Kick, Push, Coast

Got a few things accomplished recently.

I can finally hunt C5S's!



And do other hunting-things!



Shortly after, I ran into my first dragon imp and it gave me 52 dragon bones. Sweet! It sounds weird, but 80 hunting is more important to me than my next achievement, because I hate that hunting skill so much. I just want to be able to get imps and use it in SC.

The next one is pretty sweet though:



Stoked on that. It kind of just snuck up on me while I read/watched movies/did paperwork, etc. Now I need to find a new skill while I do those. Now that fishing and wc are out of the way, I'm not sure what the replacement will be.

I found a bit of motivation hidden somewhere in my sarcasm-laden heart and felt it was time to get back what I earned:



I finished Love Story, Quiet Swarm, Void Dance and finally Elemental Workshop 3 to get my questcape back. EW3 is ridiculous, even with a guide.

I've been lagging like crazy ever since the Z-Buffering update. I'm not sure why. I always play with the small screen, min detail and my task manager says java hovers around 80%. Any tips?

Also, this taken without permission, but if Avicile hadn't mentioned her dad's screen name a few times in her blog, I would have sworn this would be him:

Post Game Report

Did they up the drop rate for god bird egg nests? Ravens too? I've recently had 2 raven's eggs from my kingdom, where for about 3 years I've never obtained one from there. I'm getting tons of eggs while whacking away at ivy.

I've suggested on rsof that they do something with these eggs. They're not tradeable, after you have a full grown bird of all 4, there's really no point. Let us trade them in for something, shards or small amounts of summon xp, or anything really is better than nothing.

I got 92 Magic the other day. That's an interesting level. Blood barrage and Heal other? "I can pummel you but I'll help you back up?" That got me to 2200. I love the round numbers!

98 Woodcutting, spending weeks and weeks in hotels with terrible internet connections has me doing mundane things and not doing things like Corp or GWD which I love. Anything's better than bankstanding I guess.

The Good, The Banned and The Ugly

I toyed around with the new elite diaries a bit. I have to say it’s a little annoying concerning certain aspects of it. I made a few admiral pies and it still wasn’t registering. It wasn’t counting it because I was using the barbarian method to get the tuna. For some reason, that matters? Or I was standing too far away while making my magic long bow. (Making it next to where the magic trees are actually located doesn’t count? Lame.) Stupid, trivial things like that kind of take the fun out of it.

The rewards look pretty decent. I’m always up for more battlestaves, but it’ll be a while before I get even close to the prayer levels. I might have to go back and start playing Soul Wars again.

I’m close to a few levels and even closer to 2200 total. I’m under 100k xp from a Magic and Farming levels I think. Those should put me at that nice round number milestone. I’m surprised that all the elite diaries were released at once. I thought they’d milk a few weeks out of it.

I realized I got pushed waayyy back in hiscores because I missed the BXPW. Kind of sucks, but I guess I should have expected it. I just have to get back at it again. 4 months left in 2010 and I’m still trying to get my goal of 90+ by the end of the year. (Dungeoneering not included) Hunting and Agility are killing me though. I don’t even have them to 80 yet (Hunting is about 100kxp away from 80). Everytime I hunt it feels like I did it for 4 hours, but really its only about 20 mins.

I need 10 RC levels (well 11 because why stop at 90 when you’re that close to 91?) but I’m oddly ok with that. There’s something about running in and out of the abyss over and over that’s kind of calming. It’s weird, but I really don’t mind it. I’m not a big fan of the ZMI running, but maybe I’ll give that a shot for a bit.

A Few GP More

Bonus xp weekend has come and gone. I managed 3 tree runs, the last of which I had no payments for fruit trees, so 3 of my palms died. I also did the circus. 86 Farming and very close to 87 Farming.

Other than that, I had an absolutely amazing vacation where I completely fell in love with the west coast. I have to say, living with the east coast mentality, it being ingrained in my mindset since I was a baby (lvl 3), the negativity, sarcasm and aggression which is in every bone in my body and love it so, maybe we have it wrong?

What to do on Runescape...? The elite diaries are out, I think I can do the Lumby hard and Seer's elite. I'm fine with all the requirements, just not the prayer. That irks me a little bit. Not because I don't have it (I'll level my prayer eventually), its just that I wished it was a little more varied. I also feel pretty bad for the people who can't defeat Jad due to lag issues. I can't beat him because of user defect, but lag is a different issue.

While doing the Seer's I had to ask the fisherpersons of catherby where the salmon was. What I love about the RS community is that regardless of how high your level is, there's probably a lvl 50 out there that can help you out with advice. Provided they don't live on the east coast, of course.