Shadow's Achievements

Throughout my Runescape career, I have done many things that I consider worth noting in some form or fashion. However, I must note that I regrettably had not started this record of my achievements in Runescape before when I had done alot of things I now look back on and remember. And, I will also note that I sadly have abandoned probably even more goals than I have achieved. But, starting on this 26th day of May in the year 2007, all my goals, my achievements, and even the goals that I will most likely end up abandoning shall be recorded on this page.

For a simple overview of my 99's, click here.

Everything

It's been forever since I've added an entry to this. I've decided to write one now as I'm quickly doing a bit of cooking. I'm not going for 99 cooking or anything, but I decided that I would prefer staring at the number 88 over 87. So, anyways, the last time I did an entry was 99 woodcutting. Quite a bit has happened since then.

The most obvious of all is that I have two new 99 skills: thieving and firemaking. Thieving had taken me around two weeks, just before the summer's end. The first week of thieving was semi-slackerish, but I rushed to get done before the summer ended on the second week. After that, I took around two weeks to get from 96 to 99 firemaking. Amazing, isn't it? [/sarcasm]

Unfortunately, I missed screenshotting both 99s, and I didn't even have a party for thieving. I'm never not having a party for a 99 again, though. Too many people got angry at me thinking I didn't tell them about my party or something.

Since the end of the most tediously slow firemaking, I've been going for 99 hunter. It's been slow really. I'm starting to really become a slacker, and it makes me look back on before I quit a year ago. I used to be able to work so much more efficiently, and I'd never really get sidetracked. But, I used less efficient methods. For example, I remember doing coal mining to 77 mining. I have to wonder whether I gained more experience overall back then or now. In other words, is work efficiency or method more significant? It seems a bit like comparing two jobs: one where a person works endlessly for minimum wage or one where a person doesn't try so hard for a more wholesome wage.

Well, it's not like I haven't been working at all. I've spent a good amount of time herbloring and farming. I've been able to get 72 farming and 68 herblore which I don't suppose is too bad. Really, herblore and farming is such an addicting combination. Just traveling around to do farm runs then going off and using harvested herbs in potions.

I had also miscellaneously bought a few bowstrings to string the yew longs (u) that have been sitting around my bank to alch them. By the way, take my word for it...No one buys yew longs (u). I tried to sell those things for 250 each for almost an hour. Anyways, I ended up using the money from high alching the longs to buy myself a gnome scarf. Of course, getting 82 mage was probably more significant. People used to always tell me to go grow a mage level, so I could ice blitz anyways.

It's been too long since I've written anything here. As I think of it, this article seems like a casual summary, like the kind of thing you'd say to a friend you haven't seen in a long time asking you what's happened. But, you know...I think I can say that even though I'm slacking, and my inability to stop slacking bothers my sense of work efficiency, Runescape has been enjoyable for me. It wouldn't be that way if I didn't have so many great friends, though. :)

Posted on 29 Sep 2007 00:52:49 by shadow_files

99 Woodcutting

Yesterday, July 11, 2007, at 10:27 PM EST, I had gotten to 99 woodcutting at the willows east of Lumbridge near where the woodcutting cape is bought. A couple of friends had come along to congratulate me, and it was quite a joyous event although I had screwed up the fluency of it a couple of times including being forced to log out with not word for around 15 minutes by my dad and going the wrong direction to the woodcutting tutor. :P

Now, I think 99 hunter will be my next target.

Posted on 12 Jul 2007 14:20:59 by shadow_files

And the woodcutting draws to an end..

In all this past time between now and the last article, I have simply been chopping away at trees. World 44 had continued to prove itself a faithful community of friends, but I had gone off to teaks on Karamja at some point in search of faster experience. Burning the teaks, I have been able to get around 42k woodcutting experience and 50k firemakinf experience an hour. So, at the time of this article being written, I am around 117k experience points away from 99 woodcutting and about halfway there to 92 firemaking. I plan to get to 13m experience points for woodcutting before today is over, but I will not get 99 woodcutting until the end of the month as I shall wait on a friend, Squirl4377, to catch up with me so that we can get 99 woodcutting at the same time.

