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Let me know next time you're going to go and I would love to come and watch how you do it.

Not sure what you mean by the chap who gives slayer exp but from my understanding warbands count towards your three for the day if you loot one item. I've just started warbands myself these last few days and I've always been able to do 3 camps in a row without much hassle using warband pk friends chat. If you only loot one item and then leave you will not be able to get 75/75 crates for the day, the most you will be able to get is 51/75 (1+25+25 for the other two camps you haven't done yet). Hope this helps.

How many limbs/how much cash was it total? Nice Phat btw.

I wasn't playing or active on these forums from October til the end of February so that explains why I didn't know. Either way they should definitely add this with ports 2.0

The irony. New range dungeon = TD's being the best money maker in RS again.

From what I've heard effigies in the abyss barraging is ~1 every 2 hours, and that's if you have none in bank. You then have to use it on the spot. It only really seems worth it if you aren't 99 mage / range (chinning supposedly is about the same).

Black warlocks MAX at 140 k hunter xp/hr + 27 k agility exp/hr realistically you'll get closer to 130 k exp/hr with 25 k agility xp/hr 1 hour at draconics = 250-290 k exp/hr (we'll say 250) 1 hour at barb advanced = 70-72 k xp/hr (we'll say 70) 2 hours at warlocks = 260 k hunter exp/hr at 50 k agility exp/hr So draconics + barb advanced comes out to 250 k hunter + 70 k agility (320 k xp/hr total) Warlocks comes out to 260+50 (310) respectively So it's fairly close but as you get closer to 99 hunter and using all the tips/tricks at draconics that hunter exp/hr will edge closer to 290-300 k exp/hr widening the gap on which is better to do long term.

Just two tiger riders (I failed 3 steel missions that all went out at 80+% with no partial success and I failed the 700 steel convict mission I had at 77%). I only get on twice a day to do ports right now so I'll probably get crew before rudder for the success rate improvements. Also, idea for ports. let us send the resources we have on voyages to trade (in a ratio) in for additional resources from that area. Example, I have 5 k jade I'm never going to need/use now, let me send that jade with one of my ships to trade it in 2:1 for steel so my voyage would come back with whatever the reward was for success with all bonuses (merch/warehouse etc) applied plus 2.5 k steel with none of the bonuses applied to that amount. If the mission fails you simply don't get any of your resource back. Ratios could just climb down the ladder of 2:1 jade : steel 3:1 cherrywood : steel 4:1 slate : steel 5:1 gunpowder :steel 6:1 bamboo : steel For lesser regions it would follow the same pattern (i.e. if you trade slate for cherrywood it would be a 2:1 ratio). This would let us use all the extra resources we don't want or need, and give us a boost so that starting a new region isn't so entirely frustrating. If it turns out that farming jade would end up being better steel/hr and people abuse it that way they could simply cap how much of a resource you can send to trade per ship.

Worked on some runespanning because daily challenges today so 27 k till 81, also did some fishing and I'm now 97 k from 85. From there I'm going to focus solely on runespan until 90 runecrafting while doing JoT on fishing and saving up for call of the sea t4 which I will be using on cavefish until 90.

Well I probably won't ever play this content but at least they added more t9 weapons finally. Looks like they will stay much higher in price compared to drygore though seeing as the effort to get them involve is about 10x that of KK. I wonder what would have been so bad about just having the new bosses each have a rare chance of dropping the new crossbow. Also I wonder why the hell are Jagex so fixated on crossbows. They've been the best range weapons since basically when they came out with no other kind getting any spotlight. I would have liked to see this be regular shortbow personally.

Here's my pictures, it looks like I'm able to get min time for 3/4 ships without the rudder. I'll probably end up getting it now... [hide] [/hide]

I'm looking at my ships now and the speed numbers are 2219, 4350 (speed captain derp), 2399, 2899. My crew are 4 10 k captains lvl 7 or 8. 4 merch, 3 jod, 5 s + 2 seawitch, 4 m, 5 c + 1 tiger rider (just bought) I'll screenshot my voyages with min times tomorrow.

Mining, herb and smith are all 1m+ xp/hr from WBs, prayer is 800k/hr with guilded alter...why would you possibly warband them. I'd say hunt, but that's just personal preference. RC is probably the most time saving if you don't value trimmed comp, fishing if you do. 99 hunt so I'll be doing fishing til 90 for ports.

I take my (metaphorical) hat off to you sir. Lies, this is the hat. [hide][/hide] And with this you win all of my internets for the day. :thumbup:

You mean like fireworks experts? None of those. Two sea witches are the only crew I have that aren't jade merch, jods, or mcs

Just the rudder from the bowl, and standard bowl crew (jade merchants, jods, msc etc) I have one speed captain because Jagex would rather give me 2.5 k captains for the last 20 days and 18 rerolls but using my other captains gives me the same times.

