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The Skull Scepter, also known as the Skull Sceptre, is a very valuable item in Runescape. It allows you to teleport to Barbarian Village five times, and many people do not have it! Here’s how to get the Skull Scepter!

Create an Account in RuneScape if you do not already have one.
Train your account to at least a combat level of 60. You must be able to kill level 75 ankous.
Right Skull Half
Stock up on food. You will need it unless you are a very High level player. (Combat Level 110+)
Go to Barbarian Village.
Look at the center of the Village. There will be a hole there.
Click on the hole and you character will walk to it and climb down. You will come to a dark cave with a pair of doors and a portal at the South East corner. Welcome to the Stronghold of Security!
Click on the first door and you will pass through. The second door though, will ask you a question regarding Player Security.
Answer the Question correctly to pass through. If you get it wrong, it will keep asking you questions until you get one right. There will be doors like these everywhere in the Stronghold of Security.
Go down until you see another door. Do not pass through this door.
Look for the pair of doors to the right of your character (or left if your character is facing South).
Go through the doors. You will see some level 12 minotaurs. Kill them until you get the Right Skull Half.
Bottom of Scepter
Go back to the start and use the portal there if you can use it. If not, follow the instructions below.
Go through the Doors to the North.
Walk to the other side of the room you come into. Go through those doors.
Walk North East until you see more doors. Go through those doors.
Walk to the Southern Doors. Go through them. You will come to the treasure room. If you search the Gift of Peace at the center, you will receive 2,000 coins and the ability to do the Flap emote.
Go down the ladder on the West side of the room. You will come to the second level of the Stronghold of Security. There will be another portal in the South West Corner.
Go through the doors on the West side of the room.
Go south, but do not go through the doors. There will be Flesh Crawlers there.
Kill Flesh Crawlers until they drop the Bottom of Scepter.
Top of Scepter
Go back to the portal and use it if you can use it. If not, follow these instructions.
Go through the North West doors.
Walk West until you see another pair of doors. Go through them.
Walk West again after you go through the previous doors until you see more doors. Go through those doors.
Keep Walking West until you come to a room with zombies.
Start Walking South. Keep Following the path until you find a pair of doors. Go through them.
Go through the doors to your Right. This will take you to the Treasure Room on the Second Level.
Search the Grain of Plenty at the center of the room if you would like 3,000 coins and the Slap Head emote.
Go down the ladder in the South West corner. This will take you to level three of the Stronghold of Security. You will arrive in a green room with a portal in the North West corner.
Walk through the doors to the North.
Go through the doors to your immediate Left after that. This will take you to a room full of Catablepons and Giant Spiders.
Walk to the South of the room. The Catablepons will be there. Kill Catablepons until they drop the Top of Scepter. The Catablepons will use Weakening spells on you. You might want to bring Strength Potions.
Left Skull Half
Go back to the start of Floor Three and use the portal if you can use it. If not, read the following steps.
Go through the doors to the East.
Go through the doors to the immediate North, not the North East ones.
Walk through the doors to the North West of the room you come into. Go through the pair of doors right after the pair you just went through.
Follow the path and go into the Treasure room of Floor Three.
Search the Box of Health at the center if you would like 5,000 coins and the Idea emote.
Go down the ladder at the North East Corner. This will take you to the Fourth and final floor of the Stronghold of Security. The portal is at the South East corner of the room.
Go through the North doors and walk North West until the first pair of doors you see. Go through those doors. There will be level 75 Ankous waiting for you.
Kill Ankous until they drop the Left Skull Half.
Making The Skull Scepter
Take the Right Skull Half and the Left Skull Half and use them on each other. This will create the Strange Skull.
Take the Bottom of Scepter and the Top of Scepter you got from the Flesh Crawlers and use them on each other. This will create the Runed Scepter.
Take the Strange Skull and the Runed Scepter and use them on each other. Congratulations! You have gotten the Skull Scepter!

