To get to Miscellania, you can either: Take a boat from Rellekka, or teleport using your Ring of Wealth, take a mine cart, or use a fairy ring (code C-I-P).

The first step is to complete the quest: Throne of Miscellania. It is a rather easy and quick quest. To start it, you need to speak to King Vargas in Miscellania. To complete the quest you will need: about 45gp, an Iron Bar, some Logs, a  pickaxe, a woodcutting axe, harpoon and lobster pot, and a Ring with a gem in it. Male characters will need Flowers, and a Bow. Female characters will need a Cake. (Information from Sal’s Realm) This quest will unlock the kingdom feature.

Additionally, it would be a very helpful if you completed the quest: Royal Trouble. To start this quest speak to Advisor Ghrim on the 2nd floor of the Miscellania castle. All you need to complete this quest is a pickaxe and 5 coal. You will need to defeat a level 149 sea snake (EASY; IF YOU THINK 149 IS HARD, IT’S MORE LIKE A LEVEL 90). The Sea Snake only uses melee. Bring an antipoision and food accordingly. When you finish this quest you get increased resources to use for your kingdom.

After you do those, you finally will have access to all of your kingdom. Before you start, I recommend getting 100% of the people’s approval. You can do this by chopping some maples, mining some coal, fishing, or farming outside the castle walls. You can find out your approval by talking to any NPC near each of the areas I mentioned.

So now, we can finally begin to set up our kingdom. Talk to Advisor Ghrim. Firstly, put money in your kingdom coffers. Every day is 75K, so I’d recommend putting at least 750K in your coffers. Secondly, you want to put your kingdom on the resources that are worth the most at the time. I always put all all on herbs (click the up arrows near the herb until the “meter” reaches to be full), and I put the rest on maples since they can have nice bird nest loots. Of course this is mainly subjective, but I’d do a little bit of research so you can get the most money out of this. When you wish to collect your kingdom, just get your approval back to 100% and go back to Advisor Ghrim and ask him to collect your kingdom.

The kingdom is definitely chance. Some weeks you may have an amazing profit, and other maybe your record lows. I leave my kingdom out for 30 days, and I get a nice profit.

Thanks to my clan, Avon, for helping me with some of this info, and thanks to my friend Emily who suggested  this topic for me and proofread this. If you have any comments, feedback, or questions feel free to leave a comment.

-Maxwell K.

First; the players that are reading this blog may find themselves in a situation in which they are looking to sell their runescape account. The prerequisite for selling any runescape account is to have no pending recoveries. Below are the steps that are to be followed enabling instant removal of recoveries.

First Step: go to the recovery page and click the ‘recover stolen password.

Second Step: Put the details of your runescape account in the appropriate fields. Essentially any details required to recover the account.

Third Step: When the account gets recovered which takes between 1-30 minutes, depending you will have your account back without any recovery questions.
That’s it!

To Get effort Points you must first have a risk on your character. In P2P this risk needs to be above 76k, and in F2P it needs to be above 26k.

How to maximise loot potential:

First and for most Effort Points. Effort Points contribute to the chance of receiving good loot player killing (PKing) with more than 30% effort points can be advised. Now often people say, well EP is hard to get, you’re constantly watching the screen to ensure you have not died and lost your 26-76k risk, however, today I am going to show you a technique which is going to end this particular issue.  AFK EPing has never been easier follow the following steps

This guide will explore the following:

• Part 1 will go through: How to make a real PKER that will become your new toy in destroying people in the wilderness.
• Part 2 will go through How to use bots to create an amazing pure.
• Part 3 How to get good drops in bounty/PVP worlds.

First off, when we think about pure’s we often need to contemplate what sort of pure do we want? Do we want a pure strength, range or mage? The truth is modern day Player Killers (PKers) are hybrids.  In today’s pking Tribirds, dominate. Now why you may ask do you need 3 stats to player kill? Well first off, mage acts as what I would call an ‘aider’ it cannot be used by itself. Pure mages are the weakest of the 3 combat trees. No mage pure can get consistent kills. Range is a great skill to have however; it isn’t reliable in getting the high numbers when you need them. For instance you can’t decide to hit high with your crossbow when you want to & in free to play pking, range hits a maximum of around 19, this means that getting a kill is extremely hard. Strength, great overall stat, however, isn’t nearly as quick as range, but has an efficient spec.  When you combine the combination of these stats you get an amazing pker.

Free to Play Best composition: For free to play, the best pures are those that have high range, preferably 99, and high strength. The speed of each range attack is approximately .25 Seconds, if you time the range attack so just as your about to range you use the rune 2 hander you should get a double shock hit. Distancing yourself from the opponent when you hit enables you to do this with ease. F2P ranges/Strengthers dominate regardless of your combat level. Using range by itself will not get consistent kills and relies heavily on luck.