The ease of access to obelisks and cheap prayer potions aside, its just so much easier to use your POH. 1 - Silly of you to die in PVM situations. Why do you not save yourself the hassle of having to bank and withdraw a few items, go and loot grave, restock and start again when you could just teleport and start afresh? All very well using Tokkul-Zo, but you don't get a summoning recharge do you. Anywhere you go for the most part has an obelisk on the way. I do so little bossing that it's not worth it and I respawn in edge. Much closer to a bank and being back to the fight than house teleing and going through that horrible loading screen... 2 - How about xp boosting costumes? You can also store armour (notably Void and Hunter Camo) and capes there. I have a tab for exp boosting items and 200 free bank spaces, I think I'll be fine. 3 - Most people who are now max/comp once took that attitude. Odds on you will drop it, but fair enough - it's a trim requirement after all. I won't. After I get married (in a year) I won't be playing anymore. 4 - Fair enough argument, Ancients is the most usefull spell book at the moment (barrage) but a lot of people do use Lunars (NPC contact and for Farming). A lot of people, but not me. 5 - Mwahahaha (but using it once a year? How little do you do combat?) Very little, (my stats are from 10 years of playing. Plus when I do do combat I use nondegradable GWD armor as most things don't require the defense and the minuscule upgrade to Nex equipment is hardly worth it for the cost vs spending that money on other skills or weapons. 6 - Not sure you're going to get far doing misc prayer training. Bone crusher might rake in a few k exp a day, warbands are what.. 6k exp per beam? max of 3 beams per day. Although odds are that the beam fails/you're not the first there so lets just say you successfully siphon 1/3 (cmon, that's being generous). The exp from 95-99 is 4.2m. So lets say you get around 10k Prayer exp per day, you might dump in the occasional effigy (although that would be stupid) so around an extra 50k per month, + troll invasion (~71k at 95) and god statues (~15k x 4) that puts you at (30 day month) 481k prayer exp per month (but there are going to be days when you get more/less) so you're looking at 10 monthsish to 99 Prayer. Prayer training for free is always great, but why wait 10 months for it when you are very likely to have the cash to just buy the level and save yourself a lot of time in the future (allowing you to divert the exp rewards from troll/statues/effigies) into other things, that are certainly more worth it than prayer (fishing/agil etc). The cost currently for you to buy 95 prayer is 36m (Dragon Bones). QBD is anywhere from 2-4m per hour, GWD likewise (unless you're camping Sara for Hilts or something, not sure on this). I'd be conservative and say Nex is 4m/h and I'm not sure about KK, so I'd say similar (hate this damn boss). Generally, the best pvm things atm are around 4m. So this is gunna take you 10 hours to generate the cash to buy 99 prayer. Now, you can altar around 1.5-1.8k bones per hour (the upper end using a yak) so lets say 1.6k for you. You need approx 17k dbones to 99, so we're talking 11-12 hours, factoring in distractions and such. This adds up to a rough estimate of 21-2 hours of work, over perhaps the course of a few days, in comparison to 10 months of diverting exp you could use for slower skills, onto prayer. Now, some of the maths here may be wrong, but it's pretty obvious that it's going to be better just to get the levels now. It'll provide immediate benefits in PVM and will further help things such as dungeoneering. Your call though ofc. The jump from 950 to 990 prayer points is hardly worth it. Especially when the misc exp is free and there's no rush I appreciate the effort but there's no reason for me personally to ever go to my house. It's dead content for now. I do hope that the update brings some life back to it though. Adding a slayer room for doing slayer tasks where you get drops and can pick the monsters that are in it would actually get me to do both skills again.

My normal steel missions are only 8.5 hours long with out it. And using a bag of the winds did nothing to improve that time. My story missions and special resources are only 10.5 ... It's that supposed to increase?

Race to base 80?

Assuming I don't value agility experience anymore (which I don't) what would be the best use of my daily JoT. I'm thinking it would be fishing or runecrafting?

So why is unlocking the rudder a priority in the pincers? I understand the bowl because it made it easy/doable to get 3 sets of voyages done in a day, but at 8 hours + between ports in the pincers surely it isn't worth it to spend the 2 k steel on the rudder when you could be getting and leveling up crew?

And now I hate myself for buying one when they were 75 mil and reselling once they hit 80...

mh cclaw with ee is currently the best melee dps in game if you can't afford drygore. Personally I would get a chaotic staff since we have no eta on t9 mage weapons. Work on getting cash for drygores. Royal crossbow is ~= dual ccbows plus we have t9 range weapons on the way this month.