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

2011-10-29T20:04:00.000-04:00

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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!

Introducing The Lava Maze Lure

2011-10-18T22:39:00.000-04:00

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!

Runescape Theme Song Played IRL

2011-10-06T23:47:00.001-04:00

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!

Runescape Halloween Costumes, IRL Style!

2011-10-05T23:41:00.002-04:00

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.

September 2011 Post Roundup

2011-10-02T20:29:00.000-04:00

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!!

Halloween Event Guide 2011 (Deathcon 2)

2011-10-01T17:47:00.008-04:00

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

2011-10-01T12:03:00.002-04:00

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 :)

Gold4Rs Getting Sued By Jagex

2011-09-30T01:19:00.000-04:00

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.

A new Rare Item In Runescape Classic !

2011-09-25T18:41:00.001-04:00

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!

Who's Bought Runefest Tickets?

2011-09-22T19:16:00.001-04:00

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 ;)

Quick Start Guide To Rs Classic / RSC

2011-09-18T17:27:00.000-04:00

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!

Last Opportunity to Join Rs Classic/RSC

2011-09-15T22:08:00.000-04:00

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

2011-09-15T13:36:00.001-04:00

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.

Pictured 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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Now 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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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

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

2011-09-12T09:15:00.001-04:00

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-

Just Launched: Runescape Bits for Mobile!

2011-08-24T23:11:00.000-04:00

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!

How to Get the First Hit in Staking [PID]

2011-08-21T19:22:00.000-04:00

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!

Killing Chickens as a Way to Make Money and XP

2011-08-19T22:21:00.001-04:00

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

2011-08-19T00:04:00.000-04:00

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!

Making Money Collecting Wines of Zammorack (f2p)

2011-08-18T00:05:00.000-04:00

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!

How to Make Runescape Gp from Scratch (f2p)

2011-08-14T04:25:00.003-04:00

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

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

2011-08-11T01:34:00.001-04:00

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

The 2h Trick has Been put Back

2011-03-21T15:40:00.000-04:00

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.

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

2011-02-21T18:44:00.002-05:00

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

2011-02-21T13:56:00.002-05:00

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.

Top 5 Staking Tips for Serious Stakers

2011-02-16T17:03:00.002-05:00

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 !

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

2011-02-13T21:20:00.004-05:00

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

2011; My Resolutions and Your Resolutions

2011-01-26T23:12:00.000-05:00

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!

The Good Ol' Wilderness is Comming Back !!@

2010-12-21T17:56:00.001-05:00

Yes we can bring it back guys. I am delighted to announce some pretty darn spectacular news here, Jagex is letting players vote for wilderness to come back! This is not a joke;

Jagex is giving a chance for players to bring old wilderness and free trade(no trade limits are back)!!

If you still can't believe it - and I don't blame you!, then go see for yourself! Read this official news post. It's still not in the pocket though - players have to actually vote for this

(Although I'm pretty sure that from Jagex headquarters, bringing back old wilderness is already planned and expected, this vote thing probably is a good attempt at spreading the news like wildfire and reach out on the old fans who've retired)

But you're never too sure, and when an opportunity like this strikes, better grab it. Please do everyone a favor and cast your vote to jagex to bring back the old wilderness!

What do you all think about this guys? Any retired pkers coming back to rs? New plans ahead for everyone? Discuss below!

Rs Christmas 2010 Event Guide - "O Little Town of Daemonheim

2010-12-21T05:17:00.000-05:00

Welcome to the 2010 Christmas event Guide in Runescape; "O Little Town of Daeomoheim. This guide will set you up and help you complete it fast. For any questions, feel free to ask throught the comments below and I or someone else shall be there to help out promptly.

Quest/Event Location: Start in daemonheim, right next to the rewards trader

Difficulty: Easy-Medium Estimated Time; 15-20 minutes

Rewards: Salty Claws Hat, Snowman dune emote, Golden Hammer

1. The Start of this event is right next to the rewards trader in daemonheim.

2. Talk to Thorvar Crittersmash and ask him about the Heimland Games. After you agree to help him, he will give you a bag and a bucket.

Tip: Throughout the event, always pick-up the various items that you see on the ground, or else you might have to re-do some of the levels.

For instance, after Thorvar Crittersmash teleports you to the room, pick up the snowman accessories from the ground. Then advance to the center of the room, where a cut scene will take place.

The Icicles will light up in same time and then light up one by one in a particular order. You will have to;

3. Remember and repeat that exact sequence in which the Icicles light up.

Keep in mind that you will need to use some memory as the sequences are different for all players. And every time that you tap the switch, a new sequence will be given. If you don’t have the best of memories, then a good tip would be to draw a small map of the Icicles on a piece of paper and then tag these with numbers as the sequence is being displayed.

When you will get 3 successful sequences, a door leading to the next room will be unlocked. As you enter the next room, you notice your character walking on all fours. You can also see on the upper left area of the screen, a box with alternating green and red colors.

So your next task will be to;

4. Sneak your way north of the room towards the Angel while it’s back is turned on you and touch the Angel when you get within distance.

On the upper left area of the screen, you can observe that a box with alternating green and red colors will appear; When green is on, it means that the Angel has it’s back turned on you and it is safe to walk north towards it. When Red is on however, this means that the Angel can see you, and unless you are behind a snow blanket, the Angel will teleport you back to the starting point of the puzzle. In other words, move north towards then next snow blanket when green is on, and stand still when red gets on. When the timing is right, touch the Angel to advance to the next level.

5. Onto the next room now, pick-up the item on the ground and right-click on “Thorvar’s bag”, and click on the “use trinklet Thorvar’s Bag” in order to turn into a seal and be able to slide on the icy ground as it’s called.

When you’re on the ice, the action is pretty self-explanatory; dodge the holes in the ice and make your way to the portals, leading you yet to another room.

6. Now your task will be to simply get through all the doors until you reach the next and last level.

The door order is different for all players. Now it may seem totally random-based, but I’ve found for myself that I would get through doors more frequently from the ones that I’ve previously passed through. So try to remember which doors worked for you and which ones didn’t. There is still some randomness in this method though and most likely will not work 100% of the time, but I’ve found my odds to be considerably better than just going totally random on doors. Keep in mind to pick-up items that you find on the ground.

If you’ve made your way through all the doors then congratulations, you have only one challenge left before completing the 2010 xmas event!

The next and finally last room to be dealt with is relatively easy compared to the previous one. You have to catch (click) the crab with the santa hat.

7. Keep a close eye on the fishing holes on the ice where crabs will pop up, and stay next to the Ice. When the crab with the santa hat will appear, click on it as fast as you can.

Now go speak to Thorvar Crittersmash/The guy dressed as Santa again. He will be surprised of your courage and you will find out that he really is Santa.

Congratulations! You have now completed the 2010 Christmas event in Runescape. Santa Claus will give you rewards (see below) and also invite you to the heimland games – a fine Christmas-themed place with more activities, yet to be reviewed here.

Rewards: Salty Claws Hat , Snowman dune emote, Golden Hammer. Soundtracks and emotes unlocked from the event include; Snowman dune emote ,Seasonal sports Soundtrack, dramatic point emote, and the freeze emote

Well I hope that this guide has helped you somewhat. As always, if you have your own guides/blog posts to submit and want to be credited for you are most welcome to submit them. On behalf of Runescape Bits, I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy & prosperous new year!

On another note, do let me know what will you be doing this Christmas/Holiday Season! Cheers everyone!

Beginner's F2p Range Pure Guide

2010-11-29T15:34:00.000-05:00

Ever-since runescape 2 came out in 2004, the popularity of range pures never stopped increasing, and for good reason; A properly made range pure will put up a fight and win (with good strategy) against mostly anyone of similar combat level. Whether you are a beginner or have been playing on pures forever, you will most likely learn something new from this guide; from creating a range pure and planning his stats, to the best training spots, how to save time and make money on your pure aswell as some of my personal pvp strategies/tactics, and other cool random tips.

Definition of A Range Pure; For those who wouldn’t know, a range pure is an account specializing in ranged, training it to high levels while keeping levels such as defence, prayer and summoning to a minimum (often 0) in order to become super aggressive and dangerous all the while having the lowest possible combat level.

Overview

As with other pures, range pures rely on the principle that the best defence is the offence; If you are attacking and your opponent is eating, then your defence levels are not playing any role towards beating your opponent. Instead of getting defence, I suggest you invest into more offensive levels [ranged] and become even more aggressive and dangerous at a relatively low combat level. Here’s a couple of facts;

-Your range level counts towards both range accuracy and range strength bonus (how accurately and how high you hit). This is not the case with melee levels for instance, where both attack and strength need to be leveled.
-Rangers have the advantage of attacking from a distance. They can use this to get an extra hit or two against meleers, or even attack safely from behind a fence or bridge.
-Equipement/Gear for range pures consists mostly of light armor and weapons. This becomes very useful for running away or chasing someone when pking (player-killing) in a pvp world as you will have more running energy.
-The attacking process is very accurate and reliable; it deals a small but consistent amount of damage each time.
-Range yields good results when combined (hybriding) with either magic or melee (or even the three in same time) – [more on this later].
-In most circumstances, Range Pures do tend to win versus strenght pures.
-R-Pures do not have any major weaknesses; they can take on just about anyone
-Cons; Arrows can sometimes be annoying to pick-up, and can also get expensive if not careful.

Choosing a Name

I find it better to just use any normal name you'd like, and not the regular ''xx owned'' type of name that most pures seem to use. The advantage of getting a regular character name is twofold; First, people will sometimes underestimate your fighting abilities and not run away as much, which can get you more kills. Secondly, it gets pretty annoying to have people always call you ''hey xx owned'' or whatever other geeky pure name you come up with. My tip is to choose a name that you like. Further down the road, you can have the option to change your name provided you become a paying p2p member.

Equipement for a Range Pure

When you start off with lvl 1 range, head to the grand exchange. I suggest that you buy the following items to give you a solid head start;

(1-20 range) Leather chaps, leather vambraces, leather cowl, leather body, boots, all available shortbows, a power amulet and a cape of your choice (if you want one). This set of items will kickstart your range training and give you a small accuracy boost.
(20-39 range) you can change the leather cowl for a coif and leather chaps for studded chaps.
(40 range) When you achieve 40 range, you can upgrade your chaps and vambraces to the dragonhide version and upgrade your bow to a maple shortbow.
Arrows; As for training arrows, you can choose any from bronze to mithril depending on if you’re aiming at training speed or money saved. For myself, I find that bronze arrows work out just fine for the price.

You can also get the Sighted Maple Longbow obtained from Dungeoneering if you wish, but in my opinion it is not totally worth it. After several tests, I see that it takes slightly more time to train with the sighted longbow than the regular maple shortbow.

