I’d like to thank everyone for their kind words and suggestions on my last post. Even just people and my friends I could talk to about random things in game helps so much. It was really hard playing during the first couple of days to be honest. Calling our one friend really helped because it was just good to talk to someone who could just relate was an amazing feeling.
We had a little memorial service for her which, with almost every large gathering in rs, was well intentioned but worked out kind of awkwardly. Her son logged on so he could see how many people cared, but I don’t think he fully understood it, and that I get. Let alone dealing with the loss himself, it’s a hard thing to look in on people trying to say nice things on an online game while a bunch of others are really just there as spectators or showed up out of curiosity.
Either way its just hard seeing that name on your friends list that you know is never going to log on again. I wish there were some way to close off her cc though, it seems to be being used by some pretty disrespectful people. People go to gravesites to visit and talk to their friends and family. I hate to make the analogy but the clan chat is kind of like that. I can’t get to the other side of the country whenever I want to talk to her. I was cleaning out my emails when I came across one from her not too long ago asking if I could teach her how to do Bork since the Chaos Tunnels were confusing. I think I made it a point to go everyday until she knew the route, then she would take me along showing me that she knew them so well. Fun stuff.
I’ve just been keeping myself distracted really. I’ve been doing a lot of Corp masses because they’re pretty fun and you don’t really think about much other than surviving there. Survival therapy I guess you can call it. I’ve seen some Spectral drops, I’m hoping I just go enough to get something awesome. You really begin to realize how rare certain drops are if you just spend day after day killing hundreds of the same thing. I managed to level my Defense up to 93 which I’m excited about. I always like it when I’m harder to hit.
I got 85 Prayer as well since the last post. That way I could make my Blessed Spirit Shield, mainly because I was curious about it. So far I’m liking it, but man, just getting from 84-85 shows why I haven’t done Prayer more often. I tried to go back to Soul Wars, it seems to be the free way to train it while getting other xp as well, but those games get pretty annoying sometimes. To see how it’d work out I actually switched to Ancients and took my Magic Essence pots (which aren’t tradeable and I gotta use them sometime) and tried using Ice Barrage for the first time. It’s not as fun as it looks.
Not many other things have been going on lately. Is it me or hasn’t there been an update in a while? Also, I’m guessing no Thanksgiving event this year? I kind of liked the turkey ones. I know it’s really only a North American holiday, but we’ve had them before. Ah well…
I’ve been struggling with bank space lately. All these clue rewards stack up (h3 plate, h2 helm, h4 legs) but not being able to put them in our POH without the complete sets is pretty lame. At least there’s the option now of not having everything bombard you when you open it. I opened my box for the first time since seeing everyone get destroyed with inv and bank spots and was pleased to see the option of that not happening. Also, I realized I only have 2 things in there that would have been affected, so it wouldn’t have been that much of a deal after all anyway.
My motivation for leveling skills has really just been take whatever’s closest to leveling and run with it. Dungeoneering aside, of course. It’s kind of at that point to where nothing really seems close to a level. My Slayer task is daggies so I went with a friend to the Daganoth Kings. Good lord that place is confusing to get to. On top of that I didn’t really like killing them too much. Them and TDs, I just can’t get into. It was an experience though, like trying a food you don’t like every couple of years to see if your tastes have changed.
Well, I guess that’s enough rambling for now. I hope everyone has a safe and good Thanksgiving for all those who celebrate it. For those that don’t, I hope you have a great week as well.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Devestated
I woke up at 3am. I was sick. My throat was dry, the room spun and I could feel my heartbeat in the pit of my stomach. I got up to get some water and turn on the fan and open the window. I had 2 beers about 6 hours prior, so that wasn’t the reason. It must have been the burger I ate around 9pm causing havoc in my stomach. I couldn’t go back to sleep so I opened my lap top.
My one friend had given her facebook password to her daughter. She was going in for brain surgery because they detected an aneurysm a month or two ago. Right as I open it I see the update. She didn’t make it.
This is not someone I knew in person, but rather in game and then later on myspace and facebook. When I first started playing, I didn’t do much to make friends. It was just a game to screw around on. When I left and then I eventually came back, I wanted to take it a little more serious. I decided to train whatever my highest skill was. It was fishing, I think it was in the 30s. I spent hours fishing in Catherby as well as other various places. I’d take part in conversations, but never bothered to remember anyone’s name being that it was always a different group of people. I was so excited when I finally had the level to enter the Fishing Guild. It was here where I really met my first few friends in Runescape.
I have acquaintances and good friends in Runescape, however the first 5 people I ever really met hold a very special place in my heart. I couldn’t believe that people were spending hours and hours fishing, just like me and for some reason, stuck to the same home world of 26. I had never played any sort of MMORPG before and didn’t even know that people had ‘friends’ in them. This was over 5 years ago. I got friendly with them and we’d chat daily as we slowly chipped away at the fishing xp. As friends grew and moved on, some quitting, some just not on anymore or some who just moved to timezones where we never see each other, we all still managed to stay in contact. She was one of those friends.
I immediately logged on to see if any mutual friends were online, but there were not. I tried to go back to sleep but I really just laid restless until my alarm went off. I checked again before work but still none online. Another one of those 5 friends was very close to her, even talking to her on the phone regularly. She has to be devastated and I wish I could talk to her.
She’d even have her daughters come online (she leaves behind a long term boyfriend and 4 kids) to say hello to us. I remember doing that for three years. They’d eventually get their capes before me. I got mine and still fished, but got more interested in doing other things. We didn’t see each other on a daily basis in the game anymore, but we’d still PM and chat that way. She continued to fish with another one of those core friends, both pretty much earning their fishing cape about 4 times over. She’d PM me saying she’s so impressed with the way I’ve been knocking out my total levels, I’d gush equally about how much fishing xp she has and how high ranked she is in it.
It’s amusing, she got tired of having a couple adult beverages and then the next day realizing that she’d sold all her armor, or bought something ridiculous. To combat that, she started a new account that whenever that account was online, it’d mean she was a little tipsy. We’d laugh and joke about that for a long time.
Her life wasn’t the easiest. She struggled a lot with money, health and other personal issues. She always seemed positive though and could always laugh things off. A perfect example of this is just the other day. I had known all of what was going on, she didn’t feel the need to hide much and we were so close she’d tell me pretty much everything and I would to her. I had my dates wrong and saw on her facebook that she was about to leave for the hospital to get this surgery done. I was in game at the time and saw her log out. She logged right back in and I was quick to grab her attention. She said she was leaving in about 10 mins to drive to the brain surgery center a ways away from where she lived. I told her I cared about her and assured her that everything was going to be fine. We joked about when they had her brain open to make it like the Matrix and make her learn different languages and Kung Fu. I could tell she was nervous, but the joking made her relax. She said thanks and that she’ll see me in two weeks or so when she gets back.
That’s the last conversation I’ll ever have with her.
My thoughts are with her family and friends. I’ll try to keep my shit together and get through this work day, which I am doing a terrible job of trying to do. I’ll talk to friends and family as if everything is fine. I’ll smile to coworkers but I am destroyed inside. They won’t understand. Maybe that’s why I’m writing this. It’s not just “someone on the internet.” It’s a beloved friend, who knew me more than a lot of the people that I know in real life. It’s amazing that someone on the other side of the country, who’s voice I’ve never even heard would have such an impact in my life. If you’re reading this blog it means you play the game. It also means that you get it. You get the connections that are made over time. Don’t take them for granted.
I’ll miss you Ven. You’ll always have a place in my heart.
My one friend had given her facebook password to her daughter. She was going in for brain surgery because they detected an aneurysm a month or two ago. Right as I open it I see the update. She didn’t make it.
This is not someone I knew in person, but rather in game and then later on myspace and facebook. When I first started playing, I didn’t do much to make friends. It was just a game to screw around on. When I left and then I eventually came back, I wanted to take it a little more serious. I decided to train whatever my highest skill was. It was fishing, I think it was in the 30s. I spent hours fishing in Catherby as well as other various places. I’d take part in conversations, but never bothered to remember anyone’s name being that it was always a different group of people. I was so excited when I finally had the level to enter the Fishing Guild. It was here where I really met my first few friends in Runescape.
I have acquaintances and good friends in Runescape, however the first 5 people I ever really met hold a very special place in my heart. I couldn’t believe that people were spending hours and hours fishing, just like me and for some reason, stuck to the same home world of 26. I had never played any sort of MMORPG before and didn’t even know that people had ‘friends’ in them. This was over 5 years ago. I got friendly with them and we’d chat daily as we slowly chipped away at the fishing xp. As friends grew and moved on, some quitting, some just not on anymore or some who just moved to timezones where we never see each other, we all still managed to stay in contact. She was one of those friends.
I immediately logged on to see if any mutual friends were online, but there were not. I tried to go back to sleep but I really just laid restless until my alarm went off. I checked again before work but still none online. Another one of those 5 friends was very close to her, even talking to her on the phone regularly. She has to be devastated and I wish I could talk to her.
She’d even have her daughters come online (she leaves behind a long term boyfriend and 4 kids) to say hello to us. I remember doing that for three years. They’d eventually get their capes before me. I got mine and still fished, but got more interested in doing other things. We didn’t see each other on a daily basis in the game anymore, but we’d still PM and chat that way. She continued to fish with another one of those core friends, both pretty much earning their fishing cape about 4 times over. She’d PM me saying she’s so impressed with the way I’ve been knocking out my total levels, I’d gush equally about how much fishing xp she has and how high ranked she is in it.
It’s amusing, she got tired of having a couple adult beverages and then the next day realizing that she’d sold all her armor, or bought something ridiculous. To combat that, she started a new account that whenever that account was online, it’d mean she was a little tipsy. We’d laugh and joke about that for a long time.
Her life wasn’t the easiest. She struggled a lot with money, health and other personal issues. She always seemed positive though and could always laugh things off. A perfect example of this is just the other day. I had known all of what was going on, she didn’t feel the need to hide much and we were so close she’d tell me pretty much everything and I would to her. I had my dates wrong and saw on her facebook that she was about to leave for the hospital to get this surgery done. I was in game at the time and saw her log out. She logged right back in and I was quick to grab her attention. She said she was leaving in about 10 mins to drive to the brain surgery center a ways away from where she lived. I told her I cared about her and assured her that everything was going to be fine. We joked about when they had her brain open to make it like the Matrix and make her learn different languages and Kung Fu. I could tell she was nervous, but the joking made her relax. She said thanks and that she’ll see me in two weeks or so when she gets back.
That’s the last conversation I’ll ever have with her.
My thoughts are with her family and friends. I’ll try to keep my shit together and get through this work day, which I am doing a terrible job of trying to do. I’ll talk to friends and family as if everything is fine. I’ll smile to coworkers but I am destroyed inside. They won’t understand. Maybe that’s why I’m writing this. It’s not just “someone on the internet.” It’s a beloved friend, who knew me more than a lot of the people that I know in real life. It’s amazing that someone on the other side of the country, who’s voice I’ve never even heard would have such an impact in my life. If you’re reading this blog it means you play the game. It also means that you get it. You get the connections that are made over time. Don’t take them for granted.
I’ll miss you Ven. You’ll always have a place in my heart.
Monday, November 8, 2010
Get A Clue
92 Defence, which got me up to lvl 131 cb! Also got 87 Slayer! I spent the weekend knocking out slay tasks. Killing tons of nechs, hellhounds, abby demons, abby spectres, greaters, blue drags, etc, also leads to tons of something else:
Yeah, that's a lot of clues. Biggest item I received was Bandos page 3, but I know have a bunch of teleports to random places. The lumberyard teles came in handy while doing the clues that lead you there.
As you can see I got a court summons for the sandwich lady. It's the first one I've ever gotten. I went over to the court and pled her case and got her off the hook. The very next clue I got I received another summons! I thought this was awesome and head back to the court house to see who else I could get out of being falsely accused. Bummer, you have to wait 2 weeks to do it again... Ah well, at least I already have it.
I noticed I was getting close to a task where I was going to receive a slay points bonus. I went over to Lapalok for a task. Bloodveld! Hadn't had those in forever. I grabbed my cannon and went to kill the mutated ones and it was great xp and super fast. I completed the task and I got the "Get 75 points from Lapalok for completing a task" crossed off the elite Karamja diary list.
