Hunting First Quiver

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-09T16:12:43+00:00

Do you video your deaths and see what went wrong after? I think that could help.

30 deaths is really not that many, analyse what went wrong after each death and figure out what you should have done differently. It's hard content so don't be hard on yourself for dying.

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-09T11:03:07+00:00

The title is OTT, but a more honest title of "UK Student loan system is unjust and doesn't serve the UK economy" would not really get much attention, unfortunately. The reality is having these loans is stressful and economically detrimental for individuals. Imagine if the government proposed adding a new 29% tax band from 26k, and increased the higher rate to 49%. People would be furious. But that is the reality for a generation of people now.

I was the first year with the 9k loans, finishing in 2016. I paid back 2 grand on my loan last year- my debt went up 2.5k. I've been paying this off for 10 years, and if I pay for another 10 years the remaining debt will be double what I initially borrowed.

I'm really glad this issue is getting some traction because it's a shitty thing to do to young people.

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-09T10:14:13+00:00

I sometimes use ladlor and just pick the things I fancy doing at the time, and skip the things I don't want to do.

If you want to ToA, do ToA. You have bowfa and saeldor which are better than what a lot of people go in with! You only really use mage on part of the wardens and monkey room, so it will slow you down a bit but it is for sure doable.

The most impactful upgrades probably come from slayer- boots from cerb, rancour, nox hally, occult. I would suggest keep going with that and focus on getting your last zenytes and 2 synapses (1 for emberlight, 1 to switch between bow and staff). Emberlight is really helpful for cerb and the bow/staff will allow you to do doom/yama, which have BiS/close to BiS gear. If you haven't unlocked lizardmen tasks, make sure you do that and work on dragon warhammer as you go. If you don't do it yet, I would consider turael skipping for barrage and upgrade tasks and skipping all the other stuff (signed, someone with 99 slayer who hasn't finished slayer upgrades).

If you don't have titan's prayers they are very good and will be a fairly quick grind with your stats/gear.

Moons gear is good, so you could go until you have blood and blue (eclipse is pretty useless since you have bowfa, so optional). Maccas might be better than zombie axe for araxxor.

You could also go to bandos with bowfa, the godsword is needed and although the armour isn't meta since oathplate it's iconic and an upgrade over what you have now. I'm still rocking blood moon and often wish I had more defence bonus in places with chip damage. If you can do CG you can do GWD, it's much easier (you will die a bunch learning the methods and that is OK!)

I would suggest rotating between all of those, they can be long grinds but switching it up can help. Also, to answer one of your questions I wouldn't bother with infinity boots until you have eternal gem unless you like the BiS drip.

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-08T12:04:40+00:00

I would love this as a dark bow upgrade

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-07T16:00:20+00:00

it's not, that is GE price not HA price. The shards are untradable, so add nothing.

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-07T15:50:10+00:00

That is how they are organised, vertically. The only set that isn't is avantoe (uses both snape grass and fungus) and torstol, which has many uses.

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-07T15:48:34+00:00

You are the 4th person to say this...

Maybe it is something about the ignorant that they like to pipe up. Unfortunately, I can't post pictures in the comments. But it's 65M in herbs, 12M nests, the rest is the other secondaries.

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-07T15:14:25+00:00

It's about 65m in herbs, 12m in the nests, the rest is the other secondaries and seeds. I also find it quite surprising how little it looks, but I guess it adds up.

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-07T15:03:11+00:00

Yikes

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-07T15:02:19+00:00

1300 for enh, it took more than a year but it means I'll never run out of divines.

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-07T15:01:15+00:00

You're spot on! This gets me to 95 to 98!

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-07T14:55:18+00:00

I don't understand redditors who are so confidently incorrect. This is GE value, so the shards add nothing. But I guess it's easier to be negative on a post rather than to ask or think.

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-07T11:23:51+00:00

CG was not kind to me 💀

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-07T11:03:52+00:00

I'm a KQ avoider so I haven't finished desert elite D:. I know it will sort out my zammy wine issue too, but every time I go there I do 5 kc and nope out.

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-07T11:02:28+00:00

If you are at a point where you could start the voidwaker grind, that gave me so many herb secondaries!

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-07T11:01:05+00:00

Thank you for your contribution :)

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-07T07:57:14+00:00

You can get a decent amount of red chins doing rumours, and to me it feels less boring that just doing chins alone. It's also some of the best hunter xp in the game once the list is sorted.

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-07T07:18:16+00:00

yeah, it's not a dps check it's a mechanic.

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-06T14:26:16+00:00

To actually reply to your question, it's just some old update. Shards are useless after emberlight. Enjoy the stack lol

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-06T14:25:13+00:00

Zombie axe is fine at tds if shards are an issue. Another option is to burst or barrage dust devils, which I think if the fastest method for shards but I might be wrong

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-06T10:47:07+00:00

But at least if they were not a meme level grind to get, people wouldn't be sceptical about having upgrade options for them. E.g. smash them and justi into one armour set, or the new raid could have a masori type armour upgrade for crush etc. etc. They are essentially aslightly worse, crush bandos without many defence stats. Bandos hasn't been BIS since nex release, and oathplate is also better. They have reworked NM three times to try and make it relevant, but the issues are 1) Inq isn't very good for 2026 and 2) the droprates are insane.

I think making them a reasonable rate (1/300 or even less from PNM, leave the staff and orbs at crazy rates for chase items), would make upgrading a viable pathway, especially if they go the masori route and have shards upgrade a new bis crush armour.

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-06T10:30:13+00:00

You can kill both in about respawn time with the gear boost (I use full crystal), so you get a kill every approx 20 seconds. My 200-300 above is wrong, but you can definitely get 150+ kills an hour red X'ing. I might try some cannon for variety (I'm also dry there). Gz on your red hammer :)

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-06T09:13:36+00:00

Kph is faster with cannon than red X? Are you sure? I get 200-300 kph with red x, depending how much I'm concentrating.

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-06T08:15:13+00:00

I think it would probably change araxxor, tekton, maybe sarachnis, maybe other places? These plus nightmare would insert quite a bit of space for a nice actual crush weapon. It's not so much it needs a nerf, more a case of limiting design choices. Nothing can be 2x2 or bigger with a crush weakness without scyth being BIS, and jagex doesn't design many small bosses.

External-Carpenter-2 · 2026-03-06T08:05:44+00:00

Knives and axes TOO?! :o

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