At the moment, I am almost certain I’m going to become members again. Christmas break is drawing near. I can count down the school days left on one foot. That means an extraordinary amount of free time that can be used getting back up with the rock of members. Right now I’ve got a list of tasks I want to do the second I’m allowed on the members world again. I’ll list them here in order of importance:
1. Farm! Get some toadflax and sweetcorn seeds and get back on the groove of Farming :)
2. Get that new Dragon Defender. Yes it doesn’t look the greatest, but the Strength bonus will be much appreciated.
3. Try out Runecrafting with the ability to have my bank opened and fill my pouches. Runecrafting runs are going to be much quicker.
4. Herblore Habitat. I haven’t heard much feedback on how good it is but the new potions look pretty sweet!
5. Buy my armour back. Get Torag’s, whip, dragon boots, full slayer helm, and then go slay and possible kill some God Wars Dungeon monsters.
6. Elite tasks. I can do a few, so why not get them out of the way?
That’s all I have for now. Most of these are important updates I’ve missed while being non-members. If there’s any other important updates that I’ve missed since about September, let me know because I’m sure I’ll be dying to try them out again. Mmmmm, I can smell members since it’s so close!

You do realise the strength bonus on a DFS is hgiher than a dragon defender?
If you want a really big strength bonus, get barrows gloves (+12). IDK if you’ve done that before or not.
At the moment, I can’t afford a DFS. I only have 46M and that’d be a huge divot out of it. And indeed, I have barrows gloves as well.
I would stick with the defender, its a cheaper and more accurate than the dragonfire shield. For slayer its better to hit more often and accurate rather than higher hits but not as often.