Deposit your peices of the Scepter in the bank after you get them. That way, in case you die, you won’t have to start over from scratch.
Restock on food when you run out of food killing monsters.
On the First level in the Starting room, there will be a Dead Explorer in the South part of the room. Search the Dead explorer and you will find the Stronghold Notes. This is a book that tells about the Stronghold of Security.
You might want to bring Strength Potions with you on the Catablepon part, as they use Weakening spells, which lower your strength level.
To open the Gift of Peace,Grain of Plenty,and Box of Health,you need to set recovery questions.
If you have been spending a long time to get the sceptre and you want to keep the sceptre. Then i suggest you don’t press the invoke option unless you want to teleport to barbarian village. You can teleport to barbarian village 5 times. To check how much more times you can teleport click the divine option.

Do not bring High Value items with you while getting the Skull Scepter. You might die and lose your items! (Examples of High Value Items: Trimmed Armor, Partyhats, Santa Hats etc.) You can bring armor that is 200,000 coins or below though. If you do die. Try to get there as fast as possible, due to the gravestone update. If you wish: you might want to upgrade your gravestone to the best one as possible.

ver wanted to get rich in runescape but couldn’t figure it out?
You’ll walk around runescape seeing many people trading items for load of money, how do they get this money? Are they using cheats?

More than likely not, if you need to ask how people get so much money, then you obviously don’t know the common “cheats” that can be performed to get it.

There are no “cheats” in runescape, however there are easy ways to make a lot of money that people just don’t know about because they don’t know where to look.

This might suprise you, but getting rich is nowhere near as difficult as you think it is. For example, I can make a few million a day easily and you can too. It will take you a while to get yourself to that kind of level, but with practice and the knowledge that I can give you, you’ll be there in no time. I’ve revealed a few money making “cheats” throughout this article to get you started, the rest are at my website.

Two things that will definately help you on your quest to becomming a millionnaire is this, don’t waste your time begging and if it sounds too good to be true it probably is, i.e. someone is trying to scam you, so just walk away.

Most of the big time money making methods are only available to paying members of runescape.

However, on my website I discuss loads of amazing methods which also work for free players.

For example, do you know how to craft air runes? Most people do, however once you reach a certain level, you will make more runes per essence.
If you had 10 rune essence, at level 1 you can make only 10 air runes, but did you know that once you reach a certain level, you can make 100 air runes from just 10 rune essence?

And all you had to do to get there was level up enough. That means you’ll be multiplying your profits by 10, read that again, you’ve just multiplied your profits by 10.

That’s just one simple little runescape “cheat” that I can share with you. There’s many MANY more.

Here’s another one, as you know, the more you fish, the more your level goes up, but it also means that you will catch fish quicker.

Have you bee. selling raw fish? STOP IMMEDIATELY, cook the fish and sell them for a MUCH bigger profit, again, a simple little “cheat” that will help you sky rocket your profits. You may burn quite a few at first, but the more you practise the less you’ll burn and the higher your profits soar.

So for now, forget combat, yep you heard me, forget combat. Combat doesn’t bring you nearly as much money as a free player as making the most of your skills will. Combat is greta and all, but if you haven’t got the money to buy you that next wicked cool weapon, then whats the point?

Yes grinding out the levels to actually GET to where you can make a ton of money is a little teadious, but just think of how much you could be making.

I wish you all the best in making money in runescape and hope to see you at my website soon for even more tips.

What you need: 100 or more feathers (can be done with less but they’re cheap so why not play it safe?), a knife, an axe for chopping trees, a chisel and 6-10 wolf bones. You can gain wolf bones from level 64 wolves that are near the quest giver, but if you’re lower level you might consider spending around 4000 gold to buy them from the exchange.
Skill Requirements: 30 cooking, 30 ranged and 5 fletching
The Quest Reward: 2 quest points, 262 fletching xp, 1470 cooking xp, 735 ranged xp and the ability to make ogre arrows and wield them with the ogre bow.

