Glad to see that you're back. At one million experience per week, you'll be at 200 million total exp just after the end of the summer. That will probably put you very close to 2,300 total levels as well.

I'm most likely going to rack quite a bit better XP scores /week during summer, than 1 million experience per week. I'm aiming to get back into dungeoneering, combat and bossing in overall. Now I'm spending a bit time here and there until my exams are done. I really shouldn't be playing at all, but there's no way I could spend most of my free time reading either. Got friends and girlfriend to see too. And must admit this game is taking a good grip of me at times when I really should be studying. Oh well, only week and then I should have nothing but free time.

 

Also planning on buying a new laptop. Might even make the gaming a tad bit smoother.

Latest news.

 

Got 91 summoning last sunday by opening all effigies that I had banked pre effigynerf. Got decent amount of experience also in smithing, herblore and cooking (overxp though). Bit closer to 96 now. Decided to open them so I can get more effigies while I hunt bosses/gather charms towards 96.

 

Then I decided to start a bandos drop log (which currently is at 42 kills) for soloing. I'll count duo kills also but only the ones that I get (I do lootshare but not coinshare). In the name of science I'm curious if I could find out somewhat the real drop rates of bandos items in longterm. Besides bandos is good cash, and that's what I need.

 

Then I head down to Daemonheim and got 94 dungeoneering. A step closer to another 99. Still need 60k tokens for chaotic maul/longsword. I'm looking for best option for soloing bandos, and I'm not really sure which one would be better. I'm planning to slowly progress towards 99 dungeoneering and onwards.

 

 

And for last but not least, I got first bandos item drops duoing with Rohanlord last night. Boots from minions + hilt from Graardor. Shame hilt ain't currently worth much, but atleast it's rising. But pretty cool to get hilt in 42 kills, considering it's the rarest bandos drop.

 

Gonna do more scaping this weekend, now that I finally have time. Exams are done and summer holiday starts monday. :thumbsup:

 

EDIT: Forgot to mention that I bought myself a new laptop. Going to spend most of the summer traveling, so that will come to use. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that RuneScape worked almost as well as on my old computer. Have to use minimum graphics though, but I'm used to it anyways.

Didn't realize you got boots from minion. Not sure if that's really lucky or really unlucky :blink:

Today was my first day of holiday, when I actually had time to do something. My summer holiday did start yesterday, but I spent over 5 hours travelling to Helsinki to meet my girlfriend. Now that I've made myself home here, and while she is working eight hour shifts, it leaves me alot of time to spend doing something. This time I decided to spend quite a chunk of it in the land of Gielinor.

 

I started my day by semiafk wcing arctic pines (while bonfiring some) with my new, shiny woodcutting aura (second one, that gives 5% bonus) while reading the forums. After about 100,000 woodcutting XP (or a bit over hour), and reaching 88 woodcutting, I decided that it's time for me to start farming again. I ventured to GE to spend millions on seeds, morchella, papaya, calquat and snapdragon. I'm well aware that torstol might be better herb to farm for profit, but with my unstable personality with sticking on doing things for long, I thought it might be wiser to stick with more stable snapdragon. That or either it was because I once lost 2 million farming torstol while the prices were dropping.

 

After planting a set of trees and picking the fruits of my labour (papayas which have been waiting for someone to check their health for months), doing first herb run (I got 17 torstols from Trollheim patch that I had planted ages ago), and in overall getting the farming process going, I decided it's time to visit my clan citadel and fill my ring and max my resource cap. I spent whole resource cap on mining skill plot, earning me 83 mining with about 75,000 experience. Glad about the level raises, I went to collect my daily dose of redstones before leaving to Gnome Stronghold for some agility training. Before that I set up a new set of herbs, thanking greenfingers aura for giving a nice timer for when to pick the herbs. I was so close to 83 agility, that it took me about 15 minutes to reach the level. During the process I got one Pit event (karaoke one) which yielded me a bit over 2,000 experience.

