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You forgot 20k woodcutting. I did the quest without a guide and found it pleasantly challenging without being frustrating. It was an interesting puzzle, if perhaps a little difficult to understand its mechanisms. If you look closely at the crystal trees, you'll see that one side is a hole that goes straight through, one side is a mirror that reflects the light 90 degrees, and the last side absorbs the light completely. Then you need to know that the goal is to reflect the proper color of light onto the light receiver that is not white. It's a cinch even without a guide if you pay attention.

Don't forget to do the circus. It's the fastest agility experience in the game and the fastest ranged experience in the game, even if you can only spend under a minute on them every week. (You get the most xp by doing one trick of each level, starting at the bottom and working your way up to 99.)

I agree. If you don't see any need to get the 99 (read: no desire for the cape) then there's no reason to get it. You'll probably get it eventually through any kinds of experience rewards you choose to use on it, randomly smithing here and there. And who knows, maybe that one day you go out PvPing (I'm not assuming whether or not you enjoy PvP) you may get a couple pairs of smithing brawlers that you might as well use to take a chunk out of that experience towards 99. I agree. There's no rush. If you want the cape, fine, but it's not a particularly exciting cape (gold trim, wow, how unique) and there's nothing you can do at level 99 that you can't do at level 98. Especially if you have a fire cape already and the prayer bonus of the trim is less important. Actually, the trim is nice. If you train smithing, you should think of it as training to get a +4 prayer bonus. (If, y'know, you would actually trim it with this 99. I didn't look at your stats.)

Yews are never a good moneymaker, even under optimal conditions (99 wc, dragon hatchet, no crowds, full concentration). Snape grass will be far better.

Al-Kharid? Why not Edgeville?

Your interpretation is wrong. You say Jagex changed the policy of how they choose moderators because the old policy was giving them players that are somehow unsatisfactory, but that's simply not true. They changed the policy because they realize that many players who are very well-qualified to become moderators are not detected by their abuse reports because they submit very few abuse reports. The new policy was created to find those players in addition to the mods they found through reporting, with whom they have also been very happy. Jagex has said that often enough that they're happy with their current crop of mods. And if you don't believe me, why don't you ask them yourself? Oh wait. Guess you're way ahead of me and you already have asked. Looks like you got a direct answer that directly contradicts your interpretation of the Jagex post in question. "We were getting the right P Mods. Using the old system we have chosen really great P Mods, and they continue to do a fantastic job. We changed it because we want to find even more P Mods." Dealt with enough for you?

