The Oldschool RuneScape Rebuild Project

Last updated on 2021-11-08

I have been playing Oldschool RuneScape since 2017 - give or take four years of my active gaming life. I have skimped out playing many newer titles in favor of this game. I have been a RuneScape player since the early days of 2005, but only recently started my Oldschool journey back in 2017.

Since that time, I have spent hundreds of hours killing bosses, grinding up skills, doing achievements I didn't even think I would ever be able to do, acquiring pets, and acquiring the max level in one of my favorite skills, Slayer, which has taken me quite possibly close to over 1500 hours of killing monsters.

I had a bank value of 850 million gold. It's not a lot, but for someone like me, it was crazy seeing how much wealth I amassed over my time. Much of the gold was spent on bonds to keep my membership active, but it was a fun experience having high-level gear and money to do pretty much whatever activity I so pleased.

Then... I lost it all.

Through unforseen circumstances, I lost it in a scam indirectly. I lent money to a friend, who fell for a phishing scam, and it cost me all the money I had lent him. We had purchased a Twisted Bow to try it out and we played with it a fair bit, but unfortunately he was phished for his full password and authenticator, giving away full access to his entire account. The phishers took the Twisted Bow, and I lost a ton of wealth in the process.

So, I took a few month break from the game. My bank went from 850mil, to a measily 50mil. I had a lot of untradeables and things generally not worth selling. 50mil isn't even enough to get me up to speed on any boss, so realistically I would be chugging along at a much slower pace in every category of the game. That was enough to make me stop. Four years of grinding and acquiring wealth went right down the drain.

But I came back. I felt a spark of motivation to do things again. I could still do some stuff, it wasn't the entire end of the world. There were still enough ambitious goals I could start focusing on, so I rejoined up and started small.

This post is dedicated to sharing my new-found achievements in RuneScape. I am a max Slayer level player so I have access to all levels of monsters in the game. Monster killing is unfortunately the best way to earn money, so I will only be doing this, along with maybe some minor skilling in the process.

Glossary

• Stats/skills - in RuneScape, there are 23 skills in the game all with their own individual experience counters. You get experience (XP) by completing various actions. Skills range betweens Level 1 and Level 99, with 99 being the max level for that skill. Earning 99 in every skills earns you the Max Cape, meaning you pretty much beat the game experience-wise. The maximum level is 2277.
• Boss kills - every time a special boss in the game is slain, the game increments your Kill Counter by one, updating you on the highscore boards. A special word for this is "KC", short for kill-count. Saying you have 4,370 KC at Vorkath means you killed Vorkath exactly 4,370 times. Yes there are some absurd boss kill counts out there.
• Collection Log - the main thing that people often play for is "completing" the game by filling something called the Collection Log. The Collection Log keeps track of all rare and unique rewards earned from a large array of bosses and activities. Once a unique is earned, it is marked in the collection log. If you earned everything from an activity/boss, then that section of the collection log is then marked as fully completed in green. Players share collection log completions to often times brag about who got 100% completion in the fewest rounds of activities.
• Pets - most bosses and skills offer pets, little miniature buddies who follow you around in-game. Pets from bosses are observed at a base-line 1 in 3000 chance of earning them. Meaning to go completely average on a boss pet, you would have to kill a boss about 3,000 times. Skills function differently and pets are earned at different rates depending on the skilling activity. Some minigames and events also offer pets (Chambers of Xeric, Soul Wars, Wintertodt, etc).

Things Completed

The list of things to do in this game grows on, but I have decided to re-write much of this to compress the length of the page. I will be going over quickly what I have "completed", and completion for me means earning the pet. If I get a pet from a boss, I will pretty much never go back there unless under special circumstances, like I actually have fun doing it.

Rebuild Plans

Updated on 2021/11/08

Over the last two months I've done a lot of bossing and various activities, so I'm going to re-create my goals here. I still very much have pets on my mind and I am willing to do what I can to earn more pets, plain and simple. So here are my goals, at this point.

• Get a Dragon Warhammer from Lizardman Shamans, very long grind, might not ever happen
• Kill the Abyssal Sire until 1000 KC to possibly earn the Unsired pet
• Kill Grotesque Guardians until 1000 KC to possibly earn the special Gargoyle pet
• Kill more Kraken, get the Kraken pet at long last
• Try to do some more Sarachnis duo kills and get further on the highscore board
• Occasionally do some King Black Dragon kills to chance the pet
• Do some Chambers of Xeric until at least 100 KC, could be a Twisted Bow
• Get more gear and get back into Hydra. I will not be doing Hydra until my gear is massively upgraded.

Rare Items and Pets

Here is the area where I will show off my new pets and rare drops that I am in desperate need of.