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Welcome to the Guide: The point of this guide is to show the most efficient way of achieving a skill cape or any long-term goal. While I am no Jardeath, I shall try to explain my reasoning in getting the most out of my time that I invest into RuneScape. Reaching max efficiency has completely changed my entire way I play the game and if you agree if may change yours as well. http://www.savagechickens.com/2008/05/high-efficiency.html Table of Content: -Before you plan for any goal -Choosing Your Goal and the Best Training Methods -Formulas to Finding Max Efficiency -Example of an Efficiency Calculations -How Much GP/hr You Must Make To Make The Expensive Method Efficient -Adapting The Formula To Your Needs -Conclusions Before You Plan for Any Goal: -Agree with me that efficiency is based off achieving your goal the quickest in terms of hours spent on RuneScape (including making money back). • What I’m saying is that you must agree that using the least GP/XP is not necessarily the best way to reach a goal. While this may be a huge factor in the way you skill, read further to hear my explanations. -Calculate your best moneymaking method. • Now this is possibly the most important part of reaching a goal, especially if it is a very expensive skill and require some time testing. I would test your three best current moneymaking methods (killing dragons etc) and test each for at least an hour to determine the amount of items/kills you receive per hour as this will come to be a huge factor in reaching max efficiency. Due to the ever-changing RuneScape economy, you will never really have a set GP/hr. For this reason, it is must smarter to calculate your potential profit at the current time that you will be killing/skilling. A couple reminders: do not forget to subtract the cost of supplies and do not exaggerate numbers of how much you make (no one is looking and it will only hurt you!). Also, don’t choose something that you could not see yourself doing for 20+ hours. For example, instead of cleaning 5,000 herbs an hour, I would choose to kill green dragons. Something that is also something to keep in mind is getting experience while making money; I would far rather get 40k xp/hr and make 350k GP/hr than make 375k GP/hr with no skills involved. -Make sure that you always have the necessary stats/supplies to make money. •It is essential to hold onto the supplies you need to make your maximum GP, so don't overspend. Choosing Your Goal and the Best Training Methods: -Choose your goal •Goals are always fun to accomplish and may be fewer hours away than you think. Why not pick something challenging?! Noob triangles are FTL. Note how much experience you are away from reaching your goal. -Assess the best training methods •Research your specific skill to find what appears to be the most efficient and sometimes the most popular way to train the skill. PLEASE remember that the most popular way to train a skill is often not the most efficient way to train it. Also, don’t shy away from what appear to be expensive ways to train a skill especially if you find yourself able to make more than 400k GP/hr. -Test your training methods •While testing your methods, find these categories out: -GP Gained/Lost per hour by training -XP Gained per hour in your specific skill -Maximum moneymaking GP/hr (These will plug into the efficiency formulas) Formulas to Finding Max Efficiency: -Finding the hours that it will take to achieve your goal •If you already know your maximum ability to moneymaking, these formulas become much simpler. (Total Experience Needed) = (XP/hr) x (variable – hours needed), so Hours Needed = (Total Experience)/(XP/hr) Once you find how many hours needed, you then also need to find how many hours it will take you to make that money lost back. Total Money Lost = (GP loss per hour) x (hours needed) With this, Hours spent making money lost = (Total Money Lost) / (Maximum moneymaking capabilities) So then the total hours needed