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You need 76 mining and 74 smithing to do all the quests (and the particular quests that require those levels, Ritual of the Mahjarrat and A Clockwork Syringe respectively, are also two of my favorite quests), so that'll be a pretty good reason to train them. Dragon armor (in P2P) is the best if you have 60 defense, but at higher levels it is not the best (with the exception of the dragon defender, which is generally considered the best shield slot item for most melee combat). In F2P, you can get Corrupt dragon armor, which is like the P2P version except that after wearing it for 30 minutes, it crumbles into dust. Corrupt dragon armor is better than rune while it lasts, but generally not worth the high price. Magic is not usually trained as a combat skill, and especially not in F2P. However, it's important to have a decent level so that you can do stuff like teleport and so on. Also, you need 80 magic to do all the quests, so once again, there you go. (And the quest you need that for, The Void Stares Back, is another fun one that's definitely worth doing.) In P2P, magic isn't actually so bad in combat. Ancient Magicks spells are very strong: ice spells freeze the target in place, blood spells heal you based on the damage you deal, and they're multitarget, able to hit up to 9 enemies with each cast. There's also Storm of Armadyl, which hits very hard at the same speed as a scimitar. Mages are quite formidable in PvP. You don't see a lot of people maging in everyday combat, though, cuz the runes for the good spells are expensive.

Its max hit is dependent on your Magic level, according to the update FAQ; the exact formula for this is not yet known, but basically, it hits pretty high. Additionally, each successful hit reduces the target's defence level by 1; this can stack until their defence goes all the way to zero. Wielding an Armadyl battlestaff increases the casting rate to whip speed (in addition to its +15% magic damage equipment bonus).

Well, Dungeoneering has some bosses that are pretty fun to fight. One at the end of every dungeon. They don't drop items, though. The closest thing to a boss outside of Dungeoneering would be Revenants, which are very tough and located in the Wilderness. They have some rare drops, but are very difficult and dangerous to kill. Boss hunting gets a lot better in P2P, where you have access to the God Wars Dungeon and Tormented Demons and Glacors and what-have-you. Full rune is the best you can do in F2P for the head, torso, and leg slots. Rune berserker shield is a little bit better than kiteshield, but it needs to be recharged every few hours by playing the Fist of Guthix minigame. Rune gloves are not technically part of the rune armor set, but they are the best gloves; they need FoG to recharge as well, but unlike the shield, you only need to do this once unless you die with them. Corrupt dragon gear exists, but it's not so much "equipment" as it is "30-minute stat buff". Gravite weapons are better than rune, but they require a lot of tokens, and they're instantly obsoleted if you ever become P2P, no refunds available.

They were at 25k last night... they may go back up but not over 40k for a long time now. just tried to sell 1k torstol, not instant selling at 20k ea atm. That's depressing.

Actually there's quite a lot of doubt, as rocktails are a rather poor moneymaker (even at 99 fishing).

Much like dragons, they're camped by gold farmers, who collect the infernal ashes to sell for profit. Note the non-degrading non-quest armor that is often indicative of gold farmers who don't bother to do quests and don't program their bots to repair Barrows gear when it breaks.

My advice is to do quests. Generally speaking, they're the best content the game has to offer, and one of the main things RuneScape does better than other MMORPGs. There are currently 175 quests in the game; about 11% of them are available to free players. I recommend doing a bunch of quests, raising your skill levels until you can do more quests, doing those quests, and repeating until you've done all the quests (feeling free to get sidetracked by anything else you find amusing, of course). Then once you've done them all, you win the game. This gives you better "Goal levels" than the Zerker Pure plan (a list of the minimum level requirements to complete all quests can be found here) because you'll have a more well-rounded experience and take better advantage of RuneScape's best content i.e. the quests. The Zerker Pure is built around PvP Combat, which is okay, but very shallow compared to the other MMORPGs out there that you could be playing instead. If you want to play a PvP game, RuneScape is not the best one out there; its quests, however, are top-notch. Edit: And don't go using walkthroughs to hold your hand every step of the way. You'll have less fun if you do that. I recommend using the official QuestHelp function when you get stuck.

Disease does not affect yield, and it never has. It affects growth time because plants won't develop to the next stage during a tick where they're diseased. However, a fully grown herb doesn't "remember" whether it was diseased at an earlier stage--crops have no memory of previous growth stages. That's why dead herbs give you back a random seed: the game uses the same model for all dead herbs, and it doesn't remember what kind of seed you originally planted. If you are only getting 4 herbs from one seed, you are doing something wrong.

