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2012

Norne

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ScapeRune said :
Blowpipe with dragon darts and odium ward
Ranged attack: +60
Ranged strength: +40

Magic shortbow with rune arrows
Ranged attack: +69
Ranged strength: +49

Unless this new venom is incredibly powerful that's really disappointing. I like the idea of a blowpipe to give darts a use, but it should remain at dart speed.

I wonder what it would be like if the blowpipe let us fire darts at 1 dart per tick but offered no stat boosts. It would be like a machine gun for darts.

1 tick attacks would be decimating to pures and useless to 40+ "When history witnesses a great change, Razgriz reveals itself... first, as a dark demon. As a demon, it uses its power to rain death upon the land, and then it dies. However, after a period of slumber, Razgriz returns, this time, as a great hero"

24-Nov-2014 17:11:01

iTwisted Bow

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Slay Helm said :
iTwisted Bow said :

Venenatis is where it's at ;D

A mid level boss, max loot is around 3m, can be pked, wyverns are better money...
Edit : Bossing for the sake of bossing is stupid, the boss has to be worth going to...

i'm sorry... but that seems highly opinionated.

Many players finds bossing to be this thing called "fun" because they already have too much money than they need and want a challenge or distraction or something new

Everybody 'round me saying I should relax 'cuz I've been going hard 'till my eyes roll back but,
all I wanna do is forget about my past and smoke a'lil ranarr, really nothing too drastic..

24-Nov-2014 17:17:22 - Last edited on 24-Nov-2014 17:17:45 by iTwisted Bow

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Norne said :
ScapeRune said :
Blowpipe with dragon darts and odium ward
Ranged attack: +60
Ranged strength: +40

Magic shortbow with rune arrows
Ranged attack: +69
Ranged strength: +49

Unless this new venom is incredibly powerful that's really disappointing. I like the idea of a blowpipe to give darts a use, but it should remain at dart speed.

I wonder what it would be like if the blowpipe let us fire darts at 1 dart per tick but offered no stat boosts. It would be like a machine gun for darts.

1 tick attacks would be decimating to pures and useless to 40+
Well, blowdart is 2h anyway so no odium for you. But yeah, 1 tick darts you could kill a pure in 2.4 seconds if you hit hard enough.

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24-Nov-2014 17:17:51

iTwisted Bow

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stlfiers mom said :
To all those asking for a slayer requirement i have one thing to say: I JUST GOT 99 HERB SO PLS ADD A 99 HERB REQUIREMENT TO KILL IT since it has venom and all, right? Hope you get my point and stop with this stupid idea of making slayer mandatory for bossing
Slay Helm said :
iTwisted Bow said :

Venenatis is where it's at ;D

A mid level boss, max loot is around 3m, can be pked, wyverns are better money...
Edit : Bossing for the sake of bossing is stupid, the boss has to be worth going to...
Completely agree, imo the rewards are the most important aspect of PvM/Bossing

What happened to a game just being "fun" ? This is NOT real life guys... don't take it so seriously. Having a little fun in a while helps..... It's not always about just making money... like you said.. grind Wyverns for more cash... is that what you find to be "fun" and captivating?

I see these type of activities as "fun" (Please note: Vennenatis is not a fun boss unless you're maxed cb + vent, even then it can 1 hit you

)

finally got the spelling right on vennenatis lol
Everybody 'round me saying I should relax 'cuz I've been going hard 'till my eyes roll back but,
all I wanna do is forget about my past and smoke a'lil ranarr, really nothing too drastic..

24-Nov-2014 17:19:54 - Last edited on 24-Nov-2014 17:30:09 by iTwisted Bow

Slay Helm

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iTwisted Bow said :
Slay Helm said :
iTwisted Bow said :

Venenatis is where it's at ;D

A mid level boss, max loot is around 3m, can be pked, wyverns are better money...
Edit : Bossing for the sake of bossing is stupid, the boss has to be worth going to...

i'm sorry... but that seems highly opinionated.

Many players finds bossing to be this thing called "fun" because they already have too much money than they need and want a challenge or distraction or something new

People boss for enjoyment - that's true, but what's enjoyable about a boss where you tele every 1-3 kills, have to run a long way through the wilderness and can't get big drops? Also getting PKed is far from enjoyable. I'd say the most enjoyable bosses are solo DKs then either duo bandos or arma - nice trips, requires teamwork and the loot is decent (except DKs, but rings are 4x more common from dks than from spider) - the thing is, getting drops is one of the best parts of PvM - it's not just about camping a boss for 500 hours, it's about seeing that drop and thinking woooooooot we did it bois

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24-Nov-2014 17:21:03

iTwisted Bow

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Slay Helm said :
iTwisted Bow said :
Slay Helm said :
iTwisted Bow said :

Venenatis is where it's at ;D

A mid level boss, max loot is around 3m, can be pked, wyverns are better money...
Edit : Bossing for the sake of bossing is stupid, the boss has to be worth going to...

i'm sorry... but that seems highly opinionated.

