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Don't forget they also said: So there may be more XP and/or other rewards we don't even know of yet. Anyways, Time to Quest!

As Forsaken mentioned above; Keep in mind that certain information is heavily weighed in the Recovery process. For the sake of not encouraging others, I won't say exactly what information that is. All I can say is, using just 1 piece of information (which is easily obtainable given the right circumstances) you can recover an account. I was able to recover 2 of my old accounts with only this one piece of information, providing no previous passwords, no billing info, and no recovery info. Your average Joe wouldn't be able to hack you this way, but an experienced Hacker would have no problem doing it. Don't just be careful what you do, but be careful where you go.

I "quit" for alot of reasons, most personal. The biggest reason I "quit" was because I finished all my goals. Sure new content comes out, but frankly there's nothing left in Runescape that appeals to me for along period of time. Grinding for rank numbers and 99's I'll never use isn't a goal I want to apply myself with. I also used the word "quit" loosely, since here i am replying to this post? Nobody who invested a large amount of time in this game can really "quit" unless they get hacked and lose everything. Even then, there is still the desire to keep obtaining goals even if you have to start from scratch. I don't "play", but I still check updates & forums on a weekly basis. I renewed my membership this month and bought some supplies with what money I didn't give away before. I'm just waiting for RoTM now, and it's the "only" reason I came back. After that's over, I'm done for good and going back to F2P. I much prefer logging on and playing FoG in F2P 3-4 times a month or so to paying members for a game that I have no longer have goals for. Also, "Quitting" posts/threads are typically frowned upon. Everyone has their own reasons for "quitting" and they are exactly that; their own reasons. Quitting posts tend to be "I quit for this reason(s) and you should too so that Jagex will fix it and I can come back". Not all of them are that way, but most.

Then what about this?

Well unless I'm pressing my characters face against the wall, it hits me regardless of which direction I'm facing. I'll record it later to show you. Also, from the lore we have, wasn't castle Draken the location of "portal" from which the Maj came from? Icynes owned the area until the Maj appeared and took over. Perhaps the portal was sealed and the "stone" in Castle Draken is him trying to re-open the portal. That would make sense if they are trying to get more Maj through the portal to sacrifice knowing that without adding more Maj, they would eventually all die out using the ritual.

Maybe you have good internet then, cause I could never evade it even while running away. My problem is if I click away, sometimes I run diagonal from him (because of point finding) and he hits me while I'm running diagonal to a point on the wall. Because of that I tried to make sure to align myself horizontal to him and a wall, so I can run straight to the wall, but it still hits me if I don't click fast enough. The range of stakes is only 2 squares and you need to be at least 5-6 squares away from him or he does damage regardless of which direction you are facing. The attack goes WAY to fast. It would be OK if it gave like 1-2 seconds more warning, but if you have slower reflexes or a slower connection, its impossible to evade it. Then I go into the blood phase with like 400 LP so he is almost impossible to beat. The only times I've even survived into the blood phase is when he doesn't use darkness. Otherwise the first blood spell hits me right off the bat and I'm under 100 LP or dead. I could record it if you don't believe me? I'm all for bosses using different strategies, but god sakes, they need to not make bosses based on speed or internet connection. Or at least have a boss that adjusts to the player and gets easier after you fail killing him 20 times. Quests are supposed to be about the storyline anyways, not struggling for 2+ hours to kill a boss because your internet connection is slow.

Any hints on the boss? I'm 138 combat yet I've died 14 times now (lost 14 Ava's) trying almost every combination I could think of. I melee him until the bloodveld phase, which i start to range. That's all fine, except the Shadow attacks which I can't avoid. They go to fast and by the time I see the text and click to move, I've already taken 400+ damage. If I even make it to the blood phase, I die. I tried clicking in a 4-square and attacking, but I still get hit eventually, and die. I cant heal because If I do, I get hit for more than I can heal, and die. If I try to click on unicorn to heal me, A blood square hits me for 400 and I die. I haven't even gotten to the mist phase yet. Any helpful suggestions? Something I'm missing? This is beyond frustrating.

Web traffic does show some things though, even if its not a direct representation of falling population. The big thing it shows is new users looking for the game. From personal experience, I can tell you the majority of players who have played the game more than once type the name in the URL bar or bookmark it for a direct link. Only Jagex themselves would have the data of how many hits they are getting by direct link. The only way you can get that data is by going directly though Jagex's web-host. So unless they make the data public, it's impossible to gauge how well a game is preforming based on "website hits", since we cant even see all the valid data. But if you look at Google Analytics to information (as that chart likely shows), its only telling you that fewer new players are looking for the game. (since previous players wont be searching for the words). A smaller new player base is never healthy for a game, and is often the first sign of a "decline". But those numbers don't really mean anything. A single update (if good enough) could boost those graphs by 5000%. Point being; take any "graphs" or website traffic with a grain of salt. They are usually not an accurate way of gauging activity.

