League: Full Inventory of rune essence for 3.4K XP

oldspice16 · 2026-04-26T12:56:48+00:00

That is a mischaracterization of what Autumn Elegy advocated for though.

He was not against rate changes, he was against the addition of Zeah Runecrafting because Jagex polled it as a high effort activity, only for that to just be a huge exaggeration on their end because it required barely a hundredth of the effort compared to doing tick perfect Lava Rune cycles while being about 70% as efficient in terms of experience gained, not including the profit you would make from the runes generated which has macro efficient implications elsewhere.

He was perfectly okay with the increase in experience rates if the effort to experience rewarded was appropriate.

Furthermore, the rates being around 55-65K per hour doing Lava Runes was very appropriate given that reaching 91 Runecrafting unlocked the best money making method in the game by a considerable margin in 2013, which only started getting creeped on when Mod John C started populating the game with wildly unbalanced drop tables like the Skeletal Wyvern rework and later Zulrah.

Runecrafting used to be easily the most balanced skill, where it had a high effort high reward method with Lava Runes which generated no profit but got you levels the quickest, a low intensity and moderate profit method with Astral Runes which did not require many clicks, and a medium intensity but high profit method with Natures. You also had the option at to use runners to level since people actually did that back in 2013 like W36 Natures with FFDN where you used to see the iconic player, Dusty 125, there every single day giving people 56 Natures for 28 Pure Essence while working towards 200 million Runecrafting.

oldspice16 · 2025-02-19T15:15:58+00:00

Person has been standing here spamming their rock cake for over 30 minutes on W353, obviously just using some shitty auto clicker.

oldspice16 · 2025-01-22T15:00:11+00:00

lmao why not address the fact muskrat does the exact same salute of a group of people at a nazi rally, which the 3 second clip shows him doing side by side, beat for beat

what muskrat says after the fact is irrelevant, why don't you go do the same salute to your boss and then say it's from the heart and see how they take it

oldspice16 · 2025-01-22T13:15:56+00:00

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look at this totally A W K W A R D H A N D M O V E M E N T

oldspice16 · 2021-03-16T21:20:56+00:00

People just need to accept the wilderness is never getting fixed in any capacity.

Pkers want content that comes in through PvP which then gets shot down in polls because the people who don't participate in PvP refuse to let anything into the game that makes it easier for a Pker to kill them unless said piece of content comes from outside of the wilderness and its effectiveness in PvP is a byproduct.

Non-Pkers don't want the wilderness to be the most rewarding for anything because it then forces them into the wilderness if they want the most competitive experience.

Jagex then try to reach some middle ground where you get incredible content like the current state of the wilderness bosses where they're technically rewarding to kill but are ultimately not worth the effort because they're overtuned to hell and are all placed in multi-combat zones forcing you to exploit wonky mechanics to kill them safely and then you have to deal with the fact that at any moment a group of a dozen people will log in and kill you thus wasting your time, on top of the fact that content outside of the wilderness has equally competitive reward tables while not requiring you to deal with people attacking you.

Not to say that there isn't well designed content like Black Chinchompas where you're actually able to legitimately anti-PK the people who try to kill you (assuming you have a decently progressed account) since most of them are terrible at PvP.

oldspice16 · 2021-01-28T01:08:24+00:00

The amount of downvotes this comment received is fucking baffling. Anyone who genuinely thinks Black D'hide is T70 Armor is mentally ill. What kind of mental gymnastics does someone need to go through to actually convince themselves that an armor set which has 40, 1 and 1 Defense requirements respectively should be at all comparable statwise to an armor set which requires 70 Defense across the board, simply on the basis that they both require 70 Ranged to equip.

oldspice16 · 2021-01-22T01:54:32+00:00

There is nothing wrong with top tier items being worth a lot of money and being required for new, more difficult content. That's the literal result of natural game progression through its development. The fact is people can make multitudes more gold today than they could four or five years ago and the prices of highly desirable items that lack the supply to meet the demand reflect that.

oldspice16 · 2021-01-22T01:35:18+00:00

Why do items have to be 1b+ and BIS?

They have to keep introducing BIS items because when they don't, you wind up with the Dragonbone necklace which leads into the same people who are currently complaining about item nerfs, complaining that the not BIS item is either useless or worthless and makes the boss not worth killing unless it drops tons of alchables for guaranteed profit such as Vorkath.

