Christmas came a little late!

What a crazy night. Some pretty cool things have happened as of the last post. First, I sold my Fury. 9M was just too tempting and I have a feeling the price will go back down soon. I could be wrong, but 9M for an ammy seems a bit excessive. It took me a long time to come to that conclusion, but I just went with it. That cash can be better used leveling other skills.

After a decent trip to Kurasks, I got a leaf bladed sword drop and 85 Slayer! I was pretty excited about the level as I can now kill Abby Demons. I took a quick trip there just to see what they’re like before continuing on with Slayer. I killed my 185 Gargoyles and got my first Ferocious Ring along with a Granite Maul (311k! wow they went up!). After that, I was assigned around 150 Waterfiends. I was about 8k to a Strength level so I decided to go back to Abby Demons before prepping for Waterfiends.

There I leveled up to 95 Strength and got my first ever Whip drop! I was pretty excited. The whip was the first big purchase I ever made in the game. I bought it when all I did was sit on the dock fishing away the days. I had sold enough sharks to the pkers at Edge to save my first million gp. After a little more saving, I bought it from one of my first friends in the game. It cost 1.6M then and I’ve had it since. I was only even 65 Attack then and couldn’t even use it! I worked so hard for it though it was kind of cool getting it as a drop. Also, before I sold it for 3.6M (gone up a bit over the years), I put it in the bank just so I could see that inventory have that little yellow “2” next to it.

The drop aside, I think Abby Demons are kind of fun. They’re really not very dangerous as their required slayer level would have you think. Waterfiends are much harder in my opinion. With a Bunyip you can just stay there, max damage is 8 I believe. They just teleport you a little bit away, but it just makes it look like you’re dancing with them.

After that I helped a friend on a clue and got a little bored. Everyone was busy and I didn’t feel like spending hours on a long trip so I figured I’d go solo godwars. Kril (Zammy) is the one I like but for some reason I didn’t feel like messing with magic defense and anti-poison. I loaded my tortuga up with rocktails and decided to go to Bandos. I had been riding high off the level and the whip drop and gmaul drop. I remember what Merch had written that someone told her about luck and not logging out while on a lucky streak. I started killing goblins and got my kc to 40 and went up to the boss door and… forgot I was in a lootshare world. There were about 4 people in there who looked like they weren’t going anywhere anytime soon. At this point I decided to tweak the luck/logout thing and decide that it doesn’t apply to world hopping. So I went to a few worlds, being sure to type “doesn’t count” in each one before leaving. I was still at my computer, it still counts!

I walk in and hit 3 big hits on him and get him down to half health. Then Graardor started to get offended and hit me harder. He got me pretty low on hp a few times before finishing him off. I actually had on a ring of life this time, and I hate those things. I swear by my ring of wealth, but this time I didn’t bring it. I finished him off and then went to pick up my drop, Bandos Tassets! I didn’t even bother killing the generals, just pick up my loot and tele’d out. I had been wanting tassets for the longest time now! I’ve been going back and forth in my head debating if the str bonus is worth the insane price tag. 24m? Insane! Now I have them for free! No wonder its always a pain finding an open Bandos world.

After that a friend wanted to solo Graardor. I made sure he was prepared and followed him to the spot. Watched him get his kc and made him wait for me to get mine. If he died I was going to run in and bless. I watched at the door, he got his kill and left. I went in and got mine and left. No good drops, but I wasn’t going to complain after the kind of day I had.

I like going to bosses because I think its fun to fight something big. Ridiculous drops aren’t really ever motivation, but wow, they are cool. I didn’t even have to use my A-K, I have to say it was a good day.

Bring it on home...

Things have been crazy busy. No luck in taking next week off. That’s 4 vacation days this year down the tube being that they don’t carry over. It bites, but I just had my year end review and there’s just too much to be done. Good review though, for the most part. Remind me to take more days off next year.

Merch Gwyar’s Canting Away had their winter solstice festival last week. I had managed to stop in for a little while. I checked the schedule and they were doing a trip to godwars. It was originally planned for sara, but when the host couldn’t make it, they let me lead a trip to Zammy. For the past several months I had been going to Zammy about 3-4 times a week with groups, usually staying for a few hours at a time. Its probably the god I’m most comfortable with. The one thing with all godwars bosses is communicating where you’re at with what you have. The last thing you want is say 2 people low on supplies, they tele out and all of a sudden you’re accidentally tanking (aka accitanking). A few had been before, a few hadn’t. I had a really great teacher the first time I went, so I tried to do what I remembered they did. Just take it slow, let people know what to expect, and make sure everyone lives. If not, bless and get back there. We got some good kills, everyone did great. No real luck with drops, but killing something big is always fun. I pretty much ran out of supplies tanking so I asked everyone to tele out. I’m sure some could have stayed longer, but I don’t like taking risks with other people. If its me, that’s fine I can cope, but I can’t handle taking someone somewhere and they lose their stuff! That’s the worst. Vaskor and Dr Leviathan missed the exit call, but thankfully they were fine and killed it. After not hearing from them and a few mins of sheer panic, and restocking and running back up the mountain from troll, got the word they were ok. Whew!

