Hellish

Greetings,
 
I joined Alora several weeks ago, and I have had a joyful time trying out a majority of the unique game modes and the thrilling wide-range of content Alora has to offer.
 
Now that I have gained vast knowledge of Alora, I thought I would now "go hard or go home." I have created a novelty account - a Defence pure, and my goal for it is to hunt for the 3rd age melee set by doing clue scrolls. Before I begin this insane goal, I am looking to complete the easy and medium clue scroll logs to warm myself up beforehand.
 
Subscribe to my thread by clicking the follow button, located top-right corner of my thread in order to receive notifications whenever I post an update. I will try my best to update the thread every Sunday. 
 
As mentioned in the title of the thread, I will also be giving away a $10 bond every week on Sundays. Entering in this is as simple as it gets, all you have to do is submit an on-topic post to this thread one time, and your username will then be added to the random name wheel every Sunday.
 

 Clue Hunter Outfit (Number Clue Scrolls)
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 Ranger Boots Count: 0
 Gilded Equipment Count: 0
 3rd Age Equipment Count: 0 
 
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 H.A.M Member Pickpockets: 4,332

 Rocky Pet Count: 2

  Eclectic Implings Caught: 0

 Lucky Implings Caught: 0

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 Manta Rays Fished: 0

 Heron Pet Count: 0

 Amethyst Rocks Mined: 0

 Rock Golem Pet Count: 0

 Redwood Logs Cut: 0

 Beaver Pet Count: 0 

What is your suggestion?: To lower mimic pet rate to 1/128 (or discussion) since 1/2408 for a pet at a boss that u only have a 1/30 - 1/15 chance to fight (elite/master clues)

this idea to lower it this low comes from the same pet chance of skotizo thats obtained via chance at making totems

Rate is too absurdly high and im sure our mathematicians can figure out a more reasonable rate in obtaining it if 1/128 is too high/low

I want to say thank you to each and every one of you on Alora, you are hands down, THE best community out there, and thats not just OSRS related, you're all so fucking nice. so friendly and there is always someone down to shoot the shit with you!

Been going through some shit recently, im not going to go into it in detail but ive been feeling fucking miserable/deppresed whatever you want to call it. I had a big grouop of friends during my uni years, since uni has finished everyone has moved away and got busy with life, I have my own place and a full time job so im busy too, but friends are not that easily reached anymore, but you guys, you are always fuckin there and it makes me so happy. I can just hop on to the game and there are gonna be 100's of you crazy fuckers online and I suddently have this new friend group in all of you!

i dont know where im going with this, ive had a couple of drinks, will probably regret this tomorrow but yeah, thank you to each and every one of you, I appreciate you all!

Also big shoutout to ICE, you guys are amazing, always someone in there talking shit and having a laugh!

Thank you Alora, all the way from Omicron to the newest member of the server and everyone in between. Big love to all of you.

Info:

Teams of three will compete in a Monopoly-style Runescape board game. Each team will begin on the starting tile and will roll a die to see how many tiles they can progress. Each tile has a specific task that the teams must complete to continue moving on the board. The team to complete the final tile first wins the tile race. The first 3 teams to complete the tile race will receive prizes. 

Dates:

Begins: March 3rd at 12:00 AM GMT (Server Time)

Ends: March 17th at 12:00 AM GMT (Server Time)

Prize Pool:

There will be prizes for the top 3 teams to finish the tile race. If 3 teams don’t finish the board by the end of the event, the 3 furthest progressed teams will win the prizes.

 1st Place: 3B

 2nd Place: 2B

 3rd Place: 1B

Rules:

• You must be ranked in ICE to participate.

• You may select your partner(s) and sign up as a team.

  • Solo sign-ups or partial teams are allowed. They will be formed into full teams by the ICE event team before the event begins.

• You may only participate on one account.

  • Drops obtained by alternate accounts will not count.

• Sufficient proof must be submitted for all tiles requiring an event passcode.

  • Use of the Clan Events Runelite plugin is required.