are: Formula for Max Efficiency Example of Testing Efficiency: -Now that seemed a bit overwhelming when I put it all together, so I will use a very simple skill to test it – Firemaking. I will compare the hours needed with maple and magic logs. Before you start, I would recommend grabbing a calculator and a piece of paper to record your notes and hours required. NOTES: After testing: I can firemake 1,100 logs per hour I can make 600,000 GP/hr Maples – 135xp; 84 gp each Magic – 303.8xp; 1431gp each Maples – 148,500 experience per hour with -92,400 GP/hr Magic – 334,180 experience per hour with -1,574,100 GP/hr I want 4,000,000 firemaking experience Maples: Total Hours = (4,000,000)/(148,500) – ((-92,400) • (4,000,000/148,500))/(600,000) = 31.084 total hours. Magics: Total Hours = (4,000,000)/(334,180) – ((-1,574,100) • (4,000,000/334,180))/(600,000) = 43.371 total hours So, with my moneymaking capabilities, it is inefficient for me to use magic logs over maple logs. These numbers can, however, easily change. Let’s only change me being able to now make 1,200,000 GP/hr through PVM. Maples: Total Hours = (4,000,000)/(148,500) – ((-92,400) • (4,000,000/148,500))/(1,200,000) = 29.010 hours Magics: Total Hours = (4,000,000)/(334,180) – ((-1,574,100) • (4,000,000/334,180))/(1,200,000) = 27.670 hours So, now using magic logs becomes more effective that maple logs. You can even go further to say that using magics is WAY more efficient because of the possible Effigy that a monster drops, which can lead to even more experience, possibly even in the skill you’re training! Please note that the formula works both ways, if you gain money while earning experience, it will subtract some time dependant on your max GP/hr. While it may not actually save time while completing your goal, it will save 'X' hours of maximum moneymaking for your next goal. Therefore, if money is not an object, you may want to ignore the formula after the subtraction sign because this will not literally bring down the hours taken on this goal, just help you on your next goal. Also note that while using a calculator, none of the parentheses are necessary due to order of operations. How Much GP/hr You Must Make To Make The Expensive Method Efficient: So now that you aren't a rookie anymore, let's find out how much GP/hr you need to make using mahogany tables over oak planks efficient. To accomplish this goal of finding at what point a specific method becomes efficient, you need to set both equations equal to each other and do some simple algebra. NOTES: After testing: I want 4,000,000 construction experience I can make 'X'k GP/hr With Oak planks I can make 200k XP/hr I use 3,333 oak planks per hour with -1,573,176 GP/hr + -78,125 GP/hr inc. cost of butler to a total of -1,651,301 GP/hr Oak Planks: 472 gp each; 60 xp per With mahogany planks I can make 550k XP/hr I use 3,928 mahogany planks per hour with -9,361,785 GP/hr + -141,605 GP/hr inc cost of demon butler to a total of -9,503,390 GP/hr Mahogany Planks: 2383 gp each; 140 xp per Setting the Equations Equal: The left being oaks and the right being mahogany (4,000,000)/(200,000) – ((-1,573,176) x (4,000,000)/(200,000)/( X ) = (4,000,000)/(550,000) – ((-9,503,390) x (4,000,000)/(550,000)/( X ) After multiplying both sides by x and subtracting, I ended with: 12.78X = 35,059,689 X = 2,743,324 GP/hr Therefore, for me, using mahogany planks to make tables over using oak planks to make dungeon doors only becomes efficient if I am able to make greater than 2,743,324 GP/hr. Adapting the Formula to Your Needs: The age-old question: Is Stealing Creation an efficient way for me to train a skill? Well to answer the question, it depends on the skill and your GP/hr. While this isn’t as direct as the formula I have previously given above, my formula is meant to adapt. So for the addition, we need to take into consideration the time that is spent getting the tools. This formula (from above) remains the same: Total Hours = (Total Experience Needed)/(XP/hr) - ((GP