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ashen ocean
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Do we have any idea how combo runes work? Does that count as using both?

cursive edge
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is ring of shadows locked behind desert?

twin ermine
pulsar tusk
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what "build" you going withy that?

potent quail
bleak depot
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Yeah @cursive edge

potent quail
glacial geyser
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quadrant isn't a powered staff

bleak depot
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I think our best choice is probably gonna be be suffering lol

twin ermine
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This does look busted, I’d do this if I didn’t want to meme with a 2h shield build

potent quail
tough finch
bleak depot
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Quad staff still has crazy magic damage

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It is indeed charges.

potent quail
dull tusk
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when you take both melee healing nodes and every melee hit you do - which averages to 1 per tick, has a 20% chance to heal you. Stacked up with a 5% hit rate for the spell, you heal 4 hp, while in theory the fire spell consumes 6. So while you do bleed HP, its rather slow.

bleak depot
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But at KTM we only have access to suffering and like… granite ring

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Lololol

ashen ocean
glacial geyser
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no, surely not

dull tusk
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basically on average every 6 seconds you lose 1 hp while attacking. normal food will cover that.

tough finch
glacial geyser
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its the runes the spell would require

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not the runes you consume

ashen ocean
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sad day*

bleak depot
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Yeah that would be busted if you regen combo runes lol

tough finch
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I'm starting to wish we could exchange mega rare vouchers for respecs

dull tusk
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really the biggest fuel here is just that this fairly high dps main thing is one of the fastest ways in the entire league to fuel specs - thatll be some fun im sure

bleak depot
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Yeah I’m gonna be swapping myself between shadow, mory echo weapon and mandarin echo weapon

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Kandarin rather.

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Warped sceptre is basically mandarin trident

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Temu trident

tough finch
molten gust
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He isn’t really wanting it for a style. More for having the raid to do with his iron friend since they don’t wanna do tob or cox.

dull tusk
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the actual fastest way to regen spec is a 1 tick powered staff but an actual magic attack spec gets less out of specs in total

tough finch
bleak depot
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I mean if you enjoy toa sure. But that’s literally all there is to do in the desert for bossing.

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Kq is just …. You know.

glacial geyser
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you could do normal kq 😄

bleak depot
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No hate just saying lol

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Yeah brew chug simulator. It’s basically nex v1.0

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Idk i regretted the shit out of the league i took all 3 raid regions i wish i hadn’t taken desert lol.

glacial geyser
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last echoes I was going for my nox before tob

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went like 300kc no hally piece

bleak depot
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I did tob in absolute rags lmao

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I love tob

glacial geyser
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quit the league

dull tusk
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a nice bit im noticing in this dagger setup is that it actually leaves quite a few spare points - which might sound bad, but is in some ways good, allowing you to guilt-free spec into high defense and pray pen. nice stuff

tawny frost
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@wanton pine is this confirmed by jagex or are u just throwing random talk out there
dvils offhand

bleak depot
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Should have just sent it. tob is super easy in leagues

wary egret
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Are barrage spells better dps than surge?

bleak depot
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Even hmt you could ignore most mechanics last leaves

glacial geyser
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at that point I had never entered tob before and i was super tilted

bleak depot
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Probably not @wary egret

tawny frost
bleak depot
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I’m taking them anyway. lol.

wary egret
glacial geyser
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kinda

bleak depot
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I wouldn’t say that. I want thralls and spells.

winged trench
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Is that trident from the smoke devil echo count as a stave?

bleak depot
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And augury

glacial geyser
pulsar tusk
bleak depot
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It’s a staff not powered

wary egret
winged trench
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How fast can you get that thing to shoot then?

fallen fossil
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When do we get info on rewards cost?

bleak depot
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Then it may not be for you lol it depends on what you want to do with ir.

glacial geyser
pulsar tusk
wary egret
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So with the elemental weakness from thermy staff - does that mean things like olm head can be maged now?

bleak depot
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Yeah it seems most people taking either air/earth for tank/max hits vs water/fire for sustain/still big hits

pulsar tusk
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i picked air/water for sustain with powered staff

dull tusk
pulsar tusk
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also doubled hp bar

bleak depot
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@spare osprey i was initially going to do that. Good thing we get 3 respecs

bleak depot
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Come to think of it if you spec into air water and fire you could smoke barrage ….

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smoke barrage is fire and air yeah?

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Tha would probably go hard af

glacial geyser
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it doesn't benefit from quadrant tho

cursive edge
glacial geyser
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is the only downside

bleak depot
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It benefits from quadrant damage percent. Just doesn’t get the “second hit”

glacial geyser
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yh

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but thats 40% of its power

dull tusk
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by the way its nice to consider your regions before you assume pray pen is nessecary - only some regions have any requirement to penetrate prayers at all. Morytania suprisingly has hardly any praying going on at all, even in tob

bleak depot
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I think I’m okay with that

smoky raft
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starting to put together my usual zero hour plan for what to do immediately as soon as leagues starts

initial testing shows I can get this full set in about 10 minutes

bleak depot
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Well we also will have wrath runes at 95 rc with that soul syphon or whatever it’s called so i could always try that too

dull tusk
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my plan is to walk in and figure out what im doing on the spot on day 1, like Yama intended

bleak depot
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Same

smoky raft
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oh! I should be able to get anti dragon shield too

dull tusk
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to me half the fun of the new region is figuring it out on the spot rather than doing the same old tired methods from 10 limited time events ago

tacit oyster
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King's barrage does full damage to corp, updated the post with it

smoky raft
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to me half the fun is optimization

dull tusk
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we're doing the same things just at different times tbh

tacit oyster
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still no confirmation if king's barrage is 1 max hit split into 2 or 2 separate max hits scronglypirate

dull tusk
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ill optimize all i can, ill just do it on the spot

wary egret
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Will corp be mageable with the thermy staff?

dull tusk
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im more of a think-on-my-feet than a planning type

tough finch
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Part of me imagines the 2nd bolt from kings barrage won't be a crossbow max hit since theyre making it all elemental and shit

tacit oyster
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they confirmed both bolts benefit with the max hit crossbow pact

dull tusk
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as long as you spec into some nice accuracy corp should be manageable by just about anything

smoky raft
dull tusk
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thermy offhand is +30% weakness which means you have +30% accuracy too

dull tusk
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so youll have a relatively easy time hitting when you stack base accuracy from the pacts on top

bleak depot
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Ice/blood mage

wary egret
glacial geyser
smoky raft
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I'm just pointing out why mage isn't used in the base game

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you'll 100% be able to mage corp

bleak depot
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@glacial geyser shadow as well.

ashen ocean
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If you have the devil's element. Does it make all air spells double their max chance regardless?

tacit oyster
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it does seem like this will be mage league if king's barrage is worse dps than zcb

bleak depot
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So I’m not limited to one play style

dull tusk
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with corp's inherent 10% weakness making a total of 40% and relatively easy access to 60%+ accuracy on the tree, youll hit WAY more than in the base game. If you're really really worried then use earth spell spec early on to reduce corp's defence and magic levels at once.

glacial geyser
bleak depot
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I’m wondering if the higher regeneration has a second chance to proc if above 100%

glacial geyser
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it does

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120% is guranteed refund +20% change to regen

bleak depot
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I’m probably barely going to use shadow but i still will wanna try it lol

slate herald
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You can already eye of ayak corp in main game. It's a non-issue

bleak depot
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I’m prettt sold on Crystal, and kandarin echo items with ancients as well as that ggs staff to nuke nylos haha

