Gameplay and getting going

The quest All fired Up was released today, it is a very easy quest that takes about 20 minutes to complete.

Merchanting tip buy some normal logs and sell them in a day or 2 when the price increases, or chop now and watch the price increase then sell, you need to do it quick because the price will drop again soon.

You need 45 logs (normal is fine) and a tinderbox, you need 43 firemaking and completed priest in Peril quest.

Talk to King Roald in Varrock Castle about a new alert system he will tell you to speak to Blaze Sharpeye just south of the Temple on the Salve, talk to him about the Beacons and offer to help by lighting the beacon, you need 20 logs click on the beacon then click yes to put the logs on, click again to light it.

Speak to Blaze Sharpeye again and he would like you to light the next beacon, this is next to the rag and bone man and tended by Squire Fyre you again need 20 logs and a tinderbox click the beacon and click yes to use the logs then click again to light, speak to Squire Fyre then return to Blaze Sharpeye.

Blaze Sharpeye asks you to top up the fire to keep it burning brightly, you need 5 logs for this, after you have topped up the fire again Blaze Sharpeye is happy and tells you to speak to King Roald and tell him what has happened, King Roald will give you your reward.

This gives you access to the new mini game and I will add a guide when I have had chance to test it out.

A few tips
If you have a good agility level you can use the shortcut by the temple to access Canafis Bank if not tele to Varrock and run back and forth with the logs, using a spirit terrorbird can carry a few extra logs and using the scrolls restore run energy.

No your not rubbish as a Runescape player, but you should know what is rubbish on Runescape, new players and old players are guilty of not knowing what is rubbish on Runescape its not just restricted to the newb, I am a level 136 at the moment and I discovered that something I was leaving on the floor after killing a monster was probably more valuable than some of the items I picked up.

"I wanna tell you a story" (A free cookie to anyone who tells me who's catch phrase that was) I was training summoning and just got level 79 Summoning.

I could now make titans, not sure if they are good or not but I decided to make some, the secondary ingredient is elemental talismans (not the "elemental talisman" but air,water,earth,fire talismans), I thought great this is OK I will go to GE and buy some, they used to cost 5GP so thought I would buy 100 they cant be much more now, wrong they were over 1.5K each for fire and water, so all these talismans I left on the floor could have added up to a pretty penny, OK 1.5k to me is not a lot of money but when I was a newb killing the dark mages south of Varrock 1.5k was a lot, you new guys don't know your born nowadays, if you see a tally pick it up, even the cheap ones at 300gp are worth picking up as a low level it soon adds up.

Another thing I did as a mid level was attack tortoises, good training xp and some good drops, I used to leave the shells because they had no use, now summoning has come out they have a use and the value of them is just under 6K, when I was first able to make the war tortoise I couldn't buy shells for 6k so there is a demand for an expensive item that is not being met.

Killing some monsters like jellies drop steel battle axes and 2 handers, a lot of players leave these on the floor, taking hi alchemy runes and alching these will give you more than the value of the runes, so even if its 20gp more than the cost of the runes its free money but more important its free mage xp, even if you just use the money to buy more nats to continue its a win win situation, test things that are dropped to see if its worth more than the cost of runes and alch every time you get one as a drop after that, its not as repetitive as alching yew longs where you always make a loss and it soon adds up.

Some people will slow down training to pick up 40gp from a monster drop and leave items that are worth a lot more.

Next time you get a drop think is it used for summoning herblore or any other skill and could it be worth something, I pick up all my tallies now and stick it on GE.

I went to the wizards circle just south of Varrock the other day (I will explain why in another post) I was killing the wizards wearing my Bandos, whip and DFS, I picked a world that had no one there because I can 1 hit kill them and would stop the newbs getting xp.

I found a world and started to kill them, as soon as I got some wizards robes as a drop I put them on, I was a level 136 with bandos tassets robe top and wizards hat, takes me back to when I was a low level with my wizzy gear on only able to dream of having 10k in the bank and a set of full rune.

As I was killing a level 67 came along with a cannon and set it up, he must have more money than sense because Cannon is a Rich Mans toy, balls cost 180gp ish each at the moment, its a non multi area so there was little benefit having it there anyway, he was wearing full addy (t) and attacking the wizards, wizards being wizards were maging him and he was taking damage, I told him to take off his armour so he would take less damage to which his reply was "LOL", another player came along in a mixture of mith and steel armour again I advised him to take the armour off to take less damage, he then logged off.

That is the reasoning behind this post, if you are new to Runescape you may not be aware of the best armour to wear for each style of attack, range, magic and melee all have techniques that need to be followed to prolong training without bank trips.

Melee
If you are fighting monsters that attack with melee attack style, these are things like swords, axes, mace and daggers the best armour to wear is Metal armour, iron, steel, mith, addy and rune are all good against melee attack the higher level armour offering the best defence, wearing dragon hide or mage can offer a small degree of defence against melee attacks but no where near as much as metal, wearing non metal armour will not reduce your effectiveness when you are attacking using melee.