loss/gain per hour) x ((Total Experience Needed)/(XP/hr)) / (Maximum moneymaking capabilities) Before adding on, it is a necessity to additionally calculate: How many tools you can get per hour -- Look into using a non-combat clan chat for max efficiency (fast sc, etc.) How many tools it will take to reach your goal experience Can be found here: http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Proto-tool Total Tools Needed= (Total Experience Needed)/(Total Experience Per Tool (inc. the exp you would normally receive)) Time Taken to Get Tools = (Total Tools Needed) / (Tools I Can Get Per Hour) So Time Taken to Get Tools = (Total Experience Needed)/((Total Experience Per Tool) / (Tools I Can Get Per Hour)) Which leads to the final equation of: Formula of Max Efficiency Using Stealing Creation Whew that’s a lot to plug into the calculator but it’ll be worth it! Let’s use construction on oak dungeon doors to test it out using the tools vs. not bothering to get them. NOTES: After testing: I want 4,000,000 construction experience I can make 500k GP/hr I can make 200k XP/hr I use 3,333 oak planks per hour with -1,573,176 GP/hr + -78,125 GP/hr inc. cost of butler to a total of -1,651,301 GP/hr Oak Planks: 472 gp each; 60 xp per I can get 4 SC proto-tools an hour Each tool is worth 50,750 total experience Total Hours = (Total Experience Needed)/(XP/hr) - ((GP loss/gain per hour) x ((Total Experience Needed)/(XP/hr)) / (Maximum moneymaking capabilities) + (Total Experience Needed)/((Total Experience Per Tool)/(Tools I Can Get Per Hour)) With Using Stealing Creation: Total Hours = (4,000,000)/(400,000) – (-1,651,301) x ((4,000,000)/(400,000))/(500,000) + (4,000,000)/((50750)/(4)) = 62.730 Total Hours -- Notice I doubled the XP/hr that I can get due to the 2x nature of the tools. The cost per plank is still the same, but you only spent half the time constructing, so only half usual the planks are used. Without Using Stealing Creation: Total Hours = (4,000,000)/(200,000) – (-1,651,301) x ((4,000,000)/(200,000))/(500,000) = 86.052 Total Hours Therefore, it is far more efficient to spend time getting tools if I can make 500,000 GP/hr. Now, let’s use different numbers and say I can theoretically make 1.75M GP/hr PVM’ing With Stealing Creation: Total Hours = (4,000,000)/(400,000) – (-1,651,301) x ((4,000,000)/(400,000))/(1,750,000) + (4,000,000)/((50750)/(4)) = 39.140 Total Hours Without Stealing Creation: Total Hours = (4,000,000)/(200,000) – (-1,651,301) x ((4,000,000)/(200,000))/(1,750,000) = 38.872 Total Hours Only when it gets to such high profits as 1.75M GP/hr does not using non-combat stealing creation become efficient. Surprising? I definitely think so, but money saved in expensive stats can go a long way. So basically, according to my trial runs and using oak dungeon doors, if I cannot make over 1.75M GP/hr than I should be playing Stealing Creation for hammers. Just remember that your personal speed will be different than me, so it is ESSENTIAL to get your data. Note that order of operations will still take the parentheses away. Conclusions: While there are other ways to create formulas based on efficiency, I have created this one to help those looking more for simplicity and straightforwardness. I consider this a beginner's guide because there are some complex things left out like getting the max efficiency for making GP/hr etc, but I figured that this guide would really have helped me a few months ago Credits: -Meow Meowwww for editting -Tore for always answering my noob questions on efficiency, giving me motivation to write this guide, and sprouting ideas for new sections -Jar for checking over my work to make sure I wasn't making a fool of myself -RuneWiki for being there for me when no one else was -David for making my guide easier to read -Joshua for the awesome suggestions DISCLAIMER: Play RuneScape for fun! For me, finding max efficiency is what I play for. If it's not your thing/you don't find it fun, why be unhappy... It's a game for goodness sake.