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Maybe I’ll fuck around with even dropping a few nodes to spec into air as well because i feel like smoke barrage is gonna be busted

tacit oyster
dull tusk
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once you add in the elemental weakness and raw power of the new items that number will go up

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by a good margin

toxic vortex
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Yeah that staff is going to be busted

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I think I might be sold KTM

slate herald
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If only they let you use ancients

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and get the 40% damage

toxic vortex
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the thermy staff?

slate herald
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it explicitly says normal spellbook for the first line

bleak depot
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You can still use ancients, you just won’t get the second hit from what i was told. It’s not like it won’t be powerful af

dull tusk
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its not super accurate but is it accurate enough to handle corp? sure. add in the 5% chance to roll max accuracy per tile distance if its still unsatisfactory - you can camp as high as 8 tiles with the termy staff, for a 45% chance

toxic vortex
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it also says it can auto cast from all spellbooks

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you just only get the double hit from surge spells

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well, normal/elemental spells

dull tusk
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yeah its just a relatively strong staff slot filler on other spellbooks, still works

slate herald
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so you're only as strong as a person autocasting ancients with virtus, as surge spells are weaker than ancient spells

bleak depot
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Yeah it still has mega strength bonus

dull tusk
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you are using the offhand from the region as well so you're +30% weakness stronger

bleak depot
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Surge spells use a ton of runes. If you regen multiple runes surge is gonna be cracked

tough finch
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builder spender water/fire mage stonks did indeed go up

bleak depot
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Can anyone confirm you can regen multiple runes ?

dull tusk
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yeah rune use is a completely ignored metric.

undone snow
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Does a Tzhaar slay task work on the special challenges?

slate herald
dull tusk
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its explicit that you can, every effect listed is per run regen

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which implies you can regen multiple

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or it would be pointless

tough finch
cyan oxide
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is there anywhere people are posting their full builds?

slate herald
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the 40% you gain is not because it's overpowered, but instead to level the playing field 😂

dull tusk
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but yeah sure spells are COMPLETELY ridiculous rune costs, which is good here. Think 10 water runes and 7 air runes at once

bleak depot
slate herald
dull tusk
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every single surge spell will always regen you 1 prayer point as they always use 7 air runes

bleak depot
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I’m not tryna be a hater i think you’re underestimating the value of the nodes for mage

undone snow
tough finch
dull tusk
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1 prayer point per attack is actually rather strong for a universal benefit on a 2 tick attack

bleak depot
bleak depot
slate herald
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just not the prayer part

bleak depot
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Ancients uses less runes per cast — less node proc

tough finch
dull tusk
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really fire spells are the star of the show for surge rune cost perks - you increase the damage of all your attacks by 10.

tough finch
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so no, I don't think ancients is always better

slate herald
tough finch
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Even the arceuus grasp spell at level 79 with the single fire rune regen node is stronger than base ice barrage

bleak depot
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I think they’re both equally strong in many ways but i wouldn’t count surge out at all

slate herald
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They're about equal with the staff

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except ancients obviously hit multiple targets

dull tusk
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24 * 1.4 is 33 so higher than 30 by 10%. But you're failing to consider that the 40% multiplier isnt to just the base, its on top of EVERY multiplier you have

bleak depot
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Again you need to factor in rune regen. If surge uses 6 more runes that’s 6 more damage on fire — that makes up the difference

slate herald
dull tusk
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every additional damage, every multiplier, everything is multiplied by that 40% as it uses derivative damage from the first hit

dull tusk
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so basically every bonus you get is 40% more than it otherwise would be so long as you use surge spells

bleak depot
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Will the 30percent extra weakness still apply when using ancients to autocast from echo staff ?

slate herald
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If you have the ancient node on pact tree that makes them water spells

bleak depot
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Yeah

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Mage is gonna absolutely fuck this league

wary egret
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What’s bis mage boots for zeah kand wildy? Treads?

dull tusk
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the twinflame works like this too and for much the same reason its stronger than staves with faster APS and higher inherent damage bonus

bleak depot
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Prob avernic treads reg

shadow badger
dull tusk
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cause a 2nd hit is just multiplicative with absolutely everything in the entire game

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its just strong

junior phoenix
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Yeah no ancients are completely in the bin guys I don't know why this is even a debate

slate herald
shadow badger
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Unless you're going for defence

bleak depot
dull tusk
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ancients are still killer for non kandarin mages, especially an earth spell tank who benefits from inherent shadow spell effects

slate herald
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also, harmonized nightmare staff is STILL better than the echo staff if the enemy has no weakness or is weak to the spell type you're using

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as it's a 1.5x multiplier rather than 1.4x

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nvm, fire still better

junior phoenix
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The 15.5 flat damage on fire surge plus the 12 flat damage which is multiplied by the 40% bonus damage gives it an average hit of 63 vs ice barrage averaging a 35

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Sorry, ice barrage on 35

wary egret
junior phoenix
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The flat damage is multiplied by 40%, which is absolutely massive

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And yes that was taking into account the extra 9% magic damage from virtus, and isn't even considering that crystal makes the gap wider

flint ocean
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not to interrupt the conversation but this is my first leagues and was wonderginf what yall are doing for relics or any tips??

dull tusk
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its not a 1.5x its a 1.33x by pure attack speed bonus, though with arguably higher utility, but also higher risks as you would for example burn yourself more with fire for the same output. im not sure where the 1.5x comes from. The trouble though is you need wrath runes for surge.

slate herald
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soooo

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note how it says powered magic weapons

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and is equal to virtus in magic %

junior phoenix
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Sorry, that's true, you're right nvm

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So just a flat 63 vs 35

slate herald
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if your objective is just damage then all rivers will lead back to shadow

junior phoenix
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Lmao shadow is trolling

slate herald
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water mage at least has its own fun gimmick

junior phoenix
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Fire spells have like 45dps, shadow is 35

wary egret
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Man there a no good mage rings outside of fremmy huh

dull tusk
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i think fire spells have higher dps than shadow if you can solve health cost concerns

tough finch
# flint ocean not to interrupt the conversation but this is my first leagues and was wondergin...

whatever you think is fun tbh. it can be hard to grind out points without the clue relic, so a lot of people will say pick conniving clues or pick reloaded into conniving clues. but pick whatever keeps you playing longer, you might not necessarily totally complete the leagues. Before making a build with the pacts, I would go check the task list on the wiki for unlocking skill tree nodes because it's kind of hard to get a lot of points.

junior phoenix
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And that's before elemental weaknesses

dull tusk
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and before multi targetting

junior phoenix
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And the health cost is easily solved by casting a water surge every 5 hits

dull tusk
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yeah it should be easy though does the 1 water hit per 5 get countedin ur dps numbers

junior phoenix
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Reduces dps by like 3 since water surge is still good dps

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No it doesn't that does reduce it but it's still way better than shadow

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And doesn't require you to max magic damage

flint ocean
slate herald
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Has anyone ran the numbers on the cerb dagger? Looks underwhelming

dull tusk
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yeah it should be bettr than shadow but i like accurate numbers

junior phoenix
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I have

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Cerb dagger caps out around 31dps including the spec

dull tusk
grave pollen
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Are clue scrolls limited to unlocked regions still?

