Xaenith

Frankly its much faster to just do it yourself. I went from level 37 Runecrafting to level 57 in two days and made over 6 mil simply using the abyss and crafting myself. Though since I am very high level combat I have a huge advantage when using the abyss, a lower level player would be able to achieve a lesser but comperable degree of success. Even buying essence at 50 each you still make 250gp profit off each essence making your own, and with pouches I produce 42 natures or laws a run, nearly twice as many.

Except it is, because say you have 200M coins. Give to a noob character, take out a 200M loan and give the 400M back to your main. Instant 200M tell me thats not cheap.

If you could only double your money it would be even cheaper. Make account Give money Double money Make new account Give money Double money...

What is the point of it? Doesn't seem like it would add anything interesting to the game to me.

Currently there are only staffs that provide elemental runes, Fire, Earth, Wind, Water, Air. Jagex has purposely avoided making any staff that provides infintie ammounts of primary runes. By primary runes I mean Body, Mind, Chaos, Death, Blood, Law, Nature, Cosmic. Every spell must require at least one of these primary runes, as well as various ammounts of elemetal runes. Not surprisingly these primary runes are also much harder to come by than the elemental runes that current have associated staffs. Since Jagex has been so adament on this, I don't forsee them adding any staffs that supply these runes in the future.

If Jagex intended Runescape to be only for kids they did a very horrible job designing the game to serve this purpose. There are many concepts in Runescape that are simply too complex to be grasped using the lower logic employed by children. Though children are capable of playing Runescape, there is no way that they can achieve the higher level of sucess that older players are capable of.

Lesson for some who have posted on this thread... You can't try and use real world logic to say whether or not something should be put into a game or if it would be effective. The game world and the real world are completely different. Though Runescape is partially realistic to some extent, the physical laws that govern the real world do not apply to Runescape. Thank you.

Actually, this is exactly the case and exactly why this is a problem. Because rares sell for such ridiculous prices, there are a number of people (Okay me included but I still have a point) that have a ridiculous ammount of cash. Since players who profitted on rares have so much more cash than those who didn't, they can pay more for goods and services. This effectively devaluates the currency, in effect, making the poster and all others who have not profitted on rares poorer. Too bad the flaw in your reasoning is that materials still aren't rocketing in price.. Too bad that sole fact proves absolutely nothing :roll:. There are too many factors and special cases etc. involved in the economy that to try and disprove an economic principle with a single example (Poorly supported I might add) is impossible.

I think this could be a good idea if it were restricted to only outside of the wilderness. I sometimes get huge lag [bleep]es where I can't do anything for almost a full minute sometimes. This may not seem to bad but some things I do in game are relatively dangerous and if I die I lose fury amulet and fire cape for sure and those are two things I definately dont want to have to get back. Being able to chose these are 2 of my 3 items would be very nice.

Actually, this is exactly the case and exactly why this is a problem. Because rares sell for such ridiculous prices, there are a number of people (Okay me included but I still have a point) that have a ridiculous ammount of cash. Since players who profitted on rares have so much more cash than those who didn't, they can pay more for goods and services. This effectively devaluates the currency, in effect, making the poster and all others who have not profitted on rares poorer.

