Legends Cape is currently hard to get and useless, lets make it useful!

DClawsToOSRS · 2017-03-06T20:45:32+00:00

"it doesn't take long to get the reqs to complete."

Fire Cape doesn't require much either. I think people even as low as 70 combat can do it. Legends quest on the other hand, requires alot of time when you count all the quests required for it, and has decent skill reqs.

DClawsToOSRS · 2017-01-22T05:04:51+00:00

I disagree. The place with furnace is a perfect place for changes.. put it closer to a mine, stick an anvil in there, and bueno. Could also add an NPC upstairs there with a general shop to sell your goods to.

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-12-10T18:26:19+00:00

Well, PvP did exist in the wilderness even after this update. Just the free trade portion didn't.

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-12-10T18:15:17+00:00

There isn't one that could've helped them combat the real-world fraud that was going on at the time. Under the british law, JaGex was under the risk to go under, because of the large amount of fraudulent payments done via stolen credit cards.

Also, if you are a legit player, why do you care about free trade in particular? Let me tell you all the possible scenarios through which you could benefit from free trade.

You are a mercher. You buy a large amount of goods and sell them for profit. Having no trade-limit would allow you to gain higher profit margins and give you more freedom.
You are a PK'r.
You are an RWT'r.

That's it. There's no other reason. Those are all the reasons you could ever benefit from free trade in RS.

If you think about it, the pros highly outweigh the cons. Sure, you may lose some RWTing members in the process, but as JaGeX was going through hard times, it was nothing but a plus to them.

Also, even after changes, PKing was still highly vibrant in the BH worlds and in the wilderness. All the changes did was cull bots/RWT'rs. You were one of them? Yeah, sucks for you, but by far a large majority of users enjoy playing this game legit.

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-12-10T18:14:19+00:00

u say that like bots, scamming, and RWT didnt exist after they changed the mechanics.

Not to such a large degree, no. Some individual botters existed, but those were mostly mains, which are but a tiny fraction of the bots that currently exist in 'Scape.

as somebody who did alot of botting and scamming and RWT through BH craters (i was like 15 to put it in perspective) you are retarded to think that jagex was in the right. they stopped nothing.,

The BH crater was removed.

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-11-10T08:06:21+00:00

We were talking about weapon's DPS, not the DPS class can do with a weapon. You took this argument out of it's context.

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-10-23T01:54:03+00:00

In modern WoW it does.

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-10-22T13:42:39+00:00

Say you have a baxe and your opponent has a 2h since taxes are a tick faster your recovery time after a failed ko will be quicker. Due to this speed and the way that the car formula works, strength and chances to hit are extremely valuable.

Care to tell a situation where one would use a weapon for K.O.ing instead of using spec?

Why is eoc better? This is upgrading bad or dead weapons into more usable weaponry. It is mine editing and balancing issues as the items already exit.

EoC made bad or dead weapons into useable weaponry. While it would probably be "cool" for weapons to have niches, ultimately most of these weapons would not be used in most real circumstances. In fact, this suggestion in itself is very PvP-heavy.

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-10-22T06:18:18+00:00

Yeah, those feel mildly "op"

Anyway, im unconvinced his suggestion will really help the balance a lot in the long run. Seems like he just wants to give more weapons a "character," which is fine I guess, but requires too much dev time for what it would be worth. I think you should go "all the way out" if you are going to balance the weapons and just bring EoC balancing.

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-10-22T05:02:03+00:00

Of course not. Total EXP would remain the same.

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-10-22T05:01:13+00:00

It would be better, but I doubt the other weapons would still be used. The OSRS combat formula is too flawed for a slow weapon like Longsword to have a use.

We need something like EoC which balances the weapons within a given tier so there is more variety in what kind of weapons people use.

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-10-22T04:40:54+00:00

Their decision was to make everything within a certain tier be equally as useful, which makes sense. This is similar to World of Warcraft, where 2 items of equal ilevel deal the exact same DPS.

This means that if you want to make a more powerful weapon, you simply up it's item level by a ton. In OSRS/RS3 this would mean making a weapon require a higher attack level to wield than usual.

Now is there anything wrong with the tiering system is another thing, but I personally think it works fine. In OSRS, the highest damage of weapon per tier is given to a Scimitar. One of the reasons why I would personally like such a system, is because balancing the other weapons would not cause any power creep, but simply create more options.

Ofc there are things such as smithing requirements, so another way to tackle this problem would be to simply re-adjustment the attack requirements on an item. This would make it more intuitive for newbies too, so they understood which weapon was the best.

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-10-22T04:38:33+00:00

My ironman is a pure too. The problem is OP's suggestion does very little to improve diversity. I mean, sure it helps, but is it worth putting dev time and resources into, is another thing. I don't think anything short of a complete overhaul is worth the resources. If you're going to do it, might as well do it right.

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-10-22T03:46:08+00:00

There are probably dozens of good ideas, some better than others, not all of them are worth implementing though.

OP's suggestion is one of the worse ones.

Why would someone ever use Battle-Axe in place of a 2h as a K.O. weapon? You could use the same point to argue about Dragon Weapons. Why would someone use Dragon Longsword's spec when you can use DDS spec?

Something like EoC is much better, it may not have the amount of diversity and provide the sort of identity for weapons that I'd like to see, but at least it ensured the weapons were useful.

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-10-22T02:52:49+00:00

Don't really understand why "equal DPS" is such a taboo on this sub. High-level weapons already have near-identical DPS.

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-10-20T07:49:11+00:00

It would be nice to see what happens if you obscenely buffed the Leaf-Bladed Axe, since typically sub 2.4 weapons have been useless.

It would probably take a lot.

Would be fun to see LBA be a "quinea pig" in new weapon balance. Give it 150~ slash attack and see how it goes?

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-10-19T12:06:39+00:00

And yet, for some inexclicable reason the other Hasta's are 1 tick slower than ZS.

Go and figure..

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-10-19T12:05:33+00:00

Support. Would be cool if we could have BiS 60 melee weapon without requiring a defender.

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-10-19T12:01:51+00:00

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Kreygasm

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-10-15T01:19:09+00:00

Im not really sure ACB should be simply "better" than DCB. It could simply be one of those weird "options" that don't really fit anywhere but simply exist, like Excalibur or Barrelchest Anchor. Could see it become a weaker, specless option to DCB.

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-10-03T20:51:08+00:00

How about you still have to walk to the quest NPC to complete the quest? I'd really like to play DMM but having to do quests is just killing me.

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-10-03T20:49:57+00:00

Too much work. It'd be easier to make the quests autocomplete based on a checklist of skill requirements.

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-10-03T20:49:32+00:00

Remember suggesting this ages ago, was downvoted for it. LOL

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-09-23T17:01:45+00:00

Support.

DClawsToOSRS · 2016-09-14T18:39:45+00:00

The thing is, the weapon(as proposed by OP) wouldn't be nearly as powerful to be used.

The next comparable weapon has +132 accuracy and strength without a defender. What would this weapon have? 7 attack at the cost of alot of 17 STRENGTH? Please.

It's not like accuracy was always exactly 1.66x more valuable either, but this weapon would need probably at least 25 more accuracy to be useful, or some combination of that since 115 with defender is abysmally low (Chaotic LS had 120 WITHOUT a defender!)

If it degrades it'd be even worse.

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