103 Dungeoneering 3 days ago. In with a good group of people who do it regularly enough that it's picking up the pace of my xp. Doing more keying, getting faster. I could be maxed by now but it's hard to say no when you log in and get asked to do a floor.
Got 99 Strength and 98 Cooking.
Started doing c2 and c3 floors. One person clears the floor, the other person skills like crazy. Getting around 50k an hour fishing xp plus cooking/firemaking/mining. Got on a streak of a crazy number of fishing spots per floor. Testing further.
Showing posts with label Strength. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Strength. Show all posts
May 12, 2011
98 Slayer, 98 Defense, Attack and Strength.
I finally gave in and got a chaotic rapier halfway between 97 and 98
I finally gave in and got a chaotic rapier halfway between 97 and 98. Love using it on metal dragons. I don't use it on anything I can kill faster then they spawn. For that a whip is fine and I don't have to pay to recharge it.
I bought the bonecrusher and herbicide a while back. Wasn't sure about the bonecrusher when I got it but I wanted to test it. I have to say....I love taking these with me to assignments. It's not about the xp benefit. While nice I have 99 Prayer and the herblore xp is trivial. But what I love about it is that it keeps my slaying area clean. Which translates into more gp. For example, if I'm cannoning spectres....any herbs that I see I grab. I don't have to check what it is. If the herbicide doesn't instantly destroy it then I know I want it. If I see something on the ground I know it's worth looking at (well...except the junk armor). Keeping the area uncluttered just makes things easier.
I went and spent some time at Livid Farm last week. 10 minutes...I'm fine. 30 minutes it's getting to me. A full hour....that's a struggle. I've been making it a clan event which helps a bit. But I am thinking of just doing 10 minutes a day. Yes, it will take forever but the spell I want (group venge) I only need once I start seriously dungeoneering so I have some time.
I finally gave in and got a chaotic rapier halfway between 97 and 98
I finally gave in and got a chaotic rapier halfway between 97 and 98. Love using it on metal dragons. I don't use it on anything I can kill faster then they spawn. For that a whip is fine and I don't have to pay to recharge it.
I bought the bonecrusher and herbicide a while back. Wasn't sure about the bonecrusher when I got it but I wanted to test it. I have to say....I love taking these with me to assignments. It's not about the xp benefit. While nice I have 99 Prayer and the herblore xp is trivial. But what I love about it is that it keeps my slaying area clean. Which translates into more gp. For example, if I'm cannoning spectres....any herbs that I see I grab. I don't have to check what it is. If the herbicide doesn't instantly destroy it then I know I want it. If I see something on the ground I know it's worth looking at (well...except the junk armor). Keeping the area uncluttered just makes things easier.
I went and spent some time at Livid Farm last week. 10 minutes...I'm fine. 30 minutes it's getting to me. A full hour....that's a struggle. I've been making it a clan event which helps a bit. But I am thinking of just doing 10 minutes a day. Yes, it will take forever but the spell I want (group venge) I only need once I start seriously dungeoneering so I have some time.
March 18, 2011
Took a day or two to recover from bonus xp weekend. Got 97 Attack, Strength and Defense before returning to thieving to pick up 98 Thieving. Our clan has a competition this week for thieving so aiming for 99 during that week. Then full bore into 99 hp after that (don't tell me it's constitution).
In the last few months I've become increasingly irritated with Jagex's decisions. The bugs, quite honestly, don't bother me. I understand lots of lines of code, millions of users....guaranteed bugs.
Bonus weekends meh. Yes they make things easier but it's a game and I get it. Wish it was better executed but it's minor.
Nope...the thing that makes me facepalm is twofold:
1) Why why why is a Jmod (Mod Poppy) starting a clan? Seriously? There's hundreds of people running hundreds of clans and Jagex starts their own? I don't get it. I know it's the year of clans (in fact, I think I said it before Jagex did :) ) but come on. Jmods have a huge advantage to running clans (think of recruitment) and a Jagex run clan is not within anyone's definition of what a clan is about. It should be about players forming groups of friends to do stuff. I realize that this is part of community outreach but it just hits me wrong. Normally not something I would rant about or even go beyond "meh" with but then
2) What the hell Jagex? Kicking off clan month the same weekend as bonus weekend? How does that make sense? What in the hell were you thinking? There's exactly 6 days a year that EVERYONE pretty much goes heads down into skilling and you had to pick 3 of them to kick off clan month? What about the other 10 months of the year?
In the last few months I've become increasingly irritated with Jagex's decisions. The bugs, quite honestly, don't bother me. I understand lots of lines of code, millions of users....guaranteed bugs.
Bonus weekends meh. Yes they make things easier but it's a game and I get it. Wish it was better executed but it's minor.
