Dmoc5

As others have said too, this blog is great! My only question is, how were you able to buy a party hat this early? :shock:

Wait ... even if you finish a quest and got the "award" years ago you can get another award?

Thank you! :) I am not cooking right now since I don't want to take up more inventory space by having a tinderbox, and I also wish to cook on a range rather than on my fire.

June 2, 2010 Dmoc5 continued his fishing. Before he knew it, he had suddenly caught over 1,000 raw lobsters - all stored in his inventory and ready to be cooked later. Dmoc5 realized that he really should have started fishing a while ago. I am now 1/4th of the way to my goal in fishing! Updated goals:

Nice mining level! :) I am just curious - does the living rock cavern mine give faster gold/coal than other areas like the mining guild (coal)? I am a free player so I don't really know.

The hiscores really should have an option for experience since I'd like to see who has the most experience. Is there something out there like that?

Thanks much, Kaida23! I will be following your progress in addition to mine! :) Sadly, I was unable to read your post before I got level 60 smithing - otherwise I would have teleported/ran to Al Kharid ASAP. Oh well. I will be training my mining as a combinatin of power mining and profit (with lots of coal!). Anyway, it's time for an early update for the next day. :thumbsup: May 31, 2010 Dmoc5 went over to the noisy and crowded furnance, eager to do his thing. He had spent all day forging his iron and coal ores into the much more valuable steel alloy, which he would then hopefully be use to raise money. But when he finished his latest round and headed back to the bank, he found that his iron and coal stores were practically vacant! And in agreement with his bank, which had asked that Dmoc5 leave at least one stockpile of each ore in the bank as a sign of trust, Dmoc5 couldn't take out his last reserves. This made Dmoc5 wonder - how else could he make those coveted steel bars? As well as mithril bars? The answer came to him almost as he questioned it - superheating. Smiling, Dmoc5 took his fire staff (so that's what it was for!) and as many nature runes as he could, and headed to the mining guild once more. I ran out of my iron/coal combo in the bank, when I had 982 smithing XP left to reach level 60. Oh well. I superheated the rest of my way. :) Now I understand why everyone loves nature runes! I nearly ran out of my supply of them. I'll have to remind myself to buy as many as I can via the Grand Exchange ASAP! I ended up using the majority of my superheating on mithril bars rather than steel bars, aiming for the more expensive metal. Woo hoo! Just 9 more Magic levels until I can high alch! :twss: And, of course, Smithing! Later in the day, I advanced two firemaking levels. May I just mention that firemaking XP is incredibly fast? I was able to get about 70,000 XP in LESS THAN AN HOUR whereas in Smithing it took me hours just to get the 30,000 or so I needed to get to level 60. Then again, I guess that's needed in order to balance out firemaking, which presents almost no revenue opportunities. And then later (yes more Runescape!) I did some fishing. I like to fish since it lets me update this topic simultaneously. Updated goals: (I'll post an updated bank picture later.)

I support this ... looks great.

Congratulations! I am thinking of having a similar mining goal as you are now. :)

Good luck. :) I have had similar breaks from RS like yours too.

May 30, 2010 Dmoc5 looked at the gold ore that he had collected, and realized that he needed to smelt them into bars and transform the bars into jewelry to gain experience in jewelry crafting. He was aware that his wealthy relatives were fond of jewelry that could be enchanted, so Dmoc5 set out with the goal of craftin as many amulets and bracelets (with jewelry) as possible in order to sell them to his relatives so they could increase their knowledge of magic. Either way, everyone ended up happy. I achieved my crafting goal. :thumbsup: I ran out of my supply of gold bars and jewelry so I had to resort to some mining and smithing of gold, courtesy of the crafting guild. Oh well. --------------------------------------- Later today, I also advanced a smithing level by smelting steel and mithril bars! It took me a while, though - 2 hours of smelting at the Falador furnance netted me just over 18,000 experience in 2 hours of play. Smithing is definitely one slow skill to train in Runescape. :( On the upside, I can smith mithril warhammers. I even have a bank pic. Question - does anyone have any suggestions on getting faster smithing experience? I plan to smith until level 60, then do another skill. I'll need just over 25,000 experience to get level 60 smithing. :twss:

