Gameplay and getting going

I was training slayer the other day, attacking black demons I got a mith kite shield, as normal I alched it while I was training, this is a thing I have been doing since I have been training slayer, the difference now is that I did not lose an attack turn on the demon I was fighting with my whip, I have used my Godsword on some monsters and alched while using that not losing an attack turn but a whip is so much quicker and a loss was just accepted, it was a real treat to be able to just fight as normal and not miss a turn picking the item up and alching, missing a turn picking up the item and then alching can slow down xp considerably when performed on a regular basis, this in turn reduces speed in levelling and slows down the process of getting better drop monsters, I have always said it is very expensive to pick up coin drops.

I train herblore when I want to, I am 89 at present and would like to get the magic 90, I can make anything herby so no pressure from that just nice to have another number on my stats page out of the 80's, since the engine update that brought about the above ability I have not tested the cleaning process for herbs, before it took so long to clean the herbs that I sold all grimy herbs and bought unfinished potions, this is fine by me at the moment, you get most of the xp adding the secondary ingredient anyway, they cost more but the time saved by not cleaning and putting in a vial can be spent training what I want to train or a good profit making skill, even if they sped the cleaning process to how it used to be I would still buy unfinished.

I was fishing at the Piscatoris fishing colony, looking at the bank I noticed that the banker could be seen through the window, this is just accepted nowadays but I also noticed that he could be seen through the gaps in the planks the hut was built with, this is a small detail and has no effect on playability but it was a real treat to see it, Jagex took the effort to make it look as real as possible, there are many places Jagex have added little extra detail that will probably be missed by most players but this attention to detail is what sets Runescape above all the other MMORPG's.

As with the good points there are also little things that are annoying, things that don't affect the playability to a great extent but still shouldn't be. three that spring to mind are.
1/ Lapalok (and any other slayer master) can offer as a reward runes for slayer dart, I have never seen a slayer dart spell, is there going to be a new spell or do they mean "magic dart" I reported this as a bug when smoking kills came out and last time I checked it was still incorrect.
2/Another thing on the same lines, you all know the slayer gem? yes? no? there is no such thing yet Jagex still mention it, cant remember when I saw it mentioned, maybe when the ring of slaying turned into an enchanted gem when I had used all charges.
3/ The main annoyance is the ability to run away from the Grand Exchange when you select something to buy, I wanted to buy a pot for the missing my mummy quest, a/ I couldn't find a plain pot listed, b/ it took me 4 attempts to highlight a pot of flour to empty to get the pot, I gave up and went to a shop to buy it instead. the run away when selecting something at GE has been a major annoyance for many people for a long time, is it so difficult to fix?

The good points far outweigh the bad points but the bad points get noticed more, Jagex please sort the GE runaway bug.

Thanks for reading this post, my first for a while, sorry it not particularly well written and probably many errors but im a busy bee at the mo, preferring to play than write about it.

I have a friend who has just started playing Runescape after a very long break, she has started training very regularly and is progressing very quickly with combat and skill levels shooting up very quickly.

She has just reached 109 combat and I suggested we did some Kalphite Queening, I briefed her on what to wear and what to take and we went to a lootshare world and trotted off.

I wore full Veracs for the first form, with piety, protect item and mage protect on my auto prayer settings, my friend wore black dragon hide and whip, we ran in and started to kill queenie and she was despatched very quickly, her first form being killed very quickly we both switched to range attack with our cross bows and the second form followed not far behind.

We repeated and yet again we killed her off very quickly, its been a long time since I did a KQ run and I remember it being a struggle each time even with a friend.

I was trying to work out has the KQ been degraded to make her more appealing against the lure of great wealth from the other bosses, the KQ lair was there for us, no one else tried to take our queening world, that would have been unheard of years ago there were often rivalries over KQ territory, finding her all alone and neglected seamed very sad.
Myself a level 137, a level 109 with no experience of KQ'ing despatched her very easily, I remember when I though I would die and indeed my friends and I have died at her pincers, in those days we could pick up each others stuff and give them back.

There was one attempt when we were bombarded with range attacks and we did take some substantial damage on her first form forcing us both to leave before we could finish the bug off, this was scary but I remember that happening a lot of the time before, I have soloed K'ril who can hit 49's and draining prayer, I have teamed Armadyl and Bandos and I am fully aware of the damage they can do, am I just used to the harder bosses and the attack of the queen has dulled in comparison, I can solo the KBD with the leftover sharks after a clue scroll with a poor weapon and my natural unpotted prayer, perhaps I am a lot tougher now but I have been a 126 (Pre summoning) for a long time now.

Its quite sad that the queen of the bosses has been demoted to a mediocre foe after ruling RS for so long, the lure of the d chain has gone with the value of god swords and armour drawing people away, perhaps she has had her time and is due an easier life away from constant attacks or perhaps she is to be used as a training ground for the up and coming warriors to practice their techniques for a team kill, either way she will always hold a special place in my heart as a memory of my early days in Runescape.

Our drops for that session were
20 zammy wine x 2
Addy spear
19 Bloods x 2
Laws x 2
Rune hatchet

I forget the rest but never covered cost on any run.

I just thought I would take the time to write about ignorance on Runescape, its no more than many have experienced but a little bit of thinking and some possible confrontation could have been avoided.

