fr33 st00f pl0x?

Mostly because of money issues, I won't be renewing my membership in January. It wouldn't be a big deal, except my account will likely be deleted by the time I can afford to reactivate it again. So I'm going to be liquidating my assets. No point in keeping stuff when it's going to go bye-bye. I'll sell what I can on the GE, then either drop the cash in the party chest or give it away. This is going to happen in January, in case there's a quest I need something for.

Hey, the best part is Kitt Fox will be available as a name!

More tears

A new record, finally!

I found out a lot of people have been having the same problem with the Loyalty points page.

In related news, my points came in yesterday and I got the JoT aura. Whoo-hoo, over 7k exp per day in dungeoneering! Much more than actually doing the skill. :P I found out the percentage increases based on my exp rather than level. Nice.

I spy

A crucial bit seems to be missing.

I do, basically, know when my points will roll over, but if you have a slot on your site for it, why not input the information?

When I did the Turkey day event on F2P, I found a guy in Varrock fountain attempting to advertise a gold-selling site. It was hilarious because he would only put one word per line, such as:

Used

Gold

Farm

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(Not a real site, btw. I know someone will check. :P )

Also, Mackers is  awesome. I left him in my house with a shit-ton of cake. :)

November Screwjob

All the way at the bottom of the news article about revamping the RS website, here's this tidbit:

"Along with the release of the new website, we will be making hi-scores a members-only feature.

 

This is for a number of reasons, but the main one is to keep them fresh. We want the hiscores to feature players who will compete with each other, tooth and nail, for hiscore glory. There are many dormant accounts within the hiscores that have not played for a very long time, and this will give new arrivals in Gielinor a shot at hiscore fame alongside the grizzled veterans on equal terms for all."

Emphasis mine.

Well, you learn something new everyday, dontcha? I had no clue that F2Pers were uncompetitive lumps; lesser gamers because they don't hand over their $7.50 (CAD) per month.

"Members only" but "on equal terms"? Does it really surprise me? Not at all. After Mark Gerhard's "only true RuneScapeers are at RuneFest" statement when it was announced anyone going to RuneFest 2010 would be getting their tickets refunded (essentially going for free, aside from travel fare). He, or Jagex as a whole, is screwing over a fair percentage of their game base.

My question is: will all the F2P accounts be eligible to be wiped out so the names can be thrown into the bin for lucky P2Pers? Dibs on Syzygy!

CSI: Al Kharid

I tried my hand at the Dominion Tower. Mostly fought as a climber, happily strangling reincarnated bosses with my whip. That's pretty much all I'm interested in there. The boss fighting - taking on all dagannoth bosses at once - isn't my stein of beer. My rewards weren't overly noteworthy, though I only fought 5 bosses before calling it quits.

One Piercing Note, however, is just what I want as a quest. Though labeled as short, it took me just over an hour to finish while using a quest guide. I really liked the music. As a follower of Guthix, I helped Anna get a closer view of the desert surrounding the abbey, ala a hard shove out of the bell tower window. Getting my god books illuminated was nice for crafting exp. I wish I had all 6 books, but the pages haven't been selling (or not to me at any rate). 

What I've been doing is kicking back and doing bits of skills. Atm, working skills up to the nearest million mark, provided they're anywhere close to it. I'm mad at myself for allowing the lure of the eastern outfit to catch me. When loyalty points came out, I was 250 short of getting the JoT aura, which would help my dungeoneering immensely.

Fine print

I did 2 slayer tasks on Tuesday. The first, dust devils, I got lucky with the spot I was killing in and was left alone. I decided to try my luck with a second task of gargoyles (after canceling 4 tasks).

What a nightmare.

It reminded me of the first week when summoning was released. 90% of the slayer monsters were camped. After 10 world hops (that's my limit for hopping), I talked to Kuradal and changed tasks, skipping 6 more before landing 180 fire giants.

Now onto penguin points. Either I didn't read it correctly or, more likely, it wasn't clear in the new post, but did you know you could spy this week's penguins twice? Well, I missed out on extra dungeoneering exp, though I did get the 2x and 88 dungeoneering. I didn't bother to try for W60. When I checked, it was full, so I moved to W71. Just be aware of trap springers.

