Sitting in the waiting room ahhhaa...

"I am a patient boy... I wait, I wait, I wait..." for my Con rocks... "Be-cause I can't get up..."

Now that Mining week is over for the Jagex Cup, I’ve had a little time to sit back and relax. I went from 85-87 Mining during the number of sessions I had down in the Living Rock Caverns.

Mining and banking gold ore is great xp and brings in a decent amount of cash (or smithing xp if you use the ores yourself), but in order to get the most xp out of the hour long sessions, it actually cost a good bit of money. Sounds weird right? A resource skill actually costing money…

I averaged around 65k/hr (62k/hr on the ones where you get a random) using a D-Pick and Lava Titan. I’d love to figure out how much xp I’d get using the Varrock 3 or Stealing Creation pick, which weren’t legal for the Jagex Cup. Since for the hour long sessions, the majority of your xp had to be in that particular skill, low alching the ore was the way to go. Mining a gold ore is 65xp, the same amount as casting the high alch spell, which would have then nullified the session. By low alching the ore you only gain 31xp (or is it 33? Whatever, its low 30s) meaning the majority of your xp is the mining. This cost about 250k gp/session in using the nats, since the gold ore only alchs for 60gp. I know, what a waste of ore, but come on, this is competition!

Next week starts the 2hour Fishing/Cooking combined sessions where you’re not allowed to bank your resources before cooking them. 2 hours is a little long of a requirement, they should have stuck with the 1hr sessions. Also, I’d love for some sort of update regarding the competition in general. What do they have down for my average xp/hr and does it match up with what I recorded? Were all of my sessions allowed? Just a simple indication of where the clan stands in the overall ranks would be nice. They seem to be really lacking in that aspect. It does change the way you look at it. I thought 65k/hr is really good, however if I find out there’s a clan that’s pulling 90k/hr and is around the same skill level, something in my method needs to be recalculated.

On to Fishing and Cooking I guess, two skill I don’t need xp in, but I always like Fishing, so it doesn’t really matter to me. I can’t imagine my rage when I log about 1:55 session and my internet’s going to crap out on me nullifying the entire thing. With Mining I was at least leveling.

Sold my d-pick, stars and sc pick’s will be alright for now on. With climbing boots getting their value re-adjusted, jester boots are the way to go if you want a cheap shoe with good stats at Corp Beast.

I think I’m going to work on Herblore a bit this weekend. I want overloads and I have some cash laying around. I won’t get close to 96, but might as well put that money to work. Making Harrlander Tar works well and usually sells pretty quick. It just takes a bit for the swamp tar to initially buy.

Still no splits at corp, gotta keep trying. One day that “7-7-7” jackpot green line will appear. Other than that, its just fun to kill.

Killed Bork, a big ork.

I haven't had too many things to write about recently. I received about 3 effigys (effigies?) as drops and I love them. I like the idea of helping others out with them as well. My 2010 goal is everything except Dungeoneering 90+, now there's a reason behind it. It's great xp and I think it gets more people to use the assist system.

The Jagex Cup is up and running and I'm mining as hard as I can. I find W77 concentrated gold to be the best way to go. I sold my chins and bought a dragon pick to help it go along. I've been tweaking my outfit to stop from getting killed by the living rock creatures. For now I'm going with infinity boots, bandos tassets, arma top, obby shield and gold helmet. I wear my gold helmet when I'm serious about gold :P I've also taken to wearing it while smithing.

I've been gathering obby charms for some cheap summoning seconds. I got 2 of my effigys from them.

Other than that, just been keeping current with Bork and staves. Got to witness Lepage getting his 99 Agility so congrats to him! Got to hang out with Jax and Avicile and that's always fun.

Even ran a few dungeons with Jax and some other friends and saw how they do things. I only made it through about 3 dungeons before I almost fell asleep at the keyboard, but I got a couple levels out of it which was awesome.

Did a large dungeon with a few other friends, they're just too much for me I think. It just takes forever. The xp is great, its just a little too much for my attention span.

Other than that, the World Cup and Tour De France have me distracted a bit. I'm ok with that.