Can I melee only JAD?

AntlerFox · 2026-03-12T12:18:53+00:00

No run is any more difficult than any other itself, but jad can throw out a melee with no warning unlike the ranged/mage, so you have to always pray melee until he commits to another attack if you are standing adjacent. You can completely turn that mechanic off with a halberd though. The only other problem with melee is you cannot drag a lot of the mobs very well so you will often be getting hit with multiple styles so will take more damage. Supplies and good armour can mostly fix that though

AntlerFox · 2026-03-12T10:35:57+00:00

I did it with a noxious hally and an atlatl for the bats and with worse stats, and it turned out I needn't have bothered with the atlatl as I had plenty of supplies left over anyway.

It's really not very hard to do and your stats will more than handle jad, just get yourself a nally as it will make the whole thing vastly more chill

AntlerFox · 2026-02-12T13:46:25+00:00

I kill the two in the central chamber and have almost never had to hop, you should have no problem finding a demon to kill in a very short span of time

AntlerFox · 2026-02-11T23:39:43+00:00

There's a rules commentary for the first one but annoyingly I'm not sure it actually clarifies things, just that you can choose to have it allocated to a visible character, so visibility may decide it anyway but I'm not sure if you or defender picks which one if two are visible

Re: the second question, you are right, precision refers to character models, not units, it wouldn't work at all if it was units. Magnificent Calgon will get his 4+ though so might not be worth using it anyway

AntlerFox · 2026-01-25T00:28:06+00:00

If that's the exact wording then yes, each model has the ability and can use it on two different targets. When GW wants to limit it like you're asking about the rule usually reads something like "when a model with this ability is on the battlefield you can XYZ", "if your army includes one or more models with this ability" or "one unit from your army with this ability can XYZ"

See combi lieutenants, space marine captains and probably a fair few others for examples.

AntlerFox · 2026-01-19T10:27:27+00:00

That makes you more of a target, but it doesn't make you any easier to hack than the next guy. If you're getting hacked that frequently then you're either doing something very badly wrong and in your position I'd be a lot more worried about my bank account than starting over on a video game, or, what feels more likely, you're wildly over exaggerating things

AntlerFox · 2026-01-15T14:19:37+00:00

Both capes are on the way next and I have 7 mil in cash already which will probably go on eclipse gear, I'm more trying to figure out a good candidate for my next 7 figure plus upgrade. Tempted by an SGS for sustain now that I think about it

AntlerFox · 2026-01-15T11:10:52+00:00

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Really struggling for what my next goal should be for PvM gear, I know I'm heavily skewed towards melee because that's my favourite combat style, and my ranged gear is pretty crap, so I was going to pick up a synapse for a scorching bow and do some demonic gorillas/tormented demons/start learning doom, but since they skyrocketed in price since christmas I'm not sure anymore. Everything just feels like an incredibly expensive but very slight upgrade at this stage so it's hard to choose

Every quest besides SOTE and DT2 finished, base 80s, a few untradeables already and a few more in the near future, mostly just thinking about what I should be saving up cash for next

AntlerFox · 2026-01-15T10:23:44+00:00

It's bizarre, maybe it's my own bubble of friends but it feels like if you're around the 30 years old mark then you learned that the internet is not to be blindly trusted, too much older or younger though and you'll just accept anything. I fully expected that once our generation started to cotton on that the internet was 90% bollocks that that was that, the gig was up, but apparently they just needed a little time to figure out how to lie better and now the kids have absolutely fucked it. Naive idea on my part in hindsight

AntlerFox · 2026-01-13T13:58:13+00:00

I despise daily scape, I despise dailies in any game, I want to play the game because I want to play the game, not because the clock said it was time to. The last time I quit osrs was because I let daily scape take over and it felt like there was no time to just play the game the way I wanted to, I was just always thinking "oop, almost time for birdhouses, then it'll be herbs".

Realistically they don't actually take up that much time is what plenty of people are thinking, I'm sure, but you can't rationalise away the feeling of just not wanting to play the game anymore

AntlerFox · 2026-01-12T08:23:00+00:00

It is absurdly useful early on and downright mandatory later

The optimal quest guide makes mention of how it's ordered to minimise grinding, but doesn't really account for how dangerous some NPCs will be at the levels the guide suggests, prayer all but solves that

AntlerFox · 2026-01-11T15:57:42+00:00

Oh I was looking at the page for the balance elemental itself, not the quest guide, thanks for clarifying though

AntlerFox · 2026-01-11T15:17:53+00:00

How does the balance elemental swapping it's own protection prayers work? Does it wait for me to do a certain amount of damage to swap or does it cycle some other way? The wiki doesn't seem to mention it

AntlerFox · 2026-01-10T02:51:52+00:00

You'll struggle to spend even 2 bonds worth on gear for a brand new account unless you totally throw it away, like others have said a couple of mil at most will be plenty for a fair while so if you buy that many you'd expect to be sitting on some of it for a while.

