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Seems awesome. Mostly reminds me of Runespan honestly. I'm not a too big fan of Runespan myself. The concept of this skill and the way it links to the sixth age makes it very interesting. Restoring Gielnor certainly sounds wonderful to me. The only bad thing about this the latest BTS video is that it is stated that way more will be revealed in the next few weeks. Divination is not likely to be released next week (not that it was likely before this video anyway, according to me anyway, but I still hoped :P). I for one can't wait for skill number 26 anyway!

Well, I guess this is good. Won't affect me though. TBH a purple crown looks better than a gold or silver one :P

I wonder if Zamorak will ever be able to take the lead. Probably Jagex will have to seriously boost his followers gaining of tears or decrease the amount tears of that Saradominians can get per day. I of course hope that Jagex doesn't do this though ;)

If you don't have a perfect setup and a perfect strategy to follow, you will have huge problems soloing Nex. Only a few people ever manages to do it. If you do however, the rewards are great. I would still recommend going in a team though.

HTML5 will be a option for those who so wish to use from the release of RS3, but the 'full' version of it won't be available in months. HTML5 will still be in BETA beyong the launch of RS3. This according to the following post by Mod Pips on the RSOF; [qfc]16-17-542-65077576[/qfc]

It may so be. Time will tell. I do however hope for it to be released soon.

You know, not everyone is technical enough to build one. Even if you say it's easy some people just aren't meant to touch electronics or parts, or won't touch them. Precisely. I could probably build a stationery computer if I invested the time into it. However, I do play on a laptop and that is also what I ordered now. I'm not an expert on the hardware aspects of computing, far from, and I rather spend some extra money on getting something that I know works than struggling with so many possible errors myself. A bit more OT; Yes, RS3 will for now only be the additional content (Battle of Lumbridge for example) and the addition of NIS. HTML5 is coming later. When exactly I don't think have been stated as of yet. Probably it won't be too long though. Anyway it is now just one more day. Then RS2 is no more (except for in RS07). I can't wait =)

So I just ordered a new gaming computer for myself. RS3 better be worth it. Get to work, Jagexnubs ;)

And HTML5 is still lagging like crazy for me -.-. I guess I will have to stick to Java like most of players.

As a maxed combat player (Well, almost, I am very close to 197), I would say that yak is required. You'll need the food even if you have a great team, know exactly what to do and how to do it. Unicorn won't do it unless you get really lucky. At least not with the tactics most of the players/teams seems to use right now. Ports/Nex armour is not required for every single player in the team, but strongly recommended. Without POP/Nex gear you will probably not be accepted in the best teams either. Without anything great team and in non POP/Nex-gear you'll most probably not manage to get the kill. This is from my experience so far from many different teams and kills. I myself am using Yak, tetsu, dual drygores/arcane shield and 'the usuals' for the rest of my setup. Even though I just bring one ovl flask, one prayer restore and a few p pots, with the rest being rocktails, I still find myself out of food towards the end of the kill at times. So I would strongly recommend POP/Nex gear.

I don't want bacon. I want waffles and pancakes :(

Well, true. I can agree with this. I didn't know that they said that though. Where exactly did Jagex state this? Not that I disbelieve you, just curious.

If that is the case 3 makes the most sense seeing as 1, 2 and 4 are mace pieces, 5 is the end-battle leaving 3 as just sort of a random phase with no purpose in terms of the battle. I think you are wrong here. Jagex would much rather want to change the way we get one of those mace pieces than change a minion phase. Just my opinion.

This sounds much more reasonable to me than a whole fighting process change. Most probably it will be either phase 1 or phase 4 to me. Since these are the ones with the heaviest amount of "environment-using" which Jagex have pointed out to be so special for Vorago.

We who are about to die salute you! :D Don't salute me. Use those hands to swing drygores at Vorago instead! The number of combinations seem infinite, or large. Any guess into how many new things Chris L has chucked into Vorago (in case you can somehow communicate with him to get a clue or whatever)? I doubt it would too big of a change honestly. Probably the end phase will stay the same. And I think that there will for sure be some kind of minion stage as well. Probably stage 1 and 4 are the ones most likely to change. The main parts of the fight will probably stay the same though.

