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Except Black salamander is T70, and the ammo is so cheap i practically have to play for months straight doing nothing but shooting tars on auto attack for the cost to even start approach Royal crossbows. I was using expensive in relative terms, I was comparing a weapon costing millions to something that barely costs 200gp

That's the exact reason why I don't use Royal crossbows, expensive, and you have to practically kill the damn dragon to recharge it. I use Black Salamander, does the job, cheap to replace and absolutely dirt cheap ammo.

Can you say... Plot Device?

Which still have limited use in PvP, No use whatsoever outside. It should have been draining adrenaline and preventing your opponent from using abilities for the next X (maybe 3?) seconds to be actually comparable to Dharok in PvP use... (This is from the impression that the set drains 5% adrenaline, for such a random effect, that is nothing. I can see torag draining adrenaline at the start of bar empty fight, and then refusing to activate when their pull off their ultimate...)

Broad bolts cannot be tipped, Runites can, but tipping, and subsequently enchanting bolts makes its tier, and hence its Crossbow requirement shoot up like a comet.

Well, proportionally yes, looks odd, but Karil is like something like 1/10th the set of Dharok, so possibly merchants at work? I couldn't sell my K top drop yesterday anyhow :P

First expensive death: Dying to troll generals and losing an obby set (Shield and cape, back in the days where they costed nearly 1m for the set). I was new to members, and I haven't gotten used to using protection prayers (there wasn't all much to protect at all in f2p) Most expensive: Dying to a Mithril dragon and losing a set of ranger boots and various other gear Most Painful: Dying in Tarn's Lair with my very first fire cape (the very same one in my avatar). Bizzarely, while I had guthan set, I didn;t have it on me at the time, so I saved my spear. Most embarrassing: Dying to Dharok in post EoC Barrows, right outside the chest. Irony points to the fact that the last time I died to him (which was nearly 5 years ago), I died on the exact same spot (I stood on the spot the first time, i ran to the same spot a second time). Lost 1m in barrows repair cost, ouch...

Unless Kree'arra still retains its immunity to Melee attacks?

Regardless of whether or not Everyone is wearing this or that is almost irrelevant when one considers that people will almost always wear the most effective set, regardless of whether it be Dharoks or Bandos/Rapier. If the former is better, it will be worn by EVERYONE, if the latter is better, it will be worn by everyone. Just a matter of what is best at the time. One of the solution could be though: 1. All barrows effects work on effects, but only at half effectiveness (helps bring the other sets back to relevancy) 2. Dharok's effects is cut in half, IE it only provides up to 50% bonus to damage at near death, and 25% to abilities. The numbers might need tweaking, but this keeps dharok in the top seat, just not as much, and helps bring other barrows back, even if just a little bit.

That may not be a bug, but a feature.. Which does not help Dharok's cause, since 1. They stated that Barrow set effects do not work with Abilities 2. They left out every other set out in the rain, since their effects do not affect abilities. Either way, expect either Dharok's to get nerfed (more likely) or every other set boosted so their effects also work (less likely, but it certainly would make Guthan very useful again).

Most weapons do now show a hit bonus, because their accuracy is usually their level * 10. However for some special weapons, such as EE in your case, their base level is 1, so their accuracy would have been merely 10. The Hit bonus is just extra accuracy given to the weapon. So it really is just accuracy bonus to the weapon which would have otherwise lower accuracy due to its low level.

The key is to let your auto attack do damage as well, that's whats different about Magic, since staves boosts the damage of auto attacks (and only auto attacks) significantly. Ability spamming is for melee and ranged (since their ability damage are all based on weapon damage), magic you need to let your Auto attacks do the damage with Abilities (such as Wrack) fill the voids between those auto attacks.

Yeah, but so far that is my only proof, I have never seen the crossbow anywhere (bizzarely, the only pistol crossbows I have ever seen people use are Chaotic and Rune, never armadyl), and I have done 200 barrow runs so far in search of it, nothing. Will keep trying though, I still need the wand anyway

If you are using Dh, then you should probably be exploiting the crap out of 2h aoe attacks, you would kill hounds by the pack by doing that. momentum is for DW, 2handers are for Abilities, AoE specifically At least I think so...

Does anyone know if the Karil's MAIN HAND Pistol Crossbow exists? The OFF hand exists, but never seen any actual proof it exists...

I still dont notice the difference between using Ah book and Ankh when dual casting spells... The speed has absolutely no effect from what I can see, I still cast spells twice as fast. Besides, the speed of the Ankh disappears when you wield a wand, just like every other book.

The only 3 crossbows capable of firing Emerald bolts, Ruby bolts, diamond bolts and Dragon bolts are currently Armadyl Crossbow/Karil's Off hand Pistol Crossbow, Chaos Crossbow and I think Royal Crossbow. Only the latter two can fire Onyx bolts All bolts mentioned above are assumed to be enchanted, and due to a bug I dont know if it has been fixed, Dragon Crossbows, despite being t60, cannot fire any t60 bolts, so they are treated as Rune Crossbows. So yes, Rune Crossbows are trash if your bolt needs are anything higher than broad/plain runite bolts EDIT: I forgot Karil's Off hand Pistol Crossbow,

Bolt racks aside, you still have the repair cost of Karil's Crossbow to contend with, so even without looking at ammo, Salamander is still superior. I agree with Ginger's opinion about bows, Rapid shot is extremely deadly against ahrim with a Crystal bow, and you will be lucky if you can even shoot 3 auto attacks against him, he dies that quickly, so saves a bit on ammo (it totals to 72 gp a shot at cheapest recharge)

In your picture, you show use of Karil's Crossbow. considering the size of the Dungeon, might I suggest using Black Salamander instead? With Harralander tar it does exactly the same damage as Karil's Crossbow, but does not need repair cost, cheap to get (the salamander costs less than a single bolt rack), and the ammo is even cheaper (27 vs 171, though the tars might be rising). It is also bolt type They are both average speed weapons, and they both do the same damage. I dont think there is actually any reason to use Karil's Crossbow anymore.

Speaking of the Orb, is it just me or does the Communications Orb look like a miniature Death Star with colours?

I thought their end goal was to force TzHaar to rejoin the TokHaar, by using their own champions to show them that their ways were wrong. Hok might not have meant it literally, he could have meant that all the TzHaar would have given up hope to live on as a dwindling race and are forced to return to the sacred lava, 'rejoining' the TokHaar

That is what one would call Self-Contradiction 'Something to use all the time' concept no longer exist in the game, unless you count shields as your 'off-hand'. You will need practically all 3 classes of combat (Melee, Magic and Ranged) accessible, or else monsters will simply take far too long to kill. I haven't gone into each specific styles within each classes yet... So if you want melee, go start skilling/questing and get your Chaotic / EEE off hand, you dont have any choice beyond Rune/Dragon. My take? In your situation, I'd just stick with 2h, no quests required for most of them (The only thing you really need a quest for to use as a decent weapon is Crystal Bow, but you can just use Dark bow with Broad arrows as substitute, it's pretty close), and they are more powerful when used with abilities than Dual Wield on momentum (Abilities with DW is hopelessly bad)

So basically you were given OH Dragon Long, OH Dragon Scim (need monkey madness), Chaotic (dung required) or Elite excalibur, and even rune Off hands every other possible answer will just give you worse choices, there are literally no other OH choices besides those. What were you expecting? That an OH whip exists? It already does: Enhanced Excalibur.

In fact the fight, once you know how to avoid the lava, kill the first xil and stun him repeatedly, you dont even need shields. My successful try didn't use half the rocktails I brought with me.