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The whole dungeon/desire situation aside, I think Jagex made a big mistake regardless of the "content" required to obtain an item. Making the Whip Vine weaker stats than the Rapier (regardless of how you get it) despite having a higher stat requirement to wield it is like making Red D'hide have better stats than Black D'hide. Items should follow the order of Higher Requirements -> Better stats. (at least for the same attack speed / weapon type) Balance wise, the game is great up to 60, then it get's dumb. There are plenty of "equal" weapon choices until you get past dragon weapons, as each weapon type has its own path. After that its Whip, Rapier, 99. Not much variety. [siderant] Smithing really just needs re-done to make weapons from 1-99, and let the whip/rapier/other weapons be specialty weapons for specials and certain circumstances.[/siderant] If they wanted to keep people doing Dung, they should have just kept Whip at 70, better stat Chaotic Rapier at 75, better stat Vine Whip at 80, and better stat Warped Rapier at 85. Edit: In my perfect Runescape world: - Requirements to wield, stats, and cost in time/gold should increase equal to one another. Dungeon was to big a step too soon. Weapons should get better, and require more time to obtain as they increase in requirements. Not just one factor or another. But hey, it's not my game, I only play it, sometimes. :P

Care to elaborate? Saying "xx isn't very good" isn't really constructive criticism. Was the format not to your liking? Was there not enough tips? Did you feel the weapon choices were wrong? Please explain. Also, the main concept of the guide is to teach people how to use more than the basic rules of the game to defeat their opponent. So I would argue that it is "past the basics" of the rules on how to play. Not sure if your judging this because you feel your personal methods are on a "expert level". Personally I believe the perfect strategy is dependent on the person, which is what I was attempting to show in this guide. Again, could you elaborate more on why you feel this way? Also @ Wkw. Thanks! :D Sighted bow is a decent weapon, however at the center it is usually a moot point, as you will hit with almost the same accuracy as a sighted or maple shortbow. In that case, speed is usually better. Sighted may be handy to use however if your opponent decides to try and hide on the outside ring.

Posting on this, (and just note this is from my own personal experience being in a similar situation). A big question you need to ask yourself is "what is GP going to do for you?". I am currently F2P because of a similar reason as you. I did most everything I found enjoyable, got bored, studies and such start to take priority, and frankly the game lost its appeal to me. So I switched to F2P. Now i'm sitting in F2P with a bunch of gold I spent time making in members. I regret spending that time now and feel it was "wasted" when I could have been doing things I enjoy more. In summary, blindly making/grinding for gold is a bad idea if you have nothing you wish to apply it to. If you set a goal as getting xx armor or xx skill, by all means, make the money and go for it! But speaking from my experience (and my personal opinion) it's usually a bittersweet reward making gold with no intention to spend it. It might feel good to see the number grow at first, but once you reach a point, you look back and say "why did I spend all that time doing that". If you don't have any main goals for gold usage, I would focus on things you enjoy more. You mentioned you like Dungeons, so perhaps that's a route you should take instead (as it requires no gold to start). I hear DGS is quite a good dungeon clan if you are looking for a group to join. Just don't put the caboose before the coal car. Find out what you want first and then put a goal for it. If nothing appeals to you at all, perhaps a break is in order. Sometimes a 1-2 month break can make Runescape appeal more "interesting" when you return to it. These are all personal opinions though, so as always, take them with a grain of salt. I wish you luck on whatever decision you make.

That's true - Karil has a magic level of 0, knocking back his magic defense (since 1/4 of your magic defense is your magic level), but it also depends on the weapon you are using and your levels. It is unclear what other weapons the OP is going to use, so I have to assume that he/she is going to use a salamander all the way though. In this case, you will want to use Range attack styles on Ahrim and Melee attack styles on Karil (although magic can be used on Karil as well - it's just not quite as effective depending on your setup). I am unsure however if melee would be more effective than ranged on Ahrim while using a salamander (as I have never tried it). However, I will say that if you chose not to use a salamander, generally melee is more effective than ranged & magic on both Karil and Ahrim at maxed melee stats.

