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Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that casting the most powerful spell you’re able to learn will result in the most efficient magical training. Even if it might seem like a bigger number on paper, its typically an error. High level spells takes longer to cast and cost more mana. They are also often … Read more

Your wallet clenches as you view prices in the Grand Exchange. Reaching level ninety Herblore require a certain amount of experience that you’re aware of, yet it seems so far away. Two million experience isn’t just a string of numbers on the screen. That’s thousands upon thousands of repeated clicks spent hovering over a well. … Read more

This is about cooking in Old School RuneScape. Cooking in OSRS is just a grind. “I’ll just level it up to 99,” you think, clicking away at fish for experience. It’s usually boring. But if you treat it as mindless grind, you’re leaving money on the table. Planning makes all the difference between burning through … Read more

Remember that anxious feeling when an event is announced for Pokemon GO? You’re standing out in the driveway with your thumb hovering above the touchscreen. You are debating whether to use all those precious candies on evolving or save them up for the Community Day spawn. Why? In Pokemon Go, experience points is what you … Read more

Now, there’s a common misconception among players of OSRS about their Fletching leveling process. “I’ll get exp,” you think, “and I’ll make some coin doing it too!” You grab some feathers and an axe, stand next to a tree, and expect to turn wood into gold. Usually, this do the exact opposite. Since most common … Read more

Before long, you’re aiming to make it to that next odd rank by dawn. You cast your standard spell over and over again until you run out of mana and patience. It’s a problem shared by all aspiring magicians grinding up their magic skills in fantasy games. Not only is there a matter of spending … Read more

Burnout: You log in one day and realize you’re three thousand points away from parallel five and has spent 45 minutes just to gain a single attribute layer. Playing Diamond Dynasty isn’t baseball anymore; now it’s a data entry gig with prettier graphics. That’s not the issue with putting forth effort. That’s the issue of … Read more

Magic training in Old School RuneScape is about as patience testing as it gets. Your mind drifts away while you click alch items and teleport. It’s a grind and some are more efficient then others. The difference between effective players and those who fritter away their gold come down to math. People go down a … Read more

Level up to sixty and then its go time. The character progression bar are gone. In its place is the Paragon board, a grid of nodes that provide power but requires patience. There are three hundred points. How long will it take? Will I be grinding for hours? Before entering any data, you might gets … Read more

Running a Pathfinder Second Edition campaign often feels like walking a tightrope between keeping players engaged and accidently killing them with a math error. You strive for deadly-but-not-lethal encounters and you try to reward work without giving out levels so fast they become meaningless. That fight isn’t usually over creative spark, but over math. Game … Read more

The core mechanic is easy: Log in, do something, get experience. But that’s where simplicity ends. Making real progress depend more on how well you use your time during those actions than on the game itself. People tend to obsess over raw numbers of XP while ignoring all the “costs” behind each number, the time … Read more

Old School RuneScape boils down to one question when it comes to training: How quickly can I get experience? You want biggest number on top line, so you run headlong towards it, only to discover after an hour of grinding that you’re growing increasingly frustrated. The raw experience rate isn’t everything. There’s the gold you … Read more