Dax's Blog

Welcome to the first of what I hope to be a three part series. This week, I completed the Missionary's final story voyage and acquired the plate necessary for the Tetsu platebody!

I've got 15 plate now, and that's a quarter of the way to the next piece, which won't be for a few more weeks, but I'm eagerly awaiting that. But Dax, I hear you say. The final Missionary voyage? Doesn't that mean you have to be in...

The Pincers! Woo! That, as well as opening up a lot of awesome Port stuff, crosses off another Trimming requirement. Woo!

I also began work on Seasinger robes, they'll be my scroll goal (Heh, rhyming) for now. The first piece:

And finally, 93 Smithing. Slowly getting closer and closer.

Catch you next time, ~Dax.

Woo! With a lot of work and annoying Jade voyages, I've finally acquired my fourth and final ship, The Prancing Gnome. She joins the ranks of The Beautiful Nigel, The Monkey Monkey and The Purple Penguin. Quite happy to finally get the fourth. It'll make getting resources and everything so much faster.

In other Ports news, I've also acquired another fourth, this time, the fourth and final Tetsu Helm scroll piece. Now, given the plate, I can complete the set. I currently have a nice and neat 50 plate in my reserves. Luckily, both the Whaler and the Biologist have arrived on the past two days, and they've been best friends and wanted to go sailing together.

I'll save my plate for the platebody, then the legs, then finally the helm. Scroll efforts will now be place in Seasinger robes. Poor ol' Ranged gets neglected by me, but don't worry, I'll get ya one day, Death Lotus gear.

In other boring news, I did an easy clue I got from a man I accidentally killed. I got nothing of worth, but here's the screenshot.

Finally, I'm happy to see this level, 98 Dungeoneering! A delving task a day gets the exp up quick. I can't believe I'm so close to this one. Never thought I'd see the day. I'm excited for sure.

Ignore the exp wasting small, c6, solo floor. Heh. Catch you next time, ~Dax.

First, a Dominion Tower update!

Slayed Sunfreet! Woo! I thought there was a damage cap, so I thought it might have been more difficult, but there isn't and it was reasonably easy, only a couple of deaths due to not knowing the patterns of fire well enough.

Also huzzah! Finally finished the Brink of Extinction. Got stuck on one of the rooms and finally got through it this week. EoC messed me up, I'm still not used to it.

And got 93 Mining!

And 93 Ranged, of course!

Two Dungeoneering levels. I'm powering through these levels with 100k exp a day with daily challenges.

And finally, the third quarter of the Tetsu Helm! Not sure what scrolls I'll be going for after this. Probably Seasinger or something. Unless there's a good Scrimshaw to get.

Anyway, that's all for this week. Catch you next time, ~Dax.

Kinda forgot to do my blog yesterday, so I'm probably a bit late, but I have no idea how American time works, so I might still be on Wednesday there. But here's 99 Crafting!

Not sure what to do now, but I have access to Warped floors now!

And I also did some Port stuff.

That's all of Tetsu Legs, and half of the Tetsu helm!

Catch you next time, ~Dax.

I aimed to have 99 Crafting up and ready to go, and I would have, but some things jumped in the way and I couldn't get it done tonight. I'm 25K exp away, but I can't get it just yet. Plus I have to work early tomorrow and I can't just do it then. Kinda annoying, but it's all good. Also my internet stopped working when I got 98 Crafting. SO I MISSED THE DANG SCREENSHOT. First one I've missed since 80-something Ranged, which I accidentally forgot when I went to grab some food while fighting Vyrewatch once upon a time. On the other hand, I got some other nice levels, so not all bad this week.

First of all, though, I acquired a new island destination in POP. Winds' Home. I really enjoy unlocking things in Ports. I don't care for the armours or whatever that I'm working towards (Though that will be a nice bonus), but I really enjoy seeing more and more of the Archipelago (Which is pretty much the best word ever, too) open up. Also seeing my crew, captains and ships get better with time.

I must take a moment of silence here, though, as this week marked the passing of my favourite captain I've ever had, Be-Ever Humble Song. A brave and noble captain, who gave his life to save the crew members (A couple of Judge of Dice and a Beurocrat were there, so that's pretty good that they didn't die too) aboard. RIP Be-Ever Humble Song. I will try and name my forth ship after your legacy.

Next up this week was a nice little level, one of which I love to see getting up more and more, as there's a hell of a lot of it to go. 94 Dungeoneering! Next level, we'll be seeing 95, and the shiny new red floors, and some shiny new bosses to murder. Quite excited for that.

