On April 11, 2012 I created another of my numerous DIYer accounts, which have all failed or I lost interest in. After stumbling upon the DIY topic in GD I felt that now was a perfect time to start a new account. College was about to be done for the year and this opened up more time for playing and enjoying Runescape.

 

I choose the name Warsaver in honor of it being my original Runescape name; before I changed to Artigiano, and felt it would be appropriate. I was starting a new adventure just like 6 or 7 years ago.

 

Day 1

 

 

Upon starting, I realized that I was given a 14 day free trial of Runescape membership. This gave me some mixed feelings. I loved having the opportunity to start off with everything at my disposal but now I have to think about having two accounts with membership; if I keep the membership going on Warsaver, or letting one of the accounts slide; not the best thing to think about after starting a new account. Still thinking and would appreciate any helpful input.

 

So I started up and landed in Burthope. Ran through the epic, in my opinion, starting cutscene and up to the Let Them Eat Pie quest before stopping for the night. I tried to raise all my stats up to at least level 5 before heading on to the next task area. So approximately I had 5 attack, strength, defense, ranged, prayer, magic, smithing, crafting, cooking, fishing, and hunting. Because of my DIY style I had to get 9 mining to get 5 smithing. Also I wasn't able to level up farming.

 

I don't know how often I will update this little blog, its my first if you couldn't tell already, or what I should really include. Any criticism or compliments would be appreciated and if you have any comments whatsever let me know.

 

Till Tomorrow

Artigiano

 

 

 

Current Progress and Occasionally Goals

 

 

 

First! Good Luck! :)

Good luck :)

 

A few tips:

 

Try getting 40 fishing and cooking as soon as possible, you'll need a lot of food

Train combat with slayer if possible, slayer is extremely useful

Tasks are great money, most useful easy rewards are ardy cloak (good bonuses) and Varrock armour (chance of getting extra ores, more daily battlestaves)

Do Fairy Tale part 1 for level 19 farming and start part 2 for access to fairy rings when you can, many other quests have great rewards too

Pick up all drops, especially seeds and runes

Good luck :)

 

A few tips:

 

Try getting 40 fishing and cooking as soon as possible, you'll need a lot of food

Train combat with slayer if possible, slayer is extremely useful

Tasks are great money, most useful easy rewards are ardy cloak (good bonuses) and Varrock armour (chance of getting extra ores, more daily battlestaves)

Do Fairy Tale part 1 for level 19 farming and start part 2 for access to fairy rings when you can, many other quests have great rewards too

Pick up all drops, especially seeds and runes

In addition to those:

 

Do your dailies - Ahrein with his 40 pineapples and 80 seaweed are invaluable crafting xp and the pineapples are great for making supercompost and stockpiling for later use.

Also - Taverly has alot of shops with great items, my personal favourite is the farming shop :>

Alright thanks for all the encouragement and tips. Heres to a hopefully successful account!

Mining, smithing and D&D's are your best friends ;)

Day 2

 

Today was finishing the tutorial and doing some quests/tasks. Thanks for the suggestion to do the tasks by the way nice 60k sitting in my pouch after 157 tasks or so!

 

Skills 4/12/12

 

 

 

Quests 4/12/12

 

 

 

Hopefully tomorrow will be more skill based, but might be a continuation of today.

Day 3

 

Today was a nice relaxing day of fishing on the riverside. Was able to get to 40 fishing and 40 cooking, as well as do about 9 more tasks or so.

Also got some odd levels spread about.

 

Overall not a really productive day but was alright. Going to work on some Mining tomorrow, with the possibility of some side Smithing

 

Skills 4/13/12

 

 

 

Quests 4/13/12

 

No quests completed today

Good luck with your account! :)

@Firedruid321

 

Thanks for the encoragement!

DIY is such a fun playstyle :) I'd recommend the call of the sea aura whenever you can get it - it's made lobster fishing much more bearable on my diyer, and it'l continue to be pretty useful basically forever too :D

 

Edit: also, clues clues and more clues! :P just for the al gables they're great nevermind the chance at some useful stuff too. Good luck with the account!

