Archives for November, 2009

We’ve taken a careful look at the extreme Herblore potions we released a few weeks ago and have now reintroduced them to safe PvP minigames – that includes Castle Wars, Soul Wars, safe free-for-all Clan Wars battles, TzHaar Fight Pit, and the Duel Arena (but not ‘no-potion’ fights or Tournaments).

As part of this, we’ve slightly changed the way in which the extreme magic potion works – it now provides a visible Magic stat boost of 7, which decreases over time as with other stat-boosting potions. The normal magic potion’s level boost has been increased to +5. We have, however, also made a change to the Magic skill itself, so that if your Magic level is boosted by any means, you will inflict +3% magic damage per boosted level. This is on top of the +10% magic damage you inflict when wielding certain staves.

Part of the reason for these changes is that we’ve added four new high-level elemental battle spells to the standard spellbook. The Wind Surge (level 81), Water Surge (level 85), Earth Surge (level 90) and Fire Surge (level 95) spells each require one blood and one death rune, and some air runes (and some water, earth or fire runes for those respective elemental spells).

The max hit of Fire Surge is:
28 without boosts
30 with a magic damage-boosting staff
33 with extreme magic/overload
37 with both extreme magic/overload and a magic damage-boosting staff

With those updates, you’re going to need some more runes, so, to top it all off, Runecrafting also gets a tweak. As of today, crafting multiple runes out of one essence has changed for the better. Before, you would only gain the ability to craft an extra rune at specific Runecrafting levels (e.g. 2 air runes at level 11, 3 air runes at level 22, 4 at level 33, and so on). Now, there is a ‘chance’ of getting an extra rune on ‘some’ of your essences if you are between those set levels, with that chance increasing as your level increases (e.g. at Runecrafting levels 12-21, you will gain 2 or 3 air runes per essence). If you want to imagine it visually, what used to be a step graph has been smoothed out into a curve. This is explained in a little more detail in the Game Guide, but the bottom line is that you’ll receive more runes for your hard work.

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A problem is brewing in Lumbridge this Thanksgiving. It seems that Phileas, the Lumbridge Sage, has happened upon some rather troubling manuscripts near his home and he needs your help to solve the mysteries they reveal.

Solving the clues will prove a tough challenge as you pit your wits against a mysterious clue-setter and his secret network of contacts. Regardless, if you can stay the course and solve the clues over the next four days, you’ll certainly have proven your detective skills.

For those with the steely determination and the requisite clue-solving abilities, a new item and emote will be yours for the claiming. Simply head over to the official Cryptic Clue Fest thread for your first clue and an explanation of what to expect, and then keep checking the thread each day of this holiday weekend (Thursday-Sunday) for subsequent clues.

That’s not all this Thanksgiving, though. For anyone who’s not yet helped him out, the Lumbridge cook’s brother has some turkey-related shenanigans he’d like some help with. Either talk to the cook’s brother in Lumbridge Castle’s kitchen or check out this Knowledge Base page for more information.

Good luck and happy Thanksgiving!

If you’re after something else to do between solving clues, our friends over at FunOrb have recently launched a single-player campaign for the RuneScape inspired game Armies of Gielinor. The God Wars are in full swing and the forces of Saradomin and Zamorak are engaged in a struggle for domination. Take control of the Zamorak horde as it enters the fray and battles for control of Morytania. This update is free-to-play for all and comprises of 17 mission of tactical action against some fiendishly clever opposition. Six Achievements are available for you to earn, so head over to FunOrb to try the game and see if you can claim Morytania for the forces of Zamorak.

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RuneScape Classic Plan

We’re now coming to the end of the Classic trial period and it’s time to let you know what we’re going to do next with RuneScape Classic. First of all, thanks very much for your response and enthusiasm – it’s great to see that many of you still enjoy Classic! We’re very glad to see new people playing the game again.