Making Money As a Range Pure

Gotta find a way to fund all those arrows eh? When checking out other f2p range pure guides, I've found that almost all of these tell you to start training a new non-combat skill from scratch, like woodcutting, mining, or others...In my opinion this way of doing is totally wrong! First, training ranged already takes up an incredible ammount of time, and secondly you will make back your money and more from the loot of the monsters that you train on. That's right, training range makes you money in most cases, on top of receiving the range xp that you crave for. If you do need money at the very start, then make sure that you complete stronghold of security mini-quest which will give you 10k gold. That should be more than enough to buy all your armor and then some arrows. From there on, simply make your money while training range. Of course some range training spots make more gold than others while giving you less range xp per hour, and vice-versa - more on this in the next chapter.

Once that you have bought the necessary equipment, it is time to train. Set some goals and discipline yourself to train an x amount of hours every day or week. Don’t set too high goals, but rather a series of small achievable goals… Stay realistic!

Suggested Range Training Spots

Cows 1-15
Starting off, you can head to the cow place just south of the falador east bank. There you have set yourself a perfect ground for starting up your range training. Each cow you kill gives a cowhide, raw beef and bones, which altogether are worth more than 300 gp at the grand exchange (as of writing this). Another cow spot is located in Lumbridge but is further from the bank and usually more crowded. Lastly, there is another cow spot north-east of Lumbridge and with a bank nearby.

Men near edgeville bank 1-15
This is also a very good spot for early training. There is a house fully packed of level 3 men just north of the Edgeville bank. They have lower defense than cows and also have a quick respawn rate. Training here is faster, however you can make more money at cows.

Hill Giants
Although Hill Giants have low defense and drop big bones which are valuable, the area is almost always crowded. Most people use this spot as to make money rather than gaining combat experience. Think of the range xp as a nice bonus that you wouldn't have gotten by skilling for instance. For fast xp, train elsewhere.

Minautors 15-30
Minautors (level 12 and 27) have low defence and carry 100 and 220 hitpoints respectively, which make it an ideal range training spot. Head to barbarian village and climb down the ladder in the middle of the rocks to reach the stronghold of security. Then cross the doors through south-east. You should now see the level 17 minotaurs, and be able to range them from behind the fence. They drop a generous amount of iron arrows and noted items that you should pick up. Bringing some trout will be useful, although you can stand behind the fence as well.

Hobgoblins 30-60
The hobgoblin spot next to moss giants in Varock is little known. You can access this spot by entering the small house south of the grand-exchange, right next to the cooking guild by using a brass key. Once you are in it, climb down the ladder and head west till you see them. This spot is largely unknown to most. Hobgoblins carry a decent (280) hitpoints level and drop limpwut roots once in while (worth more than 2k gold each). See the picture for safespots. Use this training spot to cruise your way through 60 range.

Moss Giants 50+
These are the green giants that are commonly found in the varock sewers. It is a crowded spot though. The best place to train on moss giants is the spot in Crandor island, which is rarely populated. Moss Giants have a reasonable 60hp, drop big bones as well as other items that are good to cast high alchemy on. This would be the ideal spot for a range pure that wants to train his prayer up along with range. The only downside though is that to access crandor island, you will have to go halfway through dragon slayer in order to access this spot as well as have 32 quest points to start dragon slayer.

Ankous 60 +
Ankous located at the stronghold of security are level 82 combat and have 60 and 70hp. The area is rarely crowded. Ankous are abundant and they have a fast respawn rate… Plus they have a relatively low defence level, making for a pretty fast training spot. Drops are also pretty good. I suggest that you bring lobsters or better food, since you have to wait around 15 minutes for them to become un-aggressive, and thereafter have a veritable safespot. Take a look at this video for instructions on where to locate the safespot. You can decide to stay here till 99, but there are a few more options;

Lesser Demons 63+
Back in the days, Lesser Demons in Karamja were the most common monsters to train on from 63 range and onwards. Lesser demons (lvl82) carry 79 hitpoints. They seem to have slightly more defence than ankous, but the higher hitpoints level is a tradeoff that allows for surfing and multitasking while training. At 70 range, you should average around 30-35k range experience per hour using bronze arrows.

Greater Demons 75+
Standing at 87 hp, and with slightly better drops, Greater Demons are like the "upgrade" of lesser demons. There are two spots for these; at level 47 wilderness (bring a few lobsters in-case you see revenants) and in the volcano crater where you can range them behind the rocks. The drops are slightly better than that of lesser demons.

Hellhounds 60+
Hellhounds look like red dogs, and are found in the volcano crater within the wilderness. They have a whooping 116 hitpoints level and are accompanied by a surprisingly low defence level! Plus it rarely gets crowded, very few people know this spot. The only minor cons to be noted are;

1. Hellhounds do not drop anything and
2. It takes around a good 30 seconds for one of these tospawn, so perhaps you can bring something to do during that time (perhaps high alching, superheating or even some crafting). Or worst case scenario, you can do some homework or other non-runescape stuff during that time.

Despite these two small inconvenients, hellhounds remain nonetheless a top range training destination for pures. Tip; When you attack, most hellhounds usually retreat and then come back at you in order to prevent from using a safespot. However, there is one hellhound I have found to stand still, located at level 20 wilderness in the volcano crater (located at the entry of the west crater). This one does not retreat, so simply stand behind the rock and range it.

To get prayer or not to get?

In the past, there was no range-boosting prayers, there were only prayers for melee. People would stay at 1 prayer. Nowadays, there's a prayer for each combat class prayer is running popular on ranged pures. Number-wise, every 8 prayer levels accounts for 1 combat level. The three ranged prayers are;

Sharp Eye [level 8]: Increases ranged by 5%. It has a drain rate of 1 point per 12 seconds (will last approximately 1minute 36 seconds)
Hawk Eye [level 22]: Increases ranged by 10%. The prayer has a drain rate of 1 point per 6 seconds (that would come down to last 2minutes 36 seconds)
Eagle eye [level 44]: Has a drain rate of 1 point per 6 seconds (would last 2 minutes 12 seconds)

So there's always always a compromise into getting prayer or not. Prayer gives you more combat levels and ranging power but on the other hand, it is not permanent. It's mostly a matter of personal choice, so see for yourself if it's worth it or not. One thing for sure though is that once you get it, you can't go back.

Ranged Max Hits
Ever wondered what you could hit with adamant arrows in PvP or bronze arrows for training? Well here’s a graph that shows you your max hit from levels 30 to 99. These are without prayer.

Ranged Level    Max Hit with Bronze Arrows    Max Hit with Adamant Arrows
Level 30:          -    4.8            -           6.2
Level 40:          -              5.9                      -                    7.7
Level 50:          -            7.0                -        9.2
Level 60:          -              8.1                    -                   10.6
Level 70:          -            9.2                  -                   12.1
Level 80:          -            10.3                  -                   13.6
Level 90:          -            11.4                  -                   15.1
Level 99:          -              12.4                -                   16.4

PvP techniques and Strategies

Range pures tend to deal a significant amount of damage on a consistent basis. Your scope will be to remain aggressive and stay on the offensive, keeping your enemy busy eating so that he does not even get the chance to switch from eating to attacking!

Before venturing in PvP, make sure that your computer won't CRASH in the middle of the action. For reference, you might want to check out a couple of tips to reduce lag in runescape.

Always bring the best equipement and gear you can. You won't achieve much fun with mediocre gear.

Bring good food; Even if you are on a tight budget, cheap food will cost you more money, resources and time on the long run…trust me on this one, or you’ll learn it the hard way like myself!! For alternatives, look at wine instead of tuna (watch out for clicking empty jugs) and similar swaps or check if there’s a good deal on the grand exchange but really, think twice before buying cheap food with a low healing rate for your combat level.

Eat food properly; A proper eating technique is of crucial importantance if you want to go far in pvp. The better flow you have between healing effectively and attacking, the better the chances to stay on the attack and win. Do not eat solely one piece of food at a time, but rather in groups of 3 or more. For instance, you can eat the first piece of food without your opponent noticing; As you get low on food and right as your bow starts to lift up, click on a piece of food. What will happen is that you will have eaten a piece of food and restored your hitpoints while shooting an arrow and causing damage in the same time. Your character will perform the shooting action, not the eating one. After performing this action, I suggest you heal another 2 food or more than that as needed.

Choose the right P-king spots; I can't hide the fact that without 80+ range, finishing an opponent with range alone and by yourself might be tricky. If you want to get any kind of loot, you need to be at the right places, and that usually means far away from safespots. What happens usually when you just hang around the grand exchange, or close to other safespots is that your fellow opponents will just run to safety when low on food. You will do much better off for instance by going into low-crowded areas, and attack other players there, as there will be much more running to do, plus can even find skillers and travelers to pick on - cool targets that are not quite ready to fight!

Part 2 of This Guide

If you've read this far, then you must have had a good grasp of the basics to get you up and running! This first guide is paused for now, however stay tuned for part two of the series (the follow-up). Every month there will be a new detailed guide on pvp, pures and pking. Hint; and next guide will feature more advanced PvP strategies.

I also want to mention that It's always delightful to read what others are doing! - So cheers everyone and don't be shy to submit your own training tips, opinions, corrections and stories below.. Like when did you start pking? what was your best drop?!

Perseverence, Gigantic posts and A new Petition

2010-11-29T02:31:00.003-05:00

Based on my rs blogging experience so far acquired, I can affirm that reading someone else's posts is much easier than staring at a blank page & trying to create something coherent out of it. Expressing your views online can be fun. But when it comes down to planning and writing it down, all of a sudden ideas get stuck and I loose interest. This brings me to the first subject, perseverance. How do you persevere? How do you stay motivated? When I'm in front of a computer especially, this is a big issue for me. How do you acquire that perseverance when you're supposed to type on a computer of which you have the whole web at your fingertips?

Two guys that I try to take example from - and check them out by the way - are Vaskor of Runescape Reader's Digest and Silentc0re (Dan), editor of his popular rs video guides. I can estimate that Vaskor has a couple of hundred posts (perhaps 200-300 who knows?) since he's started in 07, and systematically submits a new post almost every two days while Dan has got a staggering 95 video guide uploads! Don't get me wrong, but what these two have done is big work! My own love of writing is there already. What I think I need to find out is how to get the drive , the motivation to stop what I'm currently wasting in time over the web and start writing. Because as soon as I've written a couple of sentences, the snowball effect easily gets me going. So if any of you have any motivation tips, how to stay motivated in front of a computer or just in general, It would be very nice to share them. These can then be used not only in writing but in many different areas of life and daily life. So if you've got some advice then it would be fun if you can share that through a blog post (if you have a weblog), otherwise just do so in the comments.

And I almost forgot Merch Gwyar !, she is another living proof of perseverance (as well as an amazing example of good writing!).

Gigantic Posts and a New Petition?

Yes! Lately, I've been working pretty hard on a new guide, which will be the first of a series of pvp guides and tutorials tailored to beginners and experts alike. I started playing runescape very soon after rs2 came out (in 04 I think), dumping my main account in as little time as 3 weeks after joining runescape - And soon I found myself creating pures, conceiving pvp/wilderness strategies and more - things I still enjoy doing nowadays but never really got a chance to talk about. So stay tuned tomorrow for a record-braking *drumrolls please* . . . Three-thousand-four hundred words guide [now released] check out the new f2p range pure guide!

