I’ve been asked several times from friends if they can borrow certain items for Clue Scrolls. I lend those things out all the time. I don’t really ever think anything of it but last night I was asked a question which explained why I was always lending them out. The reason was a common thing we deal with daily which can be more frustrating than Rat Catchers and harder to deal with than the Chaos Elemental (would have said Corporeal Beast, but that’s all hearsay being I haven’t fought it yet). Who’s the vicious culprit? Bankspace.
With the tabbed bank categories and additional space updates we’ve had in the past year, it’s a little easier to deal with, but it seems that for every additional space there’s about 50 additional items released. I’m not really big on writing guides, I always feel like there’s someone out there who can do it better, but I thought maybe I’d just share how I take care of this issue. Definitely not something to be followed by letter, I’m sure I’m doing things wrong as well, also the customizable tabs let each person fit their bank to their own personality, which is pretty cool. But here’s how I have my bank set up and maybe there’s something in here you can use.
Tabs - I use the max amount possible and have them set up into certain categories that make things a little bit easier for me to find. I picture it as a dresser I have in my room. You got a t shirt drawer and you got a sock drawer. For me, it seems every dresser I’ve ever had, the top drawer has always been my junk drawer. Same with my bank. This is a place I keep a lot of things I grab on the fly and don’t particularly fit into any other category I have. This is where I keep my food, cooked and raw, buckets of sand, flax, seaweed, pineapples, logs, berries, spy notebook, adze, picks, axes, etc. This might make a little more sense after I go through my other categories.
Herbs/seeds - This is where I keep all my various Herblore supplies and seeds. Since I do a lot of herb farming runs, it kind of made sense to keep them together. This includes my mortar & pestle as well as any seconds I’ve been gathering. Since Herblore requires a lot of banking, it just makes sense to have everything together, including vials of water, just for convenience sake. Also, since a herb run is usually very quick, I keep my Ectophial and Explorer’s Ring there as well. I use these for herb runs more than anything, but if I need it for something else, I know exactly where to find them.
Runes/one touch teles - Since there’s so many runes in the game, they might as well get their own tab. If I’m going to be using magic, I know exactly where to go. I also keep my teletabs and pure essence here. This is quick for Runecrafting as well. If I’m not using the Abyss, my altar teletabs are right here. If I’m making teletabs, then I can quick grab the runes and store the made tabs. My Seal of Passage is right next to my Astral teletabs as a reminder that I need it. Most of my altar teletabs are used for star hunting, so this prevents being out at Keldagrim, finding out I have to go to Lunar Isle, but not having my seal on me.
Jewelry - I keep all my rings (exception of Explorers), necklaces, amulets, bracelets together. If someone says “Bring a ring of….” I know where it is. This is helpful for another reason too, by keeping my teleport jewelry together, I can free up spaces by only using one at a time. Having a (2), (3), (1), (4) and uncharged of say a glory, is a waste of space. You’d be surprised how much space you can make available and keep open by not having five different Rings of Dueling with random charges throughout the bank. It also makes it easier for grabbing all of them to recharge.
Combat - Pretty much all my magic equipment is runes which is already taken care of. I don’t really mage as cb, so my robes are tucked away in a closet in my POH. I have two separate tabs for melee and range. This makes it a little easier going from one to another. All my arrows, bows and dhides are in the same place and my armor (including Varrock 3) and melee weapons are in another. Pretty self-explanatory.
Pots - Its like a medicine cabinet. All my pots in the same place. Same with the teleport jewelry, making sure your pots are at the same dosage frees up space. Why have a (3) and a (1) when you can have a (4). This is probably the most common issue I’ve seen. I’ve watched people free up about 20 spots just by decanting their pots, which is even easier now since they’ve added that option at the Herblore guy at the GE.
Clothes - Hunting outfits, shade robes, builder outfit, bomber cap, etc. If I need to wear it, and its not range/melee/cb related its in here. This lets me keep track of sets from randoms so that when I have the proper Construction level to store more and more in my POH, I’m not eating up 3 spaces because I’m missing 1 piece of a 4 piece set.
Clue Items - Mith platelegs, rune platebody, sextant, watch, chart, addy 2h, blue vambs, ect. Since I don’t use a rune plate or blue vambs in cb, only for clues, they’re here. This might be different for you depending on a level. I hate scavaging everywhere because I need to laugh in front of Jokkul, everything is there for the quick grab, to get the clue done with, get the reward, then work on getting another one.
That’s how my odd little brain functions. Like I said, everyone’s different. This way I can see what I’m using and what’s sitting there, useless. If you haven’t used it in a year, chances are, you don’t need it. Here’s some quick tips:
House - keep barely used outfits from randoms, holiday items, armor etc in your house. This frees up a lot of space and its what you’ve been working on construction for, isn’t it? Also if you can get it from free from your house (hammer, chisel, saw, etc), then you don’t need it taking up that precious bankspace. Also, use all your quest obtained books on your bookcase. This gets them out of your bank and if you ever need them, they are always here, even if you take one from the bookcase and lose it, it will always be there again.
Leprechaun - don’t waste bankspace on all your farming items when you have this wee lil fella to carry them for you.
Pots/teles - keep them combined.
Quest item - not going to use again, and its easy to get back again? - drop it. Not to say drop that greegree that was a pain to get, but if all you have to do is talk to Joe down the street, and its free, then don’t sweat it.
Go see the Wise Old Man in Draynor - he’ll see what F2P quest items you no longer need.
