Powerfrog

I wouldn't recommend meleeing jad your first time. Ideal method is to use storm of arma, it hits as hard as a rapier and you attack from range so don't have to deal with jad's melee attack. I personally killed jad a few days ago using polypore staff, and it's actually really accurate/damaging. Ganodermic armour makes jad's magic attack max at about 550s and splash often, which makes it less scary.

RSGP doesn't have a real world value though. It doesn't matter if a few people sell it online, that doesn't give it a real value.

Ahh thanks for pointing that out. I had .25 in my head for some reason, instead of .4 Video should be up in 50 minutes.

Requirments to reach this amount of xp: Extreme strength/attack Special restore potions Turmoil Rapier Melee void BGS Max strength items such as firecape, fury, zerk ring (i)... You must have fought the decaying avatar in the dominion tower at least once to be able to fight him in freestyle mode. The numbers: (These are very rough, give or take 10% to the final calculation...) The decaying avatar gives roughly 0.65 melee xp and roughly 0.22 HP xp for every 1 point of damage you deal. For example hitting a 500 on aggressive gives 325 strength xp and 110 constitution xp. This is over twice the amount of xp most other creatures in runescape give. The avatar has 10k lifepoints but it will eat to full once when it reaches 7500, 5000 and 2500 lifepoints unless you intercept. This means the creature has 25k lifepoints, and you often deal upto 28k a kill as it takes about 10 seconds to heal once it reaches it's limit, and any excess damage dealt in this time will also be healed. In the video below you'll see that i managed to kill the avatar in just over 6 minutes with less than ideal stats and equipment. Add the time to start the fight and we can say that each kill would take 7 minutes. you'll also see that i got a total xp gain of 24733, which fits almost perfectly with the above calculations, assuming i dealt 28k damage. 7 minutes a kill = 8.5 kills an hour. 8.5 * 24733 = 210k. That's roughly 157.5k melee xp an hour! and 52.5k constitution xp! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwByvHrXNws Explanation of method: As you can see in the video you just simply protect from melee and use your best offensive prayer. To reach the best xp rates you should use your BGS special and special restore often. BGS is chosen because it will drain the avatars high defense and make all of your rapier attacks much more accurate. This leads to a much better DPS than using dragon claws or other popular special weapons. If you're extremely wealthy, statius warhammer would be ideal. If you want to AFK like a boss, but get slightly worse xp, wear your best prayer equipment, pot up, BGS spec once at the start, and drink a prayer renewal potion. Leave auto-retaliate on. Pray deflect melee and turmoil. You can now leave and come back in 6 minutes when your prayer runs out (95 pray and 30 prayer bonus) and start again. Another small tip: If your first BGS special fails to hit well, simply log out and back in. Your potted stats will remain the level they were, and you can start the fight again in a couple seconds. Repeat until you're happy with your BGS hit.

So i maged jad last night with gano. It's not as easy as i thought, you can't straight up pray range and tank the mage. Well you can, but you'll struggle to outhit the healers if you're brewing every couple seconds. It is a hell of a lot easier than ranging though. If you miss a prayer switch it's a lot less deadly, and with the 'pray range until you see a mage attack' method i use, you're less likely to take a range hit even if you fail. With SoA you probably can tank the mage, as jad will be dead much faster. @leaf i'd guess you just got unlucky hits with SoA on jad, because poly staff was very accurate for me... Not to mention you were in melee gear besides the gano.

SoA'ing the full caves is extremely expensive and pointless. You'll save like 5 minutes at the very most over meleeing for an expense of 1m+ 1m may not sound like much, but it's still a big waste as theres no reason not to melee. And damn, after seeing those 600s with poly staff i may consider doing jad with poly... (Because i don't have SoA unlocked)

Melee the caves with barrow melee plate and legs. Kite the 360s while deflecting mage with a rapier, leave the weak creatures for after the 360 is down so you can soulsplit heal any damage you take. Switch to ganodermic body and legs and storm of arma jad. You may not need the melee armour, but it certainly makes tanking the 90's a lot easier. And hey, you don't need those 2 extra spaces. With a few brews, you generally don't even need to switch prayers as the only thing that can damage you is his mage attack, which will only be 50% of his attacks, will splash quite often and only maxes about 560 in your armour. Of course you should try to switch if you can though to guarantee your safety, just don't get hit by a range attack.