Author's note: I wrote this speech in February 2009, but I didn't have a blog then, so I'm posting it here now. It's my case for legalizing marijuana. Enjoy. If I were to walk through a local grocery store, chances are Id see all sorts of foods. Naturally there would be bread. There would be dairy. There would be colorful breakfast cereals, brimming with sugar. Not to mention fruits and vegetables, chips, pasta, pickles, and entire aisles devoted solely [pause] to wine. This last one wouldnt be much of a surprise: our home state is famous for its wine. But 80 years ago, Californias multi-billion dollar wine industry could not have been as successful as it is today. Thats because in 1919, the United States passed the Eighteenth Amendment to our constitution, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and distribution of all alcoholic beverages. However, as our thriving modern wine industry can surely testify, Prohibition was an immense flop. Making alcohol illegal didnt stop people from drinking. Instead, it deprived the government of the revenue from taxes on alcohol, and it heralded a massive increase in crime and gang violence. The Twenty-first Amendment eventually repealed the ban in 1933, which means our modern-day vineyards are free to produce some of the finest wines in the world. (Good for them! [thumbs up]) Yeah, yeah, groceries, wine, prohibition...where am I going with this? Let me explain. This Monday, Tom Ammiano, a representative from San Francisco in our State Legislature, introduced a bill to legalize marijuana in California. Under Ammianos bill, marijuana would have pretty much the same legal status enjoyed by alcohol: it would be legal to all adults age 21 and over, and driving under the influence of weed would carry similar penalties to driving while drunk. (Lawmaker) It is my strong opinion that this bill should be passed, and I have three main reasons for this stance. First, we really need the money. Our state has just been through a budget crisis and a $42 billion dollar deficit. At the proposed tax rate of $50 per ounce, its estimated new tax revenues would bring in as much as a billion dollars annually. When you consider our ongoing fiscal crisis, we could really do a lot with a billion dollars a year. But thats not all. In addition to potential revenue, legalization of marijuana could save millions, even billions, on law enforcement. Furthermore, it would help reduce the number of prisoners being sent into our overcrowded jails, saving even more money. Just from a financial standpoint, legalization looks pretty good. Second, look at whats already legal! According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, approximately 79,000 deaths occurred as a result of alcohol abuse between 2001 and 2005, and thats not including car crashes involving drunk drivers. (Alcohol) Also according to the Department of Health and Human Services, more than 400,000 Americans die every year from cigarette smoking. (Smoking) Thats an average of roughly 45 deaths per hour. Both these substances are highly addictive. Both these substances have tremendous negative effects on the users health. And yet, both these substances are legal. In contrast, marijuana is far less addictive, and its negative effects on the smokers health are far less extreme. Despite this, marijuana is the substance thats banned. This is illogical. We might as well legalize the lesser drug, seeing as we allow more dangerous substances already. When we already associate with serial killers, who are we to shun a mere purse snatcher? For my third reason, lets recall for a moment why Prohibition was such a failure: the alcohol business continued anyway, without the blessing of the government. The same thing is happening with marijuana today. Weed may be Californias biggest cash crop, surpassing even grapes, with an annual profit estimated at fourteen billion dollars. (Walters) Most of this unregulated marijuana gets circulated whether the folks in charge like it or not. Oftentimes the profits (just like with bootleg alcohol in the 20s) are funding gangs. Instead of spending millions and millions on law enforcement, why cant we just allow marijuana to be grown and traded legally? Why cant we just regulate its sale and distribution? To recap, marijuana ought to be legalized because we need the tax revenue. Marijuana ought to be legalized because its less dangerous than other drugs, such as tobacco and alcohol, which are legal already. Marijuana ought to be legalized because it would allow the state to regulate the massive industry that produces it. Anyway, while pot will probably never get its own aisle in the grocery store, and while it will probably never become a symbol of pride for our state, its still worth legalizingeven if it is only about the money.

I think a Ring of Duelling is more useful. No matter where you are (as long as teleportation is allowed), the ring will teleport you to a bank, where you can instantly access every other item you own. So the Ring of Duelling is like carrying your entire bank (and GE box, and lent items box) in your inventory. And it doesn't even need to be in your inventory, because you can wear it! :thumbsup:

Evony is advertising on Tip.It now, and without boobs. They must have read your blog. Great, now look what you've done. <_<

I'm really disappointed in this week's articles. The first one is so riddled with glaring grammatical errors as to be nearly unreadable, and the second one doesn't seem to have any purpose... Look: Right there in the first sentence we have a missing comma. That's a bad first impression. And again in the second sentence: more syntax errors. And top it off with redundancy. And here we have poor diction. This is full of what my English teacher calls "B.O." (Blatantly Obvious.) "Really," "overall," and "actually" are meaningless and serve no purpose here except to waste the reader's time. I could go on about all the stylistic errors, but that's the reason it reads like a drool-inducing wall of text: it doesn't read cleanly because of all the mistakes. Sometimes you can shrug it off and say, "Well, you understood what I meant." But pervasive errors like this are a significant impediment to comprehension. As for the content: None of these do anything to address the problem in the slightest. They have about the same effect as ignoring it and waiting for it to go away, except that you have to waste your time standing in the GE typing "flash3:wave2:Bobthemercher clan is a scam! Don't join!" PKers aren't going to stop PKing because you kill one person once. Merch clans aren't going to stop merching because you warn people about them for five minutes. That's exactly what I was thinking. And I would thank you not to accuse me of laziness and of making false claims because I don't waste my time bailing a sailboat with a thimble. (Textbook example of why you shouldn't use the second person in formal writing. It's rude to address the reader directly and say "You don't care about Runescape." That's what this passage is doing. As a rule of thumb, use first person plural, "we," instead of second person, "you.") We have no direct ability to make large-scale changes to the game. Jagex does. If we want to effect change, we petition Jagex to make a change. Otherwise, we live with it. Period.