Re MAXED BABY!

After a long month of many gains, I have finally maxed!

[ I anticipate that this is a low-mid level guide, aimed mostly to those current or future fellow Masors who have some trouble in maintaining a Bond or in making consistent cash at all as they start being members ] Ok, so we were talking ingame the other day about bonds, dailies and such, and Anprman suggested that I made a post here based on the things that I mentioned on that conversation. This is not going to look nearly as cute as most guides we are used to see cause more than a ~how to do stuf it is more of a list of ~what things you wanna know you can do in order to make some easy money daily while a member, more than enough to maintain a bond (but I'm taking suggestion on how to improve it). There will be however some explanations where I see fit and all should feel free to add any questions or suggestions below. The horizontal lines are my poor attempt to create sections for you to be able to jump straight to what matters to you. __________________________________________________________ So the basic idea is: Dailies If that does not sound familiar to you, the fact is that there is a bunch of things you can do in RuneScape only once a day, and a large share of these things are fast, easy and profitable. This guide thus will try to cover those of these that I find the most relevant. The one guy who introduced me to dailies and had all the patience to come with me ingame to the places and show everything was Toe of Camel and I'll always be very grateful for that.Now let's get to business! __________________________________________________________ The Dailies (there are more...) [ Note that some dailies require an specific quest or level. You may choose from the ones you can already do and plan yourself to unlock the others that you liked ] Have in mind that the following list structure is for making stuff more understandable, divided in categories. You should consider each action separately in order to achieve an optimal routine. Buying Yak Hide from the Store in Jatizso No big secret here. Just boring, and profitable, and boring. Buying Fire Runes from Stores (also Airs and any others you find worth it) Dark Mage (North of Edgeville) Mage Arena (High Level Wilderness. You an use the Lever on the runs in Edge or in Ardougne) Baga Yaga (Lunar Isle) Magic Guild (Yanille) Void Knight Outpost Buying Broad Arrowheads Turael Mazchna or any other Slayer Master besides Turael These are worth doing while on your tree Farming runs to make good use of the fact that you will need to pass in front of Turael and also of Mazchna if you do Mushrooms along with trees like I do. Buying Feathers Port Sarim (while here, consider buying the runes for Betty if your time is less worth than mine) Lumbridge Shantay Pass Fishmonger in Rellekka Miscellania & Etceteria (buy these when you come to cap your 100% approval) Using the Wicked hood With a full inventory of essence (with pouches), use it's teleport to the altar of the rune type that makes more profit to you (Cosmic, Astral...) While on the altar, withdraw all the essence the hood has to offer and use them on the altar Grab the free runes from the pouch as well (I think fires are still the best) Teleport to the Wizards Tower already if you wanna make Vis wax (Rune Goldberg Machine) Rune Goldberg Machine (Vis wax) Getting Potato Cactus from the Weird Old Man (requires the medium Desert Tasks done) Making Potion Flasks in Oo'glog This requires 89 Crafting but the actual daily limit is just for mining the Red Sandstone, which requires 81 Mining. So if you cannot make the flasks but can already mine the sandstone go for it. It's gonna be a grind to make a lot on flasks in a row later, though, so you better get that 89 Crafting soon if you wanna do this one. __________________________________________________________ How it works About each possible daily, there are basically 2 things you wanna know in order to decide rather to do it or not: Its Effective Profit Effective Profit means "how much this method would make per hour, if you could actually do it for one hour straight". So for example, imagine we could get a free 30k per day from King Roald in Varrock. How do you know if it's worth it to go there and get it? It's not as simple as it seems. Reaching King Roald demands time and runes if you want to teleport to Varrock Square, so the 30k are not exactly for free. I'm gonna test right now how long it takes for me to go from a bank to King Roald, speak to him simulating the 30k claim and then coming back to a bank.. It took me 70 seconds cause I'm a slow old chap.. and the teleport currently costs ~370gp if you use a staff to provide air runes. So we got (30000-370)gp / 70 seconds = 423gp/s = 1.5m/h (Excel/GoogleDrive is your friend. You want a beautiful fat table for these calculations) So the big thing here is "How much is your time worth?" If you can make more than 1.5m/h with your main moneymaking method, Astral Runes for example, it would then be a complete waste of time to go claim those 30k from Roald. This is called Efficiency. So the thing is: You don't wanna do dailies with an effective profit that is lower than the profit of your regular moneymaking method, cause that would be stupid, basically. How much you hate it On the end of the day, people are not machines so not everything is calculable. Even if some daily is worth it based on your efficiency calculations, the way you feel about it affects not only your performance but also the way you enjoy the game. Some pains are simply not worth it. Yak Hides are not worth it for me =/ Last but not least, you wanna plan the order in which you are going to do those dailies. Some involve getting to places which are convenient for starting another one, so a smart route plan will change the effective profit of individual dailies, maybe even making you change your mind over something being worth it or not. There is a mathematical optimal route for a given set of chosen dailies, but I think it is crazy to try and find that out. Just put your brain to work and find out a solution that suits you well. Just as I said above, the most profitable is not always the most enjoyable. It's a choice will you always have to make no only in RuneScape, but also in real life. To clarify the smart route plan thing: For example, why not get the boat to the Void Knights Outpost right after buying the feathers from Port Sarim? __________________________________________________________ With all that said, I present you a picture with the dailies that I do myself, to make stuff a little bit more clear. As you can see, it indicates a daily profit of about 1.3m made in 20 minutes, which after 14 days can pay for a new Bond. I can make a copy of the Google Sheet available if you like, but I think it would be much more productive if you tried to make yours, in order to truely understand how it works. Note that simply copying the values doesn't work, cause they need to be updated every now and then and the time values tend to be different for each person. __________________________________________________________ Well, this is it. I truely hope this helps some people keeping their accounts economically healthier. Please feel free to add any questions or corrections (incluing for the language. I'm not a native speaker myself so there might be some stomach crushing mistakes out there)

Merry Christmas Masors!

So this happened http://imgur.com/a/0fIpq

Updated Invention Guide with the perks that I personally use.

