GregorDGrim

I'm very interested in following your journey through Runescape. I started my blog upon reaching level 1,000, which was only couple of months after beginning the game in earnest, but yours takes being a "noob" to a whole new level. :-P Getting level 50 in all skills is a very ambitious goal. Making it your first goal might get a bit overwhelming. My initial goal was 1,000 total levels, and then level 30 in each skill. Hitting 50 in prayer, construction, runecrafting and herblore will take a good amount of resources. The most important advice I can give you is to have fun.

I burn maples instead of yew for cost reasons (I'm poor), but to alleviate the boredom I alternate between fletching an inventory's worth and burning an inventory's worth. It definitely breaks up the monotony.

A productive session for me resulted in four levels and 267K experience, good enough for second-best on my daily experience rankings. I started by chopping ivy, which got me the first 100K experience. Then I activated the Jack of Trades aura and used the bonus on runecrafting, leveling that skill to 36. After that, I traveled to Draynor to pick up the Carnivale headdress from Diango (ugly - not Diango, but the headdress). While there, I switched to the Five-Finger Discount aura and stole from the master farmer in Draynor long enough to get thieving to level 49. Thieving is probably the most frustrating skill for me to train. There just does not seem to be any rhyme or reason to the success or failure of thieving attempts. Succeeding seven times in a a row does not offset the feeling of failing seven straight times. I wanted to train thieving to 50, but I just couldn't take it any longer so I decided to make myself feel better by hacking some undead. Back to the ghouls in Mort Myre, where I leveled defense twice (59, 60) and reached total combat level 78: [spoiler=The Letter 'D' with a Picture of a Fence Next To It] With the killing out of the way, I was relaxed once again so I went back to Falador and chopped yew logs. The price of yew is now over 500, so it is a nice money-maker for us poor folk. There was a friendly fellow also chopping yew, so the time went by quickly as we discussed various topics (excluding the death of Whitney Houston). After chopping 300 logs, I sold them for 160K and bought 5,000 maple logs for 100K. I fletched a few hundred into longbows before logging off. Total levels = 1,336

I spent some more time fighting ghouls in Mort Myre Swamp, leveling constitution to 60 (no pic; the horror!) and attack twice (59 and 60): [spoiler=Got A Good Action Shot] They drop charms at about a 20% rate, which over the course of the last two sessions fighting them has given me more than 100 gold charms, so it may be time for some summoning. The levels I earned also pushed my total combat level to 77. With an attack level of 60, I can now wield my dragon hatchet instead of carrying it in inventory, so that frees up one space for an extra yew log. Of course, I took advantage of this by chopping ivy. :blink: When the build tick reset for the citadel, I traveled there and split my time between various plots: summoning, smithing (level 51), mining (level 58), crafting (level 61) and cooking (level 68). After maxing resource gathering, I went back to chopping ivy for a little while before calling it quits. Total levels = 1,332

Other than the fact that I've been playing for less than a year, this could have been my post exactly. I don't think age plays that large of a part in how mature someone acts in Runescape. There are extremely immature 20-somethings who play, just as there are 15 year olds who represent themselves very well in the game.

No limericks this time around. I had some playing time, but couldn't dedicate my full attention so I stuck to easy tasks. I had 800 maple logs left in my bank from the 4K purchase, so I took a little less than an hour and burned them. That's the way to get my exp/hour up! I leveled twice (70 and 71): [spoiler=Smells Like Burnt Syrup] After that, I teleported to Varrock and got my Jack of Trades aura bonus experience, using it on herblore and reaching level 40: [spoiler=Used Jack To Get Herb] I suited up in my finest warrior gear (which in all honesty is not all that fine) and sauntered over to the Mort Myre Swamp for some man-on-ghoul action. I was actually accused of being a bot, which was comical. A noob, yes. Bot, no. I leveled both attack and defense to 58 before calling it a night. Total levels = 1,325

Sorry to hear about your death. That's something that I've managed to avoid in my short time playing (aside from while dungeoneering). Glad to see you still active.