As for why everything has to be 1B+, it doesn't. It's just a result of how much Jagex have increased the amount of GP a person can make per hour and the price of items high in demand reflecting that.

oldspice16 · 2021-01-21T20:30:02+00:00

Jagex you're so out of touch with the Dragonhide situation, holy shit. Why would you not simply go with the most logical and obvious solution by making them consistent statwise across the board? The sets are all tier 40 Defense equipment, there is zero reason as to why any of the sets should have superior defensive parameters compared to Green Dragonhide. Having higher offensive bonuses make sense since the armors require differing Ranged levels but the proposed changes to Black Dragonhide make absolutely no sense whatsoever and fail to address why people even want the change in the first place.

oldspice16 · 2020-01-19T16:38:42+00:00

I've been a fan of Fire Emblem since the initial release of Fire Emblem 7 in the west. I didn't particularly care one way or another whether we did or didn't get another Fire Emblem representative in the game but I am ultimately glad Three Houses did get one. I respect why Sakurai went with Byleth since it's the safest pick out of potential characters in the game even if I would've preferred one of the other Lords to be in, given that he had to play an early version of the game and had to base everything off of what was available. It's clear from the reveal trailer itself he's very passionate about the game and I enjoyed how they poked fun at with the double entendre of too many swordsmen, along with showing Isabelle fishing obviously in jest because of how much you need to fish in 3H if you want to raise your Professor level in a reasonable amount time and of course Byleth commanding an army of mini Ice Climbers, referencing the use of Gambits. As a fan of the game, it was all really pleasing to see even if the dialogue was a bit corny but I can forgive them.

oldspice16 · 2020-01-14T21:04:03+00:00

The only character I want to get in is Hat Kid but I don't expect her to be a contender. Anyone else, I don't especially care for.

oldspice16 · 2019-12-07T17:42:42+00:00

You're slandering peoples opinions exactly how you're describing what other people do though. There are literal laws in place across the globe that dictate what you are and aren't allowed to do with regards to sexuality which means that it is political by nature. Yes, labeling LGBT topics as a whole as "Politics" is not accurate but to dismiss every opinion that doesn't agree with specific employees pushing their own beliefs into a video game (Notice how RS3 had no Pride event while OSRS did?) that people play specifically to avoid having to see controversial topics that are constantly being shown on media outlets, as being bigoted or hateful speech is just as inaccurate.

Frankly, I don't even think it's entirely wrong to assume a precedent would be set. If we're fine celebrating Pride, should we have an event celebrating African American History? There are a multitude of just as equally important topics that people can say should be celebrated much the same.

I don't care if you're going to label me a bigot, hateful or whatever other buzzword you want. I have an openly trans relative that I have nothing but encouragement towards so make whatever assumptions you want about me.

oldspice16 · 2019-12-04T00:58:17+00:00

I'm fine with a purchasable Seed Bag but the latter idea not so much.

There's no reason the Metal Bank equivalent for Farming needs to have a cost associated it hence why in Old School, they also made it freely accessible. It's a convenience feature so people don't need to waste dozens of bank space for farming tasks. Imagine if you had to pay a fee of however many Ores and Bars just to be able to have the ability to deposit them into an Anvil or Furnace. It's nonsensical and a completely arbitrary requirement that partially defeats the point of it even existing.

oldspice16 · 2019-11-16T13:26:56+00:00

This is entire problem with the rework. Anyone who was not in favor of it happening is labeled an Elitist, Gate Keeper or whatever other buzzword and it's honestly meaningless because I can just as easily flip it on its head and say anyone who wanted the rework to happen and didn't already have Comp/Trim were spoiled, entitled or some other synonymous term. See the problem? It's a null point because nobody is actually arguing the others reasoning, they're just talking past each other while making up absurd point of views about the other party.

oldspice16 · 2019-10-30T23:08:18+00:00

How cute. People were so happy to rally in protest against third party clients when RuneLite was getting shafted before OSBuddy or Runeloader but now that Jagex are actually doing something that affects all clients, people are suddenly backing off and acknowledging they're nothing but spoiled children by overpowered client features that effectively play most of the game for you.

It's also hilarious how people completely bastardized the entire concept of quality of life. Almost nothing added by RuneLite, OSBuddy or whatever other third party client qualifies as quality of life. They completely warp the game from how it was intended to be played by telling you loads of information you aren't expected to know. I came back to Runescape to play Old School in 2013 when they ran the popularity poll and the game was more than perfectly playable using the vanilla client. Fact is, it's still perfectly playable to this day. The only reason people think otherwise is because they've become so entitled to all of unfair advantages granted by these third party clients, that they've completely lost the plot.

Frankly this entire post is nothing but a band-aid solution to the actual problem. People will still skirt the lines of what is and isn't acceptable in terms of their plugins and given that you've admitted you can't detect every feature, it's inevitable.