Nope...the thing that makes me facepalm is twofold:
1) Why why why is a Jmod (Mod Poppy) starting a clan? Seriously? There's hundreds of people running hundreds of clans and Jagex starts their own? I don't get it. I know it's the year of clans (in fact, I think I said it before Jagex did :) ) but come on. Jmods have a huge advantage to running clans (think of recruitment) and a Jagex run clan is not within anyone's definition of what a clan is about. It should be about players forming groups of friends to do stuff. I realize that this is part of community outreach but it just hits me wrong. Normally not something I would rant about or even go beyond "meh" with but then
2) What the hell Jagex? Kicking off clan month the same weekend as bonus weekend? How does that make sense? What in the hell were you thinking? There's exactly 6 days a year that EVERYONE pretty much goes heads down into skilling and you had to pick 3 of them to kick off clan month? What about the other 10 months of the year?
January 31, 2011
Jan 15- 96 Mining
Jan 16-96 Attack
Jan 17-96 Defense
Jan 19-98 Dungeoneering
Jan 25-96 Strength
Jan 27-97 Magic
Jan 30-99 Dungeoneering
Nearly a whole month of not posting and not much skilling. My apologies. I usually post while I'm doing an afkable skill and there's no way to afk Dungeoneering.
That and at Christmas dinner some friends started talking about Glee. I thought this was the dumbest show I'd ever heard of since Knight Rider. But then I decided to check out an episde on Hulu. So then I had to watch the first 1.5 seasons that I missed out on. And for some of them I had to rewind and play again because they were fun. So the short story is, sorry but blame Glee for my lack of posts.
(And no, I have not rage quit since Wildy is coming back).
December 21, 2010
December 13th 94 Cooking and 94 Thieving. Since then knocked out 94 Range (12/14), 95 Attack and Defence (12/16), 98 Herblore (12/16), 95 Strength (12/19), 94 Fishing (12/20) and then 95 Construction (12/21).
It's pretty much a ton of slayer during the week with some dungeoneering on weekends. While waiting for teams to form I do my bank standing skills. And play a little fish flinging with friends.
I've also been very disciplined about getting assists. Specifically, getting construction, smithing and runecrafting assists. I've even helped friends on occasion with herblore and crafting but I prefer to pass on those.
I was fortunate and made friends with a group of people who slay A LOT. That results in my getting about 4-6 requests a day for assists. Plus my friends and clan. I've been trying to hook people up with assisters which works out great for everyone involved.
I try to reset close to the same time everyday. If I don't have any friends who need an assist I hop over to w117 Daemonheim. I HIDE public (not turn it off) and then announce "Offering 91, 93 RC assist". The funny thing is, most people turn off their chat entirely. So you'll see someone offering 97 herblore standing next to a needing 97 herblore. Hence, hiding your chat lets you still see people chatting without spamming your chat box. Watch for people who care looking for what your offering. It rarely takes more then a few moments.
It's pretty much a ton of slayer during the week with some dungeoneering on weekends. While waiting for teams to form I do my bank standing skills. And play a little fish flinging with friends.
I've also been very disciplined about getting assists. Specifically, getting construction, smithing and runecrafting assists. I've even helped friends on occasion with herblore and crafting but I prefer to pass on those.
I was fortunate and made friends with a group of people who slay A LOT. That results in my getting about 4-6 requests a day for assists. Plus my friends and clan. I've been trying to hook people up with assisters which works out great for everyone involved.
I try to reset close to the same time everyday. If I don't have any friends who need an assist I hop over to w117 Daemonheim. I HIDE public (not turn it off) and then announce "Offering 91, 93 RC assist". The funny thing is, most people turn off their chat entirely. So you'll see someone offering 97 herblore standing next to a needing 97 herblore. Hence, hiding your chat lets you still see people chatting without spamming your chat box. Watch for people who care looking for what your offering. It rarely takes more then a few moments.
November 19, 2010
Mad scramble before the holidays in the real world is impinging on my 'scaping.
I have managed to get a bunch of levels since my last post though:
93 Ranged, 94 Strength, 94 Attack, 94 Defense all through a combination of circus/slayer/dungeoneering.
I got burned out on dungeoneering after I hit 94 Dungeoneering and pretty much quit doing it except with a few friends. Tried to do a large floor last night and it was a miserable experience. Not because I don't like it, but because I kind of forgot what to do. Going to do some solo floors over the next few days to get used to it again. Mostly slayed since last week. Got 2 whips and sold them and some other stuff from slaying and bought a lot of dragon bones. Ran through 3 pack yaks of altaring bones and getting close to leveling. I have 98 banked and a bit beyond that. 99 Prayer may be doable by the end of December. It really depends though on how much dungeoneering I do.
I'm thinking of 3 days of dungeoneering and 3 days of slaying a week. I keep getting asked when I'll get my next 99 or if I'm going for all 99's at once. To be honest, I don't "go for 99" because I get bored along the way. So I switch skills every few days. Which makes it look like I'm going for all skills 99 at once.
Anyways, decided that my next goal is 2400 total levels. It's pretty attainable (January?) and buys me time to figure out what I want to do next.
