Am I Missing Something?

[T. Skill]

Alright so, I've now gotten through (read: died at Jad) four fire cape tries. The last two have been after the RuneTek 5 engine update which caused a change in the way protection prayers work in that they only protect if you activate them at the beginning of the attack animation. This has caused Jad to become ridiculously hard for me.

 

In my last two fire cape attempts, I've gotten hit for 90 and 95 respectively, EACH TIME, before I have even run down to find Jad. Why? Because listening for the mage attack while having Range prayer selected and prepared to switch DOES NOT HELP. The sound effect comes AFTER the attack has already started. In this case causing Jad to effectively hit "through" my protection prayer.

 

Now I've been surfing around the RSOF, here, and other sites, and I've been wondering.. is there a specific pattern for Jad's attacks which helps to beat him? For example, I've been hearing that Jad always starts off his attack with magic now, and follows up with range and then another mage attack.

 

Is this true?

[Bladewing]

Can't help you, I haven't done the caves since RT5.

 

Sorry about you dying :(

 

PS I gave you range pot :D

[abbydog95]

You must click the magic protection imidetly when you here the sound, if your off by a hair, your screwed. Jagex might have messed it up with this stupid runetek5 but im not sure.

[T. Skill]

That's dumb.. It seems like the only way to have a relatively easy time with Jad now is to get a good spawn (south east/north west) where you can set up your attack.