Due to the unexpected success of this blog, and the new updates in RS, we are moving from blogger to out own domain name. You can now find us at www.rseconomist.com.
I was also feeling that RS investor didn't accurately describe my blog, so I upgraded that as well. I am now the RS Economist.
The new blog can be found here.
I am still working out the bugs here and should be upgrading the RSS feed over the next few days (but it should work alright as it is). If yours doesn't go automatically, then please click the above link and update in manually.
-Turbo
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
Pot your way to faster leveling – Part 2
Pot your way to faster leveling ? Part 2
Turbo from the RS Investor blog here posting again for the Runescape Blog with my second installment in the series. Today I will focus on some of the lesser known aspects of potting for training. In the first section, I talked about the potions you should be using, and can probably make yourself. Here I will go over some of the ones that you might need help with.
Magic Potions ? Drink Me!
Should you use these while training mage? Absolutely (well, unless you are casting high alch over and over again...). At today's cost of 235gp a sip, these are a bargain as well. They increase your mage by +4, significantly increasing not only the chances that you will hit more often, but also that you will do more damage.
I know that some readers are thinking, hmmm, “My inventory slots are more important than having a potion.” I agree to an extent, but you have to be aware that a potion's effects don't wear off instantly. I wouldn't carry one along to a blue dragon task, but I would sure have a sip every time I banked hides and bones. The stat bonus carries me through the entire time.
Can't make magic potions? I don't know any high level herblorist who would turn down free herblore XP. I certainly wouldn't. Today Lants are 1,163 and potato cactus is 965. That is 2128 per potion or 709gp per dose. Is it worth it for a +4 mage bonus? I think so.
The non-combat uses are also worth mentioning here. At level 70, I trained using teleother to Lumbridge with magic potions. On a crowded server, people beg to be teleported, and it is some of the fastest magic XP in the game. (at 71, you should switch from magic pots to Wizard Mind Bombs though).
Ranging Potions ? Shoot this!
With Pking gone, these have lost the majority of their value, but are still very worthwhile potions. Today they are 431 a dose. Range potions give a 4-13 (10%+3) level boost. At 60 range that will boost you up to nearly 70. Starting with 70 range will get you up to 80. This is a pretty hefty increase, and will significantly decrease your kill times, saving you arrows (darts, knives, cballs, charges), time, and increasing the rate at which you level up.
In conclusion...
It really is worth it to use what ever stat increasing items and tools you can while training. With the potion market being what it is, they are well worth the investment. With both range and magic potions, it is more expensive to buy the ingredients and get assisted, but still not unreasonable, especially if you happen to have a few lants and dwarf weeds sitting in the bank. The seconds for both are about 1k each, and many people will assist you. Just call it out in the GE, and you should get offers.
Stay tuned until next week when I will outline some of the highest potions in the game and some uses for them that you probably haven't even though about.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Life is a Bitch?
The new tipit Times article prompted me to write this post. I had been kicking the idea around for quite some time, but the glaring duality in the newest Times sucked it out of me.
I recently had some t-shirts made up for my RL pizza shop. In the process of developing the design, I came across a shirt with the old phrase, “Life is a Bitch, Then you die”. This is one of the phrases that at first glance sounds pretty true.
Ranting about Runescape has been covered to death. Just look at the rants section of the official forums. Nearly 700k posts, (compared to the compliments of just over 100k). That people complain is not really trying to get across here. You will never satisfy all of the players all of the time.
Looking closer at the actual phrase brings out the contradiction in this line of thinking. We can all agree that life is a bitch some of the time, but is it true all the time? If life really was so bad, wouldn’t dieing be a welcome relief? I assume most of you aren’t searching for the nearest tall bridge or cliff to jump off, so don’t let this overlooked contradiction poison your thinking. It does have a very observable though. The root of that phrase is something along the lines of telling Jagex: “Why bother trying, your updates won’t matter anyway”.
Now, I am sure that most of you readers couldn’t care less about the morale of anyone at Jagex (a few of you might even be actively thinking of ways to screw with it), but really if you are going to complain, then COMPLAIN! Don’t make some lame article that rants about updates, then finished with: “All in all, I can’t wait until the graphics come out, but please don’t continue to improve them”.
