back after 4y of absence some advice

[madbullbmx]

Hi everyone

 

It has been 4 years ago since I played runescape. A few days ago I started back again (because I had to stay at the hospital). A lot of things changed.

 

Currently i'm still F2P but I think about upgrading again to member status. I still have enough cash to buy stuff. But I don't know what is good training gear for me now.

I want to train att skills, mage, and ranged. without changing to much of my gear.

back in the days I had some barrow sets, fury, berserker ring, a tzokul sheild and cape, rune boots. and a whip. Are these still good for training? Or is there better stuff?

 

my stats are below, I also loved quests.

[homer205]

Exactly how much of a cash pile are we looking at here?

 

Whip is still a quality weapon, though it has been replaced as best general use by a chaotic rapier, however this degrades and requires 80 attack and dungeoneering (one of the new skills, where you raid dungeons, usually with a team, it's also the only new f2p skill).

 

I would suggest replace the obsidian shield with a dragon defender, obtained via the cyclopes in the warriors guild, here is a link to the relevant page. http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Warriors_guild I'd also suggest upgrading your rune boots to dragon boots, you can buy these straight off the grand exchange (a large market north of varrock west bank which lets you place buy/sell offers for nearly all tradeable items and the game will match your offer with all other offers from players across all worlds, this has replaced most player markets such as falador world 2). F2p gear now has a gravite weapon as best (via dungeoneering) and a rune berserker shield as the best shield (I think), rest is still the same.

 

Farming can be used to make money by farming herb seeds, I believe the first profitable seed is ranarr (at level 32). You can also train this skill at the same time as other skills as your crops will continue to grow even when you're not present or logged in. Here is the tip it guide. http://www.tip.it/runescape/?page=farming_guide.htm

 

Construction is a skill which lets you build a house, while this sounds cool, it has few practical uses and was designed so that it costs a lot of money.

 

Seeing as you're looking at training combat, if you're p2p I would go with slayer, as this will give you a wide variety of monsters to fight and will let you find a preferred monster (or continue with slayer) and will send you around the world map quite a bit. One new drop which you'll notice a lot of monsters have are charms, these are used in summoning and I suggest you collect them all. I'm unaware as to good f2p training spots though I understand the stronghold of security is quite good.

 

Summoning is another of the new skills, it's also the only new skill which effects your combat level (at the same rate as prayer). The skill lets you summon familiars which can aid you in various things throughout runescape. While this skill does require a cash investment, it's widely considered to be worth it. The familiars can be used to fight with you (in multicombat areas only sadly), carry items for you, heal you and assist you in various skilling tasks (for example, one can fish for you can gives you a temporary boost to your fishing level. Here is the tip it guide http://www.tip.it/runescape/?page=farming_guide.htm

[madbullbmx]

around 60M

 

 

I've done farming and some slayering.

Dungeoneering I tried a few times these days managed to get to around lvl 20 I think. But I don't seem to be able level fast.

[transcript80]

Dungeoneering is very slow at first, and also soloing is slow in general (look at my pathetic level...).

 

Getting into good teams may be difficult, but it speeds up the xp considerably.

 

I found that quests can give you an incetive to train specific skills in order to be able to do them. As you were absent for 4 years, there are tons of quests to do, and requirements to meet. Provided you like questing, I suggest you do them. They all have SOME kind of reward, mostly xp which you might find worthwile. The latest quest, "One piercing note" featured complete voice acting and very nice music. Even though it is a beginner quest with little initial reward, I strongly recommmend it.

[Quyneax]

Dungeoneering has a much different xp curve than for example cooking. Cooking is half an hour to get to level 35, followed by a day of making wines to get 99 - the xp/hr is always the same. Dungeoneering xp really goes up fast as you get higher levels.

 

I'd recommend doing quests and getting all stats up to 50 to get a taste of everything in the game again, then pick a goal you like.

[homer205]

You might also want to have a look at the task system (used to be called achievement diaries), they're small activities for various areas which can gain you some rewards and are applicable for many areas though most are p2p (I'm not sure if you can unlock the f2p portions of tasks such as the varrock diary or not). Here's the link to the lumbridge task list, the ring is quite useful. http://www.tip.it/runescape/?page=lumbridge_tasks.htm

[madbullbmx]

Thanks for all the replies.

 

what armour and waepons should I buy when I'm back to member.

 

I defenitly want furry, berserkerring, dragon boots..., rest is free choice but I only have 55M to spent. want to keep 5M to buy things i need to level faster and get me back in business.

[Quyneax]

I'd buy 70 prayer, Verac's skirt, unlock barrows gloves/helmet of Neitiznot, get a dragon defender, vine whip maybe, and save to get extreme potions.

[Troacctid]

If you want to develop your character, I recommend doing quests. Do all the quests you can do at your levels, then level up more until you can do the rest of the quests.

[herpderp]

If you want to develop your character, I recommend doing quests. Do all the quests you can do at your levels, then level up more until you can do the rest of the quests.

 

armor wise bandos top and bottom should run about 35m lol

[AHappySeeker]

Don't buy Bandos unless you have nothing better to sink money into.

 

Here's a list of everything better than Bandos, in rough order.

 

70 prayer

89 herb

68 summ

Zerker ring

Fury

88 summ

91 herb/95 prayer/96 summ

 

Until then, just wear this for everything.

 

 

Whip/rapier

Ddef

Neit/slayer helm

Verac/proselyte top

Verac's skirt

Barrows gloves

Glory

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