Appropriately named

The wicked hood is just that. I've used it twice and love it. It's just what I need for a little bit of runecrafting every day. I messed up the first day, of course. I fed it talismen, then used one of the teleports to the nature altar (the hood acts as a tiara to enter an altar) and learned I hadn't unlocked the pure essence part. So I reread the RS Wiki and found out someone had edited it to be actually helpful. I'd wasted a bit of gold on the talisman when I could've just used an omni talisman/tiara and been done with it. The bit about the elemental talisman wasn't too clear to me, so I killed off a bunch of abyssal walkers until I got the drop, then fed it to the hood. Overboard, I know. The hood works as advertised. I can get my 100 pure ess daily and teleports to all the altars. I've been sticking with nats since I use those the most and getting 10 law runes as well. If I do nothing else during this 3 month membership, the hood was worth it.

TBH, the other reason I became a member again was to get this month's loyalty points in order to buy the Jack of Trades aura. Anything to get dungeoneering up without technically doing any of the skill. Math is not my strong point, but rough calculations put me getting 99 dungeoneering somewhere in 2013 (using JoT aura, TI, ToG and PP), but I'd guess a new skill will be out by then. I am looking forward to getting level 90 just to wear the 90 in All Skills cape.

I did the Halloween event, too. I liked it. Helping Frank and Horses with the rooftop fireworks was by far the best. I like those types of puzzles where I know how things move and not overly complicated (also no move/time limit).

I will not be happy

Firstly, I farmed all those herb seeds I picked up from slayer. I've only kept toadflax, spirit weed and felstalk herbs, the rest were sold for mucho profit. All I have left on the farming front are those morchella spores.

Secondly, I'm fishing in LRC (W88) to rid myself of almost 11k living minerals. Yes, I could've sold them, but, though I dislike being in LRC due to the lagfest it is, I want the fishing and cooking exp. I don't spend a lot of time down there. I pack up about 500 minerals in a go and fish while waiting for my morchellas to grow.

Thirdly, I've just tried out The Pit. The one time my agility cape is useful! I found a scout at the gnome course and found out this guy must be related to Pirate Pete (my aching head). The games are simple, though take getting a rhythm before success. The ones I tried I failed either by running out of time or turns; the falling rocks one I plain got squished! What I think the gorilla mask may be used for is an alternative to the monkey greegree - wear the mask and be safe on Ape Atoll.

Fourthly, I'm working up the effort to take on Branches of Darkmeyer. The difficulty doesn't worry me so much as the motivation. I'm not into getting my quest cape back, so what reason is there to do it? The  title? The medallion?

Fifthly, I gave poke on Merch's blog and found out she'd been banned for macroing. From what I could gleen, she was stupid enough to follow a link in an email Jagex supposedly sent her. Honestly, I felt Merch was the one person who *wouldn't* ever fall for that bullshit.

Sixthly, I sniped an enemy's old username. I wonder if he's noticed yet? :P

I got 24 skillcapes and Dungeoneering ain't one of 'em

Last skillcape for a while. My pride is I did it without using a dwarf cannon. :) One thing I wanted to do was cash in my slayer points for slayer dart runes, but I haven't yet. I think it's worth doing to sell off the death runes.

I found the source of that weird smell coming from the basement

An unexpected drop while doing a slayer task. I finally had something positive to update on my Runewise achievement list (so many things to uncheck :( ).

Oh, I learned a new sign of who's a bot - only bots use the Abyss to runecraft. Siik Rephase insisted I was one when he killed me in the Wildy. I paid him back, though. I went straight back to the Wildy, called him a chicken and used my corpse to hide my bones. :P

Diggy, diggy rocks

Done with mining! Now to swap all those lava titan pouches for shards. :P I'll focus more on slayer, maybe upping the daily exp gained to 50k.

Newfound info

A couple of things I learned that do work during the BEW:

- checking your jade vine farming exp (I got 1650 exp with 1.1 bonus)

- 2 things for LFM: golden mining outfit and dwarven ancestor bonus exp stack with BEW bonus

I'll likely get 99 mining from this, too. I are a happy 'mech. :D

A ready teddy

I'm about as ready for the upcoming BEW as I can get. I'll be poking about in the LFM, providing Jagex deigns that place BEW compatible, after selling the handful of long bones to Barlak. I really wish Jagex would post a complete list of what is and isn't allowed for the upcoming BEW. I remember doing the circus last time, then finding out it wasn't included anymore. Well, anyway, my list: turn in long bones, no life LFM at long as possible (to 1.1), make potions, craft fire bstaves, runecraft at ZMI.

One thing that did make me happy was the updated RS toolbar. The list of activities is customizable, so I ticked out the ones I don't do. All I have showing up now are bstaves, Bert, kingdom management and ToG.

ION, anyone looking to get a lot of the felstalk seeds and morchella spores, go kill nechs. I got a lot from them this morning - 8and 54 respectively.

Two four

Oh so excited. I'm on a nice, rounded number for my total level (2460) and the downhill for slayer and mining is (relatively) fast approaching! I'll get a double 99 for my birthday, which will be way better than the provincial election I got everyone else.

TWIMC

I don't read every item Jagex throws out on the homepage. I wasn't interested in getting a 15% discount on membership since Jagex keeps refusing my credit card(s). That meant I had to hear second-hand about the BEW coming up on Sept. 9-12; I'm now glad I went back to the fallen star at Miscellania (where I heard about it).

I intend to take advantage of the fourth BEW, as I did with the last three. Likely mining, if LFM is allowed, since monster areas will be swamped which means no slayer. I'll stockpile my daily battlestaves and the spoils of my queendom (coal and herbs, so be sold when prices are peaking).

Nerd rage

Anyone who tells you the LFM is dead needs to hang out with me. The last tenday has given me such a hatred for that place! There is always someone else mining there. You know, that's cool. It's not another miner that burns my butter. It's another miner who is too fucking lazy to find his/her own way to the new 50% outlet. You wanna follow people who don't give a shit? GO TO WORLD 71. I do my damnedest to get  away from these remora: world hop, dance (they follow me, I follow them, creating this dance), trick them into mining 100% flow, ignore, but I can't stand it any longer. I can't even come up with words to say why it pisses me off so much.

Now it's another struggle to find the third best mining exp option. I believe it's mining gold at the Keldagrim mine (has gold, addy and runite). >.< If account sharing weren't ethically and rule wrong, I'd beg Marlaine to swap; I wouldn't mind running agility right now.

Dealing with it

An open question for anyone who cares to answer:

How do you respond to someone who says you're a botter? Ignore them? Laugh? Try to convince them you aren't? 

So, this started at the LFM (lava flow mine) today. I'm digging out the crust and the other guy, ALMIGHTYJATT says out of nowhere, "Haro". I read it as 'hello', but didn't respond because people say shit in the public chat that's meant for clan or friends or another window they have open. A few minutes later, he calls me a bot. 

So I said, "Just because I don't talk doesn't make me a bot."

"Well, alot of botters don't talk. And most people bot these days."

"If you think I'm a bot, then report me."

And then he goes into a mini rant about Jagex not doing anything about bots because they support by buying membership (imo, very true).

I understand that botters are more prevalent than ever. I see them constantly during my daily slayer trips. I don't automatically assume the person skilling along side me and not cursed with verbal diarrhea is a bot.

Revenge of not much happening

Today I got 97 slayer. Only 15,585 abyssal demons to go! (If only it were that easy. :P ) I've been toying with the idea of having a drop party, mostly of slayer monster items. I guess it comes down to either making money from my own hard work or letting strangers get the gee pees.

On the mining front, I'm used to the lava flow and head down there on my own. I do have the golden outfit and 2 gilded picks. Another 50 days or so to finish that skill.

My queendom is making a tidy, monthly profit from herbs and coal. Selling all that netted me 4M (gross of 8.5M). 

Sorry it's not exciting, but once you get to the high end of skills (especially ones you despise), you'll understand.

Moving on up

Remember when nVIDIA was a good company for video cards? Believe it or not, I got 2 green SoD and my compy had to start from BIOS. Jesus. >.<  I've turned my RS settings back to 2006 and will keep away from high traffic areas like LRC, hoping that will help. So I've got to mine at the lava flow which I'm not happy about because it means I have to mine for 2 hours to get the exp I was getting at LRC. I know that it comes across as petty to be complaining about playing a game for 3-5 hours a day. I was looking forward to the gee pees from selling coal and gold ore. Well, it's better than going "old school" with power mining iron/granite.

What is this I don't even

While I was killing dark beasts, another dude was there and he told me to use turmoil and ppots. I said I didn't need to because I had time. (Isn't that why people use turmoil; to speed up killing?) He then said, "Otp costs absolut** nothing". Wth does otp mean? Overload turmoil prayer? Oh that puss? One true pairing?

ION, the cape front is looking on target. Mining getting finished in 74 days (50k exp per day) and slayer in 84 days (36k exp per day; might speed up with putting lamps/dragonkin lamps, PP and TI into it). I've already picked out where I want to get the final mining level up and the slayer one will likely be at the jade vine.

Bank video

The latest on my bank, includes a sale on an ancient page 1 and how I make my money.

Early

The long list of thanks to the people who kept me from performing a self lobotomy with an ice pick:

IRL Friends:

Myst Drake

pourcour95

Tazlike

Podcasts:

PrimeMar RuneScape Podcast (Marlaine and Primefalcon)

The Shaft (Brent, Wes and Eric)

YouTubers:

Veriax

Tord aka mynameisnotlilly

Squee913

ArchmageMelek

Coestar

Maz aka extremebeyond and the I Am Sux team

Foolscap77

Kage848

AvidyaZen

Bananapielord

Simon and Lewis aka Yogscast

GixG17

Madmommy and Yam

Mhykol

Luclin, Mrsluclin and lilethan000 aka minecraftwb

BitBurner, JuneyBug and Tiniest Bit aka minecrapdotcom

mmillss

Paul Soares Jr. and family

Necroscope86

Razorflamekun

Welsh Pixie

Wolv21

Lag In The Late Night

Theunclegodfather

13 days

The last time I was this excited over finishing a skill was 99 cooking. I have 80,279 pure essence, likely more than I need thanks to strykewyrms, to craft and a bit over 1.2M exp to earn. I pushed myself hard today since I had 174k exp to go to 98. I also had 2 half hour naps in my desk chair, lol.

Seems legit

I signed up to the Loyalty Rewards program, once I found the link lurking under Miscellaneous Guides in the KB. Anyway, I got my 500 starter points and went to Burthorpe to check out the shop. I'm not certain how long the sales are going to last, but I strongly suggest getting the high-priced item you want while it's reduced in cost. I bought the Reverence aura for 400 points and the dervish outfit for 100.

The auras are glitched or something, according to the forums, so take that with a salt block. I'm going to wait to use mine until I've got a slayer task that has me using prayer pots. I can see how a few of them would give an advantage - Runic Accuracy, Sharpshooter, Reverence, Jack of All Trades and Surefooted - the last one is great (no obstacle fail on agility course for 20 minutes) and I'd get it if I wasn't already not failing obstacles.

I'm going to try to get all the emotes and outfits, a title (not sure which one), and Call of the Sea and JoAT auras.

Hot Tip: Next few days would be a great time to make lot of money selling the spare Robin hat.

Buy an umbrella

Note to self: Troll Invasion done on June 26 at 5p.

So I finally got off my butt and signed up with the Imperial Guard. I'm going with the repairing part rather than the Fight Caves troll waves. My time was 6 minutes, which I don't feel is horrible for a first attempt (14,141 exp in dungeoneering for 390 kills). I do wish all my buckets would fill with oil when I click on the well. I got the hang of it mostly, so it's down to working out the strategy. The walls were constantly needing repair and I called up for help 3 times.

I an effigy 2 days ago. The last skill was 97 mining, so I went to see about the cost of a mature dwarven stout. It was 36k for a single pint. I decided to try brewing my own, spending my last POE to buy 2 batches of "The Stuff". I checked Keldagrim and Port Phas breweries and both had normal stout in them. :( Back to buy that pint for 40k just to get 30k exp.

The long slog

Hard for me to believe I have this level. I can do all the assists, yay!

I did get  new video and audio cards, so slayer and mining can get back on track. I think I'll start slayer tomorrow, keep doing my daily 100k exp rc'ing and work on mining after rc'ing is finished.

Runes made today

How many runes I made today (100k exp):

Air - 41

Mind - 69

Water - 135

Earth - 191

Fire - 266

Body - 348

Cosmic - 383

Chaos - 524

Astral - 403

Nature - 847

Law - 892

Death - 941

Blood - 605

Soul - 398

Math weirdness

I've been using Runewise for a couple of years and I'm finally going to ask about the relationship between goal percentage completed and exp remaining.

Using the picture above as a reference, can someone explain to me why mining, which has the most exp left to gain, has the highest completion percentage?

Derpina

Hey, I forgot I can change graphic settings in RuneScape. I've been moping the last 2 weeks at being unable to work on things for no reason. Anyway, I'm flashing back to 2006 and dealing with trippy teleports. It's not lag per se, just the onboard card unable to deal with the teleport animations. Mining is out. I hung out in the lava flow mine for a few days, doing maths, and came to the realization that the LRC are better for exp (and I want money for the ores). Slayer is semi-okay, depending on the task and number of people around me. Runecraft, to my dismay, is just hunky dory. :/ Well, I'll be putting in a lot of time at ZMI than I want. Squeaking out 3 hours of making runes there every day will get me a cape just as my subscription runs out.

Happenstance

While walking over to pick up a copy of John Scalzi's The Ghost Brigades, I found this on a random shelf:

I read it on the ride home last night. It's average for a fantasy book; nothing specially about it. Two things irked me though. The first, which I'm guessing is an editing error, is the misspelling of desired, spelled deSired. Yes, with a capital S in the middle and yes, appearing twice. The second is writing the Wilderness as The Wilderness with 'the' capitalized.

ION, I went to buy a new graphics card (and audio card) and found out the software shop is "closed but reopening soon though we're not quite sure when". I am quite behind with gaming, RuneScape especially, and I don't feel comfortable shoving people off their computers just to get my game on.

Trolling me softly

My video card died yesterday morning and the on-board card is absolute shit for any sort of gaming. I'm so close to 95 mining, too!

The top pick: dragon vs. rune

I've been using a dragon pick for a while. I only heard the dragon pick was the best to use in LRC, but it seemed that people just went with what everyone else used. I decided to finally compare it to a rune pick and see if it's truly worth the extra 12M.

Mining level for both: 94

Where mining: living rock caverns (LRC)

Time: 61 minutes

Outfit worn: agile top and legs, Ardy 4 cape, ROW, glory, Fally shield 4 and boots of lightness

Lava titan used for both

I went for the gold deposits in the central and southern areas. When they were depleted, I went for the southern coal deposits.

Dragon pick 58,490 exp in 61 minutes

Rune pick: 55,195 exp in 61 minutes

Experience difference: 3,295

Costs: dragon 12.4M / rune 18.9k

Both tests were some of the best mining days I've had. At least one of the gold deposits was mineable for most of the hour.

For me, the dragon pick is just a show piece when using the LRC. The rune pick does just as well and costs a fraction. The only time I've seen a dragon pick be worth the high price is mining for runite.

You just can't get enough

What I do for runecrafting.

Yes, I will be making more shitty videos, so stay tuned (or change the channel).

New shiny things

I got myself 3 of the 5 new capes - level 80 in all skills, veteran and classic capes. The all shit done one is very pretty, but not one that will ever grace my shoulders and the all skills 99 cape will be mine in, oh, 5 1/2 years.

I'm still on the lookout for a skill-friendly clan without many required monthly events.

ION, is anyone who plays Minecraft having a shitload of trouble with it? I'm either lagging horribly or getting the BSOD or both.

Lvl 138 LFC

Above made me glad I killed the adult black dragons instead of the baby. His name is noir. :)

No pic no proof? What about video?

A bank video showing what I have and don't have. No hundreds of millions of geepee, no full Torva, no red phat.

Huh, I can't get it to embed. How did I do it with the other one? Here's a linky for the curious: Bank for April 2011.

Skill progress

Estimates of when I should get 99 mining, rc and slayer if I keep doing what I'm doing.

Mining - August 23 doing an hour a day every day; just down there as long as a lava titan is summoned. Might be much earlier if I get the gumption to no-life train in LRC, usually happens after level 95.

Runecrafting - November 18, doing  ZMI for 27k exp. I do about 36 runs or 3 giant pouch degrades.Thinking about about putting peng points in rc instead of dungeoneering. I haven't figured those into the equation though (37,200 exp per week).

Slayer - November 18 with 22k exp a day. Most of the slayer tasks are more than 22k and I love that. I also kill my jade vine and that probably where I'll get 99.

See me

What sucks about the making a clan update? You can't make a clan by yourself or with alts. :( I am sad because I had plans.

Null

RuneScape daily

Yes, I'm going for 99 mining and runecrafting along with slayer this year. 

