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So what did we get from this? Gloves, a ring, and some sort of hybrid hatchet/pickaxe that sets your logs on fire when you chop them? I like that last one, but the other ones just give you extra fm exp, no? That's pretty unnecessary, tbh...fm is already a fast skill to train. If they don't do anything else, I have to say I'm disappointed in the rewards.

The pictures in the guide are in hd. Not sure if you noticed that. :P

You get more charms if you use the hard trekkers. Easy escorts mean you only see 3 monsters per event. Hard escorts make 5 nail beasts show up each time. If you'd been using Smiddi Ryak and the Woman-at-Arms, you'd have gotten 15 instead of 9.

You can save some money by drinking a Greenman's Ale to give you +1 from 44 when you need it.

If you stay in there you get a message that's different from the ghasts, "The swamp decays you!" And it deals a little bit of damage. That's what it's talking about

If you think that's weird, wait until you randomly turn into a chicken.

Off the top of my head, you could kill banshees, cave slimes, green dragons, or aviansies and get good profit. You should also farm herbs no matter how you make money. Runecrafting is good too, mostly at the high levels. And of course you can do things like collect snape grass on Waterbirth with 72 magic and lunars, play Great Orb Project for pure essence, make oak planks in the sawmill with balloons, run various things back and forth from shops, make unfinished potions, tan d'hides... I have no idea exactly how much gp/hr any of those things would be, tbh, except that they're all faster cash than fishing or woodcutting.

They're both pretty poor cash. 99 fishing and 99 woodcutting here, and in none of my tests was I able to earn more than about 150k gp/hr with either skill. And that's at 99, mind you. You can make more than that easily, and in many ways that have little or no prerequisites. (For example, making oak planks at the sawmill.) If you really want the exp, try chopping teaks and burning as you go on Ape Atoll. Chop 'n burn is a fairly sensible way if you want both woodcutting and firemaking eventually.

I'm betting that you will get to keep the better grave, you could always go commit suicide to test it. That is correct. An ex-member with an Angel of Death or other members-only grave will retain it and its timer even in a free world.

You say that, but I died and lost my bronze axe the first day I played. I didn't know where to get another, so I turned off the game and left. I didn't come back until a long time after that. Now an even longer time later, here I am, a positive addition to the Runescape and Tip.It communities. (Or so I like to think. ;) ) Making sure that new players know the rules and controls isn't babying them. It stops them from bugging older players asking "Plz how do i get a new axe". And more importantly, it stops them from quitting in frustration when they don't understand how to play. And the Dec. 10th and related updates weren't based on player feedback. They were based on the reasons laid out in the Runescape vs. Real-World Trading development diary. As for n00bs ranting about lame stuff, well, it's not as if veteran players never weigh in. Believe it or not, the RSOF actually contains a few well-thought-out rants, and some intelligent feedback to updates. Truly n00by complaints are usually called out as such. But when a lot of people complain, it doesn't mean they're wimps. It means they don't like a part of the game. And generally when Jagex notices the zeitgeist of the players leaning that way, they try to do something about it. (Although they sure do take their sweet time. :evil: ) Examples of this include buffing Summoning, making Olaf's Quest less frustrating, and their current plans for new PVP stuff and changing random events. I don't agree with a lot of what you've said, but I definitely cannot deny that Jagex's customer service is...well, isn't. There is none. It's deplorable. I blame the n00bs who were spamming them to reverse their anti-RWT updates. If I had to name the one thing where Jagex just phails miserably, it's customer service. I really hope they reinstate it.

I didn't know this time. In fact, I went and double-checked the stats of dragon boots and bandos boots and did a little :o . I still can't think of a situation where I'd want +2 range defence enough to justify losing that strength/prayer/ranged attack/magic bonus. But, :

A quick search of the Game Guide provided only this about the Ring of Wealth: If Jagex has made any other statement about the ring's workings, it will have been somewhere on the forums or something. As to whether it works or not on champion scrolls, clue scrolls, etc, is mostly a mystery. But it's not as if you need to wear a zerker ring for fighting goblins, so I don't think it's gonna hurt you. ;)

The ratio is constant. It doesn't matter what level you are. On average, you'll get the same ratio of swordfish to tuna at 99 as you will at 50.

Nope, all the f2p ones can only take you to one altar.

