Why You Should Be Doing Rumours | 200m Hunter | Journey to 200m All Ep 2

[@henlofrens]

I'm ~500 master rumours deep in a quetzin grind and just before I got the chin pet so I decided to use your set-up for only the 3 tasks as I'm also hunting herbi still and so far it has been pretty fast! Also in case you're curious I did some math and the exact distrubtion between herbi-kebbit-salamanders is 3/8-3/8-1/4 in the long run

[@Rakupenda]

I figured it was something more precise like that. What was the process to arrive at 37.5% / 37.5% / 25%?

[@henlofrens]

​@@Rakupenda There's probably more elegant solutions but I treated it as a markov model with transition matrix: k h s k 1/3 1/3 1/2 h 1/3 1/3 1/2 s 1/3 1/3 0 and solved for the steady state: k = h (= 1/3k +1/3h + 1/2s = 2/3k + 1/2s) s = 1/3k + 1/3h = 2/3k k + h + s = 2k + s = 1 then: 1 = 2k + 2/3k -> 3 = 6k + 2k = 8k -> k = 3/8 (= h) since s = 2/3k -> s = 2/3 * 3/8 = 6/24 = 1/4

[@Rakupenda]

Thank you for taking the time to provide that step by step explanation! I've not heard of Markov models before. Learned something new today.

[@Rooxie973]

@@henlofrens first time i've met a mathemagician online

[@josephohara169]

everyone says they never use math they learned in school... then there's this guy 😂

[@demo7421]

Please keep making guides like these on litterally any skill/activity you want, you're a godsend for irons !

[@KeytarArgonian]

The wiki has a great guide for this, and block lists. It actually works out better xp/hr if you do expert instead of master but you’ll obviously offset the amount of rewards you receive. The pet chance is the same though if you’re hunting for it specifically.

[@SkillingNChilling]

This was extremely informative. I’ve been debating how early I wanted to do Hunter on my level 3 skiller. Looks like it’ll be next, after I finish off Agility.

[@Adrian.Christ]

Gratz. I'm going to hit 200m in a couple weeks on my uim, did a solid 90m+ exp on herbi before switching to rumors. Still a little salty about how op rumors are but I've had fun overall lol

[@Rakupenda]

I would imagine "banking" herblore xp is even harder on an UIM given you have to manage the herbs AND seeds with your limited space. Herbi might still be the better play for you, idk. I'm betting the new herblore activity will be the Mahogany Homes of herblore (more xp per herb, but takes longer) and I'll be in the same boat with 120m herblore done before that activity came out. I've been stockpiling herbs since it was announced and currently sitting on 12m+ xp banked. Been itching to use it up!

[@mandrue73]

@@RakupendaI’m looking forward to it too with around 30m herb exp banked :) varlamore p2 when ?? 😅

[@ganjatsu5806]

I've never gotten a chinchompa rumor yet at 75, I've got my blocklist set up nicely though to clear a few rumors in 10 minutes. Love the rewards too, the moonlight moth mix helped me immensely to stock up on prayer and I can sell my prayer potions for exp/profit!

[@Rakupenda]

Do you have Eagles Peak quest completed?

[@Poomastafatz]

Damn I just started an iron and I’m so glad I found your channel. So many great nuggets of info in here. please keep em coming!!!

[@PikaEli]

Solid overview thank you sir!❤

[@sonymf4764]

I rarely comment on anything but this video is so well put together

[@jurgnobs1308]

I think one thing people don't talk about enough is the fact that hunter sacks don'r check your levels when rolling rewards. so, early game ironmen can in fact get much better rewards from them than from wintertodt

[@Hobbyblasphemist]

Sorted me out for the various quests that require magic logs without having to worry about wintertodt or getting 85 wc

[@jurgnobs1308]

@@Hobbyblasphemist exactly, mostly desert treasure but thats a big one

[@thecrazyeagle9674]

"Note that certain drops scale with certain skill levels such as Woodcutting; players with a higher Woodcutting level has a better chance of obtaining a higher tier log. However, it is possible (though very unlikely) for a player with a low skill level to obtain such items (i.e. a player with Woodcutting level 30 to receive a Yew log.) " oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Hunters%27_loot_sack_(basic)

[@josho8539]

This is not true anymore, they do check your stats for woodcutting now

[@jurgnobs1308]

@@josho8539 since when?

