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If you slay with Kuradal, the only task where you really need the spear is Waterfiends if you don't have a Sara Sword, or Metal Dragons if you have super antifires. Other than that, it's the best weapon for fighting the Corporeal Beast (other than PvP gear). I say if you're not planning on killing the Corporeal Beast and you don't have enough herblore for super antifires, get a Saradomin Sword instead; the SS is marginally better at crushing and you won't need it to stab on any slayer tasks.

I confess that I was stuck there for about an hour after I wrote this post... :oops: *high fives* That population density problem towards the end of the multiple choice was murder and I know I missed at least a few points on the free response, but I felt pretty confident about the test overall. My friends are strong, independent people who can find their own implings. I want money for me. :razz: There's usually some 99 hunter running around who I can tip off, but wouldn't you rather be eating the pizza than delivering it? Why be the scout when you could be the marshal?

I'm going to start by showing my Adventurer's Log from Thursday. There are a few things you should notice here. 1. Check out that stylish monocle. I've been sporting it since I noticed they exist sometime last week. 2. Some sort of bug caused Fairy Tale 3 to show up twice. Weird. 3. I finally hit 75 slayer. Those two granite mauls are from my first-ever gargoyle task. :^_^: 4. I also finally finished Fur 'N Seek and killed the skeletal horror! (That's where the 75 slayer came from) 5. Oh and did I mention I BEAT NOMAD w00t! Got my quest cape back! I ranged him in full Armadyl (with diamond bolts and a blessed spirit shield) using Soul Split. Finished with 4.5 brews and a rocktail left over. :smile: So... yeah. Anyway, a quick review of Fairy Tale 3. I really enjoyed it. All the visuals were stunning. The new Zanaris is beautiful. Look at that. Lovely. Just lovely. Although for some reason the Makeover Mage seems to have missed a few fairies in the marketplace. Whoops. As for the quest itself, it was well-done. I found the storyline engaging. No fetching, no escorting, none of the horrible things a lesser quest might have screwed up on. The cutscenes were good. The boss fight was creative and fun; I especially liked that each of the three generals has their own special ability (the melee one can attack your tooth plants, the ranger can buff the little orks, and the mage can summon more little orks) to add an extra layer of strategy. The Fairy Godfather's abilities were amusing as well--concrete shoes and fish. :thumbup: My biggest complaint is that it was way too easy. But then again, I have 95 prayer now, so all I had to do was turn on Soul Split and Turmoil and finish the whole fight without needing a single piece of food. So maybe it's just me. Also, I don't really like the Tooth Fairy's character...again, though, YMMV. As for the rewards, they're great. The magic watering can, sure, I guess. The magic rake (farmers weeding your patch, whatever, I still think it's a magic rake) is nice. The ivory orks you can fight after the quest have pretty good drops--might be decent to camp at for high levels, maybe. The new fairy rings are okay, I guess; I can already use Ape Atoll Teleport and Rum to get to Ape Atoll or Mos Le'Harmless just as fast, so whatever. The tooth pet is pretty cute, although I don't have room for it in my menagerie. Using fairy rings without a dramen staff...priceless. :thumbsup: There are some things that money can't buy. For everything else, there's money. You'll notice that I'm wielding a butterfly net in that image. This brings me to my next topic: implings. Now, I didn't blog about the changes to Impetuous Impulses when they first came out back in...whenever that update was. Since then, I've done some hunting, and I'm ready to report that it wasn't awesome before, but it's awesome now. When I was taking screenshots for this blog, I thought I'd do a little "before/after" image to sort of represent a typical trip to Puro Puro. Here's what I started with: Now, as it turns out, it wasn't a very typical inventory. It took longer than usual because I stopped to paste and crop the screenshots, and also, well, I'll just show you the picture anyway: That's 5869 xp (including the little bit of strength xp from pushing through the wheat) and yeah, a dragon impling that I yoinked as it was escaping from another hunter. Notice also the five zombie implings--they're fairly common and they boost your profits significantly once you get 84 hunter. (It's well worth bringing hunter potions for them.) With high enough hunter, plus high strength and agility levels for mobility, it's not at all unreasonable to expect profits of, oh, maybe about 800k gp/hr-ish, before factoring in the dragon implings. And it comes with 40-50k-ish hunter xp/hr, roughly. By now I've memorized all the crop circle locations to get the farmer's affinity bonus--which is another new bit that I love, by the way--and now that I don't need my Lunar Staff to access Zanaris, it's a breeze to just hop over there with a Slayer Ring and step in the permanent crop circle on all the subsequent trips for the duration of the half-hour. I used to try and use the alternate crop circles whenever I could just to avoid spending the extra inventory slot on the staff. Now, not only is it much more convenient, the half-hour timer makes it a cinch to keep track of my xp/hr. The new implings help a lot too. 1. Zombies: I already mentioned how common the zombies are. They're about 12k each these days and can easily contribute over 200k gp/hr to your profits on their own as long as you don't loot them. (Don't loot them. :wink: ) 2: Spirits: Spirit implings are pretty common too, and they fetch a nice price. Obviously the charms are a nice bonus as well--I've taken to keeping an empty slot in my inventory because I can almost always expect to see at least one charm drop. 3. Kinglies: Rare and frustrating. Frustrating because they're worth millions and I don't have high enough hunter to catch them yet, so whenever I see one, I'm seething. This is why I'm training hunter. (Well, that and the 800k+ gp/hr I mentioned earlier.) FML. Shifting gears completely, I'm pretty excited about the new Archenemy variant in Magic: the Gathering. Whoever named these things, wow, major kudos. I look forward to cackling malevolently as I put my Evil Overlord schemes into motion. Bwahahaha. So yeah. I also gained a few other random levels, bought a Staff of Light, sold the Staff of Light two days later for 200k profit, saw Iron Man 2 (it wasn't as good as the first one, but it wasn't horrible), broke the 800-Pokemon-captured mark in my ongoing Pokemon Pinball save file, probably got a 5 on the AP Calculus test, my dental implant surgery went off without a hitch, I had pasta and sushi for dinner, and I get to vote this year! It's been a good May so far.