Yeah, that's a lot of clues. Biggest item I received was Bandos page 3, but I know have a bunch of teleports to random places. The lumberyard teles came in handy while doing the clues that lead you there.
As you can see I got a court summons for the sandwich lady. It's the first one I've ever gotten. I went over to the court and pled her case and got her off the hook. The very next clue I got I received another summons! I thought this was awesome and head back to the court house to see who else I could get out of being falsely accused. Bummer, you have to wait 2 weeks to do it again... Ah well, at least I already have it.
I noticed I was getting close to a task where I was going to receive a slay points bonus. I went over to Lapalok for a task. Bloodveld! Hadn't had those in forever. I grabbed my cannon and went to kill the mutated ones and it was great xp and super fast. I completed the task and I got the "Get 75 points from Lapalok for completing a task" crossed off the elite Karamja diary list.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Potpourri
I finally did the Halloween event (on 11/1, I’m happy I didn’t miss it!) and it was pretty good. I had some trouble finding all the spiders but it didn’t take long to get them on their matching tiles. I had heard this was super hard for some people. I think I really just lucked out, half were correct before I even realize what was going on. The talking to the dead musician guy was probably the worst part of it for me. I actually pulled up a guide because that kind of thing frustrates the hell out of me. However, when I looked at it, I realized I was on the last choice anyways.
I think the bone brooch is pretty cool and the emote is fun. Overall I liked it. I like how it incorporated people from previous Halloween events. I liked the Poe references and I had to look it up to confirm it, but there was a Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey reference. I got worried there that I was reading Bill & Ted’s into it, but its there! Whenever I see the grim reaper I think about challenging him to battleship and twister so I already had that goin on in the back of my head. Also, I don’t know where Bill S. Preston gets off adding Esq. to the end of his name. There’s no way that kid went to law school and passed the bar. Also, they’re coming out with a third one soon, which... will be interesting.
Yesterday I got to 93 Crafting, which I’m pretty happy about. Staves and the occasional assist is really the only way I train it. I had about 800 staves laying around so I bit the bullet and bought the air orbs to make them. They’re super expensive now, but they bought at mid instantly. I go in and out of my DIY phases and I just didn’t have it in me to make the orbs from scratch. Part of that has to do with not visiting Arnheim in Catherby for my seaweed. I just don’t really think of it because I have enough pineapples to last me forever.
The cash supply was running a little low, so I went to my favorite alching spot and took care of those. The best place to alch is the Skavid caves at Gu’Tanoth while collecting nightshade. It’s a second for herblore and its respawn rate is a little slow, not to mention it being untradeable. You just need a lightsource and the Skavid map. I wear my Seer’s 3 headband but you can also use the mining helmet to save an inventory spot. I wear my dueling ring so I can bank pretty quickly at Castle Wars. You also need to wear any kind of gloves or else it’ll hurt you when you pick it up.
It never ceases to amaze me how much of Runescape is based upon actual things. There really is belladonna and nightshade and it actually is a toxic plant. I’ve touched on this before, but the amount of real life knowledge you gain while playing a fantasy game is astounding. I always just assumed about 10% of it was real, while the rest is all just imaginary.
Do you know that when Jagex said that they were going to find a use for Ecto-Tokens, that was in 2008. It’s been 2 years and they still haven’t touched on it. They can’t think of anything to do with them? Really? I guess they have better things to do, but they just keep piling up. What would you want them to do with them? Have any ideas? New outfits? They stated originally that they’d be required for a pet, but something with the ex-ex-parrot got it askew. Which reminds me, I should get one of those… Spending 25 or whatever every, say, 4th week because there’s a penguin on braindeath doesn’t exactly deplete the pile. We already have ghostly robes, so that just seems redundant. I wouldn’t want to trade them in for xp being that the ecto place already gives the best pray xp you can get.
With two months left in the year and motivation at a pretty low state, I have to admit I don’t think I’ll make my goal of 90+ (Dungeoneering aside). I’m ok with that. I really wish I posted a list of my skills last January to see how far I’ve come. That’s something to remember for this year. It was a lofty goal, but I’m ok with not achieving it. It was something to reach for and I’ve done a lot in these 10 months. Training some skills that were already over 90 took some time away from leveling the lower ones. I got my Woodcutting cape which I never thought would happen. I brought Thieving up from one of my lowest, most hated levels to one of my higher ones. I got my Strength cape, have been working on Attack, etc.
I just looked back through this blog and my first post of the new year mentioned that I had just lost to Jad 4 times. Things don’t seem to change much I guess. I also noticed that it’s almost been a year since I had the idea of all the RS bloggers to kind of have a get together. It didn’t go exactly as I had thought it would, but it was a lot of fun to get to see everyone in game that I read about on an almost daily basis. Would anyone be interested in doing this again? I think it could be fun. Make it pretty informal, like a house party or meet in a tavern somewhere. Actually, maybe a F2P place would be better since some don’t have memberships. Falador pub? We can stack up on Dwarf Stouts and Wizard Mind Bombs when we’re there. Let me know your thoughts. I’ll organize something if people are interested. And I promise this year I’ll make it at a better time for the ones on the other side of the Atlantic.
Jax’s blog must have me thinking about goals. Congrats to her on her 4th complete year of playing and just plowing through levels. I’ve been playing years longer and haven’t accomplished nearly as much.
I think the bone brooch is pretty cool and the emote is fun. Overall I liked it. I like how it incorporated people from previous Halloween events. I liked the Poe references and I had to look it up to confirm it, but there was a Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey reference. I got worried there that I was reading Bill & Ted’s into it, but its there! Whenever I see the grim reaper I think about challenging him to battleship and twister so I already had that goin on in the back of my head. Also, I don’t know where Bill S. Preston gets off adding Esq. to the end of his name. There’s no way that kid went to law school and passed the bar. Also, they’re coming out with a third one soon, which... will be interesting.
Yesterday I got to 93 Crafting, which I’m pretty happy about. Staves and the occasional assist is really the only way I train it. I had about 800 staves laying around so I bit the bullet and bought the air orbs to make them. They’re super expensive now, but they bought at mid instantly. I go in and out of my DIY phases and I just didn’t have it in me to make the orbs from scratch. Part of that has to do with not visiting Arnheim in Catherby for my seaweed. I just don’t really think of it because I have enough pineapples to last me forever.
The cash supply was running a little low, so I went to my favorite alching spot and took care of those. The best place to alch is the Skavid caves at Gu’Tanoth while collecting nightshade. It’s a second for herblore and its respawn rate is a little slow, not to mention it being untradeable. You just need a lightsource and the Skavid map. I wear my Seer’s 3 headband but you can also use the mining helmet to save an inventory spot. I wear my dueling ring so I can bank pretty quickly at Castle Wars. You also need to wear any kind of gloves or else it’ll hurt you when you pick it up.
It never ceases to amaze me how much of Runescape is based upon actual things. There really is belladonna and nightshade and it actually is a toxic plant. I’ve touched on this before, but the amount of real life knowledge you gain while playing a fantasy game is astounding. I always just assumed about 10% of it was real, while the rest is all just imaginary.
Do you know that when Jagex said that they were going to find a use for Ecto-Tokens, that was in 2008. It’s been 2 years and they still haven’t touched on it. They can’t think of anything to do with them? Really? I guess they have better things to do, but they just keep piling up. What would you want them to do with them? Have any ideas? New outfits? They stated originally that they’d be required for a pet, but something with the ex-ex-parrot got it askew. Which reminds me, I should get one of those… Spending 25 or whatever every, say, 4th week because there’s a penguin on braindeath doesn’t exactly deplete the pile. We already have ghostly robes, so that just seems redundant. I wouldn’t want to trade them in for xp being that the ecto place already gives the best pray xp you can get.
With two months left in the year and motivation at a pretty low state, I have to admit I don’t think I’ll make my goal of 90+ (Dungeoneering aside). I’m ok with that. I really wish I posted a list of my skills last January to see how far I’ve come. That’s something to remember for this year. It was a lofty goal, but I’m ok with not achieving it. It was something to reach for and I’ve done a lot in these 10 months. Training some skills that were already over 90 took some time away from leveling the lower ones. I got my Woodcutting cape which I never thought would happen. I brought Thieving up from one of my lowest, most hated levels to one of my higher ones. I got my Strength cape, have been working on Attack, etc.
I just looked back through this blog and my first post of the new year mentioned that I had just lost to Jad 4 times. Things don’t seem to change much I guess. I also noticed that it’s almost been a year since I had the idea of all the RS bloggers to kind of have a get together. It didn’t go exactly as I had thought it would, but it was a lot of fun to get to see everyone in game that I read about on an almost daily basis. Would anyone be interested in doing this again? I think it could be fun. Make it pretty informal, like a house party or meet in a tavern somewhere. Actually, maybe a F2P place would be better since some don’t have memberships. Falador pub? We can stack up on Dwarf Stouts and Wizard Mind Bombs when we’re there. Let me know your thoughts. I’ll organize something if people are interested. And I promise this year I’ll make it at a better time for the ones on the other side of the Atlantic.
Jax’s blog must have me thinking about goals. Congrats to her on her 4th complete year of playing and just plowing through levels. I’ve been playing years longer and haven’t accomplished nearly as much.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Sweetness
It’s been a while since I’ve posted. It hasn’t been a while since I’ve written though. The amounts of posts that I never put up could fill volumes. It’s kind of ridiculous, but sometimes I just get to the end of writing something, realize I hate it and then just scrap it.
I’ve been killing a lot of mith dragons lately. I’ve grown to like it a lot. Also getting effigies and my first ever elite clue help. I got a dragon platebody ornament kit. Looking at the price it was something like 10M. Everyone told me the street price was much higher and not to sell it on GE. Which is good if you have lots of junk. I don’t. Heck, I don’t even pay attention to what even classifies as ‘junk’ anymore. I just cleared a bunch of useless crap out of my bank and sold to a guy for something like 15M. He promptly used it on his armor, which I was relieved. If he took it to resell I would have thought I was getting the short end of the deal. At least he used it and ran off to show his friends. At the end of the day, even if it is worth more, it’s a free 10M for me and some new bank space.
I like the elite clues. I really like the rune rope puzzle things. The trick is to just pick out two of the paths, focus on them. Move one 17 times (how many runes are on it), if the overlapping spots don’t all match, move the other path 1, then move the original path 17 times again. Repeat until you have all overlapping spots green. Once you have that, simply move the third path until its all unlocked. Viola!
I was lagging so I decided to skip mith drags for a bit and I went to train some attack at abby demons. Whip drop! Sweet!
It’s kind of scary, and I thought it was always luck, but I’ve actually gotten pretty good at the party room. Now, what you get is random, but before I was just spam clicking whenever I saw a balloon. If you time it right, your odds are a lot better. In the last 5 party room drops I’ve been in, I’ve received at least one item. I got 2 things twice (18 prayer pots (4) and… something else, it totaled over 250k), 300k cash and some other fun things like 2k coal, etc.
I haven’t done the Halloween event yet, I meant to do it yesterday. From what I’ve read, it looks pretty interesting. I like seeing people just collapse into a pile of bones as well. I like novel emotes like that.
I’ve held off on posting this because I really wanted to end it by showing you my new firecape, however that hit a bit of a snag. During last week, I think it was Wednesday, I was assigned Jad by Kuradel. I went 3 straight times, losing to Jad each one. It didn’t matter that it wasn’t my assignment any more, it was a matter of principle. Kuradel assigned me Jad again yesterday. Again, got through all the waves with no problem. Again, Jad whacks a 90+ hit on me and I can’t bounce back. I can usually get to the healers, but yesterday the fight was pretty shortlived. Much respect to anyone with a firecape. This week 0-4 vs Jad. Overall 0-17. I think I just acquired my frustration skill cape.
I managed to get 94 Attack though this weekend, so that’s a plus.
I’ve been killing a lot of mith dragons lately. I’ve grown to like it a lot. Also getting effigies and my first ever elite clue help. I got a dragon platebody ornament kit. Looking at the price it was something like 10M. Everyone told me the street price was much higher and not to sell it on GE. Which is good if you have lots of junk. I don’t. Heck, I don’t even pay attention to what even classifies as ‘junk’ anymore. I just cleared a bunch of useless crap out of my bank and sold to a guy for something like 15M. He promptly used it on his armor, which I was relieved. If he took it to resell I would have thought I was getting the short end of the deal. At least he used it and ran off to show his friends. At the end of the day, even if it is worth more, it’s a free 10M for me and some new bank space.
