Norriie

Took a quick slayer break to do the new quest. I thought it was pretty cool, I like the new quest interface and everything. Seems like they'll be doing that from now on. Also, using fairy rings without a staff is so nice. I love it. Anyways, I'm only 2k from 85 slayer, but I don't know when I'll get around to it. Been busy lately.

I already had 153 kudos when I did the varrock diary so that part only took me a couple seconds. If you haven't done enough quests then varrock will be a pretty annoying one for you. 100 rats doesn't take too long though. Karamja has a few really irritating ones. Getting 100% on tai bwo wannai is tedious, plus you have to get a gout tuber to trade for a machete, which are rare to come by in the cleanup game and last I checked they take days to get on the grand exhange. You'll also need to plant a fruit tree and wait 14+ hours for it to grow, and go through 30 waves in the fight caves. Overall it just seems like the most tedious one. Also, a lot of the tasks are done far away from a bank so you'll do a lot of running back and forth.

You're right, they are a waste of money. Personally, even though I could afford bandos & dfs if I wanted, I don't bother with either. Bandos does have a nice strength bonus, but it's just not worth 50m to increase my max hit by such a small amount. And dfs has always been a waste of money. Rune defender beats it almost every time, except in specific situations like wyverns and such.

Catching a karambwan is pretty simple. Copied from tip.it's fishing guide: "When you have completed Tai Bwo Wannai Trio quest and have the appropriate fishing level you can catch your own Karambwan which heals 18 each if cooked properly. First you need loads of Karambwanji for bait. Use a small net to catch them in the lake just south of the Tai Bwo Wannai village fire ring. When you think you have enough, grab your vessel and head across the log bridge and up to the north shore. Use a Karambwanji with your vessel to load it, then click on a fishing spot and away you go! Remember, you have to reload your vessel after each catch. Players who have at least started Fairy Tale Part II quest to access fairy rings, can use code CKR for the Karambwanji lake, and code DKP to reach the Karambwan fishing shore. Note: If you've lost your vessel you can buy a new one from Tiadeche in the village; he will also buy raw Karambwan from you. " For the gem trading, you'll need a goutweed tuber, 300 trading sticks, and 3 opals. You can buy all of this on the GE, but it might take a while. Gout tubers are annoyingly hard to get, so you might have to do jungle clean up until you find one. To be champ of the fight pits all you need to do is take a friend to the fight pits and find an empty world. Kill your friend and you will be the champion. As for the last one, you'll have to gear up and head into the fight caves. You'll have to get through 30 waves until you finally get to a Ket-Zek, so come prepared. I recommend bringing a rune crossbow & broad bolts, black dhide, guthans, and a few sara brews/prayer pots. Check out a fight caves guide for details.

Tokkul takes a while to get. You're better off buying them, since you'd waste all that time trying to get the tokkul when you could be slaying and earning money instead. For your gloves, see how much of recipe for disaster you can get done. If you can get adamant gloves or better, use them. If you can only get up to mith gloves or less, go for the bracelet instead. Guthans is a very outdated method of healing. You can still use it if you'd like, but the best thing you can do is get your summoning to 68 so you can use a bunyip. It'll remove the need for food on the majority of your tasks. Another thing that helps with healing is to get the enhanced excalibur from finishing the seer's achievement diary. The special attack heals 20hp and increases your defense equal to that of a super defense potion. I use it frequently with my bunyip, and I never have to bring food on a task.

1. No, do not use rune helm for slayer. Unless you're required to wear a certain type of headgear for a task, always wear a black mask. 2. Obby capes are pretty cheap these days so you'd save yourself a lot of time and money by just buying one. 3. Obsidian shield is not a bad temporary choice since it has a decent strength bonus. 4. Don't bother getting a full set of barrows for slayer. You'd need to wear the helm and weapon to be able to use the set effect, which is a waste since all the barrows weapons are slow and you're better off with a whip and black mask anyways. If you'd like to get matching top & bottom, do either torags or dharoks. Verac skirt is slightly better though due to the prayer bonus. 5. You need to finish the entire recipe for disaster quest to get to barrows gloves. If that's not an option, look into buying a combat bracelet.

I would say that in terms of being annoying, karamja is definitely the worst. Second is ardy, then rellekka, falador, varrock, and seers. Lumbridge is by far the easiest.

