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Since the EOC update, blood runes and some other elemental runes are the only things need to cast high level ancient spell. This mean that the death rune is no longer need by player, and the blood rune will be the major demanded runes.
Compare the blood rune with the death rune, you will find out that gain access to the death alter need much more quest to been solved. And I guess the demand of blood rune will be rising soon after more player training up magic level and using spell to do bossing or Pking.
Will we see a decent number of blood rune bot after a short period?

Wasn't blood runes always the best combat rune? Death was the best for f2p

From: Mr[S]
Wasn't blood runes always the best combat rune? Death was the best for f2p

Before th EOC, both blood and death are both used for casting ancient spell, no matter the high blitz or low level rush spell.

From: freezeyp
Before th EOC, both blood and death are both used for casting ancient spell, no matter the high blitz or low level rush spell.

Except for the fact that ancients are nerfed! I bought 60k bloods to play CW and barrage.. Pfft. Biggest waste of money. Ended up selling all of them while I had the chance. Next day, bloods dropped 17 coins lol..

Wave hits hire than barrage and ice barrage only freezes them for 5 seconds. Rangers can stun and freeze you too so yeah.. Mage is nerfed. That 5 seconds is actually really quick. You also don't hit as easily as before. Lots of splashing at 99 mage.

Bloods will never be what they were. The new combat triangle is: Melee > Range > Mage. Oh yeah and Chaotic staff is now 2h so you can't wield with your shield. Master wand is like 10m street price.. Utterly disgusting.

inb4 i have 100k bloods

From: Brandon
Except for the fact that ancients are nerfed! I bought 60k bloods to play CW and barrage.. Pfft. Biggest waste of money. Ended up selling all of them while I had the chance. Next day, bloods dropped 17 coins lol..

Wave hits hire than barrage and ice barrage only freezes them for 5 seconds. Rangers can stun and freeze you too so yeah.. Mage is nerfed. That 5 seconds is actually really quick. You also don't hit as easily as before. Lots of splashing at 99 mage.

Bloods will never be what they were. The new combat triangle is: Melee > Range > Mage. Oh yeah and Chaotic staff is now 2h so you can't wield with your shield. Master wand is like 10m street price.. Utterly disgusting.

i agree with youre triangle, mage is very bad now, mage will bounce back when you can wear shields with your staffs. until then mages just get ripped.

From: idodew
i agree with youre triangle, mage is very bad now, mage will bounce back when you can wear shields with your staffs. until then mages just get ripped.

Mages wont ever have shields with their staffs just due to the fact that there are wands now which pretty much nerf staffs altogether in combat

From: Mr[S]
Mages wont ever have shields with their staffs just due to the fact that there are wands now which pretty much nerf staffs altogether in combat

Yeah except that the wands aren't that great either.. Well they're good but mage is still nerfed with them..

Too bad, the only reason I was training magic was for PVP. Now I'll probably just stop at 85 so I can tele-block.

Blood runes are selling for -15% on the ge. Just tested out about 1k of them. I don't think they'll ever be in much demand anymore

Hopefully after some of these new boss updates jagex has been siteing as the reason behind EOC, such as the kalaphite king, there will be more balance with top tear gear.

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most runes are quite useless now, personally i use arma bstaff which is unlimited airs, good for surges :P

From: fiery oblivion
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most runes are quite useless now, personally i use arma bstaff which is unlimited airs, good for surges :P

Isn't the elemental staff has a very low accuracy compare to high level staff?

From: freezeyp
Isn't the elemental staff has a very low accuracy compare to high level staff?

The armadyl battestaff is a high lvl staff.

@Others: When you guys say they nerfed mage, you mean that they reduced its power/potency to match the other two cb styles right? Mage was OP'd before.

From: Austin
The armadyl battestaff is a high lvl staff.

@Others: When you guys say they nerfed mage, you mean that they reduced its power/potency to match the other two cb styles right? Mage was OP'd before.

