Arcturus

I've been doing this at Cwar ever since my fletching is in the mid 70s 2 months ago. You're bound to figure out timesaving techniques like these when you've been stringing stringing so many bows. There is however a few things that I'd like to suggest that may improve speed. 1) Dont put the unstrungs and strings at the top; keep them on the most righthand spot (as you already suggested) in rows 5 and 6 of the bank respectively (These 2 rows are the closest to your inventory) 2) As soon as you close the bank, drag the unstrung/bowstring that is in the 14th spot in the inventory (row 4, spot 2) to the bottom right corner of the inventory, and alternate the clicks between spot 27 and 28.

If it were that easy! My tactic? 1)Kill Dharok with prayer. Should have 40-50 prayer left -If he is tunnel mound, do Verac. 2)Kill Karil with superattack pot with slash attack. 0-30 pray left. -If he is tunnel mound, do Verac, and save your food. lol. 3)Do Verac IF you have 24 pray or more. Skip him if not. -If he is tunnel mound do Torag. 4)Do Torag - No pray. Maging dressed in melee. -If he is tunnel mound go to Guthan. 5)Guthan - same thing. -If he is tunnel mound go to Ahrim 6)Ahrim - Range all the way. No pray. -If tunnel mound, skip go in. 7)If no tunnel yet, go to Verac and go in the tunnel. I save Verac for a safespot if I don't have enough prayer after Dharok and Karil. And I don't go toe-to-toe with Verac. He's mad at me for spreading rumors that he's a girl. He whips my wagon. Not everyone who does barrows has 70 prayer and 97 strength, wink, wink, nudge, nudge :wink:

Something to consider. What about the Ardougne Teleport. It maybe closer to an alter. It's across from the store. Also it takes only two types of runes where Lumbridge takes three. Also two banks are close to the alter. Excellent guide though. I'd say even the Camelot altar is probably closer to the tele spot than the Ardy altar is to the Ardy tele spot. Personally I'd choose Cammy teleport over Ardy teleport if I were to take a double rune teleport to barrows.

Max hit is 16 when magic level is under 70; 70~79 max hit is 17, 80~89 is 18 I believe.

Magic dart is used because it hits good, and the runes required can all be restocked by the barrow chest.

No mystic is best while praying since the crypts and tunnels drain prayer anyway. I'd suggest getting rid of the Serum 207 (Permanently cure the shop keeper in Mor'ton instead), and you don't need that many unnoted prayer pots, two would easily suffice for your stats. Also for your stats, you don't "need" to use sharks to barrow, since thats overkill; lobbies or cakes would be easily enough. Since you'll be using general store to unnote your pots and food, bring more money since 2k wont be enough. P.S. Switch out the wealth ring for duel ring or life ring :wink:

No helm or shield? Probably go with farseers or ahrim hood, and zammy book for a shield. With your stats, that much karambwan, and 3 4 dose prayer pots, I'd say at least 3 trips easily. You'll need to bring a lot more than 30 casts of magic dart though :wink: .

Lol? What kind of government would try to shut down an international enterprise like Jagex anyway. It wouldn't be possible, Jagex can just relocate the servers :wink:

Phat set or two (Or lots of santas) for investment, full drag for general training, full guthans, ful dharoks, maybe full veracs and full ahrim no staff. Spend the rest on cballs, mage exp, prayer exp, and generally go for high total level. :wink:

Iban blast for barrowing is a very bad idea :wink: With a fully charged Iban, you wouldn't really be able to run for more than 2 trips before having to go recharge, which frankly is a waste of time.

I wouldn't think that cannoning the brothers are a good idea.

I like the idea of being a specialist mage which has improved magic stats but weaker melee and range stats. I think specialist classes would help break up the monotony of the game a bit, because most people these days level melee, magic and range, effectively make most high levels the same statwise.

