Runescape is a game where you have to manage limited resources. You need to do things as well as you can without running out of other things - food, prayer points, gp, spare time, adrenalin... all limited resources that need managing. You would think that with 10 years of running and balancing a resource management game, Jagex would be quite good at spotting the sort of issues that happen in these systems, but with RuneLabs, they have made a catastrophic resource management error, as I'll explai
As mentioned in earlier posts, all I have left now to get the Completionist cape is a LOT of combat, most of it ridiculously difficult. I've been trying to teach myself EoC combat, mostly by slaying. I've knocked off the last semi-combat task (make a tuska mask), and I'm starting to get more used to EoC (I still hate it though, it makes things needlessly complex and has no benefits over pre-eoc), but to stand any chance of killing the toughest bosses in the game, I also need all the help I can g
Well, I think this is going about as well as expected....
Why indeed?
Undull things some? Yes! Undull things some!
Nope, not clicking that...
"Remove EoC" seems a popular suggestion, but someone dares to take things further!
Hmm, need you say more? It's tempting to say yes.... but it's also tempting to say no, never.
I recently finished off one of the 3 port storylines, leaving me with only combat-related things left to do for the completionist cape.
As Jagex have failed to reintroduce anything resembling the old combat system, and nerfed Legacy to the point where it's impossible to kill most bosses, if I want to get any further, I have to learn the art of not dying while babysitting a row of clocks, or as it's better known, EoC.
To train myself, I've been slaying a lot using EoC and triggering abili
So, I've unlocked the title 'of the Meilyr' by harvesting 50 moss. This was quite slow, but I was fairly lucky with the number of moss I harvested each time, and I finished off a lot of combat-related pillars while slaying for 'of the Iowerth' title... which I also finished. This was a real slog, getting 8 dark beast tasks from Morvran meant getting the wrong task from him, heading off to the lowest Slayer master, Spria in Taverley and doing a really, really low level task (kill 16 spiders, for
Carrying on with my long term plan of crossing things off the completionist cape list, I've made progress with a few tasks.
"Finish Hyu-Ji, Quin or Eastern Curiosities storyline" - This is quite hard to judge, as I haven't seen a complete list of all the storyline parts anywhere, but I think I'm fairly close on at least one of these, and have been getting a storyline mission most days.
"Find all 4 pieces of the reef walker cape forgotten scroll" Having taken a break from concentrating on
I've continued gradually knocking things off my completionist cape to-do list, and working out what's involved in the other bits. As the saying goes, the devil is in the details...
As expected, I polished off the rest of the Mahjarrat memories mini-quest - 5 hours of grind interrupted with enough interesting lore to make it feel quite worthwhile. If you're not 99 div, I recommend this as very worthwhile.
Next, I "aided Lord Amlodd in cleansing shadow cores". This felt a bit like a 3 simi
Several of the things on my completionist cape to-do list seem to involve collecting memories, and I've been gradually working on them this weekend. Finding all the memoriam crystals on Prifddinas was the one I tackled first. These are a strange mixture of finding things lying around and meeting very precise and unusual conditions. One in particular needs you to gain 400k xp, then drink a very unusual potion - not something you would ever find out by accident. The moss pillars involved in this o
I’ve been knocking a few of the easier things off my completionist cape to-do list. Here are hte things I’ve made progress on:
Quests: Just “Birthright of the Dwarves” left to finish off, the new quest was short and fun. I’m going to move this into the ‘Nasty combat things that I'm putting off as long as possible’ section when I next update this list, as I've only got the ridiculous boss fight to do.
Unlock every music track: Only 3 left to unlock. This was fun in places and really annoy
In my recent list of things I need to do for a completionist cape, the following appeared: "Hunt the Thalassus 10 times".
I have successfully done this. The problem comes when I try to write about doing so, because sentences on that topic that start "I have hunted several..." require the next word to be the plural form of the word thalassus, and it is not immediately clear what exactly that word ought to be.
It's tempting to skirt round the issue, perhaps by merely writing 'done' next to
Because I've got nothing much else to do in-game, I've gradually been whittling away at the long list of things needed for a completionist cape. Here's a progress update and full list (if you try to touch the cape in Varrock museum, it helpfully lists everything you need to do).
Quests: I finished The Mighty Fall, after finding out there's a trick to Graador: Use EoC and Wear no armour. His nastiest attack hits for 40% of your armour stat, so the less armour you wear the less it hurts, and t
As previously mentioned, after a year grinding my Digital Media skills, I recently passed my masters degree.
This week we had our graduation ceremonies, which involves dressing up in silly robes and having your name read out in the local cathedral, which is a pretty amazing place, it was built a few centuries before Columbus was born, and it has a real King of England (and Disney character) buried in it, King John, who may or may not have looked like this:
Anyway the reason I'm writ
A slightly less gloomy blog post than the title might indicate. Here's what I've been doing in RS recently...