About the petition, I don't know why I even put that in the title! There is one planned but you'll have to wait a couple more days as it deserves a whole new post on it's own. If you have any tips on motivation or if you've written about it somewhere, please let me know, it will be greatly appreciated!

Rs Halloween 2010 Event Guide (Partying is Such Sweet Sorrow)

2010-10-18T15:27:00.002-04:00

Hey there folks! I've just finished doing the event in rs, and wrote a guide alongside. Read the Halloween 2010 event Guide (Partying is Such Sweet Sorrow) below.

Also Read: Halloween 2011 Event walkthrough (Deathcon 2)

Where to start the quest; The Haloween event is located right next to the magic shop in Port Sarim, just south of the air altar. Once arrived, talk to Pumpkin Pete.

Requirements; None, just have 5 available inventory slots for items.
Time taken to complete the quest; Around 15 minutes, difficulty medium
Rewards; Bone Brooch - a pretty cool gadget similar to an easter ring, where you turn into bones and can "unmorph", aswell as the Puppet Master Emote.

Getting Started; Once inside the portal, talk to party Pete again. He will ask you to move around and help him with the party... you now have to go speak with "Ministrel Web", a giant spider located just north of the dance floor. Speak to her. She will tell you that you have to find 8 spiders. Here are their locations;

Finding Spider Locations

In the same room where party pete is, search the cabinet to find the first spider.
In the North-eastern room, there is a spider walking on the floor.
Climb the stairs to the second floor - you will land in a room. Right outside of that room on the hall, there is a spider, click it as usual.
Search the "death clock" in the biggest square room in the middle of the second floor and you will find the 4th spider.
In that same room, search the bed to find another spider.
Then go north of the room you are in, to a small rectangle-shaped room. You will find the 6th spider walking on the floor.
Search the "towels" of that same room you are in to, to yet find another one, only one spider to go!
In the southern-most room of the second floor, there will be a spider. Right click the spider and select the "scare" option. You have now collected all spiders.

Now that you have found all the spiders, speak with Ministrel Web/The giant spider again. She will ask you that you properly set them up on the dance floor. Doing so is not easy, you have to arrange the spiders using a precise sequence. If you have messed up, speak with Allan (right next to Ministrel Web) and ask him to reset the spiders. Here is the precise order to click them; Click on then Green spider, then orange, red, purple, and blue at last. Now Speak with Ministrel Web again.

Next task; the grim reaper will want you to get an autograph for him. To do so, go speak with Zabeth Corbid - a vampire located on the south-eastern room of the first floor. Once you find him, you have to speak with him in a precise manner in order for him to give you his autograph. Ask him the questions in this precise order;

Hello, enjoying the party?
So how do people call you?
Sheesh you are an idiot
Sorry, how about I make it up to you with another drink?
Exactly how drunk are you?
A vampire and a warewolf walk into a bar...
Do you know grim?
Can I have an autograph of grim?

Now he will hand you the autograph - go to the grim reaper on the second floor to give him the autograph. Well done, now onto completing the final task of Runescape's 2010 Halloween event!

For the band to sing, you will need to make them a Moonshine Potion'. Speak with the warewolves on the first floor, then head south and click to search the table. You should now receive some items that you need to mix together. Again, you will have to mix those in a precise order for the potion to work;

To make the potion, first use the pile of evil leaves with the white vial. Then use the red vial on the white one. Now use the result of that with the yellow bottle, an finally use the bones with the bottle! Speak with the warewolves and give them the potion. Congratulations! Your last task has been done! Now go speak again with Pumpkin Pete to finish the quest and get your reward!

Rewards; The bone brooch reward is pretty cool - it acts just like an eastern ring, except of turning in an egg, you turn into bones. You also get new emote called the Puppet Master Emote.

For any tips, suggestions, questions or if you find yourself stuck in the 2010 Partying is Such Sweet Sorrow Haloween Quest, just shoot a comment and I'll try to help, Cheers All!

Jagex Falsely Accusing Players of Password Scamming

2010-09-22T01:59:00.002-04:00

It looks like my account is almost banned, or muted - when I log into my account's control pannel, I see that it is in the red zone... even upwards of where it says 'danger'. While I was trying to propose some players to receive a membership in exchange for written guides about runescape that I'd put here, it looks like some idio*s have reported me for no apparent reason, and Jagex have accused me of Password Scamming - for no reason at all.

Jagex must be kidding me on this. In real-life, I work upwards of 60 hours a week at my full time job, and have little time to either play runescape or update this runescape blog on a consistent basis. As a result, I sometimes propose people to help me out with writing guides in exchange for a runescape membership that I give out by sending them a membership pin (see example of post here). To make things clear, I never ask anybody for their password; I neither have the time, nor the interest of playing on an account which is not mine. Note that I have been offered and given accounts several times, which I never made use of (for reasons stated above).

Anyway, once logged in at the <appeal an offence> section and under the "see proof" link, here's the so-called "proof" that they have against me for "password scamming".Ps* Note that in the copy/pasted text, I have replaced my own rs username with "me" in order to remain confidential and have replaced HIS(the guy who reported me) blacked out name with his real username (Dirtybbqchip) - so everyone knows him (the f*#$%& deserves it) ;

Me: hey there, wanted to tell you very well written guide youve posted
Dirtybbqchip: thank you
Me: I myself am the owner of a rs blog-fansite and wanted to ask you if
Me: if you would like to receive compensation for written guides of that quality
Dirtybbqchip: and you know saying something like that breaks several
Dirtybbqchip: rs rules
Me: no in-game compensantion, of course its against the rules
Dirtybbqchip: you'd have to get personal details
Dirtybbqchip: which is
Me: I do not want personal details
Me: I would be willing to pay for your membership for well written guides like that

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And the "proof" as seen on my screen stops here. In other words, that is the "proof" that Jagex has against me for "Password Scamming" Note that I have of course never asked him for his password, and on top of that told him that I did not want his personal details.

This is the second time that Jagex falsely accuses me of password scamming. My account has been temporarily muted and the graph showing my account status is red, with 95% of the line filled! For reference, I have already handed membership pins to two players who wrote me some guides earlier this year (that I have never yet published), and everything went well - they were happy with their membership and me with my guides.

I have re-read runescape's complete rules of conduct, trying to find a way that I might have broken a rule, and can confirm that according to Jagex's guide, no rule has been broken. Also note the <Real world trading> rule is not broken, because here two real-world items are being traded (and not one in-game item against a real world item). So 'No unfair advantage has been gained.

Only one big unfair disadvantage.

Comming back to Runescape yet Again!

2010-09-16T01:19:00.000-04:00

It's hard not to return again to runescape. Even after the series of bad updates over the last few months and years such as the EP update, the hp/constitution update (10 times more hp) , the trade limit, and more - it is not easy to bury down all the good (and bad) memories over the past couple of years and settle to never come back to play again.

So indeed, after several months of having quit runescape , I am back yet again into the game. But this time I will try to correct myself, and not make the same mistakes that I've made in the past, and led me to quit earlier. Here's what I've proposed myself;

Play a reasonable amount of runescape, do not play as a maniac or "Grinding" as it's called
Set myself realistic goals - For instance I aim to get my pure from 80 range,79 strenght and magic to 83 range (hit 14s on rapid!) , 85 magic (teleblock!) and 85 ish strenght (more Ko'ing power).
Not ''work'' anymore for gp or the right to have fun in pvp. Before, a skilled pker could be self-sufficient and have the loot pay up for pvp expenses/supplies. Now with the EP system, you can't do that anymore no matter how good you are (unless you are willing to wait 30 minutes between every kill for ep - which is highly unreasonable). So I figured the only way to do this would be to make gp while sleeping via the grand exchange! I currently have around 3 million gp which gets me around 150k profit per day. I am aiming for 500k gp profit a day through GE, in order to be able to sustain even the longest pking days.
Bring up at least one blog post per week here. It is fun to share thoughts and ideas that we can relate to, and in same time, build good memories written black on white, that will last and that we can come back to time and time again.

For instance, I can't wait to finish these goals. They would be one heck of a good relief! Especially if it happens before 2011. Either way, I will keep you updated.

The Reason Why Jagex is Trying to gain Influence

2010-06-27T01:07:00.012-04:00

The title is not a question for me anymore, I think it has become clear now.

Lately, Jagex has taken a bigger shift into trying to control us... Why would good old Jagex do such a thing? Why are they trying to Gain Influence, and Control over fansites and players alike within the runescape community?

One answer: Money. They're already in the process of controlling small and large fansites alike and their communities. Why does it matter for them? Fansites can threaten profits, bigtime. A considerable part of runescape players reach out for runescape help, a place to talk, read and socialize with like-minded people. There is a big profitable market for that. If these fansites propose, within their advertisements or messages, a service or product that could compete with jagex's paid membership subscription, then Jagex would suffer a loss in profits... as if 100 million$ a year would not be enough for them.

Such competing products/services that jagex doesn't want to see include in-game gold or accounts, or competing online games(which they have been and are promoting themselves). Jagex wants none of these. Other MMO's (massively multiplayer online games) neither want gold selling adverts (of course!), but they at least do propose a solution to fansite writers/publishers; they have referral programs which lets fansite owners and game developers alike split profits when a surfer buys a game membership when first referred through a fansite. This not only reduces the black market of a set game, but also helps spike up sales of paid gaming time. An affiliate program is easy to apply, and it would barely take any time at all to implement. Jagex has none of this. They don't have any affiliate program for their memberships (which could bennefit them with more membership sales) that fansites could promote in advertisements. I don't get their logic. Perhaps they want to keep the bullion for themselves.

So Jagex has nothing to offer to website publishers. Not only don't they have nothing to offer, but they have something to say too; they don't want anyone to display advertisements that sell virtual goods, or even other online games. Jagex has already broken these two rules by the way; they have had and still do have advertisements for other games, + the fact that they are currently advertising the sale of in-game virtual goods of their so-called ''war of legends'' game, if you can call that a game that is.

P.S - If you have no idea what <<war of legends>> is - and I don't blame you; It's a copy/paste of the ''EVONY''online game. For reference, Evony is like age of empires but the game lasts longer, and you can just buy your way through the game with in-game money sold by the game developper (it's legal).

Q: So how can Jagex better slash fansites, gold sellers and competing online games to increase their revenues?
A: Put in place the ''Fansite ~~support~~ control'' team

Just to get a fansite up and running, it takes an enormous amount of work and effort.When you put in more than 50 hours of work a week into it for a long period of time, you deserve more than just ''recognition''. By not allowing the use of gaming advertisements on runscape fansites, Jagex fails to see fansites as businesses on their own. If on your fansite, you have some in-game images of runescape (which are copyrighted), and Jagex doesn't like one thing or another on your site (be it content or advertisements), they can potentially sue you for whatever reason they want. So either remove ingame images on your site, or obey their commands at all times... It is clear that the executives behind Jagex want to be the only ones to profit from the game, when in fact the game would have never even reached this level of popularity without the helpsites behind it.