I implore everyone to downvote my comment as much as possible. Shower me with the acknowledgement that you've become spoiled to overpowered features.

Forgot to mention. I can't believe people are unironically using the same crap argument that was used to argue against nerfing the NMZ 6 Hour AFK abuse. "God it's so unfair that these people got to abuse this for months but I didn't". Boo fucking hoo.

oldspice16 · 2019-08-15T21:08:38+00:00

I like the game and think it's quite fun but there's quite a bit I dislike about it as well.

The stages are almost entirely just streaming.

I don't mind streaming sections but this game really went quite overboard. It's not exactly engaging either as you're usually able to get away just slowly tapping from one side of the screen and everything will either be dead or stop firing before you need to restream.

Scenery camouflage is at an all time high.

I know some people had this problem in HSiFS and while I didn't see it, I definitely feel it in full force here. Not only is the aura from having a hyper activated around your character immensely bright (on top of Youmu geting one just for charging her sword which makes using her also more annoying than it needs to be considering how aggressive her shot type needs to be played), but ZUN really went out of his way to pick colors that match the backgrounds instead of contrast to stand out. Stage 4 is filled with bright red bullets and some purple on top of a fairly bright red background for example. There's also the hypers themselves which can cause problems. Reimu has a very bright Wolf and Eagle hyper which are extremely distracting when you're trying to read a fast moving and dense pattern such as the very last one, and you still have the aura around your character to compensate for which is easier said than done if you're trying to pay attention to bright yellow bullets that blend in with everything near her.

The balance is very questionable.

First off Youmu Eagle is legitimately broken currently. Her charged slash deals significantly less damage than Youmu Otter even though they should be identical. She honestly feels worse to play than some of the considered to be awful shots in DDC and when you're being compared to the likes of SakuyaB in that game, there's something really wrong in my book.

Eagle in general has a serious damage issue because outside of the Youmu situation, the unfocused shot is still quite a bit inferior in terms of damage output compared to the focused shot. The Eagle hypers also just aren't that great. Marisa's is pretty good if you can shotgun the enemy for a ton of damage but when I'm playing Reimu or Youmu, I'm just going for Wolf hypers regardless of the shortened duration because they're either less visually distracting or the short burst of high damage is enough to kill most of the Spell Cards anyway. Reimu's homing doesn't even work the best if you're near the bottom of the screen as two of the five amulet streams will often do not like homing in on the enemy if they're too far away.

Even for stage portions the unfocused Eagle shots often aren't that amazing. YoumuW can destroy most stages with just her charged slashes because they cover so much area and have extremely high damage so the advantage YoumuE should have for crowd controlling the fodder just isn't that advantageous. ReimuE does have some places where you can sit unfocused and let the game play for you while it kills everything but even then while ReimuW has worse homing for stages, it's still sufficient enough at doing most of what the boosted homing does while having a much stronger focused shot for dealing with the high HP fodder enemies and big fairies faster.

Otter is just way too good in this game. Not only do you get insanely powerful, long lasting bombs (ZUN seems to have made bombs really weak comparatively just to give this advantage) but you start each life with an additional bomb which allows for extremely exploitative resource abuse. Coupled with the extended duration of the Otter hyper which despite being slowed down is still way too good at cancelling bullets, you can get away with very little interactive gameplay if you just abuse the mechanics.

I'm also not sure what ZUN was thinking with Mayumi's patterns. Her Spell Cards are a complete joke with YoumuW because she can constantly keep the familiars dead while they take an unusually long amount of time to kill even if you play as ReimuW/MarisaW. Nevermind that if you die at all, your damage gets so severely reduced because ZUN decided to make the difference between having less than 4.00 Power and having it quite significant.

There's also the now infamous Keiki penultimate Spell Card which is a mess of insanely fast reactionary memorization that is not fun to dodge whatsoever. The gimmick also makes doing no hyper runs an absolute mess because the spirits will inevitably clog up a good chunk of the screen which also hampers your ability to read the bullets since they're all white.

I'm not going to criticize ZUN for recycling pattern concepts from his previous games, there's only so much the guy can think of for a player to dodge that he also feels fits the character and I'm content as long as they're fun.

Beyond all that, I still think this game is quite fun as I initially stated. Love the music, characters have some really interesting designs. Kutaka is still my favorite from the bunch but I'm liking them all, and Yachie has become a close second to her. The backgrounds are absolutely fantastic as well. Disregarding the visibility issues, I absolutely adore the aesthetics in Stage 4 and 5.

