Everything posted by Zaaps1
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What 99 do go for...
Can be getting well over 130k xp/hr Blackjacking, maybe even near 180k, but I don't clearly remember Blackjacking's rates at the lower levels. But of course, Plunder is much more enjoyable. Still, you should turn to Blackjacking every once in a while to pick up on the extremely quick xp.
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Training crafting 70-75
1. Varies greatly. I personally recommend green dragonhides since the speed is too good to pass up, especially when it doesn't cost TOO much. You could also Superglass Make, which profits. In all honesty, those are the only 2 options I would consider. 2. Superglass Make, as said above, profits. 3. Dragonhides. 4. Superglass Make Just buy the dragonhides, it's well worth it.
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[Updated 9 Dec] Reviving Smithing : Divinite
I think that's actually a little too short given the fact that there is no penalty for it.
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What 99 do go for...
Willows/Pineapples wouldn't cost very much at all, plus you have 24 hours between full tree runs to make it all back. From 83-99 farming, I actually ended up with MORE money than I started with. Trust me, you may not have the money now, but you won't run into any money problems.
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What 99 do go for...
A better option would be steam/smoke runes. You could get 99 magic. It's not really a "combat" skill in the way you could train it (although the best way would be bursting rock lobs). You should try to raise your farming. Your level isn't very high now, but if you keep up the small tree runs here and there, it'll be high enough that you'll consider it for a real 99 goal. If you went into "full trotle" right now, you could get 99 farming in ~4 months. Seems long, but consider that you only need 15 minutes of effort each day. That means you'll have 99 farming in just 8 hours of effort! Compare that to one of the next fastest 99s, ranged, which is 60-70 hours! Seems like a sweet deal, if you can remember to do your 15 minutes of work each day. Because it's so spread out, you should have no trouble with "boredom", just with "impatience" :P
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Monster huntin'
Optimal stats? 99s all around are, of course, the optimal stats :P But the minimum efficient stats, you mean to say? If you're going for a team, the best minimum stats are whatever it takes for you to get a good team. Don't bother yourself getting 90+ melees if 85 melees will already get you accepted. This being said, getting 70 prayer is ABSOLUTELY VITAL, since I've yet to see a good boss hunting team with a member under 70 prayer. For solo Bandos, 90s in melee (without a high summoning level for Titans/Unicorn, you'll want 95s) and 80-90 magic should suffice. DKS is well over 1m per hour, and is far, far more if you have a Pack Yak. At the moment, you can easily slay KBDs and Moles. KQ is probably also in the picture and you could even kill a few CEs if you wanted. Mithril Dragons can also provide a decent challenge.
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25-Nov-2009 - AoG - Single-Player Campaign
Crossing the Salve was ridiculously easy. There was absolutely no opposition at all. Quite honestly it was a joke, Hallowglade was harder. So far, I've found Mort'ton to be the hardest, but primarily because Saradomin is guaranteed more resources than you in the beginning of the game. I've yet to complete the last two missions (or start them), but we'll see. Would it be better to have a Black Knight or Greater Demon with Vampyric Blood?
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crash!
Lehman Brothers, and no that wasn't the only reason. Plenty of other big businesses failed, coupled with overinvestments and house "flipping". On topic: It's a natural cycle. You can expect a bubble forever. It has to burst.
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Tds soloing
4. I've always used a Rune c'bow with broads. If you use a Crystal Bow, you must bring two and employ the "crystal bow trick" so that your main bow stays at 10/10. 5. Do you have a Titan or Unicorn? If so, you could probably use ppots + Rocktail, but otherwise I'd recommend brews + restore. 7. You can get back in 4-5 minutes, leaving a lot of room for error. In short, yes. For this reason, TDS are actually one of the safest boss monsters to kill since you are practically guaranteed your items back unless you lose internet connection ENTIRELY. Now, this doesn't mean they are EASY, but it means they are relatively SAFE. 8. Verac helm is undeniably better, although Neitiz is far more cost effective. This, of course, is assuming you don't use Void.
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Editing mp3's?
Audacity is good. You could also try Gold Wave, although you'll have to take the free trial.
