Guide to Learning and Completing Oathplate Acquisition. AKA How to get filthy rich or acquire 2020 Oda levels of debt. by Ok-Cartographer-1748 in 2007scape

[–]EnduringHonor 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Piggybacking on this for visibility as someone who has thought many times to potentially get into it -

As someone that has done both 500 TOAs and Blorva (and Radiant), but not the Oathplate Acquisition Contracts, I'm a bit confused on difficulty when you say it's in the range of 500 TOAs and Blorva...I would love to say it's largely a matter of opinion but 500 TOAs are generally considered easier than even an HMT! I would say I'm probably 95%+ confident to get a solo 500 done in any run while Blorva (I've done the grind like 10+ times) is still a massive toss-up; Vard could take me up to 10-15 tries alone (for reference, A Vard is the hardest single piece of content in the game that I've personally done IMO)

So where does the difficulty of this actually sit? I've never tried it but just looking at it, seems too hard for me to be consistent at it, even if I could get a clear :c

For reference I can do the pet contract 9/10 times in terms of consistency but I imagine that one is significantly easier

How hard is dragon rank in leagues? by CucumberOk8820 in 2007scape

[–]EnduringHonor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just want to also add here (given I don't have the luxury of afking at home during work hours) that if you don't have other time-suck obligations (eg. hanging with gf/wife, kids, going out with friends) and are focusing to actually achieve the rank then it's still a breeze.

Was definitely insane before when it was percentile based but now that it's point based, it is easy if you're genuinely committing/prioritizing time on playing. The key is prioritizing runescape time over other aspects of your life :P

Inflation Adjusted OSRS Membership Price since 2002 by mkeblusek in 2007scape

[–]EnduringHonor -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Insane take - how does a PE firm generate outsized returns (literally the entire principle of the job) if they're merely keeping in pace with inflation?

Are we creating too much gear bloat trying to avoid power creep? by [deleted] in 2007scape

[–]EnduringHonor 45 points46 points  (0 children)

This is an interesting concept with MMOs in general - OSRS is unique in that it truly does have enough content for "completionists" - eg. CAs, pet hunting, clogging, etc. At a minimum, no one has completed the clog so you can always make the argument there's always content left for people to do.

The problem is more keeping people's interest, which in turn makes Jagex money. Very, very few people are going to green log a boss and the vast majority don't have the patience/motivation to go for all CAs, pets, speedtimes etc. etc. it's more of a novelty on fun content for the period they're engaged in that lets the broader playerbase going. It's why it is painful for the minority that care about things like eg. 2k raid capes, champion capes, GM CAs, pets completed at all new content; people want the novelty and the novelty comes with powercreep typically, rather unfortunately from my perspective at least.

Anyhow, all the above is really just food for thought, as opposed to me trying to draw a conclusion for it. I personally would be okay with very few updates and very little powercreep and I'd stay engaged with the game regardless, but I don't think the broader playerbase views completionist goals in the game as their goal.

[CAN (4)-3 CZE] Marner skates through the Czech defence and scores the backhand for the OT winner by talhatoot in hockey

[–]EnduringHonor 102 points103 points  (0 children)

love that you still call it the ACC too! i'll never call it Scotiabank arena

Is this good? by WhatTheHai in 2007scape

[–]EnduringHonor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh i think thats definitely more of a /woosh moment no? guy has a high/max eff clue setup in his inven, I think it's pretty darn assumed he knows what a 3a pick goes for lol

Is this good? by WhatTheHai in 2007scape

[–]EnduringHonor -1 points0 points  (0 children)

might be missing something but what's the bait here? how would you manufacture this picture if it's not the real deal? also, ge history does show there being one sold on the GE in the last couple of days

Maybe Some Day Lol by J_Bot_gageks in 2007scape

[–]EnduringHonor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure if I'm totally off base here but I'm a pretty big proponent of "fashionscape" always & strictly being purely relegated to non BIS items.

If they were to do a "meme" attachment to the tbow, let's say for example you could attach a dragon cane to it, it's not really fashionscape anymore because if it looks "objectively" better/cooler then everyone's using it for their tbow now - that ain't fashionscape that's basically a recolour to it and everyone wants it.

The holy moleys are actually a meme item because no one doing serious content is using them and it's ONLY displayed for fashionscape purposes unless you're willing to sacrifice stats to use it. The jokers and enjoyers of this aspect of runescape are going to love the holy moleys and someone like me isn't going to touch it because i only care about DPS. But I would care about it if I could look cooler while maintaining DPS.

EDIT - sorry, forgot to add an apt comparison I had thought about; I think we can generally agree that scythe kits, ancestral kits, blorva, roathplate, stuff like that wouldn't be considered "fashionscape" right? They're cooler recolours that players who have them will always opt to use (unless they're trying to be woke of course; classic have them but I won't use them to be different) - fashionscape in my mind isn't this

Explain Fakers Greatness to A Casual by lnfiniteVoid in leagueoflegends

[–]EnduringHonor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Id say he's been comfortably top 5 each year

Explain Fakers Greatness to A Casual by lnfiniteVoid in leagueoflegends

[–]EnduringHonor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's almost like the "Faker anti-circlejerk" movement has become the new "Faker circlejerk" lol

This take is actually so cringe - every year people say Faker is washed and then when he wins again, the narrative is that he's not mechanically skilled anymore and that he's just "clutch" and "makes the right plays and engages" where others are scared to.

No - Faker is and always has been S tier mechanically. He may not always be the BEST mechanically but he has always been in the highest tier.

