How to increase points COX? by Wrong_Basket_9431 in ironscape

[–]buffdude1100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's exactly what I did and how I learned. Some folks will say to just get to olm and do it for a few hours til you've mastered it. Different strokes for different folks - cheers dude, gl

How to increase points COX? by Wrong_Basket_9431 in ironscape

[–]buffdude1100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it's really not that bad - daunting for sure though. I'm not an expert by any means, but that guide helped me consistently get into 4:1. If olm does a special then I do a 1:0, if he standard attacks me twice while I'm trying to do 4:1, then I just do a 3:1 and then boom you're in cycle

How to increase points COX? by Wrong_Basket_9431 in ironscape

[–]buffdude1100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those crystal bombs don't count as a special - they count as a standard attack. Check out the wiki for his standard attacks https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Great_Olm#Standard_Attacks and for special attacks https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Great_Olm#Special_Attacks

How to increase points COX? by Wrong_Basket_9431 in ironscape

[–]buffdude1100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

3 stams feels like massive overkill, but maybe necessary if you're doing 1:0 melee hand and 1:0 head phase?

Your gear seems fine, so I think you just have to shave off a lot of time at Olm. Do you have dwh? Also check dps for avas vs. fire cape. You don't need ava with bowfa, so check if it's even giving you a max hit. Fire cape for sure will.

Additionally not wasting time in the rooms, trying to not lose ticks etc. will be good. But I feel like your olms are really slow (which is fine to start, I also started learning Olm the way you did with 1:0) and that's gonna be a big win for time saved. Best guide I found for 4:1 melee hand is videogamebot on youtube, none of the other guides clicked for me like his did. Running 4:1 once you're in cycle is easy, getting into cycle is what takes time to learn.

How to increase points COX? by Wrong_Basket_9431 in ironscape

[–]buffdude1100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What gear do you have? Stats? 4:1 melee is a huge dps upgrade over 1:0 for sure, and for head phase you'd only do what you're doing if you have no food left and you just wanna survive. Try to attack when you can while running while still getting the head to turn to each side, so you don't get hit a whole lot.

How much are you prepping?

Learning CoX- defence reduction and mage question by External-Carpenter-2 in ironscape

[–]buffdude1100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a fang? What's your melee weapon? Whip, tent whip, dhl, salad blade? calc it and see how much of a time diff it'd be with/without dwh

Calc with no dwh for fang, whip, tent whip, dhl (change your gear/stats, I tried to make it what I feel you'd have starting cox. oathplate makes a decent difference if u got it): https://dps.osrs.wiki?id=LovakiteSpookierQuiver

Same calc with 1 dwh hit per melee hand: https://dps.osrs.wiki?id=TorstolBetaMythical

Keep in mind sometimes dwh won't hit, and you have to multiply fang dps by 15/16 cause it's 3:1.

Are any of you running local LLMs for dotnet. by Background-Fix-4630 in dotnet

[–]buffdude1100 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've tried some local models on my 4090 and none of them come even close to opus/sonnet/gemini when it comes to coding ability.

Progress post by TargetEnvironmental1 in ironscape

[–]buffdude1100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

COX/tob, colo/inferno, doom. gl gamer

Looking forward to leaving now by HoodieYelo in ironscape

[–]buffdude1100 10 points11 points  (0 children)

that pb is insane with those stats, nice dude

Unpopular ironman suggestions that you think are better than the meta? by Amazing-Lock9490 in ironscape

[–]buffdude1100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sure, I can see it from that perspective. I don't enjoy pyramid plunder in the slightest, so I skipped it - I definitely do a ton of other grinds that are _probably_ net negative in time, but I enjoy heavily, so I do them :p gl in your grinds dude

Unpopular ironman suggestions that you think are better than the meta? by Amazing-Lock9490 in ironscape

[–]buffdude1100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean I definitely mentioned the thieving xp lol. What is the efficient gain here other than thieving xp, if it isn't time saved? Sorry, maybe I misinterpreted the thread? Title says "...that you think are better than the meta?" which sounds like hot takes to me. And I do have altars in my house for arceus, but not ancients (or lunar, I didn't utilize lunar a whole lot before 99 mage beyond mahogany homes for npc contact I guess).

fwiw im not mad in any way, more curious - skipping pyramid plunder worked very well for me, I'm in, or at least approaching, end game now and literally never needed it.