If you don't have quite as much to spend, you could try this setup instead- Head: Slayer helm/black mask Cape: Obsidian Neck: Ammy of glory Weapon: Abyssal whip Shield: Rune defender Top: Torag/guthan/dharok's platebody (all have the same stats, so it's your choice depending on looks/price/etc) Bottom: Verac's plateskirt Gloves: Barrows gloves (from recipe for disaster) Boots: Dragon Ring: Wealth/warrior/berserker (again, it's a matter of personal preference and how much money you have. Berserker is best but costs the most) All of this should cost you somewhere around 8-13m depending on your ring choice. Alternately, if you're really on a budget, you could switch the platebody and legs to rune.

Dungeoneering seems like an alright skill to me, but I think I'm going to wait to train it for a few weeks to see if they fix some of the bugs and things like that. As a solo player, I'd really love it if they could make it so you could return to a dungeon if you lose connection or have to log out, but I realize the technical difficulties of this (since it's instanced and everything). Hopefully they can find a way around it sometime soon. In the mean time, I'm back to doing slayer. I don't have a lot of time to get online but maybe that will get better once the school year ends. I'm in my final weeks of high school and I couldn't be happier. Good riddance. I do plan to have atleast 2 jobs this summer though, so maybe I won't be less busy after all. Anyways though, I've got about an hour or so to get some slaying done, just got 96 attack the other day and I'm starting to get close to 85 slayer now. Only 67k to go!

Well, last year was dubbed the "year of updates", so a lot of the things that happened were small but much needed changes. Some of the nice smaller updates include the logout timer increase (stay logged in for five minutes without moving), the lobby which I'm sure you've noticed (makes changing worlds simple, no more typing in your password over and over), the addition of a new room for your house- the menagerie (for storing all the pets that have been cluttering your bank), new right and left click options on the icons by your minimap (quick prayers are really useful in all areas of the game), the addition of two new tabs on your gameplay panel- the notepad and the objectives tab which are great little useful tools, an increased trade limit based on how long you've been friends with someone (up to 140k if you both have max trade limits!), and a lot of game engine updates which just make the game run smoother in general. There's been a few good new quests as well, most notably nomad's requiem, which is the new grand-master quest, and temple at sennisten which totally re-vamped the prayer skill by adding a new set of prayers (you switch between these, similar to switching between normal/ancient/lunar magicks). There were a lot of other interesting quests as well, but these were the two that stood out most to me. The run/walk system has changed also, which makes a big impact on all aspects of gameplay. You'll find that your energy runs out a lot slower and restores much faster. On top of that, you can now sit down and rest to restore your energy even faster (right click the run icon next to the minimap and click rest to sit down). There was a huge update made to slayer, adding a new master and a whole new dungeon made for high level slayers. In order to get in, you must be assigned to kill one of the monsters inside, and can only kill that monster. This created a great new place do certain previously annoying tasks (iron/steel/blue dragons, dark beasts, and greater demons to name a few). This has probably been my absolute favorite update, it really makes slaying a lot more enjoyable. You can also now change your display name, so if you gave yourself a username that you aren't happy with anymore, you're free to change it at will. There's also been some high level updates and rebalancing with skills that really needed it such as prayer and herblore. The new high level herblore potions are extremely useful and also untradeable, so if you'd like to take advantage of them you'll need to level up your herblore a bit. This has sent the price of herbs way up, so collecting or farming herbs is extremely profitable now. A couple new minigames have been released- soul wars, mobilizing armies, and familiarization. You might want to give these a try and see what you think. The hitpoints skill was changed around a lot. You'll find that you now have 10 times the amount of hitpoints you had before (and likewise, you hit and receive 10 times more damage). You can read more about it at this link: http://services.runescape.com/m=news/c=O7NdD4ssu1A/newsitem.ws?id=2709&allcat=true There's a few website updates also, including access to the forums for high level free players, some new forums and general regrouping, and the adventurer's log which is a fun little tool showing your (and your friends) recent achievements like drops and level ups. It also tells you how many hours you've spent logged into runescape in total. Runescape classic was also re-released to the public again, but has been taken away for anyone who did not log into it during the two-week period. They may be doing this again sometime, so if you're interested in playing classic, keep an eye out for another public reopening. And finally, you've probably noticed the new skill which was released a couple weeks ago- dungeoneering. Overall, some of the biggest changes have been made from some of the smallest updates, so you'll want to take a look at everything and adjust your gameplay to fit. Hope this helps! :]

Hill giants might be too crowded, they're often packed even on member worlds. Try moss giants instead, if I remember correctly there's a good spot in the brimhaven dungeon. If you're looking for regular bones, I'd try cows or goblins by lumby, they should be close to empty on members worlds. I'd suggest using range for whatever you plan to kill, so you don't have to go chasing down any monsters. It would be significantly faster than using melee.

