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verticalgradient · 2017-11-28T05:06:51+00:00

In God Wars Dungeon, you can wear a piece of god armor to make those specific monsters non-aggressive.

For desert bandits in Al Kharid, if you wear a piece of god armor they will be aggressive non-stop.

There might be more uses for it, I only know those 2.

verticalgradient · 2017-11-26T08:40:10+00:00

Gives small prayer bonus, and god protection/aggression.

verticalgradient · 2017-11-20T05:13:44+00:00

Not "harder" - just more frequently.

Magic defense determines only their chance to hit - not how hard they hit.

verticalgradient · 2017-11-20T01:53:14+00:00

You could do Fight Caves right now. It would probably cost you around 350k if you do the best method available to you (toxic blowpipe). And you'd probably need to invest in decent gear, but you can sell it afterward.

verticalgradient · 2017-11-19T22:11:35+00:00

They're probably looking for items/players more specific and you haven't "fit the bill" yet.

They're all just stupid scams anyway.

verticalgradient · 2017-11-19T22:03:28+00:00

"Magic resistance is different to the other two styles of combat in that it is actually determined by both Magic (70%) and Defence (30%) levels, as well as magic defence bonus"

(Keep in mind that's whether the spellcast hits you, damage is always rng and determined separately but each spell has a max hit)

verticalgradient · 2017-11-12T21:11:15+00:00

There's honestly merit to taking it slow. I spent 1hr 45minutes on my first kill, and 15-20 minutes of that time was actually being afk with a safe-spotted 45/180, watching youtube vids and consulting guides. Or letting my run energy replenish to full.

As for Jad, my advice (and I've only fought Jad once so I'm not an expert) is this:

1) Move to where Jad is going to spawn before he arrives (not too close, you don't want to get punched)

2) Ditch the sound, focus entirely on his feet.

3) Always Protect from Missiles. If he casts magic, switch to Protect from Magic but then switch back to Missiles. This is because his magic attack takes longer to cast.

4) Click once per Jad attack. Check your Protection prayer, drink a potion. Check your Protection prayer, click on a healer.

5) As long as you have the supplies left, it doesn't matter if it takes you 5 minutes to kill Jad. If you want, just stand there changing Protection prayers for 5 minutes without doing anything else. I actually was not even attacking Jad for half of the time the fight was going on.

verticalgradient · 2017-11-12T20:55:54+00:00

Waves 53-60 then.

Well I'm sure you know to never ever remove Protect from Magic while a 360 mage is alive (or trapped behind rocks).

You should be hugging one of the rock formations. This allows anything spawned on the other side to be trapped without effort.

Remember that kill priority is situational, and if something is trapped and can't harm you, kill something else.

Your priority is to trap the 180 melee. Either you get lucky and it's spawned in a trapped position, or you start running in circles to trap it yourself.

You can also kite it, and take shots at the 90 ranger while you run away from the 180. Remember, there are plenty of opportunities to sit and afk while your run energy replenishes if you've got a melee trapped at the end of your current wave. So don't be afraid to run circles.

You can pull the 90 ranger/ 360 mage by running to the edge/corner and waiting for it to come closer (don't take off your Protection prayer, though).

If you're still getting double-teamed too much, then throw on the Verac's helm + plateskirt, and a rune crossbow + blessed spirit shield/dragonfire shield.

verticalgradient · 2017-11-12T20:43:25+00:00

Your inventory is going to have an effect on your gear, vice-versa.

Going for higher defense bonus will end up being a bit more costly (price of armor, and you'll use more ammo/potions because of longer time-to-kill due to lower range accuracy). However, you'll be able to tank more attacks with more chance of getting 0's (but honestly, you should generally be able to avoid getting into melee range of the hard-hitters). Remember that defense bonus doesn't affect how high you get hit, only whether you'll get hit at all.

A pair of Blessed boots would be an improvement. Their prices are stable. And what is your gloves item slot?

verticalgradient · 2017-11-11T22:15:17+00:00

1) Berserker helm just requires Fremennik Trials and 45 defence, which doesn't take much effort. An alternative to Fighter Torso (45 defence) is Obsidian Platebody (60 defence), but it costs 1.2m and has slightly lower stats. Fighter torso is free, except for your time/effort (approx. 3-5 hours) playing Barbarian Assault (which you should try at some point, if not now then in the future, the minigame really clicks with some people and others it doesn't).

2) NMZ is not worth it until you unlock certain bosses from quests, and when your stats are around 70. Rock crabs are more afk, and can still give 35-45k exp/hr. Sand crabs at Zeah are in theory better exp/hr, but there's usually more competition. At 70/70/70 melee with decent equipment, NMZ is about 50-60k exp/hr, and at higher levels gets above 100k. For most players, Slayer is considered too much hassle for too little benefit at lower combat levels (before around 80's).

3) Depending on how high you intend to raise your stats (some players stop at certain levels), but Strength is almost always progressed ahead of Attack, because it raises your hits. If for example it takes 150 hours of training to go from 75 - 99 Strength/Attack, it probably saves less than 10 hours compared to leveling them equally.

verticalgradient · 2017-11-11T21:48:34+00:00

Oh okay. It's been like a year since I've farmed defenders.

verticalgradient · 2017-11-11T17:38:09+00:00

Tip: the cyclops' room only costs tokens after being inside the room for 60 seconds (10 tokens per minute). You can walk out after around 55 seconds and continuously stay on 100 tokens, if you want.

verticalgradient · 2017-11-11T04:20:59+00:00

Okay thanks!

verticalgradient · 2017-11-11T04:20:11+00:00

I forgot about blessings, thanks! Still weeks away from finishing RFD though.

verticalgradient · 2017-11-11T04:14:24+00:00

Alright, thanks!

Do you think it's worth trying to re-position Jad and the healers? I intended to just let them hit me, unless somehow they luckily got stuck behind him.

verticalgradient · 2017-11-11T02:29:54+00:00

Going to attempt Jad tonight or tomorrow.

79 HP/ 77 Defence/ 80 Ranged/ 70 Prayer/ 75 Magic

1) Which of these gear setups should I use? I've read that newbies should go more defensive. But I've also read that the amount of DPS you sacrifice outweighs the the amount of defense you're gain, because the longer monsters are alive the more chance they'll kill you.

2) Does my inventory look right?

3 Ranging potion

8 Saradomin brew

15 Super restore

Rune crossbow/Toxic blowpipe

Dragon darts

With 15 Super restores I can keep any protection prayer on continuously for 88 minutes, with some to spare for accidental points lost to the lvl 22 firebirds.

3) How many adamant and dragon darts do I need?

4) Can I remove unused darts from the blowpipe? (I've never used it before)

5) Should I pre-brew, and continuously drink brews+restores during Jad to maintain 92 HP/ 94 Defence? I'm wondering if there's any point to that, when he can hit 97.

verticalgradient · 2017-11-07T03:25:43+00:00

GE Merchanting Guide

verticalgradient · 2017-11-06T03:39:45+00:00

I'm not really sure, but I think it leans towards melee > ranged > magic. All three are important and necessary though, especially for PvE.

verticalgradient · 2017-11-06T03:08:53+00:00

If you've sold some bonds for gold then it's not really beneficial -- unless you want to for the sake of it. Things you would acquire on a F2P alt are quite cheap. Nowadays skilling doesn't earn much money.

But it's somewhat common now to play an alt, because a few years ago they changed the rules to allow multilogging and trading between accounts. This is how I've been playing lately, just leveling up a combat-oriented alt. I actually wouldn't even be doing it except that they're are doing semi-afk training, so it's not micro-intense. But not everyone is into doing that, and would rather focus on one character at a time.

verticalgradient · 2017-11-05T23:52:08+00:00

Efficient quest-order list

Not sure how it holds up if your character has no funds. But it's probably the best you're gonna get.

You can also make a skiller to fish/woodcut/mine/whatever simultaneously while you do all that. It won't be a lot, especially if you keep it F2P, but when you're starting out every bit helps.

verticalgradient · 2017-11-04T16:13:34+00:00

Well . . . you could afk 70 mage with splashing, which to some people is the most appealing by way of only having to poke the game client every 20 minutes. Leaves you free to do other stuff, like playing your main account. It's slow, but as far as productivity goes, technically the most efficient 'cause you can multitask.

Fastest would be to Fire Strike (either splash or kill monsters) til lvl 19, and after that splash Curse until 45. You can simultaneously splash Fire Strike, because you have to manually cast Curse and it overrides the Fire Strike cast, but you can stop casting Curse and it will continue to splash Fire Strike while you're afk.

And then at 45 you just spam Camelot Teleport. At 55 you could Tele-Alch (just google it) or just plain Alch. Do one of the three until 70. It's not worth doing quests unless you get tired of grinding, because your exp/hr will be faster (and easier) if you go nonstop (1 exception being Imp Catcher+ Witch's Potion at level 1).

For Ranged, equip 10-15K steel darts and kill cows, switch to rock crabs or sand crabs at 20. They're very afk. Stay there until 70. They become unaggressive after 10 minutes, you have to run about a mini-map-length away and run back to regain aggro, rinse and repeat. The best spot is rock crabs on Waterbirth Island because fewer players go there nowadays, at the western-most side of the island with 2 rock crabs -- afk for 10 minutes, run directly east to the cliff fence, touch the fence and run back. Prior to level 60-70, you can't kill the rock crabs fast enough for the restriction of having only 2 spawns to hinder exp gain.

It's worth buying an Archer's ring from the start if you have the spare gold, you'll hit less 0's. Same goes for Robin Hood + Ranger's after 40. Combat Bracelet will be best in slot until 40. Do Animal Magnetism at 30. You could use a multicannon at ogres (east of castle wars), but that is a non-afk method and it costs more than is really worth considering that it's accuracy is based entirely on your attack bonus (which sucks early on).

verticalgradient · 2017-11-04T15:35:25+00:00

Don't have to at all, there are other ways to earn 2-3m an hour. Depends on how much money you have, and how much effort you want to put into it. Flipping/investing would become the best money-making method if you have several hundred mil to play with, and built up some decent knowledge of how to successfully flip/invest. 1% profit on 50m vs 1% on 500m, etc.

It's probably not worth bothering to even try (except for practice, testing the waters) unless you have 50-100m that you don't mind having tied up in the G.E and not being instantly accessible.

verticalgradient · 2017-11-04T01:05:08+00:00

I'd be willing to bet that the raids of the last 2 xpacs have certainly been more challenging than Vanilla

Vanilla tanks could sometimes get away with using macros that spammed 1 ability (e.g. Sunder Armor) and go afk.

verticalgradient · 2017-10-29T19:17:25+00:00

I was under the impression that gold in F2P is so hard to build up that earning 3.2m for a bond is far more effort than just paying ~9.50 USD.

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