Haven’t used it in forever? - I tend to side with the xp, but some might like the cash. Just realized you have 100 oak logs sitting there since you were a lvl 30, 3 years ago? Take a few minutes to get a little FM xp or Con or even just sell them. Use that cash on something you want to use, plus since you already have money in the bank, and its stackable, you’ll find that empty space maybe even more valuable than the cash you got from it.
So that’s it. Also let it be known that I’m a complete pack-rat, yet can still have some free space available. That blurite sword isn’t going anywhere because I know I can never get it back if I get rid of it. Those purple sweets and firelights still sit there idly. If anything, I hope that helped at least someone.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Catching Up
This was a pretty decent weekend as far as playing goes. Not much progress as far as levels are concerned, though. Figured I’d use some of those Gold Charms that are just sitting in my bank taunting me and got up to 69 Summoning. There’s only a handful of things that really interest me about Summoning. I want the Hydra for the instant tree regrowth. I like the Beasts of Burden, the energy boost from Terrorbirds, the healing from Bunyips (also, I think I was the only one really excited about this because the Bunyip myths from down under have always been really interesting to me), but not that much more. I’m sure I’m under-utilizing this and maybe I’ll get more into it, but whenever I level and get something new, I’m not that excited about it. I do like that charms aren’t tradeable though. I need motivation to train cb every now and then.
Sunday morning clan trip was to Zamorak GWD. I’m getting more and more comfortable down at God Wars boss rooms. Zammy is probably the one that bothers me the least. We had 6, think we got about 25 or so kills. There’s really no danger unless you’re tanking or the boss switches and all of a sudden, you’re tanking unexpectedly. I tanked a few times (not all on purpose) and as long as you got brews and anti-poison, you’re fine. We split a Zamorakian Spear drop which was pretty cool. Roughly 190k each. With the other drops (coins, Wine of Zamorak noted, etc) I probably cleared100-200k after the cost of the trip. I’m used to losing money on these, which is fine because its fun, so it was kind of cool to get an expensive drop. With maybe 3 more, I can picture being able to stay down there for a long time. I’d love to see that coinshare pop up stating you just split a hilt.
Jax & TCA were nice enough to extend an invitation to a skiller’s only Stealing Creation game. I had always wanted to play this game, but my natural avoidance to most things PvP has kept me away. It was a pretty fun game, I liked that it seems to incorporate almost all skills. It took a few runs, but eventually I started to get the hang of it. Not sure how I’d like it with cb though. My main goals were pretty simple. 1) Check it out. 2) New music. 3) Get a pick for quick xp when hunting stars. I was kind of bummed when I did a star later on in the night that even though I had my SC pick equipped, I used the Inferno Adze because it was in my inventory from WC. Note to self, bank Adze before stars.
Duradel seems to love giving me Black Dragons and Suqahs. Suqahs are really annoying being that they don’t really drop anything. I came back from my last task of about 60 of them with one uncut emerald. Sure, I left about 5 Guams on the ground, but they didn’t even give one charm. I also used my last Astral Teletab so it looks like I’ll be heading back to the Great Orb Project soon. I should also restock Nature Teletabs as well. Both are incredibly useful when star hunting.
I’ve also been doing a lot of herb runs recently. 4 Snapdragon seeds are about 150k and I usually harvest around 30 Snaps selling them for about 250k. Not a bad profit for 5 mins of work and an hour of waiting by training something else. It’s actually helped break up my playing in a bit of a refreshing way. I usually check on a star, do a herb run, train a skill for an hour, herb run, do another skill for an hour, with hitting the stars in between. I also did a good amount of bank cleaning, freed up about 20 spaces as well as made some cash. I’ve tucked away a pretty good amount of gp, not sure what to spend it on though. Yeah it’d be nice to splurge on some Bandos Tassets, but I think I can get some good levels out of it. I’m just figuring out the cost effective way of doing it. Then after that, if I start focusing more on cb again, I’ll buy something nice.
For the past month, I’ve been at a client and they pump in easy listening. If I hear Mariah Carey, Coldplay or the Dawson’s Creek song again, I’m going to lose it. Then I’ll be put away some place like the Angry Room from A Soul’s Bane.
Sunday morning clan trip was to Zamorak GWD. I’m getting more and more comfortable down at God Wars boss rooms. Zammy is probably the one that bothers me the least. We had 6, think we got about 25 or so kills. There’s really no danger unless you’re tanking or the boss switches and all of a sudden, you’re tanking unexpectedly. I tanked a few times (not all on purpose) and as long as you got brews and anti-poison, you’re fine. We split a Zamorakian Spear drop which was pretty cool. Roughly 190k each. With the other drops (coins, Wine of Zamorak noted, etc) I probably cleared100-200k after the cost of the trip. I’m used to losing money on these, which is fine because its fun, so it was kind of cool to get an expensive drop. With maybe 3 more, I can picture being able to stay down there for a long time. I’d love to see that coinshare pop up stating you just split a hilt.
Jax & TCA were nice enough to extend an invitation to a skiller’s only Stealing Creation game. I had always wanted to play this game, but my natural avoidance to most things PvP has kept me away. It was a pretty fun game, I liked that it seems to incorporate almost all skills. It took a few runs, but eventually I started to get the hang of it. Not sure how I’d like it with cb though. My main goals were pretty simple. 1) Check it out. 2) New music. 3) Get a pick for quick xp when hunting stars. I was kind of bummed when I did a star later on in the night that even though I had my SC pick equipped, I used the Inferno Adze because it was in my inventory from WC. Note to self, bank Adze before stars.
