fhhhphgj Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 (edited) Background In this thread I'll be documenting my journey towards creating a Range-Mage tank. Although I haven't decided the final build (see possible builds below) I'm sure I'll make up my mind somewhere down the line. I've already got tons of accounts but since they are all "maxed" and PvP feels kind of dead/stale to me, the game has got sort of boring and lost its touch for me lately. I always wanted a Range-Mage tank but never got around to making one because of how boring they are in PvP (there's no big variety in specs etc). So now there's finally an excuse for me to make one. Additionally, even though I'm really not a big PvMer I think this account would be decent at farming stuff whilst AFK if the whole PvP thing doesn't work out. I wasn't really sure if I was going to post this in the 'Goals' or 'Guides' sub-forum since it's basically both. Whilst looking around to try and figure out what I needed to do in order to build this account, I found that there weren't really any guides out there. And if any — they'd be pretty old (... pre-EOC old) so I thought I'd post this. Barely takes any time, it's just logging my progress etc and a little text here and there. So in this guide/progress log I'll be addressing key points of the account. I won't really go into detail on any specifics like how to complete X, Y, Z quest/mini-game/skill or other goal since there are plenty of guides for that already. Main requirements will be outlined such as the list of quests, minimum stats needed and so on. The different builds I have in mind are the following: Build 1 Combat Level: 110.68 60 Attack 99 Strength 99 Hitpoints 99 Defence 99 Ranged 77 Prayer 99 Magic Build 2 Combat Level: 107.75 75 Attack 75 Strength 99 Hitpoints 99 Defence 99 Ranged 77 Prayer 99 Magic I'm on the fence on which route I want to pick, and the thinking behind the builds are; 60/99 Attack/Strength would allow me to use dragon claws but would force me to use something like kodai/master wand/thammaron's sceptre. Which, in my opinion would be one of the key aspects of the account (using mage). So pretty much unless I'm using kodai I'd have pretty bad mage attack bonuses, and in which case I'd have to risk claws... While I wouldn't mind I somehow don't feel 100% comfortable sacrificing a lot of combat levels for it considering how inaccurate I'd be with only 60 attack. 75/75 Attack/Strength sits a lot better with me, and are the stats I'm currently leaning towards. That'd give me toxic staff of the dead which would be a huge damage boost and allow me to staff spec should I need it (I PK a lot deep wild solo). However, this means I'd pretty much only have ballista/dark bow/nightmare staff as spec weapons. To be decided... Requirements • Quest List (Branches) - This will show all mandatory¹ quests and their sub-quests needed for the final build Fremennik Isles Fremennik Trials Fairytale Part II Fairytale Part I Lost City Nature Spirit The Restless Ghost Priest in Peril Jungle Potion Monkey Madness 2 Enlightened Journey The Eyes of Glouphrie The Grand Tree Recipe for Disaster (monkey) Monkey Madness The Grand Tree Tree Gnome Village Troll Stronghold Death Plateau Watchtower Dream Mentor Eadgar's Ruse Lunar Diplomacy Fremmenik Trials Lost City Rune Mysteries Shilo Village Jungle Potion Druidic Ritual Recipe for Disaster Cook's Assistant Fishing Contest Goblin Diplomacy Big Chompy Bird Hunting Murder Mystery Nature Spirit Priest in Peril The Restless Ghost Witch's House Gertrude's Cat Shadow of the Storm Demon Slayer The Golem Legend's Quest Family Crest Heroes's Quest Shield of Arrav Lost City Merlin's Crystal Dragon Slayer Druidic Ritual Shilo Village Jungle Potion Underground Pass Biohazard Plague City Monkey Madness The Grand Tree Tree Gnome Village Desert Treasure The Dig Site Temple of Ikov The Tourist Trap Troll Stronghold Death Plateau Waterfall Quest Horror From the Deep Alfred Grimhand's Barcrawl Animal Magnetism The Restless Ghost Ernest the Chicken Priest in Peril Mage Arena 2 Mage Arena King's Ransom Black Knights' Fortress Holy Grail Merlin's Crystal Murder Mystery One Small Favour Rune Mysteries Shilo Village Jungle Potion Druidic Ritual Roving Elves Regicide Underground Pass Biohazard Plague City • Quest List (Hierarchy) - This will show all mandatory¹ quests in a hierarchical² fashion needed for the final build Cook's Assistant The Restless Ghost Sheep Shearer Imp Catcher X Marks the Spot Ernest