My Runescape Diary

Hi everyone sorry I haven't written for a while, business has been a bit hectic over Christmas and the new year, spending more time playing than writing about Runescape when I get the time.

I have got a lot of levels over this period and had many treasure trails. I may get time to publish my levels but will certainly try to keep this blog up to date from now on.

I have changed the way I do Barrows I have a theory that appears to work well.

I had 200 prayer pots and thought I would put Barrows to the test and work out some ways of getting armour, my theory has gone from my original which got me no armour or weapons for over 200 runs to getting about 5 or 6 items a day.

When I first started doing barrows some time ago I got Veracs helm on my second run killing only 5 brothers, then on my 5th run I got a great axe, at that time these were worth together about 5m.

I continued getting loads of chaos runes and regular weapons and armour, I managed to accumulate about 30k chaos runes mainly doing Barrows, then I hit a dry patch and did about 200 runs with just a few armour drops, Torag hammers and Ahrims staff, I was however getting loads of minds and chaos runes, this was just killing the 6 brothers and a few monsters that got in my way.

After my dry spell I started experimenting with kill count, I have tried with my usual 6 brothers and only killing monsters that got in my way, this worked OK but I never got armour or weapons just loads of chaos and minds, occasionally bloods as many as 127 at a time but rare.

I started getting around 10 to 12 kill count and all of a sudden I was getting bolt racks on most runs as many as 40 to 114 on almost every other run, loads of blood runes as many again as 40 to 120 as well as loads of minds deaths and chaos runes. and guess what I also started getting weapons.

I did about 20 runs one day and got a great axe I sold this for 1.2m in world 2 that day, the following week I went again about 15 runs and got another great axe, haven't sold that yet don't need too as will become apparent in a later post.

As i said initially in this post I had 200 prayer pots that I wanted to use, so sticking to my theory of a kill count of 10 to 12 I spent 2 days at barrows, I ended up with all the Barrows weapons on those 2 days, Dharoks great axe, ahrims staff, Karils crossbow, Torags hammers, Veracs Flail and Guthans War Spear, woot Guthans War Spear street value of 5m woot woot and double woot.

This was spooking me out with a kill count of 10 to 12 I was getting a Barrows Weapon drop about every 20 runs, it was so strange that I was getting all weapons and no armour.

I went again today I have done 20 runs so far and I have got Guthans Helm and Veracs Skirt and Brassard so where it didn't matter before kill count certainly does now.

I wear my normal mage gear but now I take black dragon hide and whip for killing the monsters in the tunnels, I will add an updated Barrows strategy later on when I have more time.

In case you are interested killing more than 10 to 12 makes no difference to the amount of barrows items dropped, it is better to get out and go back again.