I believe this new item slot will unveil a whole new dimension to the game, allowing us to do things we’d never have imagined, although we’re still left in wonder about what an “Aura slot” is you can’t help but imagine the possibilities of this update.
New Master Quest (Deadliest Catch):
As many will already know in a poll released by Runescape the theme of this event was a vote option within the poll therefore, user-generated content vindicated the quest theme. From past experience with Master Quests I can only hope this quest is as trilling and excited as the last have been. I’m really looking forward to getting stuck in with this quest and the chance of receiving some luscious rewards?
Distraction and Diversion (Troll Invasion):
Ever since the first Distraction and Diversion back in September 2008, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed taking myself away from what I’m doing whether it be slayer, fletching, firemaking to take part in an event of which to reap some rewards. And after reading up on this one, I feel this could be the best one yet, with a plan similar to the “Fight Caves” this could be a really interesting and enjoyable event.
Loyalty Rewards/ System:
This part of the update I’m really having mixed views about I’m worried that existing members are going to be given the same privileges as newer members which could possibly result in in-game riots and forum rants. But the thought of adding to/ customizing your weapons makes your imagination run wild. I suppose we’ll have to just wait and see!
Staking, one of the biggest most well-known activities in the game.. Since the early days of Runescape staking has made numerous amounts of people extremely rich!
Duelling: is a way for players to fight each other (with certain agreements). Staking is often used to make (or lose) huge amounts of cash in a short period of time.
A player can choose to have an empty arena or an arena with “obstacles”, this is more popular amongst rangers and magers, who can fire over the obstacles to hit their opponent from afar. Players can also choose to disable the following for the length of the duel:
Prayer
Special attacks
Potions
Food
Movement
Ranged attacks
Magic attacks
Melee attacks
Forfeit
Obstacles
More complex options are available, enabling a player to prevent certain items of armour or weaponry being used in the duel.
Fundamentally, Duelling is used mainly to settle disputes and earn/ lose huge amount of cash.
Other Information:
At the end of the duel, players are teleported out of the arena and have all their stats restored. Ammunition that would normally appear on the ground is returned to the player after the fight. The winner of the fight will receive both his own staked items and the staked items of his opponent. The special bar is also restored. If the player who won had boosted his stats with a potion, or with the dragon battle axe special, then those stats will remain boosted after the fight. However, the player who lost will get his stats returned to normal.
At the door is a scoreboard where players can see the last 50 duels to take place in the world, including the players levels, and the result.
Since the release of Dungeoneering the Chaotic Weapons have been the number one reward, I myself since this update have believed that having a Chaotic Weapon is a MUST HAVE!
Now having reached 94 Dungeoneering, I’ve had experience with all the Melee weapon types.
Chaotic Rapier:
The Chaotic rapier is a one-handed stabbing weapon with one of the highest attack speeds within the game.
The rapier is very effective to NPC’s with a low stab defence (Dragons, Giants etc) making it the number one weapon for you slayer fiends out there.
It is also considered to be one of the strongest weapons in the game. Under perfect circumstances a chaotic rapier can hit a maximum of 811 in Castle Wars, 710 slaying in Kuradal’s Dungeon, and 616 elsewhere. In addition, the chaotic rapier is only one-handed, which gives it an advantage over the more commonly used Zamorakian spear, given the ability to wield a shield or defender.
Chaotic Longsword: The chaotic long sword’s slash and strength bonuses are high enough that it is not only the strongest long sword in the game, but is also the strongest one-handed melee weapon in the game! And again being one-handed it gives the user the luxury of a shield for extra strength or defence bonus.
This weapon is commonly used by PVM (boss killers).
Chaotic Maul: The chaotic maul currently has the highest strength and crush bonus for any weapon usable throughout Runescape! The 155 strength bonus surpasses the previous record for highest strength bonus, held by the Godswords, by 23. While wearing the best strength-boosting gear, it is possible to achieve 205 strength bonus with this weapon. Under ideal circumstances, this weapon can hit up to 948 in Castle Wars, 862 against undead monsters (using salve amulet (e)) and 820 elsewhere. This weapon can be used almost anywhere and hits extremely well on waterfiends and tormented demons.
My Verdict: Having experienced all three weapons I genuinely believe it’s down to you, whatever it is on Runescape you enjoy doing one weapon will beat the other. I personally prefer the chaotic maul as conjoined with Turmoil and Overloads the hits and accuracy are almost un-beatable.
I’ve played Runescape for a long time, and money has always been an issue up untill recently.. Since the return of the “Free Trade” gambling has hit a new high on Runescape, one of my favorites being the “Dice Game”.
The way this works is, a “Dice Bag” is purchased and dice are rolled. If the number is over a set number, the gamer wins. If it’s below, the host wins. The player is generally rewarded with 2x or 3x their money. This game requires you to join a groups friend chat in order to play, if you are going to partake in this activity make sure the person you are playing with has a high rank in that group. As there is a higher chance of being scammed by low ranked members. An alternative version of this game exists where the player must instead guess the result of dice roll (usually using the two ten-sided dice).
My personal experience with this gambling method are varied, not to long ago I was so annoyed and bored with the game I decided to gamble a large amount of money to see what happened to my surprise I actually won a pot of 80M! The thing I found with the dice game is knowing when to stop, if you have a big win it’s so important to stop while your ahead because things can go extremely bad!