the Chicken Rune Mysteries Vampire Slayer Demon Slayer Romeo & Juliet Shield of Arrav Doric's Quest Goblin Diplomacy Black Knights' Fortress Witch's Potion The Knight's Sword Pirate's Treasure Dragon Slayer Prince Ali Rescue Druidic Ritual Olaf's Quest Monk's Friend Tears of Guthix Fishing Contest Gertrude's Cat Dwarf Cannon Murder Mystery Tribal Totem Witch's House Family Crest Fight Arena Observatory Quest Big Chompy Bird Hunting Waterfall Quest Mountain Daughter Tree Gnome Village Priest in Peril Nature Spirit Plague City Sheep Herder Death Plateau The Grand Tree Lost City The Tourist Trap The Golem The Dig Site Merlin's Crystal Temple of Ikov The Fremennik Trials Enlightened Journey Watchtower Alfred's Barcrawl Animal Magnetism Shades of Mort'ton The Eyes of Glouphrie Horror from the Deep Troll Stronghold Jungle Potion Biohazard Holy Grail The Fremennik Isles Monkey Madness I Troll Romance Shadow of the Storm Shilo Village Underground Pass Fairytale I - Growing Pains Lunar Diplomacy King's Ransom Regicide Roving Elves Desert Treasure Heroes' Quest One Small Favour Legends' Quest Monkey Madness II Recipe for Disaster Dream Mentor • Filler quests - These are quests with no bearing on the account build but are solely completed for their Quest Points in order to reach 175/200 for Barrows gloves/DS2 respectively. Tears of Guthix Monk's Friend Shades of Mort'ton X Marks the Spot Tribal Totem Sheep Herder Observatory Quest Olaf's Quest Prince Ali Rescue Mountain Daughter • Minimum stats - This will show the stats needed to complete the mandatory quests 70 Crafting 70 Cooking 69 Slayer 60 Hunter 60 Mining 56 Agility 55 Thieving 55 Woodcutting 53 Fishing 60 Firemaking 50 Smithing 45 Herblore 30 Farming 25 Fletching 5 Construction ¹Mandatory for PvP with this specific build (Desert treasure for ancient magics, Monkey Madness II for ballista etc) ²Hierarchically ranked by difficulty and prerequisite quests. Meaning, you can complete all quests from top to bottom - you won't have any 'down-time' by having to stop and complete Y quest to start X quest. Update log 2020-06-29 Applied membership to the account Completed Cook's Assistant Completed Sheep Shearer Completed Imp Catcher Completed The Restless Ghost Completed Vampire Slayer Completed X Marks the Spot Completed Ernest The Chicken Completed Romeo & Juliet Completed Demon Slayer Completed Black Knights' Fortress Completed Goblin Diplomacy Completed Doric's Quest Completed The Knights' Sword Completed Pirate's Treasure Completed Witch's Potion Completed Dragon Slayer Completed Priest in Peril Completed Varrock Museum Quiz Slayer 1-9 Hunter 1-9 Prayer 1-70 Magic 1-70 I did a couple of quests, was pretty nice and easy, a good tip to make your life easier is to place an account in your POH (hopefully it's maxed/decent) or just play on a POH hosting world and use a maxed house when questing/leveling on a new/noob acc which doesn't have a lot of unlocks yet. Going to try bang out the rest of F2P quests tomorrow along with a couple easy P2P ones. We'll see how it goes. 2020-06-30 Completed Shield of Arrav Completed Dwarf Cannon Completed Animal Magnetism Completed The Grand Tree Completed Tree Gnome Village Completed Waterfall Quest Completed Lost City Completed Nature Spirit Completed Gertrude's Cat Completed Druidic Ritual Completed Monkey Madness Herblore 1-3 Thieving 1-25 Fletching 1-25 Agility 1-29 Slayer 9-21 Mining 10-41 Attack 20-48 Crafting 31-33 Strength 33-43 Defence 40-50 Hitpoints 62-64 Magic 70-71 Ranged 1-74 Pest Control 600 Points Didn't end up doing the F2P quests left, except for Shield of Arrav, but did complete a lot of starter quests and Monkey Madness I for some good combat XP to get me going and cannoned some ranged levels. Then headed to Pest Control to try and get full void, only managed about half the points I needed. 