Just logged on to check out the new skill, seems awesome so far! ;] About to try my first dungeon now~

Lol, thanks ice. I finally got a moment to just sit at home for a little bit, so I'm going to attempt to get the easter event done before I go back to real life again. Having a great time outside with friends, I barely miss runescape at all ;P

I ended up slaying for the rest of my bonus exp (well, actually, only until my multiplier got to 1.5x, then I had to log off). I think the bonus weekend was a good idea, and I look forward to seeing it happen again sometime. Anyways, I haven't even logged on since then. I might get on for about an hour here and there but my social life just kind of exploded so I'm really busy all of the sudden. Until everything slows down (which could be a long time from now), I doubt I'll be playing much. Maybe I'll reach this goal by the end of the year, or perhaps not. I guess I'll have to wait and find out ;]

You can get as many as you want. I personally have 10 in my bank right now.

I'm doing great so far on bonus exp weekend. I started out checking all of my tree patches (5 magics, 5 palm, and 1 calquat) and got 73-76 farming. After that I finished all the potions I had in my bank, which got enough exp for 73-74 herblore (and only 10k left until 75!) Then I used up my blue & crimson charms and got 77-82 summoning, plus a combat level, which means I'm 125 now. So far I've earn over 1m exp, 9 skill levels, a combat level, 2 strange rocks, and it's only taken me an hour and a half. My multiplier is currently waiting at 2.3x, and I really don't know what I'm going to do with the rest of my time. I'm thinking about just buying logs and doing firemaking, like I had originally planned. If that gets too boring (or if logs are unbuyable on the GE) I might just go back to slayer. Anyways, time to go buy my prom dress and some killer new heels :]

If you mine them you get worse exp/hr and would be better off just skipping the task. Even at my mining level I 1-hit them over half the time, so I'm barely wasting any time mining them. I agree that they are a slow task, but the exp is nice so I don't skip them.

EDIT: Sorry, didn't realize this was an old thread >.<

Protip: They spawn much faster if you have 73 mining and mine them. I found a spot with 3 spawns right next to each other, and as long as I remember to mine them, there's no waiting time between kills. If you have 73 mining, keep the task and use whip+defender. If you don't have 73 mining, skip/block them.

Personally I do the ones in the zamorak area. There's tons of them so it's a pretty quick task. I wear a zammy cloak, and a holy symbol. Once I'm safely in the zammy area I drop the holy symbol and equip my fury since I'm out of range of all the sara followers. The nice thing about fighting in gwd is that you don't need to bring a slayer ring/gem since the kill count is shown at the top of the screen.

93 hitpoints! Only 2 levels left til my goal. I'm only 200k from 85 slayer, and I'm excited. I can't wait to start getting abby demon tasks.

Got 95 attack yesterday :] Starting to get close to 99, I can't wait. Also, I'm only 80k away from 93 hp right now.

I just attempted this yesterday with the following setup: Slayer helm Ammy of fury Karils top & bottom Infinity boots Whip Dfs Barrows gloves Ardy cape 3 Ring of wealth In my inventory I had: Super set Pray pot x4 Antifire x2 Super antipoison x2 Sharks +War tortoise full of sharks I was able to kill him 10 times per trip, which was just about enough time for my war tort to run out, and I filled almost all of my invent and war tort with drops. It worked well for me. The only problem I had was that it was really difficult to find an empty world.

For theiving, pyramid plunder all the way. At 61 theif I was getting about 60k/hour.

Just got 84 slayer~! Only one level to go until whips, and I can't wait. On a side note though, I still haven't gotten a spiritual mage task yet. That's kind of annoying. Oh well. Only 54k until 95 attack, which I'll be getting on my next task- nechryeal. I'm also only 130k from 93 hitpoints.. sorry, 'constitution'. I love the update, but I'm goingto continue calling it hitpoints. Cause let's face it, constitution just sounds ugly. Anyways, time to continue slaying.