Been just doing my usual run around and collect things combined with runecrafting and a daily star. Plodding along. The XP gains aren't great. Been living on lunars and feeling pretty comfortable moving around with it now.
Tested the update to runecrafting. 52 pure essence got me 82 natures. At this point it's break even for me between making natures and astrals. However, astrals are a bit more xp an hour. If I used graahk pouches it'd cost me over 10k an hour for them and I wouldn't make that up in speed. If I used the abyss I'd make less xp/hr. I think I'll stick with astrals through 87 and then probably go to natures.
November 12, 2009
Got 96 Firemaking last night while waiting for a star. Falling back into my old pattern of doing 20 minutes of errands, then skilling for the night then mining a star, killing the Jade Vine and calling it a day. My daily errands are usually: Jade Vine, Bork, Battlestaffss, Pure Essence from Wizard Comptetry. When I'm in the area I also get the flax/pineapple/seaweed/sand from Arhein and Bert.
I've also added in vials. Now that the stores sell the packages of them and they take all day to refresh I stop in at the Ardy general store and Moonclan's store to stock up. When I'm in Shilo or one of the other shops that sell them I buy them there too. I calculated I need about 55k vials for 99 herblore. Might as well start stockpiling them now. It's actually a pretty good money maker if I was so inclined. Same with all the various meats in Oo'log. Shame that they added the update a couple weeks after I was on my big rabbit meat spree.
By the way....take a look at www.runescoop.com. Specifically his guides.
I've also added in vials. Now that the stores sell the packages of them and they take all day to refresh I stop in at the Ardy general store and Moonclan's store to stock up. When I'm in Shilo or one of the other shops that sell them I buy them there too. I calculated I need about 55k vials for 99 herblore. Might as well start stockpiling them now. It's actually a pretty good money maker if I was so inclined. Same with all the various meats in Oo'log. Shame that they added the update a couple weeks after I was on my big rabbit meat spree.
By the way....take a look at www.runescoop.com. Specifically his guides.
November 9, 2009
Had some fun with the new updates. Did my usual daily tasks and then went to a friend's house party. I'm loving on house parties at the moment since I'm using the money from runecrafting to buy dragon bones. Plan is to runecraft unless someone is having a house party. I am more then happy to supply someone with marrentil to keep the burners lit and then I can offer bones even faster. I know dragon bones are pretty pricey (compared to early in the summer) but I honestly don't see the prices going down significnatly. Maybe a little. But between the offer-x update, the promise of new prayers and the cash infusion that 76k'ing has brought I can't see a return to sub 2000gp dragon bones.
I saw an imp carrying someone's banner at a star last night (that someone being my friend S (formerly my friend G.....name changing is going to make me crazy)). I want one! I may have to go slaughter the leprechaun champion tonight and claim me a banner. (I am already champion of the ghouls, I realize that the leprechaun doesn't let you have a banner but I still want to crush him).
I saw a lot of rants on the RS forums about the updates yesterday. To be honest, I'm really really happy. I love the idea of buying packs of vials and newt eyes. That, to be honest, is a massive high level update at the expense of the low levels. The prices for wfv is going to go down, hence another good low level money maker bites the dust. On the other hand, I can acquire about 10k vials and water filled vials in about 10 minutes for a fraction of what I would pay on the GE.
Liking the new Shilo shortcut.
Hairstyles-I'll have to check that out later. In RL I've had about every bad haircut that you can have (mullet, shaved, flock of seagulls type thing, spiked, badly dyed, you name it) I am now at the point where both me and my RS avatar have medium length normal colored non descript hair. I'm sure some people think a green mullet is a good idea. I may have even dated this person earlier in my life. However......
Falador Castle got an altar. About time.
Slayer masters and slayer gems are now easier to deal with. I like that alot and am looking forward to my next slayer push.
Tzhaar updated drops, Yanille increase in entrances-all good things.
I've had a think about the so called "high level" worlds.
First, I would say that worlds based on levels is a bit ridiculous. There's no reason other then to make people feel "special".
Second, wouldn't it make more sense for the overall health of the community to make "low level" worlds?
Let's pretend that there is a world that requires a total of 2k levels to get into. Many of the players eligible to be in this world just wouldn't because they already have established friends/clans/identities on their home world. And by the time you get to level 2000 you have a lot of friends and ties to your home world. But let's say you can get an average of 1000 people in that world at any time. Those who have 2000-2100 levels are now noobs, and they aren't going to be pleased about that. The high level training areas are going to be camped (would any sane person think GWD on a high level server wouldn't be 24x7 packed?). Is there any real benefit to anyone or has Jagex just created a situation where the "elite" levels have their private club?
Now let's talk about what would happen if Jagex went in another direction. What if there was a world that you had to have LESS than 1000 levels to be in. We'll call it a noob only world. Characters that have a few really high levels and many low levels would have an advantage here. More importantly, low leveled players won't find themselves beat out by the higher leveled ones for things like Fire Giants, Dagganoths and other creatures. Remember when you were level 50 in combat? And you'd be trying to do a slayer task and some high leveled person would come in and just dominate an area? What if there was a world where you knew that you would be on par with everyone else? Wouldn't that make you more likely to stick to your slayer task?
