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Ok so yesterday, as I predicted in the above post, I hit 65 farming more or less as soon as I logged in! It seems so long ago that I genuinely despised this skill and didn't have the faintest idea how to train it with any real speed, and look at me now, I'll definitely be hitting 67 today (I got 66 yesterday too,) and I'll probably attain level 70 farming by the end of the week, an accomplishment I could never have forseen just a week or two ago! After those early levels I decided to continue questioning, completing swan song without much trouble before moving onto the spirit's of elid, again, very little trouble, and gained a total of 17000 prayer experience from the both of them, pushing me ever closer to a level up in that skill. I'm not entirely sure why, but I really don't like do desert quests, there's something about the desert people that makes me wish they could sort out their own problems... After some more revision and farming I decided I'd finally take on this slayer task of 102 fungal magi, and after spending ~500k on runes, I levelled magic to 73 and slayed the final beast, leaving me on a nice slayer point total of 320, only 8 more tasks until I can unlock a slayer helmet! I predict I'll be gaining more or less one defence level every 1.5 tasks, so over the 8 tasks I predict my defence will rise from 72 to around 78, which in turn should only bring me up two combat levels, before I finally get 50 summoning, which will probably push me on to about 97 combat. My next task is 160 turoths however with an exam today and 2 more on thursday I'm not too sure when I'll undertake said task, but I will continue to farm feverishly forever finding fewer forages? Well that alliteration must count as English revision right? I think later today I'll update the front page of my blog a bit too, seeing as I think all of my goals have been completed, bar 50 summoning. Up next I think I'm aiming for 70 prayer, 60 summoning and 80 defence all before my membership runs out on the 25th of June. After that date I'm strongly considering runespanning in F2P for ~2 weeks to achieve my first level 99 in a skill ever, and then once I achieve it I'll resubscribe to members and bonfire my way to trimming that cape. The reason I've decided to bonfire in P2P is that bonfires are quite generous with their charm donations, but this all may change, I may in fact decide I want farming to be my first 99! Speaking of which, time to log on, hit level 67, see how far I am from 68 and head off to school for this exam! P.s Smashing Pumpkin's new album Oceania was released as a stream on itunes yesterday and I'm pretty impressed so far so if you like anything a bit alternative, give it a listen! P.P.s I actually typed this about 7 hours ago but it wouldn't post so I saved it until now!

Nice one on the fish mask, I'd probably sell it if I happened across one, but there are some who predict it to eventually turn into a rare in the same way santa hats and other one off items have in the past. Have a good time in Vegas, I look forward to more insightful and well written updates when you return!

So many DIY accounts! (Not that I'm bored of them!) I've always been tempted to try making one myself but I'd struggle, so good luck!

I'm writing this post now as I wait for some plants to grow for the Garden of Tranquility quest, and they're taking far too long! Boris, thanks for the tip I wish I saw it earlier, the yew seeds themselves aren't too bad, but the cactus spines to protect them are ridiculous! Hey starz, thanks for posting, tbh I don't have much of a game style I just try and enjoy how I play! Earlier today I had the worst experience since returning to the game properly, and that was death. Not only did I die twice whilst attempting Summer's End, I lost my wicked robe bottom and cape so all that runespan has been pailed into insignificance ): I finally finished the quest, ran around the wilderness getting the bonus exps and a few level ups, but none worthy of a print screen. According to tip.it the next quest on my prayer exp countdown is Swan Song, but first I needed to do Shilo Village, One Small Favour and Garden of Tranquility. The first really wasn't too hard, but I forgot how tedious Osf was! After performing various menial tasks, or 'favours' I felt I'd earnt the 20k exp reward, which, after much debate, I decided not to put on prayer, and instead gained 4 summoning levels to 44. I think I'll use lamps on summoning from now on until I at least reach the 50 milestone. This Garden of Tranquility quest should bring up 64 farming, and then my expensive yew tree run after might well bring up 65, so I'll have a nice picture to round off the night! Tomorrow I'll be going into school for revision sessions so I really won't be playing much for the next two weeks, but I'll continue farming, and I'll hopefully just consistently get a level or 2 a day!

