#what gear reqs will the colosseum require? (realistically)

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full shore
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Hi so I'm well on my grind to completely bandos currently.

I'm early prepping myself for the new wave base content due for release in March.

With bowfa/bandos hopefully completed by then, what do you recommend to have alongside these to hit the content on release?

I imagine occult, swamp staff, anguish, torture etc.
I'm eager to see your thoughts on this as I want to prep myself for it.

Thank you.

ionic lark
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we dont know

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also most of the rewards from the colosseum are not that useful

full shore
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Quiver being the only realistically worthwhile drop?

ionic lark
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since the target audience appears to be low level players I think anything is fine, though as always I expect that a bowfa will help a bunch

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yeah, I thought the def draining ranged weapon might have uses but so far nobody has suggested any

full shore
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Possibly for kree?

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Considering not much else is available

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Eldritch perhaps

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Blow pipe

steep meadow
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It's not obvious whether The Coliseum will be melee-based (traditional GWD), ranged-based (similar to FC/Inferno), mage-based (unusual but possible), or even hybrid (I think this is likely, actually)

I suspect you will never be in a bad position if you own the following:

  • melee: Bandos, torture, prims, feros, tent, infernal, faceguard
  • ranged: bowfa + pipe + crystal, or ACB + pipe + masori; obvs anguish assembler in both
  • mage: trident, occult, torm, ward, ma2, virtus/anc helps, heart helps. shadow op too

Because they want it to be realistically completable by mid-level players I suspect that tent/bowfa/trident will work "very reasonably". Who's to say though, just get as good gear as you can get in each style and I'm sure it'll work out

steep meadow
ionic lark
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I think jagex wants it to be doable for their notion of midgame

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so d scim, msb, ibans

steep meadow
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Yup though the "tier above that" (tent bowfa trident) will make it easier

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Basically the ToA treatment pre-fang

steep meadow
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The LTV of tent/trident has been insane

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Have owned both for 5+ years and they're still relevant, it's wild

full shore
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LTV?

steep meadow
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lifetime value

full shore
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Oh yes

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Damn that nee offhand looks so wild.

ionic lark
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theres no new offhand

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you might be a few months behind

full shore
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Nooooooo

steep meadow
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Oh yeah that was proposed, shelved, re-proposed, and re-shelved kekwcd

full shore
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I'm so sad now

ionic lark
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im really happy, that thing was so poorly designed

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it would make lance on fang bis against dragons

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it beat avernic on a bunch of slash weapons

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and it wouldnt achieve its stated goal of making salad more relevant and fang less oppressive

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it was just all around a bad item for the game

steep meadow
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You can't make salad more relevant without meaningfully distinguishing it from tent
Idk how Jagex doesn't realize this
Nobody is paying 120m upfront + 133 GP per charge
When they can pay 2.5m upfront + 184 GP per charge
The tent is "more expensive to use" but you have to use it for ~2.3m charges to break even
Which is... like 1536 hours of continuous combat

ionic lark
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yeah thats exactly the issue