After years of hardcore Runescape, from the very start it was all about achieving the highest level you could! Everyone was whats know as a “main” which I thought was brilliant you could really tell who was a good player and who wasnt just by looking at their combat level in other words it was simple…
In recent times there’s has been many a change to this theory, for many years my home world has been W132 it was a quiet yet skillful world and it seemed only skilled players who knew what they we’re doing used the world now from the screen shot below you can see things have sort of changed..
Please note, this isn’t even a particularly busy time! And I’m almost positive this is a similar for most worlds so I’m here to warn you all! Pures are taking over..
Merchanting (Merching) is the act of purchasing an item at a low price and then selling that item at a higher price to generate profit. It is a popular method used by players to make money. This became much less common after the addition of the Grand Exchange. After the Grand Exchange update, it was no longer simple for merchants to act as an intermediary between an item buyer/supplier who seeks to easily sell and a seller/consumer who seeks to easily buy the GE replaced this. Some players, however, began using the Grand Exchange to make money in other ways long-term trend prediction, time-based arbitrage, price manipulation, GE to “real-price” arbitrage, and item conversion..
Remember: The safest investment is always cash! You will never lose money if it’s kept in good old GP; “When in doubt, pull out,” is the old market saying. This guide will help you make smart decisions on where to invest your money. Whether you’re a fighter looking to make some long-term money while you’re out killing dragons or a merchant looking for a safe source of income, investing can make you millions without ever leaving the Grand Exchange!
Many people want to know, Merchanting Methods.. Here’s a few to get your brain thinking GP’s 🙂
Investing: This involves predicting an item’s long-term price trend and then acting upon it.
High Frequency Trading: This method buys an item on the spread of 1gp and is usually on items that have high liquidity such as steel arrows or mithril bolts.
Flipping: This involves buying items with the intention of selling them at a slightly higher price in the short-term, often immediately after buying or even while buying as the 4-hour timer no longer prevents this.
Cheap Investing: Cheap investing is sometimes called a legal form of scamming.
Item Conversion: This category involves actually changing the items after buying them in some minor way for example, making sets from pieces of armour, or potion decanting.
Set Combining or Splitting: This involves buying armour sets and splitting them into component parts or buying the components of an armour set and making them into an armour set with the Grand Exchange.
Potion Decanting: This method involves buying (1), (2), or, (3) potions and using them on each other to make a profit.
Over-Night Flipping: This method is very similar to regular flipping.
These are just a few methods to get your money-making juices following, if anyone would like anymore information on merchanting I’d be happy to write a more in-depth article on any of the points I’ve picked up on within this post 🙂 Thanks a lot.
Since before I can remember I’ve always been a huge fan of the Wilderness. I’ve always found the prospect of killing other online players quiet trilling.
In past years Runescape have made many changes to the way the Wilderness works, I thought the Bounty-Hunter craters and later release of PVP and the assorted drops we’re a huge addition to the game which made people killing a fun, thrilling and enjoying source of income.
Then in late December 2010 – January 2011 Runescape decided to bring back the old ways of the Wilderness giving us the chance to receive the exact items your opponent is wearing.. For most this update was the panicle of 2010 ‘The Return Of The Runescape Wilderness’ and admittedly I was one of the many people looking forward to the update.
But.. After a few days Pking, you release it wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.. Fighting people with minimal risks prices of rune armour and other pking items dropping vastly in price meaning kills we’re worth almost nothing.. Then the release of the Korasi Sword, just to top it off.. People standing in the wilderness with nothing but a Strength Amulet and a Korasi Sword to PJ anyone left on the battlefield receiving a full loot while risking 3-4k to this day Pking is one of the most annoying and frustrating activities on Runescape and I can only hope! Something is done about it.
A few months back in my lunch hour I decided to make myself a Twitter Profile Picture, which related to Runescape. After messing around with just Paint, and Microsoft Powerpoint, I came up with something. Not too shabby?
See what you can come up with using the basic utensils on your computer, I’d love to see 🙂
This was by no means an easy Top Five! So many great RuneScape players from the YouTube community throwing out some exceptional Player killing videos! But after scouring YouTube I’ve found five videos that make sitting around all weekend in your underwear truly worth it!
1) Ye Im Tank
First of is a video by Ye Im Tank which has been edited and posted by itspaulftw. The video was posted on 12th November 2010 with a total of 29,035 views to date, which isn’t very many but this video is well worth a watch and will gain many more views over time.
The video contains high risk Player Killing with immense switches, high hits and fairly good loots. It also shows the use of the Chaotic Crossbow and the Chaotic Staff which are rather new editions to the game.
2) Hybr1d0wnz5 (Tannk)
3) Taco Limey
Next we have a video by YouTube user SignUp4Ko Player killing on his account “Taco Limey” with over 250,000 views on this video alone Taco Limey is proving to be one of the most popular player killers of the year!
Taco Limey was a RuneScape berserker pure for a long time, having 45 defence and player killing at lower levels, only recently has he maxed out his account and started player killing at higher levels and what a good decision he made! Making himself an ever more established player then before. Bigger hits, more variety, more armour and weapons has made Taco Limey an amazing player to watch.
Be sure to read my views on the wilderness here: Wilderness Review.
Also vote for your favorite wilderness type here.
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