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I didn't mean to imply that everyone who bought CLS first now supports CLS, but rather that everyone who now supports CLS bought CLS first. Of course there are rational people who realized their mistake and went on to get a rapier, but it seems to me that there are a whole lot of CLS supporters who suspiciously don't own a rapier.

Kuradal's dungeon using fero ring, protect melee and turmoil is what I do. I'm not totally sure whether cannoning them in the path of light is better; I can say for sure it's a lot less afk. The nice thing about dark beasts is that you can turn on auto retaliate and do nothing for a few minutes at a time.

Daaaaamn.

wat. So you're willing to spend money on low alchs but not invest money temporarily in 10-15% better exp? wat

This is the case for everyone who isn't mad that they bought a longsword first and are now doomed to justify their decision for all time.

Nick was hitting in the low 600s with strong ranged pot and t10 desp on flesh spoiler. It's been discussed that a two hex team might be better off doing flesh floors than funderous floors, time-wise, since necro is soloable and flesh is a joke.

Full Arma with ely is your best bet, but the most important thing is to make sure your team has similar magic defense. If one of your teammates is in void and everyone else has Arma, Nex will camp the guy in void and they'll use a disproportionate amount of brew. If everyone uses void it's not that much worse than Arma. In the case of void, ACP + deflector is going to be a lot better.

On blood phase, make sure to claw a lot (NOT ON THE SIPHON THOUGH), count attacks for siphon (5 rapid crossbow speed attacks from blood sacrifice will be the siphon, so get off and shoot a reaver), stay restored up so your DPS doesn't struggle, pray magic, stay near her so she melees sometimes rather than spamming blood barrage, and just keep your DPS up as much as possible. If a team member is doing a poor job damaging her, they are likely doing more harm than good by healing her. On Curses, claw again (NOT ON DEFLECT MELEE, safest to wait until she's not praying anything), stay near her so she melees sometimes instead of spamming magic, pray melee if you're tanking and magic if you're not, keep yourself restored up (very important, if your magic level is brewed too far down she will target you constantly and make you spam even more brews), use diamond bolts, and keep your DPS up as much as possible. Again, those with less impressive damage outputs are doing more harm than good here by providing free food. If your overload runs out on this phase, do NOT try to finish the kill without repotting- the loss of defense will feed her and make her target you, and your DPS becomes worthless. An unoverloaded player on curses phase is like a walking hamburger just for Nex, you'll do the team more good teleporting out. Sounds like those phases were your biggest problem times, and with good reason. Those are the ones where incompetence really screws the team- everyone needs to stay on top of doing damage or she'll just heal forever. Hope that helped, good luck!

Based on what I saw during a whole hell of a lot of FFA corp, this is how I think it works: Every once in a while, his aggro will be randomly set. This happens whenever it spawns and more throughout the kill. When this happens it will either decide to target one person, or decide to go into random tank mode. Either way, his aggro can then be forced to one person by them dealing a significant amount of damage in a small amount of time. If I had to guess I'd say there's a cooldown bar, and all damage done goes into it. When one player fills it by hitting consistently well or one very high hit (ruby bolt specs usually will do this), they force aggro toward themself. Corp will stay on that person either until somebody else forces aggro away, or until its aggro is randomly reassigned and he goes to a random person or back into random tank mode. Tl;dr: he usually attacks you if you do a lot of damage, but sometimes randomly attacks other people.

Good to see some admins still feel that users started this. Nothing to do with the bogus bans and hidden posts, right? :D

Essentially letting them know their bans are under review and that there are some changes afoot in TIF. More of what we're seeing everywhere- admins admitting they made mistakes.

You're entirely correct in saying this and I'd like to apologize on behalf of the entire admin team for the inconvenienced caused by something that could have been much simpler than it ended up being. As a member of the Website Crew I personally appreciate user feedback and submissions sooo much. They keep the Crew running and looking for content to update because we can't notice all changes and errors by ourselves! Cowman_133 Tip.It Administrator and Crew Leader Thank you so much. I've done a complete 180 from being shocked at the incompetence of the admin team this morning to being shocked at the amount of respect I feel for them, in light of this and other posts and the PMs received by Ancient and xpx. I'm glad this matter saw a resolution.

