Showing posts with label Fletching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fletching. Show all posts

September 4, 2011

Got 99 Cooking to end August. There's a nice gap between raw and cooked sharks and they buy and sell easily. I took advantage of this to get cooking done, do some chatting with friends and make some GP. I'm getting close to maxing now and don't think I'm going to have the patience to wait a month for 99 construction.

And then today got 99 Magic and 99 Fletching. Livid farm combination maging and making bolts. I have a bunch of diamond tipped bolts that won't sell anytime soon. But I don't need the monty right now so I put them in the GE hoping that they will clear out before bxpw. Otherwise it'll be a long while. I still need 300k livid farm points to be done with it but for now I don't want to go anywhere near there for awhile.

Down to 3 more skills and less then 500k til max. I wanted to get done before bonus xp weekend. Partly, I want to be done. Partly, I want to dungeoneer.

July 27, 2011

Been spending a lot of time doing nothing but fletching and waiting to find a dungeoneering team. I don't think I've set foot in w117 in a long time. Usually wait for friends to form a team and I tag along. Made 97 Cooking and 97 Fletching while waiting and working things. I was cooking sharks but am thinking of changing to Rockfish. But can't get any on the GE at the moment so I have orders in for both.

Fletching...hate it.

I did get 99 Defense in a dungeon. I switch between Berserker and Tank depending on need and finally chipped out the last little bit of defense XP.

July 19, 2011

Fletching 96. Continue to hate it. Making yew longs while waiting for dg teams to form.

February 17, 2011

Fletching, Cooking and Fishing all to 95 on the 11th, 12th and 13th followed by Firemaking 98 on the 13th. Been slaying a lot except on weekends when slayer areas are full, then working on other skills.

Tried out the new urns and I really really like them. I think it's a nice little bonus for skillers and not too crazy.

I started playing RS because I like quests and I was looking for a game that had good quests but wasn't 100% combat based. Hard combination I know. When I started I did a few quests and figured that I'd take a few months, knock out the 43 quests I had available and that would be that. Didn't really realize that there was a whole P2P element and wasn't really looking for something to do beyond that anyways. But I kept playing and got members after a week or so. Figured, ok....one year and I'll be done. I thought 99's were kind of dumb/end gameish and didn't care about them. So year one was all about questing and getting some basic competency.

About midway through year one I started making friends. And not the kind where you just add them and say hi. But friends that you actually trusted to go with you into the wildy without stabbing you. That really helped me along. I was rocking my mithril/steel armor and found out that it wasn't nearly as cool as I thought. (Keep in mind, this was when dragon armor was king and barrows was exotic). Most of the next few years after that were spent training skills, playing minigames and messing around. It's not that I wasn't goal focused. (Anyone who's read this blog would know better). But my goals were smaller-get all skills to 75+, complete diaries, race a friend to a goal. Along the way (before the GE) I was focused on being self sufficient. I got badly ripped off early on buying a mix of seeds. I didn't know that there were price guides and I thought I was getting a great deal on some exotic seeds. I quickly figured out I got ripped off and from that I was very reluctant to buy things from people I didn't know.

Once the GE came out and prices kind of stabilized I had reached the level where being self sufficient was making less and less sense. Instead of needing 50k for a level I needed 500k. I was still pretty self sufficient (growing my own herbs and making potions) but I realized that there was an impractical aspect to it. So I started buying things every week. With my kingdom going I didn't need that much stuff. So 100k gp a week of bones, gold ores, cannonballs and oak planks. I'd buy toadflax seeds with the profits from farming (and made a lot of pots with that toadflax too) . That was about it. I'd buy 2nds for potions as needed. Altogether I never spent more then 500k a week on supplies. When battlestaves became easier to buy I would make/buy air orbs depending on my goals.

I did this for over a year, maybe a year and a half. I had a slow steady stockpile of supplies. I was probably 75+ on all skills by this time. Making 500k a week wasn't at all difficult. Some combination of slaying, skilling and selling products and gathering daily supplies (pineapples and seaweed in Catherby, sand from Burt, Pineapples from Del Monte etc).

