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No its not lol. Not to anyone level 200 (the people the weapon is designed for)

If you can kill the things that are benefited by having drygore weapons. Then 80m is pennies.

Godswords are not the best either. Dual wield drygore is best. However 2H weapon skills are better. This is an issue with the offhand weapon stats not properly contributing to the damage of the weapon.

The top end gear has always been worth billions. Nex sets were 1-3b each. Divine/ely were 300m-600m. and still well worth it for the tasks/levels they're designed for.

99 prayer costs near 300m or so as does herblore. summon is several hundred mill. magic and range too? 80m is an extreme bargain for the best weapon in the game for the people the weapon is designed for.
 
jakspyder said:
But they are worth 80m. Thats not a lot of money.
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Not a lot of money? How on earth can you consider it pocket change when hardly anything in the game makes money anymore?

Slayer makes a pittance compared to what it used to (whips went from 3m->100k, dragon platelegs 1m->160k, dragon boots 600k>27k, a few examples). Woodcutting? Nope. Fletching? Nope. Fishing? Nope. Hunter? Nope.

All of the things that used to make a lot of money a while ago make little to no money in comparison to the cost of items nowadays.

I fail to see how you can make so much money that 80M is considered not a lot. Please tell me!
 
jakspyder said:
No its not lol. Not to anyone level 200 (the people the weapon is designed for)

If you can kill the things that are benefited by having drygore weapons. Then 80m is pennies.

Godswords are not the best either. Dual wield drygore is best. However 2H weapon skills are better. This is an issue with the offhand weapon stats not properly contributing to the damage of the weapon.

The top end gear has always been worth billions. Nex sets were 1-3b each. Divine/ely were 300m-600m. and still well worth it for the tasks/levels they're designed for.

99 prayer costs near 300m or so as does herblore. summon is several hundred mill. magic and range too? 80m is an extreme bargain for the best weapon in the game for the people the weapon is designed for.
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I suppose you're right about the price against who they're aimed for. But how does Akimbo Drygore outdamage a Godsword? Same speed, but 1676 vs. 1653, but as you said the off-hand damage (IS STILL!?) broken, so it's even less than that.

Although there is accuracy I suppose, so Drygore would hit more times which boosts it's DPS a little over a Godsword. Still though, unless I had 500M+ I'd never buy a weapon for that kind of price. A 2M Godsword is beautiful IMO. :p

Have you tried the 2007 servers yet?
 
Dueling :D

Runecrafting? (not sure?)

Killing KK?

Nex?

Corp?

Sell dungeon floors?

trade?

Ganodermic beasts?

Fight kiln?

Farming herbs?

As for 2m godsword. you're totally right its hard to argue with that kind of power for that price. Its 100% the accuracy of a drygore weapon that pushes it into the top tier. I believe dual wield weapons were slightly fixed but not properly.

And i'm definitely not saying this weapon is cheap to everyone. Its very much so designed as the absolute top tier weapon and is priced accordingly. And in comparison to previous top tier tiems (nex gear, sigil shields etc) it is extremely cheap (in comparison!) though yes when you compare it to a godsword its very expensive.

The nex sets still look to be 500m (torva) and its the people who own this kind of gear buying drygore weapons. As is meant to be. The whip is 100k because its no longer at top tier weapon (unfortunately) and we should not expect top tier gear to be affordable to mid/low tier players. In the same way, level 99 takes longer than level 98. higher levels take longer. better gear costs more.
 
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That's pretty eye opening tbh, no idea why I didn't see that myself. :p There has to be a secret to making that kinda money though, my entire life savings of several years is 50M + about 30 in items, that isn't even a Drygore weapon! :o With the exception of Farming, the only profitable ones you suggested are combat related. At level 170 in Bandos + the Godsword, I get my ass handed to me by most things.

What Jagex need to do is bring out a new, highest tier of non-degradable weaponry and put it into Slayer. Make it profitable again. Back in '07 Slayer was the be all and end all of money making and it's a shame it's fell from grace so badly. Jagex seems to be obsessed with trying to emulate WoW with these raid-like 25 man uber bosses. (Please don't tell me people actually solo Nex/KK? :o )
 
Btw I also agree making money is much harder than it used to be. This is because no items are lost. and so they perpetually fall in value. The "end" game is inflated with high levels and so supply rises exponentially but none of those items are removed from the game. (like whips) even when you lose a whip it isnt taken out of the game. Its ownership is just transferred to another player.