I have managed to get a bunch of levels since my last post though:
93 Ranged, 94 Strength, 94 Attack, 94 Defense all through a combination of circus/slayer/dungeoneering.
I got burned out on dungeoneering after I hit 94 Dungeoneering and pretty much quit doing it except with a few friends. Tried to do a large floor last night and it was a miserable experience. Not because I don't like it, but because I kind of forgot what to do. Going to do some solo floors over the next few days to get used to it again. Mostly slayed since last week. Got 2 whips and sold them and some other stuff from slaying and bought a lot of dragon bones. Ran through 3 pack yaks of altaring bones and getting close to leveling. I have 98 banked and a bit beyond that. 99 Prayer may be doable by the end of December. It really depends though on how much dungeoneering I do.
I'm thinking of 3 days of dungeoneering and 3 days of slaying a week. I keep getting asked when I'll get my next 99 or if I'm going for all 99's at once. To be honest, I don't "go for 99" because I get bored along the way. So I switch skills every few days. Which makes it look like I'm going for all skills 99 at once.
Anyways, decided that my next goal is 2400 total levels. It's pretty attainable (January?) and buys me time to figure out what I want to do next.
October 26, 2010
As I draw to a close on my 4th year I've been pushing to mop up levels. Got to 93 Strength and 93 Slayer. Funny thing, I haven't gotten an effigy in 8 tasks. Task 9, living rock creatures I get one. Next task, hellhounds I get 2. Just random.
By the way, cannoning hellhounds in the Taverly resource dungeon is great. Fast and quiet.
Knocked out 97 Crafting. Had a bunch of air orbs. And of course, once I get to less then 50k xp I started pulling out all my other crafting supplies. I'll be busy alching leather armor now.
Then 98 Summoning. This is the first time in about a year I actually intended to do summoning for xp. Mostly I do it in dungeons and when I need the pouches. I think I have enough charms now, but I don't want to spend the money. I'd rather keep getting little bits of xp from dungeoneering and waiting to see what happens.
Got to 93 Cooking and 93 Fishing. Mostly cause I was close. It's funny but with dungeoneering xp does sneak up on you. Have done little bits of fish flinging too so I just finished off the levels. I fished for about 20 minutes in Piscatoris with a friend and thought it was the most boring thing ever. I may start doing fish flinging daily just to chip away at it and guarantee that I'll never have to actually fish.
And finally, 90 and 91 Dungeoneering. I'm really enjoying this skill. And yes, I've had some bad teams and some good teams. But it's just fun. It's different though. Nobody I know who's done it for a bit doesn't get into it. Especially when you're going with friends.
That brings me up to 2367.
I have to tell you a secret though. I was woodcutting while waiting for a friend. Some guy asked me my woodcutting level. I said 96. He said lucky. And he was secretly right. I didn't spend hours standing chopping trees. See, I fell into one of those pits in Lleyta. And as I stood up my hand brushed against a piece of metal. It was a bit tarnished but it had some writing on it. So I rubbed it on my sleeve and.....a giant genie appeared. And he gave me a wish and I asked for 9million woodcutting xp and Poof! 96 woodcutting.
Really hoping I get lucky again and find a 96 Dungeoneering lamp.
By the way, cannoning hellhounds in the Taverly resource dungeon is great. Fast and quiet.
Knocked out 97 Crafting. Had a bunch of air orbs. And of course, once I get to less then 50k xp I started pulling out all my other crafting supplies. I'll be busy alching leather armor now.
Then 98 Summoning. This is the first time in about a year I actually intended to do summoning for xp. Mostly I do it in dungeons and when I need the pouches. I think I have enough charms now, but I don't want to spend the money. I'd rather keep getting little bits of xp from dungeoneering and waiting to see what happens.
Got to 93 Cooking and 93 Fishing. Mostly cause I was close. It's funny but with dungeoneering xp does sneak up on you. Have done little bits of fish flinging too so I just finished off the levels. I fished for about 20 minutes in Piscatoris with a friend and thought it was the most boring thing ever. I may start doing fish flinging daily just to chip away at it and guarantee that I'll never have to actually fish.
And finally, 90 and 91 Dungeoneering. I'm really enjoying this skill. And yes, I've had some bad teams and some good teams. But it's just fun. It's different though. Nobody I know who's done it for a bit doesn't get into it. Especially when you're going with friends.
That brings me up to 2367.
I have to tell you a secret though. I was woodcutting while waiting for a friend. Some guy asked me my woodcutting level. I said 96. He said lucky. And he was secretly right. I didn't spend hours standing chopping trees. See, I fell into one of those pits in Lleyta. And as I stood up my hand brushed against a piece of metal. It was a bit tarnished but it had some writing on it. So I rubbed it on my sleeve and.....a giant genie appeared. And he gave me a wish and I asked for 9million woodcutting xp and Poof! 96 woodcutting.
Really hoping I get lucky again and find a 96 Dungeoneering lamp.
October 3, 2010
Busy few days. Managed to get 96 Magic a few days ago. It's so much a skill a train as a skill I use and happen to get XP. The only thing I do that gives alot of xp would be alching all those air battlestaffs I make. Otherwise it's just little bits and pieces from teleporting, dungeoneering etc. (Which is why I'm not very helpful if asked how to train Magic.)
