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You know it's far better used converting that old kurask trophy into an adorable baby kurask pet.

I just finished pyring my 500th Vyrewatch yesterday, before I found this thread of course... I got one reward from the case that truly surprised me - Adam Platebody (g) One bit of advice. If you know in advance how many corpses you're going to collect, make the matching number pyre logs first. After killing that 50th Vyrewatch in a row you'll be in a mood to immediately collect your fabulous prizes, along with Firemaking and a little Prayer exp.

This bears repeating. That pool should eliminate the needs for Boots of Lightness, Spottier Cape, Restore Energy Potions or any other device to keep your run energy up. Ectophial to Phasmatys, charter ship to Oo'glog, then a nice soaking before using Games Necklace to Clan Wars. You can load up on good food, but remember that you will need to have room to hold the cursed willow logs for filling the firepits. Unlike woodcutting, lingering for just one more log at a location will get you killed. Plan on having to run away from many roots with no new logs to show for it. With the pool's effects, you ought to be able to collect enough one-hit logs to do the job. Do NOT light any more fires until you've filled all your target pits first. Go to full screen mode on the biggest monitor you can find and temporarily disable anything that might hog your CPU and lag you in game long enough to get slobbered to death by the beast. I am myself still stuck with just one fire lit, so good luck.

I screwed up there and lit one. I think I'm stuck with the accelerated Beast and have learned my lesson not to light the next until I have two pits full of logs and I am nearer to full health.

I need to pick up a few more ghostspeak amulets, tinderboxes and sharks for the next set of tries. The old "bring normal willow logs and fool the ghostworld into thinking they're corrupt logs" trick definitely does not work. Is under the Beast a safespot or just a place that takes it longer to target, giving you more time to eat and such? Because if it's safe under him and he moves slowly then I could see how that could slow down the tempo and give me time to think. Also I will kill the music; it's terribly annoying. Sound effects should cover the cavern quake and spit sound warning.

After literally dozens of tries at the first cavern gathering the cursed willow logs, laying fire pits and then lighting them, I've managed to set only one of the required three alight. This may actually have been a mistake as I'm now getting hit by multiple bursts and keeling over very quickly. My stats are good enough and I have a dragon axe for fastest possible cutting. I also hit the HP and the Energy baths before tele'ing to Clan Wars and going in. I don't wear lightness items or bring energy pots because of the bath effect and I'd lose them anyway. Always in run mode. I don't wear armor or use prayers as I have read that neither help at all. I always bring 12-16 sharks and die with some left; it's over faster than I can eat. Music and sound effects on for the most warning cues on the next shots. I suppose I should kill the music. I think my computer and settings may have contributed to my initial trouble. 1) Kaspersky as antivirus hogs bandwidth even when set to lowest program priority. If I've got a run going when it tries to update definitions, that's it I'm dead. This actually hurts a lot in Barbarian Assault too. 2) Running in smallest screen, standard detail means I can't see more than what's right around me. No clicking on the next root for immediate escape and cutting; two or three clicks minimum and time for the beast to target me closer to the destination and splash me. 3) System is laptop with AMD Turion 64 1.6 Ghz, 1GB RAM, XP SP3. Video (ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M) 128MB. With these three factors in play I can't even get one firepit ready to light. Is this hardware setup hopeless? I tried my work computer once, which is not something I can repeat, and with all three issues improved I got one pit loaded and in myself in trouble so I lit the first fire. Big mistake I think as now I am toast in record time. I seriously wish I could petition to get my quest status reset as I might be able to stay careful and lucky long enough to load up three fire pits first and then light them. Failing that, I've got to persevere in the face of what feels more discouraging than any other quest I've done, and I've done them all (except this one and WGS of course). Are there other tricks, tips or efficiencies that could offset the beast's nasty spitting death explosions? I tried to bring 15 normal willows one time but they didn't magically become cursed in the cave. Is there a single-click way to load the fire pits or is it select log and then same pit five times while dodging? I even took two months off of RS altogether to work off that frustration feeling and it comes back just as strong after 5 or 10 fails. Basically am I missing anything in my analysis or is it just poor reflexes which is getting me toasted.