I like the elite clues. I really like the rune rope puzzle things. The trick is to just pick out two of the paths, focus on them. Move one 17 times (how many runes are on it), if the overlapping spots don’t all match, move the other path 1, then move the original path 17 times again. Repeat until you have all overlapping spots green. Once you have that, simply move the third path until its all unlocked. Viola!
I was lagging so I decided to skip mith drags for a bit and I went to train some attack at abby demons. Whip drop! Sweet!
It’s kind of scary, and I thought it was always luck, but I’ve actually gotten pretty good at the party room. Now, what you get is random, but before I was just spam clicking whenever I saw a balloon. If you time it right, your odds are a lot better. In the last 5 party room drops I’ve been in, I’ve received at least one item. I got 2 things twice (18 prayer pots (4) and… something else, it totaled over 250k), 300k cash and some other fun things like 2k coal, etc.
I haven’t done the Halloween event yet, I meant to do it yesterday. From what I’ve read, it looks pretty interesting. I like seeing people just collapse into a pile of bones as well. I like novel emotes like that.
I’ve held off on posting this because I really wanted to end it by showing you my new firecape, however that hit a bit of a snag. During last week, I think it was Wednesday, I was assigned Jad by Kuradel. I went 3 straight times, losing to Jad each one. It didn’t matter that it wasn’t my assignment any more, it was a matter of principle. Kuradel assigned me Jad again yesterday. Again, got through all the waves with no problem. Again, Jad whacks a 90+ hit on me and I can’t bounce back. I can usually get to the healers, but yesterday the fight was pretty shortlived. Much respect to anyone with a firecape. This week 0-4 vs Jad. Overall 0-17. I think I just acquired my frustration skill cape.
I managed to get 94 Attack though this weekend, so that’s a plus.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
October!
I’ve taken to doing assists just when I see them. There’s far too many people offering 91 Herblore and 95 Crafting in world 117 to make it worth my while to do it everyday. Once I get those up higher and can offer what’s really in demand, I’ll go back. For now, I’ll take the bonus of just seeing people ask for it while I’m in the GE or Edge bank. Standing for an hour offering something 5 other people are offering drives me a little crazy.
My friend set up this gi-normous checklist of things to do in game, each with a set point value. It’s like a giant scavenger hunt. There’s probably over 100 items on the list ranging from “Make and fire every kind of bow you can up to your fletching level” to “Beat Jad.” Her and another friend decided we should all go to KBD and watch each other’s backs for 2 items on the list. “Solo KBD” and “Beat KBD without antifire.” I’ve never solo’d KBD before, at least not that I remember. I certainly never thought to fight him without antifire, on purpose.
Let me tell you, ALWAYS bring antifire. I felt like one of those kids on a youtube video, where they set something up and you just know its going to go horribly wrong, but they do it anyway. Luckily, I didn’t die, but constant hard hits had me down to 073 lp once (I have hatred of rings of life), even while spam clicking food. I killed it, but NEVER EVER do that. At least my friends were right there ready to bless on the other side of the lever. After that I banked, restocked, sipped my mega antifire pot and stood ready to bless while they did the same thing. Everyone made it safe, thankfully. Then, since the list states that every item on it must be done on its own (ie, can’t combine the two tasks in one kill), we took turns soloing with antifire which was much easier. Maybe I should have done it that way first. It was an interesting way to go about my first solo kill of it. All my other experiences were with a group where you barely need anti and rarely ever even get hit.
I've been getting some levels here and there. The last three were 89 Fletching, 87 Farming and 58 Dungoneering (tears). A few steps closer to the year end goal of 90+, but its going to take some serious buckling down and doing things I hate to get it. 80 hunting and 78 Agility seem like they’d take forever to get there, just because of my sheer aversion to them. 90 RC would mean roughly 300,000 Blood Runes. 10,500 trips to the abyss? 3 months? Ok maybe not. Ugh, maybe I’ll have to break down and do Ouriana, it’s a shame I hate being on Lunar. I hate not being able to alch.
I have to do the new quest, maybe I’ll tackle that tonight. Apparently you can upgrade your void armor. If I ever had void armor, that’d be awesome. I could never justify using it on anything aside from XP. However, maybe I’ll look into it if I’m going to be training my range for at least 3 more levels (currently 87).
Prayer at 83 is going to be a pain as well. Well, not so much a pain as it is just really freaking expensive. It’s either that or completely time consuming at Soul Wars.
I still haven’t been into a dungeon in a while. There’s been some large ones scheduled among my friends, but it always seems to be when I’m busy or as I’m falling asleep. I guess I should just do them myself because now that I think about, the ones I need are the ones most people rush through because of the higher levels. I have the level to do some higher floors, the issue is actually unlocking them. User error.
So much to do! I still need to get my ninja greegree back! I have no idea how I lost that thing. It’s not like its something I’d take to do anything else but agility.
This blog is actually going to be posted, unlike my last… 20 which have fallen to the wayside. You should see the blog graveyard. For everyone I post, I probably write about 15.
My friend set up this gi-normous checklist of things to do in game, each with a set point value. It’s like a giant scavenger hunt. There’s probably over 100 items on the list ranging from “Make and fire every kind of bow you can up to your fletching level” to “Beat Jad.” Her and another friend decided we should all go to KBD and watch each other’s backs for 2 items on the list. “Solo KBD” and “Beat KBD without antifire.” I’ve never solo’d KBD before, at least not that I remember. I certainly never thought to fight him without antifire, on purpose.
Let me tell you, ALWAYS bring antifire. I felt like one of those kids on a youtube video, where they set something up and you just know its going to go horribly wrong, but they do it anyway. Luckily, I didn’t die, but constant hard hits had me down to 073 lp once (I have hatred of rings of life), even while spam clicking food. I killed it, but NEVER EVER do that. At least my friends were right there ready to bless on the other side of the lever. After that I banked, restocked, sipped my mega antifire pot and stood ready to bless while they did the same thing. Everyone made it safe, thankfully. Then, since the list states that every item on it must be done on its own (ie, can’t combine the two tasks in one kill), we took turns soloing with antifire which was much easier. Maybe I should have done it that way first. It was an interesting way to go about my first solo kill of it. All my other experiences were with a group where you barely need anti and rarely ever even get hit.
I've been getting some levels here and there. The last three were 89 Fletching, 87 Farming and 58 Dungoneering (tears). A few steps closer to the year end goal of 90+, but its going to take some serious buckling down and doing things I hate to get it. 80 hunting and 78 Agility seem like they’d take forever to get there, just because of my sheer aversion to them. 90 RC would mean roughly 300,000 Blood Runes. 10,500 trips to the abyss? 3 months? Ok maybe not. Ugh, maybe I’ll have to break down and do Ouriana, it’s a shame I hate being on Lunar. I hate not being able to alch.
I have to do the new quest, maybe I’ll tackle that tonight. Apparently you can upgrade your void armor. If I ever had void armor, that’d be awesome. I could never justify using it on anything aside from XP. However, maybe I’ll look into it if I’m going to be training my range for at least 3 more levels (currently 87).
Prayer at 83 is going to be a pain as well. Well, not so much a pain as it is just really freaking expensive. It’s either that or completely time consuming at Soul Wars.
I still haven’t been into a dungeon in a while. There’s been some large ones scheduled among my friends, but it always seems to be when I’m busy or as I’m falling asleep. I guess I should just do them myself because now that I think about, the ones I need are the ones most people rush through because of the higher levels. I have the level to do some higher floors, the issue is actually unlocking them. User error.
So much to do! I still need to get my ninja greegree back! I have no idea how I lost that thing. It’s not like its something I’d take to do anything else but agility.
This blog is actually going to be posted, unlike my last… 20 which have fallen to the wayside. You should see the blog graveyard. For everyone I post, I probably write about 15.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
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:
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:
Sunday, September 12, 2010
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.
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.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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.
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.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
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.
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.
Monday, August 23, 2010
A Fistful of GP
I took a look back at some of my past blog entries over the year. It’s nice to be able to do that, and is kind of the reason why I have this blog. Two things stood out to me as I tried to see if I posted a screen shot of my hiscores at the beginning of 2010 (I didn’t). The first is that I got 85 Slayer in December. I just now got 86 Slayer recently. I don’t slay as much as I should.
The other, I was a lot more excited about the game then. Most of the posts took on a “Oh awesome! Look at what I just did!” kind of vibe. Sort of in the way Full of Pie writes her blog. I don’t know if its just that I’m super busy with real life & work or I’m just in a rut or what. I log on to chat with friends, but I don’t really want to do anything. I end up bankstanding. I’ll do maybe 10-30 mins of something then get bored and bank stand before doing something else. It’s not that I’m sick of the game, I just don’t feel motivated. Before anyone says to quit or not play, it’s the talking with friends that I really enjoy. The game has sort of taken a background to a social thing I guess. Everything comes and goes and is cyclical. In a few months I’ll be playing happier than ever again.
We got screwed on the Jagex Cup. Timbo claims we didn’t post the signup on the last week, we claim we did. Doesn’t really matter what we say, all the posts are hidden anyways (not sure for what reason though). The mining week I didn’t mind, but fishing & cooking followed by fishing again was annoying. Putting in so many hours on two skills where I don’t need to level isn’t a lot of fun. It’s fun in the name of competition and trying to help your team, but in the end where your work isn’t even counted, it lets the wind out of your sails a bit. So many teams had 0xp/hr with nothing counting, and we don’t even get credit for competing each week while getting all the required sessions in… blah.
Jagex’s stance of refusal to work with players has really ruined something that has potential. I don’t understand why they can’t just be open to players about what’s going on. Timbo was constantly late releasing information with no explanation whatsoever. Also when he stated the detailed information release date, and it came out about 5 days after that, he just claims “well I wasn’t in the office.” Listen, we get that, but we also put a lot of time into these things. A “I’m getting the detailed information together, but it looks like its going to take a bit. I’ll get to it as soon as I can” would be much better instead of giving us a timeline to rely on, then to break. The lack of even clearly defining the rules is a bit absurd. They’d really have to directly address a lot of issues before I think I’ll participate in it again.
I know some fellow bloggers out there make some money off of your sites. Some probably a decent amount, others maybe just a few bucks. I never have because I feel like it would change the content of this site. If money started being a motivator, it’d be like work. I’m pretty happy with that choice today. The city of brotherly love, where I reside has decided that everyone who makes money from blogging, needs to buy a $300 business permit in order to operate. So the guy that made say $11 dollars last year from advertising revenue on his site about say, where to find a good steak in the city has just been handed a bill. This isn’t something they are instating going forward, as if “if you’re going to make money you need to do this” which would let you reassess if you want to do it or not. This is an invoice, if you’ve made money with it in the past, now you have to pay. I’m sure I wouldn’t have made close to $300 with this site to cover the ridiculous cost of a business permit. I will say, if you ever wanted to find out a way to make freelance writers really pissed, really quick – this is the way to go.
The second XP weekend has been announced. I spent a ridiculous amount of planning for the last one and was rewarded pretty well for all the effort. What are my plans for this one? Nothing. I’m going on vacation to the other side of the country for a friend’s wedding. I’m a little relieved to be honest. I have a nice stack of herbs sitting in my bank leftover from when I got my Herblore up to 90. (I was originally holding off on leveling, but it was killing me just seeing them sit there) I’ll wait a few more days and sell them and some other Summoning seconds I have stored for a nice profit. I’ll plant my highest level tree seeds before because I’m sure I can log on for 10 mins to do the circus and tree run real quick. That will only take like 10 minutes. It’s nice not having to stress about it though. I’d probably just use the time doing Agility or Runecrafting or Hunting anyway. Working on the skills that are my lowest and really require no prepping.
The other, I was a lot more excited about the game then. Most of the posts took on a “Oh awesome! Look at what I just did!” kind of vibe. Sort of in the way Full of Pie writes her blog. I don’t know if its just that I’m super busy with real life & work or I’m just in a rut or what. I log on to chat with friends, but I don’t really want to do anything. I end up bankstanding. I’ll do maybe 10-30 mins of something then get bored and bank stand before doing something else. It’s not that I’m sick of the game, I just don’t feel motivated. Before anyone says to quit or not play, it’s the talking with friends that I really enjoy. The game has sort of taken a background to a social thing I guess. Everything comes and goes and is cyclical. In a few months I’ll be playing happier than ever again.
