------------------------------An Ode to Slayer - OSRSsosolid2kk2020-07-25 | A tribute to Slayer and the monsters encountered along the way, the journey may be long, but it is by far one of the most rewarding skills in the game.
I recently got 99 slayer in OSRS, so decided to create something a bit different as a '99' video. A montage of the slayer journey from the early days all the way to the end.
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Firewind - The undying Fire
Check them out at https://firewind.gr/OSRS - Abyssal Whip Dropssosolid2kk2020-03-27 | So I've been back playing OSRS for a couple of months and after hitting 85 slayer decided to take a trip down memory lane and camp the abyssal demons in the slayer tower for 15 whip drops, which is something I did on two occasions in the original game (and have two old videos, both sadly wounded by audioswap shenanigans).
Sadly whips aren't quite as expensive as they were back then, but it was definitely nostalgic and I still made a good amount of starting cash to get a few mid-range gear upgrades.
The video quality is a bit sub-par in a lot of the clips, and I only really noticed sometime after 10 drops, but I think I've sorted it now, so hopefully anything else I may or may not record is a bit better :P
I realise whip drops probably aren't all that exciting nowadays, but I'm still in progress training my account, so I'm somewhat limited in things I can reasonably do without wasting time.
Guessing there will be a few questions about whether I''m 'back' and even I don't really know - I will probably try to make a few videos, but have no concrete plans to upload with the frequency I used to. Really I've just got back in to playing OSRS and fancy making a video or two - whether it ends up being more regular I can't say, I'm just doing it for fun at the moment!Max Hits - 2012 - Chaotic Longsword (CLS)sosolid2kk2012-03-17 | Play games - http://www.epic-ninja.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/sosolid2kk Forums - http://s7.zetaboards.com/rsmdb/index
I'm gonna try my best to get as many different (decent) weapons done this year as I can. So hopefully you'll get to see the max hits of most half decent weapons.
Many melee weapons (and some range) are now hitting over the default maximum hp (990), so requires people with Nex sets to max on. Since I don't want to keep pestering my friends all the time to help out, if anyone has Pernix (or Virtus for some) and would be interested in being maxed on, feel free to pm me on Youtube and I'll let you know if I need any help (you will be credited and win 2 tickets a game).
Max hits this year will (mostly) not include the Berserker aura, due to the nature of the stat boost (works like a potion, making the maximum strength boost available for under 1 minute per 5h10m).
I'm gonna try my best to get as many different (decent) weapons done this year as I can. So hopefully you'll get to see the max hits of most half decent weapons.
Many melee weapons (and some range) are now hitting over the default maximum hp (990), so requires people with Nex sets to max on. Since I don't want to keep pestering my friends all the time to help out, if anyone has Pernix (or Virtus for some) and would be interested in being maxed on, feel free to pm me on Youtube and I'll let you know if I need any help (you will be credited and win 2 tickets a game).
Max hits this year will (mostly) not include the Berserker aura, due to the nature of the stat boost (works like a potion, making the maximum strength boost available for under 1 minute per 5h10m).
(spoilers, if anyone cares :P) The actual drop was so long ago that it's kinda lost it's impact for me on this attempt, I've had the chewed bones sat around doing nothing for ages and was kinda hoping to at least get something from them. Not getting a helm from the bones now means that in over 500 chewed bones, I've only gotten a single helmet from them, talk about rare XD
I've put the full chewed bone log here in text form for anyone that wants to view or use it. Considering it's quite a large log not many people seem to make, it may be useful some places. http://pastebin.com/LWTSdw0F
Flame in thumbnail credit: digitalart / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Max hits are back again with even more damage! After trying out 'weapon categories' in 2011, I've decided this year to just give each weapon an individual video. The main reason for this is more freedom to max any weapon, without having to worry about also doing others that would go in same same category (which prevented some weapons from being done last year). There is also the issue of time required to max, some weapons can take a very long time and doing these as part of a group of weapons sometimes delays the release of videos for a long time. Uploading each one individually should help with both of these, as a weapon can be uploaded as it's done and not have to wait for a bunch of other maxes to be finished.
I'm gonna try my best to get as many different weapons done this year as I can (that I feel are worth watching/maxing - no steel daggers for example :P). So hopefully you'll get to see the max hits of most half decent weapons.
Many melee weapons (and some range) are now hitting over the default maximum hp (990), so requires people with Nex sets to max on. Since I don't want to keep pestering my friends all the time to help out, if anyone has Pernix (or Virtus for some) and would be interested in being maxed on, feel free to pm me on Youtube and I'll let you know if I need any help (you will be credited and win 2 tickets a game).
As for the berserker aura, I've found it to be completely unreasonable to use for max hits. It functions exactly as you would expect a potion to function, not an aura. Upon activating it, your overloaded stats are boosted up to 134 and gradually drop 1 lvl a minute. This combined with the recharge time, means you only ever have 'max' strength at most for 1 minute every 5h10m. Considering some weapons can take upwards of 10 hours, you can probably see why this is a problem. I'll be more or less ignoring its existance for the main bulk of maxing this year.
Thanks to Akram, Alberta6, Poke R14, Warfare52, Andy Sla and Ave Satan for their help.
==FAQ/Info==
Primal 2H max
The max hit shown in this video is using PROMETHIUM boots, rather than primal. It is possible to hit a little higher if you bind primal boots. However in my case this would mean destroying a hex, which is a pretty fucking silly choice to say the least, I'll be keeping my hex. =P You can also add some more damage by using overload (with the boot bind), overload boosts strength to 125, whereas strong melee pots only raise it to 124.
Why not max _______?
There are plenty of weapons in dung I could have done, but I wanted to focus on some of the more interesting ones. I was planning to do primal maul since it can hit the highest, but realised the difference in strength bonus between that and a p2h is so small it really seemed like a waste of time doing both. So I just went with the 'best' weapon from each of the 3 combat styles.Runescape Max Hits - Crossbow Boltssosolid2kk2011-10-07 | Play Games - http://www.epic-ninja.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/sosolid2kk
The first all range video in this years series, lets see what some of the bolt specs can do, as well as the new(ish) bane bolts.