slate herald
dull tusk
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if you use a different spec you can pull higher dps than speccing with the item

junior phoenix
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However, you can do cerb dagger+thorns making it compete at more like 40dps

dull tusk
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and utility too

junior phoenix
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And yeah with claws more like 42dps

toxic vortex
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there are always a few

dull tusk
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cerb dagger + thorns + diff spec weapon should dominate

grave pollen
# toxic vortex yes

I am curious how that works for beginners clues because there aren’t any clues in valmore or the jungle

junior phoenix
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Cerb dagger+echo boots+dfs+full thorns+claws is like 50 damage recoil + 35dps

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Potentially as much as 50dps if you have something decently fast attacking you

toxic vortex
grave pollen
slate herald
flint ocean
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anybody already got their leagues all planed out for regions and whatnot>?

slate herald
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I assume blood fury would not work on the spell portion either

junior phoenix
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Basically Dogger+Thorns=50dps
Fire surge+kandarin=50dps
Crossbow+full regen and echos=50dps

dull tusk
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you can do the classic dragon claws spec swap as they count as both a light and 2h weapon making for a very strong spec option to capitalize on the exception spec regen rate of the dagger

junior phoenix
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Thorns doesn't require you to take damage, torva+dfs and you're not gonna get hit much

wary egret
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Why couldn’t they release this today. Now I gotta sit around all weekend wishing it was Wednesday

junior phoenix
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+you get 2hp regen every time they hit a 0

dull tusk
junior phoenix
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But yeah xgs/sgs will completely negate that

slate herald
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but then you're standing there for the next like 5 ticks doing nothing

junior phoenix
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Okay?

slate herald
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and the damage you'll take is not so insignificant that sgs will even heal you fully

junior phoenix
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So you take a blood fury or some food

dull tusk
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i mean sure but its just eating food but sustainable

tough finch
dull tusk
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the damage you take is not as significant as you seem to imagine

junior phoenix
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Fyi, the spell portion of the cerb dagger is so utterly shit I've just discounted it entirely

flint ocean
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yall goin melee/range this leagues or range/mage i havent heard anyone goin mellee/mage yet

wary egret
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“The King's barrage deals full damage to the Corporeal Beast” wildy is awesome this leagues

junior phoenix
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I'm going melee/mage

dull tusk
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its something like 1 per 6 seconds average from the fire spell effect damage boosting effect when using both melee healing nodes

junior phoenix
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KAZ Dogger+Elemental spells

dull tusk
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you arnet exactly taking unimaginable critical damage

flint ocean
junior phoenix
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I still don't know how the king's barrage actually works

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Do you roll 2 full hits or is it split in two?

wary egret
dull tusk
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im waiting to see if the barrage is entirely derivative damage or if it works on weaknesses

flint ocean
small flower
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the passive proc on the cerb dagger is only 5%, so the thorns healing alone should cover that, unless you're constantly spamming the spec

wary egret
junior phoenix
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Yes, but I don't know what the actual damage is

flint ocean
dull tusk
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yeah they just didnt explain how the multi hit works in a game with several competeing multihit mechs

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so we can only guess

junior phoenix
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Does that mean it does the damage of an ice barrage? I don't think so, I saw him max a 29 on the video. It doesn't make sense

wary egret
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Kandarin just seems like easy points and synergizes well with mage

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Thermy staff is broken

flint ocean
wary egret
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Yeah for a pure range build I can’t see kandarin being the play

junior phoenix
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Same with the tecpatl, does it do 2 full max hits, or max hits split in two? If it's 2 full max hits, then it's genuinely fully competitive with blindbag (which is otherwise shite). If not, then it's shit

flint ocean
wary egret
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Full range id probably go zeah desert asg

dull tusk
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asgarnia is a noob trap for everyone planning 40 point builds as whisperer might as well be the great wall of china placed directly in your path

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awakened that is

junior phoenix
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Pure range build wilderness desert whatever you like

flint ocean
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desert could be good with that blowpipe maybe from queen

tough finch
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i wish the goddamn sub 1kg weapon subspec stuff had better support. I don't think the dogger is going to cut it for me.

junior phoenix
dull tusk
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you cant. you couldnt in gridmaster, you cant here

small flower
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could always do dclaws as both the main weaopn and spec

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it's light

junior phoenix
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(And also I know how to do whisperer properly)

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(And yes I'm talking about awakened whisperer I did it like 6 times in gridmaster)

dull tusk
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whisperer force phase changes to invuln at hp thresholds and has an anti-sustain mechanic, unless you can do the awakened fight special attacks consistently you wont win

flint ocean
dull tusk
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but eyah if you do, obviously youll be fine

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which is why its a noob trap and not a pro trap

tough finch
junior phoenix
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Lotta noob traps this league

small flower
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you do lose the blindbags, but you still get the speed bonus and the ranged echoes

dull tusk
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streamers will take asgarnia cause they know they can handle awakeneds, noobs will take it cause streamers took it and be unable to get all 40 points

glacial geyser
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your build probably shouldn't need 40 pts

tacit oyster
flint ocean
dull tusk
small flower
dull tusk
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faux is smart im talking about the other streamers

junior phoenix
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Zeah is a noob trap in general, blindbag and bluetooth hally are shit, fremm is as well, thrown wepons unless the wiki is right and I'm wrong (it's overestimating the effect of echos)

flint ocean
dull tusk
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blindbag dharoks sounds extremely funny though u gotta admit

junior phoenix
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Mega rares also a noob trap, they're all shit except tbow which is just normal bad

small flower
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blindbag/echospam looks like a fun if unreliable option

coral silo
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Since Shadowflame Quadrant counts as inifinite elemental runes, does that mean that i cant regenerate them since no elemental runes are being consumed?

velvet flume
junior phoenix
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Absolutely, and yet shit

dull tusk
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for the record im not counting noob trap as 'less than perfect build' but as 'you will encounter extreme progression blockers that streamers are prepared for but you arent'

tough finch
glacial geyser
dull tusk
junior phoenix
dull tusk
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as long as you know what you are picking its fine, its a trap cause it gets people who dont know what theyre picking

flint cloud
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@dull tusk what are the main prgression blockers from going zeah?

flint ocean
dull tusk
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well i didnt say zeah was a trap, but radiant oathplate is still pretty hard to get

junior phoenix
velvet flume
glacial geyser
tacit oyster
junior phoenix
junior phoenix
dull tusk
glacial geyser
small flower
junior phoenix
cursive edge
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Oh shit I think Wind Surge can do 46 DPS vs anything

flint ocean
dull tusk
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the real frustration with awakened whisperer though isnt that its just that hard though, its that every pass needs you to farm another drop, and unlike gridmaster we cant 1 tap spec vardorvis (well, some of us cant)

velvet flume
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unless i'm on the wrong thing, the dps calc doesn't show the leagues items?

dull tusk
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yeah they have to update it

junior phoenix
small flower
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unless it's been updated in the last 4 seconds

dull tusk
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give it a few hours and theyll probably be up

small flower
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yea i was planning hally but it just doesn't seem worth it

dull tusk
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those wiki guys work fast

small flower
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much rather just mainhand the amox echo

glacial geyser
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they rly do

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I was surprised they had worked the skill tree in already

junior phoenix
dull tusk
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honestly i would say you should plan your build less around being the strongest and more around what personally interests you. we will all be strong by the looks of it

tough finch
junior phoenix
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Bluetooth hally is unfortunately just bad, I was planning on doing it for me mory/tirannwn run, but now not so much

dull tusk
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and failed

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but tried

next dock
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What do y’all think would make a good third zone after wildy/desert?

glacial geyser
next dock
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Was planning around ranged.

glacial geyser
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kand worth for zennys maybe?

