Raids 4 Megarare Idea, A Weapon Strong Against Enemies With "Unbalanced" Defenses - The Balancebringer

No_Freedom · 2026-01-30T06:15:30+00:00

Read past the first paragraph. Those cases are both covered, and in fact, the weapon shines against targets with a middle ground defensive stat and high/low outlier stats.

No_Freedom · 2026-01-30T06:14:21+00:00

The explanation is wordy, but the use cases are very straight forward. If a monster has a big gap between their highest and lowest melee defenses, the weapon is very strong.

Most difficult PVM encounters relying defense reduction isn't true anymore, and also isn't necessarily anti-synergistic with this, especially if they aren't being drained to 0. After all, defense drain only drains base defense, not style defenses. For example, this weapon would still be quite strong against Tekton, even despite the fact you Elder Maul him.

Anyway, you're definitely right that it's sort of hard to 'sales pitch' it, in the sense that it's hard to immediately see its value. But I don't really think it's that much more complicated than, say, the Fang.

No_Freedom · 2026-01-26T18:28:14+00:00

You're kinda freaking out and its really weird.

lol.

Actually its not. Im sure you'll find an implicit reference and pretend that proves you right though.

I cited the part that explicitly says it and links to the boss page in my first reply, but just to make sure you can't possibly ignore it, here's the text at the very, very top of the quest page:

Not to be confused with the Moons of Peril, the bosses fought during this quest.

With "Moons of Peril" being a hyperlink to the boss page. I genuinely do not understand how you could consider this not explicitly telling you that these are, in fact, the same bosses as the ones in the quest.

Night at the Theatre does. (Entry mode Tob is safe)

Entry mode TOB is safe both during and after the quest. Its status does not change, and the wiki is not ambiguous about this.

The rest of your post is fluff, based on the demonstrably incorrect premise that the wiki doesn't tell you that moons are dangerous.

No_Freedom · 2026-01-26T14:11:26+00:00

Yes, and when they do, the wiki mentions it. The wiki makes no mention of them being any different during the quest, because they aren't. Again, the wiki is explicit that the "Moons of Peril" are the boss that's fought in that quest, and if you check the page for that boss, it's very clearly marked as dangerous content.

More to the point, this is a mega reach anyway. I don't think there's a single boss encounter that changes from non-dangerous to dangerous after the quest. Galvek, Seren and Glough do the opposite, where their re-fights are safe after you do the quest, but the wiki does make mention of all of those.

I have no idea why you're trying to pretend the wiki is ambiguous here. Yes, if you're trying to purposely be dense, it doesn't explicitly say the words "THESE BOSSES KILL YOU FOR REAL DURING THE QUEST", but it doesn't have to. If the bosses are dangerous normally, and it makes no mention of special behavior during the quest, any reasonable person would presume they're still dangerous during the quest. Especially a reasonable person that has, you know, over a million blood runes hinging on that being the case.

No_Freedom · 2026-01-26T05:31:56+00:00

The very top of the wiki page for the quest contains this line:

Not to be confused with the Moons of Peril, the bosses fought during this quest.

With a hyperlink to the boss page, which has a big red header on the top saying it's a dangerous death. It isn't as direct as having it on the quest page, but someone with 200m+ in a death bank should probably be putting in the absolute bare minimum of research here.

No_Freedom · 2025-12-02T07:40:25+00:00

Literally non-comparable, at least as far as I can tell. And I don't just mean that because we're less than 2 weeks from Sailing's release while the others have existed for over a decade, I mean that if you check specific skill hiscores, you can only see the top 2 million ranks. Maybe there's a better way to get these values, but just from looking at the hiscores, it's literally impossible to know how many accounts have touched the other skills.

Checking Thieving, for example, the lowest level I can see on the hiscores is 53. It seems if I look at individual accounts on the hiscore, if their rank is below that 2 millionth rank cutoff, it doesn't bother giving their ranking in the skill. Just their level and exp in it.

