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do you mean climbing boots and unlocking achievements (completing tasks)?

nah bud i'm with you. never could stand playing that minigame. and the f2p rewards arent really worth it imo.

dial-up players have different IPs from session to session. how ironic, a dead/old technology posted 4 years later in a dead/old thread. lol irony. gj!

welll i played LOTRO for the first three weeks here in the USA. i got my character up to level 29 and exhausted pretty much the better part of the f2p content by then. I don't reallly see what the long term value is in this game, even for p2p. all the quest are either "kill x" or "kill x until u get item Y". that gets boring really fast. aside from combat, ur character can only practice 3 other skills that can be either resource gathering and processing. those can be gone through pretty quickly as well. and not to mention that they seem to shove stuff that you have to pay for in game down ur throat. such as getting access to the auction for for 5 bucks, or get access to a horse for 3 bucks. that is pretty much the opposite of how jagex views their f2p. pretty much after 3 weeks, i came back to rs because i still have llong term f2p goals to accomplish even after 6 years. now compare that to the 3 weeks of content from LOTRO.

yall seem to bee upset about the damgage soaking stuff, but i'm more worried about the Christmas event. jagex better not force players into playing that stupid miinigame in order to do the event. i know they wanted to do something nontraditional, which is ok. but for the love of guthix please dont make me go through one of those lame dungeons. if they make it a group event i might not even do it this year. which is pretty sad consider that holiday events are probably the only reason i play RS anymore.

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2. go train your attack and strength if it is so powerful and be like all the 1000's of immature 12 yr olds with max melee? no thanks, i'll stick with my most favorite and fun skill. That is absurd. Your stubborn refusal to train skills is exactly why you keep dying. It's kind of ironic that you are (probably) older than them and you are actually more "immature" than they are. In your belief that by choosing to suck, and hence blaming the game, you are therefore more mature than they are. :rolleyes: It's not even that heck i dont train skills cause i dont want to, i dont train skills that i find dull and boring (AKA Melee, "dung", and farming). why would i waste time on something that i dont enjoy doing? and also, how does that make me in immature one? :wall: Because you're complaining that something is imbalanced when you had full access to the other components of combat and refusing to use them. You aren't getting all this heat because people actually think the triangle is balanced. Far from it. EVERYONE here knows that melee has the advantage. You're just coming off as too stubborn and close-minded to adapt your gameplay style to take advantage of what you already admitted to be the clearly superior cb style. While I can't possibly see how you find training ranged as any more fun than training melee (In F2P, there's about as much difference as there is between training attack and defence to me at least), I can accept the fact that you may not enjoy doing it and thus won't. However, I can't justify why you're complaining about content you chose not to access. I'm sure plenty of people would want turmoil, extremes, MA rings, chaotic weapons, and the ability to kill stuff like TDS, but they might not want to or "enjoy" putting money/time spent on the skill, minigame, or quest. And you know what? That's their own choice. 1) i'm not refusing to use melee. i just dont want to as there is no fun in it. for example, i have full access to jabbing myself with a fork over and over again, but i dont find that entertaining so why would i do it? if your not playing games for fun then maybe you should check ur priorities. 2) thanks from agreeing that melee is overpowered, and also refer to #1 3) i got 99 range at GWD, had a blast and made some cash doing it. and i can justify why im ranting about melee being overpowered. (see 25+ more range lvls) 4) have fun grinding then. hope its worth it for ya. now lets try getting back on topic here folks. melee owns all at 75/75. f2p range/mage need some help.

2. go train your attack and strength if it is so powerful and be like all the 1000's of immature 12 yr olds with max melee? no thanks, i'll stick with my most favorite and fun skill. That is absurd. Your stubborn refusal to train skills is exactly why you keep dying. It's kind of ironic that you are (probably) older than them and you are actually more "immature" than they are. In your belief that by choosing to suck, and hence blaming the game, you are therefore more mature than they are. :rolleyes: It's not even that heck i dont train skills cause i dont want to, i dont train skills that i find dull and boring (AKA Melee, "dung", and farming). why would i waste time on something that i dont enjoy doing? and also, how does that make me in immature one? :wall:

yup i allready do that. i watched many times where it only hits single digits alot anything 70+ is rare. when both players use the same defense. (tanking + prayer, and rushing to the middle), and the only difference is the attacking style the hunter uses. the melee guy will always beat the range guy within like 100 points. now that is a problem if the melee guy is only 75/75. it doesnt really make sense to argue that the hunted persons stats get reduced, because the other guys stats are also reduced when it his turn to tank. so the effects cancels each other out. @red_fat: that was not nessacary, i have been p2p for about 3 years now. thanks.

2. go train your attack and strength if it is so powerful and be like all the 1000's of immature 12 yr olds with max melee? no thanks, i'll stick with my most favorite and fun skill.

well just lost another close game due to this bug/glitch.

yup, melee really does need to get nerfed. lost way to many close games at fog simply because they can hit higher. would be nice to see all combat styles have the same max hit and damage dealt per minute at equal levels. :wall: then the triangle might be able to be brought into play.

something i have always wanted to see is strength augmenting range like it does for attack. the idea behind this is that if you are a stronger person, you will be able to handle heavier draw wieghts on bows. for example a guy with 99 strength could handle a longbow with a draw wieght of 60 pounds, while a guy with only 1 strength could handle a longbow with a draw wieght of like 20 pounds. having higher draw wieght on bows will increase the velocity on ur arrows and maybe ur max hit. it would be awesome to see a 99/99 range/str f2p guy hit a 250. :) heck I dont know what to do for mages though? jagex is on their own there. lol.

FoG isn't PKing? then what exactly am i playing agains? NPCs? I would spend some time actually becoming skilled at the minigame. i can't play huh? lets get back on topic here. 99 range doesnt down a person as fast as 70/70 melee does when going agaisnt each other. and mage is even worse.

FoG isn't PKing? then what exactly am i playing agains? NPCs?

f2p melee max hit: 249 f2p range max hit: 186 f2p mage max hit: 160 so yeah i play alot of Fog and i always seem to get mowed down by melee ppl. i got 99/80 range/def but for some reason players with 75/75/75 att/str/def seem to be able to beat me alot. most of the time i put on my rune armor and turn on protect melee + steel skin, and they still mange to drop me pretty quick. 100+ damage hits are fairly common. when it is my turn to hunt them down, they turn on protect range and I can't even get a hit above 60. :blink: srsly whats up with that? i get the whole combat triangle thing, but when you got 25 levels in range above their melee's you should be able to beat em. but i guess the f2p combat triangle look like this.... melee>range/mage

Because they almost all died at different times! Meme's don't have to make sence. What is this I dont even i think Corporeal Beast is a pretty cool guy, eh kills players and doesn't afraid of anything.

btw Lord of the Rings Online is going f2p on the 10th. which, ironically is when my RS membership runs out. i'll probaly have to try that out, but will most likely come back.

lolwut?

thought it looked more like a ring myself.

was i the only one who thought the new quest's name is horribly lame? i almost had a head-desk moment when i read the first sentence.

scape original for nostalgia. hate the stupid current "battle theme"

some untrimmed 99 cooking noob at the ectofuntus wow. facepalm.

fixed.