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suffering for thorns and anguish for +str

small flower
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kinda whatever you wanna actually do, asgarnia gets you vambs, kandarin gets you neck, but neither would really be necessary

junior phoenix
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Kandarin for anguish and good mage options, zeah so you have lots of stuff to do, tirannwn so you can get the full ranged tree, whatever you like really

dull tusk
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whats desert for? blowpipe?

glacial geyser
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toa I imagine

junior phoenix
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Masori

dull tusk
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ah checks out

next dock
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Toa

dull tusk
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im sure the blowpipe doesnt hurt either

next dock
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Yeah

cyan oxide
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i'm personally thinking wildy/asgarnia/desert

small flower
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am less enthused about a blowpipe with no speed boost
KTW looking like silly machinegun fun with accursed

dull tusk
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hmmmm well it sounds like you're ranged should be strong enough already, so maybe consider what you want on the side. or in abscence of anything, just take fremenik for the cool helmet. stat sticks never failed anyone.

next dock
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Fremmy also gets the backpack

glacial geyser
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helm looks super mid unless im missing smth

glacial geyser
small flower
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it looks great for tank/thorns ranger or mage

flint cloud
#

im so happy with the kandarian echoes, theyre better than i ever couldve hoped they would be lol

next dock
#

Ava’s assembler

dull tusk
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its the slayer helmet pretty much. if you arent taking culling, its one of the only ways to actually acquire an imbued slayer helmet effect

slate drift
#

Do you think with the map of alacrity, someone could reach the obelisk of water without unlocking Asgarnia (but having Kandrin)?

tacit oyster
#

cant wait to not get confirmation about the king's echo double attack before league starts kekw

small flower
tardy bay
#

I will be doing bluetooth chally. It procs ranged echos, blindbags, and melee ranged echos. Ranged echo can then proc other ranged echos up to 4 times

small flower
#

yea, the melee ranged echo part in general looks quite nice for any 2hander build

glacial geyser
#

is anyone looking at throwing build or is xbow just way better?

slate drift
#

🤔

next dock
#

Well, water Obby shortcut is one way

small flower
#

worst case you have a tele to a beach i guess

tardy bay
#

If they code it properly, the ranged echoes procd by melee 2hander should count as bow, xbow, and throwing. So you can get all 3 big pacts for ranged echos

dull tusk
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there are only 3 ways to acquire an imbued slayer helmet effect this league - culling, which inhibits taking grimoire or the unrevealed 3rd relic, that helmet, or kandarin AND morytania at once. to my knowledge. So i think the helmet effect is stronger than most realize

small flower
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the way its worded i've been assuming you can get all 3 of the first nodes for each to work

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so +15% from cbow, never miss and 20% maxhit

glacial geyser
#

yeah its clearly intedned to give you all 3

dull tusk
#

they hard confirmed that on stream yesterday

tough finch
#

the wiki for shadowflame doesn't understand what gagex said about it

tardy bay
#

And i have to use chally cause chally uses charges which procs more ranged echoes

wary egret
#

Is devils element going to be a better offhand than arcane spirit shield?

tough finch
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to me it seems like the staff pretends any element you use is the element your target is weakest to, regardless of which spell you really cast (but still lets you benefit from the elemental nodes you selected in regards to what you cast)

glacial geyser
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probably

toxic vortex
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Yes that is how it will work

dull tusk
#

yeah the video showed them physically casting air spells but doing earth spell dmg at huey, and a few other explicit examples

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its purely a damage modifier

small flower
#

so standard caster looking better and better

tough finch
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as a mage enjoyer I think I must go kandarin this league. makes selecting other regions tough. I don't want to only have 1 raid to do with my friends, but it's tough not also taking tirannwyn

glacial geyser
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yeah I think standard spellbook with maybe 2 main elements is the way to go

small flower
#

keep in mind the crystal bonus says powered staves

glacial geyser
#

it does still give some acc and %dmg

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but yeah not the full benefit

tough finch
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ohhh only powered magic weapons

small flower
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for the traditional crystal armor bonus at least yea

#

you'd get the 20/+2% per, but wouldn't it still be a net negative magic attack bonus?

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I can't math, it's still a net +20

glacial geyser
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oh I thought the +20/+2% was on the item itself

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no you are right

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its per armour piece equipped

dull tusk
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since they made surge spells good too kandarin is really a one stop shop. wrath runes included

wary egret
#

Does shadowflame recast also proc rune regeneration?

dull tusk
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no it doesnt use more runes

small flower
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so i guess it'd still be a .. slightly better virtus

dull tusk
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but surge spells have inherently very high costs associated

small flower
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so not a terrible choice if you hate farming DT2 guys

coral silo
dull tusk
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no the recast doesnt

glacial geyser
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based on the wording of the staff I think it doesn't

small flower
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rune regeon on the recast would be weird for fire regen effect...

coral silo
glacial geyser
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it 'fires an additional spell' you do not cast it

dull tusk
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its not a recast, its a 2nd hit, like twinflame

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twinflame wiki 'Note that the second spell does not give Magic or Hitpoints experience, nor consume runes'

cursive edge
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https://dps.osrs.wiki?id=BlackSealedThieves

this is my 48 DPS wind surge setup.

Gotta add 30% to the 37% magic dmg (forced air weakness from devils element)

so 24 * 1.67 = 40 damage

then a 56% multiplier from 8 prayers active

40 * 1.56 = 62 damage

Then 40% extra hit from staff

62 * 1.4 = 86 damage

And 100% chance to max hit every time

So 86/1.8 = 47.7 DPS vs ANYTHING

glacial geyser
dull tusk
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regen is in fact based on the runes used, that was just a wrong statement

glacial geyser
#

that implies you could use combo runes then

dull tusk
#

'whenever your combat spells regenerate earth runes' explicitly describes proccing on regenerate itself

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i think if you used combo runes it would proc nothing as you arent using either of the specified runes

cloud panther
#

Is the EKBD crossbow one handed or two

dull tusk
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they count as those runes, but the regennerated rune isnt either

tacit oyster
#

2 handed crossbow

dull tusk
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they make it very very clear on every regenerate node that it scales not with number of hits, but with times regenerated and number of runes regenerated in those times

cloud panther
#

btw this has been on my mind. If Asgarnia isn't available how do you get anti-fire shields

glacial geyser
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leageus tutor?

toxic vortex
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Slayer shops

cloud panther
#

oo

tacit oyster
toxic vortex
#

Thats basic info on the leagues page

cloud panther
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ty

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I must of skimmed that part

cloud panther
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ya I kno for some reason I mix those two up all the time

dull tusk
#

im trying to think what my magic build even needs after already having kandarin and varlamore.... i guess im just free to pick my favorites

small flower
#

varlamore start frees up quite a lot, is nice

toxic vortex
glacial geyser
#

probably mory to get the free slayer helm

tight mortar
#

Happy that we got a mage sunfire spear for solo tobs

glacial geyser
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because you will need a lot of slayer for thermy

warped turtle
#

may be a dumb question but is there any utility in Zanaris to be aware of? Its free for everyone from the start right?

