u/The_Siphon

100 Vardorvis orbs in, and i genuinely believe that this is the challenge that I just cannot complete. I always get him to around 500/1400 hp every time, but i just cannot for the life of me count the axe ticks while also prayer switching 3 times while also moving to a safe tile. Like I actually cannot do it. My brain just does not work that way. Ive had ONE attempt where ive gotten him to 75 hp, about 10 or so sub 300 attempts.

At this point I feel like I can keep going, getting him to below half, and just praying for lucky axe spawns. Eventually, with enough orbs, this will happen. Could be 500 orbs in, eventually I will get a gifted kill where theres 3 or 4 axe rotations in a row where i dont need to move during enrage. But, it's so expensive to attempt these bosses, i dont really know if i should continue.

This is the hardest mechanically intense fight Ive ever attempted, and believe me i do attempt to do the mechanics. But i really feel like this is my absolute skill ceiling - the first and only PvM challenge that I have met my match on and cannot complete without luck. My skill just doesnt allow it.

I really have such admiration for people who have killed this boss, and it blows my mind people do it under 10 orbs. It's unfathomable to me how skillful that is, and very humbling.

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Some context. I am 6'3" , 220 pounds. This information is important.

One of the worst feelings in the world to me is when i feel like I've made someone uncomfortable, specifically strangers. If im walking down the street behind a woman, I always feel bad. I put myself in her shoes where this huge dude is following behind me, not knowing his intentions. When I feel like this i feel almost an obligation to get out my phone and slow down a bit, to keep my hands in sight. To almost prove i am not a creep. Sometimes I just cross the street.

At coffee shops I stand pretty far away when in line behind women because I dont know their personal boundaries.

The worst for me is when im in my apartment building and I get off the elevator on my floor, or im behind a woman in the stairwell and we both get off at the same floor. I can almost feel the uncomfortable tension if im walking behind her, just trying to get to my apartment. I just want to yell ou "IM COOL, I JUST LIVE HERE TOO. I PROMISE " or something like that.

Am I being too sensitive? With women in my life who know me this is obviously not a problem because they know my character. I couldn't hurt a fly.

Its very likely we will be getting the final trailer for Lords of the Fallen 2 as well as its release date, im also predicting the same for mortal shell 2.

But I have this feeling we will get the mother of all big reveals...the mysterious unannounced From Software project titled FMC. While I doubt it will be Cerulion Onslaught as the leak suggests, I have a feeling it will be their next RPG. I feel like it will be the final reveal of the night. Like RE9 last year.

Thoughts? Predictions ?

My guild recently downed all heroic throne of thunder and we were progressing Ra-Den. Now, you only get 30 attempts at the boss per week. We had a pretty good setup figured out, and it was our 30th and final pull we were preparing for. Feeling confident.

I was jumping around while we were talking about stuff and I accidently fat finger my corruption spell and wiped the raid. It was like a movie. But you coulsnt have scripted it. Never heard my raid leader so pissed off XD.

The one time I caused a wipe was the last pull of the day. I thought it was funny how tragic it was.

Sorry boys LMAO

Here i was getting extremely tilted grinding out yama contracts, specifically bloodied blows and I keep planking at various points in the fight. Im getting more and more angry, not wanting to be there, still needing to do 3 more contracts after I did this one.

At a certain point, it clicked. I sat back in my chair, took my hands off the mouse and keyboard and lay them on my knees and looked up at the ceiling and said to myself, out loud, "what the fuck am I doing?". I asked myself why I was driving myself to the point of wanting to throw a water bottle as hard as I could for a simple cosmetic recolor of a set of oathplate?

For what? To impress strangers i run past? I didn't even want it that badly to begin with. Its just something to grind out, and is seen as a huge pvm goal for some people. For me it was making me hate the game.

What finally clicked in this moment is the fact its just a game. This may sound ridiculous becuase of course its a game. Games are supposed to be fun. But runescape has always been about the grind. Why am I forcing myself to do something thats not fun? Getting that mad for a cosmetic re color isnt something to be mad about. I immediately sold my remaining contracts and did something else. I felt immediate, subconscious relief.

I feel the same way about blorva. Vardorvis is a boss that no matter how many times I practice the normal version, and no matter how much I try, I simply CANNOT get the axe skipping mechanic down. It seems to be a hard counter to my very DNA. Just thinking about grinding out the awakened version fills me with dread. So, I just accept that blorva is an accomplishment i will never get. I now see that as a good thing. People are just better than me at this game, and that's okay. Im content with regular torva. Regular oathplate. And this goes for all content in the game.

For me I could never get the hang of the boss at later delves. What always seemed to kill me was the boulder+orb phase. Id like to share some tips for people looking to get good at farming delves 1-8 or to simply just get one wave 8 clear for the CA.

For one, what ive learned is its perfectly fine to let grubs get to the boss. The damage and healing it does isnt really relevant until late delves anyways, so if you are learning, focus entirely on getting your movement down and 1 tick prayer flicking. Better to stay alive and let the boss heal a 15 as opposed to eating 50+ damage yourself. This tip has really helped me personally.

For car phase on waves 5 plus, honestly I've found blow pipe to be the best spec weapon. It allows me to dps the first part of the fight at low health to speed it up and heal up during 100% accuracy. This is very useful at 6+ when your supplies are getting low. I know zaryte crossbow is technically better for speed, but i usually fuck up somewhere and need to heal up.

For the orb+boulder attack where you need to attack two earth pillars, this one took me a long time to really get down confidently. What would catch me would be trying to attack the pillar, walk with the orb , while also dodging the debris on the ground when the boulder explodes, while also 1 tick prayer flicking. It was too much.

A technique that consistently works for me is to simply attack the 1st pillar, wait for the boulder attack to come out, then click the farthest pillar in a straight line across the arena and RUN over there. I found that this allowed me to just not worry about having to move out of debris and focus entirely on prayer flicking the attack. Then when I make it to the pillar I attacked i find that im done prayer flicking and can focus entirely on ctrl walking with the orb.

For wave 8, when a double boulder attack comes out just stop attacking the boss. Being alive is better than doing zero damage. Theres no real cheese or techniques to make this easier, other than that tip. Stop what you are doing, and focus entirely on your 6 prayer flicks. Im not gnomonkey or Kirby. Neither are you.

This one is well known already but try and use elite void if you can. The death fees really do add up considering dooms drop table is absolute ass without a unique.

Anyways doom went from my most hated to one of my favorite pieces of content after I dialed in and got better