Oh wow thanks GhostKo that means a lot! I find Runescape more enjoyable in moderation, if I overplay it I tend to quit for a few weeks, whereas this way I just consistently play an hour or so a day and then some days I'll play more if I'm enjoying it! Hello readers, I apologise for a horrible lack of posts over the past few days, but my next exam is on Tuesday so I've been prioritising pretty well! I have been doing a few farm runs when I'm near my computer, although on Friday I didn't log on once!! Yesterday I played a bit more, borrowed some Bandos Tassets and powered through a few slayer tasks, my 20th task from Summona is 101 Fungal Magi so I might not rush into that bundle of joy, but I am creeping ever closer to a slayer helmet! Tears of guthix brought me 40 summoning as the last thing I did yesterday so now all skills are 40+! (I don't bother taking pictures of levels under 50!) And yeah to be honest I've gained like 3 farming levels over the past 3 or 4 days but I really haven't got much else to tell you! Yesterday I completed Fairy Tale part 3 which was actually quite a fun little quest, and it was all set in Zanaris so I did it all whilst getting my slayer task which was brilliant, and the reward wasn't too bad either! I think today I'm going to buy some yew seeds because willows are becoming quite pointless and slow exp now, but I'll also have to stock up on cactus pines because I refuse to risk losing a 60k seed to disease/death!

like 6 months ago about 3 weeks ago like last week, blurry but yeah last day of school/ drunk in school/ sue me etc

I never really thought I'd get into it, and whilst I think the novelty is slightly wearing off, I still do really enjoy it and I think I've gone up almost 40 levels in under a week in the skill which for me is phenomenal! I didn't play much yesterday and I'm slightly hungover today so spending time online isn't top of my priorities, especially as I have to tidy my house for a visitor later, but I'll see what I can get done. Yesterday I don't think I levelled at all! I completed the Falador easy diary and did a farming run in whicn 4 of my 5 pineapple plants died... I think I'll definitely start paying the farmers to watch my crops now because that's like 18k exp lost out on yesterday! I also think farming for me now will consist of a daily fruit tree run, 2 tree runs and a herb/limpwurt run when I remember/ am not busy, so I'm looking at around 30-40k exp a day, and depending on how much money I make from other skills that could go up if I decide to plant more expensive seeds, yews for example. Today if I play much I'll probably just complete more diaries and then see where I feel like going from there, but as I said I doubt I'll be playing much today, or really for the next 2 weeks which is a shame as I feel I'm really getting back into the game, but maybe it's best I don't overplay it! (Last weekend, Saturday and Sunday I played roughly 10 hours a day...) Good luck with all your endeavours, and I'll try and post again tomorrow/tonight!

you have quite a decent slayer level for your combat level, do you have low prayer/summoning or did you just train combat almost entirely through slayer? good luck though!

Oh I didn't notice my blog was onto its second page already, I'm definitely a serious blogger now! Ok so yesterday I was pretty hungover so I didn't get to play as much as I thought I would, and I also started some serious revision which will continue for like two more weeks so updates will not be as packed as they have been in the past. HOWEVER, this isn't to say this blog won't be worth reading, heavens no! Yesterday, straight after writing the above post, I did the ol' squeal of fortune and got a lamp, I whacked it straight onto prayer which got me this lovely milestone! After more and more farm runs I also got the same level in the skill which I never would've conceived getting past 50! Thanks again to Pro Leecher who really taught me how simple and easy, and fun, farming is! Unfortunately, me being me, I completely forgot to print screen this milestone, or I probably did, but didn't paste it, which is frustrating because I genuinely would never have imagined me getting to that level! The other big thing that happened yesterday was I noticed after buying some tree seeds, I had a cash pile of ~2k... I had about 500k worth of stuff ready to sell but I really was low on funds, but once again the HYT friend chat was my savoir, and this time, on a high from some staking victories, No Chaotics gave me 3000k! To him it may have been petty to change but to me that is an awfully large amount to receive as a donation, so I am forever in his debt! Of course I took a screenshot of this because I want to shower him in the glory he deserves! And unfortunately I didn't get much else done yesterday, other than finishing up the Varrock easy diary, and starting on the Falador easy one too, which I'll probably complete today along with all the other easy tasks in the game! I really should do some quests after that which will enable all the medium tasks to be completed before perhaps finally returning to slayer, but if I'm being honest, skilling is actually a lot more fun than I ever remember it being, especially with most of the HYT friend chat being so nice to talk to!

