Avril d'abord

A new month means a new high scores picture. Between you and me (and the other 10 people reading this), every time I see my strength and attack ranks, I feel very n00by. You wouldn't think so since they're in the mid 80s, but those 2 skills are my lowest ranked skills. So either I am a skiller at heart (guilty) or 145,000 other people are more focused on killing things. I don't mind killing things. I just prefer to kill on my terms, which is probably why slayer is such a drag (and the fact that the exp per monster isn't impacting level gainage as much as it used to). I've been looking into methods of melee training, such as Ape Atoll monkey guards and bandit camp.

Most of today was taken up my laundry. I did enchant over 700 air orbs and managed a slayer task of 185 kalphite. I tried killing kalphite soldiers after reading up on what I should take, but their drops weren't as charm heavy as their wimpy counterparts, the workers. I had to hop 4 times to get a world with only a couple people in the caves. I got it done, then went to Ardougne and killed my wild jade vine. Boy, that fight was a loss. I couldn't hit often or hard, even after using the d axe special (lowers defense), and ended the battle with 10 prayer points left. 8-O Only 135 wild jade vines to kill until level 80 slayer. :P

I also cleaned out my kingdom coffers today. I had them gathering 100% herbs and 50% coal (for all that mithril ore I bought). I've only been making potions that I keep, such as prayer, super energy, super anti poison and antifire, though I do make range pots to sell. I sell off clean tarromin, harralander, kwuarm and cadantine. I don't have much luck selling the seeds I get, so I'm putting them in the party chest. The pots I made got me down to 41k exp to 84 herblore. Not much to get excited about except for being another level closer to a pretty skillcape. :D

For the curious, I did some woodcutting testing on yew and magic trees. Guess what? I don't cut them any faster with 99/100 woodcutting than I did at 90. I'd say that there's no need to get woodcutting higher than, say 85, unless you really love the skill or you really want the cape.

What else did I do? Oh I checked out the Dorgeshuun chests for charms. I only got 3 - 2 gold and 1 green - after an hour of schlepping in a circle around the second floor of the city. It seems to be luck, so I wouldn't rely on it as a sole source of charms. I did get 5 bull's-eye lanterns and 1 oil lantern which all have oil in them and put them up for sale on the GE. If you need one, be sure to check it out.

Did you get your dragon kite from Diango?