Huge thanks to the following for helping out with the video:
Zelda Boi Ssonic Gareth Poke R14 iBlade PvM Alexei Neo Hex Foxx Demon Star Knite Gray Sea Hi Im Sup3r Brayden
-FAQ & Info-
No ruby? Ruby bolts can only be maxed during quests and the damage they cause isn't affected by the normal combat formula (taking into account range lvls, prayers, pots, damage boosts etc). So I don't see the point in doing them as they're not repeatable after the quests and cause 'special' damage.
Diamond & Onyx Neither of these are the absolute max as far as I'm aware, but they are very close. Both took way longer than I thought they would and turned out to actually be quite difficult to max. After easily spending 10+ hours on each of them, I decided to just stick with those hits in light of trying to finish the video this weekend. I'm fairly sure they're no more than 5 damage off the max hits, so nothing major. :P
Bane bolts You unlock the ability to make/use bane bolts after completing Ritual of the Mahjarrat. There are 4 different types and each only hits higher on specific monsters (e.g. dragonbane bolts only work on dragons).
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It's been a while since the last challenge, almost 2 years! So here is a new one, how fast can you kill 2 Glacors in a row?
It should prove to be quite an interesting challenge I hope. Glacors require a fair bit of player input as far as most RS monsters go, so it should be interesting to see what methods people use and just how fast they can be killed.
Deadline: 23:59 GMT Saturday 1st October 2011 DEADLINE HAS PASSED, THE CHALLENGE IS OVER.
5. You cannot receive assistance from another player. E.G. Lunar spells such as energy transfer, vengeance other/group, heal other/group
It's a little more fair if this is kept as a single person challenge. Don't want everyone to have to get groups of players to help them just to stand a chance of winning. :P
I figured 2 kills would make it a little more interesting/challenging. It reduces the chances of people just getting fast kills on pure luck and adds transitioning to a new kill into the list of things the player needs to do well to achieve a good time.
How do I enter?
Just post your entry as a video response to this video. I will watch the entry, if it follows all the rules I'll accept it, if it breaks any rules, I will deny it (and in most cases post a comment saying why, unless it's obvious). I'll probably accept some videos as responses if they're interesting to watch, but they won't be included as proper entries (e.g. boot drops, funny deaths etc).
Clarification on stopping the timer.
The time in the chat must NOT appear before the loot does. It must appear either at the same time or after the loot does. If the time appears even 1 game tick before the loot does your attempt will be disqualified.
Since there is a small delay when you click the timepiece, it is possible to click stop before the loot appears, but be very careful as you risk disqualification if the time appears too early.
Advice on posting entries
I would strongly advise using all the time given to your advantage, try not to leave entries till the last minute! If you post the response even a minute after the deadline it will not count.
Seen a few people struggling with these, so figured it would be worth making a quick guide on how to kill them effectively.
Glacor are a new high level monster you unlock after completing Ritual of the Mahjarrat.
Doing everything as shown in the video should allow you to kill them with just a unicorn for healing (and an enhanced excalibur for extra health - e.g. healing from ovl). Letting you take more prayer pots and lengthening your trips/increasing KPH.
It seems to take just under a minute and a half to kill one Glacor with Fire Surge, so ~40 kills an hour should be a decent kill rate.
They drop 3 new pairs of boots which are now the best in the game for each of the three combat types. Glaiven(range), Ragefire(mage) and Steadfast(melee).
They also drop Armadyl shards, which are used to make a new rune "Armadyl runes", which can be used to cast a new spell "Storm of Armadyl". They can also be used to create an Armadyl orb, which when added to a battlestaff makes an Armadyl battlestaff that will enhance the effects of Storm of Armadyl.
Prayer switching:
It is possible to switch prayers before you take any damage from the regular attacks. To do this requires extra concentration though so might not be for everyone (with a little experience you can still survive with uni not doing this).
Before an attack the Glacor will raise one of it's hands to charge the attack, it will be the left hand for mage attacks and the right hand for range attacks. So if you pay close attention, it's possible to switch prayers before the attack reaches you.
Best Glacyte to kill last:
The 3 Glacytes will have the following effects on the Glacor...
Unstable - The Glacor will explode after a few seconds, damaging itself slightly. A few seconds after the explosion, it will heal back to half HP in preparation for a second explosion if you're not quick. If you're potted up and using Augury you should finish it off fine most of the time, the odd one or two will slip through every hour or so, but they don't take much longer to kill.
Enduring - The Glacor will reduce damage by 2/3rd I believe, so will take a fair bit longer to kill. This is the worst one to kill last.
Sapping - The Glacor will drain some prayer points every hit, making trips much shorter and increasing the rate at which you need to bank. The time it takes to bank for more potions is much longer than it would be to kill a couple of extra healed Glacors per trip if you were killing unstable last.
I've found Unstable to be by far the best and fastest. It damages itself, saving a bit of time on a few kills, your prayer lasts longer reducing the need to bank as often. The healing isn't a big issue as long as you keep your stats boosted, it will affect very few kills, but the time you save elsewhere balances it out.Ritual of the Mahjarrat Quest Boss Fight - Runescapesosolid2kk2011-09-14 | Play Games - http://www.epic-ninja.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/sosolid2kk
ROTM is finally here! It's an amazing quest and the boss fights were very enjoyable.
This is a video of me fighting the boss(es) during the quest with some basic tips for those who may struggle with it.
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The Demon Awakens & The Lord of Wolves by Pathfinder
Got the final piece for the Vanguard set yesterday and have had quite a lot of questions asked about it since it's release. So I made a quick video with some basic info and video footage of one of the new full hybrid sets!
I'm not sure if/when I'll get the other two, at the moment I'd consider them a waste of bank space since I won't be using them :P I may get them in the future when I'd have a use for them.
-Max hits-
I've done a little testing with the set since getting it and it appears not to increase max hits.
For what reason I don't know, statistically it should add a little extra damage onto 2 handed weapons (with the extra+8 strength bonus).
I assume it's one of the following: The 15% damage increase doesn't stack with the damage boost from a brace on the flag holder, I'm doing something wrong (I've tried maxing with the helm in my invent and in the bank, both didn't seem to work though) or it could just be the testing I done was just unlucky hits (which is unlikely, maul can hit 948 with profound and I barely reached around the 850 mark with Vanguard, if it could hit higher it should have hit at least 900+ in the time I was maxing).
