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Prayer renewal suffers from a problem in the Tunnels: the pray drain will still interrupt your prayer, so it is often better to use normal prayer/super prayer instead of prayer renewal. I found no problems with prayer before going into the tunnels anyway, so I would not need renewal outside of the tunnels

Not sure if I am looking forward to see what happened to 2011-2012 PS what happened in 2008-2009 fiscal year?

Put it this way: If I kill Dharok first, chances of me running out of prayer killing him? EXTREMELY unlikely. Would I run out of prayer on Akrisae? Probably not, but I have seen it happen. Assume the reverse if I kill Akrisae first. Now, would Dharok have potential to deal high damage to me when he is low health? Given my history with him (i allowed him to hit me 4 times without prayer in my entire barrows career, not intentionally. He dealth 50+ damage in 3 of them, and he killed me in 2 of those), likely. Chances of me being owned by Akrisae when I run out of prayer? possible, but much less than running out of prayer on Dharok, even if the chances of that ever happening is slim. I rarely take unnecessary risks just so I could get a few more runs in over the long run. Because it only takes 1 of those to go wrong to completely undo the benefit the extra runs would bring me. Oh, because I am maging and that I have max defence, the chances of any brothers, including verac is so low I only ever turn it on when I am clawing Ahrim. The brothers would need to be very lucky AND me being unlucky to need a few more than 1-2 monk fishes for him. With my current Verac set up, I can do 8 runs of barrows without banking, working on 1 p pot and 10 monkfish. Didnt actually time it. I also don't have soul split, which is why i brought the food

Sure, but you risk death using SS, and you gain nothing over deflect magic by using SS instead anyway...

Misclick >.<

Alternatively one could introduce a second set of summoning 'book' (mutually exclusive to the original book, much like Ancients and Curses), with a different set of ingredients (vendor sold Soul shards, bones and/or flesh as summoning ingredient), and could focus entirely around stat draining, rooting etc. And maybe have the pouches tied also to your prayer level.

works if you already have a set, but if you haven't, Ahrim is a better choice. Unless you were already planning to use Void Mage for anything else besides Barrows and Ganodermics Oh, while on the topic, I highly recommend AGAINST using mage gear for barrowing, anything above +15 magic attack bonus is pratically unnoticeable in killing speed of the brothers, even when Maging karil.

12 Items this week, not including a Visage drop, best week in my barrowing career methinks. Pretty got my D Claws and my Akrisae set that i got a while back for Ganodermics paid for, with extra cash to boot. Even got my career's first Ahrim's Hood after over 100 items lol :P But not a single double drop though :(

Seconded, even Akrisae performs better than mage void

I do them in the order of deadliness, Akrisae is not worth first kill, because he simply doesn't do enough damage to warrant using your full prayer pool on him. Dharok and Karil both can deal high amounts of damage without prayer, hence why I always kill those two first.

The degrade on Gano is very low. My maxed friend said her armor decayed 9.1% for the entire caves, which equates to roughly 300k in repair. She was using Overloads and PPS.

Duly noted. Yes, pictures do indeed need upgrading. The pictures were taken before I started using the PNG format. I plan to cut it down to just the smaller pictures too.

Guide put somewhat more up to date. looking for more feedback if possible

If the drop mechanics haven't changed: KC 0 - 1 : Mind Rune, Chaos Rune, Death Rune, Coins and Barrow pieces only KC 2 : Blood Rune are possible drops KC 3 : Bolt Racks are possible drops

Dry runs are normal, but eventually they will come rolling in

Please be to god that END that [bleep]ing Elf quest line! It has been dragged on a lot further than it should have! Meiyerditch is nearing the end, Lucien ended, where are the elves? Please don't stall it again with a Within the Light quest please...

Spec Restores and Extreme magics are strictly unnecessary, so unless you were going to get the levels for them anyway, I wouldn't get either just for Barrows. Vecna skull is a nice substitution for Extreme magics though, free and only takes 1 inventory space.

Charging Drakan's Medallion is trivially easy and takes 10 seconds to do, and you can do it as part of your banking run, which makes House -> Canifis unnecessary. If running out of charges is an issue, I'd use an Ectophial instead, eliminates the cost of the tablet/runes

What I suggested is from experience, some people will suggest Magic Armor, Some will suggest melee armor, some suggest mixture of both, some void. All of their merits, you can call me biased, but generally everyone will agree with me that at low or even light negatives, you will have no issues whatsoever with hitting the brothers, except Ahrim (because he is a mage, so his magic defence is naturally higher due to his higher magic level). Hence why I always advise against wearing magic gear, it provides very limited effect. It all depend on what you have and what you are willing to get. I used to live in Dublin for 13ish years, Southside (D4) unfortunately :P, moved back to Taiwan though, couldn't get a job to stay :(

Does anyone know if: 1. They fixed Blisterwood log's craft option? Before it was buggy and you have to a proper knife on it to fletch it 2. DirectX Bloom/AA Bug is fixed?

Melee armor only, mage armor is a waste of inventory space and weight. I suggest using Verac armor. If you use melee to kill Karil or Ahrim, use Overload. If you don't have it, Extreme set with vecna skull works. Or a super set at least. Bring 1 prayer potion in case Dharok is the tunnel. Use Ardy cape 3 and Drakan's Medallion if possible. Super fast and free prayer recharge. Fill your inv with food like monkfish, but leave 5 inventory spaces for loot. Possibly a one-click emergency teleport, I suggest Ectophial if you use Drakan's Medallion, else House tablet OT: Are you Northside or Southside?

I like how the new weapons look, thought they did add bit of flavour with the shiney green glow. I do have a problem with Verac's Flail looking like a futuristic laser gun while it was in Inventory though... didn't recognise it as a 'Flail'. I am somewhat disappointed at Dharok Axe's blade though, I would have expected it to look as big as the old design. Had a visage drop last night just about 1h after release, and seen 2 drop before that, so DFS is on the way to crash... Not that I would ever use DFS anyway.

"At least they didn't think Coffin was Coffee" "I agree :-| "

Where is the love for Akrisae? :(

What the skill needs is to have more interaction with other things in RS apart from just setting things on Fire. At least make it more efficient.. Perhaps some of the things they could implement: 1. Ability to use Flame catapult rounds in CW, which adds a Damage over time (DoT) effect to all those hit by it. Higher Firemaking levels increases the damage of the DoT as well as it's blast radius (not necessary the entire shot's blast radius, DoT alone should be enough). Perhaps apply it to cannonballs from the Cannon too. 2. Ability to use lower tiered logs to burn a certain shade, such as being able to burn Fiyr Shade with Pyre logs made from Yew or lower. 2a. Increasing the likelihood of Higher keys dropping with higher FM skill. Increase chance at TT items in Columbarium. 3. Increasing the damage of Fire based non-Rune based weapons, such as Chinchompas, Salamanders, etc. 4. Ability to make and/or wield a Smoke Staff.