#Author's Notes 72 chests per inventory is my personal best with this method, I could easily go 150 chests per inventory though if I had guthix's blessing or used a shield to heal rather than using saradomin brews and super restores. This method will yield about 12-15 chests with the best gear, overload and turmoil per hour, expect less with lesser setups. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Welcome to your guide to barrows, I've earlier made a guide on this subject but due to updates it have become outdated so I decided to make a new one due to requests. This guide contains heavy amount of images so it's not recommended to use a cellphone to view this guide. ^-^ This method is extremely powerful, you can expect to get at least more than 20 chests per inventory if you're doing it right. What we are looking at behind me is the minigame location, the setup I'm using and everything else interesting. Lets begin with the action bars. first thing you want to make your keybinds easy to access rather than this, simply right click any ability and bind it to a key on your keyboard. if you got a razer mouse or similar with multiple keys you can bind a few to those as well, for convenience sake I will bind it so it will look like this. Okay, now that's done with, we need to set up the inventory in a specific way to minimize the amount of mouse movement, this is why we got Shift Q and W bound as they are By putting Karil's crossbow in shift+W keybind we now unlock (Y) keybind for use with anything else, I'd recommend to insert overload on Y because of this. This is the way you want your inventory to look, I know it's a lot of overloads, don't worry about it, if you cannot use overload I recommend using summer pies in combination with any kind of defensive potion, for example, super defense potion. This too if you want to be cheaper but I find the increase in chests per hour more profitable in the long run. Karil's Crossbow is also negligible, I recommend using a royal crossbow if you have the know how to kill QBD otherwise just use the best 2H crossbow you can get your hands on Drakan's Medallion from The Branches of Darkmeyer in combination with House tabs this is a great method to reduce the number of prayer restoring potions as possible, all the way down to 0. and the armour: Detailed reasoning for Bandos: If you do not have enough money for the armor I'm using, you can always exchange them for cheaper alternatives, barrows armour such as Verac's is a great alternative until you earned enough money for bandos. The next step in the line is learning the optimal rotation for this, you will soon realize that the use of Assault(5) is more important than that of the use of the complete rotation but it's simple enough to learn; use Slice(1) followed by any of the available abilities (2,3,4,5,R)R should be used last, Regenerate(6) can be exchanged for Guthix's Blessing or Rejuvenate if you for some reason decided to bring along a shield for some reason. Regenerate should be used whenever you need a heal or have a full adrenaline bar. Guthix's Blessing and Rejuvenate can be used in combat and heal for twice as much than Regenerate and are recommended over Regenerate. Okay, you now know the basics of the setup and abilities our next step is to learn what to do with the brothers , to simplify the rotation will take care of them but whenever you can use Assault you should, wait for 3 hits then follow by the use of any of the abilities(2,3,4), this powerful combination has a huge potential and can quickly decimate your foes (Akrisae) Watch this video and you will learn how powerful it really is while learning how to take each and every one down. I used Soul Split and Turmoil through the minigame and ran out after 6/7 graves were checked, it is possible to check all graves before prayer runs out as I've had that happen a few times. However if you do not have 92/95 prayer you can always use piety and protect from melee/mage/range depending on what ability the brother is using, just like overload, it's optional but recommended for maximum efficiency. I have nothing more to add for now, I hope this guide will aid you. Please leave your questions below and I will try to answer them as quickly as possible otherwise look me up in game and I shall aid you. Good luck finding them items

I was just remembering back when I initially began RuneScape back on my old Mac. I have no idea how that silly computer worked with RuneScape! Looking at the computer today, I can only laugh at how pathetic it is. With that old Mac computer I had, the mouse that came with it only had "one click" which was left-click only. I didn't know how to adjust any of the setting on RuneScape to treat all clicks as right click or to hit Ctrl key + click. I remember that it took a long time to get up to my first 1k gp, many many many weeks. I earned my first Mithril Scimitar with the 1,200 gp I had... The person on the other end had no idea what I was doing during the trade transaction. I told him that my right click wasn't working, and that he would have to be patient in order to fulfill the trade. He requested the trade so that I could click on it. He watched for a couple minutes as I clicked each coin one-by-one into the trade screen so that he could get 1,200 gp. I was so happy for my Mithril Scimitar. I remember when killing Goblins was all that I would do. All the drops stunk except for Goblin Mail because it was actually worth some money compared to the other items. If I sold it to the item shop, it would be valued 16 gp! I was lucky every single time I got one as a drop. The only way I could sell them though was through right click, which I had no idea how to do because of my silly Mac. I can't remember how I found out about the setting in RuneScape that makes your left click act as a right click; I was highly embarrassed though. I remember when I met one of my first "wealthy" friends in RuneScape. I asked him how he earned all his money. What he use to do was stand in the Varrock item shop (general store) all day and wait for someone to sell their gem. He would immediately buy all the gems and resell them for a little bit more. He did this all the way up to a Rune 2 Hander valued at 60k gp. Super rich fellow! He use to say words like "LMAO" which I thought was a slang or typo for "LAME!" He also said other words like "LOL" which my dad taught me was "Lots of Love." I could see that a lot of people in RuneScape really loved each other So... my question to you is... Can you beat my stories? I am a noob. I have more nooby stories to come. True story. I give permission to make this a public thread, especially because it is my 4200th post.

