GregorDGrim

For fans of pictures, I'm sorry to disappoint you. This is the third straight post sans pics, but I have done nothing picture-worthy lately. A very busy weekend resulted in time enough on-line only for a couple of slayer tasks: - 81 killerwatts - for my first time ever, I entered the interdimensional rift in the attic of Draynor Manor to find these beasts, wearing my newly-acquired insulated boots. I used prayer protection from ranged and meleed them. A 50% charm drop rate and a mystic fire staff (alched for 25,500) made the trip worthwhile, and I also got two steam runes which aren't worth much of anything but are the first ones I have found. - 101 pyrefiends - I switched to my ranging gear (red d-hide, crossbow with enchanted pearl bolts) and burned through these creatures like a Florida brushfire. 12 charms and zero good drops later, I finished. At least I leveled ranged to 61. I traveled back to Vannaka and requested another task, receiving cyclopes again. Back to the mini-games in a future session. I used two JoT tomes on summoning, along with a SoF exp lamp, resulting in level 51 in that skill. I also got a 50K coin spin. Total levels = 1,646

This thread reminds me of:

Sometimes I wonder if Molly's sister is really the good one, and we just fell for Molly's act. Onward to the buyables...or maybe 200M runecrafting?

This is barely more than a 'bump' update. Although I did earn nearly 200K experience, about 99% of it was at a Grand Exchange bonfire, either throwing maples on the blaze or cooking lobsters over it. I managed to level firemaking to 81 and freed eight fire spirits. One of those little twerps gave me a whopping four ashes in gratitude. Yeah, you're so welcome, happy to save your life, pal. I talked for a bit with the other players around the bonfire, but they had little of interest to say. "Please give me some blogging material," I thought, but alas, it was not meant to be. So... I ended the session by using the JoT bonus tome on farming, getting that skill to level 51. Total levels = 1,644

Nice work and dedication with Runespan. About how much experience per hour do you achieve? Do you go after the Runesphere and/or the yellow wizards when they appear?

I find the statistics interesting, but they're basically for me so I can track my progress. I know they are a lot more dull to others. :blink: As for the goals, I think that if I continue to play at a similar pace, they're all reasonable. I gained more than 550K experience in the past two sessions, which is a lot for me. I entered Runespan vowing to not exit before reaching level 77 so that I could reach additional platforms and siphon from blood esswraiths and pools. I seem to be earning between 60-65K per hour while spanning, which is helped by stumbling on the yellow wizard once or twice per hour. I achieved my new single day high in runecrafting (204K) and leveled twice (76, 77). I should have sufficient Runespan points to get the wicked top once I reach level 80. On Tuesday I earned more than 350K total experience, primarily through clan citadel skilling (of course) and chopping ivy using the clan ring bonus (of course). I spent time at the summoning, crafting and mining plots, leveling only in mining (67). I also spent some time fletching, and talked with a player who was a DIY-er. He had chopped 35,000 magic logs (said it took him four months of regular playing), spun 35,000 flax and was nearing completion of 35,000 nature runes. He still had a portion of the 35,000 logs left to fletch into longbows. The dedication it would take to do all that is impressive, and it's something I am highly doubtful I would have the patience to complete. Jack of Trades aura tomes and clan fealty bonus for the week were used on farming, getting me close to a new level in that skill. Total levels = 1,642

