Runescape Tips And Secrets

Lately I have been doing slayer for 99 attack as some of you may have noticed with my recent posts. While I have been slaying I have come across a few good monsters to get charms from.

For the gold charms, I found that they are good to collect from quite a few monsters, but the best I would have to say would be the ice warriors and giants. A good place to get green charms would be bloodvelds because they drop them regularly and are good training and quick to kill for high levels.

While slaying greater demons, I found that they gave lots of crimson charms, but a mate of mine has told me that waterfiends give crimson charms about 99% of the time, not sure I’d try it, but if any of you have tried it or want to try it please let us know how it goes. As for the blue charms,  I found that gargoyles gave them about 10% of the time, although I was getting other good drops such as rune full helms, granite mauls and other charms. So far they seem to be the best. Another good monster to kill for blue charms is kalphite soldiers as meantioned in crowlion’s comment. Shady Boi, meantioned that rock crabs were another good monster to kill for charms, as seen below in the comments.

After 2 days of doing slayer for attack experience I have gained close to 2 attack levels, 1 hitpoint level, 1 slayer level and have collected in total over 400 charms including 146 gold, 155 green, 83 crimson and 32 blue. For those of you who don’t know how to get the shards that jagex fixed up with the update just talk to the pickupstix guy and he will give you the shards that he owes you, I got around 9k when I spoke to him.

For low level summoners I suggest doing the spirit scorpion pouches as they are quick and good experience, to get the bronze claws for it you can buy them on the general exchange or make them yourselves, I found that you get under 2k experience per load.

To get a gecko you have to catch it just east of the harpie bug swarms on karmaja, you will need a box trap. For a pet puppy you have to talk to one of the pet shop owners and pay 500gp for one. If you want a penguin all you have to do is talk to the penguin keeper at ardrougne zoo and he will give you an egg to put in an incubator at one of the pet shops.

To feed the geckos, they require flies which you can buy at the pet shop, for the puppies they need to be fed raw beef and the penguins likes to eat raw fish.

Happy summoning and goodluck!

Recently I trained construction up to 69 so that I could make my own gilded altar, I found that cutting my own oak logs and making them into planks myself was very cheap because I didn’t have to spend so much money getting the butler to take the logs to the sawmill for me, or by just buying the planks. A quick way to make planks I found was to catch the balloon from Castle Wars to Varrock, which only required 1 willow log per trip, then use a dueling ring to go back to Castle Wars, (you have to do enlightened journey to be able to use the balloon system). You need to be carrying less then 40kgs to be able to use the balloon, so I found that if you take the cash you need for the lot of planks you are wanting to make, 1 willow log, boots of lightness, spotted cape and 21 oak logs will leave you at 39kgs, although I could not wear the spottier cape, and I have not got myself the penance gloves yet, so if you have them it might come in handy so you can do more planks per load, (each oak log is 2kgs). This method is about 3 times faster then walking from Varrock east bank to the sawmill and back.

Another thing I found when using up your planks, you can use house tele tabs and glory amulets to and from your house so that you don’t have to pay the butler anything to un note all your planks you made, although if you want a quick way of using up your planks you are better off paying your demon butler to un note them, which costs 10k coins per 7-10 trips he does. You should make oak carved tables on your workbench as they require 6 planks to make 1 of them. Your inventory for the table making butler method should have your money for the planks to and from bank, hammer, saw noted planks, and the rest of the inventory empty so that you can have 24 planks in there (which makes 4 carved oak tables). The second method should have hammer, saw, house teleport tablets, glory amulet and the rest full of planks. Oak carved tables give you 360 experience per table made, which means that you make 1440 experience per load.

Hopefully these tips help you if you are looking to get your construction up.

Happy Constructing!

Hi all.

Some of you may have read a previous post about training at ankou’s . In order to make the most of that guide you need to be able to fight against them for as long as possible. In other words, you need to know what to bring with you. I forgot to mention that in the guide, so here it is.

• super set (4)
• full guthans
• dragon battleaxe for the strength bonus special.
• Fill up the rest of your inventory with sharks or monkfish  (leave 6-8 spaces for drops from ankou’s though).

Last night Jagex made the ankou’s drop battlestaffs, I got told by my mate that they are rare to get and also only come one at a time un-noted, which makes it hard when you are low on inventory spaces.

Another thing that I  forgot to mention was that it is possible to get around 50-60,000 xp per hour with these critters, that’s what I’ve been getting anyway.

