Current Events > Runescape in 2024 part 2

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Yeah, give Cerberus a try. I dont really like it and no luck there with like 50kc but you might like it.

You need a task correct?

Yes, Cerberus requires a task. All of the slayer bosses do Im pretty sure

congrats on the 91 slayer and the kraken tentacles BroodRye =]

i've been neglecting slayer. Also been neglecting farming again. I upped my agility xp to like 700k-800k a day so i got no time for damn farm runs >.< . I was doing 500k-600k a day prior. Just been motivated after seeing like 2 players that could surpass me in xp w/ their current progress. So just have to stay ahead

I reported one of them for macroing just in case.

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Your level of grind scares me. I still do afk skills and whatever after 2277 but I dont grind like that. You touch grass and take showers, right? Just a joke. I doubt I could ever do 200m in any skill. My highest is 20m in Farming and that one you can literally afk offline.

Very nice indeed. Im pursuing 200ms but agility will never be on the list lmao. Im training it near exclusively through tears of guthix at this point. Still hoping we get agilitodt someday.

lmao i take no offense. My clan seems to respond jokingly/negatively whenever that xp thing goes off but this time they just said gzz. Maybe realize im just gonna keep going for a bit longer.

i do have to neglect large parts of the game for these types of grinds . I just feel like as long as I can keep gaining xp in some skills i legit can't go off and do pvm and the other fun stuff. It's more of a compulsion really

TheFalseDeity posted...

Very nice indeed. Im pursuing 200ms but agility will never be on the list lmao. Im training it near exclusively through tears of guthix at this point. Still hoping we get agilitodt someday.

i believe valamore part 2 is going to include a new agility course. I'm hoping it's like sepulchre! though i think it might just bridge the gap between the two especially if it has an easier quest requirement (if any at all).

Had a greater demon task, so I decided to try out tormented demons (more like tedious demons). Didn't get the big prize, but I did fill a log slot.

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^ gratz on the burning claws! Those are apparently good slayer xp I will have to do WGS when the time comes yeah.

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i finally got the squirrel. I wasn't expecting it so soon

I only have around 2/3ds the hallowed marks needed for the blood acorn but ill get it eventually.

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It's a pretty violent pet compared to the rift guardian

Congrats! Second only to fox for skilling pets imo.

Big congrats on the squirrel! 60M xp is a looooong time to wait for it though.

It's still the only agility-related log slot I'm missing.

The fox transmog is so cool. One of those pets i had to take a double take when i started playing again. Ill try to get it someday

Goodluck on the squirrel! I've seen people get them so early. Also I was dead wrong about ardy course taking like 1200 hours to hit the drop rate. It's just a fraction of that but still around 500 hours. I think I did hit pretty close to the 1/35k rate (I was somewhere at 25k laps at ardy in this period and I mustve done a couple thousand back in 2018 which werent recorded).

Got a slightly better personal best just now.
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Could have done a better job at the last obstacle. Ive done a few runs that were seemless (only stopped at the last set of flames) but for this run I couldnt find the right timing for it. probably would have saved me a few extra seconds. Also seems like I need to have around 4:23 minutes left at the end of floor 4 for me to have a chance of a faster PB time. I know people can reach that area with like 4:30+ remaining so I could still optimize the lower floors some more or just get really lucky. I have noticed sometimes the arrows are very lenient and only shoot one side the entire time lol.

the dude i reported for macroing like 2-3 days ago hasnt made any xp progress within the past day and couple hours. i wonder if he got temped banned (he is still on hiscores) or just taking a break? He had gained more than 20m agility xp this month so it's possible he's taking a break but IDK. It looked like he'd keep going though wtf.

main reason why i think he was botting:

took him 3 years to basically max (1000 ehp for a main account).

now all of a sudden going at a pace that's 3x-4x faster than that starting from this january.

ik jagex is lenient w/ the bans when it comes to longterm players at least for the 1st offense.

i could just be assuming too much and totally wrong tho

Decided I'm going to knock out the biggest fishing-related log slot remaining and grind for the Heron pet.

Collected enough bait to fish 170k karambwans, which is the plan, and should be just enough to get it if I'm lucky enough to get the drop on-rate.

Banking the raw fish is pretty quick with karamja gloves 4 and quest cape tele for fairy rings, and should earn more than enough gp to sustain membership bonds. Fish barrel makes it much more chill/afk also. Should be plenty of clue drops along the way to break the monotony as well.

