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Dilbert2001
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Astrovite said :
Abby Taylor said :
Yeah I don't think I've ever heard anybody rave about how fun making overloads is.

When people say "I love overloads", They are talking about the benefits they get from the potion itself, NOT the process of creating them.
This is the kind of logic that you frequently fail to grasp I've noticed.

Just because it's not ""supposed"" to be one way doesn't mean its good.

Rituals weren't designed to be AFK or relaxing? okay fine, then they are just bad and SHOULD BE

-Lol so true. I feel like the way rituals work makes perfect sense from a lore(?) point of view.
the concept of "Necromancy" in general almost always involves some kind of rituals and magic. Not just exclusively summoning the dead to fight for you. Like I know it's not a real thing but having the rituals makes it more realistic to the concept of necromancy.

Don't we draw glyphs, light candles and use focus objects in all kinds of rituals and necromancy even in real life?

11-Aug-2023 00:28:54

Dinitroll
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Fully agree. It's honesty a bit too much focused on rituals then actual combat with our spooky skeletons, ghosts and zombies. Concept fully understandable though aznd I wouldn't mind do every once in a while some rituals like a necromancer would, but jeez. Isn't it a bit too much ritual focused? Jagex better should be honest and rename this supposed skill Ritualeering. I'm currently level 73 and now finally I'm starting to get ready to do some actual combat while I do know I still have to grind at least 30K souls or so for that final quest and I better be sure Jagex will add more unlockablke content behind rituals, because they advertized the heck out of Ritualeering.

IGN score: 7.8/10 Too much rituals.

11-Aug-2023 13:00:16

ult_weasel
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Rituals are a minor gameplay issue until you reach level 70 and want to upgrade your equipment to tier 70. Then you have to do The Spirit of War and you discover you need 3000 vessel souls. WTF. How can you say you don't need to do rituals to level the skill? Who, in their right mind, would attempt to level the skill without decent equipment? *-*

12-Aug-2023 09:45:11 - Last edited on 12-Aug-2023 09:48:14 by ult_weasel

Dilbert2001
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ult_weasel said :
Rituals are a minor gameplay issue until you reach level 70 and want to upgrade your equipment to tier 70. Then you have to do The Spirit of War and you discover you need 3000 vessel souls. WTF. How can you say you don't need to do rituals to level the skill? Who, in their right mind, would attempt to level the skill without decent equipment?

Perhaps you don't realize we get 24 souls per level 60 Ritual. 3k souls is just a little over an hour of Rituals practically. Piece of cake. :)

12-Aug-2023 15:55:11

Vowel Please
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People really be moaning that they have to actually put some work into the skill to level it if not doing combat?

Already 26 people with 200m xp after a week, the skill is easy enough

What did you expect? Getting 50m xp and hour doing rituals? Jagex said rituals would be slower than doing combat.

13-Aug-2023 01:11:13

WTFmybacon
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Rooh said :
Initially I thought the Rituals would be the way for me to go for training Necro, but the combat side seems a lot easier and, unless I'm miscalculating (which I often am), faster,
Agreed. I was also planning to have most of my exp come from rituals (with the rest coming from combat so I could grab some talent points), but after several kills on Dragith Nurn - I realised that combat seems to be the quickest way to gain exp.

Dinitroll said :
IGN score: 7.8/10 Too much rituals.
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

13-Aug-2023 03:28:08

CaptKoloth
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I find the combat a lot more fun and faster experience. Yes I am only level 62, but it seems the experience is faster. Just started experimenting with combat the last couple of days. Rituals are very time consuming. Combat always was more relaxing for me, vs skilling (except fishing) for me. Oh I found wcing relaxing too.

Oh I heard that when you advance, the rituals get loads of experience. But I will see.

14-Aug-2023 03:59:11 - Last edited on 14-Aug-2023 04:02:40 by CaptKoloth

Bunny Badass

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In my opinion, the rituals suck. This is a "combat skill" So I've been doing combat the whole time, other than to upgrade my armor to lvl 70. Currently at lvl 90 just from combat lol. I'm going to do rituals some more after tomorrows update to get the all the souls I need. Hopefully its better than it is now lol.

14-Aug-2023 04:35:35

Mini JIT
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CaptKoloth said :
I find the combat a lot more fun and faster experience. Yes I am only level 62, but it seems the experience is faster. Just started experimenting with combat the last couple of days. Rituals are very time consuming. Combat always was more relaxing for me, vs skilling (except fishing) for me. Oh I found wcing relaxing too.

Oh I heard that when you advance, the rituals get loads of experience. But I will see.

Rituals are easy 2x + the xp of combat after level 90. Combat most you get is 1.2m per hour that's if you find a free world without someone crashing you. With rituals if you want the high xp then most of it comes from the random events rather than the ritual itself, it's not afk and you cannot take your eye off the screen for 1 second, or they will be gone. You can do them afk but you will only get the base xp and combat with revo will be faster.

14-Aug-2023 05:01:18

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