Cerri

And I'm back after a much needed break from RS. Let me preface this next part with this: ~I HATE QUESTS!~ Now that that is out of the way... I was hoping to be able to gain access to the new Slayer monsters by doing the new quest, which I actually somewhat enjoyed. Especially the boulder puzzle. It felt good to figure it all out without resorting to a guide. However, these were not the Autobots I was looking for. Seems I will need to finish Ritual of the Mahjarrat to get the reward I am looking for, and for me, that means a fair number of quests to finish to get there. Here is the list of what I need to do to get there, and I will add a blurb to the first page of this thread for easy tracking as well. * The Firemaker's Curse * Ritual of the Mahjarrat - Rocking Out * The Great Brain Robbery - finish Pirate Pete part of RFD - While Guthix Sleeps * 270 QP * The Rest of RFD * Summer's End * Tears of Guthix It doesn't look like too much when I write it out like this, but since most of these are pretty big quests, I'm more than a little apprehensive about finishing them.

This. They're hardly worth it. Dragon boots are worth pittance compared to what they once did, and there really aren't any other drops from them to write home about. I don't get them assigned enough to be worthy of a spot on my block list, but I do skip them now.

Knocked out a couple of gano tasks, no mage level yet, but I did see both 34M Constitution and 24M Slayer, which came up a heck of a lot faster than I thought it would. 24M Slayer! 34M HP! I've been debating how long I want to keep loot tabs for. I'm pretty broke, honestly, so saving drops for weeks or months on end isn't too feasible for me. Not to mention, I could still use whatever XP I can get from resource drops. So for now, I figure I'll try to sell about every 2M Slayer XP. WorkScape is calling, I'll edit this later with the screenies of the loot. ... And here they are.

Greaters, abby specs, waterfiends, hellies, warped torts and grotworms.. Except for that one hellhound task, I think Kura actually wants me to get a Range level. At close of play, I'm down to 378k left to 98. 34M Constitution and 24M Slayer are also within reach, and I expect I will probably see both of those within the next day or so. I am still considering blocking warped tortoises. I tried them with black salamander this time, and they really weren't that much faster. Not to mention '07Scape is really messing with my spawn times. I am grateful (sort of) for Botwatch, but now I am fighting for kills at grotworms with actual players. Earlier, (on a 2k+ total world, no less!) there were 4 people trying to kill one grotworm. :\ I really hope that if this is how server populations are going to look from here on out that Jagex considering tweaking the spawn times so as not to penalize the rest of us.

My boyfriend has been working in recording and writing music for a few years. His program of choice is Logic Pro, and he's spent a good deal of time just studying the ins and outs of it through MacProVideo. I've messed around with it, but nothing like what he is able to produce. He says that's because women rarely use Reason or Logic. >.>

Hey guys, just checking in... Had a nice week hanging out with friends in IRLScape and it was good to unplug for a little bit. But now, I'm back to the grind, and back to Slaying! I had updated my title to reflect getting 51M, but I never bothered to post about it, nor did I even take a picture... I'm not used to doing that still. Coming up on the horizon, I'm hoping to see 34M Constitution and 24M Slayer very soon, likely probably before I even reach 52M Defence.

Hey, might be a bit late to the party, I've been lost in IRLScape, but grats on 170M!

I had logged about 600 corpses once for giggles, and never got around to continuing to keep up with it. In that time, I only saw 3 pages. One of which was a zammy one that at the time was about 900k. And then EOC happened. -.-

Anywhere we can some actual numbers on this? I am on my phone, so I apologize if there is info somewhere already, but there are now two directly conflicting viewpoints in this thread. Would be interested to see if there's been any hard and fast data analysis on whether 3 prayer bonus or a negligible amount of crit makes more of a difference.

I have despised these devils since even before I got my cape. After I got 99 summoning, I blocked them. I cleared my block list after EOC though, because I figured maybe I would find new tasks to hate. I did, but I digress. If you can get yourself a royal crossbow, do it. It will make a big difference. If not, black salamander is still miles above rune, and is a good choice on tasks weak to bolts.

I'd say the same. Granted, at your level your success rate with draconics is probably a bit higher than mine is, but it just seems like less waste to have more successful catches over time, even if a good portion of those are commons.

I have always found it funny just how much crap Jagex gets into over the addition of microtransactions when a good portion of MMORPGs do the same thing. MapleStory (one of RS's most hated comparisons, lol) has had them for ages. Sure, some items give a direct advantage: pets and items to make your pet auto-pickup loot, or double XP/loot items that wear off after a period of time) but the majority of it is cosmetic, as is Solomon's. I hardly see this as a bad thing, and if anything, it just gives me the option to customize my appearance further without sacrificing on my gear stats. It helps bring more uniqueness to a game where there are such obvious "best in slot" items. WoW finally accomplished this with transmogrification, but I don't see how using runecoins, or patiently waiting for the "freebie" items for being a member hurts the game.

Thanks for the support, Minergoo! I have honestly tried to start cannoning. I'd say about 2/3 of the time, I just plain forget that I should be cannoning. It is still pretty awkward for me. But I will try to remember more often. I did get my bonecrusher this afternoon. :D So after going out for a bit of IRLScape, I plan to celebrate my accomplishment with another task or two. Maybe I will try to weave in a little more DG... I just can't stand doing it for too long, and I lag like crazy when in a team. So maybe I'll set a side goal of say, 1 or 2 solo floors a day and just make it something I plug away at, alongside ports and farm runs, etc.