Swedishboy7's quick guide to Vorago. Accepting Ballerina cookies (Swedish cookies with chocolate in them) as thanks for writing this. General info: Use a shield. Use top tier equipment. Mages and rangers are needed as well, since they can 'tank bombs'. Use deflect magic or melee (I use melee except when far away from Vorago and while killing minions since they seem to hit you quite hard with magic). Be ready to die. ALOT. And oh, make sure to bring enough people to stand the shared 50k hit. On the red stones, 'bombs': These bombs are the red stones that fly around and targets a player. They can hit you up to 6k. They'll just hit you for 6k though if there are enough other people around you. So when you get targeted you want to run away from other players and make sure you have over 2k hp (or bye bye). On the 3 jumps around and the end of a phase: Make sure to run away from where he land. You can be hit a lot if you don't. As far as I have seen the locations of where he lands is completely random. I myself got hit for like 2k once and almost died out of this. So watch out! All phases but the fifth ends with this. Make sure not to panic when the floor cracks below you. That only means that the phase is finished. You will fall down on a new arena as the next phase begin. And will strange enough not get hurt from the falling. First phase: The goal of this phase is to get a jumper on Vorago's back and knock of the first pice of three needed to form the maul that kills Vorago in the fifth phase. Make sure to have a good lurer/tank guy. Lure Vorago towards the cliff where the jumper is. Make Vorago turn around so he face the same direction as the jumper (that is straight away from the jumper). A good tip is to use your minimap here. Vorago will need to stand directly in front of the jumper, which means that the yellow dot must be just in front of the jumper's dot on the map. Once Vorago just has a bit of health left the jumper can jump down on Vorago and the first piece of the maul will loosen. Avoid the three jump around of Vorago after having made his lp gone down to 0 in this first phase. The floor will crack and second phase begins. Second phase: Make sure to share the bleeding. Everyone in the team needs to share Vorago's attention. That means, a lot of people will need to be the temporary tank (for just a very short time). The goal of this phase is to bring Vorago to the different gravity fields (red orbs) that appears over the arena. Once you have fired three of these at him you will see a cutscene where you need to click on Vorago fast together with your teammates. "Bring him down" I believe it says. Or something like that. Once done with this you will get a message saying that the piece has loosen a bit if successful. Then just repeat the above with 3 more orbs and click him intensively again. This should make him drop the second piece. Attack him again until he goes down to 0 lp. When this has been done he will jump around three more times, the floor will crack again. Third phase: Vorago will summon two minions called Scopolus. During the time the minions are alive you can't attack Vorago. Make sure to keep the minions far from each other since having them close to each other seems to make them stronger. The minions will attack with melee and magic like Vorago. And they will hit hard. This is the phase I have had the most trouble with and all I can recommend for the killing of these guys is basically stay alive. Use a lot of defensive abilities and food really. Once one of the minions are dead the other will get enraged (you will get a message stating this as well). This means that it will hit harder. Therefore, try to kill the twin minions at the same time, or as close as possible to each other in time. Once this is done, defeat Vorago (bring him down to 0 lp). Vorago will jump around again (watch out!) and the floor will crack again. Fourth phase: Team communication is the key to survival here. This is rather simply put a more advanced version of phase 2, without the orbs and the clicking. You will need to bring him down to 0 lp in this phase just like in the earlier phases. However in this phase Vorago will use a fire attack that will hit all in the room if they don't hide behind a waterfall. This attack is pretty much a 1 hit KO unless you are close to/at full health. This since it can hit up to 9k. Therefore, as I stated above, team communication is very important. Once the fire start to cover your screen's edges (you can't miss it) start to search for the waterfall in one of the four corners. Call out to your teammates when you found it (ne/nw/sw/se) and hide behind the waterfall (just stand in the corner). Surge is a great ability to use here. This since it lets you teleport forward 10 squares and therefore find cover behind the waterfall more quickly. After this fire attack Vorago will pick a player and do a rock copy of this player. This clone needs to be killed as quick as possible by the cloned player (none else can attack it). This since during the time the clone is alive all damage taken by Vorago will be greatly reduced. During this phase the third piece of the maul is also dropped, after the final fire/clones attack. Make sure that the maul pieces carrier now assembles the 'bleeding' parts of the maul to make it a working weapon to kill Vorago in the final phase with! Once Vorago have reached 0 lp he will jump around three times again and the floor will crack. Fifth phase, the final showdown: Instead of being in a large, square arena you will now be on a rather thin piece of land. Your team and Vorago will try to push each other off the edges. Therefore. the goal is to push Vorago off the opposite end of the strip of land. This will give the maul carrier the option to finish Vorago off with a hit of the mace. To push Vorago off the edge you need to do as much damage as simply possible to him. He will use his standard attacks. Berzerking may be a good idea if everyone does it at the same time. Otherwise it may be a very bad idea leading to a quick death of the berzerking lonely player. Finally, once Vorago is at the edge, the player with the maul needs to use an ultimate ability on Vorago to kill him (this can only be done once Vorago is below 3% health according to the Wiki, dunno if that is true, but probably is since Vorago was at very low health once my team was able to finish him off). This will display a cutscene of Vorago dying when the maul carrier uses the maul to pummel his face. Collect your drops from the ground and then exit via the red exit orb. Good luck. May your death be a glorious one.