I managed to win 9 deathtouched darts in the raffle, which I was very pleased about considering my aversion to killing difficult things, and the number of things I have left on my completionist cape list that involved killing difficult things. Then I found out the bad news, I can't use them on most of the things I wanted to use them on, they mysteriously don't work on the 3 quest bos
Having maxed out all my skills, there’s not a lot left to do in RS apart from go for a completionist cape. I’m probably not going to go for it, but just in case, here’s a list of all the things I’d still need to do, with some comments. I might try knocking a few things off the list and see how I feel about the others.
Finish all quests.
I really enjoy most quests, but I’ve not been keeping up with them recently, most because I hate EoC combat, and have no idea what to do against some EoC
After many days of a daily dunge challenge, 2 sinkholes and a Jack of trades 2, I've finished levelling up, joining 12,094 other players who have maxed out every skill.
History shows that I pretty much give up skills once I've maxed them (only 10 players have maxed out with a lower total xp than me), and now that I've maxed all of them I'm not sure there's much reason to play anymore... unless I decide to go for a completionist cape.
Also, I've handed in my last piece for for for my mast
I've just levelled up dungeoneering, only 2 more times to go before I can trim my max cape. This will take a long time though, I'm guessing a couple of months as I'm not playing every day, and I'm only doing my daily challenge and sinkholes most days.
In other news I'm working on a 30 minute animated film as the final project for my masters degree. It's a horror film, based on a story by H. P. Lovecraft, and I should have it ready by early September.
I also made a shorter digital animati
My daily dungeoneering task is now bringing in over 150k xp a day bonus, on top of about 20k for rushing a dungeon. Sinkholes give variable XP, but I guess around 200k a day is usual. Throw in a lot of bonus xp, and 25k a day for Jack of trades 2, and the XP is pretty fast at the moment. The downside is that it's about 5m xp per level at the moment, so it's still not fast. I have 47m dunge XP at the moment, which means I'm less than halfway to 120.
Anyway, here's some odd chilled out music I
Sinkholes are great XP, but it's really annoying waiting up to 12 minutes to get into a game.
Semester 1 of my Masters degree is complete, and I managed to get a distinction (the highest grade) in all three modules. Two more distinctions out of the remaining 6 modules would guarantee me a distinction overall, so I'm in a really good position there.
Here's a music video I made for Digital Media Practice 1. It's a bit odd...
World event 2 gave me a lot of xp, which was nice, but it threw out my maths on how long 120 dunge would take. Currently I'm doing sinkholes, a daily dunge task, jack of trades, tears and pengs, which is variable amount of xp (sinkholes have a wide range of rewards).
I've also polished off the Daemonheim task set / diary / achievements / whatever Jagex are calling it this week, and if I get bored I might start ticking some off the desert ones, although I hate the idea of doing all the domini
Open the right cracker...
I'd almost given up on the christmas event, as it's ridiculously laggy in the Falador party room when the drop happens, and I'd already been caught out by the bug that occasionally means there is no drop at all. I was just about to log out and go to sleep after doing my dailies when the bankers at the GE announced the drop party was a few minutes away, so I decided to stay up for a few minutes more.
As usual, it was so overcrowded and laggy that I only mana
The results of my moneymaking test are in, and there's a clear winner!
Gathering incandescent energy is fast, low risk, and makes a LOT of money, if you have the divination level needed to do it. At level 99, after some re-training of the reflex that made me press '3' when handing in incandescent memories, and learning to press '1' instead, I've been able to gather 8,888 in an hour (this was measured without the World Event 2 bonus, which in theory rewards players with more enriched memories
So, I'm on the incredibly long slow path to 120 dungeoneering. I'm not a fan of Dungeoneering at all, and I'm not a fan of it's weird 120 limit, but it's something to do in game.
As it's so biased against solo players (I'm getting about 30k xp an hour at level 103), I'm using bonuses and challenges for most of the xp. As well as getting about 125k xp a day from my daily challenge, I'm currently getting 65k from world event 2, and 10k a day from jack of trades. On top of this, I've discovered
Paying for membership with bonds was nice and easy while I was simply selling off my bank to get money, but now I'm down to my last valuable item (a Guthan's set) I need to think about money making.
The only skill I need to train anymore is Dunge, which is totally cash neutral, so I'm free to use any money making method in the game without worrying about xp gains. The problem is that I have no idea what makes money in game any more, which means it's time for one (or probably several) of my o
Well, I've become the 8,142nd person to get a divination cape, and that also means I can wear my Max cape again.
So, it's heading towards big decision time... do I quit again when my membership runs out? I'm not 100% sure, but I think I'll be taking a break until at least the summer, due to pressure of uni work.
My in-game to-do list looks something like this:
Get my quest cape back. Not too hard, as I only have half the dwarf quest left.
Get enough money to buy more bonds. This