We got screwed on the Jagex Cup. Timbo claims we didn’t post the signup on the last week, we claim we did. Doesn’t really matter what we say, all the posts are hidden anyways (not sure for what reason though). The mining week I didn’t mind, but fishing & cooking followed by fishing again was annoying. Putting in so many hours on two skills where I don’t need to level isn’t a lot of fun. It’s fun in the name of competition and trying to help your team, but in the end where your work isn’t even counted, it lets the wind out of your sails a bit. So many teams had 0xp/hr with nothing counting, and we don’t even get credit for competing each week while getting all the required sessions in… blah.
Jagex’s stance of refusal to work with players has really ruined something that has potential. I don’t understand why they can’t just be open to players about what’s going on. Timbo was constantly late releasing information with no explanation whatsoever. Also when he stated the detailed information release date, and it came out about 5 days after that, he just claims “well I wasn’t in the office.” Listen, we get that, but we also put a lot of time into these things. A “I’m getting the detailed information together, but it looks like its going to take a bit. I’ll get to it as soon as I can” would be much better instead of giving us a timeline to rely on, then to break. The lack of even clearly defining the rules is a bit absurd. They’d really have to directly address a lot of issues before I think I’ll participate in it again.
I know some fellow bloggers out there make some money off of your sites. Some probably a decent amount, others maybe just a few bucks. I never have because I feel like it would change the content of this site. If money started being a motivator, it’d be like work. I’m pretty happy with that choice today. The city of brotherly love, where I reside has decided that everyone who makes money from blogging, needs to buy a $300 business permit in order to operate. So the guy that made say $11 dollars last year from advertising revenue on his site about say, where to find a good steak in the city has just been handed a bill. This isn’t something they are instating going forward, as if “if you’re going to make money you need to do this” which would let you reassess if you want to do it or not. This is an invoice, if you’ve made money with it in the past, now you have to pay. I’m sure I wouldn’t have made close to $300 with this site to cover the ridiculous cost of a business permit. I will say, if you ever wanted to find out a way to make freelance writers really pissed, really quick – this is the way to go.
The second XP weekend has been announced. I spent a ridiculous amount of planning for the last one and was rewarded pretty well for all the effort. What are my plans for this one? Nothing. I’m going on vacation to the other side of the country for a friend’s wedding. I’m a little relieved to be honest. I have a nice stack of herbs sitting in my bank leftover from when I got my Herblore up to 90. (I was originally holding off on leveling, but it was killing me just seeing them sit there) I’ll wait a few more days and sell them and some other Summoning seconds I have stored for a nice profit. I’ll plant my highest level tree seeds before because I’m sure I can log on for 10 mins to do the circus and tree run real quick. That will only take like 10 minutes. It’s nice not having to stress about it though. I’d probably just use the time doing Agility or Runecrafting or Hunting anyway. Working on the skills that are my lowest and really require no prepping.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Part square, part drape.
I've been a little all over the place lately. In the game and in real life. In real life I've been traveling and working non-stop. Probably 3-4 days home and 1.5 days off in the last several weeks.
In game, spotty hotel wireless connections kind of limit your activities. Each place is different though. I've learned I can do 1 and maybe 2 med dungeons before I'm sick of dungeoneering. I just don't have it in me to do it for hours on end. I like the idea of making everything you need, but just to start at zero all over again gets on my nerves after a while.
I've been getting some levels that I've been close to. I got 79 Hunting, 93 Attack, 91 Defense, 96 Hitpoints (I'll call it Constitution when they actually do something with it) and am working on 92 Crafting (so I can pot up for that 95 Crafting effigy in my bank) and 85 Slayer. I made it to 130cb lvl! I was pretty happy to see that flash up on screen.
I've come to the realization that I have no real need to level Construction at all. Other than to get levels of course, which I love. However, there's nothing I want that I'll say "I can't wait to get X Con lvl so I can..." Things are flatpacked. When I redid my house, I put mostly the highest level items in it so I could clear out some bankspace.
Still no update on what happened with the skilling jagex cup, completely disappointing. We were supposed to get additional information regarding all the other clans last wednesday or thursday, its now almost a week overdue. Can I say I'm surprised? Not really. To be honest I just thought they would release the name of the winning clan and nothing else. It's such a shame that a contest with such potential is so poorly run. Especially when minimal information is required from the mods. Simple questions like "Can we banked cooked fish?" Don't even get an answer until halfway through the week.
It's weird to relate, but its very similar to being an Eagles fan and having to listen to Andy Reid and Joe Banner do press conferences.
Closing in on 2200 total levels. 2194 at the moment. I feel like I log on more for the social aspect of the game at the moment. I think I'm waiting for a decent update to feel inspired about something. I did get my first ever abby demon task which was pretty exciting, then backed by an abby spectre task kinda takes the air out of those sails.
At the bottom of this blog where I'm supposed to tag it with labels it says "E.g. scooters, vacation" I feel like that would be so much cooler.
In game, spotty hotel wireless connections kind of limit your activities. Each place is different though. I've learned I can do 1 and maybe 2 med dungeons before I'm sick of dungeoneering. I just don't have it in me to do it for hours on end. I like the idea of making everything you need, but just to start at zero all over again gets on my nerves after a while.
I've been getting some levels that I've been close to. I got 79 Hunting, 93 Attack, 91 Defense, 96 Hitpoints (I'll call it Constitution when they actually do something with it) and am working on 92 Crafting (so I can pot up for that 95 Crafting effigy in my bank) and 85 Slayer. I made it to 130cb lvl! I was pretty happy to see that flash up on screen.
I've come to the realization that I have no real need to level Construction at all. Other than to get levels of course, which I love. However, there's nothing I want that I'll say "I can't wait to get X Con lvl so I can..." Things are flatpacked. When I redid my house, I put mostly the highest level items in it so I could clear out some bankspace.
Still no update on what happened with the skilling jagex cup, completely disappointing. We were supposed to get additional information regarding all the other clans last wednesday or thursday, its now almost a week overdue. Can I say I'm surprised? Not really. To be honest I just thought they would release the name of the winning clan and nothing else. It's such a shame that a contest with such potential is so poorly run. Especially when minimal information is required from the mods. Simple questions like "Can we banked cooked fish?" Don't even get an answer until halfway through the week.
It's weird to relate, but its very similar to being an Eagles fan and having to listen to Andy Reid and Joe Banner do press conferences.
Closing in on 2200 total levels. 2194 at the moment. I feel like I log on more for the social aspect of the game at the moment. I think I'm waiting for a decent update to feel inspired about something. I did get my first ever abby demon task which was pretty exciting, then backed by an abby spectre task kinda takes the air out of those sails.
At the bottom of this blog where I'm supposed to tag it with labels it says "E.g. scooters, vacation" I feel like that would be so much cooler.
Monday, August 2, 2010
No posts?
I haven’t had much to write about, to be honest. Work has me all over the place, so does the new house. I’m finding time to play, but mainly sedentary tasks.
I didn’t level for a long time. What was I doing? I bought 25k grimy irits. I cleaned them and stuffed them in vials. Riveting… I needed the downtime though, also when you rely on spotty hotel wireless for 2 straight weeks, it doesn’t really give you the opportunity to do anything daring. I
I made 15k super attacks which got me from 83 to 88 herblore. At that point I had 10k unfinished irit pots. That would be enough to get me to 90, but leaving me with 25k super attacks which sell for 700gp each. I decided to sell all the unfs, for about 3.1k each and bought 5k avantoe to make my super attacks into extremes. This would actually get more experience (1.1M opposed to 1M), as well as had some cash left over including extremes I can use later to make into overloads.
I’ve reached 89 herblore so far, with more than enough to get 90 in the bank. After that, I’ll assess the cash situation and see where we stand. My goal is to make 5k of each potion needed for overloads, letting the leveling come along with that. I just want to make a ton of potions I can use later, that should I reach the level, make into overloads that way I have a decent level, plus a stockpile of potions to use. I figure 5k overloads would keep me content for trips for a good amount of time.
I always say it, but when motivation strikes, you really have to run with it. I’m content to be sitting at W39 Castle Wars mixing potions for the time being. A few steps closer to all levels 90 (my year end goal). I should achieve 90 by the end of the day or tomorrow, depending on how much rl work/life I need to attend to.
It’s August 2nd, I’ve been waiting for the treasure trail updates all week. I’d think with the dungeoneering update, this one would be pretty basic. A few new items, a few new spots and boom, done. Maybe there’s more to it than I think. That or maybe the other updates took more attention than planned. Either way, I’m still looking forward to it.
I didn’t level for a long time. What was I doing? I bought 25k grimy irits. I cleaned them and stuffed them in vials. Riveting… I needed the downtime though, also when you rely on spotty hotel wireless for 2 straight weeks, it doesn’t really give you the opportunity to do anything daring. I
I made 15k super attacks which got me from 83 to 88 herblore. At that point I had 10k unfinished irit pots. That would be enough to get me to 90, but leaving me with 25k super attacks which sell for 700gp each. I decided to sell all the unfs, for about 3.1k each and bought 5k avantoe to make my super attacks into extremes. This would actually get more experience (1.1M opposed to 1M), as well as had some cash left over including extremes I can use later to make into overloads.
I’ve reached 89 herblore so far, with more than enough to get 90 in the bank. After that, I’ll assess the cash situation and see where we stand. My goal is to make 5k of each potion needed for overloads, letting the leveling come along with that. I just want to make a ton of potions I can use later, that should I reach the level, make into overloads that way I have a decent level, plus a stockpile of potions to use. I figure 5k overloads would keep me content for trips for a good amount of time.
I always say it, but when motivation strikes, you really have to run with it. I’m content to be sitting at W39 Castle Wars mixing potions for the time being. A few steps closer to all levels 90 (my year end goal). I should achieve 90 by the end of the day or tomorrow, depending on how much rl work/life I need to attend to.
It’s August 2nd, I’ve been waiting for the treasure trail updates all week. I’d think with the dungeoneering update, this one would be pretty basic. A few new items, a few new spots and boom, done. Maybe there’s more to it than I think. That or maybe the other updates took more attention than planned. Either way, I’m still looking forward to it.
Friday, July 16, 2010
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.
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.
Monday, July 5, 2010
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.
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.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Gathering, Definitely Not Hunting
I’ve been hoarding a bit recently. Mostly collecting items and not using them right away. It’s a combination of reasons to be honest. Partly, talk of another xp weekend is all over the forums. I have a feeling that this one will be a lot different so I’m not giving it much thought at the moment. I still think it might only deal with Daemonheim and therefore have nothing to do with the ‘outside world.’ The other is the Jagex Cup.
The Jagex Cup is something that came out last year, somewhat unexpectedly. It was announced on forums, but not on the main page. It’s basically a clan tournament where clans send a number of members to compete in combat and skilling competitions. I’m not much for PvP, but as a numbers cruncher kind of guy, I’ve been dying to participate on the skilling side of it. I didn’t have a chance to get a team together last year to participate and that actually bothered me a bit. I thought it was going to be a lot of fun, but a lot of friends seemed uninterested. It’s always disappointing when you’re looking forward to something, have a full friends list and can’t pull 5 people together to do something that doesn’t even require you to be online at the same time.
I know from reading about it that the cup had its number of flaws last time. However, my thoughts on pretty much everything (new phones, computers, televisions, etc), is that the first generation of anything is going to be flawed.
The skill is randomly drawn and announced for everyone to work on. This is where the hoarding comes in. Crafting? Sweet, I’ve been getting my staves daily but not making them. They’ve just been stockpiling. Summoning? Yeah, right. But “just in case” I’ve been making sure to do Bork daily as well as keeping up with Familiarisation. I wandered upon an obelisk last night in Hero’s Guild as I was charging glories. As soon as my time’s up I talk the guy into triple charms and head right for Waterfiends. When I actively seek an obelisk I make sure my inv and gear are already in place, but this was just random. (I also like to save charms for Summoning until I know I have enough for the level I want anyway, so that’s not a big deal.) Herblore? That’s alright, I’ve been doing herb runs every hour like a maniac.
To be honest, I’d love to see it be a resource skill like Woodcutting or Runecrafting.
