Auras

[Brb_mom]

I'd like a list of the benefits and uses between Equilibrium, penance, vampyrism, and inspiration, and if any one of them is flat out not worth it, plox? :D

 

EDIT: Also is Greater greenfingers a good choice at all?

[Ambler]

Vampyrism is basically a poor mans soul split, and not very effective imo.

Penance is very helpful for boss hunting, as it saves youa fair amount on prayerpotions, if you own a Divine, get this, as it almost completely negates the prayer drain (1% Instead of 15% drain of damage dealt taken off prayer)

The others I'm not sure on, ask Quyneax. :lol:

[Quyneax]

Inspiration can add up to .2*3000 = 600% special attack energy per hour (using darts at 100% accuracy). Your regular special attack restore is 1200% per hour. If you use a rapier it's about 300% extra special per hour. That is extremely tiny.

 

Equilibrium does not increase damage output. It can be nice theoretically for things like the unstable glacyte (the last 100 lp damage would always be dealt with in one hit). It's extremely tiny as well.

 

Vampyrism can be important at places like tds, where you deal much more damage than you take. For glacors and maxed dagannoth kings it doesn't really matter as you only need emergency healing there anyway (if any) which vampyrism can't provide. Vampyrism might be good with ruby bolts as they wouldn't drop you quite as low, but I think only Nomad's lp-1 special really calls for that.

 

Penance is great at places where you take lots of damage, but there aren't that many :P. The main use would be Nex or perhaps solo corp, or maybe chaos tunnels waterfiends. Divine doesn't really matter as much. Although it sounds nice and elegant to restore prayer you lose when taking damage, you actually restore less because you take less damage.

 

Greenfingers completely removes disease for all crops planted while it is active and it can be used every herb run, increasing profits by 100k per run or more if you farm torstol. It is very significant.

[Sinkhan]

Greenfingers completely removes disease for all crops planted while it is active and it can be used every herb run, increasing profits by 100k per run or more if you farm torstol. It is very significant.

 

Are you saying that it will stop all herbs that you plant during the aura from getting diseased completely?

 

From what I've read and gathered so far it suggests that it only prevents disease for any growth ticks your crops might have while it is active, meaning it would at best prevent disease for I think two growth ticks.

[Quyneax]

That's what I heard anyway.

[Hedgehog]

If green fingers only prevented disease during the active growth cycle, then it'd be almost entirely useless since the first growth cycle is immune to disease anyway.

[Zeno]

If green fingers only prevented disease during the active growth cycle, then it'd be almost entirely useless since the first growth cycle is immune to disease anyway.

 

then wouldn't it make sense to wait until the first growth cycle is over THEN activate it...?

[Hedgehog]

In theory, but idk how the aura works.

[Zeno]

In theory, but idk how the aura works.

 

I have greenfingers, I'll test it later

[Hedgehog]

Ideally you'd activate it before the 3rd received farming tick. This is about 40 mins after you plant.

[Zeno]

Ideally you'd activate it before the 3rd received farming tick. This is about 40 mins after you plant.

 

why near the 3rd farming tick? the timer would be all messed up for the next plant rotation, I'd imagine turning it on about 20 minutes after planting to keep a good balance going

[Hedgehog]

You'd have to test all stages anyway.

[Sinkhan]

Then it'd be almost entirely useless since the first growth cycle is immune to disease anyway.

 

I recall a mod post saying that the disease prevention was meant to be a secondary effect and the yield increase was supposed to be the main attraction of the aura.

[cowmaster187]

based on the runescape wiki on the homepage it says the disease prevention only lasts as long as the aura is activated

 

~~~legoman187~~~

[Hedgehog]

Plants can only get diseased when a farming tick hits.