New forum rules. Read them here please: http://forum.tip.it/topic/292649-new-posting-guidelines/ Back on topic.. 4 of the 6 brothers use melee (and have melee bonuses), so you will want to use the Magic attack style on the Salamander. Since you will be using magic, your ideal armor would be magic offensive setup. Since you will be praying, you will have 100% protection and there is no need for tank gear at first. For Ahrim and Karil you will need to use range and melee (respectivly) and may wish to bring D'hide and Melee armor to get defense against them. At the point you fight Ahrim and Karil your prayer will be empty, so you should focus on an offense bonus until your prayer runs out.

I would see this as more of an issue with access to holiday items than bank space. Moving the Diango "holiday items storage tab" to button on your bank interface would fix the issue without adding/changing any bank storage amounts. At that point you could access your Holiday items from any bank, and they would require 0 space in your bank storage limit.

Potions. My biggest gripe about F2P is the fact only melee has a potion (and only a damage increasing one at that). F2P should have access to: Attack Potion Strength Potion (currently have) Defense Potion Ranged Potion (Lower boost and change current ranged potion to super ranged) Magic Potion (Lower boost and change current magic potion to super magic) In my eyes, the potions would at least help somewhat to push the triangle in F2P in the right direction since magic and ranged would be able to deal more damage and have slightly better accuracy. This also helps the dump off of excess "junk" potions in members. There are a lot more basic attack potions made in P2P than consumed, so this would add a nice demand for those products, maybe even making them profitable to make for P2P.

Another thing to add to this (somewhat in the defense of the QA team) is the environment for testing is only a "re-creation" of what the real environment (live servers) will be like. Some aspects of an update simply cannot be tested until they go live. A piece of code would work fine in house with 20 or 30 computers running the content (or however many they run for their QA), but when 100,000 people access the same content simultaneously, something could break. There is always that variable you cant account for when testing, and bugs can always show up no matter how hard you try to iron them out. Some times you may not even realize that variable was a variable until the bug occurs.

1) Yes, SoL is worth it. If I remember correctly, the Boosts from Magic Stack Separately and in order of (Weapon% * Potion% * Slayer%). Not having a SoL and/or arcane steam will knock your max hit down drastically. The cost saved from blood runes using a SoL should equal the cost of fire runes consumed, or close to it. 2) Not really, since Magic is based on solid percents that don't change. Just multiply in order of (Base hit * Weapon% * Potion% * Slayer%). Example: SoL + Hex + No Potion + Arcane Stream + Fire Surge = (280 * 30% = 364 * 0% = 364 * 15%) = 418. 3) Yup, inside her dungeon. 4) Mage works fine, and is relatively fast, but it's usually not very cost effective. You can break even/profit if you use a Yak(or bank) with the Dragon Bones, but typically its just as fast to melee with with a Stab Weapon. If you enjoy magic, I'd go for mage, but if your doing it just for killing them, melee is going to be the better option, as it's about the same speed but a heck of alot cheaper. PS. Leaf Bladed sword is a good option for a 1H stab weapon.

Just a note on these. Windows Security Center, Windows Defender, and Windows Firewall are about as basic of a security as you can get. I would not expect them to provide any "real" protection against viruses or experienced hackers going though your Ethernet/wireless. I know you stated you have AV protection, but I would also recommend (if you don't have it already) a program with has a firewall built in with the Anti-virus program. Norton 360 or a similar product is much better about keeping security tight, as the firewall and AV are directly connected. If the firewall is kicked off, the AV will be flagged, while if you use a basic firewall like Windows Firewall, the AV not be aware of it if windows is "tricked" into thinking the firewall is still functioning properly. Also, make sure you have a paid AV program. Free ones like malwarebytes(free version), AVG, ect.. are ok, but don't offer any "real-time" protection. They only find infections after the virus has been loaded and you do a manual scan. It's a good idea to have 2 types of AV on your computer. A paid version and a less common free version that is not "real-time". But don't run both AV at the same time, or they can conflict with each-other and raise your risk for infection. It's a good idea to, once in awhile, run a scan on your normal AV, then disable your internet, disable your current AV, and run a scan on the less common free version, as some AV's can pick up viruses others don't. Just make sure not to run them both at the same time. Some secondary "free" versions I would recommend are: Malwarebytes Superantispyware Ad-Aware But do not rely on only these for your protection. They are simply and added level of security on top of your paid AV program & Firewall.

@ Zaps, this is very true and likely has an impact on his results, however.. I haven't used IE since I got this computer (because Firefox is just plain better..), so I thought I would check out what the results are on a "never used" IE, since the browser cookies and search suggestions store independently. Sure enough, its on there. #3 search term for scamming. Like ring_world said, its not really "new news", but the fact its so widly searched over real life scamming surprises me more than anything.

