JoeDaStudd

Your kidding anyone who uses FaN is silly and Sandman is only good for Arena if you have a medic otherwise its terrible. A scout with the default setup will easily kill more people and perform better then a scout with any other setup end of.

You could pray them, whats your budget? PS this should be in help and advice.

I take it you've never boss hunted properly then. I don't know anyone who really boss hunts who doesn't have a tab or section of the bank set up to allow them to quickly get back if they die. I boss hunt a lot and I've not died in action, so to speak, for about 2 months this doesn't mean it never happens. Nor does it mean if I died it was my fault. I almost got KO'd at DK's due to a bad move by the hybrid; he saw rex going near him paniced, so instead of waiting ran too me with prime on him, at the time I was casting so couldn't turn protect mage on fast enough. A bad tank can easily kill a player at zammy gwd or bandos gwd. A bit of lag can kill a player at pretty much any boss.

50 is recommended as it allows you to skip part of the maze, you should be able to do it fine with lower it just takes a bit longer.

Your using black dhide or karils with protect from range on correct? Z spear = SS > SGS > AGS/BGS/ZGS > anything. Don't bother with PC just buy them on the GE. Take a pure super set and about 5 prayer pots (you should be able to get away with protect range and 10% attack and strength without too much hassle), quick tele option and the rest monkfish (other some high healing food). Use barrows gloves if you have them (the bonus's are worth more then the 1hp per minute). You should be able to last about 30 to 40 minutes which this setup.

zaaps thats one big list, but some of the things are questionable. SS and Z spear for crush tasks? AGS for tasks, theres only black dragons (KBD) which I could see it being any better then DDS. Karils is questionably better then black dhide, the difference is so minuet its silly for the cost. Unicorn for slayer looks to me very questionable (5 levels off once I cash in some penguin points and exp lamps). 99% of the tasks its either a bunyip, BoB or combat familiar. The only tasks where unicorn would be better are proberbly cheaper using prayer and a combat familiar anyway. Literally the only 2 I can think of are gargs and wyrens.

Whats your magic level? if its 90+ don't bother with the black dhide use torags and for the legs veracs skirt is cheaper and slightly better (I'm trying to keep your possible loss at minimal). DFS is horrible for solo, rune defender all the way. Run under him when your healing as it stops him using his ranged attack. 2 to 3 does sound bad tbh as I've always managed atleast 1 kill from 80 flat melee stats with 2 being the average, this is with pretty much the same setup only a GS (BGS or SGS) If you have a BGS the spec is awesome, one 30+ and the whole kill is almost guaranteed. I managed a 4 kill trip at 85 flat melee stats all thanks for BGS. Find out what your taking the most damage from (mage or range) and tweak your outfit to suit it.

Only ever seen 2 drops which where both from the DK's. 1 was in lootshare and the other was a split. Half shields are still extremely rare.

Thats pretty extreme exp for breaking even then. I'll have to get void mage helm and give it a go sometime. As always your one of the people which always changes the way I play.

I agree it needs tweaking so that it balances out slightly, but theres really only slight tweaking of the high alch values which could do this (similar to brando13a's suggestion, make them more level aware) . On the PvP side, I'm still for the complete removal of the current rewards (atleast the direct gp for item trade). I tend to be a bit strong headed so I probably pushed my points a bit too much.

[spoiler=SirHemen] Your right you can get KC fast at Bandos, but in most cases you won't manage to get your stuff back. My friend was off guard when he died so what? He was not off guard when it comes planning his equipment, he did that. He died because he was off guard. However when he died he accepted that, but never did he know a Rune platebody would protect over Armadyl. I find that a flaw in the game, and i have NEVER SAID (Everyone keeps suggesting it)that when dieing 1) You should keep your items or majority of them 2) That items kept on death should be based on G.E. However i have said: That certain items that are high valued should receive fax alchemy price so that their true value is considered when dieing. Now please, stop commenting or talking about something i have not suggested. If someone else have suggested a way then quote them so that there is no misunderstanding who the comment/post your writting is to. EDIT: Even i myself when i was using my Fire cape at PvP checked my equipment and arranged it so that i would still keep my Fire cape. Then when i picked up Farseer helm and got pked, i kept Farseer helm and lost Fire cape... Fire cape is a item worth over 1M, because it takes 2 hour and skills to get it. So though there is not a price on the item, majority can agree it should cost over 1M if it did. 2 hours of time>1.5M = Green dragons (Also count that when getting Fire cape you use alot supplies) So void mace is worth about 4 to 5m, void armour from 2m to 5m, fighter torso 6 to 7m. That logic is flawed badly. Highlighted the key words. You wanted people opinions, but if I comment about them your complaining about me. Saying you never said it, did I ever once say you suggested GE pricing? No I merely said it was a possible solution which would work worse then the current system. If you read my post again you'll notice the wording "You can't change the protect items to work on GE or player pricing". This is my opinion on the whole idea of players finding a fix for on death items, hence it being relevant to post in the same post as a quote by you. You should notice I used different paragraphs to separate my post in sections. The first 2 are in direct reply to the the quote and if you read the last 2 you'll realize there a generalization (all items having 3 true values) and conclusion (player input being irrelevant on true item value). I hate it when people instantly jump on posts when they see it as a personal attack. Sometimes its better to stand back and look at the post in relevance to the topic. ^Is not a personal attack I'd just like to clear somethings up which I think you took the wrong way. To restate my previous comment players shouldn't have any impact to this base level of the game. Look at all the things that have gone wrong due to people whining and complaining. You've got fletch x (horrible exp per hour compared to the past), offer x, 55% drain on magic short bow, 65% drain on dark bow, removal of extremes from any PvP activity and so on. The moment you start letting players have influence on this level the game 9/10 changes for the worst.

