At level 50, the awful realization is that the "halfway" level is nothing of the kind, and the next few levels are as tough as the entire progress to 50.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can really agree with this. A telling fact about Runescape and its level system:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The XP needed for level 80 is 19.5 times the XP needed for level 50.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The XP needed for level 99 is 6.5 times the XP needed for level 80.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So really, at level 50 - you're about 1/128 of the way there. :?

Never understood how skillers handle the mindless tedium.... go into autopilot while listening to music, I guess. Got to pay a liittle attention, as the amount of time any action can be continued without ending or timing out seems to be getting shorter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gaining overall level through balance, is much faster that pushing against the massive level gap at 90+, often with no better methods than at the middle or lower levels.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The levels seem to follow a particular characteristic...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1-10: Mostly useless, but fast levels despite typically lower xp options, due to the low gap.

 

 

 

10-30: Gaining some capabilities, and still levelling once everey couple of item loads.

 

 

 

30-50: Slowing down, but maybe giving some payback

 

 

 

50-70: You are serious about training this, but it's a lot of bulk

 

 

 

70-90: If it's a resource gathering skill, you are getting rich, if it's a resource consuming skill, you have no cash left

 

 

 

90-99: You want this, you really want this. If F2P, the only useful 99 is smithing (rune).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At level 50, the awful realization is that the "halfway" level is nothing of the kind, and the next few levels are as tough as the entire progress to 50.

 

 

 

Question:What about combat levels/combat-related levels?

Question:What about combat levels/combat-related levels?

 

 

 

Good question. I'd love to know people's opinions on it. :-s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Mr. Devnull

wow, thats a very honest and good post you ahve made. Well thanks for the read i liked it alot.. And you alos stated about your opinions on pures and of that sort. I say your partially right and wrong at the same time. If you take it in money making wise or just pking a pure is good both ways,

 

 

 

because you choose the skill you mostly like and decide not to get up what you hate. like to me defense is real boring and slow. Also you can get some woodcutting up or mining to keep up your demands of pking like lobs and pots, all of that sort. All in the end doesn't matter it's fun and cool and you feel proud to ahve a good pure that you like, and have the skills to back up for it.. and yes iv'e seen many pures wiht skill capes and not just combat but also cooking and that sort.That's my opinion and i sitck with it... P34c3 ()u7 :

The article itself was dull but nevertheless the point got across.

 

you have now reached 99 politics! you are now the president of the united states!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

anyway, the article was very good, and really reflected what I trained like before i got a 99 mage goal. you just hunt and hunt until you find one you can bear

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

lol if u need 99 politics to become the president president bush is obviously using about 10 politics potions at one time lol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I should add that being President is P2P only. You need to be a member (i.e., a citizen) in order to use this feature. Subscribe now! Many methods of payment available! (end advertisement)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note that a lvl-35 age requirement is also necessary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personally, I think this skill requires an enormous amount of money to begin with (we're talking 300 mill just to get elected). However, it is profitable in the end (albeit the methods of profit are of dubious legality - keep it secret, or you will get banned. Clinton got banned, but they accepted his ban appeal).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eh, I should probably stop at this point 8-)

:D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You brought out something without saying it explicitly; Runescape allows us to play the game exactly how we want to play the game - we can be pure, we can go PK'ing, we can keep all of our levels even. It doesn't matter to Runescape how we play, only that "we" keep doing it. My method of play is similar to yours, I keep track of my goals for each area, track what I have in inventory, have built my own skill calculators based on how I need them, etc. Just the nerd in me. So, its good to see others are like that as well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for your insight.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lost Rurick

i have to say, reading this was like viewing a window to my own character and temperament in runescape - i too get very bored doing one skill constantly, although i have been working on woodcutting and fletching for a while now on and off. i usually get bored of doing a skill for longer than half an hour, at least with fletching i can watch tv or play on my DS while i'm waiting for the logs to be cut - some skills, like runecrafting, have become fun now i'm at a higher level (couldn't be bothered with nature runs or the abyss, but laws are easy) but things like crafting can be very tedious, especially if you're ideal way of levelling up is 70 inventories of pot lids :wall:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i too use spreadsheets to help me calculate my levels, i find it's a fun and enjoyable way of of doing runescape. it means i can look at what skills are close to levelling up and what i need to do to get there - it's like using the tip it skill calculators but everything is there on one screen. unfortunately i am nowhere near as computer orientated as i should be and most of the things on my own spreadsheet are manual (such as level increases and experience per skill) but it helps a lot!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

all in all, a good post :lol: (the times article, not mine)

i just loved this article - one of the best in recent memory !!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and i'm happy to know i'm not the only one using spreadsheets to figure out leveling - they really help me set short-term goals (right now its "get all skills above 60 - almost there if it was not for prayer.....)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i too am fairly even in skills, and get tired of one thing for too long....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and yes, i run off to burthorpe if i get a 100+ slayer assignment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

now to figure out my standard deviation (my guess is that it is fairly low)

I too have an all round char. I find that it keeps the monotony down by doing different things when you get bored of levelling just 1 skill. I dont use spreadsheets and only rarely use the calculaters, only when i know i am near to my next level, for me sometimes getting a level unexpectedly is a nice surprise.

