muggiwhplar

They said there'll be a cap on how much you can stake in f2p

People say defense is 30% of your magic defense or something, but I still believe it's 0%. I've fought plenty of people with 99 magic and 1-20 defense and they'd beat me 50/50. If defense lvl had a significant influence on magic defense, I should've won many more stakes against pures. My evidence is strictly empirical, though after hundreds of stakes against people with 1-20 defense while mine was 99, I consider defense to be unimportant when it comes to mage staking/mage defense. Also I recall doing mage vs melee stakes sometimes... if a person had 85 mage or less and would melee me while I would mage them, I'd almost always beat them with only 4 casts, regardless of their 99 defense because of how influential their magic level is.

zuriels doesn't halve spell-casting speed btw Are the stats for maxed mage staking 99 def, mage, and hp? Do people pray at all? Pray was never allowed. HP should be 99. Defense doesn't matter. 94-97 magic is the best. The higher your magic level, the harder it is to find people to stake you. If you're 99 people don't want to stake you unless they're 99 also, or if they're lower magic but can trick you into doubling their stake.

zuriels doesn't halve spell-casting speed btw

First, you can't "escape" from a duel. Second, you can't cast ice barrage if movement is disabled. The only time movement will be allowed will be if obstacles are allowed. People rarely mage stake in the open arena w/ movement on. Third, mage staking is all about choosing which pieces of equipment to allow and which to disable, followed by which spells to use at which times. Yes you could smoke barrage the whole time since it's the most accurate spell, but it's also the weakest of the barrages and you'll very rarely see someone's poison hurt them before the duel ends. Similarly, you could blood barrage the whole time but you will splash extremely often and barely gain any health. After a while it's mostly just about developing an "intuition" from experience for knowing which spells to use at what times, and knowing what rules to allow/disallow for certain opponents. Even then, however, those variables still have a pretty small influence on who wins the duel. The most important thing is still knowing how much to stake against whom at what times. Sorry I can't really divulge too many details since I'll also be mage staking when it returns lol.

Use mage if you're gonna duo there.

Don't unwield your maul >_>

Keep corp in the wild and add brawlers/corrupt/PvP stuff to his drop list? :unsure:

Your stats matter very little when it comes to staking :wall: Everybody will look you up in the high scores before fighting you, and they'll only accept if they're confident they can clean you, so it's your job to figure out ways around that.

That's not that very impressive imo... Fighting ten people who are all ~20 combat levels below you and aren't healing doesn't seem very difficult :P I don't post videos to make myself look impressive. :wink: I was just clan warring like I do, and just thought I'd record one of the fights. I know-- though I didn't know you were the guy in the video... didn't mean to insult you lol :unsure:

That's not that very impressive imo... Fighting ten people who are all ~20 combat levels below you and aren't healing doesn't seem very difficult :P

I've seen more than 4 healers come when people do things like that... I dunno what exactly triggers healers from returning or not though; it's pretty sporadic. Just attack them all, turn on steel skin, brew up, and kill Jad. You shouldn't be taking that much damage, especially if you line them up such that only one of them is able to reach you.

I wonder if it's possible to get a second pair of [fully charged] gloves after either using up the first, or dying with the first Then go to a Portuguese world.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=917Q8dbpRLE

Definitely. :thumbup: I'm down, Charlie Brown. I'll supply the torches and pitchforks

Can't log in... I'm just tryin' to slaughter some sacred creature and harvest is paws for my own personal gains...

Why always if i check the duel tournament world its empty ? My friend PM'd me and asked me if I wanted to go to the tournaments cuz he was rounding up a group of people... finally there were enough people to open up the registrar.

haven't done these since I was 90ish combat lol. was fun for a while but there's too many sore losers in there :( tribridding is overrated :D

I'd say 70+, especially when you have a good team to DG with. and you don't get a good team until 85+ lol

they said the voting ends at Noon, GMT today... isn't it 12:16 there right now? the votes are still being counted

Makes sense, though I quit playing in January 2009 and have only played for about 1-2 weeks at a time over winter and summer breaks since then, so 2009 is a pretty unfamiliar year to me. edit: reviewed the news pages for 2009... mostly just upgrades for already-existing features like the run energy update though the new content (besides) quests sure sucked that summer lol... the new PvP drops, Mobilising Armies the end of 2009 was very well done though thanks to Mod Chris L's high lvl updates (extreme potions, Nomad's requiem, barbarian assault horn, ancient curses)

2006 was my favorite year... 2009 sucked according to the blog lol... new CEO which apparently was bad news ha

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o you fancy, huh?