glacial geyser
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then you can take grimoire

dull tusk
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yeah it does but i dont need a magic armor gear set, moons already gives a serviceable one

toxic vortex
wary egret
#

Culling seems like a stronger and stronger pick if going wildy and kandarin

tough finch
dull tusk
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i can find a better upgrade in kourend if i were to go for that

tough finch
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So if you do kandarin for elemental, it's not as good

toxic vortex
dull tusk
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its not much of a consideration for ele spells since the set bonus isnt much better than just having moons

small flower
#

little higher %magic, but the accuracy loss is a decent chunk

dull tusk
#

hardly justifies a whole region, though its a fine upgrade if you just like the zone

small flower
#

it's definitely tankier though? could be a good option for a thorns mix

dull tusk
#

with our general accuracy level being tanky is a worthy consideration for sure

cloud panther
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grim?

dull tusk
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grimoire id assume

cloud panther
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ah

dull tusk
#

i cant say cause it entirely depends on whats next on the relic reveals

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they said the next relic is tankiness - if it is, ill just slap on that and take kourend cause i like kourend and it happens to be good

small flower
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am hoping the last t8 is something fun, i've never liked the guardians, nor the invuln/autorevives :/

wary egret
#

Am I gonna have to reload soul harvester or is ouriana altar and transmute enough with kandarin?

dull tusk
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transmute sounds like plenty to me

tough finch
#

do yall think it's worth it to go for a stronger early game kind of thing like fast melee + thorns and then respec into a preferred build after you get into some of the late game content to actually start getting decent pact points

small flower
#

first tree being something for one specific boss seems very practical to me

tough finch
#

I worry going mage early will feel bad compared to something like that

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like you don't want to mage moons

small flower
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like entire spec around mid-tier gear so you can do awkened whisper or something

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then swap out

dull tusk
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it wont be speedrunning the skill but what transmute does do is make the skill chill if it works how i think it would work

cursive edge
#

So I think minmaxed Wind Surge does 48 DPS, minmaxed Fire Surge does 55.5 DPS

potent quail
glacial geyser
latent magnet
tacit oyster
potent quail
cursive edge
glacial geyser
potent quail
latent magnet
cloud panther
glacial geyser
small flower
#

one manual water surge every few hits would probably keep you topped up yea

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that might even be the way to go for cerb dagger

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just blast with ice barrage every once in a while

coral basin
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Question for people who played in last league, if my hardest pvm encounter ive done in the main game was Moons, is there any chance I can do echo bosses or am I lacking experience

small flower
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you'll learn

small flower
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worst case, you die, and go right back

coral basin
#

That is true

cloud panther
dull tusk
coral basin
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I really like the hespori bow

tacit oyster
#

echo cerberus might he hard if you go melee but otherwise i think they are fine if you take some time to learn mechanics

dull tusk
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i do think 100% regen is something your 17 pointer should invest into on the way to point 20 though

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or youll bleed runes and get less effect of regen perks

small flower
#

if only undead grasp counted as a fire spell

coral basin
#

Is it fine if i dont know what all my regions are off the rip if i know my first one

small flower
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still gets the +12 damage from regen i guess

cursive edge
#

Do we know if def pots scale the Permanent Defence Levels you get from the pact tree?

small flower
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yea, especially with karamja being an unlock now, you'll have a good amount of time to figure the rest out

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or the whole weekend if you wanna sit around and figure it out before league starts too

dull tusk
small flower
dull tusk
#

this is the earliest i think you can get the 'full package' while covering all your bases

velvet flume
#

can someone help me understand something about the devil's element please? it just means that if it already has an elemental weakness then it gets another 30% added right? like it doesn't just apply 30% to any monster even if it doesn't

small flower
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it does both

dull tusk
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it applies 30% universally, additive with whatever it may or may not have

small flower
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^

dull tusk
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it shows in the video it giving 30% to a 0% mob, and then an extra 30% to a mob with some already

tough finch
plain merlin
#

it used to just straight up double so if an npc had 50 it would add 50

small flower
#

i'm absolutely starting my mage with a tree for that

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just to try it

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lol

plain merlin
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now its a flat 30% right

dull tusk
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yeah now its less strong in the best cases, but more universal

#

good tradeoff

cursive edge
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ok, so you can reach >216 defence level, giving 18 flat damage. Decent chance that damage is not reduced to 40% on the 2nd shadowflame hit

small flower
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maybe, idk if the potion will give boost based on the 159 or the 99

cursive edge
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Unclear if the 18 flat damage is scaled by %magic dmg and %earth weakness. Anyone know?

dull tusk
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yeah i dont think potion will stack

small flower
#

though even the 14 flat you'd get with 188 or w/e would be really nice

dull tusk
#

additional flat damage sounds like unscaleable, though it will be used as derivative for the second hit from the ele staff

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which scales it up by 40%

small flower
#

yea, i'd guess it's seperate final addition, since it's worded differently than the fire rune regen node

dull tusk
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so at minimum its value would be 25 with proper earth spells and that staff

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which sounds good to me personally

cursive edge
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it isnt good if that's all it gives

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compared to wind/fire

dull tusk
#

well it isnt

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it gives you tankiness

small flower
#

fire isn't that much higher

dull tusk
#

thats the main draw, the damage is to keep it leagues level power

small flower
#

though i guess you also get burns

cursive edge
#

well fire is giving 27 flat damage

dull tusk
#

even for your damage part of it will surely come from thorns

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yeah but fire costs hp meaning you have to heal

smoky raft
cursive edge
#

im thinking though mechanically the dmg for fire and the dmg for earth are not functionally the same

cloud panther
#

is tommorow the reveal for the final two relics?

dull tusk
cursive edge
#

its possible the earth damage is not reduced by the 2nd shadowflame hit

small flower
#

fire has more utility for sure, with burns and the aoe bounce

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earth seems like a very nice stable option though

smoky raft
cursive edge
cursive edge
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ok so 15 flat damage then?

shrewd wyvern
#

Can I get some clarification on the Conniving Clues relic?
Is it similar to past leagues where is still includes perks of least steps+most rolls for clue items?

small flower
#

14 or 15 yea, idk how they round these things

cursive edge
#

makes earth regen thing pretty useless tho..?

dull tusk
#

anyways half of the 'earth tank' damage is inevitably thorns

small flower
#

so 21/22 counting shadowflame

smoky raft
#

14 or 15 depending on how they truncate

cursive edge
#

if youre using brews you already get more than a 20% boost tod efence

dull tusk
#

you are scaling defence to be tanky not to deal the max dps with hits, which can be applied into throns

cursive edge
#

so its a waste of a point if they dont stack

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you cant do thorns with devils element tho

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and devils element is 36% dmg boost

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and 30% accuracy

smoky raft
dull tusk
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you cant do thorns on tree, you CAN do echo boots

cursive edge
cloud panther
#

crap I didn't think about that. Devil's and Thorns wont stack

cursive edge
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and spend that 1 pt elsewhere

small flower
#

the defense total to recoil damage doesn't require a shield 😄

smoky raft
#

I mean, sure, if you don't have the passive def levels picked

cursive edge
small flower
#

but yea that's a relatively minor effect

dull tusk
#

forced into like 3 nodes in melee area that dont interact with any other melee

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and any non meleer can attack you from further, which is actually better for you

cursive edge
hardy heart
#

So with the crystal blessing, full crystal and tumeken shadow:

I assume that the 6% magic dmg from the blessing gets tripled by the shadow passive?