@Octarine19

 

I don't know how I feel about the how aura system in general but I will look into it. Also I would need to get some more levels in general to start clues to be able to get all the required materials; teleports and the such, but thanks I will definately be doing them.

 

Thanks for the support and encouragement!

Day 4

 

Today was a very productive day for me. Got a lot of Mining and Smithing done, with some Woodcutting and Fletching to complete the arrowheads I made.

I will need to find a way to get a TON of feathers though...

 

Near the end of the day I lost some focus, so I started on Slayer/Combat a little.

Also completed two quests.

 

Skills 4/14/12

 

 

Quests 4/14/12

I'm trying something new with this section. Tell me if you prefer this or if it is too much!

 

 

 

 

 

Day 5

 

Quest Day by and large, then I tried to get some skills up a little bit.

Not really productive but had a lot of work I had to catch up on for school.

 

Skills 4/15/12

 

 

Quests 4/15/12

A lot of pictures!

 

 

 

 

 

Day 6

 

Wasn't able to play much at all today, classes are closing up so of course all the work is happening now...

 

Skills 4/16/12

 

 

Quests 4/16/12

No quests completed

Day 7

 

Has it already been a week? Wow how time flies when you are torturing yourself, just kidding.

This has been the most fun I've had on Runescape since I was just a brand new adventurer.

 

Today was sorta weird. Wanted to get ectophial so I can start attempting to farm a little.

Did the quest, then another, and eventually did all the free to play quests besides Arrav and Dragon Slayer.

(Imp Cacther was a pain in the butt by the way. Almost 2 hours killing imps.)

Wow...

Anyway, need to find a partner to do Arrav, any new DIYers I know help me out here?

 

Most of the skill gains where from quests, or training to do quests today.

 

Skills 4/17/2012

 

 

Quests 4/17/2012

A lot of pictures

 

 

 

 

 

hey good luck, and I started a new account so if you wanna do sheild of arrav drop me a message ingame names Floppy Fido :)

@Floppy Fido

 

I'll do just that! Also thanks for the encouragement!

 

Day 8

 

Today was another day of quests! Got a lot of level ups through these quests,

so those stat gains aren't from training. It was interesting doing A Soul's Bane at this level though.

No prayer obviously so it was an exciting "final boss". Also got really lucky with Murder Mystery.

Found the killer within questioning one subject so that cut the time down a lot.

 

Skills 4/18/12

 

 

Quests 4/18/12

A lot of pictures!

 

 

 

 

 

Great job with all of those quests. I wish you continued success with the DIY style!

@GregorDGrim

 

Thanks! It's been fun to go back and play the old quests, there are some that I'm dreading (Sheep Herder),

but hopeful I can get a lot of them done, as quests have been one of my favorite things to do in RUnescape.

Thanks for the encouragement as well!

Day 9

 

Today was another slow one. Not much time to play but was able to get a few levels.

Oh yeah got two treasure trails from pickpocketing HAM members (trying to get two sets of robes for quests)

Hope tomorrow will be a little better but I don't have much hope until next week.

 

Skills 4/19/12

 

 

Quests 4/19/12

No quests completed

 

Treasure Trails 4/19/12

Going to add this in whenever I get a treasure trail

 

 

That is a magic comp bow if you are curious

 

Those are Phoenix Lair Teleport Scrolls

 

 

Good luck diying I started a diy account too if you want to add me in game

Day 10

 

Just another one of those days. Got a little skilling done today. Got over 600 total level!

Can finally use a Rune pickaxe, so I guess that is something.

Ran into r3nnn/r3nnn DIY today which was awesome!

 

Skills 4/20/12

 

 

Quests 4/20/12

 

 

 

 

Day 11

 

Not much today. I did a few quests and then started to level construction up.

Probably went a little overboard but I'll get it back quickly enough.

 

Skills 4/21/2012

 

 

Quests 4/21/2012

 

 

 

 

Day 12

 

Today was once again questing day. Not out a good few of them.

Only have about 5 Novice quests left, so I will focus my training on getting those requirements.

Also finished my most dreaded quest (Sheep Herder) in about 4 minutes, so I am extremely happy.

 

Skills 4/22/2012

 

 

Quests 4/22/2012

A lot of pictures!