish. Plus, he has horns. How many other gods do you see with horns? That's right, just Zamorak, because he's awesome. Saradomin is some ugly old bald dude, and Guthix...well, nobody likes Guthix. You should definitely pick Zamorak.

I can't set more than 5 traps and I'll switch my familiar straightaway. Guess I'm still too far away to hope for 158k/hr Thanks guys. The 6th trap is in your inventory. It's faster to use an extra trap than to wait for the one you just picked up to appear in your bag. Incidentally, if you have juju hunter potions, carrion/aquatic should be faster than carrion/igneous.

Yes, that would explain it. Also, wrong familiar--that too. And you should be using 6 traps, BTW, not 5.

60k xp/hr would, in fairness, be better than Ape Atoll.

Cause training (prayer, herblore) is feasable without cash? Oh, absolutely. Pay-as-you-go. Very feasible. That's how I got 95 prayer.

No you can't. :mellow: