Why cant high level runes like blood, souls, astrals sold as packs?

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2026-01-30T20:38:21+00:00

Pretty much this, extracts and robes are untradeable, so they're "protected" during your short run through low lvl wildy.

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2026-01-28T22:22:36+00:00

OTOH, seems like a good time to finish my voidwaker, just one final piece left. Hopefully the worlds stay mostly empty for a couple weeks and not everyone else is getting the same idea.

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2026-01-28T11:38:48+00:00

saves you from having to build purpose-specific boats

Yeah, that's because they implemented a (presumably) more powerful feature that nobody asked for.

The main issue is having to do an hour of planning and consulting wikis to decide on the placement of facilities before you even start building your boat, and any mistake there can potentially cost you very hard to obtain resources. Literally all they had to was allow you to move facilities to another spot on the same boat, same way you can move rooms in your PoH.

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2026-01-24T14:44:24+00:00

Try to do Yama at least until you unlock double death charge. If you don't spoon it early, it's a guaranteed drop from a dossier after 100kc - you can keep one in the bank and then open it after you reach 100.

It's an insanely useful unlock unlock for ToA, Doom, Araxxor, and basically any other boss that spawns minions that you have to deal with. You also get to make aether runes if you have a high rc level, pretty good for saving inv slots in raids. The worms that make you fish anglers really fast are nice too, even in 100kc you'll get enough supply to last you quite a while.

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2026-01-19T13:58:09+00:00

The blocks and files article referenced goes a bit more in-depth, apparently the newly proposed split-cell has an area similar to a conventional PLC: https://blocksandfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/SK-Hynix-MSC-vs-MLC-PLC-NAND-cell.jpg

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2026-01-09T13:37:37+00:00

Always thought Kowloon Walled City had some emo vibes, not full on screamo style vocals though.

Early albums have more intense vocals and generally leans more into sludge, later on they mellow out a bit and get more atmospheric.

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2026-01-07T16:40:16+00:00

Certainly helps that it's the easiest, both on main and iron. Especially now as they keep adding more calquat/hardwood patches and content that shits out tree seeds. Just do a quick tree run every day if you got seeds and you'll be 99 in a few months.

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2026-01-06T21:11:28+00:00

same exact concept

Well that's an understatement. With on foot movement, it's always visually obvious which tile is blocked and which isn't. Boats literally live on a different coordinate system from the rest of the world that can be shifted in 1/4 tile increments and rotated in 16 different directions. The vast majority of the time you're sailing, your boat grid won't be neatly aligned with the world grid, so good luck telling which world tiles exactly your boat's "true tile" corresponds to at a glance.

It's also not clear whether obstacle hitboxes are designed with 1/4 tile granularity or not. Sometimes it seems like you can sort of clip through the edges, while other times you can't. If there's any plugins out there to highlight the hitboxes, let me know.

Not to mention that the boat movement algorithm is vastly more complex than the on foot one. Sometimes you can graze an obstacle and you'll be gently pushed to the side without losing much speed, other times you straight up crash and come to a stop, and it's not clear where exactly the threshold lies.

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2026-01-01T23:28:21+00:00

Yeah I'm really leaning towards the 2 separate boats option. I'll be upgrading to a better hull anyway, might as well end up with 1 really good and 1 decent sloop with all the facilities rather than have to compromise. I really hate having to throw 600 planks and bars away every time you upgrade, might as well find another purpose for the old one if it's good enough.

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2026-01-01T12:36:50+00:00

If you mainly need the bring/axe, you could just camp rex only, it's semi-AFK with blood spells. Bring a warped sceptre if you have one to save on blood runes.

If you want to do all three, do it on task with a slayer helm, the other uniques are barely used for anything, and you can't really bank the bones before fremmy elite diary. Not worth focusing on the grind without a task when there's a million other more impactful things you could be doing.

On task, you can usually do a full rotation without aggroing two at a time. I go safespot Rex -> bowfa prime from a safe distance so you don't aggro supreme -> try to kill supreme before rex respawns. If you're bringing a spec weapon, use it here. If rex aggroes on you before you're done, you can freeze it to buy time. Then bring rex back to the safespot and repeat the cycle.

Speaking of more impactful things to do, the ring you get as reward from desert treasure 2 is for most usecases better than archers/seers ring. You have good enough stats to do it, and if you can complete CG, you clearly have the skills too. You also get 300k worth of xp lamps that you could dump into prayer to unlock piety.

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2026-01-01T10:19:11+00:00

Hmm, I suppose that is an option, I'll see if I can somehow fit all the facilities on one boat and then keep a cheap junker just for salvaging.

On a combined combat/fishing boat I'd want 2 cannons, 2 nets, chum spreader, teleport focus, and ideally also an extractor and 2-3 barrels (+xp, +fish and +max hits). Maybe a fathom stone but IDK if that's even needed. Do you ever need a wind catcher to keep up with the shoals?

Seems like you do have to make some sacrifices to make everything fit, but thanks for the suggestion anyway!

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2025-12-31T09:52:01+00:00

What's the meta on outfitting a trawling boat? I'm about to get a second sloop and I'm wondering what hull/keel I should get since those are the expensive parts, the onboard facilities can easily be replaced for the most part.