Das, Cowman, thanks for those posts. Huge respect to both of you. Unfortunately, the problems with TIF are a little bigger than I think can be bridged. A major problem with this site is that it's growing away from being a Runescape-related site. The website is years out of date in many cases, and at least a couple moderators don't actually play the game anymore. This creates a sort of atmosphere that isn't conducive to learning about and discussing the game that initially brings people here. Our new forum has sections dedicated to researching game mechanics and learning brand new things to create guides and tools that have never been made before. TIF has a long way to come before it has the infrastructure or the community to support that, I think. There's also just the banhappyness. I'm sorry, but xpx and Ancient did NOT deserve to be banned this morning. That, more than anything, solidified my decision that I'm out of here as soon as we have the other forum accommodating DGS and so forth. Bladewing also really did not need to be banned. These people are not only my friends, but they are enormous contributors of knowledge, and not having them around weakens any intellectual pursuit. If I have a choice between a community with them, and a community without them, and in which I have to fear waking up to find another friend gone... the choice there is obvious. Bans are not something to do lightly, because they will tear apart communities out of necessity, as has happened here. Finally, the intellectual property debate really hits a nerve. Bladewing's guide shouldn't have been left up- it's disrespectful. Not a lot to say on that front, it just casts Tip.it in an incredibly poor light to retain information that the author wants removed. The new forums are in my sig, if anyone's interested. See ya, TIF.

He was asked politely multiple times to not post in the manner he was posting in and continued to do so. What do this say about him? To me it says he doesn't respect the people who maintain this website for no benefit of their own and then let people use it for free. What does that have to do with not removing his content when asked? Make up your mind, were his posts detrimental to TIF or do you find them beneficial? Surely if he was that bad you'd leap at the chance to take down something that horrible troll posted.

So instead, people with 0 community support like Danq and Jimmy Jim get to mod. Fun.

To those confused about this thread: of COURSE TIF is in the legal clear. The issue is that they're being complete jackasses about using their legal leverage to screw over a user. They were asked politely multiple times to remove the guide and declined. What does that say about TIF? To me it says that they don't respect the people who submit information to them.

For me, both of these are definitely happening now. I don't want tipit to become a hell hole so I'm gonna remain here and help make it better. Remember the best way to fix something bad is to actually fix it, not continuing to post and complain and stuff. I have no vested interest in TIF if half my friends have been banned for bogus reasons. If they were still here I'd agree, but there's no point building a community my friends can't access.

I certainly don't plan on stopping helping users, but I am going to relocate to a place that has a better concept of intellectual property rights and appreciates contributions.

Recently, a user WHO SHALL REMAIN UNNAMED was banned from TIF. He had written a guide and decided, post ban, that he would like it removed. He contacted moderators and had people report the thread and post on it asking politely for the guide to be taken down in respect of his intellectual property rights. It's been several days and the guide is still up. Locked, but the content is there. How do you feel about this? Is information theft okay? Should TIF take down the thread? Does this influence how you feel about writing guides yourself?

Then leave. Simple. Don't worry, we are. There's just still some packing up to do, guides to get removed, people to alert, etc.

The community is already [bleep]ed. Either some bans need to be undone or we're leaving. Simple.

There's been a lot of trying to cooperate. They brick walled and then banned a few of the people seeking compromise. That's not something they could have expected not to blow up at them. I don't pretend to know anything about people being banned or any of the PRIVATE conversations that went on regarding that, but I know damn well it's not that simple and I think you do too. I've had copypastes of pretty much everything said, so I daresay I understand the situation better than you. Needless to say, the admins were ridiculously uncooperative.

@Dark: I think you're misunderstanding. Locking Bladewing's blog, where people had been posting support and wishing he were still here to contribute to the community, coincided with the negotiations. They were separate incidents. If you want to blame somebody for that [cabbage]storm, blame Jimmy Jim for carrying out a personal vendetta against Bladewing that stirred up controversy. @Above: Grimy's banned.

Yes, this topic is very private indeed. Also, we're not the ones who requested a private discussion regarding the cause of these issues. And when that discussion took place we were not the ones to go crazy and start posting crap. Perhaps if we published all the things the people who have been banned have done then people will change their mind and call us too lenient on some of these people. Although I'm sure you'll find something wrong with that. Go for it. Transparency is what YOU guys have been against.

There's been a lot of trying to cooperate. They brick walled and then banned a few of the people seeking compromise. That's not something they could have expected not to blow up at them.