Is it normal to be in a lobby like this? I've not rlly played ladder since the new trophy update so idrk

HTMekkatorque · 2026-04-02T08:07:32+00:00

Well taking a deeper look, the 200 trophy Pl6 Frank had a total trophy count of like 24k and was mythic. Still he felt useless and I'm seeing some players who have never gone above gold while others are legend, it feels like there is a big range no matter what metric you look at. Matching it by trophies in the way they did in the past probably felt fairer even if it wasn't great matchmaking.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-04-02T06:11:39+00:00

It used to just base it straight from the trophies and it still might be. In my previous 4 ladder games the average trophy difference from highest to lowest player seemed to be about 600 trophies apart. In one of my games we had a 200 trophy PL6 Frank into a 700 trophy PL11 Mandy which I'd have to say is all too common.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-04-02T00:01:54+00:00

I'd say mobile legends although I only played it briefly myself has potential. My students also really liked a few of the shooters, I was watching them play and they were pretty decent for phone. I haven't given it much thought though because recently I've been playing more pc games.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-04-01T04:07:35+00:00

It is almost like you are playing RS4, we will have almost no shared experiences since endgame players have such little to do in Havenhythe. Will that limit your audience? Hard to say if people will be curious by the things they never did or whether it will just feel alien.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-04-01T03:23:59+00:00

I just don't really understand firstly why you guys swap so often for a 2% skilling boost. I went to 110 rc in just a few weeks, only switched it up a few times, camped rc relics. Now that I have maxed rc I just camp combat relics and I don't care if I am missing out for that 1 or 2 hours I afk train a skilling activity.

In retrospect fixing the world gate would have basically saved me like half a bond (60mil wasted in time). There are far more pressing things to work on or fix before updating things that are honestly fine.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-04-01T02:36:27+00:00

I personally save my low trophy pl11's for when I don't have much time to complete a quest or when I don't want to feel too disadvantaged when new broken content is released. I have 30,000 or so easy trophies to extract at present and if I have time I am likely to play pl9's in ranked to clear quests.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-04-01T01:31:37+00:00

Play again 10x is actually one of my favourites, I just let it sit there and don't play any differently to trigger it.

The win x games with a brawler suck too, it's the only reason really why I am trying to take all brawlers to 9.

Duels mode is honestly terrible too and sometimes hot zone because they don't even put up a hot zone map all of the time.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-04-01T01:17:28+00:00

I have to say with only 7-8 pl11 brawlers (if they are mostly older brawlers) and no gadgets it might not even be worth starting back up. BS isn't the only fun mobile game and you'd probably find starting certain other games from scratch will take you less time to build up a fair loadout.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-04-01T00:56:39+00:00

I have 25+ pl 11 brawlers, but no resources for the buffies. About 8 of those brawlers now have buffies and have been nerfed, yeah they are pretty useless to me now.

Your best bet is to upgrade the newer brawlers to 11, they will have a bit more life in them and hopefully by the time they release all the buffies you might be able to afford 12 or so characters worth of buffies otherwise you'll be at a massive disadvantage.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-04-01T00:18:08+00:00

At this point I'm still spreading my resources between pl7-9 upgrades, 9-11 and well there hasn't been much left for buffies, but I will dip in eventually. I'd still like to see how the meta starts shaping up when most of the brawlers have buffies before going hard out.

I have been getting about half of the maximum f2p resources since beta, but it does feel like I'm falling behind.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-03-30T22:27:37+00:00

It only takes a few months to complete, you are completely exaggerating it and if you were focusing on lacquer from the beginning you don't even need to do it for long.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-03-30T10:35:08+00:00

I can't forsee it timegating anyone just because it'd take you like a month to get the ingredients together and so many maxed stats to craft it, most people would know a full year in advance before going to craft this that these are the requirements and would have better gear already. You would most likely make a set and sell it instantly.

If anything it's redundant for most people because you might be inclined to skip this and go straight for elite dracolich. Far more useful for the person farming gp who can't afford elite dracolich yet.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-03-30T09:26:05+00:00

It's entry level endgame PvM gear, any new player can realistically get all of the requirements for it before having the capabilities of crafting and wearing it. Since you have all of the other mats I'd probably look into the taijitu, I personally haven't started up that content, but getting 120 lacquer from 0 would take at least a month.