Oh yes. Let's forget that you'd need a horse to drag the thing around and the fact that a human would take at least twelve seconds to reload the bloody thing, and he'd need the help of a huge winch to do it. And that the bolts weigh at least a pound each. And that's only for the smallest types of ballista. Lances... meh. Same thing as a spear, only you use them from horseback. Unless we're talking about jousting lances, in which case you HAVE to use them from horseback, and they're designed to shatter on impact. Look, everything is possible in Runescape. A small dagger takes as much one space as a large Full Plate. Make Ballista like Cannon-like then, if that suits you. Oh yes. Let's forget that you'd need a horse to drag the thing around and the fact that a human would take at least twelve seconds to reload the bloody thing, and he'd need the help of a huge winch to do it. And that the bolts weigh at least a pound each. And that's only for the smallest types of ballista. Lances... meh. Same thing as a spear, only you use them from horseback. Unless we're talking about jousting lances, in which case you HAVE to use them from horseback, and they're designed to shatter on impact. A lance as in they type of pikes used by the Macedonian phalanx; those don't need to be be used on horseback. A lance/pike like that would be an interesting alternative to halberd. We already have a Cannon, do we really need a Ballista thats almost the same as a Cannon? It would be quite redundant.

A proper ballista is a siege weapon lol...I'd like to see you try and hold one of those with one hand. :wink: Lances could be interesting...As well as better claws as to introduce a martial arts aspect to the game.

Could be useful as a cheaper alternative to barrow and dragon. However, I don't get what you mean by "at lvl 65-70 or something". Are you saying the new armours should have 65-70 slayer as a requirement? If so, it wouldn't be as practical it seem as most people with that kind of slayer level should be abe afford to use barrows.

Go read a dictionary and learn the meaning of the word "rare" before you start complaining. I'd have to agree with most of the other posters here that rare drops are meant to be rare. And anyway, if they made drops fixed, then it would mess up the ring of wealth as the ring's purpose would become obsolete.

I agree. If they made fletching for free to play, then it would encourage f2pers to try ask for more member skills to be made for free to play. Bad idea

Congratulations! Amazing speed at which you recovered the guthans and d chain lol. Hope to see you at barrows sometime. :wink:

You're just very very very unlucky. For most people, after about 50~100 runs would have probably gotten at least 1 barrow drop. The tunnel goes from canifis bars to the hollows in morytania swamp. You then take the boat down to Mor'ton, and take a short walk from there to the barrows. This way you save time and energy because the other route would be to go through the swamps and risk the ghasts rotting your food.

i might get over rulled on this but with no blocking id say you need around 90+ combat and magic needs to be higher too, and if your range is only 9 you might as well skip the mage cuz youd get owned unless you used mass prey pots just my 2 cents LK1 It is perfectly doable when combat is in the low 80s, although it'll just be more dangerous. As long as you have enough health to take a few hits (especially enough to survive Dharok's 58), you'll be fine providing you can kill them fast enough, in which case 60 magic/60 range would be recommended.

I just offered on the bank sale too. Good to see you burning the amount of required cash up :wink:

Obsidian shield is used alongside the full drag + whip, and guthan warspear is for leeching only. Sorry for your loss, but hey, Barrows for life?

From a run of about 11 trips I got Guthan Warspear and Torag Hammers. The barrow items were looted one trip apart so I guess it was pretty lucky. Used about 4 doses of prayer pot and about 12 swordies on average per trip, being only combat 80 with 62 magic and firebolting with chaos gauntlet (LOL).

I definately agree with this. I'm only 15 myself and it really does surprise me to find how immature most runescape players are. IMHO the kids in any online game that think and call older players, especially those over twenty, 'people with no life, etc', has issues. If they just think about it, in a few years time, they too would reach the age of those whom they once saw as "no-lifers", and a majority of these kids would be subjected to the same kind of abuse and stereotyping that they once inflicted on players older than themselves. This is why I personally think that the people of this age should really have more respect towards others and treat others the way they wish to be treated themselves.