Sy_Accursed

Yeah Avisansies, Vyres, Automatons, Acension and Grotworms pretty much cover the new slayer content of the past year.

Part of the problem is that you're probably better off killing monsters for resources than you are harvesting them. Considering the sheer amount of resources it takes to get a skill into the 80s, let alone 99, it's easy to see why harvesting skills are more or less dead. That's precisely my point... Combat should never thought be more effective at gathering than gathering is. Totally agree. Ores, bars, logs and fish, as a bare minimum, should not be obtainable so easily from combat. Mining, Smithing, Woodcutting and Fishing ought to be the main suppliers. Personally I think most RS monsters could do with a rebalance that scales back drop tables a bit in favour of larger coin drops. We only care about the monetary value anyway and even then most of the good drops are only good because they alch well. It'd be much simpler to revive gathering skills (and others beside) if much of these were stripped away from drop tables and left us with good old coins. Of course this would need to work in tandem with some reworking of the skills, but tbf they aren't that far off the mark - they are just hindered by the fact everything they offer can be gotten faster via combat.

If they do bring out another tier of skilling equipment I think they need to seriously re-jig the current balance of how much impact they make. I mean whilst it is certainly notable in lower tiers the rune > dragon improvement is so minute you can't really tell it exists without doing some number crunching to see the effect over a longer time period. That or allow the new tier to have some other benefit than mining/cutting faster.

I only just twigged how the names of the bosses got made: Primus - Primary - One Secundus - Second - Two Tertius - Tertiary - Three Quartus - Quarter - Four Quintus - Quintet - Five Sextus - Sext- older form of Hexa- - Six Conforms to the numbers of the rings too.

I've not heard of such a utility and imo it would be pointless to make: You couldn't make the colours tuck in neatly and seamlessly in the same way the game engine can so it'd give a very limited idea of what the cape would actually look like. Seems rather redundant too in my book, after all with the colouring being hard to blend in the way the game does + no way to compare it to your actual outfit in-game it'd probably be a lot of wasted effort to even try to pre-plan it.

The only debate on void isn't so much it being nerfed as to whether it's boost effect is actually better than the damage boost of GWD or Nex sets, an issue made harder to judge by the fact since recent EoC tweaks we are not entirely sure what void is actually boosting and thus how it works.

BMI fails to distinguish between lean/muscle mass and fat mass, I agree, but it does still correlate with body fat percentage (BF%), albeit unreliably. Some half of BF%-defined obesity cases are missed by BMI. However, what isn't clear from any quick literature search I perform is any evidence that body composition measurements are any better at diagnosing overweight or obesity, which is what I was actually asking you for. Although what you say about body composition measurement is intuitive and sounds logical, the scientific evidence for it is not strong enough to say it's definitely better than BMI as a measurement towards diagnosing obesity, and more studies need to be performed before claiming it's a better measurement. In any case, what we seem to be dealing with here is someone who has a perfectly healthy weight by all conventional measures, and the influence of puberty should be considered for any fluctuations in BMI or BF% before jumping to conclusions in the first place. It's a wise idea to eat healthier foods anyway, but that should be within the scope of eating healthily, which carries its own benefits in addition to weight loss. I don't see how you can question body fat % as a measure of obesity. Sure if may not of been heavily studied, but that's because it'd probably be a waste of resources to do so; studying whether body fat % correlates to illness caused by excess body fat would be about as productive as studying if people get dehydrated when denied liquids. Obsesity = high body fat. BMI = measurement of body fat by comparing height to weight assuming all other factors are average. Body fat % = measurement of the actual fat that is there regardless of variations in muscle and frame. It is testing the exact same thing BMI is, but is focused on what actually exists in your body than how your height:weight ratio compares to that of a perfectly 'average' person. You only have to look at real numbers to see it as blindly obvious, personally my body fat % is in the mid-low 20s (perfectly average) yet BMI insists I am skirting the border of overweight and obese. By all means if someone is perfectly average use BMI on them, but for most of us it gives anything but accurate results; the one linked earlier in this thread isn't even a good example of a BMI calc (like most online) because it fails to account for age, a factor that greatly shifts expected body fat levels and, perhaps even worse, it has no womens' mode. Women are expected to have a good ~10% or so more body fat than men because of their breasts being perfectly healthy, but primarily composed of fat.

...because telling someone you think they are fat and may get chronic illnesses because of it won't at all risk causing potential depression, body dysmorphia, self-hatred, confidence reductions or any other number of mental issues that could lead to eating disorders, withdrawal from the family or even suicide.

