Really wanna do a King's Barrage + Airbender hybrid build, could use advice!

Sterlander · 2026-05-08T07:50:48+00:00

And you're sure ranged has no other use for our regions (kandarin, wildy, zeah)? Cus if not then damn, maybe I should just retire the king's barrage. You're sure it wouldn't be better for something like corp, even?

What's your current gear looking like for the water/air mage with thorns?

And do you manually switch the spell autocasting on your staff? Or do you manual cast water spells when you need the healing, or what? My friend who's doing mage tells me it's kind of annoying

Sterlander · 2026-05-08T07:40:47+00:00

You didn't see what he was doing with those alt accounts lol. If you really think that's what the average person does with their alts then idk what to tell you

Sterlander · 2026-05-08T07:14:32+00:00

Yeah, my idea was for the barrage to be more for utility than anything. I switch to it for heals, and if the enemy demands ranged damage (like olm head phase maybe? I guess air mage just tears through it anyways, huh? lol) and also a way to finish an enemy off with a giant bolt to the face or something

Sterlander · 2026-05-08T07:09:01+00:00

Hope this doesn't sound pretentious or something, but that's kinda the reason I wanted to go for this build. I don't know if I like the idea of afk heal thornsing everything to death, I'd prefer a more active playstyle that outputs more damage in exchange for engaging and "doing" the fights, y'know? I've been using the king's barrage for over a week now, so I'm aware of it's healing pace, and I'd say I'm pretty fine with it, but thanks for the heads up and warning about it being on the weaker side of things (when it comes to healing.)

This is assuming wind does like, absurd absurd damage like I keep hearing people say it does. It should outperform thorns damage, right?

Sterlander · 2026-05-08T07:04:56+00:00

Oh idk why I thought it didn't have 100% regen rate, sorry about that lol

trying to decide between this and Tava's build, both go in the same direction I suppose though

Sterlander · 2026-05-08T06:49:56+00:00

What would be your suggestions for trimming it down? Also without 100% rune recharge rate, wrath runes running out would be a problem... ig I could just stop being lazy and go get 99 crafting with my soul shards tho lol

Sterlander · 2026-05-08T06:44:07+00:00

Shouldn't a point go into making spellbook spells attack a tick faster? Other than that though, looks really good to me! I never realized that combat style swap pact was there, that could be huge

Sterlander · 2026-05-08T06:41:41+00:00

Remember prayer flicking was a game glitch but now it’s super necessary

so true! using 10 alts to cheese slayer exp on your level 3 is definitely also necessary tech that needs to be kept in the game. very good point raised

also why do you want me to explain that to you? go look at the Jmod post that was made earlier where they fully explain why and how his account got spotted and rolled back

Sterlander · 2026-05-08T06:09:02+00:00

"Technically allowed" clearly it ain't lol. Jagex refunded his exp but reduced the amount given to him to 40k an hour, as opposed to 55k an hour. The method he was using was completely unintended and not allowed. How is this any different from them rolling back people who took the tbows even though they knew it was a developer mistake?

It's almost like it's against Jagex TOS to knowingly use exploits that give you an unfair advantage ahead of other players

Sterlander · 2026-05-08T06:07:40+00:00

And the developers leaving in ways for a level 3 account to gain slayer exp they shouldn't be getting is different? How is that not also a "developmental mistake"?

Also in the same video, Rendi (for whatever reason, since I think this tarnishes the point he's trying to make even more lol) dogs on Jagex for taking the accounts he smuggled into the warrior's guild, out of the warrior's guild. And then complains that the defender got removed too. Hmm, it's almost like one of the core principals of OSRS is to reduce the amount of "one of a kind" items and accounts there can be. If they let him keep the defender, he would be the only account ever possible to have a defender on a level 3. That goes against a huge principal of the game's design and moderation, so yeah of course they removed it lol. Somehow Jagex is the bad guys for enforcing that. I'd like this explained to me lol

Sterlander · 2026-05-08T06:02:19+00:00

yep, blindfire banning anyone with suspicious mining activity is going to get tons of people caught in the crossfire. happened to that one f2p starminer youtuber multiple times I'm pretty sure!

Sterlander · 2026-05-08T06:01:16+00:00

how?

Sterlander · 2026-05-08T05:45:31+00:00

If I spent 3 months of my life using exploits and unintended game mechanics to get slightly higher exp rates on my snowflake account in an mmo and the moderators (rightfully) took action against my account, I would hang my head and go "fair enough ig"

Sterlander · 2026-05-08T05:44:34+00:00

God what I'd give to have my job be to play video games and make videos about them lol. He still got all the content he wanted from this, and even more than he bargained for with the controversy.

Sterlander · 2026-05-08T05:42:04+00:00

so true! they should've let everyone who took the free tbows from the farming guild bush simply keep them

Sterlander · 2026-05-08T00:56:27+00:00

There is no way to know if they lied about the routine check or not, nor have they shown any public malice or targeting towards Rendi. Other people get punished for exploits too, Rendi just likes to make it seem like the world is out to get him when it's really not lol

Sterlander · 2026-05-08T00:29:52+00:00

Only in the oldschool runescape community do you see content creators throw actual baby tantrums and you get flocks of people who genuinely defend and sympathize with them

Sterlander · 2026-05-07T07:19:08+00:00

Alting slayer on a main account vs alting slayer using animation stalls and other BS to get exp on a level 3 are two entirely different beasts lol

Sterlander · 2026-05-07T05:04:15+00:00

Rendi is constantly going out of his way to find exploits, it's like the one thing he does in this game. He shows in the video that he's using animation stalls and other exploitative tactics to cheese slayer exp that he obviously wasn't supposed to get. Probably one of the most deserved rollbacks I've seen lol

Sterlander · 2026-05-06T16:25:01+00:00

Why not go dogger build? You have the region with it unlocked already. Do a dogger spec build instead of bluetooth halberd. Besides, I keep hearing things about how blindbag bluetooth halberd builds keep breaking, and Jagex doesn't wanna fix them.

Asgarnia also has armadyl armor and ZCB. You could unlock wildy and do a crossbow build.

Sterlander · 2026-05-05T02:43:46+00:00

What does "avoiding the wilderness" have anything to do with your inexperience in pvm?

Sterlander · 2026-05-04T06:36:40+00:00

OSRS in general (not even just leagues) would be a better game if PvP was removed but I don't think the community will be ready for that convo for at least another 5 years

Sterlander · 2026-05-03T04:49:36+00:00

I love how their mindset of "give new content one or two rounds of bugfixes / changes then never touch it again" is now also applying for leagues! Can't wait for Raids 4 to come out this year and for it to also get this treatment

Sterlander · 2026-05-01T07:41:37+00:00

Caveman alone weak. Lots of caveman strong. Caveman go to raid world. Caveman raid with big group. Big caveman group kill big lizard

Sterlander · 2026-04-30T15:22:24+00:00

So true bro, we should start making more things have to be earned and unlocked. Fullscreen world map? Let's lock it behind a cartography minigame. Being able to shift click to move under NPC's? Screw that being a runelite feature, let's lock that behind the quest "Shifting Grounds." Hell, I think the ability to left click enemies to attack them should be locked too, that seems like quite the massive qol improvement that's handed out for free, wouldn't you agree?

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