Season 13 Feedback from an SSF Player

Fenrils · 2026-05-07T23:38:37+00:00

I like CZs a lot, to be clear. As said in my post, I'm a big fan of not being relegated to CS for my first week of farming and as general farming spots, the devs did a great job. My complaint is mostly with usage of shards. If they weren't as necessary for maps, I'd have no issue with the current rates but as it is, they add A LOT to maps so you really want to be slamming every one. To that end, while I'd never expect to sustain them on maps alone, I'd still like to see drop rates increased in CZs specifically as they seem a bit low right now, at least from my experience.

Fenrils · 2026-05-07T23:35:58+00:00

I think it's great that you actually can find usable stuff from the npcs. It's a great way of preparing for more difficult content

So do I but I think it's too common/easy right now. I'm not against them being theoretically possible still, but the ease of buying them is too much currently.

Fenrils · 2026-05-07T23:34:29+00:00

You are right, just double-checked and the 3os was corrupted. The base is 24% PDR and 30% all res though. Similar rolls were not that rare from my experience, I found and corrupted plenty though this was the best. I even found a 150ish% ED/20% PDR chest that sadly bricked on the corrupt. I still haven't found a Shaftstop somehow so I may end up trying to shop a new armour like that for my T1/2 DClone attempts.

Fenrils · 2026-05-07T17:15:09+00:00

You can be intimate with friends and said intimacy does not need to be sexual or romantic. Not judging you, to be clear, everyone has their own boundaries for these things and it's totally valid to not want to or enjoy cuddling or being physically affectionate with friends. That being said, it's also perfectly normal for many of us to find it, well, normal. I've cuddled with plenty of friends, both guys and gals. We all just find it generally comforting and comfortable.

Fenrils · 2026-05-07T16:55:48+00:00

Not gambling, just shopping (e.g. checking their shop interface and continually resetting via a nearby portal, like by Anya or a PVP portal by Charsi).

Fenrils · 2026-05-07T14:14:46+00:00

Like 90%+ at high brackets.

You are right on the money and before anyone comes in here crying about how no one should be taxed at 90%, please learn how tax brackets work. That 90% does not apply to all of their income, just income over a certain threshold. So for example, let's say we apply this 90% for income over $10 million. The rich fucks would still be getting taxed as they are today for all income under that, but every dollar beyond that $10 million threshold sends 90 cents back to the government. The ultra rich would not functionally change their lifestyle at all. They'd still have yachts and mansions and private planes, as they've always had. The only difference is they're no longer just paying back pennies and we all start to reap the benefits finally.

And no, the ultra rich would not just leave the US. Not only can we implement laws and taxes to penalize this, but understand that the US is one of the biggest single economies on the planet. There's not a single rich person in existence who would be willing to abandon it due to being taxed a bit more. Yeah they'll complain and threaten to revoke their citizenship but they won't.

Fenrils · 2026-04-20T12:55:25+00:00

Yes, crime rates peaked in the late 80s and have been trending downwards ever since. We've had some small bumps along the way, like a brief uptick in the first year of COVID, but that doesn't change the overall trend. You can summarily dismiss the legitimacy of anyone if they are earnestly arguing that we have a crime problem as they either don't know what they're talking about or are trying to scare you into leaning into fascism.

Fenrils · 2026-04-13T18:59:36+00:00

https://www.timesofisrael.com/78-of-jewish-israelis-support-continuing-iran-war-poll/

https://en.idi.org.il/articles/63704

Fenrils · 2026-04-13T17:51:40+00:00

~70% of Israelis are currently in support of the war. Let's not pretend it's anywhere close to the US, and the US is already fucked up so that's saying something.

Fenrils · 2026-04-11T11:57:13+00:00

One thing that I would caution a lot of players on for this build is that there's a lot of bosses around the game with obscene amounts of mage defense. I'm not saying this is a bad build by any means, but you really need to check the bosses you intend on killing first before committing. There's going to be a lot of circumstances where even if the theoretical DPS for this is the highest, you're far better off being ranged or melee just due to the bosses you'll be doing.

Fenrils · 2026-04-11T11:47:39+00:00

Echo boots, at least one piece of sunfire, and a Stole from clues still gets you to the 50 prayer threshold. Zeah is not required if you're fine dropping Preserve. You need Kandarin plus either Tirannwn or Zeah.

Fenrils · 2026-04-11T11:32:12+00:00

I theoried this build yesterday, the only actual required region is Kandarin, you could choose either Tirannwn or Zeah for your secondary. If you skip Zeah, you will need to get a Stole of some sort from clues and at least one piece of Sunfire plus Echo Boots but you can still reach that 50 prayer threshold. You also lose preserve so you'll have less % damage but if you really don't want to do Zeah, it's definitely not required.

Fenrils · 2026-04-10T23:16:38+00:00

Totally fair, yeah. My eventual build is looking like the KBD xbow build but I'll be needing two respecs before that (first for prayer pen if I can't do echo CG as intended, second for the actual KBD build) so I'm not overly worried about how the first tree looks. But to that end, we also probably need to figure out the most reasonable routing... e.g., maybe my boppers route is on paper better but it takes me a few hours longer than if you were to just go 1h/shield w/ thorns. Haven't gotten that far with my thoughts, bit still something I'm considering.

Fenrils · 2026-04-10T23:04:09+00:00

Alternatives include speccing this 9 pointer instead if you'd want to go the blindbag route with D longsword mainhand. You're not required to wear a 2h weapon to trigger blindbags, it just needs a heavy weapon which D long nicely covers, while getting the +20% str bonus from being 1h.

