Sy_Accursed

How'd you figure that one? They seem fine now to me. They aren't overloading like the originals and they aren't insanely rare like the issue from this morning.

I entirely disagree. Yes it is not a social network, but it is an MMORPG and the whole point of playing an MMORPG over a single player rpg is that it has a community that you can interact with and make in-game friendships and alliances etc. etc. The very definition of what an MMORPG should be is something where you are both playing the game AND being sociable be that sociability formalised necessity in team games or random chit chat while trianing. Alright, then double the exp gain of traditional RC pushing ZMI up to ~110k/h formthe average player and half the exp from Runespan. Players should not be able to have the best exp for minimum effort. It makes no sense. It's a GAME its meant to be fun, not something where you absolutely have to expend masses of effort to be the best. I don't see why people have such a problem with being able to do gain good xp while having fun and chatting in something we are supposed to be playing for fun anyway. Beisdes it's not like anything is 100% no effort, you still have to pay some attention and expend a reasonable amount of effort for even the most afk trianing methods (that aren't abhorrently slow xp)

I entirely disagree. Yes it is not a social network, but it is an MMORPG and the whole point of playing an MMORPG over a single player rpg is that it has a community that you can interact with and make in-game friendships and alliances etc. etc. The very definition of what an MMORPG should be is something where you are both playing the game AND being sociable be that sociability formalised necessity in team games or random chit chat while trianing.

^This. Right here. This is one of the biggest problems with training skills like RC (until yesterday, of course) and FM. It's not the grind so much as the isolation caused by the click heavy training methods. Personally, I'm looking forward to bonfires and I'm glad they chose to include F2P in this skill update as well. And a Cryptic Clue Fest for the Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Looks like it will be a good month. :thumbup: I never had much problem talking and rcing at the same time. However, there was never anyone willing to chat! Probably because in order to talk you have to stop clicking on pouches/banks/familars/running spots so if you are talking you are lower you're xp:hr. The point wasn't that you physically can't talk, it was that to talk you have to pause doing the productive clicks and hence it hits your xp rates.

According to whoever runs the Runescape Twitter they said it was coming...... In February when it was supposed to come.... Yet it's now May. Kinda ticks me off. Peace, Vann They said it is coming, they did not say when it was coming. Tbh it's probably low down the list until a sizeable amount of people can actually get it, I mean it's not like the 5 year vet cape where on release it was accessible to a range of players who'd played 9-5 years (based on earliest records jagex has). When this tick rolled around for 10 years of the active player probably only a couple of hundred at most could actually get it.

I kinda feel like that's the point because (unless I've got my levels mixed) basically all the f2p stuff appears on the bottom floor and the middle floor stuff (esshounds etc) are all members. Basically making the point that you can kinda of try to use it for xp, even though half the stuff there is useless, the main purpose becoming LOOK AT THE SHINY MEMBERS THINGS! You saw them? Good now go pay for them, you know you want too!

So far nodes seem to be much more random to me. Sometimes draining it alone you get like 2 runes and it goes, others 3 of you can be there for a minute or 2 and get a good heap of runes.

And the same can be said of most skills. Fm you will be able to chose to to bonfires and it be afk or chose to light lines of fires. Rc you can chose to afk runespan or chose to run runes normally. Mining you can chose to go LRC or you can chose to power mine. Fishing you can chose to do monks/sharks/lobbies/rocktails or you can chose to powerfish. Just because this new method happens to be an afking one doesn't suddenly eliminate the choice of more click heavy methods and it's not like it is feasible for most skills to have that 1 method speed changer like slayer/combat. The methods have to be divided for functionality.

Or 'afkable' skills are a lot more fun because you can, you know, TALK and have interesting conversations that help the time fly by because you are not tied down to having to click ever 1 second or so which makes talking impossible without denting your xp rates.

I feel faint... Maybe they're planning some customisations to the wheel to make Yelps' pain even greater. There was a suggestion in the RSOF to convert the wheel into a torture rack/cross, so there's always potential for that. Personally I'm hoping for the 'fun' thing to be an army of runescape denizens battering Yelps and his wheel into oblivion never to be seen again, but this I fear is just a pipe dream.

Tbf the wicked cape is a most win of the rewards. New best weight cape in-game.

