The Final Destination
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Today, the article I had written for Tip.It Times has been chosen as one of the two articles for this week. Even though it got a bit ignored for being posted next to an article about the attention-drawing RuneFest, written by a member much more popular than me, I think its still worth mentioning here. It's one of the discussions I'd really like to have with someone who's opinion is the complete opposite, guess someone may show up for that around. But, before going deep into that topic I'd like to sum up my previous week on Runescape.
Ever since that last quest, I've been doing a few things here and there besides training Ranged. As they updated Court Cases, I decided to have a go at it. Just solved the Mugger case, it was a bit like a miniquest, I quite enjoyed it. I was tempted to go on and do harder court cases, but I had to leave early that day and keep forgetting about it ever since. Guess I'll end up doing one after my next farming run, now that I mention it.
I've also done my first raid on General Graardor. I'm not sure about how good it turned out compared to average raids, but it looked pretty bad to me. I was with a friend of mine in a random Bandos team. After around six kills, I'm not sure of what really happened but the General stopped attacking the tank and went loose on us. I was unfortunately his first target, and since I had Deflect Ranged on, and wasn't expecting this at all, he killed me with two melee hits. No worries there though, my grave got blessed and I had more than enough time to get all my stuff back. However, when I came back the raiding party had split up, the adventure ended there. Surely I'll get back to it sooner or later, but next time I'll have a go on the Armadyl boss instead.
Another important happening this week has been my level 90 in Ranged, my last milestone before level 99. This is almost halfway to the end, and it's proven me just how tedious skilling can be. If it wasn't for Slayer somehow making it enjoyable, I'd probably have given up already. All this experience in Ranged allows me to deal much more damage than I ever did in the days when I played with level 70 in all my combat skills, so I'm sure level 99 will be worth it in the end for boss hunting and PvP (not PKing, just minigames. I don't PK, ever).
Now about that article. I do find it a shame that players are so focussed on skilling these days. See, by doing skills I don't mean skilling in general, I myself level up my skills when I need to, and I'm getting a couple of 99's. The "skilling" I talk about is what I'd call pointless skilling. 200 million experience in Runecrafting, untrimmed Slayer and Summoning Capes, even some 99's like Agility or Firemaking, that's just skilling for the sake of skilling and not for the fun of it. Why do people put themselves through all the dull monotomy of skilling when there's nothing in for them in the end? That's borderline masochism. I'm planning to get 99 Ranged and Construction, but those goals of mine have purposes in the end, which are PvPing and entirely finishing my house. I have content to unlock, and I chose enjoyable ways of getting there. For instance, I train Ranged through Slayer, to avoid monotomy as much as possible. There are quite a few skills I have never trained ever since I reached the maximum requirements for quests, because they're just pointless to train anymore. Why do it if I'm not getting fun out of it?
As I often say, one wise man once said the journey was more important than the destination. Guess there's nothing much to add besides that.
May Zaros be with you!
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