Talk to Chieftan Brundt. You'll need at least level 75 in a skill you want to claim the xp reward in.

Turmoil is a percentage multiplier, so it works on top of strength bonuses. And with the constitution update allowing us to hit fractional damage, marginal strength boosts are significantly more relevant than they used to be.

I was thoroughly unexcited at the release and I only tried it for the first time today. I'm not impressed. I do really like the way the planes crash after you shoot them down--it's a supremely satisfying little animation. But the camera controls just kill it. You can't see behind you. In a game where you travel in an open field in all directions with a top-down view, you need the camera to be centered so that you can see what's coming up behind you. Okay, sure, so that's not how it is in a real plane, but if that's what the developers were shooting for (hehe), why isn't it a first-person view? Quite frankly, I don't see any reason to play Ace of Skies. Starcannon is a far more entertaining and addictive shooter than this flying-blindly-in-circles mess, and even Stellar Shard is a better execution of the same concept despite being a blatant Asteroids ripoff.

Bandos Chestplate/Verac's Skirt > Fighter Torso/Bandos Tassets.

There's a simple test to determine whether Bandos is superior to Dragon. If you have 60-64 defense, dragon is better. If you have 65-69 defense, Bandos is better. If you have 70+ defense, the very fact that you would consider dragon armor over Barrows makes you arguably a n00b. Similarly, if you have 45-64 defense, a Fighter Torso is better than a Bandos Chestplate. And if you have 1-29 runecrafting, then Fighter Torso is also better than a Proselyte Hauberk.

Dragon bones will have to fall eventually because once they get too high, people start using substitutes. If dragon bones are 30k each and babydragon bones are 2k each, which are you going to train with? That's an extreme case, but the fact is that as the price difference increases, demand will change, and dragon bones will find an equilibrium with or without an update to prayer.

Based on the price of curry, I'd expect it to settle somewhere in the 1k-1.5k range.

The Lunar Fishing Guild teleport spell works just fine too--it's better than an Ardougne Teleport anyway.

Battlestaves are significantly more efficient than d'hide. Green d'hide bodies cost more than 3x as much as water b'staves to get the same xp. It's just that battlestaves can only be bought 100 at a time on the GE. Still, you're definitely better off making battlestaves.

I have similar stats and I usually get away with just Piety and food.

Definitely don't use D legs + Torso. Torag's is going to be better. As for the SGS, there's no place where you really need it, but it can make some activities easier. As luxury items go, I'd say it's a low priority.

