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Thankyou Kill_Life, I have changed the guide to 70+ and adding the option to use wind wave/fire blast.

Good Luck getting back on track, I might see you at the mounds one day! Cool aviators (and cat :D) in your rl pictures...Merry Christmas aswell!

Barrows For Lower Levels 1.0 Introduction Welcome to my guide on how to complete your first run and carry on from there, making a profit from barrows even if you dont get too many items! Before I start I would like to point out that I don't want any comments along the lines of: "lol u noob i use 1 p pot per run loser noob", because this is my method, I make 700k a day and im more than happy doing it this way. Now onto the guide... 2.0 Contents 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Contents 3.0 Requirements and set-up 4.0 Getting to Barrows 5.0 Just who are these pink devils? 6.0 What Order and Completing (almost) your run 7.0 Tunnel Time! 8.0 Making a profit 9.0 Conclusion 3.0 Requirements Now to complete barrows my way you will need a few things completed: Desert Treasure In Search of the Myreque 55 slayer 50 Construction 43+ Prayer So first of all make sure you have a kharryl portal in your house, so you can get to canifis nice and quick, which requires desert treasure complete. Then make sure "In Search of the Myreque" is done as otherwise you cant cross that nifty bridge or use the good old pub tunnel. 55 slayer is essential for slayer dart, which wastes 5 of those brothers and will replenish your runes lost, around 70% of the time.An altar in your house is nessacary too. EDIT: For people that have not yet obtained 55 slayer, use either fire blast or wind wave, wind wave is prefered if you can afford the bloods, but fire wave costs the same as slayer dart. Now your invent should look something like this: Red: 2 prayer potions per run, so roughly 11k per trip wasted. Green: ONE emergency prayer pot, incase you get a nasty tunnel. Light Blue: Your range gear to thrash Ahrim with. Dark Blue: Err...try getting into a tomb without this... Grey: House Teleports! Orange: 30 extra spells, just incase things dont go as planned. Now here is what you should be wearing, this is a template and can be mixed around and changed based on what you already own/can afford! Helm Space: Farseer, Mystic, Initiate Amulet Space: Fury, Glory, Magic Cape: God Cape, Skill Cape, Ledgends Cape Arrow Space: Rune arrows, Ruby Bolts (e) Chest Space: Ahrim's Robetop, Mystic Top, Monk Robes Leg Space: Ahrim's Bottoms, Mystic Bottoms, Monk Robes Shield Space: Dragonfire Shield, Prayer book, Rune Kite Gloves and Boots Space: Mystic boots and gloves Ring: Seers Ring OR a ring of life Weapon Space: Slayer Staff OR A fire staff 4.0 Getting to Barrows To start off, Get to your house and recharge your prayer: Then run over to your Canifis Portal and jump into it! When you arrive in Canifis, restock your supplies (if coming from a run) or get your wagon around that pub and through the trapdoor! Run through the wall (Sounds weird,eh?) and over to the doors leading to mort myre swamp. Then run to the bridge which should be behind you, and get going straight until you see the little transportation arrow...Get in that boat!Here's a map for the people who need a visual aid: So just follow the red line, then the blue and your there! 5.0 So Just who are these pink Devils? The Barrows Brothers are six ancients soldiers, who led their forces to victory and were the best fighters in the land. There key to success was their armour, which was unique in its own special way (i.e. some cool effects) and this effect would dazzle enemies during battle. So I will now give your a run through on these brothers (NOT the order we fight them) and where abouts you can find them... Verac Well basically unless you have 90+ defence you will learn to despise this guy. He hits through your prayer and armour. He hits massive hits on mystic when he jumps on you during the tunnel and wears a skirt. Just protect from Melee and slayer dart this fellow to death...again and again and again. Dharok Everyone has watched a Dharok max-hit video on youtube, or seen people annialating the poor fellows in the tzhaar with this warriors armour on. Well to be honest - he is probably the easiest of the lot. All you have to do is make sure you ALWAYS have protect from melee on from the moment you click your spade, to the moment his knee's start to bend towards the ground...Otherwise he will hit 50+ on you. :D Torag An easy brother who will annoy you greatly. You take a dose and start to fire away, and as he is on 15 health, and you hit a zero (followed by him hitting around 5 of them) he will hit a 23 and die.Always. Otherwise he is a massive noob, but his armour sure is pretty! Guthan Guthan is a funny old chap, as he doesnt seem to hit high too often, but heals when he does. One dose does the job, but he can require another if he starts healing when it runs out. Karil Karil is a dangerous foe and will ravage you and your mystic without prayer, so it is wise to do so. Many people will tell you melee'ing him is better, but I tryed that for 34 runs and it takes an extra does if you have under 75 in all melee area's. So just waste him with your dart. Ahrim Put on your clean, sweat and rip free dragonhide, your bow and selected helmet, hit the spec button (or wish the rune xbow had a spec button) and dig in. Take one dose first and this guy is toast. If he starts hitting big on you don't panic, just take another dose and finish him. 6.0 What Order and Completing your Run As soon as you arrive at the mounds you will