DIY Gander

[DIY Gander]

Hey there, and welcome to my blog :)

 

I'm DIY Gander, as you can tell from the title. So I play in the DIY playstyle, or 'Do-It-Yourself', as you probably know from reading some of the other excellent blogs on this forum. The aim of this blog is to note down major levels, interesting drops, boss kills (including slayer tasks) and all goals & achievements while going for the Completionist Cape, as it's always interesting to look back and see how much progress has been made.

 

[spoiler=About me]

I've played since about 2006, I think, although I don't really know for sure, as I've been on several different accounts. My first one 'Gander31', was banned for RWT when an IRL friend gave me about a million gp so I could afford my first whip, not knowing he'd bought the money :s Didn't really matter, 70 Attack was about my only achievement on that account, but it'd be nice if I could recover it for nostalgia's sake.

 

I also have a ~2400 total account, which I've considered playing on in the DIY style but it would not be in the true 'iron man' style, so I think it would feel like cheating :P.

 

I support Manchester United in football, and England in all other sports (rugby union's probably my favourite to watch, followed by Champion's League football :D).

 

 

 

[spoiler=Account rules]

• Trading is prohibited
• No use of the Grand Exchange
• Borrowing items is prohibited
• Use of the assist system is prohibited
• NPC shops allowed
• Group minigames allowed
• Group dungeoneering allowed (binds must be DIYed, boss drops accepted)
• Group PvM prohibited

Exceptions

• Non-soloable bosses may be loot/coinshared (Kalphite King, Vorago, Rise of the Six)
• Trades required for quests allowed. (Shield of Arrav and Heroes'.)

 

 

 

[spoiler=Goals]

The ultimate goal in Runescape is of course, the Trimmed Completionist Cape. However, Runescape may well have been gone for approximately fifteen years before I get close to such a thing, so lots of lesser, more achieveable goals are below.

 

Key

 

Completed - Green

Incomplete - Red

 

[spoiler=Completionist Cape requirements]

All skill levels at maximum (120 Dungeoneering and 99 in all other skills)

All quests completed (Including Odd Old Man's wish list and Fur 'n' Seek)

All tasks completed

All magic spells unlocked from Livid Farm

All prayers unlocked from Dungeoneering

Bones to Peaches unlocked from the Mage Training Arena

Unlocked the Tune Bane Ore spell from a scroll in Ritual of the Mahjarrat

All Varrock Museum Kudos earned

Unlocked use of the Abyss - Achieved 16/03/2014

Unlocked all Music tracks

Completed The Curse of Zaros miniquest

Completed the Hopespear's Will miniquest

Completed the Fight Kiln

Obtained Tarn's Diary in The Lair of Tarn Razorlor

Returned Clarence to rest

Reached the end of the Stronghold of Player Safety - Achieved 11/03/14

Reached the end of the Stronghold of Security - Achieved 11/03/14

Hunted the Thalassus ten times after the Deadliest Catch quest

Claimed a reward from Claus the chef for doing him a favour after completing Carnillean Rising

Have scored at least 1,111 in a session of Big Chinchompa

Completed all of Doric and Boric tasks following What's Mine is Yours

Completed the player-owned port tutorial

Must have unlocked the Enhanced yaktwee stick by catching 1,000 charm sprites

Must have constructed a Tuska mask.

Complete either the Hyu-Ji, Quin or Eastern Curiosities storyline from your Port

Found all the pieces of the Reefwalker's Cape forgotten scroll

Must have defeated the Queen Black Dragon and obtained the first dragonkin journal.

 

[spoiler=Trim Requirements]

4,000 Chompy kills

Scabarite research completed

Highest rune shop unlocked from Ali Morrisane

All hot-air balloon travel routes unlocked

Must have completed the Sheep Shearer miniquest

Must have completed the Witch's Potion miniquest

Eagle transport routes fully unlocked

Defeated the 4 sub-bosses in the Pollnivneach Slayer Dungeon after Smoking Kills

Unlocked ability to craft all Slayer items, including fused helms and to deliver killing blows quicker

Master White Knight rank obtained

Flying broomstick unlocked. 

