Weekend Log: 10/16-09-10/18/09
October 18, 2009 at 7:36 pm | In Quests, Skills | Leave a CommentTags: fremennik trials, koschei, rellekka
I think the highlight of this weekend was completing the Fremennik Trials quest, which I did solo because Rune Beast0 had already done it. It was fairly easy until I got to Koschei the Deathless.
See, when I looked at a guide and saw that I only had to defeat his third form and not his fourth, I decided it would be a pretty easy fight. That it definitely was until the fourth form. I decided to be a little bold and attempt to kill the fourth form, so I recharged my prayer, ate some food to regain health, and went off into battle. About three minutes in, my prayer ran out, so I decided to let Koschei kill me.
And he did. Literally. I ended up in Lumbridge, extremely confused as to why I was actually dead.
I went back to Rellekka, got my items from my grave, and, seeing as I still had a good amount of food left, decided to try again. Back I went into the battle, and when I hit his fourth form, I again attempted to kill him, and again I decided to give up after I saw I most likely wouldn’t be able to accomplish that. So as Koschei was chipping down my health…
…my ring of life tele-d me to Lumbridge when I was at 7 hp.
At this point, I was pretty darn annoyed, so I spent 100k or so on supplies. I went back to Rellekka armed with super attack and super strength pots, prayer pots, and sharks. After a very long, very slow, very tedious battle, I had him down to about half health when my prayer pots ran out. I still had a good number of sharks though, so I kept going at it.
Then Koschei left as I was eating my third to last shark.
After this failure, I was ready to stab something. Thoroughly annoyed, I decided I wouldn’t even attempt the fourth form anymore (which I have no idea why I didn’t from the beginning; I think the fact that I actually died the first time put me in the mindset that I had to kill his fourth form) and would just let myself die after the third form without eating or drinking pots or anything.
It finally worked. I used no prayer, no food, no anything during his fourth form, and FINALLY I finished him off the way I was supposed to, got Thorvald’s vote, and finished off Fremennik Trials.
You know what I think about you Koschei?:
Yea. That’s what I think. That’s what I wish I could do in RS and make you die in agony.
I also raised my agility up a bit to 42 and my firemaking up to 60 (after I saw I had 1k willows sitting in the bank doing nothing). I’m probably going to do a little bit of crafting soon so that I can get 46 crafting, finish off Fremennik Isles, and get the Helm of Neitiznot finally. Yes, I know my skills kind of suck, but that’s what I get for being busy all the time with real life and doing nothing but fishing for the past year and a half.
The Rude and the Nice
October 13, 2009 at 8:06 pm | In RS General | 1 CommentTags: players
I’ve long gotten over the fact that not everyone on Runescape is all rainbows and flowers. However, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t still irk me when people are rude to others. For example, yesterday I was standing in the west Varrock bank waiting for Rune Beast0 when someone decided to tell me that I’m a noob, that I don’t deserve to live, that I should die for the better of the world, and that they despise me. Keep in mind I had never seen this person in Runescape before. Normally I would have kept quiet, but I got rather annoyed at this unexpected occurence and said some small things back, such as “the feeling’s mutual then” when he/she told me that they despised me, as well as “well clearly you don’t hate me that much if you’re still talking to me,” or something along the lines of that. This was probably one of the rarer occasions of rudeness, but it still annoyed me a lot that someone would go out of their way that much to insult someone.
On the flip side, while this was occuring, a kind soul said “that’s not nice” when the aforementioned person told me to go die. As I walked to the Grand Exchange, he/she followed me out and asked me if I was alright. This level of kindness surprised me a little, and I told him/her that yes, I was fine, and that I was used to rudeness online. I thanked him/her for caring, and then we both went on our ways. This made my annoyance abate quite a bit just knowing that there was a nice person out there for every rude one.
It just goes to show that you can find people on totally opposite ends of the spectrum.
