GregorDGrim

I'm like 2.5 or 3 hours away. Kinda tempted :3 According to Google Maps, I'm almost exactly an hour away. I'm sure it's in a gated community.

That place is not far from where I live. I'm tempted to drive there and hold up a Runefest: 2012 sign in the driveway.

Over the past two days I've had a bit of time here and there to log in to Runescape. The phrase "log in" is appropriate, as I spent most of the time knee deep in logs. Both days' sessions began with the Jack of Trades aura, which I used to snag two cheap levels, one each in runecrafting (level 33) and hunter (level 31). I figure if I'm not going to spend time on certain skills, I may as well level them using the aura. After Jacking around with the Trades, I took the 2,000 maple logs purchased in my prior session and fletched them into longbows, which resulted in 170K gold upon their sale, as well as level 75: [spoiler=Fletch Me A Pillow, I'm Tired] After selling the unfinished bows, I also sold the yew I chopped previously, and then turned right around and bought 5,000 maple logs. I went through 700 of those, switching between fletching and firemaking, leveling the latter to 66. And that was about it. Exciting stuff in the world of Gregor D'Grim. I'm still in the probationary period in the clan, so I'm unable to use the clan skilling plots. Those should become available by Sunday. Total levels = 1,273 Extra Bonus Blog Material! Beginning with this entry, I will occasionally provide a retrospective review of a blog from long ago. This entry's blog is from 2006, and is penned by a gentleman named Skill Caster and can be found at The Start of the Legend. In his initial post, SC states "I'm a great writer", which is clearly evident in the narrative that follows, including sentences such as "It's the begging of a new day." and "Today was planned with all kinds of fun adventures. I was ready." Unfortunately for Mr. Caster and the readers, his initial post was both the Start and the End of the Legend, as he was never heard from again. Some legends are a bit less than legen...wait for it...dary. Blog Grade = Incomplete

I'd wager there aren't very many players whose only two 99s are in ranged and runecrafting. Nice job with that and also with getting your bank balance back to a decent size.

I just spent the last hour reading through your old blogs, to learn who you are and why everyone is so happy to see your return. Now, I understand. This is one noob who really enjoyed his last hour of reading, not playing.

Heya, swedishboy - glad you're still following my progress. Had just a little bit of time today, but accomplished two minor milestones - 7.5 million total experience, and three million woodcutting experience. [spoiler=Got Wood?] Total levels = still 1,269

As I begin typing, I'm looking over the notes from my session and realizing that this was one of my most productive Runescape days, even with a forced break for a system update. I started where I often start, south of Falador in the forest. I chopped 100 yew logs (finding two birds' nests), then sold them at the Grand Exchange, purchasing 2,000 maple logs in return. I sold some excess items, including crushed nests and some seeds, bringing my bank total to 2.5 million, which is the highest it has ever been. I have a feeling that I will be spending it down before month-end. I walked into Varrock with my Jack of Trades aura equipped, and quickly earned the required experience. I used the reward on runecrafting, which leveled that skill to 32. Afterwards, I decided to do some mining and smithing. I wanted to get decent experience in both skills, but I did not want to have to spend much money (or an inordinate amount of time) for the smithing experience, so I decided to mine iron in the Dorge'shuun Mine, sell the ore, purchase iron bars, and smith iron equipment. I could have smelted the ore myself, but that would take a long time for relatively little experience. I also could have purchased steel bars instead, but smithing iron is much cheaper for the experience earned. Mining 600 iron got me to level 53; I sold the ore for around 200K and purchased 600 iron bars for approximately 270K. Smithing armor with those bars netted me 10,000 experience and levels 44, 45 and 46: [spoiler=Leveling with the New Graphics] I was ready for some combat, so I received a slayer task from the Master in the Edgeville Dungeon. The task, 35 earth warriors, sent me to another section of the same dungeon, which made things very easy. For my level, the drops were decent, consisting mostly of law and nature runes, and some charms. I leveled both attack and defense to 55, and increased my total combat level to 74: [spoiler=Sending Them Back to the Earth] I went back and asked for another task, this time getting 93 cockatrices as my assignment. Since I already have had this beast as a slayer task, I knew what to do, so I grabbed the mirror shield from my bank and traveled to the Relleka Slayer Dungeon. On the way I was attacked by a wolf, and passed a passel of adventurers who were heading to Fremennik to kill a wolf-god and his brother. I may try my luck at that before the event concludes, but I'll be certain to be part of a huge group, and run away quickly after landing a hit. The cockatrices are extremely easy to kill, requiring little food as they rarely hit me. Completing the task netted me 55K worth of roots, herbs and runes, along with 11 charms. I also leveled slayer to 43 and attack to 56. Wanting to take a combat break, I teleported back to Falador (surprise, surprise) and chopped enough ivy to reach level 84 in woodcutting. While there, I spoke with someone who recently joined a large social clan with no level requirement. After speaking with him for awhile, and then one of the administrators, I took a tour of their citadel and learned more about their goals and leaders. It sounded like a decent place for me to hang my hat, so I joined before ending my session. I'm interested to see how the game dynamic changes for me, having spent most of my time playing solo with little conversation (aside from a short time in a roleplaying clan a few months ago). TL;DR - gained 10 levels, 200K experience (7th time), joined a clan Total levels = 1,269