This quest is started by talking to Rantz, an ogre located in an area called Feldip Hills, southeast of Yanille. Look for the quest marker on the map. You can get there easily by using a ring of dueling to teleport to Castle Wars arena then walking southeast (follow the impassable southern wall for a while and turn south when you’re passing Gu’tanoth). Rantz’s first task for you is to make some ogre arrows, specifically a set of six. You will want to make more for the hunting of a big chompy bird later. The only special item you need here is the Achey tree, which can be found just south of Rantz and more southwest around the swamp. The swamp is also a good place for higher levels to gather wolf bones free.

Once you’ve collected about 6 logs from Achey trees, carve them with your knife into ogre arrow shafts. Flight the arrow shafts by combining them with feathers, then use the chisel on wolf bones to make the arrowheads. Finally, combine the flighted shafts with the arrowheads (right click the arrow selection and choose make all to speed thngs up).

When you’ve got your arrows, give them to Rantz and he will tell you that you now need fat toadies. Listen to everything he has to say (click all the questions). When you’ve heard it out, go north into the cave and talk to his children. They’ll tell you they had an ogre bellows that they aren’t allowed to play with any more. It’s in the chest to the northwest. Choose unlock to remove the rocks from the top and snag the bellows. Now head back to the swamp.

Try to use the bellows on a frog and it’ll tell you to try some denser air. Use the bellows on the swamp bubbles (gross) and then try the frogs again. They’ll blow up. You’ll be allowed to catch three of them at once. Return to Rantz and ask him where to put the frogs, and he’ll point to the south. Go to where the marker is flashing and place a frog. Run away and talk to Rantz and let him know you placed the bait, then stay back. He’ll shoot at the bird when it comes. When he misses, offer to give it a go. Equip your bow and arrows and head south and place the bait again then scoot a full screen away. You can adjust the camera to see the bird at long range and lay in on him. You should have the opportunity to get a few shots off. Try using rapid fire or accurate shots. If you need to try more than two times, head back to the swamp and get more toads.

When you’ve finally got the meat, your cooking skill will come into play. Talk to Rantz again to find out what seasoning he would like. He’ll tell you to ask his boys what they’d want as well. The vegetables are in the following locations: Onion, Doogle Leaf and Tomato are west of the swamp. The onions come from the ground and a tomato can be found on the second stool from the swamp. Cabbage and Potato are both to be found southeast of Rantz. Equa Leaves are southeast of Rantz as well, but on a peninsula. When you’ve got all the ingredients, head back to the spit and cook the Big Chompy Bird meal. Talk to Rantz to wrap things up.

An amazing guide on the new pvp worlds just released about two weeks ago. This guide will help many new players wanting to be good at player versus player (pvp) combat. I hope it is very succesfull.

“Creating The Ultimate F2p And P2p Str Hybrids
How to dominate in the new pvp worlds….

Introduction: Your on your main account. You’re an average player with full rune and a rune scimitar. Suddenly out of nowhere lower level in monk robes approaches you and says, Hey want to fight? “Sure” you say. Lol you think to yourself this will be a piece of cake. He then fire blasts you and hit’s a 16, then another 16. Wow you think to yourself, not bad… You then take your armor off to fight him. He pulls out a maple bow and starts ranging you, consistently hitting numbers on you. “Omg” you think to your self he’s good. Then your down to about 20 hp, His bow lifts one more time and he quickly pulls out a rune 2-hander…You attempt to eat a lobster…. 21! K0. You add this guy and say, “Wow how are you so good?” Well he says Im a pure lol.

That’s one of most f2pers first encounters with a pure. If you want to make a pure or are interested in f2p pures read on buddy lol. In this guide you will learn how to make this pure including where to train, how to pk, and equipment you should wear. (Yes the intro was inspired by Str J00s ultimate hybrid guide) This guide is designed on dominating in the new pvp worlds. ***Skip down to the p2p section if you don’t want to read the f2p part***

Table of contents.

1) A back-round on pures.

2) Where to start your pure off/names.

3) Money making in f2p. :S

4) Places to train all of your stats.

5) More money making

6) Pking supplies

7) How to pk on your pure

1) A background on pures: Pures are players designed to dominate in the pking world. They always have 1 defense. They have low defense along with high attack, str, mage, range, and fairly high prayer. The idea of a pure was first considered in runescape classic and I guess the idea stuck. Runescape 2 pures were born.