Duradel seems to love giving me Black Dragons and Suqahs. Suqahs are really annoying being that they don’t really drop anything. I came back from my last task of about 60 of them with one uncut emerald. Sure, I left about 5 Guams on the ground, but they didn’t even give one charm. I also used my last Astral Teletab so it looks like I’ll be heading back to the Great Orb Project soon. I should also restock Nature Teletabs as well. Both are incredibly useful when star hunting.
I’ve also been doing a lot of herb runs recently. 4 Snapdragon seeds are about 150k and I usually harvest around 30 Snaps selling them for about 250k. Not a bad profit for 5 mins of work and an hour of waiting by training something else. It’s actually helped break up my playing in a bit of a refreshing way. I usually check on a star, do a herb run, train a skill for an hour, herb run, do another skill for an hour, with hitting the stars in between. I also did a good amount of bank cleaning, freed up about 20 spaces as well as made some cash. I’ve tucked away a pretty good amount of gp, not sure what to spend it on though. Yeah it’d be nice to splurge on some Bandos Tassets, but I think I can get some good levels out of it. I’m just figuring out the cost effective way of doing it. Then after that, if I start focusing more on cb again, I’ll buy something nice.
For the past month, I’ve been at a client and they pump in easy listening. If I hear Mariah Carey, Coldplay or the Dawson’s Creek song again, I’m going to lose it. Then I’ll be put away some place like the Angry Room from A Soul’s Bane.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
All Different Styles
I’m not sure why I can’t keep this updated on a regular basis. I believe its another symptom of the disease that I have which also prevents me from returning DVDs and library books on time.
I haven’t had a level in a little while. However, I seem to have set myself up for a weekend of possibly getting 10 levels. I’m about 26k away for Range, 24k from HP, 23k Mining, 22k Thieving, 7k RC, 20k Herblore, 50k Hunting, 50k Summoning, my next Farming run consists of all Magic and Palm trees so that should get me a Farming level and I’m only about 100k away from a Woodcutting level. However, I wouldn’t put it past me to be overwhelmed by the choice of what to work on and end up Fishing. It’s happened before.
One of the great things about this game is the many different sub-categories of gaming style which are available. From DIY, to pk, merching, skilling, etc. Even those can be broken down even further. I got into a discussion with a few friends last night about how we play very similar, although, completely different. I like to calculate and track how much xp each option gives, in correlation with its secondary use in another skill as well as value. Take Fishing for example. The fastest xp is Barbarian Training by Otto, however Monks give still a fast amount of xp, have pretty decent Cooking xp value, and sell for a decent amount. It benefits all the way around.
The opposing point of view is that they just did whatever activity until they leveled. I can’t do this. For some reason I need to know when I should be getting the level. I usually keep one eye on the xp countdown, doing the math at how much xp/hour it is and when I can expect it. I couldn’t just do something until I’m bored, then move on to something new, etc. The best part is there’s no right or wrong. I just couldn’t fathom doing that. For me that’s like being on a Slayer task and forgetting your gem; you need to bank, but maybe the next one is the last one, you never know!
There also seemed to be similarities in the ones who were on either side. People like me are kind of the types that have one eye on the TV or a movie, the other on the game. Which also lean more towards the “set-it-and-forget-it” type skills. Things like Fishing, Woodcutting, Cooking… The others which don’t watch TV, just focus on the game itself seemed to lean towards the more click-tastic of the skills. Hunting, Agility, along those lines… Personally, I don’t mind focusing all attention on the game once in a while for clan boss trips, slayer tasks, or whatever. I just don’t have it in me to play the clicky skills that much. I almost want to say it wears me out. It’s probably why my hunting level is so low. I do it to get that level (which I know will only take 1.5 hours), then I need to do something a little more calming afterwards.
I’m not saying these are across the board or even fact, just something I noticed in a conversation among a few friends. I’m sure you could break it down even further into more sub-categories if you tried. It’s interesting each player can carve our a little niche for themselves at which they want to excel. No matter how many times its explained to me, I can’t even begin to comprehend some of the charts/graphs of the merchanters and how to read how the market is changing, but they might not be able to comprehend my scratched out notes of equations, excel files, either.
It makes me wonder why there isn’t RS humor which starts out, “A skiller, a pker and a merchanter walk into a bar…”
Feel free to finish that in the comments if you come up with anything good, I’d love to hear it.
I haven’t had a level in a little while. However, I seem to have set myself up for a weekend of possibly getting 10 levels. I’m about 26k away for Range, 24k from HP, 23k Mining, 22k Thieving, 7k RC, 20k Herblore, 50k Hunting, 50k Summoning, my next Farming run consists of all Magic and Palm trees so that should get me a Farming level and I’m only about 100k away from a Woodcutting level. However, I wouldn’t put it past me to be overwhelmed by the choice of what to work on and end up Fishing. It’s happened before.
One of the great things about this game is the many different sub-categories of gaming style which are available. From DIY, to pk, merching, skilling, etc. Even those can be broken down even further. I got into a discussion with a few friends last night about how we play very similar, although, completely different. I like to calculate and track how much xp each option gives, in correlation with its secondary use in another skill as well as value. Take Fishing for example. The fastest xp is Barbarian Training by Otto, however Monks give still a fast amount of xp, have pretty decent Cooking xp value, and sell for a decent amount. It benefits all the way around.
