SportsGuy

I believe there was discussion about this before, but it was pointed out that we already do have that option...our signatures. It may not be as quickly updated, but it's an existing option.

Congratulations to all!

There are still plenty of goals for me to complete in the realm of RuneScape, but slowly and steadily, I'm crossing off more and more of the goals I've set for myself. Some of them with the aid of boosting my stats with potions, familiars, or stews. That's right, the wonderful, unreliable, but easy to make Spicy stews! I hadn't remembered too much about them, basically because one of the more forceful members of the Tip.It crew decided that the concoction is not worth writing too much about, simply because they don't work the same way each time. What an unfortunate mistake. For some skills, it is the ONLY way to boost your skill above your current earned level and since they do work when considering the Achievement Diary tasks (or just in general for that matter, if you want to make something you can't ordinarily make in a pinch). Consider my Runecrafting skill. Most of my runes are earned in battle and I have no desire to "busy" myself in game play by boosting a skill that doesn't really hold anything for me above the levels necessary to craft laws, natures, and cosmic runes. Most of the "higher" runes are collected in battle and since I don't train magic in battle, it seems silly to me to go after a higher Runecrafting level, especially since it appears the days of running runes are basically over. I started putting Penguin Hide & Seek rewards toward the skill after reaching a respectable level in some of the other skills I'd been working on (see past entries in this thread), but it would have been weeks before I could craft the number of air runes that was needed to finish off the Falador Achievement Diary hard tasks, even with the aid of my trusty Explorer's ring 3. I went through the cheap process of buying a kitten and letting it grow into a cat and then set it loose on Evil Dave's hell-rat population. Orange spice collected...check. Stews made and sitting in the bank...check. I had also been training Fletching in order to possibly finish off the Seer's Village Achievement Diary, so I had my knife, magic logs, and bowstring ready in case that statistic was raised instead of Runecrafting, but lo and behold on the first Spicy stew ingested...level 67 Runecrafting! Temporarily, of course... I nervously banked everything and withdrew a full compliment of Pure essence. I clicked on the Explorer's ring 3 that I was wearing and made sure I was still wearing the Omni-tiara (I had thoughtfully prepared in case I needed to be ready for this moment) and after teleporting to the Falador farm, ran as fast as I could to the Air altar and crafted 200 runes (thanks to the benefits of the ring, a prize from a different Achievement Diary). I missed the congratulatory screen because I was trying to make sure that I got to the place in time and was clicking like mad, but I did save the note in my chat box for my eventual trip for a new upgrade to my arsenal and took a picture talking to the White Knight Castle Squire. [hide=Falador Achievement Diary complete!][/hide] A terrific piece of equipment! A full prayer recharge (daily) which is fantastic, but the prayer boosts for wearing the shield make it even more attractive. In addition, it's one more completed diary that I