Hey,

 

 

 

I've not been on RuneScape for a real long time and was just wondering if anyone could quickly fill me in on what the latest items are, is everyone still using whip? Do people still play castlewars?

 

 

 

cheers

Whip is best for fast exp, And yes people still do CW i use world 15.

I was in the same situation as you not too long ago. Looking at your registration date on tip.it, I'll assume you were gone for quite a few years like myself.

 

 

 

Yes, whip is still the best all around weapon... they go for about 2M each now (quite a deal if you compare it to years ago).

 

 

 

However, godswords, which all cost 20-60M (there's 4 of them) are very popular... they're very strong and you can pretty much 2-hit someone with them.

 

 

 

For range - darkbows are the new pk weapon. They hit twice on every shot, but are very slow. Rune crossbows have replaced magic shortbows as the best training weapons (I personally hate crossbows, but they're one handed, and they have high range accuracy values)

 

 

 

Magic - I'm assuming you know about Magicks.. well there's another spellbook that was introduced - Lunar Magics.

 

 

 

The 4 most recent skills, all introduced within the last 5 years are (I'm sure you must know or tried a few of them): Slayer, farming, and then Hunter/Construction/Summoning (don't know the order of the introduction of those).

 

 

 

Summoning is a combat skill, and affects your combat level. It has many uses.. not just combat. A very useful skill in my opinion.

 

 

 

Hmmm.. what else.. Oh right. The old wild system is gone. There are now pvp worlds, in which you can attack anyone anywhere (as long as they're within your combat range), and bounty hunter worlds, which are the most similar to the old wildy system (only the wild + edgeville are open in those worlds). Both rely on building up your earnings potential to get good drops.

 

 

 

The drops are now random in pking. You don't get someone's drops if you kill them.. this was changed to combat real world trading. Likewise, there is a trade limit now so you can't give away stuff.

 

 

 

The grand exchange - north of the west varrock bank, is a place where you can buy and sell items instantly (within seconds usually). Makes the economy run very smoothly... before you'd spend quite a lot of time looking for buyers and sellers.. now it's almost instant. Amazing update - I love it.

 

 

 

A bunch of new quests as well. I almost had almost the quests done when I quit.. now I don't think I even have half (maybe 1/3) done.

 

 

 

Umm that's all I can think of for right now.. hope it helped.

I suggest you brosw through the news archives that can be found on the Runescape main page.

Thanks very much guys, especially DeltaER ;)

 

 

 

Cant believe that about pking, so if I kill someone with dragon armor I wont get it?

Thanks very much guys, especially DeltaER ;)

 

 

 

Cant believe that about pking, so if I kill someone with dragon armor I wont get it?

 

No it's a randomised drop but in bh IIRC you have a chance of getting something if you opponent dies with it.

Wow, crazy stuff

 

 

 

What do people wear for maging these days?

Wow, crazy stuff

 

 

 

What do people wear for maging these days?

 

Ahrims usually.

And people can use ancient, lunar, or normal magic spellbooks.

 

The 4 most recent skills, all introduced within the last 5 years are (I'm sure you must know or tried a few of them): Slayer, farming, and then Hunter/Construction/Summoning (don't know the order of the introduction of those).

 

 

It is simple, in the skills tab in rs the skills are in order of date ;)