GregorDGrim

I'll be staying tuned. I enjoy reading blogs with more detailed entries, like yours. To make your quests a little more manageable/less boring, maybe you could arrange them in some order and do one each day. That's what I've been thinking about doing, to get through a lot of quests.

Got October off to a good start, playing around with high level alchemy. I purchased 500 nature runes, to go along with the 116 I already had, for 56K gold, and then began to peruse the list I found on the Wiki of profitable alching items. I noticed that many of the items on the list weren't available in quantities of 100 at the Grand Exchange. Weren't available immediately, I mean. I wasn't in a patient mood. I eventually purchased and alched 100 each of the following items: yanillian seeds, yak-hide armor, rune arrows and attack potions. None were very profitable, with the yak-hide armor giving the best return on the investment at 3,900 profit. However, it is basically free experience, which is so much better than buying law runes to cast Camelot Teleport. Thank Guthix I never have to do that again. With the remaining 216 runes, I decided to triple-skill woodcutting, fletching and magic. I went to Seers' Village, cut maple, fletched them to longbows and alched them, which worked great for replenishing my bank. I leveled magic twice (to 57) and fletching to level 68. I then went into afk-stealth mode and cut ivy for more than an hour, leveling woodcutting to 77, which resulted in my fifth-highest daily experience total. Minor milestones - hit 11 game days played, and cracked the top 1.3 million in total ranking. Well, we're movin' on up... Total levels = 1,156

High-level alchemy. It just sounds cool, and profitable. At a magic level of 50, I was five away from being able to cast this skill. How best to gain those five levels quickly? Why, cast 'Camelot Teleport' repeatedly, of course. I took 207K of my meager gold pile (Harry Potter's stash at Gringott's it ain't) out of the bank and purchased 1,200 law runes, leaving me with 670K in the bank and a load of law runes. 1,096 clicks later, and I had leveled five times to 55: [spoiler=How is This Fun?] Doing this shouldn't even be possible. It makes no game sense whatsoever. A player should be forced either to wait a substantial amount of time before teleporting to the same location (1 minute, for example), or not allowed to teleport to the same location twice in a row. Anyway, I took advantage of it and now I can high-alch. It has been one month since I began this blog, with 1,000 total levels. Now, at the end of September, I'm at 1,152 total. 152 levels, in 57 hours of game time. I'll take that. If only it continued to be this quick.... I thought it would be interesting (at least to myself) to break down the progress during the month. Here's what I leveled this month: Fletching - 37. More than 580K experience and made a good bit of profit off bows. Easily my primary focus during the month. Magic - 10. Nearly all experience was gained through Camelot Teleporting, during bonus exp weekend and today. Farming and Hunting - 10 each. Two of my three lowest level skills, I still haven't gotten the hang of farming, and earned my hunting levels in Vinesweeper and Feldip. Dungeoneering - 9. I like going to Daemonheim, and I learned how to get through a floor more quickly. Mining - 8. I earned more experience in this skill in September than in all but four others (fletching, woodcutting, fishing, cooking), with just under 61K. Most of it was in the Dorge'shuun Mine. Construction - 7. Lots of flatpacks and oak furniture. Almost time to hire a servant. Herblore - 7. Strength and attack potions. Defense - 6. Brought it even with attack and strength at level 50, then got a few more off various mobs. Smithing - 6. Making bars for a little while, then switching to hammering out equipment. Agility - 6. All during bonus exp weekend, at Barbarian Outpost. Prayer - 5. A couple of quests helped me level this skill. Fishing - 5. Lobsters in Catherby, and various fishies in Daemonheim. Woodcutting - 4. 450K experience, primarily chopping ivy in Falador. Most afk-able skill for me. Got a good bit of nests. Cooking - 4. Lobsters in Catherby, and various fishies in Daemonheim. Strength - 4. When not training defense on the mobs, was training strength. Crafting and Thieving - 3 each. Yak hair to rope got me the crafting levels, and stealing from guards and the master farmers got me the thieving levels. Spent little time on either skill. Firemaking - 2. The most experience in any 2-level skill, I spent a fair amount of time making fires after getting maple logs. Attack and Constitution - 2 each. Didn't spend much time on attack, and constitution levels were low as I didn't spend a ton of time in combat during the month. Ranged and Summoning - 1 each. Pretty much ignored both of these skills during the month, although did get nice green ranged gear. Slayer - 0. Have some mob to kill in the desert, and kept forgetting about it. Will focus on this skill more in October as I want to level combat skills, particularly strength. Runecrafting - 0. Gathered some charms during the month, but need more before I think about leveling this skill. Here's to a productive October, and a second month of this blog. Thanks to each of you who read this; I love seeing the page views increase and knowing it's not only because of me. Total levels = 1,152

