Dirkmetal

Wow, and that place was bad before. Now it will be easier for trolls to make new accounts faster.

I think there is a derogatory term for this: Noobscape. As for my stand on the bonus exp weekend? I have not logged in since they first announced it, and I canceled my subscription.

Exactly, this is why this rant is so beautiful. The OP gives no reason why he thinks RS is dead. So you can't not tell him he is wrong due to the lack of a point to argue.

I believe this covers my comprehension of the term and in response to my dear friend Dirkmetal.. I merely pointed out the official definition of dead and suggested an altered term for "Dead to them" Such as perhaps, boring, non-essential, notepads, or Chuck Norris. I do wish your generalizations had more foundation. Cheers. Wachiru. Great, now explain how that is relevant then. It just seems you're trying to spin what we're saying by using a different definition for dead then we're to make our argument sound really dumb. You know we don't mean it's physically dead, so why even bother wasting time by pointing it out? Now if you're saying that you're not using the official definition of dead, and you know what we're saying. Why then are you telling us that we don't mean physically dead we we use the word dead. I think we know what we're implying by the very context we're using the word in. Are you going to tell someone the official definition of cool now when they tell you to cool off? I could go on, but I think (hope) you get the point.

No, repeated exp weekends are a bad idea all together. They discourage normal gameplay. Like someone said before on RSOF "Why play Monday, when Tuesday is a bonus exp day?".

Drill hole, melt lead, add lead, murder weapon. :) The best thing is the upgrade is not even visible. The amount of lead you add will be up to you. You want a balance between easy to handle/carry and heavy enough to get the job done. And now I feel really weird for giving advice on how to make an improvised weapon on the internet. :(

You forgot to mention how the whip replaced the scimmy. But yeah, I've been waiting for the Dragon shortsword for a wile. Players will never learn about Pmods. Pmods cause a whole lot of chaos in the game because of this.

Um, doesn't the existing bonuses still work? It's just that the exp weekend bonus is not stacked with other exp bonuses? You should try to alter at least one bone before jumping to conclusions.

When people say "RS is dead" they mean Runescape is dead to them. Why does everyone seem to have trouble comprehending this?

Yeah, go out there and down load some viruses, err I mean key loggers, damn it! I mean keyboard remapping programs off Google search.

http://www.gimp.org/ I've been using it for years. Some of us don't have $9001 to spend on a high-class paint program. *edit* I forgot to add that it's a really nice program, and it's open source.

Wow, going against you on the ol' Rant board. This is almost as fun as debating Omali. Hence the reason this is a rant, and not feedback. It's an airing of grievances, not a how to improve the game list. I can't speak for others, but Runescape is dead to me because of the free exp' weekend debacle. When people say that Runescape is dead they do not mean that literally. They mean what they liked about Runescape is gone, thus Runescape is dead to them personally. The reasons are personal, thus they can not be debated. Go ahead and consider personal opinions idiocy, but fun is based on personal opinion. Why play what you don't enjoy? Leave? I already have. Rioting about things is dumb, but you must admit they are kinda funny. Do people really think Jagex cares? *edit* Fixed a poorly written sentence.

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Its soul is gone, it's merely a husk of its former glory that lives on.

1 step forward, 3 steps back.

I just tried to take a bunch of names with new accounts. To bad Jagex blocked people from doing that, because the newly available names are only selectable through name change. There is a name that I've been wanting for a long time, but it's still taken. However the other name that I wanted is available now, but I kinda like the name Prism Swords. I can't make a new account to take that old name. This is such a hard decision. *edit* There are a bunch of 3 letter names up for grabs now in case you wanted to know. Zyx was a good one I found, but I'm not taking.

This account is 9 years old this month; with a legacy you can never hope to match. Sorry You're either blind, or have poor comprehension. People do not see/care how many years you have been playing. What they do see is a immature name coupled with an untrimmed cape. You painted yourself as a target, whether you can see that or not. Turn off your public chat, or learn to cope with it. Now I would go on to sarcastically state how I could never live up to your godlike accomplishments, but sarcasm is wasted on the internet, and on trolls like you.

That is merely logic, people are not moved by logic.

Don't make up words. You know back in my day... Oh wait, you don't care about my day? How odd, neither do I. OT:One thing to remember though is to respect everybody, because you don't know who they really are. I've made the mistake of telling strangers to F off before, then learned that they were a person in authority. Then again, I tell people in authority to F off if they're wrong anyway. The moral of the story is that people are idiots.

I don't see why Jagex punishes people who cheat, yet unlock cheats for everyone the very next week

With that name you can't help but be a target for bullying in Runescape.