So I'm guessing there will be no increase in max hits over profound, unless Jagex change it. I'll continue to test the set occasionally to see if anything changes.
-Stats-
The stat bonuses for the set only work in the following minigames: Castle Wars, Fight Pits, Soul Wars and Fist of Guthix.
Outside these minigames the sets have 0 bonuses and are purely cosmetic.Runescape Max Hits - Dragon Weaponssosolid2kk2011-08-25 | Play Games - http://www.epic-ninja.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/sosolid2kk
Four dragon weapons are put to the test, lets see what they're capable of!
Note on claws/DDS: Claws max as far as I know is actually 580, though I only recorded a 579 spec. I'm not too concerned with tiny damage differences like that, it's pointless spending hours trying to get +1 damage lol. DDS max is 650, which is shown as a single hit, but maxing both hits is one of the hardest max hits to get in the game. I got 97% of it's maximum potential (1260/1300) and decided to stick with that rather than delay the video further for an unkown length of time. I asked about it on Facebook and most people that responded preffered 97% than a longer wait.
What is the armour you're using?
Profound decorative armour, it is a set of armour you can buy from castle wars using castle wars tickets. The set has a special effect that only works in castle wars which boosts your damage by 25% when wearing the in-game set (plate, legs and shield). The damage boost is slightly lower if you wear just the plate and legs.
How are you hitting over 990?
Two methods are used, one being sara brews and the other being Pernix. Brews allow you to heal above your maximum hitpoints and Pernix increases the wearers base hitpoints.
What about other dragon weapons?
I was originally going to do dragon weapons in two parts, but after trying stuff like d2h the hits weren't really that great, so I decided to drop them and focus on (IMO) the 4 most interesting dragon weaps. Hally and DDS have similar specs and similar damage potential, so I just went with DDS since it's more widely used.
Hybrid armour max hits?
By the looks of it the new hybrid sets may increase some two handed weapon max hits, it's gonna take some time to get hold of though so I'll probably just carry on this series of maxing with profound. Once I get a set I'll play around a bit to see if it's worthwhile redoing any previous weapons.Mithril Dragon Guide (90-100+ kills per hour) - Runescapesosolid2kk2011-07-22 | Free online games - http://www.epic-ninja.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/sosolid2kk
I've been back killing Mithril dragons again, and in the process have been playing around with equipment/invents and updates since my last guide. Enough has changed that I felt an updated guide was needed, since the kill rate I'm getting is much better than that in the previous guide and at a much lower cost.
I also wanted to structure the video so that a lot of the information was contained within annotations, making them easy to edit post-upload. So if anything new comes out, I can just adjust annotations with the updated info to keep the guide current.
Kills per hour note: The 80-90+ KPH is highly dependant on how you loot drops and minimizing idle time inbetween kills. If you don't do this as efficiently as you can, you will probably get kills per hour in high 70s area. You'll also need comp/max cape to get high 80s/90+ KPH consistently. Most players could probably achieve low 80s doing everything right.
How to get a higher KPH (not advisable, unless you have the pots stockpiled - they have a bad kill/cost ratio): - Overloads instead of extremes will sqeeze in a few extra kills and save an invent space for another spec restore. - Super prayer potions instead of regular - This will save you invent space allowing for more spec restores to be taken. - Storm of Armadyl w/ mage armour is quite a bit faster than melee, but extremely expensive. I managed 110+ kph with void on my first try, with Virtus or other mage armour, you'll likely get a fair amount more. Miths use melee more often than other attacks, so you'll take less damage if you're in melee range, using protect from melee. Not only do the runes cost mils per hour, but you pretty much need to use overloads as well, so it's not really economical, and there are better things to sink that kind of money into for effigies and what not.
Void trade off: Void will speed up kills quite a bit, but the trade off is that it has fairly low magic defence. This leaves you somewhat vulnerable to Miths magic attacks. Using void you will likely have to use soul split at times to keep your health up. Things such as deflector/barrows gloves instead of defender/void gloves can help boost your magic defence while not affecting your kill rate.
Dragon defender + void gloves VS void deflector + barrows gloves: A few people seem to think that a defender and void glove combo is a better choice due to the extra attack bonuses, but it is not the case. The kill rates are pretty much the same (the void set effect makes your attacks much more accurate so that small attack bonuses have less of an impact on accuracy). The void deflector + barrows gloves however, provide +15 magic defence higher than a defender + void gloves, which decreases the amount you need to use Soul Split to heal. Soul split uses more prayer than deflect melee, so overuse can often lead to less kills before your prayer runs out.
Other tips & tricks: - Mithril Dragons often drop Super Defence Mixes, it's a good idea to pick these up and use them to boost your defence to reduce the need for Soul Split. - Try to focus mainly on the northern two dragons if you can. If you kill them fast and have to attack the southern dragon, try to avoid looting the drop if it lands next to the south ledge. Walking here can make the dragons aggressive again. I personally only loot effigies/chewed bones/elite clues and the rare drops such as DFH/visage from this spot. - If there is already someone in the recommended spot when you arrive (non-slayer), I find it best to just hop worlds. You can enter the Mithril Door and safely log out there. Sharing the spot will cost you more kills than it's worth (it's very easy to find empty worlds). If slayers show up mid trip, it's better to just keep going till they're finished, perhaps kindly ask them if they could kill the southern two dragons, rather than splitting 3 between you.
A quick maxing video to test out what the new weapons from the Jadinko Lair update are capable of!
The hits are hardly amazing, but I figured people would be interested in what they can hit with them being new.
Note: Since this is an update special, I couldn't spend as much time maxing as I usually do for the main videos. As a result, I'm slightly less sure the hits are "maxes" and not just high hits. They're also pretty unique to max, so I may have missed something that increases the damage.
Update: So it turns out the entire weapon switching was unintentional, and has been patched since. Which is kind of unfortunate, even with the weapon switching, the spec was only just worth using at a limited number of locations, now it's almost completely useless.
Sagaie are a new type of thrown/range weapon which you can make at the new Jadinko Lair. To do so, you need to create a fire with curly vines, on which you cook some straight vines. You then cut the straight vines into shafts and add a mutated vine to finish it off.