Pay to Play Best compositions: P2P is an interesting one as there are so many different compositions. Turmoil prayer pures with 45 defence (Turmoil Zerkers) tend to dominate the higher levels. Range tankers with 99 range/99 defence and 94 mage  + also do extremely well, however, whenever most people come across a range tanker they will just refuse to fight them, as the chance of a K0 is minimal. This works both ways as the range tanks don’t die often, they don’t get nearly as much kills as say an AGS pure. For the lower levels D Clawer’s are the best in all honesty. Often people argue 75 attack, AGS pures dominate, however, in all my experience this has not been the case. It is the pures with 99 range, strength, 80ish Hp, Barrage and 60 attack that dominate their level tier

The images to the left represent:
The first one is an ideal F2P and P2P account if you want to only specialise in one combat tree.

The second represents a reasonably good hybrid with telly block ideal for rushing.
Tips in Pay to Pay Pking:

• Wear a phoenix necklace to minimize the destructive power of D claws.
• Have quick prays set to increasing defence by the maximum of your prayer and protection from melee/range
• Don’t wait around the wilderness.

In the first of four posts on making GP with the GE, I will outline some effective trading strategies (Fundamental, technical and speculative), and in the last I will debunk some of the poor strategies (like buy outs for example). If, after you are done reading fee free to post any questions you may have. There is also a forum over at The Grand Exchange (Thegrandexchange.com) where you can register and ask specific questions about trading and the various methods I will outline here.

Part I – Fundamental Trading

First off, I will start by saying that fundy trading is the easiest and fastest way to make money off the GE. It is fairly straightforward, and is based on real stock trading methods. The kind of trade you do also determines which items you will trade.

There are three prerequisites for items to determine if they are a good thing to buy as a fundy trade. They are:

1. The item must be traded in high volume (Anything in the top 100 most traded items list is good)

2. The item needs to be used up in the process of skilling (People use them up in large quantities)

3. The price graph must be relatively straight (little volatility)

The goal with a fundamental trade is a 5% profit. In general, buying at 2.5% below med and selling at 2.5% above will accomplish that. Done on a consistent basis, you will see your money double every 14 trades. (See the rule of 72 for further study of the reasons for that).

Why high volume? You need lots of buyers and sellers. Items like gold leaf, for example, are used in the ‘value chain’ of making gilded items in construction, but there are so few traded on the GE that it is nearly impossible to make money off them. Teak planks on the other hand are traded in huge volumes, as well as being used far more frequently in skilling.

Finally, why a straight line? You don’t want to choose an item that might jump down after you purchase it. Coal is another example. It is used up in large quantities, and is the 19th most traded item, with 97 million chunks of coal trading hands yesterday. With a 4 hour limit of 10k coal, it is impossible to manipulate, as it is not a matter of purchasing power or GP at that point. You would need a clan 20,000 members strong buying and selling 10k coal each to even make a dent in the price, and no one has anywhere near those numbers, not to mention all of the coal miners would keep pumping cheap coal into the GE to offset any attempted price increase.

An example of value chain for Rune Essence: Rune ess is mined, air runes are crafted, water blast is used to kill an NPC. The final product is a drop that you can either bank or sell (or leave on the ground). Either way the ess is converted and finally used up in the process. Why does it remain flat? As rune crafters skill, they buy rune ess when it is cheap and mine it when it is expensive, keeping the price relatively stable.

As a beginner, once you go through the initial work of finding some items, you can continue to trade them without constant checking of the prices in the GE, making fundy trading ideal for those who either don’t have the time or the inclination to check the market regularly. 90% Of my trades are fundy trades, as I can pull a 5% profit in 5-6 hours. That beats the pants off the return you would get with a buyout clan that only makes 5% every time the GE updates (26-30 hours).

Recently I was trading some unstrung magic bows in for cash at the Grand Exchange and I over heard a fellow member of the fine Runescape game speaking about getting a name change. I inquired as to what he meant exactly and he went on to explain that JaGex is considering implimenting a system which will allow for players to change their in-game-name. Now, we won’t be able to change the name we use to log in… but our character name will be able to be changed.

I am very interested to see how this will play out – considering that many of the popular names are either already taken/banned there may not be much room to move in terms of acquiring a new and unique name. However I am sure that somebody will find a way around this somehow.

Veritas Odium Parit

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What the scenario mentioned above is called is a Merchanting Clan, or a group of investors who invest in the same thing. Many merchanting clans have millions in the market (a few clans are expected to have close to a billion) meaning that they can either crash the price of an item, or catapult it. With the exception of price-locked items due to Jagex updates, this usually works. Most merchanting clans make the Clan Name the item to buy, and say when to sell it. The only downside is that when the item is sold, the market is often flooded with so many orders that many investors cannot sell it, or lose lots of money. 

