Sir_Squab

Wow. That's pretty sweet. And makes me feel like MORE of a nerd :D

You should switch to Mage/Melee. Sorry >.< Um, seriously, I'd take the longbow. Over twice the accuracy. I don't know how the speed ticks work, but the shortbow shouldn't be TOO much faster then the longbow. Plus longbows have more distance. I find it interesting in Dunge how people are taking like the opposite choices in weaponry to above world. 2h is considered by many the best melee weapon, the rapier (equivalent of whip/scimitar) is too weak/inaccurate...and like I said now, the longbow looks far superior to the shortbow...

I'd say TD's could be fairly helpful ; another thing, make sure your prayer bonus is high. Er, watch youtube videos I guess, just search...consider veracs skirt for the defence/prayer bonus, and depending on your ammunition (i.e. say crystal bow or broad bolts) you may want to take nomads cape over an accumulator. When I dealt with the healers I ended up tanking two of them; if you do this, you need to make sure your fairly far from Jad or they still heal him. Tanking is definitely not the best strategy (those healers hurt, I swear I killed Jad with 50/80ish range 'cause of brews) but it can be the easiest. I'm no expert on this though.

:thumbup: If you really want a "close" altar, the closet thing is having a house altar right by your house entrance portal, then a portal room with a teleport to Kharyl (or whatever the ancient name for Canifis is)

Air orbs? TIs slower then alching but it's profitable. Enchanting at the mage training arena? Fairly cheap. Simple battle magic?

For a solo anywhere I am generally inclined to take a little less then my best gear. For example maybe at a Solo Bandos or Zammy taking a Soul Wars cape instead of my Fire cape. But if I am duoing+ then I'll go all out, although I would say that usually no matter where I go I take the best gear possible, I just don't like to risk those untradable hard to obtain items. Of course thats all going to change once I get my CLS :P Great point you've raised though. Honestly, for most bosses, I'd RATHER have the prayer bonus of Nomads cape then then a fire cape.... Way I see it, when I get a chaotic weapon (Not anytime soon!) I'm making sure it's something I KEEP when I die. (Although considering the only boss I really do is TD's, and you can get back there fast enough if you have a spare lantern...) Another thing; from my experience, the difference between max, expensive gear, and welfare gear often isn't that much....

Not great till high levels, but you have to start somewhere. So I'd start working on it.

Honestly, I'd take the slayer cape. It's a much bigger achievement, and I can't see +4 str or +2 def making a difference. Up to you.

I have to highly recommend this, great magic exp and great way to get charms. IMO, unless your 99 summoning :rolleyes: I recommend doing this.

I'm walking along and a speeding car swerves into me. I blame the driver as my consciousness fades. I went unconscious too quickly to notice anything else. (This means the next poster can make up details.) And, just throwing it out there, I'm no mod, but let's try to keep this away from politics, illegal substances, etc. The first example was pretty good.

*sigh* Time to confess. My defence is that I started playing this game years ago - like the age for 13, 14. That's somewhere around when this happened. Me and a good friend played this game (this friend is still a good friend of mine, although doesn't play the game as much) and we at one point knew each others password. (I've since changed mine to be too complex for him to remember.) And I wholeheartedly agree with the article - one of my bigger regrets in Runescape is that this friend did the quest mountain daughter for me. Big regret. One day I want to eventually level an account up JUST to do that quest on my own. These days, I'm against it on personal principle - I want all my achievements to be my own. And on the other...side, I guess, I don't want to be achieving something great on an account that isn't mine. However, my confession here, I've helped in small amounts certain RS friends. RS only friends. Helped one on a difficult quest piece, another with a tad of agility. Never got burned for it, and I didn't make enemies out of them. Still friends with one, the other one was a friendship that kinda...faded. I'd rather help someone and have them do nothing on my acc then have them DO something on it o.O Also, a few people in my clan have also gotten help from people in the clan getting a firecape. I'm quite proud that I did it myself. No. Not true. There is a HUGE difference between two friends sharing an account and/or knowing each otheres password/pin, and botting. You can know the password/pin of someone you know in real life, a good friend, and then you can go on a botting/RW trade site and give them your password in order to let them work on your account in exchange for money. And just because you trust a friend enough to know your password/pin doesn't mean you'd go botting. That's very harsh. There ARE good people in the world you know. Not everyone is out to get you. Yes, many of these people exist, and many ARE trying to rip you off...but not all of them are. The thing to remember is the honest people probably wouldn't OFFER to do a quest for you. Unless they're like 138 and your like level 20 and you've somehow known each other for years >.> But, yeah. There ARE nice people. I once got a dragon axe (now hatchet) from a friend. And seeing this was after they announced the removal of free trade, but before they got around to doing it, what possible ulterior motives could this person have? Never asked to go on my acc once, do something for me, etc. I am sorry to hear that happened to you, and I don't blame you for never trusting someone with your acc again. But not talking to people is a tad extreme....honestly, if I quit talking to people on RS, I'd quit. Part of what keeps me attracted to RS is my e-friends >.> Article two: The glitch article was pretty good. I knew about most except safe deaths - actually, I MAY have heard of safe deaths. And yeah,. the version of the falador massacre was that it worked for people kicked out of the combat ring. But to be honest, the scrying pool looks more likely, as your not "in" a house, explaining why it took longer to find and why Jagex didn't find it.

