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I haven't played this yet; probably will soon. BA used to be pretty much my favorite minigame; I was a damn good healer, and solid at everything else (didn't att much because of low combat levels/high supply of others wanting to do that). I really like adding the option to put the horn calls on the ability bar; that's gonna be quite convenient. I think it'd be obvious that with the way Revolution works, you can't use it in BA. Just not gonna work well, heh. I don't think that's because of a technical limitation; I think that's to get people used to the changes from this update before taking on hardmode. It makes sense, I think.

Agree. Calling a DDoS hacking is silly. It's like typing your password into a scam site and then saying you got "hacked". I realize that language is a malleable thing that changes a great deal, and I rarely get upset over words taking on a new or different meaning, but in this case? Ugh. No, just no.

As opposed to the two foot piety... :P I'm a little surprised they didn't include some way to make an existing account Ironman, instead of having to start all over. I can see why they didn't, but it's still kind of annoying... I'll have to make my DIY over again, and while I didn't exactly have tons of hours logged on it, it still feels kinda wasteful. I'm also not sure that there's a way to delete an account to recover its name, or if you have to pay for members to change the name before making a new account with it...? Seems a waste to pay a month of membership to just change the name of an account I won't use afterward. (I'll also miss my World Event rewards; no Sacrifice is sadness.) Excited about the Elf City; excited about the grouping update (though I expect it will need lots of work before we're happy with it); rune update sounds very interesting; expert skillcapes sound cool if and only if they are not a comp req. Trim comp... ehh, okay, but not normal comp.

That's about right. "Doxxing" means posting someone's personal information or account info online for all to see; their personal "documents", or "docs", which sounds like "dox", hence "doxxing." Posting someone's address, real name, login info for social media accounts or other websites, family information, where their kids go to school... that all would fall into the category of doxxing. Often this info is posted so that others can use that info - spam them with mail or prank phone calls, leave threatening notes for their kids at school, log into their online accounts and mess with stuff, etc. It's an incredibly immoral thing to do, and I wish it upon no one, not even these folks. I do hope they get arrested and charged appropriately, though.

I think it's also partly because of the background of past and current God Wars. When you've been fighting on and off for centuries, you tend to not be incredibly nice to outsiders.

When I first saw that, I thought it was concept art, not in-game! It's gorgeous, albeit rather bright.

Updated to account for crit > style bonus changes (boy did that take forever), as well as adding the noxious weapons and t90 gloves. Also added special attack descriptions to those weapons that have them. Other significant changes: Korasi's sword has an offhand, and had its stats changed a bit.Enhanced/elite Excalibur has an active instead of a passive (not a spec, right-click>activate when wielded).Because of the crit>style bonus changes, the capes/rings/necklaces and amulets have changed around a bit.Berserker necklace got buffedCrystal amulet, salve amulet (e), and tokkul-zo got nerfed hard.Dragon & chaotic claws got nerfed (no more crit bonus). Now they're just expensive with no real benefit ahead of other weapons of their tier.Dragon maces are now the best 1h dragon weps, because of their prayer bonus (though you may disagree based on specs).Godswords generally got better, as you can choose between their passive and their spec.Phew. That was a big update.

I can't remember the last time I had fun here That's a pretty good sign to do things differently, then.

If you had been about an hour and a half quicker with that post, I could've done that for you. :P Just finished the quest, and while I do think it definitely could've been better, I don't think it was particularly bad. Definitely a missed opportunity, as others have said. Specifically... Overall, I'd give it a B-: okay, but it definitely could've benefited from more time/resources to make it a truly memorable quest. I hope they go back and make some relatively small changes (as opposed to the major quest overhauls like Prince Ali Rescue and Rune Mysteries), but I kind of doubt they will since those would only be relatively small changes and not an entire overhaul. (Also: I like the new look for the elves!)

Another small fix (doing the quest now and noticing things, heh): The map given for 4E: Lady Hefin is slightly incorrect. Image used: Fixed image: In-game screenie of the area: (adding the fairy ring as a reference is handy, IMO, or I can make a version with just a fixed path if you prefer) I'll keep posting here if I find more errors, if that's okay. Should be done with the quest within an hour or two. >Done, and the only thing I'd add is that you should probably mention that a pickaxe on your toolbelt will work, and you don't need one in your inventory. Edit: Actually it's still not *quite* right, one sec... Edit2: There we go.

From section 4f. Lady Meilyr: The sentence I put in bold should be deleted; it belongs in the last paragraph and is repeated there.

Haven't done the quest yet, avoiding spoilers until I feel like srsly playing Runescape again, but I had to pop in because I noticed this: This may be my favorite Ninja-ish update ever. Seriously. (It's not under the Ninja header, but it feels like their sort of thing.) Oh, also: So anyone heading for comp cape who wants to spend as little time div'ing as possible can combine those two reqs to save some time (having it charged and finished for FotG didn't really help that much anyway, honestly).