And finally, halfway! 92 Hunter, which also brings me up to 92+ Stats (Awww yeah). Getting a lot of exp thanks to the Guthixian butterflies. Also, now it has become my skill to dump my exp on, so this'll be going up super fast from now on.

Catch you next time, where you'll definitely have 99 Crafting, ~Dax.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrBGUqNBEgE

Huzzah! 99 Agility!

Quite glad to get this one out of the way. Went super quickly, thanks to Skoll boots, penguins and trolls.

And also an update to my Dominion Tower ways, though not much has happened there.

May or may not have another 99 for ya next week. We'll see how it goes. Catch you next time, ~Dax.

Alternative Title: The World OH GOD I CAN'T MAKE THESE DECISIONS JAGEX HOW DO YOU SO EASILY TOY WITH MY EMOTIONS.

Alternative Alternative Title: The World o gawd da feels so many feels

[spoilers ahead, folks. Though the way Jagex is treating this quest, they won't be and can't be spoilers for much longer.]

And what an awakening it was. Hands down the best update of the year, which of course, is not a hard achievement to acquire just yet, and I can only hope that it'll be beaten somehow and hopefully on multiple occasions. Truly a great quest, and I enjoyed it so much more than any quest we've had in a long time. In fact, I believe the last quest I truly enjoyed was the Ritual of the Mahjarrat, and that was way back (And much further back than I thought when I looked it up).

Unfortunately, it was very short. the combat was somewhat challenging, but not too difficult to work out (I only died once, and that was when I didn't realise what the Automaton was doing), the puzzle was so-so (After I worked it out, it was very easy), so I was somewhat disappointed in the ways of gameplay, but it made up for its shortcomings in other ways. The real reason this quest was so good was because of the soundtrack and the lore.

First I'll have a little chat about the soundtrack. Amazing stuff. They really go all out for Grandmaster quest soundtracks. I remember While Guthix Sleeps' music being ridiculously good. But this was even better. The battle music really upped the ante (Though I picked the right Guardians for the right rooms, so they were all really easy fights) and made it one hell of a battle. The music in Guthix's old home made me super sad and that was awesome. And that's about it for the soundtrack.

Soundtrack summary: Ridiculously good soundtrack.

I'm a lore guy. Give me a lore-heavy quest and I'll be more than happy. This filled my lore requirement and then some. I've never been toooooo much of a fan of combat. I had a very long Slayer phase, but even then I've jumped around a lot. Even though I've maxed my melees and I'm well on my way to Magic/Ranged. Combat heavy quests have always been a disappointment to me. Lately, I've been staring at The Brink of Extinction, hating its uncompleted status, thanks to the combat. Other quests like Dream Mentor, Desert Treasure and such were horrible moments in the way of my quest cape.

The story was amazing. Just so good. I never expected the death of Guthix until Sliske showed his face. That smile he gives you as he stabs Guthix made me hate him so much, yet love him so much for being such a great villain. I'm kind of glad the Dragonkin took care of Lucien for us, so Sliske could have his moment. A much better villain than Lucien ever was. Lucien would have announced his plan and acted like a great almighty Mahjarrat about it. Sliske just teleports in, kills Guthix and takes off. Leaving the mystery and some of his stockpile of awesome.

When it came to choice time I had to walk out of the room and make a very difficult decision. Azzanadra and Wahisisiisitisrisitel had been such good allies until this point, but the Guardians of Guthix had more of a good point, and I am kinda one of them now. Zilyana had no reasons whatsoever and I didn't consider her option. Saradomin is lame, anyway. I had my walk and decided to side with the Guardians, hoping my Mahjarrat chums would respect my logical decision. Thankfully, they did.

I got a little annoyed at the druids for building a big ol' shrine right in front of Guthix's body. But then I remembered that they weren't talked to like I was. His story was quite sad, and I nearly shed manly tears, but I held them back and honoured the passing god's final wish. Though I remembered him when I lit the lamps and prayed at the shrine for 150K free exp (Sorry Guthix, but free exp!).

I truly can't wait to see what Sliske does with this stuff. Hopefully the story continues in the way it has been, 'cause I am definitely ready for more.

Story summary: Ridiculously good story.

And for the other stuff this week. Here's the weekly Dominion Tower update. Not too much progress this week, though I got quite lucky and got three journal pages in two low DF chests. Past that, not much movement there.

Another port update as well. If only I had the jade to buy them. But my jade will first go into my ships!

And finally, the only level of the week.

91+ STATS, YO. GET ON MY LEVEL.

Next week, we'll likely have a new 99 for your eyes to feast upon. BET YA WON'T GUESS WHICH ONE.

Catch you next time, ~Dax.

And here they are! I've got to get back to Black Mirror.

Here's my Dominion Tower stuff, cleared a lot of stuff off the list, and I got another two journal pages.

And some Port stuff. Unlocked the next region and can now get shiny green rocks!

Also scroll pieces.

And finally, a couple of levels.

Catch you next time, ~Dax.

Dominion Tower Update:

More on that later, but first of all, 92 Ranged. The first aforementioned half-way.

Secondly, the second half-way. This scroll is the second piece of the Tetsu legs. Woo.

Thirdly, the boring one to go. I've completed the hard Desert tasks, and have a million Dreadnips already. Didn't know they were so easy to get after the initial unlocking.

Fourthly, the better one to go, 98 Agility! Actually quite excited about this one. I'd much like to get that last one.

Catch you next time, ~Dax.

First of all, the weekly Dom-onion Tower update, not too many bosses this week, but I've instead crossed off the need to suffer all handicaps, and killed a large portion of the Special Challenges off. In fact, I only have two left, proper Sunfreet and the Culinaromancer and his buddies. A million journal pieces left to find, a million bosses left to kill and a Pest Queen to vanquish (The only boss I haven't killed, and the requirement for one of the sets of gloves). Here you are.

Next was a successful scroll mission. T'was the only decent voyage to take on that day with that adventurer, so I took it up and succeeded. Three pieces left and I can build the Tetsu legs (When I get that sweet, sweet plate I need).

And finally, the name-sake of this blog entry, I have finally acquired 90+ stats! Woo! Last of course, was Hunter, my least favourite skill. It looks so fancy with 90+ everything.

(Watch Psych)

That's it for this week. Next week we'll be looking at a 98 and a 92, and hopefully some other cool stuff. Catch you next time, ~Dax.

And I lost it. Not too much this week, but I'm now halfway to two other 99's. I still see a 92 and think it's a lot further along in the process than halfway, but it never is. If I put the effort in, I could get both of these 99's super quick, but I don't have the motivation.

Also, as of 21:16, Wednesday 6/2/2013, this is my Dominion Tower progress.

That's all for now. Catch you next time, ~Dax.

Sorry Pepsi, I was working. :3

Been doing a lot of Dominion Tower for Desert tasks, and here's the marker as of 17:13, Wednesday, 30/1/2013.

Did a bunch of Ports stuff and unlocked two extra locations.

Unlocked another Livid Farm spell, Remote Farm!

Completed the new version of Demon Slayer, which isn't as good in my opinion, though that's likely nostalgia talking.

And finally, a Dungeoneering level, 93.

And so ends another week. Catch you next time, ~Dax.

A couple of levels for you this week. With Skoll boots comes Agility, and I only had to kill him three times to get them recharged! (Luckily I got Hati's gloves recharged on the first go) I've been slowly working towards 99, with penguins and Skoll boots and whatnot, shall be good to get that one gone. As for my second level, Crafting, that too has been going well, been spending some time at the loom in my clan's citadel and getting quite a bit of exp for free, which is always good.

As for now, I'm gonna go play some Skate. I'm terrible at it, but it's fun. Catch you next time, ~Dax.

I've been caught up in other pursuits over this last week, and so I forgot to do my weekly boring update, so here it is. I've been playing a lot of Assassin's Creed and Borderlands (Both being the second in their series) lately and haven't had much motivation or anything to hop onto RuneScape. With the lack of easily done multitasking skills to finish off, I've been focusing on the other games more, but here are a couple of levels from the past two weeks.

And the fourth and final scroll piece of the Tetsu platebody, only got to get a million plates first!

Catch you next time, ~Dax.

Was out of town all yesterday (Saw The Hobbit, good stuff, can't wait for the others), so I couldn't get this here until now.

First, a Hunter level.

Then I used up my remaining two Insta-Kill Darts, one on Corp, one on QBD, got a pretty good reward on the QBD, making 1.25M on the Sight.

And finally, I got another two pieces of the scroll for the Tetsu body, so that's 3/4 done!

Not that I have any plates at all. Catch you next time, ~Dax.

Christmas was pretty good this year, got some awesome stuff, and included in that awesome stuff are two 99's. Slayer and Herblore. I've wanted Slayer for years. Definitely one of my favourite skills, and definitely one of my favourite capes, if not absolute favourite. Herblore's always been a skill I've wanted, and I've been slowly working towards getting the money for it, and when I did, I got it. There were some other small achievements this week, too, like another level (Half-way, woo!) and two shiny new weapons.