see about 6 lumps poking out of the ground, each one containing a brother. I have stolen a useful map off tip.it (thankyou) to show you guys where these fellows are: Dharok IN THE MOUND: So head off to dharok's mound, tell saradomin to protect you from melee, and dig in! Never ever take off protect from melee, but you shouldnt have to dose in here as he is killed so quickly. Then run up the stairs. IN THE TUNNEL: The SAME strategie, just pot up and fight, but watch your prayer points in here as you have to mess around for a bit at the beginning of the fight NOTE: I can provide a few pictures of SOME of the brothers, just to give you an idea of what the place looks like.So here is my pretty picture of dharok: Then head over to verac's mound and re dose if you are under 30 prayer remaining. Go in and follow my instructions: Verac IN THE MOUND: This fellow is slightly annoying as once in a while he will hit through your prayer, and believe me it adds up, so DONT go and check out your blog while fighting this pink fellow! Otherwise just dart him till he is dead! IN THE TUNNEL: Can be tricky due to the amount of monsters, brothers, gravestones and people down in the tunnel, as he is the only one that can kill you with prayer on. Just take an extra dose and all will be good. Verac's Picture!: After annialating Verac, walk down to the most southern mound, our very own man in a skirt, Karil. Karil IN THE MOUND: Range protect and kill. you may only take off prayer (or just not re-dose) if he is on under 10 hitpoints. Otherwise you will be ramming large quantities of shark down your little throat. IN THE TUNNEL: Same strategy except he might get one or two sneaky shots in before you realise "hey im now not dying from the skeleton, now a pink man in a skirt!". Just kill him and that thought. Picture time! By the way, this picture is for all the people that recommend meleeing karil. The other guy walked in at the SAME time as me...and he is level 102... Walk north-west to torag's mound, for the most boring fight of your life... Torag IN THE MOUND: Use up your remaining prayer from karil, and take a dose if you are lacking 60+ defensive skills. Otherwise NEVER re-dose, just eat if he does the annoying torag special: 0 0 0 0 *yawn* 24 17 *omg!* IN THE TUNNEL: Same deal really. He won't hit you very high without prayer, so a dose will suffice. No picture because I killed him too fast =)... Now run directly east, to good old Guthan, take ONE dose of prayer potion and dig in... Guthan IN THE MOUND: Really the same as torag, except when you have run out of prayer and he should be on 1/10 health, he may start healing, if so just re-dose and kill him. IN THE TUNNEL: Many people try to save a prayer potion with Guthan it seems. It is you people that keep the Grim Reaper busy. Guthan will hit high through mystic, just not often. Only try to safespot him with help from an experienced friend. Picture pl0x?: Out of the mound, pop on you fresh new dragonhide and head over to the middle mound... Ahrim IN THE MOUND: At level 65 ranged, with rune arrows, I demolish this fellow with one-dose of the turquoise nectar. He is easy, but can hit 17+ quite often if your magic and defence levels are not 70+. So just re-dose if he does =). IN THE TUNNEL: Same strategy as the mound, except you have to watch out for the occasional pot shot when you havn't potted up. No pictures for you! 7.0 Tunnel Time! So you have hopefully killed 5 brothers and received a message from one saying he is a complete cat and is hiding in a tunnel ready to jump you. Heroic brothers, eh? pfft...read this section and the wussy brother will be toast in no time. Before entering the tunnel please note that you should have turned auto-cast back on, and auto-retaliate OFF: Now when you arrive in the tunnel, look for your open door, and either start running the circit, or run through the side tunnels (see picture). The circit is basicly running around in a circle through doors until you either have to turn around on do the circit in the opposite direction, or get a door leading to the chest area. Now creatures (including your brother) can spawn everytime a door is opened, and your brother will spawn when you try to open the chest if you have not encountered him yet... And here is the beautiful, item giving chest: Now you have killed your brother, and are about to open the chest, you may want to consider getting a kill count of around 15 to guarentee getting your runes back, and so so can pick up a few more bloods, bolt racks and chaos to sell at the Grand Exchange! 8.0 Making A profit To make sure you can always pay for your runes, pots and food, you need to make enough money to cover the costs and give a profit. So this is a guide on what you should sell immediately after every 10 or so runs, including barrows items (unless you are looking to keep it). Sell ALL blood runes ALL chaos runes ALL bolts racks (unless you own karil's xbow) ALL Dragon Medium helms ALL Half Keys Karils Coif Karils Xbow Ahrims Hood Ahrims Staff Torag's plate Torag's Hammers Guthans plateskirt Guthans platebody Verac's Flail Every else is worth over 450k, so you should try and wait for the market to turn in your favour, or just sell it and buy some cool stuff! 9.0 Conclusion I hope you enjoyed reading my guide and take notes from it as its all good stuff. I would like to make two points aswell: 1. Doing barrows is at YOUR risk. You can lose items, but if you follow my guide correctly I can almost guarantee a death-free barrowsing adventure. 2.The tunnel picture, mound pictures and Brother pictures are all tip.it's. Happy Scaping!