Hey starz, good luck with your goals! I personally would save the 99s until you've gotten at least 50 in all skills but then again I've never been one for grinding, so if that suits you then go for it!

I think I hit the print screen button at least 4 times yesterday but everytime I failed to paste it onto paint so no pictures this post I'm afraid! After achieving 50+ in all skills besides summoning I decided to go for my next goal which is 60 prayer, but heaven forbid I spend money on this goal! After checking the tip.it quest experience guide I figured out I could get a whopping 50k exp from doing a little post-quest Saradomin worshipping but I lacked a 6th Saradomin item. I didn't have 70 range to wear the vambraces so I took myself to the mage training arena to get myself a lovely Saradomin cape, and then I went and gained like 3 levels in the blink of an eye! I tried troll invasion for the first time and managed to complete all 20 waves, although the last 3 were tricky because I let dynamite blow up the supply stand! That brought me a tidy 23k exp too, and another couple of levels! THEN, I noticed I could get a 13.5k prayed exp bonus from after one of the goblin quests, so I went and killed some spirits, travelled to a barren wasteland and buried some bones! Spirit of the Summer or Spirit of Summer, I forget which, came next, and although I frustratingly had to buy more pouches because I sucked at the fight the first time, I comfortably completed that and went off to find the 15k prayer and farming bonuses, and of course the 11k attack bonus (Not sure why it's lower but hey [garden tool] I don't want to level attack anyway!) With constant farming in between and with farming and prayer questing continuing today I estimate I'll be into the low 60s in prayer and could break the 60 mark for farming by the end of today! I'm pretty hungover right now which is why this post, for me, is pretty tl;dr, but hopefully I'll get some worthy print screens today and I'll have a better post tonight or tomorrow morning! Until then!

Congrats on 1600 total levels! I'm closing in on 50+ all skills myself, it's just a nice milestone to reach so good luck with what skills you have remaining!

I wouldn't add all the pictures to your starting thread, just update by adding new posts! Also, I prefer blogs where people write a bit along with the pictures, just to keep things interesting! Good luck with your goals, even I have the same Dg level as you and mine was 100% F2P soloing! :P

So today wasn't quite as productive as the day I had yesterday but by gosh I got another hefty amount of levels! I started off continuing this new love I have for farming, and then after that I grabbed that final agility level, whilst also discovering how fast the wilderness agility course is! After that, I decided to get a few levels in skills such as herblore, fletching and even this, on my way to getting most of the strange rocks for this week's statue! Cooking trout is always a nice relaxing thing to do whilst playing a bit of playstation! Farming is fast becoming one of my favourite skills, and this level is something I never thought I'd achieve for a long long time! It's actually been my sole source of income over this weekend so without it I wouldn't have done as much as I'd hoped! Next up I had to get 10 hunter levels to get that up to level 50, and after 3 levels of swamp lizards I decided to try out falconry. I really didn't enjoy grinding that 50k exp and it's not a skill I look forward to training again, but after an hour or 2 I did it. Another thing to note about farming is that it is great at splitting up less appealling skills, such as hunter. 2 hours of non stop hunter is an awful lot less appealling than an 2 separate hours of hunter with a farming run in between! Construction next! Fairly simple, but it cost me 160k just to get a level and a half! Oak larders and a final oak chair got me to this milestone! And that only leaves summoning, however just getting level 34 - 41 is going to cost me 600k in shards, so I'm going to carry on with other skills, probably returning to slayer until I've got a cashpile of at least 1M, which is actually why I'm fishing some sharks as I write this, but at 88 fishing they are pretty slow, so it seems that slayer task of 149 lesser demons is calling me sooner than I thought. Once I hit 50 summoning and 50 in all skills I'm going to start thinking which skills I could possibly conceive getting 99 in, but until then I'll just carry on questioning the world of runescape and playing as many different things as possible!

gl m8

Well done Sonic, what's next?