 

 

 

The other way i decrease the boredom factor is to take a break for a day and play Battlefield 2142 instead...very violent, no blood, runescape has more blood interestingly enuff but that is where my geekishness lays not in spreadsheets and lvls but in stupid uninteresting facts that no one wannts to know about :P But hey isn't that what forums are for?? :D

 

 

 

Anyway, interesting article, one of the editors better ones for a while i think. I also agree that his/her writing technique does seem to change now and again perhaps its a "they"? :-k

I have both a main and a pure. The pure I use because it's a challenge and you get more credit for being a pure with good PK vids and such. I don't really use my main anymore, all though it is more fun being able to dk and kq and all that stuff, mains are boring. Most people that have successful pures have been playing rs for more than 3 months like most of the people here. I have been playing off and on for bout 6 years.. call me a nerd or whatever, but yeah. After 6 years a main isn't fun anymore. The article was a nice read yes, but if you honestly keep track of all that stuff you gotta get yourself a life..

My first post, heh... hello, all!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I, too, smirk in disdain at the feeble-minded pures who feel compelled to chase after and kill other people's characters in order to make a Runescape living. I suppose it can be profitable, if you are always successful. Profitable monetarily, at any rate. But I'd be willing to bet that experience is much easier to come by through fighting NPC's... most of them don't have anything comparable to rune armor boosting their melee and range defense, for instance...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At any rate, I am perfectly happy to be what I am... 1618 total skill, 93 combat - a 17.39785 ratio. I focus mostly on the "production" skills: Smithing, Crafting, Herblore, Fletching, Farming, Cooking. My "gathering" skills (Mining, Fishing, Woodcutting, Thieving, and Runecrafting - something so simple could not possibly be called a "production" skill in my book) are, other than Mining, somewhat lower in comparison.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In combat, I am quite comfortable with melee (almost dead-even ATK, STR, and DEF), range, and mage, with a decent 65 Prayer to boot. Now, I realize that this might not be the best format for PK-ing, but I'd hate to be a melee pure assigned to kill 100+ blue dragons... mage and range ROCK for that! And, personally, any character with less than 43 prayer deserves to get trashed by the various higher-level melee-using NPCs. Other than mages, base magic defense is pitiful for pures... a higher magic level provides increased magic defense no matter what combat style you use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then there's the little matter of *ahem* "getting around". Other than the new "Home Port" spell, you need at least a little magic training to travel quickly to Varrock, Ardougne, Falador, and Camelot... more still for the various other locales. That leaves the non-mage, pure character with... the four Glory teleports, Duel Arena, Castle Wars, Ectophial, Burthorpe (and the new Games teleport), and Rellekka. I hope they train Agility, because they must have to run a while to get from these mostly borderland spots to the Runescape interior.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I guess that's about it for now... my the Force be with you!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- JediGrant

And time to show you something you DON'T know...:

 

 

 

And then there's the little matter of *ahem* "getting around". Other than the new "Home Port" spell, you need at least a little magic training to travel quickly to Varrock, Ardougne, Falador, and Camelot... more still for the various other locales. That leaves the non-mage, pure character with... the four Glory teleports, Duel Arena, Castle Wars, Ectophial, Burthorpe (and the new Games teleport), and Rellekka. I hope they train Agility, because they must have to run a while to get from these mostly borderland spots to the Runescape interior.

 

 

 

You missed one. "Barbarian Village" Teleport Staff, known as the "Skull Sceptre". Sure, it takes some time and investment, but if those pures (which I am also not one of) know what they are doing, they will have one. Yeah, you could use a glory tele, but why use those when you could have a "5 use disintegrating spare tele"? :wink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Off-Topic: You know, it is funny, I don't ever see much of anyone down there. It is like Tip.It needs to get a ton of clans down there to advertise the region. *mega-hint* :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Mr. D. V. Devnull

It was a nice read, and a good article. But it seems to miss a real point that is made somewhere. Dunno...

 

 

 

However, if the point was 'its all about the levels', I don't really agree. It's all about fun.

It was a nice read, and a good article. But it seems to miss a real point that is made somewhere. Dunno...

 

 

 

However, if the point was 'its all about the levels', I don't really agree. It's all about fun.

 

 

 

Not really. Read on as to why...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was stumbling around with my main account for the most part until I reached combat 70+... before then, since Late July 2005 (when I began playing RS), staying alive was a pain in the rear and I died and ended up back in Lumbridge many times. Each time I died was a super-major impact to my player account. I will never forget it, due to how badly I was impacted and frustrated by my in-game losses. :( ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Since I got past CB 70, it has been more work, if anything, to level up and gain in-game money for my in-game operations. Especially since now I have to compete with those who would dare violate the RS rules constantly, and battling with them to gain my in-game scores and resources is utter hell. Worse, I am unable to gain the IRL money to go RS P2P, so I can't escape the rule-breakers either. (Don't flame me about this. :x ... You can not understand the life I live unless you live something similar.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the only reason I personally remain on RS anymore is due to the good buddies and friends I have. I don't feel much like totally leaving and treating them like [bleep]ing [bleep]... :| ... but at the same time, I keep trying to level up a bit because my buddies challenge me to.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When it comes right down to it in trying to stick with my buddies, it really is all about the levels these days. Just like the title of that article.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Mr. Devnull