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RuneScape 2016 in Review

Jagex released a video recapping their 2016 updates and had a player vote of the best updates for the year. These are my thoughts regarding the top 10 updates.

10. Telos
I am not much of a boss hunter, so I haven’t experienced this piece of content myself, but watching streamers attempt this boss was quite entertaining.

9. River of Bloods quest
I haven’t completed this quest yet but it looks like a great end for the Myreque quest series.

8. Beach Party
This was a great social event and a great way to reuse older content.

7. Children of Mah
I haven’t done much in terms of the Sliske quest series, but all the build up around Sliske’s Endgame has been good.

6. The Arc

5. 15th Anniversary Events
Having played this game for over 10 years, this update was a nice little update to celebrate the game. Can’t wait for year 20!

4. God Wars Dungeon 2
The original God Wars was great but unfortunately, I also haven’t tested out this dungeon. This looks like a much better version of the original dungeon.

3. Invention
While I haven’t trained this skill much, this was a great change to the game. Adding the ability to customize weapons and armor is great.

2. Skilling Pets
I haven’t been lucky enough to obtain one of these yet, but I like the look of these pets. My favorite one is Rue the Runecrafting pet.

1. NXT Client
This update made RuneScape look great again. I would consider this on the same level as the Runescape 3 update. This was a massive improvement in the graphics of the game.

Zybez

About a year into my RuneScape career, I joined the forums over at Zybez on August 3rd, 2005. In the time I have been promoted all the way up to Senior Moderator (Administrator) for the forum and have also held various positions regarding the help site portion of the site. Here is a quick timeline of my positions for the forum:

  • July 3, 2006 – First CL position (Marketplace)
  • October 23, 2006 – Senior Membership
  • March 5, 2007 – Moderator
  • June 1, 2011 – Senior Moderator

Since then I have retired from the forum after serving as a to have more time to work on my various other hobbies.

Sadly the help site portion of the site has been shut down in the meantime but the forum remains an active community.

RuneScape Career

As mentioned in a previos post, I purchased the 10-year veteran cape in RuneScape.

So I wanted to give a recap on my career in the game this far. At the time of writing I currently have 188 days of playtime. For having this one account for 10 years that doesn’t seem like a lot but that is due to me taking extended breaks throughout various parts of my career in order to not get burned out from the game. I have been a paying member since June 2008, regardless of any breaks in that time period.

Current list of 99s:

  1. Woodcutting
  2. Fishing
  3. Cooking
  4. Firemaking
  5. Prayer
  6. Mining
  7. Smithing
  8. Crafting

My current total level is 2,399 with  226,339,501 experience which places me in rank 117,381 currently. I also have 318 quest points out of the current 389, which is about 40 quests left currently.

To check out my recent playing activity click this image below. RuneScape stats

In the ten years I have been playing, I have accumulated hundreds of pictures. In the future, I will be sorting those pictures and uploading my RuneScape career via pictures.

2016 Top Steam Games

Steam recently released their top 100 games for the year 2016. I have sorted them by alphabetical order and then by whether I would play them, have played them, or not interested in them.

This is the list of games I have on other systems.

  • Borderlands 2
  • Borderlands The Pre-Sequel! (I don’t actually have this game but would get it for Xbox before getting in on PC)
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
  • Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
  • Dishonored
  • Life is Strange

I have these games currently on PC.

  • 7 Days to Die
  • Age of Empires 2
  • Ark Survival
  • Civilization V
  • CS:GO
  • DOTA 2
  • Left4Dead2
  • The Elder Scrolls Online
  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  • Payday 2
  • Smite
  • Stardew Valley
  • Team Fortess 2
  • The Sims 3
  • The Witcher 3

I am not really interested in these games.

  • American Truck Simulator
  • Arma 3
  • Astroneer
  • Battlefleet Gothic Armada
  • Battlerite
  • Crusader Kings II
  • Dark Souls 3
  • Darkest Dungeon
  • Dayz
  • Dead By Daylight
  • Deus Ex Mankind Divided
  • Divinity Original Sin
  • Don’t Strave Together
  • Dragonball Xenoverse 2
  • Dragons Dogma Dark Arisen
  • Dying Light
  • Endless Legend
  • Euro Truck Simulator 2
  • Europa Universals IV
  • Farming Simulator 17
  • Final Fantasy X
  • Final Fantasy XIV
  • Football Manager 2016
  • Football Manager 2017
  • Garry’s Mod
  • Grim Dawn
  • H1Z1: Just Survive
  • H1ZI: King of the Kill
  • Hearts of Iron IV
  • Knight online
  • Naruto Shippen
  • NBA 2K17
  • Rimworld
  • Rust
  • Scrap Mechanic
  • Slime Rancher
  • Squad
  • Starbound
  • Stellaris
  • Street Fighters V
  • Subnautica
  • The Culling
  • The Forest
  • The Phantom Pain V
  • Total War Attila
  • Total War Rome II
  • Total Warhammer
  • Train Simulator 2017
  • Tree Savior
  • Undertale
  • Warthunder
  • XCOM2
  • Youtubers Life

This is the list of game, I will more than likely purchase.

  • Cities Skylines
  • Civilization 6
  • Doom
  • Dishonored 2 (I need to play/beat Dishounored first before I buy this game)
  • Elite Dangerous
  • Factorio
  • Fallout 4
  • Farcry 4
  • Farcry Primal
  • Firewatch
  • Grand Theft Auto 5
  • Hitman
  • Just Cause 3
  • Kerbal Space Program
  • Mafia III
  • One Man’s Sky
  • Path of Exile
  • Planet Coaster
  • Rise of the Tomb Raider
  • Rocket League
  • Steam Controller
  • Terraria
  • Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
  • Tom Clancy’s The Division
  • Warframe
  • Watch_Dogs 2

I will reevaluate this list later on in the year after having more to play other games and do some more research on other games.

NA LCS Prediction

With the North American League Championship series starting Friday, I am going to rank the teams as I did with the European LCS teams.

  1. Team SoloMid
    Until proven otherwise, this is still a top team in the league. The bot lane change won’t change too much with this roster.
  2. Counter Logic Gaming
    No roster changes to their worlds lineup. They are still a top tier team.
  3. Cloud9
    They upgraded their jungle role, so I still have them in them in the top 3 based on last years performance.
  4. Team Liquid
    The only concern I have with this new roster is their mid lane. Link in an unknown and Goldenglue hasn’t proven himself yet.
  5. Team Dignitas
    Upgrades at top and jungle, this lineup looks very promising.
  6. Immortals
    Questions in how the bottom lane will function and how Dardoch will work with the top and mid lanes. Pobelter is still a great player though.
  7. Phoenix1
    New mid, bot and support players, while keeping its core. Roster is definitely upgraded though.
  8. Echo Fox
    Major upgrade in the top lane with the addition of Looper. Gate is an underrated player. We will have to see what Froggen will show up this season.
  9. FlyQuest
    Hai’s shot calling is great but the x-factor is LemonNation and his notebook with the new 10 ban system. They will have a great pick/ban phase, but we will have to see if that translates into wins.
  10. Team EnVyUs
    We will have to see how the new jungler changes this lineup, but this is still a lower tier team.