My Runescape Diary

I have been playing Runescape regularly since July 2005, I think I have come a long way in under 2 years, currently level 122 with 1936 total level, I like to do my own thing and train when and where I want.

I was at Pyramid plunder the other day where I got 91 thieving, woooot, you might notice I use the woot word quite a lot on this blog, thats simply because it is the most ridiculous word on Runescape and I feel it suits this blog, I was approached by the clan leader who asked me to join her clan we had a conversation as I was running around the pyramid frantically trying to get my levels.

I did eventually look into what the clan did, I am not a great fan of clans my experience of clans is a group of chickens wandering around the wildy looking for unarmed players to kill, I am still not sure if pkers drop feathers when killed, I was pleased to find out it is a skiller clan and pking was not high on their agenda.

After trying to sort out access to their chat channel. I was a computer engineer repairing servers for some of the major financial institutions in the UK and that chat gave me some grief, getting on was fine but setting things up got just a tad confusing, any way I got it working on one computer properly and usable on another so I could speak to their members and went to a team event, parading around in fancy dress is not my idea of fun but I went along because it is nice to support your clan as much as possible.

Anyway the clan name Aequabilis it has a select membership (I still got in thought) requirements to enter, 100+ level players, over 16 years of age so almost an adult only clan and a total level over 1500, I am not sure how it got its name but i am useless at remembering it, my friend asked what clan I was in and I said its some thing like (enter random letters here beginning with ae).

Anyway it is a great clan there are a lot of very friendly players on their (No noobs or newbs}, I have only been a member for 2 days and I already feel like part of the family, there is no strict requirement to attend the activities but in my eyes if you don't do the activities there is no point in being in the clan.

This has opened up a new chapter in my Runescape life and it is a very positive one, thank you to all the members for making me feel at home.

I got 98 strength the other day, 15 March 2007.

I got 98 strength on the 15th march, one level to go and the strength cape is mine.

Thats not bad quite a good level to get, nope its not I want more, so I set out on a frenzy to get 99! I went off to pest control with the intentions of getting 99, I had ancients to help win the rounds by Barraging the spinners that appeared and the Blue portal if things got close (The blue portal is the only mage weak portal).

I had about 2.8k bloods and the required water and death runes for Ice Barrage and off I trot, the problem with Pest control is if people lose a game it becomes a carp world and everyone leaves this sometimes makes it a carp world and the rest leave, all worlds could be good if people didn't leave when they lose a game, low level players make it easier for the high level players by reducing the defence of the portals and the number of monsters coming through the portal, so don't moan at them thank them for playing.

My message that I am continuing to say is don't kill the f'in spinners, I would love to kill the muppets who keep saying kill the spinners a lot of time is spent killing spinners that are attacking me, the aim of the game is to kill the portals not the spinners, the spinners will not kill me Im a big boy and can withstand many spinners on me, unless you need zeal kill the portals, I repeat DO NOT KILL THE SPINNERS just attack them and get their attention you do not need to kill them, repeat after me DO NOT KILL THE SPINNERS.

Anyway I spent most of Saturday there getting good world and bad world swapping worlds for better ones, this was quite intensive training but I was there most of the day and got a lot of xp about 600k and 65 points before I retired to bed.

Sunday morning I got up and started again, I was getting good and bad world and got my first 100 tickets and a few more before I needed to go out about 2 o'clock ish I got back later and started again, finding a world that could win was a nightmare and very frustrating, losing games for some stupid people doing things like being stood next to spinners and not attacking them, yes I know "don't kill the spinners" but attack them and continue on the portal.

I had heard that world 140 was a good PC world so I thought I would give it a try, so I logged out and logged into the German speaking world and woot what a lot of fun to be had by all, no one there speaks German which was a bit of a shock, I did find 2 Germans on it but they spoke English better than I do.

After the initial fun of using the German monster names I got down to some serious training, my bloods had run out so ancients were out of the question.

Well it was great, for some reason when we went off the lander I thought of the Normandy landings I don't know why I know very little about the Normandy landings but we were winning every game very quickly and in no time I had 100 points and traded them in, I used the Zybez Pest Control Calculator to find how many for 99 strength and it said 37, so I stayed up to get 37, I knew I wouldn't need that many but I got them anyway, I was training strength and getting xp that way so I would have some points left over.

I got my 37 points in German world and came back to an English speaking world to exchange my points and wooot woooooooot 99 strength.

At last 99 Strength, I only need to rain this for fun now.

I was told to get a cape so that is what I did my 99 strength cape.

I was knackered and dead chuffed I got form 98 to 99 strength in 2 days at pest control, I got my cape, the emote is a lot better than the attack one but the attack cape looks nicer.

I also went up a combat level to 121, I have gained a lot of mage xp and my hp is approaching 99 now as well.

A few weeks ago I went to kill Cave Horrors, not for slayer I rarely get them for slayer tasks but because I wanted to try a black mask, I knew very little about them and I wanted to try it and see how well it worked.

After about an hour I got a Mask, Black Mask (10) and I used it, after a slayer task I noticed it was down to Black Mask (3), I was a bit concerned that all this work to get the mask and it would be useless in a few slayer assignments.

I carried on and noticed it had just become a Black Mask, I did a search on the internet and could not find any information about it anywhere, I thought its carp and got my mate to sell it, he got 400k which I thought was good for an inert mask (The description on the examine option).

