This month's skilling update is a pretty cool one... or not, depending on your point of view. As always, when Runescape gives us a new way to skill, or improves and existing one, there are complainers. People with 99's who think this somehow devalues their skills. While I can understand their feelings, I think they forget it's a game, played for fun. If something changes to make the game more fun, I'm all for it. Especially if it reduces the boring tedium required to earn a 99 in anything.
I like to have fun. But I also like leveling up, even though it can be a real pain. If I can level up, and have more fun doing it, that's the way the game should be. If you followed the complainers logic to it's bitter end, we'd all still be playing original Runescape Classic, in all it's glorious hand-drawn, flat 2-d art. Because the complainers would veto any changes that made earning a skill easier.
Okay, enough griping. Sorry, got off topic slightly.
The new Urns are a pretty spectacular addition to certain skills. First, in their very creation, you earn exp in Crafting. Way cool, because I need to improve my crafting level, and these are cheap to make, while mildly profitable to sell. (I would say Wildly profitable, but they sell slow at the moment.)
Then they can be crafted to speed up experience in Cooking, Fishing, Mining, Smithing, Woodcutting, and Prayer. I've only used the Fishing Urns so far, but the exp gain is very nice.
With the best urn, I get 1900 exp per full urn. I've been fishing Rocktails, with a Rock Lobster. I now bring a few urns with me. While they do enhance exp gained, and quite nicely, there's an even better aspect. They give me something new and entertaining to consider while I fish.
Just imagine- fish, fish, fish, kill some bait, fish, fish, fish... that gets a little boring after 90+ levels. Now, every now and then I get a notice. "Your urn is now one-quarter full"... "Your urn is now half full"... and when the urn is full, I actually get to manually initiate the teleport. Watch my little guy put the urn down, see it whisk away...
If it sounds like I'm teasing, well, maybe a little. But really, I'm glad for the extra distraction. It provides a little more entertainment, yet if I'm reading something, (or writing a new Runescape blog) there's no hold-up because I'm not paying attention. Sometimes I miss an urn being filled up. When the next one tells me, and I go to teleport it, that's when I realize I had more than one. I still get all the exp, no waiting, hold-up, or penalties.
Bear in mind, I've only tried it with fishing so far, which I like very much.
Monique has used the Prayer urns, and that looks pretty good too. Prayer got an even better boost than the other skills did. Now demons drop ashes that can be used for prayer, and are very effective used with the Prayer Urns. Monique has been working very hard, and spending a fortune, trying to raise prayer. Now she'll have a new tool to use. She likes to multi-task, so rarely does Abyssal demons unless it's a Slayer task. But I told her she should just camp out at the Abyssals, collecting the odd Abyssal Whip, and earning (urning) Prayer exp. Sounds like a win-win to me!
The other update, making agility shortcuts easier, I haven't looked at yet. Maybe this weekend.
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