Many players finds bossing to be this thing called "fun" because they already have too much money than they need and want a challenge or distraction or something new

People boss for enjoyment - that's true, but what's enjoyable about a boss where you tele every 1-3 kills, have to run a long way through the wilderness and can't get big drops? Also getting PKed is far from enjoyable. I'd say the most enjoyable bosses are solo DKs then either duo bandos or arma - nice trips, requires teamwork and the loot is decent (except DKs, but rings are 4x more common from dks than from spider) - the thing is, getting drops is one of the best parts of PvM - it's not just about camping a boss for 500 hours, it's about seeing that drop and thinking woooooooot we did it bois

wasn't done with my edit bro

i also find Vennenatis more fun than soloin* armadyl, because it is harder.....
Everybody 'round me saying I should relax 'cuz I've been going hard 'till my eyes roll back but,
all I wanna do is forget about my past and smoke a'lil ranarr, really nothing too drastic..

24-Nov-2014 17:22:16 - Last edited on 24-Nov-2014 17:29:34 by iTwisted Bow

iTwisted Bow

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Vennenatis constantly drops 60x onyx bolts and 100 snap dragons.... its soo common of a drop i swear. Vennenatis is SUCH good money you don't even know because you're not persistent
Everybody 'round me saying I should relax 'cuz I've been going hard 'till my eyes roll back but,
all I wanna do is forget about my past and smoke a'lil ranarr, really nothing too drastic..

24-Nov-2014 17:24:31 - Last edited on 24-Nov-2014 17:29:17 by iTwisted Bow

iTwisted Bow

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menacemenace said :
I would like to see some completely

new ideas

, I think it's not worth the time even trying to rework the weapons you've given us so far.

The blowdart

won't be used as a spec weapon because of the dark bow

, it isn't needed as a method to reduce HP as we have that already in the darts themselves, knives, MSB + rune arrows and Karil's Xbow, do we really need to add another one to the

great variety we already have

?

If MSB + rune arrows is better as a level 50 weapon compared to a level 75 one, I think we have a problem.

Poll the dragon defender to come from the warrior's guild, give us something else as our melee option from this boss* tbh melee doesn't even need a reward from this boss.

The fang gives us

9 extra accuracy

making the master wand's only use being the ability to auto-cast ancients, which it is rarely used for… do you really want to take out the only other use it has, in that it is the most accurate magic weapon too?

SOTD is only used in PvP, even with the venom addition the fang gives, 2 doses of anti will get rid of the venom, thus making it pointless and also providing nothing at all desirable about the fang except the extra accuracy… which it doesn't need -

Please think of something more useful to more areas of the game.

agreed

Everybody 'round me saying I should relax 'cuz I've been going hard 'till my eyes roll back but,
all I wanna do is forget about my past and smoke a'lil ranarr, really nothing too drastic..

24-Nov-2014 17:28:23

iTwisted Bow

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Slay Helm said :

People boss for enjoyment - that's true, but what's enjoyable about a boss where you tele every 1-3 kills...

ummm... hello? CORP?

Noppp

I get about 4-5 kills per trip, the boss is exciting, challenging, can K.O. even 99 hp players in 1 tick, constantly drains prayer, you have to watch out for pkers (bring a glory lmao and you're safe, pkers so crap these days)...

CONSTANTLY drops 60 x Onyx Bolt tips which is about 500k for a solo kill, drops Treasonous ring (the ring has to come into the game at some point ~ sold 1 for 9m back when corp came out), and every so often drops 100 noted snap dragon herbs which is about 1mil ish depending on if you make your own super restores or not (I do).

This boss is awesome, don't ever talk down about it unless you're maxed too, then you have no room to talk ~ with over 1k Vennenatis kills it is a highly recommended boss for cash and FUN.

GRINDING Graardor/Zilyanna/K'ril is boring A.F.

Vennenatis is actually worth your time spend on it (Wyverns not a boss so doesn't count AND GRINDING is NEVER FUN!)

Everybody 'round me saying I should relax 'cuz I've been going hard 'till my eyes roll back but,
all I wanna do is forget about my past and smoke a'lil ranarr, really nothing too drastic..

24-Nov-2014 17:39:09 - Last edited on 24-Nov-2014 17:40:42 by iTwisted Bow

Slay Helm

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iTwisted Bow said :
Vennenatis constantly drops 60x onyx bolts and 100 snap dragons.... its soo common of a drop i swear. Vennenatis is SUCH good money you don't even know because you're not persistent
I've had like 10 onyx tip drops, 2 herb drops, a DPick and a lot of other stuff (still not ring), yeah - it's good gp/hr, but the big drops are **** and if you want to make money off small drops, like I said, camp wyverns.

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24-Nov-2014 17:40:14

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