First kill. This thread needs more Vorago pics.

I had about the same FPS. Or worse. He's a new guy taking a lot of effort. I love this boss fight so far! Not cooler than Nex though. For all of those complaining about 1hit-KOs; Do you really think it is that terrible now when Vorago is released? Because except the red stone bombs (which can hit up to 6k if other players are around the one getting hit), the initial challenge thing and the fire-charge that you have to stand behind a waterfall not to get hit up to 9k on, there are no more 1-hit-Ko attacks. And the initial challenge one doesn't really count towards the fight itself. I'm not completely sure a 6k hit is a KO either. It shouldn't be if you have proper gear and a shield. And about that PM, I was trying to kill Vorago with my team at that time as well. This is how it went: WOOT! First Vorago kill done ;)

I was in the same team as birdd and managed to get to fourth/third several times. The main problem we had was that those minis hit us hard and fast. Spam clicking rockies didn't help me from dying pretty much. What's the main tactic to use? Anyone knows?

I couldn't agree more with this. For RS3 to be enjoyable at all for a huge lot of players they first need to make it playable. I can barely play it on my laptop :/

Tried to Vorago with an all pro team. Got to first phase. Died. Looted grave. Dc. Good fight. I am not trying this guy anymore today. I am lucky not to have lost several hundreds of millions like some other guys did (didn't get back to grave). And now the worlds are just crazy. If you didn't get my message yet; Don't try Vorago until like at least tomorrow. This will take Jagex a while to fix.

Jagex have said they are working on it, but I would say that for the start you will have to stick with Chrome. Sorry :/

It is here. We are no more playing 'Runescape', as in the version it has been for the last 9 years. Runescape has taken the next big step. We're now enjoying Runescape 3 when we play the main game version. Updated audio, new lore, a new world-changing event and a highly customization-able interface system are some of the new features. Amazing according to me. [hide=Old Thread, RS3 release date] Runescape 3's release date was finally revealed. To the mods; I thought such a major piece of information deserved its own topic, instead of merging it together with the Vorago one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knc_Trx_-5A&list=PL05126FA13EDBEB7E [/hide]

Wait, you want your armor to protect you from something? Everyone knows that the only point of armor is to make you hit harder. Bosses are also meant to be a challenge you know. Runescape is based on gear and skill acquisition. A 1hko that ignores all you've worked for is not challenging. Tetsu doesn't protect you any more than any other armor. All it does is let you dodge more hits. When you get hit you still receive the full force of that attack. It's ironic, because while Defence is supposed to be the counter to Attack and Strength, it only actually counters Attack. A 1-hit KO is still a challenge according to me. RS isn't based all about gear and skill acquisition. Or well, that depends upon your definition of "skill" here. If you mean the 25 skills like dungeoneering and runecrafting, then it certainly isn't true. You need to adapt and earn new skills within the world of Gielnor as well, setting up new strategies depending on what you are doing. For example: If I would go and try to kill Nex with the same strategy I use for the average goblin I probably would die rather quickly. Bossing is supposed to be a challenge. Then I can agree on that gear should still help you. But most probably it will help you with the "rest" of the boss defeat. A 1 hit KO is just an extra challenge. This is however a matter of opinion. Of course. And what you just said about tetsu proves this further. I don't get hit as often with it equipped than without it = protection according to me. Perhaps not the best combat system in the world, but it works more than OK for me.

Once again thank you Ambler for learning me how to Nex.