[@GOSRS]

Great video my friend, loved the breakdown of the methods you used and why!

[@acemcbeanpiff]

This has been an awesome video! Super informative, concise, and complete! Thank you!

[@Gupes]

Im spending all day today setting up my block lists! I did 99 at Herbiboar and now want to push my favorite skills XP even higher. Thanks for this video. Got me excited to start.

[@Softnor]

Amazing video, the block task feature is insane and will be tried! Please make more of these kinds of videos, liked and subscribed!

[@ollep0lle]

Tysm, best guide on this topic

[@bradybartley8444]

ayy congratz man! i was teh 33rd iron to get 200m cooking xp so very nice spot on the highscores id say :P

[@TheBlueMoments]

What a great video, instant sub!

[@Nate1The1Great1]

I love when a degenerate 200m gamer posts an extensive guide like this. Absolutely my favorite osrs content ❤

[@USAisAFK]

Awesome guide man. Keep em coming please.

[@XxYannis]

Very nice, best of luck with the FM grind man

[@n1coR]

Love your vids, currently going for 200m FM at WT myself into 200m Hunter by Rumors. Happy to see your first Video with more views on it! Keep it up!

[@_Dan_Ford]

Side note, you can also recharge your Quetzal whistle with any raw hunter meat (many of which are also given in the reward packs), such as raw kyatt or pyre fox meat (that is, if you find better sources of cooking xp)

[@Rakupenda]

True, but I would rather get the coming xp and use up the feed which has no other use - after the landing sites.

[@kell7689]

If you need content ideas, I think a video highlighting the best iron skilling methods on mobile would do well

[@Squedism]

If you do rumours early i would recommend doing moonlight antelopes, as the sunlight crossbow is an insane early weapon.

[@Maybe_Jeff]

the final herbiboar is definitely at spot #6, that's always the worst one, so of course the boar would end things all the way over there! Great video :D

[@Michael_Dominic]

i gott moonlight moth from wolf while setting up the block list and to solve the run energy issue i just used vile vigour + moths to restore prayer. very ez. almost feel like not blocking them :) but I'll continue as directed.

[@mobilemollusc615]

One benefit of herbiboar is you can do hi alks in between. I try to do my daily battlestars, so alk training is always something I look for

[@Rakupenda]

Early on in the hunter grind I burned through all my alch and fletching mats. Was nice, one they were gone, to do laid back hunter for the remainder.

[@jurgnobs1308]

​@@Rakupenda yea that's a factor a lot of people don't take into consideration enough. whether or not you currently have alchs or fletching stuff to do on an iron can affect which method is currently best

[@flipside1673]

This is an awesome video. Please make more like this

[@lucprimozic1175]

I think it ended at tiunnel 8. Nice video keep up the good work!

[@johnfromrosey2591]

good video bro love these kind of videos

[@georget6224]

Great content man even as a normi

[@rsondrugs4591]

hey, thanks for all the useful information. I have a question about the use of tecu salamanders. I've done a trial run of moonlight antelopes and to hit the drop rate for rumour peice this task took me 3:55. To hit the tecu salamander rate it took my ~4:50 (I included travel time to each). Seeing that moonlight antelopes are great food for irons, (and seems to be a faster task aka more sacks/hr), is there any other reason why you would choose Tecu's over moonlight antelopes?? thanks again

[@Rakupenda]

Ultimately I opted for less inventory management to make 200m as brain dead as I could. Don't have to deal with the antlers, collect logs, equip/unequip teasing stick, and there is more banking to empty fur/meat sack 'cause now 2/3 tasks fill them up.

