2007年11月12日星期一

Making Gold with Skills

Although merchanting and investing are fast ways to make Runescape gold, in some cases skills may even be faster. However, getting your skill levels high enough may cost time and money in the long run, whereas merchanting and investing can be done by just about any player. Although this guide was written primarily to help people with less experience in skills, this section will tell you how to best make Runescape gold off your skill levels.

When gathering resources with a gathering skill (such as woodcutting, when you are gathering logs), there’s bound to be other players competing for the same resource. If this is the case, switch worlds or respawn locations if the other players hinder your progress enough.

Woodcutting
We’ll start off with woodcutting. Woodcutting is one of my favorite skills to make cheap runescape gold on, simply because of how much demand there is for logs. Before level 35, train up on normal and oak trees. After level 35, one of the best ways to level up woodcutting is to chop willow trees in Draynor. Although this won’t exactly make you a fortune, selling the willow logs is a good idea. If you’re trying to raise other skills that require the logs, such as fletching, use them for that - the logs aren’t all THAT valuable.

Once you reach level 70 woodcutting, you can begin chopping Yew trees. Although you could already do this at level 60, chopping Yews for gold is highly inefficient at that level. You can choose to keep training on Willow trees until Level 75, though, because Willow trees still yield the most experience at your level.

Level 70 is when the serious gold making begins. For non-members, my favorite place to chop is south of Falador, where there are three respawning trees. There’s also a few in north Varrock and a few at the Edgeville entrance to the Edgeville dungeon. Members have some more choices. You can either chop the Yews in the Seers’ Village, or go west of Catherby and use the many trees there.

Non-members can continue to chop Yew trees until 99. At that level, chopping the trees is efficient enough to make lots of profit - each log can sell for up to 400 gold in today’s market. However, members have Magic logs as another option.

Once members reach woodcutting level 85, they can begin to efficiently chop Magic trees. Remember that cutting Yews results in faster money sometimes, because the Magic trees are often crowded. Try switching servers if you are stuck with a crowd or people. Cut Magic trees at the Mage training area, southwest of the Seers Village, southwest of Lletya, and outside the Sorcerer’s Tower.

To best sell your logs, look at the Buying and Selling section of this guide. For maximum profit in the least amount of time, always sell in bulk of 1k or more, and for the best current price.

Smithing
Steel bars are in high demand in the Runescape market today, so it’s a good idea to smith your own steel bars in order to sell them for a high price. However, instead of mining your own ores for this purpose, which can take quite a long time, buy the iron and coal from individual miners on small worlds for cheaper than the normal market price (I recommend buying at the Falador bank).

Make sure you buy the right proportion of coal and iron. For example, if you wanted to smith 1000 bars, you would need 1000 coal and 2000 iron.
After you smith all the steel bars, sell them for a higher price than you bought the iron and coal for. Use World 1 or World 2 Falador to sell the steel bars the fastest, and don’t forget to keep an eye on the forums as well.

Combining Magic and Smithing
You can combine Magic and Smithing to make gold, too. If your Magic level is high enough to perform the High Alchemy spell, don’t sell your steel bars. Instead, smith them into Steel Plate bodies and perform the High Alchemy spell on the plate bodies to make gold (be sure you have the necessary runes!). This is almost always faster than just selling the steel bars, but watch the market to see how to maximize your profit. Each Steel Plate mail yields 1,200 gold from High Alchemy.

2007年11月7日星期三

What for Olaf's Quest?

As stated on the original quest page high agility is supposed to be an advantage for this quest (not an outright necessity). That was always what we intended, and so that is now how it works rune scape. Hopefully, this will make the quest much less irritating so you can focus on the story and get to the rewards!

The slippery bridge in Olaf's Quest wasn't quite working how we intended, which resulted in a lot of frustration. We never like our content to be frustrating - we prefer it to be challenging (there's a big difference!) - so we've tweaked the calculations that sort out whether you succeed.

Originally, the bridge was designed so that you had a reasonable chance of passing each individual step, which seemed right to us... Unfortunately runescape gold, with 12 steps in a row this all added up to a very annoying part of the quest. We're really sorry for this, and would like to thank all of you for persevering in the face of this mistake and trying to finish the quest anyway. It's a testament to your dedication to the game!

What we've done now is to make your character learn every time he or she slips, so the more times you fall the more likely you are to get past it. We haven't 'nerfed' the quest - high level Agility is still a big advantage and will still really help you cross the bridge much more quickly than runescape players with low level Agility. It's still pretty challenging to get across, but hopefully a lot less frustrating because at least now each time you fail you know you've got a better chance next time you try.

2007年11月5日星期一

Reliving as a noob in Runescape

Today I was trying to get my mage level to 45 by training on the Lesser Demon trapped inside the Wizard's Tower. I had given him over a thousand chaos runes which he never used when I told him to, so instead I just did the work for him and used them to increase his mage level. Many rangers and mages come here to train their range and magic, because it is an effective area to train. However, the thing about that area is that it's multicombat, therefore other players can fight the same monster as you are buy runescape money, so many are bothered by the fact that others are fighting the same monster as them and reducing the amount of experience they earn. People get mad and they begin yelling insults at each other and calling each other noobs because of their magic levels.

My friend's account is only around level 60 and his stats are really, really poor. Overall he must have like 700 skill points before he became a member and before he gave me permission to use his account. Playing on his account, I've come to realize how many immature, noobish players there are in Runescape (although I've always know and believed this, my experiences on his account only strengthen them).While I was there, people began asking what our magic levels were. I really don't like socializing with these kinds of noobs, because more often than not they're just there to show off their arrogance and weak skills (though occasionally, you get someone who just wants to talk and I can fully sympathize with that). Shortly after they all began calling each other noobs. It was ridiculous. People even began to make stupid remarks such as "I have a level 126 main u noob lol".

