Progress Log #35: Period 66; January 23 2023

Preface

As we near the end of year 4 (3 months to go yet, but still) I’ve come to realize the account has devolved into more a themed account, albeit one still heavily following the restrictions I’ve outlined numerous times. It doesn’t really change anything but it has stopped me from comparing myself to more strict/harsher restricted accounts and made it more fun to play.

9 months since the last progress log, phew! Life’s been steadily busy and I’ve made a lot of progress and achieved a lot on the other side of the computer screen, which has definitely taken me away from the game in general. Don’t worry, though, I’ve still made progress here too, albeit not as much as times past.

Furthermore, most big progress has been recent, and may still continue yet, we shall see!

Progress

Trying to regain my motivation still, I was killing some Kurasks for supplies and hit 91 Attack.

Still floundering for that motivation, I decided to try to complete my pre-Vorkath taxidermy log (that is, everything in my regions) and I went on to net a Big Bass.

Wanting to unlock Black Dragonhide but not wanting to kill all those Blue Dragons, I burned through my stored crafting supplies, hitting 81 Crafting making Battlestaves and 82 Crafting spinning Flax.

I discovered combining two tedious things (dubbed Alch-Runecrafting) makes them bearable to do, and I hit 65 Runecrafting.

Looking for more fuel for the previous activity, I hit 77 Woodcutting chopping down some Yews.

Burning through those acquired materials, I hit 66 Runecrafting.

Finally returning to the Blue Dragon grind, I hit 72 and then 73 Prayer, followed by 104 Ranged, 83 Crafting, 74 Prayer, and 101 Hitpoints. I had a work trip after that and didn’t get to do much for a while.

When I was able to focus on the game again, I went back to the dragons and hit 98 Magic, 75 Prayer, and then, finally, 84 Crafting, allowing me to craft Black Dragonhide Bodies.

Since Kurasks don’t drop Ranarr seeds, I decided to grind Turoths for some, and hit 88 Defence.

For a bingo I tried to participate in, I was going for wildy ward pieces but only got a Fedora, but it is a collection slot in my region so that was a plus. I was also going for Slayer Monster heads and hit 89 Defence hunting Basilisks. A bit later, I hit 90 Defence at Kurasks.

Hit some busyness and burnout around this time, so not much was going on.

Eventually I came back to beating up Zilyana and her retinue of sentient zoo animals, where I hit 105 Ranged.

A couple of days (and my 4th hilt) later, Zilyana dropped an Armadyl Crossbow for me. With that finally obtained, I started my preparation for the other Godwars Dungeon bosses.

I swapped from melee Garage Door to Ranged and it was much much much much more bearable and less a drain on supplies and time.

At KC 63, I received a pair of Bandos Tassets from the big Ourg himself.

Eager to unlock the Frozen Prison at the time, and armed with the ranged Kril method a friend shared with me, I swapped to Kril. Proving to be a much more difficult time than Zilyana and Garage Door, I was extremely relieved when I got a Steam Battlestaff on my 3rd kill (but like, 10th attempt).

Not really wanting to hunt chins and deal with Kree at the time, alongside a promotion/move to full time at work, I burnt out a bit and swapped to doing some total level/supply grinding.

I hit 76 Mining hunting for bolt tips and 92 Fletching making bolts/afking Maple Longs (u).

Some boredom/burnout hit and I was just doing things to do things, I hit 102 Hitpoints at Kurasks and trained Thieving, hitting level 78.

Didn’t quite latch on to the game again, and Path of Exile happened, and I moved to a new home, so progress was slow. Near the beginning of the year I entrenched myself at the farming patches and hit 74 Farming.

With the herbs I grew/had stocked up I hit 85 Herblore.

Almost forgot that I finally did Mage Arena II and obtained an Imbued Zamorak Cape.

I picked up the Godwars Grind, deciding to just shoot Kree in a corner with my crossbow and pray that I killed the birds before they killed me, and while getting Ecunemical keys for that grind, I hit 150m total experience. I also hit 93 Attack. I also also got a Goblin Champion Scroll which was neat.

At 98 Killcount, Kree dropped me an Armadyl Helmet, which was the last requirement I needed to fulfill to unlock the Frozen Prison. To do that, I needed to complete Desert Treasure 1.

With that, I needed to do most of the prerequisite quests, those being Waterfall Quest, Temple of Ikov, Dig Site, and Tourist Trap.

Definitely really weird doing all those quests without really benefiting from the rewards (and also really weird being outside my regions but that’s entirely different).

With those out of the way, I set to complete Desert Treasure, which was also really weird to do (not really having to worry about conserving supplies or the treating the fights delicately). The hardest part was the pyramid because I kept getting kicked out, but I did eventually complete the quest.

After Desert Treasure was completed, I waited around for the prompt to start the Frozen Door miniquest, and set out to beat up the bosses to get their key pieces. Garage Door, Kril, Zilyana, Kree. Bit rusty on Garage Door so I had to attempt him twice, and Kril beat me up too (and I’ve not really got the method down so…). But I did get the key pieces and unlock the Frozen Prison, where I will spend some time grinding out the drops from the monsters there, and working on my next steps forward.