First of all, Jagex is out to make a profit. To do that they need to sell subscriptions and advertising, and in order to do that, they need to generate new customers. I am pretty sure they are actually happier when older players leave the game. The older toons are the ones skilled at emergent gaming, who pked well, merchanted well, and the ones who took advantage of every loophole there was. Old Paul in his Ivory Tower doesn’t like it when people don’t play the game the game the way he meant it to be played, and hence Jagex goes out of it’s way to stop it.
Back to the article though. Das ripps on Castle Wars. Well, I miss the point there as well. The goal of the game is to gain combat XP, with the secondary goal of getting some fairly noobish looking Armour. The higher level amours only tell others that you have spent hundreds of hours at Castle Wars, something that others might attach some status to, but I sure don’t. He more players there to kill, the more XP you get per game! The more the merrier, and if you don’t like the terrain, there is always FOG, Bounty Hunter, and Clan Wars.
You don’t need the wisdom of Solomon to write an effective complaint, so please. Take a stand, hold your ground, make a decent argument. Don’t make lame attempts and snide comments like, “is variety not the spice of life?“ Either complain about updates or shut the hell up.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Pot your way to faster leveling - Part I
Hi readers. I want to start by saying thanks for your views, yesterday I had the highest hits in a single day since starting this blog.
Today's focus is on effective training using potions. I am splitting this into 3 parts just because of the length and depth I will need to go into to really feel out the subject. Here we go:
Part I - The basics of using potions to speed up leveling and XP per hour
Any player regardless of how little money they have should, at a minimum, always be using normal Strength and Super Attack potions while training any combat related skill. (I will skip the making of potions, as I assume you already know how, you should be making all of the potions you use though.) Super attack potions are actually cheaper than normal attack potions, so there is no reason to go with normal ones unless you are really broke, then attack mixes are the cheapest thing on the market. This goes for free players as well in the case of strength potions, they are cheap and well worth it.
Super Attack Potions - What they do and why you should use them
These increase your attack by 20% for a 5-19 level increase. For example if you has an attack level of 80, one sip from a Super Attack would boost your attack level to 96. Not bad for 80 gold pieces, especially when you compare it to a slayer mask that only gives a 15% increase but costs nearly a mil. You could buy 12,300 Super Attack doses for the cost of that one mask, but since the bonuses stack, you really should use both while training slayer for a whopping 35% increase in attack.
Strength Potions - Drink this for Strength
Strength potions, or str pots, increase your strength by 12.5% for a 3-12 level increase. A sip of this boosts a strength of 80 to 90. This is especially useful in F2P, where str increases are few and far between. Increased str makes you to hit for higher damage, causing: faster kills, more XP per hour, and increased drop rate per hour (the more you kill the more drops you get).
Barbarian Mixes - Eat your pots
These are one of the greatest underutilized parts of the game. Cost wise they are pretty bad to make from scratch, but they are great to make if you already have the potions, especially if you are fighting monsters that occasionally hit you and do damage. To make a mix, you need a 2 dose potion and roe. You can decant 2-2dose potions using a 4 dose potion on an empty vial. adding the roe to either an attack or strength potion gives you attack mix(2) or strength mix(2) respectively, and turns the potion into food that heals 6 hp (3hp per dose). Roe is easy enoug to fish near the barbarian outpost, they even have a drop box 1 click away at the Barbarian Assault mini game, it is also very cheap, at only 35gp on the GE, so it is well worth buying, unless you want some fishing XP.
In Conclusion
Even if you are only killing a monster that just drops bones, it is worth it to use potions. Bones sell for 90gp. Super Attack and Str mixes sell for 80gp and 100 per dose, and easily last more than 2 kills. I am not recommending you stop training to bank normal bones by any means, but I wanted to illustrate how cheap it is to use potions for training. Some more examples are:
- 1 dose of each gives higher bonuses than an Amulet of Fury. Cost:3.2mil vs 180gp
- At lvl 99 str the bonus is 300% better than bandos chest str bonus costing about 15.1mil less
- At str level of 32 the bonus from a str pot is eqivalent to the bonus from a berserker ring for 1/36000 the price.
