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They put speed in the worst kind of crew to put it on... Generally if you are going on a multistat voyage, you'll throw a JoD or similar onto him, but Solidarity also gives speed, which decreases the benefit of additional speed increases. Speed on a Multistat crew is bad design

Unfortunately Magic's equivalent of snipe is Dragonbreath, kind of hard to copy when your ideal target also attacks from range.

at 92%, failed my 4th ring scroll lol, but my scroll voyage survived the update so I am fine 45 pearls, 34 scales at the moment too, still haven't done any stories (i'll do them next zone probably).

Full Slayer helm updates: The ability to fuse the rings with Slayer helms cost 500 points, holds a max of 40 slayer ring teleports and 30 kuradel teleports (5 and 6 rings respectively). The Slayer helm upgrade costs 1000 points in total, 100 for stage 1, 300 for stage 2, 600 for stage 3. Disassembling an upgraded slayer helm will lose you the upgrade. You must be wearing the helm you want upgraded in order to have it upgraded. The stats of the slayer helms now match their respective tiers of tank armor (highest tier helm has 297 armor and 840 health, same as a Barrows helm) You cannot own more than 1 fused slayer helm at any time, hence it is impossible to have holders for them. Each slayer helm MUST be upgraded individually. Ranged also gets some equiliser buff, snapshot damage now more inline with Wild magic and Snipe now perhaps isn't totally useless. Houston, we (asc xbows) have lift off

For abilities speed does not matter in the least, only the weapon type (2h or DW, class etc) weapon and ammo/spell levels.

Brews also become extremely OP healing for them.

Wait I don't think it was the finale. It was the single adventure reward which originally rewarded 17 pearl and 7 spice. Also I'm 35/100 pearl and 2/4 scrolls for levi ring. It was the Cook's finale most likely, since no single adventurer story gave any rewards until the very last (6th).

Melee: Korasi's Sword with Enhanced Excalibur (useless to have a MH without an OH) or any Godswords/Saradomin Sword/Zamorakian Spear (weapon dps work around to be fairly close to each other). Ranged: Hand Cannon, plenty of options in T70 ranged (1h include Karil's Pistols, Blisterwood stakes, or Sagaie with a T70 ranged OH) Magic: Armadyl Battlestaff for 2h, Wand of Treachery and Ahrim's book for DW. Also, Zaryte bow degrades at a much slower rate than most of the degradeable weapons atm, since it only degrades per automatic attack done (as far as I know), unlike most other weapons (which degrade for each attack received as well).

I am more interested in your chat box's last message.....

due to my schedule, I have no luxury of sending any ships on any story voyages, as even the 1h one will prevent me from sending it on another trip the following morning, besides, story has no distance, no point in getting them done in pincers. In Loop i'll most likely do them since I cannot send more than 1 round of ship regardless.

Yes Jeremy. At 74%, completed DL darts scrolls, working on the ring now, 0/4 and 34/100/ @ Urza, wow, your luck must have been really against you if you only got that many pearls with cook... I have yet to complete any of the new stories (except for the "meet the... " ones)

They do, they still give second best distance per voyage. Scrolls/Trade good are 9000 each.

Currently the highest progress i have heard so far is 75% (which AFAIK is not soccerdies, but he is leading on port score by miles) If the stories are really going to be pincer difficulty capped, then I may actually just leave them until later zones with better crew. If you are racing by distance, do NOT reroll your trait missions, those give second best distance for nowhere near the difficulty of the 450/700 steel missions.

I am lost as to why they are fixing death-touched dart.

I am starting to think that the spices in those voyages are really supposed to be Koi Scales. Inb4 Trio offers 50 pearls and 50 spices... 51% into next zone myself, going to send some long distance ones tomorrow. Also, i think there may be some use with the Off hand DL darts, since OH rarely gets fired at all under normal circumstances, it may prove to be a viable substitute for an Asc off hand (since you only lose 24 damage out of over 1500).

Yeah, that's what I had been doing, except I have seen, after 2 adv rerolls, 3 scroll missions (one of which I failed), and 3 story missions (just to meet the guys). I ditched 2 of the stories that showed up after because one of it was either that or scroll, I took scroll (which was the one that failed), and another because I needed the distance. I could always do the story later and it won't matter.

Wouldn't that be after coupious amount of saved up adv rerolls? 4-6 also seems to be VERY lucky with scrolls, since back when first pop maxers started showing up, we were averaging 2 scroll pieces every 3 days.

Unlikely, the top are already over 50% into pincers and they have not completed anywhere near the expected amount of scroll / missions, not to mention that stories are generally delayed until later due to the fact that stories do not contribute to mileage (only the first story should always be done as soon as it is available). Before shield region, I would agree with you, before loop is pushing it.

Not thsi time Kirschen

You make me so glad I'm comped so I know I'm getting a free reefwalker cape in stats when I complete the scrolls. I so want the new tank ring... Take the Double, chances are you'll complete the scrolls long before you have enough for the ring and/or cape, and missionary is going to give you bones at best.

I assume that it's a bug, since it would make more sense if it was 3 scales and 7 pearls (considering the normal version gives 1 scale and 4 pearls), and 3 spices is bizarrely odd

3 spices?

But put it this way, you don't have to pay for the weapon upkeep. It ultimately depends on how fast the ammo deplete. If are careful, you might be able to reduce the usage of darts by a lot.

better ranged weapons all the way. The tree shake never actually paid itself for me.

I am guessing 3000 points is req for fleet admiral title.