Nomad's Requiem Reviews

Despite all the shortcoming of the Nomad's Requiem quest, it did manage to capture everyone's attention, like no other quest did. At least not since While Guthix Sleeps. Beautifully wrought Blood Runs Deep came and passed without much of the hoopla, but not Nomad. Not him - he's going to stay in players minds for times to come. For one and only one reason - extremely hard boss fight which is required for keeping or a getting a Quest Cape. Was the bar for this cape set too far? Yes, I think so: the Quest Cape is pretty much unreachable for players mid level combat (less than 100) now. Well, we'll have to live with it now, just like we live with elite achievement diaries. We did ask for really high level content, didn't we?

Anyway, here are three interesting reviews of the quest:

• from Alex (pleading mid level combat case)
• from Neo Avatar (let's look at the quest without taking in account the boss fight)
• from The Informer (as usual, humorous yet objective account)

Enjoy!

Guide to killing Nomad from Nomad's Requiem

I've been battling various bosses during the last 2 days. A lot. With marginal success...

• Made two more visits to Jad (no luck...)
• Finally did the Blood Runs Deep quest and defeated the Dagonnath Mother from the third attempt (first I forgot death runes... then I ran out of air runes during the battle...). The quest was beautiful, by the way. Beautiful and sad. Did they have to kill my wife? Did they really?!
• And, of course, I bumped into Nomad. About 8 times... And only once I got to the berserk stage. I don't think I am close to winning there yet. Well, at least he does not heal on me anymore. But I am running out of supplies: 5-6 more tries and I'll have to postpone the whole thing.

Found a few good guides on how to kill Nomad (as expected the started to appear). This is probably the best written one and below is a good visual illustration to it. Good luck, everyone, no matter what they say about skillful clicking, luck is definitely needed in Nomad's presence.

Name changing and its side effects

Interesting observation about the side effects of the name changing update from Icey Dan. While I am pretty happy with that update (as I am sure most of the players), I do feel somewhat uneasy about a score of unfamiliar names in my friends list too. But I hope, it'll pass with time.

P.S. While everybody is rushing to complete the Blood Runs Deep quest I finally went through the Temple of Sennitisten and liked it tremendously. Barrows was easy, as I used to do it a lot, but the ice fortress proved to be a very formidable place and a nice riddle too. Now I feel like cursing some KBDs :-)