Co-Op Questing: Dwarf Cannon and Horror from the Deep
October 12, 2009 at 11:59 pm | In Quests | 3 CommentsTags: dwarf cannon
Since Rune Beast0 and I seem to be particularly fond of co-op questing, I thought I’d just keep a little journal of our questing here. Today, we embarked on and finished Dwarf Cannon and Horror from the Deep (yes, we both haven’t done many quests). Note: Rune Beast0 doesn’t usually fail as much as he does when he does quests. XD We also call each other noob a lot, which is not advocating our immaturity but is instead moreso a term for a failure.
Dwarf Cannon
Thankfully, Dwarf Cannon had no required items, so there was no hour-long getting ready period like there was yesterday for Family Crest. Instead, there was a little bit of silliness:
He gave me dwarf shorts before, and omg they are short. I’m never wearing them again, ever.
Anyway, we went off on a long trek to that place west of the Fishing Guild (does it have a name?). The first instance of co-op questing failure began shortly after we both began the quest:
Rune Beast took the dwarf remains first, so I got stuck waiting for them to respawn. They eventually did after awhile, but it was still annoying because then he got ahead of me XD. Note: O Canada Dungeon = the dungeon just outside the Fishing Guild full of goblins.
Today was also a day where Runescape decided to lag every other minute, so while I was stuck trying to catch up to Rune Beast, he had some navigation issues:
I eventually caught up to him though and met him in the Dwarven Mines. However, after running around a bit, we realized we both made a mistake:
The dwarf we were looking for was actually not underground in the mines. Oops. We then went back aboveground where I went and talked with Nulodion to get the ammo mould. Fatal error on Rune Beast’s part though:
He thought the multicannon was the one at the Dwarven Mines, which sucks because then he had to go all the way back and fix the one at the place west of the Fishing Guild. He eventually got it though, and we both managed to finish the quest efficiently and smoothly. Rune Beast suggested we both buy a cannon and use them in Horror of the Deep, but after we realized the cannon would cost about 750k, we decided against that (or more like my cheapness decided against that).
Horror of the Deep
Not many pictures for this one since there wasn’t much going on, it was a short quest, and I forgot to hit print screen as much as I did in Dwarf Cannon.
Anyway, Horror of the Deep began with a lovely trek to the middle of nowhere, aka the Lighthouse. There was a little bit of annoyance as I tried to cross over the rocks to reach the lighthouse and kept failing (low level agility ftl). Rune Beast got behind me as he forgot the lighthouse key and had to go all the way back to get it. There was also a little more failure as I went around for a good five minutes trying to figure out how to fix an unbroken bridge:
I got it after that >.>
After I fixed everything in the lighthouse, I went back to Seers Village to gather my combat gear. Since my range is only 32 (I hate range with a passion), I had to look a little ridiculous gathering items that would boost both combat and magic instead of just wearing dhide. Here’s the end result (and my inventory):
Rune Beast caught up with me as I was getting my combat stuff ready, and then we both trekked back to the lighthouse for the epic battle against Dagannoth. It ended up being quite a bit easier than we both thought it would be (we were both freaking out a bit after reading the quest guide and seeing how combat would vary when fighting Dagannoth). There was only one small issue of Rune Beast forgetting runes for the other elemental spells, but I gave him my extra death runes, so that catastrophe was yet again avoided. I ended up getting the Saradomin book, which I promptly regretted as I realized I really didn’t need to boost defense. Rune Beast, being more intelligent than I, got the Zamorak book. There was a bit of angst as Rune Beast realized he’d need around 1.4-1.5m to finish his book, and I was rather elated that mine would only take about 300k. After I fill mine though, I’m going to get the Zamorak one. And with that, we finished off yet another quest together.
Oh heck yea.
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Other things done today: Plague City (I can finally teleport to Ardougne!), 20k+ fishing exp.