I just go through phases as well. I seem to be in my ‘gathering’ phase at the moment.
I went to Abby Demons to try and get an effigy, 7 Bunyips later and I still haven’t gotten one. Or a whip, for that matter, but I can’t complain about that, I’ve had I think more than my share of those. I managed to get a decent amount of crimson charms and 92 Attack.
I also stocked up on gold ore so that getting my Smithing rocks would be a little easier. I managed to get to 85 Mining. Sweet! I can now mine rune! There weren’t any open/active ores and it was late so I still haven’t mined my first runite ore yet, but I will tonight.
I bought a TON of chins awhile back, managed to get 87 Ranged. I can not stand Range. I was at monkey skeletons and getting pretty decent xp (200xp up to even 400xp per chin, usually around the 320 area) but oh my god I want to rip my eyes out it is so boring. I tried switching it up and doing Nechrayls and Mummies because of their drops but its still painful. I like whacking stuff with my sword. I’ll try to do a little here and there, maybe in between farm runs, but if chin prices go up, I’ll gladly sell them back. I still want it to be at least 90 before the end of the year and I want to be better at it for Arma trips and Jad, its just one of those skills I’m not a big fan of.
I’m all out of Stealing Creation points & tools and my BA horn is now completely empty. There never seems to be enough hours in the day…
It’s the first day of summer. It’s also International Go Skateboarding Day. Get your board or borrow a board and go ride it! I’ll lend you my spare if you need it.
The Jagex Cup is something that came out last year, somewhat unexpectedly. It was announced on forums, but not on the main page. It’s basically a clan tournament where clans send a number of members to compete in combat and skilling competitions. I’m not much for PvP, but as a numbers cruncher kind of guy, I’ve been dying to participate on the skilling side of it. I didn’t have a chance to get a team together last year to participate and that actually bothered me a bit. I thought it was going to be a lot of fun, but a lot of friends seemed uninterested. It’s always disappointing when you’re looking forward to something, have a full friends list and can’t pull 5 people together to do something that doesn’t even require you to be online at the same time.
I know from reading about it that the cup had its number of flaws last time. However, my thoughts on pretty much everything (new phones, computers, televisions, etc), is that the first generation of anything is going to be flawed.
The skill is randomly drawn and announced for everyone to work on. This is where the hoarding comes in. Crafting? Sweet, I’ve been getting my staves daily but not making them. They’ve just been stockpiling. Summoning? Yeah, right. But “just in case” I’ve been making sure to do Bork daily as well as keeping up with Familiarisation. I wandered upon an obelisk last night in Hero’s Guild as I was charging glories. As soon as my time’s up I talk the guy into triple charms and head right for Waterfiends. When I actively seek an obelisk I make sure my inv and gear are already in place, but this was just random. (I also like to save charms for Summoning until I know I have enough for the level I want anyway, so that’s not a big deal.) Herblore? That’s alright, I’ve been doing herb runs every hour like a maniac.
To be honest, I’d love to see it be a resource skill like Woodcutting or Runecrafting.
I just go through phases as well. I seem to be in my ‘gathering’ phase at the moment.
I went to Abby Demons to try and get an effigy, 7 Bunyips later and I still haven’t gotten one. Or a whip, for that matter, but I can’t complain about that, I’ve had I think more than my share of those. I managed to get a decent amount of crimson charms and 92 Attack.
I also stocked up on gold ore so that getting my Smithing rocks would be a little easier. I managed to get to 85 Mining. Sweet! I can now mine rune! There weren’t any open/active ores and it was late so I still haven’t mined my first runite ore yet, but I will tonight.
I bought a TON of chins awhile back, managed to get 87 Ranged. I can not stand Range. I was at monkey skeletons and getting pretty decent xp (200xp up to even 400xp per chin, usually around the 320 area) but oh my god I want to rip my eyes out it is so boring. I tried switching it up and doing Nechrayls and Mummies because of their drops but its still painful. I like whacking stuff with my sword. I’ll try to do a little here and there, maybe in between farm runs, but if chin prices go up, I’ll gladly sell them back. I still want it to be at least 90 before the end of the year and I want to be better at it for Arma trips and Jad, its just one of those skills I’m not a big fan of.
I’m all out of Stealing Creation points & tools and my BA horn is now completely empty. There never seems to be enough hours in the day…
It’s the first day of summer. It’s also International Go Skateboarding Day. Get your board or borrow a board and go ride it! I’ll lend you my spare if you need it.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Neighbors!
I was bored at work and reading Avicile's blog (which frequently saves me from boredom at work, thank you for that!) and I saw she wrote about checking her Agility lvl on hiscores and how her and Jax were on the same page.
I found that pretty amusing. Things like that always intrigue me. It reminds me of when I lived in Manhattan and that in a city of about 10 million people, I'd randomly come across someone I went to high school with walking down the street. The odds are pretty astronomical, but despite that, it still happens.
I wondered if I was close to anyone. I popped on, checked out overall and look what I find:
Hi Vaskor! And only two spots apart too! That's crazy!
I found that pretty amusing. Things like that always intrigue me. It reminds me of when I lived in Manhattan and that in a city of about 10 million people, I'd randomly come across someone I went to high school with walking down the street. The odds are pretty astronomical, but despite that, it still happens.
I wondered if I was close to anyone. I popped on, checked out overall and look what I find:
Hi Vaskor! And only two spots apart too! That's crazy!
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Another xp weekend?
Mod Emilee confirmed it on RSOF that there will be more bonus xp weekends. No word yet of dates, time frames, or even how its going to be handled.
The last one had a lot of issues. The multiplier was wrong, announcing it a few weeks in advance caused the GE to go insane with herb and summoning second prices going through the roof. A lot of basic things were incredibly hard to get a hold of.
When this happens again, I think it'll go down a lot differently than last time. I've been thinking that they might just spring it on us. "BONUSXPWEEKENDGO!" In case, be constantly prepared. This would fight against all the GE price jacking which happened last time.
In thinking a little more about it, I came up with something new. What if bonus xp weekend was only 2x xp in Demonheim? Pretty much every skill is present there (Slayer?), everything is completely free, there's no cornering the market on seconds. On top of all that, its a great way to promote the new skill.
I also think this would even satisfy the ones who are against bonus xp weekends in general. There's so storing up and blowing through levels, instead its dragging every single resource out of every single dungeon. Making training Dung a little bit longer, but only a slight adjustment to other skills xp.
If it goes down like that, you heard it here first :)
What do you think?
The last one had a lot of issues. The multiplier was wrong, announcing it a few weeks in advance caused the GE to go insane with herb and summoning second prices going through the roof. A lot of basic things were incredibly hard to get a hold of.
When this happens again, I think it'll go down a lot differently than last time. I've been thinking that they might just spring it on us. "BONUSXPWEEKENDGO!" In case, be constantly prepared. This would fight against all the GE price jacking which happened last time.
In thinking a little more about it, I came up with something new. What if bonus xp weekend was only 2x xp in Demonheim? Pretty much every skill is present there (Slayer?), everything is completely free, there's no cornering the market on seconds. On top of all that, its a great way to promote the new skill.
I also think this would even satisfy the ones who are against bonus xp weekends in general. There's so storing up and blowing through levels, instead its dragging every single resource out of every single dungeon. Making training Dung a little bit longer, but only a slight adjustment to other skills xp.
If it goes down like that, you heard it here first :)
What do you think?
Friday, June 11, 2010
Sweetness
Finally got a split at Corporeal Beast. However, it wasn't the big one. Still though, my first Elixir split.
Some day those will be the really big numbers :)
I've grown to love Corp trips. You just need about 7 people, patience to world hop and you really risk a bare minimum if you gear up correctly. I think my risked wealth is around 70k. You can obviously go more expensive, but why bother if you don't have to?
Anyways, been getting my rocks again. I stopped by the fishing guild to use their bank and I noticed the Flinger guy outside. I hadn't done it in a while, so I pop in and there's 1 min to start. It took me a bit to get the combos worked out, I haven't done it in a long time. There's no way I'd be making the podium.
That's when I noticed something weird when I joined...
I was the only one there.
This couldn't be right, they expanded the amount of places the flinger guy hangs out at. On top of that, W39 is usually packed. But then it started, with just me. It was some sort of eerie post-apocalyptic version of the mini game.
I did alright:
Yes, yes I know, only one medal. Like I said, its been a while.
Anyways, I got to know what being on the top of the podium felt like. Kind of unfulfilling if there's no one to look out up. Or that there ever was a doubt of you winning to begin with.
I'm under 100k to a number of levels, so I should get those this weekend.
Congrats to the Blackhawks! Hated to see it, but great job. Now onto the World Cup!
And finally a plea, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE realize that I live in the USA, where the World Cup games are on in the AM and middle of the day. Please don't post any world cup spoilers on here, I'm recording the games until I get home from work to watch them. I'm trying to avoid all avenues of hearing about them until I watch. I don't care about any other sites, but I get these comments emailed to me. I'll love ya for it (not that I don't already!) Thanks!
Some day those will be the really big numbers :)
I've grown to love Corp trips. You just need about 7 people, patience to world hop and you really risk a bare minimum if you gear up correctly. I think my risked wealth is around 70k. You can obviously go more expensive, but why bother if you don't have to?
Anyways, been getting my rocks again. I stopped by the fishing guild to use their bank and I noticed the Flinger guy outside. I hadn't done it in a while, so I pop in and there's 1 min to start. It took me a bit to get the combos worked out, I haven't done it in a long time. There's no way I'd be making the podium.
That's when I noticed something weird when I joined...
I was the only one there.
This couldn't be right, they expanded the amount of places the flinger guy hangs out at. On top of that, W39 is usually packed. But then it started, with just me. It was some sort of eerie post-apocalyptic version of the mini game.
I did alright:
Yes, yes I know, only one medal. Like I said, its been a while.
Anyways, I got to know what being on the top of the podium felt like. Kind of unfulfilling if there's no one to look out up. Or that there ever was a doubt of you winning to begin with.
I'm under 100k to a number of levels, so I should get those this weekend.
Congrats to the Blackhawks! Hated to see it, but great job. Now onto the World Cup!
And finally a plea, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE realize that I live in the USA, where the World Cup games are on in the AM and middle of the day. Please don't post any world cup spoilers on here, I'm recording the games until I get home from work to watch them. I'm trying to avoid all avenues of hearing about them until I watch. I don't care about any other sites, but I get these comments emailed to me. I'll love ya for it (not that I don't already!) Thanks!
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Just saying...
Somtimes people say it better in names than others.
Whoever that guy is, his mind is in the right place.
Whoever that guy is, his mind is in the right place.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Blister
Vaskor's blog recently touched on the size of Gielinor and for how big it is, the amount of teleports makes it seem small.
It got me thinking, I wanted to see how big it was myself. I remember my first day of members (wayyy long ago, 5 years?) I passed through those taverly gates and just ran for what seemed ever. Hill Giants? What the heck are those?? :P
I thought I'd time it to see how long it takes from one end of the map to the other. I figured I'd start at Scarabites and then the destination was up in the air. After a few map consults, I figured the best was to go diagonal and end up at the northwest corner of Piscatoris. That incorporates a little more. Lletya is just a straight shot west and to be honest, I hate walking through that area.
I thought this would be a lot more interesting than it turned out to be. I thought I'd maybe stumble across a star, and evil tree, maybe a penguin, and interesting imp or two, at the very least some interesting conversations. Maybe its an off day, but I came across none of those. I tried talking to people I'd come across, but no responses.
Anyways, how long does it take? Keep in mind, I walked, didn't run. The result:
In other news, got eliminated from Survivor the week before the final week. That's ok. Got some amazing levels out of it. Went from 77-91 Thieving. Didn't get a screen shot of 91, but here's what 90 looks like:
I have to try that bribing thing, looks like you can make some decent cash as well as decent xp.
Now that I don't have to keep pressing with Thieving, I checked out somethings. A friend told me that chins were at a record low, apparently they are. I bought a ton of them being that I really don't like Range, but need to get it higher. Trying to get everything 90+ (except Dungeoneering) by the end of the year isn't far off. I managed 84-86 by chinning monkey bones at ape in a few hours. I've been doing it at Nechs in the Chaos Tunnels now. Less xp, but decent drops to offset the cost as well as a good amount of charm drops.
