Monday Poll: How efficently do Tip.It guides cover info

[Latinoking]

Tip.It is the best but like it messes in some stuff.

 

 

 

Dynamic Sigs, Price Look-Up, PICTURES in Quest Guide..... etc.

 

 

 

Misplacedme or any other Crewbie who deals with Quests...maybe ask new players to get pics and make guides into sentences?

 

 

 

I don't really care...got full qps.

[Naive]

Option 2, because Tip explains a lot of stuff really well, but there's some certain things not very well described here that RuneHQ explains better. (Prime example to me is the tar distiller for regicide, it didn't make much sense when i checked tip, but runehq described it much more clearly)

 

 

 

Tip.it for life though :

[unkn0wnwarrior]

It has everything I needed for guides, but I chose the second option since it isn't perfect.

[Stone69_Eyes]

i chose the last option, the truth is I love the community at Tip.it but if I ever need any information about RuneScape I use the Knowledge Base.

[Kiyomizu]

Tip.it is my absolute favorite RS help site -- I always use it if I can. That said, I also chose option 2 for those rare occasions when tip.it doesn't help. Normally this is if I need to look up an NPC in another site's database. I also go to Sal's Realm occasionally for alternate strategies and their excellent location guides. However, 95% of the time I am here at tip.it.

 

 

 

And I love the verbose style of the quest guides, myself. I feel that shortening them to a step-by-step would lessen them somehow.

[dvd773]

tip.it is the first rs help site i found when i was stck trying to get milk for cooks assitant! it was easy to understand and had loads of infomation a rs noob needed i havent looked at another site since!

 

 

 

thx tip.it

[Von_Goon]

Tip It covers most of my RuneScaping needs with the exception of street price checks.

 

However when I am truly stuck as a last resort I will call upon the likes of Runehq. :oops:

[bukka626]

I use tip.it for everything besides item prices, I am very pleased with how fast the quest guides are always uploaded, I use them every time. However, due to the lack of some items in the item database and the lack of a market price estimate, I would have to give it 80%.

[Elessar3019]

Because I don't usually get around to updates until at least a week after they came out, the speed at which Tip.it produces guides is fine; I put very efficient. The only thing that Tip.it doesn't have (that I go somewhere else to use) is a market price guide, updated constantly as the prices on the forums change. That would make Tip.it the best RS help site anywhere, IMO.

[bigred]

Hey tip it,I have used your site for at least 5 years.For sure you are the best for Runescape information,its detailed and precise.I wouldn't think of going to another help site,why go against the originals? :thumbsup:

[Evil Pig20]

The only thing I ever use another site or is guides that tell me how to lvl eg.

 

 

 

At lvl 55 hunter train on blah blah until lvl 65 hunter.

 

 

 

That is the only other thing they could have!

[wioneo]

Every aspect of Tip.It is superior to any other RuneScape website that I can think of, except for the quest guides. I usually have sal's realm open at the same time to do quests. It would also be nice to have a local quest experience rewards list :-w

[Kosz]

I picked the 3rd one.

 

 

 

The guides for quest usually take like 2-3 days. And they are so confusing to read, rune hq has them in like 2 hours with pictures.

 

 

 

And for god wars it took like 1-2 weeks for the guide to come out and it was horrible it didn't explain anything. The guide no offense are very disappointing.

[wakka102]

the only downside to tip.it guides are for training skills or hunting strong monsters (like the daggannoths kings or KQ) I believe that information from the Archive of wisdom should be better implemented into the main page guides from here (such as strategies for doing pyramid plunder or killing the KQ).

[jessy87]

the only downside to tip.it guides are for training skills or hunting strong monsters (like the daggannoths kings or KQ) I believe that information from the Archive of wisdom should be better implemented into the main page guides from here (such as strategies for doing pyramid plunder or killing the KQ).

 

 

 

 

 

agree, i also find that tip.its guide to newer skills, like farming not like... RC/slayer are a bit off when it comes to lvling up. i felt when reading through the ranged guide for example it had a very good suggestion on what to do.

[13_19_16]

I went with the majority in choosing the second option. The Tipit guides are decent, but sometimes are slow, not very helpful, or just downright wrong (case in point the GWD guide - I posted some corrections for it nearly a month ago and nothing has been fixed). Compared with certain other sites, there is some obvious room for improvement.

 

 

 

Overall, though, Tipit is still the best :).

[jessy87]

I went with the majority in choosing the second option. The Tipit guides are decent, but sometimes are slow, not very helpful, or just downright wrong (case in point the GWD guide - I posted some corrections for it nearly a month ago and nothing has been fixed). Compared with certain other sites, there is some obvious room for improvement.