They're about 30-35k exp/hr and only catchable in Piscatoris.

What level is it best to fish sharks? 99, duh. :P If you mean before 99 when to switch to sharks for training, it's never tbh. Monkfish are way more efficient. The experience is more than twice as fast and the cash is nearly identical. You'd make more money if you caught monkfish to 99 fishing and used the time you saved to, I dunno, go kill green dragons or some random moneymaker like that. If you want to fish sharks because you only want money and don't care about fishing xp, then go train a different skill, because fishing is junky profit anyway. I don't even get more than 150 sharks an hour on average at 99. Anybody can do better than that by picking stuff up off the ground, so if you aren't worried about experience, go do that. And if you just want to fish sharks because you like the slow pace or something (as I sometimes do), you don't need to wait, just fish em now. There is no level where they're fast anyway. As for your original question, the only specific level I can give you besides 99 is 96. At 96 you can catch sharks with your hands, which gives experience in strength and disables two random events. It also looks cooler. So don't fish them before then unless you really want to. Oh, and the best places to catch sharks are the Fishing Guild and Burgh de Rott, the latter of which is my personal favorite because there are no cage/harpoon spots to get in the way. Of course, the Guild has its merits: more populated, closer summoning obelisk, and a lv2 man you can murder for herbs on your way. Oh, and Jatizso works too.

The catchrate is the same whether you use a harpoon, a barb-tailed harpoon, or your bare hands. You'll get some tuna and some swordfish. The difference is that if you use your hands... a. You get strength experience equal to 10% of the fishing xp b. The "whirlpool" and "big fish" random events are disabled c. The animation is cooler : So handfishing is marginally better, and there's no real reason to use a harpoon instead. Oh, and you can still catch a trophy fish while fishing with your hands. I've gotten 4 sharks that way. Sadly, the shark in the animation is the same size. :( But honestly, I don't recommend any of the methods you're doing. Monkfish are more faster profit AND experience than swordfish OR lobsters. Even with swordfish gloves. And they may not be faster than fly fishing, but unless you're very rich already, the extra profit is easily worth it. The quest is a lot easier than it looks, trust me--it's not worth not doing it.

I raised my crafting 12 levels and I don't regret it. \ The teleports to Pollnivneach are practically the same as a house teleport if you set your house there; you can run to the portal in mere seconds. Not to mention the ease of access to Sumona and the smoky slayer dungeon, which are obvious of course. And as if running from Sumona to the house portal to a Kharyrll portal wasn't quick enough, you can also go right to the doors of the Slayer Tower. And the Slayer Dungeon is head and shoulders above Edgeville for closest teleport to a fairy ring, besides being right next to the Slayer Dungeon. And of course, you can teleport directly to the Terror Dogs, which is way better than having to skip that task every time. You can even teleport directly to Tarn if you haven't killed him already. Slayer rings ftw. :thumbsup:

At the top, under Aberrant Spectres.

Minor nitpick: it's spelled Pollnivneach. Not that I would expect anyone to get that right, of course; it's right up there with Tirranwn and Prifddinas as one of the hardest-to-spell places in Runescape. See, I even misspelled Tirannwn while I was talking about misspelling it. And don't even get me started on the ways some people manage to misspell Karamja.

QFT, all these things would definitely improve the guide. You should also tell us how many kills you can get in an hour, and give some more information about the ones in the smoky slayer dungeon. You also ought to highlight some reasons why exactly kurasks are worth fighting instead of other monsters.

True, but if you drop all the Tuna you catch, then you can make more money per inventory. Hence, the extra time fishing will probably mean that the profit you make will be the same give or take about 20 GP. I would tend to assume that if you're fishing somewhere sane (like the fishing guild), it's going to be quicker to bank +/- 13 tuna than it is to drop them. This is true. And one tuna is worth about 120 gp. Of course then again, any member who can get into the Fishing Guild should be catching monkfish, as they are far better than lobsters OR swordfish in both profit AND experience. Even with swordfish gloves.

That's not true. The ratio of swordfish to tuna is constant, no matter what your fishing level.

There are better ways to train mage. Lots of options that are either faster or cheaper exist. Also, the unstrung yew longbow is only 400 gp still, so all you have to do is eschew the cutting of the log and skip to the stringing.

Just make the best pouches you can with your gold, green, and crimson charms, and save the blues until higher levels when they're more useful