Runescape

Craig1981 · 15 Apr 2013 at 13:41

I played Runescape obsessively several years ago. I burned myself out on it though, with the constant skill grinding. Power leveling to 99 mining and smithing honestly felt harder than a full time job. Its only the fact I was off work on incapacity benefit following surgery that gave me the time to do it at all.

I've been away from the game so long I think they've probably took away my player mod crown by now. The economy was already unbalanced back then, so I can only imagine what hell its turned into now.

Razor-BladE · 15 Apr 2013 at 15:19

I just looked at Halloween Mask prices :eek:

! They've skyrocketed so much!!
Just before I stopped playing about 3-5 years ago, I should have bought one because I had enough money for one, possibly two.. I'd be so rich by now!

HecFam · 15 Apr 2013 at 18:55

Got a cheeky email about my access to the RS3 Beta.

Comes out on the 17th of April.

Diagro · 15 Apr 2013 at 23:53

Would you stick a pic up on here when u get on?

HecFam · 16 Apr 2013 at 10:35

Diagro said:
Would you stick a pic up on here when u get on?

Sure, Ill try and do a Vid if I can. Not too sure what diffrence there will be, I think its just HTML5 support, guess i'll have to wait and see.

DaleTheWhale · 16 Apr 2013 at 11:24

valkynaz said:
"Drygore" is a class of weaponry dropped by the Kalphite King. They do a lot of damage and cost a pretty penny too.

Kalphite King? Oh how things have changed since I last logged, Did try to play again but it was just too time consuming. I came back for a week, did 90-99 fletching and then quit again! Shame my account is probably worthless now after 3 years of service.

Do miss the game but I think it's past me now, Hoping the Elder Scrolls MMO revives my MMORPG needs!

Omaeka · 16 Apr 2013 at 17:20

valkynaz said:
"Drygore" is a class of weaponry dropped by the Kalphite King. They do a lot of damage and cost a pretty penny too.

Less powerful than a Dragon Battleaxe though. DBA is far superior as far as cost effectiveness goes, the only thing the Drygore gear has is 2,000 accuracy compared to DBA's 1200. Drygore costs 80M+ and 2.9M to repair when broken which is absurd, for that kind of money they shouldn't break.

Mason- · 16 Apr 2013 at 18:27

Playing a bit of old school atm

kitkat9933 · 19 Apr 2013 at 21:36

Omaeka said:
Less powerful than a Dragon Battleaxe though. DBA is far superior as far as cost effectiveness goes, the only thing the Drygore gear has is 2,000 accuracy compared to DBA's 1200. Drygore costs 80M+ and 2.9M to repair when broken which is absurd, for that kind of money they shouldn't break.

Dyrgore Weapons absolutely destroy Dragon weapons. Don't know what your smoking.

Diagro · 19 Apr 2013 at 21:52

anyone been on RS3 yet?

jakspyder · 19 Apr 2013 at 22:11

I've tried the HTML beta. Its an impressive outlook for the future of RS. But it has huge leaps to go in terms of performance before its even remotely useable. 10-15FPS on a 4Ghz i7 and 7970 lightening.

A good glimpse of future visuals for sure though.

Diagro · 19 Apr 2013 at 22:12

can we have a pic mate?

HecFam · 19 Apr 2013 at 22:27

Colours look better, quicker loading, new map.

Not too much change

ooo 1440p support

Diagro · 19 Apr 2013 at 22:33

Interesting... looks ok, The current RS does 1600p for me.

I'm hoping for good improvements to RS3 to enable it on Tablets.

Calgar117 · 20 Apr 2013 at 00:19

thats a pretty good improvement in graphics i played it obsessively 7 years ago

i always remember when i first played it i came across a guy who was mining and he paid me to drop off the ore and collect more and paid me 500g each time was pretty chuffed

Omaeka · 20 Apr 2013 at 17:09

kitkat9933 said:
Dyrgore Weapons absolutely destroy Dragon weapons. Don't know what your smoking.

It really doesn't. All weapons in the EoC are the same speed, and the Dragon Battleaxe has higher damage than any of the Drygore weapons. The DBA is EoC's strongest one-handed weapon, it just doesn't have as much accuracy...

With that being said, a Godsword is by far the best weapon in the game, as it has the same attack speed as a Dagger.

jakspyder · 20 Apr 2013 at 17:30

Explains why we're all using DBAs at nex and KK and QBD.

oh wait...

DBA has
Damage: 894
Hit bonus: 1147
Style: Slash
Class: melee
Speed: average
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Drygore mace/rapier/longsword
Damage: 864/1102/1102
Hit Bonus: 4957/4957/4957
Style: Crush/Stab/slash
Prayer bonus: 9/0/0
Class: melee/melee/melee
Speed: Fastest/fast/fast

So while the DBA has a higher damage than a mace. Its half the speed. a fifth the accuracy. has no prayer bonus. Far less actual applied DPS

Damage is not the only factor in a weapon.

Omaeka · 20 Apr 2013 at 17:31

Of course not, it's accuracy is it's downfall with high level enemies. Just pointing out that they aren't worth 80M when they are weaker than DBAs, the Runescape economy is hilarious.

EDIT: They nerfed the DBA? When I last played it was 1K + dmg.

BTW attack speed doesn't mean anything when attacking abilities give all weapons equal speed.

jakspyder · 20 Apr 2013 at 17:43

But they are worth 80m. Thats not a lot of money. And for a weapon able to do the maximum potential damage against the targets its designed for (max level targets) its spot on.

best damage.
Cheap.
High level.

Whats wrong with that?

And while the mace (70m) damage is lower. the rapier and longsword are both higher damage than the DBA. And faster and more accurate.

Omaeka · 20 Apr 2013 at 17:46

It's a lot of money to most people.

Drygore are still pwn't by Godswords though unless a shield is necessary. Damn tempted to get back into the game now.