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Task 76: Daganoth (169) [sumona]

Drops: Snapdragon seed (2)

Charms: 54,6,8,0

Method: Cannon

Task 77: Black Dragons (44) [Lapalok]

Task 78: Fire Giants (163) [Lapalok]

Drops: Tooth Half, Fire Battlestaff (3), Rune Arrow (72), Rune Scimitar, Rune Bar (2)

Charms: 95,711,2

Task 79: Cave Horrors (174) [sumona]

Drops: Nothing good

Charms: 11,1,25,0

Task 80: Bloodveld (185) [Lapalok]

Drops: Dragon Med

Charms:77,15,8,3

(2140)

Bronze took 170 tokens, not bad at all!

Iron took 140 tokens.

Steel took 210.

Black took 220.

Mithril took 140.

Adamant took 300.

Rune1 took 150.

Rune2 took 450.

Rune3 took 50.

Rune4 took 50.

75 Attack, 73 Defense, and 106 Combat!

(2142,3)

83 HP

(2144)

(2145)

(2131-2136)

War Tortoise Rocks!

Got 104 combat in there somewhere.

Task 70: Daganoth (189) [Lapalok]

(2130)

Task 71: Trolls (130) [sumona]

Task 72: Cave Horrors (131) [sumona]

Drops: Black Mask

Charms: 6,5,23,1

Task 73: Trolls (142) [sumona]

Task 74: Blue Dragons (130) [Lapalok]

Task 75: Trolls (126) [sumona]

Task 65: Cave Crawlers (129) [sumona]

Drops: Herbs

Charms: 14,4,0,0

Task 66: Fire Giants (137) [sumona]

Drops: 15k alch

Charms: 73,14,7,4

(2127)

Task 67: Kurask (124) [sumona]

Drops: Clue

Charms: 12,37,11,3

(2128)

Task 68: Elves (63) [sumona]

Drops: Alch stuff

(2129)

Task 69: Black Demons (130) [sumona]

Drops: Rune Med (3), Loop Half, Rune Chain

Charms: 29,18,59,2

Stringing (2122)

Next two rolled over after Knight's Training Ground

(2123)

(2124)

Giving

(2125)

And...

(2126)

Dragon boots here I come!

I lack the combat requirements for the last quest on my list (Blood Runs Deep). So, it's back to melee slaying.

Task 58: Cave Horrors (175) [sumona]

Drops: Snapdragon Seed (3), Clue, Kwuarm Seed (2)

Charms: 3,1,25,0

Method: Guthans with Bunyip.

Points: 152

Clue Results:

Task 59: Greater Demons (129) [sumona]

Drops: Fires (525), Chaos (90), Gold (9k), Deaths (30)

Charms: 8,7,30,0

Method: Whip, occasional Guthans.

Points: 164

(2120)

Task 60: Warped Terrorbirds (149) [Lapalok]

These are HORRIBLE! Blocked!

Task 60 (do-over): Banshees (154) [sumona]

Drops: Essence (782)

Charms: 7,30,8,2

Method: Mainly cannoning the Mighty version.

Points: 124

Task 61: Trolls (142) [sumona]

Cannoned these while hiding, so no real drops.

Task 62: Daganoth (170) [sumona]

Drops: Snapdragon Seed (2), Toadflax Seed (2)

Charms: 48,4,10,3

Task 63: Terror Dogs (42) [sumona]

Drops: Granite Helm

Charms: 2,1,2,1

Task 64: Spiritual Warriors (142) [sumona]

Drops: Rune Kite (3), Clue. 127k of alch fodder.

Charms: 0

Clue Results: Killed by a revenant.

Awesome quest! What with this and Zaros on his way back in, I think we may be seeing some epic quest on the way!

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The heroes vs Lucien was unspeakably awesome.

I bought elite black armor as opposed to getting the drops. Sped that part up considerably.

I killed the Balance Elemental with less than 20 crossbow shots of dragonstone (e) bolts. Only once did the special fire. I think I ate three times? Considering the stats that are different between 102 combat and where I was at 89 (namely, summoning levels), I could have done it at 89.

I failed massively at prayer swap. I misread his attacks. I think I basically fought without prayer the entire time.

And to think I was worried.

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I used all of the XP on summoning, which took me from 66 to 72 (and 102 combat)!

(2114-2119)

Used all 63k XP rewards on Summoning:

(2113)

Got 43 and 44 with Tears of Guthix!

That also got me 99 combat.

Then, I got 45 and 46 with Relleka diary turnins!

46-52 Pyrelords

52 got me 100 combat.

52-54 Spirit Terrorbirds

54 Summoning was 2100 Total!

After doing a quest...

... without dying once!

And getting a prayer level solely from quest XP:

(2101)

I got back to summoning.

55 from Terrorbirds

(2102)

56 from Bloated Leeches

(2103)

57 from Ibis and Falador Hard Diary reward

(2104)

At this point I made a few Kyatt pouches and amped up my speed.

58 and 59 from Ibis

(2105)

(2106)

59 got me 101 Combat.

60 from Bloated Leech

(2107)

At this point, I cashed in 50 penguin points! I've been saving a while. That's 75k free xp!

61-62 from Penguin Points

(2108/9)

63 and 64 from Bloated Leech

(2110)

(2111)

65 from Stranger Plant

(2112)

And, I'm out of charms (except blues, which I am saving). That's okay, I plan to do While Guthix Sleeps tomorrow, and use all 400k on Summoning.

These gave me 94, 95, 96, 97, and 98 combat.

I went from 30 to 38 solely on XP lamps from quests that I had banked.