Thanks for the comments and support; it was great to see comments from new posters to my blog, as well as from the regulars. Sydan, I took your advice and purchased a bunch of prayer and strength potions. I tried out my new strategy on a slayer task of 74 cyclopes, but not before playing all five mini-games long enough to have at least 200 tokens in each. I like to use the tokens from each game because that allows me to have a stack of noted big bones in my inventory. Using protection prayers and strength potions, I plowed through this task more quickly than before and received two more dragon defenders along with 148 big bones. Fighting the cyclossus was much easier as well, although I never got a complete kill on him because he would get to about 1/3rd lifepoints, fling me away and then another cyclops would start attacking me instead. I wasn't mad. During the task, I leveled strength to 69. After finishing off the one-eye guys, I went back for another task and was assigned 81 killerwatts. Huh? What in the hell are they? Is that an actual mob name? I looked them up in a guide, purchased the boots I would need from Vannaka, and then...went to the bank and fletched yew longbows. I can take only a certain amount of combat in one stretch and I had apparently reached my limit with the prior task. I fletched and fletched until reaching level 91: [spoiler=Throw The Stick! I Want To Play Fletch!] Notice that cool dragon ceremonial hat? It's worth as much to me as dragon defenders #3 and #4 are, but I wore it to spice up the leveling picture. Habanero peppers have nothing on that hat. I also used the JoT aura twice, enabling me to level herblore to 51. Total levels = 1,639 Mid-Year Update Some stats, now that RuneTrack is back up: Total experience earned since Jan 1, 2012 = 21,792,000 - 3.63 million per month. I'm very pleased with that pace. Total experience earned to date = 28,507,000. If I earn experience at the same rate over the second half of the year as I did the first, I'll hit 50 million total exp by 12/31. Assuming the world doesn't end. Levels earned YTD (as of June 30) = 386 - 64 per month average. That's going to slow way down over the next six months. Total levels = 1,636. My goal is to reach 1,800 by the end of the year. Hours played YTD = 377 - 63 per month, on average. I earned more than a level per hour. I don't know if I'll be able to keep to a pace of 2 hours/day, given what I see on the real-life horizon, but I think I'll need to in order to reach 1,800 total levels. Total time played = 30 days (720 hours). Experience per hour = 57,800 YTD, 39,600 overall. That's what a shit-ton of woodcutting, crafting and fletching will do for one's averages (see below for more precise definition of 'shit-ton'). Leveling/experience breakdown YTD: Most levels earned in a skill = 44 (runecrafting - thanks Runespan!), 30 (crafting - thanks clan citadel!), 21 (smithing - thanks again clan citadel!), 20 (hunter), 19 (summoning) I gained at least 10 levels in every skill aside from magic (5), fishing (6) and strength (8) Most experience earned in a skill = 6.44M (woodcutting), 4.74M (fletching), 1.70M (crafting), 1.70M (firemaking), 1.31M (cooking), 1.21M (runecrafting). I think this cements my reputation as a skiller, not a killer. I earned less than one million experience in every other skill. The least I earned in any skill was 75K in herblore, and between 80-90K in prayer, farming, hunter, summoning and construction. No surprises there, as they're all my lowest-leveled skills. Most exp earned in a day - 609K 25th best daily exp amount - 267K Every one of my top 25 exp days occurred in 2012. Highest-ranked skill - crafting. I'm in the top 95K, the only skill in which I'm ranked in the top 100,000. At 12/31/11 I was ranked 481K. Lowest-ranked skills - combat. Other than slayer, I'm no higher than 462K in any combat skill. Goals for Second Half of 2012 - Reach 1,800 total levels - Reach 50 million total experience - 125 quest points. That's still very low, but it will mean an average of 2-3 quests each month. - At least one level 99. Likely will be woodcutting, but haven't ruled out fletching or runecrafting yet. I suppose firemaking is possible, but can you say 'boring'? - Level 75 attack, strength and magic; level 70 defense and ranged. I am completely in the dark about how this goal will play out once the combat rework is released. - At least level 55 in each skill. I'd love to shoot for 60 in each, but that's probably too optimistic. Ah, what the hell, let's make this goal 60+ in each skill. If I fall short, so be it. - Still playing and updating this blog at the end of the year. One never knows. Guild Wars II might be incredible. Some other game might draw my attention away. I might get too busy with work. Thanks to everyone who reads this blog, and additional thanks to all who post comments. Bring on the second half of 2012. Let's keep it fun.

Awesome about the hexhunter bow!

Combine the Mad Necklace with a substantial slayer task, and watch the levels accumulate! I received a task of 87 werewolves, and I remembered a nice safe spot north of the bank in Canifis, so I donned my blue dragonhide gear and my Dorgeshuun crossbow and started shooting some werewolves. This task took a long time, given my low ranged level, but I didn't have to use any food so it was free experience in a couple of my lower-levelled skills. The Mad Necklace made the experience earned very satisfying. I received 200 slayer experience with every kill, and over the course of the task I leveled slayer once (57), ranged three times (58-60 - forgot to save the picture) and constitution once (70): [spoiler=More Lifepoints! Hooray! ] The drops were also nice, and included a few pieces of rune/mithril equipment, wolf bones worth approximately 550 gold apiece on the GE and about 50 charms (40 gold). In all, this one task provided nearly 110K of experience, and I still have approximately 50% of the charge left on the necklace. I'm very happy that I used it on this task. I chopped ivy for about 90 minutes after completing the task, passing the nine million experience mark. Just four million to go. Over the past two days I also had a few SoF spins resulting in three medium xp lamps, one in farming and two that I used on herblore. Total levels = 1,636

