t3h_r0nz

I've had this happen twice. Once with a magpie while smelting in Edgeville, and once with my Tortoise at Dark Beasts. No idea what causes it, but I was able to summon a new familiar with a pouch, and they still had all of my items on them luckily.

You sir, fail.

Until people posted about it on forums and in CC's.

I'd go with a 2H. Only slightly worse than a maul, but it has slash and crush options, which come in handy.

Wrong, this actually has no effect on your XP. Dungeons seem to have random XP. For example on floor 20 my prestige will be 6000, yet on floor 23 my prestige will be 4000. So, it's just random.

well they did say so during the live q&a series.. - There is a post in the 130+ page long discussion about dungeoneering containing this (I'm too lazy to look it up) All I remember reading was that the XP for the levels/prestige was based around how long the dungeons were expected to take, nothing about more xp if you finished faster.

There is absolutely no way Rammernaut is weak to crush. I duo with a friend, and we're combats 131 and 137, both using Promethium Mauls, and we regularly have problems with him. We often find ourselves either running out of food and barely killing him, or actually do end up dying. Between the constant stuns and lack of hits on our part, it's an extremely frustrating fight...