Take a look at the chart on this page. What their ''rewards'', if you can even call them that - are trying to do is to lure you to help their players and paying members for free!, without giving you any cut for your efforts, and then one day *Hope* to be lucky enough to enter their gaming studio, which personally, I don't give a s**t about. Would YOU, yes you! put in hundreds and thousands of hours of work into something, helping out a multi-million dollar business (jagex), and not getting anything in return? -Exactly.

Before launching the 'fansite support scam', Jagex Hired a Mod (forgot his name though), who manages a team of employees that work fulltime with communicating, searching and at last, controlling fansites.

For myself, I'm keeping this blog free of any copyrighted runescape images and I'll just say whatever I want HOW I want and when I want. And if Jagex, you aren't happy about it then go * yourself. And if you've got a lawsuit in the works then bring it on!

To be continued...

Runescape Bits is looking for Help!

2010-05-15T23:09:00.007-04:00

After 8 months of existence, I think that the time to expand this blog has finally come. Runescape Bits will remain a blog and (smallish)community like it was in the past, new blog posts will pop up like they were before, etc... The main addition however, will be of a new collection of useful rs guides that I want to put up, if people are willing to help in exchange for free membership to rs. I have nice dreams of where this Blog/Fansite is going, and a good vision to back up these wild dreams!

Believe it or not, this runescape blog has grown quite a bit in the past few weeks. So far - and not long ago, the record for most unique visitors in one day increased at 443 visits in 24 hours! (shown below) - that's a 2'009% increase over the usual numbers!!! The traffic has since slowly bounced back to 40-50 unique visitors a day, but that is still more than the usual 10 uniques a day I was getting =D

This has had the effect of motivating me to push the site even more. And since I'm working my butt off in two different full-time jobs - doing more than 80 hours a week, I've decided to open up staff positions for those interested to help this fansite grow. It's pretty much on a voluntary basis, with me paying out your rs membership for you. I will send you a pin code each month, perhaps with other prizes too.

Guide Writers; I would need around 2 or 3 guide writers. For now, you can write guides of about just anything, but later on we will specialize on everything f2p-related, as well as everything pking/wilderness/pure related. Naturally, I would like guide/article writers to be good in writing, but you don't have to be perfect either. Infact, even if you're not a good writer but want to become one, I will take you on with pleasure, help you, give some tips, feedback, etc...Everything has a start to it. And by the way, my school teachers were always impressed with my extraordinary writing, despite that I failed their classes =D. I will pay your runescape membership every month if you write me 5+/- guides (500 words +) every 4 weeks. Feel free to write the guides with your own writing style and opinions.

Skill Stat Signature Makers; Many fansites have branded their own skill stat signatures. With these gadgets, you can see your character's updated stats in a banner. It is useful for forum users and acts as a great promotional tool for fansites. I don't know how to make these yet, but If you do then feel free to contact me.

Other Help Needed; If you think that you can help in any one way or another in exchange for a monthly runescape membership, then feel free to drop me a line with your ideas. I'm interested in working with pixel artists, video makers, associations with clans, rs bloggers, other fansites and more!

Don't be shy to ask any questions you might have considering rs guide writing or anything else. If you apply in the comment box, don't forget to mention your e-mail adress. If you don't want the comment to be published for everyone else to see, then say ''Do not publish'' in your comment, and only I will see it... Cheers!

Interview with W13, Owner of Zybez

2010-05-09T23:25:00.004-04:00

I Hope you're doing great today, because I've had the chance of interviewing one of the coolest guys around in rs. His name is W13(nickname), and he is the owner of the popular zybez fansite! He was kind enough to answer some questions, mostly runescape-related, in an interview form over email.. heres's a couple questions I shot at him... Well before even beginning, I'd like to thank him incase he's reading this... Enjoy!

Q: First question: name some hobbies/passtimes that you do
A: painting, xbox360, web-surfing

Q: If you could invite any 5 people in the world to a dinner tonight, who would it be?
A: 5 of my Zybez staffers

Q: So when did you first start playing runescape, how did you discover it?
A: in early 2001, i saw my brother playing it, so I got interested.

Q: What did you enjoy doing most at that time? These days, what do you enjoy most in rs?
A: i enjoyed exploring rather than skilling back in the day. (which is weird because there's a lot more to explore now), Now I just enjoy skilling and loitering around.

Q: Now onto your site, how did the idea of making zybez come to mind?
A: runescape.com didn't have any official 'help', so I made it.

Q: At that time what motivated you to grow your fansite? what were your goals?
A: at that time, i didn't care much for it - but then once i saw other people were excited about Zybez, i started to push it a lot more - by working hard on it and advertising it using drop parties.

Q: When I look up, zybez is not even in the list of jagex supported fansites - What's up with that? Are you still ''at war'' with them from the time they wanted to take controll of your ad network? (I am convinced you took the right decision, w13, I think you are an example to follow!)
A: That list is used to force fansites to listen to Jagex's demands. Jagex can ask a fansite to do something in exchange for moving up a rank on that list. I feel that Jagex should look at fansites eye-to-eye, and just come to us and ask us for a favor rather than playing these immature games. Hopefully Jagex can see Zybez for who we are: an organization, a community, and a news-reporting and publishing site.
My Response; Jagex does not need to see zybez for who you are, the players will and are seeing zybez for what it is!

Q: Do you or other fansites have any limitations, since you use their copyrighted in-game screenshots/images?
A: The use of their in-game screenshots and images fall under "Fair Use" laws. That means that even though they are copyrighted, we are free to use them. Besides, we are advertising RuneScape to the world and keeping players loyal to the game. Many players stick around and keep paying their RuneScape memberships just because they're in a clan or because they're part of the Zybez community. (And as you know, Zybez is the home of clans).

Q: Many long-time players are complaining that runescape is starting to lose it's charm, because it increasingly mimics other popular games (like WoW for instance). Do you think that jagex is pushing runescape in the right direction with the recent dungeoneering update, hp/constitution update, and the hd graphic update?
A: RuneScape pre-dates WoW. So if anything, WoW has copied RuneScape if there are any similarities. Dungeoneering (or "raiding" in WoW) has been on Jagex's mind since before WoW was released.

Q: What are 3 updates on runescape that you liked, and 2 that you liked less?
A: I liked the graphics updates. I also liked some unique skill updates like Farming, Herblore, and and Summoning. I can't say the same for unoriginal skills like Dungeoneering and Slayer.

Q: Did jagex, or jagex mods ever contact you ingame!?!? :)
A: Of course. I've played long enough to encounter lots of mods.

Q: During a poll I've had earlier on this blog, I've asked the question ''how many hours per week do you play runescape''. It turned out that 29% of respondants answered with ''more than 35 hours a week''... Do you think that addiction and dependance on rs is a problem that needs to be adressed? Do you have any life tips or message to tell to those addicted kids,teens, and young adults (and even adults) who might be reading these lines?
A: RuneScape teaches you that if you work hard at something, you can achieve it. If you want that level 70 in Attack, it won't just happen, you'll need to put effort into it. So, RuneScape players know that if they work hard at school, they can achieve high levels in real-life :) Of course, I won't sit here and pretend to be an annoying parent-figure and tell RuneScape players, "study hard, limit time playing Rs" because I think that the best way to learn is to fall first. So if somebody's neglecting school and wasting away in front of RuneScape for 35+ hours a week, then when they find themselves scraping grease and burnt meat fragments off the floor with their finger-nails in a dirty restaurant, then they'll realize that they are a "noob" in real life and maybe try and level up. ;-)

-Cool, thanks again for this epic interview! I wish you and your fansites all the best for the future!
-w13: Thank you.

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Wow, epic answers! -what do you think?! I especially liked the second and the last answer, where he gave some valuable life lessons. I too think that many runescape players have skills and good values, it's just a matter of setting yourself goals in real life like you set yourself level (or gp) goals for runescape... Way to go W13!

P.S - If you guys have some of your own questions that you'd like to get answered by him, feel free to post them in the comments below. Otherwise, feel free to join his forum if you want... Have a good one!

Dungeoneering Weapon and Armor Rewards (F2P)

2010-04-19T17:01:00.003-04:00

The main scope of playing the dungeoneering minigame/skill (whatever you want to call it) - is to put your hands up on those expensive rewards, especially the pvp-oriented ones. For reference, 10 dungeoneering xp equals to 1 token. Here's a list of free-to-play item rewards I've put up.

Dungeoneering weapon and armor rewards (f2p) + level requirements;

...Magic Rewards...

Arcane pulse necklace - (30 magic and 30 dungeoneering required) : offers + 10 magic attack bonus and increased magic damage by 5%. Does not degrade. Cost; 6'500 tokens

Arcane blast necklace - (50 magic and dungeoneering levels required) : +12 magic attack bonus and an increased magic damage of 10%. Does not degrade. Cost; 15k tokens

Nature staff - (53 magic, 40 attack and 40 dungeoneering required) : Attack bonuses: +7 stab, -1 slash, +28 crush, + 10 magic, + 0 range. Defence bonuses: +2 stab, +3 slash, +1 crush, +10 magic with +35 strenght bonus. When casting spells, there is a 10% chance that a nature rune will not be used. The staff costs 10k tokens and is not degradable.

Law staff - Has the same requirements and bonuses than the nature staff. Also has a 10% chance for a law rune not to be used and costs 12k tokens.

Tome of frost - (48 magic and dungeoneering required) : The tome of frost is wielded in the shield spot and offers a +10 magic attack bonus and a +10 magic defense bonus. It has an infinite stock of water runes which is a great feature. Costs 43k tokens required and does not degrade.

Gravite staff - (45 magic and dungeoneering required) : Attack Bonuses; +15 in magic and crush, -1 in both slash and stab, strength +7, prayer + 0. Defence bonuses; +15 in magic and + 2, +3 and +1 in stab slash and crush. The gravite staff does an additionnal 5% magic damage. It is degradable and costs a whooping 40k tokens.

...Range rewards...

Longbow sight / becomes Maple longbow(sighted) - (45 range and 30 dungeoneering required) : The longbow sight can be attached to a maple longbow (or magic longbow in p2p) and provides a +110 ranged attack bonus when coupled with the maple longbow! The maximum range bonus for f2p now becomes 151, or +136 for 1 defence pures. The increased range bonus could probably make the sighted longbow a good way to train range in f2p, although I haven't tested this yet. The item does not degrade and requires 10'000 tokens.

Gravite shortbow - (45 range and 45 dungeoneering. required) : Gives a +40 range bonus, which is 11 more than a maple shortbow. The gravite shortbow IS degradable - it lasts for 10 hours and you have to pay 1 million gold for a recharge. If the firing rate is the same as the maple shortbow, then I don't think it would be worth paying the 40k tokens required.

...Melee Weapon Rewards...

Gravite rapier - (45 attack and dungeoneering required) : Gives a + 50 stab, +9 slash attack bonus, 1 slash defence and +48 strenght bonus, which is 4 more str than the rune scimitar. The weapon takes 40k tokens to obtain and 1 million coins to recharge it for 10 hours.

