New RS player: Where should I start?

[vulturesrow]

Hello all,

 

Just started playing RS. I am an MMO veteran so Im not completely helpless when it comes to the genre. I do have to say it seems like there is a lot to do in RS and I really have no idea on what my focus should be right now. All Ive been doing is working through the easy tasks and the novice quests. Also, I upgraded my account to P2P(gamecard) which I belatedly discovered a lot of people recomnend you dont do. So anything I can do to take max advantage of my member status would be much appreciated as well. I know this is a little open-ended and a lot of it depends on me; I'm just looking for some of you more experienced players to toss me some ideas and also let me know if there are things that are considered "must-do" stuff for any new character. Thanks for the help in advance.

[Mini_Spawn]

Hello all,

 

Just started playing RS. I am an MMO veteran so Im not completely helpless when it comes to the genre. I do have to say it seems like there is a lot to do in RS and I really have no idea on what my focus should be right now. All Ive been doing is working through the easy tasks and the novice quests. Also, I upgraded my account to P2P(gamecard) which I belatedly discovered a lot of people recomnend you dont do. So anything I can do to take max advantage of my member status would be much appreciated as well. I know this is a little open-ended and a lot of it depends on me; I'm just looking for some of you more experienced players to toss me some ideas and also let me know if there are things that are considered "must-do" stuff for any new character. Thanks for the help in advance.

 

 

(: enjoy the game. Personally I reccommend going through the tasks that jagex has provided for beginners. this will introduce you to most of the skills that are available to you as well as introducing you to new areas. I really reccommend NOT going p2p until about combat level 50- this game can be overwhelming without worrying about all of the p2p content. Familiarize yourself with the f2p world first.

 

Combat is always a good way to start if you don't wish to do the tasks. Start killing things and pick up what they drop to be sold later, this can be used to raise your other skills.

 

Alternatively, you may choose to pick one skill every day and learn how to train it a little bit. Barring members only skills, this should take you about 2 weeks to get through, at which point you'll be around level 20-30 in every skill. At this point you'll be able to choose accurately which skills/style of gameplay fit the way you want to play runescape. Furthermore, each new skill you train will introduce you to different kinds of players (specifically ones who enjoy doing that particular skill more than any other skill).

 

Hopefully this helped... You can send me a private message ingame if you need more help/advice. My usename is Mini spawn. I had someone help me right off the bat when I joined so I'll happily repay the favor.

 

Happy scaping!!

 

Mini

[BuddhaLife]

First off, let me say. Welcome to RS and if you have any questions in game feel free to add me, username: Buddha Life.

 

As a fairly general start, I would say start working all your skills to a certain goal. Feel free to ask me questions on how to train specific skills. =P

 

As you progress, do some quests. By being a member you have far more quests available to you than you would as a F2P (Free to Play) character.

 

That's really all I have to say right now, but feel free to ask me questions in game =D

 

-Buddha Life

 

 

[Avatar200]

Since it was too open-ended, lets try to close-end it a bit.

 

Do you like combat?

Yes - Versus monsters or other players (not advisable, but to each his own)?

No - Do you like collecting or making things?

 

At the end, you'd be doing one, several or all of these in RS - questing (involves all skills), minigames (involves all skills), monster hunting (slayer, bosses or just general camping), PVP (wilderness, staking, castlewar, etc), gathering (ores, logs, etc) and crafting (weapon, armor, jewelry, leather, etc).

 

You have a fair deal of MMO experience. Which MMOs? Can I assume those MMOs dont have the sheer volume of tradeskills (non-combat) that RS has, and were more combat oriented? If so, maybe explore familiar grounds like monster hunting before going into skilling. Higher combat level is rarely a bad thing.

 

The only must-have in RS I think is having the know-how and intuition to make money, money and mo' money. At least that's in my opinion...

[Unhesitating]

Here are some guides on tip.it you can look at to get you started, and add me in game if you have any questions!

