Since it's launch in 2001, Runescape has never stopped growing
. Since then, Runescape has become so vast that getting to know everything by yourself has become virtually impossible. This is particularly why Runescape Fansites have received large attention in the last few years.
In Runescape there are dozens of skills, hundreds of locations to explore and thousands of items to collect and sell. This has made it virtually impossible for one to know how to do everything by himself. And that is exactly why Runescape fan sites have been created; to help document the game.
Uses of a Runescape fan site
There are multiple uses of a fan site. A popular use for example is for getting quest help. Quests can take up a lot of time to complete since you have to analyze the clues and move back and forth between locations but following a quest guide takes the guess work out of it.
A second use of these sites would be to find and form a clan. Creating a good permanent clan or finding a good and serious one is by no means an easy task. Some fan sites however do publish a list of clans you can join according to your level, experience or needs, giving you a lot of choice to choose the perfect clan - all which would not be possible without a proper fan site.
Yet another use of a Runescape fan site is that we can find good and useful skill guides on a decent help site. A lot of avid players enjoy getting their skills up just for the sake of it, something that I don't honestly understand, while others in order to make money or become stronger in pvp but either way getting skills up is time consuming. If you are serious about Runescape though and are not reading guides about the skill you're getting up then you might be missing up important information.
Conclusion
Guides on Runescape Fan sites are relatively easy to follow and really make your life much easier by saving time and enabling you to spend more actual time "doing" than figuring out what to do. If you aren't already using one then I can recommend that you use this Runescape help site.