The opposing point of view is that they just did whatever activity until they leveled. I can’t do this. For some reason I need to know when I should be getting the level. I usually keep one eye on the xp countdown, doing the math at how much xp/hour it is and when I can expect it. I couldn’t just do something until I’m bored, then move on to something new, etc. The best part is there’s no right or wrong. I just couldn’t fathom doing that. For me that’s like being on a Slayer task and forgetting your gem; you need to bank, but maybe the next one is the last one, you never know!
There also seemed to be similarities in the ones who were on either side. People like me are kind of the types that have one eye on the TV or a movie, the other on the game. Which also lean more towards the “set-it-and-forget-it” type skills. Things like Fishing, Woodcutting, Cooking… The others which don’t watch TV, just focus on the game itself seemed to lean towards the more click-tastic of the skills. Hunting, Agility, along those lines… Personally, I don’t mind focusing all attention on the game once in a while for clan boss trips, slayer tasks, or whatever. I just don’t have it in me to play the clicky skills that much. I almost want to say it wears me out. It’s probably why my hunting level is so low. I do it to get that level (which I know will only take 1.5 hours), then I need to do something a little more calming afterwards.
I’m not saying these are across the board or even fact, just something I noticed in a conversation among a few friends. I’m sure you could break it down even further into more sub-categories if you tried. It’s interesting each player can carve our a little niche for themselves at which they want to excel. No matter how many times its explained to me, I can’t even begin to comprehend some of the charts/graphs of the merchanters and how to read how the market is changing, but they might not be able to comprehend my scratched out notes of equations, excel files, either.
It makes me wonder why there isn’t RS humor which starts out, “A skiller, a pker and a merchanter walk into a bar…”
Feel free to finish that in the comments if you come up with anything good, I’d love to hear it.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
The Great Escape
I've been working at a client for the past two weeks. Sadly, I don't have any internet access there, which is making work a bit of a pain. With my job I usually have to wait for them to gather and bring me info so that I can work on it. This leaves me with nothing really to do for an hour or two at a time. This is when I usually check my email, log on to my company's server remotely to do other work, or whatever. However with no internet, just sitting in an office with nothing to do is mind-numbingly boring. This had me looking for anything built into my laptop to keep me amused.
I started looking at the games already installed on my HP. Its different from the Hearts, Freecell, Solitaire and Minesweeper we had a few years ago. This has an interface kind of like iTunes. You open the files, get 2 chances to play each game and then are charged a subscription fee. The games are ok, and it was enough to keep me occupied. Anyways, there is a point and yes, I'm getting to it. A few days ago, I noticed one of the options was Funorb. I thought that was a little weird, but it figured reasonable. Today (I think the games options gets updated when I'm online at home) I noticed another option - Runescape HD.
Runescape must not only be overhauling game content, but really stepping up the advertising. The link takes you to a runescape page giving a short description and basically an ad pitch. You can view it here.
This seems like it will hit a huge audience, especially in F2P. I don't remember how I came across runescape, although I'm sure I googled something like "free online multiplayer games." This new demographic is much wider, the general person playing around on a laptop looking to cure boredom. Someone who may has never played an MMORPG or even knows what those letters stand for. The HD overhaul is exactly what the game makers needed in order to open the RS market to a wider audience.
I would love to see a new influx of casual gamers into the game. Its sort of what Nintendo did for making the Wii not only for hardcore gamers, but opening it up to everyone. If we get an influx of new players and the game grows, that most certainly means new content. Some of those other HP games offered run in real time, so if you don't keep checking on them, your fish tank dies, your villagers go hungry, whatever. This is exactly like the daily chores that are becoming more and more part of the game.
It looks like Runescape is expanding more than ever, and that's something I'm glad to see. There's always those rumors about it ending, and that's always hard to cope with when you've built a solid base of friends that are only based in one realm. We've come this far, its always good to see something we love embracing new people and the community opening to such a wider audience.
Welcome to Awesome World.
I started looking at the games already installed on my HP. Its different from the Hearts, Freecell, Solitaire and Minesweeper we had a few years ago. This has an interface kind of like iTunes. You open the files, get 2 chances to play each game and then are charged a subscription fee. The games are ok, and it was enough to keep me occupied. Anyways, there is a point and yes, I'm getting to it. A few days ago, I noticed one of the options was Funorb. I thought that was a little weird, but it figured reasonable. Today (I think the games options gets updated when I'm online at home) I noticed another option - Runescape HD.
Runescape must not only be overhauling game content, but really stepping up the advertising. The link takes you to a runescape page giving a short description and basically an ad pitch. You can view it here.
This seems like it will hit a huge audience, especially in F2P. I don't remember how I came across runescape, although I'm sure I googled something like "free online multiplayer games." This new demographic is much wider, the general person playing around on a laptop looking to cure boredom. Someone who may has never played an MMORPG or even knows what those letters stand for. The HD overhaul is exactly what the game makers needed in order to open the RS market to a wider audience.
I would love to see a new influx of casual gamers into the game. Its sort of what Nintendo did for making the Wii not only for hardcore gamers, but opening it up to everyone. If we get an influx of new players and the game grows, that most certainly means new content. Some of those other HP games offered run in real time, so if you don't keep checking on them, your fish tank dies, your villagers go hungry, whatever. This is exactly like the daily chores that are becoming more and more part of the game.