Happy Potting!
Reader Survey:
There is a weekly column on a WOW blog about different classes and effective training techniques that I really like and have been thinking of modifying for RS. Are any of you interested in seeing a weekly column of RS pure types? If you are leave a comment.
Today's focus is on effective training using potions. I am splitting this into 3 parts just because of the length and depth I will need to go into to really feel out the subject. Here we go:
Part I - The basics of using potions to speed up leveling and XP per hour
Any player regardless of how little money they have should, at a minimum, always be using normal Strength and Super Attack potions while training any combat related skill. (I will skip the making of potions, as I assume you already know how, you should be making all of the potions you use though.) Super attack potions are actually cheaper than normal attack potions, so there is no reason to go with normal ones unless you are really broke, then attack mixes are the cheapest thing on the market. This goes for free players as well in the case of strength potions, they are cheap and well worth it.
Super Attack Potions - What they do and why you should use them
These increase your attack by 20% for a 5-19 level increase. For example if you has an attack level of 80, one sip from a Super Attack would boost your attack level to 96. Not bad for 80 gold pieces, especially when you compare it to a slayer mask that only gives a 15% increase but costs nearly a mil. You could buy 12,300 Super Attack doses for the cost of that one mask, but since the bonuses stack, you really should use both while training slayer for a whopping 35% increase in attack.
Strength Potions - Drink this for Strength
Strength potions, or str pots, increase your strength by 12.5% for a 3-12 level increase. A sip of this boosts a strength of 80 to 90. This is especially useful in F2P, where str increases are few and far between. Increased str makes you to hit for higher damage, causing: faster kills, more XP per hour, and increased drop rate per hour (the more you kill the more drops you get).
Barbarian Mixes - Eat your pots
These are one of the greatest underutilized parts of the game. Cost wise they are pretty bad to make from scratch, but they are great to make if you already have the potions, especially if you are fighting monsters that occasionally hit you and do damage. To make a mix, you need a 2 dose potion and roe. You can decant 2-2dose potions using a 4 dose potion on an empty vial. adding the roe to either an attack or strength potion gives you attack mix(2) or strength mix(2) respectively, and turns the potion into food that heals 6 hp (3hp per dose). Roe is easy enoug to fish near the barbarian outpost, they even have a drop box 1 click away at the Barbarian Assault mini game, it is also very cheap, at only 35gp on the GE, so it is well worth buying, unless you want some fishing XP.
In Conclusion
Even if you are only killing a monster that just drops bones, it is worth it to use potions. Bones sell for 90gp. Super Attack and Str mixes sell for 80gp and 100 per dose, and easily last more than 2 kills. I am not recommending you stop training to bank normal bones by any means, but I wanted to illustrate how cheap it is to use potions for training. Some more examples are:
- 1 dose of each gives higher bonuses than an Amulet of Fury. Cost:3.2mil vs 180gp
- At lvl 99 str the bonus is 300% better than bandos chest str bonus costing about 15.1mil less
- At str level of 32 the bonus from a str pot is eqivalent to the bonus from a berserker ring for 1/36000 the price.
Happy Potting!
Reader Survey:
There is a weekly column on a WOW blog about different classes and effective training techniques that I really like and have been thinking of modifying for RS. Are any of you interested in seeing a weekly column of RS pure types? If you are leave a comment.
Nothing to do eith MMORPGs, but it does date me
I came across this earlier today, and it literally made my day. I remember when Thriller came out on Friday Night Videos, well before Youtube and the internet. It is well worth passing along.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
A Life of Gratitude...
I am a big fan and avid reader of the Zen Habits blog. Today's blog post really hit a nerve in a good way. It made me thing back to my first days in RS, and some of the people who helped me along the way. Some I don't remember their names, line the girl who saw me wandering around the dwarf mine in bronze pl8 and took the time to make me a set of full iron. At the time, I though it was the coolest thing in the game, and that she was the coolest person for doing it.