 

http://www.tip.it/runescape/?page=beginners_guide.htm

 

http://www.tip.it/runescape/?page=new_members_P2P_guide.htm

 

Some lingo from one of the guides:

 

 

[hide]Glossary - Items

Weapons and armour Items

2h - Two-handed sword

Addy - Adamant

Ammy - Amulet

Battle/B-axe - Battleaxe

Blk- Black armour

Chain - Chain mail

D or Drag - Dragon

DDP - Dragon dagger poisoned (p)

DDS - Dragon dagger(p++)

Full - Full set (i.e. Chest + legs, full helmet, and sometimes shield)

(g) - Gold trimmed

Helm - Helmet

Kite - Kite shield

Large/Lrg - Full helmet

Legs - Leg plate mail

Long - Long sword

Med - Medium helmet

Mith - Mithril

(p), (p+), (p++) - poisons of higher effect

Plate/pl8/chest - Body plate mail

R - Rune

Scimmy - Scimitar

Square/sqr - Square shield

(t) - Trimmed Airs - Air Runes

Ammy - Amulet

Axe - Hatchet

Bloods - Blood Runes

BS - Bow string DOR - Disk of Returning

Earths - Earth Runes

Ess - Rune essence

Fires - Fire Runes

Glory - Amulet of glory

Gp - Gold coins (money)

Law - Law Runes

Lobs/Lobbies - Lobsters

Mask - Monster mask

Minds - Mind Runes

Monks - Monkfish

Nats - Nature Runes

Phat - Party hat

Pick - Pick axe

Pot - Potion

PPot - Prayer Potion

ROW - Ring of Wealth

Saph - Sapphire

Santa - Santa hat

Souls - Soul Runes

Swordies - Swordfish

Talis/Tally - Talisman

Waters - Water Runes

Wealth - Ring of wealth

Glossary - Generic

1337 - Elite, also "cool"

Ard(y) - Ardougne

Att - Attack level

Barb Village - Barbarian Village

CW - Castle Wars

Def - Defence level

Edge - Edgeville

F2P - Free to Play (Free version of RS)

Fally - Falador

FM - Firemaking

FTW - For the win

G2G - Got to go

GP- Gold pieces (money in game)

LP - Life points

K - A thousand of something, usually gp (eg. 2k = 2.000gp), can also mean okay

KBD - King Black Dragon

KQ - Kalphite Queen

Lag - pauses or jumps in play due to slow internet connection speed

Lumby - Lumbridge

Lvl - Level

Mil - A million of something, usually gp

Newb - Player who is new to RuneScape.

NFS - Not for sale

Noob - Experienced player who acts like a newb (derogatory)

NP - No Problem

NTY - No, Thank You

NVM or NM - Never mind

OMG - Oh my God, or Oh my gosh

Owns - Very good, or best at something

P2P - Pay to Play (Members version of RS)

PC - Pest Control

Pker - Player Killer

RC - Runecrafting

RL - Real life

ROFL - Rolling on the floor laughing

RS1/RSC - RuneScape 1 (Classic)

RS2/RS - RuneScape (2)

Seers - Seers Village

Str - Strength level

TY - Thank You

WC - Woodcutting

WP - Wrong person

Wildy - Wilderness

Varr/Vrk - Varrock

YW - Your welcome[/hide]

[Quyneax]

I don't understand why you wouldn't go p2p straight away, much more enjoyable imo. So go ahead and take the advantages, which mainly are in high-level content however (member's skills such as herblore don't get good until the 80's most of the time. Agility is one exception, summoning another).

 

Doing all novice quests is a good idea imo. Other than that, you can deal with certain 'problems' such as not being able to run all the way from A to B or not being able to use a shortcut (train agility for that) or not being able to kill a certain monster (train combat, of course) and various other things that you want to do but can't. I don't think it's possible to tell you what the most beneficial thing for you would be right now, not until you have set yourself a goal. But since money makes the world go round, it's probably worth looking into farming and the Royal Trouble & Throne of Miscellania quests.

[jasignhagj]

Get agility to 30+ as soon as you can, it makes running around a lot easier. Obviously you'll want to train Combat first, and get some decent armour so you don't get killed during your adventures. Magic is always good for teleports, and Fishing, Mining and Woodcutting are good skills to make money with to start.

 

Don't worry about dieing outside of the wilderness, 9/10 times you'll make it back to your gravestone in time to get all your items.