The Task System - before today, I had never (at least to my memory) consciously spent any significant time completing tasks. Now and then I would see a little box in the upper center of my screen stating that I had completed something, and I have read about the tasks and the rewards that can be earned through completion of sets in various towns. I began today with just over 100 total tasks completed, including 67 out of 133 in the Lumbridge/Draynor set. My goal for the day was to complete the beginner and easy sets, experience be damned. The highlights: Completed 51 tasks in Lumbridge/Draynor, giving me 118/133 total. Finished all beginner and easy tasks. Went to Jack (and then Bob at Bob's Axes) for rewards, receiving a total of 187K gold, along with some small items. Received the explorer ring level 2 (silver), which allows some low alching and energy-restoration each day. Used the two experience lamps on summoning (500 xp) and prayer (1000 exp). Earned a total of just under 4K experience among various skills. Not good for my hourly rate, but I knew that going in. Leveled constitution to 54; didn't realize how close I was. With the gold haul, my bank is now over 850K. Learned some new areas, including Wizard Tower, the Jailhouse (and sewers) and the Water Runecrafting area in the Lumbridge Swamp. Am close to completing the medium set. While earning very little in the way of experience, I was quite pleased with the session. I definitely plan to have another 'tasking session' in the near future. Total levels = 1,147

I chose to spend my last session focusing on three skills that have been neglected by Gregor of late: smithing, thieving and ranged. Smithing - With the coal and iron ore I had stored in my bank, I went back to smithing steel (and then iron, after running out of coal) bars in Falador. The furnace is located close to the bank, but this is a terribly slow way to level the skill. I think I will simply sell the ore from now one and purchase bars directly. I hit level 39 and then traveled to Varrock. It was time to hammer out my smithing issues, so with my iron and steel bars I made some nails, some knives and some armor. As soon as I realized how much more money I could get for the knives, I focused solely on them. After selling my newly smithed goods, my gold count passed the 650K mark; the highest it's been aside from saving coins to purchase my dragon hatchet. I also leveled two more times (40 and 41): [spoiler=If I Had A Hammer] Thieving - I can say without hesitation that this is the skill that frustrates me the most when I fail at it. The five second delay. The 20-30 hit points of damage that adds up quickly. The damn tweeting noise. All so annoying. At least I can eat lobster while stunned, so I have that going for me, which is nice. This is why I had barely trained thieving since the start of this blog. I strolled down to Draynor Village and started picking the pocket of the master farmer. That guy is about as clueless as a person can be, because there were at least six of us following him around. I would have just packed up my Cloak of Many Seeds and went home instead of putting up with that nonsense. After failing on him a bit often for my liking, I went back to Varrock and picked the pockets of the guards and female warriors, and leveled twice (44 and 45): [spoiler=Perfecting the Pocket Pilfering Process] I haven't been able to find a definitive answer to something I'm wondering about thieving. Is there less of a fail chance if the pickpocket attempt is from the back, or the side, rather than in front of the victim? Ranged - I know there are better ranged candidates than the fleshcrawlers in the Stronghold of Security, but I like the little buggers. To be more specific, I like their drops - runes and charms and herbs, oh my. Shooting an arrow into their back reminds me of Kafka's great story about turning into a roach. But, I digress. I found an isolated pair of them that no one else ever seems to bother (at least the bots don't), and there's a safe spot for one of them, allowing me to shoot them with my bone bolts with impunity. I spent enough time on the creepy crawlers to achieve level 45: [spoiler=No Metamorphosis Here] While I was in the Stronghold I remembered that I had not ever made it down to the bottom two levels, so I snagged 5,000 gold and the idea emote from the Box of Health on Level Three, and some fancy, colorful boots and the stomp emote from the Cradle of Life on Level Four. The boots look good for use at retro parties, but other than that are basically useless. Miscellany - I passed four million in total experience during the session. While this is a nice milestone for me, I realize that it's less than a third of the way to a level 99 in a single skill, so I can brag about it only to my two sons. Even they aren't all that impressed. Total levels = 1,146

15,671 experience/hour I think that's a decent total, given my low number of total levels and hours played (256). It will certainly improve over time as I earn more experience for skills.

