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I don't know how this worked, but it let me activate the title, which requires giving 1b... Wat?

Oh god this looks awesome.

Wat.

I have like 50m bank atm. Paid back a ton of people. :lol: Going to do some low-level pvm for lols, but sucks to not be able to Vorago

http://www.twitch.tv/runescape Barrows update being streamed now, but jmod hax are happening. Energy is called "Malevolent Energy"

What money. I'm poor. ;)

Yay for randomly joining a jmod fc in the hopes of someone being in there. :lol: It's also 500 energy + boxed barrows set for pet, and you can apparently loot them straight off from a chest too, but obviously rarer,

I don't get the complaints about Vorago, yes it's the most difficult boss, but if you have a team of friends who are willing to learn and with decent gear, you should be able to take it down with a few tries and coordination, then as time goes on, you get more people willing to join your teams, and you can set up a team when ever you feel like it, or be allowed to join other teams, as you're well known. That or have a friend who already has a permanent team sneak you in. :lol: If you can't afford the gear, kill a lower tiered boss till you can afford to. I guess 'scape has a PvM ladder Vorago t80+ (when dpsing) A lot of learning, a lot of teamwork, a lot of profit. Nex t80- A bit of learning required, teamwork is helpful, though not needed, 5-10m/hour KK t80- Not much learning, teamwork helps a lot, 5-10m/hour Various GWD - t75-80 3-5m/hour? Mole/KBD/(Frosts?) - t70-80 gear. No idea on costs. And I'm going to say this, you do not need Seismics for Vorago, I've used vwand/book since release, and when base tanking I used drygores before that. If you're willing to bomb tank you can get away with any mage/range weapon. :lol: Chaotic Staff is actually okay too. Seismics are only the price that they are because more people are not willing to learn how to Vorago. It was the same with Nex drops for the first while after release, but then it became easier to get teams. That should happen with Vorago too soon.

I want that added. It would be so amusing, and actually solve most of the loafing problems.

The barrows totems are trade able though, completely forgot about them as we got them for free on the test accounts :lol: I remember someone mentioning that it made the original barrows worth doing for lower levels :P

don't think this has been posted yet, shows ahrim's turret attack and Dharok's "give it all to me" attack.

The main problem with pvm in runescape currently is that it doesn't stay difficult. If you kill any boss enough you learn the timings for attacks, and can probably do it with minimal supplies used. Then it just becomes the standard grind of any other money making method. :wall:

It really should be a trim req, if you have trim, you should have at least some level of pvm skill. :lol:

Every person who finishes the battle gets 1 energy (unstable) escaping the area makes it stable and tradable. The exact details of escaping are something you'll have to see for yourself. Let's just say you have a decent chance of death at first. :P

Yeah, energy can be used to make armour, or to make pets. The armour looks awesome, though obviously couldn't grab a screenshot on site. it's basically very cool looking barrows armour, with particles etc.

Yeah, though as each brother has 50k hp, it's really not too difficult. Much like any other boss by Chris L: Die a few times on day 1 Get a decent team with t80+ gear (It's possible with t80 weps/ports armour if you know what to do) Learn the mechanics Eventually gain the ability to farm it for bankloots, and upgrade gear. :P Oh, and the shields have a base value of 300m each in ge, making the pets requires 50(0?) of the energy and a barrows armour set.

No, it stops attacking you, and cannot be killed. Each brother needs to die within 30 seconds of the previous one, so when I was doing it I was just leaving them at 5-10k hp each, and dying before I could get all of them down to low enough hp. :lol:

Just realised I posted this before on the wrong thread, it was meant to be here all along. :lol: Summary of Barrows2 with about 3 hours playtime in total. [hide=Many contain spoilers if you want to learn it for yourself] As this update is a month off (to quote Chris L: "depends how many bugs we find and how quickly we fix them"), not everything will be accurate on release! Interestingly, range seemed to hit all of the brothers well, yet mage splashed to hell on Ahrim/Karil. Path to the brothers is randomly generated, though it's just a simple path you follow to get there, just run- route is important for later. You need FOUR players to start this, no more, no less. The room is divided into 2 sections by a large portal, each side will have 2 players, and both players will have to fight 3 brothers (Who you got was random from what I could see- Though Akrisae vanished and wasn't in this, so I assume he's been scrapped? :lol:) General brother strategies: THEY CAN ALL RUN! No more sara gwd style hit and run methods :( Also all stun immune, though Chris L said he might change that. Ahrim: Will mage like normal, and occasionally fly ("Ahrim takes to the air!"), so I assume this means he can't be meleed. Also has a "turret" ability, where he'll pick a spot and spin, with beams that hit 1.5k-2k per tick if they go through you- roughly 7 square range?. Can surge through, and being on diagonals avoids damage if you're far enough away. Karil: Pretty much same as Ahrim, though instead of flying he can "take to the shadows" which I assume makes him invisible, as I couldn't see him after this happened. :lol: Also has a turret attack the same as Ahrim's but with purple attacks instead of flame. Dharok: Standard melee attacks, a special where he says "Give it all to me!" Run or you get hit for a lot of damage. Verac: Standard melee, also had a meteor-strike type ability you can run away from, that hits about 2k typeless damage, I think other melee brothers have that too. Guthan: Has a fun special where he throws his spear at you ("Guthan gets ready to throw his spear!") When it hits you, you get constant 500 hits until you run next to guthan, he'll pull it out of you, hitting you for 1k, and stopping the bleeds. Also has heal-what-he-hits mechanic. Torag: Can basically hammer you into the ground, knocking you over the head with his hammer with a very amusing animation. ALL MELEE BROTHERS: A tornado attack, basically repeated hurricane ability that follows you, hits 1.5-2.5k/tick, Surge is your friend here. ALL(?): <NAME> ties your soul to a specific place, you get some green crosshairs on the ground (If you've ever used detonate, that sort of marking), if you don't run to there, you get transported to the shadow realm, where you need to lure all of the brothers into some sort of clouds in the ground, once all have been lured you get sent back to the real world, and the battle continues. If you defeat a brother, you have 30 seconds to defeat another one otherwise it'll heal fully. This timer resets if you defeat another brother. [/hide] tl;dr VERY difficult for the first few tries, but like most other Chris L bosses, once you know what you're doing it's surprisingly easy. I may have cheated a few times with dev console commands to give myself 32k hp so I didn't die

