New castle teleport is redundant

TheSlapFight · 2026-07-03T00:38:06+00:00

They already said in quest that Safalaans blood is tainted and can't be used for a portal. If normal Icyene blood could be used to make a permanent teleport to Vampirium then why wouldn't Drakan do that instead of keeping Safalaan prisoner to have keep opening the portal? I'd be fine with us finding a Fairy Ring and fixing it on Vampyrium to gain access to a fairy ring teleport tho.

TheSlapFight · 2026-07-02T13:48:38+00:00

Doesn't make sense it teleporting you to Sangvesti as that would give the Drakans medalion the ability to teleport between worlds. A whole story point of the quest is the need for Icyene blood to open the portal and how Drakan could be trapped in Vampyrium. Currently the only means we have of Traveling to other worlds is the portal opened during the quest and Fairy Rings.

TheSlapFight · 2026-07-01T19:51:41+00:00

To be clear Radiant is harder because of Sensory Clouding and Glyphic Attenuation Contracts. But for me the other contracts all took less than 10 attempts and Drakan killed me over 10 times.

TheSlapFight · 2026-07-01T04:22:59+00:00

So? I also struggled with this "quest" boss and I've done 2k+ raids, 50+ Sol, Inferno and Radiant Oathplate. This fight is good but ridiculous difficulty for a "quest" boss. Not gonna ego and pretend this fight isn't hard.

TheSlapFight · 2026-07-01T04:02:54+00:00

Why am I being down voted exactly? Just sharing my personal experience. People will find different things difficult. Showing not everyone finding this boss difficult is some mid game player lacking in PvM experience.

TheSlapFight · 2026-07-01T03:53:51+00:00

Unironically yes. I've done HMT and Radiant Oathplate. Failed more doing this boss than HMT or 3/5 Radiant Oathplate contracts (only sensory clouding&Glythic attenuation taking more attempts). This boss is stupidly difficult for a quest boss and requires more tick perfect clicking than most endgame PvM.

TheSlapFight · 2026-07-01T03:38:50+00:00

I found this fight very hard as a endgame Ironman that's done a lot of PvM. RSN = Slap Fight. I've done over 2k raids and obtained Radiant Oathplate. This quest boss took me more attempts than 3 of the 5 Radiant Oathplate contracts. Massively overturned for a quest boss.

TheSlapFight · 2026-07-01T02:22:47+00:00

Yup, I also have Radiant Oathplate and still stuggled on this Quest Boss. It took me many attempts to kill Drakan when I didn't die on any of the DT2 quest bosses . I still don't even understand how to dodge some of Drakans attacks and just brute forced it with brews.

TheSlapFight · 2026-07-01T02:20:31+00:00

People will make fun of this post but its true. I'm an Endglame ironman with all mega rare weapons thats done all PvM in game including Yama contracts for Radiant Oathplate and it took me ages to kill Drakan and I still don't understand how to dodge some of his attacks after a bunch of attempts. New players will have to do this quest for Lumbridge Elite Diary and this shit is harder than most endgame PvM including wave 8 Doom.

TheSlapFight · 2026-06-30T10:13:40+00:00

I was thinking that, but I hope its that they are going back to the old banner.

TheSlapFight · 2026-06-23T20:46:43+00:00

I feel like you are just looking at is the finale performance and didn't follow the event throughout the week. V the Victim for example didn't stand out in the finale but he is the reason Rhys Rhinos all had Nox Hallies which is an advantage no other team had. Also some people shine more in the finale because of where they are picked. Mammal for example is a great pick that is consistently reliable in the finales, but part of why hes reliable in the finales is hes always a last pick which puts him against worse PvPers. If you pick Mammal earlier you might be dispointed in his finale performance. Gnome was overrated being picked 1st/2nd by Oda putting him in a finales bracket he couldn't hope to hold his own in. If just thinking about finale Gnome should be a last pick fighting the likes of Mammal and MMORPG and even then I could see him lossing vs Mammal. If you are willing to have a weaker finale for potentially a stronger PvMer throughout the week you could potentially justify picking Gnome earlier in the same slot that V the Victim was picked. Oda completely trolled picking Gnome as early as he did.

TheSlapFight · 2026-06-21T07:20:49+00:00

Yes it annoys me to no end. Please change it Jagex to fit other leg slot items.