Attempting Quests Co-Op
October 12, 2009 at 5:37 pm | In Quests | 1 CommentTags: family crest
I’m finally reviving RS Muser after ages (again). I dropped it a little bit at first because I didn’t play Runescape that much, but I’ve decided that it doesn’t matter if I don’t play Runescape every day; it’s still nice to blog about it. There’s one change though: I’ve changed my name to Aer Wynn instead of Bluebrisingr. I’m still not too sure how I like this change, but I’ll see at the end of the month. I’m leaning towards changing it back though, because the name feels so exotic and different, so all of the stuff on this blog is staying Bluebrisingr for now.
Anyways, Rune Beast0 and I decided to do Family Crest together, after we had both spent a day tanking our magic to 55 so that we could magic potion our way through it. I must say, it’s quite a different feeling when you’re doing quests together with someone else, and it does tend to be a lot more fun. However, it’s obvious that Jagex hasn’t anticipated people doing quests co-op. We got majorly hindered at the part with the levers after both of us tried to do it simultaneously and failed. After quite a few runs, we ended up just waiting for one to complete the levers and get the ore and then the other would go. It was really nice having another person there though to help out with things. For example, when Beast was mining the “perfect” gold ores, I helped him out by attacking the hellhounds so that he wouldn’t get attacked while he was mining. He did the same for me by keeping the red spiders busy as I killed Chronozon at the end. It was also rather humorous, as we had a few “close catastrophe evasions,” once when Beast thought he had messed up the ruby necklace/ring making part, another time when he almost made two ruby necklaces, and a few more that I can’t really remember.
It would be really nice to see some quests in Runescape aimed towards completion with more than one player, and I don’t mean quests like Shield of Arrav where you had to find another person in the other gang to get the other piece of the shield. I’d like to be able to have to actually interact with the other person fully, such as maybe an obstacle course that must be completed by two or more people (like in those cliche video games based off movies where, say, one person pushes a button which sets an elevator moving and the other person has to ride up the elevator to push another button that will allow the first person to move on …I’m bad at explaining things, sorry). This would make for a much more enjoyable quest, in my opinion.
Beast and I plan on doing more quests together though, despite the fact that they’re aimed towards one person, which should be rather interesting. I also finally now have gloves that match my desert boots, since mime gloves are a different shade of white (yes, that’s the reason I wanted to do Family Crest XD).
In other things, I’m less than 400k away from 91 fishing. Still so far ):
Skilling Crazy
August 25, 2009 at 12:32 am | In Skills | Leave a CommentTags: skilling
I’ve been going a little skill crazy these past few days as I’ve been on vacation in California. I believe I’ve gained nearly 100 levels (90-100) in various skills, and probably about 130-140 levels this summer, so my total now is 1008. Granted it’s not that impressive because most of my P2P skills were low level, so it was easy to get them up, but still for me it’s a rather big achievement. I got pretty bored of fishing, so I decided to train my P2P skills while I still can. Here’s what went up this summer:
Fletching: 50 (+50 levels)
Agility: 38 (+30 levels)
Herblore: 12 (+9 levels)
Fishing: 88 (+3 levels)
Range: 32 (+1 level)
Thieving: 20 (+18 levels)
Magic: 48 (+1 level)
Farming: 10 (+2 levels)
Construction: 35 (+35 levels)
Hunter: 3 (+2 levels)
Yes, I know most of them aren’t too impressive …on second thought none of them are impressive, but I’m happy that I finally have a 1k+ total skill level. Now back to fishing…
Apologies for the Negligence
August 16, 2009 at 3:07 pm | In RS General | Leave a CommentTags: fishing
I went off to Governor’s School for the month of July. I’ve been back for a couple weeks now, but nothing interesting has been happening in RS too much. I’ll be posting more general RS articles soon. For now though, here’s 4mil exp and 88 fishing! I’ll also be getting up my “Mission Fishin’ – 99 Fishing” page up soon.
