Lady_Shahdie

Your blog shall not die! Super congratulations for being 2 levels away from the great 8-0. I'll tell you that the feeling is sensational once you make it there :thumbsup: (points to sig)...

Lvl 80 Mining ACHIEVED!!! Achieving Level 80 Mining Screenshot I am absolutely ecstatic! After several months of hard work, I have reached a number of godly proportions...80! The final 94k xp sprint from level 79 to level 80 took a good 3 and a half hours. After the disaster of my mock rune mining trip last night, this was just the pick-me-up I needed :D. As on-top-of-the-mountain as I feel right now, I still realize that it is a long way to level 99. However, with head held up high and pickaxe in hand, I continue my epic journey to reach this impossible goal... Hiscores Current Rank

Lovely seeing fellow gal gamers going for 99s :thumbsup:. Going for a triple threat is a tough challenge. Best of luck and you'll probably have quite a burnt food collection after you achieve your goal :XD:...

For your blog reading enjoyment, I will now describe: Lady Shahdie's First Mock Rune Mining Run All pictures can be found inside the hide tags. As I described in the post yesterday, I finally did attempt my first mock (by mock I mean pretend since I do not have 85 mining yet), rune mining run at 8:00 PM PST last night. Rather than a glorious first attempt, it turned into a rather pathetic effort...whether it makes you laugh or cry, for better or for worse, here's what happened to miss Lady Shahdie. [hide=A Most Encouraging Start...][/hide] The trip began on the quiet and uncrowded world of 128. I was raring to go with my pick and scimmy slyly concealed in my inventory. Though a bit more armor cover would have been smarter I threw caution to the wind and continued with my black rags (figuring that armor would slow me down in the case of an abort). I approached the wilderness ditch and with a hop and a prayer jumped across it. I remained close to the most western edge of the wild the whole time so as not to run into pkers too easily. For a moment my heart almost stopped as I saw a white dot just ahead of me in lvl 28 wild but fortunately they ran immediately to the east when they noticed my blip on the map. After what felt like hours but was only minutes of walking, I finally passed Evil Altar and approached the Lava Maze. [hide=Not a Soul in Sight! Not an Ore Either...][/hide] There it was! The outcrop of two black rocks revealed themselves on my screen and I was blessed to see there was not a soul in sight. I gave a quick sigh of relief and took a few deep breaths. I decided that in order to simulate real rune mining, I would take out my pick and wait at least 2 minutes next to each rock if it contained a rune ore (due to the excruciatingly long time that I have heard these ores take to mine). So having commit to that plan I pressed log out and selected the next world to go to. I was again greeted by no ores. I logged out and chose another world. Again no ore to be had. The third time I selected a world and logged in I glimpsed something bright blue running down the vein of the rock. It was actual rune ore! I was about to start my simulation mining setup by equipping my pick and waiting two minute duration. All of a sudden, a white dot menacingly approaches. I logged out with Jedi reflexes and was glad to avert a potential death. [hide=First Blood is Drawn...][/hide] World after world started passing before my eyes yielding no ores till the unthinkable happened. First blood was finally drawn, mine! It was a lvl 68 skulled mage with staff at the ready, just waiting for a rune miner to appear. I metaphorically tightened up my boot straps and...ran like a totally scared chick wanting to get the heck out of there! I immediately opened the log out tab after hitting Print Screen and managed to escape death yet again. For ten minutes I was able to relax again and just passed runeless and pkerless worlds. The feeling of failure was starting to set in after not being able to at least simulate mining one rune rock. [hide=Doom and Disaster...][/hide] The ten minutes of temporary peace were finally broken when I logged into a world holding a lvl 73 swordsman/archer clad in iron. His swiftness in attacking me was enough to make me jump in my seat when I had only been logged in for a few milliseconds. I took out my scimmy and booted for the non-multi combat area to start whacking at the deadly red spiders (an old rune miner trick to avert disaster). He was clever and with sixth-sense like actions cut in front of me whenever I tried to click on a spider. I should have right clicked them instead and select the "attack" option from the drop down menu but I was too nervous to think. I started heading back to the lava maze and then sprinting a little to the south to escape long enough to log out. He whacked a couple 10s and 12s with his rune scimmy (it didn't help at all that my hitpoints were already halved by the previous attacker). Finally he pulled out a willow bow and let two steel arrows fly into my back to finish me. [hide=Though an Unsuccessful Attempt Tomorrow is Another Day...][/hide] As I witnessed my character collapse to the ground and appear at lumbridge castle I felt like a failure :cry:. I logged out and called it a night. Though it was an unsuccessful first attempt I realize many more like these are going to be ahead of me when I really reach 85 mining. Though I am inexperienced and made many mistakes (not taking a bit of food with me, not taking a few teleport runes with me, not training range enough to wear light d-hide, not attacking a red spider when I had the chance, etc.)...tomorrow is another day and I can always keep trying till I become worthy enough to be... A Rune Miner

