Diomedus

What about the barrelchest anchor? Isn't it like the 5th strongest weapon in the game?

Is there a clan chat or something where people help you get the best tier equipment? I think I remember hearing about that a long time ago. I can use gorgonite stuff but can't smith it.

Since the EoC, what are the good things to have bound? There's the new loadout things. Right now I have a katagon spear, katagon platebody, and t8 longbow, i had blood runes bound but then switched to a magical blastbox should i bind arrows instead since I like using range? what weapon(s) and armor? is the shadow silk hood still worth binding when I find one? also, should I upgrade my ring on something? or just save the tokens to get chaotics? and is there a good guide I can read to work on getting my floor times lower? from what i've been doing this weekend, it seems like using abilities instead of momentum helps a lot. i know to only kill creatures in guardian door rooms and don't skill. I prefer doing solo dg, teams are hard to find. thanks a lot!

So would mining or agility be a bad idea even though they are "free" to train?

I've been wondering about this too. I don't know if the skeleton monkies, ape atoll big monkies, or the armoured zombies are still considered good.

For now as a full time college student, I'm putting a pretty high value on my time. Runescape time is pretty limited until the winter/christmas break. So I think mining to 81 and agility are the things to do. Thanks Dr. Vermin

Would doing slayer (with the point of training melee, either one specifically or controlled) be a decent option? I don't know what an average xp/hour is with the new combat system.

I have several ideas, and I would appreciate help with feasibility and decision making. I have 20 mil in cash, bandos equipment I could sell if needed, and some money tied up in herb seeds I would love to get 89 smithing so I could finish Varrock and Ardounge achievement diaries, and meet the smithing requierement for the freminik one too. I would like to use my charms to get closer to 99 summoning, but right now I don't have a lot. 66 talon, 100 obsidian, 14 or so abbysal, 866 crimson, 3200 green, 3500 gold, and 34 blue. I would like to also push for 96 herblore for overloads I would like to get 81 mining for red sandstone I would like to do tree and fruit tree runs for farming I would like to get 90 agility I think my priorities would be smithing, herblore, and agility. I heard someone post that there is a limit of 50k xp or 30 min time limit. Is that true? If so would it be better to do like mining or agility since those are slower and I can get the full 50k xp bonus? Would it be a good idea to like, camp waterfiends for a while and get more charms? I am planning to do slayer at least after this semester of college ends and things calm down in real life. Thanks for the help.

I have 43,500 loyalty points, and I am wondering which aura is the best to buy? I have the following jack of all trades supreme greenfingers wisdom with the EoC I'm planning to do DG and slayer with the idea of maxing combat and those two skills as a primary goal. are the new combat auras good? penance? vampirism? the one that boosts adreneline or the one that saves adreneline? other ones I'd consider are surefooted (at some point I'll go for 90 agility, but I don't see myself trying to max that for a long time) call of the sea to get 96 or 99 fishing (bare handed sharks for achievement diary) hunting one (I want to get 80 or 81 to fully unlock herblore habitat, and 80 is when the money making opens up. If I like it I might go for 99) thanks in advance

Is there a decent guide somewhere for glacors? is it different with Eoc?

why is verac's better? i have both and i'm not seeing much difference besides 1 point prayer bonus

so, i have been a bit busy, so i would appreciate insight from people who know what they're talking about (the kind folks of tip it) i have bandos chestplate, tassets, and boots other armor i had was helm of neizinot/full slayer helm, fury, beserker ring, whip and dragon defendor so, now with the eoc, what should i do to upgrade? i have elite enhanced excalibur, and i am doing dg to get tokens for chaotic weapons but for armor, should i get a bandos helm? i think the shield is good. is doing a bunch of mobilizing armies to get the berserker ring upgraded worth it? then for melee weapons, is rapier plus dragon defendor still really good? rapier plus shield? whip and elite excalibur? chaotic maul and something? other ideas?

Does anyone know if super restores are useful in EoC?

They've been crashing hard, but they seem to be at their lowest (I hope) A lot of my money is tied up in snapdragons and herb seeds (torstol and snapdragon) Would it be worth taking a loss to have some cash on hand or should I just wait for them to recover? I only have about 3 mil in cash atm. I'm hoping that after eoc is live for a while the price will go back up to normal. Is the best thing to do wait it out and keep growing the seeds?

Before beta? The EoC beta is already open. He's talking about before it goes live and we don't have a choice.