Yeah, I'd have to say this would be very convenient

I originally posted this on my topic in the Rate This board, but I figure it will probably get read by more people who are interested here so I will post it here as well. It is a detailed description of the strategies I used to beat the fight arena, specifically without the aid of Guthans. Until the first 90 came, I wore black leather chest and dragon legs. I killed the 45s and the 22 birds with the crystal bow, preferably before they reached me. I killed the level 22 blobs with whip as they don't drain prayer. Once the first 90s came, before every round I switched to obsidian shield, whip, rune plate and dragon legs. I would use ranged pray until I got within melee distance of the 90s and then take it off and kill them with whip. At the appearance of the 180s I had only used 1 pray potion and 1 shark. When the 180s appear it gets alot easier for a while. I switched to ranged equipment and stayed in a safe spot, waiting for the enemies to come to me. The 180s get stuck nearly every time, and if they don't all you have to do is hit protection from melee as you run by them and go to another spot. Once the 90s start appearing with the 180s the strategy changes slightly. I switched to full melee at the beginning of each round and killed 90s first, then lead the 180s to a safe spot and ranged. When the first 360 appeared I had used 2 sharks and 2 pray potions. When the 360s appear it gets alot easier for a while again. I used full ranged equipment, magic prayer on all the time. When the 90s started appearing I switched to full melee equipment and killed them with whip as fast as i could before switching to full ranged equipment and killing the 360. After a while the 90s actually stop appearing for a while and its the 360 with a 180. I kept full range equipment on at all times, at the beginning of the round I blocked the 180 behind the 360 and killed the 360. After the 360 is dead you can take off pray and kill the 180 by leading to a safe spot and ranging. After a while the 90s start coming back and this is where it becomes somewhat dangerous. At the beginnign of each round I put magic prayer on first, equipped full melee and killed the 90 first regardless of anything else. Sometimes the 180 spawns near the 90 so I would just block the 180 with the 90 while I was killing it. Sometimes the 90 spawns dangerously close to the 360. Since the 360 can deal around 50 damage max with melee its best to simply range the 90s when this occurs. You know you are getting close when you get a round with only 1 360 and 2 90s. After this there is a round with 2 180s and 1 360, and then 2 360s. This gives you a nice break to prepare for Jad. When I reached Jad I had 4 prayer potions left, 4 sharks, and 98\98 hitpoints. Jad randomly spawns in one of the corners of the map it would seem. You will get a warning from the Tzarr you see talking to you at the beginning of the Arena right before he spawns. When this happens, put on either Range or Magic prayer immediately. When you find Jad he will immediately hit you with 1 attack that there is no way to prepare for. There is a 50% chance that it will be of the type you are praying against. For this reason the only way you are guarenteed to live is by being over 94 (or more) hitpoints, as this is what he hit me for. Afterwards you must keep switching prayers according to the type of attack he is using or you WILL die. When he is about to use a ranged attack, he will lift his feet up very high and bring them back down very quickly. Before he uses a magic attack it will make a wierd sound, and he will lift his feet half-way up and keep them there for 2-3 seconds. What I have found to be the best method for switching prayers is this. Once you successfully block one attack, switch your mouse cursor over to the other prayer type after clicking on him to attack. Keep your cursor there until you see him do the other type of attack. At this point click the left mouse button one time. You will have time to do various tasks in between switching prayers. When he is half-way dead he will summon healers that will start healing him. These healers are level 108 with a max hit of 11 and they heal at the same rate as the level 180 healers. It is NOT possible to kill him with all four healers healing him. It is easy; however, to get rid of them permanently and quickly. When the healers appear, shoot each of them 1 time. They will stop healing Jad and start attacking you. You must position yourself so that only 1 of them can hit you. This is easy, if you cannot figure it out you can't kill Jad anyways. Do not kill any of the healers, even if you only kill one it will come back anyways as they spawn independantly. After they are all occupied with 1 attacking you, start killing Jad again. If you do all this correctly you will kill him. Okay thats the end it kinda turned into a guide as I kept writing it but yeah.

I don't think theres any need for a carpentry skill at all. In the very best it'd be another farming, and although I like the farming skill, one is definately enough. If they do decide to release player owned houses there is no need for a skill to govern them. There are already enough other skills that various tasks could require you to have anyways.

Alot of people believe that it only possible to get the fire cape if you have guthans. Well, this is pretty much true... However, for a small percentage of high level players it is possible. I defeated TzTok-Jad for the first time tonight without using guthans. My equipment consisted of black dragonleather (gloves, chest, legs) , rune boots, whip, fury amulet, obsidian shield, rune plate, dragon legs, archer helmet, crystal bow full. In my inventory I had 1 ranged pot, 1 super defense pot, 1 holy wrench, 4 slots taken up by equipment, 10 sharks, 11 4-dose prayer pots. When Jad died I was left at 28 hitpoints with 2 full prayer potions and no sharks remaining. If anyone is interested in what my strategies were I can post later, but for right now I have other things to do so I will leave my post at that

Runescape would be the worst game ever created if you could play it alone. Think about it, what would be the point? :roll: