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OK, think of it this way-- you make 500k gp/hour doing some simple money-making method (should be no problem nowadays). Using wind strike, it'd take you about 5 hours to fund 85 magic, and about 400 hours of training to level up to 85. Thus 85 magic will take 405 hours. Using the lunar string amulet spell (high magic req, I know-- but I'm just using this as an example to demonstrate how poor of a decision wind strike would be), you get about 130k magic xp/hour at the cost of 5gp/xp. So if you were somehow able to train 1-85 with that spell, it'd cost you about 16M (gasp!). That's 32 hours of money-making (remember, you make 500k per hour). After you have 16M, it'd take you about 25 hours of training to get 85 magic. Thus 85 magic using string amulet would take 57 hours (32 hours of money-making and 25 hours of training). So, in comparison, string amulet is 8x better than wind strike. You could get 99 magic with string amulet in the same time it would take you to get 78 magic with wind strike. Keep in mind, there are also much better alternatives to string amulet which are available to you at a much lower level.

full void, eagle eye on whole time, range pot every 5 mins or so. weapon of choice depends on how much you're willing to spend... karils xbow is probably the best

it was really good money when the GE was first released but after the first couple of days it no longer became worth it

Those guys look a lot different from the stereotypical frat stars around here. typical frat attire: north face jacket (in winter), polo shirt, plaid shorts which go above the knees or khaki shorts, crokies, boat shoes (sperry topsider-- get wet!) typical sorority girl attire: same, except for athletic short shorts in warm weather, skin-tight leggings in cold weather along with ugg boots

Indeed. My fraternity is the only one on campus that doesn't haze. If you join any other frat on campus your first semester will be a living hell. Unless being forced to chug a litre of hard alcohol within 2 hours while watching gay porn is your idea of a good time, don't join a fraternity until you're sure that you won't get hazed and the guys are the kind of people you'd want to be friends with for the rest of your life. I forgot to mention in my previous post that I've also got a job on campus cashiering. Basically it forced me to interact with dozens (sometimes hundreds) of strangers daily (a ton of them are really attractive girls :D). That really took away the fear of talking to strangers.

