Saturday, October 29, 2011

RUNESCAPE: IS JAGEX SATANIST, MASONIC AND EVEN ILLUMINATI? (THE HIDDEN SYMBOLS UNCOVERED)

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This question will stump all Runescape Players. We are going to find out the answer and reveal it to the world once and for all!

We are about to explore the "hidden" side of Jagex in this mind-intriguing article. The sources and evidence you are about to see may or may not be fictional and it entirely depends on whether you would like to believe it or not.

Jagex, the makers of the World Popular Runescape, as you might know, are a well established company that has won numerous awards in the UK. But don't be fooled. Under all these achievements and awards, there is an evil truth.

We are going to present to you the evidences of Satanism, or Illuminatism in Jagex. We are going deep inside the hidden doors to find out the ultimate truth!

1. Location: Barrows

When you're in "software"graphics mode, and you go to the north-east room with the rocks in it, turn your camera north-east and look at the flooring towards the north-east corner of the room. You will see a sign depicting that of Illuminatism. Perhaps it is symbolic, but that's to add effect to the game and to make the barrows seem more realistic.

2. The Prayer Interface: Full of Illuminati Symbols!


The Ancient Staff and it's Symbol :


Ancient means Pagan.

4. The similarity of the Maps in Runescape and the US, Jekyll Island


See the similarity? If not, see the picture below...













5. The Eye of the Illuminati in RUNESCAPE!




This is "The All Seeing Eye"  (They Eye outside Gypsy Arie's Tent in Varock Square.)
Notice that THIS IS NOT A STATUE, when you walk by the EYE KEEPS OBSERVING PEOPLE











Notice how these monsters are looking down?



This is the photo booth in Draynor; .... Again, this could be "The All Seeing Eye"



These could be just pure coincidence but who knows?

Masonic Symbol in Court Cases Minigame:



Did you see it? Well the symbol is below:




So we have come to the end of this mind-boggling article. You maybe believe or not this content. But, the truth may come out sooner or later...

Adios!

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Introducing The Lava Maze Lure

When you go p-king, do you go to rune rocks in level 46 wilderness? If you have then you know how thrilling it gets! It's thrilling because you often find yourself involved in do-or-die situations! This post though is about discussing a new luring method at the lava maze. Take a look at the map on the right;

The Lava Maze
By the way, to get things cleared, it does not involve luring holiday rare items. Though, if you do it right and on busy worlds, you should get a consistent amount of kills, and that adds up.

Do you see the Blue spot on the map?? That is where all, or most of the action starts at. The valuable rune ores to be mined (right at the blue spot) attracts plenty of pkers on the lookout for a miner. This spot can be often populated, especially on busy worlds like world 3 or 1 (the most competitive ones though). This lure requires you to have at least on friend, or your other account to be standing there.

Combat level requirement : Works at a wide range of combat levels. If lower combat, consider bringing some magic. Also, this trick works slightly better at low & mid combat levels (combat 20 to 70)

So bring an account on that green dot with fancy armor. You can have him wear almost any fancy armor, be it full rune in gold or trimmed or golden green dragon hide. My favorite would be fancy (g) or (t) mage robes. Maging is easier and more fun. With magic you can bind people over the river, attack them, you can telegrab food or items on the ground... think about it!

So your job is is simple in itself. You will simply stand there and serve as an 'apetizer' for people that are on the other side of the river. Your fancy armor will draw their attention. If it doesn't, then mage them, or range them!  (depending on what you're using). Trust me, a good bunch of people will be raging while you are wasting their food and will just go find you provided they have a weapon with slashing weapon.

If they are a pure, or if they have low defence, they will most likely run through the lava maze, not wanting to get hit by the dark knights -- and they hit pretty hard on 1 def by the way. And let me tell you ; by the time they get to successfully slash the webs (while getting attacked by knights) waste food, run back and forth the maze trying to find the path leading to you, they will be half dead already. Imagine someone coming to you that is half dead and no run left -- it's a dream scenario. But let me tell you that many players loose judgement when motivated by greed. On top of that, the webs will start closing soon, and they will need to re-slash them, if they even make it there.

But what if the person does get to you and have full food because he/she has good defence? Then fight that person till you die on your appetizer account, and log right back in on a second account that you will have brought there. You should be able to finish the job.

Another method to lure                                             
Also another way to do it (works better if you've got good defence), would be to find someone, have him attack you and then run all the way to where the green dot on the map is. Then, turn on him for a fight. If you have half food left, and some good pvp skills then you should be comfortable enough to take him out on your second account waiting there.

Comments, Ideas, Opinions, Wilderness meet ups and the like are always welcome... Good night everyone!

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Runescape Theme Song Played IRL

Check out this awesome band, playing the runescape theme song! 


The song was played at Albert State College in Poteau. The Guy on drums is Jonathan Freeman. Apparently all band members are actual runescape players, including the older guy who unfortunately has cancer...get well buddy!

Another rs theme song worth mentionning is the next one below, played by Daniel Tidwell, a funny lunatic/daydreaming dude...Enjoy!

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Runescape Halloween Costumes, IRL Style!

As Halloween is just around the corner, I've thought it would be cool for people to show off their Runescape-themed Halloween costumes! This kind of stuff is hilarious and fun to watch!


Most of the people here made their own costumes by using a combination of items bought from a Halloween store and then some home-made items. Notice even how on the second picture, the guy painted his shoes in red - as if they are dragon boots =D... perfect stuff to impress  girls with!

Post Below all Runescape-themed Halloween Costumes that You run Across! (wether yours or not)

I've found these three while browsing the web, and they're a blast to look at for the eye! If you find other costumes around the web, please let me know via the comments (include the picture link). If the costume(s) are yours and you'd like to be mentionned in any particular way, then let me know as well. Who knows, maybe we can gather enough here to actually make it a reference page of some sort.
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Also, Don't forget to subscribe, as the RS 2011 Halloween event guide will be released soon.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

September 2011 Post Roundup

From now on, at the beginning of every month I will do a recap of everything posted on the previous month. This will give a chance to those people who might have missed something interesting to go back and read it.

I always recommend leaving a comment on any post you find usefull. Comments are great if you have a question about something not mentionned in the post , or want to add something to the subject. Comments are good to any blog as well, it lets the writers know that you appreciate reading it and keeps them going.

With that said, let’s take a look at last month’s posts;
Keep in mind that I am still looking for guest posters that have an original personal story, or guide to share. Guides can be personalised and not sound informal like on wikia. Just let me know via the contact form on the contact page (If I don't reply within a day or two, please leave me a comment then). Cheers everyone!!

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Halloween Event Guide 2011 (Deathcon 2)

The RuneScape Halloween 2011 Event (Deathcon 2) takes place at clan citadels, near Rimmington. Citadels are located just west of the chicken pen in Falador and North of Port Sarim. You will see a gift icon right where you're supposed to start the halloween event. Follow this walktrough if you want to save time.

RS Halloween 2011 Event
Time Taken: Short - Medium (15 Minutes)
Difficulty - (Medium)
Rewards :  Deathcon T-shirt, The "Living on Borrowed" Emote, and an hourglass (p2p only).

