10-01-11 God Wars - The Ancient Prison

[Seer]

So what exactly drops the ceremonial mage robes?

[Grimy_Bunyip]

So what exactly drops the ceremonial mage robes?

ancient mages in the KC room + the 4 specialist mages in nex's room.

[Quyneax]

So what exactly drops the ceremonial mage robes?

Zaros mages.

[Seer]

So what exactly drops the ceremonial mage robes?

Zaros mages.

 

Any suggestions on the best way to kill them? Thinking of camping for a set.

[SilverEternis]

(I take the most flattering pictures)

 

 

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[Bier]

The godsword was created during the god wars, and the gwd was only one of many places where battle took place. And it seems strange that Sliske knows that much about Guthix since Guthix leaved in the first age and the mahjarrat came in the second. Jagex should be more consistent when making up new stuff.

[Articultural]

Sliske knows everything. :P

[Quyneax]

I'm fairly sure Guthix left some traces of himself, and of all Mahjarrat Sliske is probably one of the best at finding out secrets.

[Flareboy64]

So Nex has been 4 manned, idk if it has been posted already, but the person was using veracs, which I had not thought of using until this vid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r6BWPr9MtM&feature=player_embedded

[Soma2035]

So what exactly drops the ceremonial mage robes?

Zaros mages.

 

Any suggestions on the best way to kill them? Thinking of camping for a set.

 

I would recommend not bothering. There are only 3 Ancient Mages in the entire room, spread out, with slow spawns. Also, normally, Nex teams spread out for KC - the room doesn't have enough monsters to sustain 5+ people getting killcount fast so they tend to spread out a lot. These people (including myself) tend to go in there with Turmoil, Overloads, and a Steel Titan, and kill the Ancient Mages between Bloodreaver kills, since they tend to drop Torstols and potions.

 

If you really want to kill them, your best bet is to either focus on melee / range defense and camp the northern spot, or find a hybrid set that keeps the Reavers off (the Reavers hang around in the southern part of the room, very close to two of the spawns). But you're really better off just making money and buying the pieces of the set, since they're not really all that rare. They'll be affordable soon enough.

[Bangin_Blonde]

Sliske done tricked their dumb asses. :rolleyes:

[Seer]

So what exactly drops the ceremonial mage robes?

Zaros mages.

 

Any suggestions on the best way to kill them? Thinking of camping for a set.

 

I would recommend not bothering. There are only 3 Ancient Mages in the entire room, spread out, with slow spawns. Also, normally, Nex teams spread out for KC - the room doesn't have enough monsters to sustain 5+ people getting killcount fast so they tend to spread out a lot. These people (including myself) tend to go in there with Turmoil, Overloads, and a Steel Titan, and kill the Ancient Mages between Bloodreaver kills, since they tend to drop Torstols and potions.

 

If you really want to kill them, your best bet is to either focus on melee / range defense and camp the northern spot, or find a hybrid set that keeps the Reavers off (the Reavers hang around in the southern part of the room, very close to two of the spawns). But you're really better off just making money and buying the pieces of the set, since they're not really all that rare. They'll be affordable soon enough.

 

Alright thanks.

[dark_zero288]

I was going to get 80 def a possibly buy this armour once it starts to sell in ge but I hate armour that degrades, witch makes me think that its not gunna be as popular and the bandos isn't going to crash even worse, everyone I talked to says bandos is going to crash bad, but I don't think it will just for the fact that the new armour last 10 hrs before you have to spend like 2m to fix it. Personally I don't like that, that why I don't like barrows, only barrows I use is ahrims for acients.

[aerendil]

,eh, i don't see why everyone is making such a fuss over degrading armour, we've lived with barrows for years :P and chaotics last more than 10 hrs, my raspier generally lasts 20-30 hrs of slayer.

[pulli23]

,eh, i don't see why everyone is making such a fuss over degrading armour, we've lived with barrows for years :P and chaotics last more than 10 hrs, my raspier generally lasts 20-30 hrs of slayer.

It is because how degrading works: it has a certain "game ticks" in which it can be in combat. - In combat it counts if in that game tick you are attacked, or if you are attacking in that game tick.