They have a unique effect, which enables them to hit higher damage the further you are away from your target (which also sacrifices some accuracy). They also get a damage bonus vs mutated Jadinkos in the Jadinko Lair.
Why are the whip hits so low?
The hits shown in this video are just the max hit of the vine whip special attack, not the normal hit. The special attack hits 10 times, so in theory can hit over 1.8k damage from 1 special attack (highest hit I got being 188, multipled by 10), though maxing all 10 would be near impossible :P
Why are you weilding a maul during the whip special attacks?
The special seems to hit (at least part) based on your current weapon strength. So if you do the whip spec and then switch to a stronger weapon, the spec hits will also rise slightly (maul currently being the strongest weapon stat wise).
It's a bit of a pain to work out how to max it, tried stuff like void vs slayer helm vs neit helm and it didn't seem to make any difference to the max (hit around the 180s mark with all 3), but profound did seem to affect it.
Are either of them useful?
Sagaie are decent for killing the mutated Jadinkos, but aren't noticably any better than melee and cost more. So I think for the most part they will be forgotten about, maybe used by people killing Jadinkos with range for a bit of range xp. unless anything specific is found that they are particularly good for.
Whip Vine spec has the highest damage potential of any single weapon special attack, so I think it will be useful in a few places. Monsters with high HP and in PvP where you can freeze your opponant (E.G. Ice barrage, whip spec, then maul - It will give you that extra chance of a KO each hit, but I doubt many would prefer it over other specs). It seems most likely that it will be a 'slayer' spec weapon for certain tasks, as I'm fairly sure that Ferocious ring/fire cape's +40 damage works on the whips attacks (I was causing fairly constant ~900-1100 damage per spec vs Ice Strykes for example).Interactive Dungeon - Runescapesosolid2kk2011-06-21 | IF YOU FAILED THE DUNGEON AND ARE TRYING AGAIN READ :) If you chose to restart the entire dungeon click here - 0:20 If you chose to restart from the boss click here (don't cheat! :P) - 24:12
There is currently a "bug" with Youtube and linking to specific times in a long video you've already viewed. Youtube is treating this video as a TV show/movie and has enabled a feature that tracks your viewing progress, which if you leave the video and come back, it will start the video from where you left off.
This feature is currently overriding annotations, so instead of linking you back to the correct point in the video, it's just sending you back to where you left off last time. If you check the URL you can see the time the annotation was mean to link to in the form of "#t=24m12s" this will let you know where you're meant to be, in this case 24:12 so you may have to manually skip to the correct part if playing more than once.
Complete floor 60 and defeat Kal'Ger the Warmonger in this interactive video!
Choose your path wisely though, 3 mistakes and you will fail.
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-About this video-
There are a number of interactive videos around Youtube and I've always liked the idea of them and wanted to make one myself but attempt to make it a bit more 'interactive' than most are. I thought dungeoneering would be perfect to do this as there are multiple ways of completing a dungeon and a nice variety of stuff to do.
I started recording the dungeon part of the video on the 11th of June and it begun to dawn on me just how much of a pain in the ass this was all going to be. It took over 2 hours to record (what I hoped to be) most of the possible paths people could take, which is a bitch considering you get 1 go at everything, if you miss something important the whole recording is pretty much wasted.
Then came the mammoth task of editing it...what I was expecting to take a few hours, has taken almost 100. Churned out three 1.2mb vegas project files that look like this http://i.imgur.com/aYo3f.png and created my first real need for flow charts since leaving school (I tried without them and it broke my brain).
Once all that was done I got the pleasure of adding the annotations. Which is a tedious task anyway having to add so many, link them to the right parts of the video, make sure they're the right length etc. What made it worse was the annotation editor lags really bad once you add a lot of annotations, so halfway through adding them it would get even more frustrating and take twice as long. Evil annotation editor - http://i.imgur.com/QfZ3i.png
Then recording the boss took quite a few hours, I originally planned to make many possible paths, but soon realised how each choice could potentially quadruple the number of clips needed for the next part, once you do that 4 or 5 times you end up with 100s of outcomes. So I decided having 1 correct route per stage would work the best, which came with it's own problem. The solo dungeon bosses are so easy to kill, it was difficult to actually fail using the various attack styles and prayer combinations, so each choice would end up taking multiple dungeons before Kal'Ger would actually win one.
Part way through I was concerned a little about the difficulty. There are a lot of people with varying abilities in dungeoneering. People with a high dungeoneering level, will likely find this easy and complete it there first try, but people who don't train it much are likely going to find it very difficult to know what to do at parts. I was thinking of adding some form of optional help, but decided against adding more work (although I did add a checkpoint to the boss, to ease the pain a bit if you die on it). I figured most people should pick up on what to do fairly quickly, even if it takes them a few attempts.
So what I was expecting to be a 1-2 day project, has ended up taking 19 days, most of which I've spent 10+ hours on it. XD
There are parts where I've missed recordings in the dungeon so had to make do with stitching clips together, or skipping some choices I wanted to include (e.g. picking up the silver rec before making a grapple, I forgot to record the character moving from the spot in the previous clip to the key, so had to force people to make the grapple first), but I think it's come out close enough to how I wanted.
It is a distraction & diversion that was added earlier this year. You basically build a statue in Varrock museum from "strange rocks" which you find by training various skills (30 rocks total, 2 for each skill included in the D&D). Once you've found 30 rocks and built the statue in Varrock, you will be given a replica rock which can be used towards creating your own statue in your POH. You can only get 1 replica piece a week, so it takes a minimum of 30 weeks to build your own full statue.
A new monthly D&D is here, help the imperial guard fight off waves of troll attacks.
The D&D is quite fun, both fighting and defending. Kind of unfortunate the reward is once a month, pretty long wait inbetween, but well worth the time.
Thok is a playable character in the third of the new story based dungeons, the Fremennik Sagas. You take control of him in a unique dungeon and progress through a story/miniquest. Thok has a special attack that randomly performs one is his several attacks, one of which is his headbutt. The headbutt special attack is the most powerful, which is the one shown in this video (the other attacks seemed to hit somewhere between 700-800).Max Hits - Godswords - Runescapesosolid2kk2011-05-13 | Max Hits with Melee - Godswords
Profound decorative armour, it is a set of armour you can buy from castle wars using castle wars tickets. The set has a special effect that only works in castle wars which boosts your damage by 25% when wearing the in-game set (plate, legs and shield). The damage boost is slightly lower if you wear just the plate and legs.