If you could get a decent queue of customers for a stable wage, and it wasn't so taboo, i bet a lot of young people would love to work for $50/hour. If peoples mindsets changed to accept it, it would be very easy money doing something enjoyable. And $50 was just an example of something considered cheap yet a good wage. They could of course charge a lot more. (Although due to the amount of people that would jump at the chance, i doubt the price ever would get very high. As i said, it's easy money.)

How do you work that out? $50 an hour is rediculously low for a prostitute, yet $50/hour wage is enviable. Even after preparation/cleanup time and tax.

I agree, i don't understand why people are acting so stuck up. You have a partner (Whom you technically pay a large amount of money to, breadwinner) and that's great. But not everyone does. If someone can be paid for doing what they love while providing pleasure or entertainment to someone else, isn't everyone a winner? I'd personally love the opportunity to be a legal, safe, prostitute. :P

Prostitution is just a more efficient means to buying a girl drinks at a bar. If it weren't for the diseases and every other negative thing you mentioned, i believe it would be very popular but still not something you'd admit to in public, similar to masturbating.

Frost dragons are a very nice stable money maker with a nice effigy rate, decent range + melee xp. You can make about 2m/hour profit there with a war tortoise, and a lot more with a yak. Solo bandos crashing is better money and effigies, but it's also less stable. (You could make nothing in 3 hours, then make 16m in the fourth hour. etc.) You also have to be near maxed offensively to do it effectively. Glacors and TDs are both decent cash and great effigies too, never done them personally so i'm not sure how they compete with the above methods.

Oh, ouch, thanks. I'd heard of spear flashing and was working from the assumption it worked with hammer. So the hammer is really 261k for 3 specs then. Or 4 if you use spec restores.

450 kills should take about 7 hours. 5 kills takes about 4.5 minutes. Dreadnips aren't terribly useful for weaker bosses like the ones you posted, as by the time you get the dreadnip out it's often not worth the time wasted doing it. But i do believe that it's generally better than not using a dreadnip once you master using them, but it's not going to improve your KPH by a significant amount.

Well as everyone else has poined out, the damage soak from armour only effects the excess damage after the initial 200 hit. So no, it's not as overpowered as it seems at first :P 53% armour soak on 770 should reduce it to a 362. Add 200 and you get the answer of 562. 30% divine soak on 562 would be 393. I'm not sure if it's calculated in that order though. Using an eagle eye kite instead of the divine would reduce the hit to 454, which is good news for those that can't afford a divine.

Does anyone know does the degrading works with the hammer when switching between weapons? Assuming it takes 3.6 seconds worth of use 1 attack it's 15700gp a spec... Expensive, but for a small team possibly worth using at corp. Assuming it takes 1 tick, 0.6 seconds, that's only 2616gp a spec, which is practically nothing!

If you own a rapier, it *could* actually lead to better DPS on high defense creatures than using claw specials. But the creature would need to have very high lifepoints and defense for this to work. One example i can think of is the decaying avatar from nomad's requiem. You can fight this beast as many times as you want in dominion tower, and you actually get more xp per damage than other creatures, i think it's 1.5x. With max accuracy/strength, this creature may even be one of the best training methods in runescape, thanks to BGS. (It's also afkable for about 25000 HP or until your prayer runs out. Which is pretty awesome.) BGS is also useful when ranging and you only care about the range XP. There are no good range special weapons so it only makes sense to use the defense lowering special. Sadly, there are not many high defense high lifepoints creatures you'd typically range for xp. Arma can't be melee specced.

Sarasword is better than the spear. I believe maul is still better, but it's less of an improvment than it is in ancient caverns, as with the titan helping and more overall kills/hour, overkill is more of an issue and makes weaker yet faster weapons slightly more favourable. Gloves and maul are both better than SS, and useful for lots of things in runescape. But if you're in a rush for getting 2k crims, neither are worth getting just for this specific task. I'd personally try a trip in karils and soulsplit, to see if theres an overall life loss. If there is, swap parts for ganodermic for the higher mage defense, you obviously want to wear as few degrading items as possible if they're not needed.