No way.. Melee was the most overpowered combat skill. They didn't just reduce it but the hit rate is near 0 as well as the way adrenaline works with mage is just total crap. Two handed staves compared to the other combat skills are a huge down power. Mages always had the weakest armour so were easier to take down. Remember dragon claws? Korassi sword? Easy to take down a mage in the old combat system. Now it's even easier! At least in the old combat system, they could stand a bit of a chance. Now they just die.

Mage used to be my favourite combat style :l

From: Brandon
No way.. Melee was the most overpowered combat skill. They didn't just reduce it but the hit rate is near 0 as well as the way adrenaline works with mage is just total crap. Two handed staves compared to the other combat skills are a huge down power. Mages always had the weakest armour so were easier to take down. Remember dragon claws? Korassi sword? Easy to take down a mage in the old combat system. Now it's even easier! At least in the old combat system, they could stand a bit of a chance. Now they just die.

Mage used to be my favourite combat style :l

Mage's always having the weakest armour? What about Ganodermic? And I shouldn't say Mages as a whole were overpowered. Ice Barrage and the Polypore staff in specific were OP'd. Ever play Soul Wars? You would know what I am talking about then. A good barrager could last the entire game without dieing if they used Ice Barrage + Soul Split + Good armour. And any noob could use the Polypore staff before and stand a good chance at defeating an equally leveled ranger. That's not how it was supposed to be =/. They tried to balance it in the old combat system before by adding bakriminel bolts and bolas and that did a little more to balance it, but it was still unbalanced.

Now I haven't done PvP that much since the EoC was released, so I can't say that much about how it is now, but mage definitely had an advantage before =/.

From: Austin
Mage's always having the weakest armour? What about Ganodermic? And I shouldn't say Mages as a whole were overpowered. Ice Barrage and the Polypore staff in specific were OP'd. Ever play Soul Wars? You would know what I am talking about then. A good barrager could last the entire game without dieing if they used Ice Barrage + Soul Split + Good armour. And any noob could use the Polypore staff before and stand a good chance at defeating an equally leveled ranger. That's not how it was supposed to be =/. They tried to balance it in the old combat system before by adding bakriminel bolts and bolas and that did a little more to balance it, but it was still unbalanced.

Now I haven't done PvP that much since the EoC was released, so I can't say that much about how it is now, but mage definitely had an advantage before =/.

That's because soulwars teams are usually stacked like crazy. A mage only takes advantage of the opportunity. Yeah. They stand outside your spawn and barrage. But that only works on the winning team. No matter what their armour is, in a balanced game, mages get owned in soulwars. They almost never make it to the avatar without melee armour or battle mage or a stacked team.

Secondly, you don't really expect soulwars to show the strength of other styles do you? Soulwars is a bunch of noobs and bots. Bot dies, attempts to get out. Gets frozen, stands there waiting to spawn again, essentially healing that mage.

From: Brandon
That's because soulwars teams are usually stacked like crazy. A mage only takes advantage of the opportunity. Yeah. They stand outside your spawn and barrage. But that only works on the winning team. No matter what their armour is, in a balanced game, mages get owned in soulwars. They almost never make it to the avatar without melee armour or battle mage or a stacked team.

Secondly, you don't really expect soulwars to show the strength of other styles do you? Soulwars is a bunch of noobs and bots. Bot dies, attempts to get out. Gets frozen, stands there waiting to spawn again, essentially healing that mage.

And who were always the ones to stop people from getting to the avatar? Barragers ;) (and bola users occasionally, but they were a more recent addition and can't multi hit/do damage).

Brandon, have you tried Castle Wars since the EoC? Personally I'm really disappointed about it, it used to be my favorite thing to do in-game. I've played it just twice since the new combat system but it was enough to decide I'm not going to play it again. :(

I know you're also a fan of Castle Wars so I'm wondering what your opinion is on it now.