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Two things: A) PVP. A person can probably deal quicker damage with maybe pvp weapons, ags, d claws, etc, then corp can. B) Corp is actually solo-able. It requires some PVP weapon, either Vestas Spear or Statius' Warhammer. It's still extremely difficult. Sorry to say but I'm one of those who doesn't feel like PVP should be the sole catalyst for game-changing updates. Hypothetically yes, pvp weapons can cause huge amounts of damage in a short space of time, but equally Corp can easily kill with one attack. Admittedly pures can achieve this with luck, but in general the level limiters prevent such ridiculous K.O.s. Has anyone actually seen any evidence of Corp being successfully soloed? To the best of my knowledge Corp has never been soloed, if I'm wrong then by all means show me the evidence - I'd genuinely like to see it done! I'm not a PVP'er myself, I just want to point out that the extra edge in combat could be a reason for this food. Or, if it was untradeable, perferably with a high cook requirement, it would give high level cooking an actual practical advantage, similar to what was done with herblore. And I was going to post a corp solo video, but the guy above me posted one already.

Two things: A) PVP. A person can probably deal quicker damage with maybe pvp weapons, ags, d claws, etc, then corp can. B) Corp is actually solo-able. It requires some PVP weapon, either Vestas Spear or Statius' Warhammer. It's still extremely difficult. Has anyone actually used this shortcut to get to the Kings? When I tried it during the quest, it wouldn't let me go down that ladder. Answer:

You dont get it, their text is still present in the game u just dont see it... it fills up ur chat box and therefore u cannot see recent messages and it lags... But do you get those hidden messages if they are on your ignore list? I don't think you do. I could be wrong. Do you know actually KNOW? P.S. Sorry if I'm wrong. Also, if it's only one world, it's not too bad. Having spent time in f2p killing cows (as a high level f2p'er) all the questions about my full rune and zombie mask got annoying after a while. Frankly, as long as they keep the number of these worlds extremely low relative to the number of people who play RS, I see nothing wrong with them. And yeah,. 1500 or 2000+ for p2p. And do something to filter out low level ex-membs.

I am superior, anyone who calls anyone a nerd on Runescape is obviously a worse person than hitler himself. I don't care what the douche thinks, i just want him to piss off. I DO hope that was sarcasm. But I am afraid it isn't... People use the word "nerd" like the word "noob." It's a generic internet insult. It often happens because they are mad and just using the internet as a source to vent their fustrations. Often people are called a "nerd" for having high stats by someone with lower stats, quite often due to subconcious jealousy. They feel insecure in the face of a richer or higher leveled person, and justify that by simply deciding that the person is a nerd, or any other insult of your choice. And the battle of egos has begun. Sworddude and Gudi both seem to be in a battle to prove themself superior to one another, or more specifically prove the other inferior. Potaeto, Potahto. It's simple human nature to desire to feel superior to your better man. Both Gudi and Sworddude, in my opinion, are proving it by their actions. And before someone accuses me of that, I'll admit that I enjoy feeling superior if and when I can. But who doesn't? Why else do people keep up with the Joneses?

I think that farming could be added into food more; perhaps as just an alternative to fishing or something. But overall, food is pretty good to me, I don't think it requires much of an update. As for moderators, I'm not surprised. Jagex wanted to increase their mod base, so they started churning out mods. Unsurprisingly, some of them get corrupted by power. But I hardly ever see mods so whatever.

That should help. He's been more or less gone because they died. However, since some of them recently unfroze, I've thought of a Godwars quest and some Aviantese and the return of Armadyl. And I think its likely that the staff is some sort of power conducter, which is why Zamorak stabbing Zaros with the staff of Armadyl worked. I might be wrong, but didn't the staff impale them both? And I agree that it's possible the staff didn't always belong to Armadyl. I think the fact that it Zamorak won by pure luck makes that artifact much less....useable, for lack of a better word. If two Gods fought, with the staff, all that the staff would do is ensure that there is a definite victor. But one of them will die. I doubt the Gods would fight directly, as they would rather not risk their immortality. Also, desert quests anyone? We've had a bunch of contact with the devourer, as well as contact with Icthlarin when we were possessed by the devourer and we forgot it all, or something.