• Loot from the Bloody Chest, Supply Crates, Mystery Boxes, etc. will not count.

• Verification screenshots must be submitted before a player's drops will count toward the Tile Race.

• Any attempts to fabricate screenshots will result in the team being disqualified.

• Drops obtained prior to the active tile requiring them will not be counted.

  • Example: Team 1 is currently on the Dragon pickaxe tile, they receive a Ring of the gods from Vetion before getting their Dragon pickaxe to finish that tile. If they land on the Any Wilderness Ring tile later on in the race, they will need to obtain that item again. The ring obtained previously will not count.

• Each team will get 1 free re-roll they can use at any point during the race.

• Any roll past the final tile will put that team on the final tile. 

  • Example: Team 1 just completed the Staff of Light tile and roll a 6. This roll would put them on the final tile.

• Teams will only need to complete a tile one time. If a randomizer tile puts them onto a tile they’ve already completed they can re-roll until they get a different tile.

  • Example: Team 1 has just completed the Tempoross tile. They roll a 3 to the Move Back 3 tiles space. Team 1 does not have to complete the Tempoross tile again. They would stay at the Tempoross tile and re-roll until they receive a number other than 3.

Tile Race Board:

Sign-ups:

To sign-up for the event, reply to this post with the following template filled in.

Once signed up, please join the Ice Event Discord, the event communication will take place there.

Also, make sure to join the ICE Clan Discord if you haven't already.

Sign-ups for the Tile Race will close March 2nd.

ICE Event Discord

https://discord.gg/agXcxGp6a4

ICE Clan Discord

https://discord.gg/ice

Sign-up Template

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 ICE Event Team

What is your suggestion?: Able to recolouring crystal armors.

Is this in OSRS?: Yes.

https://secure.runes...2954.1645477199

Has this suggestion been accepted already?: Has been suggested before, but never been accepted.

https://www.alora.io...armour/?hl=+ +#

How would this benefit Alora?: More customized to the armor set and will fit well with Bofa aswell.

What is your suggestion?:

Update "Items kept on death" tab to match OSRS/Runelite features

Is this in OSRS?:

Yes

Has this suggestion been accepted already?:

I am not sure

How would this benefit Alora?:

I've played Alora and OSRS for a long time, my game knowledge is a bit mixed so I'm really unsure on some questions I see as I have no idea if it matches OSRS game mechanics.

I see this specific question quite a bit and it would be super helpful IMO if they could just check for themselves instead of asking in their CC / yell / public chat to maybe get the right answer.

This is not a critical suggestion, just very helpful for new players, returning players, etc. who would want to check their risk before engaging in wildy activities

Here is the screen in OSRS:

totally agree, sick post

Surprised that the Nightmare boost is even a topic of discussion here, I expected everyone to 100% vote yes to that. I vote yes to both TOB and NM drop rate boosts. 

Nightmare has been outdated content for a while now, especially with content releases such as Nex.

Due to Alora's accuracy boost, inquisitor's set is literally useless. Volatile staff isn't used by anyone except pkers, and we have 3 pkers. Harmonised staff is equal DPS to sang but much more expensive to use AND gets out classed by sang due to the healing.

These drops are still useful on 07 which is why people still do it there, although to a lesser degree.

Other older content has stood the test of time, such as Godwars drops still needed to make other BIS gear and/or being a good BIS alternative that doesn't require hundreds of hours to achieve. 

"Only reason nex is active is the items hold value. Else nobody apart from the same people that camp nightmare still, will be the only ones there. "

Except for the fact that Nex drops are considerably more common, as well as 5/6 of the drops being BIS such as the Torva set for melee, Zaryte Vambs for BIS range gloves. There is genuinely no reason to go to Nightmare when the drops are as rare as they are, and are literally useless.

