A few questions

[Blake]

I've always not liked the "I haven't played for x months tell me everything posts", but I need some info. I'll try to ask specific questions though, so just bear with me! Also have some questions about old stuff.

 

First, what's the best way to do barrows now? Is one of those new staves the best, or just rapier or maul, salamander, anything else? All stats are in my sig. I have about 50m net worth right now.

 

Are there any new best ways to train a skill that came up in the last six months? For instance, the flash powder factory for agility/herblore/thieving?

 

Now on to the updates:

1 - Flash powder factory, worth it for the xp and clothes?

2 - Loyalty program, any of the auras actually good? I have JoaT and 1k points... won't be buying any soon but still nice to know

3 - Anything big revealed at runefest?

4 - Dominion Tower - are the gloves worth getting?

5 - ROTM - Are the Akrisae robes good, and how does barrows work with 7 brothers now? Do you have to fight all of them? Are the bane ore items good? I've read Glacors are now the best monster besides nex; the only thing I don't have is a yak, so are they worth it for me? Is Storm of Armadyl good?

6 - Are prayer renewal potions now the best for slayer? I'd imagine super prayers are still best for bossing.

7 - Rewards for Branches of Darkmeyer any good?

8 - Mini game updates - are the new RC/Thieving robes worth getting? Anything else notable from any other minigame?

9 - Same question as above with Temple Trekking and construction outfit, any other good rewards?

10 - Jadinko lair, are the slayer monsters good? Heard it's the best way to fm now, anything else?

 

Phew, I think that's all about the updates. Last question is did the bot nuke actually work? I haven't seen many around, but I've only played for a couple hours.

 

Anyways, thank you in advance for answering any and all of these!

[Allmonkey]

1. Flash powder factory is some of the fastest agility xp now 90k+ xp/hr with somewhat less monotony than regular courses.

 

2. So far JoT is the best all around aura the others add really minor boosts to whatever you do so either save up or waste on cosmetics really.

 

3. Off the top of my head Kalphite King, Queen Black Dragon, and all basic armour graphical rework (ie bronze through dragon).

 

4. The gloves give a minor boost that you'd really only want if you're doing some form of pvp or nex. Get it when you have nothing better to upgrade your equipment to (same with new boots from Glacors).

 

5. ROTM a. Akrisae Robes aren't that great, only use that comes to mind maybe bursting while praying to save on some ppots maybe.

b. Akrisae's tomb is a little extension of Verracs, you don't have to kill all 6 brothers for maximum drop rate so it's best to leave out the brother who has the cheapest gear.

c. Bane ore items are niche, not really that useful anywhere but I guess you can play with it if you want.

d. They are worth it, yak isn't totally necessary as I've known others to use steel titan and sometimes unicorn.

e. Storm of Armadyl with Armadyl Battlestaff is some of the highest dps in the game. So yes, it's good.

 

6. Prayer renewals alone won't suffice for slaying but it's nice to bring one or two to go along with regular prayerpots for bosses/slayer tasks/etc. It's used a lot with overload for dungeoneering by drinking a dose before entering as the effects still work.

 

7. Branches of Darkmeyer you get a medallion that teleports you to a number of places on that side of the river salve (namely barrows and bugh de rott) as well as blisterwood weapons and unlocks vyrewatch as a slayer task. In my opinion you should only do those tasks if you have 500 vyres burned or plan to burn 500 vyres as it increases the dps on the blisterwood weapons to make the task much faster.

 

8.RC robes aren't worth getting as it simply takes too long to make the boost worth it. The thieving gear is so rare that you'll probably have way over 99 by the time you get the full set. Other minigames don't come to my mind at the moment.

 

9.Temple Trekking I personally enjoy but most of the rewards got overshadowed by Branches of Darkmeyer and the medallion other than possibly the infinite druids pouch from levelling the ranger (the name escapes me) to max.

 

10. The Jadinko lair slayer monster (atleast the highest one) is kind of like dark beasts some people do the tasks others block because it's kind of slow. And it is fairly fast and cheap firemaking xp and you can collect seeds for use in herblore habitat there as well when killing the monsters there or firemaking by collecting at the offering table and choosing seeds (usually only do it when the table is full).

 

11. And the bot nuke worked on a number of bots but there are still some screen scraping/colour bots that work *looks at summer garden*

 

Now time to hit post and see if I was ninja'd.

Edit: woot not ninja'd hope the advice is helpful.

[Quyneax]

First, what's the best way to do barrows now? Is one of those new staves the best, or just rapier or maul, salamander, anything else? All stats are in my sig. I have about 50m net worth right now.

 

Are there any new best ways to train a skill that came up in the last six months? For instance, the flash powder factory for agility/herblore/thieving?

 

Now on to the updates:

1 - Flash powder factory, worth it for the xp and clothes?