Another player Oooorgle really stepped in and helped me out in my training and questing. He used to live in Fally 2 selling hallys. I remember buying my first one from him. I promptly took it to wildy and got pked the next day, and PMed him to buy another. From that point, he helped out a lot, from making me glories form d stones (free enchanting to boot) to general training advice. One of the high lights of my RS time was the guided trip through the Underground Pass. I had no clue about it until Oooorgle told me about Regicide and the hally shop. His cooked rabbits were a life saver on that quest as well. Thanks again for the good times Oooorgle.
I know it is clichet, but the olden days were the best days for RS. Clan chat is really doing a number on the community, but that is a topic for another post. Here is the post I am talking about on Zen Habits: Three Truths to Help You Create a Life of Gratitude, and:
The Zen Habits/RS Investor Gratefulness Challenge (paraphrased and adapted to RS from the Zen Habits Challenge)
Fellow readers of Zen Habits (RS Investor), I’d like to leave you with a challenge today. This is not a theoretical challenge–it’s designed to be quite practical.
Over the 30 days, I would like to challenge you to create your own in game life of gratitude in a way that is meaningful to you, and to begin practicing acts of gratefulness more than you have ever done before.
I’ll be doing it along with you, and so will a lot of other readers. It’s always good to be specific, so here are some ideas… but don’t let these limit you.
* Spend three minutes every morning writing down a few things you are grateful for that day
* Devote 15-20 minutes to your friends list and thinking of it as a gratefulness list. (One tip: think both about who you are grateful for knowing and also how you can show that gratitude)
* Make it a habit to encourage at least one person every day
* Review your finances to make sure they are in order and aligned with your values, basically re-evaluate how much that in game gold really means
* Plan something fun, like a trip to somewhere you’ve never been - There are some really cool forgotten places in RS, like the Fisher Kings castle.
* For one day (or more), say something positive to every person you interact with
The second part of the Zen Habits/RS Investor Gratefulness Challenge is for you to pass on the challenge to others.
If you blog, post on forums, or attend clan events, let others know. I know that there are a few people who helped me a lot who I probably didn't thank enough, but with a bit of practice we can all get better in this area, and hopefully make the game a little bit better place.
ps and a special thanks to Necro Brawler for the use of his pic.
Monday, June 16, 2008
A bit o real life
I have been busy with opening my latest restaurant these days, hence the lack of new content. Here are a few pics I threw together for your visual enjoyment.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Reporting in Clan Chat
Timothy Gold had an interesting post today on his blog: The Chronicles of Runescape. It resonated a lot with me because I have a black mark on my record from being reported in clan chat as well. I have booted people out of my clan's clan chat, but never reported them. Some things just shouldn't be done. In my case I told quite a few people my opinion, that reporting in clan chat is conduct unbecoming of a member.
The fact of the matter is that being in a clan is a privilege. If you have a problem with a member then take it through that route. You will get a much better resolution. Reporting in clan chat should be an instant banning from any clan.
The fact of the matter is that being in a clan is a privilege. If you have a problem with a member then take it through that route. You will get a much better resolution. Reporting in clan chat should be an instant banning from any clan.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Douschebag gold sellers
Here is another site that I have mentioned before, but today they take the cake. The wholesale copied this post (from 2006), and the topic is just comedy. A simple google of the first line brought up the Newbie guide post it was stolen from. Here is the link to the post they made/stole today.
They also stopped comments with a wordpress log in screen that you can't sign up for. I have never used wordpress, so I went to the site and asked about it on the forums there. Anyone have any ideas on how to take them down?
They also stopped comments with a wordpress log in screen that you can't sign up for. I have never used wordpress, so I went to the site and asked about it on the forums there. Anyone have any ideas on how to take them down?
Monday, June 9, 2008
Hey all. I just cut and pasted the following from Vaskor's Runescape Reader's Digest. (As I was doing this I chuckled to myself that I am doing the same thing the content thieves are doing). Please go and flag the following blog : http://runescape-powerleveling.blogspot.com/
They are clearly ripping off content from decent fan sites, and really do deserve to be shut down.