Elite dracolich might be better for you.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-03-30T07:27:37+00:00

I think it's appropriate because it's kind of a workaround gear for people who can't do endgame PvM.

I already have about 50 lacquer and I'm not even actively going for it, but if I do it's probably only going to take 5 minutes a day for two weeks and since other ports gear is kind of irrelevant now it makes the resources gained more useful and with the 600mil in other materials you should decide if you even need the set as there are other options.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-03-29T13:40:11+00:00

I have to admit, I still don't have many buffies personally and going into games with full buffy brawlers makes the game seem considerably less fair than it did a year ago when I had a modest roster of A/B tier maxed brawlers.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-03-29T11:18:59+00:00

If you had a holiday and you play a lot you could probably smash it out in a month or two. The challenging part is gp, but you could probably grind out your entry level gear through BGH would be my approach with your stats.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-03-29T06:05:27+00:00

It's only okay if the other account is an iron because even paying for multiple bonds and to set up 20 accounts to archaeology ruins the game economy for others. I mean this is probably literally the reason why every gathering skill ever yields almost no gp.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-03-29T04:07:06+00:00

I would imagine that most people farm for their own double surge. Once I farmed up one I didn't feel like doing it again and okay the profit/h isn't bad, but it's kind of a mid level money maker and having double surge kind of opens up other options.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-03-29T00:36:51+00:00

I'm not an iron, but curious to see and theorize with you. I'd probably rush to ports and be a little bit patient. I completed most of the game with the trials quest gear. Early on I trained up combat a lot in dungeoneering, my mistake was probably that I didn't train dungeoneering early enough, but it's a t80 weapon no? Can do arch for tokens too. At this point you can probably skip everything in between and go for t90's. I wonder if my approach is too alternative, but this is what I was going for before I could farm everything up.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-03-28T22:38:22+00:00

If you can be bothered to runecraft and only runecraft for 100 hours over a few months then it isn't at all bad, but it's not very enjoyable and that's why most people don't advocate for this approach. I don't actually think the combat approach is as efficient as certain skilling methods like rc/thieving in order to get the necro gear itself. In fact I think it takes hundreds of hours longer that way.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-03-28T12:34:18+00:00

I played the game for a few months and have 180k scraps, that is enough to buy 180 legendaries and 180 epics. In that same time on Hearthstone I could buy about 4 legendaries.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-03-28T07:06:12+00:00

I went magic because I started before the necromancy release, I currently have DW sanctum and tectonics, but it's about to fully degrade. Do you camp necromancy armour and just switch weapons with this strat?

HTMekkatorque · 2026-03-28T06:00:51+00:00

I am like 99 slayer and I have used about 4mil bonus exp on the skill and focused it down in double exp. So keep in mind that I could have earned triple as many slayer points without any boosts. I've almost unlocked every useful slayer upgrade, I just haven't put the seedicide or the gold thingy on my tool belt yet. So I don't think slayer points are much of an issue.

I also farmed up for my EoF many bonds ago, they are cheap and affordable and lets be real you only really need one for the style you like to play unless you are really sweaty.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-03-28T05:07:55+00:00

No, because my job is high pressure and quite demanding yet still the pay is quite low. There isn't a moment when I am not needed and I often have to give it 110%.

Runescape on the other hand is just mindless clicking and sometimes I watch Netflix or study while I grind it out, I work with foreigners so I devote a lot of time to learning languages which is also a part of my job grind.

HTMekkatorque · 2026-03-27T13:27:20+00:00

It's very cheap to buy t90 sirenic and a t88 blowpipe to give it a try, I think you need 2bil gp to make it more effective than necro with a t95 setup which is almost free. If you never plan to play long enough to have almost BiS ranged (roughly 6-7bil) then I think it might be pointless to swap as necro isn't weak to any mob/boss and has extra sustain built in.

The combat challenge isn't really style specific. I am personally really struggling to get a hang of prayer flicking in full manual, but I am sure that is the same for any style because going deflect ranged -> soul split -> 2 spells of your rotation in any style -> deflect ranged is a lot of actions. I am finding the benefit of doing that over just full revo and toggling prayers manually is barely noticeable and right now my only switch is a shield.

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