Marlaine’s Musings

Well – here are the new tasks needed for each of the new hard or elite tasks for the area specific Achievement Diaries…………… The tasks for the Elite Ardougne Achievement Diary are already listed in the guide to the right. This is just to put all the things needed in one visible list to make it easier to co-ordinate what will be needed to do these Elite Tasks and know at a glance what levels will be needed. I’ll be adding the tasks to the Achievement Diary Guide to the right in a day or two. (I am planning on using this list as a copy and paste to a Word Document so I can check things off for myself!) {Strangely I keep fighting the urge to spell Dairy instead of Diary – sigh……….. }

Lumbridge Hard Tasks:

Smith a mithril platebody on the anvil in the sewers. beneath Draynor – Needs 68 Smithing

Craft an amulet of strength from scratch, all on ground level in the town of Lumbridge:
-smelt gold ore
-cut ruby
-shear a sheep
-spin wool
-craft ruby amulet
-string ruby amulet
-enchant ruby amulet
Needs 40 Smithing, 50 Crafting and 49 Magic

Cook a chocolate cake from scratch in Lumbridge Castle’s kitchen:
-mix unbaked cake
-bake cake
-add chocolate to cake
Needs Cooking 50

Cast Fire Blast at one of the goblins or spiders in the Lumbridge area.
Needs 59 Magic

Pray at Lumbridge Church altar with Mystic Might enabled.
Needs 45 Prayer

Craft 100 or more water runes simultaneously.
Needs 57 Runecrafting

Burn some yew logs atop the east gatehouse of Lumbridge Castle.
Needs 60 Firemaking

Rewards:
Talk to Ned in Draynor for a reward and he will replace your Explorer’s ring with a brighter, shiner version. It retains all the functions of the last three stages but this one will also allow you to cast a few 15 High alchemy and 27 Super Heat Item spells. You will also be able to cast a chance to do the Bones to Bananas spell without having the ring with you. If you are wearing the ring, you increase your change to make extra water runes while runecrafting. You can restore your run energy multiple times using your Explorer’s ring 4.

You will also receive an xp lamp worth 9k toward the skill of your choice.

Last but not least, you can get a daily hamper from Lumbridge Castle’s Cook that includes random items like pizza, swordfish, tuna and lobster.

Varrock Elite Tasks

Defeat Bork.
Complete What Lies Below Quest and The Hunt for Surok Quest.

Speak to Zimberfizz about swapping your Soul Wars cape for the other color.
Complete Nomad’s Requiem Quest

Complete a large job at the Varrock sawmill.
Needs 80 Woodcut

Using an inferno adze, incinerate a log cut from a tree you’ve grown in Varrock Palace’s garden.
Complete All Fired Up Quest
Needs 92 Firemaking, 61 Woodcutting, 15 Farming

Get a mind control spell of a Dagon’hai member to backfire on him.
Complete What Lies Below
Needs 80 Magic

Bake a summer pie in the Cooking Guild:
-make pie dough
-make pie shell
-make unbaked pie
-bake pie
Needs 95 Cooking

Defeat a skeleton at or just pray at Senntisten Altar at Digsite with Soul Split enabled.
The Temple at Senntisten 92

Smith and fletch ten rune bolts within Varrock:
-smith ten rune bolts
-fletch ten rune bolts
Needs 88 Smithing and 69 Fletching

Craft 100 or more earth runes simultaneously.
Needs 78 Runecrafting

Rewards:
Speak to Vannaka in Edgeville Dungeon to claim your reward.

He will take your Varrock Armour and carves some symbols onto it, plus adds a special coating. The symbols glow when he waves his hands over them, then fade. You will be able to change your teleport spot to the altar in North (NE) Varrock. You will be able to enchant up to adamant crossbow bolts five times per day without any runes. You can move and redecorate your house for half price. Zaff’s apprentice will have more discounted staffs for you to purchase each day – 80! – and you do NOT have to be wearing the Varrock plate either. He also gives you a few magic lamps (4) to apply to skills of your choice. 3 – 40k lamps and 1 – 30k lamp! As always, go to him to get your Varrock plate replaced if you lose it. I must say that the Elite Varrock Plate is – nodding – a thing of beauty!

