Guide Things I wish I'd known about earlier

Any Surrealean on the road to maxing, or beyond, knows that every little helps when it comes to free xp. This is a compendium of things I wish I'd known sooner. If you have any of your own tips and tricks you'd like to add, I encourage you to post them! Cheers. I'll add more as I remember them.

Goebiebands (Agility)
Supply Run (also known as goebiebands) is an activity you can take part in once a day on Mazcab, either at 12am game time (reset) or 12pm game time. XP is rewarded in a skill of your choosing (agility, crafting, hunter, farming, herblore, or woodcutting). From this 5-10 minute activity, you gain up to 50k xp (scales to your level. Calculator here: http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Supply_run). Essentially, you pick up and carry ten supplies from Otot to Querci via the Nemi Forest.

Join the friends chat "minigames" at the start of the activity to find out the world for the skill you want xp for, plus anti-pkers (it's a safe activity, you lose nothing on death). Goebiebands pkers are rare. In fact, there's essentially one person who does it. The minigames friends chat has anti-pkers who hunt said pker down, plus scouts to warn you what world he's currently on. PM me if you need any help.

Dwarven army axe (Cooking)
Dwarven army axe. You can pick one up from Major Mary Rancour in Burthorpe (http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Major_Mary_Rancour) by asking for free stuff. This item, when wielded or in your inventory, gives extra xp when cooking anything.

Sinkholes (Dungeoneering)
Credit goes to Broken Sword who introduced me to these. Sinkholes. 7 minute activity, once a day, which awards significant dungeoneering xp.

Warbands
Hate farming? Construction or herblore too expensive? Fear not! Up to 320k-ish xp a day from this 15 minute activity. Choose to receive xp in either herblore, mining, construction, farming, or smithing.

I'm going to go into a bit more detail here, as I know the word "wilderness" will raise some red flags. While it does take place in the wilderness, it's risk free if you take no items. Moreover, PKing friends chats primarily go to the Dark Warriors' Fortress camp first. Therefore, the East Lava Maze and Red Dragon Isle camps will be most likely be safe if you go there first. Also credit to Beccah for her tip that the total level worlds are safest. I recommend you wear Royal Dragonhide armour, which is cheap to replace, just in case of any solo pkers. However, people soloing warbands are generally there to loot rather than pk. For safety in numbers, there are friends chats that go to camps together to loot. "Woobands" is a looting friends chat. If you're willing to fight off enemy friends chats should they crash your camp, there are more pk-orientated friends chats. However, that doesn't mean you will not get your loot. These friends chats will call three worlds (three camps) each warbands, which means three inventories of supplies (max xp). If this interests you, I recommend the friends chat Regiment (http://services.runescape.com/m=forum/fo...4,65984743), which I've been a member of for a few months now. PM if you have any questions.

Vis wax and Potion Flasks (money making dailies)
Make vis wax in the Runecrafting Guild for 500k-1m. Mine red sandstone and craft into potion flasks in Ooglog for 400k (and Priff, I believe) Requires completion of As A First Resort). Both are extremely quick activities.

Travelling Merchant
Occasionally a travelling merchant will dock at the Deep Sea Fishing hub on a random world. You can purchase useful rewards (once a day) from him. Noteable if you plan on training runecrafting, is the unstable runes instantly granting 5k runespan points! The friends chat "whirlpooldnd" scouts for travelling merchants.

Aquarium (Player owned house)
It's worth building an Aquarium in your player owned house. You can add decorations from prawn balls to the Bathysphere. Some of these decorations you can harvest for resources by diving in using the "operate Bathysphere" option, once you've constructed a diving suit.

Oysters, which you can open once a day, contain uncut gems and spirit gems. Takes seconds to collect and will add up to a nice bit of crafting/summoning xp over time.

Also worth mentioning is kelp decorations, which you can harvest daily. Kelp, when combined with raw great white shark, creates great gunkan sushi (heals 2850 lifepoints over the course of 9 seconds). You need 91 cooking and tier 6 prawn perks to make it. Yes, you can buy it from the ge, but, as it requires minimal effort to gather, I think it's worth going full ironman.

Some good info here mate, never knew about the loot runs. Supported post from me.

Nice tips. I posted an update daily/weeklies/monthlies list here https://board.clansurreal.com/Thread-Gui...ies?page=4

A few other tips I have.