Defense is trained in the exact same way as attack and strength. The damage you deal to your opponent gives defense xp. So really, the exact same as the best strength/attack weapons. Chaotic rapier being the best weapon in the game for training, giving +94 stab accuracy and +101 strength, and being the same speed as a scimitar. If you mean you want a weapon with defensive properties just because you want high defense and don't care about offense for whatever reason, the lucky cutlass gives +6 to all melee defenses. Chaotic staff gives +7 slash defense. Maple Blackjack (d) gives a massive +24 crush defense.

Looking forward to seeing all the drops you get. Rapier is only +9 stab more accurate than the spear by the way. If you really wanted to be efficient you'd equip spear and attack, equip divine and take hit, equip spear and attack... But this is hard to do and soulsplit flick at the same time. If you try it i highly recommend getting goliath gloves, so if you fail to equip the spear you still get a good hit. (Comparable to whip. Not much worse than rapier)

Man... People can be douchebags. I'm pretty sure that they have not been nerfed yet and you're just having a dry streak. That doesn't mean that jagex 'obviously wont ever nerf them', because they really are too good at the moment.

If something is crowded that's usually a good sign it's worth doing.

Hey we should remove penguins from the wilderness because sometimes when i'm pking i misclick one and it causes me to die! That's how crazy selfish you sound right now. I get the point of being annoyed that they're just there to annoy you, yes, those people are douchebags. But in my experience they're very rare (I've NEVER been attacked in w60 hunting pengs) and i'm assuming the type of people that do that would be low level and poorly equipped. And you said that when you bring bandos you get maged. Heres an idea, don't bring bandos into the wilderness. Bring nothing or dhide like everyone else. Maybe then you won't attract people wanting to kill you.

Thats an option but without overloads this will mean your stats will constantly be 99 or lower. This will make the fight much longer than it needs to be and overall might even be worse, you can last longer sure, but the time saved could be used to do more damage. I hear dominion markers work like mini ovls with brews. I'm not sure how they work but if they're similar to overloads, that with brews would probably be the best option for dealing the most damage before dieing. (Although i'm confident it should be easy with rocktails. And cheaper. And faster.)

Yes. Use black dhide body and legs though, as Nomad's attacks are magic based. You should try borrow a bandos god sword as it's special can drain Nomad's defense by a lot which makes the whole fight a little easier. Nomad IS weak to stab, but you should use whip anyway as it just has much better stats than the korasi and will hit better even on the greater defense. (Especially after a nice BGS special) Your inventory should be: 2 saradomin brews, 2 super restores, 1 super attack, 1 super strength, spirit kyatt pouch, 100 ambush scrolls, BGS, 19 rocktails Bring a summoned spirit terrorbird with 12 rocktails inside it. Halfway through the fight, take these rocktails out of the bird when you need them and dismiss the bird. Now summon the kyatt and use it's special move over and over. (Recommended to set special move as left click so you can click it often without having to concentrate.) Turn auto retaliate OFF during the fight as it can make you run into mines or behind the pillar and kill you. When nomad lays mines, run through the gap and hide behind a pillar. Nomad will run next to the pillar and stop, not being able to reach you, quickly attack him. (If you wait too long he will restart with full hp!) Now when he teleports back to the middle and mentions dodging something, hide back behind the pillar. His attack will hit the pillar and miss you. This attack does 750 damage before soak, so it's a good thing you dodged it! Go back to fighting him as soon as it hits the pillar. The next stage he will split into 4 parts, they all attack you at different speeds and the one that attacks last of the 4 is the real nomad. Hit him and the other 3 will disappear instantly. After this stage Nomad will teleport you to the centre of the arena and freeze you. Make sure you eat to your max hp for this part as it does your lifepoints -1 damage. (Etc 99hp, the attack will hit 989. Even if you brew or rocktail it's still only 989.) as soon as you see the damage hit you, eat back up to full using rocktail brews and go back to attacking him. From this point he will just cycle his special attacks in the order above, you know what to do. Keep it up and he should be dead in no time. Sorry if that was a bit too much info. A freind of mine asked for a 'guide' from me recently so i already had most of this typed out. Hope you find it helpful.