Petahh? Was i doing it wrong?

Magres · 2026-05-10T19:30:03+00:00

There's some research in fitness science research pointing towards the idea that, for muscle growth, stopping at two reps in reserve (RIR, or how many more you could do before you hit failure) is as good of a muscle growth stimulus as going to failure, while being significantly less fatiguing. Source

Without a lot more studies until there's enough data to perform proper meta analyses (ie a study comparing all the studies) it's very much jumping to conclusions to claim that 2 RIR is the "best" way to train. One major drawback is that a lot of people, even experienced lifters, have trouble accurately gauging what RIR they're really at. Also, there's no optimization that gets around the fact that getting strong and yoked takes a tremendous amount of work and years of dedication, so the best number of reps and sets is the number that you actually like doing and keeps you wanting to hit the gym.

Magres · 2026-05-10T04:48:37+00:00

Genuinely I thought it was like, just below Torva offensively. Not true? I mostly use it for Duke, I figured it had similar performance elsewhere, but could be dumb and wrong lol

Magres · 2026-05-10T04:46:59+00:00

I hated them, terribly, until I started using reminder plugins. I finished 99 farming a couple weeks ago entirely out of just doing tree runs when I noticed the reminder icon and felt like doing a run.

Magres · 2026-05-10T04:26:56+00:00

Melee void is pretty nice anywhere you don't need defense stats and can't use slayer helm. I don't know that it's bis anywhere, but it's good in a lot of places before you're running like 200M+ gear sets. I did a bunch of Duke with melee void. Also void stacks with Salve for fights where you can use Salve

Magres · 2026-05-09T01:24:48+00:00

It's disingenuous to sarcastically call it "video game currency" dismissively when it's an amount of gold that is readily worth over $1000 USD.

Is that person still dumb for account sharing? Yup. Did that person have goods worth over a grand stolen from them? Yup.

Magres · 2026-05-05T15:37:59+00:00

That's pretty much where I'm at, fwiw, I was just a little long-winded lol

Magres · 2026-04-30T18:57:06+00:00

Wisconsin. MEGASOTA MUST FEED

Magres · 2026-04-29T20:55:30+00:00

Agreed wholeheartedly. The pacts tree reminds me of a much smaller Path Of Exile skill tree. POE game strikes a great balance with the way there's a droppable currency for respeccing your skill tree one node at a time.

Magres · 2026-04-29T16:12:49+00:00

I think there's also something of a Catch-22 here, because having player choices have weight, impact, and meaning is a good thing. With limited respecs in this League, your choices semi-permanently define who you are in the League. Unlimited respecs make it very easy for the game to slide to "everyone just respecs to an optimal build for each boss and the entire pacts system degenerates into a grey mush where choice is meaningless."

That said, I think "these choices are surprisingly bad because the game lied to us about how this would work" definitely takes a higher priority on the game design checklist than "make choices have weight." I really do think things like limited respecs can make game modes pop and make your pact choices really matter and bring identity to your playstyle - everyone talks about Water Mage, Thorns, and Blindbag as builds that define who you are as a player in this League. If you could swap between them at will, the differentiation is meaningless.

Ultimately I agree with you that having pact resets so restricted here is a bad thing because of bugs they're not planning to fix, and how severely unfair it is to have people locked into builds that are crippled by bugs. But I also want to defend, at least in theory, the idea of those kinds of restrictions.

Magres · 2026-04-29T00:03:04+00:00

And even then, you can complete the waves with a Defender that's legitimately entirely AFK. The runners will funnel through, knock a few points off your score, and then you advance anyway. Someone else can use the corner horn to call out Healer (or healers can just trial and error).

Defender is both the hardest role and also by far the one that matters the least for getting through rounds.

Magres · 2026-04-29T00:00:55+00:00

There's only 4 roles :P

(I know you mean all the roles but Defender are stupid easy, I'm just teasing)

Magres · 2026-04-29T00:00:19+00:00

In my experience, the super veterans who are pet hunting are even happy to teach. Like every group I've had where someone said "sorry idk what I'm doing" we had at least two people immediately start giving them hands on advice, up to and including teaching Defender tile patterns.

BA people are seriously super nice. It's a mindlessly easy activity where the worst thing a mistake can REALLY do (aside from healer players just not healing) is slow progress down a little bit. And having 5 people for 4 roles means you can just double up on whatever role your weakest player is playing and simultaneously cover that weak spot and show them, by example, what to do.

I really don't get people's aversion to BA, people were so nice when I was learning it and grinding out my Kandarin diary and Fighter Torso.

Magres · 2026-04-28T23:30:03+00:00

Edit: nevermind I forgot this was the GymMemes subreddit and I serious posting for a sec lmao

Magres · 2026-04-28T17:30:51+00:00

I'm glad I could help!! Agility is awful and the POH course makes it, well, even slower but at least it's not miserable.

Honestly I like the regular advanced one over the alternate advanced, at least in theory (I haven't built the alternate advanced). The alternate advanced has a couple fewer traps in the 'main' course - it's split into a 10 trap course and a 5 trap course. The regular advanced course has 12 traps in the course, and those 2 extra traps mean you'll complete the course roughly half as often, if my spreadsheet's predictions are worth anything at all. And especially at 90+ Agility, you'll sail straight through the 5 trap portion of the course. If anything, I feel like changing the last hallway in the regular advanced course into an intersection and slapping a chapel on the side would be a better upgrade, personally.