But the crystal armour buffs would not

velvet flume
#

okay i see why mage build is so big now

smoky raft
#

no, but they impact your def rolls

small flower
#

probably yes

dull tusk
#

yeah ur kinda forgetting that half the draw of this build is facetanking, and only considering the dps

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any defence bonus at all buffs your facetank

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the facetank in some situations could also buff your dps

cursive edge
#

yeah im just trying to find the best dps mage setup

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IF earth flat damage is not reduced on the 2nd shadowflame hit, it actually could be the best dps lol

dull tusk
#

its fire for sure, especially in multi enemy situations, notably collosseum and inferno. you just gotta heal up sometimes and you will be less tanky

winged trench
#

May be dumb question, but does the crystal blessing apply to all range weapons? Or just the bowfa?

smoky raft
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Just the bowfa

winged trench
#

RIP

dull tusk
#

it doesnt follow with anye xisting mechanics to assume that. derivative secondary hits dont scale with anything at all, cause they already adopt the scaling the first hit did

cloud panther
#

With gear with the absolute highest defence bonuses I think you can get the recoil to hit like 90 total with each hitsplat

dull tusk
#

if they did, they would double dip like this and quickly become OP

cursive edge
#

24 base * 1.4 from shadowflame, so 33.6

Then add 15 flat damage to each hitsplat, which is equivalent to 30 max hits to each hitsplat, so 60 max hits combined

so 93.6 max hit equivalent

Then 30% earth weakness, and 55% inc magic damage from gear/tree

93.6 * 1.85 = 173

(173/2)/1.8 = 48 DPS

Same value I got for Air, though Earth is way tankier

dull tusk
#

the only known double hit scaling that stacks like that is flat armour, which is different as its an enemy side dmg taken modifier not a player side damage increased modifier

smoky raft
dull tusk
#

yeah i covered that

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it was made differently to ensure it works exactly in this way, specifically

small flower
smoky raft
#

Flat armour is handled player side

gaunt creek
#

What’s the solve for con?

smoky raft
#

you wouldn't get the xp from the boosted hits otherwise

dull tusk
#

but its a quality on the monster which is a difference in design

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im not saying its a technical level im saying its a consistency in design level

proper stratus
#

does anyone know if the drygore blowpipe counts as a thrown weapon?

cloud panther
#

it does

small flower
#

it should yea, regular bp does

smoky raft
dull tusk
#

they dont want you to double dip on player side mods, but they introduced that new form of monster side mods to say that these are the specific places you can get this double dip mechanic, in specific ways

#

on a design level it paints a clean distinction

proper stratus
#

ty all

dull tusk
#

so we can assume they maintain that distinction unless otherwise specified

small flower
smoky raft
dull tusk
#

there is one. its the only mechanic in the game that works like that

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that alone is a distinction, it being an exception in explicit purpose marks the rule

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so i wont assume another exception unless that explicit purpose is also marked

wary egret
#

You can get wildy slayer tasks from shilo right?

wanton arrow
#

Anyone found/made a good potential build around the tecpatl?

dull tusk
#

you can get normal slayer tasks which you can happen to complete in the wilderness if you also have it, but it wont count as wildy slayer

cloud panther
dull tusk
#

i think they referenced a solution to getting wildy slayer tasks but we dunno what it is

gaunt creek
winged trench
#

How good is “elemental balances” for construction exp? The league planner I saying that’s my best method

cloud panther
smoky raft
cloud panther
#

hmmm

cursive edge
#

I still think my powered staff + thorns build beats all ele spells in terms of DPS

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but its close

#

and vs anything with actual ele weakness then ele spells win

dull tusk
smoky raft
#

close enough that ele wins from the side spec into tanking lmao

cloud panther
#

was gunna do a earth mage thorns build but didnt think about it needing a shield. So can't use devils element

cursive edge
#

well the fire/air setups are def not tankier

wary egret
cursive edge
#

earth is tankier, but the assumptions giving it competitive DPS could be totally wrong

cloud panther
tacit oyster
cursive edge
#

and I mean the powered staff setup is very tanky still, it has actual healing which earth does not

velvet flume
#

whats the demonbane solution if you go elemental build?

cursive edge
#

and way better aoe clear from thorns + GG staff spec

smoky raft
#

I click the shark

cursive edge
#

i want to solo raids and whatnot

smoky raft
cursive edge
#

and do long trips

cursive edge
ionic dust
#

Ladies and gents a quick question. Will for example tomeken take advantage of both the normal damage increase of crystal armor and the 2% magic dmg and 20 acc increase per piece with the Crystal blessing equipped?

cloud panther
dull tusk
dull tusk
tacit oyster
#

you can get ayak from doom or even use demonbane spells if arceuus/zeah

smoky raft
#

ayak isn't demonbane

tacit oyster
#

you can easily brute force doom to like delve 50 without even killing grubs

tough finch
#

Random thought, the 2nd hits from the sub 1kg melee node can enable the dogger's 2nd hit to increase the damage from your dogger's fire spell

weary drift
#

Hey is the dps calc for leagues correct???

smoky raft
#

It's also probably one of the weaker powered staves

tough finch
weary drift
#

Because I think thrown might be a lil strong

smoky raft
weary drift
velvet flume
#

elemental builders, what areas are you gonna go?

tacit oyster
small flower
cursive edge
#

Mory + Wildy + Tirannwn

https://dps.osrs.wiki?id=MaulThickCracker

From what I can tell, the GG staff is around 5-7% more dps than Sang, but I'd be using both. Swap to sang for healing or attacking from >3 tiles, use GG for when I'm up close or need AoE.

Wiki calc ofc doesnt factor in the Crystal Blessing effects, and is missing the bit of extra damage from fire regen.

But accounting for these things manually, its 40 DPS with Sang, 42 DPS with Lithic Sceptre. And then 8 DPS extra from Thorns vs a 4 tick enemy.

Also gets lots of spec for Thammarons and Ayak to drain magic/defence vs bosses super resistant to magic.

smoky raft
#

Oh lmao I know very little about the Doom fight

cursive edge
smoky raft
#

I just know there's something called car phase

dull tusk
#

a drop from doom to farm doom seems really backwards. im sure many will wanna do doom really early its worth considering

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so its good they added this tool

tough finch
dull tusk
#

allows you to get by on mechanics rather than pure OP stats, before you've scaled up

velvet flume
tough finch
#

still prob not amazing

dull tusk
#

a lot of people seem to have the conception that you spawn in at 40 points and all relics and all gear and dont have to consider what/how youll kill things while weaker to get there

small flower
#

the base strength on the dagger kinda put me off it tbh

#

i was lookin forward to it

smoky raft
#

alr yall

Do you think I'll be able to reliably kill blue moon by bashing her with a staff in addy plate

tough finch
dull tusk
#

if you stack flat defence levels early on for sure

smoky raft
#

oh true

dull tusk
#

you should really farm for amox first i think

#

just cause that weapon will be so good for em

twin ermine
#

Is leviathan accessible without misthalin?

velvet flume
#

whats solution for wrath runes? if you dont go frem

tacit oyster
smoky raft
small flower
#

transmutation

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will upgrade anything into wrath runes

cloud panther
#

Aight im outta here. Cya all

twin ermine
#

Yeah but don’t you need gotr to access

dull tusk
#

plus i think rushing the new echo bosses makes for the most fun encounters. so i wont waste the opportunity to do it in rags

velvet flume
tacit oyster
small flower
#

yea, plus the fact they seem to want to keep people in varlamore a bit longer to start