I would point you to this moneymaking guide, which should have plenty of profitable techniques for you to try out.

I'm gonna say no. Although admittedly it does look pretty cool.

Just as an aside on the farming scroll. It has a 10% chance of giving back a seed if the plant dies. Plants die 10% of the time. So that means you're only getting the effect 1% of the time, which really isn't that exciting. That's the equivalent of shaving about 750 gp off of each snapdragon seed--not bad, but hardly epic. Anyway, on topic: it's worth noting that you do save inventory space with a law staff. If I'm training prayer at my gilded altar, I can use a law staff and dust runes to let me carry an extra set of dragon bones without spending extra money on teletabs. So that's something. And no, you do not get a 10% damage boost from either staff.

I think they said they'd do something different with summoning if they had another bonus xp weekend; I'm pretty sure we can all agree that the situation with summoning was pretty unbalanced.

I'm saying that if you have a Chaotic weapon, you have 80+ dungeoneering no matter what, because it takes more xp to get 200k points than it does to reach level 80 dungeoneering. Level requirements are never a concern.

Level requirements are completely irrelevant. You can't get have enough tokens to buy any of the rewards unless you already have the required level for them. It's impossible.

You should. Why would you do that? XP doesn't do a damn thing in this skill. You don't get anything for leveling up except the rewards you buy with the tokens. The only purpose of leveling up in the first place is to get the tokens. xp = lvls which is always a good thing. I think its better then buying these [cabbage]ty weapons anyways. Even the shields are not worth using, if you die with it there goes your points :thumbdown: You don't get anything for leveling up except the tokens. Levels themselves are useless.

You should. Why would you do that? XP doesn't do a damn thing in this skill. You don't get anything for leveling up except the rewards you buy with the tokens. The only purpose of leveling up in the first place is to get the tokens.

Oh no, of course not. Our choir has at least four concerts a year. But it's the first time I've performed on the stage of Carnegie Hall. :^_^:

Guess what I did on Saturday. Go ahead, guess. I know, you probably don't want to guess. You're just going to keep reading until I tell you, aren't you? But I'd really prefer if you guessed, so let me give you a hint: Okay, I doubt very many of you will recognize that view, so I may as well spill the beans. That would be Carnegie Hall, AKA probably the most prestigious concert hall in the United States. So yeah. I was there. In fact, let me be a bit more specific. I was here: Anyway, that's why I missed the Rise of the Eldrazi prerelease and haven't logged on since Tuesday. I was in New York, singing onstage at Carnegie Hall with my high school choir (and several other choirs) and the dashingly handsome and talented composer/conductor/all-around cool guy Eric Whitacre. Here are the pieces we performed, in case you couldn't find tickets in time: Lux Aurumque Five Hebrew Love Songs With A Lily In Your Hand Little Birds Animal Crackers Vol. I What If A Boy and a Girl Check them out. It's good stuff. I think "Lux Aurumque" is my personal favorite; I like the harmonies, the subtle dynamics, and the way it paints a picture with music, but it's also just really cool to sing. "With A Lily" has a great melody too, although the ending is frustratingly high for my baritone range. And check out the sound effects on "Little Birds"--there's some nice bird whistles and flapping wings. The "Five Hebrew Love Songs" are very beautiful and tender, as is "A Boy and a Girl". "Animal Crackers" is very silly--my favorites are the canary, the kangaroo, and the panther. "What If" is probably the strangest of them; it isn't often you hear choral music superimposed on a techno backdrop, and the result, I think, is pretty awesome. So...yeah. :thumbsup:

I have to resent the way that the 2nd article purports to represent the entire Runescape community. The author can't possibly have any legitimate statistics to back up any of the statements in the article, especially those like "A large percentage of the RuneScapian population hate the skill this could mean people quitting, and a loss in money." And what's worse is that he attempts to explain the viewpoint of a group he admits he doesn't belong to. Frankly, the information presented is just not true, and I'm offended at the suggestion that we all actively despise Dungeoneering for exactly three reasons, two of which are irrelevant and shallow and one of which is purely semantical. If you want to rant about RSOF trolls, then rant about RSOF trolls, but don't pretend like there are no legitimate criticisms of the update. tl;dr Requiem's article is either a dishonest editorial or a factually incorrect news article. Two thumbs down. :thumbdown: :thumbdown: