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.
God Wars Dungeon!
Finally, after a month of waiting, the God Wars Dungeon has finally been released.
Requirements:
Either 60 Strength or 60 Agility
Requirements to Access God Areas:
Saradomin’s Encampment – Level 70 Agility
Armadyl’s Eyrie – Level 70 Ranged
Bandos’s Stronghold – Level 70 Strength
Zamorak’s Fortress – Level 70 Hitpoints
Seeing as I have none of these stats, I’m going to have to wait to get in, especially since I need more armor.
New Player Kit; Themed Servers; Full Mystic; Rune Ess Mining
For today’s updates, Jagex added a new player kit, that includes new hair styles and clothing styles.
Personally, I still like the dreadlocks the best, as the other hairdos feel unnatural. The Mohawk was very cool too, though.
Introducing the new player kits was a very good idea, since it offers a larger selection of styles that, hopefully, will diversify the players of Runescape. I can’t tell you how tired I am of looking at virtually identical players for 2 years. Now new players can choose cool colors and “unique” styles, rather than the green shirt, brown pants, bald head and brown beard that is so common among lower level players.
Check out my new do:
I still have my old dreadlocks, but I’ve changed the color of my clothes, as well as the type (I can’t remember what they’re called). I’m thinking about getting some better pants before the free week is up, which brings me to another point. Since this first week is free, you can change your appearance as much as like, without it burning a hole in your wallet.
The other update introduced “themed” worlds:
This is a great update and actually does help when looking for a good world to play certain activities. A couple notes:
- World 9 is also good for Pest Control
- World 116 is also good for generally nice players
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In other news, I also purchase a set of full mystic, for when I train magic:
At the moment, I am mining rune ess, aiming for 20k ess. I’m going to make 5k chaos runes and 15k nature runes, which I will sell for 300 each. Once I start training magic again, I’ll rate the mystic robes and write an overview.
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Check out the (somewhat) new Apple Keyboards:
The top keyboard is wired, while the bottom is wireless. Personally, I find the wireless keyboard disappointing, as it offers only the basic keyboard – no number pad or special options (page up, page down, etc.). Though the design may be fine for the regular, traveling business man, hopefully Apple will release a full version in the coming months, which can be used by those people who won’t be constantly on the go.
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!
