Gameplay and getting going

I keep having ideas that would improve Runescape, not major updates that would effect everyone but little things that could be introduced that would make life easier, a bit of common sense or just make Runescape more playable, just for the hell of it I thought I would mention them here as and when I think of them.

1/ A creche for your familiar when you pop into GE to buy the supplies that you forgot to get, nothing worse than summoning your bunyip and remembering you forgot to buy your anti poison or bolts etc.

2/ Rework on the druid pouch, when you run through Mort Myre without a pouch the Ghasts can narrowly miss you, when you have a pouch they never miss you and it always uses a pouch, there should not be a penalty for taking the time to make the pouches they should be able to miss your backpack with or without a pouch in it.

3/ A fishermans hat, somthing to put your feathers in when fishing, similar to the enchanted summoning hats, not particularly useful but just a bit of fun, just to make it more like real life fly fishing.

I have many that I cant think of at the moment, if you have any please leave them as a comment, I will add the comment and include it as part of the post if it is one that I have considered, remember its not major game changing updates or changes I am looking for just a little tweek here and there.

I have noticed that one of the messages of the week is that darts and knives are the fastest weapons on Runescape, they are correct stating this,  knives sell very quickly on the Grand Exchange that is why knives and bolts are the main smithers item (financially challenged players mainly) .

They may well be the fastest item but for xp they are pretty much useless, when I was training range I was told to use knives because they were quick xp, happy to try anything I took rune knives with me on my slayer tasks, I was advised to take bronze or Iron because I could just leave them and not bother picking them up saving time, I had my accumulator so used rune to hopefuly make it go quicker, it was great a double quick weapon but there was a snag, I couldnt hit anything, 0,0,0,0,14,0,12,0,0,18,0,0, the 0,s well out numbered even the low reds, so yes it was fast but you get xp for hits and I just wasnt getting any, it was bareable on things with little defence but as soon as you had a monster with the slightest defence they just couldnt penetrate.

This brings me on to a strange Grand Exchange phenomenon, the Grand Exchange moves in mysterious ways but I can not think of the reasoning or point of what follows, I have for years collected rune dart (p) from monster drops, mainly metal dragons, a couple of years ago I had a few k of them and decided I dont use them so I will put them on GE, they didnt sell, even at minimum they would not sell, for the last 2 years they have been on GE at minimum only taking them out to change the price to minimum again, the price has gone up and down by huge amount and still unable to sell, this is the chart for the last 180 days.

Every day I need to adjust my minimum price to stop it going to sleep on the GE, perhaps they are trying to generate some junk for junk trades, it escapes my why it is so artificially adjusted, rune darts (p+) had a similar peak in November.

I have millions worth of darts but just cant get at it,

WHY?

After a day at work I logged onto swiftkit to monitor my slayer rank, I have been doing this for a while to motivate me to train slayer for charms for summoning, I dont need much motivation I love slayer its just nice to have a target now that the illusive 99 has been well and truely reached, my target being the next 100 rank.

I was surpriseed that after a days work I had climbed 8 slayer places, the only explination I can think of is bannings, are high level players being banned regularly? I noticed yesterday the same thing happened but just assumed it was a mistake, it may well have happened before but I havent been following that closely.

If it was the case that high level players, even players with 99 slayer and the combat levels to match are being banned, a word of warning, STICK TO THE RULERS no one is immune, the rules are hardly difficult to stick too, they make playing nicer for everyone.

I prefer to gain rank by playing but the odd few levels dont go a miss by muppet players getting caught.

The last Grandmaster quest was a Grandmother quest this Grandmaster quest has the right to be called a Grandmaster, the quest was quite easy to start with nothing that a few prayer pots couldnt help with, apparently using piety stops the fog from choking you in the explosives room, I had curses enabled so couldnt use piety I took a few sharks for the chesty cough, I also wore a face mask but that didnt help.

The fight was fun but boy was it scary, I was shaking like a leaf when I had finished, I watched a few videos on youtube most used range and completetd it with no pots spare and familiars dropping food and pots, I then found this vid.

The first person who tried to melee that I watched, because he had lots of pots left over at the end I copied his technique plus a few additions of my own.

I didnt have a godsword so went to GE and bough a Bandos one, this surprisingly bought immediatly, I couldnt use overload pot so had extreme attack and strength, cant make Steel Titans so took a Iron Titan and scrolls, I also used lunar spells to venge myself before entering, also venged myself in game waiting for his special attack of 98hp.