[@PooP-ri6hv]

Strictly by highscores there are less people with high herb then there is with prayer . 122 hours extra is not bad considering how much more herbs you get. You can translate all that into bossing, rumors arw great but im still going for at least 100m of just herbibore once i max my ironman at the end of the year lmao

[@Rakupenda]

For context: I'm 120.7m herb with another 13m banked waiting for Varlamore pt 2's herb minigame = 133.7m herb. A lot of the herblore experience has come from pvm sources but an equally large part has come from herb runs. I have 62m prayer + 18.8m banked = 80.8m prayer. Banking herblore xp is severely time gated behind herb runs because you're limited to one every 80 minutes. And like training farming (because it IS farming) -- the actual time invested into doing it is relatively small but it's spread over a long period of time, years even. Compare that to banking cooking, where if you wanted to you could focus and "knock out" that skill in relatively short time of a few months. You simply can't camp herblore like that for an "easy" front page 200m like the cooking. I argue that's why there are more 200m cooking than herblore. There's comparable amounts of people with high prayer as there is high herblore; herblore requires 100m to be front page where prayer is about 90m. My prayer should catch up to herblore with the 200m slayer grind and from there I will need to actually dedicate time to banking prayer to finish it. We should weigh that 122 hours saved by imagining they were put towards solely towards gathering herbs (herb runs): each run takes approximately 10 minutes and ten herb patches per run, ~9 herbs per seed on average is 65,880 herbs. At a minimum I plant Irit (108.8xp ea) which means that is at least 7.1m herb xp. With that framing, now it's like I only spent 3m herb xp for 17m prayer and 17m cooking (+ more). There's also nothing stopping you from spending those extra 122 hours doing post-200m herbi for just banking herb xp. You'll get about 3m herblore doing that. The 200m all journey is focused on the long term. It is a game of years, not mere months for "quick" 200m front page flexes. I need to think about grinds in the context of all the skills, not just herblore.

[@xbeliefs4242]

Extra tip: use the tackle box to store your nets for extra inventory space.

[@Rakupenda]

The nets and ropes can both be stored in the Huntsman's kit. I didn't use it because of the extra inventory management. Much simpler to just leave them in the inventory.

[@xbeliefs4242]

@@Rakupenda ahh they must have updated it since i completed the log.

[@Rakupenda]

Ya it was expanded to include those April 3rd (two weeks post release)

[@jesselatner3894]

i've done around 4k herbibore and mostly to get herblore exp on my ironman. i guessed the end tunnel right

[@has489]

can you do like an hour of master rumours? with just music is fine just to showcase the method?

[@Rakupenda]

Here's the B-roll footage I used. It's only a little over 30 minutes long, but you get the idea. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZPWiISXrpqNqac

[@forrestglenn2520]

Great video, tunnel 8.

[@Aderaen]

Great video! Easy sub

[@Bioniclema90]

I originally stopped doing rumors because I got so tired of the garbage drop rates for the outfit and the activity overall was mind numbing.

[@matthewpartridge8784]

Does one have to be clinically insane 200m in any skill

[@thekruiseobjective]

These videos are amazing.

[@lyyretv1126]

Great video!

[@TheMilkDicing]

Not sure if I missed it, but how many pets did you get from rumors during the grind? And what kc was your first?

[@Rakupenda]

I got 17 Quetzin, the first was at 1207 rumours.

[@TetchyyHD]

Great vid

[@Disspearing]

Awesome!

[@WhiteLotus04x]

hey sorry im new to OSRS, how exactly did the 1mil construction you mentioned at the end come from doing hunter?

[@Rakupenda]

Welcome to OSRS! The teak and mahogany logs from the loot reward sacks will be converted into planks and used for construction. It's not that I gained the xp, it's that I have acquired the necessary materials ("banked") for use later. Banking xp is a large component for Ironman skilling as we don't have the GE to simply buy more stuff like the planks needed to train construction. Hope this helps clear things up.

[@MidnightJohnson-dp5mb]

I admire your dedication so much, that id like you to get 99 hunter on my iron 😂

[@Lss40]

Did the final Herblore XP from rumours include the herbs you get from doing Herbiboar as a rumour task?

[@Rakupenda]

I separated the herbs from Herbi and the herbs from the rumour sacks. The summary is all inclusive.