Here is what Vaskor suggests:
"1. Mark this blog as "inappropriate". You will need an account on Blogspot in order to do it. If you don't have one, please, register - it's free. Plus you'll be able to post "non-anonymous" comments to all Blogspot blogs, including the Reader's Digest :-)
Here is where you mark the blog as "inappropriate":
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2. Write a complain to the Blogspot team about that cheating blog. You can start from here.
3. If you are from Sal's, I'd like to ask you to send a note to Salmoneus notifying about the problem. As the content owner, Salmoneus (or someone else from the site management) can file a DMCA notice, starting from here.
That should have a lot of weight. I sent a note to Salmoneus, but I am afraid he might ignore it, as I am not that active on the forum there.
4. If you would like to join the action, let your blog readers know about it as well. Link to this post or copy the steps.
And let's see if it works out. Hopefully we can make an impact there."
They are clearly ripping off content from decent fan sites, and really do deserve to be shut down.
Here is what Vaskor suggests:
"1. Mark this blog as "inappropriate". You will need an account on Blogspot in order to do it. If you don't have one, please, register - it's free. Plus you'll be able to post "non-anonymous" comments to all Blogspot blogs, including the Reader's Digest :-)
Here is where you mark the blog as "inappropriate":
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2. Write a complain to the Blogspot team about that cheating blog. You can start from here.
3. If you are from Sal's, I'd like to ask you to send a note to Salmoneus notifying about the problem. As the content owner, Salmoneus (or someone else from the site management) can file a DMCA notice, starting from here.
That should have a lot of weight. I sent a note to Salmoneus, but I am afraid he might ignore it, as I am not that active on the forum there.
4. If you would like to join the action, let your blog readers know about it as well. Link to this post or copy the steps.
And let's see if it works out. Hopefully we can make an impact there."
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Content thieves
I have been following a blog for a bit. (This one), just because it seemed to be soo much crap. I first though it might be an older player who just quit, the url didn't tip me off at the time, but I guess it should have. gprunescape.com. Wonder what their goal is.
Vaskor wrote today about stealing content on blogs and I though I would chime in as well about these low lifes. grurnescape is just a plain old gold seller, and have that blog to increase their ratings on search engines. On some days they have over 10 posts, and don't even bother to check the content. Lots is from pre-ge and revnant days, and it just makes no sense in today's RS. Does that fool anyone but the search engines?
They are even stealing directly from the RS forums. The sad thing is that on the internet, there isn't much you can do to combat this blatant stealing of content.
Vaskor wrote today about stealing content on blogs and I though I would chime in as well about these low lifes. grurnescape is just a plain old gold seller, and have that blog to increase their ratings on search engines. On some days they have over 10 posts, and don't even bother to check the content. Lots is from pre-ge and revnant days, and it just makes no sense in today's RS. Does that fool anyone but the search engines?
They are even stealing directly from the RS forums. The sad thing is that on the internet, there isn't much you can do to combat this blatant stealing of content.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
The Enchanted Lyre
I had a buddy ask me about these, and though I might throw up a section from an old guide I made on tip.it.
Enchanted Lyres are made using the fletching skill to attach a golden string to an unstrung lyre
Unstrung Lyres are made by cutting a branch from the swaying tree just to the east of Rellekka (see the mini map in my pic, it is the area with many rabbits and Doogle Leaf spawns). Just equip your axe and go chop as many branches as you need. You will get 'branch', use a knife on these to make unstrung lyre, it is almost a musical instrument. Bring a Cammy teletab to speed up the collection process. With the teletab you can collect 27 branches in one trip.
Golden Wool is made by buying golden fleece from Lalli the troll to the east of the rare tree and using the fleece on a spinning wheel to make golden wool. During the quest fleeses are free and you can get as many as you need by talking to Lalli and dropping them, but after the quest you will need to buy them for 1k each. Bring an air staff (your hands will be free this time) and a law or a Cammy teletab here as well to speed up the process. Bring 27,000 gp and you can grab 27 strings in one trip.
Lyres are also a very rare drop from the Fremmenik. If you need some combat XP and have nothing better to do then this is an option for you, but it is an inefficient use of time.
Turbo Tip:
You can cut out some time by using the agility shortcut above the Sinclair Mansion. 48 Agility Required.