Speak to Frank outside the clan Camp's west entrance

He will give you a Deathcon Lanyard which gives you access to the portal. Once that is done, go through the blue citadel portal JUST EAST of Frank

Once that you've entered the portal, head WEST, and look for the first yellow dot on the map. That statue/Person is called "Beauty" - talk to her.

Go through the conversation text. At some point, she asks you which statue should we pick to begin with. I'd say go with the order they give you, but as long as you associate these ones together it doesn't matter;

Death's - Green Dragon
Famine - Giant Spider
Frank's - Glacor
Pestilence's - Skeleton
War - Demon Warlord

Now that they're all set, go back to the red portal where you came from (do not exit that). Look for the brick blocks on the outside called "Statue Plinth", you will need to click those and choose a character for each. Start with the first Plinth North-West and work your way east and eventually south. Here is the order on what to click for each Plinth;

1. Pestilences's
2. Frank's
3. Death's
4. Famine's
5. War's

Now go talk with Beauty/the statue again and tell her that you're done. Follow the path west and take the first right. Go north all the way up until you see a giant room with a podium and benches (similar to what a senate would look like in real life). Go on the second floor by clicking on the mini map and up the stairs.

Then talk to infinity, the DJ spider that you see. You might want to read the text and not simply skim throught it, jagex actually came up with a nice story on this one. After talking to that spider (Infinity), she will hand you a dance floor manual. You will then need to complete the pumpkin puzzle below.


Pumpkin Puzzle

Pumpkin Puzzle
Once you've completed the pumpkin puzzle as shown in the screenie, talk to the spider again. Choose the last option - asking her to check if what you did is correct.

Congratulations, you're almost done now! Climb up the stairs (located the corner of the room you're in). You will find Frank in the northern-most part of the room. Speak to him tell him that you will help him out

He will then teleport you to a chicken and fireworks puzzle in which you control the chicken and have to make him explode all four fireworks. The chicken moves ONLY in "L" patterns of 3 squares, just like a knight does in the game of chess. This is the easiest puzzle, when you're done speak to frank again. By the way, if you're placed on the right square next to the fireworks and clicking doesn't work, try clicking several times in several manners.

Now you're done! Go find the Grim Reaper outside. He is located in a tent, all the way south west from when you exit the building. Another way to find him is from the time you enter the portal, go west all the way (past statue) till you see the tent with a dog at it's entrance. So the rewards for this year's halloween are the following ;

Reward # 1: Deathcon T-shirt - a boring t-shirt at first sight... though when you close it up it reminds me of stone cold Steve Austin Somehow .. 3:16 baby! .
Reward # 2 : The "Living on Borrowed" Emote. I don't use emotes much, but a cool emote none the less.
Reward # 3 : Hourglass ... You need to be a member for this one. I've seen my buddy's hourglass and he says he can't do anything with it. So probably skip on this one if you're thinking about buying a membership... unless of course you're a hardcore player!

Also, it seems that there will be a special event this Halloween (on the 29th that is). Will there be another reward waiting around? This is the first time that runescape makes an event into an event.

I hope you liked it... By the way, what are you doing for this Halloween's? For me Halloween rhymes with hitting up on chicks at school. In runescape, I get to do some awesome pking every halloween weekend. If you're ready for it/want to join then let me know, we could organize something! Cheers everyone!

What are you doing for Halloween?

Dominion Tower

The Dominion Tower will apparently be released in October 2011, sometime after Runefest 2011. It will give players the opportunity to "fight over fifty different quest monsters" in arcade style. Will it be f2p or p2p? Only time will tell but I suspect p2p. Keep your fingers crossed though.

Dominion Tower
The rewards of this minigame include; combat experience, new consumable items, and dominion gloves.

Apparently, you will be able to fight monsters that no longer exist, like the evil chicken, as well as boss monsters from past quests that you can no longer fight, like Delrith.

“ Fight over fifty different boss monsters; engage with multiple fight modes to test your skills from endurance mode to climber mode; cope with over 20 new combat handicaps; battle in 8 brand new speciality battles, using dominion weapons and bombs. Once you’re done, chuck down a marker with your achievements, see how you’ve competed on the high score table and mock your rivals as they fail. 
As well as generous Combat XP and new consumable items to use on the surface world, you’ll also have the chance to unlock the dominion glove sets, designed to offer new “unarmed” combat options and offer some of the best stats available for the glove slot. Plus you’ll get to play with the deadly dreadnip; a new ally to help you in your hardest and toughest fights yet to come.” 
--Mod Mark 

Facts we know to date

You will be able to fight previous quest monsters.
There will be over 50 different boss monsters.
You'll be able to fight with multiple fight modes, from endurance mode to climber mode.
Put up with 20+ new combat mode handicaps
Battle new speciality battles, while using dominion weapons and bombs.

Dominion Tower Rewards

You gain combat XP
New items that you can use outside of dominion tower
Dominion glove sets (rumoured to carry some of the highest glove bonuses)
The deadly dreadnip; an ally to help you fight in your hardest fights yet to come (possibly quest and boss fights)

Upcomming Guides

I plan on adding some feature guides for this minigame. Come back at this very place to see updates. If you want to write some guides, let me know through the contact form. You will get properly credited for your work. Let me know :)

Friday, September 30, 2011

Gold4Rs Getting Sued By Jagex

The largest rs gold selling company, Gold4RS is allegedly getting sued by Jagex. In a statement on their news section, on the 9th september, rs4gold have written about getting sued by Jagex for cause of having the "rs" name on their domain name gold4rs.com.

As a result, gold4rs have now established their gold-selling site on another domain name "gold4fun". It now seems thought that the domain name "gold4rs.com" is still owned by the gold-selling company, since it is using a permanent redirect function to redirect surfers to their new site.

Now did the company behind gold4rs breach any copyright issues by having rs in their web url? Most likely not. There have been similar issues in the past with wordpress.org, where the company was suing website owners for using the word "wordpress" in their domain names. After court settlements, it was ruled that the word "wp" would be an adequate alternative and would conform with copyright laws.

Similarly, it should be about the same story with runescape. If Jagex were to really sue some gold-selling and bot companies in court, for cause of them having the "rs" acronym in the website name, they would not win. After all, nobody owns the alphabet!

But I was wondering, is that Jagex's only strategy to combat real-world trading and botting? I hope they have an actual approach... because this won't get them very far.

Gold4RS reports selling between 6 and 8 trillion gold in runescape each year. That's around 6 million US dollars with current pricing.

Sunday, September 25, 2011

A new Rare Item In Runescape Classic !

Hey guys, a brief post today to bring some energy into the runescape classic community. With RSC being closed for new registrations, there will be an upcoming rare item that will boom in value within the game. The item is not new since rsc has not really been updated since 2003. Can you guess what it is? Think for a second...

If you guessed the accuracy amulet, then you are right! There is only one possible way of obtaining an accuracy amulet, and this is by completing the witch's potion quest. In runescape classic, few people are willing to do the quest, and the same goes for any other quest giving magic experience for that matter (this is because it makes stakers and wilderness pkers gain unwanted combat levels, regardless of their stats).