99 Slayer!

99 Herblore!

92 Dungeoneering!

A Golden Cannon for no reason!

A Chaotic Crossbow for bolt weakness!

And that's all for this week, hope you had a good Christmas, and I hope you continue on and have a good year. Catch you next time, ~Dax.

Couple of small things happening in my port, been sending voyages off all over the place, not got a full hold of it yet, but I'll work it out. That's one quarter of the Tetsu body, there. Which is awesome.

I got a Hunter level, mostly through daily challenges.

Then, later, within the span of ten minutes, I got three other levels.

I should have a nice little level *cough* 99 *cough* for you next week, which shall be fun. I will probably get it tomorrow or the next day, but you'll have to wait another week for it. Catch you next time, ~Dax.

Good afternoon, folks. I got a few levels this week.

Yet another Mining level:

Another Dungeoneering level (Likin' this skill quite a lot):

And finally, 96 Agility. I've been using my Festive aura on Agility every day since I got it.

I'm headed off to my port now. Catch you next time, ~Dax.

Missed my update yesterday due to work, sickness and sleep, so here's this week's a day late. First up, the two Rune M-quests:

Both pretty awesome, I ended up being Daxter the Grey, which is awesome, because those robes looked the best, in my opinion (Not that it matters, as I can change it any time anyway).

Then I accidentally got a Magic level at the circus.

And intentionally got a Herblore level.

And finally, I wasted used an Insta-Kill Dart on a Corporeal Beast:

Unfortunately I only got gems, but I need to use them up before the end of the year. Catch you next time, ~Dax.

Spent a reasonable chunk of time Dungeoneering this week. I'm enjoying it a lot more, so I've been doing it a lot more. I've only gotten one level, but nevertheless, I've been enjoying it. I've been tossing up whether to buy the Offhand Rapier or not yet. Is it any good? Is it worth it? My plan is to buy it and Rapid Renewal (So I can cross yet another thing off the Completionist list) if it's any good.

I also acquired another Crafting level, I've been getting a lot of Crafting daily challenges lately. I think it's a hint that they want me to get 99 Crafting. I'm thinking of looking into it, but to do it I'd have to head back to SC for a bit.

Catch you next time, ~Dax.

First up this week was 89 Dungeoneering, hopefully the first of many Dungeoneering levels thanks to the solo rebalance:

(Though I have no idea how it'll work out with EoC now out)

Not that I've made any Overloads at all yet, I now can! I got 10,000 Fellstalk potions (unf) for 1M after BXP weekend (Saving around 10M at the time) and decided to used them all up.

Still have enough for a little bit into 97, too. Catch you next time, ~Dax.

Finally finished off a long-term goal this past week, 99 Construction! The only reason it took so long was that I took my time playing Stealing Creation and didn't really put a lot of effort in. By the end, I saved around 6,000 planks (Through avatar buffs, lamps and Dungeoneering stuff), which was a nice little bit of cash back. I got it at the same time my girlfriend got 99 Cooking.

After Construction, I had a nice little day where I leveled three skills, Slayer (to 98, getting close now), Smithing (to 90, matching 90 Mining) and Hunter (to 86, still my lowest skill, but slowly getting better).

And finally, a clue I did, not that anyone cares about that, though the reward wasn't thaaaat bad this time.

Catch you next time, ~Dax.

Accidentally killed another champion!

Just had to do a Slayer daily challenge, and decided to finish off my task, luckily, I got a scroll.

And then I did some clues:

And finally, I got another Construction level!

Next week, I'll have one last one for ya. Catch you next time, ~Dax.

Nice little bonus exp weekend. I put in around 12 hours of work, which seems to be my average throughout all the weekends. This weekend allowed me to skip quite a large number of games of Stealing Creation, which is good. But I still have to play another forty or so games for Construction. Heh. Here are the levels.

And then the weekend ended, and I finished a clue:

And today, I got another 90+ skill! Only three to go after this!

And that's all for now. I'll be playing some SC and getting Construction out of the way, if I can tear myself away from Pokemon White 2. Catch you next time, ~Dax.

Quite a nice day for me, to the best of my knowledge, around eight years ago at around this time (6:30PM), I first signed up for RuneScape. After going through a few names, I finally decided upon Daxter76, and so it began. After taking my time through Tutorial Island, I found my way to Lumbridge, and so I played, I can't remember much past that moment on my first night, but I know it was enough for me to keep playing, and get both my brother and sister watching me (They signed up the day after, and both no longer play).

