Down in a Hole

I tried doing Dung with strangers (I was really, really bored). Oi! Annoying! It usually ends up with multiple deaths and general annoyance. The best is when someone states there’s a skill door at the ggs, so naturally I’ll tele over to open it. What they conveniently forget to mention is “Oh yeah, there’s also 3 lvl 130 Shades in there with two archers.” Mass confusion on opening doors/entering rooms too, as people jump into rooms they thought they were just unlocking. Out of about 4 dungeon attempts (and countless amounts of time trying to find a team) only one was completed and it took about an hour and a half. -42% for three deaths. One was completely my fault, but two weren’t. The people apologized, but it still sucks. If I try to do this again, I’m just going to keep my head down and do the bare minimum to get by. It seems to be what everyone else does and there’s no reason for me to be killing myself when no one else will.

Clan chat update…. Where even to start? How about how they chose the most obnoxious colors to begin with… Thankfully you can change them on our settings. That bright lime green is just offensive to look at. It’s also not multi-clan friendly. For me, I’m in two clans. One was started with friends years ago and is really just us hanging out with trips and competitions but no real requirements. There’s no public recruiting and potential members are on a buddy system, then finally allowed into CC on their own, but they’re acceptance actually takes a few months. This is really to weed out any personality conflicts and has nothing to do with skills or levels. The other is a lot larger with a different set of rules and monthly requirements and I love it because it keeps me motivated. Now, I have to have friend chat open to our old CC, with our new designed CC being automatically entered. This way, we can talk with everyone, even the recruits and just use the CC, which is accepted members only, for more business like discussions regarding clan matters, voting, etc. Since I’m already registered for that CC (which I need to be, being that I’m one of the higher ups needed for voting and business measures), I have no option regarding joining my other CC. I’m forced to log in as a guest, which has its restrictions and can not carry a rank.

Speaking of restrictions, how about mental ones? 5 levels of chat, all pretty much separated by a single keystroke? People struggle with wc’s constantly with just public, pm and cc. This should create some interesting drama.

I'm also baffled by needing to actually go up to the person in order to add them. Doesn't really make much sense to me as you never had to do that before.

We'll see how it goes. I finally got to see the tree update everyone had been talking about. (I had to come up to the service for the cc) They are beautiful! I love how gigantic they look.

Back to the dung...

Through the roof... Underground...

I have been doing a lot of Dungeoneering this week. I’ll do it with a friend or two if they’re willing and have floors in common, but I mostly do solos. I’ll rush 1-20 then do a few smalls but mostly mediums. I know its not the most effective, plus I’m dying to get it to 80 and doing it slowly, but I hate relying on others. Also, most people online I know want to start large dungeons at 11pm when I get up for work around 6am. Somethings in the game just take way too long when involving a group of people. 3 rooms in someone dies so you reset, then someone has to leave abruptly, then this and that and I just don’t even want to deal with it when all I can think of is that I’m not going to get any sleep when I was coerced into it to begin with.

I put large dungeons on the level of Armady boss trips. It takes forever to get your kill count, then two other people sign on and want to join, but need help prepping and getting kc.

I know I’ll get responses like “I do larges all the time and it only takes me 30 mins and never had an issue” or whatever. Awesome. I’m stoked for you. Not my experience. Unless I have a giant amount of time to kill or feel the need to be annoyed by strangers, I’ll keep at it my way. Earlier in the week I unlocked the occult floors, which have actually been easier for me. I know I’m jinxng myself, but I like them. I got up to lvl 76 and I’m just shy of lvl 77.

I had been using my ring all wrong. I finally figured it out and charged my gathering up to tier 9. It was an expensive amount of tokens and the reason why I’m spending so much time in dungeons is that I want a CR. It’s alright though, because of a jagex mix up, you can uncharged it once and get your tokens back. Just once though. I’m treating it like I’m just putting them in the bank.

The null thing in the Adventure Log is really annoying. I haven’t come up to the surface enough to check out the Livid Farm thing yet. Vengeance Group sounds like it would be a pretty amazing spell, but it looks like it’ll have a pretty huge time requirement to unlock it. I'm sure I’ll look into it soon. B2P took a long time to unlock, but that was absolutely worth it. VG would be amazing for boss battles. Blessing up to 30 people with Vengeance would destroy almost anything.

Have an amazing weekend!