Exceptions could be made so that P-Mods could roam this world. More hints, guides, pop ups could be available to help new players get oriented. From a playability/community point of view this would make so much more sense. Create worlds (heck create a sub 500 level world too) where new players can be around other new players and learn the game at a different pace then the usual frenticness of the other worlds. As they get used to the map (how long did it take you to pretty much memorize the map in your head and navigate as well as you do now?), and the controls, and the various other components they can migrate out.
Jagex will never do it. The rants would be insane (not that they haven't been so far anyways).
I saw an imp carrying someone's banner at a star last night (that someone being my friend S (formerly my friend G.....name changing is going to make me crazy)). I want one! I may have to go slaughter the leprechaun champion tonight and claim me a banner. (I am already champion of the ghouls, I realize that the leprechaun doesn't let you have a banner but I still want to crush him).
I saw a lot of rants on the RS forums about the updates yesterday. To be honest, I'm really really happy. I love the idea of buying packs of vials and newt eyes. That, to be honest, is a massive high level update at the expense of the low levels. The prices for wfv is going to go down, hence another good low level money maker bites the dust. On the other hand, I can acquire about 10k vials and water filled vials in about 10 minutes for a fraction of what I would pay on the GE.
Liking the new Shilo shortcut.
Hairstyles-I'll have to check that out later. In RL I've had about every bad haircut that you can have (mullet, shaved, flock of seagulls type thing, spiked, badly dyed, you name it) I am now at the point where both me and my RS avatar have medium length normal colored non descript hair. I'm sure some people think a green mullet is a good idea. I may have even dated this person earlier in my life. However......
Falador Castle got an altar. About time.
Slayer masters and slayer gems are now easier to deal with. I like that alot and am looking forward to my next slayer push.
Tzhaar updated drops, Yanille increase in entrances-all good things.
I've had a think about the so called "high level" worlds.
First, I would say that worlds based on levels is a bit ridiculous. There's no reason other then to make people feel "special".
Second, wouldn't it make more sense for the overall health of the community to make "low level" worlds?
Let's pretend that there is a world that requires a total of 2k levels to get into. Many of the players eligible to be in this world just wouldn't because they already have established friends/clans/identities on their home world. And by the time you get to level 2000 you have a lot of friends and ties to your home world. But let's say you can get an average of 1000 people in that world at any time. Those who have 2000-2100 levels are now noobs, and they aren't going to be pleased about that. The high level training areas are going to be camped (would any sane person think GWD on a high level server wouldn't be 24x7 packed?). Is there any real benefit to anyone or has Jagex just created a situation where the "elite" levels have their private club?
Now let's talk about what would happen if Jagex went in another direction. What if there was a world that you had to have LESS than 1000 levels to be in. We'll call it a noob only world. Characters that have a few really high levels and many low levels would have an advantage here. More importantly, low leveled players won't find themselves beat out by the higher leveled ones for things like Fire Giants, Dagganoths and other creatures. Remember when you were level 50 in combat? And you'd be trying to do a slayer task and some high leveled person would come in and just dominate an area? What if there was a world where you knew that you would be on par with everyone else? Wouldn't that make you more likely to stick to your slayer task?
Exceptions could be made so that P-Mods could roam this world. More hints, guides, pop ups could be available to help new players get oriented. From a playability/community point of view this would make so much more sense. Create worlds (heck create a sub 500 level world too) where new players can be around other new players and learn the game at a different pace then the usual frenticness of the other worlds. As they get used to the map (how long did it take you to pretty much memorize the map in your head and navigate as well as you do now?), and the controls, and the various other components they can migrate out.
Jagex will never do it. The rants would be insane (not that they haven't been so far anyways).
November 7, 2009
Well the first week of year 3 was uneventful. Mostly just did my daily tasks and then some runecrafting. No levels. Nothing exciting.
Been trying to do a star every day. Mostly because otherwise I find mining incredibly dull. So I figure to do it in bits and pieces. I'm not sure what I want to do next. I can say that all this skill changing does effect my efficiency. I could probably be close to a level with focus but I just don't have that goal at the moment. I'd rather have fun and just work on bits and pieces here and there.
Thanks for all the comments and well wishes everyone!
Been trying to do a star every day. Mostly because otherwise I find mining incredibly dull. So I figure to do it in bits and pieces. I'm not sure what I want to do next. I can say that all this skill changing does effect my efficiency. I could probably be close to a level with focus but I just don't have that goal at the moment. I'd rather have fun and just work on bits and pieces here and there.
Thanks for all the comments and well wishes everyone!
October 31, 2009
Ok. So I messed around and am posting this late. Basically, I just was waiting to see if I had anything special to post but I dont' really. So let's get on with it.
