PolarBearBlue

The firemaking update is a win. Been using it for Combat training, FOG, and Dungeoneering.

News reading skill negative 99. It says right there in the news post adding to bonfires gives a booster percentage up to 6%(?) for 5+ players. Also touché Saradomin, touché. A) That's mean. And you could have said that a little more nicely. B) You're right, I didn't read it well enough.

You're kidding, right. Please tell me you are? Not kidding. They are getting less frequent now but still falling... So now we get free food for lighting fires?

You're kidding, right. Please tell me you are?

Yes we can, surprisingly. Yeah. But um, like, is there a way to take it off. Not that it's not nice but I kinda wanna be the fake Polarbearblu. Can't have it telling everyone I'm real. And did anyone notice you get more exp for adding the log to the fire then lighting it separately?

Either an oversight or (by now unfortunately the more likely option) incentive for you to get membership... Must be the latter, because it only tacks up my P2P bank space... :mellow:

Guys. I'm F2P. Yet, when a fire spirit came out of my fire, I got charms used for summoning. WTF? I don't understand the logic in giving me these...

As you can see, I'm using willow. And yeah, light it once, it's AFK. Also, after a while you get an increase to health by some percentage. And here's the rewards you get. XP lamp and Validation cape the adds the title "The Real" in front of your name when you ask it to.

Extra bankspaces! Please! But no serious. I like this update. It actual just happened. I was dungeoneering when i got the system update. I'm suppose to be paying attention in class but with there being a total of 8 students, eh... Gonna test this skill out now.

I'm saying the new method is too good exp for the effort compared to the majority of existing content in the game. In two days of semi-afk rc the skill went from one of my lowest to one of my highest. To clarify, it's not the exp rate that's the biggest problem, it's reasonable that rc is closer to other skills. But for the best rates you should at least have to put an effort into it (runespan has zero requirements! at least abyss, zmi, etc take some preparing, utilising other skills, etc. to do efficiently) They did have some actually good ideas earlier to make rc less tedious like ess carrying familiars and extra teleports, but those were never really all that effective. As an example I think pouch-crafting would be more popular if you didn't have to manually fill and empty them all the time, and they were more of an inventory extension for essence only (think how bags in WoW work). The skill is still relatively new, so I'm not surprised about the exp rates or the amount of effort you have to put into it. Mostly because it will take Jagex some time to realize the exp rate are too good and that this skill is too AFKable. But maybe this is what Jagex wants. But I think we still have to wait for the next update before we really say, "Oh Jagex, you kinda [bleep]ed this skill up]".

You could use that argument to justify every bad change to the game ever, including things like Squeal of Fortune. Just saying'. If this was a single player game you might have a point. In a MMO you can't ignore the interactions players have with each other. 'don't change how you play the game' like you said, and you'll fall quickly behind everyone else and spend twice as long to achieve the same things. Where's the fun in that? (note: a lot of updates that make the game easier are /fine/, nobody wants useless new content, right? Arguably in several cases they went way overboard though *cough* 2x faster afkable rc *cough*. But I don't think that's a debate for this topic) Are you implying that the old runecrafting method was fine just the way it was? Also, no one likes SoF because you can buy spins and Jagex changed their RWT rules to keep it legit. If spins weren't able to be bought SoF would be less of a problem to many players. His comment is valid. It really does change how you play if you decided to ignore it. It changes how the game can be played.

*Looks at integral, takes off glasses, jumps out the window* But seriously, this is kinda cool. Might be useful in my quest to make a small RPG like game.

You took the words right out of my mouth. Another example for the first article. The home teleport makes it easy to get around Runescape, uses no runes, and is available to everyone. However, you wouldn't use a home teleport in the wild, and some places do not have a lodgestone. Plus the old teleports with runes still give you exp. I still people in Falador teleporting to Falador this way to raise their lvl. And yes, you get a lot of runes from monsters as drops, but I wager that even with Runespan you still get your runes the hard way if you do not buy them, by going to an alter. If anything, players can lvl up faster and make more runes now with Runespan and will still runecraft the old way. The second article was on point!

The little optimism at the end makes this whole adventure worth while. Go get 'em lady killer.

Runescape still remembers mine unless I leave for a extend period of time.

The stronghold of security & safety are great places to go. And if you have 20 dungeoneering then you can use the Edgeville Dungeon. I have found it usually not crowded.

OMG! I am a noob again! NOOOOOOOO! But thanks for telling me. That's pretty cool.

Looking good. Looking good. By the way, that little tracker in the upper right, where did that come from?

Totally forgot that was in the guide. Anywho, thanks.

So, at what lvl cooking do you usually stop burning swordfish? Or at what lvl do you usually burn a few like maybe 5? I'm at 69 cooking and I usually burn 1 lobster in a full inventory. So I wondering if such was possible before 99 cooking for swordfish.

It is nice to go back and be nostalgic about how things were (Saradomin knows I go back and read how things were in my own blog from time to time) but things change and progress, it's the natural order. Personally, I certainly don't miss trying to hawk my wares in the Lumby courtyard. :P You just came back. Give it a chance before you give up on it again. :) I will. But if another lvl 61 calls me a nasty name because they lost a FOG again... :evil:

I hear the several ministries around Gielinor have spare runes... Or the wilderness...

Yea! I was just training some more Runecrafting! I just read through my entire blog... and.. well... It has been a good couple of years :) so.. much... nostalgia... I guess Runescape has been good to me. Not to the point of addiction where I need to play, and also not to the point where I loath trying to play. I've had plenty of 2-3 month long breaks, but overall, I think that has helped my love for the game. I don't usually play too much at any given time, and I always try to do something I either enjoy or something that I'm working towards as a goal. Oh, all the good times I've had. Sorry about that little rant/sob story/flashback/whatever that really was... So yea, for Runescape now, I've been training Runecrafting some more. Thanks for the advice guys! I'm not sure how long I'll stay. At least until level 70 Runecrafting, but maybe if everything is going well, I'll go ahead and stay til level 75. :) We shall see. Please Post!!!!! The days of yelling "Selling Steel longswords!" in Lumby are over. We gettin' old. The game crashed on yesterday and my roommate said "Maybe it's a sign that you should let it go." Maybe it is roommate, maybe it is...

Cast gatestone huh... :-k In any event, congrats on the lvls. RC has gotteen really AFK-able. But sometimes I forget and end up getting logged out. But yeah, I'd stay RCing now too. I feel the nerf coming in the winds...

"displayfps" into developers console open the developer console with the ~ key and enter displayfps, like ambler said. QFT. ;) I'm normally 30fps, will be interesting too see how much of an improvement this gives :-k My game is actually running smoother. I get anywhere between 27 - 37. Mostly in the the 35 range. And it keeps going up. :thumbsup:\:D/