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Same; but it'll probably never happen because of the large amount of people who take this game so seriously. Look at the feedback from the Bonus XP Weekends, for example. a reduction in levelling rate would mean you level slower. Misread the post I quoted :-?

Same; but it'll probably never happen because of the large amount of people who take this game so seriously. Look at the feedback from the Bonus XP Weekends, for example.

Where we went to school had absolutely nothing to do with our relationship. We met freshman year in highschool, way before college was even in our minds. And in the end, we chose colleges that were the best for us both not because we wanted to, but because it was necessary. His was in the opposite direction of mine by about 2 hrs. What exactly are you trying to prove here Gabe? I am merely trying to establish a background and to see whether or not a relationship effected your decisions about the future. You maybe be one of the lucky few who in the end in actually works out, but in reality, most of the time it's just big talk and being blinded by lust which consumes the young mind into pondering about elements you're not even going to apprehend yet. My best friend and his girlfriend met in high school, went to far away separate colleges, graduated a couple of years ago, and are still dating. They're getting married as soon as he can afford the ring. Love is "just hormones" regardless of your age and prior experiences, btw. I did say there were exceptions. However I disagree with your second statement. In my eyes, love is the compassion and knowledge that you will want to spend the rest of your life with that person, through the good or bad. It is very rare to be able to tell at such a young age whether or not you can do it, but there are exceptional people who can. Kudos to those people. Yeah lust may be just hormones, but love is not. Love is being able to see, accept and respect someone for who they truly are. To appreciate the great things about someone as well as their flaws. etc. etc. Love is about knowing someone and the things you share with them, not the way your body is attracted to someone (which would be lust, and thus hormones). You're referring to what is known as "compassionate love," and it is also hormones; it's just that they increase over time, as opposed to the "passionate love" hormones which die out after about 2 years.

You've had that in your sig for years now, long before the elite agility courses, brawler gloves, and the penance horn.

Where we went to school had absolutely nothing to do with our relationship. We met freshman year in highschool, way before college was even in our minds. And in the end, we chose colleges that were the best for us both not because we wanted to, but because it was necessary. His was in the opposite direction of mine by about 2 hrs. What exactly are you trying to prove here Gabe? I am merely trying to establish a background and to see whether or not a relationship effected your decisions about the future. You maybe be one of the lucky few who in the end in actually works out, but in reality, most of the time it's just big talk and being blinded by lust which consumes the young mind into pondering about elements you're not even going to apprehend yet. My best friend and his girlfriend met in high school, went to far away separate colleges, graduated a couple of years ago, and are still dating. They're getting married as soon as he can afford the ring. Love is "just hormones" regardless of your age and prior experiences, btw. I did say there were exceptions. However I disagree with your second statement. In my eyes, love is the compassion and knowledge that you will want to spend the rest of your life with that person, through the good or bad. It is very rare to be able to tell at such a young age whether or not you can do it, but there are exceptional people who can. Kudos to those people. To be unfortunately realistic, I have little-to-no faith in marriage or long-term monogamous relationships in our current day and age. Here's why (and if you plan on getting married one day, or spending the rest of your life with that special someone, I admonish you to think carefully before reading the rest of my post; it will be like being shown that God doesn't exist): [spoiler=The truth about relationships] To start off, consider the following: Human beings were never designed to get married. From an evolutionary standpoint, a man's goal is to have sex with as many women as possible, as frequently as possible, to ensure that his genes are passed on. There is nothing inside a man's body or mind that encourages monogamy. Women, on the other hand, are designed for monogamy-- but not for the rest of their lives. They just need to be able to keep their man around long enough for their child(ren) to be raised. Similarly, after a while, women get BORED of being with the same guy. The more time they spend with the man, the sooner they reach the point of boredom. If they only see their boyfriend once a week, she can remain interested in him for several years. If she lives with him, she'll lose interest much faster. Hormone productions decline over time; infatuation wears off. How many of you guys have been in a long-term relationship (3+ years) and still felt the exact same way about your partner as you did from the moment you started dating? I remember even asking my dad (who has been happily married to my mom for 43 years now) if he felt the same about my mom right now, compared to when he first met her. The short answer is no, lol. He still loves her and thinks about her a lot and cares for her and all that-- but it's a different kind of love. There are two types of love: passionate love and compassionate love. Past a certain point, the hormones wear off and the passionate sexual emotions die. Relationships stop being both passionate and compassionate; they instead become only compassionate. Now, compassionate relationships are fine... except for the fact that men tend to get the short end of the stick because the woman's sex drive diminishes as she grows older, while the man's sex drive remains fairly constant through his whole life. This leads to frustration among men who want to have sex, but can't because their partner isn't in the mood. Now, think of our current day and age-- everything's evolving except for our biology. You've still got a 200,000-year-old body. The times are changing very rapidly. Nowadays it's acceptable to go out and have one-night-stands with that stranger you met at the bar and can't remember their name. In contrast, it is unacceptable to have sex with other people if you're in a relationship. Similarly, it is unacceptable for a man to demand sex from his girlfriend/wife if she doesn't want it. But back before the feminist revolution, a man could be married to his wife and have sex with her whenever he wanted to satisfy his needs. Women were much more submissive back then and had sex regardless of how they felt at the time. Society didn't discourage those types of roles. During the feminist revolution, women stopped wanting to be "owned" by their men. Swinger couples emerged; men and women had sex outside of their relationships to fulfill their needs. We live in a time where men basically have the worst of both worlds because if they promise monogamy, then their sex drive is going to be inhibited, compared to if they were able to see other women. So, what exactly am I trying to say? I'm not necessarily saying that marriage or long-term monogamy will ruin your life. Rather, I think it's obsolete and unnecessary. Name something that you can only do if you're married, but you can't do otherwise. I can't think of anything. Personally, I'm still interested in a long-term relationship with a girl. Monogamous? Perhaps... it's just that now I'll be prepared for three years down the road if things start to go south. I've still got a ton of thoughts and statistics related to this subject, but hopefully I've construed my main points, and that you guys will understand and consider them. Now back to studying for finals...