It looks like Runescape is expanding more than ever, and that's something I'm glad to see. There's always those rumors about it ending, and that's always hard to cope with when you've built a solid base of friends that are only based in one realm. We've come this far, its always good to see something we love embracing new people and the community opening to such a wider audience.
Welcome to Awesome World.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Pain in the Adze
It took me roughly a month and a half, but I finally got to 92 Firemaking from 74. The xp flies by when you’re used to Runecrafting, Woodcutting, Fishing and other slow xp skills. I went on to get my Inferno Adze from the All Fired Up minigame and let me just say, it’s a lot more difficult than some guides make it out to be. I had already done the requirements for the first 10, so I figured the additional 4 wouldn’t be such a big deal. I went around to loading them all up, ended up dying twice, once at each the one near the temple in the Wilderness and the other on the Frozen Plateau (is that what its called? Near the Wildy Agility course). Realized then that even when you get back to your grave in time, you automatically lose the Fire Ring and Fire Gloves. I went around to lighting them and I wasn’t quick enough. I used Maples and thought I’d have plenty of time being that Runescape Wiki states that you can do it in about 9 minutes. Perhaps I’m just slow.
I got my Fire Ring and Gloves back but had to do it all again. Died again in the deep wildy, losing the ring & gloves again. Will I never learn? This time I just really wanted it so I actually broke down and bought some Magic Logs. Normally, I’d just go get them myself, but I just wanted this over with. I bought 200 of them and just used them for the first 8 beacons and used my stock of Maples for the remainder. Died lighting them, but managed to get them lit. Got my Adze, finally, but it kills me that I missed out on so much xp by not having the gloves & ring when lighting. If you take anything from this, just know to put them in the bank while filling the beacons and only wear when you’re ready to go on lighting them. I’m super protective of the Adze knowing that I lose it when I die and I don’t want to go through that again. If the Wildy stars come, I might just take a Rune Pickaxe instead.
I didn’t realize how competitive Hiscores is. In the past week I’ve gotten 6 levels, yet have moved up 409 spots. Its almost as if every level has me just barely clinging to the inside 50,000 mark.
I feel like I’ve only been Firemaking lately so I wanted to get a few levels in other things yesterday. I got about 120 tears which led me very close to a Herblore level. I really need to train this more as I’m sick of my tears going to that when they would be better suited saving me money on Construction or just time Runecrafting. I had 14 Gorak claws in the bank so I stopped over to the Cosmic Being’s place to pick some Starflowers. That was enough to get me to 64 Herblore. This leaves me at just an Herb and a Con level from 65+.
I was also close to a Slayer level so I grabbed my Bones to Peaches runes and headed down to Hellhounds. Sunday must be Slayer day because I had to hop worlds a disgusting amount of time. Got my level, got a clue then got out of there before finishing my task. I have to go back, but Hellhounds can be incredibly boring if you don’t break it up by doing a clue when you get one. 5 Rune Platebodies, Rune Axe and 50 Nature Runes. Whatever, I’ll take it. No puzzleboxes, 1 Wildy location, no co-ordinates, not bad for about 10 minutes of teleports.
I did some quests. Did As a First Resort and with the unlimited run, decided it was a good time to bang out Between a Rock… After that I completed Elemental Workshop II, all were relatively easy and I really liked the puzzle pool thing in As a First Resort. I have no reason for not completing these quests earlier. This leaves me with… 12(?) quests left to go. I need to do the Phoenix one as well as I’m all for daily xp rewards.
As a First Resort’s Hunting xp reward got me close to a level so I decided to set out on my first trip to get Red Chins. That didn’t last too long at all. Every world had a lot of people competing for a spot. When I finally got one (after about 30 hops), I saw how slow they were. Lots of clicking, very few catches and slow xp. I decided I had enough and went to Red Salamanders where I leveled within about 15 minutes.
Not sure what to work on next. Tonight I’ll go pingu hunting. I like to do this at the last possible time I can in the week. I can’t play on Tuesday nights so this leaves Mondays. The reason being is that I like to see how many of these little things I can stumble upon while just playing. The sound is pretty distinctive so they’re easy to find if you’re near one. I’ve gotten 4 this week and some weeks I get the majority just doing stars, farming runs, etc. It saves time when you go out to look for them, only needing a few and, to be honest, its kind of fun just randomly finding one.
The Eagles bowed down to The Buzzsaw that is the Arizona Cardinals yesterday. What can I say, they were just outplayed. Good luck to them in the Super Bowl. Pitchers and catchers report in 27 days. Bring on the warm weather and the Fightins!
I got my Fire Ring and Gloves back but had to do it all again. Died again in the deep wildy, losing the ring & gloves again. Will I never learn? This time I just really wanted it so I actually broke down and bought some Magic Logs. Normally, I’d just go get them myself, but I just wanted this over with. I bought 200 of them and just used them for the first 8 beacons and used my stock of Maples for the remainder. Died lighting them, but managed to get them lit. Got my Adze, finally, but it kills me that I missed out on so much xp by not having the gloves & ring when lighting. If you take anything from this, just know to put them in the bank while filling the beacons and only wear when you’re ready to go on lighting them. I’m super protective of the Adze knowing that I lose it when I die and I don’t want to go through that again. If the Wildy stars come, I might just take a Rune Pickaxe instead.
I didn’t realize how competitive Hiscores is. In the past week I’ve gotten 6 levels, yet have moved up 409 spots. Its almost as if every level has me just barely clinging to the inside 50,000 mark.