[@runeking884]

good video man

[@Ryeniken]

I'm curious, with the good meat and moonlight antler drops from moonlight antelope, could it not be reasonable to block tecu salamanders, and do moonlight antelope instead as the third?

[@Rakupenda]

You certainly could. Moonlight specifically you wouldn't need to bring logs or an axe because of the "trees" there don't require an axe.

[@mandrue73]

Did you do many rumors before they removed kebbit skipping? I did around 1700 elite rumors with kebbit skipping for my pet and was averaging over 250k hunter exp an hr. Its a shame they removed it imo, but I’m just glad I got the pet beforehand :p

[@Rakupenda]

I did not do the elite kebbit skipping, no. I did have about 2000 rumours before they reworked the task list, so they were very light on the herbi/kebbit tasks because I had six tasks to cycle between instead of three at that time.

[@sawyerwelden7929]

Great vid. Tunnel 6.

[@MagiaErebea028]

I HATE butterflies rumors

[@mandrue73]

Enjoyed the video :) how many herbi and quetzin pets did you end up with?

[@Rakupenda]

Three Herbi and 17 Quetzin.

[@mandrue73]

@@Rakupenda wooooah vn! :o

[@rovint_]

what happened to episode 2?

[@Rakupenda]

You're right, this *is* episode 2

[@MrTiistai]

Im maxed ironman, just tried out rumours, i set up 3 task herbi, kebbit and antilope from wiki guide.. well i hope antilope meat will be usefull.

[@Rakupenda]

It is the highest healing hard food in the game at the moment.

[@MrTiistai]

@@Rakupenda can i change this from just getting task from gilman until i get antilopes and vise versa?

[@Rakupenda]

If you want to change this, you'll need to complete Gilman tasks until he assigns you the antelopes. Then they are "blocked".

[@deso1208]

great video

[@TTVBunnyDougie]

I can't do rumors until I get my chin pet!! :( I figure grinding 99 hunter thru rumors is silly if I'm trying to get the baby chin. Hopefully he comes soon. Which I highly doubt :(

[@Rakupenda]

Unfortunately chin pet rate is about 25m xp. You *could* do the four rumour setup (don't block red chins) and do rumours until you get Quetzin or chin pet, then block red chins & finish out rumours 'til Quetzin.

[@Softnor]

Can you even make the blocklist you have without 91 hunting?

[@Rakupenda]

No. You need 91 to have access to Wolf.

[@foley619z]

Did i miss a part that you showed how many loot sacks or total rumors you had?

[@Rakupenda]

Yeah, the summary. 16:52

[@dumidumski]

If you don’t care about the banked herblore xp is there a better creature than herbiboars for maximum hunter xp per hour?

[@Rakupenda]

Chins would be the go-to for the best hunter xp/hr

[@HardstuckDM]

Hey weird question, but is the name Rakupenda based on Swahili? Because Nakupenda means “I love you” in Swahili. Might just be a coincidence.

[@Rakupenda]

It is not. Raku is a form of Japanese pottery. Penda is shortened form of pendant. Raku pendant. Rakupenda.

[@HardstuckDM]

@@Rakupenda ah cool. To me it just looked similar since its only one letter off. Then again I don’t know any Japanese, so didn’t make the connection there.

[@x0wNr03ll]

where are the maniacal monkeys? AFK and good xp

[@tomk4984]

Okay, so I accidently reset my block list..., and then as I'm almost done completing it I get Queztin pet at 126 rumors completed. I'm not an ironman so I might just go do herbivore only for the pet lol... What do you think? Is there any incentive of me doing more rumors?

[@Rakupenda]

Lucky you! I'd say if your goal is to get herbi pet then yeah, just camp herbi. Not worth hunting rumours for you at that point.

[@kanifis]

LUCKY NUMBER 1

[@rw-rm4ej]

Where is your name from? It sounds very similar to nakupenda, which is i love you in kiswahili

[@Rakupenda]

Raku is a form of Japanese pottery. Penda is shortened form of pendant. Raku pendant. Rakupenda.

