Achieving level 99, naturally.

[Golvellius]

Not really sure what naturally is, but if you mean not focusing on doing the same skill from like level 70-80 something to 99 then attack, strength, defense, hitpoints, range and fishing.

 

For example, I went from 97 to 99 fishing over the course 1.5 years while only doing the last 200k straight.

[Maximusa]

I can say the skills I absolutely not grinded to 99 were smithing and magic. Smithing to 99 itself I made stuff for profit and magic for many different reasons. Ok so I intentionally smithed items for the purpose of 99 but it wasnt a grinding.. er style.

 

 

 

I consider wc to be a lesser grind as I used that skill to read stuff with ease while doing it.

 

 

 

There was alot of alches in my fletching too but not all of it.

 

 

 

Fm is impossible not to grind? But I enjoyed making fires...

 

 

 

Mining was a grind.. lol.

[bedman]

A vast majority who got 99's before skillcapes got them through their dailry activities/moneymaking.

 

That's what I miss.

 

 

 

Now it seems it's just a grindfest to the most 99s, starting with cooking, flethcing and firemaking.

 

 

 

Great topic, I was wondering about it too.

[Greedy]

I did wc 99 all the way from lvl 60 to 99 on yew logs and 99 fishing from lvl 55 to 99 all the way on swordfish+tuna. I know i'm quite rare on F2P, i don't know anybody else who did the same. But for me it is just playing the game how it is intentionally meaned to be. BTW i can pay a purple partyhat with that. Come on fellow F2P'ers!

[warrior5024]

I did, which is why after 4 years, I just achived 99 range.

[Michael]

Grinding slayer was fun.

[Dalcyte]

When i went for 99 thieving, i used pyramid plunder like any other reasonable person would.

 

 

 

But for the transition between 96 and 97, i decided to do it the old fashioned way and try it like people before pp did, and just did casual thieving in ardy for a while. I thieved guards, stalls, chests, knights, paladins, heroes, etc. And it was a good time. I didn't push myself into doing it, only played on weekends and it took a while but it was worth it just for fun.

 

 

 

That's as close as i came

[HiMyNameIsCyacow]

I'm sure some people have goten a combat stat, like hitpoints with out really trying.

[AgentEarl]

I'd say combat skills mostly, a skill I think you cannot get to 99 to without grinding is prayer, it would take an absurdly long amount of time

[Str4lif3]

Only combat skill. Or non-power-trainingable skill. I did just invent a new word. \ Worship me. -.-

[miracleman58]

I worked hard for all my 99's never actually "grinded" any of them, i did them because they are fun and i enjoyed them.

[OutwarDragon]

I got to 90 WC without even realizing it back in the day. Just kept collecting maples and yews for the money. It's not that hard to just run a skill and not care about level.

 

 

 

The question is rather under developed though... There are many many people tht will just happen to get a level when they did not know they were close. My last 3 magic lvls were from just using teleport to get around EVERYWHERE and the random attack on an NPC. And at 82 I still have never ground the skill.

 

 

 

In truth I think the only skills I have actively trained were RC and farming.

[FellonyNoob]

So I was thinking about how some players really grind away at levels to max it out. And I began to wonder if anyone ever reached level 99 in a skill.. without trying. No power leveling. Just playing the game casually. Well, maybe not casually.

 

 

 

I'm sure it's possible if someone started playing early enough..

 

 

 

 

 

tbh, I never really train mage. from 65-68 I didn't do a single thing. I got levels from teleing.

[Aneron]

it does indeed depend on how you define naturally

 

 

 

I got 99 magic and hitpoints "naturally" at rock lobsters in my quest to max summoning

 

 

 

I got 99 ranged (and almost 99 melees) "naturally" as part of my quest to max slayer

 

 

 

of course these were still drives toward 99, not simple random activity

 

 

 

if you mean 99 cooking, say, by cooking the sharks you've fished for pking I'd say not many people have, but I'm sure some did

[onuasdad]

Powerleveling bores me. The closest to powerleveling I do is a few rounds of ectofuntus. I'd say getting 99 casually would be hard, keyword casually, since I'm a casual player, been playing for 3 years now, and look at me, I'm an idiot, My highest skill is WC with 63. Next is str with 50 something.

 

 

 

"Maximal efforts for minimal results- that's me." - Me.

 

 

 

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[J35u5_M4]

My HP got to 99 mostly on slayer, even though I chinned for Ranged XP, HP XP there was just a bonus

[Dork]

I'm currently 98 range, slowly moving towards 99 without "trying", I guess. The last time I actually ranged purely for xp was around 80 range. Since then, it's mostly just come from slayer tasks that are easier to range, or if i'm just in the mood to range a task, plus cannon quite alot of tasks. Other than that I guess i've used it for killingboss type monsters, and metal drags looking for drops, but that's about it.

[OutwarDragon]

lol HP is the only skill no one can train or grind away on simply because it is the only skill with no way to do so :P.

[walka92]

lol HP is the only skill no one can train or grind away on simply because it is the only skill with no way to do so :P.

 

wrong

 

hp has pest control, and if your rich enough, chinning and bursting gives fast hp exp

[Blutters]

lol HP is the only skill no one can train or grind away on simply because it is the only skill with no way to do so :P.

 

wrong

 

hp has pest control, and if your rich enough, chinning and bursting gives fast hp exp

 

I believe he meant that HP is impossible to train alone.

[Shadow93]

i think i got 99 str naturally, because i said the only moster i'd train on is dust devils until i'd get a d chain from them, well not a very good idea since i got 99 str before i even got a chain :lol: but i get like 93 attack/def/str so i said eh i won't train my stats equally and just go for 99 str first

 

 

 

but yeah at first you try to get it naturally then you're pretty close, and you decide to grind

[Jenove]

of course all you have to add is 3-6 years for all the xp to add up :P

[STDracula]

you can only get 99 naturally on cb skill ... and normally people train for a certain skill 24/7 :roll:

[Amethyst_Gem]

Well I have only actually gone for 99 stats twice - as in training them for the sake of the 99 stats, rather than simply that being what I feel like at the time.

 

 

 

Which is why I find it so annoying when people ask how long it took me to get a certain 99 stat...

 

 

 

Stats that I got "naturally":

 

woodcut

 

fletch

 

fish

 

cook (Just cooked all the fish I got to 96 fishing with. Used some for food, sold the rest)

 

 

 

Stats that I actually went for the 99 in:

 

firemaking

 

construction

 

 

 

^even those two weren't grinding

 

 

 

A lot of people nowadays don't seem to realise that there are people out there who don't treat runescape as a grind - and actually do things because they enjoy it. Every single person on this thread who has said that you can't train in this way or that only combat stats can be trained this way is SERIOUSLY missing the point of the game in my opinion.

 

 

 

Meh well just my little rant. I need to do them every now and again.

[Maximusa]

I get that problem.

 

 

 

"Nice >insert cape< ! How long did that take"

 

 

 

Me "Thx, I dont know" or "Thx, 6 years or so"

 

 

 

"lol"

 

 

 

Not that I mind but I donno what say.. These situations I dont really consider conversation starters and even if they were I dont care about such things so its not a good start for me. I dont mind though its understandable why people might ask if they interesting in it themselves or something.

 

 

 

"How much did that smith cape cost!?" "IDK - Maybe like 50-100m profit or so." Everything took me years and different methods as the game evolved. Some which dont even exist anymore.