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Beware Ancients Ice Barrage armed and dangerous
By Steve on Feb 7, 2007 | In Mage, Magic | Send feedback »
Runescape have created a great spell for the master magician, I have nearly reached the dizzy heights of master but have got far enough to use the Ancients Ice barrage spell.
I have been able to use it for 2 days and like to experiment with new things, I am surprised by a few things and amazed by others.
First of all Ancients is a pain you need to rely on jewelry for teleportation, the names of the places you teleport to have nothing in common to the places they tele you to, so you need a list of places they tele you to, I used the list on Runehq so thank you guys for that, unfortunately Ancients was made for pkers so many of the teleport spells are for the wilderness.
After the usual duel arena and castlewars stint I decided to use it on the mole in Fally park, my thoughts were if I froze it could it burrow so I could just kill it at my leisure, well I got ready and down I went, I found him lurking around the normal central area all alone, I stood a safe distance away and ice barraged him, no hit so I tried again no hit and he was walking towards me he hit me so I ran back and tried again, it was constantly splashing, no matter where I went he could follow me he followed me all the way to the hole you enter his cave through, I tried again from there and no chance he was immune to ancients.
I have never seen him walk that far before, I have ranged him and he never followed out of his alloted zone, is the fact that he can follow you new or just a defence against ancients?
Ok so the mole is immune to ancients I though about pest control as there are often lots of monsters in 1 place there, I teled to Draynor Village using my glory and went to the outpost, I wear black dragon hide because I do not need strong armour there, I found a good world, having said that it was too good a world the portals were going down in seconds and I had trouble getting enough Zeal to get my point, at 117 combat I was one of the lowest levels there.
I have never considered myself a high level but a fairly high level, having seen these high level players work I realise just how low a level I am.
As normal the high levels left and it was still pretty good winning every game but not quite as quickly, this is a time when the fun starts we were attacking the portals, when a lot of spinners appear it is difficult to find out which ones are attacking me and the ones repairing the portals so I used the Ancients Ice Barrage to attack 1 of the spinners and cor blimey mate its like an ice cube factory attacking all monsters in a 9 ish square block sometimes 15 monsters deep often hitting multiple 30's at the same time, this is suicide because then all the monsters attack me even with 91 defence it is hard going withstanding 20 monsters constantly attacking me, as my health gets low I put on full Dharoks and get back on the portal until it is dead or I am.
Can you imagine the hp xp I was getting at pest control using Ice Barrage on the high density monsters.
It is not cheap Ice Barrage using 2 bloods 4 deaths and 6 waters per cast, but the xp makes it cost effective if used here.
My Journey 94 Mage and Ancients Ice barrage
By Steve on Feb 7, 2007 | In The News as it happens | Send feedback »
I had just got 93 mage and a friend of mine said that I was 1 level off of using Ice Barrage, I thought it was 96 for Ice so this knowledge drove me on to get that extra level.
I had just got 98 attack and my defence and strength were 100k from 91 so I stayed at the Abyssal Demons until I leveled both of those, this brought my combat up to 117 which was pretty nice.
Because metal dragons are very easy to raise mage xp I got equipped with my full white mystic and Chaos gauntlets 9, 4 strength anti fire breath pots 4k chaos runes (Free from my Barrows runs) 16200 fire runes and my trusted mystic air battlestaff, off I went and and ran to where the safe area for maging steel dragons, on my way I was attacked by an Iron one and had to kill it to get it off my scent which I did in a few minutes and woot what a nice surprise dragon legs, I started attacking the steel dragons, I stayed there all day got a lot of mage xp but still a long way to go.
I like to take a break between dragon attacks to stop my brain from freezing over and did a bit of pest control, I already had 19 points accumulated and after swapping world a few times I found a good world, everyone knew what they were doing and I was getting a point every 1 or 2 minutes, I wanted attack xp so used Veracs I could have used whip but I just fancied a change.
I managed to get my points to 100 and traded it in for mage xp and my mage xp shot up by about 150k, this further inspired me so I got equipped for steel dragons as before and started attacking, I forgot my chaos gauntlets so was hitting a max of 12 but was not going back, spent a day there and ran out of pots and no dragon drops.
My slayer was Black Demons so for a change I decided to mage them in Taverly dungeon, I had about 20k to go and boy did it go, I could not believe how quickly my mage xp was going up, so much faster than Steel dragons.
Woot woot what a beut I got 94 mage and access to the most powerful spell in Runescape Ice Barrage.
