[Hunter training (BXW)]

Hello fellow members.

 

I have a quetsion about a skill that really disgusts me - hunter.

 

I am planning to get all skills 90+ , but the one that really distresses me is hunter. Now I have heard it gets a lot easier past 80, but I am having difficulties motivating myself to even get it that high atm.

 

So my question would be - what would the experienced hunter suggest for me to hunt for during BXW? I was considering red sallies - but these guys are very high apm with very slow results in my mind + it's hard enough getting a free spot on a regular weekend - so I am afraid it will be damn near impossible during BXW. But i don't really know of other possibilities - any suggestions?

 

ALso, for BXW I am planning on doing PP for thieving - I hope the 2x multiplier works there as well - or do any of you reccomend a better option?

 

All other skills I'll do whenever, mining is easy with gold and other skills are buyables, so idm when i train them. BXW is aimed at high grinidng skills exclusevly.

EDIT: Agility I don't train - exclusevly bonus xp since lvl 77! Will use effies on that one, so not going to do that on bxw either.

 

Thanks for your help!

[Hallowe'en Treat: Scary Bonus XP Weekend!]

Collecting crims at CT wfs, every hour of using charms is at least 20 hours of collecting them. For normal skills BXP might save people tens of hours, but for summoning, that's hundreds, possibly even over a thousand hours of charm collecting saved (48 hours using charms, when each hour of using charms is worth about 25 hours collecting).

 

It's one of the most game breaking decisions they've made since RWTscape, and is quite scary when you consider how little Jagex actually know about their game for them to have made this kind of decision. Or, how little they care.

 

I didn't even concider that. That is amazing, having just been collecting crimsons and blues from bosses, I have unintentionally banked summ 98+500k from 99. That's gonna be nice, seems like I will parttake in BXW anyway. Sweet

[Hallowe'en Treat: Scary Bonus XP Weekend!]

Perhaps what you tried to say was "If you don't like it, it'd be more productive finding something else you do like."

- Yea you could put it that way

 

@Barney, sure we are blessed but that doesn't mean we should allow things we consider wrong to just go by unnoticed. Otherwise we can extend that false logic to anything.

- In my opinion it's not false logic, in a way you can extend it to anything yes. What I meant was more like - Be thankful for what you got, if you are displeased with how things are take action. If somebody gets so worked up about a game which is supposed to be fun, maybe that's not the right game?

 

 

Clever wordplay, but they didn't lie. And even if they did, is it really that bad that they lied about THIS? There are much worse things that could have happened, don't flip a shit over the small things.

 

If you keep playing thinking what if some better/faster update happens in 6 months, you aren't actually playing. This isn't investment banking, this is a game.

 

And it's your fault for using those charms. Maybe you should have saved them for 30x weekend 10 years from now.

 

You aren't mad that Jagex lied; you are mad because you sold your supplies or used them before the weekend showed up.

^^^THAT in a nutshell was what I wanted to say, but I got carried away venting... 8-)

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As a semi active member of the communit and RS player for more than 10 years all of the whining is what bothers me most about the community and it keeps getting worse and worse every year.

 

What really disgusts me is that people get so worked up about something so meaningless as a 2 day BXW. Don't get me wrong, this is not the problem of RS community exclusevly, this is a problem in the society as a whole. We are living such a good life, that we make up pseudo problems and whine on them endlessly and it accomplishes [bleep]-all.

 

The following text is not aimed at anyone specifically, so don't feel offended

 

 

IF you get so worked up for a 48h period of time, which in the grand scheme of things is a lot less meaningful then taking a piss. What are you gonna do when an actual problem comes your way? - Loss of a loved one, war, hunger, poverty? I weep for you, I really do, because some of these are problems you will face and I feel sorry for you, because you do not know how to handle them. We are all so self-important, everyone thinks they are meaningful and they matter. - No you don't mean [bleep] all.

 

Just the fact that you get to have internet connection and be able to play the game is a HUGE PRIVILEGE, more than 60% of the world's population has no possibility to get online!!!(http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm) I'm not even getting into Africa or the Far East where you could die any day by war, hunger, dehydration or a number of other things.

 

If you are a member in the RS Community then being alive in this era with the possibilities you have is a huge privilege, so be grateful for that.

