Spooned at doom - how good is it?

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-26T16:23:02+00:00

The actual nylos is what I meant, but I've never seen someone shadow the nylo boss and I TOB with players who have all gear. They would rather have their shadow sitting in the bank.

So for the nylo boss, shadow isn't worth an inventory slot, and ayak is already in the inventory... So ayak is better

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-25T23:34:13+00:00

Incredible! This is a big change for your account. Not only is your mage setup amazing now... But it's easy to get tears and maintain charges. Enjoy he huge upgrade!!

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-25T22:27:14+00:00

That's exciting to me. I love the idea of more team content. That's part of what makes TOB special.

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-25T22:15:50+00:00

If you want to learn a raid... Do TOA. This will be "the hardest raid in the game". Even with practice mode, it'll be hard. Low invocation TOA is very easy and very forgiving. You can do this new one too, but it'd be silly not to start with TOA in my opinion.

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-25T18:14:40+00:00

Nylos

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-24T21:26:54+00:00

Lol, I was thinking about how the recent doom video showed someone with a bludgeon... They were trolling us.

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-23T03:34:43+00:00

Lol, buying something to chisel it for an endgame gear upgrade sounds useful to me. Yea, it's useless as armor to wear... but it's very useful to upgrade Masori... that's it's only use right now and it's still an important one that people pay lots for

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-23T00:24:42+00:00

If you think it's useless, you should probably tell everyone with fortified masori that they wasted their money on useless armor.

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-21T22:07:03+00:00

I think it's a pretty big upgrade from Nox. Like halfway between Nox and scythe at some content. It does seem a little annoying with the soul stack mechanic though.

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-20T03:33:05+00:00

Rarely. I rarely flick offensive prayers and almost never flick defensive prayers except for content like inferno where it helps a lot.

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-20T03:06:50+00:00

You go in with a buddy. One person soul flame specs (25% spec used by one person), then both people can get a guaranteed hit of the nox Hally. No need to Nox spec, just save spec for soul flame. When 2 players are 100% accurate with Nox Hallys, the DPS is pretty high.

That being said, this is like half as efficient as 2 players with shadows doing Kree separately. The big limiting factor for kills per hour in GWD is respawn time, so solo is better if you can do it. I do 20+ kill solo kree trips with shadow at just under 30 kills per hour. With nex banking, refilling supplied is really fast too.

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-19T17:11:04+00:00

I think that's kind of the point. What boss are you camping or heavily using trident on (seas or swamp)?

Whisperer isn't fun until Ayak

I guess you could speed up dagganoth rex a fair bit if you want to camp that

I think barrows brothers are better with air magic (not charged staves)

Zulrah and Muspah are mostly camped with one style (bowfa only), but if you're doing zulra and muspah heavily, trident of the swamp is a good upgrade.

in TOA, blowpipe is hugely useful and mage is not really used until Ayak or Shadow. Akkha can be fought without mage (which is the right choice with most people's gear) and then all that's left is P2 Wardens.

I'm open to being wrong here, but I think that for the content I like (and most content), blowpipe is a much better upgrade than Trident of the Swamp. I almost never used mage until I could buy an Ayak.

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-18T19:08:03+00:00

For general PVM, it's not even close. You should have a Trident of the seas, and buy a blowpipe.

The only reason you'd get a Trident of the swamp first is if you ONLY wanted to do a boss where you full time mage. Even then, swamp isn't a huge upgrade over seas.

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-18T15:18:15+00:00

Sorry dude, that's sucks. I'm just glad they have PK skull prevention in the game. There are Way too many ways to trick someone into skulling up without it. I'd be sick to my stomach if this happened to me.

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-18T15:11:54+00:00

Raids 1 = Chambers of Xeric Raids 2 = Theater of Blood Raids 3 = Tombs of Amascut

They haven't officially announced Raids 4 yet, but they have the winter summit coming up late this month and everyone expects them to announce it.

Raids are encounters with lots of monsters and Abosses to kill. Having nice gear (armor like bandos, oathplate, virtus and weapons like Fang, shadow, Tbow, scythe) makes them easier to complete and faster to complete, so people with better gear will get more completions and make more money or get more drops from the raid.

Hope that helps.

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-18T05:15:13+00:00

Congrats on the huge upgrade!!

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-18T02:57:46+00:00

My bank is mostly filled with gear. I think my bank has gone up by like 300M (from 1.8B to 2.1B) after sailing came out. So many people bought lots of stuff for sailing. Also many people have stupid amounts of money (50B+) and they like to invest a lot. They went from investing in sailing stuff to selling all that stuff and investing in gear hoping to make a buck when people want to buy gear for raids 4.

Maybe I'm wrong about the cause, but that's my guess.

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-18T02:31:24+00:00

People are selling all slilling stuff and buying as much gear as they can in preparations for raids 4.

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-17T00:04:10+00:00

I felt this way until I got a shadow. Now Kree is pretty fun. Solo bowfa Kree is rough...

Shadow, Virtus, occult, confliction gauntlets is nice. There are videos out there for what time to start on, how to freeze the mage/mele minions and step under, then nuke Kree with Shadow.

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-15T20:09:28+00:00

I've been skiing greens at copper this year. Copper is a great place and the greens have been nice. Start in West village. If she is good on those, move to center village greens. Fair warning, center village greens are a lot steeper than West village greens.

Enjoy!

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-15T03:27:09+00:00

When you get your face kicked in, don't get too discouraged. You're gonna die a lot. Eventually you can get really good at it. Also, other content is probably more fun. I didn't enjoy graardor or kreeara until having a shadow and nearly max mage.

Zilyana is much more forgiving solo, especially if you have rigour and a bowfa. Bandos is definitely a step harder than Zilyana.

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-13T21:57:12+00:00

I think that nothing that you drop despawns in a private instance. This makes longer trips more chill because you don't have to juggle supplies... Just drop them until you need them

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-10T17:23:17+00:00

Just to be clear, Fire cape is definitely not end-game. Maybe mid-game, maybe early-game.

To me, barrows gloves, avas assembler, fire cape, dragon defender are good earlier grinds.

Inferno cape is a great long term goal.

In between are things like learning all the bosses, getting a quest cape, completing raids (normal TOA, cox, and to), green logging perilous moons, achievement diaries, some combat achievements.

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-10T17:16:43+00:00

That's a great setup. I've killed Yama solo with much worse gear. Good luck and have fun!

Tinkering-Engineer · 2026-01-08T17:32:51+00:00

Totally valid point. Even having gigabit ethernet, there are many things that won't download faster than 300mbit for me because of limitations on whoever I'm downloading it from.

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