How are you hitting over 990?
Two methods are used, one being sara brews and the other being Pernix. Brews allow you to heal above your maximum hitpoints and Pernix increases the wearers base hitpoints.
Why did you include zammy/sara specs?
Despite most descriptions of the special attacks not including any damage increases, both specs do actually hit higher than regular hits. As far as I can tell they seem to have the same increase in damage, so the max hits should be the same.Sosolid2k gets 120 Dungeoneering - Runescapesosolid2kk2011-04-29 | 120 Dungeoneering - Runescape
Profound decorative armour, it is a set of armour you can buy from castle wars using castle wars tickets. The set has a special effect that only works in castle wars which boosts your damage by 25% when wearing the in-game set (plate, legs and shield). The damage boost is slightly lower if you wear just the plate and legs.
Why haven't you made a video for so long?
A mix of not really being in the mood and getting over the hurdle of getting the last piece of profound I'd need for maxing. I got most of my tickets in 2004-2006 and since then kinda lost interest in playing castle wars like I used to (practically every day :P). So getting motivated to finally go there for another ~700 tickets took a while. Got enough tickets for the set about 10 days ago and have been working on this since then for a few games each night.PvP Deathmatch Tournament Final - Runescapesosolid2kk2010-07-01 | Play Games - http://www.epicninja.com
The RSMDB PvP Tournament is a yearly PvP event held for members of the RSMDB forum ( http://s7.zetaboards.com/rsmdb/index ). 32 contestants battle it out in melee death matches, best out of 3 advances and the loser is eliminated.
This is the 2010 final between Zelda Boi and Danteggg (who each won 8/9 and 7/8 of their deathmatches respectively), the next death match tournament will be held in February 2011, with registrations beginning in mid January (priority is given to active forum members for the 32 contestants).
Thanks to all the contestants that entered, especially those who were willing to risk a fair amount of money in the later stages to make for some great death matches :P Hopefully next years tournament is just as good and see if the current champ can hold onto their title!
If you're interested in next years tournament and other PvP releated events subscribe to the rsmdbpvp channel for notifications when the sign up process begins or just to watch any pvp videos that get uploaded there from our members (http://www.youtube.com/rsmdbpvp).
Thanks for watching, sorry about the long wait those of you who were waiting for it :PRunescape Animation Updates 2 (Skill capes & Elemental Spells)sosolid2kk2010-06-25 | Runescape animation update 2 (skill capes & elemental spells)
Video showing some of the animation updates made recently. I said in the first video that I was looking forward to skill capes & magic spells and they have been updated so here's a video showing the new animations :P
I strongly recommend watching in 720p & fullscreen for the best quality :-)
I wanted to make a good high quality video showing the animations in detail. So I recorded all the animations at the max frame rate of the game (50 fps) and slowed them down a bit, so you can more easily see what is going on with each. I also used the orb so I could get close up and get as much detail as possible in the clips.
I know skill capes were updated a few weeks ago now, but I've been busy sorting out a new computer and only recently got this set up properly for making videos :P Kinda lucky the spell update came out just before I made this vid so I can put them both in one XD
Totally forgot about quest cape, sorry whoever wanted to see it :(
Thanks to everyone that helped with the emotes and good job Jagex on the animations.
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Below are links to different parts of the video if you're only interested in watching certain emotes.
Daemonheim Marauders are a dungeoneering group for high level players to help them find a team to train with. There is no registration, you can join the chat any time you like and try to find other players doing the same floor as you.
Since it's a high level dungeoneering group, I recommend being around 120+ combat and 40+ dungeoneering to stand the best chance of getting on a team.
Video of me getting 99 summoning and unlocking the sexy steel titan.
Thanks to everyone that came to the party, and well done to the Armadyl team that managed to get 2 hilts!
I'm not sure what my next 99 will be, I don't really train skills just for the cape, but because I either find them fun or there is something worthwhile to unlock by raising it. So I have no plans to get any specific 99 skills atm, I'll probably just work on shattered heart/slayer/herblore and videos for a while since they're pretty fun to do :P
Thanks to Smithy for helping with the intro and Sinbad for the event page. :)
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EVENT TIME
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Note: The actual levelling up of my summoning will be friends only and 1 hour before the times displayed below. The main reason it is friends only is due to the 99 skill parties simply getting too big, it makes it extremely difficult for anyone to see me level and it creates a massive amount of lag - making it difficult to record.
Saturday 3rd April 2010
-Europe-
BST (GMT) - 21:00 (9pm) (UK/Portugal)
CEST - 22:00 (10pm) (Netherlands/Sweden/Belgium/Finland/Norway/Germany)
EEST - 23:00 (11pm) (Finland/Greece)
I can't list every time zone, so if yours in not listed please try to find out yourself by converting the GMT time (21:00) into your time zone - http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc
My clan chat will be locked to friends only during my level up, it will be re-opened once I level, just use one of the event channels to chat if you usually use it :P
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CLAN CHATS
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It may be a good idea to add the clan chat of the boss you want to go to, so when it logs in you will be reminded to join the chat!
-Chat Name (World/lootshare type)-
==Corporeal Beast==
Corpor_Beast (W28/Coinshare)
Corp_100k (W64/Coinshare)
CB_50k (W82/Free For All)
==Commander ZIlyana (Saradomin)==
Sara_10k (W28/Coinshare)
Zily_100k (W82/Free For All)
==King Black Dragon==
KBD_2k (W28/Coinshare)
Added KBD for the lower levels who can't kill the other bosses.
If the chat you want to join is full, extra chats may be added on the night of the event if there are enough extra people that want to attend the boss in question using the specific method of sharing loot. If an extra chat is not made, you may have to try a different boss and/or lootshare method.
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OTHER INFO
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You need to be on the correct world to get added. Once you are added, you are welcome to hop for your kill count.
Clan chats will be locked to friends only once they reach their capacity, so you can easily tell when they are full. This may cause unadded people in the chat to get kicked, if this happens you will just have to join another chat.