don't have to worry about. Something else that had been sitting unfinished - unattempted, even - was running through the Chaos Tunnels to chase after Surok. I finally geared up and took him on, nervously running low on food because in an effort to make sure I had enough space for his drops, I didn't take a full inventory. [hide=Bork's first defeat][/hide] He went down without too much trouble and I was able to finally cross another item off the "One and done" list. What's left? I've been cutting yew logs to gain another level in Fletching and hopefully, with the aid of Spicy stew, cross yet another tough or expensive skill off my personal skill goals list by crossing another Achievement Diary off my list. Since the Spicy stews could add as many as 6 levels to one skill, I needed to get to level 74 (level 80 is when you can freely fletch yourself a Magic shortbow) and used a combination of a sacred clay fletching knife and bowstrings. I may try for one more level in order to use less Spicy stews, but I haven't decided yet on further courses of action. [hide=Fletching log, level 73 to level 74]starting experience points - 993,419 exp / starting Fletching level 73 Fletching with the sacred clay knife 27 - 997,469 94% 54 - 1,001,519 89% 81 - 1,005,569 84% 108 - 1,009,619 78% 135 - 1,013,669 73% 162 - 1,017,719 68% 189 - 1,021,769 63% 216 - 1,025,819 57% 243 - 1,029,869 52% 270 - 1,033,919 47% 297 - 1,037,969 42% 324 - 1,042,019 36% 351 - 1,046,069 31% 378 - 1,050,119 26% 405 - 1,054,169 20% 432 - 1,058,219 15% 459 - 1,062,269 10% 486 - 1,066,319 5% 513 - 1,070,316 crumbles to dust Stringing the bows... 14 - 1,071,366 28 - 1,072,416 42 - 1,073,466 56 - 1,074,516 70 - 1,075,566 84 - 1,076,616 98 - 1,077,666 112 - 1,078,716 126 - 1,079,766 140 - 1,080,816 154 - 1,081,866 168 - 1,082,916 182 - 1,083,966 196 - 1,085,016 210 - 1,086,066 224 - 1,087,116 238 - 1,088,166 252 - 1,089,216 266 - 1,090,266 280 - 1,091,316 294 - 1,092,366 308 - 1,093,416 322 - 1,094,466 336 - 1,095,516 350 - 1,096,566 364 - 1,097,616 378 - 1,098,666 392 - 1,099,716 406 - 1,100,766 420 - 1,101,816 434 - 1,102,866 448 - 1,103,916 462 - 1,104,966 476 - 1,106,016 490 - 1,107,066 504 - 1,108,116 513 - 1,108,791 finishing experience points - 1,108,791 exp / finishing Fletching level 74[/hide] [hide=Fletching log, level 74 to level 75]1,118,791 experience - level 74 27 - 1,122,841 94% 54 - 1,126,891 89% 81 - 1,130,941 85% 108 - 1,134,991 78% 135 - 1,139,041 73% 162 - 1,143,091 68% 189 - 1,147,141 63% 216 - 1,151,191 57% 243 - 1,155,241 52% 270 - 1,159,291 47% 297 - 1,163,341 42% 324 - 1,167,391 36% 351 - 1,171,441 31% 378 - 1,175,491 26% 405 - 1,179,541 20% 432 - 1,183,591 15% 459 - 1,187,641 10% 486 - 1,191,691 5% 513 - 1,195,688 crumbles to dust ...stringing the bows... 14 - 1,196,738 28 - 1,197,788 42 - 1,198,838 56 - 1,199,888 70 - 1,200,938 84 - 1,201,988 98 - 1,203,038 112 - 1,204,088 126 - 1,205,138 140 - 1,206,188 154 - 1,207,238 168 - 1,208,288 182 - 1,209,338 196 - 1,210,388 210 - 1,211,438 (197 - Fletching level 75) 224 - 1,212,488 238 - 1,213,538 252 - 1,214,588 266 - 1,215,638 280 - 1,216,688 294 - 1,217,738 308 - 1,218,788 322 - 1,219,838 336 - 1,220,888 350 - 1,221,938 364 - 1,222,988 378 - 1,224,038 392 - 1,225,088 406 - 1,226,138 420 - 1,227,188 434 - 1,228,238 448 - 1,229,288 462 - 1,230,338 476 - 1,231,388 490 - 1,232,438 504 - 1,233,488 513 - 1,234,163 513 bows, high alched for 393,984 coins[/hide]