Enchanted Lyres are made using the fletching skill to attach a golden string to an unstrung lyre
Unstrung Lyres are made by cutting a branch from the swaying tree just to the east of Rellekka (see the mini map in my pic, it is the area with many rabbits and Doogle Leaf spawns). Just equip your axe and go chop as many branches as you need. You will get 'branch', use a knife on these to make unstrung lyre, it is almost a musical instrument. Bring a Cammy teletab to speed up the collection process. With the teletab you can collect 27 branches in one trip.
Golden Wool is made by buying golden fleece from Lalli the troll to the east of the rare tree and using the fleece on a spinning wheel to make golden wool. During the quest fleeses are free and you can get as many as you need by talking to Lalli and dropping them, but after the quest you will need to buy them for 1k each. Bring an air staff (your hands will be free this time) and a law or a Cammy teletab here as well to speed up the process. Bring 27,000 gp and you can grab 27 strings in one trip.
Lyres are also a very rare drop from the Fremmenik. If you need some combat XP and have nothing better to do then this is an option for you, but it is an inefficient use of time.
Turbo Tip:
You can cut out some time by using the agility shortcut above the Sinclair Mansion. 48 Agility Required.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Cheap Shards Today!
A while ago I found an interesting tip on the Truth Scape forums. I didn't even know there was such a thing as a pouch exchange until then. Checking todays losers in price on the GE, the bunyip pouch came up as having lost 31.5% of its value over the past month. A quick bit of calculation:
Pouch cost: 1,701
# of shards to make: 110
# of shards from pouch exchange: 77 (you get 70% back)
Shard cost: 25
Shard cost when exchanged: 22 (1701gp divided by 77 shards)
It might not look like much, but it is a 12% discount on your shard prices. Over the long haul this is a significant savings for almost no effort.
**D'OH!**
After digging a bit further, you need to be at least 1 level over the required level to make the pouch you are exchanging, so not a lot of people will be able to exchange bunyips. It does look like this holds true for most other pouches though.
A new record
Hey all. Sorry for the recent dearth of posts. I have been running like a mad man trying to get a few more investors on board for my next RL project. Today's post is just a quick one about a new farming personal record I got today. I didn't even think it was possible, but I got 16 toadflax from one patch this morning!
I wish I had been using snapdragons.
I wish I had been using snapdragons.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Sell your high level herbs? Yes you should.
I mentioned a while back that you should sell the herbs you can't use and use the GP form those sales to buy herbs you can use. I still think that advice is pretty good, although others don't quite see eye to eye with me on that point. I commented on Marlaine's blog about it, and though I would expand on it here.
Unids made it far more economically reasonable to sell your higher herbs, because you could buy unids rannars and above for 2k each then use what you needed and the pots paid for the herbs. Higher levels would buy the higher herbs for more, and you could continue to train endlessly
making money. Herb prices were also far less liquid than they are now, and the demand for potions much greater.
Why sell the high level herbs you can't use? They are over priced. Bottom line. They can only go down from here. Herblore is such a money loser at this point that people are giving up training it in droves. Go check the high scores. There is far less movement on it relative to pre-ge herblore, or to the other skills. This was an unintended consequence of a combination of 4 things:
1. The Grand Exchange
2. No more UNIDS
3. Easy price manipulation on the GE
4. The end of PKing
#1 and 2 are easy to understand. No need to keep things simple with 1k or 2k herbs. They are actually sold at a 'market price' now. #3 is a bit harder, but anyone with a few mil can corner most of the potion markets easily. Just continue to buy. There are not that many Torstols on the market, so if you constantly buy them all, you can sit on them and only sell for max, driving up the price. Done with 2 people it is even more efficient. One sells at max, one buys at mid +1gp, and he buys them all. Then they switch positions the next day. This was done last week by a group of players with over 700mil between them. They bought up every single p pot all week.
I have inadvertently done it with super restore pots. At any one time there are only 350-400 of them on the market (try it for yourself, only takes about 3mil). If you don't have 3mil, buy up 28-3 dose pots at median, combine and sell the 4 dose at max. Do this 15 times, and you will not only make money, but also see that what I am saying is true.