So in a way, it is a rare item, or to the least semi-rare. If you can remember, in rs2 accuracy amulets were worth a steady 10k gold each on the grand exchange. But that value really shot up as soon as groups of people (merchanters) created demand for this item. 

Take a look at this graph and see what happened to amulets of accuracy on the 18th of october 2010

Amulet of Accuracy

On the 18th oct. in '10 , Jagex pulled the trigger on this item. They made the item buyable (even after you complete the quest) from wizard migog for 5'000 gp. But that's not where I want to get to.

The point is that when there's a very limited supply, prices will most certainly go up as soon as an individual, or group of individuals buy this item.

Now, in rsc, the conditions for this item to drastically climp up in price are even more ideal. First, rsc is much more stable than rs2 (there are no updates). Second, few people would be willing to complete the Imp Catcher quest. Thirdly - and another factor that adds a lot to this - is that no more accounts can be created after the the 29th of september 2011 (In one week as of writing this).

How to Profit from this new Rare

If you want to profit from this, I have a few tips for you; get your friends who signed up for rsc (but that don't play anymore) to do the quest. All that the imp catcher quest requires is for you to go speak to wizard migog and offer the following 
  • : one black bead, one white bead, one yellow bead, and on red bead.
These are dropped by level 3 imps. Imps are located mostly everywhere on the map, but are mostly found in karamja. A good trick would be to stack up a lot of these, and then offer them to friends or people you don't know plus some money (to be determined by you depending on the situation) and have the player trade you.

I am really looking forward to see how the value of this item fluctuates in the future. My prediction is that amulets of accuracy will be worth around 750k to 1 million within one year of rsc closing to the public. Let me know what you plan on doing after reading this,
Discuss!

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Who's Bought Runefest Tickets?

Is anyone here attending Runefest 2011? Runescape and runescape classic are fun, in part because of the interaction that people have in these games with eachother. Community plays a big role role across runescape.

Despite that Jagex does not always listen to player demands, I believe that attending this social event that puts us players face to face is really cool. Here is a preview of last year's (2010) Runefest event.


After all, we do not live in a virtual world (despite that some of us spend the bulk of their time there).

So is anyone planning to go to the Runefest event in 2011? Who's bought tickets already? Have you went to the first one? What do you plan on doing this year. I can only dream of crossing oceans this year, but perhaps in 2013 though, you never know! Cheers runescapers ;)

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Quick Start Guide To Rs Classic / RSC

So Runescape Classic has started again, and now it seems it will be for the last time. Let's make it fun. In this quick start guide I'll adress 3 questions; How to make money, What type of account you should make and lastly a few pointers.

How To Make Money

There are a couple of good ways of making money that I know of, with combat being the most effective by far. You can kill unicorns for their unicorn horns, they are worth 1k each. You may kill all sorts of monsters for a little money. I have not played rsc for long enough to tell you the best places. A good reasoning thought would be to think about monsters that and their drops in runescape 2, they will often have the same drops  or similar drops. Though The best reason to kill npc's for money is that you do two things in same time; getting combat up and  building your stack.

Staking is also another profitable way to make money, and it works great with making gold via killing npcs, since you will need to train combat. You can win a lot as well as loose a lot but staking can be really fun.

You can also merchant, which works well with staking. Most people hang out, trade and stake in draynor. It is like the equivalent of the world  1 grand exchange.

You may also fish, mine, and more but they are of a more boring order. Well at least from my perspective. Another skill that makes a lot of money is herblaw. You can make super potion sets at the cost of 10k gold pieces and sell them retail at 100k each, or sell them in bulk for around 50k each.

What Type of Account/Fighter to Make

Be weary than in RSC, Magic levels your combat level just like prayer does. Every 8 magic levels equal one combat level, no matter what your other levels are. Note that a lot of people stake with magic off. In RSC, magic is very powerfull. Sometimes you see can see mages around combat 40-50 stake against maxed fighters that are level 110 or so. You may also want to stay one prayer since most people stake with prayer ticked off.

You may also make a 1 defence pure. They are fun and are quite good stakers even against mains or tanks. They can be very good for player-killing as well since their low combat level and high offensive stats give them the best chance to 3-hit their opponent. Some people choose 10 defence for the fancy black armor, but I prefer not having that, since you will be limited to always wearing that.

Another good option would be to make a 40 defence "pure". At 40 defence, it becomes easier to train. You can afk train for 5 minutes on giants, spiders, hobgoblins and plenty of other monsters, plus you can wear rune armor. For one thing, afk training sounds interesting, since you can do your homework, type a word document or do other internet-related things while your character is gaining combat levels. An important notice though, is make sure you stay low defence at first, and complete the quests that need to be completed in order to get the dragon battle axe. The dragon battle-axe is the weapon that hits the highest in runescape classic.



Other things to watch out for (add your tips in the comments)

If you don't want defence xp, train on agressive (strenght xp) or accurate (attack xp). When you first log on, try to find a monster that has less hitpoints than your maximum hit. And for that purpose take off any weapon and amulet. If you are pretty sure that the npc you are about to attack has more hitpoints than your maximum hit, then attack it and quickly switch to agressive (or accurate). Every time you log on, you will be fighting on controlled by default, so watch out.

Wining your attack; I think hp can be usefull, but some people who do not want hitpoints - for the sake of bringing their combat level too high - train their attack with wines or beers on dummies. They temporarily bring their attack level low enough (under level 7) so that they can hit the dummy and gain attack experience. You may do that all the way up to level 99 attack if you wish, provided that you have a good stock of wines/beers.

Good luck! If you've recently started rsc, I hope that this short guide has helped you. If you've been playing for some time and want to leave more advice, please do so in the comments section. Have a good one!

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Last Opportunity to Join Rs Classic/RSC

Hey guys, I hope that you took notice of the announcement on the homepage. Well I'll say it anyways for those living under a rock; Between now and the 30th of september will be your LAST opportunity to log into Runescape Classic. Anyone who is or becomes a paying p2p member can start a new account in runescape classic between that lapse of time.

I hope you all join RSC in great numbers as It's a fun game with nice graphics, I find them much nicer to look at then runescape hd for instance believe me.

One thing I like about classic is that it seems much more relaxing to play than rs hd. No complicated graphics, no randoms (as I know of) , no lag, etc.

Who else hear likes Runescape Classic?

Examples of Good Pure Stats

It takes time and effort to build up a good pure, seconds to mess it up and just a little time to plan it. Follow on to see what good runescape stats resemble like!

Back in the days that I started playing (around 2002-2003) , pures were rare. They were made for one purpose and one only - to kill an enemy in the shortest amount of time (less than 10-15 seconds) before they could run to safety.

Traditional Rs2 HybridPictured Here: A traditional rs2 pure hybrid.
Max hit with range: 13.6  Scimitar:19.3 R2h: 23.4
In this case it has 1 def and prayer, 80 magic, 80 range, 80 strength, and 40 attack with 78 hp at a combat level of 58 (any more level makes it 59).