When chopping ivy I think it's the best when out of the plant drops a nest. Due mostly to greed, I sold a palm seed, and then proceeded to throw out the rest. 114K for that seed I like dungeoneering; I thrive. I skill solo, trying to survive. Slaughtered one boss twice, that one on the ice, and leveled up to forty five. [spoiler=Four Floors, One Level] It was time to put myself to the test by finally trying another quest. A magnetic backpack will bring my arrows back. A couple pictures will show this the best: [spoiler=Animal Magnetism] I finished my session with fletching. My outfit made me look quite fetching. Hit level seventy eight; that's good but not great. More longbows tonight? I'd be retching. Total levels = 1,320

Nice start to the blog - I like your goals. I hear ya on the woodcutting and fletching thing. I'm way behind you on the playing timeline, but they're my two highest-leveled skills as well, for similar reasons.

I noticed something unusual while looking at my Runetrack statistics. Since I began tracking my stats there (August 2011), I had never earned any experience on the eighth of the month. On every other day of the month I have gained at least a little bit of experience. There is no particular reason for this anomaly; nothing more than an oddity. Well, I put an end to that streak, and in a huge way. Yesterday I set my own personal best for experience in a single day. It used to be 253K, and now it is 308K: [spoiler=Take THAT, Eighth of the Month!] It really only means that I had more free time yesterday to grind some skills, but still... I am pleased about it. For a player close to max level, 300K experience is but a drop of water, but for a meandering noob it is a full glass. How did I get the 300K? First, I used up the remainder of the charge on my clan ring, mining iron ore with the Dorge'shuun, and leveling (57). Next, I used the Jack of Trades aura to level hunter (33). I had a couple of random events that got me two smidgens of experience in runecrafting. Then, I chopped ivy. 127K worth, the second highest daily total I've earned in woodcutting, which resulted in level 86: [spoiler=13 More Levels To Go] I finished the session by using 1,800 of the maple logs in my bank. I fletched 1,100 of them into longbows, and burned 700 of them, which resulted in a firemaking level (69). I probably could have played a little while longer, but it was late. Total levels = 1,318

With the clan citadel build tick resetting in the morning, yesterday's session was all about the skilling. I spent my time in the citadel training five skills. I worked on mining, cooking and summoning, but not enough in any of those to level up. I did, however reach level 60 in crafting: [spoiler=Honing My Craft] I'm thinking that crafting on the loom is the best skilling plot in the citadel. It gives excellent, quick experience for mid-level players. Cooking at the BBQ plot gives better experience per click, but it is an easier skill to level in the game. A close second to crafting is smithing - while the experience gains are not as quick, it is free and simple, which is a definite advantage over turning ore into bars, and then hammering out the bars. Smithing for mid-levels is either expensive (purchasing the ore, or bars outright) or very time-consuming (mining the ore first), which is why smithing is typically not one of a player's highest-level skills. With all that, after leveling crafting I switched over to the furnace plot and smithed enough to gain three levels (48-50): [spoiler=Will Smith (-ing Continue to Be This Simple)?] After maxing my resource gathering for the week, I chopped yew trees and then sold 300 logs for just over 150K, which brought my gold total over 3.5 million for the first time. I purchased 4,000 maple logs for later fletching/burning, and then activated my Jack of Trades aura, using the bonus experience to level farming (34). It was then I realized that I had forgotten to grab the clan ring from the quartermaster in the citadel's keep, so I went back and charged the ring on the mining plot (mixing things up a bit from my typical woodcutting charge). I spent the rest of the session mining iron at the Dorge'shuun Mine under Lumbridge, banking the ore (at 10K per inventory this is nothing to sneeze at for a poor soul like me) and leveling once (56). Total levels = 1,314

