Powerfrog

[opinion] Well if you want to combat for cash, you could very well just skip melee entirely. CCB and rigour are best for nex and arma, so just get those, get 99 range, get 99 defense using a whip and you're ready for the biggest earners in the game. But i personally did (And would do again) Rapier > Maul > CCB > Rigour > CLS > CKS > EES > Staff > Farseer > Aurgury Currently only half way towards the CCB, but my mind is set on this path, unless a new update effects it. Getting shields late because i plan on having an ely sometime after rigour, which will be upgraded to a divine eventually (And possibly use a deflector on nex). And both of those beat the dungeoneering shields for pretty much anything. CLS is good for bandos solo and that's pretty much it. (Rapier isn't far behind it anyway) [/opinion]

Not to mention you'd get much longer trips in melee as you tank much more damage.

Claws are suprisingly accurate there. I'd probably take claws over a korasi, especially if using a 2 handed weapon, which you will be. (Cmaul > SS > ZS > Anchor) Constantly protect from range and have turmoil activated. If you take any damage, flick SS until healed. You should easily be able to heal more than you take. If you want a long trip, bring a summonged tort full of prayer potions and a spare pouch as it will need to be renewed. But long trips aren't important as banking takes a few seconds, it's literally right on top of the fairy ring.

Just wear your offensive melee gear, except ironically, swap the firecape for a SW cape. You didn't mention your chaotics, but rapier is best. Kill priority should be all things that can damage you (rangers, 22s, 45s) then whatever you're praying against, and finally whatever you have trapped. It's a great idea to trap 180s behind the 360s as it takes very little effort, although you could probably just tank them and SS heal any damage lost. Oh. SS heal like crazy. Whenever theres not a mage on you, you should have SS on. Flick Pmelee/SS the melee guys if you find yourself taking damage. Inventory should be 2 ovls, 10 brews, veng runes, claws, 12 super restores. Remember you can sip an ovl at the bank before running in, for a free 4:50 of boosted stats at the start (As well as a free 500hp healed later that you probably won't need :P) Rapier jad while just protecting from melee, unless you're very confident of your multitasking, and reveng when needed, claw just as the healers show up. He should go down in no time at all. (If he combos you with none melee attacks, prioritise healing before dealing damage.) You shouldn't need half of those brews, but they're good to have incase you mess up kiting or mess up on jad.

That's because Graardor attacks with range and melee. Protecting from mage would protect you from 1 minion. :P And with maxed stats and equipment, tanking melee and praying magic is much more efficient than the reverse on K'ril, or at least that's what the guides i've read seem to suggest.

I just made 20m at revs in 2 hours. Yes, i probably got above average luck, but that wasn't 1 big lucky item, it was 8 seperate items (vesta body, morrigans body, c vesta legs, c drag chain, c drag long, army stat, zam med, bronzed claw) and 2 dragon daggers. My expense was about 30 prayer potions, a few super doses and about 8% of a chaotic maul charge. So i think your chance of hitting the pvp equipment table is pretty common and could potentially be amazing money.

Just a few simple questions. You can boost your summoning by 10 levels in the battlefield of a clan citadel somehow, i dunno the mechanics, but you can. Can i summon and use a packyak at level 86 with this? If so, can i leave the area with the pack yak summoned and use it elsewhere?

They're definatley at the bottom of the list of buyables you must upgrade. Do you have a fury, bandos, vine whip(Assuming you dont have chaotic) berserker ring (i), overloads, turmoil, pack yak? (Use the cash to barrage/burst rock lobs) But if you have all the above, and any range/mage gear that you use for whatever else, sure, go for it. It's not going to make much difference at all, but it's nice to be maxed, and if you have nothing else to buy, why the hell not?

You've convinced me to try a Zammy trip :P What chaotic is best there? I've heard he has low defense so i assume rapier..? And what type of gear? High mage defense with melee pray or melee defense with mage pray?

Is that fairly new? Because i remember it not doing that less than a year ago.

Good plan. But i don't understand why you chose kril, whats wrong with Graardor? (He's 26 combat levels lower, but he's still more than 1/40) I've been personally doing this with 2 lower level friends just for fun and profit, i didn't think about the effigies i'd be getting. I don't GWD the other bosses often at all, is kril considerabley faster to kill than Graardor or something? (The reason i choose graardor over kril if it's not obvious, is because it's much more profitable)

Whats wrong with tassets? Or are you just saying that fury + verac's skirt would be better and cheaper on a budget? #1 Tassets and glory = 17m - 18m #2 Verac/Torag legs and fury = 7m - 8m Get better bonuses and save 10m, yes please. Thats exactly what i was asking. I find it funny how so many people get bandos but think 3.5m for a berserker ring or 7m for a fury is a huge waste of money, even the ones with lower than 75 slayer.