I believe you are correct in this discovery. It seems that the "top of the top" players, as you put it, seek maxing out skills in a whole other sense now. I doubt the vast majority of players will have this as their new goal (I'm simply peachy with aiming for 13 million xp in mining right now :?), but those who are of legendary proportions would very possibly take this on as their new challenge. I do not see much appeal in achieving such a goal though. At that point there is nothing left in the game to do besides getting rich or doing quests (which 99% of these players have most likely already done).

Impressive 1300+ total! Good luck on your future goals. Love the multiple outfits and accessorization. I'm mostly a one-outfit-kind-of-a-gal, both in RuneScape and real life :lol: (always seem to slap on the same pair of jeans & shoes with any top).

Here are my stances on the following questions: Why or why not do you like Merchanting. I neither hate nor incredibly like merchanting. I may not mind to merchant every once and in awhile due to the ease of making profits steadily or quite quickly. However, I do not enjoy merchanting due to the contributionless style of it (you are not really generating new items in RuneScape by you own hard work). When I mine or smith something for sale, I have a feeling that I am contributing to the RuneScape economy and truly generating new surplus items. Is merchanting unfair? Heavens no! Its a very honest practice when done the correct way. Any division of Sales careers in real life embody the same concepts and are believed to be fair. So the same should mostly apply to RuneScape as well. Are Merchanters scammers? A portion of them are. There is no way I can confidently say they are not but gladly it is really a select few that choose to scam (not the whole majority). When I say scam that means they item switch at the trade screen, grossly overprice items/grossly underbuy items, fool new players into paying ridiculous prices/sell for ridiculous prices, etc. And the last question are players who expose merchanting schemes right or wrong? Expose as in revealing the sales methods of these merchanters? Of course they are right to do so. This in reality is public information therefore the merchant has no right to claim it damaging.

Wow you are getting quite ambitious now :)! I'm glad you're thinking of finishing mining first. Multi-skilling gets a bit confusing and sometimes it just doesn't hurt to commit to one skill at a time. Keep the mining train going Samurai!

Now that's what I call a true skiller! Nice combination of high level combat and regular skill training...a 100 cb level is abosutely amazing :shock:! Keep up the excellent work and determination!

Hey all! Well here is the first batch of blog updates for you. The weekend was extremely busy for me so I mostly did some late night leveling. Pretty minimal xp gains, I believe I earned around 10k more than I previously had in mining xp. I am beginning to feel ever so closer to 85 rune mining! Since this time is soon approaching, I'm thinking of scheduling a mock wildy trip to the Rune Rocks. I'll take my pick and rune scimmy with me (hidden in my inventory of course), to similate what my future rune mining trips will be like. No telling what may happen to me on this simulated rune mining run. I may post a pic or two of the trip and post a few close encounters if there are any to tell :ohnoes:... 2:49 PM PST Edit: Went up 70k xp since this morning, go me :D ! 3:08 PM PST Edit: Decided to end the day off with an 80k xp gain.

