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| Lurker | ~skill Guide To All Skills 3 ~ ----REACHED 2k POSTS 2x---- ----ONE OF THE BEST SKILL GUIDES---- ----GUARANTEED TO HELP MANAGE YOUR RUNESCAPE TIME BETTER---- Hello everyone, this is my skill guide to all skills. I'm going to work VERY hard on this skill guide to make it the most complete and best skill guide. This is my third skill guide and I've enjoyed making them every bit as much as you enjoy reading them (hopefully). A little bit about myself... I currently have 1816 total lvl and am always trying to find the fastest ways to train my skills because I don't have to much time on my hands to play Runescape (maybe 2 hours a day). My ultimate goal is to get the highest total lvl possible (max out my lvl) and I'm gonna keep at it till I get it. Now that you have a little background on me (not that you care) I will begin my skill guide. I'll try and make it enjoyable to read and as thorough as possible. I promise you I will make this the best skillz guide ever! If you want to know where I am and what I am doing I will always have it posted right here. CURRENTLY----Check out my G&A Thread! 48-49-517-45636963 MY TABLE OF CONTENTS IS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER FOR THE SKILLS ~~~~~TABLE OF CONTENTS~~~~~ ~~!MONEY MAKING GUIDE!~~: Post 57-62 (NOTE: All melee skill are combined in posts 7-8) Post 1: Intro to my guide Post 2: About the guide/rules/DONATIONS Post 3: Tips when getting 99 in a skill Post 4-6: Agility Post 7-8: Attack/Defense/Strength/Hp Post 9-10: Construction Post 11-12: Cooking Post 13-14: Crafting Post 15-16: Farming Post 17-19: Fishing Post 20-21: Firemaking Post 22-24: Fletching Post 25-27: Herblore Post 28-30: Hunter Post 31-32: Magic Post 33-34: Mining Post 35-36: Prayer Post 37-39: Ranged Post 40-43: Runecraft Post 44-45: Slayer Post 46-47: Smithing Post 48-50: Thieving Post 51: Woodcutting Post 52: Things that get on my nerve Post 53-55: Exp rates Post 56: Thank yous/FAQ Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:29:15 Last edited on 11-Jul-2007 08:33:04 by Spaderdabomb Ok, this is the first official page of my guide. First I must go over some rules: 1) No spamming/flaming. 2) If you don't like the guide, tell me how to improve. 3) All Jagex rules apply. Simple rules, shouldn't be hard at all to follow. Now I'm going to have a kind of "format" for every post. This is how it will kinda go. 1) I'll give you a scale of 1-10 on how familiar I am with this skill and what lvl I am in it 2) What you need for this skill 3) What you should do from lvl 1-99 (# 1 Method equals best method, # 2 method etc.....equal alternative method 4) How long this skill will take on a scale from 1-10 5) How effective this skill is in your daily runescape life. 6) Common Misconceptions about training this skill (only on a few of the mini-guides) I'm going to write a guide for each skill EXTREMELY THOROUGHLY. I'll try to do the best that I can on getting you the proper information on each and every skill! I hope you find this guide helpful. THANK YOU FOR THE DONATIONS!!!! * * * * _____________ * * * * ~~~~| Donater's List |~~~~ * * * * ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ * * * * Iamstrength-- 500k Demonboyson-- 50k, 350k in items (400k total) Blast Boy909- 240k, 189 choco dust (330k total) Hawk24792---- 50k,Other items (over 300k total) Fiddy225----- 196k Star Train 4- 135k Erath50------ 130k D Wade Ftw--- 100k V8000100----- 100k Sapirworf---- 100k in items Madmanzed---- 50k cash, 25k items (75k total) Wackykiller0- 50k, spined gloves and boots (100k total) Dragoncool58- Many items and 40k cash (90k total) Skills Oath-- 49 mage logs, 84 yew logs (80k total) Eunit3692---- 35k Firedrag0n51- 35k Tridium12---- 30k 0ld f0rest--- 100 lobs, mage short, black d hide chaps Fballguy58--- 25k 13penguie13-- 14 tanned green d hides, 300 trout, 300 salmon Blkdragon 897- 20k alfyan 1987-- 15k Gman95q------ 10k TOTAL---- 2936k (approximately) Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:29:18 Last edited on 14-May-2007 22:43:30 by Spaderdabomb Ok everybody, this page is pretty important if you want to manage your time best in runescape while getting 99 in a skill. ***First tip*** One of the most important tips I have for you when achieving 99 in a stat is to stick with it. Most people probably don't realize how much time they waste when switching between skills. I like to go at least one to two weeks straight at a skill before switching to another. If you think about it, it can take anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes switching between a skill.....and now think about how many times you've switched between skills. Over 100 probably right? That's nearly 20 hours you wasted. ***Second tip*** While you are training try not to get side tracked with pk visits, mini-games that waste time and just not paying attention good enough. Tons of time is wasted talking to friends while you should still be picking those pockets of a very unfortunate....thing.....well whatever it may be your pickpocketing you are wasting your time. So limit your pk trips, mini-game trips and chatting frenzies! ***Third tip*** Make whatever you are doing as fun as possible. It's extremely helpful. Going to guilds such as World 22 shilo fishing guild and other player made guilds rack in exp and you don't even know it. You get into a rythm and don't even notice it. One time I did 1500 high alcings while just listening to other people talk, laughing at what they said. Suddenly an hour and half later I realized I had made great time on my perilous journey of high alcing 10k yew longs..... Those are some of the main tips.....another one is read my guide....It will help you I guarantee Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:29:23 Last edited on 25-Jun-2007 03:06:03 by Spaderdabomb Alright the first skill of my guide. I hope you enjoy it a lot and rate me. ***FAMILIARITY*** Ok on a scale of 1-10 on how familiar I am, it's probably a 10. My lvl is pretty good I would say coming in at 81. ***ITEMS*** Boots of lightness, Spottier cape, Penance gloves, Agility Potions, Energy Potions, Food (cakes), and other various items I will mention. ***LVL 1-99*** _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-49: Ok, for all of these starting level, use a toy mouse, or toy mice. The more the better. They're only 5k on the streets and if you want to make one you need 33 construction. You get 15 exp for catching OR missing these mice. If you catch them, you have to release them (which gives 0 exp) which means the lower your agility level, the BETTER EXP YOU GET! A great place to train with these is at the Brimhaven Agility arena. Here, you can lower your agility to 1 by trying to pass through the poison darts. You can get 600 exp /min max with toy mice. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-25: You can go the simple way by making your way to the Tree Gnome Stronghold and hop around that agility course. Bring any weight decreasing items and food is not needed at this course seeing you cannot fall. I REALLY RECOMMEND THE MOUSE WAY THOUGH BECAUSE IT'S NEARLY 4X FASTER! _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 25-43: For these levels, go to the Skullball Course. I got a lot of questions where this was in my last guide so here is where it is. It's in about the middle of the Mort Myre swamp and is marked which an agility sign on the runescape map. You will need to have done Priest in Peril and also Creature of Fenkenstein because you'll need your Ring of Charos to access it. Skullball is fairly fast exp once you get the hang of it, but the mouse way is still nearly 2 and a half times faster so I still really recommend that way. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:29:27 Last edited on 27-May-2007 22:18:18 by Spaderdabomb _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 43-49: Go to the Brimhaven mini-game arena. At this level you begin racking up tickets quickly. Get 100 tickets and make sure you do obstacles while you wait for the arrows to change dispensers. If you do that you should have 49 agility after 100 tickets. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 49-70: You should go to the wilderness course for these lvls. And you're thinking "what lvl 49? You need 52 to get into that course!" But I have a trick up my sleeve. Grab an agility pot and head up to the Wilderness Course. I'd also recommend a Dds to make yourself a threat so people don't always kill you. The Wilderness Course is definitely not as dangerous as you may think. If you have a Dds people will think twice about attacking you and also it's very uncrowded so if you feel uneasy about another player, simply switch worlds and I guarentee you'll find an empty world. This course will earn you nearly 35k per hour. Also bring an anti-poison pot and cakes. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 70-99: At 70, ape atoll course becomes better than the wilderness. At lvl 75 agility, you will stop failing this course. Once you're lvl 75, using Super energy pots, you can rack in 50k exp per hour! You must do Monkey Madness and have a ninja gree gree though to do this course. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:29:32 Last edited on 11-Jul-2007 08:35:26 by Spaderdabomb _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 70-99: Dorge-Kaan is actually better than ape atoll, but there's a reason it's the number 2 method instead of number 1. It's a very boring, frustrating and stressful course......although you can't call ape atoll fun either lol. But you get my point it's much more annoying than ape atoll. You also will need to have more super energies potions than ape atoll, making it more expensive and also forcing you to bank more often. Another thing is you can fall all the way through lvl 99 on this course! I timed this course with my 81 agility for an hour and was able to come up with 52k exp....and I was very efficient. I've gotten about 51k at ape atoll.......so I guess you can decide which one to do lol......seems obvious you should do ape atoll to me though. ***SPEED*** This skill is probably a 4 on speed with fastest exp possible around 50k per hour. ***USES*** Recharges energy faster, lets you use shortcuts, big quest helper, and you can wield crystal bows. ***COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS*** The barbarian outpost course is used a lot but is a waste of time, and it's slower then Skullball. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:29:35 Last edited on 23-Jun-2007 06:42:51 by Spaderdabomb ***FAMILIARITY*** On a scale of 1-10 I'm about an 8 on this, seeing my combat is not the best (lvl 101). My attack is 81, Strength is 80, Defense is 84, and Hp is 85. ***ITEMS*** There are tons of items and I cannot list them all. What I would recommend is buying the best armor you can afford and the best weapon you can afford (make sure it is a skimmy) unless you can a wield a whip. A whip is a must. I will have a "Perfect Pc Outfit" later in the guide. ***LVL 1-99*** _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-15: I think cows would be best to start out, seeing that they drop nearly 150 coins each time you kill them because of their cowhides. They also have good hp for their lvl. Other things you can kill include goblins and "mans." _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 15-40: If you are f2p, kill hill giants. If you are p2p, I really suggest killing rock crabs. Rock crabs are only lvl 13, but have 50 hp and are extremely good for training on. Rock crabs are located slightly northeast of the Fremnik Province (north of Seer's Village) _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 40-70: For the quickest exp, I suggest experiments. They have 100 hp and extremely low def, so they are great to kill. They are located below gravestone east of Dr. Fenkenstein's Castle. Use a spade on it I believe to get in. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 40-70: Baby blue dragons aren't the greatest, although they will give you a lot of prayer exp, seeing that each of their bones gives you 30 exp. These are located in the Taverley dungeon and you'll need the dusty key. To obtain the dusty key, you must first get to the chaos dwarfs, then continue on straight until hopefully you find some jail cells. Then kill a jailor, pick up the key and unlock the jail cell. Talk to the man inside and you'll obtain a dusty key. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:29:39 Last edited on 16-May-2007 05:15:56 by Spaderdabomb _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 70-99: Yep you guessed it.....cows.....no just kidding pest control. Alrighty I promised you a perfect pest control meelee set and here it is. Rune defender Fighter Torso Barrow's Gloves Berserker Ring Prosleyte cuisse/tasset (cuisse=legs) Rune Boots Berzerker Helm/Fremenik Royal Helm (better def/prayer bonus) Abyssal Whip Fury Amulet Fire Cape And there it is. You are destined to get all of those items to hit the hardest, fastest and best. Now why do I recommend pest control at a late lvl of nearly 70 in every melee skill? Because you will not get enough benefits from being lower lvled. I really suggest being 80+ combat before doing pest control. The pest points will start becoming big rewards once you get around 70 in a skill, below that they really aren't too rewarding. Plus it's very hard to find a world when you are low lvled. I REALLY RECOMMEND JOINING A CLAN, no matter what lvl, even may it be an 80+ clan. Usually 80+ clans will find you worlds and you can go to the world the leader tells you to go to. You don't have to wait around and try and world hop into a good world with a clan. You just join and go go go!!! Many people think pest control is a waste of time and think people are lying when they tell them their exp rates, but in fact we aren't lying. 