Traditional rs2 pures were 1 prayer and 1 defence. The mentallity of creating one was clear; Maximum attacking performance at the lowest possible combat level. People would never fight you back, and you would be attacking most of the time.

This setup is now rarely used now, but it is my favorite. What I like is that you never have to worry about going out of prayer points. If you are going in deep wilderness then you don't have to worry about altars. Also, you are not tied up on wearing monk robes to make prayer last more. And wearing monk robes is a disadvantage too, especially when using range or magic. Prayer is not friendly and can be a bit of a hassle for hybriding, ex. range maging or doing the range to rune2h combo. With 1 prayer, you also have much better chances at winning in duelling since most people tick prayer OFF on the duelling rules box.
However, the disadvantage is that from 80 range and 80 strenght and going up, you will hit slightly lower against those with the same combat level as you.
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runescape 1 def strength pureNow this is the same setup, again with 58 combat, but without the hitpoints that range gives you when training (73 hitpoints instead of 78).
Rune Scimitar max hit: 20.0  R2h:24.3
The 4 hitpoints save you enough combat levels to attain 84 strength. In this scenario, it's assumed that you've trained magic in ways that doesn't give xp. If you train your pure in p2p however, you could get 83 range in this scenario without any hitpoints.

In this case, you have high strength and magic. You can use magic as magic defence or to have fun in the deep wilderness. However range and mage becomes more handy in those situations.

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Range/Mage Hybrid
A Range/Mage pure maxed for 58 combat.
Ranged Max hit: 14.1
Range/Mage is an ideal combination in the deep levels of wilderness like at greater demons or rune rocks and it's a ton of fun. No melee means that you can not go edgeville pking with range/2h which is also fun. In edgeville, you won't get kills without 90 range or more. The upside is that you can level your range and magic higher.

Range/Mage pures were the first choice of pures in early rs2, before pures got common. 40 attack pures were later added to counter these, though range is still king in both f2p and p2p when it comes to damage per second.
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A modern strength pure. You can find lots of them at edgeville.
Max hit with rune scimitar: 20.9  With 2h: 25.4
If trained in f2p without range, then you always save a full two combat levels (8 hitpoints). In this example, you save 7 hitpoints. From here, some decide to get 34 prayer, giving 0.375 extra combat levels, but adding 6 attack. This prayer will last 1 minute 49 seconds when activated or around two minutes 45 seconds with monk robes on (cut that in half if both prayers are activated). 31 prayer gives 3.75 combat levels, and will definitely disadvantage someone in staking. For instance, these stats are good for edgeville pking.

Still at 58 combat, this is a hybrid with 43 prayer.
Range Max hit: 142.4, with Scimitar: 19.8 With R2h: 24.1
Note that I've put 75 magic with 73 range but it can have up to 75 range and still be at 58 combat if trained in p2p. Though if in f2p, as soon as it would hit 74 range, the hitpoints will make the character bump up to 69 constitution and setting the account at 59 combat.

Now 43 prayer gives exactly 5.25 extra combat levels from 1, and 1.5 more combat levels from 34. When using the spell protect from melee, it will last exactly 2 minutes and 29 seconds. The spell eagle eye, will last 2 minutes 26 seconds, and both combined will last 1 minute 14 seconds. Add about 8 seconds to that with a power ammy (4 if both prayers are on). Protection prayers can definitely help in the higher levels of the wilderness if your opponent is fighting back, or if a high level or clan is after you. The downside is that prayer is not permanent. If you enjoy going solo pking at the rune rocks though, there is an altar in level 32 wilderness, not that far south.

The same as above, except without attack and prayer to cut down on training time and also a couple of hitpoints (if you are f2p).
Max ranged hit: 13.0
Note again that if you're p2p though and don't mind training more, then you can get the melee stats without hitpoints.


Obby Mauler, are also called 1 attack pure at times. They have high pure stats considering their extremely low combat level.
Max hit with Obsidian Maul : 28.5
The thing to keep in mind for this kind of pure -and I'd say all other pures too, but especially more this one - is to keep hitpoints low in order to fight the weakest players possible and who have the lowest hitpoints level. Obby Maulers are effective at very low combat levels. The higher they get in combat, the less effective they become. You can start doing very well as soon as you hit 60 strength and that will be the time where you will be the most effective. So go player-killing right away!

Try achieving 60 strenght with 15 hp (23 combat) as you will have a max hit of 28.5! , that means you can one hit your opponents! these stats would be even better for pking! At 23 combat, most pures have around 22 hitpoints, and mains, if you can find some, have even less! A max hit of 28.5 coupled with a target of 18 to 24 hp in most cases leaves you with a generous margin of error! It won't be easy to get it to 60 strength without hitpoints. Try doing quests that give high strength and then soul wars. Also, do not max your range level, leave it many levels below because it will level up fast while player-killing.

Other Accounts with good Stats Build

These are pretty much the best choices of pures with the best possible levels that I can think through. 52 prayer "pures"  and higher prayer, or pures with very high attack have been ommitted because they don't do well against the opposition for their given combat levels. Other good accounts to consider for pvping but not pures, would be range tanks with 40 def 80+ range and 1 or 43 prayer. Use them in the deep levels of the wilderness.

So this is about it. Always plan your stats before investing time and energy into a new account. I use the combat calculators from scape-xp to plan my stats.

That's about it. If you can come up with another idea, let me know and I will probably add it on the list. Any questions are welcome & feel free to discuss what you like and prefer, what you hate, etc... Cheers !

See also: The complete Range Pure guide

Monday, September 12, 2011

Linkbuilder's / Lumbridge City Merchanting Mastermind Course [Review]

If you’ve been merchanting for some time now, you may have heard about Linkbuilder’s Merchanting Mastermind workshop course. Well a couple of days ago, I finally decided to give it a go and see what it’s all about. This is what I think of the course, so read on to see if it’s for you or not.

Seems like a happy customer - found that on their Forum

Upon signing up, I must say that I was a little impressed by the sincerity of this person (linkbuilder). He makes no claims that you’ll be a billionaire overnight. He doesn’t show you fake bank pics on his sales page or bogus/fake testimonials like I’ve seen countless times.

Linkbuilder even lists his address and a phone number in case you want to contact him for questions or pertaining to customer support!! I can say that few authors or at all in runescape are proud or honest enough of what they offer to list their phone number on a runescape website!

Honesty aside though, what Linkbuilder promised is that by following his methods, as well as techniques of reading the market -the same ones that are used by real-life stock exchange traders- (from his own words), that I would build up my wealth faster than I would think is possible.

I then signed up and entered my email…Afterwards I was asked to create my account. Note: It does not let you create an account with capital letters in the name.

After successfully signing up, I’ve found that there is a lot of material covered, and it takes a bit of time and attention to learn.

In short, here most of what's included;

The course is organized in nine modules and each one of them has a specific theme.
First, he teaches you how to build confidence when investing, how to correctly anticipate price changes in charts. He explains price chart patterns that exist in both the real world as well as in the grand exchange with a few of them being; 1-2-3 bottoms, what is and how to properly do swing trading, advanced flipping as well as flipping in uncertain markets, hockey stick patterns and others.