They've had the tank for years... Apparently my joke tanked. They've been doing that for years as well. :ugeek:

I'm fairly certain that vehicle used to be in the driveway of the Snellman brothers' house.

Yesterday was a day of milestones for me. They were relatively minor ones, but I feel as though another small piece of my newbie nature has been erased. The session began as most Tuesdays do - skilling in the clan citadel. Upon entering, I used the clan cape fealty bonus on farming, reaching level 50: [spoiler=Now Where Was That Clan Herb Plot?] The first plot I visited was the obelisk, where I trained summoning. Using the mad necklace to double my experience (I still have about 72% of the bonus left), I achieved level 50 in summoning and an overall combat level of 91: [spoiler=Is There Summon Else Who Enjoys This Plot?] After using this plot for as much as Jagex allows, I spent a large chunk of time at the loom, where I leveled crafting to 79. Unless I spend all of the 2,700 in available resources here next week, it will be two weeks before reaching level 80 in this skill. I finished up in the citadel with some mining, picked up the clan ring, and charged it at the woodcutting plot (you know how this story goes by now). Upon leaving the citadel, I snagged the JoT aura bonus tome, using it on herblore, which got me to level 50 (see a trend?): [spoiler=About Three Fiddies In One Day] Ahhh, here's the real milestone of the day. With that herblore level, I now have at least level 50 in every skill: [spoiler=50+ In Each Skill, 1,630 Levels Total] 10 months ago I had at least level 50 in seven skills, with many of them significantly below (farming at level 9!). I'm proud of this accomplishment; not 'got a promotion at work' proud or 'just had a baby' proud, but...well, you know what I mean. Achieving a goal in a game feels good, even if it doesn't have real-life consequences. Full of confidence, I took my shiny abyssal whip and went back to the Rellekka Slayer Dungeon to eliminate the final 61 jellies of my task. I filled my inventory with sharks, and did not even need all of them. Funny what a different weapon and appropriate armor can do. Now I am actually a bit of a fan of jellies, because they have decent drops, particularly the charms. I leveled slayer to 56, received 31 (mostly green) charms and also picked up 50 slayer points upon completion of my 20th consecutive task. I am still pretty far off from the slayer helmet, but it will come in time. There were two other players fighting the jellies alongside me. We talked briefly about various topics, including the combat beta. One player checked his email and then announced with great pleasure that he was selected. Great news! However, in his glee he forgot to keep an eye on his lifepoints and he was killed. The other player and I weighed our options if he did not make it back within five minutes: leave the loot alone, pick it up to give back to him, or split the loot and leave the area. She suggested that we pick up whatever dropped and wait around for him to return so that we could give it back, and I agreed, although we set a time limit for his return. The grave marker disappeared and I let her grab everything aside from a pair of dragon boots. He returned not a minute after and, true to our word, we returned everything. He was surprised and grateful, and insisted on giving me 200K gold as a token of his appreciation. I tried to refuse but he would not let me. Who am I to turn down the reward for a good deed, even if it was higher than the value of the equipment I returned? Don't let anyone tell you that all the friendly, honest, enjoyable players are gone from the Runescape worlds. They are out there. Total levels = 1,631