The way I see it, it might start off with less and less updates, laying off staff, members maybe being cheaper.... but going off with a bang like you said there? As long as there's people interested in playing (and more importantly, paying) for runescape, it will keep running. If they shut it down, that means there would be so little interest in Runescape that they've long since stopped developing it, just simply maintaining servers and some basic customer support - at which point, ANY update wouldn't really happen. By this point, there wouldn't be enough interest in it anyways.

The image with over 1m in papayas....what's that weird purple thing above it o.O

It's also worth noting that collecting junk just to sell doesn't work very well. You'd be better off making real cash rather then junk - the only "worthwhile" way of collecting junk I can think of is buying an item and getting the junk a long with it. Also, unlike some merchers, I think the logical attitude towards junk is viewing it as a hot potato - you want to get rid of it. For instance, if you pay an extra 20m for a saradomin godsword (or armadyl godsword, I find that a bit more realistic) you'd probably be better off just lending it out for a couple weeks until you can sell the junk with lending. Or by lending something else. That's my 2 cents. Pay up :rolleyes:

Guess I collect god bird eggs - I don't so much collect them as not get rid of them when I get them from kingdom. I have a friend who has over I believe 20k burnt monkfish. Yeah.

Actually, ZS has 6 bars for it's attack speed, the same as a whip. And daggers. And scimitars. Check the in-game RS manual if you don't believe me. As for metals, I agree that sticking to slayer is your best bet.

Incorrect. All dragons are weaker to stab. However, with higher stats, your better off with a whip then the leaf bladed sword. At black dragons however, if you melee them, lbs might be nice - creatures that are level 200+ tend to have a lot of defence.

I'd say keep it. I never like selling items I like to get other things.

Well, I'd have to say....magic is one of my favorite skills, and the variety of what you do with it is quite nice. Construction is fun too - I always have fun training construction and leveling my house - the cruddy part is watching my money slowly disappear (or not so slowly.) And summoning is a great skill, just because it's useful in a lot of the game. But I feel Dungeoneering has to be the best - requires some actual skill, requires all the different RS skills, gives a lot of the more pointless skills a use (how useful was smithing pre-dunge? Not at all. At least not in recent years,) Also, for those who call it a mini-game - it's a mini-game in the truest sense of that expression imo. It is literally like a miniature game of it's own inside runescape; it's practically runescape juice. Take runescape, beat it to a pulp, take what you want, make sklls useful, make bosses special....yeah. As for the most fun, mine is definitely construction - but I don't have the money for it :P

I find my luck is decent....you know, MY theory on luck is you get better stuff if you stop logging everything you kill. I've gotten 2 claw drops, from anywhere between like 50-200 TD's. I've gotten too many barrow drops to count over a period of a couple years....I've gotten a Zammy HIlt split or two...nothing else anywhere else in GW, but then...never gone to arma gw, gone to Sara GW a few times, nothing special, and Bandos GW even less - that place is too damned crowded. Never seen any good drop at corp, but I've been there less then 5 times. The only "rare" drops I haven't gotten are champions scrolls, d chain/visage, and just drops from monsters that I haven't killed, or killed too few times to expect a drop. (Whips, SoLs, Dark Bows, gw except for Zammy GW, Corp...) If I have any theory towards luck, it's to not try very hard. It seems to work better when you casually kill stuff. Oh, and the best I've gotten from a TT is a saradomin plate I think, but I rarely do TT's. And as of lately, I haven't even been killing things that have drops - just dunge for me.

thought you can only build 1 menagerie.... Exactly. It MOVES your menagerie. So the old one gets destroyed. A new one gets built. This new one has the same obelisk, terrain type, food feeder, pet house, and most importantly, the same pets. Note the word MOVE.

i also (range) slay alot. sometimes even with my tank gear i find myself wishing i had a fury, but with that setup your first order of business should be a zerker ring since it has been proven that ROW's don't help much at all, and actually decrease your chances at some drops. also a firecape would be worthwhile to get. but besides those two, a fury should be your next upgrade, probably followed by a dfs for some tasks. I really don't think a Zerker is going to do that much. +4 str bonus for like what, 4mil? Nty. Honestly, fury is worth it if you have the money - Zerker is probably worth it if you have the money to spare. ALL high end, maxed gear is worth it - the question is simply priorities. Going broke is a bad idea imo, and so is selling a bunch of other gear that you like. I have to agree with most however - 70 prayer, 68-69 summon first. Maybe 79 if you can get that far, healing scrolls rock imo. I don't think YOU should get fury because there are (in my opinion and the opinion of many here) much more uesful, practical things to spend that money on.

If people want to risk expensive things, especially chaotic and firecapes, let them. They obviously feel confident enough that they won't die, and confident that they can get back if they DO die.

You probably haven't used them enough o.O

Well, I've definitely noticed this. More then once I've exited Damonheim on standard, even though I always try to stay on Lunars. But, how is the venge thing a glitch? You cast vengeance on yourself, the spell effect carries until you log out or you use it. Theoretically, it should work the opposite way too - I don't get why this is a bug. But yeah, if you somehow got ancients working with barrage and telebock, that'd be quite the bug to abuse. Can't see it working though, seeing as the spellswap bug only works with, well, spellswap. If it changes you from ancients to standard when you leave, that's annoying but not game breaking. But spellswap doesn't randomly switch you to standard after a spell, it just doesn't switch back. So unless Ancient Spellbook got spellswap, it's not a problem. If they do, you can teleblock then ice barrage anyways. It's still damned annoying, being switch to standard. I like Lunar Magic, because if I *really* want a standard or ancient spell, spellswap. Then again, I'm actually alching my random crap now, and enchanting rings from nests o.O