You should join the clan chat of the boss you want to fight about 1 hour before the event starts to stand the best chance of being added. I will spend the hour before the event hopping through the clan chats adding everyone, if you arrive late and the event has already started you will not be added.
The Zamorak General was not included in the event because the turnout for K'ril is usually very low and often ends up being cancelled.
I'd recommend getting stocked up on supplies as early as you can, to avoid price manipulation clans making any items we need impossible to buy close to the event.Skill Capes - Runescape Machinima Competition 2010sosolid2kk2010-02-12 | My entry for the 2010 Runescape Machinima Competition, advertising capes of accomplishment.
This took pretty much 4 days of work to do but was pretty fun to make :P I could only do 6 capes because of the time limit, and chose them based on what I think would look best for this vid and not cause many problems with editing.
Big thanks to the people that helped with the cape emotes :)
A quick guide/info vid for the new slayer monsters, Ice Strykewyrms.
I didn't wanna go into too much detail because most people with 93+ slayer should already know the rest. So I just made a quick guide covering some of the basic stuff unique to them. Should hopefully help anyone that is stuck, and give other people that can't see/kill them a bit of info about them.
I love these, very nice slayer update, always fun when some rewarding high level creatures first come out :P
If you don't have 93 slayer, or haven't killed these yet I'd strongly recommend doing it, they seem to be very rewarding to kill, and if the staff continues to rise they will just get better.
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-Information about the Ice Strykewyrms-
Combat level: 210
Hitpoints: 300
Slayer Requirement: 93
Max Hit: 30 (burrow special, otherwise it's 17 for normal attacks)
No. of charms dropped: 1
Aggressive: No
Multi-combat: No
Required Item: Fire Cape
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-Music-
Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah
You can play Runescape at http://www.runescape.comRSMV - Firewind - Allegiance HD (Runescape Music Video)sosolid2kk2010-02-04 | Runescape music video - Firewind - Allegiance
Full Dharok is one of the highest hitting weapons on the game, so is always fun to max. The main problem with maxing it, is the lack of undead monsters with enough hitpoints.
As you can see in the video, I did most of the maxing on level 155 Spectral Attendants, which are sadly only available during the quest "Nomad's Requiem", which after completing, you no longer have access to these ghosts. It is still possible to hit 124 without the quest, although more time consuming and dangerous. There are skeletons in the ancient cavern that have 124 hitpoints, and it is possible to 1 hit them. Had these skeletons had more hp, the max hit would also increase, so as of this moment in time, Dharok's max hit is actually limited due to a lack of an undead monster with enough hp (spectral attendants only give +30% str with turmoil, which is why 124 was the max). I completed Nomad's Requiem on the 12th January, so no longer have access to the Spectral Attendants.
Something else that always bugs me is the widespread rumor that Dharok's set effect works to it's fullest when you're below 10% hitpoints, this is NOT true. You NEED 1 hitpoint to max and a hitpoints level of 99 (each hitpoint you lose boosts your strength, so the bigger the difference between your base hp and your current hp, the more str you get. It does not stop adding str once you're below 10% despite what many people think), you also need 99 strength (duh :P). I've spent a hell of a lot of time maxing Dharok and not once have I ever hit the 'max hit' on anything but 1hp, I always hit slightly less than max if I've been on 2-3+hp. 124 may be possible on a skeleton warlord with more than 1hp, but this is because the max hit is higher than their hitpoints.
== About Max Hits Series==
I have made the decision to change how I make my maxing videos. From now on I will no longer be spending a ridiculous amount of time/money/effort on one single video, but will be splitting it up into smaller videos like this one and post some info about maxing the particular weapons in the description for those that are interested.
So basically, instead of maxing a weapon, then waiting months till I'd maxed another 10-20 weapons to make a video from it and upload it, I will now upload the videos more regularly once I've actually finished maxing the weapon. Most videos will contain 1-3 weapons, depending on how hard they are to max.
The main reason I've decided to do this, is because maxing has gradually become harder and the amount of work that is now required for one 5 minute video, that has a good chance of being ruined at any moment from an update, seems way too much. I've rather just upload the videos without having to worry about any updates spoiling it. Especially with stuff like new skills, master quests, new boss monsters on the horizon, the likelihood of something increasing max hits seems pretty big.
I will still make compilation videos like I did with 1, 2 and 3 (loads of weapons in a single video), but I'll upload those to Machinima for whoever wants to watch them.
I think overall this system is much better for me, the big maxing videos can get pretty stressful spending so much time and money on a 5 minute video, just to have an update come out boosting stength bonus by +2 or something before anyone has even seen the clips. I will enjoy uploading smaller videos much more than having the video files just sat on my computer for months, and I'm sure most people would prefer I do it this way too. I'll still make the bigger videos, and this might even speed up their release since making them is a series of smaller videos, rather than one great big mother fucker of a vid that will take months, I'll be much more motivated to work on them this way.
The big maxing videos require an average of about 1 hour and 1.3m GP per 3-4 seconds of video. So i'm sure you can see why I'm splitting them up, and how annoying it is when an update comes out meaning you'd need to start again :P
(that's average, some weapons are more time consuming than others, some are cheaper, but overall that is the average for a full video)
The boss from the quest "Nomad's Requiem", one of, if not the hardest quest fight to date. Can you beat him!?
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==Stuck people==
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The Nomad fight is meant to be hard, so lower levels may find it difficult, depending on what they have available to them to use. For higher levels that have stuff like Overload Potions, Iron/Steel Titans, Ancient Curses at their disposal, it should be a fairly easy fight.
Nomad is level 699 and is pretty safe to fight (if you die you appear outside with your gravestone very close by).
Since you can only fight the Nomad once (if you kill him) it's difficult to come up with a perfect solution for killing it, but hopefully the following may help.
-Food-
I strongly recommend using Saradomin Brews, it is possible to kill him with food, but you'll most likely need a lot of it. There is a benefit to using regular food over brews, in that your boosted stats won't get lowered, but obviously you get less overall hp from your supplies.
-Familiars-
High level summoners, I highly recommend using an iron or steel titan, the special attacks do a lot of damage and should speed up the fight significantly. If you find you're still running out of supplies, take a BoB first, then once that is empty, dismiss it and summon your titan.