2 - Loyalty program, any of the auras actually good? I have JoaT and 1k points... won't be buying any soon but still nice to know

3 - Anything big revealed at runefest?

4 - Dominion Tower - are the gloves worth getting?

5 - ROTM - Are the Akrisae robes good, and how does barrows work with 7 brothers now? Do you have to fight all of them? Are the bane ore items good? I've read Glacors are now the best monster besides nex; the only thing I don't have is a yak, so are they worth it for me? Is Storm of Armadyl good?

6 - Are prayer renewal potions now the best for slayer? I'd imagine super prayers are still best for bossing.

7 - Rewards for Branches of Darkmeyer any good?

8 - Mini game updates - are the new RC/Thieving robes worth getting? Anything else notable from any other minigame?

9 - Same question as above with Temple Trekking and construction outfit, any other good rewards?

10 - Jadinko lair, are the slayer monsters good? Heard it's the best way to fm now, anything else?

 

Phew, I think that's all about the updates. Last question is did the bot nuke actually work? I haven't seen many around, but I've only played for a couple hours.

 

Anyways, thank you in advance for answering any and all of these!

Barrows is much the same, Storm of Armadyl got a bit cheaper so it's probably viable. Use it on the melee brothers. Use Korasi's sword specials on Akrisae along with rapier. Rapier Karil and Ahrim. Use void deflector with barrows/goliath gloves.

 

Flash powder factory only. Which I believe mostly answers 1 - the clothes are not worth getting.

2 - JoaT is still the best.

3 - Major combat rework and action bar, iirc

4 - No. But they're good.

5 - Not really except for rock lobs, and you fight 6 skipping the cheapest (Torag). Bane items are not worth getting. Glacors are about equal to tds, also speed up with titans (iron works). Storm of Armadyl is the fastest kills on Kree'arr, K'ril, Graardor and possibly Zilyana (haven't heard of any info about that) as well as most slayer monsters and the Kalphite Queen etc.

6 - No. Super prayers were never worth it. Renewals are only for bossing and dungeoneering.

7 - Yes.

8 - No.

9 - Yes worth getting if you need slayer/mining/agility xp etc. and do not have lumberjack yet.

10 - No. It's not the best way per sé but it can go up to 300k xp/hr for free, so if you're poor and have an adze it's neat.

 

Bot nuke worked fine mostly.

[Sinkhan]

Going for a shameless plug for the Temple Trekking question

[Blake]

Thank you guys very much, that answered all of my questions perfectly! I'll have a look at the TT guide too :P

 

Is it possible/not recommended to do glacors with just a unicorn? I'll post stats too.

 

Is Storm of Armadyl now a 'requirement' for any boss, for example a team wouldn't take you without it?

 

Which staff/spell to use on 4 melee brothers at barrows, or use maul/rapier?

[Sinkhan]

Barrows:

 

Rapier on Akrisae, Ahrim, Karil, Polypore Staff or SOA on the rest. SoA is faster/higher DPS and still very affordable; Polypore is probably the most cost effective high damage spell in the game and has a fairly short animation. PPS also allows you to use ancients for freezing.

[Blake]

Is there a special spell for polypore? I didn't think there was, but you said "Polypore is probably the most cost effective high damage spell". I assume you mean staff, just want to be sure though!

 

Looking at the descriptions for PPS and staff of light, it seems SoL is still better unless you want to switch books. Is that true? When would you use one over the other?

 

PS, i'll be overloading to cast fire surge.

[Quyneax]

PPS uses its own charges and requires neither spellbook nor runes. One staff has 3000 casts.

 

Storm of Armadyl is typically considered too expensive or requiring too expensive gear to be used at bosses.

[Blake]

Oh wow, that's a big thing. Didn't notice that before!

 

One more unrelated question I just thought of, for the xp lamps from elite diaries, can you boost to get the xp from the lamps? For example, if I had 86 rc, could I boost to 88 to use the 4x40k lamps from varrock elite?

[Quyneax]

No.

[Sinkhan]

To go into deeper detail with PPS, you can buy a polypore stick which cannot cast the polypore spell. To charge it, you need polypore spores and fire runes, 5 runes for every spore. A staff can be charged with up to 3000 casts at a time. With any charges, the stick becomes the staff and you can cast the spell.

 

To cast the spell, all you need is to equip the staff and start attacking. The staff has an accurate and long range mode.

 

The benefits of PPS over fire surge is that you don't need to worry about boosting to use the spell, it requires no inventory spaces (although that's generally not an issue at barrows), it is ridiculously cheap (1 cast costs less than a death rune atm), and it has a slightly shorter animation

[Quyneax]

5 runes per spore, 15000 per staff. You can buy the staff as well, if you don't want to make it yourself (or can't). PPS is about 25% greater dps than fire surge at max dps but it has a shorter range than most magic.

[Blake]

Sounds like I'm using that then, range isn't a problem at barrows. Thanks again guys :)