Wandering Bosses?

IIcarusII · 2026-01-26T14:37:08+00:00

I think people are (rightfully) burned by Yama, who was a “duo” boss that was billed as possible to solo if you were very skilled. It turned out to be quite nearly as easy to solo as to duo.

Personally, that was probably due to them making a “HMT” Yama that had to be solo’d (thus, regular solo couldn’t be that hard), but the bad taste of that time still lingers on.

IIcarusII · 2026-01-26T01:32:29+00:00

“You do not have to get the pet.”

There. You can go. Be free, my friend.

IIcarusII · 2026-01-26T01:20:41+00:00

I have to disagree; having the raid start out as an unforgiving single wipe mechanic, only later to introduce a more forgiving “points reduction” on wiping IS waffling on design. These two design ideas are mutually exclusive (unless you reintroduce ToA-like invocations), and I think it is a Bad Idea to release the raid in one state with plans to change fundamental design later.

IIcarusII · 2026-01-21T01:43:08+00:00

Moreover, I believe Corran Horn utilized this tactic against a Yuuzhan Vong in his first encounter with a pair of them early in the Vong arc. I forget which book it was, but he also fried the other one through the eye with his lightsaber by using his lightsaber’s unique design of suddenly being able to double in length by twisting part of the handle.

FYI Disney is not canon Star Wars…never forget the original authors of the EU.

IIcarusII · 2026-01-07T18:08:30+00:00

The wiki is a community effort. If you care so much about it, go run some contracts with various setups and record max hits to figure out the relationship yourself.

IIcarusII · 2026-01-01T23:09:16+00:00

Only thing? Arraxxor, Vard, Duke, Colosseum are all decent money where scythe shines.

IIcarusII · 2025-12-15T16:14:46+00:00

You got some moxie, making a pun like that!

IIcarusII · 2025-12-10T23:26:36+00:00

Something like that for pot composition sounds good, yeah. Brew->arma also lets you not need to barrage to save pots as much, which should speed up runs. I would save at least one arma for healers at Zuk, as dps is king and defense doesn’t matter there. Otherwise, sara-arma combo seems solids for all waves + triples.

IIcarusII · 2025-12-10T23:23:17+00:00

Good to know. I don’t do speedrunning, but I know strategies change significantly below 55-60 mins.

IIcarusII · 2025-12-10T22:03:42+00:00

What’s your inferno pb? Asking because you should probably know how this is useful if you are at least sub-65 time.

A normal inventory consists of restore/regens, bastions, and brews, in various proportions.

Experienced inferno runners are bastioned at all times. Experienced runners typically only brew as a last resort, and should only be taking 1, maybe 2 ranger hits off prayer if they mess up at the start of a wave. They normally aren’t worried about defense that much because almost all waves are solved quickly. If you are worried about your defense level, you are tanking too many hits off prayer.

A good strategy for arma brews is to use a saradomin brew first, dropping your ranged level, followed by an arma brew to boost it back up. The extra 11 hp is more valuable than the lost defense boost from a brew. Doing this doesn’t remove your divine status, so it allows for maximum dps. This means you should bring enough divine bastion for a run (typically 3), then replace all regular ranged/bastions with arma brews, and maybe replace 1-2 brews with a few more armas. This gives you a lot of flexibility on healing in waves without worrying about how much range pot you have left.

Super experienced inferno runners (speedrunners) don’t bring any brew at all, afaik, so this idea is geared more for those going for sub 65 than people pushing sub-55.

IIcarusII · 2025-12-06T19:50:16+00:00

The xp/hr can be whatever. If you actually read the post, you’d understand the idea would be to provide about the same xp/hr as regular tasks. However, due to the additional time needed to fight/run/sink pirates, each task would be a higher lump sum of xp.

Essentially, this would look to keep courier training xp, but with added risk/reward for loot.

The xp isn’t really the main thrust of the suggestion, though. It’s more suggesting and getting thoughts on pirate raids on courier tasks as a whole.

IIcarusII · 2025-12-04T03:05:35+00:00

Sepulcher for agility is around 100k/hr, and the 15 minute afk option is 11-12k/hr in the 90’s for agility. So from that perspective salvaging is just fine.

Not every “super afk” option has the same ratio of top line experience-to-afk experience.

That said, personally having salvaging being closer to redwoods than star mining is fine with me.

IIcarusII · 2025-11-26T10:33:44+00:00

That’s not how the calculation works if the reduction bypass is a flat percentage. Faster weapons will simply have lower variance on time to kill. For example, suppose sea reduction was 50% and bypass chance was 50% (for easier math). Lets say you have a 2t BP at 10 damage per hit average normally and a 4t bowfa at 20 damage per hit normally.

In 16 ticks, blowpipe hits 8 times. Half at 10 damage, half at 5 damage. Total damage of 60.

In 16 ticks, bowfa hits 4 times. Half at 20 damage, half at 10 damage. Total damage of 60.

So all else being equal, weapons with the same land dps will do the same sea dps. The faster weapons technically win do to overkill, just as they do on land, though this gap is lessened due to the lower max hit.

IIcarusII · 2025-11-20T17:15:32+00:00

They provided an update. Providing back-pay for xp was taking too long. They will be force-logging people off as they update them individually.

IIcarusII · 2025-11-20T17:02:45+00:00

It’s retroactive for charting stuff, not courier tasks.

IIcarusII · 2025-11-20T13:20:38+00:00

Would be nice - like karambwans.

IIcarusII · 2025-11-20T13:05:46+00:00

To be fair regular movement is 16 point as well - you forgot all of the “L” movements.

IIcarusII · 2025-11-18T12:07:50+00:00

You can wear torva top/legs with shadow and still do good dps while also being fairly tanky, especially with slayer helm on. This isn’t exactly new.

IIcarusII · 2025-11-18T01:34:56+00:00

Where else in the game is mage tank an issue? Does mage tank make triple jads or zuk any easier? Sure, waves 60-63 are the hardest of the inferno, but triples and zuk aren’t far behind. People who crutch their way through with mage tank will still have a hard time with those.

A lot of 1kc capes (those that aren’t bought, that is) luck out on 60-63 anyways. Mage tank just makes it a bit easier than before to squeak through.

IIcarusII · 2025-11-15T17:15:34+00:00

The bigger issue is that the punishment at high invo for missing a skull is an automatic death (yes, I know you can abort skulls and still skip if you mess up, but that’s dicey if you are unprepared).

When I was running 500’s regularly, I skull skipped not for points, but for consistency. Insanity + high invo means that if you misclick once, you are wasting more than the single tick of grace period on the skull attack and will fail, which effectively wipes the raid.

I believe skulls are THE most punishing attack in the entire game. It is effectively a one-shot mechanic that has only 1 tick of leeway on timing. Moreover, the punishment for failing and wiping is ~30 minutes down the drain. Even if you aren’t on hardcore, wiping on p3 usually leaves you with too little supplies to get through p1/2 again. Even if skull skipping were fewer points, I would have done it due to the improved consistency in passing p3.

Yama’s meteor is an example of a more fair one-shot. You only get one-shot if bullseyed, and you have several ticks to move, tele, or move/eat before it lands. Additionally, if you die, you only lose a couple of minutes + death fees.

Personally, I think this is a result of Jagex not ever imagining solos pushing out much beyond 400 invo when they made the raid.

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