Celestrana

Hey all, just another quick update on my farming progress. This weekend has been another farming marathon since I managed to gain a little over 150K xp in two days. Since my calculated average xp per night was 46K, I gained over three days worth of farming xp in two days. Not only did I catch up on my farming xp but I've gained a bit of a lead on my prediction (see previous post). With roughly 220K xp to go, I need about five days to get 93 farming which puts me roughly two days ahead of schedule. I know its not much but being a bit ahead is better than being behind.

As promised, here's a picture of me getting 92 farming while harvesting a patch of dwarf weed herbs. [hide=Getting 92 Farming while harvesting dwarf weed herbs][/hide] So, looking back I started working towards 92 farming on September 7th and finished September 20th. If I were to include the 7th as an official day of farming, then I took 14 days worth of farming, just as I calculated. Hopefully my average farming xp per night stays consistent and I'll post the picture of me getting 93 farming in 15 days. :mrgreen: Cele

It's been six days worth of farming and according to my estimates I should have eight days worth of farming to go. In reality, I have about nine days worth of xp to go so I suppose I'll try to squeeze in more farming time during the weekend. On a good note, I need to grow 50 more dwarf weed herbs for me to have enough herbs for 82 herblore. Once reaching 82 herblore, I would have unlocked all the regular potions and would have three more Barbarian potions to unlock afterward. Since most people don't buy Barbarian potion mixes, I would consider 82 herblore to have unlocked all of the herblore skill abilities/options. Cele

As promised, a picture of me getting level 91 farming. I know I said I'll start taking pictures of my level ups starting at level 92 farming but I figured what the heck, I'll start now just so I'm in the mindset of taking a screen shot of myself every time I level up. Here I am at the Brimhaven fruit tree patch, just finished checking a curry tree and about to replant the patch with an apple tree. To recap: I started at lvl-90 on August 27th and made it to lvl-91 on September 7th. That gives us a total of 12 days of nearly non-stop farming. I've rested here and there to avoid severe skilling burnout. According to Tip.it's XP table, I needed to get 556,499 xp to go from lvl-90 to lvl-91. That's roughly 46,375 farming xp per night. It would be great if I was able to get more farming xp per night but that will burn up my meager amount of gee pees. [hide=Farming level 91][/hide] Let's consider the worse case scenario and plot out a rough time line. Worse case, I get 46K farming xp per night. For the xp I'll need between each level up to level 99, I'll round up to the nearest thousand. For the number of days I'll need, I'll also round up. To keep the time line simple, months will be a "standard" 30 days. Lvl 91 - 92: 614,422 xp -> about 615K --> 13.4 days, so 14 days Lvl 92 - 93: 678,376 xp -> about 679K --> 14.8 days, so 15 days (a month -1 day) Lvl 93 - 94: 748,985 xp -> about 749K --> 16.3 days, so 17 days Lvl 94 - 95: 826,944 xp -> about 827K --> 17.98 days, so 18 days (another month +5 days) Lvl 95 - 96: 913,019 xp -> about 914K --> 19.87 days, so 20 days Lvl 96 - 97: 1,008,052 xp -> about 1009K --> 21.93 days, so 22 days (another month +12 days) Lvl 97 - 98: 1,112,977 xp -> about 1113K --> 24.2 days, so 25 days Lvl 98 - 99: 1,228,825 xp -> about 1229K --> 26.7 days, so 27 days (another month +22 days) So, with the above numbers I'll get 99 farming after 5 and a half months to 6 months. Since its early September, hopefully I'll see everybody at my farming party around March. :thumbsup: Cele

I think it's a good idea for me to start logging how many days it takes me to get a level. It'll give me an idea as to how long it'll take me to get to 99 farming. So, according to my previous entry, I got 90 farming "last night" which would be August 27th. I have about 109K xp till 91 farming and I can definitely get that in three days of normal farming. Since it's the weekend, I think I can squeeze it into two days worth of weekend farming. Erring on the side of caution, I'll get 91 farming in three days and that brings us to September 9th. That would be 13 days to go from 90 to 91 farming. It appears I'll be needing at least a half a month worth of farming for every level up to 99 farming. Since the time I'll need to put into each level increases, I'll be seeing everyone here at my 99 farming in roughly 6 months, which would bring us to maybe late March or early April. Joy! Cele

I've finally made it to level 90 farming last night. I'm sure people will demand a screenie and what have you but as I said previously, I'll only start posting pictures of my level ups from 92 and onward. With only nine farming levels to go, I'm not even half way there in terms of xp! As disheartening as that may be, I strengthen my resolve and push forward towards the finish line regardless of how long it will take me! Cele

Having to work from 9 to 5 during the week, I only have a few hours to myself in the evening. On weekends I try to limit my online time so that I don't succumb to "Runescape burnout" by having several short breaks throughout the day.

