#Dry at TDS. Blood Fury for longer trips?

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sleek lintel
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Hello ironfriends. Just to preface I only play a hour or so on weekdays due to work/school. Currently Dry at TDS (1.5k kc) for synapse. Had to stop entirely to get more charges, crystal shards, and boosting potions. I'm mostly back up to what i need to continue farming however I am nearly out of blood fury charges. I've been attempting to gather more blood shards but worlds are horribly crowded and pickocketing isn't horrible but it's not as mobile friendly as i thought. I also have done DPS calcs and seen that magic does a great deal more damage than bowfa. Would it be worth it to continue to grind for blood shards or is there anything specific that would help assist me with my kills?

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pale nymph
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Wouldn’t waste my time getting blood shards

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Especially for TDs

normal magnet
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Out of curiosity, why no b ring?

pale nymph
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Somebody can correct me but is RCB on accurate good for heavy range attack? I used ACB so I’m not sure personally

shrewd lily
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agree. take more food, see if strength amulet beats fury if you need, but blood fury is a huge waste

pale nymph
sleek lintel
pale nymph
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Prayer pots are free. Just use them

shrewd lily
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do you have anguish or torture?

sleek lintel
shrewd lily
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if you do swap back to range at all i’d definitely bring - maybe you were but boosting your dps there will help a lot overall

sleek lintel
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Got it, feeling of dryness gives me mild brain damage.

shrewd lily
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mage is significantly more expensive and soul runes are annoying to obtain which is fine if you can deal with those, but that’s part of why range is preferred often

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i don’t blame you at all haha

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rough place to be dry

sleek lintel
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money isn't a huge deal

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made slight changes. I'll finetune it overtime.

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gray moth
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Bloodfury here definitely insane xd

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New setup looks much better

sleek lintel
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i used a lot of charges here no lie and i only needed to bring 2 pieces of food

fickle berry
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I would also bring tassets if you have because archlight scales very heavily with strentgh bonus. As already said, str ammy may be better than fury especially because no divine strength/supercombat potion.

Praypot meta I believe is to have a lot of passive ranarrs from sepu and hard farming contracts, some pvm profits them and if all else fails, pickpocket master farmers to keep praying piety at all active combat situations. This might assume a high thieving level and desire for all kinds of xp so take it with a grain of salt vs your personal goals

sleek lintel
tall dust
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p sure it'll be a max with arclight in that setup but check the calc

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arclight is whack

fickle berry
fickle berry
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@tall dust People often ask about prayer pots and piety, may I ask your opinion of: is it possible to have low enough thieving such that it's better to downgrade piety to say 10% prayer? Lets also assume we only care about kill times, not skilling xp.

tall dust
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I would rather 1t flick than lose out on DPS personally

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I did all of 99 Slayer with 1t flicking so that's my view

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Piety stays on

tall dust
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alternative to sepulchre is contracts, nechs, dags not MFs

fickle berry
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I'd really love some recommendations to other people but fair enough 😁

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ah, sorry I thought it's MFs if only valuing kill times, not skilling xp

tall dust
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I think tracts are faster even otherwise because you can do other stuff while waiting for tract to grow whereas you can't with MFs (continuous process)

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But the "other stuff" is typically "not slayer" and thus "skilling xp" so it gets complicated

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Generally this is basically a "plan ahead one way or the other" story
If you need ppots at this exact moment and refuse to do anything else then the fallback is MFs

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But it's hard to be in that position

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Cuz of stuff like ToA

fickle berry
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I take it's not a conclusive answer but "do as much contracts all the time and MFs if you must" sounds reasonable. Planning ahead would be ideal, I'd just like to have something to give for people who don't yet know what they want or how to plan it

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Thank you

tall dust
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Yeah Sepulchre and contracts are top priority, after that is melee nechs and barrage dags
That should cover you until ToA, and ToA should cover the rest honestly

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If you somehow run out after that and refuse to do an ounce of skilling then sure yeah the only recourse is MFs

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But with VW grind becoming a staple you also get a couple hundred seeds from Artio/Callisto etc.

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So it's really getting hard to run out of ranarr + snapdragon seeds these days

shrewd lily
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if you weave muspah in there too iirc that also profits

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quite hard to go wrong imo

tall dust
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yea only thing that can happen is if you don't do any sep at the beginning and then also slayer-skip completely
and then yea it may be tight initially altho typically those types go rush toa right away so you shouuuuld get a lot of seeds...

shrewd lily
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i did that initially and when i ran low i just sent toa until i had some lol. def would pick that over MFs

fickle berry
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Those are great pointers, I feel like I have a better grasp of the whole now!

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I love how you get complementary spidey eggs from spindel too for snappies, makes me feel less bad for aborting my vw grind xD

tall dust
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Yea exactly you get tons of supplies from those

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Actually you get magic logs for your birdhouses too

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And trust me I HATE doing hourlies

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But I still did them xd

gray moth
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You get decent amount of ranarrs from ice royal titan

tall dust
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prob worth getting if it's like 5 hours honestly

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ya another source pog

fickle berry
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Making yourself do shit you hate is kinda essential part of the ironman experience xd

fickle berry
tall dust
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deadeye

mighty geyser
shrewd lily
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not wanting to kill spidines is more of a barrier unironically

mighty geyser
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deadass lol

sleek lintel
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DPS calc is giving 0 difference so i guess im chilling for now

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i think this is right

fickle berry
# sleek lintel I have 3 bcp's hilt no tassets

Low returns for going back I think. Tassets don't often even make it to raids setups. You can already make bis if going for torva. If you need godsword pieces that might be a reason to roll the dice some more but there's other generals too

sleek lintel
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one day

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thanks for the discussion tho, I do have plenty of seeds, i just needed to spend a few days planting them

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i'm back at tds rn and i'm a bit rusty getting my ass kicked.

fickle berry
fickle berry