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I super pot on all tasks even though some don't require super def. I use all my specials with either SGS or DDS when fighting dragons. All prayer tasks are done with zammy brews and super str with pray pots and holy wrench. All non-prayer tasks are done with the 5% str prayer when I have enough pray points left. After a task is over, I use up all remaining prayer points and specials, then tele lumbridge for fast pray recharge and head over to shilo.

I agree with skills having huge gaps and Jagex not filling them fast enough for my taste.

I don't have the same opinion on the matter and like you said, you should stop playing a game when it's not fun anymore, but there are 2 points of your post that require adjustments. In 2007 when the peak players was at 200K, there were countless bots and goldfarmers. That number was inflated because of that fact. The simple mention that GP is made worthless is very thin and short-sighted. Some items have been given a weird fix with the latest update, but nothing ground breaking worth saying GP are now worthless.

No hostility in there, it's just my usual way to reply to kiddies.

Summoning is at the moment a unique skill that requires both money and time investment to level. If you take out time investment, you get another generic skill. Charms are fine the way they are and it would be a pretty bad move to put them on the market. I wouldn't mind other ways to get charms, but trading is not an option from my perspective.

It's probably pretty useful for new players and it's a nice change to the standard arrow. Oh and by the way, looking back at your opening post, I think it's a good thing that Jagex babysits you.

People have every right to rant and blame all they want. Your analogy to parents giving me life is pretty thin. Let's say my parents beat me up during my childhood, I can't blame them for having mental problems because " hey they gave me life!". I might not share Me_Hates_Libs point of view on a lots of things and certainly hate it when he just rants for ranting, but whenever he rants with facts and arguments, I don't mind because he's got a lot of good points and some of Jagex moves are worth ranting against. Lastly, it looks like the OP is pretty young judging from his argumentation, wrting style and use of smilies , if that is the case, sorry if I hurt your feelings, if that's not the case... you really should bag on your parents!

A tie between cooking and fletching for me, but strenght is up there, too many to be "admirable". Top capes from my perspective : Rc, mining and agility. I can't stand training those skills for long periods of time so I "admire" players who have achieve 99 in those skills. I'm tearsing and circusing my way to 99 Agi slowly, Lamping and penguining RC to 99 and dark beasts rune mining my way to 99, I expect to never reach those levels!

I prefer geting rune scimmy as a drop as I can get more cash from them. Never used either of them in the last 4 years though...

I got 99 attack at about the same time I got 85 slayer back in 2006. I probably got it on an abyssal demon camping there the first week or so. I ended up getting all melees and hp at 99 quickly after that. Took me 3 years to get my other 99, slayer during the 2008 december holidays, 99 ranged while slaying/cannoning in february and magic during the last month after getting a couple of brawlers from PVP. My next 99s are probably farming (when the prices will drop a bit), cooking (I need about 3k more monks from fishing to get that awesome cape) and fletching (made 200k addy bolts from smithing and training in lvl 1 wildy is very rewarding). Grats on your lvl by the way, the first 99 is always special.

I used to cut eucalyptus, but I'll have to check the prices next time, as yews can be better depending on the market.

they are not awesome xp, they have pretty high def.

Grammar and date the poster joined are two big factors. Their name also, whenever I see pure or pker, I know I'm not gonna be on the same side of the fence as them as I don't pk at all. Whenever I see leet speak, netspeak, lots of smilies, I usually know I'm not arguying with someone my age. If their are being way too confident about their poor arguments, I'll start to be condescending, if not, I'll try to make them understand.

While I love my slayer rings, they cost a ton! Getting one ring from the slayer rewards is the equivalent of paying around 10K GP per tele (opportunity cost of runes). While getting the ability to craft them makes up for it in the long run, you have to support the opportunity cost of around 850K when getting that ability. Every ring cost after that around 200 gps for the gold bar. Using 1000 rings = 1.05Mil cash spent and opportunity cost for 8000 teleports. An average teleport will cost 131 gps if you use 1K rings. For the average player that will probably use only 100 rings, every teleport will cost on average 1.088K gps... For the player that plans on getting the ability to "complete" the game and will use only 10 rings, the averaged cost of a teleport will be : 10.65K gps... I find it worth it, but so far I've already used 80+ rings... I will only be satisfied at 150+ rings used.

34Mil xp HP and I have never gotten a left half. I don't care about the price, I just want one as it is a rare and probably one of the hardest to get as a drop is very impredictable. All those 20K+ numbers I believe, the 250-300 number is probably the result of a brain bubble.

getting a 3rd pouch and a dose of summoning potion can be useful too.

From hat I heard a couple times here, Armadyl is better against high defence monsters and void is better against low-mid defence monsters. You need the accuracy of Armadyl against high defence and void has better xp rates when your natural ranged accuracy is high enough to hit most of the times.

Finding parralels with real life is easier when trying to explain human behaviors. People are usually not analyzing their gameplay scientifically. You will see a lot of people claiming the Ring of Wealth doesn't work based on 2-3 drops they have gotten in quick succession without wearing one, while a thorough testing could have shown that these specific drop were a fluke and wearing a ROW would have made them more cash in the long run (this is an example, I haven't done this test). This is called selective interpretation: claiming something based on a feeling or a limited sample. Most people need an anchor to support their beliefs. It's not everyone that's willing to analyze through statistics and mathematics the machanics of this game. Making up fairy tales is a lot faster and simpler to actually look for a real answer.

Lots of cash on a nice account... very impressive. One of the best account I've seen in a couple months. Right up there with the maxed out accounts and BoB of around 500M to 1B.

Both these statements are true. What matters following that is the player's point of view and what his/her objectives are. If getting a high combat is important for pvp or monster hunting from that player's point of view, slayer is not the way. If getting all skills to 99 in the fastest possible way is the objective, that player should slay his combat levels.

I see people believing in lots of made up fairy tales IRL, I don't expect it to be that different in RS.

Guthan's special will sometimes heal yuou while hitting 0. this is probably due to the strength roll.

Here's my theory on attack bonus. Every time you take a swing at your opponent, a random number is generated by the game. this number is between (including) 0 and (your attack level X activated prayer X black mask/slayer helmet/void/salve amulet bonus) + your total equipment bonus. Let's say this adds up to 235. At every swing, a number between 0 and 235 is generated by the game. Your opponent also gets a randomly generated number from his ( defence level X activated prayer) + total equipment bonus. Let's say this adds up to 435. If the attacker gets a higher number than the defender, a successful hit is registred, BUT it then depends on the randomly generated number from (str lvl X activated prayer X black mask/slayer helmet/void/salve amulet bonus) + total equipment bonus. Let's say this adds up to 265. Any number higher that 0 will result in a damaging hit, while getting a 0 even if the attack was succesful will result in a 0 damage hit. The max hit will happen when you get that max number (or most likely the last 3-4 highest number) while also getting a hit. This is mostly like rolling dices for those familiar with D & D.

Multi combat zones are pretty sweet for cannon and combat familiars... I wouldn't write them off because you met a kill stealer.

I wouldn't call them my heroes, but they are or were players that I would sometime look up on the highscore or read up on the forums. RS "heroes" - Zezima - S1acker - N0valyfe - Gertjarrs - Kingduffy1 - Skateenjoi - Aasiwat - Youloveme - Yogosun - Zarfot - Empror1 Community "heroes" - Duke Freedom - Zarfot (he alone made me go back to the RSOF only for his guides) - Compfreak/Deviledegg ( the forums are less alive without you around) - Jard Y Dooku - Queltar (too bad he kinda quit and thruthscape became a breeding ground for Anti-Jagex sentiments)