Swedishboy, training slayer just got a bit easier. Keep reading to see why. I started my session in lovely Daemonheim, heading down to the dungeons ("Gregor, party of one!"). I completed floors five through ten, medium C6 style, and received a total of about 23,400 dungeoneering experience. That was enough to level the skill to 56 and get more than halfway through the next level. Floor five was extra fun because I caught 72 fish, earning 7,800 fishing experience. On floor ten I found every bonus room and received the most experience on a single floor to date - 6,200. This is an awfully slow skill to train solo at my level; I hear that the rate improves significantly around level 65. I hope that's true. I took a fight break for a couple hours, fletching/stringing yew longbows for the first and selling 1,000 of them. Prices seem to be falling slightly on finished yew longs. For the second hour of this break, I used the Five-Fingered Aura in the Thieves' Guild and earned more than 50K experience, leveling thieving to 63. At one point I successfully pick-pocketed the guild trainer 22 consecutive times. After this, level 70 attack was calling my name. I wanted to get the abyssal whip before heading back to peanut butter jelly time in the slayer dungeons. I headed to Canifis and beat up on ghouls long enough to reach the attack milestone: [spoiler=First Level 70 Combat Skill] As soon as I leveled, I went back to the G.E. and bought the whip for a cool 640K. Good price? Bad price? I don't care. With a whip in one hand and a dragon defender in the other, these jellies were going down. I wore some newly-purchased blue dragon-hide gear and packed my inventory full of sharks, ready to work on the 132 jellies I still had left to kill in my slayer task. With that inventory of food, I managed to kill 61 of them before quitting for the evening, resulting in nice experience as well as 27 charms (20 of them green). It took a fairly long time, but there were a couple of other players in the area so we had some fun conversation. I got to hear about one guy who just dumped his girlfriend and was planning to meet up with her best friend later that evening. Yeah, as soon as you're done killing jellies! Good luck with that. Skeptical...who, me? Total levels = 1,626

Nice work in the kiln! It seems like good experience and excellent profit. The Song of Fire and Ice series is fantastic, especially the first three. Four and five slow down a lot. I hope Martin doesn't die before he finishes the entire series, but I don't hold out too much hope for that.

Not a whole lot going on these past few days. The only thing really of note that I accomplished was level 95 in woodcutting: [spoiler=Chop Chop] Nice, but still quite a way from level 99. I received my 20th consecutive slayer task, so I went to see Chaeldar in the beautiful suburbs of Fairy Town, so I could get a better slayer point bonus. 144 jellies. I hate fighting those things. They're far away, even once in the slayer dungeon, and they hit regularly. I figure that the best way to attack them is ranged, using dragonhide armor. I went there and fought about a half dozen, but got sick of them so I popped back to Falador. I fletched and strung a number of yew longbows, and then sold 1,500 of them at the Grand Exchange. Later, slayer. Runetrack's still down. I wonder if it will ever be back up. If not, that will be a huge disappointment. Total levels = 1,623

Welcome to the wonderful world of blogging. Now that you have membership again, the levels should be coming quickly.

Belated congratulations to you on reaching 2,000 total levels. Onwards through the last 496!

Truly an awesome day! Great job with all of those drops. I'm going to have to check out those grotworms.

Impressive achievements over the past year, and nice goals for the upcoming year.

Your leveling prowess is enviable. Great job keeping the blog interesting - I especially enjoyed your comments about slayer tasks in the desert. Also, particularly nice work with farming. Maybe that urge will strike me some time.

Thanks, levine1996! I found out yesterday that my son fell for a phishing scam, losing nearly all of his gold along with 30 million worth of equipment. He received an in-game message that prayers and curses were being taken out of Runescape, and to do a Google search for a YouTube video discussing this plan. He ended up clicking on a link to the 'official RS forum' which he didn't notice had two e's at the end of 'Runescape'. While there, he entered his log-in name and password, and the next time he logged on to the game found himself sans clothing in the middle of the Grand Exchange. We had a discussion about clicking on links provided by strangers, but I really just felt bad for him. He put a lot of work into his character, and it will take a lot of effort to get back all he lost. I'm hopeful that he'll continue playing, but for now he's understandably dejected. When I logged in yesterday, I found myself unable to enter the citadel. Apparently, the weekly game update resulted in a glitch preventing access. I spent a couple of minutes getting the JoT aura bonus, using it on farming (level 49). I'm now just three levels away from reaching level 50 in each skill. After logging off and coming back an hour later, the citadel problem was resolved, so I spent the majority of the session maxing resources. I trained summoning (remembering to wear my Mad Necklace), smithing (level 63) and crafting (level 78). As has become standard operating procedure, I obtained a clan ring, charged it at the woodcutting plot, and chopped ivy until the bonus experience was used up. I passed 8.5 million total experience in woodcutting. Runetrack is down yet again. Very frustrating, and it's messing up my statistical tracking. Total levels = 1,622