So I was venged, had bandos on special, had prayer set to Turmoil curse and titan ready to "Iron within", potted up and went in, I started chatting to Nomad and the fight began, good hit from my bandos reducing his defence, a good hit from my titan and not sure what happened to vengence all happened so quickly, I kept supping my brews and super restores like there was no tomorrow, his health was shooting down mind you my pots were going down just as quick, got him nice and low and he ate, so stared again he was back to 1/2 health, as I got near the end of my super restores I had plenty of sara's, I drank my last sip of super restore and had about 4 brews left, I was expecting it to end very quickly with me being sent out with my tail between my legs but no I drank my sara and used my remaining sips of extreme to bring my stats back up, I also got a few specs from my titan without which I would have been killed first, Nomad Died, (or so it seems) me the victor with my trusty Titan by my side.

This quest will sort the men from the boys, people need to earn the quest cape now.

A bit of a dissapointment of a reward, some zeal points for some xp in all the skills I have maxed, just like Blood runs Deep, quests for "high level" players but rewards for middle level players, I can get some use out of the zeal for charms but players with 99 summoning not a lot for them, but thats a different post altogether.

The Cape is pretty good, looks  plain red or blue velvet just like your grandparents curtains but with a nice 12 prayer bonus, plus 8 bonus for all defence, this being 1 less defence than a skill cape and 8 more prayer bonus than a trimmed skill cape, ideal for those  dangerous boss fights or wildy clues.

I am forever seeing people asking how to make money on Runescape, I pose an even more difficult question, how can you not make money on Runescape?

Not so easy in f2p but can still be very profitable with  a bit of observation.

Playing the other day I decided to make some of the extreme potions, I had plenty of super sets (3)'s and some of the secondary ingredients, lantadyme, Dwarf weed and Avantoe for the melee pots, I made my pots and used them, yep they are as great as they would appear boosting all my combat stats to 125, hitting up to 44 with my whip and a wolpertinger hitting up to 22 in multi combat areas slayer tasks just fly through.

Looking into making some more pots I had a look on the Grand Exchange and wooooah, scary the price as you would expect has shot up, lantadyme just under 4K, Avantoe just under 2K and Dwarf Weed just over 6K and still rising, if  you want cash this is an easy way to make it, kill cave crawlers at relleka dungeon or chaos druids at taverly they drop almost constant herbs, people chop yews for cash, at the moment yew logs sell for 475 gp the cheapest herb sells for 388gp that being tarromin and closely followed by Guam at 448gp, I can kill a cave crawler a lot quicker than I can get a yew log and stand the chance of getting a herb worth as much as 9K, that gives me the question why do people still chop for cash? admittedly ranaar are  not very common unless at smellies (aberrant spectres) but you can expect to get a few Dwarf  Weeds, Irits and most of the other herbs when killing the above mentioned monsters.

Unfortunately because the price has shot up if you want to use the herbs for the potions you have to pay the price, it is not cheaper for you to collect them than pay for them in GE, just because you dont sell them doesnt mean they have no value, If I buy a ranaar in GE it costs me 9k, If I kill a cave crawler and get a ranaar its not free but has a value of 9K so I can go on GE and have 9K cash, the only difference is you dont need the money up front if you collect them yourself, if your short of cash that makes a difference but if you have plenty you may prefer the herblore XP to the time spent killing monsters.  this choice that us wealthy players have is the very cause of the price going up and the ability of lower level players to make cash.

This price increase is caused by the recent update to herblore and may or may not stay as high as it is, normally after the demand there is a slight drop in price but herbs have and always will be a good money spinner for people who want cash and happy to do some work for it.

Although this update has made a difference for lower level players with herblore the same happens for most other updates, the recent limited stock at shops has made the price of arrows shoot up this gives lower level players the oportunity to make arrows getting mining, smithing and fletching xp and making a profit, the price of water filled viles went up, high level players dont want to waste time making them so the lower level players can benefit.

Every update affects something, sometimes just short term others long term but there will always be ways for low level players to make cash from new and old methods you just need to look at the GE and the updates that are released.

Quests offer ways for people to make cash, the hand in the sand quest gives you the oportunity to get 82 buckets of sand every day, they sell on GE for about 15k very quickly, buying pinapples at catherby and selling them  gives a good amount of cash and battle staves from Zafff at varrock, killing normal monsters and selling the talismans and runes can bring in some cash not just herbs, chopping trees and fishing brings in some decent cash even at low levels.

So the heading of my post How can you not make money on Runescape ?