Many have been asking why we don’t open some of the servers up to free players. One reason is that it’s a great benefit for us to offer to our members in appreciation of their support, but the main reason is that we want to keep Classic’s gameplay just as it is. In order to allow an unlimited number of accounts into Classic, we would have to make a lot of the big changes to it that we have made to RS2, and then it wouldn’t be Classic any more.

There is good news, though, if you missed out on the opportunity to join Classic this time: it’s not the last chance! We will be opening Classic up to allow new members to join the game every six months from now on.

The plan is:

After Wednesday 25th November, there will be two Classic worlds.
If you are a veteran (that is, if you logged in to Classic between August 2005 and January 2006), you will have access to both worlds.
If you are a Classic member (that is, if you logged in to Classic in the last two weeks but are not a veteran), you will have access to world 2 only.
If you stop being a member, you will not be able to access Classic until you become a member again, at which point your access will be restored.
If you did not log in to Classic in the past two weeks, you will get another chance in around six months’ time. We will announce the exact dates nearer to the time.

As for the player-owned servers idea, we have decided not to proceed with it in Classic at this point: the game is working fine as it is, with new people playing it, and there’s no reason to continue with such a big project with the numbers of players in Classic as they currently are. We do still really like the idea of player-owned servers, though, and will continue to think about it.

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RuneScape Classic Reminder

We’d like to remind everyone who’s interested in trying out RuneScape Classic, but has not yet logged in since it was re-opened , that the opportunity to do so will only be available for one more week. Only those members that log into Classic (using their normal username and password) before the end of Tuesday 24th November will be able to continue playing it after this date.

You can access RuneScape Classic here.

RuneScape Classic is the predecessor to the current RuneScape game. It was closed to new members over four years ago, but we want for players to be able to try out this important part of our history. We also have potential further plans for Classic (as discussed in this blog), so another reason for this re-opening is to see how many people are interested.

If you have any questions or wish to discuss this, please visit this forum thread.

Mod Jack H
Tools Developer

Note: If you would prefer not to play through the RuneScape Classic tutorial, there is a button to allow you to skip it under the ‘Spanner’ menu in game.

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You’ll find that clicking on a player’s forum avatar image will take you to that player’s Adventurer’s Log – a new website feature where you can check all sorts of interesting facts about your character. From current quest progress to recent personal events, you’ll be able to get the latest news on your and other players’ accounts. If you’ve visited Iconis’s Photo Booth, there’ll even be a couple of pictures of your character.

As you play we’ll be generating interesting news about your character’s experiences: high-level NPCs killed, expensive monster drops, and even player kills made on PvP Worlds will be logged. You can also look at other players’ logs (if they’re public) and compare characters. We feel we’ve covered a broad selection of newsworthy events, but would love to hear your ideas for what else you might like to see.

Be advised that every player’s Adventurer’s Log is publicly viewable by default, but you can set your profile to be available to ‘Friends only’, or make it ‘Private’ so only you can see it. Regardless of your Log’s privacy setting, your ‘Time Played’ information will only be visible by you. The Adventurer’s Log can also be accessed via the website’s Community menu, or by clicking here.

We also like to point out that it’s possible for members to directly link to the images of their avatar as taken in the Photo Booth. These are the images displayed both on the forums and in the Adventurer’s Log. The process for doing so is quite straightforward, and is explained here.

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We are pleased to announce that we have launched the RuneScape membership pre-pay card in WHSmith stores throughout the United Kingdom. The card comes in two versions: 30 days’ subscription for £4.99 and 90 days’ subscription for £12.99.

Once you have purchased your card, you can use the PIN number on the back to subscribe to RuneScape. Click here to find out how.

These cards are also available in the United States, and they can be found in branches of Target, 7-Eleven, Wal-Mart and Rite-Aid. We are hoping to launch these convenient cards in more countries in the future, so keep an eye on ‘Recent News’ for updates.

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A lot of players on Runescape not only want to be rich, but also, want to be tough, strong, have good combat skills. Well, not to worry. If you are looking to train, there are still some great ways you can make tons of money along the way! Here are some suggestions on what you can train for certain levels, and how you can make money by training on them at the same time!