Mining is not bad. I mine in LRC for 61 minutes with a lava titan every day. I should have that done in 5 months.

Slayer is on schedule, if not slightly ahead. I have given up on doing any TT after getting ganked during the last one.

Runecrafting is dead boring. I've made attempts to get exp assisting, but no one's biting. Actually, the only assist I see being begged for is 97. So I just run through ZMI until my pouches get repaired 3 times (about 36 runs @ 1872 p ess) or my eyes bleed.

I completed A Clockwork Syringe. I was annoyed that the quests guides I read only said "kill it" about the Barrelchest MKII. RS Wiki was the most useful, telling me to range/halberd from doorways, though every guide gave the impression the special attack is uber dangerous. I didn't notice it at all; my health went from 990 down to 930. I only got hit by the special once (I ran away when it gave its cue), so maybe that helped. I ranged in black dhide with broad bolts and an extreme range pot. The best part is that I'm 500 exp from 81 dungeoneering. Where are those random events now?

ION, I've made a foray into the "making videos" thing the kids have been doing. My voice is ultra cool when I hear it played back. /preening

It's ok

First elite reward and none of it is selling:

Regret

Unlocking ice strykewyrms is becoming a bad move. Not that I had plans for those 2k points. I've dumped a lot of money into blood runes to be able to kill them as I like. Most of what they drop, I keep and use. I grow and sell the herbs and the staves of light are nicely profitable just not enough dropped so far to recoup my costs.

I decided to remake the elemental armors I'd sold. I got the crazy idea that we'd eventually need each piece to complete the quest series. Also, I'm tired of having to mine, smelt and prime bars when the next quest comes out. After getting about 20 primed bars, I made the mind helm and went to charge 2 bars for the body body. I followed the steps in the RS Wiki except the tower wasn't getting powered, so I reset my moves which reset the whole puzzle.

>.<

Yeah... 

Thank Guthix they're tradeable!

Improved RoW

I made one RoW to test out. I went to Bork first and got 1 diamond, an extra ruby and emerald, 3 extra crimsons and greens. Not bad, so I may go back to killing Bork daily (I've been avoiding it due to PKers). I went off to do my fire giant task. The above pic is all the loot received after getting the message about better drops (shows in red in chatbox). I like the gems which aren't too whoo-hoo, but 1k air orbs and a dd are sweet. I checked their drop list on RSWiki and so awesome! I will be wearing a RoW during slayer tasks. I'm off to see if it gives me anything "good" from my clue scroll. BRB

EDIT: The clue reward wasn't anything interesting.

Deja Vu?

You know, this place ... this emote ... I've been here before.

Tools

This is pretty much what happens when someone calls me a bot.

My BEW plans are:

- turn in long/curved bones

- teleport to Seers' and do the agility bit of the circus

- barbarian course

When the experience boost drops to 1.1:

- herby

- making and alching battlestaves

- ZMI rc'ing

- pouch making

Best weapon in the game

Enhanced Excalibur hands down. It's a staple in my slayer arsenal, alongside the gem bag, bone crusher and alch runes. Though I take along bunyips/unicorns, the EE is my main healing. I use it to get to Jad every time, during that barrows trip I got talked into joining, during PP and doing treasure trails.

ION, 98 agility reached.

Sore feet

Quick update on how it's going. 2 more levels of agility left. If I stick with the pace I've got going, I'll get 98 next Thursday and use the BEW to chip away to 99. I tells ya, I'll be happy to see the back end of the barbarian course.

John 3:16

Did my first clue scroll in a really long time; a level 3 no less with no trips to the Wildy. Color me amazed. I got a court summons that I did and earned a rainbow wig which I'm styling while running agility. Someone called me out, telling me I'm a liar after I said my agility level. He insisted the advanced course needed 95 and I couldn't possibly have 94. *facepalm* I corrected him, though if he believed me I don't know. 

A little game I like to play at the barb course is pushing people off the log balance, especially people who get the rope swing ahead of me even though they're 2 people behind me. I don't usually run on the same world because there are always 4-9 people running as well and it's just a pain in the ass on the rope swing.

Slayer is going well so far. I do 1 task a day and that's close to the magical 18k experience. I'm debating a drop part of accumulated items.

Jaxana said something that I totally agree with: "Being efficient usually makes my eyeballs bleed."