Well you see, there ARE pigs in runescape, but they aren't attackable or eatable. This proves that Jagex thinks pigs are holy. Muslims are also against the eating of pigs. This proves that Jagex is the front for an extremist muslim terrorist organization. In case anyone is wondering, I AM kidding. Tell the UK government that then as well as anyone who believes in being politically correct. Google baa baa black sheep controversy. Many schools refused to teach that song and a few changed it to rainbow sheep as they found it racist or discriminating. LMAO! RAINBOW SHEEP? What's this, gay (sheep) pride week? But seriously, the rhyme was around in the medeival ages, long before most Europeans or Brits probably even knew of the existence of black people... Chances are the reason that you can't shear the black sheep is because it's part of the sheep shearer quest. People doing the quest need the black wool, the white wool is for whatever regular stuff wool is used for. And one could argue that Jagex was being rascist by NOT having black sheep in the first place. But as someone said...

I'd stick with them being stupid. I could probably make my own set of armour easily enough, without spending nearly that much...besides, once someone uses it for the diary, its not like they need it anymore. The 450k exp is from the new quest; you see, you must beat the fremnik diary for the new quest, which gives 450k combat exp, cept summon. It'd take time to get armour, but more time then it'd take to get that amount of money...

Almost every day, if I play. Commonly use it to go to edge (even though I have like 28 glories..) and other places. Altar, teleport rooms, mini-obelisk, barrow repair room and house glory are all right by the entrance.

Because you shouldn't be a level 3 who only got 99 slayer with soul wars and recoils that's why. What's the point in 99 slayer if you can't kill any slayer creature whatsoever because your a level 3? And maybe Duradel still has a cape. It's not only level 3 skillers, anyone with a combat level lower than 110 can't get those (what about those untrimmed Slayer cape fanatics? I'm sure they deserve the cape atleast as much as anyone else with 99 Slayer). And skillers probably had a much harder time getting 99 Slayer than others, I believe they deserve it too. Lastly, any 99 skill deserves it's cape for 99K gp, not other requirements added in. Edit: Lol... (That still means 15 Strength is required though...) I see absolutely no reason whatsoever to assume you need 110 combat to talk to her and/or purchase the cape. Question: if you need 110 combat to purchase the cape from her, wouldn't a level 3 slayer already of been obsolete because, according to that logic, you already needed 100 combat to talk to her? Also, someone pointed out that a level 3 can't do wgs. Therefore, Duradel and his cape might still be in Shilo?

First day of the clue fest was easy....but by the end...it was fricken hard. And I hate to admit this, but after the 2nd clue, I didn't figure any more out on my own :/ Oh, and something worth remembering: people who have positive thing to say about updates, are usually off enjoying updates rather then talking about it. There has been one update is all of RS that I actually went to the RS forums to show my appreciation for it; however, that doesn't mean that I haven't enjoyed any other updates. I'm really loving all these new quests, for one. As for the first article...clues solved by the entire community are always solved extremely quickly. I don't think Jagex is capable of stumping an entire community. And short of putting guides to everything in the game on the RS forums, they won't render places like Tipit obsolete. People like their calculators and quest guides. (And the questhelp thing isn't a true guide, more of a "if you get really stuck" tihng. Afterall, you can only use it to reveal something once a day.) The problem is 90% of rants there are knee jerk reactions to something the ranter knows very little about. If your lucky this is backed up by speculation on why this will ruin RS. RC'ing for example: many rants were about how it made 91 runecrafting pointless. I'm pretty sure it didn't, and in any case they didn't know that at the time of the rant. The other problem is that there are almost no compliments to balance the rants out, because as I said people who like updates usually play them, it's the people who don't like them who are vocal. Personally I found the thanksgiving event a lil boring and was disappointed by the lack of reward. But I really don't care that much.