Found all hidden treasure from Making History

Achieved a score of 1,250+ in Conquest

Unlocked the full power of the Ivandis flail and blisterwood weapons (500 vyrewatch corpses burnt)

Speak to Lanthus while wearing a full set of profound decorative armour

Unlocked maximum access to Mobilising Armies rewards (401 Rank)

Defeated all champions

Achieved level 5 in each Barbarian Assault role

Completed all court cases

Completed 25 chimp ice deliveries

Completed all Barbarian Training with Otto

Found all barbarian notes in the Ancient Cavern

Unlocked all rewards from the Artisans Workshop

Obtained all circus clothing

Completed the Dahmaroc statue in your player-owned house

Unlocked the scroll of life ability

Unlocked the scroll of cleansing ability

Unlocked the scroll of efficiency ability

Earned the Vyrelord/Vyrelady title after the Branches of Darkmeyer

Made a Zaros symbol in Char's training cave

Attain the highest Esteem rank possible (rank 1) from training in the Runespan

Obtain Song from the Depths hidden rewards

Obtain all the dragonkin journals by killing the Queen Black Dragon

Acquire a champion's tackle box from the Fish Flingers distraction and diversion

Explore the Eastern Lands as far as the Shield from your player-owned port

Complete the Hyu-Ji, Quin and Eastern Curiosities storylines from your player-owned port.

Have personally poked Vorago's eye out

Complete floors 1-60 on Hard Mode in Dungeoneering

Have survived the Shadow beneath the barrows

 

 

 

Skill Goals

 

Dates are in the English format, so day/month/year.

 

10+ All skills © - Achieved 08/03/2014

20+ All skills © - Achieved 09/04/2014

30+ All skills © - Achieved 19/04/2014

40+ All skills (_)

50+ All skills (_)

60+ All skills (_)

70+ All skills (_)

80+ All skills (_)

90+ All skills (_)

 

500 Total © - Achieved 07/03/2014

1000 Total © - Achieved 25/03/2014

1500 Total (_)

2000 Total (_)

2500 Total (_)

 

1 million experience © - Achieved 03/03/2014

10 million experience (_)

100 million experience (_)

1,000 million experience (_)

 

Item Goals

 

Be prepared for a rather long list of goals, sorted either by the monster that drops them, or similar items. I wanted to do it in several columns, but I can't figure out how.

 

Abyssal Whip                                                                                                                        

Abyssal Wand                                                                                                                       

Abyssal Orb

 

Fire Cape

Kiln Cape                                                                                                                       

                                                                                                                                             

Armadyl Helmet                                                                                                                    

Armadyl Chestplate                                                                                                              

Armadyl Chainskirt                                                                                                               

Armadyl Gloves                                                                                                                    

Armadyl Boots                                                                                                                      

Armadyl Buckler                                                                                                                   

 

Bandos Helmet

Bandos Chestplate

Bandos Tassets

Bandos Gloves

Bandos Boots

Bandos Warshield

 

Hood of Subjugation

Garb of Subjugation

Gown of Subjugation

Gloves of Subjugation

Boots of Subjugation

Ward of Subjugation

Zamorakian Spear

 

Saradomin Sword

Armadyl Crossbow

Saradomin's Hiss

Saradomin's Murmur

Saradomin's Whisper

 

Armadyl Godsword

Bandos Godsword

Saradomin Godsword

Zamorak Godsword

 

Armadyl Battlestaff

Steadfast Boots

Glaiven Boots

Ragefire Boots

 

Dragon Hatchet

Berserker ring

Warrior ring

Seer's ring

Archer's ring

Mud Battlestaff

 

Pneumatic gloves

Tracking gloves

Static gloves

Cresbot

 

Ahrim's hood

Ahrim's robe top

Ahrim's robe skirt

Ahrim's staff

Ahrim's wand

Ahrim's book of magic

 

Dharok's helm

Dharok's platebody

Dharok's platelegs

Dharok's greataxe

 

Torag's helm

Torag's platebody

Torag's platelegs

Torag's hammer

 