Finally made settlement on my house last week. It's kept me busy and away from the game a bit, but all that work feels pretty awesome, to be honest.
Happy Memorial Day to everyone who's served and Happy Birthday Clint Eastwood! (Fistful of Dollars/A Few Dollars More/The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, Hang em High marathon on TCM is amazing!)
It got me thinking, I wanted to see how big it was myself. I remember my first day of members (wayyy long ago, 5 years?) I passed through those taverly gates and just ran for what seemed ever. Hill Giants? What the heck are those?? :P
I thought I'd time it to see how long it takes from one end of the map to the other. I figured I'd start at Scarabites and then the destination was up in the air. After a few map consults, I figured the best was to go diagonal and end up at the northwest corner of Piscatoris. That incorporates a little more. Lletya is just a straight shot west and to be honest, I hate walking through that area.
I thought this would be a lot more interesting than it turned out to be. I thought I'd maybe stumble across a star, and evil tree, maybe a penguin, and interesting imp or two, at the very least some interesting conversations. Maybe its an off day, but I came across none of those. I tried talking to people I'd come across, but no responses.
Anyways, how long does it take? Keep in mind, I walked, didn't run. The result:
In other news, got eliminated from Survivor the week before the final week. That's ok. Got some amazing levels out of it. Went from 77-91 Thieving. Didn't get a screen shot of 91, but here's what 90 looks like:
I have to try that bribing thing, looks like you can make some decent cash as well as decent xp.
Now that I don't have to keep pressing with Thieving, I checked out somethings. A friend told me that chins were at a record low, apparently they are. I bought a ton of them being that I really don't like Range, but need to get it higher. Trying to get everything 90+ (except Dungeoneering) by the end of the year isn't far off. I managed 84-86 by chinning monkey bones at ape in a few hours. I've been doing it at Nechs in the Chaos Tunnels now. Less xp, but decent drops to offset the cost as well as a good amount of charm drops.
Finally made settlement on my house last week. It's kept me busy and away from the game a bit, but all that work feels pretty awesome, to be honest.
Happy Memorial Day to everyone who's served and Happy Birthday Clint Eastwood! (Fistful of Dollars/A Few Dollars More/The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, Hang em High marathon on TCM is amazing!)
Monday, May 10, 2010
Going Rogue
TCA's survivor competition still goes on and I'm still hanging in there. I use this as an excuse to train skills I normally don't because any motivation is good motivation.
It's how I got my Firemaking cape. Since that, I've been Thieving. I'm actually, dare I say it, enjoying it. As you get more levels, the experience comes quicker and its amazing how quick you get it. I'm averaging between 12k-13k per run at Pyramid Plunder now.
One thing that I've always wanted was the Rogue outfit from the Rogue's Den maze minigame. I had attempted this several times before and it is NOT easy. Or fun. More, incredibly frustrating. You labor for a while going all the way around this spiral trying to get to the middle and its filled with a ton of traps. Trigger just one, and you have to start all over again.
I had never made it to the center before, even with using a map. Even if you get to the middle and go to loot the safe, instead of giving you a reward, it might spring a trap and you'll have nothing and have to start all over again.
However, at 80 you can use a pretty sweet shortcut. I needed a break from the Pyramid and since I've made it up to 83 Thieving so far, I thought I might as well try it. The first couple of times were rough, but once I got it down, I was breezing through with it taking me about 3 mins from start to finish per run. No wonder why no one does this, the xp is TERRIBLE. I would get about 360xp in each Agility and Thieving each run. It took me about 2.5-3 hours to get it all put I love the way it looks for the full outfit.
This is the outfit I've been plundering in since I got it. I had thought it'd be like Temple Trekking for the Lumberjack outfit, this seemed to go faster. The mask was the last part of it. I ended up with 4 pants, 3 gloves, 1 boots, 2 tops and one mask.
Say what you will about the Ring of Wealth. I know it shouldn't work. However, I put it on in a whim last week and I got a Pharaoh Sceptre. I've kept it on and I just got my second sceptre. Sheer luck? I'm sure of it, but I'm not going to mess with a good thing.
I FINALLY got a Farming rock from a herbrun. Was my 43rd lap around the patches. Still waiting on the second one. Up to run 49 now. This is ridiculous.
It's how I got my Firemaking cape. Since that, I've been Thieving. I'm actually, dare I say it, enjoying it. As you get more levels, the experience comes quicker and its amazing how quick you get it. I'm averaging between 12k-13k per run at Pyramid Plunder now.
One thing that I've always wanted was the Rogue outfit from the Rogue's Den maze minigame. I had attempted this several times before and it is NOT easy. Or fun. More, incredibly frustrating. You labor for a while going all the way around this spiral trying to get to the middle and its filled with a ton of traps. Trigger just one, and you have to start all over again.
I had never made it to the center before, even with using a map. Even if you get to the middle and go to loot the safe, instead of giving you a reward, it might spring a trap and you'll have nothing and have to start all over again.
However, at 80 you can use a pretty sweet shortcut. I needed a break from the Pyramid and since I've made it up to 83 Thieving so far, I thought I might as well try it. The first couple of times were rough, but once I got it down, I was breezing through with it taking me about 3 mins from start to finish per run. No wonder why no one does this, the xp is TERRIBLE. I would get about 360xp in each Agility and Thieving each run. It took me about 2.5-3 hours to get it all put I love the way it looks for the full outfit.
This is the outfit I've been plundering in since I got it. I had thought it'd be like Temple Trekking for the Lumberjack outfit, this seemed to go faster. The mask was the last part of it. I ended up with 4 pants, 3 gloves, 1 boots, 2 tops and one mask.
Say what you will about the Ring of Wealth. I know it shouldn't work. However, I put it on in a whim last week and I got a Pharaoh Sceptre. I've kept it on and I just got my second sceptre. Sheer luck? I'm sure of it, but I'm not going to mess with a good thing.
I FINALLY got a Farming rock from a herbrun. Was my 43rd lap around the patches. Still waiting on the second one. Up to run 49 now. This is ridiculous.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Plundering Pyramids, Batman
TCA’s Survivor competition plows on and I’m still alive. Using the penance horn, it was pretty easy to get a lot of Firemaking experience. I got that to 99 and so that’s over with. The main reason I like this contest is that I use it as an excuse to train the skills I’m not that big of a fan of. I took a look at my lowest skills – Agility, Thieving and Hunter. Agility would keep up the streak of doing Barb Assault and using the horn, but I lost my Ninja Greegree. No idea how. I have every other one but that, and I know I had it a few weeks ago. Its such a pain to get back, ugh. Hunter means competition for spots so blah, Thieving it is.
Spent a few hours at Pyramid Plunder yesterday. I was a little rusty, but then got into a nice rhythm. Got that up to 79, can’t wait for 80 for the Rogue’s Den shortcut and then 81 for the new room at PP. I also took the time to do all the capers to get my Thieving Guild all set up. If you use the chests that give 4 Hanky Points, it goes pretty quick. It’s a nice little bonus, but I can’t see myself staying there any longer than the 5 mins to get the points and cash in. There seems to be a lot of useless rooms in there, hopefully they’ll do something with it in the future.
I’ve been doing 1 or 2 Dungeons a night. I’ve figured out that’s my perfect tolerance level. I use it as a break for whatever it is I’m doing. I PM’d my friend and she said she was up for one. Thank god she was with me, the very first room required 95 Construction and 93 Mining to get out of. She could open both of those, but then we uselessly kicked the 105 Runecrafting door. You’ve got to be kidding me with those requirements for one dungeon. It was only lvl 14. Cut us a little slack at least.
We still got to the boss despite the RC door. It was the first time I got to fight a… (*googles ‘dungeoneering bosses’*) Bulwark Beast. I got another volume of notes. I’m wondering if they’ll add up to something decent. At least have the story entertain me, that’s all I want. Getting a paragraph at a time over the course of hours, I can’t remember what they’ve said to put a cohesive storyline together.
So we finished that one and did another before I crashed to sleep. Up to 40 Dungeoneering now. Having a level required door, which you can’t open, stand in your way is pretty decent motivation to go do that skill.
Also, I’m giving up on the strange rock statue. I’ve now done 31 herb runs without a single rock. Before you say it – yes, I checked the statue and still need the Farming rock.
I added Kitt's new blog (The World Portal) as well as Vandyballer's to the blog list on the right. Which is kind of amusing, because I read both of them regularly and I just never noticed I hadn't put them up there. Sorry guys!
Spent a few hours at Pyramid Plunder yesterday. I was a little rusty, but then got into a nice rhythm. Got that up to 79, can’t wait for 80 for the Rogue’s Den shortcut and then 81 for the new room at PP. I also took the time to do all the capers to get my Thieving Guild all set up. If you use the chests that give 4 Hanky Points, it goes pretty quick. It’s a nice little bonus, but I can’t see myself staying there any longer than the 5 mins to get the points and cash in. There seems to be a lot of useless rooms in there, hopefully they’ll do something with it in the future.
I’ve been doing 1 or 2 Dungeons a night. I’ve figured out that’s my perfect tolerance level. I use it as a break for whatever it is I’m doing. I PM’d my friend and she said she was up for one. Thank god she was with me, the very first room required 95 Construction and 93 Mining to get out of. She could open both of those, but then we uselessly kicked the 105 Runecrafting door. You’ve got to be kidding me with those requirements for one dungeon. It was only lvl 14. Cut us a little slack at least.
We still got to the boss despite the RC door. It was the first time I got to fight a… (*googles ‘dungeoneering bosses’*) Bulwark Beast. I got another volume of notes. I’m wondering if they’ll add up to something decent. At least have the story entertain me, that’s all I want. Getting a paragraph at a time over the course of hours, I can’t remember what they’ve said to put a cohesive storyline together.
So we finished that one and did another before I crashed to sleep. Up to 40 Dungeoneering now. Having a level required door, which you can’t open, stand in your way is pretty decent motivation to go do that skill.
Also, I’m giving up on the strange rock statue. I’ve now done 31 herb runs without a single rock. Before you say it – yes, I checked the statue and still need the Farming rock.
I added Kitt's new blog (The World Portal) as well as Vandyballer's to the blog list on the right. Which is kind of amusing, because I read both of them regularly and I just never noticed I hadn't put them up there. Sorry guys!
Sunday, April 25, 2010
99 Firemaking!
Got over 1m xp in just a matter of hours. Fire gloves + fire ring + horn + euchs = roughly 11k xp per inventory and 397xp each log.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Geoneering
I hate calling the new skill "Dung." Does "Geoneering" work?
I've been busy, life has been crazy. I tried out the new skill a bunch of times now and its alright. I'm kind of done with it for the time being. I think its a great distraction though. My issues with it are more personal than with the skill itself.
I hate to say it, but voice chat ruins the game for me. It's a great thing when you can be a part of it, however, you can't always be a part of it. Most of my friends use skype. My computer limits me to either playing RS or using skype. That said, I usually play the game. Dungeoneering is like godwars in my opinion, communication is the key to it. When you're the only one who isn't in on the communication aspect of it, it gets incredibly frustrating. Seeing friends stand in seemingly science, then get upset at you for not doing what you should be doing, when not a word is even said, isn't a fun way to play the game.
It also doesn't help that most of my friends have a much higher dungeoneering level than I do. When I go with them in a group, not only do I not know what they're talking about, how they're organizing, etc; I don't know what's going on and its mostly assumed that I do.
Assumptions kill me. It's so frustrating. Please don't assume I know what I'm doing, because I usually don't. The room you're talking to everyone on voice chat, tell me to join into, then get upset at me because I don't know what's going on when I've repeatedly mentioned I've never seen that room before while everyone talks about it on voice chat and plans it, but in-game seemingly everyone is dead silent, isn't fun.
This brings me to another aspect; multiplayer requirements are not that fun for me. I love skilling and playing with other people, however, being dependent on others isn't really my thing. Not that I don't love my in game friends, its just that I'm kind of independent. I like to do my own thing. I'll do my own thing with friends, but I just don't like having to depend on anyone.
That said, I'm taking a break from that skill for a while. If people I know who aren't on voice chat are doing it, I'll gladly join (Jax, I'm looking in your direction), but otherwise, I hate feeling like the odd man out.
Our Survivor competition will more thank likely get me to 99 Firemaking this coming week. I'm pretty excited about that. I love the orange cape as well as the emote!