All that aside though, I believe that Jagex did not intend for herblore to be such an expensive skill to raise. That being said it is due for an update. Some mini-game, or an easier way to train or get herbs. Nothing in the neighborhood of nerfing the skill, no need for that at all, but something to correct what they broke in the process of creating the GE and eliminating PKing. Just look at RC. They keep adding tools and options to make that training go faster, mainly because it was slow and tedious to train.
If and when that update comes, the bottom will fall out of the herb market, and prices will be brought back in line.
Unids made it far more economically reasonable to sell your higher herbs, because you could buy unids rannars and above for 2k each then use what you needed and the pots paid for the herbs. Higher levels would buy the higher herbs for more, and you could continue to train endlessly
making money. Herb prices were also far less liquid than they are now, and the demand for potions much greater.
Why sell the high level herbs you can't use? They are over priced. Bottom line. They can only go down from here. Herblore is such a money loser at this point that people are giving up training it in droves. Go check the high scores. There is far less movement on it relative to pre-ge herblore, or to the other skills. This was an unintended consequence of a combination of 4 things:
1. The Grand Exchange
2. No more UNIDS
3. Easy price manipulation on the GE
4. The end of PKing
#1 and 2 are easy to understand. No need to keep things simple with 1k or 2k herbs. They are actually sold at a 'market price' now. #3 is a bit harder, but anyone with a few mil can corner most of the potion markets easily. Just continue to buy. There are not that many Torstols on the market, so if you constantly buy them all, you can sit on them and only sell for max, driving up the price. Done with 2 people it is even more efficient. One sells at max, one buys at mid +1gp, and he buys them all. Then they switch positions the next day. This was done last week by a group of players with over 700mil between them. They bought up every single p pot all week.
I have inadvertently done it with super restore pots. At any one time there are only 350-400 of them on the market (try it for yourself, only takes about 3mil). If you don't have 3mil, buy up 28-3 dose pots at median, combine and sell the 4 dose at max. Do this 15 times, and you will not only make money, but also see that what I am saying is true.
All that aside though, I believe that Jagex did not intend for herblore to be such an expensive skill to raise. That being said it is due for an update. Some mini-game, or an easier way to train or get herbs. Nothing in the neighborhood of nerfing the skill, no need for that at all, but something to correct what they broke in the process of creating the GE and eliminating PKing. Just look at RC. They keep adding tools and options to make that training go faster, mainly because it was slow and tedious to train.
If and when that update comes, the bottom will fall out of the herb market, and prices will be brought back in line.
Prayer Potions
If you have them, start selling while they are high. Prayer pots are up almost 15% this month, and are over priced. Snapdragon seeds and super restores when through the same curve last month, and started trending down over the last 4-5 days, so P pots should be soon to follow.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Tiaras, tiaras, tiaras, tiaras, and more tiaras.
Looking back over my posts, I can see that the runecrafting ones have a grand total of zero comments, so I will assume they weren't that popular. This one will be the last for a bit. I was browsing the prices on the GE and the talismans kept coming up, so I searched talisman. Body talismans are about the same price as air talismans.
Now that bumps up the best low level rc XP. You can abyss it or go to the body alter with these (they are about the same distance from Edge bank).
For below 50s: 2 pouches 13 tiaras, 13 talismans and 1 rune ess.
Total XP: 563 per trip
Now that is not bad RC XP at all, it is the best in f2p, and the best for below 75 on members. In order to get that without making tiaras, you would need to be at least 75 RC, using all 4 pouches, and making blood runes.
(With or without 62 summoning, you still need 75 RC).
Now that bumps up the best low level rc XP. You can abyss it or go to the body alter with these (they are about the same distance from Edge bank).
For below 50s: 2 pouches 13 tiaras, 13 talismans and 1 rune ess.
Total XP: 563 per trip
Now that is not bad RC XP at all, it is the best in f2p, and the best for below 75 on members. In order to get that without making tiaras, you would need to be at least 75 RC, using all 4 pouches, and making blood runes.
(With or without 62 summoning, you still need 75 RC).
