RealPlev

I liked the premise of this article just because it brought back some memories for me. When I first started, this game was just a test game, no one really knew anything about it, there were like 3 servers, and PKing was the main attraction(in my eyes anyways.) I remember the combat triangle was a pretty big when we used to PK, we could get mass amount of kills in a day, either by myself, or with 1 or 2 guys, usually 2 warriors, and myself ranging. In that sense, this game has really gone downhill, no matter what they try to do, PvP worlds, BH, none of that matters, it's all the same, huge clans, focusing on chasing weaker players who have no chance, that's why I haven't PKed since about the 3d update. That being said, I'm not bashing on Jagex, I mean I still play the game, I applaud them for making the game much better in so many other areas. For as many people that play this game on a day to day basis, I'm surprised its not more laggy, lag [bleep]es still happen, but before the 3d update, it really was almost unbearable. I don't know about the new look for the game though, that's not high on my list, but it can't be all good, it just seems like Jagex is trying to cater to little kids now.

That's all fine and dandy, but that doesn't take away from the fact how easy getting those ess is. You seriously can be doing homework or not even looking and still get over 1k ess in like 45 mins, easy. I got 10k nature runes in a day and a half, barely even using pouches. So, is runecrafting very time consuming? Of course, no argument against that. I still say smithing for the normal player, just because it's the only skill I know of that at 99 you can literally make billions upon billions. Rcing takes thousands of one thing to make a great profit. 10k nature runes is roughly 2 mill, not very good lol.

Hard call on this one. I've thought about it, and I'd say Farming is one of the longest skills, just because it's a lot of sitting and waiting, which is why I don't train it. Runecrafting isn't really that bad, mining your own ess takes no time at all, actually training it is even easier. This is assumed you have the money for Herblore and Prayer, but if you do, those skills are easy as anything else. Agility gets easier the higher level you get, especially from Wilderness course on. So I'd have to say Smithing was the hardest. At least in my eyes the most respected 99 you can have in this game. Takes so much time smelting/smithing, given you can actually train it pretty quick because from 68+ it pretty much pays for itself. But all that aside, I still say it's the hardest and longest skill to train.

Lol, look when I registered for this site, but yet, I've played since whenever there were just 3 servers. 00, 01 w/e. Exactly, I can tell you all some stories lol.. When I first heard what a R2h was, it was over 2 mill for it. Back when you couldn't even tell the difference between a Rune Dagger, R2h, Rune sword, they all looked the same. Back when you could only see people's combat levels in the Wild. Here's something funny though, when party hats first came out, in 01 I believe, I mined coal literally all day long, bought 2 red P hats, gave one to my buddy and kept the other one. He sold his for like 2 R2h's, (they went way down in price) and a bunch of other junk. I forgot what I did with mine, but if I would have known they would go ridiculously up, I would have mined more coal and boughten them all.

I think piling has been around for a while, we used to do it years ago, but it wasn't called piling. The first time I even heard this term I was playing Pest Control. I'm not even in a clan so I can't speak from personal experience, but it seems like clans don't even know the basics of PKing. I saw a leader tell his clan, "all you have to do is just kill people, we have more so we'll win." There's a little more do it than that.. I do duel arena sometimes, I'm only level 107, and I can kill people 10 levels above me, depending on with method we choose, pretty easily.. I do this alone, I don't need a big clan to back me up, because I didn't raise my char right... I just wish people knew how to train real pures still..

Ok, I feel like I have to post on this topic. I've played this game since about 2001. When you could only PK in the Wild, and only see people's combat levels in the Wild. When I used to pk, I'd walk to the Wild, with maybe one friend with me, and we'd find people our level and kill them. If we saw someone we needed, like a ranger, or mage, we'd recruit them on our team. We never got more than 5 people, and we rarely lost. We used this tactic, called 'catching.' The real Robin Hood made this up, and if anyone has played long enough to remember catch, it won me every fight. Basically when you still had to be hit at least 3 times to even run, when you did run, I could exploit a glitch basically, and run, before run was ever introduced so I always caught them, and finished them off, because if I attacked I easily killed them in 1-2 hits so they couldn't run again. The whole point of me posting is because PKing isn't the same, PKing now is [developmentally delayed]ed. People don't use their brains to win fights, they just get 20+ people and cause havok because their skills alone would get them killed everytime. That's not PKing, that's killing real PKing, well already killed real PKing. As for that, look at mine. Just because I didn't join this particular site fast enough doesn't exactly make me new. I've got more in game experience on the game we're talking about, RuneScape, maybe you've heard of it.

I'd say anything past 90 is high. Anything past 80 is moderate. You know what you're doing when you reach 80+. But when you go past that, I think you actually know how to train. But I think someone mentioned this already, when your a higher level more things open up to you to train on. I'm 82 ranged, there's some things like Hell Hounds that just wouldn't be worth killing at say 50 ranged. Something like firemaking shouldn't be considered a skill because it's so mindless to train, and so easy. Real combat skills, excluding Summoning are also one of the easiest to train with the introduction of 100+ boat in Pest Control.