Verac's helm

Verac's brassard

Verac's plateskirt

Verac's flail

 

Guthan's helm

Guthan's platebody

Guthan's chainskirt

Guthan's warspear

 

Karil's coif

Karil's top

Karil's skirt

Karil's crossbow

Karil's pistol crossbow

Karil's off-hand pistol crossbow

 

Akrisae's hood

Akrisae's robe top

Akrisae's robe skirt

Akrisae's war mace

 

Dragon full-helm

Dragon platebody

Dragon platelegs

Dragon boots

Dragon kiteshield

 

Draconic visage

Royal crossbow

 

Acension crossbow

Ascension off-hand crossbow

 

Tetsu helm

Tetsu laminar

Tetsu legplates

 

Seasinger's hood

Seasinger's robe top

Seasinger's robe bottom

 

Death Lotus hood

Death Lotus chestplate

Death Lotus chaps

 

Leviathan ring

Reefwalker's cape

 

Divine or Elysian Spirit Shield

 

Black Ibis outfit

Fishing outfit

Golden mining suit

Witchdoctor camo gear

Fishing outfit

Constructor's outfit

Enhanced Yaktwee stick

Wicked robes set

 

Dungeoneering Rewards

 

Arcane stream necklace

Demonhorn necklace

Scroll of life

Scroll of cleansing

Scroll of efficiency

Scroll of renewal

Herbicide

Spirit cape

Charming Imp

Chaotic Rapier + offhand

Chaotic Longsword + offhand

Chaotic crossbow + offhand

Chaotic staff

Chaotic maul

 

 

If you think there are any items I should be aiming for that aren't on this list, please do tell :) No matter how crazy (although it has to be possible DIY, no partyhats, thank you very much).

 

 

 

[spoiler=Statistics and Bank]

[spoiler=Starting stats]

 

 

[spoiler=Current stats]

 

 

 

 

[DIY Gander]

[spoiler=Slayer]

So Slayer is probably my favourite skill, and is one I would definitely take past 99 when I get there, so I'm going to be listing every task I complete with any slayer levels acquired during the task, and any interesting drops :). I think it will be interesting to see how many monster one has to kill to get to 99, so I won't be putting any quest rewards on Slayer, and will not choose it on bonus exp lamps or anything of that sort to get the number as accurate as possible.

 

Any combat levels above 80 will be noted too.

 

[spoiler=Turael]

5 Gelatinous Abominations

12 Trolls - 2 Slayer

 

 

[spoiler=Mazchna]

49 Hill Giants - 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Slayer

65 Wolves - 14, 15 Slayer

67 Ghouls - 20, 21, 22, 23 Slayer

47 Ghosts

67 Cave Crawlers - 24, 25, 26 Slayer

53 Crawling Hands

52 Ghouls - 27, 28 Slayer

42 Flesh Crawlers - 29 Slayer

58 Cave Crawlers - 30 Slayer

58 Banshees - 31 Slayer

40 Pyrefiends

56 Hobgoblins - 32 Slayer

40 Banshees

46 Crawling Hands

48 Bats - 33 Slayer

46 Cockatrices

 

 

[spoiler=Vannaka]

107 Ghouls - 34, 35 Slayer

79 Moss Giants - 36, 37 Slayer

111 Pyrefiends - 38 Slayer

83 Banshees

71 Harpie Bug swarms - 39 Slayer

 

 

[spoiler=Chaelder]

138 Lesser Demons - 40, 41, 42 Slayer

158 Harpie Bug Swarms - 43, 44 Slayer

50 Bronze Dragons - 45, 46 Slayer

151 Basilisks - 47 Slayer

150 Harpie Bug Swarms - 48 Slayer

144 Lesser Demons - 49 Slayer

99 Fungal Magi - 50 Slayer

136 Trolls

 

 

 

 

 

[spoiler=Clue Scrolls]

Easy clue scrolls completed - 3

Medium clue scrolls completed - 0

Hard clue scrolls completed - 0

Elite clue scrolls completed - 0

 

Most valuable clue - 14k

 

 

[DIY Gander]

PvM

 

[spoiler=Barrows]

Chests looted - 2

 

 

[DIY Gander]

So, let's get going :).