#

all the more incentive to push the amoxliatl kills

dull tusk
#

varlamore has a lot to do i dont mind chillin there for a good bit

smoky raft
#

I'm not pushing amox early

small flower
#

yep, did varlamore on 2 chars last league, love the place, and now its even bigger

tacit oyster
#

Kings barrage splits its max hit between both attacks. Its a multi hit weapon like the infernal tecpatl

#

nice actually got confirmation about the king's barrage

#

I dont have to go Wilderness* now WiseOldLUL

small flower
#

that's useful on several points

cursive edge
#

Wind surge build that has 100% chance to max hit 86 each time does seem pretty fun lol

#

But not very tanky

tacit oyster
#

Now all i need to choose is going to zeah or reloading into grimoire

small flower
#

well, you'll have infinite prayer

#

just run redemption

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and hope nothing ever hits over a 10

cursive edge
#

lol

small flower
#

honestly could just do the same as with fire

#

manually cast a water surge when needed

tacit oyster
#

all surges can get infinite prayer with 1 point into air rune regen

cursive edge
#

Yeah prayer is easy

small flower
#

that is a fair point

unreal crow
#

How effective do surge builds get vs raids and sol though? Just concerned about the endgame on a mage build

dull tusk
#

water regen is so absurd yeah that you can just cast 1 spell and go back to it

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raids? absolutely no issue? Sol? your concern isnt sol its getting to him

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he goes down like a stack of jenga blocks

cursive edge
#

I think 1t powered staff builds with wildy do the best on that kind of content. Getting 2% spec per 1t attack, with Thammarons + Ayak specs to drain stats

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I'll be maging Sol Heredit with this shit

tacit oyster
#

max mage probably like 30-40% accuracy on sol, without magic defence reduction

dull tusk
#

fire surge builds target bounce which should make solves on colo very very simple

small flower
#

yea, definitely doing KTW, just seems fun with accursed

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both with the hits and spec

wicked mountain
#

u guys think a dhins door blindbag thorns build is bait?

small flower
#

i think it's 100% viable and will probably never die

dull tusk
#

it will be tanky. thats all i promise

small flower
#

whether or not it's enjoyable is something else

cursive edge
dull tusk
#

if you're fine with a build that has still better than maingame dps but is ungodly tanky, shoot for it

small flower
#

gonna probably do 2 chars and have my other guy in mory XD

dull tusk
#

it just wont be high dps competetive

tacit oyster
#

dinh's with thorns + V's helm + flask should be hard to die, outside zuk and yama

small flower
#

i always end up doing 2 or 3 chars anyway, better to just accept it now

weary drift
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Do we know of the dagger spec works with devils element??

small flower
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the fire effect is a spell

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so yes

wicked mountain
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i mean thorns will do around 35 dmg per hit flat. + any recoils

dull tusk
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ya it does

tough finch
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not every subspec should be about trying for "max dps". a lot of the fun is in unconventional but powerful playstyles. Door build is totally strong enough

tacit oyster
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Fang of the hound's spell does count as a fire spell for the purpose of pacts, it does benefit from having a devil's element equipped and it is considered a light weapon

dull tusk
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the recoils each get the flat damage added independantly btw

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but yeah ur just waiting for the npc to attack you, which makes it fundamentally inconsistent

small flower
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eyp, so as long as things are actually hitting you, potential is pretty high

wicked mountain
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yea and u can 2 right? echo boots and suffering count seperate right?

dull tusk
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in certain scenarios it will pull out more dps than anything else does

small flower
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but with defense that high, you won't get hit as often

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soooo

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actual damage may vary

wicked mountain
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i mean u still hit stuff with door and blindbag

small flower
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yep, that's true

wicked mountain
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aoe clear for slayer should be fine with thorns

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also scythe aoe blindbag hits

dull tusk
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yeah ur just using dihns and tank gear which means you wont be doing as much damage as someone else

tacit oyster
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zcb build with only healing being onyx bolt (e) and flask, unless last t8 replaces flask ancestralhmm

wicked mountain
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oh yea

small flower
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will probably still see fun cascades occasionally with the blindbags/ranged echos

dull tusk
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its leagues-appropriate damage numbers, but it specs more into tank than top level damage

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just as long as you know that, its great

wicked mountain
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yea

small flower
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also, lots of raid gear

wicked mountain
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went range last league. dps was insane but 1t knifes were giga boring

dull tusk
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all of the builds this league are cool thankfully

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all stacked with flavor adding special effects

wicked mountain
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yea the new tree is rly cool

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mayeb jsut gonna do 2 chars

cursive edge
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pure recoil builds are gonna struggle hard at Sol

dull tusk
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they did a good job of making it so everything wasnt 'you pull out shadow and attack gooder' while making that still be an option but not an outlier in power

cursive edge
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Since you dont even get hit

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a 0

wicked mountain
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i mean ur still meele with blindbag

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recoil for solves and just normal meele for sol

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u always carry 5 extra melee weapons anyway^^

tacit oyster
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some attacks might not even be able to recoil damage, like does sol spear or shield even count as sol damage. Things like warden p3 didnt count as warden damage in gridmaster

small flower
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true, just have hally in bag and swap if you need to lol

dull tusk
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thorns should work well enough as it procs even if you get hit a 0, making it a good baseline

small flower
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(or i guess if you've already got justi+door, you've got scythe)

wicked mountain
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yea depends on what order to do stuff

small flower
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time to find out if you can actually melee zuk i guess

wicked mountain
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haha

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what range do you need to hit zuk?

dull tusk
small flower
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not sure, i think 7 should work for most of it though, if not the corners

dull tusk
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it definitely works, it matches the distance cap of other ranged weapons which can kill zuk. though youll have that same low range awakwardness yes

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for most purposes a 7 ranged halberd can effectively be envisioned as if you have an RCB on rapid

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though im not sure you can go over objects in the same way, need to see ingame

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id put my money on 'probably'

small flower
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probably? the same as if you were gonna hally a varrock guard over a fence

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but... fence... giant rock.... what's the difference really

dull tusk
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yeah thats what i mean by see ingame like id need to open the game and try doing exactly that

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i didnt remember if it worked

tacit oyster
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it will work as ranged over things that do not block line of sight

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all 2 range weapons can also hit flying enemies according to jmods

twin ermine
wicked mountain
small flower
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going hard for the defense nodes feels slightly counter to wanting to be hit for recoils

wicked mountain
dull tusk
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unless you are taking fremmy or morytania, culling spree is objectively better dps than grimoire in any slayer applicable monster

small flower
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thorns will yea

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oh, not K anyway, just thorns focus

wicked mountain
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also culling spree stacks with slayer helm for anyone taking mory

bleak depot
dull tusk
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no it does not

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'Wearing a slayer helmet while having this relic unlocked will not double the effects of the slayer helmet'

wicked mountain
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did they change it?

dull tusk
wicked mountain
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bc i could have sworn to read it the other way around

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sry then

dull tusk
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strong helmet + slayer helm effect, its a good combo

languid mauve
dull tusk
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no need for slayer helm

twin ermine
languid mauve
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Wrong reply but it doesnt stack

bleak depot
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Yeah but Crystal will have a full set effect anyway won’t it ?

dull tusk
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also if you are a mage you cant Just take more, you HAVE to also take asgarnia for the slayer helm. or just fremmy

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cause you have to imbue it

bleak depot
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I’m going kmt

dull tusk
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so you wont get the imbue, so its worthless

twin ermine
bleak depot
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Wasn’t planning on culling spree

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Aight tysm

dull tusk
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it literally will do nothing for a mage whatsoever

bleak depot
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Yeah i figured

languid mauve
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Versions

dull tusk
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the morytania only slayer helm isnt

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thats what i am talking about

bleak depot
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^

small flower
languid mauve
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Yes it is the echo item?