I feel like I’ve only been Firemaking lately so I wanted to get a few levels in other things yesterday. I got about 120 tears which led me very close to a Herblore level. I really need to train this more as I’m sick of my tears going to that when they would be better suited saving me money on Construction or just time Runecrafting. I had 14 Gorak claws in the bank so I stopped over to the Cosmic Being’s place to pick some Starflowers. That was enough to get me to 64 Herblore. This leaves me at just an Herb and a Con level from 65+.
I was also close to a Slayer level so I grabbed my Bones to Peaches runes and headed down to Hellhounds. Sunday must be Slayer day because I had to hop worlds a disgusting amount of time. Got my level, got a clue then got out of there before finishing my task. I have to go back, but Hellhounds can be incredibly boring if you don’t break it up by doing a clue when you get one. 5 Rune Platebodies, Rune Axe and 50 Nature Runes. Whatever, I’ll take it. No puzzleboxes, 1 Wildy location, no co-ordinates, not bad for about 10 minutes of teleports.
I did some quests. Did As a First Resort and with the unlimited run, decided it was a good time to bang out Between a Rock… After that I completed Elemental Workshop II, all were relatively easy and I really liked the puzzle pool thing in As a First Resort. I have no reason for not completing these quests earlier. This leaves me with… 12(?) quests left to go. I need to do the Phoenix one as well as I’m all for daily xp rewards.
As a First Resort’s Hunting xp reward got me close to a level so I decided to set out on my first trip to get Red Chins. That didn’t last too long at all. Every world had a lot of people competing for a spot. When I finally got one (after about 30 hops), I saw how slow they were. Lots of clicking, very few catches and slow xp. I decided I had enough and went to Red Salamanders where I leveled within about 15 minutes.
Not sure what to work on next. Tonight I’ll go pingu hunting. I like to do this at the last possible time I can in the week. I can’t play on Tuesday nights so this leaves Mondays. The reason being is that I like to see how many of these little things I can stumble upon while just playing. The sound is pretty distinctive so they’re easy to find if you’re near one. I’ve gotten 4 this week and some weeks I get the majority just doing stars, farming runs, etc. It saves time when you go out to look for them, only needing a few and, to be honest, its kind of fun just randomly finding one.
The Eagles bowed down to The Buzzsaw that is the Arizona Cardinals yesterday. What can I say, they were just outplayed. Good luck to them in the Super Bowl. Pitchers and catchers report in 27 days. Bring on the warm weather and the Fightins!
Monday, January 5, 2009
2009 Comes A'blazin in
Happy New Year everyone! The new year started out in an interesting way. We had a clan party for 3 members who got their Quest Capes a couple weeks prior and one Cooking Skillcape. We had a fun time in the deuling ring and then set out to GWD for a Bandos run. This was my first time, but felt confident being that we had about 7 people. Our tank got Ring of Life tele’d and the general decided to turn his attention onto me. We soon found out why when all the other worlds were full, this one was empty – lag. Despite getting my HP down to the low teens several times, I managed to survive, clicking furiously of course. I got a Rune Platebody as a reward. We did another 2 kills until we had a death and everyone else was lagging hard so we decided to call it quits. The person who died didn’t want to go back in and reclaim his stuff, being that he lost nothing really valuable. A valiant attempt by everyone though. I wouldn’t mind going back, now that I know what I’m getting into.
I’ve continued on with Firemaking, getting my level to 90 yesterday. I took some breaks to do a few stars, make staves, etc. Mainly I just want it to 92, get the adze, then not deal with it for a while. I was at my wit’s end yesterday burning maples. To speed things up I sold my Dragon Woodcutting Axe and used the money from that to buy some Magic Logs. I justified this by the Adze being free, but the equivalent of the D Axe. That makes somewhat sense, right? Anyway, I just have to burn about 1,200 of them to get to 91. Sounds much better than 2,800 Maples.
A friend was working on spinning Flax to get a Crafting level she was close to. It’s decent money and I only need to do about 1k for a level myself so I thought I’d join. Made about 100,000gp relatively quick and got myself to 80 Crafting. Glories here I come! I’ve had a few Dragonstones sitting in my bank waiting for just that.
I went penguin hunting yesterday as well. Riod’s chat got flooded with spammers and somehow I got kicked & banned in the mess. I had about 6 done, but knew the ones I was missing were on Lunar, Dragontooth, Nietz and one in the wildy. I don’t really understand the people who beg for updates on penguins on places like Dragontooth Island. The place is so tiny you can almost see the entire island in one screen. Anyways, used those and I got 64 construction. Finally a telescope with a window for stars that is less than a half hour. I also built myself a Teak Armor Case which I can’t wait to use to free up some bankspace.
I have less than 100k xp to a level in about 12 skills, so hopefully I’ll be able to add to the total fairly easily. I won’t be able to play much this week, so all those levels might have to wait a bit. I leave for Cancun early Thursday morning and get back Sunday night. I can’t wait to lay in the warm sun, even if it does mean I have to miss the Eagles/Giants game. Hopefully the pilot will give us updates.
I’ve continued on with Firemaking, getting my level to 90 yesterday. I took some breaks to do a few stars, make staves, etc. Mainly I just want it to 92, get the adze, then not deal with it for a while. I was at my wit’s end yesterday burning maples. To speed things up I sold my Dragon Woodcutting Axe and used the money from that to buy some Magic Logs. I justified this by the Adze being free, but the equivalent of the D Axe. That makes somewhat sense, right? Anyway, I just have to burn about 1,200 of them to get to 91. Sounds much better than 2,800 Maples.
