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Did you watch the video lmao

@raphtheboygenius yeah. I mean, im the person that got enjoyment out of high end pvm. I had just about finished getting most gear i had spend years pvming for. Maybe im the "2%" of the player base that's affected. Im just a little salty about it. Tbh i feel like the top pvmer is more than 2% of the player base. Isnt like 30% of active players maxed? Im not sure. But yeah there is no doubt that this makes it easier for new players to get gear. One thing i quite dislike is that there isnt really a Halo pvm item anymore and with the way the new wand and orb are dropped it seems that that might not happen again for a long time. Let me add the quote from The Incredibles: When everyone is Super, nobody is. I just feel like having maxed gear was the last kind of achievement this game had to offer. Everything has been devalued. Maxed isnt impressive, 120s are easier to get than 99's used to be. Maybe im just getting too old, but osrs still has the "wow" factor. When you see a guy with a tbow or full torva with a scythe it means something and i feel like we are losing that now.

As someone who also has BiS everything, it does suck that my bank went down, but at the same time, there wasn't really anything else for me to buy, and I definitely wasn't selling my gear for it. I understand that the number going down isn't fun, but you also have to consider that before the update, you had everything. After the update, you still had everything. If you feel like your achievements are worthless then that's fine, but the other side of the story is that the vast majority of the player base wasn't touching content above Vindicta.

@raphtheboygenius ive pretty much quit but ill probably come back for GIM if that ever comes out. I suppose Necro being easy to max makes it a bit more chill to grind out every other boss in the game. Thats the main thing im still looking forward to these days.

By the time I realized I should have switched to Excel, I was basically done lmao, I wrote out my thoughts in Word then just never really left Word when doing the math.

Bonds going up and up and up while a lot of the stuff we sold to get bonds does feel really bad, and people who buy bonds to fund their membership are another group of people who are negatively affected.

No bonds would increase these prices if the problem is prices dropping…

@@raphtheboygenius blame osrs AND blame membership prices. both directly effect rs3 bonds.

I did too! But I also have everything so, doesn't really matter to me since I have nothing to buy lol.

why do you say that?

best part? its nearly last place for bossing. its the best entry style but its starting to be the lesser with dpm.

Omg I'd love to sit and listen to them talk about RS. They're both super informative and have serious dedication to the game

i think its good to have expensive items you don't need bolg for any content in the entire game everything is doable with SGB or t90's or t92's

@@Vaikisspwnz Well that's the thing, before Necro even t90's could cost you over 1-2b which if you're using t80 gear is not really as easy to make. T80's is fine for GW2 but if you wanted to learn Kera for example, you'd struggle a good bit without t90, sure you could do normal mode but it's nowhere near as good. Also, necro pushed people to learn harder stuff like Zuk and get the capes, I had some friends who had never remotely thought they'd get a basic Zuk cape but I was able to teach them how to get not only a normal cape, but a hard mode cape as well because they had so much fun and felt more confident with Necro (Sure, it was OP so that helped, but still)

​@Vaikisspwnz so your take is 100hrs ish to have just the weapons for a style is a good idea? And there are five pieces of armor, per style. You're a moron is the point of this story

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It wouldn't surprise me if their true values were closer to the post-necro drop after the max cash rework. In another world where there is 6 months between max cash update and necro release, it is entirely possible (tbh, I think it's very likely) that BOLG would've settled around 3.5b anyway and took a minor dip from the release of necro (meaning that necro would've been an even bigger boon for the economy).

It is a complaint I've gotten quite a bit, so that's why I'm making these! The next episode is coming out in a few days, I've been working on doing quests and getting my skills to where I said everyone should get them. It's mostly going to be tips and tricks for skilling and questing to help you guys get through that grind faster! After that, we're going to be working exclusively on making money to get members.

The two most popular criticism of Necromancy is that it ruined the economy and that it makes PVMing meaningless. This video addresses the former. It's obvious to me why things are the way they are, but the reality is that there is a very popular perception that the economy is ruined because of Necromancy, so that's the point of this video.

@@raphtheboygenius imo, people who say necro makes pvm meaningless probably cant solo vorago on any mode yet.

Vorkath was the most money I've ever made from a boss in terms of GP/hr. 278 HM, 203 spikes, 2 lord of bones, and a scale the day it got announced after 10 kc lol. That's obviously an outlier in terms of GP/hr, but when spikes were at their highest, the boss was literally 140m/hr (which went up to 170 when the scale came out).

@@raphtheboygenius my spike drops are below average 141 spikes only, 2 scales (sold for 500 and 600m each), 2 lord of bones (one for 300m). And i still havent got the pet...

I'm going to open 300 HM chests today, wonder how much I'll make...

