Sir_Squab

rofl...too true. What Jagex REALLY needs to do is make a pvp minigame where the effectiveness of stats aren't random, make the combat triangle more effective, etc etc. Btw has anyone ever tried just FULL Ah with shadow spells from ancient spellbook? Mage attacks that lower attack and strength...Would be much more viable if ahrims staff could cast ancients.

I just read the first page, some of the previous page, and got annoyed at the stupid prayer debate. People like you are the type of people I hate. You have no right to tell people how to play their game. If you want to play a game with RS style pk'ing, MAKE ONE. ONLY THEN can you tell people how to play the game. One thing I agree with though, is that there needs to be some PK area where you are skulled and cannot use protect item prayer. And that 3 item pk'ers in old wilde asking you to attack them is kinda pathetic... How it works is simple - if Jagex puts purposefully puts something in a game, it is every players right to use it. People who disagree with this are generally are just sore losers. If a person uses a game feature that you don't, and wins because of it, you should learn from this player and use this feature next time instead of complaining about it's existence. This is about more then prayer too...I just think of all the people with superior stats at FOG I beat simply because I choose to run and hide, instead of standing there and taking it and letting them use their superior stats to win... Not that there's thatmany...

For all the complanining I've seen about the ge... Scamming - intentional or not - is gone. I would much rather dump money into the ge and do something then try to get on world 2 to buy something. There are no need for middle men - middle men buying say big bones in small quantities, selling in high quantities, or buying something on w2 and selling it on another world...I really admire people who did this, and it really helped out, but IMO an economy is better when these people are not needed... I'm not the defender of all things Jagex, I just like to make people see the other side of things. Something like the ge could NOT work without SOME form of price restriction (allthough 5% is kinda low...) And MOST importantly, for all the complaining I've seen, I don't recall seeing anyone coming up with a solution to the problems of the ge...That didn't break the things the ge fixed. With free trade, free gift giving is possible, (and if somehow implemented in the GE would REALLY f- things up) and would allow easy RWT back. It's still done now, but not nearly as easy as before... I want someone to prove me wrong.

Seeing as virtually ALL my money comes from daily b staffs from Zaff and my kingdom I don't fit into a category...Good article, although one has to wonder how much price manipulation is people and how much is people's reaction. My skilling...I'll spend millions on certain skills, like farming, to level it up, other skills, like smithing, I'll make cannonballs to level it...(This was me beating varrock diaries) And I don't bother with merchanting, because I'd rather have say my guthans in my bank ready to use then try to merchant it and not have a set of guthans to use when I slay. Good article though =P

Considering that (to my knowledge, may be wrong here) most people use high def, the assasin thing wouldn't work well anyways...I found a glitch (I think on low def) where wearing guthix cloak would make my torso and legs invisible...you could still see boots and head though. okay, well mebe not ninja, but mebbe its jagex letting slip parts of a new skill, or mebbe an agility update? or just a secret beta instead of an accident, mebbe its something like the rocks with the words coming out before spirit of summer A low-def only ninja skill? That sounds a bit unlikely...

You do realise that 5.99 a month per member translates into over 6million dollars a month for Jagex, and 72million a year....

One of the biggest reason the prices are going up is because of people getting so emotional about this think "omg armor is going down I'd better sell it before it goes down even more" and "omg food is going up I'd better get it before it gets too expensive" which from an investment point of view is a perfectly stupid thing to do. I expect once the update comes out, armor will go ABOUT back to its previous price, as well as I THINK Godswords going higher then originally, food pots etc being more expensive...But emotions pretty much ALWAYS multiply ANY change in the market. Thats my 2 cents for you. So, who HAS my two cents anways? EDIT: Quote from PVP update thing from Jagex (too lazy to do the whole quote thing) "These drop tables will include "PvP world specific" items like XP-modifying gear, lvl 70+ equipment and new, glorious, short-term but hard hitting gear. " There is a good chance that there WILL be uber amazing armor with like high def bonus then torags AND high str bonus then bandos...AND (after reading PvP world specific) these "amazing" items that are supposedly cauing bandos/arma and all that to go down (ignoring the whole back to school thing) will only be useable on those pvp worlds. I found that article HIGHLY informative btw...I also came back from a 16 day holiday like a week ago and missed Jagex's announcement about pvp updates. Not to mention I've hardly been on rs since then and I don't pay attention to the prices of weapons/armor anyawys... Although if its true I can start skilling more, and training things like herblore without losing 200k per level ^_^

Jagex really needs to completely get rid of those spammy messages. I don't need to be told the my dragon fire shield/potion is working (ironicly, because of the message telling me it works I miss the message saying it's about to run out..or is that just a new message?) and especially when making cannon balls...3 messages every time you use one bar... ON TOPIC: I sometimes kill a few more just because I feel like it...Occasionally on dusties I will kill "just one more" for a d chain, but I stop myself because it's easy to imagine going on like that for hours hoping that the "next one" will be a d chain.