All items used in skilling right now are going for outrageous prices making normal gameplay impossible to obtain. High level equipment is crashing in price, but this are only the short term effects on the economy. Don't think that exp weekend will have a long term effect on the economy? Think again. Think of all the GP that would have been removed from circulation if people would have not been able to train summoning at half price. As they say; "A penny saved is a penny earned". In this case though, it's more like "A GP not removed from circulation, is a GP contributing to inflation". The exp. weekend will cause even more inflation. Here's why: Where do you think all those plate bodys and d'hide bodys will go after there made during this update? So combine these two skills with magic trainings High-alchemy and you have loads of gold pouring into the already hyper-inflated economy. Summoning now costs half as much. meaning that it will only take out half as much gold from circulation then it normally would. So all together we have production skills that make items to be high-alched pumping vast amounts of cash into the the economy, and our only real effective money sink is half as effective wile this happens. Just mull that over wile you "save millions" in the up coming weekend. It's just three days of boosted exp, that can't hurt right? Wrong. See, whether you like it or not, Runescape in a highly competitive game. only a few skills are not competitive in any way, you're going to be fighting other players if you like it or not. Gathering Anything you sell with the idea of gaining money is competitive. So all gathering skills are competitive if you're trying to make money buy selling the goods, because the more item-X other players bring into the game, the cheaper you'll have to sell yours for. Higher level skillers will flood the market faster then you, devaluing your efforts even more. Fishing: Selling Woodcuting: Same thing with fishing, plus the more players on a wood cutting spot, the faster it disappears. Mining: Only a few good ore spawns, and players who have higher mining have a better chance at getting the ore you're both swinging at. Hunting: There are only a few hunter spots in the game, and far more hunters then places to hunt. The higher ones hunting level, the more traps they can lay, and the more control they have over a spot. Thieving: Thieving is one of the few skills that competition does not play a very big role in. Mainly because it does not bring very many sought after unique items that can't be obtained in better ways. Prodution Any buying you do is competitive, unless you have infinite gold to spend. If your answer is to gather your own resources, look at the corresponding gathering skill to see if it truly is not competitive. Smithing: You need ore, see mining. Farming: Buying seeds. Fletching: You need wood. See Woodcutting Runecrafting: This is not competitive unless you're buying your essence. Construction: You need wood. See Woodcutting Herblore: See Farming, and Combat. Cooking: See Fishing. Crafting: See Mining, Combat, Seaweed collecting is competitive because there are only so many seaweed spawns. Magic: See combat. The only non-competitive way to train this is to make your own runes, then cast solely on training dummies. Summoning: See combat, Mining, Smithing, Farming, Hunter, Woodcutting and Crafting. Fire Making: See woodcuting. There are only so many banks that are good for Fire making. Though level means nothing here. Misc Prayer: See Combat. That or you buy the bones. Agility: This skill in itself is not competitive. Combat The skills of Strength, Attack, Defense, Range, Magic, Hit Points and Slayer all fall under this category. This can be summed up by saying there are only so many NPC's to train on, and that the very idea of combat is to compete. All resources gathered from this skill are fought over tooth and nail, where higher combat levels give players a big advantage. So one can only truly avoid competing with other players in a few skills. Now that my point about Runescape being very competitive has been made. I can go on to say that levels give players a huge advantage over other players. Now what does all this have to do with the exp. weekend? Simple (so simple it took a wall of text): The level cap is 99. Players with 99 can not get any better, they have worked hard for their advantage over other players. Now Jagex is coming along and giving experience away to players. What does this mean? Lower levels can now train extremely fast to get 99's. However, people already at 99 can not train any higher They will lose that advantage that they worked very hard for. They will become equals, even though the previously lower level player did nothing to achieve this. Next time you're in GWD dungeon and a team of crashers come in all with Pack Yaks, and you know for certain that only one day before they had only 80 summoning, you can thank Jagex for their exp weekend. But you say "new training methods come along ALL the time, making things easier and faster". Well yes that's true, but the thing is. At the end of the week this "new training method" will be gone. So if you missed it, or are a new player starting after the "event". you are a a bigger disadvantage then ever before. Now you have to compete with all these players who are a lot more powerful then they should be because they abused and advantage that you won't have. "Bu-bu-but Jagex said tht if this goes well we'll have more in the future!" Do you really want that? Merchants will start hording all resources all the time in anticipation for the next exp. weekend. Normal training will become impossible. Plus add in the fact that there would be no point on playing and other time then these exp. weekends. Oh, what a bright future we have ahead of ourselves. 2010 surely is the year of change. If only I could say that change was for the better.

It's nice to see that someone here at tif manages to singlehandedly maintain the stereotype of the pure. Is it so bad to stereotype a person, when they fit the stereotype? And you act like stereotypes are bad. Some people get mad if you don't perceive them as the personification they wish to embody. But it seems that you can only see the from the side of "It is wrong to assume that a person is certain way". Wile this may be true, stereotyping is not necessarily a bad thing. Now go cry me a river. I think I'm going to take a break from Tip. You guys are becoming to much like RSOF.

Its melee capabilities are definitely relevant. The greatest strength of the staff is its spec - melee protection. But this effect only occurs if you have the staff equipped for the whole 1 minute the spec is active. If the staff is a terrible melee weapon, then you're stuck using magic only while you have the spec active. But since the staff has melee potential, it's possible to hybrid mage/melee with the staff while the spec is active. Or even just melee with it. Oh, I see. You just wanted it to be a spec weapon so you could block D'Claws then switch to your whip. I'm not going to complete this post because it will only result in a flame war. We'll just end up arguing opinions over the internet, and thus we will both lose.

I wish I would have bloody done that. I was thinking the same exact thing, but decided this was the wrong forum for poetry. If you were not clearly a seal, I would have fallen in love with you months ago. But a seal you are, and I actually support the Orcas, sorry. You two are becoming more alike all the time. @OP: This may seem obvious, but the higher your stats. The faster you'll kill them, and the faster you will get your drops. i.e. GRIND SOME MORE!