Gameplay and getting going

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I do a lot of treasure trails, getting 99 slayer you get loads of clues and I normally do them after each task.

I was watching the price of the Saradomin sword when we had the rapid armour and weapon price drop and noticed that the Saradomin god pages were over 200k each, last time I had one of those they sold for 50k each.

I understand that with God wars dungeon being released that the price would have increased but the Zamorak pages are over 1/2 million, last Time I had Zamorak they sold for 150K to 200K, Guthix 10K to 20K, Guthix are now just under 200K and no use in God wars dungeon.

This got me thinking when did I get my last God Page prize from a clue? I haven't had one since the latest update to the treasure trail clues and prizes, from once being a common drop to being so rare that I haven't had one for over 100 trails seems a bit funny to me, have they been accidentally removed from the TT prize list? I do not have an answer, do you?

This update is in draft form, more pictures and spelling grammatical error checks to follow shortly.

The Summers end quest was released a couple of days ago and yesterday I decided to do it, I packed up my wood cutting clobber, put on some dragon hide and headed to the Farm North of the Graveyard of shadows, I spoke to Summer Bonde the little ghost girl who I helped in Spirit of Summer quest.

She said I should speak to the Elders in another dimension, I did this by operating Jennica's ring when stood on the portal and I appeared in a white area with Summer and 3 other ghostys, we had a chat and they told me that the beast was breaking its way from the alternate dimension and coming into ours to devour our souls (mmmmmm souls), they said I need to lure it into a cave in the north of the area in the spirit world.

The Tunnel is blocked so you need to go to the normal world and collapse the tunnel there, this can be done by clicking collapse on the tunnel with a pick axe in your inventory, collapsing the tunnel there opens up the tunnel in the spirit world.

The Elders give you a clue that the beast is used to my tricks and that the answer on how to lure him is in the rings used to trap him last time, the rings are coloured crimson, gold and green therefore the beast is not familiar with familiars made with blue charms, use a familiar made with a blue charm and lure the beast into the tunnel by walking into the tunnel with your familiar out, your familiar gets eaten but the beast will follow.

When you are inside you can speak to a ghost who tells you how you can help him kill the beast, this part of the quest is very hard you are very likely to die multiple times, wearing armour is no good just take some energy pots, axe and a tinderbox and a home teletab is also very handy, you need to chop the tree roots to get cursed willow logs, put 5 on a pyre area, these are small disks scattered around the dungeon area and light them, you need to do this 3 times.
The first time I did it was easy I chopped the logs set up the pyre and lit it, the second time I ran around taking lots of damage from the beasts mage attack, he mages with clusters of hits, one cluster hitting full on can kill even the toughest of players, yes I was a victim and died, several times, eventually I lit the second fire, I teled for food and went back, ran back in and died in seconds.
He gets more angry after each fire, eventually for the last fire, I put on protect mage prayer ran in chopped 6 logs one from each root in succession, do not stay on one root for too long or the mage attack will cluster you and kill you, with the logs in my inventory I teled home, I still had good health and a lot of food but I wanted to be ready to build the pyre and light it, I topped up prayer and ate to 99hp than teled to clan wars ran inside, I got myself composed ready for the last fire, protect mage on (This reduces the damage considerably but a full cluster can still kill) I ran in to the first pyre area and put a log on, the beast fired at me, I ran to the other side of the pyre and put another log on, the distance moved and the mage protect prayer doing a good job of me receiving little damage, I kept putting a log on until all logs were placed and lit it, immediately a cut scene saves me any more damage and the monster goes into the tunnel further.

Restock on food and prayer and return to the tunnel with a spade, you get a cut scene telling you that you need to bury the dark core of the beast that has been freed by the elders cracking open the beasts chest, you need to go near a hole, the dark core will come out and try to get you, digging near a hole will draw him in and trap it, this is easiest done by getting close to the beast, when you get close the dark core will emerge, make sure you are near a hole and dig, this is quite easy and he will go inside and be dealt with by the friendly ghost, you are being attacked by the beast all this time so mage protect is a help but this part is not difficult if you are close enough to the beast.
You need to bury the dark core 3 times, you can leave to restock between captures, after the third time the beast retreats further into the cavern.

This final part of the cavern is the tricky part, I never died here in fact I took little damage but it is a little complicated so may take some time, the 3 elders return to their graves and are represented as different colours, the beast builds up a colour charge and spits it at the graves, if you see the beast build up a red charge you need to bless the grave with the red spirit in it, the same with green and blue, if you do this successfully for each colour it reflects back to the beast and damages it, on the third colour it kills the beast and he flies up in the air.

After the beast is defeated the elders come and thank you for your help and offer you their rewards for helping them. at this stage you can have the escort you outside.

Quest done, you get lots of XP and a coooool spirit shield that can be made better by using an elixir and a sigil (sp) to make it beter.

I loved this quest, it involved strategy and not just get this get that talk to him and come back again, it was difficult even for a high level player.

Please note, I have friends who tell me the cursed logs turn into normal willow logs when you exit the cave, It did not for me so bare this in mind if you try my tactics, I was also told that Mage prayer does not help, again it reduced my hits considerably so it helped me.
Could you let me know if you keep cursed logs from this quest when exiting or if they resort to normal and if prayer reduces your damage.