Good luck good luck. AFK bwans are nice indeed, one of the better pet hunts.

Damn I'm dumb. The guy i accused of being a botter took a day and a half break. He is gaining xp again.

He wouldve caught up to me in 130 days if i kept my current pace and he kept playing his pace without breaks. His day and a half excursion cost him around an extra 8 days or so tho. Guess I'll see how far he goes. He could always stop to train other skills for a while or take more breaks etc..

Mearcstapa posted...

Decided I'm going to knock out the biggest fishing-related log slot remaining and grind for the Heron pet.

Collected enough bait to fish 170k karambwans, which is the plan, and should be just enough to get it if I'm lucky enough to get the drop on-rate.

Banking the raw fish is pretty quick with karamja gloves 4 and quest cape tele for fairy rings, and should earn more than enough gp to sustain membership bonds. Fish barrel makes it much more chill/afk also. Should be plenty of clue drops along the way to break the monotony as well.

Goodluck man! !!!!!! Hope you get pet soon but if not then at least you get a ton of xp and karambwans

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it instasold at the current price of 29.85m (29.7m after tax)
3rd ring @ 608 coffin opens!!!! im around 75m gp away now from bowfa/crystal armour

If i sold all my marks of grace i could make like 60ish million and then have some other junk i can sell to make it but damn i like hoarding stuff so ill just keep trying to get more rings

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Rolled my first tuxedo piece from an elite clue. Almost on par with gilded items in terms of rarity.

Cool, dont think I have gotten any tuxedo items. I got a big pirate hat from an elite clue earlier today and it was priced at like 750k but I guess I had gotten that thing before.

ill post a stats update when im done with nightmare zone, im 400k points away from imbuing two rings i was supposed to imbue a long time ago lol

won an obsidian armour set and a berserker ring from a drop party today =]

Mearcstapa posted...

Rolled my first tuxedo piece from an elite clue. Almost on par with gilded items in terms of rarity.

gratz! i started an elite a few days ago but been too lazy to finish it. maybe tommorow the 1st step had me complete the haunted mine to gain access to tarn's lair and got tired after that.

EmilyWillis posted...

ill post a stats update when im done with nightmare zone, im 400k points away from imbuing two rings i was supposed to imbue a long time ago lol

it'd be nice to see your progress. I have to imbue my slayer helm now that i have one and the salve necklace.

ive heard pvp arena is a quicker way to imbue. don't even have to win and can just afk it apparently. haven't tried it yet.

Ratchetrockon posted...

won an obsidian armour set and a berserker ring from a drop party today =]

wooo niceee

here are my current stats atm, i got all that farming xp through quests lol

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Got ranger's tunic from an elite =]

EmilyWillis posted...

here are my current stats atm, i got all that farming xp through quests lol

nicee. i had around that farming level for years before i started to level it up recently lol.

hunter is pretty fast so you can get it to the 60s in no time. nice progress overall!!!

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transformation complete!!

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missing strange lockpick and those 5 pages. idk if i can get them from the grand coffin im assuming not

guess ill loot one extra coffin per run eventually

Pages are one per floor and the lock pick is any floor with varying odds. I dont think you can get the lock pick from grand chest though, but maybe.

Ratchetrockon posted...

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transformation complete!!

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missing strange lockpick and those 5 pages. idk if i can get them from the grand coffin im assuming not

guess ill loot one extra coffin per run eventually

Correct. Strange lockpick is only from regular coffins, with odds scaling up with floor. I think it's 1/40 on floor 5.

There's 1 mysterious page per floor, at a 1/10 rate per coffin loot

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aight im back to believing this guy is a bot. CML has more of his history.

nearly 3 days and 3 million agility xp but seemingly without breaks. he is doing this all through ardougne rooftop course too afaik (ive spotted him many times just grinding there). he is very easy to overlap so his xp rates must be in the lower 60 thousands if not like high 50 thousands.

I think he is taking "breaks" to lay low.

comparison to lynx titan's gains. can kinda see when that player took breaks

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another legitimate player example:
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davyheinz posted...

Pages are one per floor and the lock pick is any floor with varying odds. I dont think you can get the lock pick from grand chest though, but maybe.

Mearcstapa posted...

Correct. Strange lockpick is only from regular coffins, with odds scaling up with floor. I think it's 1/40 on floor 5.

