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A very very popular token farming method was ed4 or Cerberus farming. However, with damage being reduced based on accuracy, this method has been completely destroyed for mid level players.

Example:

Old way: Lets say a player has 50% accuracy, with lets say 2,000 damage
In an example of 10 hits it'll result in:

5 hits hitting 0, 5 hits hitting 2,000 but then with Cerberus soaking, the hits are reduced to 1,000 for a total of 5,000 damage.

New way (after today's update): Same variables, a player with 50% accuracy with 2,000 damage
An example of 10 hits will result in:

10 hits being reduced to 1,000 from the new system, then those hits are reduced by 1,000 by Cerberus soaking meaning the total damage is 0!

This update completely took away a very popular token method for mid levels and is a just big overall nerf even for high level players since the new system isn't friendly to monsters with soaking mechanics.

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9 months ago - /u/JagexSponge - Direct link

Originally posted by MemojiFun

If I remembered correctly, u/JagexSponge worked on the minibosses from Zammy release since I recall him making animate Fred and such. Would appreciate this caveat being fixed to be viable again instead of completely guttered. D: It was a seamless and fun method to do with others all aiming for important Dungeoneering unlocks like charming imp for summoning or ring of vigour or even chaotics for players trying to get a good starting wep. Forgot to mention, but please add a damage soaking hitsplat to Cerberus instead of the invisible soaking it does. It also soaks even at melee distance which is odd because the only way to not get any soaking if you damage it on the literal square tile it is on which is odd because a player would think melee distance is 0 soaking but nope, have to be attacking under/on top of Cerberus's tile.

Hey, do you have an example loadout/stats that was previously doing this method to a decent degree, I've got an old test world I can use to compare/make tweaks to cerbs damage reduction.

Cheers!