Reply to DannieP On Runescape graphics

DannieP 24/06/08 said in response to Fun Orb not much fun

DannieP said:
Quite frankly, these ‘ Gigantic Graphic redo ‘ as you call it isn’t that great. Runescape will never live to the standards of lets say WoW (World of Warcraft) due to the fact, you can’t have good ghrapics on a brower game. Runescape should become bigger using a disk, but i know its not that easy :)

Actually Runescape doesn’t run in the browser. It runs in what’s known as JVM (A Java virtual machine), which is essentially a virtual computer on your own computer. It just happens to be convenient to open this virtual machine inside a browser.

Runescape already has a cache folder on your computer where it saves the graphics, but it will take a much larger download for the better graphics and a faster CPU and GPU to process those graphics when it comes out.

So essentially the same thing limits WoW and Runescape. The requirement of running from a CD is just a piracy protection method. Your hard drive actually runs faster than running from a CD – which means that Runescape could run better than WoW.

7:02 pm on June 24, 2008 by Primefalcon

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Slayer Helmet

Well after a lot of hard slaying, I finally got my slayer helmet today. Here’s an image of the helmet along with the stat bonuses:

A picture of the slayer helmet
A shot showing the slayer helmet right click

As you can see, unlike the plain black mask, face mask, spiny helmet, nosepeg or earmuffs, this actually gives some decent defense stat bonuses, even when used without doing slayer!

If you actually are doing slayer however, you’ll get the black mask’s +15% bonus to both Attack and Strength!

Here’s an image of myself with enough points to unlock the knowledge to make the slayer mask.

Slayer points requirment

…and this is where I unlocked the secret to making the helmet…..
Secrets unlocked

and this shows that I have the knowledge and skill unlocked ….
Skills unlocked

I have to say that this helmet will be completely worth it since you don’t have to keep ear muffs or anything like that. Even without doing slayer assignments, you’ll have a helmet with defense stats suitable for things like dust devils and such. It’s just tons better if you are doing your slayer, but this is one great helmet!

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2:19 am on June 23, 2008 by Primefalcon

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How to Kill mithril Dragons

Introduction
I’ve been killing a lot of Mithril dragons of late due to their high drop-rate of summoning charms. They drop 4 at a time with around 95% drop-rate of charms, mostly green charms at that, along with a decent drop-rate of blue and crimson to go with.

Here’s a couple of pics of a typical trip to these mighty fiends of mith. Take note that these are just after a mere 4 kills each trip!

A typical Mithril dragon drop Another Typical Mithril dragon drop

Each trip takes about 13 to 15 minutes, so with that kind of loot in such a short time, you would have to be happy with that!

Remember, these are just typical runs without any special luck factor. These things also drop a lot of rune battleaxes, maces and other high gp alchable items on a regular basis. If you are really lucky you might even get a Dragon full helmet or a Draconic Visage – which is used to make the mighty Dragonfire shield!

Equipping
As with every monster killing trip, the first stage is how to equip. If you’re not equipped right, these beasts will rip you in half in no time at all! I’ve heard these beasties can hit damage in the 50′s with just a simple melee attack, but believe me, their dragon fire can hit a lot higher!

To start with, you need to be aware these dragons can use melee, range, magic as well as dragonfire.

To protect from the fire attack, you need an anti-fire shield in addition to anti-fire potion. You also need to protect from their melee attack, which means the protect from melee prayer is a must. You also need good magic protection equipped, such as black d’hide or Karil’s. When you equip for range, mage defense goes hand in hand with it. Use a rune crossbow with diamond bolts to hit through their protection as well. I’d also recommend taking a 4 dose range potion for each run.

Here’s a pic of a good equip and one of a good item inventory:

Recomend equip for mithril dragons Recomended items for mithril dragons

Another item I’d highly recommend is Ava's upgraded accumulator Ava’s upgraded accumulator, which you can get from the quest Animal Magnetism. It gives a good range bonus as well as fetching back the majority of your diamond tipped adamant bolts which will significantly lower the time wasted picking up all those spent bolts during a fight.

For a lower cost outfit variant, when making your first few trips, you could replace Karil’s with black d-hide, the Ranger boots with Snakeskin boots, and the Robin with a Fremennik archer helm. Do a few runs just to get the feel of it.

Other items you need are a couple 4 dose super restore potions (they restore more prayer than the standard prayer potion), a Holy Wrench holy wrench to increase the amount of prayer restored, (get a wrench from the Rum Deal quest), a games necklace to teleport close to the mith dragon area, and a quick teleport out – preferably a house teleport so you can quickly use your altar to fill up on prayer as well.

The Long Journey (traveling to the whirlpool dungeon)
After fully equipping, make sure your hitpoints and prayer are both full, and use your Games Necklace Games Necklace to teleport to the Barbarian Outpost.

A picture of barbarian telly point

Then run south to the Fishing Jetty that overlooks the giant whirlpool (you need to have started the fire making part of the Barbarian trials mini game).

Run south from teleport to whirlpool dungeon

Once you reach the whirlpool dock, click the whirlpool to jump in.

Jumping into the whirlpool

The Dungeon Run (Navigating the dungeon to the Mithril Dragons)
You’ll find yourself on an outcrop in a vast cavern after a brief blackout.

A picture of the outcrop

Toggle on protect from Melee and take a dose of anti-fire potion, then climb down the stairs. (Caution: There are numerous waterfiends and brutal green dragons at the bottom of the stairs.)

Run south a short way to another set of steps that lead up.

A minimap of the whirlpool dungeon

The Fight
After climbing up the stairs, you will be faced with a Mithril Dragon.

A mighty Mithril Dragon

Quickly step close into melee range so the dragon will use it’s melee attack. (When you’re close, the dragon uses melee and magic but when you’re farther away, it uses range and magic.) Since you’re protecting from dragonfire with the anti-fire shield and antifire potion, and the prayer protects from the melee attack, magic attack is your only concern but you’re already being protected from the magic attack by your magic defensive armour. Another advantage of doing this close up is that you’re close to the drop area and respawn point so you can stick with the one dragon rather than running around. They respawn pretty quick.

Leaving gracefully
Leave when you can’t carry anymore loot or are out of food which is usually 4-5 dragons depending on what you want to pick up. Staying past this, you’re going to have to either bury bones (more prayer xp using the house altar or ectofuntus) or leave Mithril bars (lots of xp for smithing and then high alching). In my opinion, the bones and bars are the things that make these great to fight. The bones are worth 3k and the bars are worth over 1k each…… So once you’re ready to leave, use a house tele-tablet, fill up on prayer if you have a chapel, then use one of your house’s teleport options to get back to a bank so you can requip for another run.

Final Comments
Sounds easy doesn’t it? Well once you know how to fight these, and are properly equipped, they really are! Enjoy and good luck getting that D Large (Dragon Full Helmet) or Draconic Visage!

1:56 pm on June 20, 2008 by Primefalcon

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