[@hhhhhhhhhhb]

do u just avoid rdps at tob? or i imagine u have enough chins for a good bit of it

[@Rakupenda]

I prefer mage. I do have tens of thousands of chins left from the chin pet hunt, but generally the "normie" is the one assigned to chin in tob.

[@tomk4984]

I don't get it somehow i ruined all my block lists? Does gilman reset every task?

[@Rakupenda]

If you have him reset all the tasks, yes.

[@tomk4984]

@@Rakupenda Wow im angry... i wish someone told me that resets every task, I thought it was only to reset his task.

[@Rakupenda]

It's the fail safe, sort of like resetting your slayer streak with Turael.

[@tomk4984]

@@Rakupenda Ah gotcha thx, im just so upset, i had all my blocks except gilman moonlight antelope. And then reset...

[@Rakupenda]

I did it once by accident too. "Oh what's this extra piece of dialogue do? uh oh..."

[@halloymcalvin]

So with blocking u mean giving the low tier hunters the task u dont want right?

[@Rakupenda]

Correct.

[@halloymcalvin]

@@Rakupenda i want to do this on my main non iron from 96 to 99 still good method u think?

[@Rakupenda]

Yeah sure. Whatever gets the job done.

[@GOSRS]

Final herbi was 7

[@PsFlux]

2:40 i also love cunter experience

[@Rakupenda]

shhhh lol

[@ouchhurts]

i'll never forget MomeyDragon did it first

[@Rakupenda]

That's not a minigame tho.

[@amp4105]

I hate net traps they feel so slow to set and dismantle

[@warryen]

I chose 5. I was not right. :)

[@lagsirdoodlez]

You sound a bit like slayermusic with a better mic

[@quaweds]

ayy i was right it was 1 :)

[@Hunter-vb2kj]

bro it takes so fucking long to set up this block list good lord

[@Hunter-vb2kj]

no kidding i am on 4 hours of doing this with only 1 thing properly blocked,

[@Rakupenda]

Yep. Took me most of the first day to get everything in order, especially the novice.

[@Hunter-vb2kj]

@@Rakupenda managed to get it all setup. this shits chill and great xp

[@Cheezed_]

It's 6

[@jasonbrock5908]

but did you get pet

[@Rakupenda]

Oh we got pet.

[@stynosen]

Wait, have you been banned?

[@Rakupenda]

No...?

[@TheWesen18]

There are a million reasons to never get a skill to 200m however

[@Cwissmate]

This is the real video i want to see

[@gisforgeezus7408]

thanks for suffering so I dont have to

[@JiXERJEM]

5

[@JiXERJEM]

nooooo i would have lost

[@JRazEd]

i'm not going to be doing rumours sorry

[@Rakupenda]

You do you, boo.

[@JRazEd]

@@Rakupenda thank you for being understanding

[@weepees6013]

If you currently has a rumour :') I had to rewatch a couple times to make sure my ears didn't deceive me lol.

[@jonny_todd]

5 :D

[@Nexeiy]

7

[@Nexeiy]

i shoulda cheated , looking like a fool right now

[@rob2533]

eh

[@buntikie]

You should donate your brain to science if you are willing to get 200m in any skill.

[@minoxiis3419]

Why the f would you want this much xp. Makes 0 sense

[@Rakupenda]

Yes.

[@imanoobtuber]

this is what peak virgin looks like😂

[@Celesaphii]

Wife here begs to differ 😂

[@nc8186]

Yea peak virgin isnt making a really nice concise video on youtube and giving the audience a lot of helpful info. Peak virgin is your comment

[@imanoobtuber]

@@nc8186 okay bud. keep playing the computer 10 hours a day and living in a bubble 😂

[@nc8186]

@imanoobtuber i dont play 10 hours a day i have a job and a girlfriend Lol. He made a really nicely done video and clearly has intelligence and things to contribute to society. And whether it be a job, or a runescape video it's still doing more than you are when you call random people you don't know a virgin for doing a 200m. Even if his only contribution to society is a runescape video, he still did a good job with it, and that's all that matters. But im sure he does plenty that you know nothing about and youre just an unhappy dickhead online lmao. I noticed youre subbed to a pick up artist on youtube, good luck finding someone to endure you!