Marlaine’s Musings

Again….. Doing this and that, putting every bit of xp bonus lamps, randoms and whatever else might give me Dungeoneering xp has again gotten me close to another level in Dungeoneering. I swear – with the new tool belt and the latest improvements in Dungeoneering, I would do a whole lot more Dungeoneering if I wouldn’t always get lagged out or have to set aside an hour or two per floor! At least with other skills, you can put in 5 mins to 5 hours at any given time and with the things that go on in our house, I just can not predict what I might be doing in the next hour! I’ve also been working on my beloved story – The True King Thrushbeard – and I have to admit that I get so intense that I forget that I’m fishing on Runescape or whatever else I was doing that allows me to read and write while working on some skill. (I’ve been researching Renaissance terminology – what real fun it’s been for me!!!) I even keep it half screen so I can watch – say – my log inventory while burning yet before I know it, my character has logged out.

I’m almost always writing something! My typing speed must be far faster than I ever dreamed I’d be able to do. Unfortunately, the moment I think about it, my errors increase to the max and my speed comes to a stand still….. sigh. I guess that happens when you are pretty much self-taught.

Now though – it’s Troll Invasion time. This will more than get that Level 93 Dungeoneering for me! Yes indeed – I did! (I can do floor 47 now but I haven’t unlocked anything above 39 yet —- sigh….) 713k to the next level.

I also want to add that I did not like the way the Blisterwood bolts worked last time I did Troll Invasion and am back to the rune crossbow and addy bolts and liked it fine. Except for the fact that my character totally froze up at the beginning of level 17, allowing that blasted Dynamite character get to the supply table, I still finished with my own supplies left over at the end after Cliff fell. I think next time, I’ll take a stat restore potion with me – for just this problem to avoid losing the combat stats when the one Poorly Cooked erks on me.

I really thought those lag days were over but now it seems to be a click problem. In the bank, in the GE, trading with Prime – seems I click one thing but something else gets activated instead. Sometimes I run like a crazed person to who knows where. It’s getting rather annoying and there is just not much I can do about it!

I’ve been using the Lunar Lodestone tele as my main bank pretty much all the time now since it seems the closest bank to a free tele. I have nothing against using runes to tele around but if I don’t have to carry them, I’d rather not!

More info about the Boss Weekend!

Here’s a quote from today’s news:

Wild Weekends: Double Drops and Monkey Mayhem

Double Drops

From Saturday to Monday inclusive, a wide selection of bosses and other enemies throughout RuneScape will reward you with double drops – your swag bag’ll be fuller than ever before, as you’ll find a duplicate of everything looted from the beasts below:

God Wars: Creatures and Bosses
God Wars II: Nex
King Black Dragon
Kalphite Queen
Dagannoth Kings
The Giant Mole
Glacors
Chaos Tunnels: all monsters, except Bork
Revenant Dungeon: all monsters
Stronghold of Security: all monsters
There’s also a chance to receive double drops from the Barrows brothers, and from the Barrows chest.

Since I’ve been saving up death and blood runes for the Glacors, I guess I will have my share of this Boss Weekend even though I really am not into the combat aspect of the game. Funny, too, because I just reached 34mil xp in Strength without actually trying to but rather just working on assignments to try to get an effigy – maybe. I haven’t seen an effigy since before the announcement that the effigy drop would be decreased. That seems a bit unfair to me – after all 34mil in strength does indicate that I do a lot of fighting. In fact, even before the decrease in drops, I seemed to be getting a lot less than most people who were asking for assists.

A word about Glacors – they drop those nice boots and wouldn’t it incredible to get a double Steadfast drop? I have recently purchased a pair though so my chances of getting a drop are up significantly! I’ve always seemed to get the drop of something valuable once I’ve actually purchased one – like the Abyssal whip – and then I got quite a few while they were pretty expensive.

Runescape will also be switching some of the items from the Squeal of Fortune to include Monkey items. A monkey mace, a monkey barrel, and three monkey hats with the see no, hear no and speak no evil theme. This sounds like something I really don’t want, like the head tattoos and the horned hats so I will probably get some of those……. raised eyebrow.

I am looking forward to the extra 250k bonus item at the end of May! If it will be toward the skill of our choice, I sure know where I will put it. If it’s like the Skoll boots or Hati paws – I’ll make the most of it!

Well – that’s the news for now……. I’m going back to my assignments. I can do this one in Duradel’s cavern – a shame that area isn’t in the boss drop list but the Chaos Tunnels are and that’s where I’ve been getting my Infernal Ashes. The slime buckets and my growing stash of ashes will sure give me a whole lot of prayer xp when I feel like doing those!