Well since the question is "would they ever be more non-tradable holiday drops," the answer would be yes. Jagex might be trying to lessen the monoply that tradable holiday items were creating on the rare market by making the new holiday drops untradable. We honestly do not need another party-hat-like-400-mil rare/holiday drop to further engorge the rare market. Then again one could argue that the more quantities of rare items, the more the prices will drop (that is if the supply starts to extremely exceed demand).

Wubs that the super awesome Sumarai Lassie, the currently 94 mining legend, posted in her blog ...Somehow I just love the peace of Rimmington, but I will stroll by Al Kharid occassionally to speed things up. I did post in the smithing forum to sell the addy but haven't been able to meet up with the buyer any of these days.

BLOG NOW MOVED TO HERE! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lady Shahdie here, pleasure to make your acquaintance! Some who have glimpsed my signature know I was one of the crazed hopefuls dreaming of 99 mining <img src='http://forum.tip.it/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_upup.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':<img src='http://forum.tip.it/ipbnew/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/happy.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='^_^' />:' />. Well I did manage to dream my impossible dream and I am still at it! I have decided for my next test of fate to wield my hammer and smith my way to the glory of 99 smithing! Below you will find a little about myself, details about my RuneScape character, and pictures of my levels along the way… [hide=Lady Shahdie in Real Life] I am a 19 year old college student. I am currently attending a Cal State college and majoring in English. I have future plans however to go to Cinema school and get an education in the art of film making. I always had a passion to tell stories and I love the way film can bring a story to life. I was born in America but do possess Persian blood in me and my RuneScape name "Shahdie" means happiness (so you can also refer to me as Lady Happiness :D). I am a total cat person and owner of a mischievous Maincoon but recently adopted a dog into my family. I am a rare breed of girl who enjoys playing video games, computer games, and any other enticing virtual adventure. I am particularly fond of RPGs (probably due to my story telling background). I also love graphic design and try some amateurish attempts in Photoshop (like designing my own sigs and headers).[/hide] [hide=Lady Shahdie on RuneScape]The following is a run through of my character on RuneScape. Where'd You Hear About RuneScape? A friend of mine at school mentioned it once. I became intrigued by his description of it, so I started researching it and decided to sign up. F2p or P2p? I spent a long stint during my RuneScape career as a pure F2P player. While I said in my previous blogs that it was my desire to obtain membership when I personally possessed the means…my first exposure to it was thanks to a very special gift from a very special friend (Kietaro <3). I now possess members again thanks to securing a reasonable income as a teacher’s assistant at my university. Members is quite an exciting new experience but at the end of the day, good old F2P will possess the most dearest place in my heart <!-- s<3: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_love.gif" alt="<3:" title="Love" /><!-- s<3: -->. Favorite World? Randomness is my mantra. I have no favorite world or home world. Why the Air Tiara? I've been getting this one alot lately so here's the story. Ever since I was a noob on RuneScape I always wanted a piece of clothing that would define my look (apart from the terrible looking bronze armor). I would scavenge for chef hats or shop at the Varrock clothing store and wear the items short periods of time before dumping them. One day as I passed the Falador air altar I saw a silver object on the ground that attracted me (similar to the way a child is attracted to "Oooo shiny!") I picked up the tiara and immediately fell in love with it. Even when I matured from noobdom and reached levels where I could wear more appropriate runite gear, I could not bear to give up the tiara and allowed it to be the signature item that would define my look. I certainly love how it goes quite well with my Saradomin now <img src='http://forum.tip.it/ipbnew/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_upup.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':<img src='http://forum.tip.it/ipbnew/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/happy.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='^_^' />:' />. Other Stats? Though I am truly committed to smithing at the moment, I occasionally take a break from my hammer and casually level other stats...(please don't poke too much fun at their noobiness :oops:) June 29, 2007 (Beginning of Blog) Current Stats Why 99 Smithing? There were several 99s that peaked my interest during my journey to 99 mining. Despite my old adage that "I'm not really a fighter," combat was a great way for me to take a break whenever I needed to and I'm quite sold on going for 99 def some day. However, I'm still a skiller at heart so I still decided against a combat 99. There were also the other gathering skills such as fishing (catch fishies at a faster rate, yes please) and woodcutting (not as a big a fan of wc however it still has its merits) that are impossible to be purchased. However, at the end of the day, I'm truly a Mason (no pun intended one of the clans I happen to be a member of) of Runescape. And what is a Mason without the ability to wrought amazing pieces out of precious metals? So after answering this question in my mind…I knew smithing would have to be the next 99 to chase![/hide] [hide=Level Ups]Latest Level: Past Levels: Level 80 Achieved[/hide] Links/Progress Bars: My Old Mining Blog