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Its imbued

dull tusk
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no its not the echo item

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fremmy is the echo item

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this is the base game out the box slayer helmet

bleak depot
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They’re talking about mory the OG slayer helm not culling spree

dull tusk
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i would say v's helmet if i meant v's helmet

bleak depot
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Not fremmy

static notch
languid mauve
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I think they’re confused

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But let people dream i guess

dull tusk
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asgarnia imbues

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you dont get soul wars or pvp imbues, so you need nmz

static notch
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nmz is kandarin

dull tusk
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imbue enables the ranged and magic effects on the slayer helmet

languid mauve
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Kanderin imbues

dull tusk
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one of those i always get em confused

copper gorge
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Have changed my starting relic path.

languid mauve
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If they dont block nmz

wicked mountain
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what places is prayer pen going to be relevant?

dull tusk
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but either way you need two whole regions dedicated to slayer helmet imbueing morytania isnt enough

copper gorge
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Woodsman over hot

tacit oyster
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nmz has always been blocked but you can buy points with gp for imbue

dull tusk
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i think they do block nmz but you can pay coins instead for imbues is the deal

tough finch
small flower
copper gorge
languid mauve
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Mory is black mask u can buy rest of components from any slayer master imbue is kanderin which any mage will be going

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Unless ofc they block nmz again

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Then i got no idea

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Lol

cursive edge
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Okayyyy hold on. Smoke Barrage might be the top DPS. I'm calcing 53.3 DPS with it

dull tusk
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powered staff mages wont nessecarily go there its just an elemental thing

static notch
languid mauve
dull tusk
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i dont think many spellbook mages are going morytania

languid mauve
small flower
languid mauve
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Oh wait no crying

dull tusk
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so theyre kinda 2 regions at odds a bit, unless u want nightmare stuff i guess

languid mauve
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They have gp trade nvm

cursive edge
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I'm doing a bunch of manual calculations to account for missing things

small flower
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ahh

languid mauve
dull tusk
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whats the draw?

empty pagoda
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My calculation is I'm going to stab things with a halberd.

cursive edge
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I have just realised though that minimum damage (like from the fire regen node) does nothing for air spells

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Because it always max hits

tacit oyster
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i guess i can run 2nd account for echo items... my main build ignores all echo weapons since nothing is worth for crossbow, wilderness would be basically same as zcb in asgarnia but wilderness is dead content with raggers scronglypirate

cursive edge
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So the dps isnt 53.3

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its like 47.7

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same as wind surge

small flower
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what minimum damage from fire regen

dull tusk
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wilderness xbow is if nothing else an excellent swap to overheal

cursive edge
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it adds min and max damage

dull tusk
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overheal and freezing, even if you chose not to main that crossbow, i would find a worthwhile echo item to have on hand

cursive edge
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if it adds 5 dmg, thats equivalent to 10 max hits in terms of DPS, unless youre using the wind spell capstone

languid mauve
cursive edge
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in whcih case its more complicated

smoky raft
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I forget, did the dragon sq shield half just drop as the full shield last time or nah

small flower
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it should just be +4 damage

small flower
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or 5 i guess if 125% regen works like that

languid mauve
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Not a unique item

smoky raft
dull tusk
cursive edge
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I'm goin 150% regen, 4 rune consumption. So it adds on average 6 damage

static notch
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harm for +1/14 dps boost vs specifically no offstyle weakness is troll

cursive edge
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For a non-air spell, that 6 damage is equivalent to adding 12 max hits in terms of DPS

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but for air, its just 6

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if you have 50 prayer

languid mauve
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There is actually only a few damage nodes you can access without wasting points

dull tusk
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if all you're doing is casting a water spell with no other investment but pacts and in ranger gear, i very much doubt your healing rates are any good

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plus in this scenario you dont have wrath runes nessecarily

small flower
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i'm lost, where's the distiction from non-air to air, smoke counts as air, and also gets the +6 from the fire regen, the fire regen does not specify type of spell, it should work for any spell that uses fire runes

dull tusk
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the early in the tree rune regene ffects work as long as you use the runes, not based on your spell type

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the ones that specify spell type later on need that spell type specifically, even if they otherwise have scaling with runes

small flower
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yea, i'm not seeing where varlamoon is seperating smoke barrage to non-air in whatever he's calc'ing

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that would certainly help push smoke up in the figure though, plus the natural higher maxhit

small flower
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plus virtus I suppose? for higher %magic on ancients

dull tusk
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smoke counts as air with the node for all purposes i can think of, except the 2nd hit from the kandarin staff

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for the kandarin staff the difference is it specifies not element, but spellbook

small flower
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actualy is crystal still best for air surge? magic attack, magic%, and prayer bonus

wicked mountain
smoky raft
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crystal bonus from blessing only applies to powered staves

small flower
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for the echoes

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the set bonus does yea

wicked mountain
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it only applies when he has that wep equipped

small flower
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but you still get +magic accuracy and +2% magic damage per piece

twin ermine
languid mauve
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So 11 points and you will outheal any other styles healing. I would not call that a waste even if you have rag gear to heal 3 tick mage and water surge hitting roughly 30s would be healing 18s per 30 u would have 29 points to play with + also have the ability to utilize range node for the +25% damage for weapon swap

dull tusk
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ranged echoes from melee count as all 3 weapons

tough finch
wicked mountain
dull tusk
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which it explicitly makes you count as

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they list em all out one by one and say yup, you count as them

wicked mountain
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the multi procc woprks yes but not the other 3

small flower
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"as if you have a bow, crossbow, and thrown weapon equipped"

static notch
wicked mountain
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ohhhhhh

twin ermine
wicked mountain
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sorry

tough finch
dull tusk
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yeah any node thats specific to ranged echoes or ranged echoes with any weapon type works

wicked mountain
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sorry sorry

dull tusk
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as long as its effect and not rate of proccing

cursive edge
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yeah crystal is only good if using powered staves

small flower
dull tusk
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excpet the crossbow one

small flower
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so it comes out to +20 , ain't crazy for accuracy but still overall good?

languid mauve
static notch
twin ermine
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It’s better than any other set I would imagine. Crystal goes fucking crazy with shadow too

cursive edge
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So it seems like Smoke Barrage and Wind Surge have identical DPS. Just comes down to getting Wrath runes vs Ancients. Smoke Barrage also AoE so generally seems better

twin ermine
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Transmute solves wrath runes easily

small flower
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transmutation solves wraths easy

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yea

cursive edge
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Yeah, but that's a decision

small flower
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and there's always reloaded to grimoire if you dont want desert

tough finch
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  • nodes
cursive edge
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If someone prefers butler or something, they may want to go smoke barrage

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Ya fire surge is higher dps than both