I agree that trees are unnecessary. I did all my farming training primarily with herbs, sometimes poison ivy, vine herbs (using up any seeds earned collecting my hunter/woodcutting/firemaking/fletching strange rocks and doing any mutant jadinko slayer tasks), and enough lividing for Trollheim Teleport. Haven't done a single tree run in like 10m xp (and even back then they were low-level trees), not even for BXPW, and as you can see from this chart of my XP gains over time, I've been coming along just fine. Torstol runs (with juju/scroll of life) are already somewhere north of the 100k xp/hr mark, with a very healthy profit margin. The question you have to ask is, what's your rush? You'll get there when you get there. The money you spend on tree seeds is basically to rent a skillcape for a month or so--efficiency-wise, you don't save any actual gameplay time. Farming doesn't have the same opportunity costs that other skills have--you're going to be farming herbs no matter what, cuz it's one of the best and easiest moneymakers in the game, so given enough time, you'll get 99 farming without having to do any extra work beyond what you're already doing. It's like how it takes two minutes to play a little game on your phone, but it's not as if those are two minutes coming out of your valuable free time--they're two minutes where you're on the toilet or waiting in line or sitting at the bus stop or whatnot, and you'd have to sit there for two minutes whether you're fiddling with Angry Birds or not. So smartphone gamers spend more time playing games than console gamers, but the time they're spending playing smartphone games is already being wasted on something no matter what they do.

I funded my 95 prayer through farming and Miscellania, grinding-free. Took me a couple months, but not too long. This was back before infernal ashes and frost dragon bones were around, of course.

Maybe it works with a different skin? Try changing the skin and see what happens.

Bradley McKinley, 16, was shocked today when he learned that the name of the glowing green power source of Port Phasmatys, best-known as the location of the Ectophial teleport, is actually spelled "E-C-T-O-F-U-N-T-U-S". "Yeah, I was looking at the world map today and I realized I'd been spelling it wrong for two years," said McKinley. "It's weird, cuz I always thought it was, like, a fungus thingy, right? Cuz fungus thingies are gross and slimy and grow on dead things. So I just assumed it was called the 'Ecto-fungus'. But it turns out there's no 'G' in it at all." "This is even more surprising than when I learned that 'Karamja' doesn't rhyme with 'Pajama'," he added. "And did you know the 's' in RuneScape is actually supposed to be capitalized? I know, right!" This report has been brought to you by KLAPS, the Kuradalai Lama Association for Proper Spelling. Kuradalai Lama: She's here to kick ass and free Tibet, and she's all out of Tibet.

Looks like you have lighting effects off. Try turning them on.

You will start on Tutorial Island at level 3 with no items in your bank.

You really need the slayer xp, though. Your level is way too low.

Yes, but they're mostly low-level bots. Try a 1500+ world.

Incidentally, are blisterwood weapons good against them, too? Haven't tried.

Big bones are efficient if you value your time at less than about 350k gp/hr. Infernal ashes are efficient if you value your time over about 500k gp/hr. (In between those two numbers, it's more efficient to use babydragon bones or to use infernal ashes at ectofuntus.) Infernal ashes are the best until somewhere north of 3m gp/hr when ourg bones and frost dragon bones become better.

The Jadinko Lair is linked to the Herblore Habitat. Burning curly vines earns favor with the jadinkos, which you can cash in for seed drops; jadinkos attracted on the surface affect those seed drops.

To attract carrion jadinkos, build a boneyard and plant a kalferberry bush + green vine blossom. To ward off common jadinkos, give Papa Mambo a striped vine (obtained by hunting Camouflaged Jadinkos) and he'll shoo them away for long enough for you to collect your favor rewards.

That's basically it. When you get your favor to 2k (it increases by 2 points for each vine you burn), you can collect a cache of Herblore Habitat seeds as well; when you do this, it's best to attract carrion jadinkos and ward off common jadinkos above ground, since that ensures all the seeds will be herb seeds.

They ban hundreds of thousands of bots a year (averaging thousands every day, and more than half of them are members). New ones spring up quickly, of course.

Isn't it pink for you too? The Vyrelords and Vyreladies in Darkmeyer do drop death and fire runes pretty frequently, and of course you can cremate the vyre corpses, which does give prayer xp and decent drops. I'm really not sure what's up with this bug in the blog. I'll try changing the layout. I wonder if it's caused by an ad?

Is this for real? If so that is awesome! Yes. Attract carrion jadinkos, ward off common jadinkos, and all of the seeds will be herb seeds. Last time I turned in my 2k points, I got 5 spiritbags and the rest were herb seeds.

That's weird. Try changing the theme and see what happens.