Falador Elite Tasks

Catch a rocktail.
Needs 90 Fishing

Cook a rocktail on any range in Falador.
Needs 93 Cooking

Mine a concentrated gold rock.
Needs 80 Mining

Cut down a magic tree in your patch in Falador Park.
Needs 75 Farming and Woodcut

Regrow a tree in your Farming patch using a hydra familiar.
Complete Wolf Whistle Quest
Needs 80 Farming

Cast Lunar Spell String Jewelery while standing at the furnace in Falador.
Complete Lunar Diplomacy Quest
Needs 80 Magic

While Turmoil is active, switch from curses to regular prayers using the altar in the White Knights’ Castle.
Completed The Temple at Senntisten Quest
Needs 95 Prayer

Rewards: Speak to Sir Vyvin’s squire in the White Knights’ Castle. He will give you the Falador Shield 4, plus 4 skill lamps. (2 – 50k xp and 2 – 30k xp lamps.) The shield will restore two full prayer points, give a prayer boost from the altar in the White Knights’ Altar, the ability to trade mole noses with Wyson for the highest seed nests and you’ll be able to more easily find the mole. You will have the ability to convert the altar to Zaros by using the ancient hymnal on it.

Karamja Elite Tasks

Craft 56 or more nature runes simultaneously.
Needs 91 Runecrafting

Equip a TzHaar fire cape while standing within TzHaar City.
Completed Fight Caves to earn the Fire Cape.

Box trap a monkey on Karamja
Completed Wolf Whistle Quest.
Needs 95 Summoning and 27 Hunter

Create a super restore potion from scratch while in Brimhaven:
-purchase a snapdragon from Pirate Jackie the Fruit
-get some red spiders’ eggs
-mix the potion
Needs 63 Herblore
Earn at least 10 Agility Arena tickets

Cook a shark on a sulphur vent inside the Volcano area.
Needs 80 Cooking

Take your chameleon for a walk around Cairn Isle to see its egg-home.
Complete Wolf Whistle Quest
Needs 90 Summoning

Use the stepping stone shortcut across the river in Shilo Village.
Needs 74 Agility

Earn 75+ Slayer points from Lapalok tasks (100+ Combat level).
Complete While Guthix Sleeps Quest
Needs 50 Slayer

Seer’s Elite Tasks

Bake an admiral pie from scratch in the Seers’ Village/Catherby area:
-fish salmon and tuna
-farm a potato
-make pie dough and shell
-make unbaked pie
-bake pie
Needs 35 Fishing and 70 Cooking

Fletch a diamond-tipped enchanted crossbow bolt within the Seers’ Village area:
-smith adamant bolt
-craft diamond bolt tips
-fletch bolt with feathers and add bolt tip
-enchant bolt
Needs 73 Smithing, 65 Fletching and 57 Magic

Fletch a magic longbow within Seers’ Village:
-pick and spin flax
-fletch and string magic longbow
Needs 85 Fletching and 10 Crafting

Make and drink an extreme ranging potion within the Ranging Guild:
-make a ranging potion
-add grenwall spikes to make it extreme
-drink potion
Needs 92 Herblore and 40 Ranging

Cast Fertile Soil on a farming patch in the area.
Completed Lunar Diplomacy Quest
Needs 83 Farming

Rewards: Talk to Sir Kay in Camelot Castle Courtyard with the Seer’s headband with you. He will change it’s appearance and hand it back to you along with 5 skill lamps. (4 – 30k and 1 – 25k) You will get 200 flax free a day from the Flax Fanatic named Flax. Your ability with the crossbow and enchanted bolts will be improved. Excalibur will be further enhanced.

Fremennik Elite Tasks

Catch a shark with your bare hands on Jatizso.
Complete The Fremennik Isles
Needs 96 Fishing and 76 Strength
Completed Barbarian Fishing training

Complete the high-level section of the Barbarian Agility course while wearing an agile top.
Needs 90 Agility
Complete the Barbarian Bar Crawl

Craft 56 or more astral runes simultaneously.
Complete Lunar Diplomacy Quest
Needs 82 Crafting

Kill an ice strykewyrm (You do not need to have these as a Slayer assignment for this task and can use a regular cannon to kill one if you normally can’t fight them). DKS puts you south of the cave they are in.
Needs 93 Slayer

Jump the chasm in the Fremennik Slayer Dungeon to gain quick access to the pyrefiends.
Needs 81 Agility

Make a pyre ship from magic logs.
Needs 85 Crafting
Completed Barbarian Firemaking training

Smith a rune hasta on Otto’s anvil.
Completed Tai Bwo Wannai Trio
Level 90 Smithing
Completed Barbarian Smithing training