I think revanants could be useful and indeed fun (take your clan revenant pwning?) if their power was controlled a bit better. I mean, teleblock, poison, blitz and some weird mage/range thingy is over the top and at least the dumber/more "proper" pkers would either stick to one world or leave someone dressed in clue seeking/rc'ing gear alone. Revanants are ruthless though but i got a dragon dagger from one at mage arena =) so im not complaining.

I would advise playing the game to chat and help out your friends, as that got me back into it, even helping them run ess will movitate you to try out what their doing or get back into the swing of things. Or become helpful on the forums and get yourself involved with other aspects of runescape.

I would like to offer some extra advice, as someone kindly answered all of your queries in one post! If you plan to become a member for one month only, then I recommend only leveling F2P skills, using the members worlds fantastic training locations, as if you never become P2P again, who can never hold the title of a completly pure F2P player. BUT. If you are planned on a 12 month+ membership then just take your time, try and get all the members skills up to around 45 to unlock essential benifits, do a few important quests then get back to your normal routine, again using all the great extra facilities. On another note: Do you remember me from a while back?

I would wait until the release of summoning, as people will be selling their goodies for at cheap prices for the first two weeks or so, then sell 'em back at the normal price once they level back out!!!! :twisted:

I would level these skills, in no particular order: Hunter to 63 Theiving to 65 Fishing to 70 Cooking to 75 Runecrafting to 60 Range to 73 (Easy at Fire giants) They are all skills that are quick and easy to level, and its an all round increase,instead of one stat leveled to 80 or something. Here are simple ways to level each skill: Hunter - Red/Orange Salamanders OR Grey Chinchompa's Theiving - Pyramid Plunder OR Ardy Knights Fishing - Lobbies at the Fishing Guild Cooking - Cook your lobs... Runecrafting - Quickly do some law running! One week left!!! Range - Ogres OR Fire Giants Or Tzhaar monsters (Good Cash Return)

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Right so Today I have to craft my 1k ess into nats and sell, so i can buy back various things and continue with barrowsing until i make around 4.5-5.5M, which could take 12 minutes, it could take 2 months, but I enjoy slaughtering those pink ghosts so its all fun!

Good Luck on your goals Inua! Thanks for your post on me blog, ill try to find some seeds from my messy bank for you to help you on your way to 99 farming!

=) thanks for your post Wouter! So i am returning yours, and saying congratulations on 60 construction again! I want to be the first to fall into your oubliette!

500 pess!

250 ess...yay!

I dont know you at all apart from reading your blog and stories in the AOW. However though, from what i've read you sacrificed a lot for your phat and it would be like selling one 99 to get another? There is no effort on your part, just sell your hard earned item and get all the others for free. I'd rather go out there and do what you seem to do best - keep going, stay motivated, tell some stories and show em all off when its over and done with. But then again its your decision...

good luck on your goals, awesome total =D.

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Merry Christmas Shey...Nice Blog btw. I was the guy who quit the other day in edgy, then found out im aloud to play until the end of the hols #-o. But anywayz Merry Christmas again!

Edgeville bank world 99 Quitting for a while Giving all stuff away, so dont post, hurry up and get there!

Great Post. I agree that free players need some benefits too...its like continously offering something great then snatching it away. Maybe this skill will offer some closure for the year (yes I know its coming out in January but still), as it has been a big one full of content. Five years time Runescape will no longer be the main focus. I think summoning could possibly be the start of some big updates over the next few years until we say goodbye.

pfft...not overated! Its insane, check out b--e-n-n---y on youtube if you dont believe me. I think its cool,just a tad too expensive

Whether its in real life, or in runescape everyone wants to be something. I know I do, I know my friends do - infact I know that the majority of people want to be something. Some people achieve these goals, look at the "famous" people in runescape and the billionaires who have made it in real life. Now, im a realist. I know that I probably wont be something in runescape, and there is an even slimmer chance of me being something when I grow up. I was upset by this, I thought at first if I studied hard and was a civil human being I would be confronted by this "something" along the way. So after knowing this wouldn't come I began searching for the thing that makes people achieve that something. It could be getting off to a good start if your born into a wealthy lifestyle, it could be natural talent, it could be luck and it could be forced upon you. One day I was at fire giants and I met a player who was regarded "famous" in the wonderful world of runescape. I asked him what drived him to doing it, what methods he used and what the end result felt like. "It's really just putting your mind into something you find special or take pride in and going with it. Have fun along the way, make some friends and never forget the initial spark that makes you love what you do." And I haven't forgot that.Ever. So I then realised I needed something to work towards, a goal - what I wanted to be in life and why. I then realised my only loves are music and writing. Now I can play guitar, can't sing for shizzle, and most of you have realised from reading this im not the best writer around. I decided I can be good at something everyone has yet very few people use. My attitude to life, my personality and how I treat others. And so far its working. So break the mold, do your own thing, be original and know what you want to be before you become something you never wanted to be.

forgot to add how much i enjoy reading this thread lol. Good time waster during fishing...

another good one

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