A friend was working on spinning Flax to get a Crafting level she was close to. It’s decent money and I only need to do about 1k for a level myself so I thought I’d join. Made about 100,000gp relatively quick and got myself to 80 Crafting. Glories here I come! I’ve had a few Dragonstones sitting in my bank waiting for just that.
I went penguin hunting yesterday as well. Riod’s chat got flooded with spammers and somehow I got kicked & banned in the mess. I had about 6 done, but knew the ones I was missing were on Lunar, Dragontooth, Nietz and one in the wildy. I don’t really understand the people who beg for updates on penguins on places like Dragontooth Island. The place is so tiny you can almost see the entire island in one screen. Anyways, used those and I got 64 construction. Finally a telescope with a window for stars that is less than a half hour. I also built myself a Teak Armor Case which I can’t wait to use to free up some bankspace.
I have less than 100k xp to a level in about 12 skills, so hopefully I’ll be able to add to the total fairly easily. I won’t be able to play much this week, so all those levels might have to wait a bit. I leave for Cancun early Thursday morning and get back Sunday night. I can’t wait to lay in the warm sun, even if it does mean I have to miss the Eagles/Giants game. Hopefully the pilot will give us updates.
Monday, December 29, 2008
New Year!
I had completely forgotten about the Wild Pie bonus for Slayer. I ate one of those and took off to the dungeon by Port Sarim, went into the ice cave and killed my first Skeletal Wyvern. Got my revenge from stupidly wandering in there ages ago at lvl 50 or so. Then I used my pingu points from the week on Runecrafting, made a few rounds of crafting Nats and got to 66 Runecrafting. Collected my rewards, Falador Diary done. I also, temporarily, cracked the top 50,000 overall on hiscores. I was at 49,996 last night and knew that wouldn’t last. I woke up this morning, 50,026. One or two more levels should do it.
Last May I started keeping track of my levels on Excel. I did this because I wanted to see how I was progressing, which skills I was neglecting and that I’m a huge nerd and use Excel for pretty much everything. In the last 7 months, here’s how I have progressed:
Attack 74 – 81
Defence 72 – 80
Strength 80 – 86
Hitpoints 75 – 83
Ranged 62 – 77
Prayer 61 – 70
Magic 73 – 82
Cooking 92 – 96
Woodcutting 66 – 81
Fletching 73 – 75
Fishing 98 – 99
Firemaking 53 – 86
Crafting 66 – 79
Smithing 71 – 73
Mining 62 – 73
Herblore 50 – 63
Agility 57 – 74
Thieving 61 – 65
Slayer 58 – 71
Farming 67 – 77
Runecrafting 51 – 66
Hunter 50 – 66
Construction 52 – 63
Summoning 43 – 68
Overall 1567 – 1834
Looking at those original levels, I can tell that I had just completed the Varrock Diary. Close to 300 levels in a span of 7 months sounds pretty good, but at the time, skills like Summoning, RC, Hunting, I wasn’t really working on and some of those skills in the low 50s and 40s are pretty quick levels. Some people would ask why I’ve only gone from 92-96 Cooking when its such a fast skill to get xp in, and I’m so close to a cape. The easy answer, I kind of hate cooking. I find it boring. I don’t have any desire to go buy 5k sharks and tuck away at the Cooking Guild for hours on end. I’ve only ever cooked what I’ve caught and I really only cook when I need food. The cape is nice, but I’m not a big fan or purple anyway. Why do I bring this up? With the new year approaching, its about the time that everyone sets goals for themselves. While we’d love to be optimistic, we also need to take a second to be realistic.
While I’d love to sport that beautiful Hitpoints skillcape in the next twelve months, let’s see what it would take. In the past 7 months I’ve gone from level 75 to 83. 8 levels. That’s a little more than a level a month. As we all know, you need more and more xp as the skills get higher. Even if I continued at that rate, that would still only bring me to the mid 90s. To break it down even further, I look at xp because level numbers can be deceiving. I have 2,820,904 xp in HP as I write this. The magic number for a skillcape is 13,034,431. That leaves me with 10,213,527 xp until 99. Divide that by 365 days and I’d need to get about 27,982 xp per day. Maybe for some people that’s do-able, but I know how I play. I sometimes neglect cb altogether for weeks at a time. That’s not happening.
It kills me when I see people fishing at Piscatoris and they state that they are going to get a level that day. However, they need 550,000 xp to that level. You make roughly 30,000 xp/hr fishing monks. If you break it down, that level is going to take you over 18 hours to get. I love your enthusiasm, but its already 5pm…
That said, for 2009 I’m going to keep my goals pretty simple and not do anything to really burn myself out on the game. I have 14 quests remaining, so I can see myself getting a Questcape. This will also, hopefully, serve as motivation to do quests as they’re released. I’d like to get 75+ and 2000 total levels. These are probably going to be the biggest goals that I have. However, 170 levels isn’t a lot to achieve in the span of 12 months. That’s 13 levels a month, which I feel is attainable. Runecrafting will be a pain, but with the pingu points, and other xp bonuses in the game, I can do it. It won’t be easy, but that’s the point of setting goals, right? With that I think will come 2 skillcapes. I have about 4M xp left til my Cooking cape and over the span of 12 months, I can see needing that much food. That’s roughly 19,048 sharks cooked. That works out to about 1,587 sharks a month. That’s attainable. Getting 75+ will give me 1907 levels alone, putting me in good position to finish out the year with 2000.