 

So with the speed of rapiers (1 hit in 3 game ticks) .. and general monsters (also 1 hit in 3 game ticks at most) you'll easily be looking only being half the time in combat. (This also means that multi-combat cannoning is bad for the rapier, and I personally never take rapier when cannoning at places such as dagganoth).

[Quyneax]

Normal speed is 4 ticks ;-). How do the new armours degrade though?

[pulli23]

Normal speed is 4 ticks ;-).

Semantics!

[aspeeder]

I wonder if the new armor degrades faster in multi like chaotics, that might make the recharge cost more of a pain for some bosses.

[xSxqPowerx]

I personally do not care at all about degrading, and use my chaotics everywhere including dags while I cannon.

 

Looking forward to eventually owning the new armours.

[ghjkl]

I personally do not care at all about degrading, and use my chaotics everywhere including dags while I cannon.

 

Looking forward to eventually owning the new armours.

But comparing chaotic weaponry to the new armour does not make sense.

Using chaotics when cannoning dag kings actually gives you MORE profit per hour because of increased kills per hour than the whip. However this new armour does not increase offensive capabilities at all meaning that you are spending x amount of money for defensive capabilities. It will not give you any more profit than using bandos would, and since you can survive and dks/basically any other boss until you are bored, I see little incentive to use this armour outside of Nex/pvp.

[Dragonlordjl]

I personally do not care at all about degrading, and use my chaotics everywhere including dags while I cannon.

 

Looking forward to eventually owning the new armours.

But comparing chaotic weaponry to the new armour does not make sense.

Using chaotics when cannoning dag kings actually gives you MORE profit per hour because of increased kills per hour than the whip. However this new armour does not increase offensive capabilities at all meaning that you are spending x amount of money for defensive capabilities. It will not give you any more profit than using bandos would, and since you can survive and dks/basically any other boss until you are bored, I see little incentive to use this armour outside of Nex/pvp.

Ironic, huh? I figured that because this update was essentially designed to reduce the power creep in PvP, Jagex would make it fairly accessible. Nope.

[xSxqPowerx]

I personally do not care at all about degrading, and use my chaotics everywhere including dags while I cannon.

 

Looking forward to eventually owning the new armours.

But comparing chaotic weaponry to the new armour does not make sense.

Using chaotics when cannoning dag kings actually gives you MORE profit per hour because of increased kills per hour than the whip. However this new armour does not increase offensive capabilities at all meaning that you are spending x amount of money for defensive capabilities. It will not give you any more profit than using bandos would, and since you can survive and dks/basically any other boss until you are bored, I see little incentive to use this armour outside of Nex/pvp.

I mean for lighthouse dags :P

I understand that they won't be good in any place we can already survive.

 

However, if the armours DO increase the amount that brews/unicorns heal... then I think we will see some places that will newly become very survivable. Solo bandos/arma healing only with unicorn perhaps? Load up on super prayers and solo for hours...

[xpx]

I personally do not care at all about degrading, and use my chaotics everywhere including dags while I cannon.

 

Looking forward to eventually owning the new armours.

But comparing chaotic weaponry to the new armour does not make sense.

Using chaotics when cannoning dag kings actually gives you MORE profit per hour because of increased kills per hour than the whip. However this new armour does not increase offensive capabilities at all meaning that you are spending x amount of money for defensive capabilities. It will not give you any more profit than using bandos would, and since you can survive and dks/basically any other boss until you are bored, I see little incentive to use this armour outside of Nex/pvp.

I'm fairly sure the new armors will give you more of an edge than divine currently does for alot of bosses, primarily Nex, corp, graar and kril. The fact that brews and uni heals more means you can do much longer trips, and the added defense isn't anything to discount either(almost 1.5 times the stats compared to bandos for torva). What i'm most interested in, however, is how the prices of the relative armors pan out- the mage armor actually looks the best relative to other armors as the second best before it was also degradable- ahrims. Pernix, too, looks extremely good, particularly as it'll likely be the armor to use to kill Nex. Torva, however, doesn't look all that good to me- offensively it's as good as bandos, and there aren't many places where you need the extra healing with melee.

[pulli23]

I wonder if the new armor degrades faster in multi like chaotics, that might make the recharge cost more of a pain for some bosses.

Also barrows degrade faster in multi: it's because of the game mechanics.

 

In "multi" every game tick, the games sees you in combat with something.

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