99 Fishing!

I finally got 99 Fishing yesterday after spending a whole 3 weeks fishing those beloved Rocktails. I have 35m worth of them that I plan on cooking, which will get me a hefty amount of exp. :)

I also got 65 Summoning from penguins, and 54 Runecrafting from Tears of Guthix yesterday. I plan on getting 68 Summoning on Penguins sometime soon and then start using penguins on Runecrafting. :)

I'm finally going to start questing, even though I despise it. Going to try doing Horror from the deep and Animal magnetism, get everything I need for Ranged, and then go pulverise some Yaks till 75 Range. :P

High level skill updates.

The last few updates have been wonderful, big kudos to Jagex. They've all had to do with high level content, which is what I think Runescape needed most. The past three updates have all been great, the last one being spectacular. New Herblore potions have been released recently, this will force many players that solely trained combat to do some skilling now and then. All those pkers that had absolutely no high non-combat skills level will now have to get a higher herblore level if they want the upper hand in a fight. This also took one small step towards inflation. Many players with very costly weapons/armour(Godswords, Dragon Claws, Bandos, etc) are now selling to have money to train herblore. It's becoming a money sink that people are interested in paying for, and when they all sell their items, prices go down. Since it's a money sink, gold dissapears from the game, hence making it more valuable. If gp is more valuable, items are less valuable, and prices go down. :)

Another update was the forum avatars. I think it's a very interesting start to updating the forums. They stated in a recent Q&A there was a big plan for the forums, but it won't come out too soon. This updates lets players show a bit more about their selves and how creative they can come to get. :P

I got 98 fishing a few minutes ago and I'm now one level away from this big goal. I have about 35m worth of Rocktails in my bank that I've gotten since they came out. I've been 1st on the daily exp gains on the Runescape tracker a few times and I've been around the 10-15 ranks in the weekly and monthly gains. :)

I also got very close to 65 Summoning after doing this week's penguins, I'm deciding whether to finally stop using lamps/penguins on Summoning and give it to Runecrafting, only skill under 60, currently at 53. Funny thing is it's the only skill that I haven't trained being a member. :P

Name changing

Hello guys, sorry about the lack of blog posts, school is stressing. Anyways, Jagex recently released the "Name changing" update, and I'd like to talk a bit about it. The idea itself is great, being able to change your name after having a horrible name for 6 years because your younger self wasn't as bright as you are now is harsh. The thing I didn't like so much is how it was carried out. Jagex should've expected the complete flood of people trying to access the page at once, it was utter chaos. You had to keep refreshing the page for 30 minutes to get to the page where you would get a new Display name. When you finally get there, and think everything will be great from then on, you get hit in the face with a "This name is unavailable" or "An error Ocurred".

I myself tried getting a new name, and believe me, I tried everything! In the end I had to settle with "Sir Daviddd" which I plan on changing to something else after 28 days have passed. It was really chaotic yesterday and there are many names that haven't been used for years, but still aren't available. Hopefully after some days they'll change that and open up every name, *time where I jump onto the page to get "David", "D", "King David", "Lord David", or "Sir David :P*.

There has also been a small glitch with this whole name changing update, you can now add you old username if you changed your name, and you can pm/ignore yourself :P. Here's a picture:

I'm very close to gettting 96 Fishing, about 100k left. I'll probably get it tonight or tomorrow morning. I've also been on the Runescape tracker tables for Top 42 in Fishing a few times the past month :P. I got 64 Summoning after doing my weekly penguins on Tuesday. 1759 total now, 1760 very soon :). I'd also like to thank Olav Holland for being amazing and a very easy and fun person to talk to the past week or so. :D