Sydan, I like your idea of the pub/tavern for a clan. There probably are clans set up like that; there simply is not an easy way to discover them. I started my last session using the Jack of Trades aura and applied the bonus experience to hunter, leveling that skill to 32. Since I was in Varrock, I finished fletching the maple logs in my inventory, and then sold 1,300 unfinished longbows for 110K. Suddenly, and without warning, the combat bug bit. I want to get my attack and defense to 60 so that I can get some better armor, and also so I can wield the dragon hatchet to free up an inventory slot. I decided to walk to Canifis, perhaps to train on the experiments lurking in the dungeon beneath Fenkenstrain's castle. As I entered the Mort Myre Swamp, however, I heard moaning to the north. I followed the siren call to a pack of ghouls, and spent quite a long time hacking them to death. I alternated between defense and attack, leveling defense twice (56, 57) and attack (57), as well as constitution (59). My total combat level increased from 74 to 76, leaving me nine levels away from being able to complete Smoking Kills, which I want so that I can begin earning slayer task points. I've decided to hold off training slayer until I have completed that quest. How long did I fight the ghouls? Long enough for 66 charms (nearly all gold) and four law talismen. At a charm drop rate of about 20% (according to a guide), that is more than 300 eviscerated evil entities. I set personal daily experience records in defense (39K), attack (30K) and constitution (23K), proving that I have not spent very much of my Runescape life in combat. To unwind after all that mayhem, I teleported to Falador and chopped yew trees and a little ivy until hitting 211K experience for the day, my fifth highest daily total. Total levels = 1,308

As an educated noob in Runescape (new player, but I've read a whole heap of documentation here and many other places), I am a big fan of NukeMarine's idea for a brand new, rebooted server. I believe that those of us who have not been playing the game for a large number of years would love the opportunity to be among the leaders of the new server, whether in total levels, questing, wealth, knowledge, clan life, or a particular skill. I volunteer in advance to provide updates of the top 15 in the '2 Million XP in All Skills' thread for the new server.

I like your version of Jill Valentine the most, although they're all good.

I didn't realize that your name referred to a rock garden. :razz: Congratulations on all of the strange rocks you've been gathering, as well as your recent levels. I also really like your idea of all of the little icons in your initial post. Nice work on this blog.

After two weeks in a clan, I'm trying to figure out the reason why I joined, and whether or not I'll remain a member of this particular clan, join a different one, or forget about them altogether. I'm also trying to figure out whether four commas in a single sentence is at least one too many. I wanted to enjoy some socializing, as constantly playing the game solo without any chatter does tend to get a bit boring. Talking with a clan leader before joining, I was encouraged by the seemingly mature attitude the clan encouraged. However, for the most part the clan chat is filled with juvenile discussion or prattling on about some perceived slight. Suffice to say I have not gotten as much out of the socialization aspect of a clan as I had hoped, at least so far. I also was looking forward to taking advantage of the clan citadel for training. Being a member of a clan with 500 members and a Tier 7 citadel definitely is helpful to a noob like me. Most of my leveling the past two weeks has been a result of skilling within the citadel walls, particularly at the loom (crafting), BBQ (cooking) and mine (I think you can figure that out). In my last session, while maxing my weekly clan resources, I leveled crafting to 59, cooking to 67 and smithing to 47. Earning the clan ring to get a bit of bonus experience in a chosen skill is nice as well - each time I have charged it at the woodcutting plot and used it to grab 20K worth of bonus experience chopping ivy. I even cracked the top 200,000 in woodcutting! Let's hear it for players letting their membership lapse. One thing I was not looking for from a clan was participating in clan-wide mini-game or other events. I assume they are held, but I have not paid attention to their scheduling or frequency. I suppose it is because I haven't really tried any on my own yet, aside from Vinesweeper, and who seriously would want to have a clan event playing that? I didn't think so. I am certain that many players thoroughly enjoy playing Soul Wars or hunting penguins together, but that was not a reason for me to join. As for the clan battlefield, that is another area that holds no interest for me. Fun for many? I suppose, but I have no sense of urgency to find out. I'm not really as grumpy as this post sounds, I swear. For now, this clan suffices for what I want from one - a place to get some simple skilling experience, and not feel quite as alone while playing the game. If the level of conversation does not pick up in quality, however, I may eventually look for somewhere else to hang my party hat. I'm speaking figuratively, of course. Total levels = 1,303