My other son cancelled his membership over the weekend, and now they're both playing Pirates of the Caribbean on-line. I have no desire to switch to that game (or Minecraft, which they go on about as well), so now my computer time with them is sitting playing RS while they play other games. Not exactly what I had in mind when I became a member last August. We had the afternoon free on Saturday, so while my sons played other games, I sat with them and had a very productive session. I began by selling the yew logs I cut last time, and traded them for 2,000 maple logs at the Grand Exchange. This is a decent money-making opportunity for the poor folk, as there is a huge disparity between yew log prices and maple logs, and a nice profit to be made by fletching the maples into longbows and selling them unfinished. Obtaining experience in a skill while making money is something with which I have no issue. I fletched and sold 1,300 of the logs, and added some variety by burning the other 700. This resulted in level 74 in fletching and levels 64 and 65 in firemaking: [spoiler=Burn Baby, Burn, G.E. Inferno!] I earned 92K experience firemaking, which is by far the most I've earned in a single day in that skill. I also doubled the firemaking levels earned since the inception of this blog. I did get to enjoy one random event (Freaky Forester), which gave me a few hundred summoning experience. After depleting my inventory of logs, I teleported to Camelot and strolled over to the lake north of Seers' Village, fly-fishing rod in hand. I relaxed there for a while, fishing until obtaining level 62. I then took a walk to Catherby and cooked up most of the salmon in my bank, leveling to 63 in that skill. At that point I had about 200K experience for the day, just the sixth time reaching that milestone. My single-day experience record was 251K, and my sons were still enjoying their games, so I decided to cut ivy back in Falador, in the hopes of setting a new mark. I was racing against time, though, as I really wanted to take a nap for an hour before the evening and I was set on logging off by a certain time. With two minutes to spare, I set a new daily record total and logged off with more than 253K experience. "Doesn't that make you want to play some Runescape?" I asked my sons. They smiled at me, and shook their heads. Total levels = 1,259

I also haven't played much at all in the last two months, and it is due in large part to not really having a plan. 'Meandering' through Runescape is fun, but it is more difficult to make time to play, and prioritize my playing time, without specific goals. I have enjoyed reading your blog, and reading your comments on mine, so hope to still 'see' you playing and writing about it.

Yesterday All that ivy wanted me to play. I kept chopping; it came back to stay. Oh, guess what I did yesterday. Aside from chopping about 100 yew logs, I camped at the southern wall of Falador and chopped the green stuff for the entire session. I leveled woodcutting to 83, and set a personal record for the most experience in a single skill in a day (165,000). I also reached seven million total experience. For a second, I considered retiring at exactly 7,000,000 experience, almost exactly like Elias stopping at 3,000,000,000...but he started playing again, so I decided to forge onward. Why would I want to deprive you readers myself of further adventures? Total levels = 1,254

I like the style of your blog and will definitely be following it. The style of your to do list is great. How long will the full farming run take?

As a stats geek, I am disproportionately happy about this fact.