I have many fond memories of my old F2P days, such as my sister withholding the secret ways of Defence training (I had once worked it out before and gotten to level 8, but couldn't work out how to do that again), she eventually gave it up and I ended up getting many more levels. I remember finishing Knight's Sword and jumping up a lot of levels and being able to make full iron, and I spent many a day mining, smelting and smithing the ore into full sets, in which I often took back to Lumbridge and gave away for free. I also remember selling hundreds of natures and laws and various other runes for 2k, which I thought was a good deal. I spent a lot of time questing, and I had finished all quests except Dragon Slayer. I couldn't work it out and couldn't beat it, so I asked my friend, who was a lot better, to help out, he watched me as I did Melzar's Maze and Elvarg, and supplied the lobsters.

It wasn't all good memories, I remember getting scammed for nearly everything I had in the old trust game scam. I remember running back to the bank multiple times to grab more things to win. 'Oh I still have a couple of hundred chickens and some iron in my bank! Gimme a sec!'. I started getting worried a bit after that and continually asked for my things back for a few minutes, but the scammer knew that was it, and off he ran 'Jacked noob!', he said. And off I ran to my room and bed and punched it, screamed and lied down for a while. But I had learnt my lesson, I worked my way back to where I was and I was more aware of scammers from then on.

I got jealous of my brother and sister a lot, too, they seemed to be in the right place at the right time a lot more than I did. My sister ended up walking away with a member's account of someone she met in Varrock, I watched her play on that for a while and got quite jealous. I though full Rogue looked amazing and wanted it greatly (Which I did do, once I was reminded of its existence many years ago). My brother ended up getting a free 100k (Which was crazy money for me, I'd never seen that much in one spot, I'd slowly acquired my full rune set over time). I forced him to give me 10k, though.

I played F2P for many years, before finally having some spare Christmas money and I worked up the courage to ask dad for members, and so I got it. And it was one of the best days ever. The first way I remember heading out was through the Dig Site gate, and started that quest, the track Venture still gives me intense nostalgia, I believe I got held up later and couldn't do something because I hadn't done Druidic Ritual, so off I went that way and did that quest, starting Witch's House and other such quests. A week later (I could only use the internet often on weekends at my dad's house, so RuneScape was a weekend thing, and a weekend thing I much looked forward to), I found myself in the Karamja jungle, doing Tribal Totem, but I had to log out because it got stormy and rainy outside and dad didn't want the computer going.

I skilled a lot (I remember recording all the levels I got on one of my first weekends as a member, I remember recording 67 levels, all low levels, but still quite a lot for me) and did a lot of quests over my time. Questing became quite a big thing to me, and so I decided to obtain the Quest Cape. I did quests as soon as I could, and found a lot of them quite a lot more difficult than they were for that reason, but I loved them anyway. The last quest I finished to get my cape was Mournings Ends Part 2:

(I was quite happy, as you can see by that)

I was planning on having a party for my cape, but no-one was online, so I got two people to come along and got that awesome cape, but I could only enjoy it for a half hour, as I had to go back to my mum's house for the week.

But man, I looked cool.

I continued on, doing each quest as they were released, and slayed a lot, so much so that I decided I needed a 99, and so I got it. Defence was my first 99, which I got alongside 85 Slayer (The whips didn't come along soon after, unfortunately). It wasn't my first choice for a 99, but it was good, and I felt awesome. My second 99 was my first choice, I always had loved it and the cape, so I got Woodcutting after that (And after Ivy, I changed my name part way through to Dax Cuts Ivy, I was walking around for a couple of weeks not doing that, hehe). Time passed and I acquired more 99's, third was Firemaking (Which I was lucky enough to get a Visage part way through, so I went and bought myself some yews and magics), then Attack, then HP, then Farming (Oh man I loved this one, my favourite 99 and cape for sure, now), then Fishing and Cooking (In that order, but within minutes of each other), then Strength, then Fletching, then Prayer, then Thieving (Which I got solely for my girlfriend, cute, I know), then Runecrafting (Runespan 4 lyf), then most recently, Summoning.

Part way through that list of 99's, I decided I'd get a Completionist cape, and so that has been what I've been working towards for some time.

I have many more little memories to speak of, and to ramble on about, but I think 50 minutes of typing is good enough for now. I regret none of the time I've spent playing RuneScape (Which is still 100 days less than a year total, aww yeah). I've enjoyed it thoroughly and I'm fairly sure I will continue to enjoy it. Here's to eight years! Catch you next time, ~Dax.

(Also, here's all the levels I've gotten this week)

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