So after another Masor fell victim to a hack last night, I felt the need to post this guide in an attempt to thwart our clan from hacking or at least reduce the attepts (I can't stop you from making stupid choices, but I can educate you to hopefully prevent them). Step 1: Non-Guessable PasswordPasswords like, well, "password" are not good. If it's easy to remember, it's easy to guess. Do NOT use your name, birthday, dogs name, boyfriend/girlfriends name, mothers name, etc. as a password. Ideally, a series of numbers with some lowercase and uppercase letters is ideal. I used "iNb4tldr" at work as a pass (not even close to my RS pass =p). Yes, I know it wont be easy to remember as 01281988 (my bday) but it will keep people who know you decently from guessing your password. Most hacks happen from people you know more than random strangers. Also, do NOT use the same password for Runescape as you use for say... oh I don't know, a forum site or any other website. The admin of ANY forum can find out your password EASILY. Hell, just anyone with Admin ACCESS can easily get your account password for that site. Better to be safe than be sorry. Step 2: Have a different Login Name than your Display NameFaylen Sol is NOT my log in name. It's not even close. My Log in Name is something no one will know as it is a security measure. If your hacker doesn't know your log in name, they cannot log into it. Simple. It also puts that barrier in front of random people who know you well enough to guess your password, but don't know your log in name. Never give out your log in name, period. Step 3: Bank PinUsed to be an inconveiniance, but Jagex updated it so that the pins react MUCH faster. Do yourself a favor and do not use your actual IRL bank pin as your RS bank pin. We'd hate for a hacker to get both. Step 4: Chrome Up!!!Yes, Firefox is pretty, Internet Explorer is Easy and Safari is Apple Happy. But Chrome is safer. Why? Sandboxes. Google Chrome has a Sandbox feature that treats each tab like it's own browser. Sure it's RAM heavy, but it's safe. That means no single window can interact with another window. It also auto-blocks any site attempting to download software to your computer without your permission AND utilizes Googles non-safe site section. Know how when you click a link on Google and it lets you know if the site is known for malicious content? Chrome automatically does that for every website and auto-translates ALL websites into your preferred language. Okay, the last bit wasn't a security measure, but it's damned nifty. Chrome no longer supports Java. Firefox is now your best choice for browser based Runescape needs. I still recommend Chrome for browsing. The RS Client is also a great choice for playing the game. Step 5: Anti-Virus away!!Most basic Anti-Viruses will catch your basic keyloggers. Keyloggers aren't the most advanced tech and most people using them are Script-Kittys. People utilizing already made and designed keyloggers rather than one they wrote themselves. It is VERY rare for an ACTUAL hacker to be, well, hacking. Most of them are using others scripts and just sending them in trojans. It's not hard, but a basic anti-virus will block most of these as they are usually old and out of date. FREE anti-viruses however are not foolproof and are not updated as often as one should (Due to the lack of paid employees, etc.) and many free ones download spamware into your computer to help pay for the free services. A good PAID anti-virus is KASPERSKY. In fact, it's well known as the best. If you're willing to pay for extra protection, go with them and make sure to update regularly. Step 6: Windows IsolationThis is a very basic step and CAN stop basic hackers (real ones) and some remote computer access hackers (amatures) as well as some Script-Kittys. -Create an Admin User -Set a password -Create a non-Admin User -Use that account from now on, forever. From this moment on, anytime anything accesses your windows folder, ever. It will prompt you for a password. The problem with being logged into the Admin is it will never ask you for one. It assumes you want it to happen. So being logged into a Non-Admin account helps prevent that. You are not limited, just need the pass anytime the computer makes a big change. Step 7: Clean MSCONFIGTypically, it's easy to sot a virus under CTRL+ALT+DEL, Task Manager, Services because they use up a fair bit of RAM and Proccessor. They also tend to name themselves something official sounding like "WIndows Essential Thingy" or something important sounding so you know not to mess with it. Cleaning out "Msconfig" and familiarizing yourself with the real stuff is good, as you can call out the fake stuff easier. So, go to Msconfig (Hit Run, or go to the search bar for Vista/7 Users, type msconfig and hit enter) then go to Services, hit Hide