If you're mid level summoning, try using a War Tortoise full of brews, then a good fighting familiar for when your tortoise is empty.
-Potions-
If you can use overloads, I strongly recommend using them, one dose before you enter should be ok, then you can drink brews/restores and still maintain boosted stats for the majority of the fight.
If you can't make overloads, then there isn't much point in taking any stat boosting potions, unless you want to risk using regular food. Your stats will constantly be getting lowered from the brews and you could use the inventory space for better things.
-Prayers-
I'm not sure if protection prayers are effective against Nomad's attacks, if they are, they barely help anyway. Soul split is the best overhead prayer to use, along with Turmoil if you have them. If you don't have either, just use piety and protect from magic (doubt it helps, but can't hurt to try :P)
-Armour-
I didn't try any other armour, but I managed fine with Bandos and only used 11 brews (10 if you don't count the one I had to drink to restore lost hp from overload), so I'd guess melee armour works pretty good.
-Weapon-
Again I didn't try any other weapons, but I'm pretty sure most high level weapons work fine - Godswords, Whips, Zamorakian Spear etc. I'd recommend using melee, it seems much better than range and I've not seen anyone use magic (as usual). You may also want to take a fast weapon if you have a slow melee weapon, so you can attack the Nomad clones as fast as possible.
Some footage from a few Dagannoth Kings trips I did with friends, very fun weapon and owns at Dagannoth Kings. If you don't have one, go get one now :D
I was planning to do this with PvP armour, but the set I had, I was using earlier and it broke pretty early on in the trip, after which I stopped recording. Didn't want to buy another set since I already had what I am fairly sure the max hit is anyway (94), so just did a bit more with Bandos, which I'm guessing most people would be using anyway. I was using overload/turmoil along with max str bonus (apart from the Bandos armour of course)
Thanks to the people that came on the trips with me :)!
You can play Runescape at http://www.runescape.comDragon Slaying With Candy Cane - Runescape Christmassosolid2kk2009-12-25 | Runescape dragon slaying with candy cane
Woox16 didn't win first place because his entry was uploaded after the deadline, I have to stick with the deadline, otherwise there's no point in having one. It could have been avoided if the entries were submitted earlier, but they were entering very late in the contest and a line has to be drawn somewhere so that the challenge is fair. Both entries still got mentioned and got the prize :)
If I accepted Woox16's entry, then Shaun could of uploaded another entry 2 hours later, then Woox again, Shaun again and so on, just because Woox16 has the most damage uploaded doesn't necessarily mean he would have won had both of them continued to attempt more damage, so please keep that in mind before complaining about who won. They both did amazingly well and deserve to be congratulated on their videos. Remember the attempts are not cheap or easy and aren't necessarily their best possible. ;)
As far as the 'eating glitch' is concerned, it was fine for people to use it to their advantage. It has been affecting the KBD throughout the length of the challenge and without it most people would literally die after a few seconds. The rules were made with this in mind (preventing stuff like ranging while eating purple sweets to stay alive forever - which is why only food made with the cooking skill was allowed), so there's really no need to complain about it. Anyone that stayed alive for longer than 30-60 seconds most likely stayed alive because of the glitch, it's just something that couldn't be avoided.
Some footage from my 99 prayer party, thanks to everyone that came ^_^
4 clan chats were completely filled for the Corporeal Beast even (400 people), only one team managed to get a sigil drop though (Rsmdb_Event), here is a screenie of the drop (thanks to tz-tok-skate and his ridiculously big monitor :P) - http://imgur.com/AdFaR.jpg
Good timing on my 99 prayer I guess, new prayers just came out so luckily I can use them all. I will be making a 4th max hits video, but it will take some time to finish since I have to start again. My next 99 will most likely be summoning, it's just a case of getting the charms for it, which will mainly come from slayer and Tormented Demons.
There was a massive amount of people packed into the monastery, the lag was horrible and I couldn't even see everyone. Because of this, with future 99s I will probably just invite friends to watch me level and then host an event afterwards that everyone can attend. They're getting too big and make it difficult to record/move without lagging.
--------------------------------------99 Prayer & Corp Mass Party Invite - Runescapesosolid2kk2009-11-26 | Runescape 99 Prayer & Corp Mass Party Invite
I would suggest adding one of the clan chats to your friends list, that way you will be less likely to forget about the Corporeal beast trip.
Up to 100 people can be added to each of the following chats, please join one of the chats during the time between me getting 99 prayer and the Corporeal Beast event.
Corpor_Beast - World 84
Corp_100k - World 64
Rsmdb_Event - World 28
CB_50k - World 76
Try the chats from top to bottom, if one is full join the next one down. Once I have filled up the friends list of an account, the chat will be locked to friends only, so if you end up being kicked from this, just join the next chat.
If needed I will add additional clan chats on the night of the event.
All the chats will be coinshare, so everyone has a fair chance at getting a share of good drops, regardless of their lsp.
A quick video about Runescape classic being re-opened, everyone has to try it, or else!!
My classic account is pretty low level because it got reset a few years ago (probably because I was banned but my appeal got accepted, I've heard your classic account gets deleted if this happens, not sure if it's still the case). Since then I haven't really got back into it because very few people played. My account was never really that high level anyway, I kept it in the 50s because I spent most of my time staking, didn't need high levels for it.
I would encourage everyone to give classic a try, even if for a few minutes, you'll at least gain the ability to play it after the two weeks are up.
It's awesome to see more new players on classic, thanks to the Jagex staff that have been working on bringing it back!
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==Classic FAQs==
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I'll try answer a few questions here that people seem to ask a lot.
-Do I need a members account?-
Yes you need to be a member to access classic.
-It says I need a veteran account-
Try a different world. World 1 is reserved for 'veteran' players only (people who already played it).
-How do I get classic members/create an account?-
You log in with your regular Runescape members account.
-How do I earn money?-
It is much harder to earn money on classic, I would suggest using your non-combat skills to earn money. Train them and you'll be able to gather resources/make things which you can sell to other players. It's a slow start, but you'll eventually get to a point where you can make decent money.