To be clear, I do think that's a separate issue. Rasial being as effective of a money maker as it was + the fact that it is afkable now (combined with Sanctum being botted to all hell) is problem and is something that should probably be addressed (at least the Sanctum botting). 10k kills is far above the norm though and while I agree bossing gets pretty dull when you have everything, that's also a little bit your fault lmao, so I don't feel as bad for you.

Something tells me you didn't watch the video...

They already nerfed 120 necro to be on par with 99, defeating the purpose of having a 120 skill.

To be fair, the bigger issue is not necessarily that Necro went to 120 and the other styles didn't (especially since Necro doesn't get a damage buff after 99 anymore), it was that Necro is very clearly a beta test for a type of EOC 2.0. Necro is simple and functional and also used a significantly better damage/accuracy system than the other styles did. This made Necro feel way better to use because it worked and it made sense what you were doing. The other styles still have accessibility issues in the sense that it is very unclear which buttons you should be pressing and why unless you do a lot of research into high-level rotations. There definitely was favoritism toward Necro, but that makes sense; Necromancy was not just its own style in a vacuum, it was a reimaging of how combat could (and, I would argue SHOULD) be.

That's something I didn't really touch on in the video and I wish I did; one of the huge benefits to Necromancy is that we now have so many more people participating in the high-end economy now than every before. If nothing else, this stabilizes a lot of prices because so many more people are buying and selling these items. That, in itself, is always a good thing for a game's economy. Combining that with a pretty substantial increase in the value of our GP, the vast majority of players were better off because of Necromancy, financially speaking.

Tbf, if you can make 100s of millions per hour, 6b isn't that expensive

@@KayaFiend14 I am not saying it's expensive. I am saying it's not a permanent or normal state of affairs, and expecting it to last forever is foolish. As I said before, I bought my first Seismic set when I did Vorago in 2013 for 3B. I made many more billions with it, so it was good for me and worthwhile. But eventually Seismics crashed, as they should due to a variety of factors. That's how markets work. The PVMers complaining that their precious BOLG isn't 6B in forever don't understand economics.

@@alygo6789 That's partially fair. The bolg did drop a solid 2b due to necro though. That's much different than the slower drop that gear typically goes through. Seismics are a good example of a more natural curve. 3B in 2013 - 1B in 2023. 2B drop over 10 years, not 2 months.

@@KayaFiend14 A 6B resting level is not "natural" to begin with, so that analogy does not work.

@@alygo6789 The analogy was perfectly solid, not that it matters to the point. Being pedantic about the word "natural" doesn't change that.

I completely agree, and I do believe I addressed this. If you are doing bosses that took bigger hits or weren't great money to begin with, your GP felt a lot worse (because it was). Similarly, if you are buying non-PVM items with your PVM drops, then your money is also worth less. The opposite is also true though, skilling gains and clues were significantly more profitable if you were buying PVM items and the exact same if you weren't.

Skilling gains have never been profitable i don't know what nonsense you're on about. And no, saying something makes 100m over 100m xp is not profitable when I can do any combat and get 10x that. You either are heavily misspeaking or fundamentally misunderstand the skilling combat loop in rs.

I mainly use the persistent rage relic!

I think so! The goal is to get the account to rasial since rasial is the point at which you can farm everything you want on your own without a guide.

yes! whenever the blood reaver auto attacks, it does the blood barrage animation

I am using the persistent rage relic which keeps you at 100% adrenaline whenever you're not in combat. If you do not have persistent rage, it should not meaningfully change this fight. It just means your damage will be a little bit lower in phase 1, and you will likely have death skulls available for blood phase.

Generally speaking, ranged is the clear winner of the combat beta in terms of damage followed by melee. Then there is a gap, with necro and magic being at the bottom. To be clear, the difference isn't so massive that necro/magic are non-functional compared to range if your goal is to put out damage, but that's how the damage split is setup. Necro and magic are significantly tankier than range/melee, but they pay for that tankiness with their damage.

"not designed with legacy in mind"

I have double surge + dive + mobile, so layering your spells in the right order let's you have them up all of the time, basically

@@raphtheboygenius just got my first solo kill thanks for the vid :D

One I become a member, the pathing will be a lot more applicable since irons and mains have to do a lot of the same pathing (same quests, same dailies/weeklies, same core focus).

I'm mainly going to be focusing on guides for new content, reviews of new gear, and the free-to-playthrough. As I settle into a routine with those three things, I will make time for other games. I am not sure how much single player content should be turned into videos, but at the very least, I want to make content for tekken as I get better and play it more. We'll see what form that takes, but that's the plan!

Sort of? I have been much more interested in other games, which is necessarily taking me away from Runescape, but I don't dislike Runescape, it's just hard to want to login and play it when I'm having a lot of fun with other stuff.