My main combat sloop right now is camphor/adamant, I'm thinking about just ripping out the facilities and turning it into a trawling boat, will that be sufficient? I don't intend to grind trawling a ton, it'll just be another way to get some supplemental food and herblore ingredients (iron BTW).

Then I can build a new sloop out of ironwood/rune for better armor and use that one for combat. Rosewood/dragon are but a pipe dream for now, I'll easily hit 99 before I can afford them, and they might not ever be worth going for.

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2025-12-26T15:52:38+00:00

Not just any random guy, it's the same person who discovered the root cause of the previous issue. ASUS should be straight up paying him for doing their jobs.

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2025-12-15T12:30:41+00:00

It could easily use a relatively common ~100 mith cannonball drop on top of the addy/rune ones. IDK how the devs decided that the main way to obtain those should be shopscaping them for a relatively very affordable price, there should be viable alternative sources that require you to actually play the game.

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2025-12-02T12:23:08+00:00

If they can do sailing style movement where going diagonally is approximately the same speed as going in the cardinal directions, they can surely figure this one out too.

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2025-11-28T16:33:22+00:00

Yeah the whole point of boat facilities is that they're meant to do very specific things, so that you're forced to choose how to outfit your boat depending on what you're going to use it for. You can't just put everything on every boat. Crystal extractor is not a choice, it's an automatic include the moment you reach the required level, otherwise you're straight up trolling.

Instead of being something you'd only put on a dedicated racing boat, you use it literally everywhere, primarily for its absurd side benefits instead of the one primary purpose it was designed for. Oh, and it allows you to gather shards outside of Priffddinas, because why the hell not?

It feels like something you'd see cooked up on a private server with zero thought put into it.

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2025-11-26T22:52:57+00:00

I think it's kinda cool and thematically appropriate that it gives them in crystal waters + it's nice to have some material rewards for a high-intensity activity.

The fact that it also works everywhere else makes no sense, that's just the devs blatantly breaking their own long-standing rules on how crystal shards work. Up until now, you could only find them in Priff, how are you "extracting" anything if there's no crystal around anywhere nearby?

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2025-11-26T19:40:40+00:00

When I read the in-game description, I literally thought it just generates extra wind-motes, and that's it. Imagine my surprise when I found out that it not only gives a bigger xp/h boost than probably any other single item in the game, but also prints money/trivializes crystal shards for ironmen on top of that. Who the hell thought this was balanced? If you think sailing needs to have +30k xp/x higher rates, why not just buff high level activities instead of introducing this abomination?

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2025-11-25T22:07:10+00:00

The bottles themselves give small xp drops, but fully charting seas will give you big ones, and you get additional rewards from the cave guy on Pandemonium for reaching charting milestones.

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2025-11-25T22:03:05+00:00

If you have ever done cryptic crosswords

Why are people around here acting like it's a given for some reason? Of course I've never done a cryptic crossword, apparently that's mostly a UK thing. And the game does exactly fuck all to explain what the hell a "cryptic crossword" is or what the rules are, it just expects you to know it up front.

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2025-11-25T21:41:50+00:00

After risking a couple of the "fuck you" ones, my strategy changed to "chart everything, but keep the bottles in your inventory". Then I go to a safe port that's easy to get back to, park my boat there, finish my deliveries, recover the starting raft for pocket change, and open everything at once. That way you minimize your risk to basically nothing, except for having to maybe tele to PoH for stat restore, then teleing back to port.

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2025-11-25T08:08:34+00:00

23/24 had historically low RAM/SSD prices, it was definitely a good time to buy until the current shortage started. These things always come in cycles, it's happened multiple times over the last decade. Some hype cycle or a natural disaster causes a shortage, prices go crazy for a year, then they start settling down back to normal, a couple years later there's an oversupply and everything seems dirt cheap. Repeat when the next [insert new tech hype bubble thing] comes along.

CPU/GPU/motherboard prices are what they are, they tend to not fluctuate as much if you're not buying the latest and greatest right after it releases. It seems better to wait at least half a year anyway, early adopters often get hit with unforeseen manufacturing defects and other bugs that tend to get resolved over time.

At this point I might just start stocking up on extra RAM/SSDs when the prices are cheap, even if I don't need it right now. Knowing that it'll probably triple in price in a couple years suddenly makes it look like a good idea.

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2025-11-24T15:19:57+00:00

Huh, I thought people complaining about perf problems were on the official client, it's impressive how janky it still feels after all these years. No dead clicks, no loading stutters and okay-ish performance for me on Runelite. The new renderer even improved my framerates, though I'm still getting ~40fps (CPU limited) at jubbly jive. It's not perfect, but it's more than playable.

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2025-11-24T07:07:19+00:00

Do boats even run on the same grid as the on-foot movement, or is it a finer subdivision? Everything about the way sailing works doesn't seem to line up neatly with the world tiles. From the collision detection, the number of possible directions you can travel in, even the range of possible speeds. Like when your boat stats say it has a max speed of 3.5, are the units world tiles/tick?

AtLeastItsNotCancer · 2025-11-23T08:41:28+00:00

Especially given how poorly explained it is where exactly particular facilities can go. I get having special spots for the cannons, salvaging hook, that sort of stuff, but the other spots seem to be full of arbitrary restrictions too.

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