IT SUCKS, I MEAN IT'S GREAT ARMOR. BUT IT'S HORRIBLE BECAUSE OF THE DEGRADEING THING. :twisted:

Never, ever leave RuneScape for World of Warcraft. You will probably hate it, since just about everything degrades. It's like that in a lot of MMOs, actually.

 

 

 

The degrading isn't that bad, anyway. For the full set, it costs less than 30k an hour, which you can easily make through skills or combat. The effectiveness of the armor makes those low costs very worth it.

 

 

 

Also, look at your keyboard lights. Is one with an "A" or the words "Caps Lock" next to it turned on? Yeah, I thought so. Press the Caps Lock button. We don't want to see your excessive caps.

Please turn off caps...

 

And please make your rant longer and maybe a little bit more educated. Other than that....its fine...more realistic.

When you have high level Smithing, you can repair it for a portion of the original cost in your POH. The higher your Smithing, the more you save. To be honest, I think I save more money by not having to use up so much food than I have to spend on repairing it. The annoying part is when you have to stop and take the time to repair it though. :x

Yeah, it's pretty annoying but it really does need the degrading aspect of it to balance it out.

imagine derepid armour over hundreds of years old, it has been moved from its resting place and been used in battle where it is being bashed a smashed by giant sword used by the gods themselves, of course its not gonna need repairing, thats just silly :roll:

And of course, a relatively fragile bronze armor will last for damn eternity, even when bashed upon continuously by said sword. :roll:

Actually it balance the combat triangle out, meleers dont need to pay any extra arrows or rune costs

 

which i find not that good :wall:

Good Points :thumbsup:

And nerd attack, i know how to type. Thank You. 8-)

I believe that it was also one of the first attempts at a money sink. It's great armor so everyone wants it, but it degrades, so there is a continual upkeep payment. Therefore at least some of the cash that it helps you to bring in is being taken back out of the system.

Without it degrading over time, most degradable armor and weapons would be far too powerful, and far too easy/inexpensive to use... And besides, in quite a few MMOs and RPGs, almost everything degrades. So don't ever try playing Oblivion or WoW.. :|

Without it degrading over time, most degradable armor and weapons would be far too powerful, and far too easy/inexpensive to use... And besides, in quite a few MMOs and RPGs, almost everything degrades. So don't ever try playing Oblivion or WoW..

 

 

 

Qft. And Oblivion owns all.

 

 

 

Imo, everything should degrade in Rs. Would make smithing useful.

barrows would be too power full if it didnt degrade and its "old amrour" and like zierro said if u got 50+smith and a POH you get dicounts :D

I believe they degrade because it is...ancient armour? You expect extremely old armour to NOT be fragile and easily damaged?

 

 

 

It's all in the lore, I believe. So we just gotta deal with it. And like someone said already, get your smithing up so you can lessen the cost of repairing it!

Oblivion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And honestly, a system like that would be pretty cool... Smithing would be useful again :thumbsup:

Its for game balance. Its already a tenth the price of dragon armour, with more defence stats, there has to be SOME sort of drawback somewhere.

And nerd attack, i know how to type. Thank You. 8-)

 

 

 

You certainly don't know how to use your common sense, that's for sure.

 

 

 

Barrows has been out for years, you're just discovering that it degrades now?

Soemones not going to like Diablo:3, or any other diablo game for that matter since all but 4 types of items degrade (rings, ammulets, throwing potions, and items with a zod rune/indestructable attribule).

 

 

 

Also, they made it degrade because its good armour. It called a 'trade off' or 'give and take'. Itrs good armour so it needs a fault to balence it.

Without it degrading over time, most degradable armor and weapons would be far too powerful, and far too easy/inexpensive to use... And besides, in quite a few MMOs and RPGs, almost everything degrades. So don't ever try playing Oblivion or WoW..

 

 

 

Qft. And Oblivion owns all.

 

 

 

Imo, everything should degrade in Rs. Would make smithing useful.

 

 

 

 

 

You couldn't trade much then, seeing as people don't repair armour every 5 minutes.

 

 

 

 

 

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Anyways, It was a money sink, along with crystal bow/sheild, and construction.

Give me Torags over Dragon armor any day of the week. Torags is around a million gold. Dragon is around 8 to 10 million. (Just an effin guess, can't be assed to look it up. So I don't wanna hear some freak going "OMG its this yada yada amount) I repaired my Torags a couple of days ago, and it cost me approximately 150k. You get approximately 15 hours of combat.

 

 

 

Let's see, that means I get around 800 hours of combat before it approaches the cost of Dragon at 8 mill.

 

 

 

Hmmm...Torags is better than Dragon, looks cooler, I get an [wagon] load of combat time before it approaches the cost of Dragon, and the cost is deferred over time making it easier to afford..

 

 

 

What were you [bleep]in about again?

When you have high level Smithing, you can repair it for a portion of the original cost in your POH. The higher your Smithing, the more you save. To be honest, I think I save more money by not having to use up so much food than I have to spend on repairing it. The annoying part is when you have to stop and take the time to repair it though. :x

 

 

 

That's true. Instead of simply breaking over time and use, rs has this nice thing where having a variety of skills matters. Smithing comes in play right here, where you wanna wear barrows, but you're so damned cheap that your wallet is already in tears after the first two syllabals in degradeable. If your smithing is high, your wallet won't cry.

it'll be way too accessible for lower levels to wear the same armor as higher levels. since some people like myself don't prefer degradable armor.

It's balanced that way. Far better than the other class of level- 70 armor, because you have to maintain it.

Well chances are if you can afford to get it, you can afford to fix it.