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Oh bother, they're just players in the middle of the flickering effect of the emote. My bad, was going off the picture on this page, just looked at the one on the first page.

Is it just me, or do the outfits those ghostly figures are wearing look like mage (t)/(g) robes but in black and red? Maybe part of the new content is new mage robes. Or is it just the red glow at their feet? Or have I simply gone cross-eyed at reading 27 pages of this at one go? :lol: No face, no robes, just a guy in full rune, d med and anti-fire shield. Just another D med noob :s. So the ghosts are just reflections of players in the area?

Few days after the phat drop. Didn't log in on holidays of course, silly me, or seriously start playing until RS2. :|

The melee slayer gear alone is 100m. Was honestly expecting alot less. :P EDIT: Now that I think about it, I've done pretty well since I was hacked Christmas '08. Go me :D

He's stalking me, why else would he be on W84?!

I love concentrated gold <3 And I lurb Zokot for surprising me and coming to gratz me <3

Alright, thank you :)

This isn't a help-me-kill-Nomad question, I've already done that, I'm just curious about something. As I wasn't really paying attention to how high I hit him when my ruby bolts specced, (too busy not dying) I was wondering if Rubies are somehow capped (Like against the corp beast) or do they have the potential of hitting 200 against him?

Tried this out, beat Nomad first time with it :D It never occurred to me to use ruby bolts :P And by the end, even with deflect melee on he was hitting too much, so my geyser titan ended up killing him (I was too busy spamming brews) :mrgreen:

