i became a member about 3 months ago, at a pretty high level to make the switch (90+). The best thing you can do after switching to members is QUEST QUEST QUEST. Quests give you a huge boost in all those level 1 skills, and are absolutely necessary to unlock a bunch of weapons and areas that most members take for granted after a while. Some nice guy just made a nice quest dependency chart on tip.it. THe quests he put down are for the most part, the quests you will need to do immediately after bocoming member http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=638497 Lost City: wield a d long (very good, reliable, cheap weapon, especially if you can't buy a whip) Druidic Ritual: start herblore Plague City: teleport to ardougne Priest in peril: open up morytania Through doing the quests strategically you can some basic skills like thieving, agility, fletching beyond noob level in a fun and useful way