I believe the crew is still looking for exact wording of clues in order to copy them verbatim into the Riddles section, per posts by crew member pokemama. In the search, but not the riddles section yet: [hide=Crates, shed in East Ardougne][/hide] [hide=Result of that search, not another clue scroll][/hide] In riddles as "house" and doesn't look like it appears in the search section yet: [hide=Drawers, building][/hide] [hide=Location for said building][/hide] The following is one like the "Speak to..." referee clue, but it doesn't appear in the "Speak to..." section and should probably be added there for consistency since the referee clue appears in both the riddles section and the "Speak to..." section: [hide=Speak to...][/hide] [hide=speaking to Louisa the maid][/hide] When you have made your decisions (crew), please post here to let me know I can delete those pictures from the host. Thanks. [pokemama edit: these pics are superb and just what we need, the info will be incorporated asap!]

It's already in a few of them and the ones that do have it already (in my opinion) have it placed in there exactly the way it should be...links to the full explanation in the cooking guide with simple mentions of the one spice that affects that particular skill. Fishing, Herblore, and I think Cooking had the addition of that tidbit into the boosts section. I think it would be most useful to add those boosts in to all the guides, ESPECIALLY, if not exclusively into the guides where no other method of boosting the skill exists, like Runecrafting, Fletching, and Firemaking (for example). No potions exist to boost those methods by visible amounts, though some of those might have invisible boosts in certain situations. EDIT: Again, I think that adding them is extremely useful, especially since using the stew helped me finish off the Falador Achievement Diary minutes ago.

I've been reading this post to prepare for my own trip. I have killed a few mithril dragons, but I prepared (OVERprepared) for those and I want to make sure I make the most out of trips down there. It's been a good discussion...

It's under the riddles section.

I've received a bunch of bad news lately in real life, so I decided this week to finish some new quests, especially the new one which gave an additional "penguin point" in the form of a polar bear sighting. After finishing the newest quest, I took on two others, one of which finished got me to the full total of Varrock Museum kudos. I spied on penguins and the polar bear, visited the circus to perform (and gained another magic level in the process), and updated my gear setups. After that, I decided it was time to train some skills that have been neglected and visit some areas I've overlooked. I trained Agility in the wilderness, but then remembered that I've never tried the werewolf area, so I made a trip. [hide=Skullball Score][/hide] I trained some Runecrafting, a usually mind-numbing exercise, but a necessary one since that's another one of the task requirements in an Achievement Diary. Next, I either had to burn some logs or cut them up. I opted for the latter. I played some rounds of Stealing Creation and managed to work up to 100 points...that's 5 morphic tools, 5 sacred clay fletching knives, and who knows how much experience. Rather than keep track of each load, I simply decided to start fletching. I started using the first tool and forgot to take an initial experience total, but I managed to fletch 513 yew longbows before the first tool crumbled to dust at level 71 fletching. While stringing them I managed to get to level 72. I decided that I'd round off the rest of the level with stringing those bows and then fletching and stringing maple longbows on the fly. The maple logs are easily obtained and I'd rather get the satisfaction of levels gained through the fletching knives than in some other way. After a few loads of maple longbows, I wasn't sure I was making the right decision. My POH received some nice additions thanks to some levels picked up by making mahogany dining tables. Hunter received a level boost and at next week's Tears of Guthix, I expect to reach another Summoning level, still untrained. As for my next level 80 skill, it looks like it very well may be Hitpoints. A strange, but useful addition to my "80 arsenal" and there really isn't anything close to overtake it. I'm going to get back to fletching, but I may take a break to track down Surok. I've been meaning to take care of that guy and his henchman Bork. It's either that or finish off Treus Dayth in the Haunted Mine.