Hmm... I don't think so. There are always plenty of options, but giving up because you think your not "good enough" shouldn't be one of them. Looking at your stats, you should be able to do fine with tanking Zammy. Perhaps your previous attempts did not go so well based on method rather than stats or equipment? Are you wearing Ranger Armor and praying melee? Because if you are, I can see why it would appear difficult. This method is defiantly not the way to go. At your stats (99 defense + 88 summon) it is much easier to maximize your melee defense and pray magic. While he might hit you for the occasional 200-300+, his accuracy is quite low once you get into the 300-400+ melee defense range. His KO factor is typically lower when tanking this way compared to tanking in Karil's. You can also throw in a SOL spec for even more damage reduction (knocks all his attacks in half). Have your offensive players bring along special transfers, and you can use a SOL special to tank him every round making Zammy one of the easiest bosses to tank (his max being 249). Personally I would value experience over items. IMHO, a player who is more experienced with a whip at Zammy is going to favor better for a team than a less experienced cocky player with a rapier. My advice is to get out there and try (and if failure occurs, try again), not worry about how you "can't" because of x or y!

Wow does your character look camp. I thought the pose was rather interesting XD no offense meant to Big_Mac, but this is what I pictured: Fire Giant Round-up O_o

I wonder if we will be getting the death system changes this week too :-k I figured they would take the week of the 25th off being that its right after a major holiday, and that the "wedding stuff" is on the 29th. Either way, I'm honestly looking forward to the new event this year. Like others, I was starting to think they'd never let us out of that dreary factory and I'm glad to see a brand new location. PS. I'm guessing the fact that they still haven't had time to rework age old graphics like Dwarves means the graphics department is still swamped with other projects like quests. Based on what we know from when they made the jump to HD graphics, it'll likely be months if not years before all the old trees get updated. Since there is alot more variety in the tree models now, it looks like they go though each tree object and change them one-by-one to brand-new models to fit the scenery better, rather than changing all trees by deleting tree1.object and replacing it with a new tree1.object. The number of trees they would have to go though must be astronomical, especially in dense forest areas like south of Gnome Stronghold.

At the risk of another argument, I'll keep it short. And I'm not talking to you specifically but in general.. Knowledge is useless without the self control to apply it. If people have no respect when giving the knowledge, it negatively effects everyone and disrupts cooperation and communication. Cooperation and communication are the two fundamental points of a fan-site's forums, because without either nobody can do anything. Increase in Knowledge is an added bonus that brings more people to your forum. That being said.. Loss of knowledge is never a good thing, but it doesn't matter if you know every single fact about a game... If you can't be respectful on the knowledge you give, you destroy any chance of civil interaction with other users, which is what a forum is all about.

I've tried to get away from posting on this matter. In-fact - I've only posted once on the other thread before this matter spiraled out of control. Now that its "mostly" over and I've scanned though most of the threads and this thread, there are a few points I would like to add. The Tip-It community has always been better than other fan-sites for one simple reason. Tip-It is not better because of its size or being a "biggest fan-site". Tipit is not better because of its resources or being a "knowledgeable fan-site". Tip-It is better because it is a respectable community where anyone is accepted and treated equally with respect. In my opinion, over the past few months, Admins have been more than lenient for letting disrespectful acts such as excessive criticism and elitism happen for the sake of allowing people to express their own person opinions. Now, the Administration has finally said enough is enough, and is cracking down on the "disrespectful" behavior. Look at yourself. Look at this thread. How many posts on here do you see that are sarcastically rude? How many posts here are attempting to troll? I can easily count almost 1 on every page. From my point of view, the "said accused" have not shown any justice for themselves by resorting to spamming and terrorizing threads over the past 24 hours. In my seat, it looks like this only solidifies the point that the "said accused" have no self control and resort to immature behavior when they don't get their way. I am not an administrator, so I am not here to judge you. But what I do want you to take away is this: Tip-It has always been a great community because of the people working cooperatively and calmly together. If you were banned because you have been asked several times to stop something, yet continue, you are spitting at the face of that cooperation. Posting on these forums is a Privilege, not a Right. It doesn't matter if you have a fancy colored name or not, E-bullying and other forms of "disrespectful" behavior only bring down this community. While it may be "unjust" to some, future strict discipline of this behavior is needed to keep everyone from assuming the behavior is acceptable to admin and poster alike. In this case, it's certainly not what you say, but how you go about saying it. Note: This is not just a notice to "those accused" but to all posters here (including myself).