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I must agree it's pretty balanced. 10k dragon bolts is 50m, not sure if I would ever use that much in amo. Binding ice barrage would actually be completely pointless even. The whole thing is about freezing your opponent and hitting multiple opponents (in cwars etc. at least). You might as wel bind fire surge, and even then it would take a while to "make money" out of it. Still, I don't really support. I don't really see a need for it IMO. Okay, it's not "fair", magic is more expensive, and whatnot, but all in all, I'm happy with that variety.

Yep. Funny how the OP is complaining about range being overpowered, when most of the ko's are done by ranged. Also noticed how much skill it takes? It's not like ranging with dragonstone bolts and waiting for that lucky spec. Of course you will loose like that against a skilled hybrid with maxed gear/skills

Wow, overloads are over 80k now?! At least you get 2.2k in the making. I personally wouldn't waste your super prayers there, seeing what a pain they are to make. I mean, one extra pray pot won't really make the difference there, right?

I donno, they could always... Cut trees or sumtin. Good point, shouldn't have added that second sentence, way too easy to counter. :( Thing is, it's plain annoying IMO. Can't really give a reasonable explanation for it (at least not right now).

Vls is still the best weapon in game(mostly beacuse of special), so no, fastest isn't always the best. Also vesta spear is best for corp, which is long speed aswell. Well obviously certain weapons have a niche (for corp or fiends, etc), but generally speaking, fastest typically is best, which is unfortunate. CLS is missing the special attack, which I'm sure is more than likely the bigger part of why a VLS is 15m or whatever it is. rapier still does way more dmg than vls and cls + claw spec > vls, its also like 100x cheapre meaning that vls is now entirely useless vls is the only pvp weapons thats useless now, all the armors are good, stat ham spec rapes corp, and v spear rapes corp so now vls just blows Nobody is gonna risk their CLS or rapier. (claws protect over it, right?). Also, cls isn't that good as a main weapon because you can eat twice per hit, so perhaps even whip + claws is better than cls + claws, following that logic.

Posting a vid where a guy is hybridding in max gear is not really a good example IMO. That first vid is pretty damn insane though. He's pking in ranger boots, pvp armour, divine, morrigan javs, arcane necklace and whatnot and he has switching skills. No wonder he owns like that EDIT: I really really detest all those losers that hang around Taco Limey. Don't they have better things to do?

Rooms with reqs that can't be potted to access is the whole point of it. That's why you have to have a nice skill total to have an edge in dungeoneering. When i trained dungeoneering on a pure with 1 rc i got alot of ~60 rc req doors. Opening all doors isn't the point in the dungeon, killing the boss is. Good point indeed.

It is certainly worth it, but not with your bank IMO. On the other hand, furies will probably keep rising in the long run, and an empty bank is always a good motivation to make money. So uhm, it's up to you, but overal it is totally worth it. MUCH more than bandos/dfs/armadyl/godsword.

Like this? :-) [hide][/hide] (few months old by now)

Granite Rapier :o

Nice guide for the lower lvled people. Your subtitle about 14 chests an hour is completely false though. I'm pretty sure you can't even do 10 with the setup you explained. You also mention getting 80k xp an hour, donig 12 chests an hour and loosing 800k on casts an hour. That seems very very unlikely too. (both the xp rate, chest rate, and loss of money seem exaggerated). Now, onto spells, on normal magics you should defnitely use the highest spell you can. The extra speed and accuracy makes up for the loss IMO. Ancient magicks is another thing, since they are quite a bit more expensive.

Glad I bought my purple 2 months ago :-). I'm looking to upgrade though, and that's getting harder too now

There hasn't really changed that much for ranged, just a few small things: You can use extreme ranged pots for better xp and super prayer pots to last longer. There's also the soul wars cape which is a very viable alternative for the accumulator (+12 prayer seems more useful than + 4 ranged). Familiars can be renewed now, so if you bring a beast of burden, it's much easier to renew it (you don't have to pick up all its items etc). Then, there's also the antipoison totem, but that's not worth using there IMO. You could also argue chinning has become less attracting because of the release of the focus sight and full slayer helmet. You can get 80-100k ranged xp an hour now on some tasks in kuradal's dungeon. On the other hand, our economy has been inflating quite a bit, making money much easier to get, yet chins have stayed pretty cheap, so overall, chinning has gotten relatively cheaper.

I had a few doors too where nobody had the lvl, even with pots. Kind of stupid IMO.

To maximize efficiency, you should do Ahrim as one of the last brothers and just bring some karil's armor or something for mage defence. He drains your stats, making the overload much less effective (however if you spec him to death quickly, I guess it wouldn't really be that much of an issue.) Edit: Also, kudos for going with the rapier. I got it too. :thumbsup: Overload restores your stats every 15 seconds, so that's not an issue. He is doing ahrim first cause he's mage def is terrible, so he needs prayer. @rapier guy: You should use ardy cape though. + 6 stab, and more prayer bonus than a skill cape. One more thing: you value your overloads at 80k each or what? Can't see where else you got the 130 figure from. If you value your herblore xp, it's even much cheaper.

Seems pretty costly though.

The nice thing about barrows is that dry streaks seem much shorter, since I'm doing trips so much faster than I used to do (years ago). Nowadays I just do barrows for fun and to compare/try out methods, and before I know it, I have done another 12 chest trip.

Havent really tried hunting them yet, but I was at the GE and somebody was asking for 99 herblore assist. I offered my services, expecting it to be a another misinformed person who thought I could help him in making overloads, but suddenly I get 30k xp at once. Forgot about the update, so it was a nice surprise.

And people are richer and can afford to barrage

Way too much gear IMO. When I mage (fires surge) I just go in full bandos + dfs and still manage a -5 magic bonus which is enough. I bring karil top ahrim and that's it. (+ I melee ahrim).

At 99 str (or perhaps even with 98, not sure), with that exact setup, I hit a 600 on a dark beast. Nice to see I'm not the only one who thinks tassets are trash.

Oh, it's time for another one of 3HitU's advertising threads...

Wow, that's pretty impressive indeed. I must admit I never fully tested that method. One big advantage with a rapier/CLS is that it is very straightforward though.

Wow, no! That would have been a nice "did you know". Now it's spoiled of course :-)

I remember seeing that happen when I was rushing. I stopped rushing because of that. I dont really get it, what's happening?