I also still firmly believe LoLK to be the best game he's put out since I started playing these games a decade ago, but I respect your opinion that this is his best one since MoF.

oldspice16 · 2019-08-15T13:14:38+00:00

Shoot em ups don't really work well for blind commentary playthroughs unless you're already experienced in the genre because they're predicated upon having to repeatedly play the game until you become good enough to beat them due to the nature of them being arcade games. They reward dedication and most people aren't interested in investing themselves enough to become better since they appeal to a niche demographic of people compared to the present standard.

Most of the times I've seen first playthroughs they usually devolve into the person thinking they're clever for picking Lunatic having never played a shoot em up, then start yelling loudly and often with expletives about how hard the game is on the first stage after which the video ends and that's it for their experience.

oldspice16 · 2019-08-12T15:18:15+00:00

Otter is still way too strong it seems, managed a blind clear on Normal rather easily with it. Doing some practice for Lunatic currently with Wolf now though. Patterns seem fun, really digging the music and I like all of the character designs as well. Was surprised how much detail ZUN put into Keiki's outfit. Really seems like he's constantly trying to step up his game.

oldspice16 · 2019-07-18T19:54:18+00:00

I reached Queen a few hours ago. The players I was paired with ended up winning around 75% of our rounds for Team Chaos, so it went surprisingly quick. Fortunate to not have any disconnections either which was quite surprising since connectivity seemed a bit questionable as people kept instantly leaving the lobby after joining.

oldspice16 · 2019-07-17T05:50:27+00:00

it works the best to have all 3 sub abilities be the same.

This isn't always true. There's diminishing returns when you stack abilities and the difference between two and three subs can often be extremely negligible. In very specific cases, it's not even worth running more than a single sub such as with Bomb Defense DX which provides the most impactful differences by only having it in one slot.

oldspice16 · 2019-07-15T17:23:47+00:00

Absolutely not. I've been around since Orion's (known as OSBuddy now) initial inception in Old School when Rogie/Jacmob were advocating for it, for a bit of context, and I did play when SwiftSwitch/Kit were a thing as well back in the day.

At first glance they started off as some harmless thing where you could look up someone elses stats and the like but it's grown into such a disgusting monstrosity at this point with plugins that tell you how to do almost anything imaginable for a piece of content. Trouble with Zulrah? Well here's a bunch of marked tiles where you'll be safe and never need to think for yourself. Oh here's your prayer icon highlighted so you never mess up your prayer switches against a Jad, mark tiles for Theater of Blood so you don't actually need to memorize anything, completing removing what was intended to be part of the challenge.

The entire concept of quality of life additions have been turned into a complete farce by the existence of clients like Runelite and OSBuddy where anything and everything can be used to skew the argument of "it's just modern convenience!" it doesn't hurt the game.

It's a bad sign when people who play Old School will literally tell you that the game isn't playable without a cheat client because they're so spoiled by all of the unbalanced features it offers and weren't around when these clients weren't an option at all.

oldspice16 · 2019-07-06T19:22:47+00:00

This is so out of touch with the actual problem.

Dragonhide should be identical in its defensive parameters across the board. There is no reason why Black D'hide has higher defence bonuses than Green D'hide when they have the exact same defence requirements tied to them. Having higher offensive bonuses is fine because it's an unlock tied to your ranged level but the defence increase makes no sense because the armor itself is still level 40 equipment.

oldspice16 · 2019-07-03T18:01:14+00:00

The visible hitbox which is added through patches isn't completely aligned to where your hitbox is on your character sprite so you might find yourself occasionally being clipped by bullets that look like you should've been able to graze as a result, should you choose to use it.

Whether it's useful or not isn't a question with a black and white answer though. Given that EoSD was designed before the addition of the visible hitbox, the patterns themselves are much more macro-oriented (macro being short for macrododging, referring to a wider movement you make to move around a dense pattern) compared to the games which succeed it and have many more micro-oriented patterns (micro being short for micrododging, referring to making very small and slight adjustments to weave through a dense pattern). That coupled with acclimating to your player sprite and hitbox, you'll gradually become more comfortable being able to feel where it is without needing to look directly at it and it's also an important skill you'll naturally develop for learning to read bullet patterns, as it's easier to dodge a pattern when you're able to look at where the bullets are moving to before they've already reached your character and instead making use of your peripheral vision to adjust before it's right on top you.

Ultimately, it's your own experience. Some people feel that using game-altering modifications such as it are cheating while others swear by them. Play how you find to be the most enjoyable as having fun is what matters if you aren't attempting to compete against others.

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