On the cusp

[jazirent]

Hello there.

I believe my current stats are half decent, but I want to train my skills to push my character forward into the 'high level' zone. The problem, however, is that I have no idea where to s tart. o.O

Really, no idea. Could you guys help me?

Thanks,

HalcyonStorm

[Troacctid]

Oh, easy answer. Do quests. That's almost always the best way to develop your character. Keep doing quests until you can't do any more quests, and then raise the skills you need to raise until you can do the rest of them. Anyway, the xp rewards are the best way to level up at low levels, since they get progressively less useful at high levels anyway. So you can't go wrong with quests.

 

Oh, and you aren't farming enough. It's pretty much the best moneymaking skill. You should be doing herb runs regularly.

[jazirent]

Oh, easy answer. Do quests. That's almost always the best way to develop your character. Keep doing quests until you can't do any more quests, and then raise the skills you need to raise until you can do the rest of them. Anyway, the xp rewards are the best way to level up at low levels, since they get progressively less useful at high levels anyway. So you can't go wrong with quests.

 

Oh, and you aren't farming enough. It's pretty much the best moneymaking skill. You should be doing herb runs regularly.

 

Ok. Thanks!

So should I train any skills up, or just do all the quests I can at the moment?

[Troacctid]

Oh, easy answer. Do quests. That's almost always the best way to develop your character. Keep doing quests until you can't do any more quests, and then raise the skills you need to raise until you can do the rest of them. Anyway, the xp rewards are the best way to level up at low levels, since they get progressively less useful at high levels anyway. So you can't go wrong with quests.

 

Oh, and you aren't farming enough. It's pretty much the best moneymaking skill. You should be doing herb runs regularly.

 

Ok. Thanks!

So should I train any skills up, or just do all the quests I can at the moment?

Quest xp rewards get progressively less relevant as you level up (you train more slowly at low levels, so fixed xp rewards represent a greater time saving--prayer is the exception to this), so it's best to get through them at the low levels when they're most valuable. Most of the time you can do fine on a quest with the minimum requirements, with several exceptions (for example, Underground Pass wants high agility, Desert Treasure wants high thieving, and for most boss fights the higher your combat the better).

 

You should train farming, but only because you make ridiculous amounts of profit from herb runs, not because your level is too low.

[jazirent]

Ahh. Thanks a lot mate!

Also, just want to say thanks for your woodcutting guide... it helped me out heaps a good while ago :D. Another thing, epic name.

[Troacctid]

Ahh. Thanks a lot mate!

Also, just want to say thanks for your woodcutting guide... it helped me out heaps a good while ago :D. Another thing, epic name.

Happy to help :shades:

[Knotch_Blade]

Pi is right.

 

It's how I've been training my character... besides the urge to firemake.

 

Quest. Get stats to Quest. Repeat til satisfied.

 

Farming for cash, helps pay for skills like FM/Fletching etc...

I'd recommend getting your Agility up a bit. Really speeds things up (lolz).

Also, train Slayer... A lot. Good fun way to train melees, and you profit quite a bit.

Oh, and do some Runecrafting, again good money.

 

Basically, if you have a high income/cash pile... good things happen. ;)

[Obtaurian]

Oh, easy answer. Do quests. That's almost always the best way to develop your character. Keep doing quests until you can't do any more quests, and then raise the skills you need to raise until you can do the rest of them. Anyway, the xp rewards are the best way to level up at low levels, since they get progressively less useful at high levels anyway. So you can't go wrong with quests.

 

Oh, and you aren't farming enough. It's pretty much the best moneymaking skill. You should be doing herb runs regularly.

 

I agree with this 100%. Quests aren't necessary for developing a high level character, but you'll be doing them eventually for the rewards anyway, so get them done now and reap the benefits when you're lower leveled.

 

TRIVIA: When I first came back to Runescape in 2006, I got 1-40 thieving and agility from quests alone. 8-)

 

I, too, think you should be farming all the time. You should also start working on achievement diaries, as you can make something like 100k profit a day from battlestaffs alone (ten seconds of work).

