Nerd_Nolifer

4 Jad tasks in 3 days, now that's what I call slayer.

Saw some odd faces at Ice Strykewyrms today.. :wall:

This isn't technically a correction, but this tip is too helpful on this boss for me to keep it to myself. Korasi's sword has a very powerful special, during the quest the special attack cost on the weapon is reduced to 10 (15?)%. Most people would tell you to conserve your specials and use them when the screen shakes so as to avoid damage. I heard these details before I entered the boss fight, and so I took along a few special recover potions. Lo and behold, I completely decimated the penance queen. At first, I was conservative with my special potions, using the special only to avoid being hit with the queen's 500's. As I noticed each Korsai special consistently hitting 400+, I went all out. I activated constant specials drinking potions as needed when the boss was at half HP, and the penance queen was dead within a minute. I would HIGHLY recommend taking special recovers for anyone who has access to them. It can make a long and difficult boss fight moronically easy.

CONGRATZ !!! WELL DESERVED! :thumbsup: [/hide] Wow what are the odds of getting that? Major grats to you mate, you really deserved that. thank you :] odds of me getting it were high, but I still wasn't expecting it for another 2 months lol <3: How quick were you after the update? I'm looking to snipe one.

Surprisingly, a CR has a surprisingly good DPS on waterfiends (at least while you're on task.) Everyone assumes that since WFs are weak to crush and resistant to slash that they'd have good stab defence, but it's mediocre at best. I haven't done the tests (since I'm 99 summon I've blocked WF tasks) but just from friends I have heard CR can at least compete with SS/ZS there, if not maul.

There we go, picture makes sense now. Not a bad steels task.

Nothing quite like shooting the breeze in Varrok. I personally am the lively fellow sporting the sailor hat and pink boots. Stylin'

First of all, "Just buy a VLS?" You do recognize that even going by Jagex's pricing of recharge cost, CLS costs 2% (200K/10M) to operate per hour? (In reality, CLS costs about 20K/hour to operate, AKA 0.2%) I recently bought a CLS and am very pleased. One of the first things I did was take it to castlewars and try some maxing, resulting in a high hit of 842 after 10 minutes. (Cw intricate: +20%, CW Brace: +15%) If you're curious, I may get some screenies later. Took it to bandos solo, and actually had several kills in which the CLS's high accuracy and damage allowed me to not eat. Overall, was very pleased. Friend asserted that CLS was outclassed by the whip, so I quickly proved her wrong, consistently winning by about 1/4 of the food we brought, when wearing identical gear in a few different scenarios. Overall I am very pleased with my new toy. Don't get me wrong however, CR is IMO a great weapon for slaying and low defence opponents, but from what I have seen, CLS dominates it at bosses and even higher leveled PVP. Had I not been max combat, I would definately have picked the rapier.

I don't see how this article could have prevented anything? It's been known for ages that rares are susceptible to manipulation. Thing is, when something is manipulated, it's hard to predict what's going to happen, unless you are on of the manipulators. That's the whole point of manipulation, lieing/making secret agreements/... in order to have information others don't and use this to your advantage. If manipulation became totally predictable, it wouldn't work anymore. a lot of people read the tip.it times. a lot of people have rares, from way back, but little understanding of the rares market (being in a clan shows you that). a lot of people don't realize the difference between a dip and a dump, these are the ones panicking. With an article published at an earlier stage, more people would have held on to their santas at the last dip. manipulating is VERY predictable. go to w2 after a ge update before selling your goods. look at the people buying items that are "crashing". if they're buying in bulk, it's manipulation. If noone's in w2, then check the forums. you're likely to find the same people selling in w2 selling on the forums; buying in w2 buying on the forums. you can then see if they've been selling just recently by checking their post history While the artical may have a valid point, all discussion I have seen so far has overlooked a huge contribution factor to the egg dip. Easter eggs dipped in response to Jagex's alteration of the 'rogue trader'. Basically, if you had a lot of capital, one could continually buy up jewelry from the GE in a traditional buyout. However, rather than dumping the manipulated jewelry on others, (typically via a public Merch clan, AKA a scam) players could just sell their manipulated goods to the rogue, recieving the current GE minimum price. I have actually run the math on this, intending to use the rogue myself, and it became profitable after 3 days of strong GE updates, easily achievable with a buyout. When Jagex changed the trader, he no longer bought for GE minimum but for the alch price; this left hugely rich merchants with staggering amounts of highly toxic junk, and no suckers in their scam clans to buy up the goods. The result? People sold off their eggs with the junk, in an attempt to cut their losses. Due to the high volume of junk being dumped at once, merchants competed with each other, offering to dump off less and less junk with each rare, until the panic occured. Bearing this in mind, the author's point remains valid; manipulators may or may not have triggered the final panic sale of edibles, and those who rebought the rares quickly thereafter certainly did benefit. However, to claim that the entire dip of eggs that day was the brainchild of a few scheming merchants is I think a gross oversimplification of the situation, and I for one see no evidence of such a plot. (Note that I am of the opinion that H'ween masks are doomed to crash shortly, as they update at 5% intervals rather than partyhats' 1%. Coupled with the massive amounts of these items relative to partyhats, and a crash is inevitable.) For those who do not follow the rares market: Eggs have for some considerable time now been available in GE. While the cause for this is uncertain, I for one believe it is coorelated with the recent lower rares buyout. With many "smaller fish" trying to get their hands on partyhats with their newfound street wealth in small rares, partyhats' street has naturally increased. The result is that eggs, and other partyhat currencies, are worth less in comparison to these highly sought after partyhats.

It's faster at fally/edge bank on a pvp world. I have found PKers unwilling to waste supplies, but by all means, use PVP if available

Step 1: Lure Revenant to wilderness lever Step 2: Set spawn point to soul wars Step 3: Withdraw 28 Serum Step 4: Use edge wild lever and get owned Step 5: Rinse and repeat I'm not sure if this is actually faster than dropping, but it's a lot lazier. Enjoy.

My (IMO) fairly well organized bank. Excuse the low cashpile, am flipping a few hundred Mil atm :mrgreen: Everything else should be self explanatory.

bandos boots have higher def than dragon. Dragon gauntlets also have higher defence bonuses than barrows gloves. Alas, I didn't feel like bothering to obtain either of these items for this shot, sorry to disappoint :D

Defence FTW?

Some rather interesting glitches caused by my poor graphics card in the early days of high detail. If you can explain, please do so.