Preface
Just get the drop, you know, it isn’t hard.
Progress
After the last progress log, I continued killing Iron Dragons.
I did hit 97 Ranged as described, on mobile, however, so no screenshot.
From burying their bones, I got 66 Prayer.
Several kills after that, I got a Draconic Visage. Add about 250-400 kills from mobile and I’d say I was a bit under drop rate.
I started work on 89 Smithing pretty swiftly, buying a large amount of ores from Blast Furnace and rigging up a spreadsheet to track and calculate my journey.
After I had nearly finished the grind, I’d realized I made a mistake in the time calculation for Blast Furnace and had been doubling the amount of time it’d take (I’d only been counting the bars I could make in an hour, not the ore that I was using in an hour). It was still a bit of time, however, and I am very, very glad it’s done.
After buying a few ores, smelting and smithing, (getting 78 Smithing in the process), I quickly realized I didn’t want to spend so much time on both buying ores and running Blast Furnace, so I switched to my original/go-to plan for Smithing: Adamant bars from Aviansies.
I planned on getting to 99 Ranged from them, and using the bars I collected in the process to cut down on the dreaded time spent. It may have taken longer but I killed two (at least) birds with one stone there.
And so, I got 98 Ranged while hunting for Adamant bars. I then got 9.9k XP away from 99 Ranged and stopped, to prevent any accidental level gains.
From that grind, I obtained 5,680 Adamant bars (Ending up with 5,720 after some misc gathering ventures and previously gained ore).
I also started with a nice stack of cash to roll into Iron and Coal.
I didn’t keep track of how many Steel Bars I made and used, but it was certainly a lot. I turned them all into Steel Platebodies and alched many of them as I smithed them. I used the money from these alchs to fund future ore purchases. Additionally, during the smithing process, I bought ores from the Jatiszo Ore Store to A) cut down on costs, and B) cut down on time spent hopping for ores at Blast Furnace.
During the final stretch of the grind, however, I did end up with 20.4k Steel Bars (Alongside the 5.7k Adamant Bars).
After smithing all the Steel into platebodies, I turned the Adamant into platebodies as well.
Though I am functionally out of Nature Runes, the overall venture turned into a 17.9m GP nest egg. Most of which I’m investing in Kingdom Management for Herbs and Maples (For Nests, Firemaking, and maybe Fletching).
I finished the grind completely with the Gold Ore that I had accrued and also purchased from the Jatiszo Ore store, leaving me with 5.4k Bars to use in the not so distant Crafting grind.
Managed to stop at a fun point, which let me smith a Runite Bar into some unfinished Runite Bolts, and got 89 Smithing. This allows me to boost to 90 and craft a Dragonfire Shield.
With that done, I planned to hold a 99 Range Party where I’d make the DFS during it.
Having an Iron Dragon Task made Slayer impossible to do since I was waiting to hit 99 Ranged. That, plus knowing that future grinds would be much easier with the DFS, my options for doing much have been somewhat limited.
So I mostly just did random things, working on a plan for 2k total while doing so.
I was close to 75 Woodcutting, so I went and got that at the Isle of Souls Maple Trees. I decided to continue training Woodcutting, and during that, I got a Jekyll random and obtained my 2nd Stamina potion. I got 76 Woodcutting soon after.
I also was informed that you can use regular compost on a farming patch, and then use supercompost on it (or cast Fertile Soil, in most of my cases) so I can eke a bit more Farming XP out of runs (This also works for ultracompost, but isn’t relevant to me).
Got a third Stamina Potion while I was killing Ankou with Crumble Undead for Magic XP and Death/Blood runes.
Held a party where I got 99 Ranged and made and charged my Dragonfire Shield.
Likely that I’ll be afking Kurasks to get 99 Attack and maybe Defence after this. The DFS and Dragon legs will help immensely, making kills faster and trips last longer.
I might do some Soul Wars to imbue my Berserker Ring first, though.
If I need to really afk things, I’ll be fishing Lobsters to cook or cutting Yews to fletch.
Probably going to check out more KBD and even Mith Dragons at some point, too.
These were my stats at the time of this post
End
Rellekkian 
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