Did a bunch of slaying and got to 92 Attack and Defense. I finished my task right after I got these levels and went to 117 Daemonheim to see about doing some assists. I was 6k xp away from 92 Strength and 130 Combat. I saw a guy advertising for floor 40 and traded him so I could join. He invited me, I was looking at my teams stats, and found myself booted. 130+only! Oops.
So I went and did 2 dungeons and got the xp and 92 Strength. And 130 combat. I guess that's good because I can use W117 now and get easier teams. But to be honest, I don't really want to. I'm slow at dungeoneering, I get tangled up in combat. And I have a lot of friends who atm are training like crazy so I tag along with them.
Which lead to 94 Constitution and 85 Dungeoneering for a total level of 2350.
And then 86 Dungeoneering for the fun of it.
So I've reached my goal at the beginning of this year. As I reach my 4th anniversary I have all skills to at least 92 and a few to 96. (If last year they were below 92 I wanted to get 92 and below 96 get them to 96). I got a few skills (mining, herblore, constitution, summoning) way past that.
Now I've got a month left in this year to think about what I want to do next year. I'd really love to get 90 Dungeoneering this month too, we'll see.
Did a bunch of slaying and got to 92 Attack and Defense. I finished my task right after I got these levels and went to 117 Daemonheim to see about doing some assists. I was 6k xp away from 92 Strength and 130 Combat. I saw a guy advertising for floor 40 and traded him so I could join. He invited me, I was looking at my teams stats, and found myself booted. 130+only! Oops.
So I went and did 2 dungeons and got the xp and 92 Strength. And 130 combat. I guess that's good because I can use W117 now and get easier teams. But to be honest, I don't really want to. I'm slow at dungeoneering, I get tangled up in combat. And I have a lot of friends who atm are training like crazy so I tag along with them.
Which lead to 94 Constitution and 85 Dungeoneering for a total level of 2350.
And then 86 Dungeoneering for the fun of it.
So I've reached my goal at the beginning of this year. As I reach my 4th anniversary I have all skills to at least 92 and a few to 96. (If last year they were below 92 I wanted to get 92 and below 96 get them to 96). I got a few skills (mining, herblore, constitution, summoning) way past that.
Now I've got a month left in this year to think about what I want to do next year. I'd really love to get 90 Dungeoneering this month too, we'll see.
August 28, 2010
Nearly done with all the end of summer house maintenance. Not had much time to skill or blog. Got to 91 Attack, Defense, Strength and 92 Hitpoints. Hit 79 Dungeoneering. Probably some other skills or two and hit 2326 total.
Been thinking about what to do for bonus xp weekend.
Agility, Farming and Hunter are off the table.
I can get better XP using SC tools with mining, woodcutting,fletching, smithing, construction.
Firemaking I'd rather use my gauntlets and ring. And at 97 I have no use to raise it at the moment.
Wasteful to use it on Summoning (at least in the first 10 hours). Same with dungeoneering and prayer.
Slayer is tempting.
Magic may be but....can't get excited about it.
Herblore....got 96...close to 97. But it'll be expensive. And I can sell the herbs and seconds that I have for a lot of cash. Hmmmm.....
Crafting. Battlestaffs. Tempting....not excited though.
Thieving....dislike it but at double xp and I don't have to fight people for room....tempting.
Fishing, cooking, runecrafting are potentials.
I'm putting together 2 lists.....1.1 xp and the first ten hours.
First ten hours:
Circus-should take 3 mins and give me a bucketload of mage and range xp.
Herblore (just making overloads and sara brews as I don't need anything else and don't want to lose a bunch of money making pots I won't use).
Crafting-battlestaffs and cutting gems. Should be fast easy cheap.
Thieving. Was thinking of doing runecrafting. One more week of penguins and rocks should put me at 91. After that I can assist......
Cooking/Fishing-I might do this if I get bored with thieving. But I enjoy these both and kind of think I'll spend the time working on skills I dislike.
After 10 hours:
Slayer and dungeoneering. I'm thinking of just small rushing all floors. 10% doesn't sound like much but it all helps.
Any thoughts?
Been thinking about what to do for bonus xp weekend.
Agility, Farming and Hunter are off the table.
I can get better XP using SC tools with mining, woodcutting,fletching, smithing, construction.
Firemaking I'd rather use my gauntlets and ring. And at 97 I have no use to raise it at the moment.
Wasteful to use it on Summoning (at least in the first 10 hours). Same with dungeoneering and prayer.
Slayer is tempting.
Magic may be but....can't get excited about it.
Herblore....got 96...close to 97. But it'll be expensive. And I can sell the herbs and seconds that I have for a lot of cash. Hmmmm.....
Crafting. Battlestaffs. Tempting....not excited though.
Thieving....dislike it but at double xp and I don't have to fight people for room....tempting.
Fishing, cooking, runecrafting are potentials.
I'm putting together 2 lists.....1.1 xp and the first ten hours.