Those are icefiends you're referring to. I hope your lying, because I really thought I was fighting waterfiends the entire time.... My pathetic attempts to solo Graardor work much better now with these prayers. Before I could only get one kill, if I was lucky, before I ran outta food. Now, I got two kills! Barely..... But the point is I had more then enough supps for the first kill. And I was just using sap melee with deflect melee. Deflect prayers aren't that much better then normal prayers, the damage they deal is quite minimal. Still fun to use. I also like how all these prayers have animations. Well, most.

Theoretically yes, as the "artifact" or whatever, that drains your prayer is gone... But I somehow doubt it. Don't forget the elven and fremnik prophecy. Wonder how well these deflect prayers will work on Jad? That actually prevents mages from being raped because they can't use their spells. Thanks, i was always hitting 0`s. I`ll try with stab. I killed all the creatures there with a whip....

I think it's a good question - where do we stop when we start adding other non-British holidays into the game? But I don't expect them to start adding every holiday under the sun. I think if they were to try and add other events in from other countries, they would keep it as non-religious as possible. I don't see a problem with it really, and apparently with how the Forum server crashed thanks to all the activity for the Thanksgiving event - nobody else does either :P I've touched in the past with an article on how things other-then-anglo-american should emerge in the game, and more importantly which... I've pointed out in it that if they want to touch on religion (they kind of do already with christmans and easter of course) that they might want to add in Jewish holidays... Hah! Christmas and Easter has long since ceased to be a truly religious and/or Christian holiday. 90% of Christmas is about Santa Claus and lots of presents, which has nothing to do with the Christian holiday meant to celebrate Christs birth. Actually read a depressingly true comment about how "Jesus' birthday is also forgotten about in the Christmas excitement" or something. Same with Easter. How do chocolate eggs and Easter bunnies in any way relate to Christianity? P.S. Sorry if this causes off-topic discussion.

Articles were pretty good....I think a lot of high level RC'ers overreacted with the update, although Jagex should extend the curve so that you can say get 3+ nature runes past 91. Maybe 2 blood/death runes per ess at 99 and 3 nats at 99? Maybe...

They make perfect sense. You just gotta think about it. At least the first one was easy. Today's giving me a bit of trouble, although I think I have them all but the first item.

I wonder if the total time played is a good idea. It's rather depressing tbh.

