#2 : Everything starts with a plan. Doesn't it?
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Follow a RS veteran on his road to finally max out, welcome to my blog!
QOTD : "Well, everyone has to play the game and, well, many lose, but some win"
SOTD : Celldweller - The Best It's Gonna Get
Hey everyone, today was a pretty much all-around day for me, I guess. Got sick, but now feeling better. Tomorrow final day of the week, and probably it will be a pain (school has his downsides, after all), but I guess I'm pretty much up for it. Real life hasn't been special so.. better keep that part short.
Since yesterday, most of my friends are taking me a tad more serious about the maxing out goal. Probably has to do with 1. this blog, and 2. my thread on the RSOF 48-49-287-61787302, feel free to say hi!) but still some of them believe that I don't got it to accomplish this goal. I guess this is the point where you need to think about what will keep you going through all those levels. Find the motivation to continue to play and find motivation to grind over and over again. Well, I found my motivation, I think. I want to be able to put that post on the high level forum : I finally did it. I want to prove to myself I'm able to concentrate on a goal and achieve it, how hard it is, how much I would hate it. But of course, I won't forget the aspect of that this should be a fun experience, but I'm sure there will be periods between it that I wonder why I originally started this goal. Perhaps that's one of the reasons why I started this blog. To look back, to see how much progress I've made, to see the support I'm getting. Yes, everyone can max out. They just need to have A. motivation B. a damn good reason and C. be a little bit insane. But I believe that if you're able to concentrate so much on a game, that will have it's benefits also in real life. If you can set yourself the goal, I want to get a better life as that guy over there, and I will accomplish that, you're set for a beautiful life. Or not?
To achieve the goal of maxing out, you also need to think carefully how you will plan it. Yea, you can just go randomly, HEY, let's now train that skill! And afterwards continue to the next one, but I'm sure you'll miss a lot of the efficiency. Example, first throw all your money on prayer, and afterwards work months to get equipment for 99 slayer, while you could do it the other way around : First make money through slayer with good equipment, instead of purchasing 20k of dbones and afterwards gain that pray level you want. You need to think, plan ahead. How can I save both time and money doing x or y? Pretty soon I'll also be planning daily farm runs, something I never have done before, check what D&D's are worth doing every day/week and what 99 I should get when. I've made up my mind about dungeoneering already : It will be the last skill I'll max out. Yea, I won't do 99-120 separately, I'll do it all in one go. I love dungeoneering, it reminds me of raiding in other MMO's, and of those little RPG board games. Hey, on the way I perhaps find supporters who become friends who even will dungeoneer with me! Since that's pretty much the point of dungeoneering, for you and your friends to do something, to work together.
In my previous entrance I talked shortly about balance. Now how can you retain balance between A. maxing out, and spending much time in game and B. have a good social life? Well, it's simple. Know your limits, and dare to say NO. Not no against invites for a party, singstar evening (those are for the win!), ... but no against the game. Every day it takes longer for you to accomplish the max total, the better the satisfaction you will have when you finally have that 2496 in your skill screen. Since it isn't only the goal what matters, no. It's the road to the goal what matters. Oh boy, it's to late to turn back now, isn't it? There's still a part of me which says no to the goal of maxing out. And I understand that part, it's scared you'll make sacrifices (read : friends, "time IRL", ...) but I'm sure I won't make those. You see, I think I know my limits, and that's incredible important if you go for this goal.
Currently I'm cooking, tomorrow or Saturday I'll have 99. I cooked around a little bit more as a week, and I'm surprised how fast it went compared to fishing, which took me over a month. I'm already starting to think what I should do next. Suggestions? Currently I think I'll head for mine or FM, or something like that. And I think I'm going to get a notebook to start and plan things out. Not only RS related, but also RL. Which still has priority. Funniest is, I started this goal while I'm more busy as ever, and yet I've added more things to my list like this blog. I'm going to play drama, I got my endwork, I got a project or two, I do video editing, etc. The list never ends. But that has also a good point, I'm never bored, and switching between RL and RS will be good. (That sounds somehow, very wrong)
Motivation is still rising, let's do this.
DI
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