OSRS #1

The month started with the simple goal of reaching 99 Firemaking. After doing some Wintertodt, I saw some people mentioning the new Fletching Knife from Vale Totems that made fletching 1 tick faster. I decided to get it since I was going to be camping Firemaking for a while, and it would make fletching the logs slightly faster. It didn't take me long to realize that points don't really matter for a main account, and XP is the only thing I care about, so I stopped fletching and just burned the logs directly. A goal of 500,000 XP a day meant I'd spend about 2 hours a day playing, and reach my goal in a surprisingly short amount of time. From the 6th to the 19th of January, I went from 80 to 99 Firemaking, and earned my 3rd skill cape. I earned quite a bit of Construction and especially Woodcutting XP along the way, along with just over 1,000 reward cart drops.

The next skill on my mind was Runecrafting, since I was on and off doing Guardians of the Rift in the past for the Raiments of the Eye set. A goal of 100,000 XP a day meant I'd spend just over 2 hours a day playing. I didn't have a strict end goal in mind, I just wanted to make steady progress on a slow skill while working towards getting the full set and the largest available Colossal Essence Pouch capacity of 40. After reaching level 78 Runecrafting I got the full set, but still no lamp, so I decided to switch to doing Zeah blood runes for profitable and more AFK XP. My 100,000 XP a day goal was still reasonable, but at 35,000 XP/hour from blood runes, it meant about 3 hours a day instead of 2. The profit is nice too, at about 500,000 GP/hour, so I can slowly build up my bank while training. As of writing this on the last day of the month, I'm about a quarter of the way from level 78 to 90 Runecrafting with 66,626 blood runes. The grind is pretty slow, but steady. I was planning on switching to Zeah soul runes at 90 Runecrafting for even better XP/hour and profit, but I might need to switch to something else for a bit since this has already been a pretty repeatitive month.