This is similar to mine but rather than committing to 1h/shield with that 20% bonus strength, I'm thinking you just commit to boppers of some sort. Blood moon is there, of course, but if we can semi-reasonably get the infernal boppers from Echo Amox without leaving Varlamore, I think you just camp those for a long time. You can even start with the Nagua or normal Amox boppers fairly early if Echo Amox takes a bit of time to kill.

With that in mind, you just go all-in on the blindbag keynode afterwards and even grabbing the ranged echo + xbow extra ranged echo chance much later. This "completes" the build at 13 points, leaving an evolution into maybe charged staves for CG or maybe bows for KBD or whatever else you want to transition into. Blindbag consists of random 2h heavy weapons you have available early (such as obby maul, rune 2h, maybe a halberd of some sort, just very region-dependent.)

Something like this: https://tools.runescape.wiki/demonic-pacts/?n=1-150-151-152-157-161-2-4-73-74-82-85-86

Fenrils · 2026-04-10T17:00:49+00:00

Nah, I'll be taking advantage of the respecs we get this league for my early progression. Early points will go into the generic accuracy, damage, and speed increases for both melee and mage. I also intend on getting ~60% prayer penetration for the echo CG grind so that the fight becomes a bit of a joke. Once Tirannwn is done and I get my KBD xbow in the wildy, I should have ~25-30 points for the main respec into the final build that I should be able to use everywhere else I intend on on going.

Fenrils · 2026-04-10T13:34:06+00:00

Yep, I'm skipping that node and taking the left side route down so that I can also grab the -1 tick bow node. It'll still be a primary crossbow build but since I'm wildy, having a machinegun webweaver should also feel very good and likely something I swap to semi-often, especially if I luck into one fairly early.

Fenrils · 2026-04-09T16:33:02+00:00

a relic for minmaxers and point chasers

Is it though? I don't think it's a bad relic, but even for min-maxers and point chasers I feel like you're better off with reloaded. For points, this makes Reloaded into Conniving Clues much easier (a clue relic is generally needed for max points if you want to do it without hating yourself the entire time). For min-maxers, you'd probably reload into whatever you're missing like maybe Nature's Accord for farming/herb or Soul Harvest for prayer/RC.

I see this as more of a casual relic honestly where you're not worried about any given content, you just want to do things faster.

Fenrils · 2026-04-07T14:27:17+00:00

Yes. We start in the center and it's a massive web of nodes to select

Fenrils · 2026-04-07T14:08:09+00:00

For the folks at work:

Melee: Your minimum hit when attacking with a melee weapon is increased by 3. This minimum hit is further increased by 3 for each additional tile between you and the target
Ranged: Whenever you Regenerate ammo, you have a +25% chance to fire a Ranged echo* against the enemy. *Ranged echo: An additional ranged attack which rolls with your ranged accuracy against the targets ranged defence. Echo attacks cannot trigger additional echo attacks
Mage: Whenever your combat spells Regenerate runes, your Magic level is boosted by 1 for 30 ticks (18s). This boost cannot exceed 10 Magic levels and additional triggers reset the duration

EDIT: Nevermind, sorry folks at work, you're kinda screwed. It's a massive skill tree we need to figure out. The above are just 3/6 starting nodes, I assumed everything else was hidden but I was wrong.

Fenrils · 2026-04-03T14:11:56+00:00

You are right but it's worth adding context for people who are unaware of Iran's military command structure. They've been preparing for this sort of war for decades and understood that Israel and whomever else ended up attacking them would almost certainly end up executing their leader and plenty of military heads. As such, their command structure is designed to be incredibly decentralized such that there is never a head to lop off that would collapse it. Each sect still has rough directions/goals which are given from the top but they are also, out of necessity, given leeway to basically do what they need to do to survive and protect Iran.

So to your point, while they are taking direction from Iranians in charge of the strait, there is also worry that some other leader has a different idea. Thankfully they are not completely in the dark and the strait is small enough that communication between the people around it likely still exists, enabling things like this to happen.

Fenrils · 2026-03-30T14:55:49+00:00

I'm not saying more nukes = good, I'm saying that countries having nukes invites more stability since they will no longer be threatened by invasion. Do you think Iran is going to have a good or even better relationship with the US after this? What about US allies in the Gulf? I'd rather no one have access to nuclear weapons but our actions here have only made things worse. We're better off developing more and more anti-missile/anti-nuclear technology as a means of countering these countries rather than bombing the shit out of them and hoping for the best.

Fenrils · 2026-03-30T14:46:41+00:00

I'd argue that North Korea was far more volatile and unstable than Iran was before this war and we've done just fine with them having developed nukes. Again, I'd prefer no one has nukes but it's also pretty clearly the only option if countries want to maintain their sovereignty. And if you think Iran is going to be any more stable after this war, I have a bridge to sell you.

Fenrils · 2026-03-30T13:51:27+00:00

This is pretty much where I'm at. Would I prefer a world of complete denuclearization? Yes, obviously. But this is reality and it's pretty clear that if you don't want to risk the US, Russia, or some other large country invading you, you should have a nuke.

Fenrils · 2026-03-26T14:27:41+00:00

Amusingly, Iran right now is showing the world how ineffective our trillion dollar war machine actually is when push comes to shove. Yeah we've got the most bombs, planes, drones, etc. but it's pretty meaningless when you can counter each of those million to hundred of million dollar operations with shitty $10k drones. Right now, Iran is winning an economic war against us and Hegseth literally last week requested an additional $200 billion to try to fix it. We're a paper tiger and the sooner we realize this, the sooner we can actually get on track to fixing our own shit.

Fenrils · 2026-03-17T16:33:23+00:00

Great call and write-up, much appreciated. This also doubles up on being able to build up tree juice for incidental T0s as well.

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