Bot is the new noob

pourcour95- thanks for the kick in the ass to get back to agility and the slayer goal. <3

The long of it: I've got fire for agility and a set date to finish it. Sixty days from now or April 14th, I'll have that skill done with and another schmexy cape for the house closet. I'm going take a stab at finishing slayer this year, too. All I need is to gain 18,163 xp per day. I'm already killing my jade vine and will throw in a visit to the phoenix lair (not doing Bork or skeletal horror) for 2k xp a day, so another 16k in actual tasks. I'm not sure whether to keep putting penguin points into dungeoneering or change over to slayer. What my plan atm is is* to get dungeoneering to 80, which is 6 more weeks of peng points (providing I can get all 16 each week), then switch over to slayer. As for mining,omg noty. The fastest method is concentrated gold and logging onto W84/77 for that is giving me hives. I haven't found a method that works for me yet.

*not a typo

Friends will be friends

I wanted to do agility the last few days. I found a great set of videos to watch in a separate window. Instead, I'm chopping mage trees, fletching the logs into longbows and yakking to friends on IM. :P

Glitch or smart tactic?

I watched Logdotzip's Greed video in which he talks about losing at the duel arena. He mentions his opponent used the Excalibur "glitch" to heal up. I'm thinking this "glitch" is activating the special before going into a duel and it heals you while fighting. Is it really a "glitch" or a smart tactic? To me, it's just playing smart.

Sucking it up anyways

Have I mentioned how much I hate agility?

Have I mentioned how much more I hate training agility with other people?

The more you know

Firstly, is anyone else getting this pop-up window when on RS Wikia? It's a window that shows up when I try to go away from the Wiki such as closing the tab/window, clicking on a bookmark, etc.. It's as long as your monitor screen so there's no way to adjust the pane. I've been using the 3 finger salute and stopping Firefox in the Task Manager to get rid of it.

Lastly, there's a redberry bush in Draynor village near the pigpen.

Hati wolf notes

I went out to kill the Hati wolf after lunch and here's what I know for sure:

- magic exp counts with teleports and hi alching

- head and paws can happen in a single drop

- easier to kill with a group (today/tomorrow good if you don't have friends/clan)

Speculation:

- attacks with magic

- consensus says it has low defense

What I don't know:

- do damage to get drops or just attack or just be near it? (mine died in 5 hits, idk if I did any damage)

- what to wear? (mine died in 5 hits and no one took damage)

Confessions

When I started RuneScape, I didn't realize f2p and p2p had separate worlds. I thought I could use certain gates on f2p worlds to escape beggars because I was a member. I also thought I could use Camelot teleport to get through those gates when I was strictly f2p. Lastly, I tried using an Unholy book to bless (unbless?) a jug of wine, hoping to make Zamorak wine.

ION, the cyclopes room is still full. I did get a dragon defender from my first colossus and will try for another dd later this week (hoping it's not as full because of school).

So far

Not too bad for only 18 and a half in-game days. Picking up what quests I can finish before time runs out.

Democracy at work

Membership is coming due in a week. Pick either Rhonda or Kitt* for the renewal.

*I know I retired her, but she has a sling and wants to do crazy shit with it.

If the first name you think of isn't Wedge Antilles

we are no longer friends. :(

EDIT: Byes Aximili. Lots of luvs!!!111!

Wayside

Been caught up doing things for the holidays and dragged into multiplay gaming (Minecraft and DnD), so any time on RuneScape has been a couple hours/day. Dahmaroc statue pieces are pissing me off this week. Still missing mining and cooking though that's about all I've been doing when logged in. I've thought about unretiring Kitt because she's pretty well finished with things aside from working on cape collecting. Then I checked up on her missing capes and they aren't skills I like. :P All the dungeoneering posts from Jaxana and Merch are getting me interested in doing that again, though I remember quickly why I don't like it - monsters too difficult to kill (I don't expect them to be easy, but exhausting resources on a forgotten warrior is ridiculous.) and soloing (the 2 people I did do a dungeon with [they used me for herby poison pots, bastards :P ] have moved on).

So yeah, no posts mean nothing interesting has happened. Just working on doing dailies and saving for dragon armor (chain, skirt, boots, shield 15M iirc). That's mostly for looks and the few quests' combat, so I wonder if I should spend the cash on other skills.