Grats on the whip vine drop Sally and good luck with taskmaster!

Those 7 fletching levels were certainly a sign of things to come yesterday! After those 7 fletching levels, I went on to gain over 50 levels in total yesterday! I'm going to try and remember to post in the evening because my memory isn't always as fresh first thing in the morning... If I remember correctly, after finishing fletching I decided to go check my trees! All of my oaks were fine, I gained a couple of farming levels, but only 1 of my 5 apple trees had grown! (Obviously I had been a bit too eager...) I decided to wait by my catherby tree, and get my 2 fishing rocks whilst I waited for my tender apple tree to bloom! It took a mere 49 shark for me to find these devious rocks, which is much more than I can say for agility later, but we'll get to that later! After getting my fishing rocks, I got my fruit tree farming equipment out, and finished my run, getting another 2 farming levels in the process! At this stage, after only 1 day and 2 runs of frees, I already felt like an accomplished enough farmer to add herb runs into my routine, so I went and bought a load of ranarr, strawberry and limpwurt seeds and got planting! In between these 90 minutely farming runs, I was busy getting up my other horribly low skill, hunter, and after Tears of Guthix, I reached 22. I ventured off to the ogre infested Feldip Hills to catch some pretty birds, which got me 27 hunter reasonably quickly. I helped a crazy eagle obsessed man in Eagle's Peak, and he taught me how to catch ferrets! I Stayed at these ferrets until level 38 hunter, until it was time for another farming run! I'd gone from a farmaphobic, to a player who let farming determine when I stop training other skills! Farming grew and grew and before I knew it I'd gained 10 levels in it yesterday! I went back to hunter, trying pitfalling this time, which I think I enjoyed more than box trapping, and after 2 more levels I hit this wonderful milestone! I decided 40 hunter was a nice level to take a break at too, but 22 hunter levels in half a day is nothing to be sniffed at! I added the 2 hunter rocks to my strange statue and decided I might as well finish it! So after cooking, firemaking and crafting, I had just agility rocks left! Even more convenient as agility is one of my skills I need to raise to 50! Taking appropriate farming runs when necessary, I gained 6 agility levels, 43-49 before getting both rocks, the second one took a decade! I decided to do one more farming run before bed, and now I've just woken up so here's today's more structured plan: Farming run when I log on Buy an agility potion and head to the wildy course to get this last level Buy supplies and get 50 construction Continue farming Head back to the hunting grounds to get 50 hunter! I think these are all pretty achievable for me today, and I'd also like to once again thank everyone in the HYT friend's chat, because without them, so many of my questions would go unanswered, and the conversation last night is what made agility training bearable, so thank you all! (Especially my fellow Leeds United fan Plastic Poet!)

Thanks low levelled, I'm happy people are actually reading this! So today I was awake pretty early so did some early morning scaping, and whilst playing fifa at the same time, I babysat 7 levels of fletching to get me this! Which was a nice start to the day, and it only really took me an hour or so, not even paying attention to most of it! After that I decided to check my trees, and I levelled up three times in farming in about 10 minutes, I could definitely get into farming at this rate, but it seems my eagerness to check my apple trees got the better of me because only 1 of the 5 I'd planted was fully grown, so I logged out and watched some tv for an hour or so, so that now when I log in, I should gain a couple more levels checking the health of my remaining 4 trees, assuming none have died, like my first oak tree did! After that I'm not too sure how I'll spend my day, I did a bit of runespan last night but I doubt I'll go back to that until F2P, but I think I might work on getting the strange rocks from my remaining skills before possibly going onto some agility training? Who knows what today'll hold, but there's only one way to find out!

Thanks Gregor, I have kinda accepted this blog is more for me than others, and it's better that way anyway, it'll just be nice to have evidence of my progression, but it still is nice when people take the time to comment! I finished up alching, acheiving 72 magic in the process, then decided to head to runespan, which is where I am now, although I have to say the exp rate doesn't seem that much better than in F2P, so I think I'll keep to F2P runespan, which is good because it gives me something to do during the few days in between one month ending and another starting!