I've blocked: Steel Dragons Iron Dragons Warped Terrorbirds Black Demons The dragons are blocked because I just hate waiting in line and logging different worlds to get to a decent spot. Black Demons because they're just so annoying and boring. Warped Terrorbirds more for the annoyance I remember from doing the quest. Are those the best ones to block for my current skills and equipment? Not really. I haven't rethought the list since I picked up Bunyips and got Ranged over 80. Dagannoths and Kalphites? Incredibly boring but satisfying to knock off with about 1500 cannonballs. Skeletal Wyverns? I only do them because I think just maybe I'll get that visage drop. Mithril Dragons? Fortunately always less than 10 per task. I get three per trip using Slayer Dart and will get better at it fine tuning styles and equipment choices. Once you've bought your permablocks and 3 slayer skill upgrades, is there anything really to buy with points besides the runes? Does anyone actually redeem 400 points as slayer exp?

If you've got Staff of Iban, that makes short work of the cowardly rascal.

I killed like 30-40 ogres and got just bones, neither 1 gold charm or other color i got. Also ice giant drops too... That is so odd. If you've done the Wolf Whistle quest already then I can't figure how I have gotten all my charms from Ogres and you've gotten zilch. A monster's location in Runescape should have no bearing on its drop ratios. Does Ring of Wealth have an impact? I was wearing that too.

Ogres! Ogres! Ogres! I haunt the Blood Rune Tower basement level collecting all four colors, 90% gold.

After that gather a couple hundred more gold charms from Ogres or other such monster that drops mostly golds. Then mine an equivalent number of iron ores. Gold charms plus iron ores equals your most probable skilling path from level 16 to 40.

You never need the recipe again after the quest. I guess it's always good to be prepared but I doubt it'll ever be used again. Too true. I'm a little paranoid that way. I was so happy to have written down my 'unique' Underground Pass safe path when I had to do the Mourning's End quest that I assumed any unique solution generated during a quest needed to be recorded just in case. When I did it, stat restores never worked and I had to wait for my stats to go back up. Ick. Maybe I was just lucky while binging on stews for the Varrock achievement diary that I never had to test this theory. There's always Super Stat Restore to test as well.

Couple things about the stew. 1) Write down the color mix for the real Spicy Stew that works in the quest. This is one of those things that are potentially different for everyone, like the Underground pass mosaic floor 'trap'. If you ever need to perform the step again you'll be much better off with a notepad file on your desktop with this info. 2) You should collect as many color spice jars as possible with your cat in the basement where all the hellrats are. Like potions the maximum dose size per jar is four, so partials can be combined. 3) The stat boosting spicy stew requires 1, 2 or 3 doses of the same color, depending on which color you want (which broad skill type you are shooting for) and how many dice you want to roll, so to speak. 4) Get yourself a bunch of regular stews beforehand. Nothing like just missing the right bonus value with your last stew and having to stop there. I buy mine from the bar in Seer's Village. Tedious dialogue steps for each stew, but it works. 5) The bonus is very temporary. 6) The bonus is extremely variable, and cumulative with more stews. If you find yourself 'in the hole' with negatives, try a stat restore potion to reset to your base stat value. Expect +1 or +2 at the best. Yes something like +5 is technically possible with a 3-dose stew, but the odds are very, very poor. 7) I rely exclusively on the Crystal Saw and +2 tea. This gives me a reliable +5 on most construction items. When I hit CON 62, then I can use that +5 to build Teak Shelves 2 with the gold trim, giving me a +6 on building things from then on.

If you have 50 Thieving AND 50 Agility you are allowed to shop at Martin Thwaite's shop in the Rogue's Den. He sells bronze claws for 15 gold. Or you can make them yourself with 2 bronze bars after you have completed the Death Plateau quest.

Yeah. What he said. Plus you're missing out on valuable combat experience points chasing after those 275 miserable chickens. Go on. Don't be chicken! Don your Guthan's set. Wield your Saradomin Godsword. Grab enough runes for 300 Blood Barrages. Show those birds your resolve to get to level 16 the tough way! Or you can Kharyrll from your Taverly house portal and chat with all and sundry while you cruise through the crowd on walk (not run).