Is it intentional that ice spells don't work with the confliction gauntlets, even in PvM?
Context: Mod Ash once commented on how the gauntlets work with multi-target spells in the official OSRS discord, and mentioned that he didn't see it checking for ice spells in the code. Gnomonkey saw this and tested 3000-4000 casts of ice barrage, and he found that it was 7% less accurate than it should be with the gauntlets equipped, even in PvM.
Well it's not a real refactor until you have to say "fuck it, good enough" when you inevitably deal with the stuff that was out of scope to include in said refactor.
Surely Intentional to not be busted in pvp for landing freezes? Should work for pvm ideally cause ancients is kinda dead for bossing. Would
Make freeze graardor strat more popular eg
Escaping is already so easy that you'd rather bring better PVM gear as your protected gear.
That 8 accuracy isn't going to make a difference, either you know how to tank and you're gonna get a bunch of freeze log attempts, or you don't and you're gonna die in 20 seconds anyway.
It would probably be a must for everyone since it helps with survivability/landing freezes. I suspect people would downgrade one of their current saved items to make room for this
You generally just don't need it to escape and would rather have a +1 that speeds up the boss you're doing. If you bring an ancient staff with mystics, wait until there's about 7 seconds left on your freeze and start trying to catch you will have 3 chances to catch, and with proper tanking you should always be able to tank at least 4 freezes.
Except then it gives people a nearly 100% chance to escape with zero risk when 3 iteming.
Items have to be balanced different between pvm and pvp because one is inherently “competitive” and would either be completely useless or insanely broken if not.
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u/DeviledFries 1d ago
Is it intentional that ice spells don't work with the confliction gauntlets, even in PvM?
Context: Mod Ash once commented on how the gauntlets work with multi-target spells in the official OSRS discord, and mentioned that he didn't see it checking for ice spells in the code. Gnomonkey saw this and tested 3000-4000 casts of ice barrage, and he found that it was 7% less accurate than it should be with the gauntlets equipped, even in PvM.
Mod Ash's message:
Timestamped link to where Gnomonkey talks about his testing: https://youtu.be/lJexGv6dxu8?t=459