Where we went to school had absolutely nothing to do with our relationship. We met freshman year in highschool, way before college was even in our minds. And in the end, we chose colleges that were the best for us both not because we wanted to, but because it was necessary. His was in the opposite direction of mine by about 2 hrs. What exactly are you trying to prove here Gabe? I am merely trying to establish a background and to see whether or not a relationship effected your decisions about the future. You maybe be one of the lucky few who in the end in actually works out, but in reality, most of the time it's just big talk and being blinded by lust which consumes the young mind into pondering about elements you're not even going to apprehend yet. My best friend and his girlfriend met in high school, went to far away separate colleges, graduated a couple of years ago, and are still dating. They're getting married as soon as he can afford the ring. Love is "just hormones" regardless of your age and prior experiences, btw.

I've always thought it'd be interesting if they got rid of the Attack and Strength skills by combining your XP in both of them and averaging them, and changing it to the Melee skill. Someone with 75 attack and 75 strength is currently as powerful as someone with 99 range or magic, according to the combat formula.

is 150 your max or is that what you use for each of your sets? 170 is my max and I use a little less than 150 for my sets, we're around the same weight too :smile: Do I hear the whistle of competition? My 1-rep max as of today is 155-- I use 120-140lbs for my sets. My short-term goal right now is to bench 200 lbs, but I'm hoping to be able to bench double my bodyweight by the time I graduate from college in May 2012 :pray: Keep me updated on your progress :thumbsup:

Some people called it luring. I called it natural selection :thumbup:

Why's that?

It doesn't help you kill it at a significantly faster average speed

...but it doesn't :P I've already tested it, and believe me I was disappointed as well lol

Finally bought one-- thanks for the input everybody, I appreciate it!

God stole instead of arcane stream Soul wars cape instead of god cape Boots of lightness instead of infinity Ring of life Penance gloves or barrows gloves Magic attack bonus is extremely overrated. Prayer bonus is the most important. Weight reducing gear is important too (but not as important ever since the agility update) Bunyips are the best familiar to bring also wolpers mess up lures by attacking/distracting the lobsters He should take the prayer stuff AND the mage stuff, he can wear the prayer boosting gear while lureing, and the magic gear while using magic. There's a VERY easy solution to the wolpertinger problem, it's this new thing they added where you can call your familiar, and when you do it over and over while luring, your familiar doesn't have time to attack. You guys are really trying to be lazy about this :P He doesn't need anything to supplement his magic though-- it's not worth going through that extra trouble for an unnecessary boost. Things would be different if the rock lobsters had higher magic defense or if multiple rock lobsters could be affected by the damage boost. With higher magic attack, you only get more exp per roundup, but they still die at the same average speed. I've done trips comparing maxed out magic and welfare magic, and the results are still the same for collecting charms. You've gotta remember that your charm collecting speed is dependent on how strong that final lobster is in the round up, because even if you kill every other lobster in 3 hits, it can still take 13 hits to kill the last one, and that's ultimately all that matters.