all microsoft services and then disable all. Re-enable anything to do with your graphics card or Anti-Virus of choice. Then hit Apply and Okay/Enter. Reboot. Once you've cleaned MSCONFIG then it will be easy to learn which services under Task Manager are and are not important. Remember them and learn them. Play with them (You wont break your computer by ending them, once you reboot it will all go back to normal). This best way to learn is from trial and error. Once you've familiarized yourself with the important stuff, when something tries to run that isn't important then you know it. Many viruses, keyloggers, etc. will often show up under the Services tab in Task Manager. If it stands out as something bad, it more than likely is. Step 8: Do NOT go to the following types of sites-Non-renowned fan sites (Runescape wiki, Tip.It, MaSors, etc. are fine) -Sites promising free items -Sites promising Modship -Personal Server Sites -Links to fishy looking RS sites -RWT Sites -Botting Sites -Myspace (it's Open Source, I could put any code I want on my profile) -Links in RS youtube vids -Links in comments -Links from ANY person you don't trust/know very well that plays RS -Links from anyone who plays RS to any-site you are not familiar with Step 9: Familiarize yourself with the Account Help forum on RSOF.There is a topic there called "Account Clean" that can assist you greatly. It helps you get your account back if you are in a tug-of-war match with someone. Remember, some hackers want your account forever, not just for your items. Step 10: Secure your NetworkSo ya know, if you and I are on the same internet connection, I can easily access every file on your computer. It's not hard and Windows 7 made it easier by listing everyone I'm networked with. SO if you have any essential info on your computer that could help me hack your account, I could find it by connecting to your network the same time you were on. Now, this is only useful to people who live in your local area, know you play RS, know where you live and know how to do this. But still, better to be safe than sorry. Step 11: FIRE!!!! Make sure your firewall IS enabled. Firewalls will prevent some unauthorized users from accessing your computer and it's files. Having it strict will prevent most websites from accessing it as well. But many script-kittys will be stopped by a strict firewall, but don't be dumb and disable yours. You'll only INCREASE your odds of being hacked. Final Step: Recovery Questions.Update these regularly. Don't do the once every five years crap. These are your last line of defense if everything else goes wrong. Write down your membership agreement number and hide it somewhere safe (off of the computer). If you don't have these set or can't remember them and your account is hacked, password is changed.... then you don't have much you can do but beg Jagex on the forums only to have your thread locked by Forum Mods like myself telling you there is nothing that can be done and you should post in the Account Clean thread and pray Jagex assists you. FAQ What about Brute Force Hacks? No such thing. A brute force hack would either imply one of the following; a program that would guess your password over and over again until it got it correct or a program that hacks Jagexes system to crack to password. Both are impossible at the level of security Jagex has put on the log in system. The first wont work because you have a limited number of false tries before you can't try anymore for an hour (five tries an hour can take a year before you go through every single possible password). The second is impossible due to the inability to access the server content. You cannot access the login servers because you lack and cannot gain the following without physically being at the servers: Log in Server WAN IP Address (can be obtained with a ping, but it isn't enough) Server LAN IP Address (Cannot be obtained without physically being there) MAC Address (Ditto) Admin Log-In ID Admin Password Not to mention only specific IP adresses are allowed to access the server, so you would need the IT departments IP address along with the above information. In other words, unless you work for Jagex you can't do it. Even if you were a wizard (like had magic and real life hacks) and did it, they can figure out who did it, when, where and find out about it. Proxies are easy to work around and you will be sued. Hacking (real hacking, not being a script-kitty who pretends to be a hacker) is illegal in most countries and is a felony. Why would you say I'm more likely to be hacked by someone close? I trust everyone! Greed. Someone who knows you well enough can guess your info easier. Ever hear the saying, "The closer a pesrson is the shorter knife they'll need to betray you" or something along that line. Be careful of whom you trust.

