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That's great :). Would be useful to see how a % ranged dps translates to time saved overall. Herblore is really cheap now, 20% off supers/herbs except grenwall spikes for some reason, they didn't buy 10% over or sell 10% under (???). Err, construction? Strength? HP? Idk which of my 99s is the trash one, I don't have cook/fletch/fm :P. Untrimmed hp cape > farm cape > herb cape FTFY Unt Slay plz Thats my pure's job. Cannon + pps pride. Untrimmed summoning = untrimmed slayer > untrimmed hp > everything else. Untrimmed comp is nice too :).

Specifically flesh crawlers on level two, giant spiders on level three or ankous on level four, in order of level required, ascending. I think ankous may require food at all levels actually.

I knew! See previous page (or top half of this page) for 99 herb, also.

Yay :).

In Soviet blogscape, jokes overthink you! Yay :).

As I just posted, miasmic is ~8k per cast. That's not a lot for a guaranteed kill, because after you cast it twice or so (until it hits) you have polypore to finish the job and 2-3x the raw dps of the ranger. Edit: if you're healing with brews, miasmics are probably cheaper than using twice the number of brews for 48 seconds :o. In Soul Wars, a kill is not particularly valuable so people don't spend much money for the most part. Staking, kills are so valuable anything goes. It's probably best to look at wilderness fights or Clan Wars or something.

Legs, helms and boots take so very very very long to get :(. I hate Soul Wars. I am the Soviet state :shades:.

Scroll of efficiency is nice for people below 99 smithing/going for smithing xp, less so since Artisan's is competetive now but still. Chaotic staff is nice for glacors and ice strykes. Celestial surgebox also. Placeholder bonecruncher/arcane stream necklace can't hurt. If you're desperate, either spent tokens on xp or try to entirely max your ring (that's like 3.6m tokens).

Miasmics are so incredibly expensive, though. Even more so than storm of armadyl because of the zuriel staff cost. In general, magic is a lot more expensive to use, and rangers can get by just fine with sub-100k equipment. The corrupt version is a bit over 500k and can be used one cast at the time iirc. If it degrades like chaotics then each cast is about 5k more expensive (2 ticks combat per cast, one hit dealt one taken, 2000 ticks per staff). That's not that much considering the power.

People get unfrozen if you move beyond magic range, so I don't think you can farcast a mage.

Void is required for most of ranger's raw dps but that has so little magic defence a mage can rip straight through it. Without void, the max hit with ranged is a low 500. For magic, the max hit is 540 using just polypore staff, wolpertinger and arcane stream necklace. Magic has SoA+teleblock/ice barrage+miasmics/vengeance+polypore depending on choice of spellbook, long range and wolpertingers. Ranged has around half the raw dps of SoA.

It seems we are not in the same time zones :(. Good progress on 99 herb today, if I don't rq igneous I'll get it.

Not anymore, had its speed reduced by one in a stealth-nerf :(.

If you have money you should burn it ASAP. If you don't, I believe summoning is the cheapest out of the three key buyables, and melee + slayer training should break even.

1.5m per shot I believe, and while a Morrigan's javelin special is incredibly powerful (it hits rapid dart-speed 50s until as much damage is done as the initial hit, with 145 ranged strength, so up to ~1100 damage for that attack) it's not really viable. But it's awesome :D. If Jagex wanted to make a good anti-mage weapon they should allow us to permanently repair Morrigan's javelins including a retrieval effect so they aren't so expensive. The spec doesn't work in pvm anyway, nothing to unbalance there.

Pernix > divine (priority wise) and afaik divine > eeks, not sure on ely but I presume that's better also.

Glaiven boots would offer 2 more ranged attack. I wouldn't use an unholy book with ccbow, unless you were using bane bolts or dragonstone bolts (e). Karil's deals more damage than rune bolts afaik.

Summoning is far harder to train and you'll get something useful out of it too, that is: bunyip, war tortoise, fruit bat.

That's not true, dropping is still faster than banking by quite a lot. But if you're dropping you may as well go barbarian fishing which is 60-70k xp/hr and gives a bit of agility xp as well.

Why so difficult, we can pull one of the mod nanoswarms out of orbit...?

That the bolts can't be picked up is not bad, provided they are cheap enough per shot. It'd make it easier to safespot with them and you could use TokHaar instead of alerter at Nex, which saves a switch and some defence/prayer. The lack of good dps is more worrying.

Primal battleaxe shines most on low defence things such as zombies which incidentally make up the most of the total killing you have to do. Things with low defence tend to have high health and vice versa, making the battleaxe all-round better than prom 2h. Primal 2h is better than both of course. Personally I would unbind hood for bn/hex. Plate increases survival ability especially in faster floors. Imagine a celestial mage dehooding you in a 60 minute floor: no hood for 1/60th of the time. In a 10 minute floor, it's no hood for 1/10th of the time!

Tokhaar is the best cape for melee and ice strykewyrms, max cape is best for magic and ranged, comp cape beats both ;).

I had prom baxe for a while, it's not as good as 2h for sure, not that much better on zombies and worse on mages/bosses etc.

Just goes to show how inhuman prisons like that are, there's really no point in hurting people for being criminals. Treatment can be useful, separating them from society can be useful, but vengance doesn't solve anything. I don't believe in these 23-hour-a-day cells, letting people out to play ping-pong helps a lot more. People just need the stress release and no matter what a person did, you can't say that it's unreasonable they want to go for a run at times or w/e.