Just Keep Fishing…
June 27, 2009 at 2:35 am | In Skills | Leave a CommentTags: dragon armor, fishing
I got a fishing level today! Only 10m more to go ….ugh.
I love how the prices are rising when I’m selling my fish, but then I hate it when I’m trying to buy things. The dragon armor set used to be 4.7m, now it’s about 5.2m. Ah well, hopefully prices will recede soon.
More interesting posts will be coming, really.
Edit: WTF?
Why must female characters on Runescape show their waist when wearing chainbodies?! That’s just stupid and ridiculous. I would really appreciate being able to not dress like a ho in both real life and in game. Jagex, I demand a change. This is sexism people.
RE-EDIT: I posted a rant about this on the official RS forums: 129-130-400-59053737
Finally Gave It Up
June 26, 2009 at 2:50 am | In RS General | Leave a CommentTags: feathers, merchanting, rune guthix
I finally sold my full rune Guthix that I’ve had for about a two years or so now. It was a hard parting, but I shall get over it soon, hopefully. I’m trying to get dragon armor, and after I sold all my fish I was still 2m away, so I sold some death runes and my full rune Guthix to get the amount needed. I’m buying it in pieces since I don’t need the shield. So far only the med helm has come in. Ah well.
I’m also merchanting feathers. I’ve been selling 165k feathers in the GE at max price for about a week now, and so far 110k have sold. I’ll see how long it takes me to buy them all back at min price. Before it took about two weeks. It’s slow money, but at least it’s some profit, and it’s faster than buying coal+iron, smelting them, and selling the steel bars.
And of course, I can’t forget fishing. 35k until 87, woo! I’m hoping to get to 92 by the end of this summer. At this rate, it looks like it’ll happen.
Thoughts on the RS Black Market
June 24, 2009 at 12:17 am | In RS General | Leave a CommentTags: black market, cheating
My friend linked me to a Runescape black market forum yesterday. I won’t disclose the link, but I looked around and found some pretty interesting things. For one, apparently a maxed out account with a lot of gp on it can sell for $2500-$3000. That made my jaw drop a little; all that money for an online game account? It’s a little ridiculous, but I guess people will do whatever it takes to get something they really want. This all got me to think, what’s the point of cheating through an online game in the first place? Clearly the people who operate in the black market usually aren’t playing for the fun aspect of the game. They’re just playing to try and get money, but then what about the people who buy the accounts? They probably buy accounts either to 1) go through the game easily, or 2) raise the account further to sell it for even more money, so accounts in the black market are getting recycled over and over again. Then again, there’s only so much money you can get from selling gp or accounts; you would make more money if you had any type of job, but I suppose it makes good pocket money. And then of course there’s always the problem of scams. How do you know who to trust? The black market forum I went on had a system where people would vouch for others, but still you’ll never fully know if it’s real or fake. For all you know, the vouches could be fake too. Overall though, I’d just prefer to play the game, but everyone has different thoughts and opinions.
There’s my random musing for the day. I’m still fishing. I’m pretty close to 87 now; I’ll probably get it tomorrow. Still so far to 99….
Blog Beginnings
June 20, 2009 at 2:23 am | In Blog, Updates | 4 CommentsTags: fishing
I got bored, so I decided to start my own Runescape blog. You can expect everything related to Runescape on here, general Runescape articles, Runescape fiction, what I’m doing in Runescape (which won’t be very eventful for a few months, only fishing really), other Runescape sites, etc. I’ve wanted to start this for awhile, but I never really got around to it. However, here it is. Enjoy! More posts shall be coming soon.
Anyway, I pretty much fished all day today, but I only got about 120k exp. Fishing’s pretty slow. I fish 2 invs of sharks for every 200 lobsters I get, so I think the sharks slow me down a lot. Ah well, I’m going for the money aspect of 99 fishing too, since I’m planning to buy full dragon, a whip, a sara sword, and possibly a blue halloween mask with my earnings.
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