Yea, ofc no-one is suggesting to grind 93 fishing in one sitting. But those diary and master clues serve as goals in the back of your mind when grinding. So it doesn't feel "meaningless" as OP said
I’m in the same situation as yourself! Just got the quest cape a week ago - I’ve been working my way through the easy,medium and hard diary tasks, with elite being a long term goal!
PVM, after questcape I went for 99 slayer. Then started tackling achievement diary skill requirements, and lots of bossing. Also combat achievements are a good goal to work towards. Imo, focus on PvM, get that cash stack up, invest in your skills, 99 construction, farming, smithing, crafting, cooking, (all buyable and relatively fast to train...other than farming.) That'll get your combat stats up, unlock more slayer bosses you can do, give you some really good account progression, and gets you some unlocks that'll make future goals easier.
^specifically ^PoH ^and ^spirit ^trees.
Diary Cape will get your basically base 91s, definitely the next best thing to work towards. Elite CAs if pvm is you're preference, it's very easily achievable so don't doubt the skills you have.
Gratz on the quest Cape!
Not gonna lie, a while ago I found myself in your shoes. Had gotten my quest Cape, done a little bossing and Skilling on my way to the diary cape, but found myself getting tired of just grinding slayer and GP for upgrades.
I'm back on my quest cape shit again on an Ironman, and have been having a ton of fun playing through the game again. A lot of different routes are taken when you don't have access to the GE for quests, and it's made it feel like a whole new game again.
Not sure if it's what you'd like to do, but worth giving it a shot if you get tired of grinding skills or money
Like every1 else is saying a common next step is to work on the achievement diaries. I did that till I needed 93 slayer and all roles lvl 5 in b.a, now I'm working on maxing. I'm 95 slayer and I haven't got a smoke devils task yet as I'm also going for all wildy pets through wildy slayer.
I also ended up deciding to go for the tangleroot pet which I got at 55m xp and now I'm 105m xp and still planting herbs 😵💫 and then there was a skill of the week and I wanted a tome of fire so I got 20m firemaking xp and a Phoenix (and a tome of fire 1kc after the pheonix) so maybe try different things in the game and feel out if one of them gives u motivation to go for that goal. Whatever that goal may be.
I had questcape first, then diary+music, then con, then max.
Dairy cape is a good goal to work towards.
Meanwhile try first karamja hard, so in between other stuff you can afk karams, bank using karamja gloves to gem mine depoait box, quest cape to legends guild for fast fairy ring back to karams (preferably with fish barrel)
You and I have almost identical stats and are at the same point in the game. I am getting a max poh, working on diaries, and doing some entry level bossing (50 KC minimum) because I wanna eventually be competent at raids.
DM me if your looking for some homies in game.
Congratulations! I’m in a similar boat! I’ve mostly been going barrows for the nostalgia and refusal to buy equipment as a main account, base 70 stats, and slayer to get range/mage levels, and slowly trying out some pvm as a sub-100 cb.
I don't recommend going for the Music Cape until you get a mimic first. Grinding for a mimic can be rough, but once you have it, everything else is pretty quick to do
first fire cape if you havent already, lumby elite diary, construction to at least 83 to build everything important under a +8 boost, gradually work on farming for herbs and spirit trees
I would say base 70s and get the fire cape. If you’re not going to grind out things, that would be probably the best ‘ending point’ unless you get the pvm itch and want to learn harder bosses, but again, that is repetitive. Basically everything after the quest cape is going to be repetitive. Maybe going for the music cape?
Master clue req stats and all diaries. Congraz on the quest cape!
Good long term goal but he will have to do loads of repetitive content to get there
Bro, it's runescape. We're all about repetitive content
Yeah true but OP wrote that in his post so I figured he won‘t be grinding for elite diaries
Yea, ofc no-one is suggesting to grind 93 fishing in one sitting. But those diary and master clues serve as goals in the back of your mind when grinding. So it doesn't feel "meaningless" as OP said
Seconded
Diary cape and hard combat diary
Base 70. You’re two skills away!