Are you looking for a place to get 99 attack, strength and or defence?

Well we have found a great spot to train them all.

Training at ankou’s has been found to have great rewards, which include death runes, blood runes, adamant arrows, pure essence, mithril ore, law runes and the occasional level 3 clue scroll.

The ankou’s have 60 hit points and don’t hit you very often if you wear the appropriate equipment, which I will mention later in this post. Having 70 defence of higher seems to help, as pures have struggled with these. The ankou’s respawn quickly, although this area can get very often when a lot of people are on. It is a 1 on 1 fight area so, you don’t have to worry about people trying to steal your own ankou.

The equipment that we suggest is: fire cape, fighter torso, helm of neitiznot, rune defender, salve amulet (e), dragon legs or bandos tassets, dragon boots, barrows gloves, whip (for attack or defence training), dragon scimitar (for strength training). Some replacements for those items if you can’t afford some of them are: skill cape (t) or untrimmed, berserker helm, obsidian shield, salve amulet or glory amulet, rune plate body and legs, rune boots.
Ankou’s can be found on the fourth floor of the security stronghold located in the middle of the barbarian village.

A friend of mine did 99 strength here and said that he made over 40M from 88-99.

Happy ankou killing.

There are a few ways to get dragon boots. They include buying them from other players (currently for about 700K), snatching them after some other player dies or by slaying the spiritual mages. I am going to talk about the 3rd method, as I just obtained my 1st pair of dragon boots last night.

I must admit that I was a little bit nervous about going into the God Wars Dungeon after seeing posts about how dangerous it is, so I ventured in with Delarue64.  We were surprised at how easy it really was.  I was not sure what equipment to take, but decided upon taking black dragonhide,  Dragon Scimmy (trying to get 99 strength now) Saradomin Cape, Holy Book, some ropes, some sharks, prayer pots, super restore and a super set.

After pushing the big boulder, I walked northwards to the dying knight, obtained the scroll and then entered the dungeon. I then walked to the SE corner near the Saradomin Stronghold entrance. In that corner, not one of the monsters attacked me, as only Saradomin and Zamorak monsters were there and I was wearing a piece of equipment from both gods.

To be able to fight against the Spiritual Mages you need at least 83 slayer. I had 85, so there was no problems there. I tried to attack the mage near the entrance and although I killed it very easily, I found that it hit me quite easily. So I started using prayer against it.  The fights went very quickly, so not much prayer was drained. The rewards were very meagre, mostly runes.  What I did realize though, was that when the mage attacked the Werewolf, then it focussed on it rather than me. So I could turn my prayer off then. 

Once I reached 40 sara kills, I entered the Saradomin Stronghold. Delarue64, tried too, with an agility potion, but unfortunately that did not work (you need at least 70 agility and a rope to enter).  Once again, due to the book and cape, I did not get attacked by anything. There was a Werewolf and a Vampire in there too which were attacking the mages, particularly the Werewolf. So I did not need prayer or food while fighting in there. It took just over 250 sara kills before I obtained the dragon boots. Ironically, the mage that dropped the dragon boots was half killed by the Werewolf before I finished it off.

Perhaps I will get brave enough to try and beat a boss one day, but for now I am happy that I finally got my own dragon boots.

Cheers

Crowlion

Clan chat was a new feature introduced by runescape recently. It can be a useful tool for talking to groups of people, hence the word clan. You do not have to be a member of a clan to use the function though. You can use it with some of your friends. You can set up your channel or you can join other channels.

If you are wondering how to set up your own channel. All you have to do is go onto the clan chat icon which is located next to the friends list in the bottom left corner. Then click on the Clan Setup button, Then it will ask you what you want to call your clan.  Just right click on the white writing to change it to whatever you like. It also has “who can enter chat”, I suggest that if you do not want random people entering your channel that you put this on “any friends”, the same goes for the “who can talk on chat”. It also has “who can kick on chat”, I suggest to start off with that you should select the “only me” option.

If you want to give your friends a ranking in the clan all you have to do is find them on the friends list in the clan chat setup page, then right click the white writing which should be not in clan. This will give you control over how high you want them to be in the channel.

If you want to join another persons chat all you have to do is click the join chat button, then type the owner of the clan chat.  You should then be in, if they allow you to join that is. You should then see message from within that clan chat. To make your own comments, type “/” then begin chatting.

Happy chatting