There's 1 mysterious page per floor, at a 1/10 rate per coffin loot

ahh thanks for the info guys. Ill have to start looting other floors then

If youve seen them enough and suspect botting, it is likely the case. Thing is: depends upon the botting software. Some are more primitive, may time out, maybe only botting occasionally or during off hours.

my bond runs out today, i made progress on Dragon Slayer 2 to where i killed Vorkath but i suck at this game so i died 6 times until i sold my ghrazi rapier and pegasian boots just to buy a dragon hunter lance just to get over it lol

after that i killed him in one try but i had only 1 food remaining so it wasn't like i cruised through it, i suck haha

after the fight i got the stuff i needed then sold the lance back to get my rapier/pegasian boots back, EDIT: i wanted to melee Vorkath to death btw, yeah i prob would have had an easier time ranging him but meh i like melee the most so i wanted to kill him that way

i know for damn sure im gonna need a dragon hunter crossbow to finish this quest and even then i'll still struggle woooooof im bad

EmilyWillis posted...

my bond runs out today, i made progress on Dragon Slayer 2 to where i killed Vorkath but i suck at this game so i died 6 times until i sold my ghrazi rapier and pegasian boots just to buy a dragon hunter lance just to get over it lol

after that i killed him in one try but i had only 1 food remaining so it wasn't like i cruised through it, i suck haha

after the fight i got the stuff i needed then sold the lance back to get my rapier/pegasian boots back, EDIT: i wanted to melee Vorkath to death btw, yeah i prob would have had an easier time ranging him but meh i like melee the most so i wanted to kill him that way

i know for damn sure im gonna need a dragon hunter crossbow to finish this quest and even then i'll still struggle woooooof im bad

damn I hope you were able to complete DS2. I actually have to do it now because an Elite Clue Scroll I got yesterday requires a section of the quest started (to visit lithrken).

my pvm skills are shoddier now than they were a few weeks ago when i was questing. haven't put too much time into that since i got really into agility lol. well at least im a bit better at movement in the game now (which may or may not help) since doing sepulchre but clicking on prayers and inventory items while doing all that still takes up a lot of processing time for me.

davyheinz posted...

If youve seen them enough and suspect botting, it is likely the case. Thing is: depends upon the botting software. Some are more primitive, may time out, maybe only botting occasionally or during off hours.

yeah best i can do is just to keep updating their xp pages to maybe get more eyes on them and stay ahead for now. i now realized they've been taking these small few days breaks the entire time. since if they didnt they'd be getting about 30m or more xp a month which is even more suspicious.

I know some people can achieve that amount of xp and more through tick perfect sepulchre @ 100k+ xp rates. Not at ardy rooftops though based on what players like Acid Soul were doing a few years ago pre-sepulchre @ ardy rooftops (26m xp a month at most and this guy was the 6th person to 200m agility after getting rank 1 mining; so was an example of an extreme skiller in terms of nolifing)

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i found Paul Blart

i wonder if this type of name is worth a ton of gp

At 35,000 Karambwan fished, or about 20% of Heron drop rate. Just hit 15M Fishing xp.

The clues I'm getting along the way have put my Collection Log up to 623.

Mearcstapa posted...

At 35,000 Karambwan fished, or about 20% of Heron drop rate. Just hit 15M Fishing xp.

The clues I'm getting along the way have put my Collection Log up to 623.

someone in my clan was talking about juggling multiple clues over there (like 40+). I didnt know so many can be obtained from fishing lol. i banked the 4 clue bottles i got early on so never received any more.

gz on the 623 clog and 15m fishing xp!!

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That "Rot" clan was at world 420 ge today. apparently they cheated at DMM w/ like 50+ bots. still didn't win though

the world 420 regulars were telling them to go away

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loot from another drop party i visited lol. not really worth the time loss from my agility training tho. dude (some gambling host) took 40 mins to pull the lever

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Deathmatching is a bannable offense starting from August 15th.

I wonder what type of gambling dmers will move to

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mild improvement to my pb
at the end of floor 4 i had 4:25 remaining

There was one run i did manage 4:30 remaining @ end of floor 4 then messed up a few times at floor 5 lol. so i know for sure that i could hit 5:48 in a future run.

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just some more clan-related drop party loot
the blowpipe was from last night. ahrim's and berserker ring from today
Ok I feel kinda bad now taking the loot because there are lower level peeps that need it more but damn I love popping the balloons

also went to a large drop party in falador hosted by Sparc Mac but didnt win anything

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account progress-wise i'm very close to 700m total xp. will probably get it in a few days.