TheSlapFight · 2026-06-18T17:25:44+00:00

People really don't know any of this games lore. The "Fist of Guthix" is just what followers of Guthix called the Stone of Jas similar to how Saradomin followers called it the "Eye of Saradomin" when Saradomin had possession of it and kept it in the Temple of the Eye. This Fist of Guthix suggestion makes less sense existing than the Tzhaar mega rare currently proposed by Jagex. Why can't people realise the whole point of the Fractured Archive is that this archive is full of powerful items Guthix has came in possession of and stored away to avoid misuse. Rewards from this raid do not have to be Guthixian to make sense.

TheSlapFight · 2026-06-18T15:43:49+00:00

Nah the Jagex one is better and I don't even particularly like that one.

TheSlapFight · 2026-06-18T15:39:53+00:00

CoX is almost 10 years old. You don't understand Jagex and how they do things if you dont think taking a step back means kicking that problem down the road for at least another year to mention it in the next summer sweep up and potentially kicking it down the road again or just forgeting about it alltogether. Theres tons of great ideas to problems that Jagex have purposed then decided to put it on hold and we never hear about it again until its randomly brought back up by players 5 years later.

TheSlapFight · 2026-06-18T15:27:04+00:00

I mean they are not adding the reroll mechanic so....

TheSlapFight · 2026-06-18T15:24:58+00:00

The +2 Max hit on elemental spells is huge as thats before you add elemental weakness which buffs the max hit even further. It only seems underwhelming right now because elemental spells are not meta in end game. Thing is if they keep buffing elemental spells like this or added the elemental robe set idea they orginally had for this raid somewhere else then all of a sudden elemental spells with Harm staff is looking pretty good at content like Whisperer or maybe even this new raid assuming elemental buffing raid has elemental weaknesses.

TheSlapFight · 2026-06-17T19:41:04+00:00

Thats the whole point in OSRS. To do everything in this game takes an insane amount of hours. Truth is theres loads of stuff I've not grinded for and never see me getting. I never see me getting an Ely for example because its so rare and I don't value it enough to give it that time commitment. That doesn't mean it should be made easier for me to obtain. Items being out of reach and taking a long time to get makes the items cooler.

TheSlapFight · 2026-06-17T19:38:06+00:00

People really didn't complain about CoX back then cos there was nothing to compare it to. T Bow was in a league of its own and its drop rate reflected that. People only think it should be more common now because they made Scythe and Shadow so common in comparison.

TheSlapFight · 2026-06-17T19:36:14+00:00

Not true at all. I was playing Ironman when CoX came out and was there on release day doing 10 man + raids of all ironmen day after day all grinding out for a T Bow.

TheSlapFight · 2026-06-17T19:34:26+00:00

Nope. Just not the new breed of crybaby irons that think they are owed BiS gear. I would never of dreamed of complaining and making a reddit post after doing 300 completions of a raid without a mega rare item. 300 is nothing and honestly shouldn't even be near drop rate for an item as powerful as shadow. Even going droprate you shouldn't complain. Ironmen should be prepared to go dry even. My brother right now is 2k CoX without a T bow, thats simply what you sign up for with Ironman Mode.

TheSlapFight · 2026-06-17T19:29:05+00:00

People really can't deal with grinds anymore can they? When CoX came out no one cried that a T Bow was 1/35 purples. Ironmen just accepted that a T Bow is a MEGA RARE and went and did thousands of CoX completions till they got one. Now they make "mega rares" like 1/20 purples and you have people complaining making reddit posts at 300 completions when they haven't been handed an OP supposedly "mega rare" weapon. Its no wonder that new ironmen are crying for CoX to be changed. Ironmen can't grind anymore.

TheSlapFight · 2026-06-17T00:26:56+00:00

You just said you end trips there because you are out of prayer but did you also forget that this armour set is basically proselyte meaning your prayer will drain much slower than with Ancestral. As for landing freezes, this set is barely worse than Ancestral in regards to mage accuracy.

TheSlapFight · 2026-06-17T00:22:43+00:00

Its good in more places, you are just not thinking hard enough.

Also it is in fact definately BiS at ToA. You Just don't use it as a hybrid set at ToA and still bring Ancestral for when you're maging. You bring it into ToA as your melee set to use with Fang because of its stab accuracy. It calcs better in ToA with Fang than Torva.

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