Year-end Summary All I had to do was complain one more time about not being able to see time played, and it has been added back to the Adventurer's Log! What pull I have! No, I'm not really that delusional. I am very happy, though. Some statistics as of the beginning of 2012: Total experience earned = 6,715,000 - only about 900K in November/December combined Total levels = 1,250 - 37 levels in last two months Hours played = 343 - just 29 hours played in November/December Experience per hour = 19,577 - 31K/hour in last two months Since inception of blog Hours played = 140 Levels gained = 250 Experience earned = 4.3 million Most levels gained in a skill = Fletching - 43, Farming - 22, Magic - 19 Least levels gained in a skill = Runecrafting - 1, Firemaking - 2, Attack/Ranged - 4 each Most experience gained in a skill = Woodcutting - 1.6 million, Fletching - 1.06 million, Magic - 340,000 Sons who have quit playing RS = 1

It's rarely a good idea to set goals for a game, and then take a break from playing. Perhaps my goal should have been to take a break. I gave some thought to setting goals for Gregor D'Grim for 2012, but for now I am going to stick to meandering through the lands without any written objectives. I'm still frustrated that I cannot see how many hours I have played. I started the session by once again equipping the Jack of Trades Aura, and this time I remembered not to deposit all of my worn items at the bank during the middle of skilling. I accomplished the ten skills in about five minutes, and received my reward from Xuan in Varrock. I used the bonus on runecrafting and received 999 experience points. Not enough to hit level 32, but much closer. For the rest of the session I experimented with dungeoneering. I have cleared floors at level six complexity since I was able to do so, but I wanted to see if dialing complexity down to one and getting through the floors as quickly as possible gave me more experience per hour. Because my prestige was low (19) and my overall combat level is low (73), it did not work out that way. Floors 15-21 took me between four and 11 minutes to complete, and I earned between 206 and 309 experience for each; in total, 55 minutes netted me 1700 experience. I died a total of six times, including thrice to Har'lakk the Riftsplitter and twice to Rammernaut. I switched complexity back to six for floor 22, finishing in 34 minutes and dying five(!) times to Lexicus Runewright, but earning more than 1400 experience. As floor 22 was the deepest level I could explore based on my level, I reset and cleared floors 1-4 before leaving Daemonheim. I cleared the third floor in 17:36, which is my quickest time for a complexity six floor. All of my hard work resulted in leveling three skills: dungeoneering (to 44), smithing (to 43) and constitution (to 58). I spent the rest of the session relaxing in the forest south of Falador, alternating between chopping and burning yews, and cutting ivy. Total levels = 1,253

Congratulations! Not on the Glee watching, but on the other thing.

"No one goes there anymore, it's too crowded." - same type of statement. In a free market system like the Grand Exchange, this will not happen. It might for a particular individual, but not for the players as a whole. The only reason prices for items are high is because there are players willing to pay those prices.

I'm certain that you're not alone. It could ask to confirm if you really want to reset the counter. Just a simple mis-click away.

Nice increase in levels in two months. Are you going to dungeoneer to get every skill to 50?

I've been regularly following your progress to 200M. It's a very nice achievement! I'll make sure to follow minergoo2 on your way to one billion wc exp - you can be the jebrim of woodcutting. \:D/

I spent 25,000 of my loyalty points, purchasing the Surefooted Aura (for agility training), Five-Finger Discount Aura (improved thieving), and Jack of Trades Aura. I am not a big fan of training agility, so 20 minutes of fail-free training is worth it. I tried out the Surefooted Aura at Barbarian Outpost, leveling agility to 51. I also got the opportunity to head down to the pit for some bonus experience, thanks to the keen eye of the talent scout. He sure can spot a skilled and agile player. Of course, he had little to choose from, because now that bots are gone, I was the only person training for 35 of the 40 minutes I spent using the aura (tried it twice). I swapped out Surefooted for Five-Finger Discount, and started picking the seed-lined pockets of the Master Farmer in Draynor. A 3% bonus is basically unnoticeable, unfortunately. After about five minutes I got tired of training thieving, and decided to try out the Jack of Trades Aura. Obtaining experience in 10 skills within three hours should be a cinch. I trained the first six in one minute (attack, strength, defense, constitution, prayer and stealing), all on a couple men wandering around Lumbridge. Next, it was off to the bank to swap out my gear, as I planned to train ranging, woodcutting, firemaking and fletching to wrap up the 10 skills. I was extremely curious to find out how much bonus experience I would earn...until I clicked 'deposit all worn items into bank', removing and depleting my aura. "Better luck next time" popped up in my chat box. I logged off. Sometimes I'm a real idiot. Total levels = 1,250

My thoughts exactly. This is very cool to see.