2020-07-01 Completed Jungle Potion Completed Shilo Village Farming 1-4 Herblore 3-45 Agility 29-31 Crafting 33-66 Firemaking 41-50 Mining 41-52 Woodcutting 50-55 Cooking 50-70 Hitpoints 64-65 Ranged 74-75 Prayer 70-77 Pest Control 450 Points Finished what I needed for full void, range + mage helmet. I don't think I'll be having much use for melee helmet, but I might have to come back later to get elite void... although I'm not sure if I have the effort to get western hard diaries completed. Didn't get a whole lot done seeing as how the weather was so nice. I'm thinking about adding some pictures to my posts or something to make it a little more lively. I assume most people who browse don't want to end up reading a full Harry Potter size book, but I'm not sure what pictures I'd put. Total level? Quest list? Hans time played? or just the level up messages/quest complete reward screen? I'd also need to start playing on RuneLite or OSBuddy if that's the case so it'd automatically screenshot the progress. Maybe I'll just post some weird shit I see along the way, idk. 2020-07-02 Mining 52-56 Crafting 66-70 Didn't manage to get much done today Was more focusing on my other project (Sucide Botting 99 Agility) and I was also occupied with IRL stuff, responsibilities... sigh. About the 'adding pictures or something'-thing to these posts I was thinking maybe I could post a video of one LMS game (not to brag but I'm a pretty good nher ) per post maybe? Honestly don't know, it seems random asf to post along with this topic but I can't think of anything else at the moment at least. Except for progress pics of course but it seems sort of redundant, since the progress is logged in text. We'll have to wait and see I suppose. Edited July 2, 2020 by fhhhphgj Update progress 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ez11 Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 (edited) i wouldnt get 60att at 110cmb. I got a 60att piety acc and it already hits like shit just against other 70def accounts. If you go even higher cmb and you meet higher def opponents its gonna be aids Edited June 30, 2020 by ez11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fhhhphgj Posted June 30, 2020 Author Share Posted June 30, 2020 6 minutes ago, ez11 said: i wouldnt get 60att at 110cmb. I got a 60att piety acc and it already hits like shit just against other 70def accounts. If you go even higher cmb and you meet higher def opponents its gonna be aids Damn I guess it'd really only be decent if I'd stop at around 70 def then? to bully pures huehue But ye I guess you're right, seeing as I have an account which would be close to that already and it wouldn't be a tank anymore... I think 75 attack looks like the winner. Unless someone manages to convince me otherwise until its too late. Thanks for the input Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fhhhphgj Posted July 1, 2020 Author Share Posted July 1, 2020 (edited) Progress update & appended logs in original post. Progress made 2020-07-01: Completed Jungle Potion Completed Shilo Village Farming 1-4 Herblore 3-45 Agility 29-31 Crafting 33-66 Firemaking 41-50 Mining 41-52 Woodcutting 50-55 Cooking 50-70 Hitpoints 64-65 Ranged 74-75 Prayer 70-77 Pest Control 450 Points Finished what I needed for full void, range + mage helmet. I don't think I'll be having much use for melee helmet, but I might have to come back later to get elite void... although I'm not sure if I have the effort to get western hard diaries completed. Didn't get a whole lot done seeing as how the weather was so nice. I'm thinking about adding some pictures to my posts or something to make it a little more lively. I assume most people who browse don't want to end up reading a full Harry Potter size book, but I'm not sure what pictures I'd put. Total level? Quest list? Hans time played? or just the level up messages/quest complete reward screen? I'd also need to start playing on RuneLite or OSBuddy if that's the case so it'd automatically screenshot the progress. Maybe I'll just post some weird shit I see along the way, idk. Edited July 1, 2020 by fhhhphgj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fhhhphgj Posted July 2, 2020 Author Share Posted July 2, 2020 Progress update & appended logs in original post. Mining 52-56 Crafting 66-70 Didn't manage to get much done today Was more focusing on my other project (Sucide Botting 99 Agility) and I was also occupied with IRL stuff, responsibilities... sigh. About the 'adding pictures or something'-thing to these posts I was thinking maybe I could post a video of one LMS game (not to brag but I'm a pretty good nher ) per post maybe? Honestly don't know, it seems random asf to post along with this topic but I can't think of anything else at the moment at least. Except for progress pics of course but it seems sort of redundant, since the progress is logged in text. We'll have to wait and see I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trum Trum Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 Any Update lookes sick man. Good progress, how manny hours do you run it a Day ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