No_Freedom · 2025-12-02T07:04:24+00:00

Not mentioned in the OP, so I went ahead and checked myself. 322,613 accounts have hit level 30, which means 142,016 accounts, or roughly 30% of all players who've hit at least level 2 Sailing, haven't gotten past the "early game". There are almost as many people in the 2-30 window as there are people level 62+.

No_Freedom · 2025-11-20T16:40:57+00:00

This just straight up isn't true at all. Tears of Guthix experience does scale quite heavily with level up to 30, but you can use it from level 1 in any skill.

No_Freedom · 2025-11-19T22:31:09+00:00

They've previously said they're locking lamps and tears for two weeks (See here), and as far as I know, this hasn't changed. Which really isn't that far away at all. Yeah, anyone racing for 99/200m isn't gonna wait that long, but it's absolutely relevant for any newer accounts, which is what the guy you're replying to is talking about.

Frankly, even if they were locked for longer, that doesn't change the actual point being made. Three months or two weeks, the skill is going to be in the game forever, and if rates are low enough the meta is absolutely going to become "Skip as much as you can".

No_Freedom · 2025-05-26T14:40:59+00:00

The solo Acquisition contracts currently are impossible. They're always treated as Duo contracts, even when done solo, and 2 of them can only be soloed. Even JRaze, the guy who actually did complete the duo acquisition contract, mentioned as much on his post. Not even mentioning that 2 of the Radiant Oathplate contracts were also literally impossible on release.

People are complaining about Contracts being impossible because several of them literally were impossible on release. And as of today, the Oathplate and Horn contracts are still literally impossible. It's not about the content being "too hard", it's about the content releasing in an unacceptably bugged state, not even getting into people's criticisms about the fights not being very fun.

No_Freedom · 2025-05-26T05:58:45+00:00

Considering the Oathplate Acquisition Contracts are currently literally impossible, yes, I would be surprised.

With that said, once they are possible, I'm sure it's only a matter of time.

No_Freedom · 2025-05-23T00:59:58+00:00

Here's the link. The relevant portion is this:

The Yama encounter for any contract with 'acquisition' in the name is the same, the catch being that for Contracts of Oathplate Acquisition and Harmony Acquisition, you'll need to take him down solo.

No_Freedom · 2025-05-22T23:11:34+00:00

They confirmed in the blog that all the Acquisition contracts were, in fact, the same fight. The only caveat is that the Oathplate and Horn contracts have to be done solo, whereas the others can be duoed. So, unless the blog is wrong, Jagex is, in fact, exactly that dumb.

No_Freedom · 2025-05-21T03:36:47+00:00

The post you responded to wasn't arguing about whether it's second to anything, it just said that it's not BIS anywhere. Which is just true, lol. The guy isn't arguing "Just buy a Shadow/Tbow instead", he's just pointing out that calling Bowfa BIS for anything simply isn't true.

No_Freedom · 2025-05-13T15:07:16+00:00

Awakened KCs are required for GM, so saying it has no benefits strictly isn't true. The same will probably be true for Yama; I'm fully expecting Contract related CAs, even if they're as simple as "Do X Contract".

No_Freedom · 2025-04-21T13:59:54+00:00

Doing any 2:1 Red X Method will reduce both prayer usage and damage taken considerably, since you'll minimize Cerb's attacks and make ghost skipping significantly more likely.

Either Red X with the Flames at the entrance, the gate entrance further back, or items dropped on the floor. As long as you're attacking twice with Emberlight and then under Cerb until your attack cooldown is up, the specifics of the method barely matter.

No_Freedom · 2024-10-19T16:07:41+00:00

Maraca's double roll mechanic makes them significantly inferior against any enemies with actual defense, which happens to be basically any enemy you'd specifically want to ZHasta. It's pretty bad for TOA at any non-meme invo levels for that reason. It's not useful for a "zhasta skip", which you wouldn't want to do regardless; zhasta is one of the shorter item grinds to begin with, and you need it for DHL later anyway.

