Documenting Insanity

I sat like this for about 5 minutes while waiting for my lifepoints to regenerate. I want to start everything off at max, don't ask me why. Besides, I was chatting with friends. But let me tell you, after about 3 minutes of watching that thing go back and forth at you with those spring sound effects... Wow.

Anyways, for figuring out how much xp I'm getting this weekend, I'm posting this:




Now, there is a major storm on the way here, starting tomorrow AM. I get done work at 5pm, usually home by 6pm. It's supposed to be incredibly bad with very high winds from early tomorrow afternoon (between 12-2PM) until about midnight on Saturday. So help me Saradomin, if my power goes out for this weekend, I am PKing mother nature.

The Great Freakout of 2010 Part 2: Son of Great Freakout

Ok, a boring lunch break at the office led to a few things. What do I do when I get bored? Math, of course. I ran some numbers. As it stands right now at the moment, I have 107 Blue Charms, 1097 Crimson Charms, 235 Green Charms and 3940 Gold Charms.

I have seconds for these, with the exception of the crimson ones. I'm going to have to get some granite, but that's easy enough. Lets see if I can format this in a readable way...

Charm - Pouch - Second - Shards - xp each - Total Exp
107 Blue Charms - Moss Titan - Earth Talis - 202 - 695.2xp - 74,386.4
1097 Crimson - Granite Lob - Granite - 166 - 325.6 - 357,183.2
3940 Gold Charm - Terrorbird - Bird Meat - 12 - 68.4 - 269,496
235 Green Charm - Hydra - Water Orb - 128 - 140.8 - 32,947.2

That's a total of 734,012.8xp. Using the conservative estimate of 2, brings it to 1,468,025.6xp. It also brings it to 281,076 shards used which has a price tag of 7,026,900gp. Of course, you can trade pouches back in for more shards. That'll get me about 5 Summoning levels and put me between level 85-86 (starting level 80).

Not bad, however making 4k birdie pouches is going to take a lot of time. I was thinking I need to organize even more that I realized initially. 10 hours is long, but that xp curve downward is sharp. It also doesn't decrease every half hour in stages, its decreasing as you go. That said, that first inventory of pouches is yielding more xp than your next one in 2 mins.

If I did all of those charms, there wouldn't be much for Herblore's bonus. I didn't want to mess around with making this pot here, than that there, etc. I sold almost all of my herbs and am sticking to making just Magic Potions. Focus on one thing, and its easier for me to work on that.

Some things need to be done this weekend in order to maximize the time used. First, I need to reorganize my bank. I need to move things around to free up a tab. I want all the bonus xp weekend things I need in the same place so that I don't have to waste even seconds looking for them. This is going to include my best range gear, dagon hai robes, spottier cape, boots of lightness, charms, pouches, shards, seconds, unf lantadyme pots, potato cactus, charged glories, dramen staff, adze, elf crystal, karamja gloves, cash, all teleport runes and rune essence.

Tuesday I'm going to plant and pay for my spirit & calquat trees. Wednesday I'm going to plant and pay for all of my other trees (5 Magic, 5 Palm). I'm hoping the Circus is somewhat close to a bank (please be edgeville), but am willing to doubt that it will be.

Plan is to wear boots of lightness, spottier cape and charged glory and park myself right next to that ticket booth when I log off on Thursday night. This way I log in, do the agility, tele to edge, bank get all my range gear, back to circus for range, bank, get my dagon hai robes, back to circus for mage.

Circus done, check.

After that's complete, I bank grab my Karamja gloves, cash, teleports, elf crystal so I can do a quick run checking all my trees. Not bothering to replant or even pick, just check health.

Grab my dramen staff and its off to Piscatoris to Summon. From here, I'll do all my Blue Charms first, then onto the Crimson ones. I might do green as well.

As I run back to the bank I'll start stuffing potato cacti into my unf lant pots until they're complete. Then, once they're all done, on to using the Gold Charms.

Once they're through, I've mainly gotten what I wanted to accomplish over with.

Deep breath.

The rest of the time I'll be taking relaxing strolls from edge into the abyss and making runes.

That's the plan for now. Strategy may change, but I think that's a pretty decent one.

The Great Freakout of 2010

XP weekend is pretty much all anyone is talking about. Godswords and expensive armor are crashing in price as people frantically sell what they have to buy up herbs, pots and seconds as well as other skill necessities in the GE.

I'm guilty of this as well. I haven't sold anything, I like my armor, but that stockpile of cash I've been hoarding is going to be put to good use. Since so much is virtually sold out of the GE, its making trading one item for another kind of fun among friends. It's also making me herb farm as quickly as possible.

I think I've got my plans in order. I have over 7k pure ess, so that should tide me over for the Runecrafting. At least until my sanity gives out.

Everyone has the same variation of skills they want to train, from what I've gathered on others. Summoning and Herblore seem to be the top two. Can't say I'm any different. Two skills that don't really have any other way of boosting xp other than Penguin Points. No clay vials or pouches to use from Stealing Creation.

It's interesting to me to see that everyone seems to be doing nothing but skilling that weekend. Its kind of cool, to be honest. I want to see the bounceback price changes that happen after that weekend.

This is going to be a big push for levels, and I love it. I feel like after all this gathering cactus, filling vials, etc, I'm going to be disappointed in what Herblore level I end up. I dream big, but I think I'm going to get maybe 2 levels max. That even seems pretty high. Oh well, motivation is motivation.

This goes right TCA's survivor competition. Basically everyone races skills over weeks to lose their minds. I'm not sure I'm fully recovered from the last one.

This has had me spending some time back at Stealing Creation. It's been a while since I've played this. I realized I missed it a lot, the skill only version. The clanchat has changed a lot since the last time I played. It seems some let the little rank next to them in clan chat go to their heads. Its fine though, I usually just ignore whatever's going on and focus on getting my clay and making what I need.

Olympics are over, sadly. 35 days until the first baseball game of the regular season. Seems like forever, but it'll pass soon enough. Until then, I'll continue prepping for D-Weekend :)