Within each of those modules there is either one or two videos to properly explain each concept, then he shows you live examples. After the videos of each module, there is a questionnaire to make sure you’ve understood all of the ideas behind it.

After all the “technical” modules covering patterns and strategies are dealt with (trust me it takes time to go through them) – there are two other modules about how to pick up the best items to merchant and risk control.

After going through the videos and completing the questionnaires, I can say that I was feeling confident about investing - and even curious about going on the real stock market via my android phone. There are many patterns to learn that are being thought in the course and that also apply to real life (not just runescape).

After you've absorbed his teachings from the modules (it takes time), he then gives you even more practice with another tool; His Composite Charts. This is a tool made to help you test your knowledge and confidence in a “real world” GE Merchanting setting where you try to predict price fluctuations without actually investing gp. On top of these, there is also another section with guides written by other merchanting experts (which I can't comment because I have yet to take a look at).

And finally the live webinars! Yes it is given by linkbuilder himself. For those who don’t know, a live webinar is when you attend an online course with a group of people where students and the teacher (linkbuilder) can talk with eachother while he teaches material on a screen.

As of writing this, I still have to wait to attend the webinar though it seems pretty exciting. (When 20 or so people have bought the product, you will have to wait 2 weeks or so for the next webinar, as otherwise classes will be too large).

Another thing I have to add is that there is also an awesome community behind linkbuilder where they discuss Runescape Merchanting amongst others (Pking, real life stock trading, real life, etc). I’ve found it very mature, people are engaged and speak their minds there – not like your typical large community forums where you see one sentence posts etc…

Final Word

So has Linkbuilder worked hard on this Merchanting Course – Hell yes he did
Should you buy access to the course? A: It depends ! If you are;

a) If you cannot stack up at least 200 or 300k in your bank, you will not be able to fully exploit the techniques discussed and rake in the profits.
On the other hand, if you are either

b)      A person that is able to at least stack up a little money (300k)  the traditional way                       
      (by skilling)
c)      If you are a person who is ALREADY good at merchanting and wants to become a top-notch merchanter
d)      If you are a person that has not merchanted before but want to learn to do it – and do it well
e)      If, no matter your situation, really want to reach the instance where you don’t need to work(skill) for money anymore – and only have to log in a couple of minutes a day and merchant with full confidence…

…. Then this is for you. If you fall into the a) group (I know a lot of people do) , you will need to think again about your motivations. But if you can identify with b) c) (I was definitely a C person) or d) , then I can only say this course will make you richer in the game after following the techniques (and finally be able do the things you really enjoy most in runescape).

In the end, it comes down to this; Stop SLAVING in runescape (working long hours for gp). Sign up for the course and simply ask the guy a refund if you don’t like it. Cheers everyone! leave your comments below-

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Just Launched: Runescape Bits for Mobile!

Hey guys, today I've some great news for you : Runescape Bits is now available for mobile phones!

I'm glad to say that we are now one of the very first Runescape fansites to have our site adapted for mobile phones!

That's right, if you have an android-based phone, an iphone, a blackberry or any other mobile phone that has internet access (either by wi-fi or a data plan), you will be available to see this site in full on your mobile!

Just point your mobile web browser to the usual runescapebits.blogspot.com , and you will see it. Or if you're on a computer now, you can take your internet-connected phone, and have it scan that barcode on the right.

I've tried it on my own android phone and it's pretty cool. The site loads really fast. Text is easy to read. There is no annoying sideways scrolling. Java, flash, or any large files have been cut out. What that means is that it loads fast and consumes very little bandwidth. Plus, leaving comments and surfing from post to post is easy.

Most people probably won't come here on mobile, but for those that will, I hope that you'll enjoy it. Remember that sometimes(not always) we are the first to publish guides or alerts when new and interesting things come out on runescape, so that would be another fun aspect.

If you need some help to bring a mobile version on your own rs site, then please let me know and I'll try to help.

For now, some feedback would be really awesome. Let me know what you think everyone, cheers!

Sunday, August 21, 2011

How to Get the First Hit in Staking [PID]

It’s become common knowledge now amongst duellers, that when two opponents of equal combat stats and equipment are having a duel, the one who will be the first to hit the other will tend to win more often.

Getting the first hit was meant to be “random” to runescape players. However it is not …let me explain.

When you log in to Runescape, your character is assigned a personal identification number (or “PID”). This number can range anywhere from 1 to 2000. You can think of it as a “luck factor” or even a “priority number”. The lower that number is, the “luckier” and more prioritized you become.

So your PID, or “luck factor” as I like to call it, is implicated with many things. For instance, when clicking on a balloon in the party room at the same time as somebody else, the game engine will give priority to the player with the lowest PID. Another example would be when a player casts the telekenetic grab spell, say on wines of zammorack, in same time as another player. The player with the lowest PID will always get it – even if you see that the motion of casting the spell appears to be in same time. Your PID, or priority/luck factor level will tell the game engine to give you the wine. So whichever player is having the lowest PID WILL get the wine. This concept is applied in many areas of the game, including player-killing in the wilderness, dueling/staking and more.

When you start a duel and the screen displays the [3-2-1-go] before the fight, it will not matter how fast you will have spam clicked your opponent. Simply, the one with the lowest PID will get the first hit, and usually the overall highest hits as well.

So before a stake, If you know that your player identification number is lower than that of your opponent, you will get a guaranteed first hit and an improved chance to win the fight. In Runescape 2, unlike runescape classic, you cannot see the exact PID number (In RSC, you could look at Java source code).

So you can only know if your PID is higher or lower than your opponen'ts (but that's well enough to get a first hit anyway). So here are two tricks that are easy to do and that WORK.

Trick #1 Ask your opponent to follow you - tell him you're going to a place with less lag. Now as he follows you, observe the way he follows you. If he trails behind, the he's got a higher PID than you, and hence you should get the first hit. If he follows you up tight, he will be the one to get the first hit. Observe in the vid below;
 

 If he follows you up tight, you might want to have a small stake with him, since he will get the first hit. Once you've staked him once, you may ask him to switch to another world (Switching worlds will reset PIDS for both of you). As a trick, you can tell him for instance that you would like to go to a world with less lag... it's up to you.


Before heading towards the duel arena, you can test out your PID with a friend. If yours is too high, then log out and back in. If you then get a lower PID than your friend, have him log out and back in till he can beat you again. Repeat untill you feel you have a good enough PID.

Method #2 You can also simply duel with your friend for fun and have him log back and in and yourself aswell untill you feel you have a good PID. You may also verify this by doing telekenetic grab over an object with your friend and see who gets it first though the easiest method would be the first one. Just thought about giving you options.

Theories and observations;
Me and you are not the engineers who made the game engine but the best we can do is to support each other with theories and experiences to perfect ourselves. Please add your own observations in the comments section so we can better master this PID system. Here are two of mine;

#1 PID seems to change after about 30 minutes and 2 hours of being logged on
#2  When fighting against an opponent in a duel several times in a row, the first hit is sometimes alternated between one another. HOWEVER, I have felt that even if you have the higher PID and by a rare occasion you hit second, you still seem to get the stronger(luckier) hits and usually catch up really well.
#3 I have felt at times that after logging on, your PID will usually improve after a little time spent logged on and not go down. (Still a theory by all means).

If you have any observations or theories of your own, please leave them in the comments section. Now good luck on making money staking with your new trick. Some people already rely on this and gained millions with this trick. Please come here to report back your wins! Now that's it for today guys, I'm out!

Friday, August 19, 2011

Killing Chickens as a Way to Make Money and XP

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but feathers have recently skyrocketed in price. As of writing this, they are standing at an all-time high of 18 gp per feather. Killing chickens to sell their feathers is one of the best ways to make money for low levels in f2p – (And a decent one for that matter to higher level accounts)

Money made per hour
I’ve managed to get slightly over 3’000 feathers under one hour. In my case, at 18gp each, that equals to 54’000 gp made in one hour.

Notice that I’ve done that using a mid-leveled account. Actual figures for newer or low level characters could range from 15k per hour (at least) to 40k per hour (very reasonable)

Getting started:
Bring the best weapons and armor you can get (power or strength amulet and scimitar if you use melee).
Try to stay focused and not loose your time chatting while you’re making gp
When you start feeling tired, you can kick in some local radio to keep you going

My favorite chicken pens – Best places to find chickens to kill and make money from

1. The farm across the cow field, north-west of Draynor and close to the the magic shop in port Sarim. The pen has 8 chickens – the most you will find in f2p.

2. Fred's farm, right across the cabbage field and North of the Lumbridge castle.

3. The Lumbridge Farm just South of Falador. It is near all the goblins and next to a cow field. A good place but sometimes I find it crowded.

4. The Champions' Guild’s chicken pen (32 quest points needed access), located

There are a few more places that I know of to find more chickens but from my personal experience, these ones work the best.

And remember, if you are looking to train prayer, this would be an excellent way to do it. Now go kill these chickens... Hope you liked it, Cheers! Stay tuned for the next guide!

RS Refer a Friend Program

Today, on the 18th of August, Jagex have introduced a "Refer a Friend program" in Runescape.

When a player invites a friend (or stranger, or a new self-owned account for that matter) , both receive experience boosts. The Inviter gets a 10% experience boost for an entire week (If the member subscrided to members), while the invited get a 100% (either subscribing on p2p or not). Yes you heard that right, a 100% experience boost (for all levels under 30, works for one week).

That is pretty sad if you ask me... I feel like RuneScape is getting more and more monetized. While browsing the forums, many players have been flaming the heck out of jagex.

Even zezima has replied with  "That's very... disappointing"  on the forums

Do you guys even remember this phrase from Mod MMG?

"One of our fundamental philosophies is that having fun is more important to us than making as much money as possible." - Mod MMG

First, the bonus xp weekend, then you could pay for unbanning an account, afterwards paying for the auroras, a nicname, and now pay for experience!

What will the next step be? Microtransactions? I'm afraid that these are not too far around the corner.

Join the Riots on world 66 p2p, or on world 79 in f2p. What do you guys think of all this? What do you think of the refer a friend program?

How do you see Runescape evolving if Jagex's Financial goals are not reached? Have your say in the comments below!

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Making Money Collecting Wines of Zammorack (f2p)

One of the best ways to make money for runescape players in free-to-play (f2p) worlds, is collecting wines of zammorack. These wines are in high demand for making various potions on p2p worlds. Their current grand exchange price is 2'100gp each but it usually varies between 1500gp and 2400gp.

So how much money can you expect making per hour?
A: From 100k up to 250k an hour depending on current item price, if the place is crowded and your combat stats

Requirements: Have at least 33 magic OR moderate combat stats to attack monks with (19 prayer for rapid restore is also recommended)

Where: Wines of zammorack are located in a temple on the westernmost side of the wilderness, just a few squares under level 0 wild. This is just west of goblin village, west of edgeville and north west of falador.

You have two options on how to collect the wines of zammorack.

1) The first and by far most popular way is to cast the telekenetic grab spell (33 magic required). Each spell requires 1 law rune and 1 air rune (bring an air staff to save up runes). The downside of this method is that there might be others competing for the wine and sometimes bots that are usually much faster than you to cast the spell. Luckily though, there's a solution for this, read the second method;

2) The second way is to just get the wine bare handed from the table. For this to be possible, all the monks within the house need to be killed. Otherwise the game engine will not let you take the wine. If you are using this method, bring your very best armor and weapons.

Obstacle: When fighting the monks, they will sometimes temporarily lower your stats. Moreover, every time that you reach out to the wine, you will see fire surrounding the wine and your stats will decrease by a few points (1 point for every 13 levels or 3 points maximum if the level is over 40..Notice that all combat stats are decreased). As an example, it is not unusual for myself that has 80+ range to leave the place with my range level temporarily decreased in the 30's.

Solution: If you have 19 prayer or more, use the stat restore and any other prayer you can use as there is an altar next to the table to recharge your prayer points. Also, don't forget to bring food and even a strength potion if you use melee, as an excellent way to restore strength. You may want to bring some food as well - this is because your defense level will be decreased by the monks and wine.

After you are done with a full inventory, go south towards the bank in falador to bank all the zammy wines and come back. If you are doing it the combat way, and your stats have decreased grately, you may want to let one of the guards in falador kill you in order to come fresh again. Plus with the update now, you spawn right in Falador square, so it's even better.
Extra Tips:

- Try to have them killed one after the other as quickly as possible.

- Killing the monks usually gives me enough time to grab 9-10 wines.

- After all monks have been killed, it is much faster to get the wine with bare hands than it is with the telegrab spell

- If someone else tries to compete for the wine and get it manually then try this: when waiting for the wine, start repeatedly clicking on the table as fast as you can where the wine is due to appear. When the wine will appear, I can guarantee that you will get it. This works almost very well and over the years, I can say that very few others have figured out the trick.

I don't think I've missed anything, but if so, then let me know. Good luck to everyone!

Sunday, August 14, 2011

How to Make Runescape Gp from Scratch (f2p)

2 days ago I found myself in that situation, without having scaped for over 164 days. My bank was empty and I had no money. If you lost yours too, then read this. By the way this is the fastest and most efficient method I've found to get you going.


Getting the first 500 gp.(3 minutes)

If you are in Lumbridge, then go by the goblin house or cows, and pick up 10 bones or more, actually 15 to be safe. You will need that money later on. The equivalent would be around 10 or 15 cowhides if you prefer, so long as it's more than 500 gp - because you will need that money soon.


From 500 gp to 15k (10-15 minutes)

Head down to the grand exchange to sell the items you picked up (price them so they sell fast), then head to the clothing shop in varock, right next to the general store. You will find multiple items selling for cheap but that are worth quite a bit on the grand exchange:

cape (red)= 224 gp
blue skirt = 186 gp
pink skirt = 116 gp
leather boots = 114 gp
white apron = 109 gp
priest gown (top) =71 gp
brown apron = 64 gp

Buy a full inventory of those, then bank them, go back, buy,etc - repeat until the clothing shop goes out of stock. When you are done, go sell them at the grand exchange. You will be surprised by how much money you will have made - in my case, a little over 15k. With that money you have now, you are no longer strangled.