As for the "afk" comment, 90% of the content is afk except for TOA/TOB/Nex. There's nothing wrong with that. Also please let me remind you of the Boss Rework Poll, Kraken, Zulrah and Cerberus all failed which would make those bosses more interactive and easier. If a NM rework poll was to be made, it would 100% fail. I have a feeling if the drop rates were buffed but NM was made "not afk", not that many people would go there still. 

Also, I don't understand this argument of "stuff has to be a grind". It's been a grind for months, and nobody kills it lol. Obviously a change has to be made.

Lastly, the only issue that I can think of is that the prices of Nightmare drops will drop a lot. But they have been dropping, so I'm not sure what can be done. 

these suggestions cant be real, No support.

I see alot of people get super heated about nightmare being "too hard" and some statements about me are very inaccurate. And actually triggered me enough to write a wall of text.

1. "Mungard doesnt want it buffed cus its his money cow" I actually want it to remain a flex for those willing to grind it.

When I started doing nightmare, most groups were ending their grinds. Out of my 2000+ kc I did close to 1000 SOLO regular nightmare (With even worse odds than phosani now, while taking 13-17mins/kill), and prob another 500 were duo with @Extremedanny , and rest was trio/4mans with @Sit @mochiii (Hardcore ironmen btw), I did maybe 200 phosani and all of those (apart from 5ish) were after the nerf.(Got a mace and helmet and egg) Cus I did like 5 phosanis when it came out, and i got so tilted that i legit could hasta it down with crystal shield and camp mage pray, and maybe use 10 mantas/karams for a kill. That I havent went back till after the loot nerf. Im not the guy thats gonna complain about something being extremely broken and than turbo camp it. I did nightmare cus it was a great challenge for me and i took it personal that i couldnt get a fkn orb after receiving 3 staves. (Same reason Gimslaving did it) (Check the thread you linked, @Elsa even recorded her doing it with hasta and bandos in the thread)

2. People that grind nex now do it for same reason people did it when nm items were expensive: Supply/demand. Normies barely camp nex, they try get 1 drop sell it and start raiding as its alot more enjoyable. Most torva ingame is ironmen dupes that have been dropped for rank. Nobody does nightmare cus its items are worth nothing, cus so many inq items came in the game that 1 month the loot was completely broken. And there isnt any pking scene that has a need for orbs. People use it now to fill well as a set is 300m and it fills well 3x. As it has no other purpose atm, it aint a flex anymore(apart from on ironmen cus people know it must've sucked to grind it) nor is it used anywhere apart from DWH speccing corp/nex at start. I quite enjoy inq still in cox so i can scythe all vanguard/tekton/vasa without switching.

3. I personally think nex indeed is just as afk as nightmare with only difference that nex actually does accurate damage. If you can do the pvm while watching a serie, its not hard content. Honestly solo kree'arra might be harder than current phosani nightmare, cus with torva and blood fury, i rarely use more than 100 hp worth food/kill and thats with not even switching prays at nightmare (just camping mage pray and relying on turbo range def of torva) And dont bring the argument that you shouldnt need good gear before you camp nightmare. Bandos and hasta will do trick also, you might need 200 hp worth food a kill then. (Most people would camp nex before inq)

4. As I said prior, if people really want to grind phosani with better lootrates. Than they should atleast be forced to switch prayers and pay attention. Its not because its an rsps everything should be easy. You want people to PLAY/ENGAGE with the server, same reason tob was reworked, doing something correct should be rewarded. Phosani is a TanknSpank boss atm barely any switches needed.

5. I really dont understand why people want to make solo content easy and rewarding. For example im having alot of fun at nex now, cus everytime i think i saw the dumbest thing at nex, @Klam does a 3hp taliban zgs spec, or clicks the wrong collor tag and drinks restore istead of brew. Or fopaanz gets a b2b torva plate instead of helmet. And I'm averaging a drop there every 9-12 hours im there? (While being master donator and honestly being really spooned there). We see a drop like every 29 nex we kill as a group atm. Yet I also hear people cry about that boss. And want to know why people like @Fopaanz are 3000 kc and still miss an item? Because thats how rng works. Only reason nex is active is the items hold value. Else nobody apart from the same people that camp nightmare still, will be the only ones there. 

