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This is why there are so many people wishing for Nex armor to drop. Everyone wants things quickly and easily. These same people were wishing bandos armor would drop, and barrows and whips before that. Comparing apples to oranges. Nex literally takes (or took, pre-EOC; not sure what current prices are) 10x the amount of time/effort to obtain than barrows and whips did back in the day. Not to mention the fact that low lvls could complete barrows, just with less efficiency. Pernix and virtus are pretty affordable right now, sure it takes longer to get than barrows but it is top gear at the moment.

Is that a bad thing? >_> Nexers would just go to KK/GWD bosses, I see complaints from many lower levelled players because of high levels camping GWD. We need a boss that doesn't require mass teams/top end gear, a boss based on skill. Ports armour could speed up rate of adrenaline or maybe something like damage/speed increases the longer you are in combat. This would make full use of the high defence while still not giving immediate boosts over Nex set effects, top-end however, ports gear would be very useful. Qbd. Sadly, the drops are valued so low just because of these reasons. You get what you give. Drops at QBD are almost useless, only good drops specific to QBD are the royal crossbow parts. QBD is also being botted and takes around 3mins to kill so a harder/more time consuming boss would be better.

Is that a bad thing? >_> Nexers would just go to KK/GWD bosses, I see complaints from many lower levelled players because of high levels camping GWD. We need a boss that doesn't require mass teams/top end gear, a boss based on skill. Ports armour could speed up rate of adrenaline or maybe something like damage/speed increases the longer you are in combat. This would make full use of the high defence while still not giving immediate boosts over Nex set effects, top-end however, ports gear would be very useful.

Damage boost is what the main rs population consider, if it isn't max dps then it isn't worth it. Accuracy isn't much of a problem at the moment due to t90/80 weapons and bosses not being that high levelled.

Obsolete wasn't the word, Nex would be bossed much less because nex items would hit the floor, again. Only useful items would be wand/book/boots/gloves.

Why make Nex obsolete?

Hey, I'll check back on this thread tomorrow, as it's nearly clocking off time, a few quick responses: "• The Slayer Trait in Player-Owned Ports now correctly gives +100 combat. • The Traits in Player-Owned Ports that increase or decrease the ship’s stats by 1% now work correctly." Yep I'm aware of these problems and the fact that slow is -80% speed rather than -80 speed. Will be firing those off as bugs tomorrow morning. Equally I'm going to look into the totems tomorrow to see what I can do to make them more useful. (Please note these things can take time from investigating to actually getting into the game, but we'll do our best) Given that PoP armour got a hefty armour increase we felt it didn't need a set effect to remain better than Nex - we will continue to monitor this, however. Quick find code: 15-16-19-64214683

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Drop rate can be very different btw, wikia use 101-512 as rare and 513+ as very rare. Drop rate can vary as much as it wants from each monster since dragon pickaxe is listed as very rare.

Maul definite. Chaotic crossbow is good with eagle eye kite shield (depends on what bossing you do). Farseer kite shield is brilliant for maging. Chaotic staff is good since its an affordable t80 magic weapon.

Black knives buy at 1gp each I think.

Exactly. This is why keep saying that skill capes were one of the worst updates to RS ever. But do you think people would still bot to 99 if 99 was a fun byproduct of training agility, rather than the focus itself? What about if skill capes didn't exist? And who spends real money on RS GP? So many people buy RS GP, this gold buying also affects other things such as the fact that stolen credit cards are used etc. This was one of the main reasons why free trade was implemented.

People would still bot agility for the skill capes. Most bots you see are gold farming bots because it makes real cash.

The majority of bots seem to be for gold farming, this is a lot different from grinding skills. Of course, there are a fair few who bot to grind skills but to say botting exists because of the grind?

Quite a few people on the RSOF seem to think so as well, I personally think something is up, prior to today I was doing 3/4 Minute QBD kills now struggling to do less then 5min kills while the use of food has almost doubled. I kind of wish they'd quit messing about with the game every couple days and leave it alone... Nex I hear was harder but QBD? IMO it's much easier, getting 3-4 min kills using about 2-3 food max.

Why does the front page say desert tasks, 15 hours ago?

Pyramid plunder may get some form of reward.

Click on it Still extremely zoomed out.

Poor Meam How can I make these pictures bigger >.>?

3 hours and 30 mins at bandos. 17m+3 effigies, picture is too small >.> Also, chaotic claws suck when compared to maul.

It puzzles me why you'd invest so much time in melee gear when it's currently the most useless combat style for bossing. It's great for AoE crowd control for Slayer tasks, but those are far between and the cost of the armour negates much of the profit. Personally, I'm going with Magic first. Considering all the best bosses (Kalphite King, Nex, K'ril, Zilyana) are killed with it, it seems the best option. Nex is best killed by range and the KK appears to be best killed by the drygore weapons, bandos is best with melee also.

16m in 2 minutes, I like. Also,

I got the impression that the dual-wielding-specific abilities weren't actually that bad, there just weren't enough to them and at least two were tied to the same cooldown timer. Sorry, I should have said the lack of dual wield specific abilities and the penalty for using non dual wield specific abilities.

There is also the fact that dual wield abilities suck.