Agility, penance horn or not?

[Syd]

So simply, which one is faster agility xp? Recharging the horn or not recharging it?

 

I have level 5 in all BA, and can do any role and usually land in good (all lvl 5 teams). I don't have any clan or many RS friends to play BA with, nor would I maybe have time to adjust my schedules around it. So charging the horn would involve finding teammates and such. I don't technically like BA "that much", nor do I find grinding agility that much worse. So the "fun" part issue is just a minimal.

 

I'm only interested in the speed.

 

Thanks

 

(I do have master penance horn, obviously)

[ghjkl]

not if you have to go with randomers in world 6

[Syd]

not if you have to go with randomers in world 6

 

This means charging BA horn would actually be faster if you had perfect team?

[Noxx]

it's going to depend on whether or not you're in a team. Filling the horn takes about 10 - 12 full rounds (the full 10 waves) which gives you between 100 and 120 waved to fill your horn. It's said that with a steady, decent team you can fill the horn in 5 - 6 hours. A full horn lasts for ~1.2m Exp.

1.2m Exp takes about 20 hours of agility training @ 60k/exp an hour, which i would say is realistically achievable. With a full horn the same 1.2m exp is going to be achieved in 10 hours.

This means for each full horn you would save yourself 4 - 5 hours on each 1.2m exp. This pushes your Exp rate upto 75k - 80k exp/h.

 

So theoretically it should be worth it, but finding a team that would enable you to fill the horn in 5 - 6 hours is going to be a task of it's own.

 

 

Reply i posted in a thread a few days ago.

[Syd]

it's going to depend on whether or not you're in a team. Filling the horn takes about 10 - 12 full rounds (the full 10 waves) which gives you between 100 and 120 waved to fill your horn. It's said that with a steady, decent team you can fill the horn in 5 - 6 hours. A full horn lasts for ~1.2m Exp.

1.2m Exp takes about 20 hours of agility training @ 60k/exp an hour, which i would say is realistically achievable. With a full horn the same 1.2m exp is going to be achieved in 10 hours.

This means for each full horn you would save yourself 4 - 5 hours on each 1.2m exp. This pushes your Exp rate upto 75k - 80k exp/h.

 

So theoretically it should be worth it, but finding a team that would enable you to fill the horn in 5 - 6 hours is going to be a task of it's own.

 

 

Reply i posted in a thread a few days ago.

 

Ok, thanks for this. Interesting. Biggest problem is that I'm not planning to play multiple hours straight, so landing a good team to save those hours doesn't sound very reliable. Atleast multiple times.

 

I'll look into it. If I'll get bored to grinding agility, I'll get the horn charged. Thanks. :P

[Sinkhan]

Just consider if you enjoy playing BA more than doing straight agility. Even if you found an awful team and your XP gains turned out to be exactly the same, I personally would find it to be worth it since I find BA with a bad team to still be at least a teensy weensy bit more enjoyable than training agility.

 

I've also heard of some good clans out there that consist of mostly good players, but you need rank 5 in most roles and have some penance equipment to show your own experience in the game.

[Blyaunte]

One word: "effigies".

 

Frankly, unless you LOVE playing BA and/or want some of the other specific items from the mini-game itself, I cannot imagine that filling the horn would be, in any way, more efficient than either running courses or, say, using effigies.

 

Personally, when "training" agility from 97 to 99, I simply found it more preferable to farm effigies ...

[Noxx]

One word: "effigies".

 

Frankly, unless you LOVE playing BA and/or want some of the other specific items from the mini-game itself, I cannot imagine that filling the horn would be, in any way, more efficient than either running courses or, say, using effigies.

 

Personally, when "training" agility from 97 to 99, I simply found it more preferable to farm effigies ...

Clearly you did not read any of the replies posted :\

Farming Effigies only for Agility exp would at best be 60k Exp/h @ ~1.2m gp/h.

Slower than Training with and without a Horn.

[Tylon_Dragadon]

A while back I was friends with a guy who was in a clan that would periodically go play BA, and he'd let me know when they were going.

So every now and then I'd just go play a couple full games, so it wasn't as grindy and my horn lasted a lot longer (was using it with sc picks for mining)

 

I recommend this method if you want to be casual about it.