Having done another search I found the Runescape Knowledge base and it has a mention of the Mask Properties.

Apparently the 1 to 10 is a secondary spell to the main use of the mask, the mask itself in any state gives a 15 bonus to attack and strength if wearing it for your slayer assignment, the 1 to 10 options reduce your opponents defence by 3 to 10 when fighting for slayer or non slayer monsters.

So the secondary part is pretty pointless reduce the defence level on 10 monsters randomly selected, its not going to make any great deal of difference.

After my new found knowledge I went back to get another, the cave horror place is a place that is heaven for rangers, there are so many places to range there and many monsters spread about and the best defence is mage defence so dragon hide is ideal.

I am training strength so I took Guthans to prolong my stay with dragon scimmy and zammy book, taking Guthans was a mistake as I said earlier they are mage based attack and the mage resistance on Guthans is minimal I was constantly taking damage and healing, very little time to use the scimmy.

I spend the whole day there about 3 hours on and off trying to get the mask and gave up, I went off to do the clue I had got, got full rune out of that (Minus shield) so not too bad a break.

Yesterday I did the new Quest, I enjoyed the quest but got a carpy anchor as a reward, its worth the 50k to get it repaired just to have the walk when carrying it but I was hitting 18 fighting with it.

Anyway after the quest I went back to Cave Horrors and after 3 or 4 hours I got the Mask, I was out of there like a shot and off to my slayer task Suqah.

I normally range Suqah because its so easy but I am training strength so meleed them, god I love that mask, my normal max with my dragon scimmy is about 27 with 96 strength, with the mask I was regularly hitting 31's and the occasional 32, to me that is more than 15% but who cares its well 'ard.

I am so glad I eventually found out what the mask does, I don't like buying things that I can get myself so I was well pleased that I got one yesterday, the time was not wasted I bumped up my strength as well so its a win win situation.

I guess you are thinking that 5 skill levels in one day is easy, ye you are right but what if these skills are in their 90's, maybe not so easy.

I have 99 Attack so I'm not training that, 99 attack is great I was at kalphites attacking Kalphite soldiers there was a player with 99 strength god he was hitting hard, 37 38 and 39 on the kalphites, I was maxing on 33 but I was hitting so much more often that I was on to my next kalphite before he was about 80% of the time, I have not noticed the difference between strengh and attack before so I was well glad I got attack first.

I have been training my strength considerably for the last week or 2 and got from 91 to 95, I have been training slayer at the same time burthorping all monsters that I normally mage or range, yesterday I was about 300k from 96 strength so I was killing slayer monsters as requested and woot before I got 96 I got a HP level taking me from 97 to 98, cool 1 more level to go.

I got 98 hit points, just one level to go then all my work goes to waste.

I continued and got my 96 strength.

I got another level this time 96 strength.

Then I got 88 Slayer, slayer levels are so much easier to get when you have 85, I guess there are no more targets so you just train without watching it until 99 which is a while off.

88 slayer was easier to get than 85, I guess as there is no targets to head for except 99.

This was nice I like getting levels so I used the dragon bones that I had saved and used them on my gilded altar and I got 2 Prayer levels from the dragon bones I had collected, 2 more level 76 and 77.

76 Prayer and another hidden surprise, this level got me 120 combat wooot woooot.

Yes that level 76 prayer also gave me 120 combat which is one hell of a milestone, six levels to the max combat, its not taking that long either I guess I will get there this summer.

I got 77 prayer

So I got 5 high levels in 1 day and I got a combat level does that make 6. anyway I am pretty pleased with myself looking forward to my 99 strength in the not too distant future.

I had just got 93 mage and a friend of mine said that I was 1 level off of using Ice Barrage, I thought it was 96 for Ice so this knowledge drove me on to get that extra level.

I had just got 98 attack and my defence and strength were 100k from 91 so I stayed at the Abyssal Demons until I leveled both of those, this brought my combat up to 117 which was pretty nice.

Because metal dragons are very easy to raise mage xp I got equipped with my full white mystic and Chaos gauntlets 9, 4 strength anti fire breath pots 4k chaos runes (Free from my Barrows runs) 16200 fire runes and my trusted mystic air battlestaff, off I went and and ran to where the safe area for maging steel dragons, on my way I was attacked by an Iron one and had to kill it to get it off my scent which I did in a few minutes and woot what a nice surprise dragon legs, I started attacking the steel dragons, I stayed there all day got a lot of mage xp but still a long way to go.

I like to take a break between dragon attacks to stop my brain from freezing over and did a bit of pest control, I already had 19 points accumulated and after swapping world a few times I found a good world, everyone knew what they were doing and I was getting a point every 1 or 2 minutes, I wanted attack xp so used Veracs I could have used whip but I just fancied a change.

I managed to get my points to 100 and traded it in for mage xp and my mage xp shot up by about 150k, this further inspired me so I got equipped for steel dragons as before and started attacking, I forgot my chaos gauntlets so was hitting a max of 12 but was not going back, spent a day there and ran out of pots and no dragon drops.

My slayer was Black Demons so for a change I decided to mage them in Taverly dungeon, I had about 20k to go and boy did it go, I could not believe how quickly my mage xp was going up, so much faster than Steel dragons.

Woot woot what a beut I got 94 mage and access to the most powerful spell in Runescape Ice Barrage.