Gravite longsword - (same reqs. as gravite rapier) : +45 stab and +63 slash attack bonus, holds 3 slash and 2 crush defence. Degradable item, so you gotta pay that recharge cost.

Gravite 2h sword - (45 attack and dungeneering required) : -4 attack bonus on slash,stab and magic, +87 crush bonus, with a whooping +90 strength bonus. It also lasts 10 hours, but if one can manage to use it as a finishing weapon then it could a whole lot more. Like other gravite swords and staffs, it costs 40'000 tokens to obtain, and 1million gp for recharge.

What I think overall, is that most items are on the expensive side... which is a good thing! Free to play (f2p) pking has long been the main attraction in the game for most players. The f2p wilderness/pvp does not need new and overpowered weapons to ruin it all. If you want that, then I suggest you head over to pvp in p2p and see how you like it. Now about the new weapons; yes, they will hardly be worth getting for most - BUT will create some sort of variety within the wilderness and rs which can be a good thing. Take for example; for the arcane blast necklace, you will need to save up your tokens all the way to 54 dungeoneering in order to afford it, and level 64 for the gravite staff or swords. I can foresee that most of the dungeoneering weapons will be used in the +1 pvp worlds.

If I had to choose a reward, I would probably go for the sighted maple longbow that could be of great use in the deep wilderness against main pkers that have high def (can't wait to see how accurate it will be!) or perhaps use it to train range since it's not a degradable item. My second pick would probably be a gravite 2h or longsword, though I'd probably do better just training my pure's stats up... Now what do YOU think about the dungeoneering rewards in f2p? worth it? what would you get?

Dungeoneering Skill in Runescape!

2010-04-12T11:04:00.002-04:00

So the new Dungeoneering Skill is out! It is both for f2p and p2p players. The skill by itself does not affect your combat level, however you do have the option to train combat by fighting monsters within the game.

Dungeoneering free-to-play (f2p) weapon rewards

So what exactly is Dungeoneering?

Dungeoneering is the latest skill in runescape, realeased on the 12th april 2010. The skill is trained in an vast area of 35 floors called Daemonheim. Players explore each level and may use other skills to clear each level by finding keys and solving puzzles. Players can enter the castle in groups of only 5 people at a time or less. Think of this skill as similar in concept to the ''dungeons and dragons'' games. While it is called a skill, it is more commonly viewed as a minigame.

How do I get to the Dungeoneering castle/Daemonheim area?

Either South of the Al-Karid Bank, taking a ferry from the dock
In the level 40 Wilderness to the east part of it
Take a Ring of Kinship, given by the Dungeoneering tutor

Dungeoneering Weapons and Armour

The new skill unlocks a wide area of new weapons, both f2p and p2p. Some weapons - melee mostly, require a recharge after 10 hours of combat use. The Gravite 2h sword (for f2players) looks the most promising to pures, beacause the 10 hours can account for only the time you wield it. So for a range to rune 2her for example, this could be very practical as the time you wield it is minimal, and therefore can really use it for an extended ammount of time. Other weapons include magic necklaces and staffs and a spellbook giving unlimited water runes!, as well as minor improvements.

This new skill update is gigantic for f2p! Is this new update better than if they would bring back the wilderness? perhaps not, what do you think? Anyway, the other weird thing is that the skill is caped at level 120, and not 99... So what do you think of the dungeoneering update as a whole? Who will be the first to get a 99? and then first to get 120? Cheers!

How I Quit Runescape

2010-04-11T16:18:00.001-04:00

It was one month ago, RuneScape had started to take a toll on my time, life and future. Was playing from morning till night. And when 10 hours of playing seem like 10 minutes, quitting runescape can be your only option. Deceived - What can I say? ... When you can't stop thinking about it even while shi**ing , or when you don't even have time to eat because of your addiction, you know something has to be done, so I sparred myself the therapy sessions and took action. This happens to me every year by the way (quitting like that). Here's my story prior to quitting rs this year...

It all began 3-4 months ago, when I was pking with my pure in a pvp world, near the grand exchange. I was f2p, you know; money comes in hardly and goes away quickly when pking, (and especially with that new drop potential rule where you get nerfed drops if you're not willing to wait 30 minutes between kills). So there was I, in grand exchange with my range to rune2h setup, trying to find my next opponent to fight, when I suddenly pass next a guy of my level. He was trying to find an opponent aswell, and with one million gp on him, he claimed he was quitting runescape after he'd die with that money on! ;I traded him and he was right, he had 1.1milion in cash! Back then, when money was worth more in rs, I / f2players could hope to gain that kind of money in a good 20-25 hours to the least. You can imagine how excited I was! He told me to put a team cape on or no fight, which I did in a rush before anyone else would get him to fight.

When we were ready, he showed me the money one last time before stepping out of the safe zone, and off we went at each other, range pure against range pure (level 57 I think, he 56). I had a few chances to take him out, though after we both ran out of food, went to bank and back to it again for another round. But this time, it was a good streak, I did not even have the time to eat a lobster of my own that he finds himself in trouble - switched to my 2h and finished him off with an 18 (today it would have been a 180 hit). I remember it like it was yesterday; he dropped dead on the ground and there stood all the money, the beautiful money! 1.1 million cash + some items in f2p, my biggest drop to this date. He then came back from Lumbridge to see if I've gotten the money and after I've reassured him, told me one last goodbye before he quit. And I've never seen him again.

2 Months Later... I was struggling with real life, being strangled by runescape as I told you earlier. Giving away my account to someone and tell them to change the password could have been an option aswell. But I decided to pay tribute to that one guy instead, who made my day back then. So I emptied my bank, sold everything on the grand exchange and took out 700k cash on me -all I had-, went to pk with it. After a while, I died with it, making someone incredibly happy and passed on the love that I have had gotten one day too. If you too intend to quit one day, I suggest you empty your bank, go in pvp and pass on the tradition, you will make someone happy who will in turn, probably be entitled to do the same when he quits. And the best part is that it will really want to make you quit and not return for a while.

5 Benefits of Quitting Runescape:

More time on your hands
You wake up to reality, you can explore the real world - and better graphics!
You can get a part time job if you go to school, and with the money earned, buy 10 times more gold or better account than you otherwise would have made sitting at home.
You can get a girlfriend this time, and not a gf ...(I know you know the difference!)
Do something real this time, make a plan for the next day, month year and more. Live life to the fullest & do something that your kids or relatives would be feel proud of you one day.

Jagex is a company like many others, they have their good and bad sides. But at the end of the day, you will see that they mind their own business, you are just a good paying customer to them. They don't care about their game either, what they care about is that the masses like their game so they can make the most money out of it in middle and long-term. If you didn't know, they already seriously considered selling gold themselves (what they call real world trading). Quit runescape today, live your life tonight! I'm still playing rs by the way, at only 2-3 hours per week; I enjoy life now.

What Type of Pure you should make in Runescape (f2p)

2010-04-06T20:43:00.002-04:00

In the past, pures in Runescape were rather rare, and made for killing quickly most people of their level. Nowadays they are abundant, people recognize & are aware of them, and they are mostly created for the simple scope of fighting other pures. I'll give you some different perspectives based on what I've seen and done in 5+ years of wilderness (since rs2 came out). After all, creating a new pure/pker is a big time investment, so hopefully by the end of this guide/post, you will have a better idea of what you want and not waste any more time.

The Most Important thing to keep track of is ...

Your combat level! I don't care if you have a range/mage hybrid, a "tank", or have a 99 combat stat; If you can't be competitive against opponents of your combat level, you won't have fun when pking so then your stats become meaningless, and a waste of time. For reference, 1 combat level = 4 defence levels or 4 hitpoints levels, or 8 prayer levels, or 7 summoning levels (for p2p)

Before you start investing time on making a new pure, please plan things out properly and avoid levels you won't need. Check out this combat level calculator and play around with your desired stats.

The different Types of Pures and Pkers;

Pures with strictly only one combat class ; Range Pure, Strenght Pure, Magic Pure. (They are not flexible and have weaknesses)

The Ranger Pure (1 defence, 1-43 prayer, 1-99 range) - It can put up a fight with anybody. It's small but consistent fast hits will effectively drain the food of almost anyone. In a clan, range pures will get a decent amount of kills. When solo pking, it will ''win'' most fights against other pures and mains, but can very hardly finish off enemies (unless 90+ range), and without binds either, getting kills will be hard.

The Strenght Pure (1 defence, 1-34 prayer, 40 attack, 1-99 strenght) - In rs2, these became popular to counter range/mage pures. Overall, they do less damage per minute than range pures, but on the other hand hit high and have good chances of killing other pures by K.O. Str pures mostly fight other pures, they are inaccurate against opponents of over 20 defence. And just fighting pures in crowded areas against other pures with similar levels gets boring sometimes. In clans, they don't do too well.

The Mage Pure (1 defence, high magic) - Magic can be devastating against full rune, and opponents who have 1-10 magic (because one's magic level acts as magic defence). In clans they usually get plenty of kills. The best magic spell in f2p to date is fire blast (level 59 magic), but I recommend to get more than that, for more accurate spells and binds. Enemies will fail spells on you more often the higher your magic is. While they dominate at lower levels (3-30 combat), they loose some firepower at higher levels, compared to other fighters

Why Hybriding is key: All three classes of fighters have weaknesses, the secret is to combine those skills for some ownage.You do not gain combat levels when range, magic, and attack+strenght are leveled the same (you can test this out yourself on the combat calculator)

- A range/mage pure can do some good pking (player-killing) further away from banks and safespots. Attack with range and when your opponent is starting to run, bind him. This strategy does not work very well mith melee/and binds, because you need to run the distance to your target between binds.

- A range/meleer (range to rune2h) can use the quick rate of damage of his bow to bring his opponent's health down and finish him up with the high-hits of a 2h sword.

- A melee/mage hybrid can switch from his sword to fireblasts when opposed to a main, or tanker.

- Example, a hybrid @t 40 attack, 88 strength, 85 range, 85 magic, 76 hitpoints 1 defence & prayer, will be level 60 combat. For

Not only is it more practical to have different combat classes on you, but it's also much more fun. You can go pking in If you have enough time to train one, go for all three combat classes. Stay 1 defense of course and 1 prayer (I prefer that but you can get higher) - because it requires some multitasking and frequent recharging. And by the way, do not get defence up... there is no better armor than what pures already use for hybriding.
That's it for today, if you have any questions don't be shy - I read all comments!

Some new Guides comming up!

2010-02-27T21:38:00.002-05:00

A few months ago, back in 2009, I had started to write down on paper a small bunch of guides on pures and their training, as well as other Wilderness / PvP tips and guides. But these were lost partially in my room.

Well I recently cleaned up my room and have found those guides back as well as some motivation (thanks to someone in rs pushing me to publish them) to rewrite them from paper to word processor.