Well, depending on the exp rates, maybe the new spells aren't crap. Damagewise though, 95 to hit 28, that's crap. I feel stupid for arguing with you, but have you ever realized there is more then Runescape then updates. You make it sound like updates are the only thing you're interested in, in this game. There is so much more! BTW, people with a positive attitude are also a lot happier then those with a negative attitude. You should try it sometimes. The problem is not about level of enjoyment for playing the game, but it is a question of what the hell we are paying for. If you buy Oblivion for Xbox360, it comes with a set ammount of things to do. You pay for the game, you get the game, you pay a limited amount of money, and get a limited amount of game. With a game that requires a subscription fee, you obviously are paying for more. It isn't like you can spend 30 bucks, and get to play RS for as long as you want to. You pay for it. Why? Because it is expected that more work is going to be continually put into the game. What Libs feels is that the amount of work and inginuity displayed by Jagex is rather lack-luster, and Jagex could afford to be providing a better quality of service for our continued payment for this game. Hell, Team Fortress 2 is a 20 dollar game with no monthly subscription fee, and although the team does not update it on an extremely regular basis, they have provided amazing additional content AND bugfixes to the game. For no additional money per month. A million players give Jagex 6 dollars a month and well, sometimes you just have to wonder where it all goes. Either they are profiting like bandits or they are overpaying their employees for the quality of innovative thinking. But then what is this? Isn't this an update? I don't see the complaint of "no big updates". She said this month is horrible. In the exact timeframe of a month, we got: Duel tournaments rework (huge update IMO, finally I can play it again), Ardy diary, anti 76K'ing, Helloween, RSC classic, new champions, new hairstyles, adventure logs, new spells, extreme potions back to some safe minigames and an RC update. Of course not everything appeals to everyone, but that seems like some impressive and big game changing updates to me. What do you want to be satisfied? A WGS like quest or new god dungeon every month? That would be rather nice XD Btw how exactly have the Duel Tournaments been re-worked again? Only time I went there was for a week to rank it. I don't think there are many people who got membership this month because someone trying to get into their pants gave them a membership card. XD But I see your point. Did you use the scroll to boost your magic level or just have it summoned? They might have removed it from the equation as not to make 92 summoning the cheaper extreme magic potion as well as disallowing it in PvP. I'm using a wolpertinger + scrolls at rock lobsters at the moment, I've hit a few 25's with ice burst so I can confirm wolpertinger does work. Also, +10 from extreme mage seems a bit overpowered. Spellbook swap/ice barrage at 84/86? I think it is pretty balanced at the moment, both 92 summ and 91 herblore are pretty hard to get. Like you said, 91 herb ain't easy to get, so I don't mind someone with lower magic level then me using spells I can't because they have 91 herby. No. Jagex wouldn't make something like that. Also, Jagex can't be like "oh, well your magic level is boosted, but because a WOLPERTINGPER (or w/e it is, sorry about spelling) gave you the boost. Oh, you can hit +5 more damage with DBA spec vs super str pot because DBA gave the bonus." No. The bonus is a bonus that affects stuff. Sorry if that came across as a little obnoxious. You didn't get what I meant. I meant that I heard of some people that the extreme mage pot's extra damage only applied on one enemy (in this case one rock lobsters), meaning all other 8 rock lobster got hit by a regular burst (with a max of 22). Not sure if it is still like that cause this was what it was like (according to these people) BEFORE the update. Oh. Um. Maybe.

There are some people who play who have exhausted all of the content they are interested in. After a while RS gets boring and you DO start running outta things to do. Takes a while. But it can happen. And don't say "get every 99 then." because that is extremely boring repetitive grinding in my books. That being said, I'm happy with what I have now, although I wouldn't mind a nice new quest. A nice one.

I don't think there are many people who got membership this month because someone trying to get into their pants gave them a membership card. XD But I see your point. Did you use the scroll to boost your magic level or just have it summoned? They might have removed it from the equation as not to make 92 summoning the cheaper extreme magic potion as well as disallowing it in PvP. I'm using a wolpertinger + scrolls at rock lobsters at the moment, I've hit a few 25's with ice burst so I can confirm wolpertinger does work. Also, +10 from extreme mage seems a bit overpowered. Spellbook swap/ice barrage at 84/86? I think it is pretty balanced at the moment, both 92 summ and 91 herblore are pretty hard to get. Like you said, 91 herb ain't easy to get, so I don't mind someone with lower magic level then me using spells I can't because they have 91 herby. No. Jagex wouldn't make something like that. Also, Jagex can't be like "oh, well your magic level is boosted, but because a WOLPERTINGPER (or w/e it is, sorry about spelling) gave you the boost. Oh, you can hit +5 more damage with DBA spec vs super str pot because DBA gave the bonus." No. The bonus is a bonus that affects stuff. Sorry if that came across as a little obnoxious.

