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Wolfstrum

Wolfstrum

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I personally don't like this Dev Blog.

One of the biggest things that concerned me was the Tzhaar slayer tasks. Keep in mind that with a blowpipe/high range, the fight caves can be completed in half an hour. That's some extremely OP slayer XP.

I also don't like the new weapons, or the lowered slayer level for the hell hound boss.

Overall, I'll be voting no to almost everything in this poll.

02-Jun-2015 19:44:29

BowsTwisted

BowsTwisted

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Okay I thought I mis-read the boots, had to read it three times to believe what I was seeing.

Let's put this into an Iron Man's context or even in some cases a not too wealthy player.

Dragon Boots - 100k (1/128)
Infinity Boots - 1,100k (Requires runes and respective levels, time consuming sometimes but easy)
Rangers Boots - 15,500k (Drop rate..I'll delve into that now)

If we say a Medium Clue has a 1/64 chance to drop (probably no where near the actual drop rates) and you have a 1/8 to get an item, when there's 115 items that means you're chances are reduced by 11,500% so rather than 1/8 it's 1/920 to get a specific item.

1/64 (1.5625%) to get the clue and a 1/920 (0.092%) to get the item you want
That also means for an average of 588.8 enemies you'd get 1 Clue specific item, given there's about 115 of them, you'd need to do this on average of 115 times. (67,712 kills)

The odds of getting more than one item, or even duplicates would make calculating it even more difficult, so let's put it this way unless you're an Iron Man who has a reasonable knack for defying averages, you're going to be pulling your hair out trying to get BiS Ranged boots.

I'd rather take my chances trying to get B2B2B whips.


*I believe Ice Warriors in the Wilderness have a 1/64 with a RoW (i) so the odds would be even worse than this, two maybe even three times harder to attain on some enemies.*

02-Jun-2015 19:49:03 - Last edited on 02-Jun-2015 19:58:39 by BowsTwisted

Turkey One

Turkey One

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The boss slayer redesign is actually awful. I was looking forward to maybe doing some barrows or something but I feel it isn't worth the points if I'm going to get my task to do Arma/Sara GWD at 5am and nobody to play with. I'll just be skipping nearly every boss task there is with that system. If you don't want to just have it where you can do any boss if you get a boss task then I think the best middle ground is the ability to purchase each individual boss unlock so that you can choose which are available to you.

There was nothing wrong with the previous iteration at all. The XP rates were not going to be stellar. Sure maybe people wanted to use a slay helm but they'd get over that. This change just makes boss slayer unappealing for anyone that doesn't have a wealth of varied gear, high levels and/or a lot of friends online and feels like change for the sake of change. Basically you're making mid levels and poor players unable to participate the vast majority of the time in something that would've made a nice diversion from killing Bloodveld #3423. It would've improved Slayer for everyone and now it isn't improving it for anyone but a select few.

Good gear and high levels should be exclusive for people that put in the work but fun should be for everyone.

02-Jun-2015 19:50:00 - Last edited on 02-Jun-2015 20:00:35 by Turkey One

Crimson Fear
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Crimson Fear

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Make Cerberus have a head drop for poh so there is actually a slayer monster head drop that's rare for the 78 con spot it would prob look cool compared to kbd and kq. Also inb4 30million for ranger boots cause they would be sinked and pures need ranger boots where range tanks would love the new boots I'm not sure why people are blind to that rangers 40 range req new boots are 75 def and range great for range tank. Needs fixed cause last thing osrs needs is 50m boots like the glacor boots / basically that's what these are besides me lee having 5 str instead of 4

02-Jun-2015 20:03:07

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