6. Nightmare and nex are very similar bosses. Their true hardness lays in the mental battle, as they're extremely tedious. People endure it at nex cus its an upgrade or atleast a payday if they get a drop. While Nightmare doesnt qualify for any of those. Nightmare legit has only its flex left of completing the log. And thats why I personally dont want a huge buff to its droprates. Every game needs a few really vile grinds that only a few will ever complete and thats perfectly fine. And then i rather have a non bis item be a flex and a turbo grind rather than a NEEDED ITEM. 

7. For people wanting to do nightmare, you gotta get a drop there every 7 hours MAX. Else its not worth peoples time cus you'll make more money/get actual bis doing nex which is the same, and ironmen will prioritize nex ALWAYS. And at that rate 2 weeks later you need to buff it again cus then the items are worth even less and by that time omicron will nerf the well value so it isnt even useable for that.  And might aswell delete the forum award at that point as it'll just become a generic award. 

8. -go afk when the room gets divided into quadrants and you'll get stacked out in seconds

If you stand in middle of the room when you kill it, you only can get husked 1x/phase, and never get flower damage. + you dont gotta move for the pillars, you only gotta survive the up to 40 damage from black holes, but they mostly happen right before pillars or during and at that point you just sang your hp up on pillars. Or eat a manta.

Want to flex the item? Grind it. 

Dont think the flex is worth your time? Dont grind it.

The payday not worth your time? Do something else. 

Once most people complaining here enter the real world outside of games they'll start realising that some things that actually really suck dealing with, might give you the most satisfaction after completing it.

"But mungard its a game", Ye and there is about 50 other bosses you can grind instead for fun. Please dont ruin one of the few grinds that're actually a struggle xD.

ps. I dislike clues can we make it so i get 15-20 items/chest its rsps after all. And apart from ranger boots none of those items considered bis. So why have to grind for it. 

Doesn't seem likely that it will get buffed anyway, this discussion has been around for ages.

Let's do something about it then.  Share this topic and gather community support on improving Nightmare and TOB drop rates.

We play.  We pay.  So, we should get a say.  That okay? 

I would just like to spare some of my time to give my appreciation to the Alora staff team. 

I have not played a RSPS for 4 or maybe 5 years now, nor OSRS for several years until recently. I played OSRS for a short while but stopped again. I could not invest my time into such a slow-paced game, and a majority of my online friends no longer play, so because of that I also got bored of OSRS fairly quickly. I wanted to perpetuate playing OSRS, but at an expeditious pace than in the normal game, where I can reach the maximum level and unlock the highest features much more expeditiously and ascend to the top without having to spend hundreds or even thousands of hours. I was also looking for a smaller community with serious gamers who are actually passionate about the game and develop vigorous bonds together, so therefore rather than leaving the RS scene completely again, I decided to look for an RSPS, and I stumbled upon Alora and it was exactly what I was looking for. 

I plan to be here for a long time and I look very forward to doing so, with thanks to the Alora staff team, as well as the wondrous community Alora has built in its incredible 6-year journey. 

If anyone else would like to give appreciation to the Alora staff team, or a member of staff in particular, you are more than welcome to share it here. 

OSRS drop rate -> Alora boost -> Alora drop rate

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I suggest boosting the drop rates for Nightmare & TOB

How? 

Base rate for TOB:  11%  -  1/9.1 to land on purple

Apply an Alora boost to that 1/9.1 rate.

Because based on my experience, the TOB unique rate is no where near the intended 1/9.1 

Personally, I'm at 14 purples in 600 completions -> roughly 1/43

What about everyone else?  Feel free to share your purple rates.

Currently, I strongly believe we need more TOB drops to enter through legitimate gameplay, rather than through opening boxes paid with real life cash.  

That's what keeps the game fun and exciting for players.  

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As for nightmare, the base rate needs to be increased again.  (similar to the nex base rate increase)

Phosani