Be patient. They could add new skills! :-D

Congratulations on achieving the second thousand!

Nice weekend of leveling!

I'll call this post 'Another Day, Another 100K'. Nothing exciting happened on this spot in 2011. A busy weekend kept me to just a couple of hours this evening, and it was not quality RS time. What I mean by that is there were a number of other things going on around me. House duties, I'll call them, for lack of a better phrase. Oh, and football on television. I decided to stick to easy skills that did not demand my full concentration. I fletched the remainder of the 1,600 maple logs I purchased, reaching level 67. I then sold all of the maple longbows, which brought my bank to more than 600K. I contemplated stringing the bows first, but decided to just take the gold this time. In hindsight, I think that I should have strung them first. Next time. After fletching (done right by the bank chest in the Lumbridge Castle basement), I grabbed my pickaxe and bothered the Dorge'Shuun for a while. Tonight I decided to bank the iron ore I mined, so it went significantly slower than the typical 'mine and drop' strategy. I filled up inventories until leveling (51). I then teleported to Falador to do some smithing, but ran out of steam quickly. Earning smithing experience is terribly slow at my level, and I just wasn't in the mood. Knowing I had about another 45 minutes to play, I planted potatoes and marigolds in Catherby and Falador, and pruned the Falador southern wall of excess ivy while waiting for the harvests to be ready. I reached level 76 in woodcutting (only four levels behind my son), and after harvesting the crops achieved level 19 in farming. It was time to call it a night. Thanks so much for the recent set of positive comments about my blog. That makes it even more fun to play, and more fun to write about my wanderings. I hope to be able to keep you entertained for quite a while. Total levels = 1,140

Another nice post, and thanks for the advice. Do stringed maple longbows sell in quantity quickly, or does it take awhile? It was a productive day for Gregor, earning a total of eight levels, completing a quest and making a couple friends. Starting with some afk-ish ivy chopping along the southern wall of Falador, I ended up having a nice conversation with two other choppers. Both were long-time players, with one only three skills away from having 99s across the board. He had actually quit at the end of last year, with the introduction of effigies, but had recently returned for the max cape. I've read posts from other players who have gotten frustrated with skills becoming easier to level, and this really bothered him with respect to runecrafting. He spoke longingly of the days when he maxed the skill earning just 15k per hour. One other interesting comment he made was about world 42, my world of choice - he talked about playing on it when it was a FTP world, so I know he has been around a long time: [spoiler=Back in My Day...] I chopped for about 90 minutes and then teleported to Catherby for some potato/marigold farming (switching back and forth between there and south of Falador), and fishing/cooking lobsters. While I was cooking, I got pulled off to a random event (using a claw to put some girl's sister behind bars), and used the experience lamp on summoning, which got me enough to level that skill to 24. I managed to level twice in farming (to 18) and once in fishing (to 55): [spoiler=Fishing While Waiting for Taters] After my second crop of potatoes and marigolds were harvested, I sold a bunch of random items in my bank and then turned around and bought 1,600 maple logs for fletching. After the purchase I still had 450K gold left, leaving me feeling flush with coinage. I fletched for awhile, not quite long enough to level, but more than long enough to daydream about completing another quest. I chose to head to Baxtorian Falls and complete the Waterfall Quest. It was an interesting quest, not requiring too much brainpower, which is always nice. The exp rewards were sufficient to earn a level in both attack and strength: [spoiler=Don't Go Chasin' Waterfalls] That brought my total combat level to 68. I decided to end the session by improving my combat skills further, so I traveled to the Stronghold of Security and kicked some fleshcrawler butt for more than an hour. I leveled attack to 52 and strength to 54, and filled my inventory with good herbs, charms and runes. I quit with my third 200K+ experience day. Total levels = 1,136

How many game hours do you estimate it will take for you to hit 70+ in each skill?

