Summoning, Etc.
Ok well as all of you know, the new summoning skill has been released, Tuesday January 15. It has been in the making for close to some 2-3 years, but Jagex just announced its release and progress back on Fall/Winter of 2007. In the time from announcing the release, they put out 4 development diaries documenting the progress and final stages of completing the skill. In these diaries they seemed to talk highly of the new skill and describe how vast and enormous it was going to be. (Since when dont they?! right?)haha
Following the release on Tue, I came home from school, checked the RS main page to see if it was out yet. Since it was, I quickly finished some HW then logged on and headed to Taverly, and completed the quest. During the quest the whole skill seemed so confusing and i thought i would never fully grasp each element of it. After finishing the quest, i started doing some calculations to see how many chickens i would need to get to lvl 16 summoning.
After i got 16 it kinda hit me. Summoning isnt that big…….Don’t get me wrong i love the skill and think it is a great idea, but i dont think that its as big and helpful as they said it was gonna be. Another thing that i find rather odd is the exp gain. You get the majority of the experience from making pouches, not actually summoning the monster. Idk if its me but that kinda sounds like runecrafting. I personally think its, in essence, 3 already exsisting skills added together with a slight twist on them.
Prayer: You get a combat lvl for every 8 or so lvls you gain.
Herblore: You need an empty container (vial/pouch), a primary ingredient (herb/shards and charms), and you need a secondary ingredient (limps, newt eyes, etc./iron ore, raw chicken, etc.
Runecrafting: You get experience for infusing a pouch but not for calling upon monsters to aid you in fighting and other skills (REMINDER: Summoning= a skill in which you call upon monsters to aid you in fighting and other skills.)
Due to these conditions I dub summoning to be:
“PRAYLORE CRAFTING”
…And don’t get me wrong, I love the skill and everything and enjoy training it i just thought that its not as big as they said it was going to be. Hopefully they will come back and surprise me in Feb. with the 2nd release of summoning. I have good feelings about the update because Abbysal and Tzhaar charms will be released from what i hear and that can only mean cooler creatures to summon and hopefully cooler speical attacks and abilities -.-
Well those are my mere thoughts of summoning so far. I’m currently lvl 24 atm and im still goin strong. Yes i agree that charms take a while to get, but you must realize that Jagex had to put some sort of restriction on it or ppl would have 99 already.
As of Sunday January 20, 2008 1:15AM CST Zezima is currently in 5th place in overall rank on the official RS highschores w/ lvl 63 summoning.
Ancace is currently the top summoner on RS atm with a lvl of 73 and xp count of 1,000,000 exactly.
If you have any questions and concerns about the summoning skill or if you have any info or advice you would like to share please visit: http://forums.rsbandb.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=62544
or: http://forums.rsbandb.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=62565 (discussion of charms such as locations, which is best for each lvl, and monsters that drop them.)
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