 

After taking some breaks to make myself something to eat and reading some Song of Fire and Ice, I decided to go test c2 fishing/woodcutting method. I had heard quite a bit about it, so I thought it was worth a shot. My one hour session earned me about 10,000 dungeoneering experience, 55,000 fishing experience, 45,000 woodcutting experience and some combat experience that I didn't count. Needless to say I was surprised and glad about these rates, and will definitely do this for my fishing and woodcutting training. And especially when I need to do low level dungeoneering floors. Only thing that bothered my mind, was the fact that I just spent whole lot of Loyalty Points on that woodcutting aura, which might not ever get used again. Refund please?

 

Anyways, in overall my first proper day of long awaited summer holiday gave me alot of time to play, many levels and left me with many more things to do for next gaming sessions.

Hey all! After 4 tries yesterday, I finally managed to get tokhaar-kal out of Fight Kiln today!

 

Right after that, I went back there to bring out one uncut onyx. Happy about my success I'm going to bring onyxes out of the kiln to fix my bank in better shape. :) First page updated with try/success log. Stay tuned!

 

 

EDIT: 2 Onyxes!

 

EDIT2: Front page updated with kiln log! :P

Up to 5 onyxes now in total of 10 attempts. That means I haven't failed a kiln ever since first time getting my cape. Actually latest run I had 9 saradomin brews left at the end. Har-Aken is really simple boss, only problem is that I have to play on small screen (quite hard to see it sometimes when going through the area). Jads are causing me more trouble with occasional lag/missclicks, but so far I have managed to stay alive despite them. Besides, I think I'm getting better at it with every turn, even though my completion times aren't going below 1 hour and 10 minutes. I guess I shouldn't assume any faster without titans/dreadnips. However, the money is rolling in nicely, and I have no patience to go gather charms/kill bosses in dominion tower. So for the time being, I'm camping fight kiln with my current setup.

 

Each onyx sells currently at about 6 million instantly. I use about 1,5-1,6m worth of supplies/runes/bolts per run. So that makes it about 4,5m per 1 hour and 15 minutes. Or 3,5m per hour. More than I've ever managed on any other place, so this one definitely stays as long as it's profitable enough. Atleast I can rely on my own skill for the profit instead of luck like on Glacors, where I eventually went over 1k kills without boots (I got 4 boots in overall, but in a very long timespan).

Eight onyxes so far, and just completed my fastest kiln up to date: 01:07:22

 

Guess I could still take couple minutes out of that but will be very hard without titan familiars. :P Anyways, had 9 saradomin brew flasks at the end (+ 2 super restore), so quite happy with that. Two more onyxes to go to double digits.. Then next goal is triple?

 

Also, I made some calculations and I'm approximately gaining about 49,5k magic, 27k ranged, 39k melee and 29k constitution experience per run. Considering this, if I wanted to max my melees (10 million experience left) through fight kiln, that would require about 250 more completions of fight kiln. :D Well, one kiln at a time... :-?

Nice work in the kiln! It seems like good experience and excellent profit.

 

The Song of Fire and Ice series is fantastic, especially the first three. Four and five slow down a lot. I hope Martin doesn't die before he finishes the entire series, but I don't hold out too much hope for that.

You've completed the kiln 11 times? :shock:

I guess I can't take the piss outta your fire cape anymore :thumbdown:

Any idea on your current gp/h including supply costs?

You've completed the kiln 11 times? :shock:

I guess I can't take the piss outta your fire cape anymore :thumbdown:

Any idea on your current gp/h including supply costs?

 

12 - consecutive - times now, actually. Fire cape is so yesterday.. :cool:

 

Onyxes sell for about 6m each, and to me it takes about 1 hour 10 minutes on average to complete the kiln. Supplies including armadyl runes, bolt racks, potions (and overloads) and armour/weapon charging costs about 1,5-1,6 million. So currently I'm making about 4,4m gp/ 1h 10 minutes.

 

3,7 - 3,8 m gp/hour. :thumbup:

Thanks Gregor, and yeah I'm almost finished with the first one, and about to pick the second. It's really great book, and the TV series is a treat aswell. Kinda shame I watched series before reading book, because it's more annoying to spoil a reading than watching. Still a must read though.

