Sly_Wizard

The fact that so many people are disappointed in the d-defender's stats makes me happy inside.

I'm so glad I didn't renew my membership, 'cuz I would have been majorly disappointed.

Well, this would have been way back in 2003 sooo... I stood near the bank at South Fally trying to buy some desert boots and enchanted battlestaves. Then I did some thieving.

Every time I click on this thread, I can do naught but shake my head.

And the reason I dislike the current PK'ing system is: That guy got nowhere near 1.236B in items from those kills. He got, maybe, 5% of that. " Dragon claws loot + 1.236 billions downed " means the items that all the people in the video were wearing will (or should) add up to ~1.236b aka he took 1.2b in items out of the economy. I know what it means. Three years ago, all of those items (Well, the ones that existed) would have gone into his bank. Now, most of those items are destroyed. That was the point I was making. Personally, I'd much rather have 1.2B in items in my bank instead of have 1.2B in items be taken out of the economy.

And the reason I dislike the current PK'ing system is: That guy got nowhere near 1.236B in items from those kills. He got, maybe, 5% of that.

You could be a n00b tuber.

I killed black dragons from 89 - 99 range way back in 2004. Take that efficiency.

I thought you could only use god arrows with a god bow?

The damage output between melee, range and mage, and the biased defense statistics of most "boss" monsters, who are either incredibly strong against magic or are incredibly weak against melee with range being somewhere in the middle. That's not cool.

I started playing in 2001. That makes me old school by default.

I don't get it. Bots can't go over the Wildy wall? Or they simply haven't been programmed to do so yet?

I tip my (party)hat to anyone wearing a 99 farming or runecraft cape. And I happen to like my slayer cape.

They should hold an International "talk-like-a-mime" day.

I like how I'm only getting 6 FPS :P

I'm pretty sure the best pray xp would be brawling gloves + ecto + frost dragon bones, but I doubt anyone would risk doing that on PVP (Plus it's so slow).

This has to be the Runescape equivalent of spotting the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot. Too bad it only dropped one salve eel.

Aside from the getting for the Fally elite diary, it was kinda' pointless.

So does this mean you can kill ice strykes without needing to be on task now? Or is it just a one-time thing?

Guess it's time to skill for Seer's diary :( Edit: Nvm. I can do the Seer's diary (Boosts work, right?).

Or, you can just GGS through said room. Or, pray and run through them. I can't say I've ever had any problem doing a dungeon without a hood, and I doubt I'd have one in the near future. The difference between a sag short and a gravekeeper short is about +8 range, which works out roughly to it being about 14 - 15% more accurate. That's not a small pittance by any means. Number one, I would only hope you'd bind a celestical catalytic staff if you were planning on maging often (seeing as how it takes 99 mage to wield). Number two, it's worth binding as soon as you get it if you're going to mage, as a celestial catalytic staff is +30% damage. The only other staff which comes close to it is a doomcore staff at +25% damage, but I've never even seen one, and I've killed hundreds of nechs (In other words, it's uber rare). After that, the next best staff would be the empowered catalytic staff, but that only grants a +20% damage increase, and to obtain one without getting it as a drop from the Unholy Cursebearer you need 90 woodcutting, 98 fletching and and 99 runecraft. After that, the next best staff is a catalytic staff with a +15% damage increase, which you can make out of tier 5 logs or better and if you have 50 runecraft. No matter what way you slice it, giving up +30% damage for +15% damage, or forgoing that bonus all together, solely so you can possibly use less food doesn't make much sense-- especially when you consider the fact that there are ways to go about skipping rooms you'd otherwise get piled in (like ggs'ing through them) or just running through them with pray (usually range). That alone takes care of the 'need' for a hood. On the flip side, a hood doesn't substitute for offense when you need it, and wasting a bind on a hood makes you less effective against a wider range of monsters than you otherwise would have been. I, personally, would much rather be able to kill a wider ranger of monsters more effectively than I would be able to run through a few rooms safely (which, as I said, can be done without the use of a hood).

And range is more effective. Because it's easier to use. That only makes melee better against the things you are supposed to be melee'ing. This is fairly poor logic. Most people don't mage because mage takes a bit longer to get started up than it does melee. Whereas you just bind a melee weapon and are good to go, you have to make make runes to mage with. For most people, that's unappealing, so they take the road quite frequently traveled. Only if you try to mage high level necromancers, books and mages. But that's when you switch to range. Damage wise, berserker can't compete with blazer, because berserker increases your strength level which indirectly leads to higher hits, while blazer is an extra 50% damage on whatever you hit whenever it activates. All it takes is one magic based NPC. In the same vein that no melee weapon deserves a bind as you can just buy a novite hatchet from the smuggler and use that. Remember, I said low defense, not no range defense. Popular doesn't make it best. A hood is situational, and gets you hit less so long as there aren't any mage-based monsters around. It doesn't make you more effective versus monsters, though, which is what I deem important. A sag short + sniper and a celestial catalytic + blazer will go a lot further than a hood and any melee weapon will, as a hood + a melee weapon makes you one dimensional.

At which point I'd rather range (if only I could get a hexhunter bow...). My subtle point was that I'd rather bind a second weapon over a hood which, in this case, happens to be a celestial catalytic staff. Of which, mind you, will allow you to out-damage melee on pretty much everything outside of bats, hill giants, hellhounds and higher leveled mages and rangers. And if you add in blazer, it's even better. That doesn't mean that said rooms will be devoid of magic based NPC's. Indeed. The only things you really need to range (mages, books, ghosts, necromancers, etc.) have such low range defense that you'll hit just as often with a short as you would a long. Only, with a short, you get more hits in over a set period of time than you do a long on account of it being a bajillion times faster.

The same can be said for platebodies. No wait, any piece of armor tbh. Hood gives you immunity to most humanoids. I think that's more useful than a piece of armor that doesn't really help at all :thumbup: Hoods give a massive 0 attack. To that, I say no thank you. I'd rather keep my Sag short/Celestial catalytic bound. Much more useful. Edit: And hoods are pretty much useless on occult floors, as nearly every room has either a book, a mage, a necromancer, a ghost or a shade, and I'd be willing to bet they'd be even more useless on warped floors when they come out.

A hood is a waste of a bind. Yes, I said it.