Gathering, Definitely Not Hunting

I’ve been hoarding a bit recently. Mostly collecting items and not using them right away. It’s a combination of reasons to be honest. Partly, talk of another xp weekend is all over the forums. I have a feeling that this one will be a lot different so I’m not giving it much thought at the moment. I still think it might only deal with Daemonheim and therefore have nothing to do with the ‘outside world.’ The other is the Jagex Cup.

The Jagex Cup is something that came out last year, somewhat unexpectedly. It was announced on forums, but not on the main page. It’s basically a clan tournament where clans send a number of members to compete in combat and skilling competitions. I’m not much for PvP, but as a numbers cruncher kind of guy, I’ve been dying to participate on the skilling side of it. I didn’t have a chance to get a team together last year to participate and that actually bothered me a bit. I thought it was going to be a lot of fun, but a lot of friends seemed uninterested. It’s always disappointing when you’re looking forward to something, have a full friends list and can’t pull 5 people together to do something that doesn’t even require you to be online at the same time.

I know from reading about it that the cup had its number of flaws last time. However, my thoughts on pretty much everything (new phones, computers, televisions, etc), is that the first generation of anything is going to be flawed.

The skill is randomly drawn and announced for everyone to work on. This is where the hoarding comes in. Crafting? Sweet, I’ve been getting my staves daily but not making them. They’ve just been stockpiling. Summoning? Yeah, right. But “just in case” I’ve been making sure to do Bork daily as well as keeping up with Familiarisation. I wandered upon an obelisk last night in Hero’s Guild as I was charging glories. As soon as my time’s up I talk the guy into triple charms and head right for Waterfiends. When I actively seek an obelisk I make sure my inv and gear are already in place, but this was just random. (I also like to save charms for Summoning until I know I have enough for the level I want anyway, so that’s not a big deal.) Herblore? That’s alright, I’ve been doing herb runs every hour like a maniac.

To be honest, I’d love to see it be a resource skill like Woodcutting or Runecrafting.

I just go through phases as well. I seem to be in my ‘gathering’ phase at the moment.

I went to Abby Demons to try and get an effigy, 7 Bunyips later and I still haven’t gotten one. Or a whip, for that matter, but I can’t complain about that, I’ve had I think more than my share of those. I managed to get a decent amount of crimson charms and 92 Attack.

I also stocked up on gold ore so that getting my Smithing rocks would be a little easier. I managed to get to 85 Mining. Sweet! I can now mine rune! There weren’t any open/active ores and it was late so I still haven’t mined my first runite ore yet, but I will tonight.

I bought a TON of chins awhile back, managed to get 87 Ranged. I can not stand Range. I was at monkey skeletons and getting pretty decent xp (200xp up to even 400xp per chin, usually around the 320 area) but oh my god I want to rip my eyes out it is so boring. I tried switching it up and doing Nechrayls and Mummies because of their drops but its still painful. I like whacking stuff with my sword. I’ll try to do a little here and there, maybe in between farm runs, but if chin prices go up, I’ll gladly sell them back. I still want it to be at least 90 before the end of the year and I want to be better at it for Arma trips and Jad, its just one of those skills I’m not a big fan of.

I’m all out of Stealing Creation points & tools and my BA horn is now completely empty. There never seems to be enough hours in the day…

It’s the first day of summer. It’s also International Go Skateboarding Day. Get your board or borrow a board and go ride it! I’ll lend you my spare if you need it.

Neighbors!

I was bored at work and reading Avicile's blog (which frequently saves me from boredom at work, thank you for that!) and I saw she wrote about checking her Agility lvl on hiscores and how her and Jax were on the same page.

I found that pretty amusing. Things like that always intrigue me. It reminds me of when I lived in Manhattan and that in a city of about 10 million people, I'd randomly come across someone I went to high school with walking down the street. The odds are pretty astronomical, but despite that, it still happens.

I wondered if I was close to anyone. I popped on, checked out overall and look what I find:



Hi Vaskor! And only two spots apart too! That's crazy!

Another xp weekend?

Mod Emilee confirmed it on RSOF that there will be more bonus xp weekends. No word yet of dates, time frames, or even how its going to be handled.

The last one had a lot of issues. The multiplier was wrong, announcing it a few weeks in advance caused the GE to go insane with herb and summoning second prices going through the roof. A lot of basic things were incredibly hard to get a hold of.

When this happens again, I think it'll go down a lot differently than last time. I've been thinking that they might just spring it on us. "BONUSXPWEEKENDGO!" In case, be constantly prepared. This would fight against all the GE price jacking which happened last time.

In thinking a little more about it, I came up with something new. What if bonus xp weekend was only 2x xp in Demonheim? Pretty much every skill is present there (Slayer?), everything is completely free, there's no cornering the market on seconds. On top of all that, its a great way to promote the new skill.

I also think this would even satisfy the ones who are against bonus xp weekends in general. There's so storing up and blowing through levels, instead its dragging every single resource out of every single dungeon. Making training Dung a little bit longer, but only a slight adjustment to other skills xp.

If it goes down like that, you heard it here first :)

What do you think?

Sweetness

Finally got a split at Corporeal Beast. However, it wasn't the big one. Still though, my first Elixir split.



Some day those will be the really big numbers :)

I've grown to love Corp trips. You just need about 7 people, patience to world hop and you really risk a bare minimum if you gear up correctly. I think my risked wealth is around 70k. You can obviously go more expensive, but why bother if you don't have to?

Anyways, been getting my rocks again. I stopped by the fishing guild to use their bank and I noticed the Flinger guy outside. I hadn't done it in a while, so I pop in and there's 1 min to start. It took me a bit to get the combos worked out, I haven't done it in a long time. There's no way I'd be making the podium.

That's when I noticed something weird when I joined...



I was the only one there.

This couldn't be right, they expanded the amount of places the flinger guy hangs out at. On top of that, W39 is usually packed. But then it started, with just me. It was some sort of eerie post-apocalyptic version of the mini game.

I did alright:



Yes, yes I know, only one medal. Like I said, its been a while.

Anyways, I got to know what being on the top of the podium felt like. Kind of unfulfilling if there's no one to look out up. Or that there ever was a doubt of you winning to begin with.




I'm under 100k to a number of levels, so I should get those this weekend.

Congrats to the Blackhawks! Hated to see it, but great job. Now onto the World Cup!

And finally a plea, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE realize that I live in the USA, where the World Cup games are on in the AM and middle of the day. Please don't post any world cup spoilers on here, I'm recording the games until I get home from work to watch them. I'm trying to avoid all avenues of hearing about them until I watch. I don't care about any other sites, but I get these comments emailed to me. I'll love ya for it (not that I don't already!) Thanks!

Just saying...

Somtimes people say it better in names than others.



Whoever that guy is, his mind is in the right place.