First ten hours:
Circus-should take 3 mins and give me a bucketload of mage and range xp.
Herblore (just making overloads and sara brews as I don't need anything else and don't want to lose a bunch of money making pots I won't use).
Crafting-battlestaffs and cutting gems. Should be fast easy cheap.
Thieving. Was thinking of doing runecrafting. One more week of penguins and rocks should put me at 91. After that I can assist......
Cooking/Fishing-I might do this if I get bored with thieving. But I enjoy these both and kind of think I'll spend the time working on skills I dislike.
After 10 hours:
Slayer and dungeoneering. I'm thinking of just small rushing all floors. 10% doesn't sound like much but it all helps.
Any thoughts?
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.
September 17, 2009
83 Attack, 83 Defense, 83 Strength.
Cranking through slayer. Doing a little ranging of them when necessary but mostly just melee. Nothing much to report about the tasks. Should get to 85 slayer soon and those popular abyssals will be mine.
Cranking through slayer. Doing a little ranging of them when necessary but mostly just melee. Nothing much to report about the tasks. Should get to 85 slayer soon and those popular abyssals will be mine.
August 2, 2009
Busy weekend. Was getting close to some levels and my big goal of 2100.
So....knocked out a waterfiends task, got a rune defender, started on a Black Demons task and got 83 Defense.....83 Strength....83 Attack.
Cleaned up junk in my bank. Hit 91 Crafting. Alched some of it and got to 91 Magic. Spent most of the weekend at ZMI running around like crazy. Finally pushed it to 83 Runecrafting.
Hunted some penguins on Sunday morning and used it to get 87 Summoning.
My friend Cross had an open altar last night and thanks to that I can check off 86 Prayer.
That's 8 and 2099 in 3 days.
And no, I didn't no life this weekend. All but prayer and rc were below 50k at the start of the weekend. It's just that chipping away at some skills from bork killing, battlestaffs etc came together and I just mopped up with 10 minutes or so of working on a skill.
So....knocked out a waterfiends task, got a rune defender, started on a Black Demons task and got 83 Defense.....83 Strength....83 Attack.
Cleaned up junk in my bank. Hit 91 Crafting. Alched some of it and got to 91 Magic. Spent most of the weekend at ZMI running around like crazy. Finally pushed it to 83 Runecrafting.
Hunted some penguins on Sunday morning and used it to get 87 Summoning.
My friend Cross had an open altar last night and thanks to that I can check off 86 Prayer.
That's 8 and 2099 in 3 days.
And no, I didn't no life this weekend. All but prayer and rc were below 50k at the start of the weekend. It's just that chipping away at some skills from bork killing, battlestaffs etc came together and I just mopped up with 10 minutes or so of working on a skill.
December 10, 2008
81 Strength. 10th straight day with a level I think. Not much to report. Just did my usual stuff.
So now I have a rant and some tips. I'm standing in Edge making some pots, waiting for my run to restore and trying to decide if I wanted to firemake or smith. Anyways, I'm making pots and:
Random Guy: Jaxana
Me: Yes?
Random Guy: Got any irits?
Me: Some, why?
Random Guy: Can I buy 400.
Me: No
Random Guy: I need for quest.
Me: You need 400 irits for a quest
Random Guy: Yes
Me: Go buy at GE.
Random Guy: Give me
And on it went. Until I ignored him. I don't understand why people think I should give away stuff I worked hard to put together. I don't mind giving someone a pot or food or something if they are working on a quest. But I'm not giving people free supplies. Not unless they are a friend. I've had friends help me out and I've tried to return the favor as much as possible. But a totally random person? Nope.
It seems to me that some people resent others for having more then them (cash, level, irits, whatever) and feel that they have a right to get a cut of their stuff. I worked hard for what I have. I've made plenty of mistakes, lost plenty of cash. I've put in my time to get my levels. I am not lucky, I worked for what I have. And yes, I do share with my friends. But I am not in the business of selling supplies in random banks. And I'm not interested in supplying everyone who is too lazy to go to the GE with hundreds of an item.
Having said that here's my mini guide on herb gathering:
1) Kill things. This is the answer for almost all resource gathering questions and herbs are no different. I've liked various stronghold of security creatures for this but there's plenty of guides out there if you google herblore and runescape.
2) Farm them. This is my preferred method. It takes 90 minutes to get 7 herbs per patch, or 35 for a rull round of farming. Seeds are cheap relative to herbs.
3) Steal them from the Sorceress Garden. I find this frustrating. I know people who like it.
4) Salarin the Twisted. If you have a decent (50+) mage level this should be easy. Go to the Yanille Agility dungeon with a stack of strike spells. Head SEish until you come to a pile of rubble. Climb it and go to the end. Kill Salarin. There's a safe spot but he doesn't really hit that hard. While you wait for him to respawn kill a couple chaos druids, they drop herb supplies too. Once you get 3 keys (probably 6-9 Salarin's), bank. Return with just the 3 keys. Shortly after you enter you'll see a pipe to the west. Go through and use the keys on the chest. You'll get 9 decent herbs. 3 keys=27 herbs. The chest poisons you so quickly use up your keys and bank and swig an antipoison.
