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.
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):
- Requires a lot of clicking to check your traps, fix them, etc.
- 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.
- Hunter areas are often empty.
- When there are people, the people are very nice and it is fun talking to them.
- The things you can hunt are diverse.
- Dragon Implings!!!!
- Impetous Impulses.
- The hunter monsters look cool and give you something to look at.
- Traps are cheap and easy to replace
- You can make a ton of cash going from level 1 to 99.
Well, I’m off to do more hunting!
Just Got Back
Well, I haven’t posted in a week, due to my being on vacation. My family and I visited the Baseball Hall of Fame and th battlefields at Gettysburg. It was very interesting, and I learned a lot more about the battle. It’s too bad there were no reenactments going on.
Anyway, before I left for vacation I gained a bunch of Hunter levels, 16 in total. Since I’ve gotten back, I’ve gained another 6. I plan to spend the next few weeks working on hunting, mainly hunting tropical wagtails, then moving on to Larupias once I hit level 31. Here’s a pic of me getting Hunter level 19:
I’m also hoping that hunter will give me a good amount of xp giving random events, which I can use to get my runecrafting level to 44.
Runescape is Good for You
Found this while surfing the BBC site. It’s very old, but still interesting. I find it interesting that a game could be teaching life skills, not that I’m surprised. Runescape teaches hard work (getting 72 woodcutting in 3 weeks) and budgeting/money management. It’s nice to know that my “addiction” is doing something other than ruining my eyes.
After reading the article, I would like to pose a question to my readers: What do you do to “chill” in Runescape? Whenever I need to “chill”, I head to Relleka. It’s usually pretty quiet and pickpocketing Relleka citizens is a lot of fun. I especially like the Viking style and all the wintry terrain. It reminds me of a quiet, Christmas snowfall, which I find very beautiful and relaxing. When I’m here, I usually spend time thieving fish from the stalls, and cooking them.
What is your favorite place to relax or hang out with friends?
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Other the past few days, I’ve worked on a bunch of things, namely 40 runecrafting and the Grand Tree quest, which was pretty good. The demon was easy (I maged it with 40 mage), though if I had meleed it, I expect it would have ended quite differently. The Gnome King’s naivety was very annoying – he seemed to be unable to accept that Glough (the antagonist) was really evil. It seems like all the quests include one of 3 things:
- A Naive king, lord, or some other official
- A guy who hates humans, monsters, or everyone else
- A megalomaniac who wants to conquer Misthlin, Ardougne, or all of Runescape
The list is a bit depressing. Unfortunately, it’s also a little biased, since I’ve only done a few quests. But personally, I would like to see an interesting and innovative quest – something that hasn’t been done already.
Oh, before I forget (again) I changed my player’s look again. The red was starting to hurt my eyes, so I changed to naturally brownish colors. My hairstyle is black samurai.
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In other news, I saw the Bourne Ultimatum yesterday, which was an awesome movie. It was very intense and action packed, and not at all confusing. The entire thing was realistic, even if not plausible. I highly recommend it. Now I just have to watch the first two.
New Interface; The Lost Tribe; 55 Fletching; 40 Agility
As part of a recent update, Jagex has added a new clan chat system, which allows players to chat on a clan only frequency. Since I don’t have a clan, I probably won’t be using it for a while, so it’s a bit of a useless update for me.
The new clan chat isn’t the only major update from Jagex – the entire Runescape interface has been changed making it, in my opinion, much more modern.
Looks great, doesn’t it? (The HAM Robes are for the Death to the Dorgeshuun Quest) The new interface, except for chat, works the same as the previous interface. In a nutshell, the All button will display all your chats using the given settings. So, if you have private chat on friends and clan chat off, you will not see the clan chat, private chat will be friends only, and the public chat (if on) will be displayed normally. The Game button allows you to view only the messages from the game itself. Effectively, you are turning off all of your chats. The Public and Private buttons, if left-clicked, will allow you to view only public chat or only private chat. By right-clicking you can set the options for that filter (as Jagex calls it), which is how it will appear when you select the All button. The Clan chat works in pretty much the same way, but with more options when you right-click the filter.