Wow, that's a surprise. What's a suprise? Me calling out another skint update? I'm not trying to bust on it. I'm calling a spade a spade. Sure it's nothing awful, but it's a fairly minor update. Just more tweaks and patches really. And yeah, it's been four weeks of low end updates. Am I the only one who thinks this? I'll put it like this as far as the update. If you look at things on a monthly basis, and I do because that is how we pay for the game, that would be four weeks for updates. If you look at the past four weeks and grade these updates, it's been a very, very weak month on that level. I think of anyone who may have gotten their members for these four update weeks and that's where I tend to look at it and feel bad for people who have payed for membeship. This also is only concerning updates made to the game, not the game already in. Why are you always on me about this? Should I start criticizing you every time you mark out for some crappy update? How about you do me a favor? Put me on ignore and I'll put you on ignore so we can go ahead and not have to associate with each other anymore? If you've just become a new member this month, you still have years of membership stuff to catch up on. Something most people who say that forget. However, I do agree, it's been a pretty dry month. Forgot about the mace... But my point stands valid, you still have to use a god-based staff (mace in this case) and the power is simply borrowed from gods, not harnessed by yourself, thus making the level req. lower. Oh, OK, in that case let's make a quest where the reward is being spiritually linked to the Stone of Jas, giving you a level 70 spell that lets you hit 60s. I mean, it's alright as long as it's not our own power, amirite? If it was may choice I'd make such a quest, really, but with insane other lvl req's and drawbacks, but unfortunately I do not decide what quests shall be created. And yes such quest would be extremely epic, thanks for the idea, i noted it for future referance. I think he was just poiting out the flaw in your logic. Whatever storyline idea behind it, point is at 80 magic you can hit higher then the spell at 95. Ohhh and you need 37 prayer to make the mage training arena easier. If you can get 80 magic you can get 37 prayer. I think Jagex should make a non-pvp spell that hits like 40 or 50. I'd love something that would make PVM non-cost prohibitive. I mentioned a few ideas already. Yes, you and metoo1000 are right. What I meant to say with my Slayer post is how it would be if the game was LOGICAL (I like this word alot if you may have noticed), but it is not. Considering real life, let's say you're a novice hunter and begin hunting elks. Those things are huge and slow, so they're an easy target and you hit them very often with your rifle. Now, try to hunt ducks that are flying above. You will be extremely terrible at hitting them, but that does NOT mean you will NEVER hit them. You will just be very inneficient and waste alot of bullets for each duck hunted, but you are still able to hunt them... As you practice on elks more, your aiming improves, and when you decide to hunt ducks again you could possibly hit them all the time. This is how RS would work if it were logical, but it is not, you cannot hunt red chinchompas AT ALL until you hit the level, not hunt them very poorly like would happen if RS was like real life. In the context of RS, your idea of being able to slay the monsters better if you're above their required level, or get better drops, is really good. Video games are illogical. Health bonuses, found in most games. If video games were logical, there wouldn't be any sort of hp boost or level boost or anything, the only thing would be skill with your character. There are a few games like this (Halo I think, not that I play it much, and fighting games.) Fantasy games are illogical with the concepts of levels and new skills at higher levels and food healing...(Not just RS here btw.) 11 pages to read though...sorry for the double post

Personally, I was thinking of ice barrage at 94, hitting 30 along with freezing and multi target ability. But yes, at 80 you can hit 30 with the normal spellbook. The only kind of advantage of these spells is that they have cheaper rune costs. EDIT: Not really. Still, I long ago decided that battlemaging on monsters was almost entirely cost-prohibitive. At least on 90% of monsters. And magic doesn't hit that high to begin with, compared to melee and range. well, depending on the spell, but it's still really cost prohibitive. Battlemaging, except for some bursting/barraging for expensive exp, and pvp, is dead. I want a change that allows you to kill monster with magic without it being extremely cost prohibitive. Maybe a slayer or monster only spell that hits high with mind or chaos runes? Or (controversial idea) have all runes use the same multiple rune per essence levels that air runes do. Just some ideas. Pros and Cons to them all. Oh, and maybe give give wave spells to F2P....but AFTER they make combat magic effective in PVM.

So obviously you guys are short of things to publish. Just trying to be helpful here, what if you went back to the original way of only publishing one article a week (or at least one MAIN article, some articles aren't strong enough to stand on their own...like fiction, because no offense, but a lot of people don't read them) And um....yeah.

I hope I can get a champions challenge now, and unlock all the damn songs -.- Always kill some earth warriors after bork, and the occasional imp - but I still sometimes wonder if the champions challenge is just a big huge conspiracy.....

If you ask me, you don't need advanced economic studies to realize that PVP generates a lot of GP to put in the economy. And on general principle, mass inflation does nothing but make some people poor.