From 15k to 100k (1 hour)

There are several options;

1.Killing chickens for feathers (2hours)
2.Collecting blue and black magic hats from aggie's magic shop (1hour)
3.Killing wizards at the wizard's tower for blue hats and robes (2 hours)
4.Collecting wines of zammorack (req: 32 magic or medium offensive stats) or good combat stats (1hour)
5.Riding Current merchanted items (Varies)

I will explain these in more detail tomorrow. If you have a good suggestion then leave a comment and I will add it. See you tomorrow, goodnite

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Last login; 164 days ago! I'm back!

4-5 hours after writing the title : midnight :

Wow I'm already hooked to this game. I've quit runescape because it was taking up too much of my time, and now barely a few hours later, I find myself in the same situation. I think I should probably find a timer or a gadget of some sort that can close the runescape window after a pre-set ammount of time.

Moving on though, so now I'm back here on this site for god knows how long before i quit again.

You may notice that the google adverts have been removed.  This is because of several reasons
1. - The user experience seemed not as it is without the ads,  2 - Sometimes I noticed some ads from gold selling companies... it cheapens the game. Monitoring and removing these would be an unecessary time waster. And since these ads didn't make me rich you can guess, then why bother?

With my comeback, I plan on writing more specialized guides like this f2p range pure guide. I've thought about it and I think that the easiest way to make some progress and attract more people on this .com would be to write unique helpful articles/tutorials/guides about topics that have not been discussed prior, or at least not in great depth. In other words, come with unique stuff not found anywhere else... stay tuned!

Update: Also I just enlarged the font size a bit. Looking for some feedback on the size of font and how it fits

Monday, March 21, 2011

The 2h Trick has Been put Back

The title says it all, it appears now that the range/2h trick and switching in general has been restored a couple of days after it was disabled. It's always good to know since this is one of the main aspects of rs2 pking.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Bye Bye "Wilderness" , Range/2h Combo Trick gets Disabled!!

Breaking News, it seems that the Range-2h combo trick has been nerfed. Indeed, all weapons now have delays. ie. when you switch your shortbow to a 2h and then click your opponent to strike, the delay will not be that of the bow anymore (enabling the range-2h switch combo trick), now there is a 3 second delay for the new weapon you are wielding, letting anyone eat at least three times before you can even hit that 2h .. This is a huge blow to the wilderness...

Can you believe it?

THIS IS MADNESS!!

Just too bad I didin't make any videos to keep good memories alive... Since 04 I used to be a jackass pker, I've been chassing pures that were 10 combat levels higher and killing them, doing amazing stunts at castle; fighting with no food left to find my opponent run away (from fear of running out of food) and dying while trying to escape.

I used to solo train at greater demons, where clans were common, switching from my bronze training arrows to my adamant ones when a target was nearby. Had my binds on me, my mage spells. Defeating players in full rune at 30+ levels over my combat level was the norm...

Too bad that I couldn't record any of those memories. Indeed, countless memories they were. I remember each sequence as if it was yesterday. Forget those wasted days and nights, not seeing the good old times again is probably my only real regret so far in rs.

Come read this blog tomorrow, I will explain the way RuneScape is dying, and how Runescape will be sold off to another company

Jagex Closing Eyes on Botters

There is nothing more frustrating than watching a bot next to you make his way to 99's while you ruin your own f-ing time trying to get ahead.

Why does Jagex talk about Real-world trading when the real problem is botting? Why are they talking about it while doing nothing to make it stop? Botting is the cause of more than 80% of all real-world trading (buying runescape gf in exchange for real money). This is mainly for two reasons;

1. First, RWT(real-world trading/gold selling) companies mass-produce produce their gold via thousands of botted accounts and;
2. The average player's frustration from watching these thousands of bots all over the place is alone responsible for making them feel ripped off and in turn make the sin themselves. These same legit players become so sick of what they see that they start looking for ways to buy-back the time lost. Time lost with friends. Time lost with family, etc... they feel stupid for wasting all this time and rightfully so. After looking for solutions, they are unfortunately left with none-other than to bot themselves, buy gold or adopt the same cheating behavior that the game of runescape is suffering from. And they do it all the way to 99, or until they feel satiated.

But who to blame? When you feel ripped-off of hundreds of hours used to advance in a game, you start to ask yourself questions such as ''Where could I have gotten in real-life (and in the game), if I botted like all these people are doing?''It is a normal feeling.

As of now, there are no consequences to botting (sadly). If you bot and get caught (and most people apparently do not get caught), Jagex will let you buy back your account with real money--no kidding!... talk about real-world trading here!!

What saddens me most though is to observe how Jagex simply seems careless and does nothing about botting.. and especially with the p2p botters.

Example; Before the wilderness had been returned, soul wars was flooded with bots. More than 50% of people in soul wars are pure bots... go see for yourself!

No-wonder people buy rs gold from sites selling these. Anyhow, enough criticizing for now. On the next post I will try to come up with some much-needed solutions.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Top 5 Staking Tips for Serious Stakers

Okay, so far it's been about 16-17 days that staking re-appeared. I've started this staking game with a total of 667k raw trout, around 1 million in cash, and 13k pie dishes along with other items. Ive started with ~15 million gold. During this short time-span, I've went from around 15 million worth to 19 million, then dropping to 16 million, then all the way down to 20k in items (almost broke) to completely broke. Then I've came back to 22 million before finally falling down completely to 700k in cash and items (my current money as of writing this).

Loosing 15 million is not a big deal though. I'm gratefull for the staking experience gained. Here are my top 5 best staking tips that any wealth-aspiring staker should put these in application;

1. Get good stats; There's no denial that carefully planned stats make you win. Your character's levels are permanent, and you can't go back once you've got one. Make sure to keep 1 prayer if possible, as 95% of people stake with prayer turned off. Having level 1 prayer truly saves you from gaining unecessary combat levels (and put you to an advantage against those who do got more than 1, but check 'off' this option from the staking screen - which is most often the case). Other levels to be warry of include excessive attack or defence (arguably). When planning out your stats, make sure to use your favorite combat calculator. If you don't know what are good stats to have or not, make sure to ask in the comments and I'll give you some feedback wether I think they'd be good or not ;). I've been in pvp for 7-8 years so I know what I'm doing.

2. Learn to negotiate your stakes and say NO; Negotiating your bets and be able to say NO to risky conditions or risky opponents is an important ability that will directly impact your cash stack. To give you an example, I've been loosing significant money while almost being maxed out for my combat level (81 range 80 str, 80 magic 76 hp, 1 prayer 1 defence) with 58 combat [1 constitution level and 1 strenght and magic level away from maxed].  This was due in part because I was staking others who had very similar stats as myself, or even slightly higher and offered no real advantage in battling against. The cause was of frustration of finding no one to stake.