-How does the combat system work?-
The classic combat system is different to the one on the main game today. When you are engaged in combat, you have to fight 3 rounds (3 attacks each). While you are in combat you cannot move, eat, drink potions, teleport etc.
-I can't log in-
You need to be a member and be over the age of 13 to play classic. If the game won't load for other reasons, try a different world or try a different browser.
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You can play Runescape at http://www.runescape.com --------------------------------------100k Subscribers Party Invite - Runescapesosolid2kk2009-10-31 | Runescape 100k subscribers party invite
I will be hosting a huge boss monster event to celebrate getting 100,000 subscribers. The event will be held on Saturday the 7th of November and everyone is invited!
I can't list every time zone, so if yours in not listed please try to find out yourself by converting the GMT time (21:00) into your time zone - http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc
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CLAN CHATS
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It may be a good idea to add both the clan chats of the boss you want to go to, so when it logs in you will be reminded to join the chat!
Only join the overflow chats if the main chat is full and you haven't been added.
If both clan chats are filled up for any boss, check back here on the night of the event and I will post additional overflow chats for the full bosses (extra overflow chats above).
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OTHER INFO
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Remember you need to be logged into the correct world before you will be added in the clan chats!
You should join the clan chat of the boss you want to fight about 1 hour before the event starts to stand the best chance of being added. I will spend the hour before the event hopping through the clan chats adding everyone, if you arrive late and the event has already started you will not be added.
The Zamorak General was not included in the event because the turnout for K'ril is usually very low, I'd rather focus the event on the more popular bosses to make them more fun.
There may or may not be enough clan chats, It's hard to tell how many people will come but hopefully there is enough space for everyone who wants to come.
The event is coinshare because I feel it is more fair for events like this. Not everyone has high 'lsp' and it is unfair for that to affect their chance of getting something from this event. Hopefully most people will walk away with a few mil, depending on your teams luck and how long you can last!
I'd recommend getting stocked up on supplies as early as you can, to avoid price manipulation clans making any items we need impossible to buy close to the event.
Hope everyone enjoys the event and thanks for subscribing, 100k is completely crazy, that's how many people live in my town :o!
Sorry to free players also, but the free game is limited and there isn't really much to do for 'big' events like this on free worlds that would be fun for everyone.
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CHALLENGE IS OVER
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Can you prove yourself to be the ultimate dragon slayer?
Post a video response that adheres to all the rules in the video! The winner will be announced sometime in earlier December, entries must be submitted before 30th November to qualify to win.
There has been a bit of confusion with the deadline of the challenge, I initially meant for it to end at midnight 30th November, but had written that entries must be submitted before the 30th by mistake. So for the sake of not 'changing' the rules at the last minute, I've decided to go with what was in the rules when deciding the official winner. Only entries submitted on or before the 29th of November qualify to win.
-----FAQ-----
-Additional 3 items-
You are allowed 3 addition items other than the required items. It is recommended one of these is a weapon of some sort, the other two can be anything that is within the rules. NOTE: You must be wearing these 3 items, you cannot have any of them in your inventory when you enter the lair.
-Potions-
You CAN use the following potions (sorry for missing this :P)
- Super Set
- Extreme Set
- Overload
- Range Potions (extreme or regular)
- Antipoison
- Prayer potions (super or regular)
- Recover Special
-Prayer-
You can use any prayers you want, other than 'protect from' prayers mentioned in the video. Piety/eagle eye etc are OK. :)
-Require Items-
The required items are 100% required, you cannot switch them for alternatives. Doesn't matter if you're ranging/meleeing you have to use the items listed.
-Range-
You can range, you still have to wear the required items though. Your ammo WILL use up one of your extra items, so a bow + ammo will equal 2.
-Ring Of Recoil-
You can use a ring of recoil if you wish, but it will count towards one your 3 extra items. Remember you have to be WEARING your 3 extra items, so this only allows you ONE recoil ring, you cannot have spares in your inventory.
-Borrowed Items-
You can use borrowed items if you want.
-Reward-
The reward is simply one that will benefit the winner on Youtube by promoting their challenge entry. You can choose between:
Having your entry video uploaded to this channel, where all of my subscribers will be able to view it easily - I would assume this method would get you more views overall.
Or
I could upload a video with an annotation link to your original video (similar to how I did when Woox16 soloed the Corporeal Beast) - This method may result in less overall views, but sends people to your video/channel.
I'm not sure which would work out the best, so it's completely up to the winner to decide which they would like.
Third runescape melee maxing video, including new weapons like Vesta long, Statius Warhammer and Dragon claws. As well as higher hits with some of the old weapons using newer str boosting equipment.
This video took over 100 hours to make and cost over 130m (mostly spent on the large number of Vesta/Statius sets used and the PvP weapons) and I've been working on it for almost a year (although most of it was re-done after Zerker (i) was released). Hope you enjoy! :)
Been working on this for ages, first started almost a year ago, but I was only working on it casually.
When I was finally close to finishing it not long ago, Jagex released the Zerker ring (i) which increased the maximum strength bonus, meaning I had to start pretty much from scratch and get the max hits again.
I've been working on the video since then and have finally recorded all the hits I was hoping to get, so I'll be working on editing it and sorting other stuff out before it's complete.
Video of me and a friend duoing the Godwars Generals with the new Hand Cannons.
They're not significantly better than most other powerful range weapons, but they're still pretty good and were a nice addition :P
Thanks to Kirinoshi for helping with the generals (http://www.youtube.com/kirinoshi )
Also thanks to Nacos2, Dajayman94 and Jex Monday for helping out too :)
This video is basically just a 'top ten' list of the best quests on RuneScape (in my opinion, with help from other members of the forum). I'm probably going to make a few of these while I'm working on Max Hits With Melee 3, because It's taking a very long time to make and I don't want to get distracted from making it too much with other videos. So far I've spent over 70m on the video and I still have another 17 weapons to max with (all requiring Vesta Sets at 3.5m each), not to mention some of the maxes take a very long time to get.
Let me know what you think of the list and if you thought any other quests should have been on it!
This is the original version of my contest entry, without the beginning cut out. Thought It was a bit better than the other version, so I'll upload this aswell (plus I can leave comments on for this one). This version in NOT being entered into the competition, only the shorter one.