August 15, 2011

99 Crafting. That entire last level was a combination of livid farm, helping friends with effigy assists and standing around daemonheim making airstaves while waiting for teams to form, and doing dungeons. Slow and cheap.

That leaves the following for maxing:

Ranged-Circus and using a bow on my c1 floors. Might go kill some chompy birds.

Mining-Dungeons plus citadel mining plus an occasional star

Woodcutting-Dungeons plus citadel plus clan ring

Cooking-Cook the fish I get for 99 Fishing

Fishing-Dungeons and maybe some rocktails

Fletching-Was doing diamond bolts, then broad bolts, then maples. Probably just keep doing it while waiting for teams

Magic-Livid Farm plus circus plus dungeons

Construction-Assists plus livid farm plus dungeons

March 23, 2011

Maybe I'm in a slump. But it seems that suddenly Jagex is increasingly.....half assed about things. First they hold the clan month kickoff the same weekend as bonus weekend. Then they ask the clans to issue challenges, race etc. But with minimal advance warning-which is fine-I guess. Then when they post the individual challenge list they don't alphabatize that list. There's hundreds, if not thousands of names. Just thought it could be dropped into a spreadsheet and sorted by name. Just....a finishing touch you know? Anyways, on to the skilling. Decided to fool around a bit in the lumberyard doing that plank making game. I kind of enjoy it and it worked well as I chatted with a friend. But I'm a fan of minigames and puzzles. Not sure what the xp rate was and how it compared but I did get to 97 Woodcutting. (I'm going to guess about 50k in 30 minutes). A friend asked for a crafting assist and I ended up at 98 Crafting. Honestly, I have no idea how I trained. Which I guess is the point. I just did stuff that I liked. Next up 99 Thieving. I know how I trained this. I got to 95 with a little thieving on weekends. I decided to spend all of bonus weekend raiding tombs. Arguably not the fastest thieving xp in the game but it was fast enough and I could do it for long enough stretches to make it worth it. Got to nearly 98 over the weekend and then just kept at it. I found myself playing less, which is fine since I have a garden to prepare, but I'd get on and push a bit and finally hit 99 Thieving and 2430 total levels.

May 30, 2010

Well it's been raining here so most of my plans this weekend got canceled. So lots of RS time (and laundry, and vacuuming etc).

Got to 91 Fishing, 95 Crafting, 63 Dungeoneering, 97 Summoning and 94 Woodcutting. It may sound like a lot but to be honest.....it's been weeks in the making. Crafting is a function of rocks and air battlestaffs. So I can pretty much predict when I'll level that since it's really the only two things I do.

Fishing, rocks and fish flinging. I use up all 10 tickets a week so that's about 175k xp there. Rocks are good for another 10k.

Woodcutting, rocks. More rocks. I think I did 2 evil trees this month. Haven't farmed any trees. Oh....Jade Vine. Didn't realize it gave woodcutting exp (yes, been hitting it almost every day since it came out). Went to kill it and got my level! Oh and I do a tiny bit of woodcutting while dungeoneering.

Summoning. Was about 200k short of 97 after double xp weekend. But I could make pack yaks, was broke and didn't really want to deal with anymore summoning. Made some pouches to make scrolls but not much else. Then I realized I could cash in all the iron titans and replenish my shards. Plus, I made about 50k xp making pouches in dungeoneering.

And dungeoneering. Did a few large 5:5 floors and I'm hooked!! Xp is so much better in a group, even if it's just a duo. Duo'ed fl30 with a friend. We got killed and while restocking the boss fell over dead from the poison!! Which was good since we hadn't stockpiled food. Just another argument that poisoned spears are the best weapons. Did floor 31 and ended up with about 40k xp. Which tells me when the dungeoneering update comes out the high levels can probably make close to 80k an hour or more.

March 16, 2010

Got to 94 Crafting on Monday. Going to count that as part of bonus xp weekend since I did do a bunch of bank cleaning/crafting over the weekend. New goal: 2200 total levels by the end of the month. Was going to get it in May but now.....

Here are my thoughts on the big bonus weekend (in no particular order of importance):

1) It took a lot of cash out of the game. All those pouches? Worth less then the sum of their parts....a lot less. All those pots? Can't trade anything in the "extreme" category. Those were the two biggies from this weekend. All that money spent (and I bet a lot of bank space created) and not a lot that of finished products that can be sold back. If Jagex was trying to control prices this did it.