 

My first goal is to get 91 Runecrafting for double nature runes and access to POP. This is going to take awhile, especially in F2P, but I only have limited time at the moment anyway. This and getting the blog into shape will take up time. Not got off to a bad start, I'm thinking 70 RC by the end of this weekend, just as a random estimate.

 

Current progress:

 

[DIY Gander]

Roughly 120k Runecrafting experience since last post, only 5.5 million to go :)

 

 

I also tested out Revolution for a bit, got to 22 Magic and 17 Constitution, I didn't have many abilities for it to use, and was only at the trolls with 50hp, so it was a bit silly... 

[DIY Gander]

So I've obtained some membership :) Don't really see why I was staying F2P, it's just so slow :(

 

 

Making a bit of progress, but I think it'll really start to get going when I start doing lots of quests. I'd do some now but I'm not on my desktop, and I cannot stand doing anything to rigorous on my laptop. I'm pretty happy at Runespan :).

[DIY Gander]

So I played a bit more than I expected lately, mainly due to the damn weather, and made some decent progress :)

 

 

So Runespan is so much more fun/faster with P2P, and I gained about 50k bonus exp from treasure keys (quest rewards) 

Talking of quests, did some good ones like Tree Gnome Village and the Waterfall quest, netting me some decent experience rewards.

 

 

Goals for this week:

 

77 Runecrafting

10+ all skills

 

I think a good idea this week would be to spend Monday to Friday at Runespan, and then leave to play at the weekend, which might be my playing plan until 91 Runecrafting :)

This way I'll build up the daily challenges without wasting time by leaving Runespan... Mwaha, global domination, here we come.

 

Also, if you're reading this, would you be so kind as to look over my goals list on the first post, and suggest any you think plausible. I'd like to compile a comprehensive list of items that any self-respecting account should have by the time they reach the comp cape ;)

[DIY Gander]

Haven't updated lately, but progress has been made :)

 

Also, England beat Wales in the Six Nations, which made my Sunday (especially after last year, if you follow rugby, you'll know why).

 

I've done a decent amount of quests, on ~65 quest points at the moment, and I've completed a few good ones like Dragon Slayer, Lost City and Fairytale 1 (also unlocked fairy rings). The Treasure Hunter keys I got from the questing earnt me about 300k bonus RC exp, I think. Still got a nice chunk left, as shown below.

 

 

It's nice only having 10 levels left, the countdown can begin :D Considering cutting it down to just 90 RC, rather than 91, but we'll see how much time I have to play when I hit 90, if it's quite low (some exams in a while) then it'll be 91.

[DIY Gander]

9 to go.

 

 

Been doing a bit of slayer also, up to level 31, but I've hit a bit of a block. I'm pretty much 50 Attack (40 exp to go) so I can wield Rune. However, there's no easy way to obtain a two handed rune weapon (that I know of) and off-hands seem to be smithing only. Could camp Kalphite guardians for a rune 2h, but that could take a while/ be rather difficult... Any ideas? Could train attack straight to 60 and move onto dragon, where the off-hands are in stores, but that's ~170k exp.

 

The upcoming weekend will hopefully be a big one for RC gains, as long as I don't get set another history essay  <_< Also, last Six Nations weekend, hoping Le France win, or we do by about 60 points *unlikely*. Would be nice to unlock Ports soon :)

[DIY Gander]

So I've been doing some Slayer lately, the goal was 37 for Killerwatts - which I've now achieved. They drop air/fire battlestaffs and mystic fire staffs, which are tier 30 and 40 magic weapons, a pretty good upgrade from my spider wand and orb ;)

 

I achieved all the drops I wanted from Killerwatts relatively quickly, also nearly 55 Attack, so dragon weapons aren't far off. 

 

 

Also 83 Runecrafting, and I found a Law talisman, so I can start piling them up with the wicked hood :)

[DIY Gander]

Didn't end up doing more than an hour of Runespan yesterday, but meh. Completed the Grand Tree and am well on my way to having Monkey Madness done :)

 

So once that's finished, I'll be very close to 60 Attack, which means the possible weapons will be mineee :

 

- Dual dragon daggers

- Dual dragon longswords

- Dual dragon scimitars

 

They're all meant to be equal aren't they? So dragon daggers would be the best bet as they're only 60k I think, compared to 200k?