 

If you still think the 48h BXW is a big problem, regardless what jagex promised or did not promise..........then [bleep] you and your petty little problems!!!

 

 

 

[Help with some skilling.]

Falconry is definetly the way to go. Personally I did swamp lizards to lvl 43.

Thieving - not sure.

Mining - you can also go into dwarwen mines, mine iron next to the resource dg, bank in resource dg, rinse-repeat. That's what I did to lvl 70. It is easy and it is not terribly worse xp than dropping. I prefered it, cause i cbf to drop that many ores.

[99 Slayer.]

Just so you have different opinions, in general I agree with what has been said, with some exceptions

 

Tasks I almost always did:

Dark Beasts - after the temple quest, you can cannon them, while meleeing, easily a 40-50k/h task, while being relatively AFK

Ice Strykes - cannon with fire surge - similar xp to dark beasts

Vyrewatch - with 500 corpses burnt it is a quick, almost 100% AFK task, all you gotta do is keep potting that ovl

 

Tasks I sometimes did when I needed points or a change of scenery:

Fire giants - CT with highest fighting fam

Gargoyles - Kuradal's dungeon - semi AFK

Blue dragons - Kuradals dungeon, no banking

Nechryals - CT with highest fighting fam

 

Even at 95 slayer All ganodermic tasks should be on permablock imo.

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Then I'm planning to move my fridge and my microwave to my computer desk so I don't have to move in 48 hours. Is it too much to move the desk to the bathroom?

 

I hate you jagex. Why do you always ruin things? How I wish I had free will.

 

Anyone else planning something similar?

Personally, I just get a 15litre bucket, in which is do my number 1's and 2's - while sitting conveniently behind my computer, next to the fridge. In the end of the 48 hours I'll just empty the bucket in my yard. My wife doesn't much approve for the aroma, but [bleep] her, it's only 48 hours, as opposed to when we had longer BXW-s.

 

There are better substitutes that replicate the effect in addition to correcting the deficiencies. Basically, it's a step back.

I agree, there are better ways, but that doesn't mean that everyone needs to [bleep] and moan... Life doesn't give a [bleep] about me and my problems, why should jagex be any different.

So my message to the RS community as a whole is:Suck it up and move on, nobody gives a [bleep] about you.

 

-You might not think video game addiction is a real thing, that's fine, I know it is not a recognized disorder.

Video game addicition is a real thing, and it is very dangerous, but I don't think BXW contributes to fueling that addiction. As with most addicitions, the problem isn't the activity itself, it is that it is used as subtitute to fill a void or get instant gratification. So addicts are gonna play as much as they can, regardless of BXW.

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I have never seen so many complaining little [beep]s as I see in the BXW related posts (especially on RSOF, but some people here as well) if this bothers anyone so much, their priorities are really messed up.

 

Personally, I don't care that much, the only thing is that some of my usual spots might be more occupied. Hopefully there will be room in red sallies, gotta get that disgusting skill up, but then there's always the option to smelt gold or do PP. Yay for double xp - if I am online. Don't plan to play any more than I regularly play though - this game is not that important to me.

[The game seems to have developed a seriousness...]

I think the game has been pretty much the same since when I started in ealry 2001, but the main thing is, that you have so many other ways to communicated other than bankstanding and chatting. I prefer to keep my private chat on friends and publick chat off, while talking a lot in PM and FC/CC.

 

Also, what ahs changed that computers have improved a lot, which mean you can easily multitask. So while I'm bankstanding fletching or crafting, I am also watching shows. Which means all of my chats are off and I am just grinding away. In my mind that is perfectly normal, because if you still find novelty whcih takes up a lot of your time in the game after even 2 years of play - you really haven't done a lot in the game.

 

RS has always been grind based and the people who stay here are grind orientated.

[glacors vs qbd]

As long as you're not 99 in mage and summoning I definetly reccomend Glacors. They are great charms and some cash on the side. Once you get these up you might consider moving on to Kiln, QBD, Nex or other high lvl PVM.

[best rc method]

It depends how do you wish to train RC.

If you are looking to AFK while watching shows or whatever then just stay in one place siphoning your highest nodes and creatures.

If you wish to train actively then after the XP tweak chasing the yellow wizard is definetly the way to go. I believe there is a few FC-s for that as well as a dedicated world, not sure what they are though.