I feel the need to step in and say that some psychologists are not idiots who try to hold everyone to the same mold. Yeah, those folks absolutely exist, but there are also some psychologists who are fantastic at what they do - meeting their client where they are, figuring out what is important to them and what they want to achieve, and helping them get there. I've been seeing therapists for years, and it took a while to find one who would actually listen to what I needed instead of just assuming they knew already, but once I found one who would work with me, my life took a drastic turn for the better. While I absolutely agree that some psychologists are terrible and shouldn't be allowed to practice, the field as a whole is not without merit. I see a couple folks making some sweeping generalizations that I have to disagree with. Also: There is a big difference between psychologists and psychiatrists. Please don't confuse the two. Psychologists generally achieve changes through behavior modification and talk therapy; psychiatrists generally achieve changes through medication. Psychologists have a PhD, not an MD, and cannot prescribe drugs (in most parts of the US, at least); psychiatrists have an MD and can prescribe drugs. Both are important and useful in their own way. As for the health/happiness of top players (to get a bit closer to on-topic)... It's hard for me to see someone who spends that much time on Runescape as healthy or happy, but it's not really my place to judge that; I certainly can't say it's impossible. I don't think spending time on computer games in general is a uniformly bad thing - it's certainly allowed me a degree of social interaction while in the depths of crippling depression that would otherwise have been impossible, and it's given me something to feel good about when even my body refused to otherwise let me do anything more active. And that's just how it's been for me; I'm sure I'm not the only one in such a position. But more generally, spending time setting and then achieving specific goals that take a great deal of work and effort to achieve... I can't consider that an entirely bad thing. You may not be developing muscles, or creating useful contacts, or earning money, but you probably are developing a certain kind of discipline and focus, learning to set and pursue goals even over long periods of time, even learning some interesting economic theory. And you're still engaging in social interaction, albeit in a markedly different way. It is not entirely without merit. I don't think I would ever attempt to be a "top player" myself, nor could I really recommend it to anyone. But I likewise cannot condemn those who chose to pursue such goals, nor will I feel guilt or remorse over supporting some of them - partly because I cannot be responsible for the actions of others, and partly because I don't have enough information to even truly determine whether or not it has been a net positive or negative thing for the people in question.

I really like this idea, but I feel like it won't happen because it's such a big change from the current & former systems.

Lolwat. Golden mining suit gives +1% xp per piece, and another bonus +1% for wearing the full set. Not wearing the boots sacrifices the set bonus and the boots bonus, for +4% instead of +6%. If you're trying to take into account the extra xp from bonus ores mined from the Varrock armor, that activates roughly 10% of the time when mining gold, so the whole suit would give +6.6%, and the suit minus boots would give +4.4%. As Steph said, the Varrock armor always gives the same xp bonus as the golden mining top if you own both, whether you're wearing the whole set or not. I've absolutely no idea where you're getting your numbers. http://services.runescape.com/m=rswiki/en/Magic_golem_set edit; clearly should of read the original quote. but yeah fors is probably using the full golem set? Which gives a +7% boost to mining success, so you presumably mine 7% more, making the golden suit's xp bonus 7% stronger, so... Full suit bonus: 6% + (.1*6%) + (.07*6%) = 7.02% boost The golem set has no effect without the full suit, so it's that 7.02% xp boost (plus non-aggressive rock creatures!) versus the 4.4% boost provided by wearing golden mining suit w/ varrock armor + silverhawks. Still probably more efficient to be using the silverhawks, still don't know how squel got his numbers.

Blahhh. I was already not looking forward to the bossing that is already required for comp/trim; I'm definitely not looking forward to this in addition to that. Ah well. Not gonna happen soon regardless, so it matters less to me.

Lolwat. Golden mining suit gives +1% xp per piece, and another bonus +1% for wearing the full set. Not wearing the boots sacrifices the set bonus and the boots bonus, for +4% instead of +6%. If you're trying to take into account the extra xp from bonus ores mined from the Varrock armor, that activates roughly 10% of the time when mining gold, so the whole suit would give +6.6%, and the suit minus boots would give +4.4%. As Steph said, the Varrock armor always gives the same xp bonus as the golden mining top if you own both, whether you're wearing the whole set or not. I've absolutely no idea where you're getting your numbers.

I'm definitely not going to argue it's not balanced (I agree, that idea is nonsense), but it is rather annoying at times.

They really should just change it to work when held in inventory as well as when worn.

That is what I am afraid for. Endgame content requires endgame gear? Alert the internet! I want to punch Araxxor to death. The idea is that bosses dropping tier 90 weapons should not require tier 90 weapons to defeat, not that end game content should be punch-able.

So... when Zamorak nearly killed Zaros and Sliske killed Guthix, they just gained a bunch of levels and thus became gods?

I've never actually understood if there was a difference between All and Hybrid. I agree that there doesn't seem to be any reason for both terms to exist.

No, you won't. The only reason you should ever have to re-authenticate is if, for some reason, you think that the QR code or 16 character code got out of your control and might be used by someone else, at which point they give you a new code (they should, theoretically - I haven't tested this out yet, but not changing the code each time doesn't make any sense). You won't have to re-link the authenticator on your computer/smartphone again, no, but you do have to enter the short code generated from the authenticator once a month.

I'd be more than glad to so long as I don't have to give exclusive publishing rights to the Times (I can do timed exclusivity, but I want to keep the rights just in case I want to do something else with it). I would be very surprised if they required exclusive publishing rights to Times articles.