Friday, May 16, 2008
Hot Keys
A while back I took a few month break from Runescape. During that time there was a pretty cool update I had no clue about until last week when I was playing and accidentally hit the F12 key, and my interface jumped to the song list. That is how I learned about hot keys.
I asked some of my buddies in game about them and surprisingly no one really seemed to use, or even care bout them. After a bit of digging, I found the Game Engine Update from June 29, 2007. There is nothing about it in the KB either, and that is the first place I searched.
Here they are:
Esc - Inventory
F1 - Combat options
F2 - Your statistics
F3 - Quest Journal
F4 - Equipped interface
F5 - Prayer
F6 - Spellbook
F8 - Friends list
F9 - Ignore list
F10 - Options interface
F11 - Emotes
F12 - Music Player
Although some of those hot keys are useless, (who needs to open up the music player quickly?) F1, F4, and F5 make game play much faster. I used F1 to get through that first fight in 'Legacy of Seergaze' recently, and it made things quite a bit easier. Although I haven't tried it, I am sure it will help speed things up when trying to kill Jad in the fight caves.
Do you use the hot keys?
Monday, May 12, 2008
Rune Mysteries Part II
I have been chatting up my air talisman low cost RC experience, and one of my clan mates pointed out that it really wasn't so hit after all. I will give him the point that at his level, it is actually slower than crafting runes with all the available additions he has access to, so I though I would quantify myself a bit more and give a numerical break down.
First, you lose money crafting air tiaras at any level, so you are buying XP. Why would this be a viable option when you can craft runes and have something for your work? Well... you might be like me and really not like RC, and are only looking for XP at any price, or you might have a goal (or quest req) that you want regardless of the cost. If you don't want to lose money then craft airs until you can do double cosmics.
One other thing, I don't have RC gloves, so I will leave them out.
When crafting tiaras, you really should bring your pouches filled with ess. I carry 10 tiaras, 10 talismans, 3 pouches, and 6 rune ess. (I wear one of the tiaras if you were wondering why that ads up to 29 items). One trip gets me 250 XP from tiaras and 120 from making air runes for a total of 330 a trip.
This is the fastest RC XP in the game not including the abyss. Fairy rings to the nature alter do come close, and are actually faster if you have 62 summoning though.
Now if you are using the abyss for example, at level 44 RC you can only get 315 XP per trip, with 2 pouches and 26 ess. You need to hit 50 to be able to use that third pouch to make abyss RCing beat air tiaras.
With 25-49 RC, making air tiaras would look like this: 2 pouches, 13 tiaras, 13 talismans and a rune ess. You would get 325xp from tiaras, and 50xp form making the runes, for a total of 375.
In my book that is still pretty good, but I have to concede the point if you have at least 77 RC, and 62 summoning, you can blow those numbers away with 661.5 XP per trip to the blood alter.
First, you lose money crafting air tiaras at any level, so you are buying XP. Why would this be a viable option when you can craft runes and have something for your work? Well... you might be like me and really not like RC, and are only looking for XP at any price, or you might have a goal (or quest req) that you want regardless of the cost. If you don't want to lose money then craft airs until you can do double cosmics.
One other thing, I don't have RC gloves, so I will leave them out.
When crafting tiaras, you really should bring your pouches filled with ess. I carry 10 tiaras, 10 talismans, 3 pouches, and 6 rune ess. (I wear one of the tiaras if you were wondering why that ads up to 29 items). One trip gets me 250 XP from tiaras and 120 from making air runes for a total of 330 a trip.
This is the fastest RC XP in the game not including the abyss. Fairy rings to the nature alter do come close, and are actually faster if you have 62 summoning though.
Now if you are using the abyss for example, at level 44 RC you can only get 315 XP per trip, with 2 pouches and 26 ess. You need to hit 50 to be able to use that third pouch to make abyss RCing beat air tiaras.
With 25-49 RC, making air tiaras would look like this: 2 pouches, 13 tiaras, 13 talismans and a rune ess. You would get 325xp from tiaras, and 50xp form making the runes, for a total of 375.
In my book that is still pretty good, but I have to concede the point if you have at least 77 RC, and 62 summoning, you can blow those numbers away with 661.5 XP per trip to the blood alter.
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