Thanks for dropping by Syal! Honestly, I wish I could afford some sort of rare to lend out since I'm in perpetual poverty with my time spent farming. The only money I make is whenever I sell off a load of Ranging potions and my weekly collection of raw materials from my Kingdom. Most recently I bought a dragon axe. I know it isn't a oh-my-god-that-is-so-amazingly-awesome item but I'm sure it'll serve me well in cutting down the trees that I'll be farming. Today, I've reached farming lvl-89 and I'm going for the long, steep stretch of the race. The way will be perilous and fraught with countless unforeseen circumstances that will affect my farming. I'll start taking screens of my farming level ups from lvl-92 all the way to lvl-99. With the required xp starting to move into to millions range, each level up will warrant its own picture for me to post. Wish me luck Cele

When I first read about the GE in the Developer Diaries, my first thought was that I finally have a quick and painless way of selling my skilling products. And it is. Personally I've never believed in the buying and selling of huge number of a single item, hoping to profit from the cost difference between the two transactions. To me, merchanting demeans the value of the game and created a negative environment of which people obsessed over certain items. This obsession turned many a player to real world trading -- illegally purchasing GP and/or items with real money -- and further degraded the game's quality in both players and the pre-GE updates that were meant to control the influx of resource-bots and GP-trader rings. The GE and the trade limit that was released shortly after it, certainly flushed a lot of these problems down the proverbial drain. The GE controlled an item's price regardless of the transaction happening between players, a player selling to an NPC store, or putting a transaction through the GE, thus bringing the hyper inflated items market back down to reasonable values. The trade limit effectively made the purchasing and selling of GP impractical and thus the GP-trader rings promptly disappeared or moved onto other online games. I find it difficult to believe that some players are still under the delusion that RuneScape would have continued to grow or stayed an enjoyable game if the GE and the trade limit wasn't introduced. Jagex made an extremely smart move to permanently remove many, if not all forms of real world trading, even if it meant at the expense of losing a large part of their player population, if this said portion of the player population even left the game at all. Players have to remember the purpose of the GE. It wasn't to control the items market and make players' ability to make money difficult but its ultimate purpose was to rid the game of resource-bots and GP-trader rings and bringing the game back to an enjoyable state. Cele

I must say this is an interesting article. I agree that too many players take too much stock on when a player started playing and automatically assume a player if 5-years should have extremely high levels and loads of goodies stashed away in their bank. I sometimes find myself making these assumptions as well but not often. ;) Recently, I've been farming a lot and came across some friendly competition with another player. So, I asked the player I'm competing with questions like how s/he makes money to afford high level tree seeds. I began to covet his/her ability to make reasonable sums of money to buy his/her stock of high level tree seeds that s/he used in a day. After a while, I felt slightly frustrated that I won't be able to keep up with him/her since I'm not really good in the "money making" department and resort to using huge quantities of lower level tree seeds. Chatting with another friend, he made me see through my slight frustration and I regained my composure to realize that it's just a game and I'll get my lvl-99 farming in due time.

So, the farming continues. I'm gradually working through my supply of fruit tree saplings and wood tree saplings. I've almost used up my supply of apple saplings so I'll be needing to replenish my supply of apple baskets via the Culinaromancer's chest so that I can pay for willow trees. I'll also need to heavily stock up on the apple baskets so that I can pay for banana trees. It's 4 apple baskets per banana tree, so I'll be needing at least 300 apple baskets for 75 banana trees in addition to what I need for my willow trees. This time around I've decided to buy strawberries to pay for my orange trees. It's 3 strawberry baskets per orange tree. The orange baskets that I'll save up will be for my future supply of maple trees. Currently 100 maple seeds cost nearly 3.5M gp, so it looks like I won't be growing maple trees any time soon. Anyways, signing off and gnight. Cele

People play the game with different objectives and goals. Some play for gee pee, combat and cool armor. Some play for the various skills. People are allowed to play the game however they like. If I want to train farming and herblore with the intention of getting lvl-99, so be it. Different people, different play styles. Enough said.