 

Today I decided to put the profit from fight kiln into use. I really didn't know what to buy to improve my abilities. In overall I think I already had quite good setup, and there was nothing that I really needed that would speed up my times much. Aside titans, but frankly that you can't buy directly with money. Collecting charms (especially for 3 million experience) can be very tedious task, which I'm not looking forward at all. However, I realised that I could atleast lower the cost for completing the kiln, so ironically enough I bought this beauty to save me a bit of money on future fights. What's ironical in this is that this bow cost 81,8 million geepees, which was basically my whole cash pile. :unsure:

 

 

As my cash pile was back down to 2,6 million (which isn't okay for me), I took the obvious course of action and went to test this new baby in action - fight kiln for onyx #12.

 

Best part of this was that I actually did manage to get my new fastest time 01:05:22, which is 2 minutes faster than my previous fastest time. I'm not sure how much was it actually because of zaryte bow, or did I just get lucky hitting better with rapier and Armadyl battlestaff. I like to believe it was because of this new bow.

 

Even better than the best part is that each shot on this bow costs only 16 gold pieces! Compared to Karil's crossbow and 700-800 bolt racks I used to use per fight kiln, this saves me 150,000 gold each run. Also, considering if this also saves about 2 minutes time each dungeon, it would mean actual 250,000 more gp per hour doing fight kilns! If I plan to really complete kiln hundred times or more, this 250,000 will definitely add up.

 

My only concern is that this bow is going to skydive from 80 million, or gets badly nerfed with combat update. It should be the best, highest requirement bow after the update though? Right? Damn, why don't I have access to beta.. :sad:

 

P.S. If someone has some ideas for what to do to still improve my setup, then please talk. And no, I'm not going to get iron or steel titan. Not now atleast. Anything else is welcome news!

For improvements: (just a few things I saw quickly)

 

Imbued rings, ragefire boots, vampyrism aura, EEE (for healing, see you don't have a spec weapon), Goliath gloves, dreadnips, renewals.

 

Do you just use a unicorn for the entire thing? I've never been able to complete the Kiln. The last I tried, I died at the armadillo wave. How do you get past that? I heard dreadnips are good, but I see you also don't have them.

 

Good luck on your future kilns. :P.

For improvements: (just a few things I saw quickly)

 

Imbued rings, ragefire boots, vampyrism aura, EEE (for healing, see you don't have a spec weapon), Goliath gloves, dreadnips, renewals.

 

Do you just use a unicorn for the entire thing? I've never been able to complete the Kiln. The last I tried, I died at the armadillo wave. How do you get past that? I heard dreadnips are good, but I see you also don't have them.

 

Good luck on your future kilns. :P.

 

Thanks for your reply Jeremy.

 

Ragefire boots I've been thinking myself, and that is my most likely next upgrade. Imbued rings do take awful alot of time to get, and that is time I don't wish to spend at Moblising Armies now. I use prayer renewals (2 prayer renewal flasks with 2 overload flasks), they just are not shown in picture (just finished kiln there). I've been planning to get both goliaths and dreadnips, but going through dominion tower makes me want to hit my head in table, to be honest.. I should really get them, but I'm too lazy to get there. That's definitely on my list of things to push through to improve aspects of my gaming, though. I've been thinking of vampyrism aura, but considering it doesn't actually fasten the kiln for me (maybe save a bit of supplies), I'm not sure if I wish to spend points on it. I don't have much of loyalty points anyways, and there are many things I need. Will consider this. And for EEE I really should get it, but I'm not sure if I have completed the quest or not. If I haven't, I probably should. Again, I've been so lazy recently to put time on things aside kiln/bandos/glacors.

