95 Prayer and 84+ Herblore

My Journey to GWD Amazingness (Hopefully)

 

Page 7 for Real-life Video

 

June 4th I made the switch to Dragon Bones for my Prayer training

 

My Question to You: Chaotic Rapier or Chaotic Longsword?

 

About Me:

 

As I've looked at some of the blogs of people who have posted on this blog, I noticed many people begin by introducing themselves, so here goes :P

 

I live in the northeastern United States and my name is Joe. I am 18 years old and I have played RuneScape on and off since late 2002 or early 2003. I don't remember exactly, but I do know I started in 5th grade and it was winter, which would be somewhere in that time period. I also like to play RTS games on the computer and I write text-based Death Match scripts, something those of you who use IRC may be familiar with. I like to play just about any sport with my friends, but football (the United States version, not soccer) and baseball are my favorites.

 

I am a senior in high school this year and will be going to an engineering college (university) next year. I plan to major in mechanical engineering, mostly because I like designing and making things. I will try to continue playing RuneScape in college, but it will really depend on how much free time I have, and whether or not I have something better to do with it (not to say I don't enjoy spending some free time 'Scaping).

 

In case you couldn't tell from my avatar, I love the video-game character Kirby. My favorite book series, and movie series for that matter, is The Lord of the Rings. I like alternative rock and metal (although I'll listen to most music), and my favorite band right now is probably Red Hot Chili Peppers. My favorite color is red. There we go!

 

Pretty much, I'm hoping that if I keep this blog updated I'll be less likely to give up on my goals. I will update the Summary as frequently as I can. Other than that, I will post how my progress is going, and respond to anyone who responds to this :^_^:

 

My Goals:

 

91 Herblore

Why?: The ability to boost using Spicy Stews to 96 Herblore for Overload

How?: Making whatever potion happens to be cheapest at the time

When?: When I get the money to do it from GWD

Current Progress: 85 Herblore. No other supplies bought

 

95 Prayer

Why?: To use Soul Split and Turmoil

How?: Using Dragon Bones on my Gilded Altar

When?: When I get the 20m+ more I need to buy the rest of the bones.

Current Progress: 92 Prayer. 5k / 9k Dragon Bones bought.

 

80 Dungeoneering

Why?: To be able to use Chaotic Weapons and the Dungeoneering shields

How?: Mostly Solo Dungeoneering

When?: Right now.

Current Progress: 58 Dungeoneering

 

96 Summoning

Why?: To be able to use Iron Titan and Pack Yak

How?: Collect Charms through Boss Killing, Slayer tasks, Waterfiends

When?: After I am done with Prayer and Dungeoneering

Current Progress: 93 Summoning. Enough charms for about halfway to 94

 

 

Summary of Prayer Progress:

 

Start Point: 80 Prayer (March 30, 2010)

 

Currently: 92 Prayer

 

Exp to level 93: 672,603

 

Dragon Bones Remaining (to 92): 0

 

I realize that these logs need to be fixed up. My image links keep going away.

[spoiler=Prayer Level Log]

Start Point - March 30, 2010:

Level 80

March 31, 2010:

March 31, 2010:

April 3, 2010:

April 3, 2010:

April 29, 2010:

May 05, 2010:

May 12, 2010:

May 31, 2010:

 

 

 

[spoiler=Herblore Level Log]

Start Point - April 5, 2010:

Level 75

April 5, 2010:

April 8, 2010:

April 8, 2010:

April 10, 2010:

April 11, 2010:

April 11, 2010:

April 15, 2010:

April 15, 2010:

April 16, 2010:

April 19, 2010:

 

 

Wow thats quite cheap, how many bones is it from 80 to 99. Best of luck

Good luck with your goal

80 to 99 Prayer requires 210k Big Bones when used on a gilded altar. That comes to about 130m (Med price on GE).

 

Thanks for your support :thumbsup:

Tip: Only use gilded altars with marble lighters. Otherwise, you don't get the full gilded altar experience.

 

Good luck.

Tip: Only use gilded altars with marble lighters. Otherwise, you don't get the full gilded altar experience.

 

Good luck.

 

Thank you.

 

However, I was under the impression that as long as both burners were lit, it did not matter which type of burner was used. According to the Tip.It Prayer guide:

 

"Getting the maximum prayer out of a home altar is dependent on using incense burners. (Mahogany and marble burners give the same bonus as the basic oak incense burner.) "

80 to 99 Prayer requires 210k Big Bones when used on a gilded altar. That comes to about 130m (Med price on GE).

 

Thanks for your support :thumbsup:

 

That is cheap, but man 210k of them? That's a lot of work, but the skill cape is quite respected, and the skill is certainly useful.

210k... The number seems quite high to me as well lol.

You definitely don't need special lighters for the altar.

I have made a discovery.

 

Watching my experience go up while doing this is not the way to keep myself motivated. Rather, watching the number of Big Bones go down is. While the experience is fairly slow, the bones disappear at the same rate, whether they are Dragon or Big Bones. :lol:

I could have sworn that the prayer guide used to say that the burners each gave a certain bonus, which is the reason why I made marble lighters for my gilded altar 2-3 years ago.

Hm... I'm not sure what the guide used to say, or if it was different than what it says now. I also put marble burners to go with my altar, but more for looks :lol:

Have fun spending 150 hours on that.

Have fun spending 150 hours on that.

 

I'm not sure if it will be fun, and it will be closer to 250 hours. So far it actually seems quite tolerable though.

Holy crap. Good luck. Very impressive if you manage it.

:thumbsup:

Thanks for the support! :grin:

 

I'm actually feeling pretty good about it right now. Hopefully I can keep it up.

Well, I'm off for the night.

 

As of now:

 

2668 Done / 43k Bought / 210k Total

 

And a random moment :^_^:

Well, you have tort, so 1.3k bones/hr.

 

160 hours.

 

If you pay attention that is, and only if you are using your own house.

Well, you have tort, so 1.3k bones/hr.

 

160 hours.

 

If you pay attention that is, and only if you are using your own house.

That's actually still faster than 99 fishing via monkfish. And people get that frequently.

Wow that's a hella lot of bones but quite cheap compared to dragon bones. :o

Have you compared other options?

Good luck. :D

The only two options I really compared were Dragon bones and Big bones, and like you said, big bones were much cheaper.

 

Well, you have tort, so 1.3k bones/hr.

 

160 hours.

 

If you pay attention that is, and only if you are using your own house.

 

Is it really that much faster to use my own house? I'm assuming this would include teleporting to my house and then teleporting to Edgeville using a glory. 1.3k bones/hour would be 50% faster than the rate I'm currently going at, so if this number is true, it definitely seems worth it.

 

EDIT: Using my own house really is that much faster. The issue is, using all of those house teleports (5k) and marrentils (10k) will add 12m to my costs.

Edited March 31, 201016 yr by tonguetamer3

I have decided that using my own house will definitely be worth the extra cost. The amount of time it will save me easily outweighs the cost.

 

Unfortunately...

My house is a little lonely.

 

On the bright side...

I got a strange rock for construction! :lol:

March 21, 2010: I just got my first prayer level since beginning my attempt at 99 Prayer. I am now 81 Prayer. :thumbsup:

Thats a good choice to do Big bones rather than Dragon bones because of their cost. You should buy them all to have 99 Prayer Banked! Or you could kill Green Dragons :thumbup:

I considered buying them all at once, but I think I'm going to keep buying them in large chunks, mostly in case I give up later on :-(