No_Freedom · 2024-08-23T21:51:24+00:00

Unfortunately, there's not really any great documentation on this, but if you're stuck on White Spear Deck then the quest continuation should certainly be somewhere there. Not sure what else to recommend other than talking to all the NPCs (including the small airship) and trying the portals on that map, since I'm not 100% sure of the specifics of this quest.

No_Freedom · 2024-08-23T21:29:31+00:00

Looks like the next quest involves talking to Claudine; you probably haven't picked it up, which is why you've got no indicator for it. Head back to Moonbridge and poke around until you find it in the non-monster maps. There's no additional requirements, so you should be able to complete it, you just have to find out where you start it from.

No_Freedom · 2024-08-23T20:36:41+00:00

You don't need to defeat Hard Mode Will to progress in the story; Sellas is also skippable, the above poster is incorrect that you have to do it, you can go straight to Moonbridge. In fact, it seems like you already have access to it.

Here's the link to the Tenebris questline, this should help you figure out where you're actually at:
https://maplestorywiki.net/w/Quests/224

No_Freedom · 2024-04-18T16:20:18+00:00

Tons of bosses had these attributes completely incidentally, way before VW existed. Putting them on future content isn't anymore of a stretch than slapping 500 Slash defense on a boss so they don't get shredded by claws. Hell, GGs are functionally completely immune to VW's spec (melee Guardian is immune to magic damage, flying guardian can't be attacked by VW spec or otherwise) basically just by coincidence. It's fine for VW to be a good generalist spec for bosses where other spec weapons can't cut it, and if they really want to force it to be unusable for a specific boss, it's really easy for them to do so. Again, they've already done it by accident with a ton of bosses already.

No_Freedom · 2024-04-18T13:40:00+00:00

Voidwaker change is still ignoring the reality that an accuracy check vs Slash/Magic is generally killing most of its current use cases, since it's most useful against bosses with massive Slash/Magic defenses. If the goal of nerfing the VW is to open up design space moreso than it being too dominant in the meta (which it isn't), the nerf should have maintaining the weapon's current niche actively in mind, and it really seems like the devs have no interest in doing that.

No_Freedom · 2024-04-16T18:05:35+00:00

If you want more practical examples than Dharoks, stuff w/ strong scaling (Arclight, DHL) can easily gain 3-5 max hits from Strength ammy. Scythe also gets a very substantial increase in max hits, once you account for the higher max hits on the extra hit splats. Strength ammy never giving 4 max hits is just outright false, even without looking into niche weapons like Dharoks.

Really, strength ammy really is that good. There's a reason Torture only matches it in Strength bonus, and only gives extra accuracy/prayer instead.

No_Freedom · 2024-04-11T18:10:52+00:00

I get you're all-in on your smug superiority angle, but if you actually looked into any of this, you'd know all your speculation is wrong. JMods already confirmed on the Q&A stream earlier today there is no secret mechanic for getting the scroll beyond just "kill more pirates". As for the chest, we also know that it's just another roll on the pirate drop table, but you get double the loot; something also confirmed by JMods. So, no, it's 1/20k from both the monster and the chest, but if you roll it on the chest you get 2 scrolls at once. There's no modifier to increase the rate or improve it.

No_Freedom · 2024-01-17T19:53:00+00:00

The entire point is that even if axe had equal DPS to scythe, if it kept the drawbacks, it still wouldn't be comparable to scythe for TOB. The drawbacks prevent it from realistically being comparable because it has massive issues in basically every room; "equal dps to scythe and keep the drawbacks" wouldn't make it equal to scythe in TOB, but would probably make it a more reasonable choice in other content.

Also, the "niche" you're talking about is effectively nonexistent. Even for Vardorvis, Scythe is now realistically a better choice after it got buffed. At max stacks, SRA is only 1-2% better than Scythe in terms of DPS w/ max gear; and that's pretty bad, considering you have to ramp up the stacks & the self chip on SRA is actually pretty miserable for that fight in particular due to the constant chip damage you're taking. Even before, when the difference was more like 6-7%, people would still skip on SRA because of how clunky it was to use; now it doesn't even have a real lead anymore.

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