5) Buy them. There is no way to make money making pots while buying all the supplies. If you want to lose money then I would suggest energy pots. Go over to the Culimancer's chest or Gnome Stronghold Bar and buy a bunch of chocolate bars. Grind them up and make pots with Harralanders.
6) Serum 207.Super slow, but profitable. Get some tarromin and ashes. Go to Mort'ton. Use it on the afflicted. They will give you cash and tarromin. Take an axe and tinderbox. Burn. Get ashes. You can stay there almost forever as you will always get more tarromin then you can use.this a lot. I think it comes down to the way you play. Definately check it out though.
So now I have a rant and some tips. I'm standing in Edge making some pots, waiting for my run to restore and trying to decide if I wanted to firemake or smith. Anyways, I'm making pots and:
Random Guy: Jaxana
Me: Yes?
Random Guy: Got any irits?
Me: Some, why?
Random Guy: Can I buy 400.
Me: No
Random Guy: I need for quest.
Me: You need 400 irits for a quest
Random Guy: Yes
Me: Go buy at GE.
Random Guy: Give me
And on it went. Until I ignored him. I don't understand why people think I should give away stuff I worked hard to put together. I don't mind giving someone a pot or food or something if they are working on a quest. But I'm not giving people free supplies. Not unless they are a friend. I've had friends help me out and I've tried to return the favor as much as possible. But a totally random person? Nope.
It seems to me that some people resent others for having more then them (cash, level, irits, whatever) and feel that they have a right to get a cut of their stuff. I worked hard for what I have. I've made plenty of mistakes, lost plenty of cash. I've put in my time to get my levels. I am not lucky, I worked for what I have. And yes, I do share with my friends. But I am not in the business of selling supplies in random banks. And I'm not interested in supplying everyone who is too lazy to go to the GE with hundreds of an item.
Having said that here's my mini guide on herb gathering:
1) Kill things. This is the answer for almost all resource gathering questions and herbs are no different. I've liked various stronghold of security creatures for this but there's plenty of guides out there if you google herblore and runescape.
2) Farm them. This is my preferred method. It takes 90 minutes to get 7 herbs per patch, or 35 for a rull round of farming. Seeds are cheap relative to herbs.
3) Steal them from the Sorceress Garden. I find this frustrating. I know people who like it.
4) Salarin the Twisted. If you have a decent (50+) mage level this should be easy. Go to the Yanille Agility dungeon with a stack of strike spells. Head SEish until you come to a pile of rubble. Climb it and go to the end. Kill Salarin. There's a safe spot but he doesn't really hit that hard. While you wait for him to respawn kill a couple chaos druids, they drop herb supplies too. Once you get 3 keys (probably 6-9 Salarin's), bank. Return with just the 3 keys. Shortly after you enter you'll see a pipe to the west. Go through and use the keys on the chest. You'll get 9 decent herbs. 3 keys=27 herbs. The chest poisons you so quickly use up your keys and bank and swig an antipoison.
5) Buy them. There is no way to make money making pots while buying all the supplies. If you want to lose money then I would suggest energy pots. Go over to the Culimancer's chest or Gnome Stronghold Bar and buy a bunch of chocolate bars. Grind them up and make pots with Harralanders.
6) Serum 207.Super slow, but profitable. Get some tarromin and ashes. Go to Mort'ton. Use it on the afflicted. They will give you cash and tarromin. Take an axe and tinderbox. Burn. Get ashes. You can stay there almost forever as you will always get more tarromin then you can use.this a lot. I think it comes down to the way you play. Definately check it out though.
August 16, 2008
I figured out what happened (I think) with the high scores glitch I saw. I closed my browser instead of nicely logging out. So I logged back in and logged out and there it was. I wonder what would have happened if I had tried to change worlds.
Anyways, I continue to spend my time yelling at the Olympics. Mostly cheering on the Americans, Brits, Aussies and anyone from some country that really doesn't stand at chance at getting many medals. If I've never heard of it I've probably cheered for that athlete. There's some great sports that I wish American TV would show more of. I mean, we get baseball/tennis/basketball all the time. How about some team handball or judo or badminton (well, maybe not badminton).
So anyways.....I got to 79 Firemaking. I'm burning maples in Oo'log. I use a pyrelord for the extra 10 points a log (270 pts each load). After 2 pyrelords I run outside the western gate of Oo'log and replenish my summoning xp. I then cut a load of Eucalyptus and run back. This breaks it up enough to be interesting. (Pyrelord is about 32 minutes so the whole cycle is a little more then an hour).
Was getting closer to 80 in my melee skills so after I killed Bork 2 nights ago I hopped over to the fire giants and finsished my slayer task. Talked to Duradel again and after turning down steel dragons got fire giants again. Back to the chaos tunnels and got 80 Strength, 80 Defense and 80 Attack. I took a fully loaded Spirit Terrorbird. They do some damage and allow me more food going in and loot going out.
