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Verbs, and their 5 different versions when used in different tenses. Even regular verbs change in different tenses. This is still relatively tame in English when compared to say Russian. In Chinese, verbs never change, only things gets added to the end, but they themselves don't.

I think the group learned their secret: Bring Ambler along, have him killed before the kill, drop guarenteed!

Nevermind, misread

Add Arcane Stream to that list, BIS for magic. Also, for the lower level alternatives: Melee: Any Godsword Ranged: Hand Cannon (requires Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf) Magic: Armadyl Battlestaff or Staff of Light or Polypore staff (in this order and pricing, none have any quest req). None of the above have any upkeep, except Polypore Staff, although if you use abilities, the Upkeep on polypore staff is very nearly negligible. EDIT: Also, just to clarify Q's post. The mentioned Tetsu, Death Lotus and Seasingers all assume they are superior versions, which means that at the very least, it will require you having 90 Smithing, Crafting and Runecrafting respectively, and these are NOT boostable. The tradeable versions are not really worth using unless you are going to be bossing very soon and desperately need them. In the case of Tetsu and Death Lotus, you MUST also have at least 90 in at least one of Herblore, Prayer, Slayer, Thieving, Runecrafting or Fishing. Ideally you want 90 in all, as well as 93 cooking and 95 fletching to make full use of ports.

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The weapons are not actual weapons, they are overrides.

I'll keep my eye out on the joypad.

There's no logical basis for any of that; you're false philosophizing about "values" and "survival". Profits have fallen in recent years, but they're are still profiting by several million, and their turnover continues to rise. Even from a pragmatic point of view, you can't seriously suggest this update has been released to fill holes in a capsizing ship. The ship's barely started leaking yet! Furthermore, companies can (and do) conduct business whilst keeping themselves subscribed to a set of values. What you're saying is akin to suggesting that an organic food company filling their products with GM crops would be nothing more than an "undesirable outcome". Something like that would go against everything the company purportedly stands for, and would therefore be unacceptable, wouldn't you agree? Jagex, throughout its infancy, was absolutely adamant in its insistence that RuneScape should never be a game where the 'real-life' wealth of a player could be a factor in deciding which players have a competitive advantage over others. It was that principle which drove them to fight RWT and gold farming so robustly in RuneScape, while not offering a direct method of purchasing RS gold in-house. It was a core principle which some feel has been eroded over the course of several updates, and you're dismissing their concerns out-of-hand. Concerns or not, you have also missed one very crucial point: Change in management. Those who worked in Jagex back when they decided that they want to fight RWT and botting measures vehemently are, to put it mildly, no longer in charge of Jagex. Most of the people who have enforced those policies and philosophies before are no longer there to support what they have built. Now we have completely different people running the same company with completely different opinions. In the light of this, I find it that, while one can certainly hope the original philosophies are respected and upheld, I find absolutely no reason to expect them uphold something they didn't If today, had it not been MMG announcing this, but Andrew, I am sure that the reaction to this particular update would be far more negative, because he started the whole policy, and yet he was the one who backed out. But it's MMG, he wasn't the one who started the whole anti-RWT thing (at least not to my knowledge).

So because, as a company, Jagex is trying to combat something that has a bad influence on their game (while, of course, making an extra bit of money from it), you want to cry over it? Honestly, that is ass-backwards. Oh come on, that's a blatant misrepresentation on what was actually said. Stick to the points made. I'm not crying over it, but I'm not going to financially support a company that has completely abandoned its values. It's sad to see how many people see no problem with this. A value which is of basically no value in today's world. If you said this 5 years ago, I would have agreed, but times change, and so must people, so must company, or else they'd just end up an empty husk of theirs. It may not be a desirable outcome, but if it means jagex keeping the game around longer, so be it.

Target reached, let's hope RS doesn't get convaluted in the next 13 hours...

Gigantuar is win, except for its 10k needles

Looks like a Cactuar Dance.

Question is, what happens to the stacks of Sacred Fragments after the event is over?

The way I see it is that if you buy bonds and sell them for GP, and use that GP to buy say.. Drygores, and the other guy uses the bond to say buy runecoins for overrides, you have paid his runecoins, while he paid for your drygores. The initial and final result is roughly the same as before, its the person doing the initial and the person receiving final result is different.

scroll progress now?

These are venture capitalists. Dishonest is what they do. There is also a very important question of, even if they were Honest with us, how many of us will actually believe them?

Change in management, change in strategy, Jagex in the Gower days is not the Jagex we see today, therefore I see no sense in comparing the two companies.

Not as much P2W as other games which also offer in game boosts with the currency you buy with real money. Bonds right now do surprising little to contribute to the 'winning' part since all the services you can avail with the bonds already exists. Unless you count Membership as P2W (which, if one really were to look into it, it's probably correct), then Jagex has been doing that for a LOT longer than SGS/SoF have. But we will see if it really is the case, by how bad the inflation will be several months after.

My apologies, I was just nitpicking some semantics. Although IMHO, if you can afford 1 but not 2 ascension crossbows, I would have just got a pair of Drygores instead at least you have a T90 weapon rather than a T86~87 weapon. Hell, I'd be interested to see how T80 dual wield magic is compared to Asc/Chaotic combo...

Although Jagex claims to know exactly who is buying/selling gold, this is not the case. Yes, they do detect it sometimes, and ban the dealers. They expend a ton of resources doing this, it's a very manual process. They have already done as much as they can in terms of banning dealers, there isn't some button they can press to increase the intensity. As for them banning buyers, once again, I highly doubt this will happen. As Jagex mentioned, a huge amount of their userbase partakes in RWT. They now even sell gold themselves through Bonds. There is no way they can afford to ban casual players who buy gold on websites. It's a horrible move business-wise. The game is losing enough of a userbase as it is without banning its longstanding customers. I believe Jagex is realizing that there is no way to reverse the trend of a decreasing population in Runescape. The game is not run by the original creators, management has been completely rehauled since RS1 and even RS2 launch. No one on the board has anything vested in the game beyond money. This isn't their baby that they've raised. It's an asset they accumulated. They've decided to extract as much revenue as possible from the current audience. This is an update motivated by short-term gains and nothing more. The game is shrinking and they may as well grab as much money as possible on the way out. But here is the thing: the stuff they are doing now is absolutely nothing new to the MMORPG worlds, some games (even ones going back a decade) is/was using this kind of system and have survived on that since its own beginning (Knight Online, Runes of Magic to name a few). Also, there is also this issue of declining MMORPG players in general, what if you were CEO and you saw that nothing you could do, no matter how much in player's favor, could revive the number of RS players simply because the industry is declining? Keep doing it until the game physically dies, and possibly go bankrupt, or, as you say, make as much money as possible on the way out?

Just to add on, Asc MH and OH is different in that there is nearly no distinction between the two crossbows, they are essentially the same item, as you can convert 1 to the other for next to nothing (100 ascension shards per swap), thus the price of an Asc OH is roughly the same as a MH. (Or if you will, there is no MH or OH asc crossbows, just ascension crossbows).

The 10% trading tax gets rid of money. Didn't realize there was a tax (I just glanced over the article since I'm in class). I stand corrected. The tax is only applicable on the second switch though.

That is pretty much the norm

IE this merely changes who pays for the services from Jagex, and who benefits from it.

I however is stuck on loading screen, seems data is finding it hard to reach Taiwan...