Skill Moar - thanks for the comments! I plan to continue blogging as long as I keep playing this game. JAMjE - I'll probably hang on to the mask for awhile. I don't need the money for anything I plan on doing in the short term. So...I had a great time in Vegas. I averaged about 13 hours of poker each day, met a number of pros, ate a few good meals and finished with a profit. Until about 30 minutes ago, I hadn't logged on to my computer since last Tuesday. It was a nice break. That being said, there's not much to this post. I skilled in the clan citadel after the build tick last week, before I caught a ride to the airport. I leveled crafting to 77 and mining to 66, used the clan fealty bonus on farming, and charged the clan ring at the woodcutting plot. I then chopped ivy until the ring crumbled into dust. That's so dramatic. Total levels = 1,619

Thanks, Swedishboy! I completed a couple of slayer tasks last session. First I had that nagging bloodveld task to wrap up; I was putting it off because they take a while to kill and deal significant damage to someone of my level, so I ran through a bunch of sharks on the first half of the task. This time, however, I wore my ranging gear and found some safe spots in the Slayer Tower, so I finished up the remaining 35+ bloodvelds without using a single food. I also leveled ranged to 57. Bloodvelds do drop some nice loot; I picked up about 46K worth of items along with 19 charms. For the second slayer task, I had to kill 66 cockatrices. Simple, simple, simple. I think I had to eat two sharks, and I leveled defense to 66 in the process. This marked my 19th straight task, so I need to remember to get the next assignment from someone higher level than Mr. Edgeville Dungeon. How can he even stand being in there all the time? It's much too gloomy for my tastes. I spent about 45 minutes chopping ivy after completing the tasks, but achieved nothing of any consequence. The only other item of note was my Squeal of Fortune spins. On the first spin I got a 'rare' fish mask: [spoiler=Covering Up Ugly With Uglier] I'm not sure what they're selling for right now, but if I can get some millions I may go ahead and sell it. For a poor guy like myself, 3-5 million is significant. Then again, I may just shove it in the dark recesses of my bank and forget about it for a long time. My second spin resulted in a medium lamp, which I used on herblore to level that skill to 49. This likely will be my last post for about a week, as I'm heading to Las Vegas tomorrow. Unless I go broke early, I don't think I'll find myself playing Runescape. Total levels = 1,617

Your blog is all about how you're skilling farming to level 99. <_< I assume that you're having fun with it.

Two levels, three quests, five pictures. Level #1 - I spent time at the Grand Exchange at a bonfire, throwing in maple logs and engaging in some decent chat. I reached two million experience in firemaking and level 80: [spoiler=S'more Leveling at the Bonfire] Quest #1 - I traveled to Tree Gnome Village and helped them fight off the Khazard invasion: [spoiler=Gnome More Fighting?] The Amulet of Protection will be something I'll probably wear occasionally; the cool reward is the ability to teleport through the spirit tree system. I planned to test it out and got the opportunity to teleport directly to an evil tree, so I did that. I earned about 8K woodcutting experience and got some logs and a couple seeds as a reward. This quest is one of the prerequisites for Monkey Madness, which is the main reason I completed it. Quest #2 - I finally decided to tackle the Tears of Guthix quest. This was overdue for me since it gives basically free weekly experience in one's lowest-leveled skill; why not take advantage of this? Plus it felt all tingly getting carried across the cavern: [spoiler=Carried By the Light] This was one of the quickest quest points I've earned: [spoiler=Serpent Storytime] Level #2 - I played the game after completing the quest, and earned enough experience to reach level 48 in farming. Quest #3 - I completed Elemental Workshop II: [spoiler=Quest Point Workshop] This was a fun quest, even though it contained little more than searching for parts and fixing broken areas of the workshop. I liked the way the rooms were designed; it felt as though I were sneaking around my grandfather's basement. I'm not sure if I'll use the mind helm I got as a reward, but it looks interesting. The smithing and crafting experience I also received was decent. Completing these three quests resulted in six Squeal of Fortune spins. They were pretty much worthless; a couple small experience lamps were the best items won. Total levels = 1,614