Thank you very much. :) I have decided that I will do some crafting unti level 50, since it seems like I will not use that skill much in the near future, so I'd like to experience it NOW. Edit: Well, the crafting didn't take that long. (Still May 29th) I have to say that after crafting, it's definitely a tough skill to level up by using jewelry. I practically used up my entire stock of cut jewelry, so the only option left for me in jewelry is really to smelt regular gold without the ruby/emerald/sapphire/diamond attached. (I even trained smithing a bit by smelting gold bars.) I could do some silver crafting, but I have no silver ore. Crafting is definitely one tough skill for a free player! I do enjoy it, though. My plan is to sell all of my crafted jewelry at the Grand Exchange to people who want to enchant them. What do you think? :) Updated skill goals, with the change highlighted in color.

Congratulations on a Herblore level! I'm just curious - in your opinion which skill is easier (based on feasibility, length of time, effort, etc.) to get to level 85, Mining or Herblore?

May 29, 2010 After spending weeks in the suffocating dungeons of Daemonheim, Dmoc5 wondered why he had returned to a place that resembled Daemonheim. After all, didn't he want to go outside, and get some fresh air? But after some pondering, Dmoc5 realized that being in the underground mines (which were conveniently located under his favorite city in Runescape) were simply a place where he could exploit his abilities to the fullest. He was one of the top miners in his local area, and had just won a hard-earned, rare coal bag from the dungeons of Daemonheim. So he might as well use the bag's special talent. Soon enough, the inevitable happened - something Dmoc5 had been looking forward to for weeks. A skill upgrade. Dmoc5 was now another step closer to achieving his ultimate dream - no, make that a goal. :thumbsup: (This is a .png image.) Now that I've advanced a mining level, I'm going to try another skill. (I've got 1,337,000 mining experience and will need 138,581 more to reach level 77 mining.) Here are my options. Burn willow logs to earn Firemaking experience. Craft gold jewelry to earn Crafting experience. Fish lobsters in Karamja Island to earn Fishing experience. Smelt steel bars and smith them into platebodies to earn Smithing experience. Create air runes to earn Runecrafting experience. I'm going to do one of the five skill methods above now. Does anyone have any recommendations? I honestly have no preference at the moment. Also, if anyone would like to recommend a better way of earning Runecrafting experience than with the method I stated previously, please let me know. Updated skill goals, with the change highlighted in color.

I'll try that, I guess. I'm not sure how I got my mining XP to end with a "7" lol.

Hi everyone. My mining XP right now ends with the 3 digits of "617". I'd eventually like those last 3 digits to be "000" to make the XP value look nice to me. :) I've been mining coal so I'm gaining XP in 50-50-50 etc. increments. My question is, what's the best way for me, right now , to make my mining XP's LAST digit to zero? I'd need something that gives me 3XP, 13XP, 23XP, etc.?

Thanks for the tip. I'll try to do that next time. Good luck on your blog thread too. I'll make some comments there when I can. :)

Hello, everyone. I've kept many Runescape achievement screenshots on my computer, but I think it's high time that I started one of these blogs to either gain encouragement or advice. I am a player named Dmoc5 and will hopefully become a members on Runescape for one month in the summer of 2010. At the start of this blog, my total level is 800 and my combat level is 56. And here are some of my skill goals. What do you think of them? Overall: 800/1000 Combat Level: 56/65 Attack: 40//50 Defence: 40/50 Strength: 54/70 Constitution: 49/60 Ranged: 30/50 Prayer: 33/50 Magic: 45/55 Cooking: 49/70 Woodcutting: 71/75 Fishing: 48/70 Firemaking: 63/70 Crafting: 48/50 Smithing: 58/75 Mining: 75/85 Runecrafting: 38/50 Dungeoneering: 50/50 Achieved! :grin: All members skills will be listed later if I can become a member. (I became a member on December 21, 2010) A brief F. A. Q. Don't worry about the poor quality of the opening post, since it lack s a bit of "flair." I will upgrade it later. In the meantime, I'll be blogging. :)