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This is a disturbing fact but I never really understood the extent of the problem, I own and run a computer repair company covering Bath and Bristol, UK, I have had a few problems where people are getting strange faults with their computer, little adverts coming up as popups from respectable sites, pron adverts coming up as an internet explorer tool bar as well as strange email accounts being created.

The amount of customers who have an out dated version of Norton Anti-virus and no spyware scanners is very worrying, only recently was I actually made aware of the damage and cost this stuff can cause, I have made a post on my company blog about it, click here to have a look.

People are always reporting of getting accounts hacked swearing that they never gave their password away, I personally don't believe them but the amount of inadequately protected computers makes it quite possibly true.

Spyware can cause your computer to phone a premium rate number, it can intercept keystrokes, it can add things to Internet explorer to take you to a different site than you wanted, spyware can even pretend to be be an anti-spyware program, this is the most common one I have found, its says you are at risk from spyware and shows you a list of threats your computer is contaminated with it states that if you install this software it will remove those threats, you have the option to continue and clear the threats or cancel, either option starts to download the program and installs it, the only way to close it without installation is to use task manager to close the browser.

Half the stuff classed as spyware on the PC Tools website I though was viruses, I think there is a fine line between the classification of these threats, but it doesn't matter they are threats with potential expensive and disastrous consequences.

PC Tools will give you a free scan but will not remove the threats unless you pay, the free scan can be an eye opener.

I use AVG Anti-virus and that has a web site analyser that scan links to sites before I click them, the amount of Runescape hack sites, Runescape cheat sites and Runescape Gold For cash sites that are marked as Risky by that program are phenomenal, I darnt click on them and I am well protected.

You may also be interested to know that Microsoft Internet Explorer has 7 pages of threats associated with it on the PC Tools database of threats, Mozilla Firefox has just 2 entries, what more can I say?

GET FIREFOX NOW

You need anti-virus you need anti-spyware, its not an option you need it and you need it now not next week, there are a few free ones but I trust PC Tools, read my company blog to see why.

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Take a look above the posts on this site and you will see a "link to us" page, if you have a fansite or blog tell us about your site and what it has to offer and I will publish it, this is in preparation for our link blog that will be arriving eventually.

You do not need to be a big site or a high level player you simply need to give your experiences, what you have learnt and be regularly updated, our aim is to give easy access to a mine of useful information available to Runescape players new and old.

Please do not post if your site promotes cheating, so called hacks, breaks or encourages the breaking of any Runescape rules.

If you have a popup or popunder state that as well so players can avoid your site if required.

Its not essential but I would appreciate a link back to my site.

There must be a god, my prayers have been answered, well OK on Runescape there are several gods and one of them heard my prayers.

Bob Barter rulez OK, perhaps im a little over excited about just a small update but it will save me sooooo much clicking, drinking, wasting time and pots, the downside the price of vials will drop so all merchants sell your stock now, many people do not read the updates on the Runescape website so are probably well confused about what im chatting about, having said that if you read this you obviously like to get the best you can out of Runescape and probably read the article for the update anyway.

Decanting is the update I am on about Bob Barter will turn your 3 dose pot (and others) into 4 dose pots, so if you have a full inventory of 3 dose pots in seconds it can be turned into 4 dose pots with 7 empty vials, I have tried long and hard to buy 4 dose pots to save all the time combining them and only ever managing to buy super strength.

I have over 10k pots and taking them 28 at a time is very time consuming so I can take 28 of each pot to be combined when I need them until I am up to date then get them decanted as I make them.

Just though I would add, Bob Barter is the herblore expert in the Grand Exchange, right click decant with your pots in your inventory, job done.

Another update, using a chisel on large granite blocks to make them into 500g blocks is another very welcome update for me as a relatively high level summoner, you need 500g blocks of granite to make a granite lobster, granite blocks of 500g cost a little over 1k each, this is good for low level miners, you don’t need a high level to mine it so you get fast xp, you also get money if you sell the blocks, a lot more money than any other thing you can mine at the same level.
I mined some 500g blocks but it is boring and I had other things I wanted to do so I bought 2k 500g blocks (over 2m) now that it is possible to use a chisel and makes blocks smaller it is worth my while mining it, which is good for me but the lower level miners will suffer because many summoners will mine their own or pay a lot less for it.
Watch the price drop, 10kg blocks are a little over 10k currently, the granite mine is going to be heaving with low levels after their 10k a blocks of granite, I predict a flood and the price plummeting, when that happens I will buy again, yet another high level player update and a kick in the teeth for the lower levels.

The new clan wars update is lots of fun the pker can practice their strategy of the chase and the kill on anyone without losing their items, the downside is the fact that they don’t get anything for the kill except the satisfaction of knowing their the best, this may suit many pkers in particular the cowardly type that prayed on skillers making runes, people training agility and treasure trailers, the problem for them is the fact that the victim wont be afraid of losing items or not equipped to fight back.

The true pker can fight people equipped to fight and now get a fair contest or do you just want an easy kill? please leave a comment I would love to know.