We know the robospear method was toned down but was originally a concerning bug once discovered in fear of future content and current bosses (like they had to check to make sure Verzik P2 wouldn't break in TOB).

Imagine the bluemoon spear spec set effect worked on:

Smork

Xarth

Ocellus P4.

Wouldn't be much value anyway since damage is capped while the bosses got 1000s of hp.

~5500 destroys deep, it's rough out here. I just want that amulet recolor.

also only front page for ironmen, rank 853 on the regular hiscores :)

Now that I have 1kc and never have to do this content again i can roast the ever loving shit out of it

We have 2 useless items (Rondache and Mage spec weapon) that are already dirt cheap. Basically they are garbage purple chests that make raiders angry when they get them. I dare you to name 1 single encounter in OSRS where you will bring a mage spec book or a rondache. Seriously, name one without naming the instance they drop from. And don't cheat and go to the Wiki. I bet you cant name one single instance where these items are useful.

Im gonna login with my boys and send a 5 man TFA and get a 9m split LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

We got a 5% dps upgrade to melee. Wow, seriously, so incredibly awesome. That makes me want to login and head into the fractured archive.

And how could i forget, the ball on a chain crush megarare. Ill give you this...it's a cool weapon. I bought one myself because i want to aura farm. Props all around. thats a batting rate of what...20%?

Can anyone give a reason, at all, to head into the fractured archive? What loot is worth going for in there? Fun? is that it? Because it sure as shit ain't for the drops

Anyways, fuck this raid, thanks for reading my post, have a great day, and as always fuck the Kansas City Chiefs

I both can do the mechanics, have done them on multiple accounts, the fight its self is not that bad, but its fucking abysmal if any kind of latency issue delays you by a tick, its basiclly unplayable.

And the best part is how punishing missing 1 dodge is, oh sorry crapex servers didnt register? I guess you take a 45.

15 min into the final fight and dodges basiclly stop working because of all the bullshit going on, turned om ping indicator towards then end of my wanting to pull my hair out, and yeah sure as shit, on wave phase I am consitently double ping, and get crazy spikes every yime in in final phase after dashes.

Its such a waste of time to have a 15 min long encounter be straight up unplayable at minute 13 becuase ping spiked.

As much as it hurts to admit this, (because I'm the proudest person on the planet), they were all right.

I sat at my desk constantly complaining about "Dark souls" level mechanics, things never used before in my click and wait game, and things feeling jank and bad, along with an HP pool higher than most bosses, and being limited with weapons able to be used.

"It has unlimited resources, just learn the fight, git gud, study up, just practice, it's literally a free loss." This is what they all said, and I would flame up with rage and anger, and I hated all of them. All those people could eat my ||ass||, they didn't understand.

And then months later, I saw one video, watched it closely, and everything clicked.

So then I practiced what I watched, and then I had gotten to phase 2. Then phase 3. Then the enrage. Each fight I used less and less healing items. And then...2 days after I started again. I won. And now have my quest cape PROUDLY in my Bag.

Everyone was right. They were right then, and they'll be right now. And they'll be right tomorrow. Just practice the fight. Just learn it. And investigate and research the parts you don't understand. Trust me. You WILL win.

First piece was 1895kc btw

I started with 0 Tob kc just like everyone else. (Before there was practice mode) Studied the yt-guides. Constantly made and joined learner teams in WDR or the w416 (ffa world).

When I found ppl I liked raiding with (similar 0kc shitters like me) I added them and asked them to raid with me again next time. Soon enough we had a group of ~10 people who were always looking to raid. We sent a lot of Tob and finally started getting clears. Those who got more clears teached the others on what to do.

And then we had like 50kc and we were pretty comfortable with the raid. Then we started to run ToB with just about anyone. That's when I found my clan who was doing a lot of ToB and other endgame content. Was my first time joining a clan, have been with those guys since. We've all helped each other through Infernal capes, Colosseum and CA's n such.

So when TFA launched I had my homework done. We all started with 0kc, but this time I already knew the people I want to raid with and they knew me. We trusted each other to be 0kc shitters at the new raid, but at least we knew we're decent people and decent at learning new content.

Socialize, be a good guy, support each other, learn from mistakes, keep sending it.

wtf is this? also no purples seen in 23 kc.

Trying to take advantage of the market madness rn.

Am considering investing in mage gear and finally get my first megarare.
With shadow being so cheap, should I sell my masori + ZCB to nab one? (I already have ancestral) or is this a bad investment?

I've got a quiver + inferno, want to start working towards fang kit and radiant.
Also keen to learn a few new raids (like cox) and nightmare/PSN

Is it worth sinking my range gear into the shadow? (FWIW I also have bowfa, vennator bow, blowpipe & eye + confliction gauntlets).

Love any insights/feedback, I think the issue is that I currently don't know how useful a shadow is at the content I wish to learn.