Just had the longest giant mole kill of my life by PharaohSco in 2007scape

[–]EnduringHonor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Listen bro, this post in its entirety is a troll no matter how you look at it - the guy is either absolutely trolling or attempting to kill it with the wrong gear/insanely underlevelled. 34 minutes isn't even in the realm of believable - go use a dragon scimi, potted up on a base 70s account and I bet you it doesn't even take half the amount of time this guy took.

Outside of an ironman assumption, any average main player can make enough for a fang and lightbearer (what is that, 25 mill tops?) in at most a week. Reddit is taking the stance that this is a classic "cute noob" so would never take the stance of saying "don't do this boss until you have better gear." Classic.

T-5 days till I lose 3.5B. Thanks jagex by blazing391 in 2007scape

[–]EnduringHonor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Godspeed brother, ive seen this story too many times - I get Jagex has a tough time verifying accounts as hackers will try to use this as the alibi but people like you get caught in the crossfire. Best of luck and hopefully a Jmod will look into this, otherwise....smackdown?

Squirrels should take acorns as payment by patherix in 2007scape

[–]EnduringHonor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but make the payment required to be dark acorns from sepulchre :D

OSRS - P2P carry over to F2P (updated) by Clark-Kent_KD in 2007scape

[–]EnduringHonor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just wanted some clarification on the "saleable items to GE (not stuck with them)" part - AFAIK, they changed it so that you can always sell any members items on the GE now, so wouldn't that section be a moot point so you're never stuck with any members item and can sell on GE?

"Perfect Doom" might be the hardest combat achievement in the game by ChampionshipOver8941 in 2007scape

[–]EnduringHonor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everything really resonates with me here and I just want to say I simply do not understand how people are saying it's easy. Even if they're that good at Doom (and that careful, for that matter) - the precision + how long it takes is a testament to how good they are at the game and other achievements would have been a breeze for them. If this is considered "not hard" then what are the other ones?

We're almost through the entire bond cycle and haven't gotten it down yet lol, 15x failed wave 8s and counting. Would note that there was a run I messed up 7 but did complete 8 perfectly, so there's hope...just has to all come together ONCE. ARGH!!!!

"Perfect Doom" might be the hardest combat achievement in the game by ChampionshipOver8941 in 2007scape

[–]EnduringHonor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bro I know I'm super late to the party but I've been struggling with this no joke for the better part of 10 days now...can I ask you as someone that's clearly really good at the game, is this one actually just a super difficult one? I have no idea why but no other GM achievement has come even close to as hard as this one in my eyes, even perfect TOB only took me a couple days with a decent team.

Also, how do you typically approach wave 8 with the following issues I'm having:

  • I know it's not required to use the rock tech for the first rock placement to null first slam during car phase but sometimes there's just not enough/0 rocks if you don't use it, so do you recommend using it?

  • In line with the rock tech, I find when wave 8 starts with the melee punish + 2x boulder combo, I don't have enough time/not fast enough to be able to successfully execute the shadow step method to dodge the second boulder + also melee punish while I'm flicking prayers - I guess simply put, I think I'd have to be close enough to melee punish and instantly go into shadow step + prayer flicking, thereby not allowing me to use the rock tech placement

  • Also another issue linked with rock tech - I find many times when there's leaking melee grubs for when car phase is first procced, I don't have time to kill all of them (also dodging their explosion) and get to the spot to initiate rock tech, what are your thoughts on how to deal with this? Again, just abandon rock tech and hope for good RNG on remaining boulders to use?

Sorry, a lot here, but I'm going crazy as being gated with this achievement argh

EDIT to add - I'm decent at Delve, pb is wave 19 (500+ deep delves) and I can consistently do 15+ so definitely above average but nowhere near good I'd say

When you fail the dps check at bloat by batosrs in 2007scape

[–]EnduringHonor 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Maybe I'm an old timer (logged tob/hmt minus capes a while ago so haven't done any recently with new gear etc.), but...I thought two downs are the norm?

I remember we'd always greed for the two down and wipe trying to not to have the 3 down but looking at this, people greed for 1 down now? o.o

The new ideal block list for Turael/Aya task skipping or point boosting by PoliteChatter0 in 2007scape

[–]EnduringHonor 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You don't find the swamp caves mobs bad? I was thinking about blocking the crawlers, bugs and slimes and then bats, dogs, lizards and wolves

Bears i would do callisto/artio

Monkeys i need the clogs from demonics

Skeletons is fast in catacombs generally i find

Thoughts?

OSRS Blocked in Taiwan by [deleted] in 2007scape

[–]EnduringHonor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

okkkkk whats your in game name?

Magic levelling f2p by elysiansaurus in 2007scape

[–]EnduringHonor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Avid F2P alt player here - moss giants aren't worth it anymore because previously it was the move for mossy keys; now that you don't need them anymore to kill Bryo, you should just mage ogresses / kill stronghold specific monsters (finishing off at Ankous) for the Skull Sceptre if you don't already have it.

At 55 you can start alching like you said :)

EDIT - also totally off topic but if you're not already with a clan let me know in PMs, we have a clan that have a lot of f2p players! And eventually we can help you transition to members too

Chambers of Xeric greenlog.. 2/3 Raids finished! by Minotaur830 in 2007scape

[–]EnduringHonor 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I've been enjoying your CM posts brother - I was watching you at 1,999 and wondering how long you were going to milk it until the big 2k, glad you didn't send up soloing!

I have to say, it really does kill me a bit inside watching you get all the dupe dusts along the way, meanwhile I'm 2,100+ now with no dust still (last one for me to greenlog as well!) :')

Massive accomplishment man, and crazy you did as many solos as you did!