2) How to start your pure/names: Some people think the most important part of a pure is its name. You might want to consider a name with no numbers. Something intimidating like the famous range/2her “Most Dreaded” now that’s an intimidating name. After tutorial island Spend your lamps on either range or mage. You should be 9 range or mage just use the tutors in lumby for the other stat you did not spend the lamps on.

3) How to make some decent starting off cash in f2p: Firstly its essential to do both the Stronghold of Security and the Stronghold Of Player Safety for 20k cash. Then go to the Grand exchange and buy about 500 iron arrows, Full iron, Iron, Steel, Mith , and addy scimmy. Spend the rest of the money on trout. Don’t use the trout in the beginning of your training use other food like herring and pike(junk fish).

4) Where to train the stats: Ok first we will start off with our strength training. Get about 10 atk and str and the chickens and collect all of the feathers. Then go to the gnomeceptor cows or near lumbridge or the regular cows and train to 20 atk and then 20 str.

Bank all of the cow hides/bones to make some decent cash for later in the game. Then go to the monks in Edgeville

and train to about 30 atk and 30 str. Then head on down to the minatores in the Stronghold Of Security and train to 40 atk and str. Now your done training your attack. Rune scimmy time. Sell all of the other scimmys. Then train to about 50 str at the minatores. Head on

down to the hill giants (use a brass key) and get 60 str here and bank all of the big bones. Finally to finish off your strength training go down to the stronghold of security again (yea I know boring…) and go the flesh crawlers and train to 70 str. (flesh crawler area)

Good job your done training your strength. Take a break because the next step is range lol. Ok hopefully you have taken a break from training and now its time to train range.

Bring all of bows in your inventory and head over to the chickens in lumbridge. Again bank all of the feathers and do this untill 10 range. Head over to gnomeceptor cows and train to 20 range and bank hides and bones. Train to 30 range at minatores or the monks. Then go to barbarian village and range barbarians behind the tables untill 40 range. Congratz buy some d hide chaps and vamps. Now head to the hill giants and safe-spot range them untill 60 range. ). Finally to finish off your range training safe spot the Ankou in the stronghold of security untill 70 range. Ask a high lvl if you don’t know where the Ankou safe spot is. Congratz, all that’s left is mage training now (finally). Start off with low lvl mage spells untill you can cast curse. Curse the zammy mage in Varrok untill 32 mage. Fire bolt (semi cheap) skeletons in Varrok sewers untill you can perform Camelot teleport. Cammy teleport untill 55 mage. High alch steel plates or anything else that’s alright in f2p untill 59/60 mage and your hybrid training is complete!

5) More money making: Now comes the time in every pures life where they will have to make about 400-500k and doing it in f2p is pretty hard so take your time and don’t get frustrated. For skilling I suggest cutting yews in edgeville for woodcutting. If your fishing fish lobs in karajama and tele to falador. For mining I suggest mining iron untill you can mine coal, coal untill you have enough money, and if your high enough mine mith, addy , or rune. If you don’t feel like skilling then telegrab zammy wines west of edgeville (you have to hop the wildy ditch) You can also kill hill giants for big bones and limp roots. You can also try merchanting if you have the patients. Well that’s pretty much the way you should make money.

6) Pking supplies: The supplies you will need for pking are as follows— About 500 lobsters (got to have a lot of these), About 50 str pots (3), 20 sets of monk robe bottoms and wizzy hats/tops, 20 Power amulets and magic amulets, Runes for fire blast ( you don’t need a lot fire blast or bind is (only for def noobs), Addy arrows, Maple short bows, and rune 2h and scimmys

7) How to player kill!!: Well your either team pking or solo pking pick one lol.

