#4 : The theory is always easier?
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Follow a RS veteran, a general gamer, creative person and video editor on his way to *finally* max out, together with his interesting view on the pixel, and real world.
QOTD : "Art like morality consists drawing the line somewhere"
SOTD : Martin Solveig featuring Dragonette - Hello (Dada Life Remix)
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And here we go again.. How have you guys been? Well I've been excellent, despite being so awfully busy. For like 3-4 months now I'm getting taught to drive by my dad. In the start I was afraid of driving, but now it's going better. I don't know why, it's extremely silly but cars scare me somehow. Since I'm now getting good at driving I feel more confident, and I feel more controlled over the car. I think that the first moment I'll hit anything that I quit with driving, as it would scare me a lot. And, let's see, Tuesday i'll get my grades we'll see how it turns along and in two weeks I'll be heading to Italy for nine days. So you'll have to miss this blogs for a while (if it interests you, at all), but I'll return with some nice pictures and a story hopefully.
I think you already noticed that I like Assassins Creed, so visiting Italy will be pretty cool to see all those buildings for real. I'm also really looking forward to the release of Assassins Creed Brotherhood. I'll spend a separate entry for that some later date, but I'm pretty sure it will keep me from playing RuneScape for a few weeks (I'll still do my farmings runs). I'm finally getting the hang of my runs but I'm having some trouble with how to deal with the 'rewards'. I already decided that I'll FM the logs I receive from my kingdom daily. In long terms that will get me 99 firemaking without having to deal with wrist problems (no joking intended, FM really kills your wrist if you'd do it 2 weeks straight) and without being incredible bored. I realized I'm more busy with 'side skills' apart from my main goal mining. Kind of funny, but that's good I think as I have a nice change in what I'm doing. The real problem are my herbs I receive from both my kingdom & farming. I clean them anyhow but I'm wondering what I should do them. I could either sell them to regain money, since money will be absolutely necessary to max out. That will be another problem I'll be facing in the future. When I've done all the regular skills and the buyables are left, how do I keep receiving money? I was thinking to go solo Arma or something, but we'll see.
I could use save the herbs to do herblore with, but the problem I'm facing then, is that I'll slowly lose money in cash. That doesn't really sound like a problem, but it will be when I want to switch to another skill when I'm done with mining and it might be a problem if Jagex releases a new quest with requirements I don't meet. Secondly, I'm quite sure that you'll be making potions which will be quite ineffectively for either A. cash or B. experience, so you're always making these niche potions just because it are herbs from you, which you saved up while skilling. So my conclusion is that it's not worth it to keep your herbs for yourself, but I'm better off selling them and using that cash on a later day to train herblore on the most efficient way.
Currently I'm also facing another problem. Well, not really a problem, but it is reducing my efficiency. As you know from my last entry, the original plan was to superheat the gold ores I mine at the LRC. Now I figured that I'm 50% of the time I'm occupied with doing something at the same time. Now this stops me from paying full attention which is required to superheat. In all those cases I switch over to coal. Coal is way better to spend AFK instead of gold ores in my opinion because you A. mine them slower B. they are better profit and C. they are lower experience. Now you might be surprised that I consider lower experience being a positive point, but that's because I want to superheat as much ores as possible while training mining. As said in the previous entry, the rewards from superheating are tremendous and because of coal and my AFK work, I'm always missing those rewards. Well I'm still training my main goal with coal, but it's negative because I'm lengthening my work on getting 99 magic & smith. So I realized that thinking about how you plan and do certain things is always way more effective as actually making the plan reality.
Further nothing really exciting has happened. Haven't been video editing for a while now, but that will surely increase in the future with school projects. Haven't been touching my PS3 at all anymore, and I guess that will stay that way until the release of AC:B. The only things which fill my days now are A. RS & B. Real Life (school, friends, driving, ..). That's a pretty boring life for now, and I hope I'll find some excitement when I'm visiting Italy.
Almost forgot, but I'm considering to join a clan again. I've been a clan leader myself for around 2 years, but I've made the promise to never lead again since I believe you never really receive rewards or cognition for the time and effort you spend on the clan. Believe me, it's one of the most underestimated/underrated pixel jobs. People don't see the work behind the scenes ;). Now, my closest friend has been accepted into Uprising, which seems to be a fairly remarkable warring clan. He has been talking into me to join that clan but I'm not sure if I'm ready for hardcore warring again. It requires a huge amount of time invested in events, actual wars, trainings, ... and I'm not speaking of the financial aspect again. If I would join I'd be forced to purchase war gear, and I'd be probably constantly asked to get better gear until I got that best gear, which does includes the expensive spirit shields. This is all money I could put into skills, into my goal of maxing out. And that's what makes me so unsure about doing this. Don't get me wrong as it's a fairly cool clan with no mandatory events and where fun is the most important thing in the first place. But on the other side they take the warring aspect quite serious, which I completely understand as I've been leader of a warring clan for a while myself. It's all about honor and respect, but also about fun. After the war, chilling with your clanmates together with those hilarious conversations in ventrillo is epic fun. But it really slows me tremendously down from accomplishing my goal. Now I agree that I *should* choose for the fun, and join that clan, but at the moment some feeling is stopping me and I'm not sure if it will go away anytime soon. I think I'm not ready for it yet, I'm not ready to invest much cash and time into warring or a clan and general and for now I just want to concentrate on my goal.
There is a clan which grabs my interest too, and that's supreme skillers. They look like an amazing and well-run clan and I might join them, eventually. I'm currently missing the requirements so at the moment I'm pretty much stuck with what I want to do next. And I guess that the future will tell. So, for the moment I'll probably remain clanless, mine more coal while being annoyed that I should be superheating gold, and drown in my school work while finishing a farm run once in a while. Have a nice day folks.
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