You really don't need the t90 armour for these bosses, ports will do fine, and as the brothers only have 50k hp each, you may aswell just use ports, way less chance of being killed. Something I forgot to mention, you have to kill all the brothers within 30 seconds of each other, or they heal up again, though finishing a second one resets the 30 second timer, and they can't attack during those 30 seconds. Kind of a lame mechanic, but it enforces teamwork.

To be fair, I spent something like 3 hours in total on this thing, and I'm pretty sure there's more stuff I haven't mentioned...

It was awesome. That is all there is to be said.

Just got back from Runefest, the Barrows2 was my main focus when I got to play, so I'll try to summarise a few things here: [hide=Many contain spoilers if you want to learn it for yourself] As this update is a month off (to quote Chris L: "depends how many bugs we find and how quickly we fix them", not everything will be accurate on release! Interestingly, range seemed to hit all of the brothers well, yet mage splashed to hell on Ahrim/Karil. Path to the brothers is randomly generated, though it's just a simple path you follow to get there, just run- route is important for later. You need FOUR players to start this, no more, no less. The room is divided into 2 sections by a large portal, each side will have 2 players, and both players will have to fight 3 brothers (Who you got was random from what I could see- Though Akrisae vanished and wasn't in this, so I assume he's been scrapped? :lol:) General brother strategies: THEY CAN ALL RUN! No more sara gwd style hit and run methods :( Also all stun immune, though Chris L said he might change that. Ahrim: Will mage like normal, and occasionally fly ("Ahrim takes to the air!"), so I assume this means he can't be meleed. Also has a "turret" ability, where he'll pick a spot and spin, with beams that hit 1.5k-2k per tick if they go through you- roughly 7 square range?. Can surge through, and being on diagonals avoids damage if you're far enough away. Karil: Pretty much same as Ahrim, though instead of flying he can "take to the shadows" which I assume makes him invisible, as I couldn't see him after this happened. :lol: Also has a turret attack the same as Ahrim's but with purple attacks instead of flame. Dharok: Standard melee attacks, a special where he says "Give it all to me!" Run or you get hit for a lot of damage. Verac: Standard melee, also had a meteor-strike type ability you can run away from, that hits about 2k typeless damage, I think other melee brothers have that too. Guthan: Has a fun special where he throws his spear at you ("Guthan gets ready to throw his spear!") When it hits you, you get constant 500 hits until you run next to guthan, he'll pull it out of you, hitting you for 1k, and stopping the bleeds. Also has heal-what-he-hits mechanic. Torag: Can basically hammer you into the ground, knocking you over the head with his hammer with a very amusing animation. ALL MELEE BROTHERS: A tornado attack, basically repeated hurricane ability that follows you, hits 1.5-2.5k/tick, Surge is your friend here. ALL BROTHERS: <NAME> ties your soul to a specific place, you get some green crosshairs on the ground (If you've ever used detonate, that sort of marking), if you don't run to there, you get transported to the shadow realm, where you need to lure all of the brothers into some sort of clouds in the ground, once all have been lured you get sent back to the real world, and the battle continues. [/hide] tl;dr VERY difficult for the first few tries, but like most other Chris L bosses, once you know what you're doing it's surprisingly easy. I may have cheated a few times with dev console commands to give myself 32k hp so I didn't die

Back from Runefest, it was good. But... ... ... ... I lost my Kindle somehow, think someone stole it ._.

Forum teams for vorago aren't as bad as people make out, and I know of 2 people that have been rollbacked after scamming wands/orbs in FFA split teams, most people do split nowdays.

My eyes died.