How to pk in a team: All death dot somewhere like Varrok wilderness or maybe barbarian village (everyone stands in one spot to make it look like one person) and wait for somebody not in your clan and everyone piles that one person. Make sure to bring bind runes in a clan they can help a lot. Attack them with your rune scimmy if there far away use the maple short bow (no 2h needed here )

Solo pking : This is simple attack anyone that you choose. If fighting a pure start out with attacking them with range and wearing them down. When there health is about half left put on ultimate strength( when are down to ¼ health here is what you do, AS SOON AS THE BOW LIFTS TO FIRE AN ARROW, CLICK ON YOUR RUNE 2H THEN CLICK ON THERE NAME. This should effect in a super fast deadly combo. This will hopefully K0 them-If not then take your maple short bow out and try again. If your fighting a def noob start out with 3-4 fire blasts and ask them to fight no arm. If they don’t take if off there screwed lol so they will probably take it off. If they don’t keep fire blasting them. When they do take off the armor use your maple short bow and k0 them with your 2h,simple as that. I recommend NOT using protect item with your 2h because your loot will be horrible. Always atk people with good stuff also and make sure both of your

are skulled. Some people might not get prayer this is fine.

+ = KO (This player is pkndemon)

“NOTE”—– When and if you consider getting say 80 str and 80 range, make sure to keep training range on ankou, and str on flesh crawlers. You don’t need to get mage any higher. You may want to consider making pk vids if your good enough. If you ever run out of cash just make about 300-500k again and then go pking. Don’t get 50k and decide to blow it all, that’s just a waste. Just get the 300-500k then go pking. You may also want to get 44 prayer if you get these high levels. The protection prayers can help after a fight just flick the protection from melee/range on. The eagle eye prayer helps hit through rune A LOT better then normal. Incredible reflexes is also good.

P2p Section

Do you want more own-age and great loot? Then you have to go p2p it pretty much owns.

Into to p2p: Your on your main account pking in edgeville to take a break of killing green drags for your dragon legs and such. Out of nowhere a lvl 74 in Ghostly and a Gnome hat ice blitz’s you and your frozen instantly. He pulls out a magic short bow and is ranging you hitting very near the 20s on every hit and your constantly trying to get away and eat at the same time. Your blitzed again and this time your on low hp. He pulls out a dragon dagger(p++) and specs you, 26-23 and you fall to the ground, cursing yourself for ever coming here in the first place.

That is a mains first encounter with a p2p str hybrid. They take MUCH longer to train but are worth it in the long run and they are loads of fun to pk on.

Goal stats: 80 range, 82 mage,80-85 str, 52 prayer, 60-70 atk

You should already have all of the stats you got in f2p (40 atk, 60-70 str, 60-70 range, and 59/60ish mage).

The first skill I suggest training is range. The only reason I say this is because it is a great hp skill and it takes really long to level so you might want to get that one out of the way. Alright so if your 60 range go to the rock crabs and use bronze knives to get to 65 range.

Then go to the Ankou in the stronghold of security and train to 70 range. Alright so after that do the waterfall quest. Train on the fire giants inside the tomb and get to 75 range. Then for the last boring part go to the blue dragons in taverly dungeon and range them to 80 range. This should get you about 3-4m coins which is a lot of help in this pure. A suggestion I have for the blue drags is to get a house in taverly (10 construction) and use a tele tab to your house and go range in the dungeon then tele to fally and bank-repeat. Do animal magnetism quest.

Mage: This is probably the most expensive stat you will ever train in your pure life. From 55-82 you must alch. Yea that’s right many hours of alching and standing around. It can get very boring but its worth it so just please keep at it. Alch yew longbows (about 1.5k and then buy more) You should have 82 mage in about a month maybe less. Then do desert treasure and all of the requirements. Try out pking with blitz and range if you would like because the last step is coming up.

Strength: ownage and is unstoppable with a dds spec at 80+ str. So if you are still 60 str train to 70 str back at the rock crabs. After getting 70 str. Then do lost city and train to 59 atk, I repeat 59 atk. Then do all of the monkey madness requirements and that will get you 60 atk. Then you can do monkey madness. DO NOT TAKE THE EXTRA EXP AT THE THEN OF THE QUEST, IT WILL GET YOU DEFENSE. Then after this do the horror from the deep quest for a zammy book which you can get another one from the lighthouse if you die. Then start creature of Frankenstein quest and get to the cave with the experiments.

