Recently, I've gotten into dungeoneering. Having never really tried it before, I was pretty intimidated by the massive learning curve. My level was mid-60's due to Tears of Guthix. (Funny how much exp a solid year of Tears will give you!)
Monique tried it with me, and we had mixed results. She likes to dive in and try things. I like to research, plan, and prepare. So for her, it was very boring... waiting for me. For me, it was a wonderful new world within Runescape. Dungeoneering harks back, for me, to the early days of home computers. Bard's tale, Pool of Radiance, all those games that were mainly about gaining levels and crawling dungeons. I kind of miss those days.
As I've learned, and improved, I think maybe I can take Monique back into the dungeons and not slow her down now. So with luck, she might be willing to duo a few floors with me. Otherwise, I enjoy solo dungeoneering. Even if the exp is far slower than with team play.
A couple of weeks ago, I found someone to make a couple of items for me to bind. Promethium 2-Handed Sword and Chestplate. Love them both, but I would really enjoy trying other things out. I'm also looking to find a Shadow Silk Hood, and will have to give up one of the binds if I do. But I can't afford to lose the time, or money, constantly paying someone to make new gear, so I'm hesitant to experiment, and don't want to give anything up for the hood (not that I've found one yet!).
It got me thinking how fun it would be, to make my own gear. I'm a skiller at heart, and most of my skills are decent or better. So I looked up how much I'd need to mine and smith promethium. To do it all, I'd need 90 mining, and 99 smithing. I thought, heck, I've got 82 mining, and 91 Smithing. Let's do this!
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| The Liquid Gold Nymph sorta liked me... |
It's a week later now. I have the fancy golden mining armor from the Liquid Gold Nymph. It took 14 real-time hours down in the Lava Flow Mine to get it all, and to have my pick guilded. Also bought a Dragon Pick Axe for best mining. Figured I can always sell it back later. And at 14 million, trust me, it's going back just as soon as I'm done with it!
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| She gave me this cool Gold Mining Armor |
For the last week, all my game-time has been spent in the Living Rock Cavern, mining gold. My mining went from level 82, up to 88 by Thursday. 89 by Friday, and got 90 this morning.
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| I'll be glad to leave this chaos behind! |
Started all this last Sunday, and today is Saturday. Now that mining is at 90, I've switched to smithing. It'll take 125,000 gold ore turned into bars, using the goldsmith gauntlets and my Varrock 4 armor. I banked about 17,000 gold ore while mining. (Spent some of my time Lava Mining, which doesn't give ores.) It cost around 24 million to buy the rest of the ore, which will become gold bars. Then craft, probably into plain gold rings. They resell at a loss, but not a complete loss. With any luck, by the time I've gotten to 99 smithing, it won't be a big money pit. Or maybe I'll forget profit, and just make gold amulets for the better experience.
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| Monique and me making gold bars |
I know this'll take a lot of time. But worth it, when I head back into the dungeons and can make my own armor and weapons instead of relying on someone else. To me, dungeoneering is all about the fun. If I was serious about getting exp and levels, I'd team dungeon.
The good part, when it's all done, I'll be a tiny bit closer to the max skills cape. So it's all good.
