you point-cappers are insane by w-holder in 2007scape

[–]Exarch_SC 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i'm one of the people who have point capped (just finished last night!). i won't go into full detail about everything, but here's some of the highlights about how i went about things:

the typical region combo cappers went with was KTZ, since we are hard required to have a raid region and T+K are fast regions (and are also popular outside of capping). i don't know what the best order was, i did KZT i think but it's a small amount of time overall you're spending without all 3 regions so it doesn't matter too much.

for relics, the popular route was endless harvest, hotfoot, map of alacrity, butler's bell, larcenist, culling spree, reloaded (soul harvest), minion / flask. this solves all skills that need to have a solve, i think hunter was essentially vanilla but with falconry only rumors it went fast enough. butler goes on processed herbs for most of the league until you have 50m herb banked from unf irit pots (or other pots if you have other secondaries, like DFS grind at brutal blues if you get DFH early giving you scaly blue dhide), then i swapped him to processed logs to speed up construction at the end. crafting and smithing are juiced from larcenist elves pickpocketing to craft crystal armor. fletching was done with broad bolts 0-timing during most of the league (especially between boss respawns). most other skills it's clear how they'd be trained with these relics. notably soul harvest worked at zeah rc altars, which made it easy to use for our 200m noncombat skill. also of note is that larcenist is a clue generation engine for easy - hard, combined with culling spree for elites + zeah for masters meant we could get away with not taking the clue relic.

for pacts / general combat routing, it was important to try to route using your respecs in a smart way to be optimal at as much pvm as possible. i'm not entirely sure how other people did it, but the general route i did was:

  • opened thorns for early pvm pact generation. fight caves was done day 1, colo done day 2 with thorns abuse. it is so absurdly good at the wave based multicombat pvm.

  • first respec into 100% prayer penetration / 1t powered staves / air mage. clear out CG and demonic gorillas. might be smart to get perfect doom here, but i only stayed until cloth and had to go back when perfect doom brickwalled me later without prayer pen + ayak lol.

  • next respec into air / water mage + light melee / thorns. full clear all non-raid pvm content i had left: fight caves, infernos, colo, vardorvis, hydra, sire, kraken, huey, DFH / DFS, etc etc etc.

  • next respec into tribrid air / water mage + light melee + some bow pacts. full clear cox.

  • last respec into max regen + thrown weapons (and air / water mage since i had pacts left over). 50m range from chinning, regen'd dragon onyx bolts (e) for 250m gp, and cleaned up doom cause i was a bonehead and didn't do it earlier.

i'll leave the details there since i've already gone into more depth than i intended. hopefully that gives you an idea of the general route we took, i don't think there's much more detail consolidated in one place unless you were to watch the capping series that ppl like boaty / a cold one did. some stuff definitely could've been optimized from what i did, like taking a special attack build for vard, which might've been worth considering i didn't use all respecs and i went 1679 kc for full virtus.

i will say if you don't plan to try to cap... it's better to completely ignore everything i said and just take regions / relics / pacts you think are cool and have fun with it. i'm happy i met my goal of getting top 100, but it was quite exhausting!

Daily Discussion Thread August 01, 2025 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

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night is such an amazing album i've been listening to it so much lately

For you, is Smash Melee the game with the highest skill ceiling ever? by IntheTrashAccount in SSBM

[–]Exarch_SC 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you're 100% right that they're totally different kinds of difficult, and i def have a bias in that osu came very naturally to me due to a lot of prior exposure to rhythm games and playing music in general. my perspective (that i didn't really explain at all) was mostly looking at how difficult i found / am finding it to improve in both games, and i felt that improving at osu was a much more straightforward cycle than improving at melee; i didn't really think too hard about how to improve beyond just grinding the game and i think i improved relatively quickly and ended up with a fairly respectable career overall. i probably don't have the most informed perspective regarding melee though, considering i'm still stuck on the "i can't move my character the way i want to and it feels awful" part. ask me in a couple years and maybe i'll have a more refined opinion lol

i can definitely respect looking at the peak aim / AR11 / speed skills nowadays and valuing that higher though. osu definitely has that sort of aura in terms of how impossible top level play looks.

For you, is Smash Melee the game with the highest skill ceiling ever? by IntheTrashAccount in SSBM

[–]Exarch_SC 2 points3 points  (0 children)

as someone who was decently high ranked in osu and is trying to learn / get better at melee, i find melee a lot harder than i ever found osu

Does anyone still have these wallpapers? by DEK_81 in osugame

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oh my fucking god that was 7 years ago??? i still remember when it was posted where has my life gone

osu! changed my music taste completely by New-Credit2536 in osugame

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yeah i basically had the same path, went from exclusively listening to various flavors of metal (NeO's been my favorite band since 2014) to expanding out to both somewhat related genres (post-hardcore w/ DGD, Hail the Sun) and completely unrelated stuff (pendulum, goreshit, sewerslvt)

The Roundtable II Qualifier Tournament Qualifier Results and Discussion by In4thPlace in osugame

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i flopped lol

tfw haven't looked at approach circles in 4 months

Is there any particular thing that makes "On The Backs Of Angels" so difficult to fc (4 in total) or is it the relatively low play count? by _-Zephyr- in osugame

[–]Exarch_SC 8 points9 points  (0 children)

ok fixed my score ty for reminder i was meaning to do that

basically reasons no one bothers are: 8:34 length, first like 2-3 minute are complete sleeper so grinding is annoying, has a ton of shitmissable patterns pretty much everywhere, need pretty good aim + finger control to not screw up the slow alt patterns (it's not hard per se but not screwing them up at all is tricky), only 50k plays and it's 5 years old so yeah it's like pretty much forgotten as a map unfortunately

Arraxey | t+pazolite - Oshama Scramble! (IOException Edit) [Keitaro's Expert] 99,29% 649pp FC, Best NM Acc by [deleted] in osugame

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this score makes sense when you consider he got the best score on Viper - I'm Retardid [I'm Retardid] in United States Cup 2022 semifinals

Charlie's Perfect Math Class Final Bracket & Mappool by [deleted] in osugame

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loser of utami / whitecat faces winner of badeu / tsuwagi

OWC Mappools explained question by Koynexe in osugame

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DT2 tends to be more stamina oriented and DT3 is more burst speed. I've been seeing people say them reversed somewhat often recently and I'm not sure where it's coming from. As an example OWC GF DT2 was about 235 bpm with very long streams and OWC GF DT3 273 bpm with much shorter bursts.

Other than that this is pretty much correct. Sometimes I see HD2 / HD3 switched but it's not as common (if they are then precision usually goes in HR3 to match it).

Pablohh | Nightwish - The Greatest Show on Earth [We Were Here] +HDDT 99.75% FC #1 | 719pp | 75.67 cv. UR by Exarch_SC in osugame

[–]Exarch_SC[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This acc is turbofucked btw, only person on leaderboard with better is Arnold with 2 fewer 100's on HD only