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1. You could try using a 2h for your weapon. You lose the stab option of the spear, but since your brother has a rapier he can pick up the slack on monsters that need it. 2. No, it's just based on the type of monsters. 3. Scroll of life is far, far better than either of those. Neither the herbicide nor the bonecrusher is all that useful for their cost, really. Someone pointed out in another thread that the herbicide is good for cannoning abby specs because it means you don't have to check guams constantly to see if a ranarr landed underneath, so I guess that's nice. But then you lose an inventory slot that could have held another herb. :???: I'd say they're roughly equal, with maybe a slight preference towards the bonecrusher since you'd probably use it on more tasks. But again, the scroll of life is light-years ahead of either, so you should get that first. 4. One of the bosses (Necrolord) can't be attacked with melee. That might be important to keep in mind. 5. When you need them, I guess.

*sigh* People are constantly talking about all skills going to 120. It's not going to happen. It's just bad game design. There's no reason for them to go that high, it unbalances nearly all the current content, and it's an unhealthy paradigm for the game to support (i.e. it makes the game less fun). It just [bleep]s everything up for no reason. So no. It's not realistic. Tell you what, I'll make you a bet. I'll bet you any amount of GP that someone will achieve 200M in all skills before Jagex raises the skill cap in all skills to 120. 10:1 odds in your favor. Name your price.

This is one of the aspects of dungeoneering that I really like: how a coordinated team can increase their effectiveness as a group by specializing. I see that as the main strength of the hexhunter bow--only one team member needs to bind one for it to be an amazing weapon against the correct targets; the rest of the team should be able to pick up the slack on melee-based enemies.

Eh, but if you have super antifires, then meleeing is always going to be faster than maging or ranging anyway. :mellow:

No and yes.

Are you skipping multiple attack turns when you brew/restore? I wasn't used to using brews on my first couple tries and it tripped me up because I tried to spam them. Once I figured out how to make sure I kept hitting him in between sips, I did much better.

You could just sell your SS now and train the rest of the way with a whip on controlled. :thumbsup: Also, what's wrong with slayer? Just keep doing what you're doing; slayer is a great way to train, especially when you have such a high level.

Behold my xp gains! As you can see, I did a lot of herblore, and I did, as planned, Go To Extremes. Before the weekend started, I had about 3.5k super energies that I'd bought at a pretty good price. I think it was around here: I tried to fruitfall for the papayas once the announcement came that there would be another bonus xp weekend, and I started bringing the fruit bat on farming runs and so on. But it was taking too long, so once papayas started to crash I just bought a bunch of them around 2.2k each. After that, I thought I'd better get some supplies for extremes, since I knew I'd definitely be getting at least 88. Unfortunately, I had difficulty buying the base potions, so I decided to just use up my stock of irits, lantadymes, and kwuarms. I made them into unfinished potions, double-checked how many seconds I'd need, and topped up on limpwurt roots, blue dragon scales, phoenix feathers, dwarf weed, and avantoe to have enough. I also made sure to decant my super sets into 3-dose versions. The night before the bonus xp, I did a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation in Google Docs to double-check the order I should make my potions and predict how much xp I was likely to get. I logged in at Soul Wars bank (to keep random events from disrupting my well-laid plans) on Friday and started mixing up the spec restores. Once I could make extreme attacks with Greenman's Ale, I upgraded my stock of super attacks. Same with extreme strengths. After that, I went back to spec restores. When I ran out of those, I made my super antifires, then the rest of my extreme strengths, then the rest of my extreme attacks. As you can see above, I ended up overshooting my prediction. I'll blame that partly on a slight underestimation of my potion-making speed and partly on the extreme magic potions I mixed up with the ground mud runes from my last Living Rocks task once I hit 91. Sometimes it's good to be wrong. :thumbsup: So now I have 91 herblore. Please feel free to contact me for all your starved or nourished herblore effigy needs! :shades: After finishing my herblore, I went and did the circus. At some point I read on the General Discussion thread that I could get bonus xp for turning in curved/long bones, so I dumped my stock of them and gained a construction level. Then I wasn't really sure what to do. I did a bit of hunter, catching a few butterflies, then getting bored and switching to penguins, then getting bored again and switching to implings (where, in one of my trips, I caught an unprecedented 10 zombie implings in a row). I also did some agility, which is the same thing I did on the last bonus xp weekend when I wasn't sure what to do. Running laps is sort of my default fallback training method, I guess; it's easy to jump in and out of. I thought I'd train magic a little, so I cast some superheats. I didn't have a lot of iron banked, so I ran out pretty quickly and had to mine more, which was okay because mining xp is good too, and I could superheat while I mined it without slowing down much anyway. But then I caved and bought some more. Pretty soon I got tired of moving my mouse down to hit the last few iron that are below the position of the superheat spell in my spellbook, so I filled those slots with coal instead and just made 3 steel and 18 iron bars per inventory. And you can see I gained a magic level and (almost) a smithing level. :-) I trained my thieving towards the end with a little bit of blackjacking and pickpocketing, but not much. I did eventually hit the ten-hour mark and went off to use up my charms. I used up all my blues and crimsons (including one embarrassing inventory where I accidentally made obsidian golems instead of lava titans, whoops :oops: ), but I ran out of bananas halfway through my greens and I neglected to buy swamp toads for my golds. It was pretty late at this point and it didn't look like I'd make it to 87 anyway, so I called it a night and went to brush my teeth. All in all, I think I'd call it a successful BXPW. In other news, check out my new outfit! That's my approximation of the Red Wizard from Final Fantasy, which I recently started playing. Well, the GBA remake, anyway. I'm almost at the end; my party looks like this right now: I also tried out a Black Mage outfit. I think I like the Red Wizard better, though.

