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.

Bring It!

My bank, my inventory and what I'm wearing to start this off. I put my character to sleep next to the circus tonight so I'm ready to go right as I 'wake up.'

1) Circus
2) Tag Lumby tree right next to it.
3) Cabbage port to tag the spirit tree at port sarim
4) Varrock tele tab, tag tree there
5) Fally teletab, tag tree in the park
6) Duel ring to Castlewars, take balloon to taverly
7) Karamja Gloves teleport to Shilo, pay cart guy to go to Brim, tag Brimhaven tree, run and tag Calquat
8) Elf Crystal tele to Lletya, tag palm there.
9) Mobilizing Armies teleport, spirit tree teleport to gnome maze, get escorted out by following the elf, tag fruit tree there (NE of CW)
10) Camelot teletab, run to catherby to tag tree
11) Mobilizing Armies teleport, spirit tree teleport to gnome stronghold, tag fruit tree, run southeast and tag last regular tree.


I've timed the dry run of the trees a couple of times. I get it done in about 7 minutes. A friend did it in less than 5. Assuming circus takes me 15 mins (conservative assumption, I'm sure it'll be faster), that puts me at 22 minutes into the bonus. After that, castle wars teleport, bank everything, withdraw all pouches, shards, crimson charms, 20 talon charms (still bitter).

That should put me at about 23-24 minutes.
12) Kyatt tele to Piscatoris, make all talon charms
13) Duel to CW, bank crimsons, withdraw blues and make all of those
14) Finish crimsons & granite (1300 charms total between crim & blue)

That should be a little over an hour.

So, lets be conservative again and say that puts me at 1:45

15) Make 2300 Magic Potions

I'm guessing 2.5 hours for that. So 3:15.

16) Make 4k gold charms. Split between toads/birds. Toads get used first.

I'm guessing 3.5 hours for that. Then I'm at 6:45.

At this point the bonus xp is pretty negligible. I'm probably also mentally out of it.

Log out, maybe go to bed.

When I get up, probably thieve for a little bit, maybe an hour or until I get sick of it. The rest I'll probably just RC.

EDIT: I moved my pouches to the same tab.

I'm ready for it though.

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 :)