well i suppose that depends if you chopped yews or mined ess on a daily basis in 2007 - bots used to be concentrated in places that weren't frequented by anyone who actually wanted to play the game. nowadays, there are bots everywhere you go bar bosses.
you see more bots in your day-to-day scaping in 2010 than you did in 2007. rwt might be expand (because let's face it, the number of players actively seeking gp for $$ far exceeds the players actively seeking phats for $$).
obsidian would be better than spectral, since the only damage you take is from the ranged minion. then you can also bring fury and whip (for use on minion) without risk with protect item prayer. you can also get away with dhide if risk is a concern, it's only like a few ranged defence less than karils.
i have concluded, solely based on the method by which this poll was introduced (i.e. a horribly biased sampling technique which could not possibly accurately reflect the true population), that jagex has already decided to do it and are just having the poll as a formality.
karil's xbow would be better than darts. you should use it for sure on hellhounds, gargoyles, blue dragons, gargoyles, and dark beasts. chaotic crossbow maybe is better on abyssals, irons, and steels.
anyone remember that guy who trolled everyone last new years eve by claiming he was going to hack everyone on a list of 1 million players? yeah, i have that list still. brb making a script to enter 5 random names, change ip, repeat.
don't even bother with spirit mages - they're so far spread out that iron titan, which can only use melee attacks, would not be able to walk over to them before you kill them. use on all others except gargs, which you should do in kuradal's. e: use cannon on black demons in taverly instead.
That's completely false. Karils has the best magic defense for meleeing(arma if you're ranging). For example if you prefer tanking at spectres with ss/pony/what have you karils will be your best bet. I am sure that there are others but I honestly can't remember any other magical slayer monsters anymore. if you are tanking spectres then you are doing something horribly wrong. the only task where karil's is best is waterfiends. that's it.
I was surprised how little I got hit by the mage... Still, I wear karil's top. If that is a problem, I'm sure OP can spend the first 10 seconds of the fight killing the mage. are you sure you have been to GWD? minions respawn immediately if the boss is alive.
something around 800k/h. anyway it was less than 1m/h back when ppot (3) were 7k each, so it's even less now. bandos is the best armor if you can carry enough ppots to finish a task without banking. which should be every task if you are turmoiling (instead of piety) and have access to tortoise (for dark beasts).