Lighs

Torag's helm requires 70 defense, Dragon helm requires 60 defense. Why would a dragon helm be strictly better than an item with a higher defense requirement? You might say that the fact that the dragon full will be super rare allows it to have better stats, but barrows has better stats than 3rd Age despite begin a lot less rare. Regarding the clarifying which items you want to keep... I agree that it'll simply tell you what you would keep, and not actually let you choose. However, I don't think that letting you choose would be unfair, for pking or for anything else. You're supposed to keep your 3 best items when you die. Jagex determines that by shop price, which doesn't always give some items the priority that they should have as set by player market prices or by difficulty to obtain. I would rather lose my yellow robe top from Canafis clothing store than my Penance Gloves, but if I've got three items that are virtually worthless like robes and a hat, then I'll end up loosing my gloves that take at least two hours to obtain. When Jagex first made this system, they did not anticipate so many items that would have no shop value but would be incredibly valuable to players. Letting players choose what items they keep would fix this problem. As for pking... how would this negatively affect pking at all? Most items that people pk with already have high shop prices (barrows sets, whips, etc.), so people would still keep the valuable items. In fact, somebody pking with a fighter torso would now be able to choose to keep it over an item worth only 400k or so. This way, the winner of the fight would get more valuable loot and the looser would keep an item that would be tremendously irritating to obtain. It's a win-win situation.

You're not required to train using something that you actually fished. You can fish a few thousand monkfish, sell them on forums, use the money to buy sharks, and end up with a lot more sharks (and a lot more exp) than you would have had had you actually fished for sharks. I guess that if you need some good food for a quest battle and don't have any sharks in the bank, it's nice to be able to just fish however many you need without bothering to buy them. However, that doesn't explain the fact that people sell thousands of sharks, raw and cooked, on forums and in banks.

Monkfish are better exp than anything that you can fish at the guild and more profitable. Fly fishing at Shiloh is the fastest fishing exp in the game. Given those facts, why does anybody still fish at the fishing guild? It seems to be fairly full at every world, and not just with autoers and skill pures- I see level 80+'s there who could easily do Swan Song or Shiloh Village. Do people prefer the conversation at the fishing guild, or is there some other benefit that I'm missing? A related issue: Why does anybody fish for sharks? They're not profitable because of the slow catching speed and they are abysmal exp as well. I think that by the time that you can fish sharks, even lobsters are more profitable, and monkfish completely blow them out of the water (pun intended). Can somebody who actually catches sharks shed some light on this?

I think that you have to take into account the fact that each ticket takes one minute to get (if you never miss a pillar and rarely log out). Tickets are untradeable, so the time that it takes to get the tickets really should go into the calculation, Yes, the big exp comes all in one go after getting the tickets, but practically you will be spending so much time getting the tickets that the exp per hour is not particularly spectacular.

It doesn't necessarily have to be a skill, but I think that the release of the Dragonfire Shield earlier than was necessary indicates that we're getting something else this week, something that's good enough for Jagex to want it to be a surprise.

I noticed that every update in the behind the scenes was already released, in addition to the Dragonfire Shield, which wasn't even mentioned. However, we still have a week in this month to go! If Jagex wanted to release a surprise update at the end of the month, one would think that the Dragonfire Shield would work, to have a substantial update come out every week. They didn't do that, however- they released it along with the "Bits and Pieces" update, which would have been a perfectly fine weekly update on its own. Why would they do that? There's only one reason that comes to mind. Sometime this week we will get a new update that wasn't mentioned in the Behind the Scenes and outstrips the Dragonfire Shield so much that Jagex felt that the Dragonfire Shield should be released along with a smaller update, rather than going unnoticed among the giant update. What could that update be? Well, it's already been more than six months since the most recent skill, which is Jagex's regular schedule for new skills. Does anybody else think that we may be getting a new skill this week, or something of equal magnitude?

Which one is better? Emerald bolts hit harder and do a lot of poison damage (especially considering how long it takes to kill a metal dragon, even with such a good weapon), but pearl bolts have a special that does a lot of damage. There's really no reason to use both, is there? I guess that you could switch to pearl after poisoning...

At 72 range, with a rune crossbow, unpotted and not praying, I can hit 17 with mithril bolts.

Nature imps no longer spawn regularly at specific spawn points. They're random now (unfortunately for the people who used to camp at their spawn points).

I wonder whether regular magic short bows have been obsoleted by this update. If crossbows are this good, why bother with shortbows?

My mining is 62, but I haven't trained it in a year or so. I used to love mining coal in f2p in the wilderness coal mine- I liked the excitement of watching out for pkers and it used to be decent money. Mining iron is better money and exp, of course, but I didn't know that at the time. Now that I'm a member, I've decided that mining is just too boring a skill to train, and you don't really get rewarded for it until a ridiculously high level (just thinking about the amount of mindless clicking to get 85 makes me sick).

I have heard that he starts in Burthorpe, where his "owner" lives.

I have almost never seen coconuts go for over 2k each on forums, whether buying or selling. In addition, I've found there to be plenty of sellers available at a given time to meet the demand. They're actually rather difficult to sell- I usually sell once I have accumulated 500 or so, and even then that takes a few days (checking forums once or twice a day) before I find a buyer. In fact, some people try to buy for as low as 1,500 each, although I've never sold for below 2k myself.

My costume room, my own personal altar, and the shortcut to my Brimhaven palm tree are the house functions that I use the most. The glory is handy after using the costume room, though not essential. I also have a portal to Yanille and Canafis, which I use occasionally (the Canafis portal especially).

Well, I just did and... wow. It seems to work quite well. :)

How do you know the Portal weaknesses? Is there any way to be really certain (short of asking Jagex)? If each Portal had a weakness, I don't know why they wouldn't put it into the Knowledge Base, so I'm inclined to think that the whole idea of portal weaknesses is merely a rumor. I could be wrong, but there is no proof.

The knowledge base article makes no mention of a nature rune requirement. Maybe the spell's been changed (or maybe there's an error in the Knowledge Base)? The knowledge base says that the spell costs 2 astrals and 15 earths in addition to cash. If that's actually the case, you do save money using the spell instead of the sawmill.

Any log (that can normally be planked) works.

I'm level 91 and I brought my almost-best equipment (used glory instead of Fury because the risk wasn't worth it, mith instead of rune boots, and legends instead of obsidian cape, but otherwise barrows and whip). I didn't die, but I got down to below 30 hp occasionally even though I was drinking my Saradomin Brews whenever I got heavily hit. Even with my (boosted) 88 defense, I got hit a lot. The first boss is not easy by any means. The others are no problem, but the first is probably one of the hardest boss fights that I've ever done. I needed 7 four-dose Saradomin brews to kill the first boss. I only used two on the rest.

I have a full set. I got it within two days of the release.

Do Rings of Life and/or one-click teles work in the final fight?

After you get Penance Torso and Gloves, is there any real reason to play BA for the rewards? The gambles are so worthless that if you're spending your points on them you're more or less playing for fun. Though I've heard that some people like the Fighter Hat...

I'm guessing a rune rock or two will be there.

That takes time- it's not awful, but I'd easily be willing to spend a sapphire to skip it. I've also always thought that you have to wait between wetting clay and doing another action- it's a process that takes a second or two. Maybe that's only the case for wetting clay and filling a bucket from a sink (that's how I used to wet clay in the crafting guild).

You can get as much as 666 Pure Essence (the last time that I played, anyway) with the strongest guy on the hardest route. The rewards are really quite worthwhile, especially considering the fact that you get exp doing it (unlike Barbarian Assault).