 

 

 

Overall, though, Tipit is still the best :).

 

 

 

 

 

it took them 2 years to fix the stats on the granite legs... and 1 of those years the KB was out with stats on it.

 

 

 

so yes, it will probably get fixed but patience is good.

[Wilder_Witch]

In my opinion, the Quest Tips make the quests possible. They are clear, easy to understand, and pretty much cover everything you need to be able to do the Quests.

 

 

 

The only change I would make is to include possible variables that come up- like say for instance on the Frankenstien Dr Quest above Canifis- saying that the grave will be marked and not just ground to dig and "See" if it's a grave would have helped- a little- but even as the tips went I followed it closely and always do when doing a quest-

 

 

 

Thank you for the question-

 

 

 

Wilder

 

aka

 

Rowan Ash

[madison4019]

Tip it stays up whenever Runescape is up. Tip it has

 

the best skills guides of any site by far

 

(imo) and I'm a skiller for the most part.

 

 

 

That said, I find the same weaknesses in the quest

 

guides as have been mentioned already. The

 

recent change to improve this was only

 

a tiny improvement. I have 228 quest

 

points and I keep rune hq and tip.it both

 

up during quests since both usually offer

 

something the other doesn't on the walkthrough.

 

 

 

I also wish Tip it would include more detail on

 

items.

 

 

 

If I could have only one guide during quests it

 

would be Rune HQ but

 

overall, Tip.it is my favorite Runescape site

 

because it generally is superior in most things

 

I'm interested in when I play.

[Nitro_Sycho]

Well I WAS going to say that I use RuneHQ for their equiptment bonus calculator (which is VERY crap tbh)...but now tipit's got it too :mrgreen:

[Transcendent]

I use the quest guides, beastiary, items database, and skill calculators more than anything else on Tip.it.

 

 

 

While most of the time the information is well done and clear, occassionally certain details are left out or something isn't as clear as I would like it to be.

 

 

 

For example, I made a new character recently, and wanted to get through quests quickly and efficiently. On Recipe for disaster, the Skrach "Bone Crusher" Uglogwee: A cooked Jubbly bird section, it mentions;

 

 

 

"Hunt a chompy and pick up its raw meat and use your iron spit on it before you proceed. "

 

 

 

But leaves out the important detail "But don't cook it yet!"

 

 

 

Well, needless to say, I had to go all the way back and kill another chompy, because I had cooked it knowing Rantz wanted it cooked later in the quest. I would like to have been told "But don't cook it yet!"

 

 

 

Other quest guides on Tip.it mention suggested items you might want, like a bag of salt from a slayer master for Icthlarin's Little Helper, but fails to mention you can make your own salt in the quest by evaporating water.

 

 

 

I like things to be spelled out exactly, and if the guide tells me I will need to cook a chompy, but doesn't tell me to wait, I will cook it immediately, and mess up the quest.

 

 

 

If it suggests to buy a bag of salt from a slayer master, I will buy it, but then be frustrated to learn I could have got it free during the quest. I don't want to buy items if I can get them free during the quest.

 

 

 

I know in certain quests I was confused about the instructions, what I was meant to do, something to do with the wording, so I checked another fansite for info, unfortunately I can't remember what specific quests this happened on, but I will sometimes get a clearer idea of what to do by checking two different guides. I know making the Naphtha for Regicide and using the fractional still is one of those tricky things hard to do and hard to explain.

 

 

 

Most of the time, Tip.it gives me information that is accurate and up to date, so I come here first, except for on Clue Scrolls, as I find another site gives clue scroll information in a format I find easier to get the information I want.

 

 

 

I also would rather have an alphabetical beastiary rather than by monster level most of the time, but finding monsters by their level is also very useful at times, and it is possible to search if I do want information on a specific monster.

 

 

 

The only other information I often want is locations on where to find items and monsters, or what drops them most often, and current prices. Sometimes I can find that information, and sometimes I can't.

 

 

 

No site can be 100 percent perfect, but Tip.it does the job better than most, with a few exceptions in which case I do use other sources for that information I don't find here.

[meb]

The only thing the Tip.it guides need are detailed descriptions of the most commonly used leveling methods.

[hatebringer]

Whenever i use a guide, i always come to tip.it

 

 

 

Have never used another site for information in Runescape... ever

[Adam007]

I'd like to see a similar poll, except asking specifically about quests. Most other guides are at or above the quality other sites are, except quest guides have been lacking for a long time. It's not a fault of tip it's really, it's just that other sites make it so you don't exactly have to think to do any part of the quest. That's why more people use other ones.

[8436f]

I mostly did runehq more then Tipit, I think that Tipit needs more pics in their guides to show more where to go. But over all its good. :wink: