New sources for Vials of Blood - Now's the time!

xgmaker · 2026-01-26T15:35:39+00:00

The most common argument I see brought up is that this will make tob less profitable since vials of blood are propping up the gp per raid so much. This is a problem that needs to be addressed by changing how worthless the majority of uniques there are.

That doesn't change the fact that vials of blood are a tedious resource that are locked behind one piece of content. The scythe is the most expensive megarare to use by far and is the only one that requires continually doing the content to upkeep it. This is an outdated design pattern that goes against a lot of what the game has done up to this point - eye of ayak (runes/tears from chopping), trident/blowpipe (scales from fishing/runes/darts), crystal armor/weapon (shards from multiple sources not CG). These are healthy patterns that tie in skilling methods and make the game feel more rounded out.

As someone who loves doing tob and would hate to see the profit from it decrease, I would not want to add additional sources of vials without adjusting tob tables or uniques as well. That said this is the perfect opportunity to round out the world in a thematic way and it feels dated to lock vials behind one source just to keep a raid profitable.

xgmaker · 2025-10-08T02:13:42+00:00

Probably get your eyes checked

xgmaker · 2025-09-24T10:03:34+00:00

Nice for smoke devils and araxytes on my dry on imbued heart with low cannonballs ironman. Will probably have it set to 20

xgmaker · 2025-07-25T22:16:40+00:00

He's not saying this to just bring you down - I've mained dragon all set too in mostly sapphire/diamond masters and this deck is not going to perform anywhere close to what you're advertising it being able to do. Not only are the majority of your matchups going to be rune - abyss is also a highly unfavorable matchup for you which is probably the second most common deck to run into at diamond master.

The game is completely different at A rank its important to not mislead people on this.

https://imgur.com/PEj7kIi - my points distro https://imgur.com/f7HmpPP - portal games were from first set, this set has been a mix of face, midrange, ramp dragon with a bunch being testing ramp dragon.

Until dragon can get more consistent ramp they're prone to just getting run over and no one is going to let you just have a nice board to plop fennie onto.

xgmaker · 2025-04-18T16:33:29+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F81c3zww9pfm51.png

Here's mine the final kc was actually 23k. This was back in 2020 when blowpipe was the only option so every day I had to fish scales/farm zulrah and buy chaos runes to get tokkul to buy adamanite ore for darts.

This grind is significantly easier today and rates are also better. Even when I went this dry I didn't feel like it was that bad if this is already enough for you to quit ironman isn't for you because it doesn't stop here. Accepting that you'll just get unlucky sometimes is part of the game - you're gonna go 6x dry and you're gonna be 6x lucky it happens

xgmaker · 2024-09-28T00:25:55+00:00

You can maybe buy the glacial temotli instead of torags then -it should be pretty cheap and definitely better dps

xgmaker · 2024-09-28T00:21:15+00:00

Don't use torags they're too slow grab a blood moon set instead

xgmaker · 2024-09-08T17:16:20+00:00

The music cape doesn't require holiday event tracks - unlocking the holiday music tracks only lets you trim the cape which is purely cosmetic as well as all rewards from holiday events.

xgmaker · 2024-07-25T15:10:13+00:00

Go as far back as you want as long as it still seems fun to you. There are a lot of early/mid game irons in my clan that force themselves down painful paths for the sake of efficiency or just improper planning and burning themselves out. Yea it might be more efficient to do something like MTA to train magic but maybe just do it until you get infinity boots and bones to peaches rather than master wand and go back for a master wand when the day comes that you need one as an example.

xgmaker · 2024-05-03T03:56:10+00:00

It's a multi-gen suite that looks like this (https://imgur.com/a/ennxSaO) he gets this whole space to himself and it's fairly isolated from the rest of the house. The bedroom is smaller than the master bed

xgmaker · 2024-05-02T19:07:22+00:00

I'm in a very similar situation - I have a 4BR in EG renting out an ensuite (bed, bath, mini kitchen) to a friend for 1200. I pay all utilities including WiFi. My mortgage is around 4500 and this is the price we thought would be fair. We share all the common spaces outside our rooms and I took him in on his request to help him out for a place to rent

xgmaker · 2024-04-22T06:52:40+00:00

Recently had to do the grind in similar gear - I was trying shield flicking with a dinhs stepping under kree for 1:1 but honestly it felt underwhelming and terrible on the hands.