I'm now honestly surprised a bit by how many people I see in combat with decently high levels who don't use a summoning familiar. At the lower levels I'd imagine they would be even more valuable. I certainly could have used all the help I could get in fighting and hauling stuff.
1908 in total
Anyways, I continue to spend my time yelling at the Olympics. Mostly cheering on the Americans, Brits, Aussies and anyone from some country that really doesn't stand at chance at getting many medals. If I've never heard of it I've probably cheered for that athlete. There's some great sports that I wish American TV would show more of. I mean, we get baseball/tennis/basketball all the time. How about some team handball or judo or badminton (well, maybe not badminton).
So anyways.....I got to 79 Firemaking. I'm burning maples in Oo'log. I use a pyrelord for the extra 10 points a log (270 pts each load). After 2 pyrelords I run outside the western gate of Oo'log and replenish my summoning xp. I then cut a load of Eucalyptus and run back. This breaks it up enough to be interesting. (Pyrelord is about 32 minutes so the whole cycle is a little more then an hour).
Was getting closer to 80 in my melee skills so after I killed Bork 2 nights ago I hopped over to the fire giants and finsished my slayer task. Talked to Duradel again and after turning down steel dragons got fire giants again. Back to the chaos tunnels and got 80 Strength, 80 Defense and 80 Attack. I took a fully loaded Spirit Terrorbird. They do some damage and allow me more food going in and loot going out.
I'm now honestly surprised a bit by how many people I see in combat with decently high levels who don't use a summoning familiar. At the lower levels I'd imagine they would be even more valuable. I certainly could have used all the help I could get in fighting and hauling stuff.
1908 in total
July 31, 2008
Last night I got to 75 Mining. I got fortunate and found a good clan chat to pass the time. Otherwise it's dull.
When I was making all those pouches for the Spirit of Summer quest I decided to make a few pyrelord pouches. If you have a pyrelord summoned it's an extra 10xp per log, 270 xp per load. Was very pleased to see how it worked. In no time at all got to 75 Firemaking. That concludes my mad dash to 75. Now back to the regularly scheduled programming.
I lost my steel defender the night before while messing around with Bork. Decided to work on getting a rune defender again. Got to 79 Attack, 79 Strength and 79 Defense gathering the tokens. Once I get a rune defender I'll start killing abyssal critters for a giant runecrafting pouch. Then the push to all 80's. May start with firemaking.....not sure yet....less then 50 levels to go.
Edit: Got another cooking level. Needed to get some food together to keep bork/jade vine destroying and to get to 80 thieving. 81 Cooking.
1893 total
When I was making all those pouches for the Spirit of Summer quest I decided to make a few pyrelord pouches. If you have a pyrelord summoned it's an extra 10xp per log, 270 xp per load. Was very pleased to see how it worked. In no time at all got to 75 Firemaking. That concludes my mad dash to 75. Now back to the regularly scheduled programming.
I lost my steel defender the night before while messing around with Bork. Decided to work on getting a rune defender again. Got to 79 Attack, 79 Strength and 79 Defense gathering the tokens. Once I get a rune defender I'll start killing abyssal critters for a giant runecrafting pouch. Then the push to all 80's. May start with firemaking.....not sure yet....less then 50 levels to go.
Edit: Got another cooking level. Needed to get some food together to keep bork/jade vine destroying and to get to 80 thieving. 81 Cooking.
1893 total
June 21, 2008
Was off RS for a bit. Had some parties etc to attend.
But had a bunch of RS time on Saturday. Kept plowing through my slayer tasks. Dagganoths, Bloodvelds (which I love) and waterfiends.
First the good news:
80 Range
78 Attack
78 Strength
78 Defense
77 Prayer
1857 total.
Bad new: Waterfiends are burning through all my pots. I've been burning through all kinds of pots. Now I'm using black d'hide, anchor and pots. Still have 111 to kill. Not sure how I'm going to get through them all.
But had a bunch of RS time on Saturday. Kept plowing through my slayer tasks. Dagganoths, Bloodvelds (which I love) and waterfiends.
First the good news:
80 Range
78 Attack
78 Strength
78 Defense
77 Prayer
1857 total.
Bad new: Waterfiends are burning through all my pots. I've been burning through all kinds of pots. Now I'm using black d'hide, anchor and pots. Still have 111 to kill. Not sure how I'm going to get through them all.
May 29, 2008
Did my usual routine. I've been farming snapdragons-5 per round-and then buying Torstol seeds and growing those. I always buy 5 more snapdragon seeds, sell the snaps, buy 5 more plus what I can for Torstol seeds. The Torstol is faster for both herblore and farming but the snapdragons pay for it.
Otherwise working on slayer.
Got to 77 Slayer, 77 Strength tonight. Nearing 77 in attack and strength. Found a wonderful spot to rapidly slay bloodvelds too :D
Otherwise working on slayer.
Got to 77 Slayer, 77 Strength tonight. Nearing 77 in attack and strength. Found a wonderful spot to rapidly slay bloodvelds too :D
April 23, 2008
Really been rolling on the leveling. Of course now, it's going to slow down again.
