One thing I did not want to get too far behind was working on the easier combat and diary achievements. Some of these like the combat one require having the right access to work on. Other stuff like the diary ones I find a bit boring. As such I find it best just to try and work on a couple at a time from time to time. That way I'm at least making some kind of progress without it feeling too much like a grind.

Quest: His Faithful Servants

The fun thing about this one is it ends up having you do the Barrows. Where the most part I'd be digging up graves and diving down to fight one of the six brothers. This would not been as hard if it were not for having my prayer drained every time I went down into the barrows.

One main reason I wanted to give this a try was to get some combat achievement points. I wanted enough points to get the easy tier done first. The nice thing was even if you earn points from a medium or higher tier those points could still be counted towards the easy tier.

The Barrows themselves have seven total combat achievements. Most of them I knew I was not going to be getting this time around. Such things as opening the final chest 10 and 25 times. Along with not using any prayer points.

After looking into things a bit, it seems that going magic vs most of the brothers is the best way to go forward. Even better using the Iban staff I got a little while back should also be great. The issue was I had yet to use the Iban staff and I had no idea how wrong I'd go about trying got use it.

My first attempt to kill a Barrows bother went bad enough I ended up teleporting out to safety to see what I was doing wrong. I had my Iban staff equipped and I could not see any spells and trying to attack with it was also not casting the damage it deals.

It turns out despite the staff already needing to have charges to use it. I also needed to have runes. At this point, I'm used to spells requiring having runes in your inventory that get consumed. I was just mistaken in thinking all I needed was charges as if those would make up for not having runes.

I went back in after healing up and refilling my prayer. This time with some runes I started to lay down a decent amount of damage on the first brother Dharok The Wretched.

Protection prayer from melee did all the work. Outside of healing only once from the damage I took before I toggled my protection prayer on. That was it. The biggest downside is this place drained my prayer. Between that and having it active for this fight. I needed to recharge my prayer.

So, I ended up teleporting out back to my house where I have an altar. The next issue became it was a bit of a pain to get out to where the Barrows bother. I ended up looking on the Grand Exchange and discovering there were player-made teleports right to this location. They cost a few hundred golds each but I figured it was worth spending some money now to get back quicker so I could learn more about fighting these guys and discover what kind of rewards I could get for doing so.

For defeating this first one I also got a single combat achievement point. While I was going to need quite a few more. I felt it was at least a start.

I then went to the next mound above ground after getting my prayer points back up to full and I dug for another given entry point. This time I'd be fighting Guthan the Infested. Like before I used my Iban staff and had melee prayer up for protection. He was another easy kill.

After each one I took down I'd have to teleport to my house and get my prayer back up and then use a teleport tablet to get back to the area I was fighting them at. If I was higher level and had better damage, I'd attempt them without using prayer to see how that goes. I however know from my first attempt learning how to use the Iban staff I did not want to take any damage with the gear I had on.

I then went and killed Torag the Corrupted and Verac the Defiled using the same method. For the last one Karil the Tainted I used a dagger I had since he was more prone to dagger damage and had some decent protection from magic damage. He also required having ranged damage protection up instead of melee.

All I had to do left was go claim my reward from the chest. However, I could increase my potential reward for the minor portion of the rewards. To do this I only needed to kill some trash like rats and bloodworms that I'd be running into on my way to the chest anyway. So, I thought why not and killed a few till I was at 100% potential for rewards.

I then went over and looted my first Barrows chest. It was worth a total of 37k gold. Nothing amazing but I was not expecting much. It’s not like I was expecting to get Ahrim’s robe top worth over 4 million gold or Dharok’s plate legs for 3 million gold. Those have a drop rate so low I'd need to open thousands of chests to have a decent chance of seeing them.

This was at least a fun enough activity I believe when I get some better gear I'll be back here again. If nothing else trying to rack up enough chest opens to get a couple more combat achievement points. Since I'm quite short on even being close to finishing the easy tier.

Farming Obor

While it might be a bit shocking, I've yet to kill Obor. He only has 120 health and now that I have protection from melee prayer, he should be quite a cakewalk to take out. To be able to fight him, however, I need a giant key and to use it at the right gate while in the Edgeville dungeon.

I had four of these keys stocked up from back when I used to farm giants for combat experience and money. Along with the single key I ended up getting from killing them for a slayer task. I even attempted to farm further ones from killing a bunch of giants without a slayer task but I had zero further luck acquiring any more keys.

Obor also happens to have six combat achievements I can work on. One of them includes killing him in a free-to-play world where I can’t use the current gear I have on. Which I decided was a no thanks from me. I could earn at least one or more of them with the four keys I had.

