My Runescape Diary

You may remember my post about the fastest way to train summoning by using granite, there was a down side in the fact that it was very expensive because you could not do anything with the end product, scrolls, scrolls had no resell value and could only be used by yourself, sold to a general store or dropped. luckily I did neither and now you can trade your scrolls for shards which makes it a very fast way to train and you get shards back, I haven't checked the economics for trading scrolls for shards but I got 50K shards from the scrolls I have made already, I am happy with that it makes training using the power method a lot cheaper.

A little side note I had thousands of stone artefacts collected from pyramid plunder when I got 99 thieving, it took so long taking to Simon Templeton at the agility pyramid even using the crack in the wall that I dropped them, a little while later Jagex changed it so I could have taken them noted, They didn't catch me with the scrolls they changed it before I dropped them.

Anyway back to the story when I started making Granite Lobsters the cost of Granite 500g blocks was over 1k and I bought 2K, only wanted 1k not sure how I ended up with 2k but that's a different story.
Since you can make 2kg and 5kg blocks into 500g blocks the price started to drop, there was a rush of low level miners mining 5kg blocks and selling them on GE, at its initial price of over 10k a block the 5kg blocks were popular with miners, more valuable than rune, very fast respawn rate and minable by low level miners, I saw many a player selling the blocks and making millions for a few hours work, unfortunately with the demand being low and the miner numbers being high the price plummeted and has only just stopped dropping at 157 gp normal 150 bottom, it may continue to fall but at current price it is stable.

Look at the price prior to chopping blocks 500g was 1k
You can now buy 5kg that can be chopped into 10 x 500g blocks for 150gp that's 15gp for 500g.
a drop from 1k to 15gp after 1 update over a short period of time.

The 500g is now 84gp normal price, this may remain higher due to its convenience in not needing to chop.

I bought enough granite to get 99 summoning, I may buy some as an investment, as stock diminishes the price may well go back up, as people get onto the idea that chopping on site and converting to pouches then scrolls is a quick way of training summoning and with the scrolls to shards update I can see it being "the way" to train.

Now you can see why charms are not tradable, had they been, the most determined and wealthy players could have 99 summoning in a very short space of time.

The Runescape Ringmaster outfit is the new outfit to have, very popular for woodcutting and mining and general leisurely activities, I had the hat a while ago and been desperate to get the rest, I will probably never have reason to wear it but I like to have it available in case do.

The way I got it was a lot easier than most guides I see but with all Runescape stuff a lot of luck is involved.

Last week I went for the Ring Master outfit I wore the appropriate armour for the role, Armadyl for the range, Ahrims for the mage and BOL, spottier cape for agility, I potted and went for the lower level targets and failed some, in fact I failed many, so wearing appropriate armour or potting does not help, the circus has not been around long enough to test it and make a correct conclusion but the fact that I have 99 in mage and range and failed the easy tasks is enough for me.

Yesterday the Circus was by the wizards tower, the Ringmaster suggests wearing stuff appropriate for the location so I wore my Ahrims, Ancient staff and the mage boots that are multi coloured (The name escapes me at the mo will edit later).

I went inside and decided to do the range one first, I picked up the knives and throwing axes, and stood near the popinjays, I started by doing an emote, the audience were pleased, I for some reason did another emote and again they were pleased, (bless them easily pleased) I kept doing emotes and they were pleased with all of them, after about 15 emotes I stopped and clicked on the level 99 popinjays, result it hit the target and they liked it, I did an emote and the message saying "I have done enough emotes already came up", this basically means you can do all your emotes at the start of the game and don't need to keep swapping through the performance, It also reduces the chance of you repeating an emote. from then on I swapped to my other weapon and did the spinning wheel target and hit it, the audience were well impressed, from then on I swapped weapons and went to and from the 99 popinjays and the 99 spinning wheel only missing once, the result was the Ring Master top.

I went to the mage one and did all my emotes up front, starting at the top and working my way across and down my list of emotes, I then decided to use alternate cast telegrab and alchemy on the level 90 and 99 items, many of my spells missed and I only got 700 points, I have full clown and acrobat so nothing for me on that one.

Agility was my next attempt, I climbed up and grabbed a hand full of chinchompas, started the test and walked onto the wire, I did all my normal emotes up front the same as the mage and range ones, I did the level 99 back flip, then the 90 large leap then again the back flip, the audience didn't like the second back flip so I got out the chinnies and juggled them, then did a back flip, they were happy then, I alternated between the juggling chinnies and the back flips and they were happy, the result a pair of Ring Master trousers.

A pair of shoes and a trumpet and I will have the full set, then I need to start failing to get the spectator clothing, I really want that hand.

There is a lot of luck with the circus not just skill levels, the best part is that you can do the normal emotes before doing other tasks to save switching between the two.

Good luck getting your outfit.

Jagex have given permission to Power train summoning, but don't get to excited you need to be level 74 and relatively wealthy, you are looking at about 50k xp per 10 minutes (Could be quicker never timed it) 300k xp per hour.

The secret is to have 5kg blocks of granite, currently just under 3k per block and dropping daily, kit yourself up with crimson charms, pouches, shards, a chisel and tele runes if flying and 20 or so blocks of 5 Kg granite.

Tele or walk to the obelsik and use the chisel on the granite to make smaller blocks, you get a mixture of 2kg and 500g blocks, if you have room cut some 2k blocks as well, click on the obelisk and make some granite lobsters.

At this stage I put some granite lobster pouches in my spirit terror bird for safe keeping, you can do this or use the next stage and use a granite pouch on the obelisk, you can click the obelisk if you want and select make scrolls but its quicker to use the pouch on it, turn all your pouches into scrolls, you then have a clear inventory to cut your granite again and repeat making pouches and then scrolls.

I went there today with a load of granite and on one trip made 50k summoning xp, I also gained a level, 82 summoning now.

The following pictures show my summoning xp before and after a single power summoning trip 52,607 in 1 go, I could have loaded up a war tortoise with granite blocks and made almost 100k xp in 1 go, 13 trips to get from level 98 to 99 summoning in 2 hours, that is some serious xp, you just got to get the charms.

This method does not help you get charms but it shows you the fastest way to train summoning, I will add a guide to getting charms later, now I have 99 slayer I will be able to spend more time doing what I want, I love slayer so I will probably still be doing that.

This method is expensive, you turn the pouches into scrolls that are difficult to sell, you can not trade the pouches for shards with the ogre guy so all money spent is lost, if you have the money and want quick xp this is certainly the way to go.

Link: http://www.runescapeblog.co.uk/game.php/2007/03/01/some_screenies_of_the_prize_at_the_end_o

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.