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Kilot
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Inb4 the rewards get voted down and we get a snake boss dropping nothing good cause community.

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21-Nov-2014 17:06:21

Kilot
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Memberr said :
Nerf the rewards! They shouldn't both be best in slot and extremely poisonous.

I'll vote no to any item best in slot, but this is way too overpowered.

LOL WHAT? some people say the drops are too weak now you're saying they are too powerful urgh I hope it passes. *´¨)¸.*´ Kilot ~ Failed RuneScape player.
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21-Nov-2014 17:08:11

Mod John C

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T o m m i said :
The blowpipe sucks, msb + rune arrows is higher dps and cheaper than blowpipe + d darts, and I don't think anyone would use the spec instead of a d bow spec in PvP.

Either make it the same speed as darts without the pipe or increase the stats.

It is of course subject to balancing. I've gone with an initial attack speed of 3, darts are 2, just so it's not too powerful. Dragon darts max is currently 21, with the increased ranged strength this should be about 25 with the increase in accuracy making you much more likely to hit. I can't be too specific before we actually make it but the aim is to have a powerful fast hitting weapon without making all other range options obsolete across all levels. If once we make it we find the weapon not to be too great based on the information then we'll tweak it.

21-Nov-2014 17:10:36

I  Am Rak  I

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The rewards don't sound very impressive.

I'd rather it drop the equivalent of the old cape from Nomad's Requiem. Call it the "scale cape," make it degradable after 15 hours, and give it no stats except for +12 prayer.

All sides of the combat triangle used that cape for all kinds of activities. It'd basically guarantee that the boss never becomes dead content or overshadowed by future, more powerful bosses and equipment.

21-Nov-2014 17:11:03 - Last edited on 21-Nov-2014 17:11:57 by I  Am Rak  I

TheMahoogler

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Not very PvM Friendly either considering that the main benefit of the rewards are poison and alot of the higher level bosses are immune to poison.. Why not just release a new spear or axe made from the snake scales to compensate for the horrible graphical update to the zamorakian spear.

21-Nov-2014 17:11:05 - Last edited on 21-Nov-2014 17:12:08 by TheMahoogler

Mod John C

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Kilot said :
Inb4 the rewards get voted down and we get a snake boss dropping nothing good cause community.

FULL SUPPORT FOR BOSS AND IT'S REWARD!

The rewards will be tweaked based on feedback before it is polled, which will be as one question offering everything.

21-Nov-2014 17:11:31

Memberr
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Kilot said :


LOL WHAT? some people say the drops are too weak now you're saying they are too powerful urgh I hope it passes.

The shield is dragon defender + super strong poison and will be the best offensive shield ingame, the staff will become the best staff ingame by a mile so everyone will want one of both. So those two are certainly not too weak, and will have a good value. I think they are overpowered though, but you don't have to agree with me on that.

But yeah the ranged weapon doesn't seem overpowered. Zaros is evil: "Zaros plainly requested the use of twelve legions of demons. (..) Zaros offered the secrets of travel between the worlds, to allow the Chthonians to devour whole new races rather than be reduced to preying on each other." From Sliske's Memory

21-Nov-2014 17:11:49 - Last edited on 21-Nov-2014 17:13:35 by Memberr

menacemenace

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EDIT: For anyone interested, I've made a detailed reddit post called:

'Solo snake boss - Venomous bow?'

As a replacement to the blowdart, please do go take a look if you can :)

~23rd Nov 11pm


Very disappointed.

I cannot see me ever using the blowdart weapon, will probably be a PvP weapon only… if it's even allowed in PvP.

The venom spike is a degradable dragon defender, I'll never use it over the rune defender just because it degrades and the stats are minuscule for the degrade cost, again I assume the spike would only be used in PvP and you would most likely lose it on death anyway so it won't be used there...

The staff I will never use; we have the trident, it's the best DPS, a cheap spell and doesn't degrade.

Honestly I was expecting a hell of a lot more, I cannot see me spending my time killing this boss if it's going to drop what you've suggested (of course you'll be taking feedback which I hope you'll listen to).

Just offer the dragon defender from the warrior's guild as a cyclossus/ boss drop, it's the obvious decision and what the community has ALL been asking for for over a year, just poll it.

Offer something new for melee, we want a 1 handed best in slot crush weapon that offers strength exp or attack AND defence. Come on guys it's not hard, I know you want to offer something unique, but just go with what we want instead of these exotic venom weapons that will have very little use in our current game.

I would rather have the magic side of the reward be degradable damage boosting over this fang. Honestly again no-one uses SOT* outside of PvP even with this venom.

I'm a little disappointed that everything you've offered is centred around PvP rather than giving the PvMers something better to fight general monsters and other bosses with.

21-Nov-2014 17:13:10 - Last edited on 23-Nov-2014 22:53:06 by menacemenace

Andrew Vin
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I kinda like the spike idea... People always complain about us copying RS3, so this is basically the OSRS version of the dragon defender. Excellent idea.

Wait. This is degradeable!? ... If you're going to release an OSRS dragon defender that people will use, don't make it degrade please. Heck, don't even make it tradeable. :3

So John, since you're reading this(I assume), pls bug Ash about the ability to have the dark stone design in POH's pls. He said on Twitter, a while ago, that it wouldn't be very hard since he did it in RS3. (+ it's just recolored white stone >_&gt ;)

21-Nov-2014 17:13:51 - Last edited on 21-Nov-2014 17:15:32 by Andrew Vin

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