As someone who knows nothing about the economy and high-valued items, I was wondering if now would be a good time to buy an arcane spirit shield? I've wanted one for a while and they look like they're starting to get pretty affordable. Is it possible to buy one from the GE right now? Is the GE price accurate? If I can buy it off the GE right now, instead of having to figure out street prices, then I basically get a 9M "discount" since I can sell my mage's book and blessed spirit shield after obtaining one. Would it be a good idea to buy one now? Are prices likely to continue falling? I'm not really in a rush to buy one since I only play over winter and summer break.

Depends on the situation, but for PvP the best setup is: Veracs helm Ahrims/zuriels top and bottom zuriels staff (miasmic) + SoL/chaotic staff arcane spirit shield infinity boots barrows gloves seers ring (i) arcane stream necklace god cape or soul wars cape that setup can beat pretty much any opponent except for another mage... miasmics are ridiculously powerful hah

God stole instead of arcane stream Soul wars cape instead of god cape Boots of lightness instead of infinity Ring of life Penance gloves or barrows gloves Magic attack bonus is extremely overrated. Prayer bonus is the most important. Weight reducing gear is important too (but not as important ever since the agility update) Bunyips are the best familiar to bring also OR, he could take both, using the stole while lureing them (the ONLY time he'll be praying), and use the arcane when actually bursting. Anyways, you basically have the best money saving setup there. Have fun. Use a wolper if you can. wolpers mess up lures by attacking/distracting the lobsters

But then surely it would put them in exactly the same situation as before from which they changed as a business decision. Again though, I see not one ounce of proof that anybody said anything. This is all just a story which has no backing. We may as well forget all that has been said by the OP without any proof. details, details... :D

Well if Jagex looked at this from a business standpoint (like they always do), I'm sure they'd get a ton of customers to return.

Battle robes. Ahrims set has BARELY more magic attack than battle robes. At rock lobs, there's no significant difference between +70 magic attack and +120.

What would happen if they added negative soak to WEAPONRY? - this would suddenly strengthen the combat triangle a lot again I think? That's more or less what the strength bonus already is :P

Would've been nice if it required a high smithing lvl to assemble a godsword, or a high crafting lvl to create armadyl armor

I would assume that standard melee armor wouldn't have any soak for magic attacks-- look at the chaotic kiteshield, for example.

Only skills like smithing really need an update... level 99 smithing to make obsolete lvl 40 armor is kind of silly. If smithing was increased to 120, it'd be easier to re-balance it. I don't think it's that big a deal.

The best way to respond to someone's insults/disrespect is either simply ignoring them, or just laughing (not blatantly at them-- more like to yourself). Also, being friendly to someone, even if they're trolling you, does wonders. Whenever I'm training at a competitive location or monster hunting and someone comes in to challenge me for my spot, I always say "Hey man," to them before they can start interfering, or act like they're someone familiar that I may have known in the past. Most of the time this makes people feel too guilty to crash me or try to give me a hard time. If anyone blatantly insults you and you for whatever reason and you just want to pacify them, you can respond to their insults by immediately changing the subject and acting as if they never insulted you. It's a good way to "reframe" the situation as if you're both friends. These principles apply to real life as well btw. For example, if someone insults you on RS, the easiest thing to do is to ignore them and neutralize the situation: Stranger: Noob Me: [no comment] But if you feel the need to make them regret insulting you: Stranger: Noob Me: [no comment] Stranger: [more insulting comments] Me: haha Stranger: wats so funny Me: hahahahaha ...and I just keep laughing until they go away or I get bored and add them to my ignore list. They get angry. If you wanna pacify the person: Stranger: Noob Me: Slayer level? Stranger: # Me: awesome! ...and that's usually the end of their negative remarks -OR- Stranger: Noob Me: whoa nice hits Stranger: thx ...and that's usually the end of their negative remarks