I am wondering if there's stuff I should try to do quick before EoC launches. I have 95 prayer already, even though it seems to suck in beta. My current thoughts are Do dominion tower with claws to get the 450-500 kills (even if the rewards suck, using claw specs is pretty fast and the special attacks are going away) do fight caves (protection prayer is being reduced to 50%, and they said they are going to overhaul boss battles) should I also shoot for finishing fight kiln? I don't know if I can, but if it's suggested to go for it I will look up guides and stuff and do my best. Is there other stuff? I am planning to start doing dg for 85 at least for frost dragons and chaotic weapons. Does it suck in beta? I am going to start when the solo thing launches on monday/tuesday. Long term goals for me are max combat level and finish all the achievement diaries (I have seers and falador done, the rest are done except for the elite tasks I don't have levels for.)

The bonus xp weekend came at a good and bad time for me. Over the summer I got 99 magic barraging rock lobs. So, I had a good amount of charms. Also, the sizzling summer bonus xp. With some help from people on the tip it forums, I planned to do summoning over the weekend. Then I found out the 48 hour film festival competition fell on the same weekend. That significantly cut into my play time. However, I was still able to get about 6 hours in and get from 72 to 96 summoning. Now I just need to figure out what that "unlocks" for me... btw, my film got second place in the competition. yay!

Thank you both for your help. I got 96 summoning and I'm thrilled. Any suggestions for when I get the money and charms for 99 which familiars or whatever to make? Also, are doing gold and green not really worth it at this point? They are so little xp, but on the other hand, it's a few hundred less crimsons to collect. I don't know.

Like I said, tonight I used the promissary note to get my summoning to 80. I have 2,041,000 ish xp right now.

Unfortunetly this weekend I will not be able to play much if at all. If i had to guess I might have 1-6 hours total. I want to train summoning during this time. I have 4000 gold 3100 green 7900 crimson and 1500 blues. With a limited amount of playing time, what pouches should I make and what order? I am going to use my xp promissary note to get 80 summoning tonight. so if you are calculating start from there. I looked at Kent's guide in the archive of wisdom but I'm not sure if it's up to date or if there are better options. what other info do you need if any? I want to eventually get 96/99 summoning but i don't think i have enough atm even with double xp. I'll get more its just the bonus weekend is right here and now. I think i can get to like 92 or so with what i have.

I would like to beat the special fights Nomad No More and Sunfreet. I don't remember trying seriously at Sunfreet, but using a dart might be an idea if he proves difficult. Nomad, when I beat the quest I barely made it out alive, I had no food or brews or whatever i had left and like 100 ish lifepoints left. I was using soulsplit and I think karil or black dhide or royal dhide, the range method. I haven't tried the ganodemic armor. what method of attack works well with that? range or melee? So, First, do the darts work there (Dominion Tower). Also, should i not "waste" the darts at dominion tower? should i go for QBD or nex or something? (I don't really do GWD but I might for the sake of using the darts.) or is a different reward a better idea?

So, for hunting, is herblore habitat the way to go? Should I do common jandikos until 74 for the juju farming ones and then do those till, um, i think draconic is the next good one? or people do like red salamanders or something?

I would like advice about where to put my bonus xp. Some ideas I had were herblore (get overloads or close so I can make them with boosts) summoning ( I have enough charms for about 88 i think, and I would like to get 96 for pack yack or 99 I have been saving up money to get a high herblore and/or summoning. I'm just not sure which i should do first. another thought to consider is i am possibly going to do slayer to raise melee casually while i'm at college. so that would get me more charms gradually. I don't know which is better - herblore is expensive and i stop at 96 tops. summoning you'll always get charms as drops but i think summoning helps more with earning money (pack yack and combat familiars) more than high herblore. also, I do need to get the juju farming potions, and I'm not fond of hunting. Is hunting "easy and fast" kinda like theiving and I should just suck it up? Or would using some xp to get 74 or 80 (to be able to fully do herblore habitat) be a decent idea? also, with loyalty points, i have like 70 something thousand. i have jack of all trades, wisdom (which wasn't a wise purchase) and master greenfingers. the only thing i can thing of getting is supreme greenfingers, i just want to know if there are others i should consider.

I want to beat the fight cave and kiln for the challenge, and for the elite karamja diary. I've been researching guides, but i'm still confused on which "method" is best. For fight caves, It seems that range was the way to go until polypore came around. Now are poly staff and gandoemic armor the "easiest?" for the kiln, I have no idea. The guides I've seen are for farming it. links to guides would be awesome, so would any advice. Thanks in advance

I agree with the combat article. I think some of the changes are not good for the game. I'm glad they canceled the reduced xp for fighting low level monsters. I don't like the new combat forumila and I don't like the prospect of everything having thousands and thousands of hitpoints. I liked the small numbers, it seemed simpler. I remember thinking that the "bigger numbers are more exciting" reasoning back with the Constitution update was stupid. Also, I enjoyed the God Wars article. I am looking forward to the next installment