Sadly I had to miss their lighting a continuous fire from Varrock to Falador, but I definitely want to thank Canting Away for letting me partake in their holiday.

I finished the Blood Runs Deep quest and used all my xp lamps on Prayer. After that I finished the 4 soul wars games I needed to get my 100 points, used them on Prayer as well. Went from 77-81. I’m pretty happy about that. Waiting in the Soul Wars lobby gets incredibly boring, especially if you miss 2 games in a row (40 minutes of standing? Ugh!). The thing is, it keeps teasing you thinking you’ll get in at any minute. If it would just come up and say “you don’t stand a chance” I’ll easily go out and alch or do whatever for 20 mins, opposed to just standing. Using the candy cane emote to make it look like I’m flipping my sword around in my hand kept me amused. I’m bummed that they’re ‘fixing’ that.

I liked the Christmas event. A little hard with the tons of people, but fun. I also liked Blood Runs Deep. I usually do my quests with guides, but this one I just read what others had written about it and made sure I had tons of food and I just did it on the fly. That was pretty fun as well.

I also managed to pull off 89 magic, just by alching/teleporting/enchanting my way through everyday activities and 83 mining by spending some time stocking up some gold down at the living rock caverns.

Did pengs last night, put the points towards Slayer. I’m about 20k from lvl 85 and abby demons. I thought once I got to 83 I would have at least spent some time killing mages for dboots, but I think I’ve killed 4 just out of getting kill count for Zammy. As much as I’d love to kill abbys looking for a whip drop, I wonder if I’ll actually spend the time doing it.

After that watched one of my friends get her mining cape. It’s amazing to think about how that skill has changed in the past year and a half. It went from really only mining ores to ores, stars and now living rock caverns. I remember trudging through al kharid back and forth wondering how anyone could do that for so long.

I was rushing to fix my house up because I was hosting a Festivus event. I told the back story that the same, legendary, Frank Costanza told. We had the airing of the grievances where we made our complaints about the game (all in good fun of course). There were some pretty funny ones and some ones that were spot on. We ate some cake and then festivus doesn’t end until the feats of strength. So I ran into the combat ring with my “aluminum pole” (see also: rune cane) and people whooped me pretty good with their godswords and whips. Then I just let people play in my house, make tabs, pray, cook, use the cb ring, etc. I got a lot of unexpected compliments about my house! That made my night! A while back I was completely sick with my layout and basically tore the whole thing down, spent a couple weeks trying out new designs, running them by people, tweaking them, etc. Made it worth it. Most importantly, *I* love it! It actually feels like a home to me.

I think I’ve been single handedly driving Jax’s hit count through the roof. Her RSS feed of all the runescape and runescape blog updates is pretty amazing. You should definitely check it out.

So with the no days off next week, I’m not setting any new goals for the year end. I’m not going to have much time getting them done. I’m extremely happy with what I’ve done in 2009.

If I don’t get a chance to write again, have a happy (and safe) new year! I’ll see you in 2010!

Hazy Shade of Winter

I haven’t written much lately. To be honest, I haven’t had that much to say. I’ve just been going about my business. Errands, woodcut, mine gold in living caverns place, godwars, penguins, etc. Nothing too exciting, just letting you know I’m alive.

There’s a slight chance that I might be able to take the week between xmas and new year’s off. This all depends on how much work I get done next week. If that miraculously comes together, my plan is to bang out all the quests that I have left. There’s only like 4 or so I haven’t completed, mainly the most recent ones. The new one looks fun and has pretty decent rewards. I’m glad I do the diaries as soon as they’re released.

Real life has been incredibly hectic. Some in a good way, some in a bad way. I’m looking forward to it calming down a bit. I’ve got some big goals for the new year. I’ll bring them up in a year end post.

I want a goal to be ‘write more.’ I feel like that would just lead to some incredibly boring entries though. I think I need to adjust that to ‘have more to write about.’ Kind of hard, but we’ll see how it goes.

For those wanting to fill their costume room, Jax is hosting some events to get those pieces of clothing which can be hard to acquire. I actually think I have more of a chance of making the 2AM time than I did the previously scheduled time, but my chances of making it are pretty low, sadly. Again with the real life stuff. However, you should go! Here’s the info:

Trouble Brewing at 7am Saturday 19th of December (GMT Time) which is 11pm PST (my time) and 2am for those of you in EST. World 104.