Username: SportsGuy Location of Circus: Falador Clothing: full jester (the one from a Fremennik quest) Mage Event Description: 10x emotes ( 1)Around the World in Eggty Days, 2)Give Thanks, 3)Freeze, 4)Trick, 5)Explore , 6)Safety First, 7)Air Guitar, 8)Snowman Dance , 9)Bunny Hop, 10)Zombie Hand ) Mage Event Points: 448 Ranged Event Description: 10x emotes (1)Wave, 2)Bow, 3)Yawn, 4)Think, 5)Laugh, 6)Scared, 7)Blow Kiss, 8)Panic, 9)Cry, 10)Jump for Joy ) Ranged Event Points: 478 Agility Event Description: 10x emotes ( 1)Glass Box, 2)Climb Rope, 3)Lean, 4)Glass Wall, 5)Dance, 6)Jig, 7)Spin, 8)Headbang, 9)Zombie Walk, 10)Zombie Dance ) Agility Event Points: 859 [hide=Full Results]started circus (no items equipped or in inventory) MAGIC full jester costume, took ten of each spell, level 77 Magic 1)Around the World in Eggty Days (audience requests SOMETHING) teleport stool/70 2)Give Thanks (audience requests alcehmize something) alchemy armour/60 3)Freeze (audience requests teleport anvil) teleport anvil/99 FAILS 4)Trick (audience requests levitate ork) levitate ork/50 5)Explore (audience requests blast shield) elemental shield/40 FAILS 6)Safety First (audience requests alchemize armour) levitate penguin/40 REACHED LEVEL 78 MAGIC 7)Air Guitar (audience requests blast armour) elemental helm/30 8)Snowman Dance (audience requests teleport dumb-bells) teleport dumb-bells/80 FAILS 9)Bunny Hop (audience requests blast shield) levitate cat/20 10)Zombie Hand (audience requests levitate ork) elemental book/10 scored 448 in magic performance and earned 14864 experience points RANGED full jester, took performance bow and 5 performance arrows and 5 performance knives, level 77 Ranged 1)Wave (audience requests SOMETHING) shoot popinjay/70 HIT 2)Bow (audience requests bullseye/40) throw bullseye/40 HIT 3)Yawn (audience requests popinjay/10) popinjay/10 HIT 4)Think (audience requests bullseye/30) bullseye/30 HIT 5)Laugh (audience requests popinjay/40) popinjay/20 HIT 6)Scared (audience requests bullseye/40) bullseye/50 HIT 7)Blow Kiss (audience requests popinjay/60) popinjay/60 MISS 8)Panic (audience requests bullseye/10) bullseye/60 MISS 9)Cry (audience requests popinjay/70) popinjay/60 10)Jump for Joy (audience requests bullseye/40) bullseye/80 MISS scored 478 in ranged performance and earned 10528 experience points AGILITY full jester, level 68 Agility 1)Glass Box (audience requests SOMETHING) small leap/60 2)Climb Rope (audience requests juggle eggs) juggle eggs/30 3)Lean (audience requests cartwheel) cartwheel/50 4)Glass Wall (audience requests juggle knives) juggle knives/40 5)Dance (audience requests small leap) one-leg balance/20 6)Jig (audience requests juggle knives) juggle balls/10 7)Spin (audience requests small leap) no-hand cartwheel/70 succeeds barely 8)Headbang (audience requests juggle eggs) juggle cannonballs/80 succeeds barely 9)Zombie Walk (audience requests handstand) large leap/90 succeeds barely 10)Zombie Dance (audience requests juggle eggs) juggle chinchompas/99 succeeds barely scored 859 in agility performance and earned 6454 experience points[/hide]

I noticed that while jumping on the stones to get to the hunter area, you didn't have to "follow" the stones exactly (jumping to the closest one) and could "skip" some stones by clicking diagonally, making the trip across shorter.

You COULD buy seeds, but let me tell you what will happen...you'll STILL end up waiting for farming experience, because you have to wait. There isn't any speeding up the process. What I would suggest doing is trying to farm things higher than your current ability by a couple of levels by making/buying Garden pies and collecting seeds by fighting things like Moss Giants, Trolls, and doing activities like Managing Thy Kingdom and putting lots of emphasis on woodcutting (for the higher level seeds in the bonus bird's nests) and it goes without saying almost, all your Penguins Hide & Seek points and random event rewards go to Herblore and Farming. Herblore is probably one that will suck up your money quickly if you just buy the stuff to make potions, but I think concentrating on making the highest level potions you can for all the herbs you already have is a good idea, and rather than sinking all your cash into it, try to pace it so that it grows at the same level as your farming. You can certainly buy seeds for herbs and the trees, but make sure you're not wasting your time on lower level stuff if time is your priority. Planting guam won't get you anywhere fast. Instead, plant the highest level trees and fruit trees and since you need herblore and will visit allotments, go ahead and plant the herbs and even flowers (like marigolds which are good summoning seconds) and stuff like sweetcorn and watermelons and strawberries. Make sure you PAY for the farmers to watch your trees/fruit trees. Some people might be able to take the risks, but since you hopefully are planting high experience trees and want to get there fast, you can't afford to take the hit...once you start levelling for the heck of it and not for a goal, then you can start taking those chances.

I'm only posting here because I have something to add, not to steal any of your credit. I noticed that the item entry (for at least the Unholy book) didn't contain enough information about "operating" the book. I think some people might like to know about the things you can do with it, like the Wedding ceremony ("Two great warriors..."), Last Rites ("The weak deserve to die..."), Blessing ("May your bloodthirst never be sated..."), and Preach ("Strike fast, strike hard..."). Perhaps writing out all the different things isn't necessary, but I think it would be a neat addition to it, because the first time I got a completed book, I played around with it. Also, maybe the entries could have something about the exact energy used when doing those prayer things and prayer points used when blessing unholy symbols and stuff.