And the day before that I was training my range by the Moss Giants above Ardounge. Warriors kept complaining that I was taking their monster away and rangers kept calling me a noob because they wore Blue Dragon Hide whereas I was wearing basic leather buy runescape gold. They also made fun of my range level, saying I was weak and noobish. There was even this one idiot who kept saying he could do a 22 with a dragon battle axe, obviously trying to show the world how powerful he was.

This kind of behavior is childish. I'm sick of it and have been for a long time. But I tolerate it, because I know how to handle it. If you don't like what's going on, turn your public chat to friends or better yet, off. You don't have to listen to these morons bicker. If you want to join in, go ahead, there's nothing wrong with that. Just make sure you won't be the one being picked on.

The ironic thing is that although they yelled noob at me, they don't know that I have a much higher leveled account than they do. I never tell anyone that because I myself don't show off unless there's a need to. I don't get runescape gold my pride from making other people feel worthless. And I've also come to learn that no matter how good you are in something, there's always some one else who's better at it, so really there is no need to show off "how good you are", because in the end it only makes you look like a moron.

2007年11月3日星期六

The Basics about RuneScape Guides

Runescape
To cast spells you will need to have the correct runes. Each type of rune contains a different type of power and is used when casting different types of spells, as shown below:
(m) = Members Only
Description
There are a number of ways in which you are able to obtain runes, as shown below:
Make them yourself buying runescape money, through the use of the Runecrafting Skill.Runes may be bought from other runescape players.Runes are often dropped by monsters on their death.Runes can often be found within chests.Runes may be bought from the Rune Shops, in Varrock and Port Sarim.Runes may be bought from the Magic Guild.Runes may be bought from the Mage Arena.Runes may be bought from Ali M.Runes can be stolen/bought from Ape Atoll.

Introduction
Magic is one of the most useful and versatile skills within RuneScape. Once you have learnt to use it properly, you’ll find that it compliments many other skills within the game, whilst also acting as an incredibly powerful tool in its own right.
There are two sides to Magic - Combat, and Non-Combat. The use of Magic and spellcasting in a fight may be vital in gaining the upper hand and ultimately the victory. Non-combat wise, Magic can be used to teleport around the RuneScape world very quickly, used in combination with other skills, or even for making money out of Items you have obtained or made yourself.

Combination Runes
Each combination rune counts as 1 rune for each type of element bound within it. This means that, for example, a Mist Rune counts as 1 Water Rune and 1 Air Rune at the same time, meaning that you could cast Water Strike (Level 5 Magic: 1 Mind, 1 Water, 1 Air to cast) with 1 mist and 1 mind rune.For more information on how to obtain combination runes, please visit the Runecrafting section of the manual.
Casting SpellsClicking on the spell book in your player console brings up the magic menu. This will bring up a screen of all spells available to you within the game. If the picture of a spell is darkened, it means that either you do not have a high enough level to cast it, or you do not have the runes in your inventory to do so. If a spell is lit up, then it means your level is high enough to cast it and you have enough runes in your inventory.
To cast any spell just click on its picture and then click on your desired target, in the main game window. Some spells can only be cast on monster’s and players, whilst others can only be cast on yourself, or items. You may want to experiment to see what targets are valid for each spell.To get more information on a spell, simply move your mouse cursor over its picture.
When you cast combat related spells, there is a chance of you failing. This is dependant on a few factors such as your magical attack bonuses, the magical defence bonuses of your opponent and your magic experience. For Offensive spells, if you fail to hit the opponent, you will still get the ‘Base XP’ which is the experience for casting the spell. If your spell does inflict damage runescape gold for sale, you will be awarded extra Magic experience.
A description of the spell and a list of which runes are required, is shown at the bottom of the window. Each required rune has 2 numbers shown below a picture of it. The first number indicates how many of that rune you have and the second number indicates how many are required, in order to cast the spell.
The numbers will be drawn in red when you do not have enough of those runes, in order to cast a particular spell.
You will find that heavy armour, particularly metallic armour, is very conductive of magic. Mages will often find themselves more effective against a hand to hand fighter in full armour, than other enemies. You will notice enemies in full metal armour will be hit harder by spells and that wearing heavy metal will negatively affect your ability to cast spells successfully.
The recommended equipment for Mages are light robes, which allow magical power to flow through their form freely.
Sometimes spells will fail to work. If a spell fails, you will still gain the base experience from casting the spell and you will still use the runes required to cast it, but you will see a ’splash’ effect on your opponent showing the failure of the spell. The higher level spells are more likely to fail, but as your magic ability improves, you will cast spells successfully more of the time.

Magic Staves
With a staff, you will find you can now use ‘Autocasting’ options. How to set a staff up to autocast is explained below, but it basically means you chose what spell you would like to continually cast. As long as you wield the staff and have the correct amount of runes, you will cast constantly until you stop, the opponent is defeated, or your rune supply runs out.
To equip a spell for quick casting, you will first need to ensure that you are wielding a magic staff.
Click on the sword icon found in the top left of the player control panel and it will bring up a screen, similar to the image on the left.
Click on the Spell Book image in the bottom right, to see which spells can be quick cast with the staff you have.
Now just click on the one you want to select. Make sure that the spell is highlighted, as in the left panel, so that next time you attack you will do so with your magic not your might.
Some staves have other powers as well, for example the staff of fire (shown above) will act effectively as an infinite supply of fire runes for the purpose of casting spells, as long as it is being wielded. Visit the staff shop in Varrock once you are ready to try out your first staff.