When I jumped into the world of making pures 5-6 years ago (roughly weeks after I discovered rs), I did have some tips here and there from inexperienced people - but not solid advice to do it successfully. After all, creating and training a new account is a huge investment in time. I learned it the hard way. With more than 4-5 different accounts (and counting), as well as several years of training, seeing and pking, I will shortly be starting a series of posts sharing my personal thoughts on pvp/wilderness tactics, most efficient pure types and setups, pking spots and more. Coming to a blog near you... Stay tuned!

Some Facts About the Author(me)

2010-02-27T21:03:00.005-05:00

Reading a blog becomes more fun in my opinion if you know more about the author. So here we go, here are 5 runescape facts and 5 real life facts pertaining to me;

Real life Fact; 20 years old, young and full of energy (most of the time) and optimism. I like sports, politics, and am a business minded person - am constantly thinking about business ideas.

RS Fact : Have started playing a good 5-6 years ago. I remember on my days fresh off tutorial island, I was wondering where everyone got their fancy armor from - only I was not wearing anything special. I soon learned that I needed to get a ''job'', and then my quest for gold began. I remember an npc telling me I had 3 options; doing quests, making my own items, or killing monsters. The first two proved to have failed me, so I went with killing ''monsters''... chickens!

RL Fact; Emigrated from Romania to Canada when I was young. Canada is nice, though thinking to moving to the U.S. sometime, or at least the English part of Canada.

RS Fact; The chicken business was satisfying at first - I'd get 1gp at most per feather if I was lucky enough to find a buyer. That would make a few dozen gp's per hour or so considering my killing rate and the crowded area... it was good money for me. As I started wandering a bit, i landed on the fishing shop at port sarim, to find out that they were buying feathers for up to 2-3 gp each! I then started to hire people fresh off tutorial island and in other chicken pens, they would sell me feathers 1gp each and I'd give them bonuses too, then reselling the feathers for good profit at the fish shop =D =D. Within a few days of playing runescape, I had accumulated a small fortune (or so I thought) of 300 gp. I was then showing it off in trades and impressed the crowds, I thought that I was one of the richest and most powerfull in runescape with all that money and employees!

RL Fact: Rides a bicycle on the cold canadian winters... Don't worry, I just might be driving a bulletproof Cadillac one day!

RS Fact: Learned quickly that making money for money's sake in runescape was not fun in itself, and rather boring, but that the real fun in runescape lied in being able to compete against others in the wilderness. In fact I quit my first account ''main'' when it was only level 20 something combat and started making pures from there on, in an attempt to be more competitive, get kills in the wilderness and most importantly, to be a self-sufficient pker in the wilderness / make the fun pay for itself and not have to do ''virtual work'' in order to have that fun. To this day I still pursue that goal.

RL Fact: I'm a pretty strong chess player, and I like to compete in tournaments once in a while. My grandma is the one that thought me how to play when I was little, and from there on played for fun mostly, beating most people regardless of age . A few years ago I finished second in a Provincial tournament for people of my age group. Recently I started studying chess more seriously. One day, I hope to be amongst the best in the world.

RS Fact: Have invested a lot of time in the game of Runescape. Have been adicted more than once. Some of those hours, I would like to get back. In the grand scheme of things though, I think runescape was and is a great experience.

RL Fact: I've failed 3/4 of my classes in college. Oh yeah, and the cops also came in at midnight not that long ago!

RS/RL Fact: I started this runescape blog ~~for the fun of it~~. The real reason I started this blog is to generate money, nothing less... at my stage in life it becomes preoccupying too. In the midst of it though, I started this interaction with other bloggers, which I now enjoy on a daily basis and it keeps me going. I even came out of retirement in rs! Another big aspect why I started this blog is that I wanted to build something that would last and turn moments into memories that I could go back and read. But still, if there was no $dough to be made in it, I'm not sure that I would have started in the first place XD. I can recommend starting a blog about your passion to anyone... It really motivates you in life and if it gets popular in the way, then even better for you.

Well I hope that you've enjoyed this reading this post, I would definetely like to think what you guys think! I don't usually like to share personal info out in the open but who cares what others think, right? If you have a rs blog yourself, then I would like to hear more about you. Meanwhile, I recommend you check out Vaskor's and Pie's self interviews... Cheers all!

The best for 2010!

2010-01-12T12:12:00.000-05:00

Happy late new year my dear runescapers and fellow runescape bloggers. Sorry that this is late, I know I haven't posted in a while - had some problems with my computer and stuff... but things will be for the better in 2010

2010 happens to be the first year that I don't have school. Some of my future will most likely be decided within little time now.L'ets hope that this year is a good one.

Some goals I have for runescape2 in 2010 to get on my 1 def 1 pray pure:

Get 85 Magic ... teleblocking will be a very nice spell in my arsenal to have in order to get kills. Currently, my magic level is 78 or 79 I think, don't really remember.
Get 85 - 90 strength ... Currently, my strength level is 79. I'll be able to hit 24-25's as finisher
Get 85 range for 14's ... range is the main weapon for pures. Currently got 79 range.

These are broad goals my friends and are very achievable on a one year period. How I get them, I will see. If I can manage to buy some gp from goldsellers, then this would be awesome. If I can find a way to buy that is. But for instance I woudn't risk my password on my account. Will have to be cautious.

Some other goals of mine will be to blog more often here. I plan to introduce more guides and cool tips that haven't been already released elsewhere. In fact the next guide I'll release will be an afk magic training guide!

But growing this blog is a priority for 2010.

I want this blog to become a semi-well known fansite till the end of 2010! If I can get it to 10 - 20'000 pageviews a month by the end of the year, then it will be mission acomplished.

Again, sorry for neglecting this blog, and let me know of your 2010 goals! ... cheers!

Would you Consider Making Money from your Runescape Blog?

2009-12-06T21:23:00.001-05:00

There is no doubt that a lot of runescape bloggers blog just for the fun of it, but have any of you considered the possibilities of making real money from your runescape blog?

I am not talking about getting rich overnight, but rather have it pay for some of your expenses - like a cup of coffee and muffin once a week or perhaps even more, depending on how many visitors you get.

If you still feel alienated from what I say then consider this: by signing up (for free) to advertising networks like google adsense, refferral programs (get paid per sale or sign up), and putting those ads on your site or blog, you could be making money - aproximatively 5$ to 25$US for every 1'000 visitors that come to your runescape blog. So you could be getting various ammounts of income depending on how many people come to your blog - just do the math and you can already get an idea of about how much you would be earning.

I must mention also that not all blogs are ready to be monetized. If you have a blog on a wordpress domain or within a forum, they will not let you put ads or affiliate programs on it. Most likely, the owner of the forum already has ads on it and will not want any competition, so don't do it or you could wake up one morning and see that your blog may have dissapeared and account banned.

For this not to happen, I suggest that you use google's blogger/blogspot blogging platform. Your runescape blog will be safer there, and google has proved through out time to have a reliable blogging platform. It's free to use and you can have peace of mind, so long as you don't post any strong hatred, copyrighted stuff or malicious software (read their terms for details). But other than that, you can do just about anything - playing with your blog template's code, choose from jundreds of google pre-made templates on various sites, etc. You can also buy your own domain name (www.yourrunescapeblogname.com) through google's blogger platform for 10$ a year, and they will also host your blog for free.

If, for some reason, you prefer the Wordpress blogging platform and want your own domain name, you will also need to pay for webhosting apart from the domain name, which would make the bill rise from 40 to 100$ a year...personally I like having my blog on a .blogspot.com adress (google's free blogger service).

Anyway, back to my main question for today - How would you feel about monetizing your passion/your runescape blog? And for those of you who don't have a runescape blog yet, would you be willing to start one with the idea of earning revenue from it?

*Check out this runescape blogging video from IceyDan1 for tips if thinking about starting a runescape blog*

So please share your thoughts on this in the comment box below. I read every comment and will gladly answer any questions or even help you with getting started or making money/receiving visitors for your runescape blog. Cheers!

Some Runescape Classic Calculators I found

2009-11-28T02:21:00.001-05:00

Hey guys, short post today to tell you that I have found some pretty neat runescape classic calculators! Enjoy the great find!

Combat and Max hit Calculator - These are combat level planners/calculator as well as a melee max hit calculator (for runescape classic of course). I've been testing them a little and have found them to be pretty accurate. Use the combat calculator in order to plan your staker's ideal level and whatnot.

Skill Planners and other Calculators - This is for all you skillers out there... some boring skill calculators for the likes of fishing, woodcutting, magic also, etc...

Well hope that you make good use of them. If you are aware of any other runescape classic calculators of any sort, drop me a note in comments and I will add them on this page, cheers!

Rs Classic to open every 6 months!

2009-11-26T20:08:00.001-05:00

Great news today for all classic players - Runescape Classic will open and close every 6 months! Forever possibly! This is great great grrrr88eat news my friends, the rs classic community will ever get bigger. Jagex has confirmed that it will close all registrations during 6 months time, and at the end of those 6th months, registration will open again - given the fact that you are a subscribing member.

Do not forget however, that you also need to log into your classic character every 6 months, or it will be deleted!
Furthermore, they have reduced the worlds to only two worlds; one for veteran players that have played classic before the re-release and another world for everyone else (veteran players can access both). While the worlds might be a little crowded, on the other hand there will be more people to watch out and report botters and such. Hope you all enjoyed this update too, have a cold one!

Source: http://services.runescape.com/m=news/newsitem.ws?id=2453

Runescape Classic Pure account making Guide

2009-11-21T12:57:00.005-05:00

With the re-opening of runescape classic, many new rsc players including myself have come to enjoy the game and start building up our accounts. I have searched for a runescape classic pure/account making guide but have not found one - so I decided making one for the runescape classic community. After having interviewed many rsc pkers and pures as well as doing some extensive searching on the web and simultaneously testing the knowledge myself, I have come up with a starter's guide to runescape classic pure and staker account making guide. Note; as more people start leaving comments and tips, it will be updated and more rsc guides will be made.
* Some people complain about the graphics in rsc, and because of this, refuse to play the game. In my opinion, the graphics and gameplay in runescape classic have their own little charm. I have myself come to enjoy runescape classic much more than runescape hd - and I suggest you give it a try while you still can.

The Goals of making a Pure or Staker in Runescape Classic

Player versus player fighting is for a lot of people one of the most enjoyable parts of the game. Making a pure, tanker, or any sort of strategically trained account in order to be a more competitive wilderness pker (player killer) or staker/dueler is a wise decision to take.

A good goal for any pker or staker - or both - would be to become so good in what they're doing (pking/staking) that they would make enough money to no longer have to rely on other boring money making methods, and instead, keep their favorite habbit self-sustainable. Keep in mind that food, armor, runes, arrows, potions, etc, can become very expensive - especially if you're not productive enough to get a return on your investment. Remaining profitable is a constant challenge and is not easy to achieve - but if you play your cards right, you might just become the next rich staker/wilderness pker, so read on.

The different types of accounts and stats to get

There are multiple types of account setups to go for, some of them are; A tank dueler, mage with defense, mage with 1 defense, mage/melee hybrid, range melee hybrid, and 1 defence melee pure. I will attempt to cover all of these but focus more on melee pures, since they are convenient to make, and can be played with success both in the wilderness and in duelling.

