My Journey With Runescape: Keeping Things Fresh and Fun
I like to do a lot of different things on my account, mostly because there are just so many different things you can do, whether it be questing or working on your skills. As is typical for pretty much any MMO, the more you progress, the more stuff that unlocks that allows you to the progress even more, to then unlock more stuff. Obviously, as a starting account, it is sometimes a little nerve-wracking to figure out where you want to start. I always recommend to either look up things to do as a starting account, or just go in completely blind and figure things out as you go. When I started back in the day, nobody really knew what they were supposed to do, and that made the game feel more fun and fresh as it was your own adventure. For me, it still feels that way because I still go about it that way. Keeps things mysterious and it's always fun to figure things out for yourself.
To name a few things, one thing I have enjoyed doing over time is kingdom management or more specifically called, Managing Miscellania, which in itself is a repeatable reward from completing the Throne of Miscellania quest which is quite easy to complete if I do say so myself. Given that the quest is easy, and the reward is repeatable for as long as you want, I'd say it's one of the more important things to get done as soon as you can.
Basically, you are running a kingdom, and you set your workers to do certain things and collect certain resources that will help you progress in other parts of the game. Resources being things like bird nests that can have seeds and jewelry in them, or collecting wood for you to train fletching, firemaking and whatever else. Currently I have my kingdom collecting various types of herbs and seeds as I will need to get my herblore skill to 80 sometime in the near future. This allows me to passively prepare for said grind as I go do other things. It's one of those features that you can check in once a week, as opposed to feeling like you have to check on it daily. All you have to do is keep your kingdoms faith in you up, which you can do by simply doing skills around the kingdom until you have 100% favorability for that week. Doesn't take long but just a couple minutes of your time. Then you can enjoy the rewards for that week. Or longer if you choose to wait.
Along with that, I tend to get a lot of enjoyment out of simply gaining experience in various skills and then switching to doing more afk things, as I said in a previous post. Not a lot of excitement to talk about however I will say, as you get your levels up and up, the grindiness takes a bit of a backseat which opens itself up to finding more efficient ways to gain experience in skills. One of my favorite being mining, as you can get yourself a ore box that allows you to hold up to 120 of any ore you mine, allowing for less time traveled to banks as your inventory can only hold up to 28 items. So these extra things can be really useful to help you can more experience and less time traveling.
(which is why I have gotten my mining lvl up to 103, and am currently working to get that skill to 120). See image below for example:
Otherwise, y'know, as there are lots of things to do an unlock, I don't seem to run out of things to do. However, a lot of people like to say there isn't much to do. All I will say, is that you can pretty much just do whatever you want. Don't feel stressed about grinding all day. That's just one part of the game as a whole.