For those of you that frequents Tip.its unofficial clan chat, I've been devoting my time to training farming and herblore. Farming is an incredibly easy skill to train but many players complain that it's boring or for some strange reason, too difficult. The key to farming -- at least for me -- is to utilize farmer payments, even if it means spending some time gathering the payments in any way you can. Tip.it's farming guide has all the farmer payments neatly written out in tables but it sometimes help to see it in a graphical form. << TODO: insert farmer payment tree >> Its best to keep this farmer payment tree handy for quick reference because even an expert farmer might not remember every single payment amount. You should also note that all of the farmer payments come from allotment plants and fruits from fruit trees so its a good idea to bank your harvests. This means spending a bit of time buying huge amounts of baskets to store fruits. Keep in mind that farmers accept their payments in noted form. Another key to farming is to use multiple patches, which means traveling across Runescape! You might think to yourself, "But who will watch my plants while I'm gone?" Well, that's why I talked about farmer payments first. Pay your farmer and you won't have to worry about watching the plants yourself. You don't get xp from watering your plants so why bother? Using multiple patches effectively requires the use of teleport spells, jewelry, items and clothes. Here's what you should have that will cover my farming route: [hide=Essential farming inventory]- Ectophial: teleports to Port Phasmatys - Tine Elf Crystal (3): provides three teleports to Lleyta and you can recharge it by paying Eluned. I recommend killing a horde of elves and getting a nice stack of these crystals. - Law runes: a nice stack of these is a must, the more the merrier. - Steam runes/Steam battlestaff: spend a bit of time runecrafting these yourself or buy the battlestaff. Either way, you'll need it since it will cover most of the teleport spells in conjunction with Air runes. - Air runes/Air staff: runecraft them or buy a huge stack of these since you'll need them for the majority of the teleport spells. Remember, you can only hold *one* staff for rune replacement so its either Steam runes + Air staff *or* Steam battlestaff + Air runes. - Ring of Dueling: takes you to Castle Wars for quick banking before teleporting to the Trollheim herb patch. This also teleports you to the Dueling Arena for the Cactus patch if you want to use it as well. - Karamja Gloves 3: These gloves are optional since my route goes from Ardougne to Brimhaven for the fruit tree. - Woodcutting axe: to cut those fruit trees and trees so that you can replant them. Growing trees is your main staple when it comes to farming xp.[/hide] [hide=Other farming items]- Gee pee: you'll need this to either pay for the ship ride to Brimhaven from Ardougne or pay for the cart ride from Shilo Village to Brimhaven. - Earth runes: a nice stack of these to teleport to Lumbridge so that you can use the tree patch west of Lumbridge castle. - Energy potions/Super Energy potions: if you want to complete your farming route quicker, gulp some doses down. Just keep it in your bank and drink it whenever you're depositing harvests or withdrawing a sapling.[/hide] Now, the pièce de résistance, the farming route itself! The list format is as follows: Farming patch, teleport method, what you're planting/harvesting, banking needs. Allotment/Herb/Flower/Fruit tree/Tree Route: - Port Phasmatys > Ectophial > allotment/herb/flower - Catherby > Camelot teleport (1 Law, 5 Air) > allotment/herb/flower > *bank to deposit harvests, withdraw fruit tree* - Catherby/White Wolf Mountain > hoof it > fruit tree - The Grand Tree > gnome glider > fruit tree/tree *bank to deposit harvest, withdraw fruit tree and tree* - The Tree Gnome Village > Spirit tree > fruit tree - Falador > Falador teleport (1 Law, 3 Air, 1 Water) > tree/allotment/herb/flower > *bank to deposit harvest, withdraw tree* - Lleyta > Tiny Elf Crystal > fruit tree > *bank to deposit harvest* - Trollheim > Trollheim teleport (2 Law, 2 Fire) > disease-free herb patch - Ardougne > Ardougne teleport (2 Law, 2 Water) > allotment/herb/flower > *bank to deposit harvests, withdraw money for Brimhaven boat ride* - Brimhaven > Ardougne-Brimhaven boat ride *or* Karamja Gloves 3 teleport and cart ride > fruit tree - Taverly > Ring of Dueling to Castle Wars + Hot Air Balloon (normal log) > tree *bank at Castle Wars to deposit harvest, withdraw tree* - Varrock > Varrock teleport (1 Law, 3 Air, 1 Fire) > tree *bank to deposit harvest, withdraw tree, withdraw Earth rune* - Lumbridge > Lumbridge teleport (1 Law, 3 Air, 1 Earth) > tree If you really need it, I'll spruce up the route with a few aerial maps to show where I'm running after arriving at each town/city.