The Different types of 1 defense pures meleers

The main purpose of remaining at 1 defense is to minimize one's combat level while trying to achieve high offensive stats capable of serious damage. The motto of a 1 defense pure is that "the best defense is the attack!" - and it holds true in some cases. Here are different setups with 1 defense

Rune 2h pure Rune 2h pure with prayer

40 attack                                                   40 attack
1 defense                                                   1 defense
1 magic                                                      1 magic
1 prayer                                                     4/13/31/34 prayer
99 strength (or highest)                               99 strength (or highest)

This type of pure trains and fights with a r2h which is pretty accurate. The one with 1 prayer can have better opportunities when staking/duelling, for instance if the "no prayer" box is checked and his opponent does have prayer, then he starts with an advantage. At higher levels however (75 strength +) prayer will come in useful in the wilderness, so it will be your decision whether to get or not depending if you like to stake more or go player-killing.

Dragon Longsword Pure
60 attack
1 defense
1 magic
1-4-13-31-34 prayer
99 strength (or highest)

The dragon longsword is the best weapon available for 1 defense pures - although statistically it does not look much stronger than the r2h. The 20 extra attack levels cost aproximately 5 combat levels and could be good for staking by making you hit more often on armor. Training strenght would be a little easier when compared to a r2h pure, and would hit more easily through defense. Getting prayer is up to you depending if you like staking or pking more.
Lower attack pures

1/5/10/20/30 attack
1 defense
1 magic (or mid-high magic)
1 prayer
low or high strength

While these are not designed for player-killing in the wilderness, they are pures in the making. I have found that a lot of players like to postpone their training to try their luck in lower level duelling. If you are one of them, then watch out for "defence noobs" disguised in iron armor. If lower level staking works out good, but if not then move on. Also note that 8 magic levels costs only 1 combat level, and thus mages are very strong at lower levels. The problem though is that most stakers check the "no magic"option.

The notion of "wined" Pures

The terms "wined pure" and "wined attack" are used to describe the instance when attack has been trained on dummies with the use of wine or beer, and no hp xp has been gained. In runescape classic, dummies give 5 attack xp per hit, and you may use them so long as your current attack is 7 or lower - use wine and beers to lower it. Training attack this way is popular amongst pkers because some do not want to gain combat levels from hitpoints.

How to remain 1 defense in Runescape Classic

By default, each and every time when you log into runescape classic the "controlled" attack function is set by default. If you want to remain at level 1 defense, you cannot use the defensive or controlled attack mode (they both give defense xp). Unlike rs hd, you cannot change your attack style anytime, you can only change that when engaged in combat. Furthermore, you only receive xp after you have killed a monster-npc.

So if you log on and want to train strength while keeping defense at 1, you would attack something and then quickly click on the aggressive option before you manage to kill the monster you were attacking. When you kill the thing that you were attacking, you will receive the xp depending to what the last option was selected - so for example if you logged on, clicked and attacked a lesser demon, changed the "controlled" attack option style to "aggressive" and then the lesser demon died, you would receive strength xp at that same moment. (If you still don;t understand, let me know and I will attempt to re-explain it in other words)

Furthermore, here are some important tips to not get that accidental 2 defense

Attack things that you cannot kill in 1 hit; if your max hit is a 5, then attack npc's with higher than 5 hp. If you happen to kill something with the first hit (a chicken let's say), you WON'T have time to switch attack styles and will receive xp from the controlled style. So after logging in, remember to never attack things that you can kill within 1 hit.
When logging in and before attacking something, remove your weapon, amulet and any strength boosting (weapon power) object. This way you will hit lower and less accurately at first, thus giving you more time to switch to aggressive.
Also, if you are still scared and want to take even extra steps, then you can first wait to get to 100% fatigue (can be achieved by skilling). When reaching 100% fatigue, you will no longer gain any xp from anything and will then be able to freely fight with any attack option you wish.

Quests for a Runescape Classic pure:
Underground Pass ; gives 3k attack experience, and gives the klank gauntlets which are a must for any serious player. They give 2 weapon power, aswell as a little attack and defense bonus.

Other types of stakers or pkers you can make (with or without 1 defense)

I think that making a 1 defense pure melee pure would be the best of both worlds, because it can be a good player killer and staker in same time - while if you make a dueller with high defense you won't be a very good pker, and will probably get bored from duelling. Here are some ideas of accounts

1 Defense Pure with 40 attack and high magic;

High magic and high strength combined with 1 defense would probably be a deadly combination in the wilderness since one would be able to attack with those two powers in same time, causing double the damage. In duelling this account could either not be that good - probably because many people would not want to stake with the magic option on - but on the other side it would be interesting to see the fights against mage tankers, or yet again higher leveled meleers that would accept to fight with magic on. Making an account like this is definitely worth a consideration - even if I have not yet seen anyone else with these stats (1 def, high strength and mage)

Melee Tankers

These are usually built with duelling in mind. They have higher defense and attack with lower strenght. They have only one goal in mind; to win a stake. Take them to the wilderness and you will find it hard to get any kill.

Mage Tankers

Mage tankers can be pretty common at lower levels (lvl 5-30). They usually have a very high magic level and also a considerable defence level. They are especially strong at low levels since 8 magic levels account for only 1 combat level.

All round, impure, or "mains"

I suggest you do not make an account with all round stats, you should build it strategically. Before starting a quest, look at the rewards in advance on quest guides and make sure you are not getting xp that you don't want; ex. def, prayer or magic xp.

A note on Duelling/Staking

Staking is not only about the stats. It is also about having a good "poker face". If you have 20 defence, then walk around dressed in full iron. If you are a melee pure, you might want to wear mage stuff to look like you are "impure". If you have 40 attack and 10 strenght, you might want to wield a black two handed sword for instance, and then switch it for your rune one when the duel has started. A picture is worth a thousand words, and misleading your opponents is a good way to win stakes.

Well I hope that you enjoyed this guide, It was intended to be a brief guide for newcommers to runescape classic. Feel free to post your comments, opinions, and tips as it will be added to the guide. Stay tuned for more Runescape Classic guides in the future!

Runescape Classic Home

2009-11-21T12:51:00.004-05:00

RuneScape Classic (sometimes reffered as RSC, RS1 or RS Classic), was publicly released on 4 January 2001, and is the first version of RuneScape. It was replaced on 29 March 2004, with what was then known as RuneScape 2, now commonly called RuneScape. On November 11, 2009, Classic was reopened to RuneScape Members. Any member's account that would sign up in the two week period after the reopening would have future access to Runescape Classic after the deadline.

To this day, many players have returned to RSC, and is for many people much more enjoyable than runescape hd. This is because the original classic game has remained unchanged, while in runescape hd, some of the most fun aspects of the game have been hampered in an effort to eliminate real world trading.

This page will be updated with guides and articles pertaining to the good old' classic game.

New Magic Spells Introduced on the p2p version of Runescape

2009-11-17T23:19:00.003-05:00

Jagex has today introduced new magic spells on the member's worlds (p2p version of Runescape). They are 4 high level spells, available on the "regular" or what they call "modern" spell book.

Wind Surge - 81 magic required - 75 basic magic xp - 22 damage
Water Surge - 85 magic required - 80 basic magic xp - 24 damage
Earth Surge - 90 magic required - 85 basic magic xp - 26 damage
Fire Surge - 95 magic required - 90 basic magic xp - 28 damage

I think that this is great news for mages and hybrids pkers alike, especially for those who do not like the "ancients" spellbook. Now I'd say that the regular spellbook is fairly complete for p2players. It contains useful "stopping" spells like snare and entangle, the handy teleblock spell and now some very convenient high damaging spells.

While the 3 arena spells were also good and powerful, they are not convenient for hybrids, or pkers/pures with several attacking styles.

Furthermore, they also updated how magic potions would work, so that when you drink some, it will raise your maximum hit. Also, changed how runecrafting works, so one would get a little more runes when runecrafting. This should be excellent for f2p players as magic will be more affordable for them. How do you like this update? And stay tuned - a new breakthrough magic guide will be released soon!

Source: http://services.runescape.com/m=news/newsitem.ws?id=2437

Runescape Classic Temporarily Re-opens!!

2009-11-12T10:50:00.001-05:00

W0W It is Official!!! - Runescape Classic has now been temporarily reopened for a two week period for subscribing RuneScape members! If players access RSC (Runescape classic) during the two-week period (with their username and password), they will have the privilege to continue playing Classic AFTER the period is over!

This is possibly the best update of the year. Remember that there are many players that are unhappy about the wilderness/pvp changes and nerfing of drops in the modern version of Runescape. On the other hand, the pvp aspects of runescape classic have remained as they were - when you kill someone you get what that player had! This aspect alone could bring in a lot of more players.

For myself I have happily joined RSC with my members account, and things seem really great. Here are some of the main differences between the two versions of the gam;

Runescape Classic: No grand exchange, The old combat system where you would fight for "three rounds", trading is somewhat harder, money is harder to make in classic and gold is much more valuable. There are no trading limits either. The whole game, including the wilderness seems to be based more on 1vs1 fighting rather than multi fighting which I also like. One can also duel someone anywhere in the game except falador - you see the "duel" option in the same line where you see "trade" and "follow" options. Note that one account's stats in runescape2 are not transferable to runescape classic, meaning that you have to start over with level 3. Other than that, you might get a little shocked to see the difference in graphics, but I already got used to it and love it - especially when gp is more valuable and best of all, when the good old wilderness there.

Some final tips before starting; you might want to make a pure of some sort - remember that you can only have one account on classic if you started out, and you won't be able to make another one before jagex re-opens runescape classic (which might take some time) unless you pay more subscriptions to start new accounts within the two week period. So making a runescape classic pure might be fun, and perhaps you should consider it if you plan to be active in the wilderness.

Mark Gerhard (Mod MMG) has stated at an earlier date that a new server of RSC could be brought back for all players to enjoy, but the time for this is unknown, and could take a while. So I strongly suggest for existing members that you log in to Runescape Classic within that two-week period (until november 25th 2009) to secure your RSC account, while non-subscribers should consider getting a subscription just for that month in order to secure you account - as you never know WHEN or even IF Runescape Classic will once again be available for all to enjoy. Have a good one!

Source - http://services.runescape.com/m=news/newsitem.ws?id=2376

Reducing lagging on Runescape f2p worlds

2009-10-30T01:09:00.002-04:00

After some little playing on a new runescape account I've started, my computer was lagging, something that doesn't happen very often when I'm on runescape. I told myself that I must have played too much on it, and the computer got overheated. I then proceed to close some other windows, but the problem still would not go away completely for that night. But as I logged on today - and with a freshly cold computer this time, guess what - within minutes my computer started lagging again!, right after playing on a f2p world. I soon figured that it was because of that pesky ad - a Mazda car ad ... and it was pretty frustrating as well - the screen in rs was updating movement every 10 seconds for me. Let me tall you what - it's not uncommon however that there have been slow connection issuesin runescape due to ads Here are some ways in which ads might annoy you and ways that you can avoid them.