(thank you tip.it) Train here to 80 strength. Training strength is a lot easier then training range and mage. Get about 50k-100k exp a day and you will have 80 str in no time.

You might also consider getting 70 atk for the Whip

Prayer: Training prayer is easy, but there are different levels people like to get.

11 Prayer: Obtained from doing desert treasure prequest priest in peril.

31 Payer: Obtained for Ultimate Strength

34 Prayer: Obtained for Ultimate Strength and Incredible Reflexes

43 Prayer: Obtained for the protection prayers and all of the strength and attack prayers. These protection prayers should only be used for pjers, after a fight flick it on, or if your getting piled/owned and running.

52 Prayer: Obtained for all of the other prayers and the prayer Smite which drains your opponents prayer, causing them to lose there protected items.

Now pick one and if you need to train it go to a gilded alter and use the bones on the alter and use dragon bones.

Pking supplies: 50 super atk and str pots, 25 pray pots, 30 anti-poisons, 20 sets of ghostly tops and bottoms, 20 climbing boots, 20 gnome hats (just called hats in the g/e), 20 amulets of power, combat bracelet, dds, mage short bows or a karils bow, runes for blitz, rune arrows or bolt racks, and 50 rings of recoils, and dragon daggers and a dragon scimmy or whip and sharks for food.

How to pk: There are A LOT of ways to pk with a p2p str hybrid and I will tell you all of them.

Just Str: Drink an anti poison and super atk and str. All you need is full iron and black d hide chaps and vamps for this. Atk them with your dragon scimmy or whip and when there at one-fourth hp spec them 4 times with you dds. Simple as that.

Mage-Str: Put on Ultimate str and incredible reflexes/maybe smite. Blitz them first then pull out a dragon scimmy/whip and k0 them with your dds when they are one-fourth hp.

All Three Combined: This is super deadly-and I personally recommend it. First find somebody around your combat lvl and drink your pots. Start out with about 1-3 blitz spells and then pull out a magic short bow or a karils bow and range them down in there health with eagle eye on. When they are half hp put on ultimate str and incredible reflexes and when there one fourth health run up and dds spec till they are dead. Awesome k0s using this type of pking. For a great video on how to pk with these styles I recommend watching Kids Ranqe pk vids 1-13 and here is video 6.

Completing this free quest will allow you to use Doric’s anvils for smithing. This is an easy method if you are mining on the west side of the free world and don’t want to go all the way to Varrock for anvils.
Travel north of Falador. Take the left fork in the road since the right fork will lead you up the mountain. Enter a little hut with anvils.
Ask Doric if you can use his anvils. He will ask for some ores in exchange.
Go up to the Dwarven Mines (take the right fork of the mountain) and mine 4 copper ores, 2 iron ores, and 6 lumps of clay.
Go back to Doric and give him what you mined. He’ll then give you a reward.
The rewards for this quest are one quest point, 1,300 mining experience (a big help for low level miners), the ability to use Doric’s anvils and whetstone, and 180 GP. The different levels of mining for this quest are: clay, 1; copper, 1; and iron, 15. If you have a mining level lower than 15, you can trade in Falador’s banks with other players, buy iron ore at the Dwarven Mine shop, or raise up your mining level to level 15.

Runescape Barrows

The runescape barrows mini game has proven to be one of the better games introduced by Jagex. The initial popularity of barrows may have subsided a bit, however, many experienced players still actively do barrow runs to help pass their game playing time.

Their are many different strategies that can be used while doing barrow runs. Many people will find that most strategies are useful and they will naturally find themselves being drawn into a combination of methods – in effect making their own strategy.

Some tips for barrows should always be heeded. This will help players make more efficient use of their time – and therefore enable them to get doing more runs and potentially receiving the desired barrows item as a reward.