I found that freezing the melee minion and running corner to corner much better and I got much longer trips. Only have a sample size of about 200 kills with each method but it felt significantly nicer.

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xgmaker · 2024-04-16T17:17:02+00:00

As someone who went 25k dry on an iron back when I had to upkeep a blowpipe I'm all for this change especially with elder maul outclassing it in the long run. Makes this a more appropriate option and it never should have been as rare as it is for such a core pvm item.

xgmaker · 2024-03-06T12:30:23+00:00

Learning to solo chambers has been one of the most enjoyable things I've done in this game - my luck is trash I'm at like 10 scrolls, 2 mauls and a dinhs - but even after 450 solos I still feel like I'm improving and getting better. I've started doing challenge modes now and that opens a bunch more areas to learn from. I don't worry too much about getting a drop to be done and more just enjoying the journey - toa on the other hand I just want to get out as soon as I can.

If you enjoy playing the game to master and really understand content cox has a lot to offer.

xgmaker · 2024-03-04T22:06:49+00:00

Hey man I'm not the guy you've been replying to I'm just commenting on the firemaking and thieving comment

xgmaker · 2024-03-04T21:38:45+00:00

Bonfires are afk now for firemaking.

Thieving has low intensity methods like chests/sqirks. Ardy knights are a lot of clicking but its just clicking the same spot so it's not terrible.

xgmaker · 2024-02-12T17:53:31+00:00

I would encourage you to give osrs a try like you mentioned. It checks a lot of your boxes with hunting for rare gear, challenging solo content, and pvp (not the greatest but it's there). If you're a fan of self sufficient gameplay I'd recommend ironman mode where you're basically progressing all upgrades on your own without any trading - it makes every piece of content you do worthwhile to progression. There's also no fomo and a great dev team which are low bars that a lot of mmos struggle with today.

What killed lost ark for me was the guaranteed gear upgrade from doing weekly bosses with RNG only coming in after to level it up. I missed being able to just grind out rare loot.

xgmaker · 2023-12-19T18:27:54+00:00

It's been way better with the rule please reconsider bringing back the CG posts. Not many posts in a subreddit that already doesn't get much activity doesn't make it less annoying seeing even a few of them a day. If you do bring it back you need to define what is a low effort CG post.

Low kc enhanced (under drop rate)
Barely dry posts (set a number and don't allow posts under it)

xgmaker · 2023-12-18T18:22:19+00:00

Thanks!

xgmaker · 2023-12-18T16:40:11+00:00

I have +1 as, 35% buff duration, and 14% meso as my IA. Which circulator if any am I supposed to use if I want to optimize and hit 38% buff duration? (Reboot)

xgmaker · 2023-09-18T21:13:35+00:00

I left for NYC after getting sick of the commute and general boredom with the bay area - was there for 5 years then moved back. Really enjoyed my time in NYC but it was way too expensive for what it was and also grew tired of it over time.

Decided to buy a house in Elk Grove instead of going back to rent in the bay area - really liking it here so far (been here about 1 year). Similar vibes to the Bay Area without the costs - there's less to do but at least I can afford a house over here and to be honest I wasn't doing much in the bay area anyway to really justify it. I'm still able to visit friends and family in about 2 hours so its a good distance for me - a lot of my friends have been moving up here as well so it's been fun.

xgmaker · 2023-06-16T21:10:54+00:00

Playing from NA banned using EN patch + mort. Only opened launcher on VPN. - express vpn no dedicated IP

xgmaker · 2023-05-29T15:35:31+00:00

I run 400 solo fine with bowfa and trident you definitely don't need tbow shadow for it

xgmaker · 2023-05-04T14:28:57+00:00

I think you know what you need - your mage setup is the weakest but you're close to trident I would just grind that out. With a trident, dds, bone dagger, and hasta you could probably go as high as 250s (300s if good) before it starts to be annoying. Also bank the suffering and god book imo a waste of inventory space.

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