Posted on 11 Jul 2007 15:47:01 by shadow_files

And Overview of the Past Two to Three Weeks...

Ok..so, overall, this log of goals and achievements has been kept in the dark about some of my more recent Runescape goals. Well, most of what I'm doing right now started with world 44 Seers Village yews. And, it had started on what I only remember to be the last Monday of this year's May. In general, I could say the way I perceive Runescape and play the game have been warped. Once again, I find myself setting goals and trying to reach them, but it is no longer all about work efficiency. I have found myself swamped into the social action of Runescape which I had once avoided. I find myself chopping away yet deviating form the task to do other things such as Castle Wars. I find that I am no longer able to bear the loneliness of Rimmington yews despite it's promise of higher efficiency.

Well, you could also say I had finally found an actual home world in Runescape, too. World 18 and 12 had been my home worlds of the past, but I could not have claimed to have been actually a part of the communities there. While I had seen the larger portion of people who traversed the worlds frequently, I did not intimately know any of them in all told truth. Even the people who were my Runescape friends were only names on a list. The only ties I had clung to were those of my semi real-life friends whom were the ones who had selected 18 as a home world in the past.

Now, as a result of simply choosing the easy world select, I had found world 44 to be my new home. I have met the community, become a part of it, and made many cherishable Runescape friends. Interestingly enough, I had only come to yews in the first place due to my prior lack of enthusiasm for the game. I had discovered that I was not permitted to play Tears of Guthix for the week due to not meeting the requirement of 1 quest point or 100,000 experience gained that week. This had never occurred for me before.

It just so happened to be that yews were the fastest method to gain 100,000 experience points I knew of. There, I had met many people including Ivanahumpya, a mute player whom I had eventually joined the plan of. His plan had involved him and me cutting yew logs to give to his friend, Wilson, to fletch. Wilson would then split the revenue three ay between each of us. For the most part, I had joined the plan as a promise of giving me reason to play. If I was part of another's plan, I was bound to their plan..I was motivated to try. Another appeal was that I would exit with 99 woodcutting which had contributed to my previous goal of exitting this summer with at least two new 99 sklls.

Only a few days later, in a flurry of events, I had quit Ivan's plan to join the plan of another person which I had almost immediately resigned from due to their getting scammed. I did not rejoin or join any plan at all, though. I had already established a basis to continue going for 99 woodcutting. For now, that is all I really have planned. As I continue to thrive in the community of world 44 Seers Village yews, I near level 99 woodcutting.

Posted on 18 Jun 2007 06:48:51 by shadow_files

An Overview of Past Achievements

It can easily be said that this page is late by around two years. I had done many things in Runescape starting November of 2005 to October of 2006. November 2005 was when I had first became a member in Runescape and November 2007 was when that membership expired. My old computer had also fittingly broke down at around that time. Now, in May 2007, I am once again a member of Runescape. This summer, I am planning to do things even greater than the summer of 2006.

But, Summer 2006 and all the times before that are exactly what this article is about. It was the high time of my Runescape career even if I hope to create a new high time this summer. Before Summer 2006, I had done quite a bit of questing and completed many quests such as Desert Treasure(level 76/77 combat), Recipe fro Disaster(level 80 combat), Legends Quest(level 76/77 combat immediately after Desert Treasure), and Mournings Ends Part 2(around level 82 combat). I had helped alot of people by giving them advice for many different quests, too.

I will also remember the time that I was a level 66 combat or so mage wearing full black mystic no hat, an obsidian set, and a black cavalier. People used to call me good for my combat level when I walked around, or they would mistake me for a pure mage. I did have around 67 magic, though. Magic was my favorite skill at the time, and I trained it before melee. Ironically, I could not wield dragon weapons and I had strength at around 45 despite having 60 defense. I had trained defense only for my obsidian shield. And, I shall remember that when I was around level 30, I had first trained my mage from 1 and learned what a pure was from the lesser demon at the Wizard's Tower. I had made a decision to only train mage for a long time to try to look like a pure, and I had stats that made most people think of me as a pure mage at first. Training defense had changed that, though, but I do not regret my decision.