If you're speaking of a table (like the equipment sorter), I think that would be a fantastic idea! I'm not sure how a final product would look and if it would still be broken up into several different "continents" as it is now, but I would think that would have something to do with the implementation. EDIT: since some of the sites have very few types of ores, instead of checkmarks in the boxes, they'd probably have numbers to indicate the number of ores of each type...not sure if that's what you initially were referring to anyway, but just had that thought...

It seems like it's getting more and more difficult to get good "scores" during my weekly Tears of Guthix trip. Since it's the very last skill below the 60 plateau, Summoning may STAY below 60 for the next month, unless I can start collecting better totals of tears. As I understand it, time in the cave is tied to quest points. I think it's time that I finish some more quests. One of the things I love most about RuneScape is the questing. I savor the stories (though as a new member, I tried to quickly make my way through as many quests as I could in order to enjoy more and more content) and the real tasks set out, but abhor the busy work and ridiculous trails of simple puzzles. I think I've narrowed my list of remaining quests to a manageable few. If I had to compile an ordered list of quest completion, While Guthix Sleeps would have to come last, simply because it requires other quest completions. What to do next? For the answer, I think I'll look to my remaining Diary tasks. Only one hard task remains on my Varrock Achievement Diary lists after making enough mahogany dining tables to get to level 62 Construction, which, along with tea and the crystal saw let me construct up to level 67 items (and then 68 once I put together the Teak Shelves 2 in my POH kitchen). Once I use the home teleport to Edgeville on the Ancient Magicks spellbook I'll be able to make 64 battlestaves in one day as well as enter the Cooking Guild without a Chef's hat and gain access to the Cooking Guild bank. To do that, I need to finish the Desert Treasure quest. I still need to find some people to let me become champion in the TzHaar Fight Caves and then kill a Ket-Zek. That will finish off the Karamja Achievement Diary. I'm still putting Penguin Hide & Seek points into Runecrafting each week, though I may resort to using Spicy Stew before that point in order to finish off the Falador Achievement Diary. The Seers' Village Achievement Diary may take a few more trips to Stealing Creation in order to get morphic fletching knives to reach level 80 Fletching, though I might also resort to a Spicy Stew for that final task.

I think a crew member will move this topic for you, because this forum is for updates to the website and the Help & Advice subforum will be a place where you'll get much quicker help, BUT... ...as it so happens, there is a post in the current corrections list that might help you: http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?f=226&t=796103. Follow that link for an idea of how to proceed. Welcome to the Tip.It Forums!

I think it's just the addition of a bridge obstacle North of the "soulless" and the Iban disciples on the left side of the map...there's a green arrow there?

I thought I had done a better job of keeping track of the experience (sorry), but I wonder if including the totals helps when subtracting experience from the number of strings used on the unstrung bows... 135 exp for making a yew shortbow w/o the proto-tool, so that would mean 67.5 experience for each step (w/o the tool) and no matter what the cutting was (especially since I know the tool wasn't in my inventory when stringing) the stringing should be constant at that rate, so 570x67.5 =38475 of the experience was thanks to the stringing...76892 experience...which is close to the numbers you got from the other cutting (I would have been more comfortable with my numbers had they matched exactly). As you mention, I think a larger sample is necessary...not just from the fletching tool, but also the others.

I would agree with pokemama about there being confusion if there wasn't a single policy and my feelings would be to take out anything that has no stat bonus. People looking to use the setup are most likely doing so in order to build a stat boosting set of armor and weaponry...if not, they're just doing it for fun...while that in itself shouldn't be why Tip.It doesn't provide something (I mean, who doesn't like having fun?), it seems like adding entries for outfits that don't serve a tactical purpose is unnecessary (especially when I'm sure the crew has tons of other things that people would consider higher priorities). If it were a vote, I'd vote for eliminating any gear without stat boosts from the calculator, even if that means that greater care is taken when new outfitted items enter the game.

Seer's Headband also provides light source...without having to light it

Food for his pet in the game probably...too much fish to feed the cat, needed some space in the inventory, instead of "wasting" it, the player decided to let the banshees lower the hitpoints to "use" the fish rather than dropping or eating it with full HP or feeding extra to the cat. That's my guess...