  1. Killing Men at Edgeville and Getting Their Bones (Level 3-10)

  Men are ideal to train on at low levels because they only do a maximum of 1 damage, and have a pretty good ammount of EXP as well. Not only that, but the men in Edgeville (the ones in the barn) are situated very close to the Edgeville Bank (just north of it). This is good not only because you could get food from the bank if you wanted, but also, it serves as a good place to deposit your bones that you get from killing the men.

  

  You may be wondering, why should I be getting the bones? Well my friend, those bones the men drop are worth 80gp EACH! With the introduction of the Grand Exchange, the prices for bones have spiked up because it serves as a cheaper alternative to the big bones for people who want to increase their prayer level. So you know that demand for the bones will never run out. All you do is kill the men, getting exp, and pick up the bones. Once your inventory is filled with bones, you just go south of the barn to the Edgeville Bank. Deposit all the bones and repeat the process.

  Once you have enough bones (depends on how much you want to sell at a time), head on over to the Grand Exchange. Put up and offer to sell the bones and let the GE take care of the rest. Botta -bing-botta-boom! You now have gold! Lets take a look at how much gold we can expect:

  100 Bones x 80ea (price to sell at) = 8,000GP Total from selling all the bones

  500 Bones x 80ea = 40,000GP

  1000 Bones x 80ea = 80,000GP!!

  WOW! So not only are you getting TONS of experience for your combat levels, but you are also getting TONS of money!

  Once you have reached a combat level of 10, you are ready to proceed to the next thing to train on.

  2. Cows Help you “MOO”ve on Up! (Level 15-40)

  

  Many people in Runescape train on cows during their lower levels, but many fail to realize how much money they could be making while on their training. Some do realize how to make money while training on cows, but fail to pick the one best secret spot to train at.

  How can money be made by killing cows, and what is the secret spot to train on them?

  Answer: Cowhides and Gnome Copters

  Cowhides run for about 120 GP EACH on the Grand Exchange! That means for every cow you are killing, you are receiving 120GP. That can add up especially when you start killing hundreds of cows a day for your training.

  Most people don’t realize the value of cowhides, and so they just leave them on the floor. However, some people do, and so they choose to train on cows at places like the Fally Cow Barn and the Cow Barn at Lumbridge (the one north of Al Kharid). However, these people run into the trouble of having to travel quite a distance in order to bank their full inventories of heavy cowhides. This has been the only down side to training on cows until the release of the Gnome Copter area.

  Here is the procedure you should take to becoming wealthy while training your combat on cows!

  1. Clear your inventory and head Over to the Gnome Copters Area (North of Draynor Village, East of Draynor Manor)

  

  2. Once there, start slaughtering the cows

  

  3. Pick up ONLY the cowhides. If you are training prayer, go ahead and pick up the bones, but don’t let them take up space in your inventory.

  

  4. Get an inventory full of cowhides

  

  5. Head over to the deposit boxes

  

  6. Deposit all the cowhides and repeat the process

  

  The Gnome Copters area is relatively new to Runescape, and so the Cow killing advantage there is not known to many. Training here eliminates the need to go far in order to bank the cowhides, ensuring you can train and money money like a machine.

  Cowhides easily sell at the Grand Exchange for 120GP a pop, so get almost 1000 cowhides, and thats over 100K!

  Idea Contributors:

  Blue Pika515

  3. Killing Giants Will Make You a Money Giant (Level 40-50)

  Now that you are a bit stronger and hopefully have some good armor, or at least can kill fast, it is time to train on Giants. To get to where the Giants are, you need to have a Brass Key, then head over to this little roofed room west of Varrok, near the bridge from Varrok to Barbarian Village.

  

  Once there, use the Brass Key with the door and climb down the ladder inside. Welcome to the Giants training Area.

  Here you will find tons of Giants that you can train on. They are excellent combat exp, and they have good drops. But what you want to get from them is Big Bones that are worth a unlike anything compared to the last step. Giants drop Big Bones (always) and Limpwurt Roots (sometimes). The Big Bones are worth big bucks, at 410gp EACH! And Limpwurt Roots are worth even more, at 670gp EACH!!! Just getting an inventory full of them is worth good money.