 

After you've done all that (it should take awhile), I would recommend that you start slaying and working on dungeoneering. Due to effigies (among other things), slaying is irrefutably the best way to level combat, but you have to do it right. I recommend reading Zarfot's Mega Slayer guide on the RSOF. If it's not there, read MstrMonopoly's slayer guide in the AOW, which has a lot of great information for budding slayers.

 

You should also be doing your weekly penguins and spending the points on prayer or herblore.

[homer205]

I second slayer as a good training method as added combat levels always help and it's decent cash becoming good cash once you get into the higher levels. I recommend edgeville or zanaris master for you.

 

Some quests you should do for rewards are:

Smoking kills - points reward for slayer tasks

Cold war - adds more penguins to the distraction and diversion

Eadgar's ruse - trollheim tele

Watchtower-watchtower tele

Fairy tale part 1 and 2 - magic secateurs and fairy rings, you don't need the farming and herblore requirements for part 2 to get fairy rings access

Fremminik trials/isle - some xp and access to fremminik areas

Throne of Miscellania/Royal trouble - access to a kingdom which will get resources for you at a low price

The grand tree/tree gnome village - acess to the gnome gliders and spirit trees

In search of the myreque/in aid of the myreque - shortcut to barrows and bank near it

King's ransom - piety/chivalry prayers

Recipe for disaster - better and better gloves the more you do

Start mournings end part 1 - acess to letya/letya teleport crystals

 

For quest experience amounts use this guide: http://www.tip.it/runescape/index.php?page=quest_experience_guide.htm

 

Not sure which quests you've done so I just put in a few I thought would be useful, assumed you've done some though. I'd also advise you get 70 range for black dragonhide as it comes in handy often and hat you avoid construction and summoning untill you've got good equipment and money saved as they both cost a lot of money.

[Troacctid]

I second slayer as a good training method as added combat levels always help and it's decent cash becoming good cash once you get into the higher levels. I recommend edgeville or zanaris master for you.

 

Some quests you should do for rewards are:

Smoking kills - points reward for slayer tasks

Cold war - adds more penguins to the distraction and diversion

Eadgar's ruse - trollheim tele

Watchtower-watchtower tele

Fairy tale part 1 and 2 - magic secateurs and fairy rings, you don't need the farming and herblore requirements for part 2 to get fairy rings access

Fremminik trials/isle - some xp and access to fremminik areas

Throne of Miscellania/Royal trouble - access to a kingdom which will get resources for you at a low price

The grand tree/tree gnome village - acess to the gnome gliders and spirit trees

In search of the myreque/in aid of the myreque - shortcut to barrows and bank near it

King's ransom - piety/chivalry prayers

Recipe for disaster - better and better gloves the more you do

Start mournings end part 1 - acess to letya/letya teleport crystals

 

For quest experience amounts use this guide: http://www.tip.it/runescape/index.php?page=quest_experience_guide.htm

 

Not sure which quests you've done so I just put in a few I thought would be useful, assumed you've done some though. I'd also advise you get 70 range for black dragonhide as it comes in handy often and hat you avoid construction and summoning untill you've got good equipment and money saved as they both cost a lot of money.

See, I used to do lists like this, until I realized it's a lot faster to just list the quests you shouldn't do. And then Rat Catchers was made into an achievement diary requirement and the Castle Wars catapult interface was made usable, so now I don't even need to do that. Just do every quest. :thumbsup:

[De_Lille_D]

- All quests: For all the extra rewards and the exp. Just put your quest list on filter and start with the first one you can do.

- Do penguins every week: free exp without training (put in prayer, herblore, summoning or another hard to train skill)

- If you really want high levels in all your skills, start with the ones that will help the others later on. (e.g. get high Agility before training Runecrafting)

[Quyneax]

For added money saved on prayer, make sure you have 75 prayer before you cash in the 3*150k xp reward at the end of Blood Runs Deep (you are only able to get the reward in stats at least level 75). 450k prayer xp is valued at around 10m at the moment. Likewise, make sure you have some fairly difficult stats (rc comes to mind) to 65 before the 4*100k xp reward from While Guthix Sleeps comes your way. Nomad's Requiem awards 70 zeal, but I recommend getting 30 more zeal as you get 10% bonus zeal when spending 100 points. After BRD, you should have at least 78 prayer, and 100 zeal would then give you some 270k prayer xp.