Well to best predict the risk of illness associated with excess body fat measuring the actual percentage of body fat is the best method because it shares a direct correlation in being the thing you need to know about. BMI as a measurement is just estimating body fat on the presumption you have an average build and an average muscle mass therefore meaning any excess weight = fat. Measuring actual body fat bypasses this and flat out gives the body fat % which can just as easily be compared to what is healthy or not. There's even nice handy tables comparing fat% to age to show the ranges, much the same as you get for BMI (when you go beyond a plain calculator to at least factor in age) http://files.builtlean.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Ideal-Body-Fat-Percentage-Chart2.jpg Risk of chronic illness due to being overweight is directly related to excess body fat (opposed to simply being heavier, as muscle mass doesn't do you no harm), body fat % measures this exact factor.

The simplest and best measure is simply a body fat measurement which can be done to a decent degree of accuracy with a basic pair of callipers that you can get for pennies. BMI is by no means the most accurate, fat % beats it by miles, BMIs one use for more accuracy on an individual level is only to then plug into a BMR calculation to work out calorie intake. It's better than BMI as rather than assuming you are perfectly average it measures your actual body fat % and from that you can accurately say if there is too much or too little fat. It's the method most gyms use if you have a personal trainer doing intensive planned schemes, its a method body builders etc use too. I'm fairly sure it's even the measurement of choice in medicine too when doing a proper evaluation of such things.

BMI is an awful measure for these things. The guy who invented it even said it is only useful for mass studies and not individual users. It ignores too many factors such as fat:muscle ratio and general frame size variations. Unless you are perfectly average it will give you false results; it will accuse small framed people of being underweight when they are fine and larger frames or muscular people of being overweight or even obese when they are perfectly fine. Sure use it as a loose measure, but taking it to literally is just a bad bad idea. If I followed BMI I'd have to be dangerously underweight to even get into the middle of the 'healthy' range.

I'd agree with don't single her out or try to push anything on her. Clear the house of unhealthy and snack food in general would help nudge her in the right direction. Maybe try some fun days out hiking or biking or w/e. But overall I'd say other than that just leave her be, if she's fine and happy as she is it isn't your place to make her change, lecturing her and forcing it on her would just make her unhappy and give her body confidence issues because YOU are making her feel like she is ugly or there is something wrong. Ultimately, afterall, it doesn't matter as long as she is happy with herself.

As things currently stand in game: Defensive armour blows - basically nothing is strong enough to need more defence than GWD gives, rendering barrows, ganodermic and port armours pointless. Conversely offensive armour rawks, since nothing needs more defence GWD and Nex gear are more than sufficient and the damage boosters are useful in every situation. Exception to this being tanking a couple of bosses as said above, but that's what the effectively free superior port armours are for.

Yeah for mtk herb and coal have been top dawgs for a while, Grimy's sheet linked above is good or there is the version i made recently whilst refreshing my excel skills: https://docs.google....pDdlZFM2c#gid=1 Basically a clone of Grimy's excellent sheet with the front end re-skinned to add in some more info and make it clearer of the standings for quick reading.

It says a lot about how well their design team know the game that 9/10 new monsters that are supposed to be good to kill have to have their drop tables re-tweaked due to being full of utter worthless tat. It kinda gives the impression they look up GE values and are like oh 50k that's good put that on there, but have no real comprehension that the market moved beyond 50k being 'good' for a high level player many years ago as we can now quite easily make 1m+ an hour and most of the 'good' gear is at least double digit millions, if not triple.

Aren't you forgetting Juna, guardian of the Tears of Guthix - which were the magical energies mixed with runestone to create the Ascended? Nevermind, your breakdown includes 6, even if Juna was added (and it was mentioned earlier in the post) it wouldn't bring the count to 8. My bad. My deffo only 7 thus far: Death Valluta Juna Fiara Cres Occelus You So is the general consensus that Occelus is or is not a Guthix Guardian, because the way the lore goes from the book of ascension, it all but says that Occelus is a disgraced more likely than not former guardian of Guthix, which would leave two gaps in our list? It's possible either way--depends on the strict definition of a Guardian. We will likely only find out Osborne's thoughts on the subject in a future Q&A, and finally see just how many Guthix Guardians there are left to discover. Yeah it's kinda hard to say where Occelus falls in terms of the 8 atm. On the one hand there being 8 could mean 8 were made which means regardless of falling into disgrace he still is one as he still retains whatever power guthix gave him and cannot lose that. On the other it could equally mean the group that collectively goes by the title of guardians of guthix consists of 8 members, meaning his disgrace would mean he is not one of the 8. I doubt we will get a finite answer until further down the road when it comes a point where we've had number 8 and we hit a quest that could do with one they would make the call on Occelus and whether they can have 1 new one. I mean even outside Occelus there is interesting things to consider: Does there being 8 mean there is sort of always 8? Which fits in with the idea we replaced Occelus. If that is the case does that mean someone else will be granted Guardian-ship some how to replace Cres or did Guthix only bless us knowing that Cres would fall? Also if they require replacements does that mean another could be granted status to replace Fiara (for those she died for)? Is it even possible for there to be new Guardians now Guthix is gone? Must he grant it directly or could the other Guardians bestow it using the anima mundi or w/e? So many possible tangents they could go off in to and that's without even considering some utter crazy twist or god old retconing of ideas and straying from the idea of there only being 8 (it's not anywhere in-game afterall only in exterior qas)

I've not been in NIS for a while, but I remember one of the major issues in early Alpha for many, myself included, was that you couldn't make it transparent. I think they did at some point add tranparancy sliders to pretty much everything, but as I said, I'm not actively in it right now (because I don't have the time to keep redoing JAG and removing the old ones). I was responding to someone who said they didn't use current fullscreen/resize due to transparent chat making things unreadable.