2) I said this before the weekend and believe it now even more. 2010 is going to see a lot of elite and high level content. And the only way it makes sense to produce all that content is to have players who can or are very close to being able to use it. This weekend was to help boost up the numbers in those categories.

3) Everyone complained about the prices. But prices were never twice what they were the week before the event (I'm only talking herblore since that's what I focused on). Therefore doing activities that gave you at least 2x the xp you normally would get still put you ahead. Yes, things did cost more but still cheaper using an xp/gp ratio.

4) 2.7x xp and people have the time to spam close doors? I wish Jagex had just "broken" all the doors open.

5) Speaking of which.....look I know this was a gift. The whole bonus was..well...a bonus. But sometimes Jagex tries to be too clever. First they said that they would use the graph (that they showed us and even provided the forumla for). This implied a minute by minute recalculation. Then they said it would change hourly. Then back to the formula being recalculated each time an action is taken. Then....when it mattered....the formula was a bit too aggressive. Look, I don't ding Jagex for most of their bugs/issues. I have worked in/with software development long enough to know it will happen. With all the coding for this game things are going to happen. But this? Come on......30 minutes of play testing should have thrown the flag on it. Really Jagex, this was a big glaring oops. And then to go and compound it by not posting it on the front page? And basically shrugging your shoulders and saying "oops"? I'm pretty sure I missed out on a summoning level (170k short) because of this. But it' s not a major level. I am a bit annoyed that I didn't get closer to 96 herblore (wasn't going to get there but thought I'd get a lot closer). I feel bad for people who planned based on what they were told though.

6) For those of you who didn't prepare for TWO WEEKS prior to the event but just logged in and then started crying because you couldn't get what you needed WAAAA!

7) For those of you who just played as normal and had fun....hats off to you.

8) I feel bad for those who got 99 on Friday/Saturday. Was pretty hard to get anyone to celebrate with you.

9) Go read Merch Gwyar's blog on this weekend (Google: Merch Gwyar) She blogs on Sal's Realm. I 100% agree with her opinions on this weekend.

10) Do I ever want a bonus xp weekend again? Not really. It was an interesting experiment and my hats off to Jagex for trying it. But, this is a game. And a game should be fun. And the stress of getting ready, leading up to and doin this did not equal fun. Maybe do it as part of a quest reward or a D&D. (Finish the D&D and get x minutes of bonus time)

December 29, 2009

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas. I sure did and I wasn't around a whole lot. Nothing much happening for me in RS since I was a bit distracted. Got to 93 Crafting today just from battlestaffs and the gems from Bork.

Ive seen a lot of articles and forum discussions about the year in review. I was thinking of doing a review of all the updates but I feel like we kind of had 2 distinct periods this year. The first part of the year felt more like fixing and tinkering and filling in gaps here and there. The updates themselves weren't that exciting although some helped with game play (pray-x for example). Then part two of the year was all kind of high level updates including the first of the Elite Diary sections. I was really happy to see the new prayers, high level potions and other uses for leveling past 80. I'm a little disappointed that there's no 2010 Behind The Scenes. So I thought I'd write up what I'd like to see in 2010:

1) Give high level firemaking a purpose.
2) Open Lleyta.
3) More Distractions and Diversions!
4) Elite sections added to all the diaries.
5) The Adventurer's log is a good start. But it's not really useful. Since mine pretty much spams "Killed Bork". Let us tweak what people see and don't see (levels, drops, quests, last log in time etc)
6) Mini games that give XP. Mobilizing Armies to me was a huge disappointment. If I wanted to play games like that I'd go to Funorb or Popcap. I want games in Runescape to give me xp.
7) Fix the clan chat system. Right now it's group chat. Give us the ability to manage clans in game (I'll have a full post on this later this week).
8) More rooms in our house. More variety of rooms should I say. I'd love to have an armory where I can store weapons.
9) Let us make keys to our houses. Let's say 5 keys per 10 levels? And you can give them to your friends so they can get into your house when you aren't home.
10) Fix the GE to destroy the merch clans. No, I unfortunately don't have a way to do this but I'd like to see it done.
11) Give us a way to get to Burgh, Mos, and Brimhaven beyond what our option are now.
12) More portals in our houses.
13) Runecrafting-let us make more then 1 death/law/blood etc much like the update for natures and other runes we can make multiples of (I find it ironic that you added some high level spells that need bloods and deaths and changed the Runecrafting essence per rune but didn't change it for these two runes!)
14) Prayers. Gimme something like piety for range and mage.
15) Make extreme potion tradable. Or do something to bring down the cost of herblore. It's killing me.
16) My pet dog should be able to take things to other players. So if my friend wants to borrow a whip I can send my dog to deliver it.
17) Fletching. Almost as useless as firemaking. Let us make explosive/flammable arrows at least.
18) Seriously. What would make me happiest. Go to the mall. Take your whole company to the mall. And watch how women sit. And fix how how women sit when they rest!

