Author: Salvador Grant

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Runescape

RuneScape 1 to 99 Cooking & Fishing Guide

Despite a player’s playstyle, preference, or focus, Cooking needs to be trained at some point in the game. It’s also worth noting that everyone from skill trainers, to pure, alt, and main accounts requires food, which comes from Cooking.

Not only is this, but cooking is probably the easiest skill to train in both, OSRS & RuneScape 3 as it’s quite identical on both platforms. Let’s take a deep dive into cooking at different levels.

Level 1 to 15

While hanging at the Lumbridge, you can cook shrimp and anchovies caught from the nearby river. Make sure that you are using the range in Lumbridge Castle to boost your experience per hour by reducing the amount of burned food. Using this method, you can easily hit level 15 in a confined timeframe.

Selling cooked anchovies can help gain RS3 Gold which is required to get appropriate materials for your leveling. You can also bank some of the anchovies for making anchovy pizzas later but for this, you need to become a member.

Along with the cooking, you need to level your fishing a little more to reach level 20 which helps you to move on to the next training method. In the north and east of Lumbridge, there are chicken coups where you can easily collect feathers used for bait to cover the next levels. You can also pick raw chicken which can be cooked for XP.

Level 15 to 32

From level 15 and beyond, you can start cooking trout in the fires next to the fishers at the Barbarian Village. Several power fishers drop raw trout and salmon so you can either pick them up or grab a fishing rod and some feathers to fish them yourself.

You can purchase a sufficient number of feathers for continuous fishing, and if you lack RSGP, you can head back down to the chicken farms in Lumbridge. Nevertheless, the cooked food can be power trained or banked at the Grand Exchange for later use.

Level 32 to 55

After reaching level 32, you need to purchase a Chef’s Hat for cooking at the Cook’s Guild in Varrock where you will be able to make apple pies and wine.

You can use grains from the nearby fields to make flour, and then mix them with water for the dough, and finally, start collecting cooking apples which can be cooked at the range of the building’s first and second floors.

You can combine grapes that are found in the guild with water jugs to make wine at level 35. But remember that the grape spawns are slower so you won’t be making much. Either way, this method gives more experience than making apple pies.

Level 55+

Beyond these levels, you will be given two options, but for that; you need first head to the Karamja fish and cook all the high-level fishes that would have been dropped by the power fishers. More likely, you’ll find tuna and swordfish which can be cooked and sold for great experience along with a decent profit.

Remember that the burn rates are not that low at these levels, so you need to pick the lobsters as well which will be possibly dropped by the power fishers too. Cooking swordfish and lobsters will provide you the greatest profit per hour and it becomes quite easy for you to hit level 99.

The fastest way of leveling your cooking is the investment. You’ve been selling the food that has been made so far and achieved a good amount of Runescape Gold which can now be useful for making anchovies pizzas.

Anchovy pizzas give the most experience per hour compared to any option available to players, having a 100% success rate. We suggest you invest your gold in pizzas and anchovies and use the dropped fish from Karmja to offset your profit margin.

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Runescape Prayer Guide – the Cheap Way

Prayer is one of those skills that is pretty straightforward. Bury bones to get experience. Different bones give more experience than others and you can do things like ectofunctus or your player owned house to get a bit more experience. But the idea is the same. Get bones, use them for experience.

If you have a huge cash pile you could go out and buy all of the bones you’ll need. It’s almost 3 million bones to get from lvl 1 to lvl 99 prayer. At 61 gold each that’s quite a bit of cash to blow on prayer. You can buy bigger, more expensive bones to make it go faster, but that still means loads of gold. I prefer the cheap way, letting others do the dirty work for me.

First, chickens. The chicken pen in lumbridge is always full of people. Dead chickens, and their bones, lay scattered all over. No one picks up the bones because the bank is far away so they just sit there, ripe for the picking. Head on over, pick up the bones, bury them. It’s a near endless supply as chickens die respawn quickly and die just as fast. You’ll find it hard to pick up everything you see, but that’s a good thing. On top of bones people often leave feathers on the ground. I pick them up because they only take up one inventory slot and being in the 15-20 gold range the value adds up quick. Remember, chickens can drop 5-15 at a time. It wouldn’t be hard to get a few hundred feathers in just a few minutes.

Another favorite of mine is the minotaurs in the security dungeon. There are always people, bots really, here killing the beasts. Like the chickens, it will be really hard to pick up the bones fast enough. Minotaurs also drop arrows which people generally leave alone. The price for these adds up just like it does with the feathers. Or you could save the arrows and train some range later as well.

The main thing is, pick somewhere that’s crowded. Sure you could kill creatures, pick up bones, then bury. But if others are there to do the real work (killing) you can just pick up and bury. It goes much faster and gets that prayer up quickly. Pick up items that are stackable. They take one slot, you can get as many as you want and after a while the price of those cheap items add up.