Very nice. Youre gonna pass me for sure think im at like 704m lol.

Got ultor ring on the ironmeme these past couple weeks and have returned to general slayer for my day to day. Go to CoX or nex as invites come but my groups have been absent of late.

Up to 70,000 karambwans fished, or about 41% of the pet drop rate.
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Also had a rare hit on a master clue today. My 3rd gilded piece.

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^congrats! Hopefully you get the pet soon.

Just hit 70m agility about 10 minutes ago. Still 150kish xp till the next virtual level though
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got another endurance ring today too:
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Started high alching the runite bolts/2h/platebodies from sepulchre while training agility as of yesterday. Gained about 300k magic xp since then so it really does add up. i need the mage levels for elite diaries and magic imbue. previously thought barraging monkeys would yield enough xp per hour to make the 0-time training methods pointless but doesn't seem to be the case (shaving off about an hour of ice bursting every 2ish days or so).

It's actually pretty stimulating IMO and I find myself more motivated doing longer sepulchre sessions knowing that i get extra xp the entire time. it's also a bit fun trying to avoid the arrows while alching. my times have suffered a bit as a result though i'm hoping it becomes 2nd nature eventually.

TheFalseDeity posted...

Very nice. Youre gonna pass me for sure think im at like 704m lol.

Got ultor ring on the ironmeme these past couple weeks and have returned to general slayer for my day to day. Go to CoX or nex as invites come but my groups have been absent of late.

Damn you're an iron though right? 700m xp is worth a lot more for that account type. Regardless I pretty much only focus on skilling. I've got virtually 0 bossing hours.
Also gz on the ultor ring!

While Guthix Sleeps spoilers: Ever since Kuradal replaced Duradel, I feel like Ive been getting significantly better tasks!

I just recently started playing again, imported my old character into Runescape3 and an having a blast. Ive put in almost 170 hours since around July 24 >_>

Been doing questing lately, as I want to do The Temple of Senntisten to unlock Ancient Curses so I can use Soul Split, but Im doing some extra ones to get the full story.

Hit 700m total xp earlier today.

Got 80 magic. The level up message stopped me from moving on the way to a tile in sepulchre. So I got hit by flames lol.

Got 90 farming. Pretty much just need to level the combat skills + slayer a ton to hit base 90s. Slayer is soo slow. Definitely the slowest skill these days for a main.

My xp gains will probably not be much for the next few days since my cousin is gonna come over later today and I have to show her around the area, damn.

If you focus strictly on burst/barrage, cannon, jad/zuk, and maybe TDs tasks itl speed slayer up a good bit. Though training slayer is a good way to rectify your lack of bossing comment :D

Congrats congrats though. Maxed Ratchet incoming.

TheFalseDeity posted...

If you focus strictly on burst/barrage, cannon, jad/zuk, and maybe TDs tasks itl speed slayer up a good bit. Though training slayer is a good way to rectify your lack of bossing comment :D

Congrats congrats though. Maxed Ratchet incoming.

Maxing would be great. Always wanted the cape haha. Infernal max cape sounds even nicer too. I wonder if I can start attempting after I get bowfa and crystal armour. Definitely a noob when it comes to pvm but if I hyperfocus on something I feel like I can get it done eventually

Anyeay I'll try to max before sailing comes out. I'm confident it won't be released till late 2025

Also I mentioned still playing runescape to my cousin and she actually knew the game. Said she played as a kid and had e boyfriends on there. Crazy af.

Have to go to DC tonmorow in the morning. I probably have to reduce my agility xp gains to maybe 300 to 400k a day till Sunday (might not even play on sunday because I'll be hours away from home). I'm definitely addicted to this game again since I feel bummed out by that.

At 100,000 karambwans fished, which is about 60% of the Heron drop rate, representing an approximately 45% chance of having obtained the drop by now.

A few more uniques from clues along the way has boosted the collection log up to 635/1524

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nice!!!! lifetime supply of double/triple eats i assume lol

my progress hasnt plummetted much so far. just lost out on like 200k agility xp yesterday. if i do a 1m agility xp day it'd be like i haven't lost anything but not sure if im willing to do that atm. that'd be like 12 hours of sepulchre [accounting for bad times as i lose focus] or 18 hours of ardy [less than perfect laps]

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Wow ive seen this guy's "Holding Ironmen Hostage in the Wilderness" (not exact title) video lol

Hit 92 slayer today.