Considering the fact it says the 'kin' won't be far aware and will be watching and the known connections between kin and the stone it was kinda a given that symbol would crop up. We already have better than mage afk training in curly roots. Sounds more like giving low levels a curl-root esque methodology. Plus Jagex's seeming trend to not remove grind, but make the grind more afk so that it's not so mind numbing.

Sounds like bs to me. Can't say I noticed any difference in esteem I've bought, fail rate is tied to rc level. Plus every piece of dialogue, official wiki etc says esteem is just for logos on the wicked robes.

According to some rsof threads Mod Pi said in her friend chat late ast night (after the hot patch) the other extreme of nodes was a bug and being worked on, though obv not gonna go back to as high as release.

Get to tier 3 first ofc, then target high tier nodes, I think everything over body/nature is worth it. maintain your ess pile on the high tier esslings, probably death/blood. Edit: Oh and go for the wizard too, but maybe dont go attempting to charge halfway across the map for it if you dont have a nice variety of essence. Fastest xp by a long shot seems to be camping out at a good spot for your best creature but equally grabbing any good nodes within a 1 island radius. Trying to chase down good nodes jsut wastes too much time, especially now spawn rate is fixed. Good nodes are relative to what your max creature is. So far I have found doing blood wraith's nebula, shifter, jumper, skulls, blood pool are worth it (and obvious bloody skulls, living soul and undead soul when stat's permit). Wizard is worth it if he's close by (eg can see him from your island) ideally you wanna give him 10 of the rune he asks for, failing that the best rune you can spare 10 of maximises xp. As for the question about chip off: It's because in theory the best xp is from nodes alone which don't give ess out. So it offers a fast way to garner ess supplies. But in reality of down time vs xp gain time it is better to camp creatures anyway, so not an issue.

It seems to me nodes can't despawn; they either get used or get spawned over (one or twice had a blood pool turn into a soul on me) so it is natural for the low end ones epsecially to accumulate. Spawn rate also seems to be tied to either world population and/or population in-game. As it has gotten busier nodes are spawning more.

I'm wonder if the new tele on wicked hood is better banking (for deposit only) than the tokkul ring. Dumps ya like 2 squares away from a deposit chest in wizards tower.

Cape adds 25 daily essence and 1 more daily rune withdrawal to the hood. What's its weight? Look up 1 post -6kg

So this is how wicked stuff 'upgrades' hood, just the cape so I assume legs and body are better boosters.

No clue on that, not sure if anyone's bought the greater staff yet. They're supposed to soak up certain spells or something, and store them for later use? (Wild guess) The descriptions we got say mid and greater hold 500 and 1000 casts of a spell for later use but also absorb offensive spells. I'd assume this would mean if the spell inside the staff is fired at you it will soak it up, maybe just the same type at a push. Eg if you using it for ice barrage and a barrager attacks you your staff gets recharged.

Max Settings, Nice AA (auto-aliasing) :rolleyes: Don't forget bloom and AA don't work together ;) They do for me, I have an ATI card and I over-ruled runescape with 8X AA in the CCC 3d application settings :) so they do, it just depends if you have an Nvidia card or an ATI one Can see Bloom and AA on my Puush here tbh :P http://puu.sh/qDxt There is however a distinct difference from Runescape setting AA and your graphics card doing it as an over-ride. Within RS setting itself max is a choice of bloom or AA because for whatever reasons they currently won't work together on the client side of settings.

Yea, it's such a waste of time. I mean, you only get rc exp from actually siphoning it (with higher level spheres giving more exp) plus 10exp per dust, of which you can trade in 1k at a time giving you a bonus 10k exp on top of the fact that it lasts for ages meaning you can afk it. Ok I didn't know about the bonus 10k xp if you gather 1k, (I assume which is the cap). Lol wut? 10xp per dust * 1000 dust (max trade in) = 10k xp His point was that 10k bonus is ONTOP OF the epic rc xp (and runes) you already get from cracking the runesphere. Same way Stars the epic part of the xp is in mining it, the trade in is just a little extra.

Max Settings, Nice AA (auto-aliasing) :rolleyes: Don't forget bloom and AA don't work together ;)

energy core for trade in. It shows you in the tutorial

The nodes are the best xp for their level, but they spawn randomly. So not easy to afk or keep on ones that r great for your level. Consistent slightly lower xp > Erratic higher xp because of how it works out in xp:hr