That's how it used to be, but recent upgrades have drastically increased its efficiency. It's now definitely more efficient than traditional training.

Find the spot where one of them spawns, set up traps around the spawn location, and if it wanders away, shoot it with a ranged weapon to make it respawn.

Well obviously Gremmy's tests, I think we can alll agree on that. Right? :thumbup: What page was that? :-?

Add a new page to the spreadsheet and copy + paste the other one into the second page. You can then reference cells in the other page. You should be able to lock one page and not the other.

Quests. Runescape has much better quests than other MMOs. Also, it's cheaper.

Okay, I have a question. Say somebody asks me which is better, rapier or longsword. Which post in this thread should I link to?

Slayer is actually pretty fast with the slayer hat bonus, plus ferocious rings for some tasks. Especially if you select your blocked tasks to maximize melee xp.

It's always welcome I guess. At your leisure, of course.

Off the top of my head, there's yew trees to chop, the Runecrafting Guild, the furnace and anvil for smithing whatever, and mith and addy ores to mine.

They won't. You do make profit from blues, though.

oh god i hate the elemental quest they should have like some sort of flamethrower thing, like a handcannon that has a chance to burn up or something like that We have flamethrowers already. They're called salamanders. :ugeek:

Actually, it pretty much was. It has been for as long as I've been playing and it has been for as long as you've been playing (since '06, right?). I guess I can't speak for the RSC days, but I think it's pretty safe to say you're remembering a time that just doesn't exist. :unsure: Also, what jettrider said.

Long/curved bones are common loot from zombie implings.

If you don't like questing then [bleep] you, quest anyway. :lol:

Bonecrusher is members only.

Hey, the last 10-ish levels are like 80% of 99 agility. I'd say it's totally justified. *shrug* Do the Wildy course 49-65, Ape Atoll w/ pies 65-82, Gnome w/ pies/pots 82-87, Barb w/ pies/pots 87-99. You can start Gnome at 80 or Barb at 85 if you prefer. If you can't do Wildy yet, quest until you can, since you can get to that level solely through quest rewards and it's a lot more efficient than training for real. Like Aeil said, use magpies and farm herbs regularly; you'll come out a lot richer. You can fletch broad bolts while you run the courses for even more money. Alternately, if you're also going for 99 hunter, barehanding butterflies ties in nicely.

Guide to Prestige in Dungeoneering ^ Should answer all your questions.