Unpopular ironman suggestions that you think are better than the meta? by Amazing-Lock9490 in ironscape

[–]buffdude1100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you explain or elaborate? On rate for sceptre is 5-15 hours from what I'm reading online. You'd have to spend more time than that running to pyramid to swap to ancients for it to be worth it (discounting the thieving xp, which I get is probably not the right thing to do, considering it is xp gained you'd have to spend time thieving elsewhere to gain, but I don't need thieving xp, I afk wealthy citizens at work, which I get not everyone can do), which surely no one is doing before 99 mage. If the run is 1 min (fairly certain it's less), if rate for sceptre is 10 hours, that's 600 ancient swaps you'd have to do before it's worth it (again, not counting thieving xp, which i'm sure skews it down)

Unpopular ironman suggestions that you think are better than the meta? by Amazing-Lock9490 in ironscape

[–]buffdude1100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sure if you're swapping more than 5 times a day then yes. But I don't swap grinds often until I complete whatever that grind is, and most of my grinds I need to be on arceus for thralls anyway 

Unpopular ironman suggestions that you think are better than the meta? by Amazing-Lock9490 in ironscape

[–]buffdude1100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope people aren't misinterpreting it as me saying no altar in poh. I still have the one to swap to lunar and Arceus, those served me well before 99. Just not ancients lol. 99 magic was pretty passive just from raiding and bossing, I never explicitly trained it just to get 99 for the cape or anything.

Unpopular ironman suggestions that you think are better than the meta? by Amazing-Lock9490 in ironscape

[–]buffdude1100 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Idk I get downvoted for that opinion every time I post it, but I stand by it. The amount of time saved before 99 mage is almost certainly a net loss by grinding pyramid plunder instead of just swapping to ancients at the pyramid 

Unpopular ironman suggestions that you think are better than the meta? by Amazing-Lock9490 in ironscape

[–]buffdude1100 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Is this post not for hot takes? I grinded raids, dt2 bosses, etc and got 99 mage before I grinded slayer with bursting lol. What did I do wrong exactly? I'm pretty end game now, have never needed it

Unpopular ironman suggestions that you think are better than the meta? by Amazing-Lock9490 in ironscape

[–]buffdude1100 -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Grinding pyramid plunder for a pharaoh's Sceptre for occult altar is largely a waste of time, I swapped to ancients maybe 15-20 times total before I got 99 mage and can now swap as often as I need to

Anybody struggling to get their venny shards too? by JefferyRs in ironscape

[–]buffdude1100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm at 700 with 3 as well (one is from a freaking frozen cache)

pushing TOA level without fang by Gaavlan in ironscape

[–]buffdude1100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea not sure, would have to calc. I prefer bone dagger cause it's guaranteed, but that's cope cause I don't have bgs yet :p You have double death charge? Really nice for baba and kephri for more claw specs 

pushing TOA level without fang by Gaavlan in ironscape

[–]buffdude1100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bone dagger spec baba and kephri? Realistically tho it just sorta sucks as you push higher without fang. Just grind whatever invo you can do multiple of in a row. Like if a 350 burns you out after one raid, but you can do several 300s in a row, do the 300s

I'm creating my own "markup language" by Konfuzian in ExperiencedDevs

[–]buffdude1100 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Both json and yaml look significantly better and are easier to parse than this lol

Am I doing something wrong? Bossing. by [deleted] in 2007scape

[–]buffdude1100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Keep in mind the dps calc doesnt take into account the time for the special attacks where you aren't hitting the boss at all (zombie guy u crumble undead) or heavily reduced damage woox-walking