 

Will keep doing quests until I can't now, currently at about 100 QP.

[Corbulo]

Didn't end up doing more than an hour of Runespan yesterday, but meh. Completed the Grand Tree and am well on my way to having Monkey Madness done :)

 

So once that's finished, I'll be very close to 60 Attack, which means the possible weapons will be mineee :

 

- Dual dragon daggers

- Dual dragon longswords

- Dual dragon scimitars

 

They're all meant to be equal aren't they? So dragon daggers would be the best bet as they're only 60k I think, compared to 200k?

 

Will keep doing quests until I can't now, currently at about 100 QP.

 

Yeah, dual Daggers are your best bet.

D longs arn't as fast as dagger or scim but have higher damage per hit.

[DIY Gander]

Thanks very much :)

 

 

This got me to 108 combat from 99, which seems a bit ridiculous, but I'm not complaining, Smoking Kills needs 130. Also ~25k off 60 Attack, so I'll do some more Slayer to get that, and then it'll be back to questing. Runespan has conveniantly fallen away until I get some more bonus exp (don't judge me, it's part of the game *sob*)

 

Also I'll try and do the quests that give faster access to Barrows soon, and will attempt a couple of welfare runs there. Might need some decent food first. Or possibly the Giant Mole, for that Dragon 2H ;).

[DIY Gander]

 

60 Attack and dual dragon daggers achieved :)

 

Pretty decent tbh, was using either an addy 2h or rune mace + shield before, so I've gone up by 2 tiers in some cases. 

 

Next goal is to complete Swan Song, so completed Shilo Village.

[DIY Gander]

Haven't updated in a while due to being busy and just plain laziness :)

 

Anyway, I've unlocked Temple Trekking and Burgh de Rott ramble, so I'll be doing that until I have enough silver bars for 56 Crafting and full Batwing.

 

[DIY Gander]

Full Batwing :) Minus wand and book unfortunately, that would require more crafting :(

 

[DIY Gander]

61 Crafting thanks to more silver bar crafting, so Bat wand and book now :)

 

Going to work on 55 Slayer next probably

[burningbow44]

Gz on the progress man, this inspired me to make my own diy character, keep on keeping on! 

[Lover Sexio]

You are doing great so far! I love looking through the diy threads on here. I wish there was a whole section dedicated to just diy tbh.

[DIY Gander]

You are doing great so far! I love looking through the diy threads on here. I wish there was a whole section dedicated to just diy tbh.

 

Thanks :)

 

There could be tbh, probably got a couple of pages worth of DIY blogs

 

Thinking of going for 50+ all, but herblore and farming are going to take awhile :(

 

 

I need to win the lottery so I can take a year off life and play :P

[DIY Gander]

So I've been trying to get a rune hatchet at iron and steel dragons, no such luck so far.

 

 

Also completed my first Grandmaster quest :)

 

 

Should be able to do Heroes' Quest shortly, which will allow me to do Throne of Miscellania + Royal Trouble. Bit undecided about what to put MTK on, herbs are good, but so are the maples for fletching + seeds, while the mining should bring in quite a few gems for porters.

[Octarine]

Not sure I've ever seen a rune hatchet drop from metals, level 3 clues are probably your best bet tbh :)

[DIY Gander]

Not sure I've ever seen a rune hatchet drop from metals, level 3 clues are probably your best bet tbh :)

 

Well that would be annoying :o Thanks, I'll do some level 3's if I get one I can do :o

 

Few level pics coming up, 60 Magic firstly, so I went and unlocked the god cape and staff, went for Zamorak :)

 

 

 

 

 

Loot from my first barrows chest ^

 

[DIY Gander]

 

Also finished Throne of Miscellania and Royal Trouble, so now I need some cash to get the kingdom going :)

[Kaiven]

Nice progress! Keep it up!  :D