Just fancied some maths 800 casts is what about 1 hour and a bit so call it 15 casts of charge 15*180=2700 780*35=27300 77300-27300=50000 50000/2=25000 25000/780=32 Which seems a bit extreme to me, but I suppose you could minus about 2k from the exp if you take into account alchs which would drop it to about 31 on average. gorg are you sure you was getting 80k from about 800 casts? 800*35=28000 80000-28000=52000 52000/2=26000 26000/800=32.5 on average if thats pure casts no charges. EDIT your idea on void at rock lobsters is just what I was looking for as I'm saving for 88 summoning and void is about 3m cheaper for me(since I only have the helm to get).

Interesting, just curious did the ram upgrade actually improve performance?

Bandos isn't too bad I've gotten a full KC in 4 minutes flat last time I died. You said it yourself your friend was off guard ie not paying full attention. The death could have been avoided so its not really as clear cut as the game engine is wrong. Like I said all the item in the game only have 3 true values; high alch, low alch and store price. Anything extra is what the player is willing to pay. From a player point of view your friend lost millions, from a game point of view he only lost a few thousand. You can't change the protect items to work on GE or player pricing as setups would vary too greatly and none tradable items like void items would be lost pretty much every time.

Thats amazing I thought I had a high summoning for my level. But 99 at 104 is just insane. 20/10

Hi Kent, I'm not sure if this is a typo or rune wikia have there info wrong, but the max hits are slightly different for spirit dagannoth. They have it as 16 you have it as 14 (14 does seem odd as its less then the lower ranked ones on the combat table).

How can someone all the time know what items to drop? And how can you drop a item in a boss room and get back within 1-2 minute? And how can you know your about to die? Boss hunting is completely different to PvP. When I go boss hunting I always check the on death items before leaving if its a new outfit or new inventory. That way I know should the worst come to the worst I'm ok. If I'm solo'ing I limit myself to a budget of the lost items (normally about a 1/4 of my cash in the bank). Not to even mention the 6 minute grave (excluding corp) and the ability to teleport out without any side effects. PvP has none of this its 1 saved at the most not 4 and no graves. Since 99% of the people in this topic are talking about PvP losses I posted about the amazing ability to drop items. With graves and in non PvP its stupid to drop items.

Take it as you never heard of a obby pure.

Do the people who die with this higher valued items not know how to drop? Ok barrows items are different, but 99% of drops can be dropped if your stuck. ie if your low on food and you get hit a 60 drop the regen bracelet or other item. You can always pick it up within 1 or 2 minute(s) of dropping it.

I personally gained around 50m pure profit from my purple phat. Just bought it before joining the army, sold it some months after getting out and voilá: 50m more than before. Same goes with my current santas and others: I bought them earlier for few reasons. Firstly, I just wanted to have them. Secondly, I didn't exactly need that much money floading around at the time. Why would I for example need X amount of money now if I was concentrating on unbuyables? I'd rather invest my money and help my future skilling (or currently preparations for new skills) by turning my gp into something that will sell for X+N in future, N being a positive number. If you was to spend all but say 10m on rares and wait for the rise, you could be losing a bit amount. For example the recent crash meant you could pick up items for 60% to 80% of there original value and sell them literally 4 days later for full price. Now to do this you needed loose cash to buy the items and turn around a big profit. Personally I brought a SGS on the pre end of summer crash for 58.7m, I've made about 3m from random lending and saved a silly amount in prayer pots and food (I'd guess about 1m). So I made/saved about 4m, cutting the price to a mere 54.7m, gained about 23m, allowed me to get into much better teams and given me a great weapon for solo hunting. Do any of the of the rares available do the same? With 20m and the right brains you can turn it into 22m within the same day. I did this with the DFS when it crashed, brought for lowest early morning and sold for max late night (after the GE updated).

Depends on the master and luck. I've always had good luck with leveling then getting the task for that level almost straight after (excluding GWD monsters). Hellhounds get annoying over time (poor drops and mostly gold charms). Your lucky with 25% fire giants and the 25% with spectors, dust devils and bloodvelds (cannon the mutated ones for amazing exp).

Smoke or lava runes using rings of dueling, lunar and binding necklaces.

I really enjoy mixing bursting with maging DK's. 1 good DK trip will give you about 120 to 200k exp as well as enough gp (last trip I got extremely lucky with 2 zerkers and 1 axe in less then 700 CoG casts, shame the hybrids left so soon really) for a few hours of solid bursting.

For fun I find sara GWD and DK's the best. Corp can be frustrating as hell if he keep switching to you. TD's are (for me at least) are hit and miss as there pretty annoying to lure and it only takes 1 extra to start attacking you can you could easily be dead. Bandos IMO is extremely repetitive even if your tanking and zammy is the same, but tanking is a lot more hassle (yet really lacks some skill). I've tried every boss excluding CE and kree, with sara and DK's being top by a fair bit. The thing is you have to pay attention (in regards to sara and DK's) as well as there always being the chance of something going wrong (not as much as corp or TD's, but enough), which keeps you on your toes.

Just noticed how freaking annoying this is. Theres only 300 raw bird meats per person per about 24 hours in the game now. Its extremely annoying when you have over 1k gold charms and just want to use the cheapest/fastest method.