Long Time No See

I’ve been very busy in the past few days, getting settled into my school routine and doing the massive amount of homework I’ve been given. I should have expected the enormous workload – I am taking 4 high school courses this year – and managed my time better. Thankfully, the first two weeks of school have been short, due to holidays.

I haven’t had any time to play Runescape during the past week, but now that I have the next 4 days off, hopefully I’ll be able to get more playing in.

First off, Jagex released the “Grimy Herbs” update while I was off. The update is very useful, even though I do very little with herbs. Still, it’s nice to know that Jagex is thinking up ways to stop scammers. Also released while I was off was the Varrock  Achievement Diary. I haven’t had an opportunity to try it out, but I may do so this weekend. Hopefully my efforts will be rewarded with some nice xp – or that new armor.

Before school started, I also gained a bunch of Hunter levels. The first level I gained was 59 hunter, up 12 from 47 the week before.

I’m planning to take a break and get my farming level up, but once I do that it’ll be back to hunting, which I’m hoping to take all the way to 80.

God Wars Dungeon Video

I’ve been waiting for one of these to come out!

First up, a group of 25 guys killing the Zamarok bosses:

Second, a video of the full dungeon:

These two awesome videos (both by Coffey522) give a good feel of the new Dungeon. There are a bunch of things that I liked about the dungeon, at least from what is shown in the video.

First, the amount of difficulty just to get to the dungeon is amazing. Not only is there the cold, which drains your hit points, injuring you before you even enter the dungeon, but there are also extremely high leveled wolves outside and/or near the entrance. Also, the entrance is very remote, forcing you to push aside a boulder, which was very cool, and climb down a massive hole in the snow. Very cool.

Second, getting thrown into the battle so early on looks extremely intimidating. You don’t get time to look around and check things out – instead you’re thrown into battles from the offset. No matter what area you enter, you are automatically attacked by hundreds of malicious monsters.

Third, the graphics for the dungeon are very nice. Everything looks frozen and “destroyed”, as if a battle actually had taken place right here. Furthermore, in the main area, there is a mix of monsters from each of the different armies, adding to the chaos of a battle. I’m not sure if the monsters from opposing armies fight each other, for example Saradomin soldiers fight Zamarok soldiers, but if they did that would be very realistic.

Finally, the bosses – at least the Zamarok one – were not impossible to take down. An alter was placed within the boss area where you can recharge prayer, though it has a “waiting” time between recharges. Also, the Zamarok boss looked extremely menacing and dangerous, befitting his “I can crush mountains!” reputation.

That’s about all I can think of. I can’t wait to try it out (I just need the stats to be able to kill the bosses…), but, when I do, the dungeon will probably be a lot emptier, since everyone will have a Godsword by then.

Lots of Hunter Levels

Well, for the past few days I’ve been doing a ton of hunting, mainly swamp lizards and orange salamanders, and have gone from level 29 to level 51 hunter.

Well, those are all the hunter levels I remembered to screenie.  I’m hoping to get 54 either today or tomorrow, so that I can wear Gloves of Silence. After I buy a pair, I’ll be hunting orange salamanders until 59, then trapping red Salamanders (and at 67 black salamanders) until level 80.

Why Hunter is the Best Skill in Town (or at least in game):

1. Requires a lot of clicking to check your traps, fix them, etc.
2. You can get a large amount of experience at low levels. For example, you can catch swamp lizards (at level 29) that give 152 xp. For woodcutting, you can cut willows at level 30, which only give 67.5 xp.
3. Hunter areas are often empty.
4. When there are people, the people are very nice and it is fun talking to them.
5. The things you can hunt are diverse.
6. Dragon Implings!!!!
7. Impetous Impulses.
8. The hunter monsters look cool and give you something to look at.
9. Traps are cheap and easy to replace
10. You can make a ton of cash going from level 1 to 99.

Well, I’m off  to do more hunting!