If you want a good MMO with a real economy that genuinely works and that doesnt have a saturated end game because its skill based. Play eve. Trust me once you get over that first hurdle (the terribad tutorial) you'll never look back :P
 
Second-hand sales have killed the Runescape economy! :p

How the hell does anyone solo Nex? She's a complete monster. :o I'm guessing it's just down to how much you miss and how often either of you crit? That and good gear, resources etc. and good micromanagement. Same with the Fight Kiln though (and the Fight Pits, I still struggle to get to Jad!) there has to be some solid way to beat them, because so many have. I just don't see it. :(
 
Also slayer isnt bad money. you dont make money on the whips and stuff though.

Its the "junk" that makes money. Specifically dragon bones, the top tier ashes, hides etc.

I'd say now days slayer is pretty poor money unless you have a yak. So you can bank all the bones and junk drops. It really quickly adds up!

Farming herbs every 80 minutes from 5 patches soon adds up to. Combined with slayer. doing a herb run every 2 tasks is actually a good little earner.

Throw in a bit of bossing perhaps with a mate or clan. Maybe a bit of trading. Do your ports. Do your DnDs. maybe do a kiln run once a day or every few days. It adds up fast.

Sure it tasks a bit of high level focused grind to afford something like nex gear, 2 drygore weapons and a divine. But doing it casually like i said above would certainly get you a good godsword. Full GWD gear (mage, range, melee) trimmings to go with that (boots etc) and that gear lets you do the big bosses for the big money.
 
Jad is a joke! you know you get jad as a slayer task right? takes me 30 minutes (that was ebfore EOC!) and only in armadyl.

Kiln was tricky. did it with bandos, spectral shield and polypore staff. Im certainly not a pro at it though. I dont do it for money. (i dont really play now)

Nex solo is very tactics based. max stats and gear naturally.

Youtube them!

Before EOC (even easier now i believe) with a chaotic longsword, divine, level 138, and bandos gear I could solo bandos for several hours. with EOC I could solo armadyl without food. So pretty much remain there until my arrows ran out.

I've not done much KK so i'm not sure how easy it is now. presumably quite easy now that people understand the strategy. and drygore weapons aint 500m each now like they were at first.
 
I know Farming is big money, it's just getting the levels to farm the actual profitable seeds. It's boring as hell, I got to 21 and stopped before I risked having a stroke. Ports are very costly and high level to run aren't they? Not sure what a DnD is? & no idea how to beat the Kiln. :p

Agree with the junk part, that's where every penny I've earned has come from, junk slayer drops with the occasional RDT (150 rune bars ftw :D).
 
So farming you really need 32 i believe (ranarr) its usually avantoe and uhh i forget the name of the other one thats good money. But to begin with ranarr are fine.

Get over it and do it >.< once you are doing herbs the levels slowly tick in as does the money. And while its not great money on its own you dont have to actively grind to get that money. you just plant seeds then leave and do something else. so its effort free.

Farming is the only skill that trains when you sleep so why not capitalize on that? :P


DnD is your distractions and diversions. So penguins, troll thingy, daily task thingies. all that stuff. "junk" but again adds up!
 
Diagro said:
Or pay 20 quid on 80m and buy a sara godsword and full bandos like me hahahah
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But then when your money runs out you'll just buy another 80m. Then another. And never actually reach a point where you can earn money. Always spending real money. Then you'll realise the point in the game is the leveling and the saving. You just skipped the entire game by paying real money. So you get bored and quit. :rolleyes:
 
You've twisted my arm :p if I get back into Runescape (It's a toss up between RS and WarZ) then I'll start doing some Farming. Do you know of any solid guides that show you easy, painless ways to level as fast as possible? That'd be awesome.

I used to do the daily tasks all the time, great money in them even for ones where you have to fletch etc as they always give more than you'd spend. Not a clue what Penguins/'troll thingy' are though. Haven't played it since November. :p
 
JimmyRustles said:
Just realised I forgot to cancel my membership, even though I haven't played for 2 years.
I will not log in. I refuse to log in.I WONT LOG IN!
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You haven't realised money going out every month for 2 years??!

Kind of got sucked back in from this thread lol. Bought 10k lobsters, so I have an amazingly fun job of cooking them all! Should take around 10-15 hours total and that'll bring me from 72 to around 80. Then another 35k to 90, then 50k to 99. Lol..
 
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