About 6-9 months ago I changed my formula to a million gp a week in bones and 100k a week each of ores, shards and planks. For the most part, I just continued working various skills. Got a whip drop, sold it, bought dragon bones once or twice. But mostly, it's about the slow steady collection of cash.

Why am I telling you all this?

1) I have no idea how long it takes to get 99 in anything because I never had that as a goal.

2) I have no idea how much gp a 99 will cost you because I never kept track. And I did random stuff. Like for prayer, I burned tons of shades because I had a friend who loved it and would ask me to join her.

3) I owned a dragon hatchet for about 2 months. I owned Guthans for about 3 months. I slay in a slayer helmet, fully proselyte, dragon boots, whip, barrows glove, dragon defender, Varrock cape and a glory. (Until I got a slayer helmet I used a helm of neitznot, before dragon boots I used white boots, before the whip-a rune scimmy and a legend's cape).

More importantly, I'm the last person people should ask for advice. Being efficient usually makes my eyeballs bleed. Forcing myself to do something I don't want to do sounds too much like work. My goal is to be entertained. Yes, I do create other subgoals along the way but making my eyeballs bleed has never been one of them.

December 23, 2010

I was closing in on 2400 and wanted to finish it before Christmas. So I pushed hard and got to 94 Fletching which brings all my skills to at least 94. With the assists I had been getting smithing xp and was coasting along. I dug out all the ores I had at a clan event and superheated a bunch of them. Then I found 2 half used sc hammers. I can free up and two bank spaces? Woohoo!! With dungeoneering bankspace is at a premium for me so I finished those out and got to 95 Smithing. So at this point I was sitting at 2396 and really wanted to just get 2400. I started looking at the effigies I had banked. I found a few woodcutting ones and got my hands on an axeman's folly. That gave me a couple of lamps that I used for Runecrafting. Then I found 4 thieving/construction 97's. I am not a fan of thieving and can always do assists for construction, but I decided I really wanted the bankspace more. So to my house, brewed up some tea, opened the effigies and hit 95 Construction and using the lamps on Runecrafting hit 95 Runecrafting. (side note: If you do rc effigies 91 and 93 are a pain to find. 95 is very easy. Something to look forward to).

About this time a friend asked me to join him dungeoneering. We ran through a few floors and when I looked it was 1am. I've got some time off work so this wasn't a big deal. But I also saw that I had gotten enough crimsons for 99 summoning. (Blues are too pricey for me). So I spent some dungeoneering points and got to 96 Dungeoneering. All that was left was 4 trips to the summoning obelisk in Gu'tanoth (I needed to buy shards too) and I found myself with 99 Summoning and 2400 total levels.

September 28, 2010

Hit 92 Smithing last night. Just smelted gold with gauntlets while chatting with friends and reading the forums. And did assists....and rocks. Did a little bit every day while I looked for people to assist so it didn't really feel like I was working for it.

Then got to woodcutting, which I've been doing while waiting to tag my jade vine if I'm early and while standing around trying to get a dungeoneering team. Plus a lot of rocks. 96 Woodcutting.

And then did fletching. This one I was trying to work on since it's one of my few sub 92 skills and it was easy. Made a lot of maples unstrung which I have no use for but with my kingdom it's dirt cheap. And it left me free to chat and work on other things. So add in 92 Fletching.

And it got me to thinking. I think dungeoneering was needed. Here's why.

You have skills like woodcutting, cooking, fletching that are stand around and chat with your friends skills. They get treated like second tier skills because they are afkable. But really they work for a MMO. They let you do something while chatting.

You have skills like all the combat stuff, firemaking, hunter etc where if you want to do them well you can't really chat. Or at least will be less chatty.

And now you have dungeoneering which requires the focus, you can't just chat but you can be with your friends doing stuff with them. Which kind of makes it the combination of the other types.

Having said that, I think there's a little too much afkable stuff but not a big deal.

July 31, 2010

Flurry of end of month activity.