My favorite thing about masors is my opinion that we have the most mature and civil membership base in all of runescape. We, at masors, are a community and a family and help each other out with practically everything. Why, just today our generous, mature, and well-mannered leader, Tommy, assisted me in my understanding of positive and negative intentions in my forum posts. Thanks Tommy! You're an absolute love, just like every other member in this glorious fuzzy wuzzy community of friendship and awesomeness. I Live you all!!!!!!!!!!

I agree, lets burn everything, but why stop at rs? I believe irl fire settings would garner more attention to our noble, just cause. And this is why i don't lead any marketing departments anywhere. Imagine, the stunts i'd pull.

I would love to add you, however, I agree with Tore, you seem to be missing something, and I cannot add you unless you have proven to us that you have read and understood the rules. Hint: There is a not-so-secret hidden message in the rules (by Masors' Law, I cannot tell you where in the rules) that contain instructions that you must follow word-to-word verbatim to indicate to us that you have read and understood the rules. As Tore recommended, please reread the rules carefully so you don't miss it.

Wooh! Curses at Last!

In talking with G01d, I mentioned that I could start a new campaign, still utilizing 3.5, in December during the same time slot. This would require making new characters. G01d and his bro voiced that they'd be in. Unholy and james, would you be interested again if we went this route? I'm going with a prebuilt module to start with to establish some comfort as this would be my first DM. I can tell you that this module is designed for a party of 4 1st level players and should get everyone up to the 3rd level. With a little tweaking we could add another slot or two, if necessary.

Here's a recap of last weekend's events: You all were found mugged and left for dead in a clearing by a ranger. 2 strange robed people and an orc were less lucky, and were all dead, one of which was eaten. (Your memory of these three is a bit fuzzy, but you remember the Orc was wild, and bound.) The monks had a small strongbox that appeared to have been forced open and looted, and they along with you had no money left on them a random little kobold tried to capitalize on your weakened state, but was promptly murdered where he stood. you made your way to a nearby settlement town, after bribing a less-than-intelligent guard with chalk, where you rested for 2 days. during this time, your party fully healed, milled around the nearby church, and found gossip in the inn (the fugly pumpkin) some gossip led you down to the cellar of the inn, where you found a crack that led into an underground cave you murdered some rats, leaped over small but powerful creeks, executed or calmed a pair of dogs, and found yourselves in the presence of two enormous rats, and an interesting character. As you found out, he is completely nude, save for a codpiece/belt, and a wrinkly red paper crown. We left off with your party diplomatically approaching the strange man as he welcomed you to his "kingdom"

Updated the guide for the EOC stat change on the rings. Also fire runes is no longer the best option as they have increased in price, so updated that part too.

Yeah baby!

Lets give our future members an idea of what kind of clan they are signing up for. Please list one thing you like about the clan with or without an explanation. Is your favorite thing in this clan the events? That you're in a non PK clan? That we allow affiliates/associates to post on the forum so even though they aren't a part of the clan, they can still interact with the community (for folks who are in another clan with a single clan rule)? That you aren't required to show up to events? Is your favorite thing the forums? The clan chat? Folks in IRC? Is your favorite thing Aprz because he's a cool guy? I'll start! My favorite thing about Masors is the caring community here. Everytime I log into RuneScape, stop by IRC, or go on the forums, I always have somebody to talk to. The majority of people I talk to on the Internet are Masors member. I signed up for Masors and bammed my friend list was full, I had all sorts of options to talk with different people inside or outside of the game, I can tell them an accomplishment like "I just got level 80 smithing" and they'll congratulate me instead of what a lot of RuneScape players seem to say like "good for you idc". They know me by my first name, they know the things I like, they are there for me when I am upset about dying in game, school not going to well, maybe an argument I had with a friend that day. They'll give me input, advice, and influence me in RuneScape and real life. Edit: OWYN, I am there for you. Sorry about your shirt!

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it was easier in classic than any of the other skills to make money with in f2p, that carried over to today.

That there is ore gathering, part of mining. Not part of smithing I'll update this rarely. I stick true to my words, today i removed my list of future updates. Why? because i forgot i even wrote this guide. Haha If anyone wants to update this bad boy, pm me, you can repost it as your own and fancy it up yourself. I only initially did this because the forum lacked one, and i figured since it was in such high demand at the time, that I might as well write it. Just put me on the list of credits if you want to re post this and update it.