Whats wrong with tassets? Or are you just saying that fury + verac's skirt would be better and cheaper on a budget?

The only way to make money when dicing is be host with advantageous odds, and only take bets less than 5% of your current bank at any time. Even then, it's not fool proof. But to get into that position you're going to have to invest billions or become a runescape celebrity. I think it's safe to say the guy above me doesn't have a fool proof method for successfully making money against the odds over long periods of time, because the other 7 billion people on earth havn't managed it yet, and i doubt he'd be using it for runescape if he had.

I like it. But without a significant negative side effect, it's overpowered and makes none flaming weapons pointless. How about using a flame sword actually damages you every 10 seconds, similar to a poison but at a constant rate, unless you wear ice gloves. So you either sacrifice a lot of strength from your barrows gloves, or you take a lot of damage while using the more powerful weapon.

F2P already has a +3 mage potion by the way... It's called wizard's mind bomb. And i agree with this. I constantly confuse extreme attacks and special restore pots together as their looks are almost identical and they're both in my 'lets go own some bosses' tab. I also agree F2P could do with attack/defense/mild range potions. And possibly a 'mild magic potion' as not everyone knows about the mind bomb, and it would be odd having a set of pots with one of them being a drink.

In time, the staff will be worth more. It's the exact same concept as tokkul and obby weapons vs onyx. The weapons/runes are easier to get in small portions for instant money, but saving up for the grand prize is more profit as fewer people do it. That is of course assuming everyone doesn't have the exact same idea, and the staves don't come into the game too fast while no new players need for one. Or the rune supply is so short that the people with staves are willing to pay crazy prices. It's going to take months before the REAL prices show themselves and everything settles down to a balanced stable amount. So go for whatevers best at the moment.

Retreating wouldn't change anything. Just follow them manually, attacking whenever you're not moving, and stay out of their range. Might be a bit more concentration than prefered for general training, but if it was for things like jad, definatley worth doing.

Hate to break it to you, but the popular bots do all randoms 100% of the time. Hardly suprising given the ease of them and the fact they are very very rarely updated. Lets face it, jagex are pro botting as long as they're being paid membership fees. Plus 5%, even at level 98, is only a few hours at most. Easily botted back.

Most (read: essentially all) players constantly buy and their sell their equipment to achieve goals that will either help get that gear back faster, or just give greater satisfaction than having it. As an example. A few weeks ago I had full bandos, claws, fury, dfs that I would use at bandos. I sold that to afford extremes and turmoil, I now do bandos in karils/veracs/glory/ddefender much better than I did before, and my account has improved greatly because of it. If you already have maxed skills and nothing to train, of course you're not going to sell stuff as their simply isn't a need, but not everyone comes off tutorial island with 2400+ total level.

So. Anyone ever tried this, then? A friend of mine tried it recently with ice barrage, thinking he could run in and out of jads range... And it worked, sorta, he still got hit the second he entered the range. Which is what made me look up the highest range, sighted longbow, and could not find any yay or nay towards if it was capable of ranging anything from a large distance. I think i'll blow the tokens tonight and try myself.

The smart thing to do would be swap around the stats of dragon and bandos, possibly giving all the slayer boots including dragon a significant defense boost and taking away the strength boost. It's just silly that bandos, a low defense, high offense armour has defensive boots, while dragon, high defense no offense, has offensive boots. It's all or nothing i'm afraid, if they were to be given 2 strength while dragon remains 4, no one would use them and their price would not change much at all, due to rune and rock climbing boots giving the same strength, and dragon and the new ones being superiour. This change would make +4 strength boots more of a rarity, as bandos boots are uncommon, increasing the price of both bandos and the new ones. Of course jagex will never do this. They resent admitting they made a mistake so much they'd let their game fall to pieces before doing so. But it's nice to dream.

For a pker, 60 attack is the best for being as awesome as possible for your combat level. 80 attack is if you ever PVM or do safe activities like clan wars, but really you should leave to your main. dds > korasi at low defense.

The sighted longbow has a range of 13 squares, this is the longest range of any weapon in runescape. (Any mage spell has 10, as does a longrange darkbow) Now. When you attack something thats outside of their attack range, they will attempt to walk close to you. But if you have them trapped behind a wall, they will not be able to reach you and will be stuck indefinatley until you either move in a way they can follow, or you kill them. (You can also run away from them and occasionally turn around to fire a shot, always out of range) I'm just curious if there are any enemies you can abuse with this information. Does anyone know Jad's attack range? I know it's pretty large, but does it exceed the sighted longbow's?

You don't need anything if you safespot them as they do not have a ranged attack. I wouldn't advise ranging them though. If killing for effigies/profit, just rapier them much faster. If killing for range xp, just chin it so much faster.