Some requirements and strong suggestions are:

Must have completed the Priest in Peril Quest
Should have started the Nature Spirit Quest
Should have 43 prayer

Combat level of 70 or higher
Magic level of 53 or higher
Range level of 50 or higher
In addition to this, in order for runescape members to be able to travel efficiently, additional quests should be completed. These quests are:

In Search of the Myreque
Ghost Ahoy
Desert Treasure Quest
If any player meets all the above requirements and suggestions, they should also consider having the resources required to do plenty of barrow runs ie. 500k+ coins, plenty of food, sufficient runes or arrows etc.

Rewards can be considerable if you get lucky and regularly pick up actual barrow items. However, be prepared to get a lot of runes stocking up if you barrow run often. The following list gives an example of some of the items players can expect to receive:

Mind, Chaos, Death or Blood runes
Cash
Bolt Racks
Half Key
Dragon Medium Helmet
Barrows Items
Overall, popularity of this mini game has dampened somewhat as the price of items has dropped over time. Although plenty of people still make a considerable amount of virtual wealth through regularly doing runescape barrows. It is one of the few mini games that players still seek to find out more information on and whether or not any cheat exists for it. I will say that no cheat exists but there are plenty of ways to help improve efficiency in doing the runs that can vastly improve overall chances of gaining more items.

Tears of Guthix

Runescape mini game Tears of Guthix is a game that can help players gradually build up some experience in their least preferred skill. Well, I say least preferred as it is generally the lowest skill is a persons least preferred. In truth then, the tears of guthix mini game will enable players to earn some experience in their lowest skill.

Players wishing to do this mini game will have to complete the tears of guthix quest. The bowl that is made will be kept by Juna, so players do not need to remake it – maybe Jagex seeing some sense here as players would likely be very unwilling to make the bowl each week.

Anyway, Jagex have introduced this mini game as more a reward for players who are active in runescape. I say this due to the fact there are some requirements needed for people to be able to take part in the game weekly.

The requirements:

100k experience earned during the week
or a new quest completed during the week
Juna will prevent players from entering if they have not met the requirements. Consequently tears of guthix is aimed at rewarding those players who generally work on their accounts regularly.

The simple objective in tears of guthix is to collect tears in a bowl. The tears will be collected from the blue streams – as any tears collected from the green stream will reduce the total number in the bowl. All players will have a time limit imposed on them and the streams can randomly switch between blue and green. So be attentive to get maximum results.

The time limit is closely related to the number of quest points you have – the more quest points in total, the more time you can spend in the cave each week. Although it doesn’t help with the random changes in stream colours.

Overall, the reward for collecting tears in this runescape mini game will directly reward players with experience in their lowest skill (provided that skill is at least level 30). Each tear collected translates into 60 experience points – so 10 tears is equal to 600 experience. It isn’t much – but over time it can add up, especially on a skill that you don’t like training up much anyway. It can get you to a better skill level that you may then be able to do something in it that you enjoy.

Runescape TzHaar Fight Cave

The Tzhaar Fight Cave mini game in runescape has been a good introduction as far as many people are concerned. However, it has its frustrastions in the sense of the amount of time it can take people to claim the highly desired Flame Cape.

The Flame Cape is not the only reward as Tokkul will be given out for any failed attempts at claiming the cape or for any subsequent success of defeating TzTok-Jad. There are some tricks to being able to defeat TzTok-Jad and make the game a little bit easier, although I have never really bothered with doing this mini game apart from when it was initially introduced into the game.

I have researched on some strategies but never quite found the time to tackle it as I do not play runescape for the pixels, I simply play it when I have a few moments of spare time. In this case, I feel that too much time may be needed for me to be successful – as friends informed me it can take over 1 hour to reach TzTok-Jad.

Anyway, some basic tips for those players who feel up to this runescape challenge:

Play with the sound on to hear attack style changes
Prayer pots will be required
Watch out for the healers undoing your work
If fighting TzTok-Jad in melee ALWAYS have prayer on for his melee attacks
In essence, this runescape mini game is a test of endurance as each wave of monster gradually gets stronger the longer you survive. It is definately a test of skill to survive and then defeat TzTok-Jad. It is possible to achieve this at low levels. I have seen a level 41 with a Fire Cape and since the capes are not tradeable, it means he managed to defeat TzTok-Jad. However, I do not know how many attempts were taken and the exact strategy used to achieve the feat.