 

As for my strategies in Kiln, I usually take tortoise with me. However today I first time completed the kiln without bob, and used rune minotaur ( #-o ) instead. That being out of the way, I won't definitely take rune minotaur again. It's useless. I wish I had titans, but like I said collecting charms is out of question for the moment. I'm fed up with glacors, slayer doesn't interest me at the moment, and I don't feel like camping monsters either. I don't really feel like doing anything else except kiln. It's addictive! :-)

 

However, I'm definitely going to bring unicorns next time, to save couple potions hopefully. My main point is to make alot of cash for many things I need in future (items, skills etc.), and I'm currently doing over 4m per hour (which is more than I've ever been able - so explains my addiction to kiln maybe).

 

As for armadillo wave, it isn't really that hard. As isn't the whole kiln when you realise how the waves work. It's all about starting each wave at right place, killing monsters in right order and using crystals in right waves. If you do it like I do, atleast twice a day, you get hang of it fast. However, the armadillo wave. I start it at NE corner, where spawns one ket-dill. I start with mage protection on, pickaxe dill till armour breaks off and SoA it down. Ket-zek attacks me during that, so I switch to range gear and range it down. After that I just take the rest of the ket-dills one at a time moving to NW, SE and SW in following order. I end the wave in SW so I can start maging YtMejkots right at the start of next wave. Saves a bit of time.

 

Rest of the kiln is pretty simple actually, aside wave 35 which can kill you fast if you're not aware of Jad spawning first time in NE. As the Jad is quite hard to safespot right from the start, you should use invulerability crystal while standing SW side of kiln stone, wait Jad to walk next to you, before you lure Jad by standing on western side of kiln stone. After that I just use magic crystal (which I've saved 2 till that point) to finish the wave, get fast through double jads on 36 and start Har-Aken. Save another magic crystal cause the first crystal ends a bit before Har-Aken dies. Har-Aken is very easy with magic crystals, just stand on a corner that has least tentacles and scan the area every few seconds to see if his head pops up.

 

If you need more help, I can write more detailed guide about rest of waves, or just contact me ingame. As I'm currently on holiday, I tend to spend quite alot of time playing. In kiln mostly. ;)

 

Good luck for you too, if you ever plan to go for tokhaar-kal or some pretty onyxes! Or just good luck in whatever you plan to do in land of Gielinor, or even real life! :lol:

Thank you very much for this! I'm going to have to try that dill strategy out. I admit doing the rest of the waves was very easy, but I paniced when those all spawned and I died. :(.

 

Same here with dominion tower .. I find that so boring. Don't even have 100 boss kills yet. :(.

Today I learned through the hard (and also a bit of good) way in what kind of turmoil the RS economy currently is. I spent quite a bit of time in world 2, trying to get rid of the zaryte bow I just bought. I should've realised not to invest on such a pricey item on such a moment. Cause like I said, only thing I was afraid was zaryte bow skydiving, and that's what it did. I only had it for two days, and it went down pretty much like 10 million on street. I assume it isn't showing (atleast on the moment) much of use in new RS after combat evolution.. Afraid that it will continue crashing and eventually take as big hit as items like virtus and torva, I let go of it for price of 73,5 million. Considering I bought it for 81,8m just couple days ago, it was quite a bummer!

 

However the good part is that the arcane shield I bought when starting my fight kiln goal, has raised for a good 15 million in price, so that sort of makes up for it. While standing around in world 2 shouting "selling zaryte bow" for over an hour, I managed to make couple quick deals with arcane shields too. Good old merchanting, I managed to sell arcane twice for 51 million, and buy it back for 48-50 million. I think I made abut 3,5m profit by doing that. So in overall I think I lost like 5 million, but considering my arcane went from 32m to 51m, I'm still profiting. However, aside arcane shield (which seems to get good buff in future RS), I decided to keep my hands out of pricey items, and keep collecting cash instead. I hate how it feels when you're constantly worrying if items you have will fall in price. So, now I decide to hold on for my cash stack.