  Once you’re inventory is filled with Big Bones and Limpwurt Roots, just head east to Varrok, bank the goods, and come back to resume your training/money-making. Then head on over to the Grand Exchange and turn your Limpwurt Roots and Big Bones intro BIG BUCKS (meaning tons of GP)!

  If you can kill 1000 Giants, and you pick up the big bone each time, then…

  Amount of Big Bones x Price Each = Total Value

  1000 x 540 = 410,000GP+!!

  And if you were to get the same amount of Limpwurt Roots, then…

  Amount of Limpwurt Roots x Price Each = Total Value

  1000 x 670 = 670,000GP+!!

  Meaning, killing around 1000 Giants and picking up the Limpwurt Roots and Big Bones can make you an overnight millionaire and train those stats! What are you waiting for?

  Pro’s of training here: Good exp, good money from Big Bones (410gp ea) and Limpwurt Roots (670 ea), and makes more money than the next step about Zombies.

  Cons: Usually a busy place, so at times it may get annoying to find a giant to kill, and varrok bank isn’t right next to the place.

  Personally, if you want to make big money and train your stats, Giants is the place to do it. However, if you want to get more efficient training with the sacrifice of making a little less money, read on about the Zombie Graveyard.

  4. The Zombie Graveyard (Level 50-65)

  The Zombie Graveyard is a dangerous place located in the Wilderness. Luckily players can no longer attack you in the wilderness, so at least you are safe from them. But there’s still the Rev. Ghosts that come out randomly and attack. Not only that, but its a multi zone, so 5 zombies that are level 18-24 can attack you all at once! Its a very dangerous place to be for low level players.

  Why then, would this place be the next place to train? What would make this place so worth it? There are planks laying around there that are worth 200GP EA, thats what! There are a few planks laying around the floor of the Zombie Graveyard, and planks are always in demand by members who need to train their construction levels. So just keep training, and picking up the planks. Its a good training area too, because you can just leave your character there, and the zombies will automatically attack you, so its almost like auto training your combat. Just be careful, because its a multi-attack zone, and multiple zombies can attack you at once (thats why its suggest to be a higher level and have good armor). Once you are done picking up the planks, there’s even a convenient place located to bank the planks right next to the Graveyard at the Bounty Hunters bank (just go west of the Graveyard to get to Bounty Hunters). Bank your planks there and repeat the process.

  

  Once you have enough (depending on how much you want to sell, head on over to the Grand Exchange and sell at will. Lets see how much money you can really make out of these planks:

  100 Planks x 200ea (price to sell at) = 20,000GP Total from selling all the planks

  500 Planks x 200ea = 100,000GP

  1000 Planks x 200ea = 200,000GP!!

  Pro’s of training here: Good exp, never busy, sometimes its like auto training, and bank is nearby to store items.

  Cons: Risky because of Rev. Ghosts and planks are not worth as much as the big bones and limp roots the Giants drop.

  5. Cockroach Soldiers (Level 65-??)

  Cockroach Soldiers drop some of the best items on F2P, and its no wonder that this place always has higher level F2Pers busy with training.

  The first thing you must do is complete the Stronghold of Player Safety (located in between Barbarian Village and Edgeville). Once you have completed it, climb down the crevice. You will be at an underground dungeon with tons of different cockroaches. Locate an area with Cockroach Soldiers and begin training.

  Recommended Stats

  Range Level 70+ (if you choose to Range them)

  Attack 40+, Strength 65+, Defence 40+ (if you choose to Melee them)

  Range is the easiest and most effective way to kill them since they are weaker against Ranged attacks, and also because your Dragon Hide armor provides excellent defense against their ranged Magic attacks.

  Cockroach soldiers have a very high defense against magic attacks, and an average defense against Melee attacks.