Sydan, thanks so much for your post. I'm writing this blog primarily for myself, to keep at a high level my interest in the game and also to allow myself to look back some day and smile at my enjoyment over solving a minor quest or clue scroll, or achieving level 30 at something. Level 30! I would not be honest, however, if I didn't admit that I also sincerely enjoy when others read (and comment on) this journal. The life of a hero *wistful sigh*. I noticed that you restarted yours. I will be a regular reader. I would welcome hints and advice. I enjoy learning from those who have been there before. I like to incorporate efficiency into my playing style, without it being the focus (of my style, or of the blog). About three years ago, I went through a Travian phase where a friend (from Florida) and I sunk plenty of money into it over about a year. I read every website and piece of advice I could, and became a strong Gaul player. Of course, I had a huge Excel spreadsheet with looting targets and time frames mapped out, along with goals for what I wanted to develop next. One of my villages became the site of my clan's World Wonder. The game just became too time-consuming, so I quit. My friend still plays, though, and is quite successful. And what you wrote is true about Floridian gamers...and about being only as old as you feel. Thanks again.

The Jungle Potion quest was calling out to me. Because it unlocks Tai Bwo Wannai Trio (so I can cut and burn teak), as well as Shilo Village (so I can go fly-fishing), this seemed like an important quest to complete. It was easy to locate the different herbs and finish the quest: [spoiler=Made Some Good Jungle Juice] Thinking of that potion (and getting that herblore exp reward) led me to training herblore. I picked up some chocolate from the cooking chest under the Lumbridge Castle kitchen, bought some marrentil at the GE, and made a bunch of energy potions. They don't sell for anything, but the experience is decent, and I quickly leveled three times (to 38). After finished with the herbs, I cut maple logs north of the Seers' Village bank and fletched longbows out of them. I sold the unfinished bows for a tidy profit, after leveling fletching to 66 and woodcutting to 75. Now I can cut magic trees (hooray?): [spoiler=Level 75 - That Almost Sounds Semi-Impressive] As evident in that close-up, I look absolutely ridiculous with those Boots of Lightness and the generic dark grey outfit. I might need a makeover. Or might just stick to overhead camera shots. One of my primary goals is to get every skill to at least level 30. It's been difficult for me to get interested in farming, I don't have many charms for summoning, and I am sick of poisoning Peter Cottontail at Vinesweeper for hunting. Whoops, sorry! I mean hunter. Time for actually hunting something in the jungle. At my level, it appeared that tropical wagtails were the prey for me. I made my first-ever visit to the Feldip area with snares in hand. Six levels and a lot of raw bird meat later, I hit the level 30 mark: [spoiler=If I Catch You, I'll Wring Your Little Neck!!] I did take a short break at level 28 to purchase the full set of Larupia gear, paid for with a significant portion of the bird meat I sold. My first real costume: [spoiler=The Beard Makes the Look] With the 11 levels obtained, I have cracked the top 1.4 million in the overall rankings, and am now in the top million scores in five skills - fletching, firemaking, herblore, construction and dungeoneering. Just think, out of all the players to ever log into this game, I'm in the top million in those skills. So elite. Total levels = 1,128

I could see it happening in Daemonheim. Inefficient floor-completionists like me could train 10 different skills on one floor.

It was a busy day working on skills for me. Daemonheim - I soloed floors three through six without many problems, and went more quickly than I have in the past. I actually completed the sixth floor in under 22 minutes. I know that's about 4.5x slower than someone 'rushing' the floor, but it's quick for me. The toughest spot for me was fighting the luminescent ice fiend boss on floor three; I won that battle with seven hit points remaining. I was extremely nervous, before realizing that the ice shards dropping from the ceiling stopped doing damage once my hit points fell to a very low level. I gained four levels in Daemonheim - level 53 defense, level 38 smithing, and levels 39 and 40 in dungeoneering: [spoiler=Only Eighty To Go] Vinesweeper - I wanted to get to level 24 hunter so I could buy a rabbit's foot necklace and get more bird's nests while woodcutting. I spent some time ogling the rabbits and played the game until I got 1,000 points. When you're a really low level farmer, the trade-in of points for experience is terrible. Those 1,000 netted me just 160 farming experience, but I did hit level 15 (and then later level 16 through some raking and composting) in farming, and achieved levels 22 through 24 in hunter. House-building - I spent about 90K on a second bedroom and 250 oak planks, and built various oaken objects, mostly in the workshop, to level seven times (31-37). This wasn't really towards any specific goal, but since I had well over 350K gold I was looking for a way to spend it. I can see that I'll have an issue with accumulating large amounts of gold unless it is for a particular purpose. Choppin' ivy - I tried out my new necklace on the ivy covering the southern city wall of Falador. In about an hour, I got four bird's nests, one of which contained a papaya tree seed that's worth about 36K on the Grand Exchange. Yeah, that rabbit foot is lucky. I also leveled woodcutting to 74: [spoiler=Not a Noob in This Skill, Right?] Total levels = 1,117 (17 on the day)