 

However, as I managed to get my onyxes #14, #15 and #16, I managed to end the day with nice ~ eight million profit. Now as I'm lacking ranged weapon (don't want to go back to karil's crossbow), I'm spending this day in Daemonheim. Actually, I'm in dungeon while writing this. This is first time ever I'm actually leeching, but 1 million per floor doesn't sound too bad. I just can't bother focusing on dungeoneering now. And I'm only 30k tokens away from chaotic crossbow, which shall replace zaryte bow as my ranged weapon of choice. :thumbup:

 

After I've leeched those 30k points, I'm heading back to fight kiln, to make back the money I spent dungeoneering. And the money I lost with zaryte bow. Actually, I'm quite close breaking the 100m cashpile in my coinpouch, so I shall take that as my next goal. Stay tuned!

Every now and then, you end up witnessing the most random act of kindness in a place where you would least expect it: dungeoneering with random people..

 

Like I said earlier, I was planning to leech (I know it's bad!! Just for a day!! Won't happen again!!) this day to get missing tokens for chaotic crossbow. Like I explained earlier, crashing zaryte bow, panic selling and so on.. I found this one guy (just like any other guy there) selling floors, but what caught my attention was the fact he was selling floors for rather cheap. 1 million for occults isn't bad, I thought and went along with it.

 

I paid 500k before first dungeon, and 500k after we were done. This was my first time leeching, and glad of it all going well I decided go for another floor. And then another. And then this happened.

 

I was watching a video from youtube, minding my business, occasionally checking RS if they need me to open doors (do emotes, levers).. When I see all this talk about hexhunter the team found. I saw people starting to bid prices cause the host who sold the floors for me already had hexhunter (he also got the second one), and instead of taking the obvious course of action to sell for highest bidder... He instead wrote me private message to come pick the bow up, and he gave it me free of charge. Just said it was a gift. I couldn't believe my eyes. Could this still happen in RuneScape of today? I accepted the trade and quickly bound the weapon. I hadn't even seen a hexhunter before..

 

 

After the dungeon was over, I gave him 10,000,000 gp's as a token of gratitude and such commitment for the best of his paying customer. He even thanked me many times for it, even though I felt like it was me who was supposed to thank him, not vice versa. Now I'm another 10 million behind my goal, but I can't feel anything else but lucky. Very lucky.

 

Now all I need is get arrows for this baby. <3:

 

Also, a side note, I got the 30,000 lacking tokens and bought chaotic crossbow. Now I'm ready to go back into kiln! Yay! :lol:

Died first time after 17 consecutive succesful kilns. Would've been easy one, but wanted to try extra fast kiln and tried using magic crystal earlier. Thought the extra magic wouldn't make THAT huge impact on Har-Aken (last magic crystal ended middle of Har-Aken), but how wrong I was. After the magic crystal ran out (I had 5 brews still), it became almost impossible to do any reasonable damage on Har-Aken. Instead of the constant 700s you hit with magic crystal, I hit barely 200s without it. Even if it was down to half hp already, it became what seemed like an impossible struggle to damage it. I guess I should've switched to range or something, but couldn't figure it out in that time. For what is certain, I will never ever use extra magic crystals on earlier waves trying to speed up my process. 2 Magic crystals on Har-Aken is a must (using first one on wave 35 jad, 36 jads and whats left to Har-Aken).

 

Damn annoying.. Lesson learned I guess. <_<

Awesome about the hexhunter bow!

Latest days have been a bit frustrating, due to little time to play, bad luck, RS economy and some other things. First of all I died twice on fight kiln, because using magic crystals in wrong places (trying to keep same completion times as I used to do with zaryte bow). Because of this I got annoyed and bought zaryte bow back (with 77 million geepees), where I lost another 4 million considering if I had kept the weapon in first place. I sold my arcane and bought my arcane back. I was trying to not lose money, but still stay effective in fight kiln. Mostly I just ended up being annoyed, which just eventually led me dying, and I became more annoyed. Lesson learned, again, I guess.

 

Now I have the optimal fight kiln setup for myself, which is fast aswell as cheap. I have only 11 million geepees (5,8m+ thanks to onyx #18!) but now I promise I won't go messing around with my setup anymore. Now I just do kilns when I have time and keep the money I get. 18 Kilns completed so far, current aim is 20+, then 50+. Eventually my goals are 100+ kilns completed and more. It's good cash, good experience, and good fun (except when you die).