Aren't you forgetting Juna, guardian of the Tears of Guthix - which were the magical energies mixed with runestone to create the Ascended? Nevermind, your breakdown includes 6, even if Juna was added (and it was mentioned earlier in the post) it wouldn't bring the count to 8. My bad. My deffo only 7 thus far: Death Valluta Juna Fiara Cres Occelus You

I think they easily could, they are sort of an elder artefact of sorts being the defence mechanism of one. And as we know elder artefacts kill gods. They may be the defence mechanism of the Stone (elder artefact) but did the Elder God's ever envisage another Godlike being mis-using their artefacts? And as such give the dragonkin that sort of power? This will be the make or break of the issue I foresee. The dragonkin get more power the more the stone is issued - so their power is directly relative to how much power is drawn from the stone. Plus from what we have so far it is not exactly that hard to kill a god. Sliske ran up and cast 1 spell and managed it. Weedy little Guthix stabbed Skagaroth and he died quickly. Zaros basically tripped and fell on the staff and 'died.' The hard part of killing a god doesn't seem to be getting near them or even managing to attack them; their belief in thier own power makes that easy. The hard part seems to be getting your hands on an elder item.

I think they easily could, they are sort of an elder artefact of sorts being the defence mechanism of one. And as we know elder artefacts kill gods.

I liked the few tidbits of info we got there: Gods want to gather guthix magic + stone of jas to basically put edicts back up in their favour. Tumeken went to sleep when the edicts came - further fits in with their pantheon being kinda a micro version of godwars. Would put Amascut's current actions as sort of Zamorak causing the first pangs of war whilst Guthix sleeps. Marimbo had a party - lol New(?) Dragonkin concept art, kinda makes it seem like quest is a bit nearer.

Ugh it broke JAG on beta and emails won't come through =/

Daily only last for the day and cannot be saved up. They are the first used and the only known 'cap' would be 3 - premier members get 3 a day, plain members 2 a day and f2p 1 a day. Earned spins are used second. These cap out at 100, though only 10 can be stored up from spin tickets. Purchased spins are used last there is no known cap on these however you can only pay $200 a day max and a further cap of $500 a week exists.

^I wouldn't say you can ONLY have 1 of the 3 as your goal. Most workout regimes overall would go for 2/3 of thoose. Eg someone going for size would want to gain the size but losing fat is just as important to emphasis the size. Someone going for fat lose is well served by gaining some size as more muscle helps increase metabolic rate a bit and thus aid fat lose. Someone going for strength would probably want a little bit of size too as increasing the size a bit will help expand the strength possiblities. Also pushups and pullups may not be a good starting point (you'd have to try to find out), not everyone can do them and their reliance on bodyweight makes them one of the hardest things to do if your just starting out and perhaps are a bit of the heavy side. Sure if you can do them, great, but it's by no means a guarantee; I can't do a pull up to save my life cause I'm far too heavy for my strength atm simply due to being tall and broad and I can barely do 2-3 proper push up for similar reasons. For a starting point I'd advise incorporating bridges and planks; they are good for working your core muscles which will help stabilise and improve results from everything else. Bodyweight squats are also decent enough to start with for some focused leg work and you can easily grab some sugar bags or something to add weight to them before investing in dumbells or a full bar. Running/Sprinting and/or biking is great for legs too.

Interesting on Ocellus being no longer a Guardian. I wonder if this means he doesn't count as one of the 8 (that Osbourne pretty much confirmed to be how many guardians there are) Would make lorical sense too if there are 8 Ocellus got fired leaving a spot open that was bestowed upon us in TWW, would also still leave us with 2 more to discover opposed to 1. Also kinda agree on the d crossbow thing. D Claws > Chaotic Claws is one thing, somewhat reasonable jump (T60 > t80) and not really making us get extra of a gear type we already own (unless you already had cls) where as this one is a t60>t90 jump and requires an item most people will of never owned, let alone owning at the time as we will all have karils, royal or chaotics. Also it kinda bugs me that all the things in this dungeon are just 'ranged' weakness, way to break your own dam system Jagex. Was there any particular reason they couldn't be a mix of thrown, arrow and bolt opposed to breaking your own system? (The bosses you could prob get away with it on the basis bosses are usually none, but these are meant to be style specific)