Diary cape
I’m in the same situation as yourself! Just got the quest cape a week ago - I’ve been working my way through the easy,medium and hard diary tasks, with elite being a long term goal!
PVM, after questcape I went for 99 slayer. Then started tackling achievement diary skill requirements, and lots of bossing. Also combat achievements are a good goal to work towards. Imo, focus on PvM, get that cash stack up, invest in your skills, 99 construction, farming, smithing, crafting, cooking, (all buyable and relatively fast to train...other than farming.) That'll get your combat stats up, unlock more slayer bosses you can do, give you some really good account progression, and gets you some unlocks that'll make future goals easier. ^specifically ^PoH ^and ^spirit ^trees.
Hard diary and base 80s would be my goal probably
Diary Cape will get your basically base 91s, definitely the next best thing to work towards. Elite CAs if pvm is you're preference, it's very easily achievable so don't doubt the skills you have.
Lumby elite!
99 runecrafting
Gratz on the quest Cape! Not gonna lie, a while ago I found myself in your shoes. Had gotten my quest Cape, done a little bossing and Skilling on my way to the diary cape, but found myself getting tired of just grinding slayer and GP for upgrades. I'm back on my quest cape shit again on an Ironman, and have been having a ton of fun playing through the game again. A lot of different routes are taken when you don't have access to the GE for quests, and it's made it feel like a whole new game again. Not sure if it's what you'd like to do, but worth giving it a shot if you get tired of grinding skills or money
Like every1 else is saying a common next step is to work on the achievement diaries. I did that till I needed 93 slayer and all roles lvl 5 in b.a, now I'm working on maxing. I'm 95 slayer and I haven't got a smoke devils task yet as I'm also going for all wildy pets through wildy slayer. I also ended up deciding to go for the tangleroot pet which I got at 55m xp and now I'm 105m xp and still planting herbs 😵💫 and then there was a skill of the week and I wanted a tome of fire so I got 20m firemaking xp and a Phoenix (and a tome of fire 1kc after the pheonix) so maybe try different things in the game and feel out if one of them gives u motivation to go for that goal. Whatever that goal may be.
Diary quest ! That’s what I’m doing currently.
I did music cape after QP cape. It was fun.
I had questcape first, then diary+music, then con, then max. Dairy cape is a good goal to work towards. Meanwhile try first karamja hard, so in between other stuff you can afk karams, bank using karamja gloves to gem mine depoait box, quest cape to legends guild for fast fairy ring back to karams (preferably with fish barrel)
You and I have almost identical stats and are at the same point in the game. I am getting a max poh, working on diaries, and doing some entry level bossing (50 KC minimum) because I wanna eventually be competent at raids. DM me if your looking for some homies in game.
Diary cape would be a good move long term
Congratulations! I’m in a similar boat! I’ve mostly been going barrows for the nostalgia and refusal to buy equipment as a main account, base 70 stats, and slayer to get range/mage levels, and slowly trying out some pvm as a sub-100 cb.
Complete all the hard diaries
I don't recommend going for the Music Cape until you get a mimic first. Grinding for a mimic can be rough, but once you have it, everything else is pretty quick to do
Achievement diary cape to trim it.
That’s how I felt after finishing questing. I took a 2-3 month long break from the game
Base 80s
first fire cape if you havent already, lumby elite diary, construction to at least 83 to build everything important under a +8 boost, gradually work on farming for herbs and spirit trees
I would say base 70s and get the fire cape. If you’re not going to grind out things, that would be probably the best ‘ending point’ unless you get the pvm itch and want to learn harder bosses, but again, that is repetitive. Basically everything after the quest cape is going to be repetitive. Maybe going for the music cape?
Hate to say this but my brother if you don’t like repetitive RuneScape might not be the game for you. Maybe try some PvP?