Fair warning, you probably won't give a damn about anything I'm about to type, so it's your fault if you're dissatisfied afterward. So you're probably expecting me to post something relevant to the season, such as a Happy New Year or some cheerful [bleep] like that? Well... Fine, Happy New Year. But enough of that. I just need to get some things off my chest, else I'm gonna explode from bottling it all up. 2009 has been a crazy, most depressing year. I don't even remember much of the first 3/4 of it. Must not have been very important. Oh, that's right, I failed most of my classes in that period, that's why... So I've gone and wasted my parents' money there, not to mention my really crappy venture into out-of-state college life last year, where I went to Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, thinking, hey, I got a pretty decent scholarship going here, mom and dad didn't have to pay as much as they thought they would have had to, and I'm finally getting out of home, into the real world, gonna make new friends, graduate, get a good job, get married, have children, blah be-freaking blah blah blah. A pathetic, stupid dream. The first week in I did make some friends actually, I was shepherded into a program for Hispanic students, which was a main reason for the good scholarship (I don't look it, but I'm half-Peruvian, other half is Irish) and it all felt like... Summer camp to me... That's probably where I made the mistake, I shouldn't have gotten so lax... Anyways, after the week of intro and coddling ended, I moved into my dorm, which happens to be a double. Few days later I meet my roommate, awesome guy, gamer like me. Then I meet other floor mates, lots of gamers, one even straight from Vietnam (he could solve a 5x5 Rubik's cube in less than 4 minutes) and one guy I suspected wasn't all secured up in the mind... And I wasn't the only one who thought it, he was weird. First week of classes... Completely murders me. I'm in Calculus 1, we're learning about derivatives, none of it makes any sense to me. Computer Science, we use some strange programming language called... Um... I don't remember, but it well confused the crap out of me. Then on to Interactive Media and Game Development. The main reason I had come here. To major in making video games. A dream come true. Only problem? A lot of it is group projects, and I'm still on that summer laze... So I never make it to group meetings, I mostly stayed in my dorm playing Wii, because it was easier than waking up on time for class... By the time I realize what's happened... I've failed all my classes mainly from lack of attendance, and therefor failing quizzes, tests, homework, yadda yadda yadda... I remember coming into IMGD class one day after not having gone for weeks... The professor said "Oh, you still have this class?" Well God damn, way to hit my low self esteem. (Did I mention that?) I went to see my... Academic counselor I guess was her title, and she's a really nice person... And she notices that I've been sleeping in my dorm most days, not even getting up to take showers (I'd gone a week and a half... I was a disgusting mess, and my cool friends wouldn't hang out with me anymore) and I didn't seem to care. So she recommended I go see the psychological counselor on campus. I go, and I tell her the things that I don't even tell my mother about. About how I'm so damned ashamed of myself for being a fat slob, how I believed myself to be a shame to my father (He even said as much to me) and how I thought no one loved me, no one cared about me, and that y'know, maybe I should die. They'd all be happier. I wouldn't be eating through my parents' and my grandmother's money, I wouldn't disgust anyone anymore... Of course that's a huge no no. So they send me to... Um... University of Massachusetts Medical, big shot psych hospital or summat. I see a doctor, spill my guts out, tell him I want to kill myself, all that stupid crap, and so he prescribes me some anti-depressants. Funny thing, my brother calls me almost right after, and I told him the taxi was here to bring me back to school. He asked where I was... I told him I was out shopping with my friends. I couldn't even bear to tell him that I was about to take anti-depressants... A week passes... It ain't working. I'm still sleeping 24+ hours, only ever getting up to go to the cafeteria like... once a day. Mom calls... I start crying, I tell her everything... And then I tell her that I can't do this, I have to come back home... And so I came back home in time for Christmas '08. I bid farewell to my friends I was unlikely to ever see again, with only my stupid [wagon] to blame. I got home, tail between my legs, so damned ashamed of my sorry [wagon]. I had ruined probably the only good chance I'd ever had. I'd wasted at least $5000 of my father's, I could almost hear him thinking of how pathetic a shame I am to the family. Granny called, told me she was disappointed... Mom was sad... *sigh* And I wasn't taking those damned pills anymore, so I just felt worse and worse... At one point I actually had the gun to my head... I couldn't go through with it. Figures. So next I try community college down here in Miami. Still doesn't go well... I only pass 2 out of 5 classes. I feel even crappier. Dad's threatening to throw me out of the house or start charging me rent. I'm still jobless. I haven't worked once in my life thanks to loving parents and grandparents. I think he eventually gave up trying to get me to do anything. Next semester, I only take two classes. College Algebra and Computer Literacy. I thought I could do it, I really did. But Algebra was at 7 a.m., and I lived 20 minutes away, and I had to take my brother to school too, since he's younger than me and doesn't have a car. So I failed Algebra because I always was late, and whenever I was late I always felt so ashamed so I just went to the Computer room instead of going to class and drowned my sorrows in Runescape. Hah.... Thankfully I passed Computer class though, which was at 8 on Fridays, and so was much easier to manage. During that semester, a little before Halloween... Something horrible happened. My brother had a friend, and they both just love annoying the freaking hell out of me... And in a way I enjoyed it too for some stupid reason. He and my brother were friends since grade school, and I really wasn't all the friendly to him. Anyway... One night they and another friend decide to go out biking... At midnight. Bradley (my brother) has been out late loads of times before, so I'm not at all worried, and so I don't even think of stopping them... God why didn't I... It happened around 2 a.m. They were on their way back to our house. Marlon, the other friend, on the sidewalk, and Bradley and the friend, Rodolfo, were weaving on the street. Bradley all of a sudden hears a very shrill, loud screeching behind him. He looks back and quickly gets his bike on the median, because there's a car barreling toward him with sparks shooting from under the front bumper... But he's ok, nothing's wrong... He looks to see where Rodolfo is, and can't find him, so he looks for Marlon... Marlon is standing looking... Out of it. A few feet from him, is Rodolfo's body. He'd been hit by the driver who was blatantly speeding down the road, completely ignoring their flashers and lights on the bikes... He'd died on impact, I'll spare you the details... He went instantly, God rest his soul... We went to his wake, there were many tears, speeches, all that stuff... His mom had him cremated, I don't know what she did with the ashes... But the entire time, up to this day... I haven't shed a tear for him... There's something pathologically wrong with me... Sometimes I feel like he was lucky, he doesn't have to go through this crap known as life anymore. He's at peace. Fast forward to Christmas time... It's a good Christmas, my cousins come over, we play games all night for so many nights, we practically burn out our retinas and lick our lips dry. It was fun. Really fun. I haven't even contemplated hurting myself in a month. That's good, right? Soon after, comes New Years. Gonna be happy too, right? No. Dad tells Mom something, she tells Bradley, he tells me; Dad wants a divorce. I... Still don't know how to react. I'm pretty damned emotionless at this point now... The happiness y'all see on me when I'm on Runescape is mostly a mask. All fake. I can't be happy. How can I, I'm literally driving this family apart with my stupid [wagon] lax and do-nothing attitude. Maybe if I actually did something worth something up in Massachusetts, maybe if I didn't fail my classes, maybe if I got a job, maybe if I didn't remind dad of himself when he was a fat kid like me, doing nothing worth a crap, maybe he wouldn't want the divorce... Maybe, I'd have actually been able to make him proud, give him a reason to not give up on our family... But no, I screwed it all up... My life, my family, hell, maybe my own damned sanity is falling apart... I'm going nowhere fast. Sinking quickly in the mess I've made. I don't know what's gonna happen... I'm scared...

Wrong forum, but yes he is. :thumbup: my bad, which forum it go in? i just figured i'd throw it in here cuz its a picture forum :P Off-Topic, specifically a thread titled something like post pics of your pets :P No unspam :S

Given that you can't access the shortcut without Vargas present, (which isn't even a shortcut really, by game terms, it's just a teleport into the place) and that you can't even go down the ladder that lead to the DKs with Vargas present, it would be pointless holding off completing the quest in hopes of quick DK access.