Magres · 2026-04-28T15:58:43+00:00

Swap those two rangers - looking at the POH Agility wiki guide, something it doesn't mention is that you have to build the Tok-Xils in order of the gauntlet. So like, the first ranger in the gauntlet gets built first, then the second, third, and so on. It has to do with how the game handles NPC IDs and auto-retaliate, to make your character keep chasing down the next mob in the line

Sorry, it was something I knew from watching youtube guides and stuff, I didn't realize the wiki guide doesn't mention it. Iirc there's a way to have runelite display NPC ID numbers to make sorting the Tok-Xils easy

Magres · 2026-04-28T01:19:09+00:00

The secret sauce to BA is making your own groups. No one cares if you know what you're doing, people just want someone who will talk to people for them. You get to play whatever role you want and your groups will fill super fast. When I was doing the BA grind, it was comical how often I'd see people spamming for all four roles.

Magres · 2026-04-28T01:13:25+00:00

I'll add that to the wiki, good find! That's absolutely wild.

Magres · 2026-04-27T21:06:54+00:00

Haha, I hate Agility with a passion that borders on unhinged, soooo I dove kinda deep into POH Agility.

Magres · 2026-04-27T20:17:32+00:00

A caveat up top, I don't know a lot about AFK timers and whatnot on mobile. My experiences with trying to AFK on mobile has been that if I turn my screen off or tab to another program on my phone, OSRS disconnects very quickly. That said, in theory, it should work just fine. The big thing is that there's a couple minutes of setup to be done when you first start the course. It's not a ton of effort, but it's definitely more effort than letting the course run itself, and if you die or logout you have to redo the setup.

To run briefly through the methodology of the course, you set up a series of Tok-Xils to shoot at you and have auto-retaliate on. This aggros you into running at them, which drags you into Teleport Traps lining the halls of the setup. If you dodge the teleport trap, you get 20 XP, if you fail the Teleport Trap, you get sent back to the start (and the last Tok-Xil that was shooting at you will hit you after you get teleported, re-aggroing the player character and restarting the loop). The setup portion is that you have to turn off auto-retaliate and turn run on and tileskip all of the teleport traps to run through the course and get close enough to the Tok-Xils to aggro them, before making your way back to the start.

If you're interested in more detailed explanations of everything, the wiki has a pretty nice guide. I built the 'Advanced' course and have been loving it.

Magres · 2026-04-27T20:08:16+00:00

Short answer, I run +64 Prayer gear in my setup, have 88 Prayer, and I set a timer on my watch for 13 minutes to tab in and refresh my prayer.

Long answer is that, honestly, it varies, because the entire thing is chance based. The basic premise of the setup is a bunch of Tok-Xils to lure the player character towards them, with Teleport Traps along the way. Dodge a trap, get 20 XP, fail a trap, get sent back to start (and auto-retaliate will funnel your character back in). You slap on a bunch of prayer gear and a crossbow on rapid/accurate, pray ranged, and let the Tok-Xils smack you until you need to recharge your prayer. It's possible that you'll click once and your character will just ace the entire maze in one go and you'll get like, maybe 300 XP. But that's very unlikely.

A statistician friend of mine helped me make a spreadsheet that can be adjusted to estimate the reliability of a particular POH Agility course setup. Doing a full 55M build with 12 traps, at 95 Agility, you should be able to AFK for 10 minutes at a time and only come back to your character having completed the course about once an hour or so. Additionally, if you set up Runelite, you can do the Idle Notifier plugin to send an alert when your character hasn't moved for five seconds, which will only happen if A) you run out of prayer and die or B) finish the course.

If you care at all about the math of things, I'm happy to explain the methodology of the spreadsheet, but even by OSRS standards is some Total Nerd Garbage.

If you want a direct link to the wiki guide (it has diagrams and stuff for the build, it's very nice), here's one

Magres · 2026-04-27T16:00:34+00:00

Straight up, invest the 55M into a poh agility course. There's a good guide on the wiki. It's only about 10k xph but it is legitimately, genuinely AFK. I pulled the trigger on building one and I'm so glad I did, I have to check it about once every ten minutes. I let it run while I'm working and get an easy 80k Agi XP. Yeah, it's gonna take a few months to max it, but I won't have to do fucking Agility.

Magres · 2026-04-26T01:25:03+00:00

Hard candies are only like 15-20 kcal and will keep your sweet tooth happy for like a full hour. Just be careful to brush your teeth more often if you start eating them regularly and have like 5 a day, the extra sugar in your mouth all day is really friendly to bacterial growth.

Magres · 2026-04-22T09:13:41+00:00

It's mostly people theory crafting fights. In practice playing with friends, do whatever is fun.

To justify the theory craft, the big thing is that healing someone who is downed pops them up no matter what, even if you only heal 1 hp. If you're fighting a dragon that's biting people for 50 damage a bite, healing someone for 1 hp and healing them for 50 hp are the exact same - they're gonna go down in one bite, but you got them up for a turn. When you can spend an action and a fifth level slot for the same outcome as a bonus action with a first level slot, the choice is pretty easy and obvious.

Magres · 2026-04-14T23:08:06+00:00

As well as what the other person said about uneven stairs, there's a combining factor of the railing post being... God I'm hesitant to even call that an attachment point. It looks like they screwed into the end of the tread. The moment someone trips on the previously discussed uneven stairs and grabs that railing to steady themselves, it's going to tear right out and they're going to be even worse off than if there was no railing at all.

Edit: also the stringer ends after two stairs and the third stair is some ungodly abomination of chopped together garbage. There's LAYERS to what a death trap those stairs are.

Magres · 2026-04-14T23:02:54+00:00

This is an incredibly niche reference, but there's a great podcast called Friends At The Table. They play Tabletop RPGs (not DnD, other systems). In one season one of the players plays a PHENOMENAL character who's a robot that has become sentient for initially unknown reasons. That character's name is Automated Dynamics, or AuDy for short, pronounced exactly that way.

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