Add up a player's rank in each of the skills, and that's his/her total. Mine would be something like 11,250,000. An argument could be made that the person with the lowest cumulative total is the 'best' player. not best player just well rounded. FOr total rank someone could be rank 1 in everything but rank 14k in woodcutting and then theyd have a total rank of 14k. ;P Ranks in skills depend on popularity of skill too. for cooking u wont even get rank 300 or w/e at 200m i think but other skills rank 300 is only a few days after 99. Yep, that's why I put it in quotes. It's not an argument I would make - a low total rank is basically indicative of someone who has played a lot, for a very long time.

Add up a player's rank in each of the skills, and that's his/her total. Mine would be something like 11,250,000. An argument could be made that the person with the lowest cumulative total is the 'best' player. It's just one more way to measure progress in the game.

Sounds a lot like the Travian model.

Thanks for the nice words, DIY-Jimmy and Swedishboy. Fun session for me, which for a change of pace involved combat! Hard to believe, I know, but sometimes a skiller's gotta drop the 's' and become a killer. Before summarizing the session, however, I want to comment on the money pouch and the tool-belt. I really like both additions. There have been at least 10 times when I needed some gold for something but forgot to bring it, and I have had to find a bank. The same can be said for forgetting to withdraw a simple tool for a task or quest. Minor improvements to the game, but I'm very pleased about them. Enough with the swooning. I was on a mission to reach level 40 in slayer and 60 in strength, so I traipsed down to the Edgeville Dungeon and bothered Vannaka for a task. Four tasks, in all, and here they are: 1. 119 harpie bug swarms. Found at the otherwise beautiful beach area northeast of Tai Bwo Wannai, these biters are pushovers if you happen to carry a lit bug lantern. The most interesting part of this task was when someone showed up with an unlit lantern (not me, I swear). Since he had no way to light it in his inventory, and discovered that the lantern could not be traded to someone who could light it, his expletives quickly drowned out the sounds of the bug swarm getting zapped by my (lit) lantern. Dejected, he trudged off to a bank to get his tinderbox. It's not a short walk to this beach, either. Completing this task netted me level 39 in slayer and level 58 in strength. 2. 101 ice warriors. Talk about opposite climates. Far from the pristine beaches, these bad boys are in a freezing area of a dungeon, with pirates (??) and hobgoblins (???) nearby. That's just weird. Anyway, loved this task - these warriors dropped charms at a 40% rate, along with some good runes (law and nature, among others) and a medium clue scroll. I also hit 2 million gold for the first time ever. That's a laughable amount to 99% of the members at this forum, but as for me, it made me feel like a rich guy. I leveled constitution to 57, strength to 59 and hit level 40 in slayer: [spoiler=Slay Bells Ring, Are You Listening?] 3. 93 cockatrices. Back to the dungeons, this time a bit warmer and east of Rellekka. Finishing this task resulted in 42K worth of dropped goodies (eggs, limpwurt roots, and runes) and 10 green charms. I leveled slayer to 41, reaching a total combat level of 73, and also hit level 60 in strength: [spoiler=At Least One December Goal Is Reached] Perhaps I should shoot for level 60 in attack and defense by the end of the month, as well...no, let's not get ahead of ourselves here. 4. 52 crocodiles. Back to the heat, but this time scorching, way down south on the River Elid. Let me first say that four waterskins is not sufficient for this task. I had to run to the nearest city three times to refill (and pick up an extra skin). Additionally, no drops makes this a fairly lame task. Regardless, I made 52 crocodiles shed tears, and I leveled attack to 54 and slayer to 42. 5. There is no 5. I said four tasks, remember? Slaying is, for the most part, fun. I like learning about different areas and mobs that have good drops. I've gained a decent amount of charms, so I may be training summoning fairly soon. Nine levels for the session puts me thisclose to 25% of the way through the Second Thousand. Total levels = 1,249