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This wasn't his strongest game, but he's usually very reliable...why exactly does it bother you? I was only able to see the game at a restaurant with friends so I didn't get to pay close attention, but it looked like a penalty. Maybe Boateng touching the ball was just unlucky, but from what I could see the penalty call was okay.

But the best slayer monster will still be those with low defence, and the worst those with high defence. So I'd assume that blocking those who are worst will probably result in getting more tasks with low def monsters who might be below your level range.

That's the one I'm most unsure about. I think that portugal is generally better, but they are far less consistent in their performance than the czechs.

This is pretty important and I hope I'm reading it right. The system is looking at the skill you're leveling versus the primary skill the monster will counter it (either it's offensive or defensive stat). You don't want to train defense on a monster with its offensive stat too low and you don't train atk/mag/rng against an enemy with low defensive stat. However, this is beneficial to players with divergent range, mage and melee stats. Reason being, even if you're a high combat level thanks to 90 atk, you can still train on low level NPCs if you happen to have and use a low level range skill. Also, if I'm reading this right, monsters will have weapons and armor of a level that fits their base stat. An NPC with 40 atk and 40 def will also be using something like rune armor and weapons. If that's the case, a monster's combat level and a player's combat level (that's fully equipped) will be comparable in power. That's unlike now where a level 138 NPC would be no competition to a fairly equipped level 80 player. Now I'm wondering how XP will be handled in all this? I don't think it's going to be HP based anymore. I can see it where a monster will have a set XP and you get a portion of that XP proportional to how much you damage it. What I'm thinking...this basically means that it's probably pretty bad to train defence during slayer, since the "good" slayer monsters have low defence. Either you sacrifice slayer speed to get more defence xp, or you'll have to train defence seperately.

I personally would do Lava flow mining. It's slower than powermining granite, but it's partly afk, so you can do something else if you want to, and you have plenty of company if you use the unofficial world (I believe it's 71?).

My guesses would be Germany, Spain, Italy and Portugal in order of which I think is most likely.

defence is separate, you either have 99 defence with no offensive skills and the summon/hp/prayer set, or 99 offensives with 1 defence and the summon/pray/hp set it doesn't really change, as pures will still be 99 combat levels lower than their opponents who are balanced. If anything this helps pures in some ways. But you'll fail without defence, and you'll fail without at least one high offensive skill....

You still can, the real update is only around september or so ;)

Did any Mod mention how monster combat level will work? Also regarding attack and defence bonuses?

They definitely don't, you can be sure of that.

I don't think that was serious ;)

Well there are those who argue that this kind of stuff is a part of football and shouldn't be limited. Still, the goal was offside anyway. I don't see the big deal. Yeah, it was the wrong decision, but that wouldn't have happened anyway if only right decisions had been made. edit: And yes, Ibrahimovic's goal was amazing to watch.

:D Did you enjoy that? edit: nvm - the link you used made me see my own viewing history.

serious? 500K? [bleep] that. That's a disgusting money sink for PvP. I can see this turning into dead content easily. And people think Jagex has changed. Arbitrary mini-games that are abandoned within a week are as Jagex as taking what isn't broken and breaking it. Sheesh, at least give it some time before condemning it. I'm not saying it will be great, but people definitely don't know enough yet to be able to make a meaningful statement.

Don't forget the emails they start sending when you don't spin! In related news: people who can log on are reporting that when they try to go to their citadel, it says "Your clan does not have a citadel"...uh oh....JAGEXXXXXXXXXXXX!!1! That's just citadel servers being down too I'd wager.

Disappointing. Jagex has not had one succesful game after Runescape. Funorb has been left dying, 8realms closed down and War of Legends isn't exactly that popular either. I'm surprised that Hasbro gave them the Job of the Transformers MMO tbh. They really have to land a hit with this one or they'll have big problems with attracting other franchise.

While the guy from theoatmeal probably isn't exactly acting wisely, the lawsuit against him is ridiculous. Yeah, copyright claims are hard to defend over the internet, but being sued basically for being outraged about your comics being stolen....

Yeah that's definitely not normal. Maybe you should try converting the files, I could imagine that vegas for some reason isn't able to work with the needed codec properly. If you need a converting program, I personally use XMedia Recode and never had any issues with it, though I didn't try any other programs to compare.

Is there a specific reason why you took it earlier?

The goal wasn't offside(though narrowly) but you're right about the penalty call. Still, that's what you have to expect at times, and while Croatia was a strong team, I think it's alright that Spain and Italy went through. Croatia had a tough group.

Yeah The Hunger Games is pretty great. I wasn't really crazy about the last one though.. [hide=Spoilers.. kind of]I wanted some sort of epic confrontation/battle.. but I felt like all the "battles" were won via propaganda and I thought that was pretty lame. I didn't like that they even called it "propaganda." They were literally just putting on an act for the television to gain followers. To me that was a lot less epic than going out there, giving unscripted speeches, and having actual intense battles. I definitely would have preferred that route.[/hide] I finished Starcrossed. I was pretty disappointed. You can read my review here if you want. I also got a million new books! You can check them all out here. It took me a while to pick which one I wanted to read next but I settled on The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa. It's supposed to be an epic vampire story :D I liked the third one the most big spoilers [hide] Up to a point, I quite liked the series and it was great to read, but it was nothing extraordinary either. Above average but nothing more. But what I loved was the time after Katniss's sister died. I just think the way Suzanne Collins captured her trauma was intense. Okay, I guess I'm a bit of a sucker for psychoses and the like, but I think that was really top-notch writing. [/hide]

Shutter Island 5/5 DAMN, that's an awesome film!

Hmmm so in the recap that guy outright said Amon took Tarrlok's bending away. Guess my theory's wrong....

I would definitely hope Holland gets their act together. But I don't think they'll manage a two goals lead over Portugal, who unfortunately are most likely too strong for that. It's not impossible, but...

Charming monsters and luring hunter creatures can better be done with their own skills, namely slayer and hunter. Sure you *could* implement it, but it seems rather forced to me. Weekly xp also seems more of a thing you add to an already strong skill, not a major benefit of one. Was thinking of something like a Renown skill, since pretty much everything we do has us gaining fame. Things like quests, miniquests, completing slayer tasks and recovering "artifacts" from monsters or skilling which could work like strange rocks would gain xp, and the skill itself could be used to like you said, buff and debuff other. Other benefits could be ability to wear or receive legendary items and some kind of bonus to the new abilities (fame would be a good measurement of real world experience). Its going to be a gather skill paired with a artisan skill. Not guaranteed. Just an idea of them.