That's been established, I believe. There are several ways to finish the task, the easiest is to buy it from other players on the G.E., but unless there is a stock of it, the next quickest way would be to buy it on Miscellania, then making your own. Since cider is the first thing a member can brew (lvl 14 Cooking) it is not unreasonable to think that Jagex was giving newer players a chance to cross off a task. The guides are never all-inclusive (because there are an infinite number of ways to do anything in the game depending on where you start and end listing the directions) and it's not that hard to reason the tasks out....hence the 'easy' designation. It's not required that you have anything else finished. It would be suggested that you complete as much of the game as possible to make crossing tasks off easier.

It is, and there is a thread somewhere in the corrections forums. I'm sure the crew knows it is missing (they do check all threads), but probably has other things they are working on at the moment.

I almost wasn't going to track my progress this week, but I reached some goals and crossed some tasks off lists and got some interesting drops, so...here's another entry! First and foremost, I reached level 80 in the Farming skill while checking the health of a Calquat tree. I was clicking so furiously to collect the calquats, I missed getting a picture of the "level up" and since that happened, it liberated me from getting pictures of each and every skill reaching that plateau. I feel a little relieved. Afterward, I made my way to my bank and noticed 14 Spirit tree seeds. I quickly set about making some Garden pies to boost my way to level 83 Farming (temporarily, of course), planted the seeds in pots and watered each to wait for the sapling stage. Instead of hurrying off to plant one, I let them all sit in my bank for a night. I solicited some advice on where to plant it, but I decided that using Port Sarim as a transportation hub would be best, since I can easily use free teleportation from the Explorer's ring 3 and make it to the Grand Exchange, the Gnome Stronghold (where I can run to a balloon or up the Grand Tree to a glider), or the Khazard Battlefield (and by extension, South-central Ardougne). The Gnome Tree Village and the Sewer Slayer Dungeon aren't huge destinations, but each has a purpose. I can only hope that Jagex decides that only allowing one tree planted by a gamer at a time is a silly rule. Why not Etceteria or Brimhaven? Well, Etceteria is an easy reach with the Ring of slaying teleport to Rellekka's Fremennik Slayer Dungeon entrance, a quick run to the fairy ring, teleport to Zanaris, then Miscellania via fairy ring code "C-I-P" and a short run to wherever I need on the islands. I'm not terribly interested in Etceteria's bush patch or the bank, except if I need to free up a bank space while collecting my MTK resources. Brimhaven was a closer second as a destination. First, it's tough to get to the main parts of the island via natural routes. Brimhaven's patch would allow quick access to the Brimhaven Agility Arena, the fruit tree patch (with coconuts growing), the pineapple bushes, and not too far of a run from the Calquat tree, the Tzhaar city, Karamja plantation... My problem with that location is that it's in jungle, so it's not exactly convenient for anything but traveling to Shilo Village quickly by cart. Once I finish the Karamja Achievement Diary, I'll be able to teleport there. Also, I'd have to already be at a Spirit Tree to use either Brimhaven or Etceteria. At Port Sarim, I basically have a short run from a never-exhausting free teleport and one-click access from the tree to Draynor Village (meaning I don't ever have to use my Amulet of glory for that purpose). This morning, I set out for Ape Atoll for the 5 Monkey nuts, the Monkey bar, and thanks to a past 'Suquah' Slayer task, I had the Ground tooth in my bank. All I needed was another bite of the Garden pie after clearing a "pre-treated" Spirit tree patch (I've been anticipating the planting for quite some time) and...voila! She's (or he's) a-growin'! The gardener is happily looking after my tree and I can't wait to check on its health. For some reason, I had some Penguin Hide & Seek points saved from last week and was surprised to discover I could reach level 62 in the Runecrafting skill. It just means that I'll have to wait two weeks to reach level 63, two more for level 64, two more for level 65, and maybe three for level 66 and the final task for the Falador Achievement Diary. That's if I don't get impatient and try concocting some of Evil Dave's stew spices... I didn't wait long for my weekly trip to the Circus. I followed some information gathered by fellow Tip.it Forums users and went to perform Magic first...I was able to see audience requests. As usual, those don't pay off and