Players who complete this mini game can have some sense of achievement as it will normally involve several attempts before you find a strategy that works for you. All I can say is good luck in your adventures and hopefully one day I will find the time to get my own Fire Cape.

Fishing Trawler Mini Game

The fishing trawler mini game has been about for some time now on runescape. However, Jagex have made some improvements to it since it was first released and now mantra ray and sea turtles are easier to catch – although a team of people is still required.

The basic overview of the trawler fishing game is to work together as a team, ensuring that you don’t sink and catch as many fish as you can. The longer you keep the boat from sinking, the more fish will be caught.

At the end all the fish are divided up among the people who helped keep it afloat.

The basic method on how to play the fishing trawler is:

Use rope to repair the trawlers net
Use swamp paste to repair leaks in the trawlers hull
Use buckets to bail out water if all else fails

Runescape Barbarian Assault

Barbarian Assault mini game in runescape is another team focussed game Jagex introduced as a means of appeasing groups of people who enjoy playing the game together. I am not sure if it is how Jagex will handle all future requests for runescape clan support, although given they have had several requests over the years and so far no strong clan support features have been implemented, it stands to reason that group games are likely to be as much as Jagex will do for bringing clan support into runescape.

The barbarian assault has various roles that need filled by each team member:

Attacker Role
Defender Role
Healer Role
Collector Role
Attacker Role Outlined:
The attacker will rely on the collector for information on which style of fighting should be used to successfully defeat the Penance. The role simply requires the attacker to slay the Penance using the correct method given to them by the collector.

Defender Role Outlined:
The defender aim is to eliminate Penance runners by luring them on to traps at the east and west side of the assault cavern. The defender will be told what food is needed for bait by the healer as well as having to repair traps when required.

Healer Role Outlined:
The role of the healer in the barbarian assault mini game on runescape is a duel role. The first role is to ensure that nobody dies from their team and secondly to poison the Penance healers. The healer should also communicate with the defender by using their horn to relay the required information to enable the defender to eliminate Penance runners effectively.

Collector Role Outlined:
The collector on the runescape barbarian assault mini game performs the role of collecting eggs left by the Penance as they are slain. The attacker should communicate with the collector to ensure the correct eggs are collected up as well as telling the attacker what method of attack is required for each Penance.

As players reach the 10th wave, they will face the Penance Queen. The egg launcher loaded with Omega Eggs should be used. Healers will be required as the Queen can do large amounts of damage. At least one level 5 healer is suggested.

Rewards:

To get your rewards for playing the game, talk to Commander Connad and select ‘get-rewards’. Here will be a list of the things that you can achieve with your ‘honour points’. Honour Points are rewarded at the end of each wave. The more effort you and your team puts into the game, the more honour points you and your team will receive.

Levels can be gained by trading in the honour points in exchange for better levels. This will enable a team to become more effective as they gain experience and it will lead to defeating the queen with more ease.

In addition to levels, there are various pieces of armour available as well that also cost points. Again this will help improve the overall efficiency of the team as they become more experienced.

Gambling

It is also possible to gamble your points. You can win anything – from bronze arrows to a dragon chainmail (which is extremely rare).

Low item gamble – 200 points
Medium item gamble – 400 points
High item gamble – 500 points and Kill Queen
Overall, the barbarian assault mini game in runescape is just OK in my opinion. There are many things that could be done to improve it or extend it. Hopefully Jagex do consider clan support rather than only adding additional mini games as team mini games can become very limiting for players who struggle to get specific numbers of friends online at the same time and want to take part in the game.

On top of that, there is no need to make mini games have any degree of complexity. It would be good for more mini games to reward specific skill experience that reduced the time required to raise levels. However, if Jagex are intent on increasing and expanding the playability of runescape, they are simply looking at introducing more mini games that will try and tempt players away from levelling skills in order to prolong that players lifetime objective of achieving maximum skill levels.