3. Stake only if you have an advantage (stat-wise); With some luck, you can make some quick gp staking people that have the same levels and stats as you, but on the long run, staking small to medium amounts of gp against people weaker than you (even slightly weaker) is what will make you win in the long-run (and keep  you from going broke). You need to have the power upon yourself to systematically refuse staking people that are higher combat, even if you have been looking for an opponent for ages without luck.

4. Do not stake if frustrated, or feel for revenge; As said earlier, runescape can be a frustrating game. If you loose your cool, do not stake! Take some time off and head to the wilderness, or better yet - do some personal projects, homework, or other real-life related tasks until you feel fresher. Exercising is also good for tension-relief.

5. Stake a little more when you have been assigned luck (often are the first one to hit);

Update : Learn how to get the first hit in a stake (and have luck). Just updated this. First hits are associated with "having luck" and winning more often.

In runescape, 'real luck' does not really exist. If you've noticed, "luck" is rather assigned ranging from various degrees from high to low - let's say 0 to 100. I've noticed that when you are in a duel and you do the first hit, you will get higher hits throughout the duel than you'd normally do, and more often. I also remember reading somewhere that in runescape classic, the luck factor was displayed on the page source code, but that in runescape2/hd, it is completely hidden.

You can verify your luck by seeing who gets items first (despite clicking in same time) using telekenetic grab with friends, or just have some 'fun duels' with different people no matter their combat level, just to see who hits first. If you've duelled for fun with several players and have been able to hit first on most or a big portion of them, then it means that you've been assigned considerable luck.

Furthermore, I highly suspect that the more time you are logged in the game, your luck tends to get trickled up (but not always). This is from what I recall in my zammorack wine telegrabbing experience; the telegrabbers who used to stay logged in longer in a world used to be the ones who were able to get the wine first. I am 100% sure that there is a luck factor involved. I recount even when I used to systematically loose in stakes against the same one opponent who won around 10 million from me; two days later I was not only beating him systematically, but doing so with big margins ex.easily winning. And as a matter of fact, I had cleaned this guy his 17 million - giving him back 1 so he could start somewhere.

If you think that you've been assigned luck, you can increase your stakes slightly. From my own experience, good luck is worth up to 2-3 extra combat levels (from my point of view, and I am level 58 combat). So remember that a good idea before fighting an opponent for a large sum of money, would be to estimate your luck (and his!). You may duel him a smaller amount first for instance, to see who has been assigned more luck.

So that's about it for now. I will add more tips when I can find. But what are your own staking tips? Right now, I'm sure I've missed a good couple, please let us know so we can discuss it or if you want me to add them on the list. With some more, I will make a full guide. Cheers !

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Don't be a Fool - The Wilderness is Not back (and probably never will again)

Can you really call this pokemon-like pvp game "wilderness" ? It's got ugly graphics that are too advanced, people hit 100, 150 and way more, and on every attack you can see multiple icons next to your hp... Now is this really the wilderness you've been craving for my friends?

There used to be a time where an honorable land was being called 'the wilderness. The pre-runescape hd & pre-wildy removal era was clearly the best. Don't tell me you are having the same fun playing runescape as you had 3-4 years ago.

In the real wilderness, the max hit was 32 for a 99 strenght guy. (by real wilderness, i mean in f2p of course). There were simple and beautiful graphics. Nothing too fancy.

Graphics were plain and good. Now graphics seem to be too much on the realistic-wannabe side. The company that made these graphics for jagex did a poor job.

Then there's that whole gameplay chapter.

When you were in a fight (back in the days), you couldn't see your exact hitpoints level unless you switched to your stat screen.
For newer players reading this – the hitpoints/constitution level was not displayed next to the map. The only place it would be written would be on your statistics page. So while you were fighting, you usually had to estimate your own hitpoints level and eat accordingly. This is because going back to the statistics tab and looking at your hp level would make you lose precious seconds, with food only available within two mouse clicks and some little scrolling to the food instead of a single mouse click. This would make pkers guesstimate when to eat which would make more fun and challenging.

The other fun part of the old hp display while pking (player-killing) would be the “know if you’re dead” part. This is pretty simple; when people used to get redbarred (when all your hp bar would be red) you may still have be alive with 1 or 2 hp unless of course you had zero hp. Getting redbarred and going to the hp screen was a thrill in itself; it was like a lottery ticket to know if all the hard work you’d put in to afford your items would be worth it or not. The suspense would go on for a good two seconds with nobody knowing if the fight was over or not.

There are other examples too but let's leave it there. Unfortunately gone are these old happy days. The sad thing about it though is to see Jagex making all these bold claims, making people believe that the wilderness is back; its not – pokemon is back. Sorry but when you get hit a 190 with a water icon it makes me think of one of those water pokemons hitting some damage, or yet some sort of crappy Chinese-style game. I hope people find for themselves how crappy fighting is. If you've got an old story or two to tell, then please help remind me/us what the good times were like, we could surely relate to one another. Looking forward to see some good tales in the comments. I'm out for now, new post tomorrow

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

2011; My Resolutions and Your Resolutions

Today, already 7% of 2011 has been completed; what have you done? If you haven't started to work towards your resolutions yet, then now is the time. Here are my own resoulutions;

For my Account
  • To go from 80 range/mage/strength to 85 in all (with 88 strenght). Forget trying to get a 99, I have been playing rs for more than 6-7 years now and achieving a 99 (from 80) is too much for me. Furthermore, I see no extra value (worth the time sacrifice) for having a 99 in the wilderness; your combat lvl will go up, the level of adversity will go up and the action will be slightly faster-paced. That is about all the difference. Contrary to popular belief, you won't gain any major advantage over your foes. Plus I'm not interested in the skill capes either. Mind you, getting a 90 in a combat stat is about just as good as a 99.
  • Sneak my way to 1billion+ through staking and merchanting. Wether staking was gone or not, I've always been a firm believer of 1 prayer (and 1 def.) is best for pking purposes and the fact that prayer was and is still not worth the combat levels that you have to give up for it. Within a couple of days, when pking/staking/free trade re-emerge, the 1 prayer stat will become a beast in the staking arena. And in fact, I am glad that all these pure guides have instructed players for years to train prayer. This just means more potential for knowledgeable players. So 1 billion is my goal. Currently, I am starting with ~15 million worth.
For this lazy site
  • If you write a blog, upload videos, or own some kind of web property, you must know by now that getting views is fun. For 2011, I plan to put this site on the map and expand the reach it has. I see good opportunity for small time fansites to grow. In 2010 I've averaged around 90 daily unique visitors. The goal would be to make that 500+ and if possible even bring that at the 1k daily mark. 
If you have a fansite, runescape blog, youtube channel or any other form of web property that you'd like to get a readership/following on, then I encourage you to leave your goals right here in the comments and then remember to come back in 2012 (and from time to time through 2011) to see where you stand. Same goes for your runescape account and your goals on it, some goal in the real world ex. attaining 50 push-ups, being able to run a marathong (or half), get a new job.

When you make a bold statement and tell others, you will be effectively reminded time and time again to stay on track and not give up. Then, work on that goal, today, RIGHT NOW! And remember, time is a thief. Act now!