I think I read somewhere that given how EoC is at the moment that the rule of thumb is use abilities on 2H weapons, and Momentum on dual wield. That's sort of how I've been handling it for the time being. I am just not efficient enough to really even care if I figure out the maximum number of monsters I kill before I can mass collect the drops, mainly because I don't want to end up losing stuff I actually wanted to pick up in the process. I never thought I would say it, but I really do need a bonecrusher. I guess I feel guilty not picking them up, but yakking dragon bones does seem to slow things down quite a bit. Unless they add a new prayer above 95, I am not really in a rush for 99, so getting it passively as a byproduct of not wasting time grabbing bones sounds worthwhile. Not to mention the extra XP I'd be getting from lesser bones, which I ignore entirely at the moment. I suppose I could bring myself to do a couple floors while I have today off from work... I initially wanted the herbicide first, although if I have room, I pick up everything irit+, LOL. I DO have getting 99 Herblore as a sort of sidegoal, but the thing is this. I got to my current level without having purchased a single herb. I have bought some seconds, and I did buy some seeds when I run low, but all of my herbs have come from Farming and Slayer. So herbiciding right away would use up those low level drops, but I still think until 99 maybe I am better off just saving them up. Plus, they make a nice source of hidden cash when I need to squeeze a couple million gp out of my bank. In other news, I tried out using black salamander at waterfiends. It works, and is a much better alternative than rune there, but I noticed more of an issue with accuracy there than I did on the greater demons. Nonetheless, it was a pretty quick task, which made me happy given how long they used to take me when I was still gunning for 99 Slayer and Summoning. Aquanites are lightning fast, even with crystal bow, so I don't know why people hate them.

Absolutely. Zarfot had brought it up in his Mega Slayer Guide on the RSOF that was widely popular and practically a Slayer Bible for anyone who was heavy into it (back when drops were actually worth some decent cash...) and he had talked about getting into a rhythm of finishing one monster, attacking the next and picking up the loot while running towards the next monster, if necessary. Since EoC though some things die just so fast that it seems to take way too much extra time to be constantly running for drops between kills. Lately, I've just been killing a few at a time, depending on how long they take, and then just mousing over all the piles at once. I pick up what I want, then go and kill the next batch. I'm not so rich that I could just ignore all drops, like I see many fellow Slayers doing, but I was just curious to see what other people have deemed to be worth their time.

Post-EoC has brought the profit potential for vyre burning way down, and just a general decline in interest makes it harder to obtain pyre logs or find help in making the sacred oil. Nonetheless, if you haven't done your first 500 yet, it is still worth doing so. It makes a BIG difference. Not to mention getting that trim requirement out of the way. The nice part about vyre burning vs. shade burning is a lot more potential for treasure trail items in general, and you don't need higher pyre logs for better loot, which keeps cost down.

Hey all, Not much to report, I've been away most of the weekend since I decided I'd rather get snowed in with my boyfriend than by myself. But we've made it through Winter Storm Nemo, and now I'm back to slaying. I did knock out a couple of tasks earlier, including an interesting task of Greater Demons using a black salamander. It might not seem like much, but I think it hits pretty nicely, and the cost isn't too terrible. I utterly fail at QBD, so I've yet to forge a royal crossbow, and I lack the determination to get chaotics. So black sally is a nice choice and a big step above rune crossbow and offhand crossbow for tasks weak to bolts. I also found I no longer need to really safespot grifolapines, that Soul Split takes care of the fungus damage, and that speeds up the task a lot. That being said, it seems they drop way less seeds than they used to, which also speeds up the task since there's less loot to watch out for. My task of 66 only netted 175k in drops, but it was easy points and mage XP, so I'll keep doing them for the time being. Which brings me to my next topic of discussion, loot! How much are we picking up? Do you have specific things that you like to collect/pick up even if they aren't efficient? Does efficiency really mean having to sacrifice making any cash from drops? (I realize that may be a loaded question, considering the state of most slayer drops at present.)

I share your frustrations. It is downright ridiculous how badly grotworms are botted... I think at one point I counted like 5 or 6 bots per spawn! Hopping to foreign worlds helps, but there are an increasing number of bots there, too. Failing that, just kill the lower ones for easy points and move on. They're hardly a huge moneymaker and your slaying time could be better spent on other tasks.

I, of course, approve of any Slayer-related goals :P Grats on 110 Constitution, too! Inching ever closer to that 1B XP :)

I bet a lot of folks were drawn to TIF thanks to this thread. I know that's how I ended up poking around here. It seems like it wasn't so long ago that it was 2005 and my (now ex) fiance was showing me this fun game we could play together. 99 seemed nigh unobtainable, never mind 200M in a skill. I couldn't be more excited to be playing now, as Suomi completes such a monumentous feat.

WOW! Way to go on 165M! At least of the tasks I do, Waterfiends and Aquanites drop noted snape grass. I usually funnel all mine right back into more prayer pots though. But 25k is still a lot!

IRL has continued to keep me away from RS for the most over the past few days, but I managed to finish up a couple more tasks, and in the process didn't even notice that I had broken another milestone. 50M DEF XP! After this I don't have anything on the immediate horizon, so it'll be just a matter of cranking out tasks to try and reach 24M Slayer and hope gain 98 Ranged and 96 Magic before the end of the week.

That's a shame, I was hoping it would be an interesting alternative to dragon. I epically fail at QBD so I have yet to forge a Royal Xbow. But that is a tale for another thread.

Thanks Ryno! Welcome to the Tip.it forums, btw. Nana posts here sometimes too.

So does that mean it's worth holding onto and hoping for a rebalance?