July 25, 2010

Not much to report from a weekend of skilling.

Did my part for my clan’s Jagex cup team. We’ll see how that turns out. I have to say, I was kind of looking forward to the cup this year but at this point I’m more annoyed about it then enthused.  I did manage to get 92 Fishing. I know it’s minor but I’m kind of annoyed that I fished/cooked for 2 2 hour blocks and wasn’t allowed to bank. That’s a lot of fish to eat or drop.

I have been taking full advantage of the ancient effigies. For those who have been away for awhile and are not yet up to speed on the last few months worth of updates (like a good friend of mine who PM’ed me today in game to tell me she’s now EXPECTING!! grats!!)  here’s the quick and dirty:

Ancient effigies got introduced into RS a few months ago. It’s a rare(ish) drop from a whole bunch of creatures. I’d provide more information here but I haven’t gotten one yet in 11 slayer tasks.

Anyways, these things drop. You pick it up and it goes through 4 stages. Don’t ask me the names since it doesn’t really matter to me.

Each stage requires a certain amount of xp to satisfy the effigy and get it to the next stage. The first stage requires level 91 in one of two skills and grants 15k xp. The second stage requires level 93 in one of two skills and grants 20k xp, third stage requires level 95 and grants 25k xp and the fourth stage requires level 97 and grants 30k xp. Once the fourth stage is met the person who found the effigy gets a dragonkin lamp that grants a big pile o’xp. (level cubed/20 or something like that).

The skills are presented in pairs with the following combinations:

Agility or Crafting

Construction or Thieving

Cooking or Firemaking

Fishing or Farming

Fletching or Woodcutting

Herblore or Hunter

Mining or Smithing

Runecrafting or Summoning

The skills in bold are assistable. And here’s where it gets good.

Look on the forums under Distractions and Diversions. There’s a number of clan chats listed for effigy assists.

I use “assist clan”. I go in there and announce:

“Offering 91 or 93 Construction assist”

“Offering 91-97 herblore assist”

I can usually find 2 people to help in less then 10 minutes. Free 30k herblore xp in ten minutes is a great trade off. (You can only get 30k a day assisting people. If you assist someone and get 25k  you can assist someone else for 25k but you’ll still only get 30k, but two people will be happy so…..)

You can also pot up to get the levels needed.

Couple of tips there:

Level 3 shelves in your POH let you increase construction 3 levels. So at level 88 you can start assisting with construction. Construction is highly in demand so you shouldn’t have much issue finding people who need 91 construction. At level 91 I’ve been doing 91 and 93 construction assists in my house. Never had a problem quickly finding a few people.

If you go to the guy in the lighthouse you can buy 10 Greenman’s Ales and 10 Dwarven Stouts without a lot of chit chat. I buy 10 every time I’m near there (usually doing penguins or running laps for rocks). The +1 herblore lets me do 97 herby assists and I keep the Dwarven Stouts for 91 Smithing for friends.

Herblore, crafting and construction seem to be the most in demand from what I’ve seen in clan chats I’ve camped in. Fletching and cooking I’ve rarely seen. I’ve seen a few for rc (which surprises me) and 97 farming.

I try to do assists at the same time every day so that my clock resets at the same time. Clock starts ticking when you do your first assist, not when you max. 24 hours to renew another 30k.