99PureBroski Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Hmmmm, Recently I saw a post in the Official Runescape Forum about something called DIY. And i thought it was a pretty good idea. Now when i came to this forum, i can see that it has already taken alot of people swiftly, and many people are creating such DIY accounts. I actually think this is a GREAT way of training. I mean traditionally, you would just grind away at a monster or a skill, which could seem to be quite boring, and many people quit runescape as a whole just because of this I think that DIY bring a certain "rotation" to the runescape levelling process, and this adds a bit more fun to runescape. Previously, I would grind my way to 40 attack, make a short trip to the G.E buy full run, then continue grinding, Its the same whole thing for Months upon months. But now, You would be able to Grind till 40, grab a pickaxe, mine ore, smelt it, make it into armor, and then continue on, And this isn't the only thing Fishing and cooking your food for Gigantic boss fights. Woodcutting your logs to fletch etc.... It just gives you a whole new look at Runescape, and i think it makes the game more intresting. What do you think about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Runar Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 I'll probably make a DIY-only account at some point, sounds really fun :) The Runar's (OSRS) DIY blog - most viewed Blogscape blog ever! Contract? ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossed_Body Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Might be fun, but it's still highly ineficient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
99PureBroski Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 Inefficiency is one point, but from personal experience, ive played runescape for ~5 years, and ive quit so many times, and i just come back sometimes, ya know. I think this will keep you more focused, and i think IN the long run, you would've Benefited more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirenLazah Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 I only DIY skills im not getting 99 in. Ill make my own games necklaces and things such as that, and I always mine my own pure essence and craft my own laws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omali Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 I DIY. Part of my day involves farming sweetcorn and potatoes, cooking the Tuna I receive from Manage Thy Kingdom, and making tuna potatoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulthresher Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 At some point in time, you will have had to DIY but not on such a large scale. I never buy food and have never done it in my entire Runescape career thanks to my obsession with fishing. But to actually acquire all the logs, flax, runes, etc. to get 99 fletch, 96 mage, etc. would have taken a tremendously long time and I would have probably quit more often than I have now. A DIY character may be fun in the future for just that, fun. I couldn't imagine trying to create a character into pro-status with just DIY...insane... :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirenLazah Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 I cut the maples I needed to 99 firemaking. Biggest goal of my life. Theres a guy over at zybez forum called metalmaniac9. Go checkout his achievement blog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transcript80 Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 A DIY character may be fun in the future for just that, fun. I couldn't imagine trying to create a character into pro-status with just DIY...insane... :blink: Since FUN is the only reason I play RS, I DIY a lot. To hell with efficiency. I never bought logs, food, potions or herbs, I all got them myself. Except for 10 rocktails I needed to finish the Falador task. Slayer is a DIY version for all kinds of combat, I like it a lot as its lessens the grinding for melee, ranged and magic. I used the kindom for fish to cook, herbs for herblore, coal for smithing, logs for fletching/firemaking. I have crafted 99% of all the runes I used myself or got them from monster drops. When I got 100 wires from the mime court case, I raised my crafting levels to the level needed to make goblin light bulbs, and placed 100 of them for 105k firemaking xp, thieving high level chests as I was searching Dorgesh'kaan for broken lamps. I had fun while doing it, but could have gotten more money/xp in the same time grinding. On the other hand, total DIY, however possible, would get you nowhere anytime soon, especially at lower levels. Therefore, I bought gold ores as I hate mining, buy seconds to train summoning, buy seeds to farm my herbs and buy weapons and armour as it would take too long to get them as monster drop. I buy planks to train construction and use the grand exchance to get items fast when I need them. Other data was removed when acoount got hacked... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
99PureBroski Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 Hmmm Thats good actually , Semi DIY to make it a little more entertaining, where as avoiding tasks that are boring for you. I'll Try that strategy when i make my DIY character, after im done with my pure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ichimaru Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 What kind of an idiot is going to waste hours upon hours getting fish and cook up in order to fish and cook rocktails before doing a boss, or farm herbs for days before having the farm/herb to make brews/sup restore, and then spend hours doing dumb stuff like picking 2nds from the ground... lol nothx I value my time over a flax picker's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HunterDexter Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 I got a free to play DIY account, got most of my skills in the 50-60, after only a few weeks training (as I just do it as a sideproject next to my main). It's pretty fun to do, only the competition for ores makes it very slow for me to train mining en smithing very well. Oh, and runecrafting in free to play is a complete disaster, if you don't have runners etc. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
99PureBroski Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 What kind of an idiot is going to waste hours upon hours getting fish and cook up in order to fish and cook rocktails before doing a boss, or farm herbs for days before having the farm/herb to make brews/sup restore, and then spend hours doing dumb stuff like picking 2nds from the ground... lol nothx I value my time over a flax picker'sYou actually dont understand When you fight low level bosses, you would not need food like rocktails, therefore you would fish things like Lobsters or Swordfishes, and while you level up combat in a DIY style, you would also level up other skills, which include fishing and cooking. Therefore, when you come to the point of needing Rocktails, you will probably have the required levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodstain Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 There was a DIY account in blogscape on these forums a while ago. Dude did stuff like get 85 slayer so he could use a whip, go to GWD and get all the pieces of a godsword so he could have one, alch whips and stuff for money, etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