Now, it would have been nice if I could have gotten a 5th key to drop. Killing him five times would have acquired me two combat achievement points. Even after this with how many times I've had giants to kill I've just been rather unlucky with getting another key to drop.

As far as the kills themselves they were super easy. I just had to crawl down into the pit he was in and make a mad dash towards him with protection from melee up. As I wanted to avoid taking his other kinds of damage. For the most part protection from melee protected me from most of the damage I'd take.

From my first kill alone, I lucked out and got two combat achievements done in one. The first one was just for getting my first kill on him for a single point. The second one was for not getting knocked back and since it was considered a medium combat achievement that was worth two points.

With those out of the way, I thought I'd try tossing in some magic attacks in my next kills. If I could kill him while he was immobilized, I'd get another point for doing that. The spell I had was not very good or it was the wrong kind of spell. I cast a snare on him a couple of times and then killed him without getting it.

There is another low-level boss like Obor that also requires keys and I have never in the random combat I've done on creatures that could drop one to get a key. So, I thought I'd try and find another easy combat achievement to work on.

It turns out these things are not as easy as I thought they would be to acquire. Many of them were locked behind requirements I failed to even attempt. Others were things like Tempoross or Wintertodt where I've already gotten the super easy ones to get. I did not feel like grinding those out anymore at this time just for a couple of points. The time investment just did not seem worth it.

Desert Easy Diary Achievements

So, I decided I'd go work on some other achievements from the easy diaries. I still had so much left to do. Unlike combat ones, these were usually quick and painless. At least at the easy level.

I ended up loading up on some water skins and heading over to the desert. Here I'd learn something new I had no idea about. I wish I had known sooner if you had a knife on you that you could collect one sip of water for a water skin by cutting a cactus and collecting water from it. It’s a bit of a shame you don’t get more water with how quickly you go through it while in the desert. It is at least something that could end up saving my character from getting killed while out here and far away from a water source.

There were also just some strange things to do. Stuff you would never think to do just do at random. One of them involved me going down into a cave and picking up and dropping five potato cactuses. Why is that a diary achievement? I have no idea.

Quite a few of the achievements were not shocking as I had already done them just getting through the desert. Things like entering the hive, entering the desert with a full set of desert robes (which I sadly had to trade for rages in a quest), killing a vulture, and playing in a game of pyramid plunder. Along with what I do every time I come to the desert and that was using the magic carpet network.

While that is the bulk of the achievements to be done. I still had a couple remaining. I had no idea I could pay a guy to clean herbs for me. At the steep price of 200 gold each I don’t see why I'd ever do that under normal situations.

I also had stuff to do like mining clay. It seems like every diary has me mining something. With how little clay is worth I mined the five I needed and moved on to collect my reward as this was the last thing I needed to do to finish this one off.

The reward for this one was not that thrilling. I got an amulet that at tier one is just something cosmetic to wear. Some item drops in the desert will now be noted when they drop. At least I got a lamp for 2.5k to put into a skill.

Fremennik Easy Diary

I was off to a hunting area to catch some Ceruleen. I ended up taking two traps with me just to make the process a bit faster. Shortly after I dropped my second trap, I already had one caught.

I’ve been to this hunting area a couple of times in the past and I just love the snow here. Outside of a hunter task taking me out here to catch these cerulean I don’t see myself doing so just for hunter experience grinding.

At one point I had used rock crabs as a nice AFK way to level up my combat. I had never done so in this area. While the 50 health they used to have seemed like a lot. I could kill one of these now in three hits if I lucked out. This one took about five.

I was a little shocked when one of the achievements was just cutting and burning oak logs. That just seems so trivial at this point. Then again these are easy achievements so I suppose they should be feeling that way. It was the same feeling when I had to fill up a water buck and steal from a stall in one of the towns as the requirement to do so was only five thieving.

Several villagers had to interact with them. One of them allows you to make over your shoes. Since I was rather digging my dragon boots, I ended up buying a pair from his shop for him to change. Thankfully such things were not required at any of the other stores and services villagers I needed to talk with.

Then there were the things I had already done in the past. Such as entering the troll stronghold, crafting a tiara, and even collecting some snape grass. Before I knew it I was already done with each achievement in this region.

The reward for this one was some sea boots that allowed me to teleport to Rellekka once a day. Along with allowing a villager allowing me to use them as a bank deposit box. I’d rather just have an actual bank in this town. While there were some other rewards as well, they were just as disappointing.

Final Thoughts

While I was not so successful in getting all the combat points I was hoping to get. I at least got a couple of more. I also finished off some diary achievements at the easy tier. I was not that shocked when the rewards were rather worthless. I’d need to get some higher tiers for their rewards to be something I'd consider worth my time.

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