After an initial failure, I succeeded the final story mission, thereby unlocking the admiral title and my trimmed cape simultaneously.
Next: I'll slowly work toward collecting the trade goods and scrolls for port armor. No real rush--after all, once I acquire it, it'll probably just sit in my bank.
Unlocked the champion's tackle box this morning.
Which leaves:
So...I'll probably get the trimmed cape this Saturday at around 9 pm gmt, as that seems to be when most people can make it. There'll be a Castle Wars game half an hour beforehand, open to anyone who wants to come. :D
Beat Jethraw to the 4th dragonkin journal. :D
Although the loot is usually quite bad, it seems that in ~55 kills I was pretty lucky. I wound up getting 6 crossbow pieces (each piece selling for at least 3M) as well as a dragonbone kit.
Not much on the horizon since I still have over a month of Fish Flingers remaining.
Drops:
So concludes months of my monomaniacal focus on Castle Wars. To give you an idea of the extent to which this consumed me, I played 250 games over this past week. That's over 100 hours. I'm pretty sure I naturally sleep in 25 minute intervals now.
Currently at the Runespan for the next 25-30 hours. Then it's off to the fight kiln and the queen black dragon.
The 5000th game will probably be played with a few people from Sal's after everything else is complete.
I've been playing more.
3k-3.5k took over 4 weeks
3.5k-4k took 3 weeks
4k-4.5k took 2 weeks (excluding the Runespan weekend)
Now to embark on a 4 day weekend to cut down on those remaining 200 hours.
70% of the way there, as of this past Saturday.
Getting disconnected from a game with 1 minute left was the emotional nadir of my Easter weekend. I should reach 3.6k today and, fingers crossed, 3.7k by the end of this weekend.
Penultimate trim requirement complete. Started in 2010--so this took me nearly 2 years, on and off.
In other news, here's my hybrid helm collection:
Non-stop Castle Wars has turned me into a pretty boring player.
It's hard not to let this goal encroach upon one's real life. Hence my reticence in pursuing it. I've got over 800 hours of Castle Wars left. That's 5 months of treating RS like a full-time job.
1k games complete. Glorious, fun-filled way to spend ~17 days of in game time, right?
Managed to complete the Artisan's Workshop the day before I was hacked, so, aside from strange rocks, nothing on the agenda for now.
Logged in today at Lumbridge bank, where'd I been last night after completing the circus for the new clothes. Teleported straight to the citadel to finish capping. It was only afterwards that I noticed my money pouch was empty.
Upon further inspection, it turns out I've lost:
Bandos
Armadyl
Claws
~10k cannonballs/~5k sharks
Robin/ranger boots
Fury/glories/etc.
Ahrims/Zamorakian spear
Runes/herbs/gems/half key collection
Santa hat (Yuanrang's, which he gave me after maxing)
A
Stolen from nomoretears, because everyone should know about old-school players. I'll try to add more names and details as I remember them.
Added dates because I have nothing better to do.
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Maxed players:
Candi: 1st to 2475 total, 1st to 99 dungeoneering (May 2010). Retired.
Eberk: 2nd to 2475 total (October 2010). Retired.
Tws: 3rd to 2475 total (April 2011). 4th to 2496 (April 2012). Retired.
Sellador:
500+ castle wars games complete. I'm aiming for 1000 now.
Unfortunately I lost the screenshot of the results of my 500th game, in which I managed to score once in a fairly entertaining 2-2 match. Here's the cape paired with my scorer's outfit:
Here's roughly how long it took for all 3 pieces:
Fights Pits: ~300 wins
Pest Control: ~600+ wins
Fist of Guthix: ~190 wins
Castle Wars: ~80+ wins
Soul Wars: ~120+ wins
Trickster:
Vanguard:
Battlemage:
5000 games*25 minutes per game/120 minutes, average movie length= 1042 movies, rounded up.
Movie suggestions (particularly foreign/classic/obscure, anything but horror or romantic comedy, really) are welcome.
First of all, here are the resource targets for this week and next (assuming no cosmetic upgrades).
Secondly, assuming the information in the KB is complete, this would be the fastest upgrade schedule to tier 7.
Restrictions:
Each week, you can upgrade either the storehouse or the battlefield. (The storehouse is always prioritized.)
Each week, you can upgrade/build two skill plots.
However, last week (week 2) I attempted to upgrade the citadel from tier 2 to tier 3 and
Credit where credit is due: the strategies I've posted were mainly adopted from Shadow338's videos and adjusted accordingly. The most significant differences lie with earth warriors and banshees.
Jogres: Range + cannon them near the broken glider. Positioning the tooth creature southwest will prevent all but one of the jogres from approaching you. Playing in low detail is a must, otherwise your drops will be well hidden under the vines and foliage.
(One of the worst scrolls. Jogres are r
Just one more scroll to go!
Banshees: Mighty banshees (cannonable in the Pollnivneach dungeon) are a popular alternative. I believe, however, that the level 23s provide faster kills per hour, assuming you focus and have the 4-5 southern spawns to yourself. Hop to a foreign server and bring along herbicide with a few extreme attack/strength potions. The salve amulet is effective against banshees.
A few oversights along the way...but third time's the charm (~7k kills).
Mummie
Hill Giants: Range+cannon them southwest of the Ourania teleport. Bring your tooth creature. Use the same strategy as for ghouls and imps/lesser demons to transform a single-combat area into a multi-combat one. There are only 6 giants; try to get into world 2 or 117 to minimize the respawn time.
(I racked up over 7.5k kills here. Eventually I stopped paying close attention. While browsing the forums, I just happened to check my adventurer's log. I was on the verge of full-throated panic and
I've edited my previous two entries to include additional tips on chompies and champion scrolls.
Lesser Demons: As I posted previously, range+cannon them in the resource dungeon on Karamja. Bring your tooth creature. Drops will appear all over the map; keep your eyes peeled.
(I could have easily missed this scroll, as it wasn't visible under my cannon.)
Zombies: Cannon them at the wilderness graveyard. Equip black dragonhide for cheap, effective protection. The zombies are so lo
Note: Thanks to Egghebrecht for the use of his Armadyl armor while ranging/cannoning.
Edit to add a few more tips:
1. I'd recommend black dragonhide/armadyl over void while range+cannoning imps/lesser demons and ghouls. The cannon will be dealing the vast majority of damage, so maximize your range bonus.
2. You can use a bonecrusher to track your kills.
3. The (adult) tooth creature can block NPCs, allowing effective use of a cannon in single-combat areas. Remember to bring a fe
Chompy hats are all I wear nowadays.
General tips:
1. Use void, the ogre composite bow, and mithril/adamant brutal arrows. Bring Excalibur to heal (I just happened to forget in it the screenshot below.)
2. Don't bother plucking and looting the corpses.
3. Lay 2 toads at a time and try to have ~6 toads on the ground at all times.
4. Shoot each chompy once as soon as it appears to prevent it from gobbling your toads. Then finish them all off.
I'll post about my p