Then, I was able to go from 40 to 42 with Achivement diary lamps!

For some reason though, I'm short 10 Kudos in the museum. Bah.

Then I was able to do:

Which Gave:

Which Gave:

At this point, all quests that don't have a summoning prereq are complete. Awesome!

Which gave me:

Then:

Which gave me:

(Levels 2046-2048)

Finally:

276 QP

Task 55: Kurask (141) [sumona]

Drops: Rune Long, Robe Top, Leaf Bladed Sword

Charms: 15, 34, 10, 2

Task 56: Elves (78) [sumona]

Drops: Alch Fodder

Charms: None!

Points: 128

Task 57: Nechryael (127) [sumona]

Drops: Deaths (50), Rune Boots (2), Snapdragon seed (3), Clue

Charms: 16,7,43,2

First task that I've really used Guthans on. Very successfully, I might add! Did these in the Chaos Tunnels, for extra charms.

Clue Results:

2043

Which led to...

It wasn't hard at all. I meleed it and had no problem. Only used half an inventory of food.

Which led to...

Then...

273 QP!

Task 53: Cave Crawlers (142)

2042

Task 54: Greater Demons (132)

Drops: Clue, Rune Large

Charms: 10, 7, 28, 2

Points: 104

Clue Results:

Task 51: Warped Tortoises (161) [sumona]

Drops: Shells (~50), Swamp Tar (~400), Mithril Ore (~100), Coal (~50), Rune Pick (2), Rune Warhammer (2)

Charms: 19,4,1,4

2039

2040

Task 52: Banshees (123) [sumona]

Drops: Clue, Essence (897)

Charms: 6,20,2,1

Clue Results

2041

Task 49: Dagganoth (152) [sumona]

Drops: Clue, Irit seed (4), Toadflax seed (9), Kwuarm Seed (2), Snapdragon Seed (2), Cadantine seed (2)

Charms: 41, 12, 8, 2

Points: 276

Cannoned!

Clue Results:

Task 50: Cave Horrors (138) [sumona]

Drops: Clue, Diamond, 2.5k

Charms: 3,3,19,0

Points: 56 (Purchased Slayer Helms!)

Clue Results:

2037

2038

Task 47: Basilisks (146) [sumona]

Drops: Natures (67), Waters (600)

Charms: 11,31,6,1

Points: 252

Task 48: Hellhounds (175) [sumona]

Drops: Clue Scroll

Charms: 111, 11, 8, 0

Points: 264

Cannoned it!

Clue Results:

2036: String Amulets

I've always, in every game I've played, tried to be "strong" for my level. I don't know why, but it's true. Somehow, in Runescape, this morphed into combat hitting a brick wall roughly 4 years ago. I started off wanting to get a 99 before level 90, and got the 99 (and several more), but 90 combat never happened.

Well, I decided a while back to get to roughly 2030 total and then push past 90 combat. I came to this conclusion for a few reasons.

First, and most importantly, I'm getting tired of the game again. I only have a few non-combat skills left to get 99s in, and they're pretty boring sometimes.

Second, I want to experience some new content. There's a lot out there that I haven't done because I'm low combat.

Finally, if you think about it, my account is nothing "special" anymore. It used to be that a low level with several 99s was pretty cool, but now they're everywhere. Since the GE makes merchanting so easy, seeing a level 3 with 99 crafting and herblore isn't all that uncommon anymore. Heck, several of them have higher slayer than I do!'

It's the end of an era. At this point, I have been 8X combat for 4 years, even though about half of that was not playing.

I rolled it with 92 mage, stringing amulets with Astrals that I made.

At the end, I was 89 combat at 2032 total. That's:

22.83 levels per combat

84.67 average level

1498 skills levels

93.625 average skills level

94.4 average skills level without Slayer

534 combats levels

66.75 average combat skill level

Final skiller high scores:

From here, I plan on moving my combats up to roughly where my skills are. I think I still want to keep most my skills above combats (except RC). I think I'll take a page from my dear friend Ard's book and go for balance.

99 Mage is on its way!

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2033: String Amulets

2034: Quests only, I think!

2035: Stringing Amulets

And...

92 Combat's a "while" off. 2 mage levels, which will take 3 days probably.

2031: SC Hammer and Oaks

2032: SC Hammers and Oaks

That's it, I've reached my skilling goals for 90 Combat.

<deep breath>

Completed a lot of quests today, to break the monotony of SC games:

Defender of Varrock (can't turn it in yet, it'll roll combat to 90) [image added later]

Pretty fun, actually. Loved the cutscenes, and the attack on Varrock.

Easy. Killed the bug at the end with my rune pick.

This one was a bit harder. End battle was difficult without prayer, but thanks to Rockfish I made it safely.

Not a problem here. Expected the last boss to be hard, but really getting TO him was the hard part. Trolls in multi-way combat wouldn't leave me alone.

Very easy.

Long, but funny! Great quest - looking forward to learning more about Rabid Jack!

Pretty annoying going back and forth to the hideout, ESPECIALLY at the end. But hey, now I can do bloods.

Task 45: Cave Horrors (159) [sumona]

Drops: Clue, Snapdragon Seed (3), Natures (58)

Charms: 6,4,16,1

Clue Results:

Task 46: Abberant Spectres (154) [sumona]

Drops: Herbs, Rune Large, Lava Battle

Charms: 12,10,5,10

Points: 240

Got these (2029 and 2030)

Task 47: Basilisks (146) [sumona]

Charms: 6,7,4,1

2028: Oaks with SC Hammers