October 29, 2009

I was offline for a week. My modem fell out the window on Friday and other then a few minutes here and there in internet cafes I've been pretty much RS free. Which means I got a lot of other things done. Which means I can play a ton this weekend.

It also means that I won't be making my goal of 2150 for my 3 year anniversary (on Halloween). So I decided that I would at least have all the quests and diaries done.

All that's left is the Elite Ardougne tasks. For that I need 1 Summoning level and some smithing levels or boosts.

Started work on those. Also, went to a clan event for an hour that was a bank cleanout. In that time got 92 Crafting and 87 Herblore. Was also really close so did some gilded altar bowing and got to 88 Prayer.

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.

June 17, 2009

2078 with 90 Crafting.

Just running laps in Dorgesh.

Still doing non combat Stealing Creation on Sundays. PM me in game for details.

April 15, 2009

89 Crafting. 64 Air battlestaffs a day and I cut about 100 gems I had in my bank to get the level. One more and I can craft everything.

Otherwise been woodcutting full speed. Trying to get 91 before the weekend.

February 21, 2009

88 Woodcutting last night.

Then today got to 88 Crafting and 86 Mining.

Going to ease up a bit on woodcutting for a bit. Pushed it because I could get caught up on reading a bunch of my email and other stuff. Great for multitasking.

Crafting, well, it was almost all battlestaffs. I buy them before I go on my daily tree run. Not fast but I've gotten my last 4-5 levels almost purely on these, and at a profit. May not power me there but it'll slowly get me xp without going broke.

Mining is almost all stars. So really, it's that time where all the little things I work on suddenly level. Slayer should level later this week.

Going to grab a firemaking level then focus on hunting for a bit. I've discovered that I can work one skill seriously for about 3 weeks and then I have to do something else. So next 3 weeks look like hunting hunting hunting.

2035 total.

January 10, 2009

More laps

More stars

More trees

More battlestaffs which brought 87 Crafting

2007 total

Don't think I'll make 15,000 ranking. I didn't realize how fast they moved (haven't been paying much attention). I'm just barely keeping my current ranking of a hair under 16k

November 18, 2008

Went a little crazy. Had a few days off and realized how close I was getting to a number of levels so:

74,75,76,77 Summoning
86 Magic
85 Crafting

Crafting creeps up due to air battlestaffs. Mage from high alching them. Then I did a little bank cleanout and replenished my jewelry supply.

Summoning, well....I've been saving all my charms for a long time. Got to 73 summoning and realized that I could cash in all the bunyip pouches I had made. That gave me enough shards to make a lot of mithril minotaurs. And cashed them in, rinse, repeat.....got all the way to 77 and then a bit more.

October 26, 2008

Got to 84 Crafting doing my usual battlestaff making. (Well, that and when I got really close started cutting the gems I had stashed in my bank.) That put me at 1950.

Started my firemaking goal (I want 92 for a fire adze.) Knocked out 81 and 82 Firemaking over the weekend.

Also worked on restocking a lot of my supplies that were low. So fishing, cooking and a bunch of other littler things.

Looking at the list of goals I had at the beginning of the month I only have one left.....90 agility.

Guess what I'm doing?

September 27, 2008

Got a to 83 Crafting by doing my daily battlestaffs. Was out of town for a few days but would log in every so often to check my plants and buy some staves.

Spent Friday chasing penguins, performing at the circus, collecting Tears and a bunch of other things. It was nice to take a RS break. Not going to make some of my goals for the month but I had a great time.

I've gotten full acrobat and full clown now from the circus. 2 pieces of Ringmaster, so I think 3 to go. I completely bomb the magic parts of it. I think I'm going to just go for max xp on the mage performance and try to use agility to get the ringmaster outfit.

Got to 68 Summoning using Tears and my gold charms. Was soooo excited. Sold off my stockpile of snapdragons and bought 1million gp worth of shards. Had banked over 900 green charms and sharks. Figured I'd get to 70 Summoning really quick. Well, I burned through that million gp worth of shards plus some I traded in from old pouches and landed at....68. Need about 2700xp to 69. Figure I can get a few lamps or whatever and get that level this week.

