DarkDude

Rune Javelins (5) are on the rare drop list. I believe rune spear is too, I know for a fact rune javelins is however. There might be a few other drops too, maybe even things like 100 silver ore, 45 law runes etc. Also yes, I believe Goblins do not have those rare drops which would just be a typo.

Yes, Ring of Wealth only comes into effect when the monster dies as that is when the drops are generated, unlike other games (WoW for example) when the drops are assigned to the monster when it spawns. Also, Dragon Med is NOT in the rare drop wheel, very few monsters actually drop it unlike spear/half shield. It is in monster's normal drop tables. This means (unless it has been changed) the drop rate of Dragon Med off Fire Giants is still 1/16k as stated by a Jagex mod back in RSC. I believe that's the only drop rate we know for sure. I also believe there are empty drops on the normal tables too, not just the rare tables, at least for some NPCs. One interesting NPC this brings up - Goraks, they drop nothing but "rare drops" (well, they drop claws too). That's one of the only monsters where wearing a ring of wealth would have a huge huge effect as pretty much every roll is guaranteed to be on the rare drop wheel. I'm sure if you camped at Goraks for a day or so, you'd more likely than not get a dragon drop if you're using a ring of wealth especially.

No, only charms are on a secondary wheel. Simply having two drops at once does not necessitate a secondary independent wheel. For example, if you can receive two herbs from a Chaos Druid. It is possible to design a table that will drop multiple items. I'd say that was the case if clues/heads etc. always dropped with the same item, which they don't. Multiple herbs is entirely different and I imagine that it's just listed in the drop table as "Herb" which then calls another procedure to figure out what herb that would be out of the all the ones available to drop, there wouldn't be separate drops for "Guam + Tarromin" and "Guam + Guam" for example It makes no sense for them to have changed the way clue scrolls dropped unless they moved it across to the secondary wheel, there's very little benefit in them doing so anyway but it would have been very easy to move them across. We also know that clues are different anyway due to the fact that you can only have one and another one will not drop when you currently have one in your inventory/bank.

Correct. Visages/Whips/Hilts/Shards other 'rare' drops are on the monsters normal tables, however they have a lower drop chance than the more common drops on the normal table.

I don't think anyone is claiming that. We've known for a very very long time that certain drops are connected (Gems, half keys, rune javelins, dragon spear, shield left half and possibly some more). 95% of monsters in the game will drop these (the only monster that drops gems that doesn't drop any of the others at Tzhaar I believe). The ring was indeed once useful, when spears were 1M and shield halves were 7M. Considering all drops that it makes it more likely to get are <100k it's not a huge deal and if you can afford it a warrior or a berserker ring for melee would most likely be better due to getting more kills in the same amount of time and thus get more drops. While the ring of wealth is obviously worth wearing if you have nothing better, or don't feel like risking your Freminnik rings in dangerous places (although I'd imagine you'd want a RoL instead in those situations). It's nice of Jagex to finally reveal how the drop system works, we've known 80% of it for a while, the only thing we didn't know was what was considered a 'rare' drop. Now that we know it's ONLY the items that are standard rare drops are on it, it backs up the point that it doesn't help with getting the monster specific rare drops. Also, in regards to the secondary drop table, it's not limited to just Charms. Slayer Heads and Clues are two additional drops on that table. Clues used to be their own separate drop and now however they are dropped with another item, same with slayer heads.

Because I can, and am bored - Full quest guide:

For those stuck in the rooms.

Quest is fairly easy, disappointing really. Reward:

Ring of wealth is useless then as it doesn't effect drops such as Whip/Visage etc.

That looks awesome :thumbsup:

Congrats on that, never had any of my videos tweeted by Jagex (mainly because I made them before Twitter :P) but my videos have had similar awards too, it's an awesome feeling :).

I personally hope and don't hope it was the Orb last week. I hope it was because then I won't feel bad on the update being delayed as I wouldn't have bothered with it anyway. I hope it also wasn't the Orb as the idea of the Orb of Oculus being an entire update for a week makes me feel queasy. :unsure: I'm sure whatever the update is you'll have felt "queasy" anyway. Going to be interesting to see if we get two updates next week, if so I can imagine the update not happening until Tuesday and if it's only last week's update I can imagine a Monday update being much more likely. Will also be interesting to see if they post new hints this weekend if there is more than one piece of content coming.

How?! Do tell, do tell! Anyway, $5 a month is just like old times. People who had a subscription before the price change kept their subscription at the lower price.

Costs more for me as I'm still paying £3.20 a month, but it's a really nice price and a lot of games do discounts where buying more time at once = cheaper.

1949, will probably be 1950 before anyone reads this post though, 19k off 95 slayer :)

That shouldn't be a problem really, I think it only covers things such as getting people to write your entire code for you (or large chunks of it). There's no problem asking for help on stacks or whatever if it's pointers or just advice, as long as you then write the code yourself of course.