  Equipment:

  Range Set:

  Leather or Dragon Hide Coif

  Green Dragon Hide Body

  Green Dragon Hide Chaps

  Green Dragon Hide Vambraces

  A good amount of Iron Arrows

  Leather Boots

  Cape

  Melee Set:

  Full Rune Set

  Fighting Boots (from Stronghold of Security)

  Safety Gloves

  Rune scimitar

  Cape

  Inventory:

  2-3 Strength Potions for Meleers

  Food (preferably Tuna or Lobster)

  Tactics

  If you are ranging, just go ahead and start ranging. Make sure it’s not too close to you or it will start melee attacking.

  If you are Melee, drink a strength potion and then begin attacking. Once you see your Strength Level has gone down to 2 levels above the regular strength level, take another sip of the strength potion.

  Drops

  Here are some of their good drops that will make you a good ammount of money:

  Rune Scimitar (somewhat rare)

  Rune Square Shield (somewhat rare)

  Rune Chain Body (somewhat rare)

  1-20 Law Runes (common)

  1-17 Death Runes

  All Uncut Gems (common)

  3 Noted Mithril Ore (common)

  1 Noted Adamant Ore

  1 Noted Runite Ore (very rare)

  So you can see how there is a lot to be made from killing cockroach soldiers. To make even more money from killing monsters, you should consider going members.

  Special Thanks to: leapower889

  Training Combat For Members World

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The following are some tips to earn some easy money:

(1) Through mining

-PART 1-
Get your mining level to lv115 1st,
If your going for the easy way,
Get your mining level to 60 (mine only irons)
You’ll have about 7822 iron ores
You can sell your iron ores for 100gp each and that’ll earn you around 770k-800k

-PART 2-
If you’re going for the tougher task,
Like in part 1,get your mining to 15 but after 30 start to mine coals
From my calculation:
The iron ores between level 15-30 + coals between lv30-60 will let u make this amount : 780k to 950k (If u sell the iron ores for 100gp each and coal for 150-180gp each)

Notes: Remember to change your pickaxe whenever the requirements hits, this’ll help a lot as the speed for getting ores will be faster..
Notes: As you get to level 60 mining, you can go ahead n proceed to the mining guild to get more ores…
Notes: Smithing wont be so much of earning when it’s below 70, after 70 you can make more then 20k at once easily…

-PART 3-
You can also earn easy money through ores but u need starting money, just around 100k will do..
All u have to do is to buy coal(example) 100-120gp each from people and sell it at a higher price (example:150gp each for 1-500 coals,180gp each if u have tons of coals)

(2)Through Magic

-PART 1-
The best way for making money in magic perhaps is through runecrafting…
The higher the level of runecrafting, the more money you’ll obtain…
For starters: The Best way is to runecraft air runes…
Air altar is located outside south of the entrance to falador and a bank is near.
You can try to sell the air runes for 15-20gp each which most of the rich guy buy them at…
-PART 2 & PART 3-(Tips tat need a lot of money)
2nd way is to get a capital of at least 220k..
All u need to do is stay in the runes shop and buy runes
Buy chaos and death runes and proceed to world with a larger population to sell your runes (chaos 120-150gp each, death-260-300gp each)
REQUIREMENTS FOR PART 3: Level 55 magic level
This tip also requires money because you’ll be buying rune med for high level alchemy
Buy rune med from player 10k each and nature rune 200-300gp each
After high level alchemy you’ll obtain 11520gp,you will get 1220 or 1320gp more profit for each high level alchemy…

(3)Through woodcutting
-PART 1-
Woodcutting is perhaps the easiest money earning skills to train on.
All you need is chop till your woodcutting gets higher than 60.
Once u reach level 60-woodcutting, you’ll have like 4056 willows…sell them for 30gp each n you’ll get between 120k -122k of cash.
At level 60 woodcutting, you can start to woodcutting yews but it’ll be quite slow so u need to put in some effort to get yr woodcutting level higher for faster yew logs.
Sell your yew logs between these ranges: 300-375gp each
-PART 2-
Again, this part is about Merchanting.
All you need is money of 250k or more.
Buy yews from other players at 250gp each and sell others for more like 300-375gp each
-PART 3-
If u happens to be a member, it’ll be great for you.
You can fletch your logs to make more money.
When u can fletch yew logs, try to high level alchemy them you’ll gain quite a big amount of money rather than selling them to shops.
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You can also make money by buying rune plate bodies for 60-70k and selling for 80-90k