Um, what would be the point, exactly? There's only one Jad, and chins won't deal him any extra damage...seems like it'd just be a waste of money.

With Magic, you could charge air orbs. You have to pay attention while you run to the altar, but while you're charging the orbs you get a good ~1:30 without clicking or anything. You can charge about 540 orbs/hr with no familiar or anything, and each is 76 xp. Should make a profit, not sure how much, but you can check.

You need 61 firemaking for Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf and 75 firemaking for the Seers' Diary. That's Enhanced Excalibur and one of the most profitable mines in the game. Get cracking. B)

Firemaking is the rare skill that can be trained with more or less equal efficiency in f2p. Might as well buy some maples and light them.

Summer's End is probably right up there with Monkey Madness and Desert Treasure as one of the most dangerous quests in the game; however, even though you're likely to die, it's not hard per se. You should be able to do it. On the part where you chop the cursed willow logs to build pyres, it may help to build all the pyres before lighting them, because as you light them the Beast's attacks get faster. Verac's Helm is not significantly better than a Helm of Neitiznot, so no need to spend money on it.

I remember this from Postbag from the Hedge: My Dearest Mr. Hilart, Sir, Sir's concerns are understandable, but I can assure Sir that us demon butlers are never anything less than professional. Demon-butler training is very assiduous and most strict. I remember how conflagratory and irascible Mr. Mordaut got with the younger students; he was very drag-onian, haw haw. It is true that us demon butlers have to prove our worth, what with our more, shall we say, pugnacious siblings being most people's experience of demonkind. All one can do is inform Sir that one does not partake of inebriating substances, nor does one have friendly acquaintances...aside from Sir, of course. To allay Sir's fears, while Sir is indisposed or abroad, one does much cleaning and tidying. Indeed, one chased away a veritable horde of ninja implings from Sir's prize petunias just this morning. Salutations. Alathazdrar Just because a butler enjoys room & board at the house in which he serves doesn't mean he has no need for money. I imagine he sends it home to his family. Perhaps Alathazdrar adds it to his demonic treasure hoard. Whatever they do with their money is none of our business, though, I'm certain.

Yeah, this is a nice guide. I like it. :thumbup:

Needs the odds of brewing a mature ale. Also, it's better to use beer glasses than calquat kegs. The kegs are harder to sell.

You're talking about this Dr. Markov, right? Yeah, those mind-control abilities probably have something to do with it. All the more reason to end the tyranny of the Vampyres in Morytania--I bet they're in league with Sorin to spread evil rumors. Down with Drakan! Free Meiyerditch!

Have you considered that reducing trade would make the game less fun? People buy raw materials in part because gathering them is boring. Circumventing the tedium of mining pure essence is, in my opinion, a good thing. It gives players the ability to choose which activities they want to partake in. Without trading, it goes from "Who can make the most money?" to "Who has the most spare time to waste gathering raw materials?" I don't think that's an improvement. I'm pretty happy with the system as it is, except that I would loosen price restrictions on the GE. I see floors and ceilings as completely unnecessary--supply and demand does a perfectly good job of regulating prices when left alone. And the 5% margin should be more flexible, especially in the case of recently-released items. Originally they said they'd put it at 10% for new items, but they never followed through, and it's led to problems with dragon claws, dragon pickaxes, dragon platebodies, leaf-bladed swords, ranging amulets, and other things.

I think "Special moves and some of their stranger attacks" refers to: 1. Scroll attacks 2. Right-click attacks 3. Familiar-specific attacks that occasionally replace the normal attack (e.g. the Stranger Plant has an attack that hits for 2 poison damage that it randomly uses instead of its normal attack.) The normal attack is going to be determined by defence level.

I know accounts who've done the Fight Caves with lower stats than you. It's more a matter of concentration and tactics than of brute force. It would probably help to practice switching prayers to a Youtube video before you actually fight Jad.

All dragons are weak to stab. They're also weak to ranged. Piercing attacks are apparently effective on dragons, although for some reason this weakness doesn't extend to armour made from their hides. (D'hide armour is weakest against slash.)

So prayer is useful in noncombat situations, but only when they involve getting attacked? I'd love to see some true noncombat prayers. I'm training my prayer up in anticipation of the upcoming prayer update.

If you want to make it not happen, you could catch lobsters.