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[Updated 9 Dec] Reviving Smithing : Divinite
It would be fair if the curse took a long time to wear off. If you could only switch armors once or twice during a CW game, it wouldn't matter very much.
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Drop Rates
No, it is accurate, but it's not guaranteed. There's a difference. The "drop rate" of d claws, if it is 1/275 as you said, means that if you kill tons of tormented demons you will get one roughly every 275. It DOES NOT mean you will get one every 275. A rate is an average, not a standard.
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Pokemon Thread
If you're doing that, why are you passing to Relicanth instead of Lucario? Also, your strategy is fairly easy to stop even if you pass it. Relicanth comes in on an attack, sub is broken (assuming you even set one up). You take out something, then you get revenge killed by priority. Even a neutral CB STAB Technician Bullet Punch from the ever common Scizor should be able to take Relicanth down. Focus Sash can put a thorn in your side, especially if you're leading with Ninjask since that means you likely don't have SR up. I agree. Better off passing to something like Standard Sweeper Lucario or Infernape w/ Mach Punch. Although I think he's making the point that Relicanth can hit harder than both of them. I'm not entirely sure about that.
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[Updated 9 Dec] Reviving Smithing : Divinite
Not sure what you mean on the "doesn't work on PvP" bit, but that's a good idea.
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Powermining f2p
Sonic, that only works on worlds that are nearly full, and only if someone doesn't try and crash your spot (which they will... :wall: ). With a less populated world, you get lower Xp rates (22k - 25k per hour on a world that's less than half full). As Zaaps1 said, three rocks no more than a couple of steps apart work best. Since the run energy/rest update, you can run back and forth all day without depleting run energy and still make 30k Xp an hour on a world with 700-800 people on it. Best go on a world with 1.4k people on it if you can get a "triangle" of iron rocks, or the closest thing to a "triangle". I've found that is the optimal population, balancing the iron's respawn time with average dropping time.
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Mining
Alright, personal choice. But I was only mentioning that granite is faster than the 5xp/hr stated earlier. Regardless of your method, you should mine stars for the great xp and money when you get the chance, and I also recommend changing to Concentrated Ores when you can, as I mentioned above.
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Living Rock Caverns
World 84, ~40k xp/hr, Concentrated Gold.
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Mining
Granite will probably net you 50-60k xp/hr, and if you're good you can get above 70k per hour. So iron is MUCH slower and I heavily recommend granite. Of course, at 77/80, switch to Concentrated Coal/Gold.
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Powermining f2p
Any place with 3 close iron rocks will suffice. Rimmington and Al-Kharid work, as said above. Locations such as Hobgoblin's Mine and Edgeville Dungeon also work, to an extent. I have calculated that over 42k xp/hr is POSSIBLE, but extremely unlikely. You will most likely get 30-35k xp/hr, as Kaida said above.
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Pokemon Thread
Heart Swap isn't "disable" in the sense that the move is broken (such like the item Soul Dew is "broken"), but because Shoddy can't get the move to work accurately. Manaphy belongs in ubers imo. Hydration + 100 base stats under rain + Tail Glow is pretty deadly.
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Two unrelated questions (farming and mining/smithing)
1) Allotments are either too slow or too expensive to effectively farm at higher levels. However, if you want xp, go with watermelons (they're something like 12gp/xp though, so it's probably better just to upgrade your tree runs). If you want low cost/profit, go with strawberries/sweetcorn. 2) I personally sell it, since SC hammers + Adamant bars is superior over Smelting Gold w/ Gauntlets.
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Tips for fighting goraks?
If you so chose, you could also bring a cannon for extra damage. Or, you could even do the whole cannon + range + safespot deal and get the task done even quicker.
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26-Nov-09 Thanksgiving & Community Event (UNTIL DEC 7TH)
I checked and none of the 4 floors has anything.
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26-Nov-09 Thanksgiving & Community Event (UNTIL DEC 7TH)
German one is something about a cold game, but again the last word isn't even real.
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26-Nov-09 Thanksgiving & Community Event (UNTIL DEC 7TH)
How did they figure that out? :s