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Bard Skill?

I decided to look around the Future Updates forum for an idea, and I found a few threads about Barding [If Barding isn't a word, too bad, it is now]. Here is one of those threads for you to review. Oh, and if your don't know what a Bard is:

A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.

It looks like pretty solid evidence, and could even become a nice skill. Although the thread focuses mainly on it as being a support skill, Jagex could give it many other abilities.

Post possible uses for the skill, possible forms of training the skill. Or perhaps you know of other evidence that point to this skill.


Previous Topics
Recent updates

Well after all the new updates have been released it seems like jagex can't go wrong. Or can they?

We have a new dragonfire shield, the most powerful shield in the game with the power to attack people with fire breath.
We have what rangers have wanted for a while, more powerful and faster crossbows and dark bows with the power of "ohmygosh dragon arrows".

So where's the downside I hear you cry? Well I shall explain.
Pkers are complaining.
Meleers are complaining.
Mages are complaining.
Rangers are complaining.
Merchants are complaining.
Idiots are complaining (but we'll ignor them)

We'll work our way down the list shall we?

- Pkers are complaining since they have an entirely different view on the wild now. Rangers are dangerous, and they don't want to be caught off gaurd be some rich git with a dragonfire shield.
- Meleers are complaining that they should be able to kill rangers with ease since that's the way the combat triangle says it should be.
- Mages are complaining of no updates for them. DF shield for the meleers, dark bow and crossbows for the rangers, and nothing super powered for them.
- Rangers are complaining eek since they are having trouble with a bow as slow as the dark bow... and the fact that it takes dragon arrows to really make it powerful.
- Merchants are complaining since the econemy is all over the place thanks to new and expensive releases. DF shields are one day 20 mill, then at one point they were up to 60 mill, now they're around the 18 mill mark.

Discuss your views and opinions on this.

Votes

Best Recent Update?
Dark Bow
33% [ 8 ]
Dragonfire Shield
54% [ 13 ]
Impetuous Imps
12% [ 3 ]

Total Votes : 24


Dual wielding? Guns? Wth?

I was browsing round the forums as I usually do and I came across something interesting, in the suggestions forum is a list of things that you're not allowed to suggest.

Obvious things like "horse riding, guns and dual wielding weapons".

Thing is... if you notice, there are asterisks beside a lot of these and at the bottom of the post is the reason why.

Basically, anything with an asterisk is game for future development.

This list of things that might be developed is as follows...
● A player made "examine" *
● Clan-related suggestions *
● Larger inventory *
● Races (Elves, Dwarves etc)/Players starting as another race *
● Summoning/necromancy *
● Sitting/Lying down *
● Flying *

● Night and Day/Weather *
● Free to Play Updates *
● Graphical improvements *
● New altars *

● Additional Dragon items *
● Drop/use/make/bank/buy/sell all/X buttons or functions *
● Futuristic/Ninja/Samurai items/fighting styles/clothing/town *
● Using 2 Weapons *

● More pets/trained monsters/tamed animals *
● Horses/Riding (All animals & machines: Riding a goat or a bike is still riding!)*

● A bank search/organisation*
● More bank space *
● New bank locations/banking from anywhere*

What're your thoughts on this list?

I personally think there could be some good ideas there. Guns, obviously are a big no... but who said they have to be ak47s, glocks and uzis? Why not think about the cannon for a second and then imagine some sort of archaeic dwarven crossbow-esque gun.
Votes
Favourite idea?
Dual Wielding
10% [ 3 ]
Riding
7% [ 2 ]
Ninja Stuff
14% [ 4 ]
Races
17% [ 5 ]
Summoning/Necromancy
17% [ 5 ]
Day/Night + Weather
32% [ 9 ]

Total Votes : 28


Pest Control

Pest control is one of these things that's brought a variety of upsides and downsides to runescape...

[Upsides]
You make money from it
Fastest stat trainer there is
You can create mind boggling pures (level 63 with str cape. :O )
It's a team game so you tend to get to know the people you're with.
It's freed up regular training spots, the ones that tended to always be overcrowed before pc was out.

[Downside]
No drops, since you're not training on ordinary monsters.
You get people that just want that 50 zeal and then they're standing still...
It's made most pures trained before obsolute.
It tends to be purely high level orientated, lower levels get frowned upon... when in fact many lower levels know their stuff and really can help in pc.
A lot of people don't see it as a mini game like castle wars. It's just a way of training stats quickly.

Discuss
[Pc]
It's upsides and downsides.
Do you train there or not and why?
Anything that could be improved?
Anything you like about it.
Anything at all pc orientated.
[Training]
What effects has pc had on your regular trainers using monsters?

Votes
Is PC a good addition to runescape or a bad addition?
Good addition - Cheap Exp
47% [ 8 ]
Bad Addition - Making runescape easier ftl?
11% [ 2 ]
I'm neutral. (Post reasons)
41% [ 7 ]

Total Votes : 17


Well this weeks hot topic is the following.

Graphics Updates

With Jagex updating so many monsters and areas, I think it's only fair we find out what our guild members would prefer to have updated.


Personally
I'm all for graphics updates, since they've all come out looking sharp. biggrin

Votes
What do you like the most?
All the graphics updates
63% [ 14 ]
Monster Graphic Updates
13% [ 3 ]
Area Graphic Updates
4% [ 1 ]
I'd prefer other updates (post your reasons)
18% [ 4 ]

Total Votes : 22

Yeah the graphic are getting a lot better

I love how they're updating not only the graphics but they're spending some time on the animations.

I can't wait to see how all of runescape ends up.

I think it'll be great when they finally get round to updating the world outside of towns and ardy... Ooh, and slayer monsters would be my most looked forward to monster graphic update.

Come on cool looking dust devils.

I have to admit the graphics are getting better. I'v seen the WoW graphics and Runescape is still a long way off but its getting better.

that would be good. They are kinda of blah right now.

Ooh, good point.

I would like a character update...

When they get around to updating our characters, I hope they don't try to make the female model more girl-like. Remember last time they did that? My Mime top still hasn't recovered from that update. Oh, and our skulls are smaller. It still bugs me because you can see the difference with my green mask. Although I'm happy they didn't shrink the mask, like they did for phats.

Although, it's funny. When they did that, they made the model's asses bigger, and boobs smaller. There's a mannequin upstairs at the salon, such a huge difference. It looks like Pam Anderson, rofl.

But yea, it'd be harder for them to update our characters. I'd imagine they'd need to update all the wearable items aswell.

Another nice thing is more attributes to the characters. Not a huge collection, but a few things that can be seen as differen't when wearing something. A good example is the pot-bellied characters.

It'd also be nice if they could improve the shadows on objects. They already have shadows for monsters, so why not walls?

Personally I'd prefer a character upodate myself, at least so that the armor/leather, y'know give Rune a little shine a little darkened when dirty, maybe the ability to polish, fold son the clothes/leather, etc.

Hell, I'd prefer a whole update for the characteristics of your.. well, character. Not thinking like, Sims, but something around that, more like the beginning of Pokemans mystery dungeon. Depending on their traits they'll give different responses on quests/talking to NPCs. Maybe even change it so instead of standing still when they don't move, they do a slight movement every now and then.

Or a Ranged update!