Every day. Portals ftw :thumbsup:

There's too many E's in that name...

Finally got it :smile:

If you read my post you would know that I looked at both the tip.it bestiary and the wiki. The obvious gaps in the drop tables is referring to how it says a Greater Reborn Ranger drops the dragon spear but not any gems or a half shield (something that is inconsistant to every other monster that drops spears/halfs) as well as me getting drops that are not on the list such as a Maple shortbow (u). Obviously this just means that sufficient testing has not gone into the drops. The wiki seems to be more "full" but nothing there can be taken for face value (especially where it says the rangers drop blue charms over 60% of the time :P). It seems odd that someone would lie about those drops seeing as they are not particularly shocking as you would see in traditional wiki-troll fashion. The whole reason I posted here was to get information that is NOT available on this site or the wiki that someone in the community may know about. To Sman's post: Yea its probably doubtful they are counted in the "volcanic creature" section- only wishful thinking; I do wonder why they chose to say "Volcanic Creatures" instead of just Tzhaar tho.. Because once you take the Jad challenge (which she offers as an upgrade to a Tzhaar task, not as a task itself), Tzhaar don't count toward your kills, only the creatures in the Fight Caves, hence Volcanic Creatures. I think I read that the task gives you 280, and there's 272 monsters total in the cave, so you've essentially only got one shot for the 25k bonus on Jad's head :P

I doubt they'd count toward a Volcanic creature task, as they're not in a volcano. They only look fiery because they were brought back to life by the phoenix, which while fiery, isn't volcanic. I can't say that I've even used Kuradal yet, though, so this is mere guesswork. And as for the wiki, keep in mind it is editable by anyone. The drops may be false, though again, I've never done the Phoenix Lair DnD.

I think in the original text before they changed it way long back, Zamorak actually kicked Zaros in the nuts, not Zaros tripped. I might be wrong though. A teaming up of deities does sound interesting, Zaros likely took over when Guthix went to sleep, then the userpers Saradomin and Zamorak came in. Zamorak as a Mahjarrat who stole power directly from Zaros himself, and Saradomin, of whom I only know that he came down to Geilinor on Entrana and proceeded to spread his not-so-goody goody influence. Both saw Zaros as an obstacle, set off to bring him down, somehow Armadyl is dragged into it, all sorts of stuff happens, God Wars, more Mahjarrat, blah blah blah... Hoo... That makes an epic story.

What was your previous RuneScape name that you are listed under on the highscores?: Sman25000 What is your current RuneScape display name?: Quiet Fey What Tip.it highscore list(s) are you currently added to?: P2P

Strength>Attack>Defence, get the training with the SS out of the way so you can use a shield or Rune Defender and have higher hits, therefore more XP, getting Attack and Defence (I used a D scim since SS's didn't exist when I got 99 Strength), Attack second for more accuracy and more hits on the way to Defence. Personally I'd train it all through Slayer, though Armoured Zombies or Zombie Monkeys are apparently good alternatives. I think you've got plenty of good suggestions already though.

So glad I played Professor Layton, that second item would've stumped me if a question just like it hadn't popped up in that game. Let's go #4 :thumbsup:

So I herd I'm not a nub.

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251 Days 21 Hours 20.7k XP/Hr Pro nub, disappointed it wasn't something insane tbh. <_<

I think you ought to take down the Bandos mage guide, it doesn't look like they're fixing anything caused by the Runetek 5 update. Safespotting in general now takes a little more effort than usual. I remember reading a guide on TIF about monster movement behavior, I don't remember the name of it though. Prior, any monster larger than 1x1 squares would attempt to align it's south-westernmost square with you. (This is the square where drops appear after death) This is why safespots that used the south, east, or west side of an obstruction, say a pillar, worked, whereas it was impossible to safespot using the north end unless there was another obstruction. Now though, monsters will simply align any part of itself with you and then proceed towards you. The pic Aspeeder posted pretty much sums up how to safespot any large monster; that is to lure it into maneuvering into the proper spot by yourself moving, to simulate how they used to try to align themselves to you. Interestingly though, this makes it possible to safespot a monster utilizing the north end of an obstacle now. Although, now some monsters have different behaviors altogether. One example being Bandos mages retreating instead of coming toward until they've dragged you into their attack/roam range. It's a mixed bag. Also, quite a few of your hide tags refuse to open now. At least for me, I can't open anything except your wyvern guide. EDIT: Found the guide. Some of it may still work, but I doubt it due to RuneTek5. Guide here