Jagex announced Runefest. Seems like an adult get together in London for RS fans. I really want to go. Actually that's an understatement. The opportunity to hang out with RS fans IRL, have a pint and hang out with developers sounds ideal. Sadly, it comes at pretty much the worst weekend it can. I have a wedding the weekend before, and another the weekend after on the other side of the USA, on top of having settlement on my house in 4 weeks, funds are tight. Plus I think I might be going to Ireland in June. I'm kind of stretching it thin.
I strongly suggest anyone in England go though, and let me know how it is. England's a small country, its like Pennsylvania :) It would be worth the drive. I've only ever met one RS player in real life and it was a great time and she was pretty amazing. I'd love to meet more and just have a drink and relax with the ones I usually talk to.
Anyways, back to skilling and not getting rocks (18th herb run and still not a single rock).
Go Phillies!
I've been busy, life has been crazy. I tried out the new skill a bunch of times now and its alright. I'm kind of done with it for the time being. I think its a great distraction though. My issues with it are more personal than with the skill itself.
I hate to say it, but voice chat ruins the game for me. It's a great thing when you can be a part of it, however, you can't always be a part of it. Most of my friends use skype. My computer limits me to either playing RS or using skype. That said, I usually play the game. Dungeoneering is like godwars in my opinion, communication is the key to it. When you're the only one who isn't in on the communication aspect of it, it gets incredibly frustrating. Seeing friends stand in seemingly science, then get upset at you for not doing what you should be doing, when not a word is even said, isn't a fun way to play the game.
It also doesn't help that most of my friends have a much higher dungeoneering level than I do. When I go with them in a group, not only do I not know what they're talking about, how they're organizing, etc; I don't know what's going on and its mostly assumed that I do.
Assumptions kill me. It's so frustrating. Please don't assume I know what I'm doing, because I usually don't. The room you're talking to everyone on voice chat, tell me to join into, then get upset at me because I don't know what's going on when I've repeatedly mentioned I've never seen that room before while everyone talks about it on voice chat and plans it, but in-game seemingly everyone is dead silent, isn't fun.
This brings me to another aspect; multiplayer requirements are not that fun for me. I love skilling and playing with other people, however, being dependent on others isn't really my thing. Not that I don't love my in game friends, its just that I'm kind of independent. I like to do my own thing. I'll do my own thing with friends, but I just don't like having to depend on anyone.
That said, I'm taking a break from that skill for a while. If people I know who aren't on voice chat are doing it, I'll gladly join (Jax, I'm looking in your direction), but otherwise, I hate feeling like the odd man out.
Our Survivor competition will more thank likely get me to 99 Firemaking this coming week. I'm pretty excited about that. I love the orange cape as well as the emote!
Jagex announced Runefest. Seems like an adult get together in London for RS fans. I really want to go. Actually that's an understatement. The opportunity to hang out with RS fans IRL, have a pint and hang out with developers sounds ideal. Sadly, it comes at pretty much the worst weekend it can. I have a wedding the weekend before, and another the weekend after on the other side of the USA, on top of having settlement on my house in 4 weeks, funds are tight. Plus I think I might be going to Ireland in June. I'm kind of stretching it thin.
I strongly suggest anyone in England go though, and let me know how it is. England's a small country, its like Pennsylvania :) It would be worth the drive. I've only ever met one RS player in real life and it was a great time and she was pretty amazing. I'd love to meet more and just have a drink and relax with the ones I usually talk to.
Anyways, back to skilling and not getting rocks (18th herb run and still not a single rock).
Go Phillies!
Friday, April 16, 2010
Metropoliscape
Where to even start? Got back from my cruise to the Caribbean. Was nice, don't think I can do that again though. Didn't get seasick or anything, it was just disorienting at times. Great weather and fun with friends though.
Work's had me busy lately as well, which is good. I managed to get my 99 Strength at the same time as a friend, which was fun. We got the level by pulling sharks out of the water barehanded at Catherby.
The new skill was released, Dungeoneering. I'm a little on the fence with it. My main complaints are it being multiplayer (yes, I know you can solo too), the prestige system, and the repetitiveness of it.
I like that its an interesting way to train all your skills. All inefficiently, but I guess that's good if you log on and have no idea what to work on.
The multiplayer thing I don't really like. I have no problem requiring a team to go to godwars, do some minigames, etc. However, when I want to work on a skill, I don't like that the xp I get is dependent upon other people. Yes I know PC, SW, etc are basically the same, however those aren't the only ways to train those skills you get xp in.
I've read the Prestige system several times and I still don't get it. How am I getting 0 prestige on a room I've never even been in before? My first few levels it was 0. I don't get how its 0 if I've never even been in the dungeon before. Most of the player explanations use other games such as Call of Duty to explain it. Well, great... I've never played that. This is the only game I play, unless you want to count Brickbreaker on my Blackberry.
The repetitiveness I'm hoping gets better. Right now its run around various rooms for an hour, mine, smelt, make armor, fight a boss, repeat. I was hoping for some more mentally challenging aspects of it. So far the only one that was interesting was arming statues to fight their counterparts with the appropriate combat technique.
I'm dating myself with this, but did anyone out there ever play Adventure? It's a video game from when I was a kid. You were basically a dot who ran from room to room in a castle looking for certain colored keys to open certain doors. There were also weapons you would have to find in order to kill the dragons guarding it. When you completed a level, you moved on to the next castle, where you would do the same thing, just a little bit harder.
The first thing I thought of while working on this skill was that it seemed like an updated version of that game.
I'm kind of bummed, I was really looking forward to the skill but it just seems like a time trap providing very little xp and little rewards. I'll wait though. Summoning had its issues when it was first released as well. They were tweaked after a few weeks of release. Hunting and Construction had some as well after their releases. I'm sure this will as well.
I think I'll like it once I get over the initial disappointment and try to convince myself that I'm doing a fun activity, not trying to train a skill. My mind works in two ways when playing. There's 'get xp' mode and there's 'minigame for fun, godwars bosses, hanging out' mode. The fact that they're trying to merge the two is making my mind explode.
Also the ores is driving me crazy. Couldn't we just have kept addy, rune, etc? The new names, trying to look up which is better, realizing I used the crappy ore to make a platebody and the good one to make gauntlets, is confusing. The names of the ores seem similar as well, adding to it.
One thing that looks promising is that this skill goes up to level 120. I love this because I believe this is a sign that other skills will follow suit. Some might complain about this, saying its too high, but I never understood the cap of 99 when you can get up to 200M xp in a skill. I know people are protective of their capes and the 99s they earned, which is still a great accomplishment, but it means more content will be added. With a new skill released say, every 2 years (just a guess), you eventually catch up to the game. Adding new content at say lvl 60 doesn't do much when you've got the highest level already. This isn't coming from someone saying their too high for new content, don't get me wrong. I just mean that if you've played for a number of years, and continue to play for a few more years, you eventually run out of levels to get if you're someone who does every aspect of the game.
Think of it as a a city. Eventually all the buildings get filled with residents. You can expand laterally by building an entire new building which takes years to execute (new skill), or you have the option of expanding vertically to the buildings which already exist. This still takes time, however much less since the foundation and existing structure are already in place.
I had openly wondered about the 200M xp cap as well. Someone pointed out that it was probably a server space issue when the game was in its early years. That makes complete sense. At the time, the buildings could only get so high. However, we've now got the technology to make them bigger.
Americans, I hope you got your taxes done! :)
Work's had me busy lately as well, which is good. I managed to get my 99 Strength at the same time as a friend, which was fun. We got the level by pulling sharks out of the water barehanded at Catherby.
The new skill was released, Dungeoneering. I'm a little on the fence with it. My main complaints are it being multiplayer (yes, I know you can solo too), the prestige system, and the repetitiveness of it.
I like that its an interesting way to train all your skills. All inefficiently, but I guess that's good if you log on and have no idea what to work on.
The multiplayer thing I don't really like. I have no problem requiring a team to go to godwars, do some minigames, etc. However, when I want to work on a skill, I don't like that the xp I get is dependent upon other people. Yes I know PC, SW, etc are basically the same, however those aren't the only ways to train those skills you get xp in.
I've read the Prestige system several times and I still don't get it. How am I getting 0 prestige on a room I've never even been in before? My first few levels it was 0. I don't get how its 0 if I've never even been in the dungeon before. Most of the player explanations use other games such as Call of Duty to explain it. Well, great... I've never played that. This is the only game I play, unless you want to count Brickbreaker on my Blackberry.
The repetitiveness I'm hoping gets better. Right now its run around various rooms for an hour, mine, smelt, make armor, fight a boss, repeat. I was hoping for some more mentally challenging aspects of it. So far the only one that was interesting was arming statues to fight their counterparts with the appropriate combat technique.
I'm dating myself with this, but did anyone out there ever play Adventure? It's a video game from when I was a kid. You were basically a dot who ran from room to room in a castle looking for certain colored keys to open certain doors. There were also weapons you would have to find in order to kill the dragons guarding it. When you completed a level, you moved on to the next castle, where you would do the same thing, just a little bit harder.
The first thing I thought of while working on this skill was that it seemed like an updated version of that game.
I'm kind of bummed, I was really looking forward to the skill but it just seems like a time trap providing very little xp and little rewards. I'll wait though. Summoning had its issues when it was first released as well. They were tweaked after a few weeks of release. Hunting and Construction had some as well after their releases. I'm sure this will as well.
I think I'll like it once I get over the initial disappointment and try to convince myself that I'm doing a fun activity, not trying to train a skill. My mind works in two ways when playing. There's 'get xp' mode and there's 'minigame for fun, godwars bosses, hanging out' mode. The fact that they're trying to merge the two is making my mind explode.
Also the ores is driving me crazy. Couldn't we just have kept addy, rune, etc? The new names, trying to look up which is better, realizing I used the crappy ore to make a platebody and the good one to make gauntlets, is confusing. The names of the ores seem similar as well, adding to it.
One thing that looks promising is that this skill goes up to level 120. I love this because I believe this is a sign that other skills will follow suit. Some might complain about this, saying its too high, but I never understood the cap of 99 when you can get up to 200M xp in a skill. I know people are protective of their capes and the 99s they earned, which is still a great accomplishment, but it means more content will be added. With a new skill released say, every 2 years (just a guess), you eventually catch up to the game. Adding new content at say lvl 60 doesn't do much when you've got the highest level already. This isn't coming from someone saying their too high for new content, don't get me wrong. I just mean that if you've played for a number of years, and continue to play for a few more years, you eventually run out of levels to get if you're someone who does every aspect of the game.
Think of it as a a city. Eventually all the buildings get filled with residents. You can expand laterally by building an entire new building which takes years to execute (new skill), or you have the option of expanding vertically to the buildings which already exist. This still takes time, however much less since the foundation and existing structure are already in place.
I had openly wondered about the 200M xp cap as well. Someone pointed out that it was probably a server space issue when the game was in its early years. That makes complete sense. At the time, the buildings could only get so high. However, we've now got the technology to make them bigger.
Americans, I hope you got your taxes done! :)
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
They Keep Pulling Me Back In
Finally finished off my Blue Dragon task. It left me a few kxp from a Range level. I walked out of the dungeon to get a new task from Kuradel. I was hoping for something fun, I still haven't even seen a strykwyrm yet (unless you count watching Dune). I see an assignment with lots of T's and Z's in it, and the option...
I've been meaning to go back to face Jad at somepoint. I really want that firecape. Here's my excuse to try again.
I've tried about 9 times total now. Excluding just getting to the 360 for the Karamja Diary and the first time, I've made it to Jad each time. The waves aren't even an issue anymore. Its just that prayer switching that always gets me then boom, dead.
I didn't know what to train range on so I killed some Dusties to get 84 Range. It's really one of my least favorite skills. It's just so incredibly slow.
I'm not going to start doing waves just yet. The time commitment is one thing. I want to be able to start and do it beginning to end. I think logging out between waves kind of messes up your rhythm. I'll try to get to that this weekend hopefully.
Full of Pie's birthday is Saturday, which is awesome because mine is the following Tuesday. Go Aries! She's having a party, I'd love to try and make it to, but real life is going to be hectic for me the next two weeks. But check it out here:
I'm about 240k from 99 Strength. It'll be my first combat 99. It's weird to think about. I remember the tradition used to be that when you got 99 Strength you drop your dragon scimitar. I'll take one, drop it on the ground and then pick it back up again (I NEED that for Barb Assault!).