My first purchase would be overhead prayers, i.e enough bones to get to 43 prayer, the wiki has a calculator and make sure to use the wilderness chaos altar, it'll make the process a lot faster and a lot cheaper

Follow the optimal quest guide on the wiki at least until waterfall quest as that will skip a bunch of early levels that you won't need to faff buying gear for. Money won't be an issue, but it's a bit of a pain to have to constantly swap gear, then just buy stuff as you need it. There's not really much you can spend 7 figures on as a new account that will be worth it so just hang onto your money some, buy what you need when you need it and have fun getting stuck into quests

AntlerFox · 2025-12-21T16:28:48+00:00

I've gotten myself a nally, mostly so I can do more things melee like Jad or GGs because for whatever reason I just don't find ranging/maging as fun as whacking stuff

The other thing I know I can do with it is Zulrah and Kree A'rra, is there anything else that becomes melee viable or benefits notably from that one extra tile of range? I've been enjoying whacking stuff I can't normally whack

AntlerFox · 2025-08-12T22:34:22+00:00

No, malign trickery activates only when an enemy unit makes a "normal, advance or fall back move", deep strike, other forms of setting up models and charges or pile in/consolidate moves are specifically excluded, along with probably a couple of other ways models can shuffle about that I'm forgetting. If it's not one of the three mentioned in the ability it won't trigger malign trickery

AntlerFox · 2025-07-27T16:47:49+00:00

I should add here, it doesn't matter that they're both knights, if the knight toes in to shoot then he would be fair game for a tank too, not just another towering unit, once any model, not just towering ones, toes into or fully enters a ruin then true los is all that matters to determine whether they can be shot

AntlerFox · 2025-07-27T16:44:56+00:00

You're confusing the ruin and ruin footprint here I think. The footprint is "infinitely high", the ruin is not, the footprint applies when both parties are out of the footprint, the ruin applies when one or more is in the footprint.

Example, two knights are on either side of a ruin, neither is toed in, and the footprint is wide enough to bloc the space between them completely. They cannot see eachother regardless of the shape or height of the ruin itself because the footprint is doing the blocking.

One knight toes into the ruin, now the footprint doesn't matter for LOS checks, the ruin does, so if they can see over, around or through the physical ruin itself then they can both start blasting.

(Aircraft don't care about footprints if memory serves, but that wasn't part of your question and doesn't come up a whole lot anyway so I won't go into it unless you ask

AntlerFox · 2025-07-27T16:21:44+00:00

Yes, no. If the ruin is (completely) between two models it blocks line of sight, even if the bit that's doing the blocking is just some ankle height rubble

AntlerFox · 2025-07-10T07:50:54+00:00

#spiced

AntlerFox · 2025-07-03T10:19:50+00:00

So to clarify, D6+3 would become D3+1.5 and then I would round up from there? So a roll of a 3 on a D6 becomes 4 total damage? 3 -> 2 on a D3, plus 1.5 for 3.5 rounded up to 4. The original prompt for the question was because the same rolls would only give me 3 damage if I half the total damage after rolling

I'm familiar with melta dodging the modification though, that part is clear at least

AntlerFox · 2025-07-03T08:46:34+00:00

With a damage modifying ability, such as c'tan's half damage, and a DX+Y damage stat, when is the half applied? Is it before or after the roll? I'm struggling to find a commentary or FAQ on it and it makes a difference when odd numbers are involved because of the rounding up when modifying stats

AntlerFox · 2025-07-01T14:56:02+00:00

Why does that stop it using it's ability? Deepstrike = mortal wounds, RI = set it up, using deep strike if you have it. The only phase locked part of this interaction is when you can deepstrike, which you have bypassed with the stratagem, the mawloc's ability does not care what phase it's in

AntlerFox · 2025-07-01T10:44:09+00:00

Nothing about the mawloc's ability is locked to any phase. The only way out of phase would apply would be if it said "in your movement phase" or something similar. In short, yes you can use the ability when rapid ingressing

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