January Update (aka a bunch of useless numbers) Experience earned for the month - 1.925 million. Easily would have cracked two million if I had played during the first eight days of the month. Levels earned - 50. I'm definitely satisfied with that total. 9 in crafting, thanks to clan citadel skilling. 5 in firemaking, with 4 each in fletching, cooking and smithing. Most experience in a single skill - no surprise here; 722K in woodcutting. Hours played - 38 Experience earned per hour - 50,600. Very pleased with this. Total experience per hour - 8,640,000 / 381 = 22,677 per hour. I increased my exp/hour by more than 3,000. Now that level 1,300 is in the books, I spent some time thinking about 1,500 total levels, and how it's most likely I'll get there. I harbor no illusions that it will be a quick journey. I'll continue my meandering, and having fun. That being said, I put together a goal list showing how the 200 levels could be divided up between the various skills. I'll be aiming for level 70 in each of the melee skills, along with constitution. That accounts for about 25% of the 200 levels. I see significant gains in ranged, dungeoneering and mining, with those three skills accounting for another 33 levels. I'd like to hit level 90 in woodcutting, and achieve at least level 40 in each skill. While this is not directly correlating to my levels goal, I will be prioritizing quest completion. Considering I enjoy questing, I am not happy with my low number of quest points (80 right now).

I logged on today specifically to see if I could reach a milestone before the end of the month. Time to get busy: 1. Wearing the Jack of Trades aura, I quickly earned experience in 10 skills and used the bonus tome to level runecrafting (35): [spoiler=Now I Can Create Chaos] 2. Switching to my Five Fingered aura, I started picking the pockets of the Varrock guards. I failed my first seven(!) attempts, but after a bit of cursing I settled into an uneasy pattern of succeeding, and failing, until I leveled thieving (48). I can't stand training this skill. 3. Switching to my Surefooted aura, I used my games necklace to teleport to the Barbarian agility course, where I leveled agility (52), using 19 minutes and 38 seconds of the aura's 20-minute charge. 4. Home teleporting (huh? Now there's an option to home tele to Burthorpe? Need to read the update post) to Lumbridge, I visited the bank chest under the castle kitchen and fletched 1,000 maple logs into unfinished longbows, leveling that skill (77). 5. Since the build clock reset at my clan citadel, I went there and started at the obelisk, leveling summoning (33). I spent about four minutes there, as I was very close to leveling that skill, and it's not exactly wonderful experience at the skilling plot. 6. I walked over to the mining plot and picked away at stone until leveling (55): [spoiler=You Will Be Mine, All Mine] 7. I wrapped up my session at the citadel's loom, crafting cloth until earning a level in that skill (58). I enjoyed seeing a dragon, our newest clan addition, fly overhead. Seven levels. That just happened to result in my 1,300th level overall: [spoiler=300 Down, Hundreds and Hundreds To Go] About halfway through the month, I thought it would be cool to reach the 1,300 milestone on the last day of January, because it would mean exactly 300 levels since I started this blog, exactly five months ago. 60 levels per month, about two per day. There's a nice symmetry to that. My next post will contain more statistics, but that will have to wait until tomorrow (at least). Total levels = 1,300

Thanks to my regular readers for their nice comments! I didn't have a ton of time this weekend to play, but I did have a couple of nice achievements. I started with some woodcutting, yew trees first for some logs to sell, and then ivy. I reached level 85, which I think is deserving of a picture: [spoiler=Just 14 Levels To Go (aka 10 Million Exp)] While chopping I was pulled away for a random event (trapping Molly's evil twin in a cage, using a remote-controlled claw), and used the bonus experience lamp on runecrafting, which took me to level 34. After leveling woodcutting, I teleported to the G.E. and sold a few hundred yew logs and some nests, which took me over the three million gold mark for the first time in my short history. To finish my session, I went through 1,300 maple logs, either fletching them into longbows or burning them. This resulted in level 68 firemaking, and gave me 206K experience for the session, the 7th time I've reached 200K in a day. Total levels = 1,293

As the build timer for my clan reset yesterday, I decided to get the citadel resource gathering out of the way early in the week. The primary focus for the citadel was cooking, but we were also allowed to mine stone or chop wood. I'm not sure how I feel about mandatory skilling at certain plots, but it does make sense given the clan's goal of having a fully pimped-out citadel. I spent most of my time to get 2,700 resources at the BBQ plot, chopping and grilling fish. At 310+ experience per click, this made for some excellent cooking experience, and I leveled to 65: [spoiler=One Fish, Two Fish, Hundreds of Fish Parts] I bettered my three-day old daily cooking experience record by 22K, earning a total of 94K in the skill. After leveling a second time (to 66), I walked to the mining plot and worked on stone, reaching level 54 before reaching my resource allottment for the week. I charged my clan ring with woodcutting experience, and left the citadel for the southern Falador forest. I chopped yew for only 15 minutes before looking at the clock and realizing how late it was. To paraphrase the great Yogi Berra, "it gets late early around here". Total levels = 1,290

Won't that get their shoes creamy? I'm trying hard to figure out the point of your post, but I'm at a loss. Before we get excited about Jagex winning this court case, think about the poor bot makers? Why?