This week is a little busy and next week will be too. I'm taking a short vacation at the end of next week (Bahamas! Cruise!) so I might not be around for a little. Blogging at least. I'll try, just giving a heads up.
Speaking of which, has ANYONE seen or heard from Vaskor?
I've been meaning to go back to face Jad at somepoint. I really want that firecape. Here's my excuse to try again.
I've tried about 9 times total now. Excluding just getting to the 360 for the Karamja Diary and the first time, I've made it to Jad each time. The waves aren't even an issue anymore. Its just that prayer switching that always gets me then boom, dead.
I didn't know what to train range on so I killed some Dusties to get 84 Range. It's really one of my least favorite skills. It's just so incredibly slow.
I'm not going to start doing waves just yet. The time commitment is one thing. I want to be able to start and do it beginning to end. I think logging out between waves kind of messes up your rhythm. I'll try to get to that this weekend hopefully.
Full of Pie's birthday is Saturday, which is awesome because mine is the following Tuesday. Go Aries! She's having a party, I'd love to try and make it to, but real life is going to be hectic for me the next two weeks. But check it out here:
I'm about 240k from 99 Strength. It'll be my first combat 99. It's weird to think about. I remember the tradition used to be that when you got 99 Strength you drop your dragon scimitar. I'll take one, drop it on the ground and then pick it back up again (I NEED that for Barb Assault!).
This week is a little busy and next week will be too. I'm taking a short vacation at the end of next week (Bahamas! Cruise!) so I might not be around for a little. Blogging at least. I'll try, just giving a heads up.
Speaking of which, has ANYONE seen or heard from Vaskor?
Monday, March 22, 2010
Runescape Gods Exposed
I'm probably late to the game in viewing these, but I stumbled across these on youtube last night and thought they were pretty hilarious. I'm clueless when it comes to making game videos, so it always amazes me when I see ones that are really well done.
So, enjoy!
So, enjoy!
Monday, March 15, 2010
Ok, Breathe
XP weekend is over. I'm not sure if we'll get to see another one based off of the overwhelmingly negative response on RSOF. I think it was a pretty fun time. The real key to this weekend really was in the planning.
Tweaking my tree checking route with a few dry runs allowed me to check all 12 of my trees with the 2.7xp bonus, tagging the last one about a second before it dropped to 2.5. All after completing the circus as well.
The end results:
I'm close to a Magic and Ranged level. Went from 82-84 Farming, 80-86 Summoning (so close to that unicorn, but so blasted far as well) and 76-81 Herblore. I managed to get everything done in the time I figured it would (tree run and circus going MUCH faster than I guessed) and I used my last gold charm just as the counter hit 1.2. It was pretty insane seeing 950,000 bonus xp in just an hour. I didn't even stop to read the level up messages, just kept going because I didn't want to waste any time.
I was pretty burned out by then. I didn't use much of the 1.2 or 1.1 bonus like I thought I would. Did a few Runecrafting runs, but nothing major. Lots of real life things got in the way most of Saturday and Sunday. I'm glad I got the majority of it Friday night.
New F2P quest released today. I think I might actually hop to a F2P world to do it. Should be interesting.
Tweaking my tree checking route with a few dry runs allowed me to check all 12 of my trees with the 2.7xp bonus, tagging the last one about a second before it dropped to 2.5. All after completing the circus as well.
The end results:
I'm close to a Magic and Ranged level. Went from 82-84 Farming, 80-86 Summoning (so close to that unicorn, but so blasted far as well) and 76-81 Herblore. I managed to get everything done in the time I figured it would (tree run and circus going MUCH faster than I guessed) and I used my last gold charm just as the counter hit 1.2. It was pretty insane seeing 950,000 bonus xp in just an hour. I didn't even stop to read the level up messages, just kept going because I didn't want to waste any time.
I was pretty burned out by then. I didn't use much of the 1.2 or 1.1 bonus like I thought I would. Did a few Runecrafting runs, but nothing major. Lots of real life things got in the way most of Saturday and Sunday. I'm glad I got the majority of it Friday night.
New F2P quest released today. I think I might actually hop to a F2P world to do it. Should be interesting.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
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.
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.
Monday, March 8, 2010
All Trekked Out
First off, I have to say congrats to Full of Pie on her 99 Agility. Check out her post here, along with the most adorable looking ‘cake’ ever.
Real life rewards for in-game accomplishments are always fun. Two years ago when I got my fishing cape, I treated myself to a pretty sweet pair of Nike Dunks that I designed to be two shades of blue with gold highlights. I’ll post a pic when I get home and find them.
Ok so… Temple Trekking for charms… Yeah…
I am probably the unluckiest person when it comes to Temple Trekking. I spent 10 hours doing it this weekend. I got full lumberjack and decided that was my cue to give it up. In 10 hours I managed to amass 10 Lumberjack Boots, 4 Lumberjack Hats, 2 legs and 1 top. This was just a side product of what I really wanted, which was charms. Total charms amassed in 10 hours? Drumroll please... 20. 20 freaking charms. What else did I manage to get? Lots of bogs. I think I broke a record when I got the bog on 7 STRAIGHT treks. I also managed to come upon a 17 square bog path.
I mean, really? That’s just downright mean. Once I got the Lumberjack Top, I gave up. Well, for 10 hours I have almost an inventory for Summoning. >.<
Nothing too much else accomplished. I fished sharks in Catherby for about an hour trying to get those rocks for Shattered Heart. Someone mentioned switching to Piscatoris. When I did that, I got one before I even caught my first monk. So if you’re wondering a good way to get it, Piscatoris is the way to go. While there I did a few lines of Firemaking for those stones. Went to Edge to smith some gold ore for the Smithing stones. That was a rough one. I got the first one alright but the second took forever. I finally got it on my second to last ore. From there I sat in my house and got the Construction stones. I cashed all those in and got some decent xp.
That was pretty much it for the weekend. It was good to get to hang out with Merch Gwyar and Warloc for a while at least. Temple Trekking is actually pretty fun, and made even better with friends. As for now, back to prepping for xp week. Which means cutting granite. Fun.
I’m half tempted to change my name to Full of Bog.
Real life rewards for in-game accomplishments are always fun. Two years ago when I got my fishing cape, I treated myself to a pretty sweet pair of Nike Dunks that I designed to be two shades of blue with gold highlights. I’ll post a pic when I get home and find them.
Ok so… Temple Trekking for charms… Yeah…
I am probably the unluckiest person when it comes to Temple Trekking. I spent 10 hours doing it this weekend. I got full lumberjack and decided that was my cue to give it up. In 10 hours I managed to amass 10 Lumberjack Boots, 4 Lumberjack Hats, 2 legs and 1 top. This was just a side product of what I really wanted, which was charms. Total charms amassed in 10 hours? Drumroll please... 20. 20 freaking charms. What else did I manage to get? Lots of bogs. I think I broke a record when I got the bog on 7 STRAIGHT treks. I also managed to come upon a 17 square bog path.
I mean, really? That’s just downright mean. Once I got the Lumberjack Top, I gave up. Well, for 10 hours I have almost an inventory for Summoning. >.<
Nothing too much else accomplished. I fished sharks in Catherby for about an hour trying to get those rocks for Shattered Heart. Someone mentioned switching to Piscatoris. When I did that, I got one before I even caught my first monk. So if you’re wondering a good way to get it, Piscatoris is the way to go. While there I did a few lines of Firemaking for those stones. Went to Edge to smith some gold ore for the Smithing stones. That was a rough one. I got the first one alright but the second took forever. I finally got it on my second to last ore. From there I sat in my house and got the Construction stones. I cashed all those in and got some decent xp.
That was pretty much it for the weekend. It was good to get to hang out with Merch Gwyar and Warloc for a while at least. Temple Trekking is actually pretty fun, and made even better with friends. As for now, back to prepping for xp week. Which means cutting granite. Fun.
I’m half tempted to change my name to Full of Bog.
Friday, March 5, 2010
I'm Just an Escort
I read Merch Gwyar’s post on finding a pattern to Talon Beast charms and thought I’d give it a shot. Wow. I haven’t done this in years and I am *terrible* at it. I switched to world 83 and started escorting people back and forth. This didn’t start off too well. First, I forgot a hatchet. Then I forgot the knife. Then I forgot my flail, which turns out I never needed anyway. Numerous failed attempts left me stranded in the swamp, my second least favorite place on the runescape map (elf lands is the current leader of that). I had been at it about an hour and was starting to get frustrated. Luckily this is when Merch appeared out of thin air, right in front of me.
She helped me get sorted out, fixing my inventory, telling me about snake hides and most importantly, the ‘evade’ path. I was stupidly fighting every single thing in my way. The non-combat interruptions took me forever to figure out, especially the vine one. I probably go up and back once in the time it takes people to do 3 or 4 runs, but that’s ok with me.
I got my first piece of lumberjack gear ever. I could never really justify spending the time to get it. I’d hear people complain for days about how they didn’t get a top or legs or whatever. It always seemed to me that if you just spend that time Woodcutting, it even outweighs the slight bonus you get from the clothes. I can understand if you want to fill your closet, but it just was never for me. However, in the hunt for talon charms for the bonus xp weekend, I’ll take it as a nice side gift. So far I got the hat, then the boots, then the hat, then the boots, then the boots… I sense a pattern here.
I had no luck getting charms, but I got a lot of snakes, Merch suggested hopping and trying a different world, so I did that. Still no luck. It was alright though, I was enjoying myself. I hate not knowing certain parts of the game, so this was a good reason to familiarize myself with it. I temple trekked for a good four hours. I amused myself by making up storylines for the people I was protecting. One person was going to save the world, another was carrying a heart that someone needed desperately for a transplant, one was a highly ranked political figure and I was escorting him to safety in the midst of a coup to overthrow him, etc.. Anyways, I did it for four hours and I never came across the nail beasts or got a charm. My friends were amazed, apparently that’s amazingly bad luck, but I didn’t really think anything of it. I could have kept hopping worlds, but I was having fun. I’ll give it another shot, who knows? Maybe I’ll get on a hot streak.
Other than that, just been getting prepped for next week. I’ve got about 2500 lantadyme and potato cactus. I’ve made most of the unf pots, but I still have about 500 more to go. I figure 2500 is a good limit to give myself. Anything over that I feel isn’t going to get that much bonus xp considering I plan to do summoning first.
She helped me get sorted out, fixing my inventory, telling me about snake hides and most importantly, the ‘evade’ path. I was stupidly fighting every single thing in my way. The non-combat interruptions took me forever to figure out, especially the vine one. I probably go up and back once in the time it takes people to do 3 or 4 runs, but that’s ok with me.
I got my first piece of lumberjack gear ever. I could never really justify spending the time to get it. I’d hear people complain for days about how they didn’t get a top or legs or whatever. It always seemed to me that if you just spend that time Woodcutting, it even outweighs the slight bonus you get from the clothes. I can understand if you want to fill your closet, but it just was never for me. However, in the hunt for talon charms for the bonus xp weekend, I’ll take it as a nice side gift. So far I got the hat, then the boots, then the hat, then the boots, then the boots… I sense a pattern here.
I had no luck getting charms, but I got a lot of snakes, Merch suggested hopping and trying a different world, so I did that. Still no luck. It was alright though, I was enjoying myself. I hate not knowing certain parts of the game, so this was a good reason to familiarize myself with it. I temple trekked for a good four hours. I amused myself by making up storylines for the people I was protecting. One person was going to save the world, another was carrying a heart that someone needed desperately for a transplant, one was a highly ranked political figure and I was escorting him to safety in the midst of a coup to overthrow him, etc.. Anyways, I did it for four hours and I never came across the nail beasts or got a charm. My friends were amazed, apparently that’s amazingly bad luck, but I didn’t really think anything of it. I could have kept hopping worlds, but I was having fun. I’ll give it another shot, who knows? Maybe I’ll get on a hot streak.
Other than that, just been getting prepped for next week. I’ve got about 2500 lantadyme and potato cactus. I’ve made most of the unf pots, but I still have about 500 more to go. I figure 2500 is a good limit to give myself. Anything over that I feel isn’t going to get that much bonus xp considering I plan to do summoning first.
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