91 Fletching a couple days ago, then 75 Dungeoneering, then 92 Construction. Then today got to 91 Slayer.

Need hunter and fishing rocks this week but otherwise had the rest in 3 days. I'm ready to be done with the rock collecting, but 8 weeks isn't bad. And if I really don't like it I can put it down for awhile.

Haen't been fish flinging lately though and I kind of miss it. Been getting back into star chasing instead. Seems that my D&D's run in cycles.

Getting back into slayer and dungeoneering. Once rocks are done and I reach a few modest (within 1-2 level) levelling goals I'll be devoting a lot more time to those two skills. Got my first effigy after 13 slayer tasks (forgot what dropped it) and then 2 tasks later got another one.

Two friends started blogs and I'm sorry I didn't post this sooner:

www.sheblok.blogspot.com
www.pongsadventures.blogspot.com

I'll be adding them both to the blogroll in the morning.

Happy August!

June 6, 2010

Tons of levels this weekend.

65 Dungeoneering. Finally learning group dungeoning tactics. I really prefer small floors, duo or triple. But I feel like I have to do floors 30-35 large 5:5. It's always that fifth guy that is the problem :)

93 Mining, almost all stars and rock collecting.

89 Smithing, in my pursuit of rocks I'm using gold gaunts and smelting ores. Slow but cheap and very easy for me to read other things while I smith.

90 Fletching.

90 Slayer. Kindly enough, my first task after getting 90 is Dark Beasts. 216 of them.

94 Prayer. A friend had a houseparty. I buy 100k worth of bones every week plus sell my red chins from hunter and buy bones. I want 95 before facing Nomad again.

As long as I keep chasing rocks I'll have weeks of no levels and then bursts of levels. 2284 total. Decided my goal for June is 2300 total. Trying to get 70 dungeoneering this month so 5 levels there.

February 21, 2010

Well after a few weeks of no leveling I leveled in a fury the last few days.

Got to 88 Fletching a couple days ago.

Last night used every single one of my blues, golds and greens and got to 95 Summoning. I've got about 75% of the charms for 96(Pack Yaks!!) but not nearly enough cash to get there. Need about 9million GP so it'll be awhile. Might go back to doing RC for a bit.

Then realized I was only 18k from 90 Herblore so did that!

2181 now.

November 26, 2009

Finally got a fletching level. I don't seriously fletch, keep that in mind, I just do it when I'm waiting for an event to start or for a friend to pick up something. Anyways, got to 87 Fletching. Also finally got that RC level so that's 86 Runecrafting.

Today's Tip of the Day: When you're non rechargable jewelry (Games Necklace, Dueling Rings, etc) get down to 1 charge high alch it. It'll alch for the same as a fully charged one and you'll make back most of what it cost you to obtain it.

July 27, 2009

83 Smithing
86 Fletching
85 Herblore

Pretty busy couple of days. Got up to 2090 now. Been working on agility every other day. Hoping to get another few levels before the month is up.

I've found that the barbarian agility course is slightly better then the gnome one. But I alternate between the courses to keep things interesting.

June 9, 2009

Been busy with things and honestly,didn't have much to blog about.

Finally got full rogue's! So figured I'd try to get blogging again.

Let's see here....

Since I last wrote I've gotten:
90 Magic
85 Cooking
84 Fishing
97 Agility
86 Summoning
85 Hitpoints
83 Ranged
92 Woodcutting
84 Fletching
98 Farming


Maybe I have posted some of that before. Anyways, up to 2077 now.

That seems like quite abit but there are quite a few I was close to so just pushed it over.

May 18, 2009

Finally got a level!! 84 Fletching! Getting close to a few others too.

Must remember to blog every other day now!!

Anyone get the idea that Jagex is a little confused lately? I keep wanting to just sit them down and try to figure out what, if anything, they are thinking. Just feels a bit jumbled lately.

Oh, and for those of you who find my blog and pm me asking for info on armor and weapons....I don't know anything. Sorry to disappoint you but to be honest asking me the best way to do something is a bit pointless. Not knowing your money, your temper or your quests completed it makes it really hard to answer those questions live in game. Message boards (I like Zybez though there are certainly other good ones).