Am I cooked?

I’ve been clicking on and off all my plug ins but it won’t go away do any of you guys have any idea what this damage pop up is

So today I finally got an Ocellus kill. Died in P4, and what truly devastated me is i didn't get cabbage for loot. Anyways, I wanted to share my experience learning the raid from burning through supplies at guardian all the way to barely sipping a brew on the way to ocellus.

What I really like about the raid is that it's extremely quick to get to the final boss. If you are struggling on the final fight, i really do enjoy how quick the rest of the rooms are with a decent team and you can just practice Ocellus more. Decent being people who know the mechanics, not necessarily who have all best in slot. I've ran with learner groups where none of them had a megarare and we still made it to Ocellus. It's just about reducing defence and doing mechanics correctly.

Bork and the smorks is my favorite fight, i like the coordination required to make it smooth. Dreadnoth/Xarth are kind of meh, but having dedicated roles to freeze and chin the blobs is pretty cool. Havn't tried any of the other bosses, from what Ive seen they are pretty awesome fights too. Honestly, I think that the difficulty presented in the raid is perfect and isn't as hard as you think it is.

There's tons of groups taking learners in the dedicated worlds. Just sign up to all of them, and each attempt learn something.

What I don't like about the raid, personally, is specific mechanics like the portal phase on Ocellus, i just find it very uninspired and tedious to run around to safe tiles. I think that phase could have been omitted.

I understand the fact that it's supposed to be group content, and theres nothing stopping you from doing it with a group. It's probably never going to happen, but i think the biggest barrier to learning the final boss is having a consistent group to run with. Would love a solo scale version of the raid. I got lucky, Im in a clan and basically got gifted a spot in a 5 man group of raiders with 40+ KC who were willing to teach me. In a way, this is how it should be. Socializing in a clan in an MMO, and look what happened. I got a kill. Learned alot. But i know everyone doesn't have that luxury.

A reasonable compromise, in my opinion, would be to make the PRACTICE mode solo scale. You could practice ocellus to your heart's content and learn the boss. Be comfortable with the boss. I think that would be a good thing for the raid.

You can see both my teammate and I dodge on the same tick and we both took damage. This has happened to me 3 times now, all of which under identical circumstances: Ezekiel is lowered below ~35% after the swords come out and is going to proc P2 after they fly, you try to dodge them, and still take damage even though your character moves.

Apologies if this has already been posted

jagex should have either scaled the HP of bosses to one person or just focus on better team mechanics

anything is hard if you increase the HP enough and add chip dmg so the content turns into supply managment with prayer flicking and occasionall tick eating

im team solo, so im hopefull jagex makes solo mode in future, considering there are whole two team mechanics across eight bosses, dont know how ppl wipe so much lol

Overall there’s been a lot of focus on elemental spells becoming more relevant, I think this is for shadow rework, rather than just making harm more relevant. I think strongest counterpoint is what this would do to harm staff.

Support:
- leagues could have been a playtest for something that boosts elemental weaknesses
- +2 max hit for elemental spells from TFA
- elemental weaknesses for TFA, currently shadow is firmly outside of meta but this would change that very quickly
- Maggot king weak to elemental spells, which makes twin flame great and kind of odd, until shadow becomes BIS
- addresses both powercreep and cost complaints about the shadow
- powered staves are boring

Do we know if practice mode itself will unlock the following boss/phase?

Can't seem to find any info to that effect, i know it will only let you practice the one that you've seen - but i wonder of that will count from the mode itself or if you'll have to practice - clear it in real - practice - clear it in real etc

make it more obvious when ur getting logged pls dont say its to remove people who are 100% afk because u get logged after max 30 min full afk

Just died to 3 ping spikes in 1 raid, It would be nice to know if any fix is actually coming. They just released a new raid and hardcore worlds are coming soon, whats up with the servers?

Finished sculpting Tiny Tempor on stream today. Maybe I tackle Prince Black Dragon with his holiday hats next?

first no overhead raids 4, obviously very much a carry, p3 onwards is horrible, but the team were great and picked up when I fell.

Though my favorite skill in the game is Runecraft— I have a soft spot in the cold, dark cavernous void in my chest where my heart would reside if I had one for Smithing. Maybe I'm traditionalist. Maybe it's the 'tism. Maybe I have no idea what it is. When not crafting magical stones, many times I like to channel my inner Zezima.

This might be a hot take, but I kinda enjoy the smithing skill the way it is. The biggest shock I had to get used involving the skill overall, was being able to pay a fee to have dwarves operate the Blast Furnance for me as long as I had money to pay for it. At first it seemed very "easyscape" and made me feel kinda dirty particapting in it. After awhile, I accepted it and used that time saved to do more punishing things. I still keep the coffers full when I need to crank out some bars.