in my diligence to record the information from the performance, I actually lost track of what I was performing and in what order. I think both my score and my experience suffered for it (in Ranged and Agility performances, as well). I did discover that trying to juggle the Tightrope 101 pamphlet counts as a juggled item in terms of experience gained, even though I wasn't permitted to juggle it. Weird. I needed to clear out some bank space and had 100 or so enchanted bolts (50 each of enchanted ruby-tipped adamant bolts and enchanted diamond-tipped adamant bolts). I decided to make another run at Mithril Dragons. I managed to cut down three on my first trip, but narrowly avoided death with my one-click teleport to my POH while trying to finish off a fourth without prayer. I couldn't believe my luck (and stupidity at not bringing that one extra prayer mix). I topped off my health, prayer, and run energy in Oo'glog and made my way to the Grand Tree to re-stock and head back to use the 20 or so bolts I had left from each type. Imagine my surprise when I made it back and the dragon had barely recovered any hitpoints at all! Even more surprising, had the player attacking the Mithril Dragon in the spot by the stairs been curious and ventured into my preferred camp instead of stopping at the stairs, he or she would have had an easy kill and might have been able to collect the drops in all the time I spent outfitting. I managed 4 kills (well, 3.5 each trip, I suppose) and the last dropped an elusive Ancient page for My notes of discoveries under the lake! After selling off the remaining bolts, I made my way to the Piscatoris Fishing Colony. Monkfish...more than a thousand caught (and another Fishing skill level gained) for a specific purpose...the Cooking skill. Over the past couple of days, instead of collecting Coal ore in MTK, I put most of my citizens to work cutting maples (I still want those seeds and bird nests!) and the rest caught fish. With the aid of Cooking gauntlets, I was able to get within a few hours work of level 80 thanks to those resources, but I wanted to push myself and wanted food I could use for tasks instead of food to sell (like I do with Tuna and Swordfish). I also have been meaning to cross some tasks off Achievement Diary lists, but I'll get back to that in a moment... For the first time while collecting fishing resources in MTK, I had a Clue scroll "found" by my workers. It was only a level one Treasure Trail, but after a few terrible searches, I did manage to actually get something unique. [hide=It's a sweater! (no, it's not a sweater)][/hide] A shirt with Bob's face in green on the back. I considered wearing it around as my "default" shirt when I had nothing else, but a) I can't spare the bank space, and B) the cat face would be hidden by any cape I wore anyway. Into the Treasure Trails Chest in my POH it went... Part of the reason for hurrying to level 80 Cooking was to switch the Family Crest quest reward gauntlets. I chose to get them made into Cooking gauntlets after the quest, but I've been saving my Gold ore for the new set and also wanted to cross off another task on my Varrock Achievement Diary list. Before I did that... [hide=5 raw sharks cooked in a row without a burn!][/hide] I set out for Catherby's range and cooked me up some shark! Five for the task...five in a row...none burned. I saved the rest of the hundred or so in my bank and the few uncooked I brought as safeties and sold off the cooked ones on the way to get new gauntlets. I destroyed the Cooking gauntlets and traveled to South-east Varrock for a new pair...and was surprised to learn that I got a free pair of Cooking gauntlets and not an "unenchanted" pair as I did upon finishing the quest. The hard task got crossed off my list without having to spend a dime. It had been sitting there to avoid a 25k gold "service charge" for re-enchantment. I felt kind of silly, but I made my way to the Al Kharid mine for the new enchantment. I'm now the proud owner of Goldsmith gauntlets. I've been slacking off on my Firemaking training and should make another attempt at Stealing Creation to get another level in Fletching. Agility and Thieving should both be at level 70 (shame on me) and at the time of this post, Herblore is less than 3k experience from level 67 (who cares, right?). I may take on some side-quests before next week's Circus and Penguin Hide & Seek points, but probably after another Tears of Guthix trip. I'm more than a few weeks away from ToG being (almost) solely responsible for getting me to level 60 in Summoning. Whoopee.

True, but maybe a crew member will see this and move it to the Website Corrections place.

Is the black outline only around YOUR character's HP bar and the person you are attacking? That might make it ever so slightly easier to see in a big group of attackers...