December 11, 2008

83 Fletching. Going to push hard for 2k total levels. I've got 11 more levels to go, and about 5 levels requiring less then 50k.

More info shortly.

December 4, 2008

Made it to 84 Hunter last night.

Tonight hit 82 Fletching. Normally I don't like to fletch but I had a lot of reading to do for work. So I fletched. Not quite as easy as fishing to multitask but not bad. Read for 15 minutes then chat a few then read the next section etc.

I'm overdue to write a guide. Not sure what guide I want to write though. Been spending a bit of time on the RS forums seeing what people are asking. There's a lot of good content there, well thought out. Then there's the posts asking "how do I make money" or "what should I kill". Well, I'd suggest before posting that you should probably look around the forums as guides for just about everything exists. Most of the guides I read were pretty good. I wouldn't agree with them all but that's more a difference of style (do you want to get rich or level fast or ??) then anything else. I did read some appallingly bad guides that gave terrible advice. Sometimes I'd comment, sometimes not. Really though it was quite good.

Been finding a star everynight. I even got the finder's bonus (6075xp) for one today. Getting close to leveling a lot of skills.

Going to work thieving for the next few days I think.

November 19, 2008

Back to my daily routine. Yesterday was a big leveling day. Today was more of the usual.

Found all my penguins, did the circus.

Got to 81 Fletching. Decided I'm going to push hard to get 2k total by the end of the year.

Think I decided on this a few days ago when I leveled agility. I want to raise every level, 80 summoning and then a few other random levels to get there.

1969 total.

August 7, 2008

First of all I guess I'm now a Jets fan.

In other news.....79 and 80 Fletching in the last few days. Been fletching when I've been writing blog entries, paying bills etc.

Been doing my usual farming and have 13k left to level. Which really annoys me since I have to wait to harvest something.

Been doing a good bit of mining lately. Mining granite at the moment as it's fast and quiet and suits me well.

July 21, 2008

Busy weekend. Got to 74 Firemaking by cleaning out the logs I got during my last woodcutting level. Checked my kingdom (currently set for maples and herbs though I may change that to maples and coal for awhile). Used some of those maples to get 78 Fletching.

And still using ZMI for RC. I've figured out how to farm and do some of my other daily stuff on lunars so it's not too bad. Have to remember to wear a dueling ring so I can tele to a bank when I grab the wrong runes. Been using the Abyssal lurker. Got to 74 Runecrafting and then some. Really looking forward to 75 as I think it will be less awkward with the banking with the lurker etc.

1878 levels

Nearing my goal of all 80's (except summoning). 51 levels remain (I think). Killing Bork and the Jade Vine will get my slayer to 80 without much other work. Also need to get a rune defender again and then go kill abyssal critters which should get me to all 80 combat skills. Construction, smithing and runecrafting will be a grind. Mining won't be giggles either. Currently I'm working on a strategy for it.

July 12, 2008

Once I got to 73 smithing I decided to start using my addy bars to make bolts. Should be using for metal dragons and various other critters. Bought a load of feathers and fletched them. When I got done I was less then 5k away from the level so used a few logs and landed at 77 Fletching. Intermingled with all that was my vial stuffing project. Was able to grow enough Torstol to push it to 80 Herblore.

I'm thinking of stopping with Zamorak potions for awhile and just farming snapdragons and kwuarms. (Kwuarms because I've been farming a mix of marigolds and limpwurt roots). I could build up a nice stockpile of super strengths. Plus, I changed my kingdom from producing coal to producing herbs. I'll try this for a few more weeks and see what happens.

May 21, 2008

Finally got to 89 Agility yesterday :D Ended the agility race with a little more then 1.9 million agility xp. Got from 85 to a little past 89. Love that. Also got a good idea of how long it would take me to get an agility cape. I'm going to go back to just training agility on Friday nights for 2 hours. In the big long term dreamworld I'd want an agility cape. But right now I have a lot of other things I'd rather do in RS.

Made it to 76 Fletching today. After all that time doing agility I've got a lot of bank clean up and miscellanous tasks I'd like to get caught up on.

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