It's called social anxiety-- I had it for an unfortunately long period of my life. It'll take a long time to improve yourself, but it's a fun and rewarding journey. The best way to do it is to surround yourself with friends. More specifically, you should constantly try to hang out with people whom you admire, and people whom you get along very well with. If you want to become more social, start spending as much time as possible with the most social person you know. Their characteristics will begin to rub off on you without you even knowing. You'll indirectly become more social just by spending time with them. The more comfortable you become with yourself, the more comfortable you'll become around others. To start becoming closer to others, try to think of how you act around people you're already comfortable with. If I'm with my family in the car and it's dead silent, it isn't awkward. When you meet someone new and a silence occurs, do you find it awkward? Learn to become comfortable in otherwise awkward situations. Your aloofness will make it less awkward for the other person. Sometimes they'll break the silence for you. I also never drank alcohol till I got to college. I noticed when I was drunk, I would transform into the fully-matured person who I strove to become. As time went on, the transformation became less and less dramatic. Now, there's little-to-no change in my personality when I'm drunk. The only difference between my sober and drunk self is that while drunk, boring situations become a lot more fun and entertaining. My sober self is now the same person as the fully-matured person I would evolve into when I was drunk. Maintaining a conversation isn't always too easy-- it just becomes easier w/ more and more experience. The other day I had a girlfriend over to my apartment and we were alone on the couch when a silence hit. If she wasn't dating one of my friends it would've been an opportunity for me to make a move :P but that was not the case-- it was just dead silent and I didn't really mind. I've learned to not be bothered by those awkward silences when conversations stop and observe how the other person decides to handle it. I'm not saying it's the best way to handle the situation, but it's definitely better than being uncomfortable, nervous, and avoiding people altogether because of such fears. [hide=How I conquered my social anxiety w/o drugs or a shrink]As a kid, I was always kind of shy, but I still had a ton of close friends and was very popular in school. When I was 12 years old, I moved to a different state and I was extremely bitter about having to say goodbye to all of the friends I had made-- I didn't want to make new friends, I found it easier to be alone and sulk. As a result, I developed social anxiety which lasted for the next six years of my life. I got into a relationship my sophomore year and it lasted until the summer of my senior year before moving to college. That was the best thing I had going for me in my life at the time, so when it ended I was devastated. That was the longest summer of my life. I purposely chose to go to college back in my hometown so I could reconnect with old friends and start improving my life. I saw college as a fresh start and an opportunity to learn from all of my previous experiences and mistakes, and to start improving myself. I figured if I just lived in the dorms with a random roommate, I'd have the ability to stay in my room all day and avoid social interaction. Because of this, I joined a fraternity so I'd be forced to make a bunch of new friends. Moving back to my hometown to go to college was probably the 2nd-best decision of my life. Joining my fraternity was the best decision of my life. All of the people I met were so friendly-- they treated me with the utmost kindness and respect. There was such a variety of people who were all mature in their own different ways-- there were guys who could get any girl they wanted, guys that could benchpress double their bodyweight, guys who had a 4.0 college GPA and had never gotten a B in their life. Basically for every personal goal I had, there was someone in the house who had already mastered that aspect and could help guide me towards my goal. Because of this, I learned that the first step in improving myself was to swallow all of my pride and basically humble myself in any situation where I'd otherwise be nervous. At the peak of my social anxiety I'd be terrified of asking strangers questions for fear of being seen as stupid. Instead, I reframed such situations as myself being the student, and the other person being the teacher. I basically assumed the role of the humble learner, rather than trying to pretend I was good at things I wasn't. It worked out very well... The first close friend I made was a total ladies-man. He can say anything he wants to any girl and she'll melt. He would always wander into my room and we'd play video games for hours in the afternoon after classes. He was a total "natural"-- he didn't give a [cabbage] about what others thought of him. When I first met him, I was shocked at some of the things he'd say to girls and how positively they'd react to him. If I had said the same things, I'd get slapped. Though after knowing him for two years now, I could do the same things he does and get much better results than I would have two years ago :) The second close friend I made was the strongest, toughest guy in the house. Nobody [bleep]ed with him-- everybody was afraid of making him mad for fear of getting their ass kicked, despite the fact that he's not a bully. Quite the contrary-- he weighs about 180 lbs, looks like he only weighs 150 lbs, and can benchpress 360 lbs. His philosophy: "Would you rather be underestimated or overestimated? What's the point of looking ripped if you're not as strong as you look? What are you going to do if someone picks on your friends and you can't protect them?" Basically he got me into bodybuilding-- after my first year of training with him, I could benchpress 80 lbs more than I could when I started. Being fit and healthy significantly boosted my mood and self-confidence. My long-term bodybuilding goal is to be able to lift double my bodyweight. Hopefully I'll have completed that by the time I graduate. The third close friend I made is also very friendly and outgoing. He's got a very unique sense of humor which is the main reason why people like him-- basically he's known for being very obnoxious. Yet, not obnoxious in a disrespectful way-- rather, in a way to laugh at the things he does. Anybody ever watch Jackass on MTV? Think of things along the lines of that-- except he doesn't really do stupid things, and people laugh with him-- not at him. Speaking of Jackass, though-- we both own a pair of tear-away pants for when we decide to go "partyboying": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i2eZPtvloE :D I've become much more social with strangers after hanging out with him-- it's really easy for me to talk to people now because I have strong sense of self and how I appear to others. It's kind of like a role I've created for myself, and most people I meet respond positively to the role. If the person responds negatively, they aren't the kind of person I want to get to know better. Thus, after living with these guys for two years, their personalities started to rub off on me. I became more outgoing and social just by hanging out with them. That probably wouldn't have happened if I had just met them at school and went to hang out with them a couple of times a week. Psychological studies have demonstrated a strong correlation between the amount of time spent with someone and how much you like them. So if you get along well with someone and you spend all your time with them, you'll become very close to them. If you don't like someone, you'll like them less the more time you spend with them. This principle applies to attracting women too btw ;) Because of the friends I have made at college, the person I am now is a completely different person than the person I was in high school. You could say that moving to college killed the anti-social part of me, and joining my fraternity and making new friends put the final nails in his coffin. Two years ago I was lonely and afraid. This summer I've had friends over to my new apartment to come go to the pool and/or party almost every night since my lease started. Life is good :)[/hide]

