Lunar or Ancient?

[Vroqren]

I almost have the skills to get both of them. Lunar is closer to my grasp, but I would rather have Ancient. Should I train and do the quests for Lunar first, and then get Lunar, or same thing with Ancient? I'm not good at decisions like this... Anyway, Lunar would be nice, and easy to get, but Ancient would be better and harder to get. I plan on getting both eventually, I just want yo know which to get first. Thanks!

[All_Is_Great]

Either. Doesn't really matter much which one you're gonna get first.

 

If you were gonna pick one of the two to use everyday, I'd say lunar.

[Octarine]

Both are pretty inconvenient spellbooks to be constantly on (until you get spellbook swap on lunars eventually)

However I'd say go for lunars, mostly because you'll get access to the livid farm which could be a good long-run training method (for farming xp)

 

Ancients aren't especially useful unless you do lots of PvP or a few select things in PvM (like barrows)

[green9090]

They're completely different in use, so just decide which one you actually want to use. Without vengeance I'm not even sure what you'd do with Lunars- are you sure you have a use lined up for it? If not and you do want ancients for PKing or whatever, definitely put your time toward unlocking ancients. It's also possible you wouldn't use either of them- I very rarely switch off of moderns and I'm 99 magic.

[Nifflin]

You are getting them both so it shouldn't really matter. Once you have both the spellbooks are pretty quick to swap between so whichever one you're on is never a big concern. That and every place you could want to go is in a teletab, jewelry, house portal or something of the sort, I hardly ever use spellbook teleports anymore regardless of which book I am on.

 

That being said I like modern very much for the superheat and alchemy spells. Lunar has some niche uses, vengeance at 94 and string jewelry which is very fast, cheap magic exp, some people like to use NPC contact to get slayer tasks and there are a few other decent spells in lunars. And ancient is used for combat exclusively, bursting rock lobsters, stealing creation and barrows are places where I find it really shines.

 

So pretty much just ask yourself which you think you will use the most, and that is the one you should get first. Since you will eventually get them both it shouldn't matter much. To be honest I found that I stayed on modern spells a lot after I got them and figured out where to use them.

[Vroqren]

Thanks for the tips. I'll be getting 61 crafting to get Lunar first. Then, I'll get 53 thieving, and do a few quests for Ancient Magics. Before I complete Desert Treasure though, I'll probably get the ghostly robes to show off in f2p, and a bit in p2p. After I have ancient, I'll make another portal room in my house, for Ancient and Lunar teleports. Then I'm going to go do Barrows. So, I have the next month or so planned out. Again, thanks for all the tips!

[Nifflin]

The portal room is only for modern teleports and the Canfis ancient teleport.

 

What is a great quest to do for teleports is Love Story, which lets you chip house teletabs to teleport to all the different house portals.

 

In my bank I have: A stack of house teletabs, a stack of each regular teletab, around ten of each type of dragonstone jewelry, rings of dualing, games necklaces and slayer rings, and lastly my ectophial and explorers ring.

 

Now this gives me a total of.. well I won't count, but it's over thirty teleport locations. And this is regardless of the spellbook I am on. Now I realize it's a significant investment but really, the luxery of travel to wherever I want regardless or my spellbook is priceless.

 

What this means for your choice is that the teleports each offer should be insignificant, you should pretty much ask if you use alchemy and superheat more then you use combat magic, because that's the biggest difference between modern and ancients.