Avoiding Agility Brain-Freeze

For the longest time, I've considered Agility to be my least favorite Runescape skill to train (by far!). Mindlessly running laps in the Gnome Stronghold agility course and finally graduating to the Barbarian course to run that course over and over and over. With a goal of 50 agility in mind, I used the tip.it calculator to see what I was in for. 440 more laps to go.. While that might not seem like much, anybody who's run there for any length of time surely knows what sort of toture that is.

Desperate, I decided to give the Brimhaven arena a try. I put on my trusty boots of lightness, grabbed 200 coins, and filled my inventory with cakes. I gloried to Karamja, ran west, and was at the dungeon in no time at all.

The course consists of a grid of platforms, each with a pillar at the center. The platforms are seperated by various agility obstacles. A flashing arrow will point to one of the platforms and the object is to get there and touch the pillar before time runs out. If you manage to do this two times in a row, you receive a ticket and continue to receive tickets for each consecutive success. If you miss one, you have to start over.

Some notes:

One needs at least 40 agility in order to traverse all of the obstacles in the arena.

You can take damage if you fail obstacles so be sure to bring food. You can die from the damage taken in this arena.

One of the obstacles involves darts that shoot out from a pillar. Avoid this at all costs!! The obstacle is difficult to traverse and when you fail, you lose agility points for a period of time.

The best thing about this arena is the tickets. You can turn your tickets in for herbs or experience. I saved up 100 tickets and exchanged them for around 26k agility experience!

Finally, best of all, training agility in Brimhaven is actually fun and that's worth a lot to me.

A quick note about potion making

In an effort to meet the Legends quest requirements, I've been working on getting my herblore to 45.

After experimenting with farming for a bit, I broke down and decided to just buy the herbs that I needed (about 400 harralanders at 1kea on world 2). Next, I went to the gnome stronghold where there are two stores that sell chocolate and bought them out, world hopped, bought more, etc, until I had 400 chocolate powders. Finally, I went to Catherby and bought all the plant cure I could hold, emptied the vials, banked, and then repeated. Lastly, I filled all of my empty vials in Falador.

When making my potions, I found that the quickest way is to go to castle wars (one click bank access), withdraw 14 harralanders, withdraw 14 water filled vials, drag the upper left harralander to the lower right, and then click back and forth between the harralander and the vial next to it. In other words, use the same technique that you'd use for stringing bows. Once I had 400 partial potions, I repeated the process with my chocolate powder and had my 45 herblore in no time at all.