Hasta has defence bounus so it will make weaker weapons (like dds) hit lower and more 0s. Since a dds spec is better than a whip hit its better to use it when your oponent specs.
Its really risky using a VPS to bot its often accounts on a VPS last little to no time compared to ones ran on home computers. Goodluck on your investment though.
Cool, looking foward to it. I checked out the Epic Bot forums not too long ago and noticed little to no activity. Its awesome you guys are still around :D
They sometimes unban accounts that have been banned for a long peroid of time (2y+) if you just email them saying that your sorry and wanna try RS3 out.