The ads on top of the f2p runescape playing screen usually change every few minutes. If you're a f2p player, you might have noticed for instance that when ads are rotating at the same time as you were typing a message to your friend and attempting to erase the last word you typed, you might get logged out accidentally and even die if you happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. And dying from this also happened to me some few rare times - (probably because I happen to be on the wilderness/pvp quite a lot:)

When an ad rotates, this causes the page to somehow refresh, and when you press that backspace, it orders your browser to go back one time on the page. If you notice that ads are rotating then click once at least with your cursor inside the actual game frame, this way when you do a backspace it will instruct the game engine to do a backspace; example erasing a word you're writing. When an ad change happens and you don't click first within the game before pressing backspace, you instruct the webpage and browser to refresh the whole page or go back - not the game engine, so watch out for this.

Though being that vigilant is not always possible, since we are not focused on the ad much when playing. Another alternative for that would be to play runescape on other Jagex-approved runescape playing sites that do not have rotating ads. A good one in there would be Miniclip. Today I can say that I played runescape there without any lag. There was one simple, small in size, non flashing and non rotating ad that really made it smooth. Beware though, only play and enter your account details on the pre-approved partner sites from Jagex and check the url twice to make sure you're not entering your info at the wrong places.

Another effective way to play runescape without lag is to uninstall the adobe flash player, or play with an old version of adaobe flash that won't make the ads show up. Ads on Runescape are served on through the adobe flash player, so if you don't have it then you won't see anything I guess or no rotations. Also a lot of schools and other public places have computers without flash, and if I recall well, I didn't have problems playing runescape on those.

Lastly is ad blockers. I say don't go too far with this, especially when you could download a keylogger, spyware and whatnot without knowing. Jagex also mentions that it's against their rules to put an ad blocker - rule 15 if I remember well ; not sure if they can find you're using one but I wouldn't risk getting some unnecessary attention from jagex for something as meaningless as blocking ads. The easiest and quickest solution in my opinion if you're having lagging issues due to rotating ads or ads too big in size or animation (like it was the case with the Mazda ad) then I suggest you check out the partner websites of jagex i talked about earlier - one that worked for me today was miniclip.

Most of the lagging problems you would have when playing runescape I say would be because of ads. However if you are still lagging, then here are some other things you can do ;

Close most or all browser windows other than that of runescape. Video oriented sites like Youtube, or sites with excessive popups and animations can also slow your computer more.

You can also go into a world that is the closest from your location as well as he lowest crowded you can find.

If you have large games installed in your computer that you don't play anymore then deleting them could help. If your PC's memory is full in general then it can also be a factor.

Does your laptop/computer have a good ventilation system? If you hear it struggling to get air in and out then I suggest you put two books under your computer/laptop in a strategic manner to make it easier to ventilate.

If your laptop is still laggy and too hot then go ahead and put it in the fridge for a little while =D. - This tip was sort of a joke, but if you're to the point where you would do it, then I really suggest you stop playin runescape for a little bit - it won't hurt.

So I hope you enjoyed it and found some ways to lag less. That was a non-exhaustive list of ways to reduce lagging in runescape, if you have any other tips then please share them below in the comments section and I might put it up here.

Runescape Graphics are too Beautifull!

2009-10-29T04:34:00.002-04:00

It's been a little while I've logged in Runescape as you can tell, and I come to find that the graphics in runescape are too beautiful seriously. Worse even, there is no way to go back to the previously more square-like graphics. Furthermore, it seems to have slowed the game, or at least for me. The game is somewhat less responsive than before when playing from my computer.

What games really need in my point of view is content, not graphics. The game of chess for example is amongst the world's most played games in real life but also on the internet - if a game has a nice concept then the graphics won't matter. And when my friend calls me to play on his icebox 360 or whatever you call it, I still can't find that old fun I had with the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation one classics.

I don't know how many of you got fooled by Jagex's graphic updates. Graphic updates are not game improving updates, they are merely there to seduce new graphic-hungry players that are discovering the game. And by the way, speaking of discovering games, I was just thinking of playing runescape classic since the wilderness is still there at least, the good old wildy as we know it. But aparently there are a few requirements including that your account must have been created in 2005 or so. So I will look deeper into it and make a new post sometime soon about joining and playing in runescape classic. So a question to players - what do you think of graphic updates in runescape, do you like to have simple or fancy graphics? let me know

Skillers in Runescape

2009-10-28T05:29:00.004-04:00

Normal people, I have a question for you - what is the point of skillers in runescape? When I'm saying a skiller, I am speaking of someone getting his stats up just for the sake of getting his stats up. Some people get their stats up by result of collecting items to resell, others get their stats up to be stronger or more effective when fighting on pvp worlds, others get stats up as a requirement for an important quest. But training your stats just for the sake of it... wow -_-.

First of all, I have written this post to show some young or not so young players the dark side of having a skiller, or just skilling in general. If I can convince one person to stop dam skilling then this article will have acomplished it's goal.

Not that I want to bash anyone, but the sad truth is that nobody really cares about other's accomplishments. People are selfish in Runescape, it's a fact.

If you're a wanna be Zezima I suggest you quit. Because being addicted to runescape is not worth it. How can one get level 99 of something legitimately? You put a lot of work into a game when it's not really a game anymore, on top of that you go to school or you go to work and have very little time with relatives or friends as when you reach that level - what's the difference? What difference does it make? Life's too short for that my friends. I doubt that most of the people you see high on the highscores have worked those stats all by themselves. Other people even buy accounts...the other day I saw a lvl 90 range pure in a pvp world and after talking with him a little quickly realised he was a real beginner and just started out with serious pking.

If you are a skiller I challenge you to cut down your time in runescape by 20 - 50% and instead take out that time and look out for a new passion or hobby. If you can't get off Runescape or stop being addicted, then I suggest you do it the hard way like I did - Selling all your items and then drop the cash on the floor and watch it dissapear or give it to a noob or whatever. This should be enough to discourage you to login into Runescape, and it is a pretty nice, relaxing feeling to be honest. Any skillers here? What is the reason you do skilling and what are your thoughts on what I just said?

Runescape 26k trick and 76k trick Disabled

2009-10-27T03:59:00.004-04:00

Jagex has publicly announced today that the 76k trick has been officially disabled. Previously, the 26k trick in runescape was also disabled although it was never officially stated or acknowledged - or did they simply lower the drops so badly to the point where you get shitty drops no matter tricking or not? While on one side it's good that they brought it down because people were abusing it, but now legitimate pkers will be suffering from all this with lower drop values.

What is the 26k trick/76k trick in Runescape?

If you don't already know what it is or was, it is a situation in which two players take prearranged turns at killing each other in the scope of getting good drops and making a substantial profit. When you kill someone in a pvp world in runescape, chances are that you will not get exactly what he dropped. For a couple of months between in the first half of 2009, one would get much better drops in terms of value than what the dying player lost. Soon enough people realised that they could take this to their advantage, and make much more money with the 26k trick (for f2p) or 76k trick (for p2p) than they would make with traditional ways like mining, woodcuting, etc.

The trick itself would consist of going in a hotzone and killing your partner who would carry 26k in cash and nothing else, while yourself would be carying (and risking) items worth more than 26k.Usually the more valuable the items that you wore while killing your partner, the better drops you would usually get. The usual profit would be of 70k gp per kill for doing the trick in f2p, meaning that you would get seventhy thousand more gp worth of items on top of the 26k cash that you would also get! So one would expect to get around 96 -100k of items and sometimes more depending on his ep level so long as it would be higher than 10 or so. After the loot was taken then the partners would switch roles, killing eachother back and forth and thus making outstanding profit. *In p2p the trick would work even better and was the same principle except it had to be done with the 76k ammount instead. As of now the 26k trick and more recently, the 76k trick have been disabled, and it is not profitable anymore - you can try it if you want with a trustable but I don't recommend this since you will be wasting time and ep for getting nothing and possibly loosing money.

The Effects on Runescape from Removing the Trick

There are some consequences to what jagex did, good and bad. For one thing I guess is that the economy is more stable, but moreover people won't abuse the trick which caused a big insurgence in goods items and gold in runescape, slightly inflating the prices. Overall I expect overall prices to decrease slightly since people will have to go back to old money making techniques again.

Most importantly, this update will affect pkers, or just general pvp. But did the runescape officials really disable the 26k trick or did they lower the drops on ALL kills? I have myself seen lowered drops, and sometimes ridiculously low drops from worthy kills on free to play worlds. Not only do we pkers have to waste time getting ep up, but now we are getting ripped-off aswell. This ep and drop potential system has really become a burden for pkers.

So anyway, what do you think of all this - have you ever done the 26k trick or 76k trick? Are you happy that it was disabled at last? Or on the other hand, are you an angry pker?

Yet Another Runescape Fansite!

2009-10-25T15:51:00.000-04:00

Dear players of Runescape, if you are reading this then chances are that you are looking for a runescape fansite to keep you entertained and help you spice up your game. Although quite new, Runescape Bits is much more different than the usual fansite you will find - read on to understand why.

For one thing, I notice that a lot of runescape fansites out there are just plain boring. What most do is give you a boring skill guide or quest guide to read it and forget it. Here things are more interesting, we will be taking about exciting stuff like; how to become a great fighter in pvp, how to make pures and where to train them, cool new ways to make money in runescape, grand exchange guides, breaking news, tips to reach your goals faster and stay less time on the game, etc.

While I admit that many runescape fansites do a pretty good job at walking a player through quests and what not, they fail to asses the most important topics in runescape. One of them is how to play less of runescape, how not to stay addicted. Although fun, Runescape can become an addictive and time-wasting game. Spending less time on it is another important matter here - and have yet to find a runescape fansite discussing about this issue.

Spending less time producing gp or goods and more time actually playing the game is a challenge. Although one might be active on runescape quite a bit, a large portion of the time spent is actually on producing goods or training(working), and little of that time is spent on actually playing. This is a reality that affects almost all players in runescape, and this site intends to write about it and come up for solutions for players no matter if it is for or against the rules.

Think about it - how many times did Jagex or other runescape fansites tell you to not play too much of runescape? Exactly. Runescape Bits - made for players and written by players.

About Runescape Bits blog

2009-10-25T03:10:00.000-04:00

Hello and welcome to Runescape Bits, where the subject of runescape will be aborted in a player-friendly style. Here you will find everything from Runescape news, guides, articles, tips & tricks, cheats , money, contests etc.

Runescape Bits is resented to remain player friendly, not Jagex-friendly! Unlike other Runescape fansites, we will present information in a fair and truthful manner wether or not the advice infringes the game's rules or not; however it will be up to you to decide what to do next after reading our guides, news, facts, or tips. Also, if you're enthousiastic about this blog then you can help us by writing an article you wish, or tell a friend/link to us from a site. *Runescape is a game owned by Jagex and is not affiliated with the Runescape Bits blog. Thanks for visiting and happy scaping!