In light of that I'm going to continue to use all my lamps/books/penguins on Summoning. I was thinking of using it on Construction (expensive) or Prayer (expensive) or Runecrafting (slow) but realized that Summoning is much much more expensive, slow and a pain to gather parts for then any of those.

1932 total.

August 22, 2008

Finally got to 78 Mining. Been working on it for awhile and last night finally just grinded it out. Now to start chipping away at 79 mining with hopefully a little more focus.

Also got to 82 Crafting. Been just making air battlestaffs. Was about 5k from a level and had a few hundred uncut gems. So cut a few and got the level.

1914

July 25, 2008

Been just chipping away (literally) at mining. Got to 74 Mining finally. It doesn't excite me to train mining, but once I start I can stick with it pretty well. I went and talked to Lazim to get a new camulet which drops me pretty close to the granite mines.

Got 81 Crafting "accidently". Basically been making some air battlestaffs and some gold jewelry as I feel like it. Not working it but it just creeps up there.

And along with all that crafting comes mage. After I high alched all those air battlestaffs I superheated a bunch of ores and got to 83 Magic. Which is GREAT because now when I'm on lunars I can cast the super compost spell.

June 2, 2008

Yesterday cleaned out my bank. Realized I had many many battlestaffs and few gp. So made a lot of air orbs, air battlestaffs and high alched away. In between I made some runes, did some farming, cleaned up some random bank items and buried some bones.

80 Crafting and 82 Magic. Was so happy, I had a few dragonstones from a dragon impling I caught a few days ago. Made myself my own glories. Woot!

Today did my usual farming and got to 88 Farming! Feels like forever since I last leveled farming. Also got to 78 Woodcutting. Noticed I had less then 3k to level once I finished farming so I cut down a few yews in Edge on my way to Bork.

Ended the night starting my task at Scabarites.

1844 total.

Wrote this up and saved it instead of posting it :P

May 9th-Cleaned up my bank. Used up a lot of random supplies. Got to 79 Crafting. Kind of crazy if you ask me. I can't believe I had enough junk in my bank to get there just a few days after 78 crafting. Made a few thousand glass orbs and some other random stuff. Lunars works really well and very very fast. You get a little less crafting xp per molten glass but it goes so much faster. Used up my herbs too. So that got me to 78 Herblore which is Zammy pots. One more big herblore achievement.

May 10th-Clan competition started. Did my usual laps and then did some agility. Got to 85 Agility.

May 11th-More agility. No levels. Lots of laps. Good thing I got a few new movies and someone uploaded all of Top Chef to youtube :D

May 6, 2008

Finally finished the Varrock achievement diary last night. I was making runes (again!) and talkign to a friend. She mentioned that I didn't need to have 85 cooking, I could just buy the wild pie! So....off to smith an addy helm, buy a pie and get on ancients. 20 minutes later woot!! The 10k lamp was spent on summoning. 57 Summoning. As a side note: The pharoah's sceptre is one of the best things I ever bought. The entire desert area is a huge hassle (for me at least) to get around. No good teleports and all that. But with that thing I can get to thieving, agility and ancients areas easily. And from the thieving spot I can take a carpet almost anywhere. I'd highly recommend one.

Today.....did my usual rounds. Runecrafting...more runecrafting....made some air orbs. All about running laps around Edgeville. Should take a few more days. I'm trying to get 6k cosmics and 2k nats and 2k air orbs. That's a one month supply. May start doing that monthly just to get it out of the way. The battlestaff making stuff that is. Good profit, raises crafting, mage and runecrafting. May be what I do for the first few days of each month for awhile. And by the way, 78 Crafting and 81 Magic :D

March 16, 2008

Got this idea in my head. Hit 1750 levels. Looked through my skills and saw that cooking was only 10k away. Ok, that's easy. Grabbed 77 Cooking really quick with the monks I had in my bank. Did my usual run of farming, Surok killing etc. Realized I needed to convert my battlestaffs into air staffs or else I'd be broke quickly. Made up a bunch of cosmics and then orbs and then air staffs. By the time I finished that I realized I could level crafting pretty quickly. I still have a stockpile of gold bars in my bank from smithing. So I made a bunch of jewelry I wanted (dueling rings and some game necklaces). Then I saw.....the 228 blue dragon skins I had from slayer! Off to Al-Kharid.
I alternated tanning the skins and high alching the staffs and blue d'hide bodies. Repaired my cash position and then some. Love it. And finally got 76 Crafting. That's why I rarely sell stuff (though lately I've been selling potions high and buying seconds low).

And 1750 levels :D.