It's unfortunate that some of my blog entries were unrecoverable even when using the Google cache. Instead of whining about it, I'll dig around and hopefully find my old Quest Boss guides in and around the Help forums and repost them into my blog.

In theory, you can spend absolutely no money on fletching since you can gather all the materials yourself: pure essence for Nature runes, flax for bow strings, logs for bows etc. If you're willing to spend money, usually players would buy the cheap materials and gather the rest themselves; buy flax for bowstrings, buy pure essence for Natures, cut logs yourself since its the most expensive part of the process. I can't give you a definite cost amount but you'll be expecting a long hard and probably expensive road to fletching Yew Longs. Then, you'll be able to make some decent gee pee to help with your fletching.

Not worth the effort. It's almost as bad as begging for phr33 s7uff pl0x. You should just train your character, play whatever mini-games are available to you to get cool rewards and enjoy yourself. If you run around or wait for free stuff to respawn, you'll end up getting frustrated at the time you've wasted which could have gone into gaining a few mining levels or something else.

You have to complete every sub-quest and the defeat the Culinaromancer in Recipe for Disaster to unlock the Barrow gloves. And there's a huge list of quests you have to start and/or complete in order for you to do the eight sub-quests. http://tip.it/runescape/index.php?rs2quest_id=134 There's the quest guide. Read it and you'll understand why the Barrow Gloves is hard to get.

The Culinaromancer's chest has a nice supply of butter, cream and milk. There isn't much butter but you can buy up all the cream and milk and churn it into butter. If you have your house in Yanille, you can also try loading up on milk from your larder and churning it at the nearby butter churn east of Bert the sand delivery man's house.

PC is sanity suicide! Just stick with Slayer tasks since you'll eventually be training it anyways. I train all three melee combat and range skills through Slayer tasks and I train magic by either High Alching crafted, smithed and fletched items and/or train at the Mage Training Arena.

The only way to get the Holy Bowl back is to make one. Get a hammer and two gold bars and head to your nearest anvil to make the Golden Bowl. Get back into the Kharazi Jungle and swing your Bull Roarer to summon the Kharazi Jungle man. Ask him to help you bless your Golden Bowl. I've managed to make more than one Holy Bowl mainly as a placeholder in my bank. You just need to drop a Golden Bowl before you can make a second one. Good luck.

Since you're clearly a member, use Slayer tasks to train all your combat skills. If you're lucky, you'll get some interesting items that you can sell on the Grand Exchange.

micbar has pretty much answered your question, so there's no need to bump. As stated, runecraft your own runes and to really save money, mine your own essence as well. High Alching skilling products such as smithing, crafting and fletching items is the most traditional way to get magic exp without a significant monetary loss. Trying to "chaos bolt" Iron Dragons is also an idea but this might prove to be too much trouble since your chances of getting a good salable item is low and it's high risk as well.

You didn't waste your time for nothing since I'm guessing you'll eventually want to finish Legend's Quest anyways. As stated in the Recipe for Disaster quest log, you need to be able to start Legends Quest only. If you can start Legends Quest, then you can save Sir Amik Varze.

The extra thieving training doesn't hurt since you'll be leveling up anyways. You may want to world hop inside the HAM headquarters to see if there are other players that are willing to just trade HAM pieces that they are missing with the extra pieces that you have.

Also, the rune essence can be runecrafted into Air runes and sold in the Grand Exchange. Your friend should try selling both rune essence and Air runes to see which gives him more money.