I finished the Elite Ardougne tasks and used them on Summoning. After pushing hard for my last level I realized how incredibly expensive it is. Fast, but still expensive.
Did some melee work and got 86 Attack, Defense and Strength. Then worked on mining. I'll admit, other then some fooling around in the new Living Caverns I haven't mined anything but stars in the last 10 levels. And I was reminded why. It's soooo boring but you still have to pay attention. I finally just went to the living caverns and mined there. At least that was bearable. Slow, got hit in the head with a few rocks but ended up with 88 Mining.
I finished the Elite Ardougne tasks and used them on Summoning. After pushing hard for my last level I realized how incredibly expensive it is. Fast, but still expensive.
Did some melee work and got 86 Attack, Defense and Strength. Then worked on mining. I'll admit, other then some fooling around in the new Living Caverns I haven't mined anything but stars in the last 10 levels. And I was reminded why. It's soooo boring but you still have to pay attention. I finally just went to the living caverns and mined there. At least that was bearable. Slow, got hit in the head with a few rocks but ended up with 88 Mining.
And that ends year 3 with 2145 levels and all diaries and quests done. What to do in the next year? No idea. There's no 99 I really want at the moment. 96 Summoning looks good. Kind of want 91 RC. 90 Mining would be good for stars, but nothing really exciting.....yet.
October 30, 2009
Today was all about finishing the elite Ardougne tasks.
First, 93 Summoning. I used all my blue charms on Geyser Titans. Expensive but very good xp. Then I did the calculations and realized that I needed to make Wolpertinger's to have any chance at all of hitting 93 with the charms I had. This is where things got interesting. I realized this the previous night actually and asked some friends to buy raw rabbits for me in Oo'log. (You can buy 100 a day) For the record, these are impossible to buy on the GE. Wolf bones were easy to buy but no bunnies. So I started making the pouches. Two item pouch creation is a pain. I finally figured out that if I had my pouch, shards and charms and then a random 4th item then I could withdraw 18 bones and then "max" out my rabbit withdrawal. Then put into my terrorbird all the rabbits and bones. That'd be 6 of each. Then take out 18 rabbits. So basically set x=18 when withdrawing and the rest is the "all" button. (It's hard to explain but try it if you really want to). Anyways, I made pouches like crazy and two good friends went to Miscellania and slaughtered bunnies. By the time I ran out of the store bought ones they had gotten enough of the natural ones that I could get the level.
And by the way, this whole thing was expensive and I used up nearly all my cash. However, at level 93 you can trade in all your Wolpertinger's for shards so now I have tons of shards for my next push.
After that it was gold smelting and a few bars of knives to get 86 Smithing.
Then off to Evil Dave's basement where I caught rats. Lots of rats. Hate that. Another friend had stockpiled some stews and gave me some. After much messing around and stupidity on my part I got a 5 level boost. That allowed me to make the rune limb. (By the way, you don't need to alch the rune bars yourself. And once you do one step for the task a little list will show what other steps you need to do.)
So now it's getting rather late but I was able to convince some friends to go do fishing trawler with me. And they invited friends and so on and so on. Ended up playing two games just for the fun of it. After that I headed to the ZMI with my pouches and my titan and that finished off the diary.
First, 93 Summoning. I used all my blue charms on Geyser Titans. Expensive but very good xp. Then I did the calculations and realized that I needed to make Wolpertinger's to have any chance at all of hitting 93 with the charms I had. This is where things got interesting. I realized this the previous night actually and asked some friends to buy raw rabbits for me in Oo'log. (You can buy 100 a day) For the record, these are impossible to buy on the GE. Wolf bones were easy to buy but no bunnies. So I started making the pouches. Two item pouch creation is a pain. I finally figured out that if I had my pouch, shards and charms and then a random 4th item then I could withdraw 18 bones and then "max" out my rabbit withdrawal. Then put into my terrorbird all the rabbits and bones. That'd be 6 of each. Then take out 18 rabbits. So basically set x=18 when withdrawing and the rest is the "all" button. (It's hard to explain but try it if you really want to). Anyways, I made pouches like crazy and two good friends went to Miscellania and slaughtered bunnies. By the time I ran out of the store bought ones they had gotten enough of the natural ones that I could get the level.
And by the way, this whole thing was expensive and I used up nearly all my cash. However, at level 93 you can trade in all your Wolpertinger's for shards so now I have tons of shards for my next push.
After that it was gold smelting and a few bars of knives to get 86 Smithing.
Then off to Evil Dave's basement where I caught rats. Lots of rats. Hate that. Another friend had stockpiled some stews and gave me some. After much messing around and stupidity on my part I got a 5 level boost. That allowed me to make the rune limb. (By the way, you don't need to alch the rune bars yourself. And once you do one step for the task a little list will show what other steps you need to do.)
So now it's getting rather late but I was able to convince some friends to go do fishing trawler with me. And they invited friends and so on and so on. Ended up playing two games just for the fun of it. After that I headed to the ZMI with my pouches and my titan and that finished off the diary.
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