Well you certainly have my support as a fellow hope-to-be-99-crazed-miner :. Proove the disbelievers wrong! Stay strong and keep climbing up that ladder! Each level down is one less more to go to that 99.

Artistic. Your sigs are always of a high quality.

You wrote the book my friend :XD: ! 1-4 always happens to me on every single powermining session (minus "can you mine me rune"). I hate throwing around the word noob but their attitude certainly certifies total noobship...

Nice job handling those rune ore pkers! Next time let them know that your pickaxe of fury can not only can mine rune now but can seriously put their eye out if they dare lay a blade on you :lol: ... Congrats on the amazing 94 mining, I'm shooting for 78 by tomorrow or Friday :D .

Those who may appear to have lack luster spelling skills do not bother me that much. In many cases those people are new to the English language and may not have developed strong spelling mechanics yet. The thing that I gripe about and cannot stand is 1337-speak. Its incredibly harder to type and decipher the following: "Pl0x m8 I need h3lp or dis guy pwnzzz m3 & st34lz my l00tz!!11!!!" When one can just type: "Please help me or this guy will kill me and steal all my loot," in half the time or less without searching the keyboard for all those numbers and inserting the colorful misspellings. I'm sure a few others feel the same way, right?

A quick check of your progress shows that you are left with 136,657 exp to 94. I love the lucky 100k exp mark! Stay strong =D> ...

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! The ultimate adjective :!

Unfortunately I am a very late RuneScapian and got into RuneScape after the cabbage days (basically I registered close to 5 months ago). It actually seems like a brilliant word to vent off steam :! I think it wouldn't hurt to be put back into use. But people are such cabbages now adays you know...

Way to make us gal gamers proud :thumbsup: ! I am also working towards my own goal of 99 mining (with 100% f2p status at the moment). Thanks for the further inspiration to achieve my dream :D ... 10/10 by the way...

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Though I hate being frugal (and I honestly was considering the lvl 126 for a second), I would go for the party hat set. Mostly for the same reason someone had mentioned earlier...that by selling the phat you could very well have enough for plenty of raw materials to achieve lvl 99s in many skills as opposed to the 3 combat ones (well 4 counting prayer).

A Little Off-Topic: I think your analysis is very interesting and possibly true, however, the argument of not letting one group of very lucky players have amazing amounts of wealth kind of goes against Rs's capitalist-like economy. Now I don't know if this is at all what would happen or is even possible to happen but it might turn out to be something like the following... If wealth was somehow distributed evenly it would turn RuneScape into a bit of a miny communist economy. Most people's average wealth would trickle down to a mere 100gp or less (considering how many people play this game!) The economy would still sort of adjust prices of raw materials to match that average wealth but it may very well be the same situation as before. Like to buy 1k coal ores it would take around 1k gp (which would still be very wealthy in an economy where the average person has 100gp). Anyways (my apologies if this was a really lack luster way to examine economics; I'm not one for numbers, figures, or business #-o )... Back On Topic: I hardly believe that dropping/alching rares would be a major impact on the economy. It might be a significant dive in some senses but the raw material market is way more vital to RuneScape. Raw materials are what fuel skillers, pkers, and merchanters. Also, its being debated in other threads that these rares are disappearing enough as it is. Now assuming that many rares may now be slipping out of existence; its interesting to see that there still is a thriving market for them! All in all, as important as the RuneScape economy is, the game was mostly made to be an enjoyable RPG not a miny game economy... And yes I think its acceptable (sorry that I almost forget to answer the main question :wall:).