I started my most recent session using the Jack of Trades aura, this time taking the reward in prayer, which leveled me to 41. I remembered that I was out of the probationary period in the clan, so I would be able to use the skilling plots. In this clan, it is a requirement to max resource gathering each week. Since the build timer for this clan resets early on Tuesdays, I had just last evening to max out with 2,700 resources. Members are required to work on whatever primary skill has been set by the leaders - in yesterday's case, it was crafting cloth at the loom. The benefit of working on that skill is the nice experience earned for the time spent. The disadvantage of working on that skill when the weekly deadline is fast approaching is that it is the slowest skill at gaining resources. Rather than use the excuse of being new and not having the entire week to work on gathering clan resources, I decided to hunker down and craft. Fortunately, there were a few others who were in a similar predicament to mine, so we alleviated some of the tediousness by chatting about random things. Generally I'm not much of a conversationalist in the game, so this was a nice change of pace. All told, it took nearly two hours to get to 2,700 resources, but it absolutely was worth it. Getting 110+ experience for each click resulted in leveling crafting from 49 to 57, an eight level leap earning more than 104K experience. I more than doubled my total crafting experience in one session of resource gathering for the clan. Here are the milestone level pics: [spoiler=The Fruit of the Loom] I particularly like the level 55 capture as it looks like the fireworks exploded all over the clan grounds. After grabbing a ring from the keep master and charging it at the woodcutting plot, I left the citadel for Falador, and spent the next 40 minutes chopping ivy. That used up the 20K bonus experience provided by the ring, and I was fortunate enough to have five bird nests drop. Total levels = 1,287

From the FAQ: This part is good, although it likely will save just a few dollars every six months over current prices.

Thanks, guys, for the comments! Even though it is just a number, it was nice to pass 3,000 views. That motivates me to continue making my journey through the lower levels interesting enough to read. There are times when my entries seem dull while I'm writing them, but let's face it, in this game there are going to be plenty of unexciting sessions and there are limited ways to spice them up in their description. Take my last session, for example. I used Jack of Trades in Varrock to capture my daily bonus of experience, applying it to summoning, which leveled that skill to 32. I then took a leisurely stroll to the Grand Exchange, and fletched or burned 1,600 of the maple logs in my bank, leveling both skills (to 76 and 67, respectively). Tired of playing with my wood, I teleported to Camelot and headed over to my oasis of tranquility (AKA the lake north of Seers' Village). Other than the occasional player I see while banking inventories of salmon and trout, it is just me and one highwayman. I wish that he would talk, but he is definitely a good listener. Many, many years ago I played text-based MUDs (probably not many youngsters who know what they are). On one in particular, I had reached the maximum level attainable, and then applied for and became an immortal. On this MUD the immortals were very active components of the game, developing followings and initiating wars. What I enjoyed doing almost more than anything else was taking over an NPC or a mob and suprising a player by interacting with him/her. I thought about that while fly-fishing yesterday, about how surprised I would be if suddenly the highwayman began speaking directly to me, or emoting. I fished for quite a while, leveling to 63 and setting a personal daily best for experience in that skill. I then cooked all of the salmon in Catherby, and sold the cooked salmon along with the raw trout back at the Grand Exchange. That is decidedly not a money-making opportunity. Noticing that I was low on food to take on slayer tasks, I purchased lobsters and, in the Lumbridge Castle kitchen, steamed up a passel, which earned level 64 in cooking. I crushed my prior daily high in cooking experience (granted, 72K exp is not exactly eye-opening). I also made a nice bisque to put in my thermos for my next trip to the lake. I filled an extra thermos, just in case a certain highwayman opens up to me. Total levels = 1,278

I'm going to enjoy following this competition. It's a cool idea for a blog, and I have a couple of questions: -Do the two of you know each other outside of Runescape? -How did the two of you decide to create skillers like this?