By the way, I ordered a subscription/membership the other day and havn’t gotten an email or anything – am i missing a step? email’s agoodwin727@gmail.com

Thanks

Also, by not making it obvious how to get maximised XP, they are rewarding players who actually think, not just try to rush into a skill without knowing anything. I know I’ll be glad if a greater proportion than about 1/10th of RS actually knows what the new skill is about before going there and then spamming “How do I start” over and over.

First, these are all options that have been given to you – options, not skill-changing features. You can still click your rock hammer and click the Gargoyle instead of using the right-click option, though I have no idea why you’d want to. With everything involved, there is a tradeoff. You lose approximately 93k worth of runes (bought with slayer points) for every task you skip. Kuradal assigns 29 different Slayer creatures, so blocking five tasks will still leave you with plenty of monsters to kill. The same rationale you used to justify Burthorpe can be used to justify task blocking. If you try to argue the efficiency of the tradeoffs for blocking and canceling tasks, you lose the entire nostalgic, aesthetic argument about the uniqueness Slayer imposes on players.

Secondly, recent updates have tried to reintroduce some of these same features and have been struck down – even by you, Qeltar. Kuradal assigns more tasks than Duradel (Lapalok) does, evening out the additional blocked task. Kuradal’s dungeon allows you to slay each monster in true Slayer form with less competition (no cannons or multicombat familiars available at some of the other places you can kill these monsters), adding a bit of flavor back. Icewyrms were given a new burrow attack and were put in remote/hostile environments, and the Ice Strykewyrm introduced an item requirement – the fire cape. By this argument, the uniqueness of such a requirement should add flavor, no? It was derailed by many (including Qeltar) for being an unrelated item which required fast and accurate clicking to get. But why then should you then lament the fact that fast and accurate clicking is no longer necessary to kill Gargoyles or Warped creatures? I know the two are not exactly comparable, but hear me out: you say here that you want variety but complain about a monster that is too hard – because of its uniqueness – for you to kill.

Jagex completely reversed its policy with the Ice Strykewyrm and went from making the fire cape a requirement to making it a miniscule advantage (if the prayer bonus from the Soul Wars cape doesn’t beat out the small damage boost anyway). They could have allowed the Firemaking skillcape to work as well, another cape requirement that makes thematic sense and allows players like you to grind instead of taking on a difficult challenge. But this complete reversal is exactly the same type of “vanillafying” you contend that the Slayer skill is going under anyway.

I’m trying to piece together a picture of your viewpoint, Qeltar, but it is a scrambled and interwoven mess. You seem to be extremely passionate about alternative training methods and uniqueness, but only up to the point that you benefit from it. You expect all players, a variety of different gamer types, to enjoy new content, but you have no problem with high-level updates and level requirements in general, because heck, you can use them yourself! (I am a high level as well, so do not assume anything based on this particular piece of my argument.) Basically, get some consistency going. I understand that these are soapbox articles and are written mainly from a passionate viewpoint, but you seem to switch from one opinion to another – something I would not expect from the same person who experiments endlessly with efficiency.

I beat him at level 113. Try getting 80 prayer and using Leech Magic, Ranged and Defence, it makes him so much easier. I had 23 Sara Brew doses left while using a Terrorbird familiar because of my curses. Also, take a super attack and strength pot before getting out sara brews, then bank them to make room for said brews. At the start of the fight, use a BGS Spec, which lowers his Defence level by the amount hit (29 in my winning fight, although I have specced on him up to 48)

Also, have you been using the safespot range method?

fonere: JaGEx have stated that it was for people with disability, mainly hearing problems, who have an unfair disadvantage at beating Jad. You may not realise it, but what you’re saying is the equivalent of “if you can’t get up these stairs (as a result of your wheelchair) then you don’t deserve to be up here”

I’m surprised that you of all people are complaining of something like this when all you do is write about how other people should stop complaining about stuff. Not as nice when it’s happening to you is it..?

good article.