Ok well I didn't do many of the things I said I would today, but today was in fact one of the most diverse days I've had back as a member... but I'll get to that later, let's go chronologically! I started the day with a couple more really easy quests, mainly for the SoF rewards, and I think from the 4 spins I got 2 lamps, so I can hardly complain! I started to stare at the quest list and thought what should I do next? Well I decided to finally get the first part of the Fairy Tale trilogy done, and in doing so gained a fair few farming levels! Whilst in Zanaris, I decided to at least see what slayer task was next, even though I had no intention of doing it... well that was until Chaeldar offered me 42 Mutated Zygomites, which were just hanging out round the corner... she knew I couldn't say no! I did the task without much to note, and then I returned to see my next task, and oh Chaeldar knows how to get me to slay! She offered me the special Zygomite challenge, in which I kill 10 Zygomites and get a 10,000 slayer experience reward! After returning ONCE more, I was given 149 lesser demons, and my desire to slay was doused. I started part 2 of the Fairy Tales, just enough to use the convenient fairy ring network and then I decided to really try something new... Farming. At only 26, after the reward from the earlier quest, farming was one of my lowest skills, well it still is! And I'd never really been too keen on training it, mainly because I didn't really know how! I started asking the HYT chat about the ins and outs of the skill, and Pro Leecher decided to take me under his wing, and taught me all there is to know about tree farming, and I truly learned how simple and easy farming is, so tomorrow when I check my apple and oak trees, I should hopefully get a few levels! So whilst on this journey of discovery, I decided to try another new skill, and whilst I had gotten summoning to ~50 on another account, I never really enjoyed it, but today I finally decided to use these gold charms of mine, and finally I have a picture to show you! I went on to gain another 12 levels before running out of charms at 34 summoning, 14 higher than I started the day! As I type this, I'm stuck in Edgeville bank, alching the pouches, which will bring me up to 72 magic, and then I think I'll even delve into hunter!

I'm going to keep telling myself my blog gets hundreds of readers, but they're all too scared to post... Ok so yesterday on the plus side, I got quite a lot done, but on the down side, I have no pictures for you, and for that I apologise! I'm awful at remembering to paste my print screens into paint, so I think I'm going to find a new screenshot programme that does it for me! Yesterday started with that bloodveld task, which surprisingly took me two inventories of monkfish and every last prayer point I had, but they were extremely generous with their charm drops, which should help me in the coming days! The subsequent task was formidable to say the least... Chaeldar assigned me 36 bronze dragons! I'd killed these on other accounts before but I was wary about the threat they posed, so after getting advice from the always helpful HYT chat, I decided to mage these. I closed in on 72 magic, but other than that it was actually quite a boring task, but it wasn't too hard so I can't complain... I may have to melee them in the future though because I think I spent like 400k just on runes for that task! My next task was a lot nicer, Chaeldar sent me to do what I feel I do best at the moment, killing grotworms! 108 of them to be precise, and it brought me 69 strength and well into 61 slayer! The drops were nice and I returned to Chaeldar in boyount mood! The next assignment I had was to kill 120 Abberant Spectres, which at first, worried me. With the crashing herb prices I was afraid this task would be more expensive than other tasks, but obviously with cheap prayer potion prices, and helped along by 3 snapdragon seeds and a few other nice drops, this was my most profitable task of the day, and again quite an easy one! I finally acheived 70 strength and 62 slayer there too, so as I said, that's an end to my slayer and combat training for a while! After that I decided to do a load of easy quests, 5 to be precise, and from the 10 spins awarded to me, the fruits of the wheel were not great, but that's the way it goes sometimes! Today I plan on doing some harder quests with decent exp rewards, and I think the first 50 I'll go for it Agility, mainly because I hate it so much and want it out the way! A mixture of quests and grinding should get me the 8 levels I need fairly quick before I'll probably move onto finishing the final 2 levels in construction! Until next time (WITH PICTURES!)