I train slayer for all my combat (melee+range+wee bit o'magic) and I use whip on controlled. So it's a long time between levels.
Last night (after my usual farming/bork/jade vine visits) I decided to tackle the new quest (Legacy of Seergaze).
First, the quest. It was long. 4 hours plus. It was not, however, annoying or frustrating. It was well laid out and made sense (well, as much as any quest does). The rewards were good. Really all around I can't complain. If you haven't done it yet you just need forms of combat and a pyre log. Everything else is provided.
Second, I LOVE temple trekking. First of all, the easy route is the fastest way through the swamp. And the rewards are great. I might start seriously getting into it this summer. I could consistently get the easiest guy through the medium trail. That gave me seeds, ores and a bunch of other useful stuff.
Third, one magpie, one ninja, one dragon impling. Lots of runes, a rune warhammer and 3 P++ daggers. Really nice to pick up while questing.
Fourth, got to 76 Defense and Strength and 80 Hitpoints during the quest. Then today, while dealing with my jade vine, I got to 76 Slayer. Then tears (a sad 90) and got to 56 Summoning. Leveling will slow down again. I'm hoping to get 79 slayer by the end of next month.
I train slayer for all my combat (melee+range+wee bit o'magic) and I use whip on controlled. So it's a long time between levels.
Last night (after my usual farming/bork/jade vine visits) I decided to tackle the new quest (Legacy of Seergaze).
First, the quest. It was long. 4 hours plus. It was not, however, annoying or frustrating. It was well laid out and made sense (well, as much as any quest does). The rewards were good. Really all around I can't complain. If you haven't done it yet you just need forms of combat and a pyre log. Everything else is provided.
Second, I LOVE temple trekking. First of all, the easy route is the fastest way through the swamp. And the rewards are great. I might start seriously getting into it this summer. I could consistently get the easiest guy through the medium trail. That gave me seeds, ores and a bunch of other useful stuff.
Third, one magpie, one ninja, one dragon impling. Lots of runes, a rune warhammer and 3 P++ daggers. Really nice to pick up while questing.
Fourth, got to 76 Defense and Strength and 80 Hitpoints during the quest. Then today, while dealing with my jade vine, I got to 76 Slayer. Then tears (a sad 90) and got to 56 Summoning. Leveling will slow down again. I'm hoping to get 79 slayer by the end of next month.
April 2, 2008
Lots of patience and leveling and stuff paid off.
Started with farming. Hit 84 Farming. Just doing consistent herb run/tree run daily.
Then off to slayer. 75 Slayer, 75 Defense, 75 Attack, 75 Strength. All in about 10 minutes. Used a whip on controlled. Gotten lots of negative comments about it but it works for what I do. Other people, other things I guess.
Scrounged around my bank. Put together enough ores of various types to push to 71 Smithing. Mainly based on mining mith and addy every time I go to recharge my glories.
Did Tears. Only 112 but enough to get to 51 Summoning. With all the changs to summoning I'm thinking that a bunch of spirit terrorbirds (level 52, ouch) would be really useful. So I went to Port Phasmatys to finish smelting my ores. While there I saw that I was 30k away from a firemaking level. So I stayed there to get to 73 Firemaking.
Got to Piscatoris and started making Macaws. Ran out of Guams. Noticed that I could make some beavers. So teled to Draynor and started chopping willows. Grabbed 58 which gave me enough for 52 Summoning. Spirit Terrorbirds!! Made a spirit terrorbird and had it carry supplies for me. I can definately see this being a good thing :D. 53 Summoning.
That's a ton of levels. But really.... a lot of them I've bene working on in some way or another over the last week or so. Daily bork run. Daily farm run. Stuff like that.
Started with farming. Hit 84 Farming. Just doing consistent herb run/tree run daily.
Then off to slayer. 75 Slayer, 75 Defense, 75 Attack, 75 Strength. All in about 10 minutes. Used a whip on controlled. Gotten lots of negative comments about it but it works for what I do. Other people, other things I guess.
Scrounged around my bank. Put together enough ores of various types to push to 71 Smithing. Mainly based on mining mith and addy every time I go to recharge my glories.
Did Tears. Only 112 but enough to get to 51 Summoning. With all the changs to summoning I'm thinking that a bunch of spirit terrorbirds (level 52, ouch) would be really useful. So I went to Port Phasmatys to finish smelting my ores. While there I saw that I was 30k away from a firemaking level. So I stayed there to get to 73 Firemaking.
Got to Piscatoris and started making Macaws. Ran out of Guams. Noticed that I could make some beavers. So teled to Draynor and started chopping willows. Grabbed 58 which gave me enough for 52 Summoning. Spirit Terrorbirds!! Made a spirit terrorbird and had it carry supplies for me. I can definately see this being a good thing :D. 53 Summoning.
That's a ton of levels. But really.... a lot of them I've bene working on in some way or another over the last week or so. Daily bork run. Daily farm run. Stuff like that.
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