Blood Runs Deep quest

I finished the latest quest for Runscape last night.  Blood Runs Deep is a continuation of the Fremennik and Lunar Isle quests.  It took me two nights of play to get through the quest and I found it a totally enjoyable and challenging quest.

Some stats for me
Combat = 122
Attack = 90
Strength = 89
Defense = 89
Hitpoints = 92

Read the quest walk-through on the Wiki and believe me, it is very easy to die in this quest.  I moved my house to Rellekka as they recommended and that really helps.  If you have teletabs make sure you have one as you will need to use them.  During the quest at the end I had to teleport out three times before I figured out the proper way to defeat the Dagannoth Mother.

For the first part talking to Silas I was wearing Rune Armour and had 3 prayer pots, 1 teletab and the rest in monks.  I went through most of this before Baba Yaga got the lectern to work.  Afterward we were back on Lunar Isle.  Before using her 'trick' go to the bank and stock up on food, more prayer pots (3 worked for me) and a teletab.  The Dagannoth in Rellekka are agressive, but, after a while they stop being agressive and you can pick your targets.  On the saving King Vargas bring the same number of prayer pots and food as you will need them all going through the caves.  Take care to walk as he is very slow.  Also when going around corners or obstructions you may have to go back and move further out as he will get trapped. 

When fighting the sentinels take care to watch your health as they do hit hard and fairly often.  On the mother you will find this a challenge and a fairly high risk of death.  Watch your health at all times and make sure that your prayer does not run out.  If you have to leave you will need to restart the combat using Balmung.  Make sure you have protect from Melee on for that portion.  Once you get a hit you can move away so that she does not use Melee, but, Magic and range.  I found using protect from range using a combination of Armour that gives high magic protection worked for me.  It still took three teleports out and back before I got everything down on my timing.

At the end you talk to Brundt three times and you can then pick what area to apply your rewards to.  I took it all in prayer as that is a fairly expensive skill to level up in.  I went from level 78 to 80 with this.

Overall I found this one of the most enjoyable and challenging quests in the last two years and for me it was as hard as the While Guthix Sleeps quest.

My new menagerie

This week Runescape made an new room for your pets. I have two cats and one dog right now. Since I don't have a high enough level to put all of my pets in I made the house as best as I could.

You can see the screen shots I made. The first picture is me entering the house. The second is my new spot for my pets.

The other new thing is that Runescape now allows us to make teletabs much more easily. Before we had to do one at a time, now we can make 'x' teletabs. Both myself and my dad (tomt1960) find this is a lot easier on our fingers and the mice. It may be a bit slower, but, it does not wear out our mice as quickly as we don't constantly click all of the time.

Soul Wars freeloader fix + Penguin Hide&Seek

Jagex finally made a small fix to Soul Wars. Before people would just stand there and get a reward for doing nothing. I found it very annoying that they would get a reward for doing nothing and I was trying to get in to play and could not. Now that they made the fix people must play or get kicked out without getting rewards. I have not tried it yet, but, when I am doing working on my other skills I will play it again with my dad.

My dad has been playing Penguin hide and seek with me for the last several weeks helping me find all of the penguins across Runescape. There are a few places I cannot go to as I have not done the quest or I just won't go there (high wilderness). I have been putting the rewards to runecrafting so I can get to level 50 and then I can play the 'Great Orb Project' with my dad and really get cool rewards there. I can then buy the teletabs to the various altars so I can get 55 runecrafing, then I can start to make law runes and make lots of GP for the things I want to buy in the game.

Teletabs and money making

For the last week we have been making hundreds (for my dad thousands) of Law runes. The current price on the grand exchange is nice for the runes, but, there is a better way of making even more money. I go to my dad's house when he is on and we make teletabs. The fastest way is have several bracelets of clay. They allow us to mine 'soft clay' without the extra step of adding water later. We then craft teletabs at his house using the mahogany eagle lectern. I have made over 400k making house teletabs as they sell quickly (usually within one hour). If you have the construction level to make a study with a lectern it is a great way to quickly make a lot of GP within several hours.

For the law runes I don't have the level (yet) to make the runes, but, with my dad I can request his assistance at the law altar in Entrana. If you don't have a friend you can try world 66 or 99 as there are usually at least one person there who will give you an assist making law runes. The only thing is that they get the experience points and not you, but, for making money fast that is a fair trade.

The bonus is now I have enough GP to buy my dragon axe so I can now work on getting my wood cutting levels up even faster. I cut the Yew trees, sell them and buy maples so I can then burn them for getting to level 99 firemaking.