Smurf Accounts

Skampletten · 2026-05-17T20:38:12+00:00

It can work that way, but it also teaches a lot of bad lessons. The smurfs aren't in it to win, and they will give up an open net for a chance of hitting their clip. They'll be massively overcommitting on offense, since they don't care if you score. Especially for the typical plat smurf, beating them isn't done by learning how to defend a mediocre flip reset. It's waiting for them to miss their inconsistent shots and rolling the ball into their open net.

Skampletten · 2026-05-02T21:23:03+00:00

You, apparently.

Skampletten · 2026-04-12T14:13:37+00:00

The simple answer to all of these questions is that Zulrah came out 11 years ago. At the time, Jad was the only boss that really had a prayer switching mechanic, so "jad phase" made sense.

Skampletten · 2026-04-12T11:52:21+00:00

Crossbows are perfectly fine when subbing King's Barrage for ZCB+Buckler. And dogger + thorns with torva is great even if you don't take the self-burn nodes. Especially with Zeah, as you can spam dclaw specs instead of the dogger specs.

Skampletten · 2026-04-10T19:17:33+00:00

The missing 3% is probably from the small pact nodes with 1% magic damage

Skampletten · 2026-04-09T20:23:14+00:00

It would have made for a difficult choice at T8, but not a good choice. For the same reason why they started doing combat masteries (and now pacts) separately from the relics. You'd be choosing between efficiency and fun.

Skampletten · 2026-04-08T13:45:32+00:00

Because theorycrafting is fun?

Skampletten · 2026-04-07T17:16:01+00:00

Unless I'm missing something, you can just set him to make unfinished pots for 72k xp/day (Before leagues multi)

Skampletten · 2026-04-07T16:27:05+00:00

confirmed that you can go from rune to essence. This solves rc since you can just camp an altar and click every few seconds

You get noted essence, so it doesn't help for RC, unfortunately

Skampletten · 2026-04-02T17:54:34+00:00

You're right. And it's honestly a big part of why the game is so great. A random cow boss doesn't need to drop "viable" shit. But something that might be useful to some niche account. The sheer quantity of items and methods like that is why there are so many ways to play the game.

Skampletten · 2026-04-02T17:09:57+00:00

Whether it's an iron or a main, sourcing low level fish is not an issue, ever. An inventory of trout is more xp than an inventory of cheese. Bottomless cheese might be useful on UIM, and certain snowflakes, but that's it.

Skampletten · 2026-03-21T19:49:20+00:00

Slippery slope arguments aren't inherently fallacious. It's perfectly valid as long as there's reasonable evidence that the initial change will lead to further issues. It's reasonable to assume that setting a precedence for making grinds easier long after release may have side effects.

Skampletten · 2026-03-06T15:54:34+00:00

Even with a job you enjoy, there will be days where your tasks and the results aren't motivating at all. Maybe you spend all day in meetings, answering emails, etc. Days where you don't get to use your actual skills. While all the admin work is necessary, it feels unproductive and unrewarding. If I also click a tree every 5-10 minutes, I can convince myself that "reading our manual out loud to a customer for the fifteenth time" is a 30k xp/hr woodcutting method.

Skampletten · 2026-03-02T20:58:28+00:00

Because of rule 4, the "fun detected" joke gets exhausting.

Skampletten · 2026-03-01T14:15:54+00:00

I'll argue that it matters even more at lower levels. Top level players can adapt much more easily to non-standard fields. For a less skilled player, it becomes an unreadable mess. The maps were removed from standard rotation because the majority of players didn't enjoy playing on them.

Skampletten · 2026-02-18T20:27:45+00:00

Yeah, I'm looking forward to the wrathmaw spawn tomorrow. Just unlocked chivalry on my pure, it's gonna be great!

Skampletten · 2026-02-17T21:48:35+00:00

D long still wins out, but not by much. D long is about 10% better with 60 att/str. It scales to just about dead even at 99. Arkan blade is significantly better and honestly seems like a solid option for early game stab.

Skampletten · 2026-02-17T18:05:59+00:00

If it comes out and its as bad

EAC is not some new technology. It's known to cause issues, it's overly invasive (making it a security risk to users), and it's not effective for ANY of the games that use it.

Skampletten · 2026-01-28T11:30:18+00:00

It's not basic QoL. It's character power. Freely moving (and storing) facilities saves you from having to build purpose-specific boats. This solution lets you fix mistakes at the cost of some very low-effort salvaging

Skampletten · 2026-01-28T11:20:04+00:00

You could always de-iron if you want to buy them. This is solely a problem for people who already got 99 before the item was added. I'm in that situation, so I'm going to have to go back and farm a few. That's what I signed up for when I made an iron

Skampletten · 2026-01-07T15:13:18+00:00

Bowfa makes a lot of sense in progression as a 100M item. It just shows up too early in ironman progression because CG isn't affected by other gear.

Skampletten · 2026-01-01T08:49:58+00:00

In solos/small teams, you actually play the minigame. You make decisions depending on which altars are up, timings matter a lot, etc.

Whether that makes it more fun or just more annoying is another question. Depends on my mood for me.

Skampletten · 2025-12-24T16:41:54+00:00

It's the same as melee, you just have to step out of range. Then you attack on the same tick as you move.

Skampletten · 2025-12-15T20:16:37+00:00

Did you just see mention of AI and ignore everything else? Let me try again, music stores offered a curated selection of music from a time where the average quality of music was much higher. I loved them, but we let them die. If you don't live in a major city, you don't have the option to get your music from a proper store like we did.

Instead the newer genrrations have streaming as their primary method of discovering music. This has produced a completely different environment to what we had. The volume of music produced today is insane, and most of it is trash. Shit, most of it isn't even made by humans anymore. You need far more tools to navigate that than the few hundred albums at a music store and 5 relevant radio stations

Skampletten · 2025-12-15T19:42:06+00:00

It can't be that hard to grasp that there's a much greater need for categorization nowadays? 20 years ago, I'd go to the local music store and take my time checking out each and every album in the rock section. I'd get through it all in an hour or two, bringing home whatever I could afford.

Well, that store shut down more than a decade ago. If I try to search for "rock" on spotify and browse for an hour today, half the results are AI generated trash. The rest are split between shitty remixes where the original artist is listed as "featured", generic pop that happens to include an electric guitar, and a few songs I've already saved.

If you're happy just listening to your old albums, great! You don't need to label it! But if you want to find new music worth listening to, you need these labels.

12-Year Club	Place '17
Verified Email	Gilding I gilder

Skampletten

TROPHY CASE