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Runescape

The Best All Rounded Equipment in Runescape F2P

The best all rounded equipment for combat in Runescape is often highly sought after. However, in F2P servers, and as F2P players, we don’t have much choice. There are only three combat styles, which means three types of armour and three types of weapons and attacks. So the question is, not just “what is the best armour?”, but “what is the best combination of equipment I can get my hands on?”.

Now the three combat styles are melee (the most popular), mage (uncommon but powerful) and ranged (fairly common). Melee is the most popular due to it’s ability to withstand a rangers attacks, and with the appropriate equipment, such as d’hides, you can still kill a mage with melee. A mage will face serious problems with rangers, but however, they can easily finish off a melee warrior with a decent level of magic in their stats. Lastly, a ranger can easily shoot down a mage, but will face major difficulties in fighting a fully armed melee player. So what is the best fighting style and equipment in the game?

There is no particular “best” fighting style in the game. They all have their advantages and their disadvantages in their own ways. So what players nowadays try to find is the best all rounded equipment for facing all three combat styles. The best armour for an all rounded combat outfit would be d’hides. This is simply because d’hides have a good defence against magic, a decent defence against melee and a reasonably defence against ranging. This is a good combination to have, unlike melee armour, which is good against both melee attacks and ranged attacks but will crumble under a few magic attacks. And as for wizard robes, they have decent defence against magic, but melee players can still hit some decent damage into players wearing wizard robes and rangers can kill players in wizard robes off easily. On top of being all rounded in terms of defence, d’hides are also light, not to mention pretty cheap.

Now, for the weapons. Ranging can hit mages hard, but not players with armour on. Mages can hit armed players hard, but they wouldn’t put a scratch on rangers. However, melee weapons can hit rangers and can also hit through wizard robes. So if you can combine d’hide armour with a rune scimitar, you’ll already have a good combat outfit combination. Rune full helms are a good choice for head gear, as it won’t decrease your defence against magic by much and it will also give you a greater stat for your defence against melee and ranging attacks. A shield will also be required unless you are using a rune 2h sword, which is not recommended because of it’s sluggish speed. The best shield would be the rune berserker shield, fully charged. To save time, it is recommended that you buy this shield off the G.E. and then charge it with Fist of Guthix tokens. If you can’t afford it, then simply get a rune kiteshield. You can do the same with the rune gauntlets which are only obtainable in the Fist of Guthix minigame. These are the best gloves to be worn on non-members’ servers.

Amulets are also very important, as they are relatively cheap to purchase of the G.E. and they can provide a decent amount of defence and attack bonuses. The best amulet for an all rounded effect would be the amulet of power. This gives you attack and defence bonuses, which are by far the best stats given by an amulet in F2P servers. And as for rings, the only useful one which gives any real stats are the explorer rings. The best one would be the explorer ring 3. Apart from having some cool uses and features built into this ring, it also provides a +1 stat for the prayer bonuses. This is the only ring in F2P servers which provide you with a stat bonus. You can then obtain fighting/ fancy boots from the stronghold of security’s final level. These are the best boots in F2P servers.

Put all these equipment together and you should have one of the best all rounded equipment in Runescape F2P servers. I hope this guide helped. Cheers.

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World Of Warcraft

World of Warcraft : How to Make Gold with Leatherworking

Most people will always tell you that gathering professions are the only way to make gold, and that most often crafting professions are going to lose you money because you’re going to be much too interested in gaining levels and will spend gold trying to make gear.

The thing these people don’t understand is that first of all, the gear you make does have an economic value. You can get back what you paid for in materials by selling the gear on the auction house. Also, you get to level your profession through the means of buying auction house materials and crafting more gear. The higher level the crafting profession, the more gold you can potentially earn through the use of it.

Blues

Once you can make some rare (blue) gear, this is where the money can really start flowing in. Of course making these equips is going to cost much more, but so does buying it off the auction house. If you’re the only one selling the equipment, you can easily make tons of gold through this way. Sometimes, grinding for the materials when they’re not on the auction house is the best way to make the gold. Grind on stuff that you can skin for the gear, or run a search on thottbot.com for the mob that drops the particular item you need. Of course this can take some time, but the gold outcome is often well worth it once you find one that works well.

Materials

I’ve noticed that one of the easiest and most reliable ways to make smaller scale amounts of gold is to change materials. For instance, buy stacks of light leather and convert them to medium leather and resell. Buy medium or light hide, cure, and resell for more than you paid for the salt. Also, another good way to make money through this is to buy ruined leather scraps, turn into light leather, and resell. Of course you need money to make money through this method, but you can still make a decent profit in the long run.

