#leagues v

[dewydd]

[dragongirlknot]

Raging Echoes is over but I couldn't let it go without making something to commemorate the journey. Can't wait to see what's in store for Leagues VI!

[avagarde]

The skilling hero of leagues

[dewydd]

woe leagues be upon ye

[dewydd]

YAY YIPPEEE

first time getting rune rank in any league! I'm too employed to ever try for dragon but I'm happy with this :)

[dewydd]

finally got a pet after playing 4 leagues 🥹

redhead double trouble 🔥

[imunbreakabledude]

Dragon trophy officially earned for Leagues V! in just over a month. it FELT a bit longer than last time, but I just looked back and it took me about 6 weeks last time around. so i guess that's the difference of me not having a full time job this time, lol. but it definitely was tougher to get Dragon on one hand (higher point threshold, no 25m/35m tasks for combat stats), but also i think it felt less like a slog this time vs last time because I had a lot of more "engaging" points available from raids, and I also specifically picked some relics that would alleviate the grinds that felt most painful last time (mostly RC, mining, and agility).

I MIGHT play a little more on this account just for fun/to see how high i can get my rank, but honestly I probably won't; I am craving the slow but permanent progress of the maingame. OR i might bond up an alt to try another build since there's a good amount of time left (I would love to try a VTM melee build).

I am proud of how I did this time though! I cleared 1 billion XP. I had more gold than I knew what to do with, even without Golden God. I feel that I actually did learn some good skills for TOA, even with it being piss easy with relics, of course; I got a lot more familiarity with the bosses and the timing which I think will help a lot with reducing frustration in the maingame (though it will be PAINFUL to go from never missing to ... usually missing). I did the Inferno for the first time even in Leagues. I did some solo CoX, scuffed yes, but still did it. I had some fun with the Tbow at the end, and great fun with the drygore blowpipe and venator bow before that. I played a mix of efficiency and fun that worked out for me. and I got my second Dragon trophy! :)

Areas, relics, stats, etc. above. I also did unlock the 10th combat mastery point, but didn't bother spending it.

Some more little stats just for fun:

Overall Rank (as of right now): 7209

League Points Rank (as of right now): 4602

Highest Rank for Any Hiscores Category: Skotizo, currently rank 105 with 45 kills (I got loads of totems doing slayer anyways, and figured I might as well kill the boss for the relatively-common shot at a jar. didn't get it tho.)

Collection Log Slots Filled: 609 (i was very tempted to go for the 750 log slots task even though it was not remotely 'efficient' for points when just going for Dragon. I just like clogging! but then thinking it thru i was like, the time i spend doing that i could instead get clogs in the real game... alas...)

Pets obtained: 5 (Abyssal Protector, Kalphite Princess, Herbi, Skotos, Tumeken's Guardian). (this adds on to my singular pet from last League, Callisto Cub).

Craziest Drop: 3rd age platebody from a clue, very rare even in Leagues. Honorable mention to Herbi pet from like, 60 herbiboars (pets not boosted)

Hardest Task Completed (according to Wiki's crowdsourced completion rates): Complete the Fight Caves 10 times, which apparently has 0.4% completion. I guess people just don't want to spend the time which is fair bc it's pretty boring. But i wanted the CAs and slayer XP and I had like 7 clears already last night so just decided to skip for tasks and ran 3 more in a row since they're braindead and 20 min.)

Easiest Task NOT Completed: Enter Puro-Puro from a Crop Circle, the only 10 pt task I didn't complete. I just never saw one around and couldn't be bothered to go out of my way to find one.

Task I Can't Believe I Didn't Fucking Get: Equip full Masori, which apparently has been achieved by over 14% of people per wikisync, while less than 2% of people have completed 50 ToA, which is where I left off. Granted not every single one of my raids was a guaranteed purple, but I rolled 38 purples, ELEVEN of which were masori pieces. 9 bodies and 2 legs. i mean, on the bright side, the mask was probably the best piece to be missing...)

Relic Choice I Most Regret: None! lmao I was quite happy with my choices. as I said I'm tempted by some REGIONS and builds I didn't experience, so I may try out an alt, but for now I'm taking a break. Hopefully for at least a day or two lmao

[imunbreakabledude]

so, i'm nearing the dragon rank threshold on leagues, definitely can get it within a couple more days, i'm just like, trying to figure out which remaining tasks are quickest/least annoying for me to do rn...

so I figured, Vorkath combat achievements, that should be an easy 200, only one i don't already have easily is The Walk, which i knew would take some practice... but Leagues is the best time to practice it and transfer that skill to the maingame, since last stand lets me try it and have a safety net from having to walk back and pay 100k every time i fuck up.

but it's uh... really fucking hard? and I know this is at least partly a Skill Issue in my own timing but the thing is. i'm having really bad tick quality which is definitely not helping. tick quality is something i didn't even know about until earlier this year and once I did (and found a tip from someone to solve many issues with ticks, specifically on mac computers) it helped a lotttt with learning CG and also other PVM. the tick tracker plugin, which typically shows 65-70% of "good ticks" on my computer by default, would go up to 90-95% when i used some of these dedicated workarounds to improve the quality.

but i'm not sure when or why it happened but that... stopped working? or became way less effective. I now am capping out at ~75% good ticks even with these workarounds active. and i have no clue why. Maybe leagues worlds act differently? maybe my ISP is just giving shittier service lately? but either way it's making it really fucking hard not only to GET this combat achievement, but also to even tell how much of the issue is my own timing, versus inconsistent ticks fucking me over :/

it's a bummer because this really is a good chance to practice it but the practice feels useless when it's unclear if the failures are actually me or not. and i have very little hope of getting the clear even once for the CA, with 25% bad ticks, because you need to be tick-perfect for 24 ticks to get this achievement. That is possibly (i am not a GM or even master CA person so may be wrong) the most stringent stretch of tick-perfect execution that is hard-required for any CA. i know you only have to do it once but i'm like damn, why do i not hear more people having issues with this one? is it really just my own skill being incapable of compensating for bad ticks? or do very few players have this issue with tick quality???