Not a big post to fill you in on yesterday's adventures I'm afraid! I did that clue I mentioned and the reward wasn't even worth posting, but I'm not selfish so an extra 50k in the coffers is a nice bonus! I finished my fungal magi task and got 71 magic in the process, but that didn't seem like a picture worthy moment either! I officially despise each and every fungal mage though, the amount of money I spent on runes, and even prayer potions for that task was ridiculous! I went to Summona (Sp?) for my 10th task since completing smoking kills and she rewarded me with a hefty bloodveld task, although the exact number escapes me... A talented slayer would probably cannon these badboys to shreds in the smoky well but I'll take them on one at a time in the slayer tower! I might pray against them too because I remember having them as a task before and they hit fairly hard... I'll try one inventory without prayer and see how I cope I guess, and this task should nicely bring up 61 slayer, 71 constitution and 69 strength! I should also mention that with swiftkit being hacked, print screens become more tedious so there will be less of them I'm afraid, only things truly worth print screening shall have that honour! A huge thank you to Ermin who was the first to bring this to my attention, the hacking that is, and gave me enough time to change my password and uninstall the corrupted software before my account was forever lost to the abyss of hackings! IRL I had my mechanics exam today and if you were wondering it went really well, so I'll reward myself with a full day of scaping, so later tonight I should have a lot more to tell you! Until then!

I got a bit too into the game yesterday, when I finally called it quits I was too tired to attempt to formulate a respectable post, so here I am today, recounting to my many fans yesterday's events! Now where did I leave you last time? Of course! The Grotworms. Chaeldar had set me 98 of them and I was apprehensive to say the least... This apprehension was short lived, because after the first few kills, not only did I realise they were dropping generous amounts of blood and death runes, but they really weren't hitting too hard, I started to think I might be able to finish my task in 1 inventory of monkfish! As the task drew to a close, I was running dangerously low on food, but then, as if by magic, these wonderful worms started to drop the most fascinating of fish, the rainbow fish! The extra lifepoints these bad boys gave me was more than enough to see me through to the end of a reasonably enjoyable task! I also achieved a nice rounded number level in my strength skill, bringing me to within 5 levels of my target, and a temporary end to combat training After this task I was optimistic about my next task, but this optimism was crushed when I received the task to kill 85 fungal magi! A quick visit to the tip.it beastiary told me these would be tricky, expensive and slow for someone of my level to kill... This demoralised me to the point of taking a two hour break and I came back at the time I was expecting the new update, just past 4pm. Alas no update, so I started on this task by fire blasting the first 20 or so fungal magi before having to log out due to this update... This is where my day really took a turn for the better... I logged back in, carried on killing these fungal magi and in the hyt friend's chat I noticed Insane Chef saying that he sold royal dragonhides for 500k each and that level 91 grotworms dropped them (the very same grotworms from my previous task!) I pondered joining him, but I decided to wait at least until I needed to bank, which wasn't a long wait I might add (I'll definitely be praying magic next time I'm there because killing ~30 a trip isn't very efficient is it!) I got to the bank and thought about how I was going to kill these grotworms... I knew I didn't want to have to keep banking if there was serious money to be made, so I withdrew 16 prayer potions and 4 super attacks and strengths... this would last me a long time I thought to myself I reached the grotworms and they were relatively empty... the cave itself was alive with excitement and many brave adventurers' lives were lost in combat to the might Queen Black Dragon, but this wasn't why I'd arrived The fact that these lowly level 91s were dropping 500k drops not too infrequently had been kept relatively quiet it seemed, and I managed to get 4 within an hour or so and sell them for a nice 2M! Using my savvy business mind, I then bought some hides for 400k each, tanned them, got assisted and sold some chaps for 1M (A nice 200k profit)! But then word spread and on my second attempt at a quick buying and selling profit, I actually lost a few hundred thousand gp, so I decided to leave merchanting to the pros and returned to the grotworms. In total yesterday I think I racked up 20 hide drops and over 1000 royal bolts, and despite the obvious drop in price as the day went on, I made roughly 5M gp in about 4 hours! I did briefly consider staying there all night, but then I remembered my exam tomorrow and knew I'd need to spend today awake and alert to revise, so I went to the grand exchange and amongst the hustle and bustle and excitement, I crossed the first item off my shopping list! Amulet of Fury - Check! I have a nice little medium clue scroll to take care of now, which means I will have an update for you later, but how big it is depends on how well the revision goes today, so until then my friends, happy scaping!

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