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Iron Knifes Vs Broad Bolts

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I was wondering which would be better for training range. I can make both of them so I can get the broad bolts for a lot cheaper then the market price.

 

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Broad bolts. Not even close.

 

Jagex needs to rebalance the ranging skill because bolts overpower nearly everything else right now, even cheap ones.

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Broad bolts. Not even close.

 

Jagex needs to rebalance the ranging skill because bolts overpower nearly everything else right now, even cheap ones.

Or they could do something like, doubling the amount of knives you get/bar..

 

That would nearly half the price of knives, and allows you easily to compare adamant knives to broad bolts. And since it would half the price of knives exactly, it would also make smithing *a bit* more profitable..

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and I didn't speak out because I wasn't fishing

 

Then they came to the yews

and I didn't speak out because I didn't cut yews

 

Then they came for the ores

and I didn't speak out because I didn't collect ores

 

Then they came for me

and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Broad bolts. Not even close.

 

Jagex needs to rebalance the ranging skill because bolts overpower nearly everything else right now, even cheap ones.

Or they could do something like, doubling the amount of knives you get/bar..

 

That would nearly half the price of knives, and allows you easily to compare adamant knives to broad bolts. And since it would half the price of knives exactly, it would also make smithing *a bit* more profitable..

 

I think that's a good idea.

 

I'm not sure if changing stats of range items is entirely practical though.. we can't forget that bolts are much slower than arrows, and even more so than knives. Speed is an important factor, I'm pretty sure. We can't just go make knives stronger, because then they'd completely outstrip bolts, as they're so fast.

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Unfortunately, the items are unbalanced even taking speed into account. Even in a place like Kuradal's Dungeon where fast weapons should have the advantage, crossbows are usually better. And cheaper, too.

Qeltar, aka Charles Kozierok

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Broad bolts. Not even close.

 

Jagex needs to rebalance the ranging skill because bolts overpower nearly everything else right now, even cheap ones.

Or they could do something like, doubling the amount of knives you get/bar..

 

That would nearly half the price of knives, and allows you easily to compare adamant knives to broad bolts. And since it would half the price of knives exactly, it would also make smithing *a bit* more profitable..

 

Making knives even cheaper would probably do nothing to rebalance ranged.

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I had fun ranging my last few levels with rune darts on slayer tasks.

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Broad bolts. Not even close.

 

Jagex needs to rebalance the ranging skill because bolts overpower nearly everything else right now, even cheap ones.

Or they could do something like, doubling the amount of knives you get/bar..

 

That would nearly half the price of knives, and allows you easily to compare adamant knives to broad bolts. And since it would half the price of knives exactly, it would also make smithing *a bit* more profitable..

 

Making knives even cheaper would probably do nothing to rebalance ranged.

 

Rebalancing knives has a small effect on the combat triangle, since knives are so inaccurate in PVP

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Broad bolts. Not even close.

 

Jagex needs to rebalance the ranging skill because bolts overpower nearly everything else right now, even cheap ones.

Or they could do something like, doubling the amount of knives you get/bar..

 

That would nearly half the price of knives, and allows you easily to compare adamant knives to broad bolts. And since it would half the price of knives exactly, it would also make smithing *a bit* more profitable..

 

Making knives even cheaper would probably do nothing to rebalance ranged.

If it made rune knives as expensive as addy bolt, I'm sure many would use rune knives instead!

First they came to fishing

and I didn't speak out because I wasn't fishing

 

Then they came to the yews

and I didn't speak out because I didn't cut yews

 

Then they came for the ores

and I didn't speak out because I didn't collect ores

 

Then they came for me

and there was no one left to speak out for me.

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