Taking Advantage of Trade Channel

The trade channel is a great way to make the gold flow in as well, because people that might not even check the auction house for the gear you can create might be tempted to view what you can craft them. Now, with the convenient feature of being able to link your profession to anyone, people can easily see every item that you can possibly craft for them, as well as the materials they will need to provide you with in order to create it. They will also know a rough estimate of what they should owe you after the whole transaction is complete if they used your own materials.

There are a few other ways to make money with leatherworking, and with crafting professions in general, but I would say these strategies are some of the best ways to make gold through the use of crafting, and leatherworking in specific.

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Taking and Locating Screenshots in World of Warcraft on Windows Vista

We see many screenshots of the world sensation mmorpg World of Warcraft. In forums and PvP videos we get to see players performing amazing achievements in gameplay. It could involve killing a whole lot of players in a battleground like Warsong Gulch or getting a group of friends together to make a dance music video in Ironforge.

But there are many times when you probably have killed a rare monster, trained in epic flying for the first time, or made it to the top of the charts in a battleground match. How do you take screenshots in World of Warcraft? How can a guild leader make sure his first successful raid can be something his guildmates won’t forget soon? Many players would want to keep memories of such things.

World of Warcraft isn’t the only game where taking screenshots is popular among players. Many veterans of Star Wars Galaxies before its Combat Upgrade would agree that shots taken of the game in 2003-2004 can evoke tears. Guildmates can relate to this the most, especially if they still remain in contact with each other.

MMORPGs in general are a hub for social interaction of the virtual dimension, which makes screenshots that much more compelling. Anything is possible and when you are able to direct your friends on where to stand, what to say, and what to wear for a screenshot, it’s a lot like being a director.

So how do you take a screenshot in World of Warcraft (and most major online multiplayer games)?

The answer is simple.

Step 1: The monitor is the camera. Whatever is on your screen is what is going to be in the screenshot.

Step 2: Click the Prnt Scrn button (Print Screen), which is located at the top right of most keyboards. This is the button you press when you want the screenshot taken. Think of it as the button on a camera.

If you want your interface to temporarily disappear so you can get maximum detail in your screenshot, press Alt + Z. This will immediately remove the interface (the hotkeys, bags, tabs).

Then click Prnt Scrn to take the screenshot, without any interference.

Click Alt + Z again to bring back the interface, everything back to normal.

It takes practice to perfectly time the Prnt Scrn button to capture a moment. Here is a screenshot of my Night Elf Warrior on an NPC gryphon mount flying towards Stormwind. I knew the mount was going to make a close pass to the waterfall, which was a shot difficult to do on a personal aerial mount. It was simpler to let the NPC gryphon move into the perfect position so I can time the press of the button.

Now you know how to take screenshots but here comes the tricky part. If you want to send these pictures to friends or post them on your blog, you need to know where the screenshots are saved. From looking at the forums and general knowledge about WoW, very few people actually know where screenshots are moved. The folder in which they are located is difficult to find without prior information of what type of folder it is.

The folder location is:

C:\Users\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Screenshots

The ‘Name’ folder is simply the main folder your system is based on (ex. John, Mary, etc.). It is usually the name of the computer’s owner.

There we go. AppData is impossible to locate visually because it is a hidden folder. To do this the quick way, go to the start menu (on Vista) and search for “appdata” and it should show up in the search results – but slightly transparent. This means it is hidden.

Enter the folder and keep moving through the list till you get to the Screenshots folder. To create a shortcut, right click on the Screenshots folder and click on “Create Shortcut.” A shortcut file copy of the folder will be created. Click and drag this file out into your desktop or to any location you wish.

When World of Warcraft was first launched, taking screenshots was a tedious process. The files were saved in .tga format, which must be converted to a viewable file such as a .jpeg. Programs like Irfanview were useful in converting the files. However, the developers realized the problem and facilitated the entire process by allowing screen shots to be automatically saved as JPEG files.

All gamers need to know how to record memorable moments not only for themsevles, but for their friends as well. It feels good knowing you can look back years from now, seeing the hilarity of influencing so many real people with a simple virtual avatar. Players can email their screenshots to friends through email attachments or they can post them on forums where many people can see them. Some guilds, in an attempt to preserve memories of games that are no longer considered popular, create long memoirs of screenshots where their guild history is chronicled in great detail and depth.

Memories are priceless.

Think you’ve taken a superb screenshot? Blizzard can be the judge of that. Enter your screenshots into their reviewed gallery, located here. The page has information and rules that your screenshot must follow to be judged. Blizzard is currently looking for many screenshot entries, especially environmental, for their new upcoming WoW expansion – Wrath of the Lich King.

It’s a bright future for artistic eyes in the virtual world. Be a part of it.