Funny, its a guide, not a blog. If you want to debate again, there is a forum for that, but this isn't it. But you are saying it is (or was) useful in pvp... Magic's only flaw is its lack of consistent KO-power. Other than that, magic will consistently win every fight. The duel arena's the best place to use it

I got my 2nd fire cape via the grave stone trick (before you could legitimately have more than one cape) using full void and karils xbow w/ eagle eye on the whole time. People with onyx bolts (e) would barely make it under the 60 minutes. rune knives are probably the fastest, but karils would probably be the most cost-efficient. not to mention it's harder if you have such range-distance with the knives

it's a lot more exciting... not exactly the fastest way to do it, though. for 360s you have to hit-and-run and time your hits so you attack them while they're using their magic attack then immediately run away so they can't melee you. for Jad you've just gotta have melee pray as your "default" prayer, and change it to range or mage as soon as he does the animation. after you get hit you immediately go back to melee pray. setup really shouldn't change that much inventory-wise, just prioritize str bonus since all the monsters in there have low defence.

that'll do. use a prayer-boosting cape if you've got one, it'll save you some cash and let you use range-boost prayers the whole time

dungeoneering needs to give a charm-grabber update like the bonecrusher

all the monsters in the fight caves have very low defence, including jad-- you'd do just fine with a magic shortbow. void would make caves pretty easy with your stats if you've got it

cooking sharks is profitable nowadays... I made 500k from 89-90 cooking. I've been doing a ton of skilling AFK lately while I play my PS2 lol... wc'ing ivy, cooking sharks/pies, smelting gold, farming trees, stringing amulets (magic), fishing-- so many easy ways to train skills nowadays :D

No, it doesn't-- I tried a long time ago.

nothing exciting to me... I'm just looking forward to dungeoneering updates lol

nvm

Are we seriously arguing about this? On topic: that's unfortunate that batch 2 probably won't be out any time soon. Guess I need to quit holding out for it, and go ahead and spend my tokens :\

Whether or not you find it awkward to hit on girls in front of your parents is mostly based on how they raised you, and what things you consider "private" to them. I don't share too much of my personal life with my parents. My roommate and his parents are extremely close-- they talk to each other like they're best friends. My roommate's never had any problems talking about his sex life with them, and oddly I've met several people who can say anything like that to their parents w/o any sense of awkwardness. I cannot relate :P I don't think this issue is related to morality or anything-- just upbringing.

use all your 4-dose pots with empty vials for 2-dosers. unload your stored things from your POH into your bank. buy random crap from the GE

? Please, please put images in hide tags. I was scared to look at the first picture you posted when you quoted me. I scrolled down slowly on this picture because I wasn't sure if it was that freaking scary dog. (late reply) I lol'd

Roughly how much essence did you use per hour? *shrug*

I get like 38k xp/hour at 69 rc though I wouldn't be surprised if you could get higher since I'm pretty laid back when I rc

Except not every person who did barrows had 30m to spend on a dragon chain.. :rolleyes: And I don't know about those gloves either. And the Amulet of Fury was released at the same time as that cape, so you could wear that and be technically correct. Rune Platebody was probably the most common body if you weren't praying, and I seem to remember there being more people wearing Legend's or God Capes. Unholy book is a toss-up because I know that was out back then and common enough then but also remember people using Rune Kiteshield or even Dragon Sq Shields fairly often... - Heh, just saying, if you're going for authenticity... :P what bolts are those? ;)

thanks, it works-- though turns out they're 150k a pop so I decided not to buy any extras haha

is it possible to get both a red and a blue one? via gravestones or something?