I feel trolled at the moment. He gets 8 gold keys and 2 kits out of those, and I get no gold keys out of about 2/3 of the amount he's burnt.

Forget this, for the moment. I'ma go see if I can buy an overpowered SC shield.

 

About 15 keys used, I bought 1k Fiyr shades and have 1.8k Magic Pyre logs.

 

Around 350 burnt.

Yeah, I collected 550 beforehand and have burnt 200 of those.

 

And no I can't get a SC shield, they're 200pts each lol... 10x everything else. Acceptable though I guess.

Here are the new Sc shields(Just have to buy one and morph it around)

 

 

Sacred Clay Shield (Melee) - A clay shield that is highly resistant to Melee attacks.

 

 

Sacred Clay Shield (Ranged) - A clay shield that is highly resistant to Ranged attacks.

 

 

Sacred Clay Shield (Magic) - A clay shield that is highly resistant to Magic attacks.

 

PP and Blackjacking are 2 essential ways to train thieving and not giving it the same bonus just makes the armour a cosmetic item that no one will ever really use properly...

 

Ah -- but I'll wager that all those bots will get good use of it ... :rolleyes:

PP and Blackjacking are 2 essential ways to train thieving and not giving it the same bonus just makes the armour a cosmetic item that no one will ever really use properly...

 

Ah -- but I'll wager that all those bots will get good use of it ... :rolleyes:

They'd have to run a bot through PP though, then onto master farmers :P

Chance to absorb twice as much damage as a normal shield?... :shock: (assuming it's as good as it sounds on face value, which, knowing Jagex, it probably isn't)

 

Edit: It has no absorb stats to begin with... :blink:

So basically it's a load of cosmetic upgrades that take stupidly long to get :thumbdown:.

Excuse the language but "pretty [bleep]ing much"

 

2 CW Games now, 2 SW Games, 6 Rounds of Fight Pits, 10 PC rounds and 100 Fiyrs burned.

 

 

NOTHING. [bleep] you jagex and your ability to troll players with BS drop rates. To make it worse, you need THREE necro kits for the full set. unbelievably stupid...

So basically it's a load of cosmetic upgrades that take stupidly long to get :thumbdown:.

Excuse the language but "pretty [bleep]ing much"

 

2 CW Games now, 2 SW Games, 6 Rounds of Fight Pits, 10 PC rounds and 100 Fiyrs burned.

 

 

NOTHING. [bleep] you jagex and your ability to troll players with BS drop rates. To make it worse, you need THREE necro kits for the full set. unbelievably stupid...

It's not meant to be something you can grind and rush for, instead it's probably more like a thing on the side as you play through (some dead) minigames. :roll:

I don't know. If I got 60k GOP tokens I would much rather buy 1333 blood teletabs for a quick and painless 825k runecrafting exp. It would take 33M runecrafting exp for the .025% to add up to 825k. Of course, this doesn't take into account the few hours it takes to make all those blood runes.

 

Disclaimer:

 

I'm probably wrong about something because I'm only 50 runecrafting and have never done GOP. I am going off of what I see on the tip.it GOP guide because I was thinking of doing it later to finally start training runecrafting.

 

By the way, how much runecrafting exp an hour is it if you are making bloods with blood teletabs? (not including time spent obtaining tokens)

These updates were pretty poor. Glad you can't use the def newb armour in clan wars though; that would've sucked.

 

Did get excited when I saw the borrowed power spell...Then I saw it was just the wave spells...What?

Chance to absorb twice as much damage as a normal shield?... :shock: (assuming it's as good as it sounds on face value, which, knowing Jagex, it probably isn't)

It's not. Remember, most shields besides the spirit ones absorb, what, like 2% of damage done over 200 LP?

 

However, those are some halfway decent defensive stats. Might be useful for tanking bandos at noob masses or something.

 

As for the rest of the updates: Seems pretty dang useless to me. Might get the 10-teleport PP staff for switching to ancients or something.

Chance to absorb twice as much damage as a normal shield?... :shock: (assuming it's as good as it sounds on face value, which, knowing Jagex, it probably isn't)

It's not. Remember, most shields besides the spirit ones absorb, what, like 2% of damage done over 200 LP?

 

However, those are some halfway decent defensive stats. Might be useful for tanking bandos at noob masses or something.

 

As for the rest of the updates: Seems pretty dang useless to me. Might get the 10-teleport PP staff for switching to ancients or something.

Yeah, thought so. If there's anywhere where solely mage def is used then you can get a free Spectral, other than that, useless.

Anyone else notice that the knowledge base lists stats for the hybrid armor, then shows a set bonus that reads "in minigames X, Y, and Z, you get a damage boost..." So it's possible that the armor stats work outside the game, but without the set bonus?

 

I'm not sure, because they said cosmetic only, but we'd have to see. How would they make the stats go away outside the game? Someone needs to actually obtain a piece and see if it still performs like a normal armor piece outside the games (without the set bonus that you clearly get within minigames).

 

If so, those hybrid armors have some pretty epic stats.