I had a slayer task for Hell Hounds, Hell Hounds are OK for slayer xp but the drops are carp, they mainly drop gold charms so pretty much useless all round, some people kill them for clues but greater demons are better for clues have better charm drops and the odd good normal drop plus their easier to kill.
To get the task over as quickly as possible I decide to take my cannon to Taverly dungeon where I can set it up to kill about 4 or 5 at a time, I went to my usual spot and started cannoning, Hounds were falling all around with the normal gold charm and bones, never needing to pick up either I stayed and ranged the close Hounds and let my cannon do the rest, after a while a player comes along and says "OMFG", then "FFS" followed by "don't you have any consideration for others" I chose to stay quiet because it is not worth arguing, arguing only creates the opportunity for aggression and possibly people saying things that they may regret later, my only sentence had I not remained silent would have been, "I changed world 4 times to find a world with no one here it wont do you any harm to tolerate me until my task is complete or for you to find another world without a cannon".
Why a player comes to a training area and expect others to change the way they train when they arrive is beyond me.

Cash for newbs
I have a newb account that I keep just to get the holiday items, I was playing him the other day to get the Easter event stuff, after I got the emote and the carrot I decided to have a play with it and went to chop some logs, I had spent a few minutes earlier in the year so was 40 wood cutting already.
Chopping away I got to the level for an addy axe and upgraded by selling the logs I had chopped, I went to Draynor Village to chop the willows but was attacked by the mages, I couldn't be bothered to hide at the far end just to chop so I went to the oak trees near Varrock, I used my Addy axe and within a few hours I got high enough to use a rune axe, I sold the Oak logs for max on GE, they sold instantly and sold for more than the willows would have, I then bought a Rune axe and continued to chop, I got to 50 wc and sold all the logs I had, I had 50k, that was 50k on a level 7 combat account not including the money spent on the rune axe, so after 2 to 3 hours I had made 50k on an entry level account.

Many of the begging comments I get after free accounts state they have a level 3 account and only 100gp, after only a few hours of work I had gained 50k, had full steel armour and some other bits and pieces, why do these beggars expect to have a good account when they cant be bothered to train their own (alleged) account for a few minutes.
Money can be made easily just by training a skill and sticking at it, the longer you stick at it the more you will get, choose a skill you like and stick with it and cash will flow.

I will train that account to chop yews when the next holiday event is released or when I'm fed up of not levelling, It did give me an understanding of why skill pures find motivation, It was nice to have a low level account with old holiday items and more cash and higher skill levels than some of the other players, I am not going to train it as a skill pure because I like combat but I will stick at it for now.

I have not been training so much, every now and then I log on do a slayer task or 2 then log off, although I have not been working hard I had acquired about 16m by selling the drops from my tasks.

I have my Santa suit that I had collected from the Christmas event last year and I thought I would buy a Santa Hat to finish it off, I watched the price on GE and the price had dropped to just below 13m and had remained stable for the last month and probably longer, I decide to try and buy at bottom, I left if for a week but no joy so put the price to normal and bought it straight away.

I had my Santa Suit and Santa Hat with blue Samurai hair, didn't quite look the part so I went to Fally to get a cut and colour, white beard and long hair was the order of the day and woot did I look good, I really was Santa at the start of summer, as normal when I skill I wore a ring of life just in case and started to train my summoning dressed as Santa Clause, I just carried on training with no comment from anyone, but I will be wearing it for a bit longer and anticipate a few comments.

Buying when the price was low was a good move financially, It would mean my chance of making a profit when selling later would be increased, the thing is I don't really care if the price drops to 1m, I bought it for fun and I will wear it even if the price shoots up until I have had enough of it.

You don't see many people wearing full Santa in the summer, I also wear chicken feet when I wear my full Armadyl just so I look the part, the fun part of me takes over in Runescape, I have always trained what I want to do, never forced into something to get a cape for the sake of a cape, taking on the kbd in full bronze has some interesting results.

If you play for fun and see Money/levels as a by product then Runescape becomes less of a chore, If you die and lose your armour who cares save up again and buy it back, if you have had it once you can get it again.

A very busy work life has severely limited my Runescape game play time, it has also made me look at Runescape in a totally different light, a chance to think about what is happening to Runescape as an occasional player, all the complaints, the great and not so great updates and people complaining about almost everything new.

Jagex have announced that this will be the year for updating what they already have, as normal there are lots of complaints about it, having looked at the updates so far there is a lot of new content, the improvements to what they already have have all added new content and features to the game.
Their main problem was that over the previous year, removing pking in the wilderness and the various games and content added to compensate we have had a substantial and constant barrage of huge updates for all levels of players free and p2p, we have become so used to a constant stream of new updates that we expect it all the time now, looking back the current updates are on a par with the updates pre pk removal, they have not stopped upgrading RS but returned to a normal level now the RWT problems are under control.

Looking at the Games as a not so regular player has made me think, OK the update wasn't great this week but who cares it is still a great game with tones for me to do, there is enough to do without rushing through an update to keep the masses happy, I don't mind waiting a week or two for an update provided it is an update to add playability or fun not just a rushed ill prepared addition to stop the moaners happy.