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In the past few days, I have gained a bunch of levels in Runescape, as well as completed a whole new quest.
I spent a few hours playing Skullball to get my agility up. I highly recommend Skullball as a training method for low to medium level players, since you can make 750 xp in about 3 minutes 30 seconds. I went from level 28 to level 40 in a single day.
Skullball is a simple and fun game. The goals is to move the ball through a course, scoring in each of the “bone” goals, then shooting it into a hole at the end. Unlike many other agility courses, Skullball can actually be fun, and is quick xp, which makes it very worthwhile.
Afterwards, I decided to get rid of my willow logs by fletching them into Willow longbows. Altogether, I obtained a total of 5 levels, so I can now make maple longbows.
Finally, I completed the Lost Tribe quest, which was short and easy. I’ve been doing several quests lately since the give quick xp and access to new areas of Runescape. For example, I can now access the Dorgeshuun mines, which I couldn’t before. Overall, the Lost Tribe quest was fun, but easy. Not much walking was involved either, which was great.
Now I’m off to work on my Construction, which I need at 20 (mine is 1) to begin the Fremmenik Isles quest. Wish me luck!
Lots of Levels!
A lot has happened in the past 4 days, since I last posted. I’ve gotten 5 slayer levels and 11 runecrafting levels (3 more since the pic).
I’m very happy about the 38 runecrafting since it means I can make the chaos runes I will need to cast Crumble Undead. The slayer level was just annoying to get, but I’m aiming for level 50 so I can use a slayer staff and auto cast Crumble Undead. The fishing level simply got me to the spot I need for Legends and Heroes quests.
The runecrafting was tedious, however it has payed off so far. I reached level 35 by crafting earth runes, for Crumble Undead, and then did the What Lies Bellow quest, which got me to 38. The quest was definitely worthwhile. The runecrafting experience was great and the shortcut to the Chaos Alter is very useful when crafting chaos runes since you only need to navigate one floor. When I go to craft chaos runes I’ll try to get some pics of the temple, which is very cool.
On a side note, if there was no shortcut, I would probably not even consider crafting chaos runes. To reach the alter you have to navigate through a maze. The maze itself is not too difficult, however it does take a large chunk of time, especially since you must navigate 4 floors. Thanks to the shortcut, you only have to navigate 2.
For slayer, I was assigned 56 crocodiles to kill, which are located in the desert near Pollnivneach. Due to the heat, I was forced to constantly take breaks to refill my water skins, which was very annoying. Also, the crocodiles would swim out into the river, where you could not attack them. Instead, you would have to wait for them to come to your side of the river.
At this point I am just killing Baby Blue Dragons for attack and prayer experience. My goal is to have 70 attack, and, at least, 43 prayer. After that I’ll be cutting 3k yews, to purchase an Abyssal Whip. Unfortunately, when I purchase it, I won’t be using it much, since I’ll need to completely reestablish my financial base, or, in other words, regain my original 950k. Anyway, Baby Dragons do hit rather often, so food is required – food that I don’t have. For that reason I am in Catherby, fishing lobsters. The goal is to have 500 of these.
Woodcutting Level 75, 41 Prayer
After a ton of hard work, I finally got level 75 woodcutting. The 41 prayer came from a genie lamp.
Woodcutting Level 74
After about 1k willows I finally got level 74 woodcutting.
73 Woodcutting, 50 Fletching
Wow, 60k+ experience off willows in 1 day. That’s a record for me.
Got this off the logs.
A Ton of Skills; Going Runescape
First, a bit of news. I have decided to go Runescape with this blog and make it into a Runescape blog. Basically, I will post primarily about Runescape.
Anyway, I have obtained a huge amount of levels in the past few days. The first is level 29 Runecrafting:
The second is level 48 fletching, though I only have a pic of level 45:
The next level is 46 crafting:
Well, that’s it for levels. I also have some pics from the new classroom random event, which actually gives a good reward.
The last and most exciting part was the completion of my Level 1 clue scroll, which also happened to be my first.
From Left: 9 Salmon, Steel Pickaxe, Green ele’ (elegant) legs, 40 Body runes
I was able to sell the legs for 225k, which isn’t bad. Now I need 54k to reach 1m.
