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.