Good articles! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: My wishes...As someone said new temple knight quest would be nice...I'd like to get range/mage prayer armor (ideally green d'hide and mystic type) I'd like Mourning's End Part 3 to come out. And...More acheivement diaries and acheivement diary cape! And (ideally) be able to to have trimmed acheivement/quest cape! :D

My first mil: Part one. I was mining pure ess and some guy had sara cloak. Neither of us had any idea what it was worth...I offer 10k for it...He says 15k, kinda wants 20k...I pay 15k. I wouldnt of paid 20k. My first mil: Part two. Fremnik ilse quest comes out. I die, lose obby shield and cape, come back with quest armor and beat it. My first mil: Part two and a half. I get a rune defender. My first mil: Part three. I'm on world two, have finally saved up for obby shield and cape. I look around, someone offers me black cav for cloak. Bla bla bla. See someone paying 1.25m for black cav *double take* Dangit I shouldve traded cloak for cav...How much is cloak..1.1m you say...Someone buys for 1.1m. WOOT! I decide to skip obby shield because I have rune defender and get whip.

Gets out flamethrower o.O Well this is Runescape so it would be a salamander...

Wow. The retired Tiptit Crew leader has stats under 10. Never saw that coming. Being a skiller/quester, I like spending my time semi-productively on rs...And I'm a complete slacker irl o.O People need to stop juding people on their appearance...First impressions of people make WAY too much of a difference in people's judement. This post has no continuity :P

One thing that annoys me is the whip + fury...I think people should compare whip + glory. "Omg according to tipit calc whip or d scimmy is better!"...According to Jagex, Jad maxes at 97. And from reading this topic, it seems that most people who have actually TRIED this prefer the zerker necklace + obby weapon to d scimmy for str training. A lot of it seemed to be that obby weapons have crush/stab bonus...hmm....New hot-topic? As for controlled on whip.... Somehow between doing barrows and gw I always get my att and def up but not my str, even though I prefer to use controlled. Is it possible that the necklace bonus is to att and str? Void set and black mask and salve ammy is att and str bonus not just str bonus. No, it's not a matter of TIME, the ignorant masses won't realise how good it is/isn't someday unless it turns out to be the BEST option. Unless it is show 111% that it is better then the next alternative. And someone said zammy spear owns all other weapons at waterfiends.... Guthan's Warspear has better crush bonus then Z spear. And if you already have a guthan set...Z spear does have +2 prayer bonus though. OFFTOPIC: Dan, speaking of needing accuracy and why people don't use longswords/b axes if they need accuracy...Back when I had say level 40 att str def I had a scimmy and a longsword.I used my scimmy for moss giants and longsword for lessers because I need the accuracy. Things like this become less of a problem as you increase attack though.

I think part of it is just lack of knowledge...I never really thought of the berserker necklace since it came out. I'll probably end up trying it for str training, see if its better then scimmy.

How is chinning on ape atoll a glitch? Sure, its uber fast exp, but chins and prayer pots arent exactly cheap...And the glitch using chins on "stacked" monsters and getting xp for each stacked monsters has LONG ago been fixed. Again, I'd like to point out how (in my opinion) useless organizing your bank is with a seartch feature.

the ironic thing about the bank tabs and all that...with the search feature you dont need to be organized! wewt! spent about 5 minutes trying to organize..was making a miscilanious section or however you spell that...then decided ill just use search from now on ^.^ EDIT: if you think the rewards are bad... A) IT'S AN F2P DIARY WHAT DO YOU EXPECT THERE ISN'T EVEN A HARD CATEGORY FOR IT GET OVER IT :P B)It's the only ring in the game with a prayer bonus. Cabbage tele is very fun to use and usefull to farmers. Having an equippable alch thing is nice, even if it is low alch. EDIT2: When something like item lending comes out, and you are capable of lending stuff thats worth over 100m, you have to expect rumors like this to happen. You also must remember that Jagex will have thouroughly tested this so people CAN'T make millions or billions of it. Hard to say either way if it happened. I personally don't think rares should be lendable, and I'm not sure aboug AGS/SGS and uber expesnive items in general. Maybe jagex could change appearence of lended items or something? And have a way to lend items for money somehow? And has anyone else but me noticed that the battle mage hood is GREEN? At least it was in my bank, MIGHT still be purple when I equip it. The rest of battle mage is normal colored.