Range
This is similar to melee in the fact that metal armour has good range defence, so if a monster is attacking using range, this can be arrows or rocks then metal armour will offer a good defence, you will take less damage wearing metal armour than dragon hide or mage robes, if you are using melee to attack a monster that ranges you have the best defence and ideal attack armour, however if you are ranging a ranging monster, wearing metal armour will reduce the amount of times you hit, this in turn will slow down the speed you kill it and you will suffer more damage, wearing range armour, dragon hide or leather will not reduce your ability to range them so you will hit your best but you will take more damage, in this situation you need to weight up whether you need better defence or attack ability, there is little to be gained by ranging a ranger so this should not be a problem, wearing mage robes against a ranger is not to be advised.

Magic
This is where it gets interesting, defending against magic attacks, if you are fighting a mage you should wear Dragon Hide armour or leather, leather and dragon hide offer the best defence against magic, leather armour, then green, blue, red, black dragon hide have increasing magic defence so wearing this armour will reduce the amount of times a mage has a successful hit on you, wearing this armour will not reduce the chance of a hit when melee or range attack is used against them, it will however reduce the effectiveness of a magic attack against a mage, mageing a mage is not to be advised anyway, if you are attacking a mage with metal armour removing the armour will reduce the damage you take.

The combat triangle
The combat triangle is not really a triangle is more of a line with mage having the short straw.
According to the triangle mage beats melee, melee beats range and range beats mage in an attack, it is more of a double triangle.

Defence (armour) wise, Range beats mage, mage beats melee, melee beats range
Attack (weapon) wise, range beats mage, melee beats mage, mage beats nothing

Summary
If you are ranging or meleeing a mage wear dragon hide or leather
IF you are ranging anything wear dragon hide or leather
If you are meleeing a ranger or a meleer wear metal armour
If you are maging a melee wear magic robes, (provided they can not hit you)
If you are maging a ranger, don't

There are exceptions to these rules but as a rule of thumb it will help you keep safe until you have had chance to test things out.

I have introduced this category to help the players new to Runescape, my first post will define the difference between the term noob and newb, trust me there is a huge difference, after reading this post you will hopefully learn which of the two you are (If any) and how to deal with players who call you a noob or other names.

Many people have different understanding of the word noob, most have the same opinion that the word noob is not a good thing to be, some people will get upset if they are called a noob, if someone calls me a noob it doesn't bother me, I don't call them names back I don't add them to my iggy list I just ignore them and carry on what im doing.

The word noob
Many moons ago the word noob meant new player, you come off of tut island and you are a noob, being called a noob was not an insult and you just accepted being a noob as a way to describe you in general.
Over the years the word has changed meaning and now is a player who does stupid things to annoy another player, such as deliberately picking up another players arrows to keep them, stealing another players monster when they have been training for a long time on it, setting up a cannon in a busy area etc.
Most of the things people are called noobs for are not against the rules just not nice things to do, so generally a player who fits the category as a noob is a selfish player.

High level noobs
There are high level noobs, some (but not many) high level players think they are great and better than anyone lower than them, they call people noobs just because they are lower levels, this section is brought about after reading a post that Vaskor highlighted in his Runescape Readers Digest where a group of level 99 slayers took screenies of people training slayer in a non efficient way, post it on their forum for people to comment and laugh at, this is a group of high level noobs and I wont be joining them any time soon despite being 600k away from 99 slayer at present, anyone who laughs at low level players because of their lack of experience automatically inherit the title of NOOB.

The word newb
The word newb replaces the word Noob as the general term of a new player, it is not an insult just a term.

Dealing with being called a noob
Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me, this is a saying that I was told when I was a child and it is so true, if someone calls you a noob does that make you a noob? if someone calls you a tw@ does that make you one? I can answer that for you NO!!! NO!!! it does not, being called an idiot does not make you an idiot, being called a name does not hurt you.

If you do something stupid that annoys someone it may cause them to insult you, if it was your fault just saying "sorry" will make them feel better and you feel better, it may make them feel sorry for insulting you and a "np" from them should clear the air, you may even develop a friendship from it, it is not easy to say sorry but it is such a powerful word that can save friendships, relationships and unpleasantness, if you are strong enough to say sorry then you have a very powerful advantage in life.

If you don't do anything wrong and someone insults you, you may choose to insult them back, what will this prove? nothing!! it may escalate and end up trading insults and either or both of you may get reported and banned, the easiest way to deal with it is to ignore it and carry on, if they continue to insult you and you cant ignore it either change world or put them on your ignore list, this may feel, that they have won but it really shows that you are mature enough to deal with things in a civilised manner.

If someone calls you a noob because you are a low level player, you can ignore it or you can ask them if they were never your level, you can even say yes what is the best way to train to get to your level.

The important thing is to not start retaliating and get yourself banned.

What's it with town criers in Runescape?

I was on a Runescape fansite forum and I saw a post asking what the town crier was supposed to be and where the name came from, they asked as if Jagex had just made the name up and created the idea from their developers.
After reading this I realised that not everyone knows about the meaning or thinking of many things behind Runescape, this can be for reasons such as age or their location, these things can be found by searching Google or other search engine but not everyone would think to look these things up, I live in the UK and because Jagex are based in the UK I am in a position to be aware of many of the creations from Jagex.

A Town Crier was used to pass messages to the town folk in England many years ago, this was so people who couldn't read could get important local information and I believe as commercial ads promoting local businesses and their products, yes even town criers have a classified section, they had a bell to get peoples attention followed by their message.

If I can think of or made aware of things people may not be aware of I will add them here.