At some period in my level 60 hood, I had heard that high alchemy was a good way to earn gold. It made me decide to try it out. I had become very fond of fletching and woodcutting at the time, and today they are among my three favorite skills, Magic being the third. I had carried out a plan where I cut the yew logs, crafted the bow strings, and runecrafted the natures all myself. The only I thing I bought were the rune essences. My fletching had soon grown to a level in the early 80s while my magic grew to 78 or so. And, I had obtained my first barrows set, Ahrims. Ahrims became the reason for me to train my defense to 70. I had also, at the time, trained my attack to 60, so I could wield dragon for training my defense. I had trained at Daganoths, and it was humorous, in my opinion, for me, who had been using a lava battlestaff, to be called the "No Dragon Noob".

But, there was one event during the period of high alchemy that had changed my whole perspective on Runescape. On a date I wish I had remembered, I met an amazing player called Paintbrush10 at Seers Village yews. He was level 84 or 85 with a total level in the early 1500s or so at the time. Today, his total level is now in the 1700s with his combat still at around the same level to reflect his sheer radiance in training skills. At yews that day, he was praying, using the prayer "Protect From Melee". But, the part that instantly struck me was that he was praying indefinitely. He had prayed for nearly ten minutes without moving or recharging. My friend at the time, Orochimaru14, had decided to ask him to pray for an hour since he had claimed his prayer did not fall at all. Paint followed accordingly.

But, through the whole event, I had looked him up and noted his high total. He had said I was pretty good for my combat level at the beginning since I was a level 73-76 ish with a total in the low 1300s, but I realized he was way better. More importantly, though, it was the first time the idea of "being good for your combat level" came to me. I had never realized before then that I did have a higher total level than most people my level, and it was because I cherished skill training more than combat training. I did not play Runescape to fight like most people. At that point, I decided that I wanted to become good for my combat level.

Over the summer, I had set my plans to train all my skills to action. I had reached a point where all my skills were level 51 or above. I will always remember that the Runescape summer had started out with me coming back from my trip to Orlando, Florida to discover that construction was released while I was gone. I will always remember that in a challenge with my friend, once again Orochimaru14, I had trained my construction to 50 in around three days. That, admitably, did give me a little sense of pride at the fact that I had been pretty fast in skill training, and it motivated me to know that.

Through the whole summer, I had consistently looked up Paintbrush10 on the highscores. My goal was to become as good for my level as he was for his. You could say he was my Runescape idol though I never said anything to him about it at the time. I kept trying to train my skills faster than he could his to make up for how behind I was. Of course, the first thing I noticed was that he had 99 fletching. Seeing as fletching was one of my favorite skills, I wanted to get even higher fletching experience than he had.

I had launched a plan to become one of the top-ranked fletchers in the game. The idea was that I would buy the yew long materials and resell them as yew longs for profit. My original goal was for me to get on the first page of the fletching highscores, but I had stopped at the rank of 54(97 now due to all the time passed) with 33.4 million fletching experience points. The reason I had stopped was mainly because at a point in the whole plan, I was scammed off of 23k yew longs. It had nearly broken me, alot for the loss of it, but even more so for how careless I was. I still continued after the event, but I did not go as far as I originally wanted to.

Fletching had taken me a total of just under a month, a large portion of the summer. After it, I had spent around three weeks to get 77 mining and 67 smithing in a plan that had an end result of 120,000 steel arrowheads. Later, I had another plan which rewarded me with 85 fishing, 86 cooking, and 22k monkfish. In between everything, I had done many miscellaneous bits of skill training which took up the rest of the summer.

Now, today, I have set new goals for myself, but I am making my goals alot more flexible so as to be more suiting to anything going wrong. I have become alot more tolerant of losses. But, to simply sum up my plans for this summer, I will say that I want all my skills at least above 60 and many others to the 70 mark while getting at least another two 99 skills.

Posted on 26 May 2007 22:58:15 by shadow_files