Good read! :thumbsup: Although it sounds quite similar to the last article. I'd have to say, since my best friend quit rs (he wasn't very into it at the time and then died and lost most of what he had, causing him to quit...) the only thing keeping me in rs is my clan. Although I love quests to much to quit rs...If it wasn't for my clan I'd just play rs the day a new quest came out. Possibly only if a continuation of a quest storyline comes out. Rs content lasts you a while...but eventually there comes a time where friends are the main thing. Completely 100% off topic: Does anyone know how to unlock the Bounty Hunter Level 3 song? I was running around high level bounty one day but I couldn't unlock it -.-

*sigh* I remember the good days when Glienor was a vast, unexplored place... Talks like this always make me think of the logical song by super tramp, which basicly switches noobness in runescape to, well, noobness in real life then turns it into a damn good song. It also makes me think of the proverb, (can't remember all of it) "It is not the destination, but the journey" Ah the innocence of youth... I feel old when I say that o.O I'm only 16 >.>

You know how a J-mod supposedly posted that this was a complete-able mini-event...I looked a little on forums and saw no J-mod post on this. It's possible that I missed it but...I personally think the J-mod post is just a rumour. After reading everthing everyone has tried, I am POSITIVE this is either just something to make the wilde a little spookier, or a half-released new-mini quest or quest. I urge you not to beleive a J-mod has posted something on this unless you see the post.

Very interesting.. I don't think it has anything to do with the Devourer, because she's too desert related...Maybe something to do with the Mahjarrat...speaking of which, does anyone know where Jagex got the idea for the Mahjarrat from? Because most ideas *are* loosely based off something else.. EDIT: I've been at the place a few minutes now, and got nothing. Going to stay a little long to try and get something....Do you think it's been removed the same way lumbridge diary stuff was removed? EDIT2: Nvm...I was looking in the graveyard of shadows, not the ruins north of there where it happens. The few screenies of people talking to the invisible ghost there messed me up.

All diaries ftw :D Evil stews are FTW used it for smithing (smithed c balls for most of the exp cause I'm cheap) Spent like 2.5m on 67 farm for it. Waiting for the next diary :D

That'd be cruel. They didn't say a word about it going to be members' only. As someone pointed out about fullscreen = no ads, the fullscreen part of it might be members. But the better graphics of it WILL be for f2p.

I started to read the updates, thinking to myself "really controversial updates, major rants, will probably help rs in long run..." Then I got to the top of the list. (Yes, I started from the bottom.) Rs isn't doomed cause of it... only because it doesn't kick in until january. 3k limit? What if someone wants to buy my d scimmy 110K? Or... what about expensive items, where closest you can get is give or take 50k (ones I've dealt with)...More importantly... rares? 3k limit of so called "price" for rares? IF Jagex fixes all grand exchange prices by january and doesn't put it ANYTHING that severely changes price of items then with grande exchange economy wil barely survive... but what better to change prices then a skill? If summoning comes to hunter as smithing is to mining hunter items will be changed.... I doubt a 5% change will be suffice for some items. What (got this example from Queltar I think, from truthscape) happens if theres another change like making dragon axe wc power better then rune? Tripled overnight I've heard... Also... new items... but Jagex probably won't put a price on them untill they stop fluxuating.... I hope... Really worried about how this affects trading... :ohnoes: ...Put something like this in dual arena though, for staking? If stakers can stake mils as long as other guy puts up same amount will help fix it... EDIT: Won't be quitting though, quester for life, and pretty much every quest has unfinished storylines I would like to see finished. EDIT2: Oh yea, I don't like how dying doesn't affect you anymore... Just go back there and get stuff... But on the other hand I DO die... but if you can go back and get stuff why not just make it so you keep items when you die? I know there ARE scenarios where you would lose items but... And there should be 2 clan wars: A non skulled one and a skulled one.

Lortek grats on questcape :D I got one not too long ago... thankfully my friends said grats and havent quit yet so I still play... trying to grind away at getting 4.5mil... A.D.D. is a blessing on runescape I get bored and do something else instead of grinding mosttimes....

I think it's just what your used to. I usually play at 100%, but if I go down to 75%, in 5 minutes 100% looks to bright. Another 5 minutes and I'm used to 50% and 50% is perfect. Another 5 minutes and 25% is perfect.... EDIT: Although certain herbs ARE harder to tell apart from each other at 25%, 50%... avantoe and guam leaf are virtually identical.... Oh, and monks don't look burnt. Burnt monks at 100% are darker then cooked monks at 25%.