- Adding to your sinkholes - You can do it twice a day. If you enter at the begin you can do both at the same time. Just finish, teleport back to sinkhole entrance and do it again.
- Portables: To gain the boost you just need to click it once and stay within range or it. After that just put what you are making in your action bar (works for pretty much everything but smithing and fm). Great for busy portable worlds.
- Divine locations: At w48 burth at reset and w140 burth 18pm game time you have people placing yews which is the best xp/hr for woodcutting skill
- Have Invention unlocked?? Get yourself some useful perks on your gear. For skilling I recommend getting Wise 2-3 on a off-hand weapon (2 is easier and cheaper, I used mine on a abyssal orb) and Mobile for extra surges (really useful on caches, get it on a piece of armour)
- For herblore: If money is tight and you need a pot that gives you a bit of profit, try doing some guthix rest. They are used for high lvl pvm and sell well above med price.

Guthixian caches also for divination: theyre seriously great xp at any level.

And never forget to do your monthlies: troll invasion, god statues and if youve done the quest also your giant oyster. I try to host an event for this the first every month to help remind you.

For double xp weekends it can be seriously useful to get a Refer-A-Friend boost (+20% xp) as well. https://board.clansurreal.com/Thread-Bec...E-FOR-DXPW

There are a number of skills that you can fill urns for. These give some extra xp and greatly increase your xp/h especially now the urns stack: http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Urns

The dungeoneering task system is very useful for anyone wanting to level up their dungeoneering. Rewards include having a second gatestone, having a starting stack of cosmic and law runes for teleporting to gatestones and a pile of starter feathers so you're instantly fully prepped to leave the starting room.: http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Update:D...m_Task_Set

The abyss is a great way to level up your combat in an easy afk way, and doesnt require too much in preparation. https://board.clansurreal.com/Thread-Iri...BYSS-GUIDE

Guthixian caches also for divination: theyre seriously great xp at any level.

And never forget to do your monthlies: troll invasion, god statues and if youve done the quest also your giant oyster. I try to host an event for this the first every month to help remind you.

For double xp weekends it can be seriously useful to get a Refer-A-Friend boost (+20% xp) as well. https://board.clansurreal.com/Thread-Bec...E-FOR-DXPW

There are a number of skills that you can fill urns for. These give some extra xp and greatly increase your xp/h especially now the urns stack: http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Urns

The dungeoneering task system is very useful for anyone wanting to level up their dungeoneering. Rewards include having a second gatestone, having a starting stack of cosmic and law runes for teleporting to gatestones and a pile of starter feathers so you're instantly fully prepped to leave the starting room.: http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Update:D...m_Task_Set

The abyss is a great way to level up your combat in an easy afk way, and doesnt require too much in preparation. https://board.clansurreal.com/Thread-Iri...BYSS-GUIDE

To add on your tips.

For cache, as I said, get mobile on a piece of armour for surges
For urns get a urn enhancer after the quest (check wikia for quest name)
RaF is also good (I think jagged changed the way it works on dxwp and it is no longer 20%, don't quote me on that but last dxwp I saw multiple people saying it wasn't giving 20%)

Great tips.

One I learned yesterday from Mini Knight:

Instead of using regular overloads, make holy overloads so that you get an additional (2) doses of overloads for the price of only a prayer renewal (4) and a crystal flask (can be free).

Thanks for contributing everyone. The sinkholes tip is really useful. I used refer a friend once, and I'm fairly certain I didn't get a 20% boost. Much less, although I'm not sure exactly what it was.

Updating with some stuff about the Aquarium in player owned houses I just found out myself.

You can claim a free pair of silverhawk boots right now -> click the oddments you get from playing the treasure hunter to open the store.

After chatting on the cc today I thought I should share this here. Action bars and revolution.

I suggest reading this https://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Revolution/Bars and copying their bars.

Also a more advanced guide https://puu.sh/AbDeS.png

Also a more advanced guide https://puu.sh/AbDeS.png

Very nice. I'll be using this.

If you're stuck gaining reputation in Menaphos for to, for example, finish up quests, then check soul obelisks. You can gain just over 20k reputation each day. Use #Soulobby to find active obbys quickly.

Thanks to fellow clannies for guiding me on this. I'm almost tier 9!

If you're doing scarabs in Menaphos, when they are all gone, go into sinking tombs and come back out. It will refresh the spawns (unless they've not spawning).