Anyone else notice that the knowledge base lists stats for the hybrid armor, then shows a set bonus that reads "in minigames X, Y, and Z, you get a damage boost..." So it's possible that the armor stats work outside the game, but without the set bonus?

 

I'm not sure, because they said cosmetic only, but we'd have to see. How would they make the stats go away outside the game? Someone needs to actually obtain a piece and see if it still performs like a normal armor piece outside the games (without the set bonus that you clearly get within minigames).

 

If so, those hybrid armors have some pretty epic stats.

 

Do you get the set bonus in castle wars??? (you cant wear the hat...remember)

Anyone else notice that the knowledge base lists stats for the hybrid armor, then shows a set bonus that reads "in minigames X, Y, and Z, you get a damage boost..." So it's possible that the armor stats work outside the game, but without the set bonus?

 

I'm not sure, because they said cosmetic only, but we'd have to see. How would they make the stats go away outside the game? Someone needs to actually obtain a piece and see if it still performs like a normal armor piece outside the games (without the set bonus that you clearly get within minigames).

 

If so, those hybrid armors have some pretty epic stats.

Hmm. Maybe. Maybe that could redeem this update if it's true. Maybe.

200+ commendations at pc, no armor. Nobody near me has gotten it either...

Armour pieces are dropped in the minigames stated below. This random chance scales depending on how many games you have played. The more games you play, the better the chance you have of obtaining a piece of armour.

 

Hmm. Looks like I'm off to FOG and Pest Control then.

Borrowing "power" is a huge disappointment... requiring 99 mage to use at the most a level 79 spell...

 

The troll tele is useful, but only saves about 20 seconds..

 

Hopefully at least this will be good:

"In other news...

 

In Morytania, as the moon waxes red, the gloom grows close and oppressive and whispers in the dark become harder to ignore. The men and women of Burgh de Rott dare not speak of the impending darkness, but the voices of innocents still ring clearly in that murky fenland town..."

Chance to absorb twice as much damage as a normal shield?... :shock: (assuming it's as good as it sounds on face value, which, knowing Jagex, it probably isn't)

It's not. Remember, most shields besides the spirit ones absorb, what, like 2% of damage done over 200 LP?

 

However, those are some halfway decent defensive stats. Might be useful for tanking bandos at noob masses or something.

 

As for the rest of the updates: Seems pretty dang useless to me. Might get the 10-teleport PP staff for switching to ancients or something.

 

There's a reason I have two Pharaoh Sceptre's in my bank. Got fed up with using it twice then needing to recharge.

 

I should also point out that this armour is "entirely cosmetic except for when they are in the following PvP minigames:

 

Castle Wars

Soul Wars

Fist of Guthix

TzHaar Fight Pits

"

 

So, for those of you thinking, hey, maybe the stats apply outside of the mini-games and it's only the damage boost that's limited to the mini-game, well, you appear to be wrong.

 

I'll probably unlock the trollheim teleport spell since I already have group venge.

If anything, this might be a good time to get void armour at PC while players outnumber bots, since the lack of adaptability by bots usually leads to failure in any other circumstances.

Borrowing "power" is a huge disappointment... requiring 99 mage to use at the most a level 79 spell...

 

The troll tele is useful, but only saves about 20 seconds..

 

Hopefully at least this will be good:

"In other news...

 

In Morytania, as the moon waxes red, the gloom grows close and oppressive and whispers in the dark become harder to ignore. The men and women of Burgh de Rott dare not speak of the impending darkness, but the voices of innocents still ring clearly in that murky fenland town..."

 

Its nothing good.

Just kids by the well that act like the elf bard to recount the plot of last 4 quests and re-explain some key npcs

If anything, this might be a good time to get void armour at PC while players outnumber bots, since the lack of adaptability by bots usually leads to failure in any other circumstances.

 

Exactly what I'm doing atm, the vet boat on 144 is actually winning every game :)

If anything, this might be a good time to get void armour at PC while players outnumber bots, since the lack of adaptability by bots usually leads to failure in any other circumstances.

Is this right even for the veteran boat?

 

And I have to wonder when they say that chance increases the more games you play, if it takes into account past games/rewards you currently have.

But I doubt it. They're a trainwreck with that... Like when people had the highest tier CW armor mounted in POH and it didn't count towards their total games.

Yes. I read through the update post on the official forums. It appears that the armors don't have stats outside the minigames. Oh well.

 

Also, Borrowed Power is a terrible disappointment. I was excepting rewards which added equivalent teleports or other spells, so rather than this silly borrowed power dealio, we would simply have telekinetic grab added to our spell book (possibly with the extra cost of astral runes as well added to the casting cost)

 

I don't really care about adding the combat spells, but it would've been nice to add high-alchemy to the lunar spell book..

 

At least trollhiem teleport goes straight to patch. That saves 20-30 seconds (or more if i'm distracted). I can now start my farming run from any patch now :) Also, group trollhiem is great, so that my friends can benefit without having to spend the 50 hrs of livid farm.

 

The new kids. A couple Doctor Who references thrown in for good measure. ;)