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| My 1 level raised over the Bonus Exp Weekend... |
Let's start off by saying Monique smoked me. She left skid marks on the road, and me standing in a cloud of dust. Early Friday morning, I was aware she had just gotten 97 in Herblore. A short while later, she sent me an email. All it said was "98". By the time I got home she was nearing 99, and had her skill cape in no time flat. I asked how she was screaming through it so fast, she said she was making overloads from scratch. Sounds expensive, but she'll use them on Slayer and make it back.
In the meantime, she moved over to Crafting, and gained a few levels in that. Then she jumped to Fletching, which is where she spent the rest of the weekend. Her goal was to get at least 93 Fletching, in order to be able to do all levels of Effigies for Fletching/Woodcutting. Neither of us has that at the moment. Or, we didn't.
We'll get back to the effigies in a moment...
In the meantime, I started bonus exp weekend having just barely begun Slayer level 97. I use Super Sets (Strength and Attack), Turmoil, Soul Split, Cannonballs, whatever I can to speed it up. I don't pick up any drops unless they're especially good... like Effigies. No extremes, though. My herblore's only 89, which limits which ones I can make... and I don't want to take the time from Slayer to make them. When it makes sense, I use Dragon Claws special, or Vine Whip special, Korasi's special, or the Enhanced Excalibur.
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| Steel Titan, Cannon, Potions, every advantage possible |
I skip slow tasks, even if I like them. Right now, all I want is speed. So, during the weekend I got a grand total of over 6 million exp. I wish it all went to Slayer, but of course most of it was just plain old combat. Of that number, 1,200,000 or so went to Slayer.
While working on the skill, I got a ton of Effigy drops. I quit counting after a dozen, and just cashed in the ones I could, left the rest in the bank for the moment.
Now's probably a good time to talk about Effigies. I don't know which monsters drop them, or what the drop rate is, but it seems to be rare, or very uncommon. They have 4 stages, each of which requires a correspondingly higher skill level in different skills to unlock. Each level you unlock (or someone assists you to unlock) gives experience points to that skill. (Either to you, or the person assisting if you needed help.) The final stage reveals a Dragonkin Lamp, which is used for experience in any skill you want. The amount given depends on the level of the skill chosen.
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| Ancient Effigy |
That's the short form. For a full explanation, Wiki has a great webpage. In my case, it's all going to Slayer, and at level 98... and yes, that's the only level I gained this weekend... I'm getting about 46k exp per Dragonkin Lamp.
So currently, I've got something like 14 Effigies that I'll need boosts or assists to unlock. Once I unlock all the lamps, that will give me about 600,000 exp. I also have enough Slayer points to buy about 85k exp as well.
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| Monique assisting me with Ancient Effigy |
To top it all off, tomorrow is Tuesday, and Monique and I will be doing penguins. They'll give me close to 40k. Which means, at my current Slayer experience, I only need about 300k more experience to get 99. (Quick update here: we finished Ritual of the Mahjarrat, and used all 80k exp lamps on Slayer. I just need to finish cashing in my effigies to level 99!)
That's a lot of work, but without the Effigies, it would be tons more! I think I can get it by next weekend (I hope!)
Then I start playing Soul Wars, earning Zeal points. With 100 Zeal, TzRek-Jad will be mine (insert evil laughter here). I can't wait!
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