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I have tried the CT dagganoths, but I didn't really like them. If you spec or drink a potion it's pretty much impossible to attack the same dagg you were attacking because there's so many of them, and running around to pick up drops is pretty annoying with auto retaliate on. Besides, I probably won't make it to 96 range just from cannon anyway, so I'm going to cannon as much as possible to save chin costs/get more slay xp.

You're right, combat is quite a big part of the game. But is it really a bad thing? Let's face it, most people who play runescape train mostly combat skills because they enjoy doing that. I find only a relative minority of the people enjoy training skills more than combat, and for those people the current amount of skills in the game is more than enough. So no, I don't think they screwed over the game by making a relatively large part of the game combat based. After all, most people enjoy combat. I like to train both skills and combat myself, and I have no problem spending a few months training skills with the current amount of skills/training methods. If I want to train combat, there are enough possibilities to do that too. So, I personally think Jagex found a pretty good balance between combat and non-combat, especially if you compare it to other MMO's that are almost completely based on combat.

Thanks a lot. I think I'm going to unblock greaters when I get 127 cb, wait till I get a task and try them. If I don't mind them I'll block hellhounds instead, and otherwise I'll just have wasted 100 points, :P I'd love to buy an sgs, but at it's current price I'd have to sell most of my bank just to buy one, and I wouldn't have money left to buy supplies. So, I guess excalibur and ppots will have to do the job. I'm not really sure, I kind of like the 15 minute cannon tasks under the lighthouse. :P Might give it a try though if I'm bored.

Thanks, I'll have to try that. :) Any more advice?

Nearly done :

Could you explain where to set up the cannon? I've tried to find a spot where I can both range the hellhounds from a safespot and easily refill the cannon, but didn't manage to find one.

Hmm that's actually a pretty good idea, I wouldn't have to bank as many ppots beforehand. I've never done greaters so I don't really know about crowds, but I'll just take your advice and keep them banned :P I do use zarfots guide for cannon spots, but he doesn't really describe the position of the cannon at hellhounds well and I couldn't find a good spot, so I usually just melee them. Thanks guys :) Wut you do hellhounds? :? Well, I don't have them blocked because there's no room left on the blocklist. :P

Hmm that's actually a pretty good idea, I wouldn't have to bank as many ppots beforehand. I've never done greaters so I don't really know about crowds, but I'll just take your advice and keep them banned :P I do use zarfots guide for cannon spots, but he doesn't really describe the position of the cannon at hellhounds well and I couldn't find a good spot, so I usually just melee them. Thanks guys :)

Hi everyone, I'm planning to 'bank' 95 slayer in super sets, summoning pouches, prayer potions, food, etc. Just not cannonballs because I can't afford that :oops: I will be using protect from melee/magic if needed, piety at waterfiends and 10% str on everything else, and will cannon all tasks where it's possible to efficiently cannon (excluding fire giants). I did 93 duradel tasks for 1.7m xp last time I slayed, which averages out to about 18k xp/task or ~250 tasks max to 95 slayer. I still have a few questions though. My current blocklist consists of iron dragons, steel dragons, kalphites and greater demons. I'm considering unblocking greater demons (94 hp is close and it will get me 127 combat) and blocking hellhounds instead. Would this be a good idea or would you recommend keeping my blocklist this way or blocking something else? I don't mind scarabs/tbirds. Would buying 1.5k prayer potions last me all the way to 95 slayer or do you think 6 ppots/task is a really low estimate? Prayer potions are pretty high too at the moment, is there any chance they'll go down to like 10k each in the near future or will they stay as high as they are now? And what about cannonballs? Would 500 super sets, 300 bunyips, 200 geysers, 100 pony's and 2k pineapple pizza's be enough? Is it worth going on lunars for faster task swapping at the cost of not being able to cast high alchemy and trollheim teleport (for herb runs/spirit mages)? If I'd have to get 96 mage first for spellbook swap I would probably get 97 on accident from teleporting/circus, and I wouldn't have enough money left to bank 95 slayer. Also, last but not least, a pretty large question. If you're going to try to answer, please don't guess or something but actually calculate it. I'm going to try to get all 96 combats with 95 slayer and 99 hitpoints/summoning. I will burst/barrage 96 mage, slay 96 melees, cannon 96 range and chin if I can't get 96 range by just cannoning. Do you recon I can get 95 slayer without going over 96 combats? And what about summoning, would I be able to get 99 summoning doing just this? I tried to calc it myself and worked out that I should just be able to make it to 95 slayer, and I should get charms for 98.2 summoning or so. Does this sound right or did I do it wrong? I know it isn't really possible to accurately calculate stuff needed for slayer like this, but I'd just like to know if my estimates are close or completely off. Any advice/help is welcome, you don't have to answer all of the questions, just the ones you can answer. :D For those interested, I'll probably keep my drops 88-95, keep track of the supplies used and time spent on slayer, so there will finally be some accurate data for discussing whether slayer is worth training or not :P Thanks in advance :)

Meh I couldn't be bothered reading that anymore when you said it was an experiment. I usually don't bother posting if I haven't read the first post or if it doesn't interest me. This is an exception though. :P

I don't really see the point in training combat skills without slayer. The only thing I use my combat skills for is slayer. Without slayer, training combat would be just like all other non combat skills.

That's indeed pretty awesome. Really close to 70+ now, keep it up!

Farming level doesn't matter for herb death rate or yield.

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I agree, it's a pretty silly argument. You do seem to complain about nearly everything though.

Lemme break it down. Something seems wrong. I have no data. I am asking if anyone does. I don't think there's been a change to the death rate, but I did notice a large amount of dead herbs. Coincidence? Maybe.

O page 100. Or not yet. Finally got my 23rd 85+ skill, runecrafting. Just mining left now, 850k of extreme boredom to go! :| [hide=85 Rc][/hide]

Buy-skilling is the way MMORPGs are meant to be played. MMORPG stands for massively multiplayer online role-playing game, not single player. Still, everything is down to opinion, as I said earlier. Honestly, just do what you want. There's no right or wrong answer. One of the answers saves you time, though.

That's an awesome level, congratulations! :thumbup:

Bolding and underlining imo doesn't make your opinion invincible. Who are you to decide what is normal? I think he was just making sure it was known that his statement was just his personal opinion. Don't think he was trying to force it upon anyone. Hmm, that might be true, but it's still pretty unreasonable to call everything you don't listen to yourself not normal.

You are like the first person i've seen on hear who listens to normal music imo. :-# Bolding and underlining imo doesn't make your opinion invincible. Who are you to decide what is normal?

Heh, your stats are pretty similar to my stats when I got 99 farming. Around the same total/combat, same way of getting 99, same bank worth and all 70+. So obviously, well done! :P Good luck with any further goals!

Since when is chinning afkable :? Good luck with maxing combat!

0) Random stuff I sometimes use, cash pile 1) Runes/teleporting stuff/runecrafting stuff 2) Pots/food 3) Herblore/farming (haven't used this one in ages) 4) Summoning stuff 5) Tools/Raw Materials/bars/bait/gems/etc 6) Slayer and all combat gear 7) Random stuff I rarely use but is worth keeping 8) Herb run tab

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