October 31, 2007

Let's see here....killed the jade vine....sorted a few things out in my bank. Bought a lava battlestaff (50k in case anyone cares).

Got to 68 Fletching by using up what was sitting in my bank. (And created more bankspace in the process). Made about 1k laws and hit 67 Runecrafting. And supplied myself with enough laws for quite some time.

That brought all my skills up to at least 66 for the end of my first year (as always, excluding construction.) 1575 total! I didn't think I'd make my total goal for October as I slogged through the prayer and herblore levels. But I picked up a little steam near the end and just eeked through. Didn't get everything to 67 like I wanted but can't complain.

Ended the night by finishing gathering the Ghostly Robes. And while I was out visiting one of the ghosts I found myself at a completely and totally deserted mage arena. Took advantage of that situation to get my Claws of Guthix!! Thought about getting the other staffs but honestly....I need a staff stand in my player owned house before that happens. Bank space issues. Sigh. Anyways, finished getting the Robes. Which then meant I got to pay a visit to the Varrock Museum and get 153 Kudos. Which gave me a 10k lamp (spent on Prayer). And I talked to the Information clerk (a very nice lady may I add) who gave me 5k xp in a herblore/prayer/slayer/smithing and hunter. Pretty pleased about that as at least 3 of those skills are pretty hard to work.

One of the things I do when I'm sitting at the bank is look for small merchanting opportunities. I rarely have 1k of anything and if I do I have a purpose for them. But I can do pretty well selling people 1-10 laws at 500-1,000 gp each and so on. My 'style' of play lends itself well to this aversion to merchanting I have. I use my kingdom to gather items to sell. I try to merchant one batch of items a week (meaning selling off 10k coal in a shot or 4k flax). That's pretty much it. Sell off enough to reinvest in my kingdom (and honestly, I always make a small but not insignificant profit that way). Otherwise, I may spend 50k-60k if I'm recovering items lost in death or buying battlestaffs. But otherwise, I don't require a lot of cash.