As for the other cape, I have a suspicion that it might be Firemaking. As much as I would love for it to be another time consuming, no easy way to buy levels one, like Woodcutting, I’m only 81 in that currently. I don’t realistically see going from 81-99 in a year’s time. My short term goal is the Inferno Adze. In the past week I’ve gotten 84-86 and the experience is super fast. I just use Maples from my kingdom or train it in synch with WC when chopping Yews and chatting to friends. Also if I’m going to get it to 92, I can see myself saying “what the heck” and continuing on with it. I’ve gotten over 2M xp in it this month alone and it wouldn’t be that much of a strain to get the remaining xp.
I wish you lots of luck and happy playing in the year to come! Set some goals, just be realistic about it. Don’t think that you’re going to get from 75-99 Fishing before March because you’re just setting yourself up for disappointment, and you’ll probably end up hating the skill and burning yourself out on it. Take your time, enjoy it! It is a game afterall.
Last May I started keeping track of my levels on Excel. I did this because I wanted to see how I was progressing, which skills I was neglecting and that I’m a huge nerd and use Excel for pretty much everything. In the last 7 months, here’s how I have progressed:
Attack 74 – 81
Defence 72 – 80
Strength 80 – 86
Hitpoints 75 – 83
Ranged 62 – 77
Prayer 61 – 70
Magic 73 – 82
Cooking 92 – 96
Woodcutting 66 – 81
Fletching 73 – 75
Fishing 98 – 99
Firemaking 53 – 86
Crafting 66 – 79
Smithing 71 – 73
Mining 62 – 73
Herblore 50 – 63
Agility 57 – 74
Thieving 61 – 65
Slayer 58 – 71
Farming 67 – 77
Runecrafting 51 – 66
Hunter 50 – 66
Construction 52 – 63
Summoning 43 – 68
Overall 1567 – 1834
Looking at those original levels, I can tell that I had just completed the Varrock Diary. Close to 300 levels in a span of 7 months sounds pretty good, but at the time, skills like Summoning, RC, Hunting, I wasn’t really working on and some of those skills in the low 50s and 40s are pretty quick levels. Some people would ask why I’ve only gone from 92-96 Cooking when its such a fast skill to get xp in, and I’m so close to a cape. The easy answer, I kind of hate cooking. I find it boring. I don’t have any desire to go buy 5k sharks and tuck away at the Cooking Guild for hours on end. I’ve only ever cooked what I’ve caught and I really only cook when I need food. The cape is nice, but I’m not a big fan or purple anyway. Why do I bring this up? With the new year approaching, its about the time that everyone sets goals for themselves. While we’d love to be optimistic, we also need to take a second to be realistic.
While I’d love to sport that beautiful Hitpoints skillcape in the next twelve months, let’s see what it would take. In the past 7 months I’ve gone from level 75 to 83. 8 levels. That’s a little more than a level a month. As we all know, you need more and more xp as the skills get higher. Even if I continued at that rate, that would still only bring me to the mid 90s. To break it down even further, I look at xp because level numbers can be deceiving. I have 2,820,904 xp in HP as I write this. The magic number for a skillcape is 13,034,431. That leaves me with 10,213,527 xp until 99. Divide that by 365 days and I’d need to get about 27,982 xp per day. Maybe for some people that’s do-able, but I know how I play. I sometimes neglect cb altogether for weeks at a time. That’s not happening.
It kills me when I see people fishing at Piscatoris and they state that they are going to get a level that day. However, they need 550,000 xp to that level. You make roughly 30,000 xp/hr fishing monks. If you break it down, that level is going to take you over 18 hours to get. I love your enthusiasm, but its already 5pm…
That said, for 2009 I’m going to keep my goals pretty simple and not do anything to really burn myself out on the game. I have 14 quests remaining, so I can see myself getting a Questcape. This will also, hopefully, serve as motivation to do quests as they’re released. I’d like to get 75+ and 2000 total levels. These are probably going to be the biggest goals that I have. However, 170 levels isn’t a lot to achieve in the span of 12 months. That’s 13 levels a month, which I feel is attainable. Runecrafting will be a pain, but with the pingu points, and other xp bonuses in the game, I can do it. It won’t be easy, but that’s the point of setting goals, right? With that I think will come 2 skillcapes. I have about 4M xp left til my Cooking cape and over the span of 12 months, I can see needing that much food. That’s roughly 19,048 sharks cooked. That works out to about 1,587 sharks a month. That’s attainable. Getting 75+ will give me 1907 levels alone, putting me in good position to finish out the year with 2000.
As for the other cape, I have a suspicion that it might be Firemaking. As much as I would love for it to be another time consuming, no easy way to buy levels one, like Woodcutting, I’m only 81 in that currently. I don’t realistically see going from 81-99 in a year’s time. My short term goal is the Inferno Adze. In the past week I’ve gotten 84-86 and the experience is super fast. I just use Maples from my kingdom or train it in synch with WC when chopping Yews and chatting to friends. Also if I’m going to get it to 92, I can see myself saying “what the heck” and continuing on with it. I’ve gotten over 2M xp in it this month alone and it wouldn’t be that much of a strain to get the remaining xp.
I wish you lots of luck and happy playing in the year to come! Set some goals, just be realistic about it. Don’t think that you’re going to get from 75-99 Fishing before March because you’re just setting yourself up for disappointment, and you’ll probably end up hating the skill and burning yourself out on it. Take your time, enjoy it! It is a game afterall.
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