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Making gold in Runescape is not has hard as some want you to believe it is. Making money in Runescape just takes a little time and patience. It’s not an overnight thing that just happens. I have three favorite ways to make money on Runescape and I am going to share them with all of you. It’s not a secret or anything it’s just the three best ways I have found to make the gold.
The first method that I like to use by fishing and then selling lobsters on the grand exchange. To catch lobsters you need to be at level 40 fishing. And fishing lobsters is one of the fastest ways to make money since lobsters are fairly quick to catch. I don’t sell them cooked, I sell them raw. I sell them raw because of the high demand for them from people trying to reach 99 cooking and get their skill cape. The raw sell for a lot more than the cooked lobsters. Cooked lobsters sell for a max of 219gp each on the grand exchange. Raw lobsters sell for 293 max on the grand exchange and they sell quickly no matter what the amount you are selling, as long as the lobsters are raw they will sell. The cooked lobsters do not sell well at the max price most people are only paying 200gp each for cooked.

The second method I use to make money is woodcutting. Woodcutting is another good skill that is fairly quick to make money with. The best way to make money with woodcutting is to cut yew logs once you are able to do so at level 60. But I would wait until level 61 that way you can use a rune axe to cut them. When you first start out cutting the yews at 61 it is a very slow process but it gets a tiny bit faster with each level you gain. The going price for yew logs on the grand exchange is 350gp each.

Finally the third way I like to make money is a simple and slow way and does not make a whole lot fast but does make a descent profit per labor hour. I like to buy flax from the grand exchange for 85gp each and buy a whole bunch at a time like 1k or more and then spin them into bow strings and sell for 170gp in the grand exchange. It’s not a huge profit but it takes little time to spin the flax to bow string so it’s not too bad of a method.

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I have tried out a couple of ways to earn quick money in Runescape, and I must say I have come across some amazing ways to make a quick million!

1. Mine and sell CLAY. Yes, CLAY. It sells for 100 gp a piece in the G.E. Whats even better is, if you make it soft clay, it sells for 160-180 gp EASILY. Now once you start doing that, you could also buy normal clay, wet it, and re-sell it at a higher price! I’ve made almost 2 million in 2 hours doing this! Clay also gets mined very easily and respawns in seconds!

2. After you’ve earned about 50k, spend it all on buying iron ore and coal in a 1 to 2 ratio (once your smithing level is 30). Like if you buy a 100 iron ore, buy 200 coal. Now smelt these into steel bars, and sell them off for a good price of 625 gp (iron costs 89 gp and 2 coals cost 370 gp giving you an easy profit of almost 250 gp per bar sold). Also a quick way to smelt and store is in Al-Kharid and Falador where the furnace is very close to a bank.

3. Catch and sell LOBSTERS. I must admit that this has been one of the main sources of income for me, just head to Karamja with nothing but a lobster pot and some coins (to travel) and fill your inventory with lobsters. Take them back to Draynor village or Falador and put them in a bank. When you have about 350-400, sell them off at a price of 330 gp (approx) for a nice 100k!

4. Merchanting is also a great way to earn money. Buy low, and sell high! Buy tons of cooked lobsters (or any item with a large price range and which sells good) at its minimum price and sell it off at its maximum. People going for long battles buy loads of cooked lobsters because they heal a lot of HP.

5. Another way is to start your own business, let’s say you pay people to mine iron and coal for you, in a one to two ratio. Pay them a little lower than the max price on the G.E., preferably at market price. Buy in bulk and sell these in the G.E. at max price. I once had a guy working for me, who sold me almost 2000 iron ores at 80 gp every week! I then resold it at 95 gp for a quick resale profit of 30k!

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