99PureBroski Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 There was a DIY account in blogscape on these forums a while ago. Dude did stuff like get 85 slayer so he could use a whip, go to GWD and get all the pieces of a godsword so he could have one, alch whips and stuff for money, etc Thats a tremendous Feat To be honest In my case, im not sure i am diligent enough to Carry out such a long and stressful task like getting 85 slayer just to get a whip. There are certain things i would infact buy from the economy, such as a Whip, Godsword etc.... But most of it would be DIY, I hope to refine my technique before i actually make a DIY character though, one in which i could maximize my efficiency as a DIY character Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naraku893 Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 it is more fun. i know many people who did it years ago. now if you do it you will get trolled by efficiency nerds/trolls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimy_Bunyip Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 it is more fun. i know many people who did it years ago. now if you do it you will get trolled by efficiency nerds/trollssays the guy who hangs out with efficiency nerds when DGing and etc :P I DIY RS research tbh. Cuz rest of ya'll are narbs who don't help with research.but maybe I'll hire ppl to do research for me now that free trade is out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low C Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 it is more fun. i know many people who did it years ago. now if you do it you will get trolled by efficiency nerds/trollssays the guy who hangs out with efficiency nerds when DGing and etc :P I DIY RS research tbh. Cuz rest of ya'll are narbs who don't help with research.but maybe I'll hire ppl to do research for me now that free trade is out. Where do I fill out an application. :razz: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
99PureBroski Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 it is more fun. i know many people who did it years ago. now if you do it you will get trolled by efficiency nerds/trollssays the guy who hangs out with efficiency nerds when DGing and etc :P I DIY RS research tbh. Cuz rest of ya'll are narbs who don't help with research.but maybe I'll hire ppl to do research for me now that free trade is out. What exactly are you talking about? IM not too sure i understand exactly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low C Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 it is more fun. i know many people who did it years ago. now if you do it you will get trolled by efficiency nerds/trollssays the guy who hangs out with efficiency nerds when DGing and etc :P I DIY RS research tbh. Cuz rest of ya'll are narbs who don't help with research.but maybe I'll hire ppl to do research for me now that free trade is out. What exactly are you talking about? IM not too sure i understand exactly He makes efficiency spreadsheets and DIY's his calculations since he can't find many test subjects. He is saying sometimes efficiency is relevant to DIY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
99PureBroski Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 it is more fun. i know many people who did it years ago. now if you do it you will get trolled by efficiency nerds/trollssays the guy who hangs out with efficiency nerds when DGing and etc :P I DIY RS research tbh. Cuz rest of ya'll are narbs who don't help with research.but maybe I'll hire ppl to do research for me now that free trade is out. What exactly are you talking about? IM not too sure i understand exactly He makes efficiency spreadsheets and DIY's his calculations since he can't find many test subjects. He is saying sometimes efficiency is relevant to DIY. Oh i see, I might be able to help with some research then. I'll do whatever i can do to help the community benefit :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quyneax Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 I DIY dragon claws. That is, I never purchased a pair. If you see me with them, it means I've had a drop in the past few days :P. I hope to one day DIY a divine, however I intend to purchase the sigil. Generally I try to cut out stuff I don't care to do such as cannonball making. I got a friend who does everything by herself but she likes cannoning - imagine how that works. Supporter of Zaros | Quest Cape owner since 22 may 2010 | No skills below 99 | Total level 2595 | Completionist Cape owner since 17th June 2013 | Suggestions 99 summoning (18th June 2011, previously untrimmed) | 99 farming (14th July 2011) | 99 prayer (8th September 2011) | 99 constitution (10th September 2011) | 99 dungeoneering (15th November 2011) 99 ranged (28th November 2011) | 99 attack, 99 defence, 99 strength (11th December 2011) | 99 slayer (18th December 2011) | 99 magic (22nd December 2011) | 99 construction (16th March 2012) 99 herblore (22nd March 2012) | 99 firemaking (26th March 2012) | 99 cooking (2nd July 2012) | 99 runecrafting (12th March 2012) | 99 crafting (26th August 2012) | 99 agility (19th November 2012) 99 woodcutting (22nd November 2012) | 99 fletching (31st December 2012) | 99 thieving (3rd January 2013) | 99 hunter (11th January 2013) | 99 mining (21st January 2013) | 99 fishing (21st January 2013) 99 smithing (21st January 2013) | 120 dungeoneering (17th June 2013) | 99 divination (24th November 2013) Tormented demon drops: twenty effigies, nine pairs of claws, two dragon armour slices and one elite clue | Dagannoth king drops: two dragon hatchets, two elite clues, one archer ring and one warrior ring Glacor drops: four pairs of ragefire boots, one pair of steadfast boots, six effigies, two hundred lots of Armadyl shards, three elite clues | Nex split: Torva boots | Kalphite King split: off-hand drygore mace 30/30 Shattered Heart statues completed | 16/16 Court Cases completed | 25/25 Choc Chimp Ices delivered | 500/500 Vyrewatch burned | 584/584 tasks completed | 4000/4000 chompies hunted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aslan Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Check Itam's blog. http://forum.tip.it/topic/243421-itams-diyer-thread/ Aslong as you have fun efficiency can be put aside.Fun trumps everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star. Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 I do semi DIY if it cuts down on costs AND isn't boring/requires too much attention. The tedium in cannonball making is deathly though, I'd never do that. I do, however, make my own amulets - from ores - for magic. I'm training mining, smithing, crafting and magic by doing this :thumbup: I find that sometimes DIY is the cheap, better option. Efficiency guys, don't be hating on me okay? :P ☢ CAUTION ☢ CAUTION ☢ CAUTION ☢ CAUTION ☢ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FakeMystic Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Since FUN is the only reason I play RS, I DIY a lot. To hell with efficiency. I totally agree with this. It's just a game for me. I don't care if I'm killing pretend dudes or making pretend potions at max efficiency. I find DIYing pretty satisfying and like the challenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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