phata_elise

you mean pirate's cove? ;)

Nice guide! I do have some suggestions though. I quickly scanned your guide and I missed two methods of transportation: 1) The woodcutting based river lum transportation. Easy transportation from lumby to barb village, edge or beyond. 2) The mining carts from keldagrim to dwarven mines and white wolf mountain. Finally, how about adding the wilderness as a region? Several ways of getting there (ancient teleports, river lum, entrana dungeon and lever) But still a very good guide, keep up the good work!

willow is f2p, yew and magic comp bows are p2p only

Not taking the trollpatch into account (because herbs can't die there) , this rate is definitely higher! Based on my farming-experience (which is greatly based on herbfarming), I would estimate 15-20% at least. Btw, a while before the trollpatch was introduced, Jagex had increased the dying rate on herbpatches. Quoting a jagex-mod: "all to make the game more balanced". Before this change, dying rate could have been around 10%. You are probably correct, since i really don't keep track of the death rate of my herb patches. I remembered reading somewhere that the rate was around 10%. Anyways, i still just put my faith in the supercompost and hope for the best. Returning to my patches or worse, waiting there, just wastes too much of my time.

Use supercompost and the magic seculateurs for all your herb patches. On average, with supercompost, 10% will die. Just keep that into consideration and buy the seeds accordingly. This way you only need to check your patches after 75 minutes and you're ready to plant some new seeds. Use those 75 minutes to make money or to get new seeds.

48-50 range will go very fast. Just start ranging something, with some equipment and you should fly towards lvl 50 ranged. It's not worth the time thinking about how to do those 2 lvls, just use that time to range something instead.

Not at all. It's just probability. As mentioned before, compare it with rolling some dice. The odds of rolling a 6 on a dice is 1/6 or 1.667. This obviously doesn't mean that you are guarentied to roll a 6 if you roll the dice 6 times. Nor does it mean that the number you roll is completely random. The number you roll is always between 1 and 6, with equal chances for each number. The same applies to monster drops. Each drop has a certain drop rate (the odds of getting that specific drop). A randomly generated number is then compared to these drop rates and the drop is selected. Each kill the chances for a specific item are equal. Hope this helps :)

Blue dragons worked for me. I think that dust devils are too unreliable to get the money.

So, basically, you are complaining that many low lvl players train on low lvled monsters? The world shouldn't get much weirder...

How about using the runescape client to play the game? It used to have a much smaller window about the size of the game. Just stickk that in the corner and you should have some room for other applications. Or i saw some people used HTML shortcuts to get into busy worlds. Some of these codes display the screen not in the centre, but in upper left corner of your internet browser. I have no knowledge about HTML, so i can't tell how to do that exactly.

Easy, if you fail the spell you still get the exp for it. However, if your curse spell is succesfull, your target is cursed for a couple of seconds. During this period you cannot cast the spell at him again. By failing the spell you can continuously cast curse on your target, giving you the fastest exp.

black dragons, just don't get hit :wink:

hello troll...

Actually, that is incorrect. There's no reason why it should even out in the long run. The numbers are random. If a dice rolls 5, 10 times in a row, then are the chances of the next roll not being a 5 very high? Of course not. It's called the Gamblers Fallacy. The chance for the next roll not being 5 is fixed to 5/6, independant on the amount of previously rolled dice. However, your chances of rolling only a 5 in a row decrease rapidly when rolling several times. As long as the drop rate remains the same for each kill, you'll eventually even out compared to other players. Unfortunately, for drops with very small drop rates (like dragon chain from dust devils) this will mean a huge amount of kills to even out. However, if you take an easier drop like coins, you'll even out much sooner.

Then how about getting rid of all melee specials anyway, i mean if they are worthless anyway. That would be great, a dds without specials... seriously..

I think you are mixing two things up here. Dragon hides provide better mage DEF bonus than rune, but also give a lot more negative mage attack modifiers. Since you'll probably want to mage verac anyway, try to keep your mage attack bonus as high as possible. Just in case, slayer dart is affected by armour and mage bonussen, it's just that the barrows brothers have such a low mage def that nearly every spell hits. Therefore, you should still care about your mage attack modifier.

Coifs are LESS efficient than hard leather bodies :) Hard leather is much faster to craft, giving you more time to do something else. Sure, coifs give more exp per hide, but also take a lot longer to craft.

Black marks have nothing to do with your lvl and your lvl has nothing to do with your attitude ingame. As far as i know i never received a black mark in the 1.5 years i've been playing. Just act normal and social and you won't recieve further black marks.

Don't tell me you just wait for your crops to grow? Just plant the seeds and do something else. Check them after a couple of hours. The farming skill works very differently then the other skills. It requires alot more thought and planning. Many players prefer this over the mindless clicking of many other skills (like for example fishing, wc, mining). it's more complicated to get the best out of farming, but you should see this as a challenge.

Almost perfect. Just don't make coifs, but hard leather bodies. I know coifs give more exp per hide, but hard leather bodies can be crafted much faster, as a matter of fact as fast as you can click! For coifs you have to select make 10 and then WAIT for the character to finish them in its own sluggish schedule. For hard leather bodies you only need to click the needle and then click the leather, just like bow stringing.

Change the combat system in such a way that the pk triangle disappears. The three different combat styles should reflect your prefered fighting style. In which melee is up close and brutal, range is more about handy movement and magic about constraining your opponent while dealing damage. Each class should be able to defeat the other, the skill of the player should make the difference. For instance: One thing to start with should be a difference in movement speed. Heavy armour should make you slower, ranger armour should make you faster. So in a fight between a melee fighter and a ranger, the ranger is faster but deals less damage. It's up to the melee fighter to catch the ranger and finish him of, if he is unscucesful the melee player will die from the hail of arrows brought upon him.

Since when do most members want to get rid of f2p? It's just that the attitude in f2p is generally less relaxed than in p2p. Unfortunately, the ease for making a new char in f2p provides an easy way for scammers to misbehave. In members you also need to pay some actual money, making it less attractive to misbehave ingame. Apart from that, I can't imagine members wanting to get rid of f2p.

I offered a lvl 78 smither 10k + 2 addy bars for the shield. I figured that varrock is the best place, since the anvils are so close to the bank. Try searching for a high lvled smither there.

You can do it. 60 def is sufficient for the tunnels and even a couple of the melee brothers. Torag hardly hits you at 60 def. Just Ahrim will be very difficult.

Instead of using a wizzy top, just wear full monk robes. The +2 bonus from the wizzy top won't help you that much, but the additional +5 (or +6) prayer bonus from the monk top is great. Now you use your prayer for the mage boosting prayers and actually keep them activated for some time.