With a merchanting clan, your  prospects for making money are greatly increased. Usually, the price will increase. However, make sure you sell before the “Dump ” order comes in, or you’ll be caught in a stampede of selling. If you are interested in a clan, try “efd923″. The item to buy is posted in the Clan Name, and the clan is reasonably large. Try looking around for other clans too, and diversify your investments. But be warned: Merchant clans are NOT for the long-term; on the contrary, they usually employ a buy-one-day, sell-three-days-later technique. Forget to sell your items, and you’ll probably be left with huge profit loss when everybody in the clan does.

The Prayer Beast

They are one of the most lethal killers out there, the G Maul Prayer Beast.  Before the G Maul spec nerf, they were really lethal, but still they are pretty powerful, and are starting to make a come back.

Required Skills

• Str: 50
• Att: 50
• Def: 0
• Prayer: 31

Those are the minimums you will need to be a serious threat in PvP fighting.  Minimums to wield the G Maul are 50 att and str, keep def at zero to minimize your combat lvl, and prayer at 31 for Ultimate Str.

Outfit:

1. Iron Full
2. Cape – 600gp
3. Amulet of Strength
4. Granite Maul – 130k
5. Explorer’s Ring – Lumby Achievement Diaries
6. Monk Robe Top – Prayer Guild (535gp from GE)
7. Anti-Dragon shield – King of Lumby (289gp from the GE)
8. Monk Robe Bottom – Prayer Guild (485 from the GE)
9. Safety Gloves – Stronghold of Player Safety
10. Fighting Boots – Stronghold of Security

Total outfit cost:

About 150k.  If you want to spend the time, pick up the free stuff, but it is all pretty cheap.

Inventory:

PK food and  Zammy Brews.  At the cost of <250 per dose, they offer the str and att bonus of Super pots at 1/10 the price, and prayer bonus.  They do have an HP and def penalty, but at 1 def, it doesn’t matter so gobble a fish to heal up after every shot.

Carry a rune scimmy.  Twice as fast, and hits higher than a maul.  Wound them, then pull out the maul and Quick Smash ‘em to death.

Turbo Tip:

It is easier to buy the materials for Zammy Brews and ask for an assist than it is to buy them.

Now, its been almost a month since the full edition of High Detail has come into play and i must say. Its amazing. For once, i will fully say that jagex has pleased a great deal of the RuneScape community. The real thing that impresses me is that they managed to do all of this with java. So such a great looking game loads up fully in your web browser and requires absolutely no installation. That’s simply awesome. So lets go ahead and break down some of the main things that RuneScape HD has introduced.

Full Screen Mode

This is arguably the coolest and long expected feature for RuneScape. Sure, it requires players to subscribe to RuneScape. But seriously, this is the type of game-play that is worth the 6 dollars a month. ( Yes, i know its 5 right now, but they will be increasing it to 6 soon, if not already. ). Below is a screenshot of the new full screen interface.

At the top right corner, you can see the new RuneScape Map. It has a few enhancements too, they’ve added a few useful things on the side such as your HP, Prayer points, run meter, and summoning skill. This should be alot more efficient then having your skill menu open! Plus, it looks 10x cooler. Lastly, they even built in the world map which you can directly use within the game now.

As you can see, the whole interface has gotten a face-lift. The chat area is pretty similar to the old interface, but it is now transparent, and in my opinion, it feels alot faster and smoother than the old chat. Plus, you can view older messages and fit more messages into that box. The private message category on the other hand hasn’t received much attention from jagex, you can still recieve messages ontop of the chat box or within the chat box. I guess that really seems like the easiest way to go about it, but it would have been nice if they added a separate tab for private. So above the chatbox, they would have a public/private toggle. Maybe they plan to introduce this in the future.

The other tools that we are used to toggling, such as the friends list have gone onto the corner on the right hand side. Most of the interfaces will be easy to learn, such as in the screenshot, the friends list pretty much looks identical to what you have become used to. The length of the actual row depends on the size of your screen i believe, because on my screen that whole row was on one line instead of 2 as dipicted on the screenshot. They’ve also left one of the boxes empty, so as an educated guess, i think they plan to add something there soon .

Graphics Update:

Well, this is probably the most obvious thing about this update. No one can now say, “RUNESCAPES GRAPHICS SUCK! WHAT A $#$ GAME”, yeah we’ve all heard that from at least one negative runescape player. But guess what? Now you can tell them about RuneScape HD .

All the textures have been revamped, even the movement of the characters has been improved. No more will you see those nasty box like character movements, the characters actually walk and run more realistically. In overall, everything from monsters, all the way down to trees has been redone graphically, without a single sacrafice to performance.

Final Thoughts:

Theres not really much to say other than the fact that this was probably the result of all those RuneScape 3 rumors from previous years. Boy, we’ve gotten far from RuneScape Classic haven’t we? Cheers to Jagex and the whole RuneScape community.

Now go whip up some HD.