I quit playing (I only had 100 hours in the game anyway) because my sons stopped playing. They started again and after a few months to make sure they were sticking with it for a while, I repurchased membership so that I could play alongside them. I've been more active with it than they have over the past month, though.

Great job on the ranged achievement! No time to sit around and enjoy it; gotta move on to the next skill! Just kidding, but I'm sure sometimes it feels that way. Hope you had a fun party!

How do you choose which clue scroll to take? Flip a coin and hope it's the better one? It must be a good feeling getting closer and closer to 2,000 total levels. I know that I felt a feeling of accomplishment hitting just 1,100!

Get ready for some fun times. \:D/ How long have you played RS? What's your bank look like? What do you like to do most in the game?

I had an extremely busy weekend, leaving scant time for Lil' Gregor to expand his skills. I had some time this evening, though, so decided to reach 1,100 total levels. I spent some time in Catherby, fishing for lobsters and then cooking them, leveling once in each skill (54 in fishing, 56 in cooking). My goal is to cook an entire inventory of lobsters without burning one, and I got the closest ever to that goal this evening, burning just two out of 27. For my next level, I headed to Daemonheim. I'm on my second time through the floors, having made it through 19 before my level restricted me from progressing any deeper. I cleared floor two, taking a very long time as I feel a compulsion to stop at every plant, every fishing hole, every vein of ore. The experience gained from working on other skills still means something to me and my low levels. Anyway, I finally made it through and leveled dungeoneering to 38. [spoiler=100th Level Since BOB (Beginning of Blog)] Semi-interesting statistics: I've averaged 16,000 exp per hour played (234 hours, 3.46 million xp). This should increase as my levels increase. I've averaged 3.23 levels per hour played since starting this blog. This will decrease as my levels increase. Total levels = um, 1,100. Haven't you been paying attention?

Nice job getting that equipment, and good blog. Are you German, or do you just like playing on a foreign server?

I was hungry for a quest, and after the repeated noob-goofs from Holy Grail, I was intent on completing my next one more efficiently. I decided to tackle Dragon Slayer, for the good combat experience, the ability to wear green dragon-hide body and rune plate body, and because it's one of the prerequisites for the Heroes' Quest. This quest was smooth from beginning to end, aside from a forced break due to a system update. I was just about to set sail for Crandor when I had to log off. After the timeout, I logged back on and spoke with Ned, who seemed eerily anxious to set sail. [spoiler=Neddy is Ready (to be Deady?)] I made it to the evil dragon Elvarg's lair without taking a single blow from the lesser demons or other meanies prowling the island, and began battle. [spoiler=I Won, But Elvarg Came Out A Head] A quick teleport back to the old coot selling overpriced armor, and I dropped the dragon's noggin' on the hardwood floor. "It ain't comin' back no more." [spoiler=Darling, You-ooh-ooh-ooh Slay Me] Now, here's where I acted noobish: I excitedly purchased the rune and green d'hide armor directly from the manufacturer, instead of from the Grand Exchange. That cost me more than 30K. *sigh* Oh, lest I forget to mention, I already had a set of rune plate body in my bank. Whoops. I leveled strength and defense, both to 52. This was an enjoyable quest, and the rewards are solid for my level. My one regret is that I never got to take a pleasure ride on my first ship. May it rest peacefully on the rocky shoals of Crandor. Total levels = 1,097

As someone in your age group, I wanted to comment that this paragraph rings very true with me.

100 xp woodcutting, 135 xp firemaking - I think maples are good for when I'm combining skills like chop and burn, or chop and fletch. With four trees right next to each other in Seers' Village, I rarely have to wait for repops. Also, I can fill up my inventory with logs much quicker with maples than with yews, for example. I have read that teaks are ideal for 'chop and burn', but I need to do Jungle Potion so that I can access the teaks at Tai Bwo Wannai.