I achieved 99 Farming without using trees. It took a lot of time, but it was worth it for me. I achieved 99 Herblore through the use of Farming and I had not used trees up till that point, so I decided it would be awesome to do it the entire way without trees. Almost my entire time that I have been on Runescape in the past year has been to train Herblore and Farming. I just really loved the skills. As for Farming, I actually loathed it until I tried it. As I found that it was an easy and cheap way to get Herbs, I instantly became addicted to the Herb growing part of it.

 

From Levels 1-43, I did Tears and Quests: An Ironic Start

From Levels 43-94, I did only Herbs

From Levels 94-99, I did Herbs and Watermelons (October 24th - May 15th) - I literally only got on, when I had the free time, and did only Farm runs.

 

The runs of Herbs and Watermelons take about 15 minutes each time as I also made Supercompost. Once a day, I also did the following:

- Received 120 Flax from Geoffrey

- Received 150 Pure Essence from the Mage in Ardy

- Bought 40 Pineapples and 80 Seaweed from the merchant in Camelot

- Bought 64 Battlestaves from the guy in Varrock

- Stole a gem when I went to get my Pure Essence / Slayed Bork for gems from 94-97 Farming

- Farmed cactus seed, belladona seed, evil turnip seed, poison ivy seed, and mushrooms

- Got my buckets of Sand from Bert

- Visited 4 Coconut patches: These were the only Fruit Trees I ever planted.

 

- I never planted any other Fruit Trees, any Trees, or a Calquat outside of a quest or diary.

 

 

I started with 5 Mil GP after using 18 Mil to buy 97-99 Herblore. I could not keep my Herbs because I needed the money to buy more seeds. I sold my Battlestaves daily. I started to keep all of the special stuff like cactus seeds after 95 Herb. I started collecting Mushrooms at 97 Herblore. I now have (in addition to 117 Nightshades that can not be traded):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally, goodbye beautiful untrimmed Herb!

 

 

 

For the next month, I will be enjoying what I have accomplished. As I have accomplished everything in Runescape that I have set out to do, I will be quitting after this month of Membership is over, with absolutely no regrets.

 

Thanks for reading!

very nice :thumbup:

 

ahwell time to go eh?

 

good luck IRL after Runescape

inspirational. write a book

Congratulations. I particularly like that I'm in the second picture. :thumbup:

Grats on the achievement.

 

 

Congratulations. I particularly like that I'm in the second picture. :thumbup:

:grin:

Awesome job, congratulations! Glad to see you played to have fun. You should check out dungeoneering before you quit; it's very entertaining, especially if you're into the diy style of playing.

NICE 10/10

9/10

 

gl IRL

I would rate a 10\10, but I feel like some of it is planted in as a type of psuedoflame shield.

 

 

 

I just dislike it when people are like "oh I just got this for the skill, I never no lifed, or got it for the cape because you know I play for fun." Note, Fabllesone, I AM NOT SAYING you are doing this, I'm just saying I'm getting that feeling from it.

 

 

7\10.

I would have enjoyed your response, Saurman44, if you even took the time to spell my name correctly. I am NOT saying you are doing this whole ranting thing wrong, but that's just the feeling I am getting from it.

 

I can't say I didn't "nolife" up until 94 Farming, but I have had this account for 5 years and I have been playing on and off. As I said, it took me from October 24th to May 15th to get from 94 Farming to 99.

 

I'm sorry you feel that way, because I come from a time when there were no skill capes to show your achievements. If you nolifed, no one knew about it. When skill capes came out, there was a mad dash to get a cape. I have just slowly continued on through the years and I have finally accomplished everything I have wanted to do.

 

So yes, I did get Farming to 99 without trees because I enjoyed doing it when I had the time. I'm sorry if you can't understand that.

 

Thank you everyone for posting. And as for dungeoneering, I am not much of a combat guy myself but I will definitely give it a go before I leave.

Yea.. No one calls me Saruman44, except for people beating their e-chests. Nonetheless, I wasn't meaning to flame, nor rant. I'm just sick of all these people in Rate This! Who put in all these anti-flame comments, instead of being honest. I started playing in late Sept '01, I remember the day Skill Capes came out. Anyways I rated you 7\10 which was my honest opinion... If you think I was flaming, well then you're wrong. I wasn't flaming, and it's a big accomplishment. You just come off as snobbery. don't be upset...

If you want to rant, go to the rants section and do it there. E-chests? What is the Rate this section for then if not to beat the so-called "E-chest?" I posted my achievement and how I got it, simple as that. You keep talking about "anti-flame" comments and that has nothing to do with a rate this. You rated my achievement, which is fine. If you want to talk about other things go to a different part of the forum. My "honest" comments: I really like Herblore and Farming and that's why I decided to get them the way I did, and if I didn't I would not have, simple as that. You can keep your assumptions of me being "snobbish" to yourself, because you are coming off as arrogant.

 

Don't bother posting here again as you have already rated my achievement.

 

An update: I am using my remaining seeds to farm and will probably blow all my money on Herblore before I quit. Hopefully I can come close to the 20 Mil mark. (14.6 atm)

by trying to avoid flaming, you spakred a flame war... irony! massive grats, 99 herb and farm are some of the harder 99's to get. tbh i have a feeling you will quit for awhile, and then say, hey, whats going on in rs?

 

also, with your stats, I think you will find d'neering to be interesting.

8/10

 

I might go do some farming after reading this, hehe. I actually quite enjoyed it when I did it in the past. I have no idea why I don't do it now.