 

3.7.2012

Cash: 11m

Kiln completed: 18 times

Haven't had much time to play lately, but I've spent that time doing succesful kiln runs. Yesterday managed to do three, but today only one. Wheel of Fortune gave me two lamps (one medium, one small) that I used to summoning to level the skill to 92.

 

So, got onyxes #19, #20, #21 and #22 in 2 days. Could say I got 4% closer to my goal. That's easy to count if my goal is 100 onyxes. ;)

 

5.7.2012

Cash: 33,7m (+ 22,7m)

Kiln completed: 22 times (+ 4 times)

It's been a while since last update, but I'm still going forward on my kiln goals. I visited home for the weekend to see my friends and have some good time (and bad time day after). I haven't played much at all in last 4 days, but still managed to get 5 more onyxes.

 

I also made more overloads and bought more supplies in overall. That's why I'm only up 23,6m since last update, even though I got 5 onyxes. I should have supplies for dozen kilns or so now (aside maybe some runes).

 

Lately I've been wondering what I'm saving my cash for (apart having beautiful pile), and I'm not sure whether I should go after some rares, get some gear or go for some levels. I've dreamed about owning a partyhat ever since I was like 12 years old (time flies), but never managed to actually get one. They've always seemed to be out of my grasp. I've owned pretty much every other rare item in the game (apart cracker of course), but only one I'd really like to get is partyhat. That would require ton of grind, but could maybe be doable.

 

Another main option is getting all "buyable" 99s out of the way first, and after that go for party hat. That would require even more grind, so I don't really know what to do. At some point I got to level some skills too! I'm just afraid more time I spend on skills the further the party hats get. However, after I had the skills, I wouldn't have to worry about them anymore. Aside farming, I have still about 180m worth of buyables left. And that would take approximately 250m worth of kiln time to do aswell. So doing all 99 buyables would cost me 430m or so, compared to if I'd spend all that time in kiln.

 

Last option is saving money until after combat evolution kicks in, so I could afford the best equipment.

 

Nevertheless, I'm currently saving money until I figure what to do with it. I'm glad that both arcane and zaryte bow are going up, so I don't feel like wasting money using them on kiln. My total wealth is probably over 250m for the first time. I don't know, should take BoB -shot, but I've been slacking with screenshots lately. :D

 

More to come!

 

10.7.2012

Cash: 57,3m (+ 23,6m)

Kiln completed: 27 times (+ 5 times)

Today I decided to go gather what my workers in Miscellania had collected (for quite some time), and here was the result. I didn't really pay attention how much profit I made, but about 10 million or so I think.

 

 

Other than that, I've done 3 more succesful kiln runs since last update. 30 Kilns done! It gets occasionally a bit tedious, but what in RS doesn't? Main point is that I'm going forward on my goals, gain cash which I can spend on things I need in the future. Zaryte bow and Arcane (my most valuable belongings) are both rising in GE and forums (not sure why zaryte now) but it makes me glad. I always hate owning items that are going down, no matter how good they would be. Losing cash when trying to make it isn't very nice. Anyways, without more to say, here's my latest results. Not far from 100m cash checkpoint!

 

12.7.2012

Cash: 84m (+ 26,7m)

Kiln completed: 30 times (+ 3 times)

I need to get focused and do the quests allowing me to have my own kingdom. That's such nice money.

I need to get focused and do the quests allowing me to have my own kingdom. That's such nice money.

You definitely should. Basically it's free money for little to no effort.

 

I've been spending last 2 days playing RSC, incase someone was wondering. I'll be playing RS2 (whatever number you want to call it now) too, of course, but I got sort of hooked on good old RSC. I made also a blog where anyone interested can follow my RSC progress. Hopefully people like to read about that too.

 

RS2 news, I'm closing towards 100m, and might get it today unless I feel like playing RSC instead. :D