Make a ranging mix potion in Otto’s hut.
Needs 80 Ranging
Completed Barbarian Herblore training

Use a Balmung to kill a Dagannoth.
Completed Blood Runs Deep

Rewards: Speak to Advisor Ghrim to receive your rewards. CIP takes you near the castle on Miscellania. He will give you new old boots, via taking your boots off if you are wearing them. The barbarian lyre can take you to more places. Speaking to Chieftain Brundt could mean you don’t need the Seal of Passage on Lunar Isle. Of course, if you lose the boots, talk to Advisor Ghrim to get them replaced. The Dagannoth Kings will drop some noted items, and I will be able to deal more damage when fighting them. There is access to a new area in Jatizso mine. Also, even when not wearing the boots, I will no longer need the Seal of Passage after talking to Chieftain Brundt. Toggle the lyre to teleport to Jatizso or Neitznot after talking to Olaf the Bard. Plus 5 skill lamps to use on whichever skill you so desire unless it has a required level. (4 – 30k xp and 1 – 40k xp)

It’s time for penguins again! After that bonus weekend, that had an extra day added to it, I won’t be quite used to all the levels I got from it. Even though I got 4 levels, I dropped in the High Scores sooooooooo….

I’ll be working on Elite Achievement Diary tasks after this but I tell ya – one task calls for wearing a fire cape. Not only don’t I have one, I didn’t really want one either. In effect, Runescape is demanding that we all get one.

On with the hunt………..

Week 106 : Sept. 7th to Sept. 15th
1.) Wilderness – West of Bandit camp – Rock 2 pts
2.) Lletya – Near crystal tele spot – Toadstool – 2 pts
3.) Mudskipper – Fally Farm near the loom room – Bush – 1 pt
4.) Al-Kharid/Mage Training Arena – In the courtyard – Bush – 1 pt
5.) Lighthouse – Trapped West of the Lighthouse – Rock – 1
6.) Witchaven – Near Catherby unicorns – Rock – 1 pt
7.) Castle Wars – In South Yanille wall – Rock – 2 pts
8.) Miscellania/Eceteria – At the docks – Bush – 2 pts
9.) Mos Le’Harmless – Up on the North wall – Barrel – 2 pts
10.) Karamja – In South Tai Bwo Wannai – Bush – 1 pt
11.) Jim Bear – Musa Point Well – 1 pt
You must have completed the Hunt for Red Raktuber quest to spot the bear.

Added reminder:
You get 2 points for some of the penguins only after you have completed the Cold War Quest.

I saw the Karamja gloves work with the Captain even though I wasn’t wearing them. The game now recognizes the fact that you’ve earned the whichever specific rewards you’ve gotten like the gloves. Just like the Varrock plate isn’t needed in Edgeville to smelt ore in the furnace, you won’t have to have the gloves, headband, plate, cape, or boots to get whatever reward is associated with it. Dell Monti will now give you 40 noted pineapples without having to wear your Karamja gloves now – so talk to him near the Karmaja portal near the building.

Was nice to see Brunswichstu at Edgeville – at least I think I “saw” him…. What a busy place that is on world 60 during Penguin time and trying to give assists! One person was having a problem reading his penguin spy book. The thing I do – silly or not – is to log out of Runescape, close the page, then reload it again. Sometimes that’s all that’s needed to fix a glitch. I also get a whole front log in page that looks like odd needlepoint. Then, for sure, a closing and reopening of the page fixes that issue.

I suspect I’ll be getting a level in Construction doing assists well before a Runecrafting level. Not many people seem to need or want a lowly 91 rc assist but it sure helps to be able to offer up to 95 in Construction! I am trying to do some runecrafting every now and then – getting the statue pieces gives me a reason to Run the Abyss and get a bit of rc xp. Needing those abyssal charms is also a good reason to bring the pouches full of essence since I have to go through a runecrafting altar anyway.

One thing I would like to say once and for alllllllllllll – so many players are not the gender they portray themselves to be so please forgive any mistake I might make calling a him a her or a her a him…….. shrugs. I personally know two people in rl who are not the gender they “wear” on the game. So – again – forgive any faux pas I might make. Let’s face it, Jagex also changed the clothing designs on armour and such to be even more non-gender, making it even harder to tell. I find people’s personal choices fascinating at times. Just a tiny added note – some colors actually do clash…. eye ouch! …. raised eyebrow.