100k per hour is an easy task with a clan, and notice I said with a clan. Trying to find your own worlds is extremely difficult (although some have lots of success doing this). So join a clan. ***SPEED*** These skills are fairly fast, seeing at pest control you can get nearly 100k per hour or more, so this is probably a 7 on a scale of 1-10. ***USES*** There are unlimited uses with these skills....from boasting rights to slaying the hardest demons. I won't name the uses, most of them are known. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:29:43 Last edited on 01-Jun-2007 00:11:18 by Spaderdabomb ***FAMILIARITY*** I am not the most familiar but definitely familiar with construction, probably a 9 on a scale of 1-10 and I'm lvl 70 ***ITEMS*** You will be needing a saw, regular planks, oak planks, possibly other planks, nails, a hammer.......and a (censor)load of money. ***LVL 1-99*** (ALL OF THESE OPTIONS ARE # 1 METHOD SEEING THERE AREN'T ANY OTHER REASONABLE ALTERNATIVES) Lvls 1-9: Make chairs out of regular planks (for these first lvls when using regular planks, make your own becaues it's too hard to buy from other players) Lvls 9-19: Larders require regular planks but take up 8 planks at a time, so obviously these are faster then chairs... Lvls 19-22: Ok now you can begin making oak things. On all oak things you get 60 exp per oak plank no matter how many you use at a time. Make oak chairs for these levels and I really suggest you buy your planks (unless you can't find a way to make more then 100k per hour because that's what you save when you make your own planks) Lvls 23-31: Start making oak tables at this lvl, seeing that it's faster exp because you use more planks at a time. Lvls 31-33: Make some carved oak tables. These are faster because they take 6 planks instead of normal oak tables which take 4. Lvls 33-73: Alright, you can finally take a big chunk of your time and focus in on one thing to make.....Oak larders that would be. These are a great source of exp, and dungeon doors are the only thing better than them (I explain why on next post). It's best to use a regular butler in my opinion for these because usually he's back before you have a chance to wait around. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:29:47 Last edited on 13-Jun-2007 05:57:20 by Spaderdabomb _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 74-99: There's another method you should use once you hit 73. Dungeon doors require 10 oak planks to make them, and a common mistake people think is that these are slower because you can make 3 oak larders (24 oak planks used) vs. only 20 per inventory on dungeon doors. This is a mistake because if you are using a DEMON BUTLER (must use) there is no waiting time in between making them and collecting planks from the demon butler. It's been said this can get up to 50k more exp per hour. ***SPEED*** This skill is probably a 8 on a scale of 1-10 although it's extremely expensive which is why it is hard. ***USES*** Construction can be used to have house parties and HAS ONE OF THE BEST USES IN THE GAME which is the prayer alter and incense burners. The best alter will give you 3.5x the prayer xp for bones which is by far the best way to get prayer exp in the game. ***COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS*** Making your own planks is a common thing to do and people don't realize they are only saving around 100k per hour. You can make your own planks if you can't make 100k per hour but most people can do that. Post 11: COOKING ***FAMILIARITY*** I'd say am very familiar with cooking, and probably a 9 on a scale of 1-10. My cooking lvl is 88. ***ITEMS*** You'll need lots of fishies, cooking gauntlets and maybe a tinderbox and an axe. ***LVL 1-99*** _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-40: For these first lvls, I really suggest fishing your own fish and cooking it. It doesn't take that long and will also get you good fishing exp. This is what I did. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-40: You could just buy your fish from other people. This would be the only other known method to me and I don't really recommend it, but it could be faster if you don't want to train your fishing at all. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvl 40-94: Ok for these lvls if you aren't just going to fish your own food to cook (Which I still recommend if you want but it's not as necessary as before) I'd recommend buying lobsters. Lobsters are great and recommend all the way through lvl 94. Monkfish are also great for those lvls 90-94 because you don't burn them starting at 90. Sharks you don't stop burning with cooking gauntlets until lvl 94 and you'll end up losing a lot of money. With cooking gauntlets (receive from family crest quest) you will stop burning lobsters at lvl 66 cooking I believe. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 40-?: You may burn a lot of lobsters at lvl 40, so It's always a great option to buy some salmon or trout and cook them for a bit (maybe around lvl 55) An easy way to get raw salmon/trout it go to a f2p world and usually in Varrock bank somebody will be selling A LOT! (continued on next page) Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:31:52 Last edited on 16-May-2007 05:17:07 by Spaderdabomb _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 90/94-99: Now I'd definitely go with sharks until lvl 99. You'll end up losing a little bit of money because they sell more raw then cooked, but it's still extremely fast and you won't burn any at lvl 94. I suggest it at lvl 90 also, although you'll burn some resulting in some money loss, but they are way faster then other methods such as monkfish and lobsters so the time really makes up for the loss in money. IMPORTANT NOTE!!!! If you ever cook mass amount of fish, the best place to cook them is definitely the rogues den (under the bar in Burtherope) There is an everlasting fire literally 2 spaces from the bank and it's obviously the best place to cook food. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ You could cook lower lvl fish. The reason you might want to do that would be because you don't have enough money to afford doing sharks. Lobsters would be a good choice for this. Monkfish are just not a good option overall unless you fish them yourself. Then I recommend cooking them. ***SPEED*** Cooking comes in as a definite 10 being the fastest skill there is in the game. There's a reason why nearly 10 people have 200 mil exp in it. You can get an easy 4k exp per minute cooking sharks. ***USES*** Without cooking I dont know what runescape would be. No food, no mass killing. Very important skill and you can earn some money from fishing/cooking food. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:31:56 Last edited on 10-Jun-2007 19:24:55 by Spaderdabomb ***FAMILIARITY*** I am probably an 8 on familiarity on a scale of 1-10. My lvl is a fairly good 67.... ***ITEMS*** There are too many items to name although some main ones are flax, thread, needle and many types of hides. ***LVL 1-99*** _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-10: I would suggest using those cowhides you got from getting your first few combat lvls with (if not just go slice some more of those poor cows). Go to Al-Kharid and tan them with the tanner just north of furnace. You'll need around 100 cowhides to get to lvl 10 crafting. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 10-57: Start spinning some flax. You can buy it or pick it yourself. If you are ever spinning more then 500 at a time, make sure to use the spinner in the Lumbridge castle (second floor). It is much faster then the one in Seer'* village. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 10-57: You could continue on with cowhides. It's what I did seeing I wasn't a member yet and it worked fine. It's more time consuming and more expensive if you buy your hides, although it's still a great way to get exp. _______________ | ~ METHOD 3 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 10-57: Later in my smithing guide you'll read about using gold ores to make gold bars and such. If you do that you can also use all those gold bars you'll have no other use for and use them for crafting. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 57-66/99: Alright, there are so many options for crafting, but all so hard. This one to me seems best though. Getting green d hides (make sure they're untanned when buying from other players and tan them yourself in Al-Kharid) and crafting them into whatever you can. Craft vambraces until green bodies. Green bodies you get quickest exp and save the most money. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:32:00 Last edited on 24-May-2007 03:13:42 by Spaderdabomb _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 57-?: Ok it's spinning flax once again. At this level it really becomes slow exp but it's very convenient when getting exp. You can go to whatever lvl you wish, just wouldn't recommend going over 70 doing it this way. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 66-99: You can now use blue dragon hides to train. Slightly more expensive although in trade for faster exp. Many skills go like that....lol and it annoys me. Make sure you make the bodies when you can....... ***SPEED*** Crafting is one of the most difficult skills out there, and mainly you need money. It's fast if you have money but otherwise slow so I'll put it down as about a 8 on a scale of 1-10. ***USES*** Man there are unlimited uses for crafting. Great dragon hide armor is constructed with it, rings and almost everything nifty little thing you can think of involves crafting in a way. Very useful skill to have a high lvl in. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:32:05 Last edited on 24-Jun-2007 17:27:44 by Spaderdabomb ***FAMILIARITY*** I'm about a 7 on this skill, not all that familiar and my farming lvl comes in at 69. ***ITEMS*** Many seeds, and tools the farmers sell near allotment patches. ***LVL 1-99*** _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-31: The Sorcerer's Garden is good exp at these early lvls. I admit I haven't done it myself, but I here from others it's great exp. I'll get more info soon. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-31: Start stealing from those master farmers. You'll get tons of starting seeds from them and in less then 30 minutes of thieving, I guarantee you'll have enough to last you 30 lvls. Use your potato seeds to start out. You have a few options when looking after plants so they don't die. You can plant flowers and when they are fully grown they will protect a certain type of vegetable. Another method is paying farmers to watch them. (Flowers only work for vegetables) And lastly you can watch them yourself. My favorite way is the flowers way for raising vegetables. I'd suggest when starting to just plant a marigold seed and watch over it for 15 minutes while it grows. Once it grows it will never die. Now you can plant your potatoes, and onions. They won't die if you have a marigold fully grown in the patch, so you can plant them, leave em be for an hour and then come back and harvest. Once you get to cabbages you have to plant a new flower to protect them which is a rosemary. Do the same thing with these. To protect tomatoes go back to marigolds (look at your mini-guide on runescape for what the flowers protect) For these early lvls you can also plant some herb seeds to get exp as well. Flowers DON'T protect herbs and farmers cannot watch them, so you can watch them or risk it. I risk it. Tree seeds are also great. Acorn seeds are great for exp in the beginning stages so plant those and pay a farmer to watch em. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:32:09 Last edited on 17-May-2007 22:33:53 by Spaderdabomb _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 31-60: Farming begins getting hard in these lvls. You will either need tree seeds, herb seeds or higher lvl vegetable seeds to grow fast. Cabbage and up is fine for vegetable seed but I really recommend planting the best ones, for it will go much much faster. I got all the way from around 15 through 45 with cabbage seeds though, and it worked fine. Next the herb seeds. Once you rise in lvl, you'll find herb seeds becoming more and more beneficial. SNAPDRAGON AND RANARR seeds are recommended, giving you a huge profit as well as exp. ALSO use Trollheim patch (your herbs never die.) Tree seeds are also great if you have a little extra cash on your hands....definitely the fastest method so just buy the best ones you can afford and pay the farmers to watch them. NOTE: Lunar spells help out a lot when doing farm runs. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 60-99: Ok for these last 39 extremely hard lvls, you'll be wanting to do either tree seeds or herb seeds, or cal*uats. Once at this lvl vegetable seeds really start becoming a bad source of exp, seeing that the best vegetable (watermelons) gives you around 1k exp per 3 seeds...... Herb seeds are a great source of money when raising your farming and are a good amount of exp as well. Some herb plants can earn you as high as 3k exp per plant! They will also, unlike watermelons give you a nice profit. Tree seeds I think are the way to go, although it's expensive. The money pays off though, because you get extremely fast exp. Anything from papaya seeds to mage seeds are great. ***SPEED*** Fairly slow skill although tree seeds earn you quite fast exp, I'd say a 3 on a scale of 1-10 ***USES*** Yes farming has some uses. Getting ranarr weeds can be very high paying and also you can use spirit seeds to teleport to a certain patch. Also helps out herblore a lot. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:32:51 Last edited on 16-May-2007 05:17:43 by Spaderdabomb ***FAMILIARITY*** I am very familiar with this skill, probably a 9.5 out of 10 and my lvl is a healthy 87. ***ITEMS*** Small net, lobster pot, fishing rod, feathers, fly fishing rod and bait. ***LVL 1-99*** _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-5: The only thing you can do is fish some shrimp so head over to Draynor village and start fishing.... _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 5-20: Grab a fishing pole and around 300 bait and go back to Draynor village. Fish with your fishing rod now and you'll soon be lvl 20. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 20-40: Grab a fly fishing rod and around 1k feathers and begin your fly fishing experience at the easily found barbarian village just west of Varrock. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 40-62: Now get a lobster pot and if you are f2p, go to Karmaja, but if you are p2p go to Camelot and fish there. Now there are a few more options though...... _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 40-62: This method is almost even better then lobsters in my opinion for f2p and possibly p2p....depends. Fly fishing is THE BEST EXP IN THE GAME, no matter what lvl you are so always keep that in mind. If you are p2p, go to shilo village and fly fish. If you can't access shilo village and you're a member, I wouldn't suggest fly fishing for you. If you are f2p, continue at barbarian village. This method will get you the fastest exp, but hardly any money so it's up to you. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:33:34 Last edited on 16-May-2007 05:17:51 by Spaderdabomb _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 62-99: In my opinion monkfish are the best exp....notice not the fastest exp but in my opinion the best way to get exp. It's an easy way to get money and they are way faster then lobsters. You fish monkfish as fast as lobsters pretty much and get 30 more exp per monkfish. There is a requirement though, which is the completion of SWAN SONG.....a very difficult task seeing it's a pretty hard quest. There are more options up ahead for you if you can't do Swan song or don't want to do it. But you should do it if you can _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 62-99: The number two method in my opinion now is probably shilo village fishing. Once you reach 62 you get very very very fast exp (nearly 50k per hour compared to monkfish's 35k). Although you don't gain much money, it's a great way to get fishing exp....if you're after some money and you can't fish monkfish...read on for the next option (btw if you want to sell your fish try f2p worlds) _______________ | ~ METHOD 3 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 62-99: Coming in on my number 3 method is lobster fishing. I really don't recommend this way all that much because if you can do SWAN SONG you really should do it....monkfish is worth every bit of it. Lobsters get you a mere 25k per hour compared to monkfish' 35k per hour (at least that's what I average) and monkfish you get nearly 75k more per hour in money. But many people can't do swan song and don't want to do shilo village fishing because they want to earn money, and then I would say I recommend this to you.....lobster fishing that is. ***SPEED*** I would say this scale is a 4 on a scale of one to 10, because you can get actually pretty fast exp at shilo village fishing.....other ways might be more like a 3. (continued on next page) Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:33:39 Last edited on 16-May-2007 05:18:49 by Spaderdabomb ***USES*** Well fishing is a very important skill, giving us the option to last longer in combat and fish things for our neighborly friends in runescape quests. It will also give you a fairly good money source. ***COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS*** I DO NOT RECOMMEND SHARKS AT ANY TIME IN RUNESCAPE!!! Sharks are mainly a waste of your time unless you are getting them for some pking trips or something. If you want a lot of them I really just recommend buying them. They are horrible exp and really are overrated money sources, coming in around 150k per hour....... Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:34:54 Last edited on 06-Jun-2007 02:51:01 by Spaderdabomb ***FAMILIARITY*** I'm am pretty familiar with firemaking, probably an 8 and my lvl is 77... ***ITEMS*** A tinderbox, a lot of logs, and a fair amount of money. ***LVL 1-99*** _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-15: Burn some normal logs for these lvls. You can buy them from a f2p general store or get them yourself. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 15-30: Now burn some oak logs.....same principal applies for this as ones before. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 30-99: No, don't be scared lol. I know 30-99 is a lot of lvls to go through doing the same thing, but there's ways to mix it up. For all of these levels I would definitely recommend willow logs as you first option. There are a couple different ways you can go about this. Seeing that cutting willows is the fastest exp for woodcutting, It's a great way to get some free logs while getting very fast woodcutting exp. So you have that option. Another way is to go into some f2p and buy willow logs from a general store and burn them. You will only need around 6 mil I think to get to 99 doing it this way and you'll get around 1.2k exp per minute this way....so it's cheap and fairly fast. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 45-99: You also have the option of maple logs for these lvls. I would use this for an alternative if you somehow got bored of willow logs. That is an alternative of woodcutting and burning......you could also go about it another way..... (continued on next page) Post 21: FIREMAKING (continued) If you have all ever heard of a kingdom in Miscellanea then that is one great way to get 99 firemaking. For those of you who don't know what it is, you can get NPC's to work for you and gather maple logs and flax for you.....and for a price of course. You are supposed to put money into a bank account there for your workers, and the more money in there, the more maple logs/flax you'll get....Overall you usually get a profit NOTE: Make sure your favour is at 100% so they get maximum logs/flax for you. Alright so if you put around 1.5 mil into your account there and keep updating your account week to week making sure it has at least 1.5 mil to start out every week and also you'll need 100% favour at the beginning of every week, you'll earn yourself a lot of logs.... You can tell the workers to get more maple logs then flax for your if you want. You can get around 8k maple logs per week and then from the other supplies your workers give you (around 3k flax and 500k worth of seeds) you'll hopefully be able to upkeep your money by selling the tree seeds and flax to other players..... So if that wasn't confusing enough, you can get lots of maple logs easily that way. _______________ | ~ METHOD 3 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Yews are great to 99 if you can earn 500k+ (cash) per hour. If you can do that, yews are more time efficient than maples and this is what I'm doing because soon I'll have 91 rcing (1.2 mil cash per hour) ***SPEED*** Firemaking is one of the fastest skills in the game. If you use maple logs from your kingdom, you'll get around 3k exp per minute, so I'm rating this a 9 out of 10 on speed. ***USES*** Firemaking is a skill with few uses. A few quests require a lvl from it and also you can make lanterns and do the Shades of Mor'ton Mini-game, which gives exp to other skills and gives you some money. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:36:21 Last edited on 23-Jun-2007 04:22:50 by Spaderdabomb ***FAMILIARITY*** Seeing this is my highest skill at lvl 99 (woot woot) a 10 ***ITEMS*** Knife, logs, bowstrings and thats about it. ***LVL 1-99*** _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | (for lvls 1-40) ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ For all the (u) bows you make, sell them to a charter ship, you will get the most money back from those. Lvls 1-5: Chop some regular trees and turn the logs into arrow shafts with your knife. Lvls 5-10: DO NOT STRING ANY BOWS UNTIL YEW LONGBOWS! Make normal short bows (u) Lvls 10-20: Make normal longbows (u) Lvls 20-25: Make oak short bows (u) Lvls 25-35: Make oak long bows (u) Lvls 35-40: Make some willow short bows _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 40-70: Willow longs are best here because you cut willows MUCH faster than maples, which makes up for the loss in exp per bow. Also, these are great because you can buy willows for 20-25 gp each from other players, make them into willow longs (u) and sell to a charter ship for 24 each. So you can easily break even and get fast exp in fletching. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 40-70: If you have a bit more money and you want some quick fletching exp here, maples are the way to go. Right now maples are around 60-70 each. You'll lose some money, but it won't be too much and you'll get great exp. I WOULD NOT SUGGEST AT ANY TIME YOU MAKE YEW SHORTBOWS. It is simply a waste of time and money to make yew short bows, seeing you can't sell them to other players or high alc them for a good price. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:36:25 Last edited on 23-Jun-2007 04:39:29 by Spaderdabomb _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 70-85: Now that Jagex has removed the quick stringing process from the game, which I'm sad to hear because fletching no longer has any skill to it, you only have to do yew longs till 85. Buy yew logs for about 300 each and cut them with your knife into yew longs (u). Now just withdraw 14 bowstrings and 14 yew longs (u) and it doesn't matter their order anymore because of the newly added "x" string. QUICK BANKING/STRINGING PROCESS I feel a need to add this in, in place of the stringing process that I once had 1) Have your yew longs (u) and bowstrings on the right side of your bank. You can't have them on the bottom corner (which would be better) because the bank auto moves your bank view when you exit out of it. You should have these on the right side of your bank because it's closer to your inventory which means less time moving your mouse back and forth between bank and inventory. 2) Now after you string one inventory of longbows, you can try out a little trick. Open up your bank and then withdraw "all" on bowstring, then you'll have 14 bowstrings and 14 longbows. Now deposit your longbows and then withdraw "all" on longbows (u). You'll then have 14 longbows (u) and 14 bowstrings. Then choose string "x" and have your finger ready on the "2" button and press is twice as fast as you can once the screen comes up asking you how many to make. You can have your finger on any number 2 or greater, it doesn't matter unless it's 1.....Hopefully you get what I mean. 3) String in castle wars because its a one click bank, so as soon as you're finished stringing, just click the chest and repeat. Just a few little tips that might increase the speed of each inventory by 2 or 3 seconds (which adds up quick). Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:36:33 Last edited on 23-Jun-2007 04:36:52 by Spaderdabomb _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 85-99: Mage longs are now the best exp in the game now that the update has come along. I hope I'm showing that I really didn't like they updated it lol. Anyways.... Buy mage logs at a price that's not too big, but make sure you're buying mass amounts (like in 1k bundles). You shouldn't have to pay more than 1.1k for each mage log. Buy bowstrings 200ish each and just continue making mage longs. You'll earn somewhere around 160k exp per hour cutting and stringing (used to be like 230k but oh well stupid update). Many alcers will buy mage longs because they're a great item to alc, so sell them to break even for 1.3k each, and if you can manage it 1350 each. Well, at least the update is more relaxing right? ***SPEED*** This has now slowed to maybe an 8 on a scale of 1-10. It's still fast and now is very relaxing to do though. ***USES*** Where would this world be without bows? The skill is useful and can earn you a fair amount of money. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:37:14 Last edited on 24-Jun-2007 17:41:27 by Spaderdabomb ***FAMILIARITY*** I'm not the best at herblore and not the most familiar so probably a 7 on a scale of 1-10....my lvl is 59. ***ITEMS*** Tons and tons of herbs, 2nds and water filled vials. Pestle and mortar and many more items I will mention in the course of your training (below) ***LVL 1-99*** You must do a quest called "Druidic Ritual" to begin this quest. It will get you to lvl 3 which is where your training will begin....... _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-38: Alright everybody, herblore is a very confusing and hard skill to train, not to mention it can be very expensive as well. My goal is to limit all 3 of those variables to a minimum. In my opinion herblore was THE toughest skill for me to raise when it was in the lower lvls of 1-50. What I did to raise my herblore I simply call the waiting game. Kill things that drop loads of herbs such as chaos druids or slayer beasts. Bank all those herbs and use them to raise your skill of herblore up. This may be a very frustrating method to use seeing it is very slow going and completely depends on drops. You really should keep your eyes on your combat lvl raising instead of herblore while you get herbs. The herbs are rewards that you hardly even deserve seeing you killed all those monsters for exp and got those herbs to raise herblore. ANOTHER THING TO KEEP IN MIND...... Whenever you can do a quest that gives herblore exp, do it. It's completely worth it and also whenever you get exp lamps from quests use it on herblore. I used my legends exp all on herblore and got it from 46 to 50. There are many quests that reward herblore. ~~~CHAOS DRUIDS~~~ These play a huge roll in raising herblore. The best place to kill them is in the Taverley dungeon. They're low lvl and they drop herbs almost every time you kill one. Bank all herbs in Falador and you'll hopefully see your herblore lvl rise quick! Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:37:20 Last edited on 24-Jun-2007 17:42:11 by Spaderdabomb _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-38: You do not have to go about the other way....you could just buy your herbs simply. Up until harralander I'd recommend buying guam leaves because they aren't expensive and easy to get. Marrentill is a good option if you can find people selling it cheaply. Tarromin I really wouldn't suggest to use potions because limpwurt roots are so expensive (nearly 1k each). Once you can do energy potions and such with harralander, I recommend buying those from people and make them into energy potions until lvl 38. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 38-63: Yep you guessed it.....cows....(you'd get this joke if you read my entire guide) jk......no it's prayer potions. I find these the best all the way through lvl 63 because you only lose around 150-450 depending on what kind of a merchanter you are per potion. The supplies for these potions are easily found amongst other players and also the prayer potions can be sold easily. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 63-99: Alright this is always changing, but most of the time super restores and prayer potions are best all the way through 99. It's sometimes difficult to make a profit although you can if you sell your potions in world 2. Super restores seem the best because you can normally break even and they're faster than prayer pots, plus the supplies are fairly easy to buy and they're easy to sell. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:37:58 Last edited on 24-May-2007 02:56:14 by Spaderdabomb A brief talk about getting high levels and selling mass/buying mass potions/herbs. Now, many of you venturing to get a high herblore level may not be prepared for what's ahead. You may think it might be fairly hard getting all of those herbs and then selling them back as potions and losing maybe 15-20 mil on your way to 99. You're pretty much wrong. It's VERY hard to break even or even just lose a little when buying selling mass herblore supplies. Super restores can be hard. Snapdragon is a very difficult herb to get ahold of. Most people will be selling in small amount of maybe 100....doubt you'll see somebody selling more than that. Selling them is actually the easy part, so you got that going for you. Prayer pots, on the other hand will lose you much more money (around 1k each potion) but are extremely easy to buy herbs in bulk and sell potions in bulk....so keep that in mind. WHEN SELLING POTIONS!!! I've found it very helpful to put on your thread "If buying 100 or less, my world my place" That speeds things up A LOT, most people obey ----# 2 METHOD---- Lvls ?-99: Anytime you want you can shift to another potion. The reason you might want to do this is that it will give you faster exp. You will lose more money, but hey if you're rich it's always a great option.... IF YOU EVER ARE MAKING MASS AMOUNTS OF POTIONS!!! The fastest way to make potions is similar to my fletching one. (see it for what to do). Do the same thing as it says, just do it with vials and herbs......then after you do your 500+ vials and herbs, switch to unfinished potions and 2nds..... ***SPEED*** A very slow skill to start but gets faster, especially if you are rich. I'll rank it as a 3.5 on speed. ***USES*** Very important because it's great to be able to access potions whenever you need them, may it be energy potions, melee raising potions or whatever....... Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:39:10 Last edited on 22-Jun-2007 08:20:52 by Spaderdabomb ***FAMILIARITY*** I have good knowledge of this skill, seeing I was included in the race for first (lol that completely failed) and at some point I was down to like 300th or something. Anyways, I was listening and learning the fastest techniques all through that small hunting era and I know pretty much the best ways. I am probably a 9 out of 10 and my hunting lvl is 83. ***ITEMS*** Box traps, small nets, ropes, bird snares, butterfly net, 20 butterfly jars and possibly some camo for certain types of hunting. ***LVL 1-99*** _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-15: I'd really suggest sticking with Crimson Swifts through these lvls. Note that is will be very frustrating to start out but will get better. You'll need bird snares for these lvls. Crimson Swifts are in the very southeast of the Feldip Hills, Just south of Yanille. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 15-29: Grab your butterfly jars and net and head over to the woodlands, northwest of Tree Gnome Stronghold. Butterflies I personally think are the fastest exp at this lvl, although many people may disagree. I get around 200 exp per minute here, and couldn't find a way to get any more any other way at this lvl. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 23-29 Another great way to get exp once you hit lvl 23 is deadfall traps. You'll need an ax, knife and some logs to do this (trees are near hunting sights). _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 29-43: I think lizards and salamanders are among the best exp in the game and you can start at lvl 29. Go into Mort Myre swamp and bring along 4 small nets (purchased at Port Sarim) and 4 ropes. YOU DO NOT NEED BAIT, although you should use a torch to smoke the trap. To do that light a torch bought at a hunter shop and use a tinderbox on it. Then just right click on trap once it's set up and do "smoke" trap. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:39:15 Last edited on 16-May-2007 06:38:11 by Spaderdabomb _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 29-43: You could continue dead fall trapping animals to get good exp. _______________ | ~ METHOD 3 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 29-43: The method I chose that works perfectly fine it going to polar region and catching butterflies with your net there. I could average around 300 exp a minute there. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 43-47: Go up to the falconry, near the woodland northeast of tree gnome stronghold and bring 500 gp. Go into the falconry and talk to the bird man. He will give you a falcon for 500 gp, and then you can start catching kebbits. These get nearly 800 exp per minute and maybe slightly more if you are good. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 47-59: Alrighty, now grab your 4 nets and ropes and head out on into the desert. Bring some desert clothes (this is Shantay pass we're talking about) and 10 waterskins. Head east past the bridge and you'll see a hunting area. I get around 700 or more exp a min at this place and it's great training. Hunt orange salamanders. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 47-59: Staying at falconry is pretty much equally good exp as salamanders. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:39:20 Last edited on 10-Jun-2007 19:10:41 by Spaderdabomb _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 59-63/69: DO NOT, do red salamanders. It has been tested and proven that orange ones are faster! (see last page for exp rate). Red lizards have no money benefit really, so do orange salamanders! Actually I should add at lvl 69 reds do start becoming faster than orange ones, so if you're after exp start in with reds at 69. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 63/69-80: Starting at lvl 63 you can get red chinchompas. You can make over 150k per hour now at chinchompas (sell 700 each). So that's a great reason to do them. Slow exp at first though. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 69-80: Red salamanders, like I said earlier become faster at lvl 69 so do those when you achieve 69 for maximum exp rates. Although if you're after money, do red chinchompas _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 80-99: Red Chinchompas all the way from lvl 80-99. You make a great profit and also you get well over 1k exp a minute. ***SPEED*** Fairly fast skill, probably a 6. ***USES*** Good money making way for chinchompa*, spottier cape lowers weight a ton and other small uses. ***COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS*** DO NOT, set bird traps and try to multi-task. Post 31: MAGIC ***FAMILIARITY*** I'm pretty familiar and I'll say I'm a 9 on a scale of 1-10. My lvl is 82. ***ITEMS*** All sorts of runes, staffs, possibly items to high alc, and money. ***LVL 1-99*** _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-55: Ok for the first 54 lvls you have a very simple task. Buy some runes to kill some beasties. You'll have to start out with air strike, and just move up from there when choosing which spell. Once you can cast fire strike I recommend sticking with that spell, seeing it's not too expensive and it hits a max of 8 which is pretty good. Once you can cast fire bolt you should cast that if you can. It's more expensive so you choose, faster exp or less money either way works. Now for the monsters you kill. Starting out I'd attack chickens or cows. They are very easy and simple and will get you to fire strike in no time. Once you reach fire strike I really recommend killing guards in Varrock or Falador. They are weak to magic and you'll find yourself getting quick exp there. Once you feel up to it, you should go kill lesser demons on Karmaja (under the volcano) as soon as possible. Lesser demons are very weak to fire strike and you'll find yourself getting very good exp rates there. Getting ahold of your runes: 1) Runecraft them 2) Buy them Either way is fine. Runecrafting will take longer but of course is less expensive and trains another skill. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 55-60: High alcing is very effective for these lvls. A good thing to high alc is yew long bows. If you can make them yourself you'll break about even with profit, and if you buy them from other players you'll lose around 60 per high alc. There are other miscellaneous things you can high alc, including dragonhide armors you make from crafting and even plate bodies from smithing. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:42:40 Last edited on 08-Jun-2007 06:37:58 by Spaderdabomb _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 60-99: The mage training arena.....great place to earn magic exp. You need to be committed though. This isn't a two day thing. I really suggest staying here for a week or more at a time or you'll find it money consuming. Here at the mage training arena there's several different mini-games you can play. You'll be needing several thousand cosmics, natures and law runes as well as a few various elemental runes. Don't worry though, if you stick to it you'll earn your money back. At the mage training arena, you can get about 1k exp per minute, but you will rake in tons of money by spending your points earned on full infinity! Sell the items you earn and buy back the runes and you'll be set for yet another load of the mage training arena. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 60-99: High alcing is a great way to get mage exp. I have always done that and you get a max xp rate of 1.2k exp per minute. Current best item to High alc: Mage long bows _______________ | ~ METHOD 3 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ You guessed it, pest control. Maybe you didn't guess it but it's a great way to get mage exp. If you use the points alone on mage you'll get great exp rates and if you go in their using spells as well, you're going to get crazy exp. This is for the rich people. Use any spell you like. If you bring in spells such as ice barrage you're going to be getting nearly 4k exp per minute in a good world (including points). ***SPEED*** Mage is actually a very fast skill and I'll say it's an 7 on a scale of 1-10. ***USES*** From pking to staking this skill is very important. The spells will get you tons and tons of useful necklaces and amulets and there's lots to come of you if you have a good mage lvl. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:42:44 Last edited on 22-Jun-2007 08:21:15 by Spaderdabomb ***FAMILIARITY*** Im definitely familiar with this skill and probably a 9 on a scale of 1-10. My lvl is 76. ***ITEMS*** A pick-axe, and that's basically all you'll need. ***LVL 1-99*** NOTE: Rocks spawn faster in more crowded worlds, so whenever power mining, choose a world that has 1900-2k players. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-15: Probably best to mine copper ore and tin ores to keep it simple. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-15: Rune essence gives quick exp if you want to do the "rune mysteries" quest. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 15-45: Alright, Iron to lvl 45. I assure you it's the quickest and best method right from lvl 15. The best place to mine iron in the game is in the Fishing Colony (northwest of Tree Gnome Stronghold). Very fast banking process although you need to do the quest Swan Song. Another spot that's great is the easily accessible Yanille. Iron rocks are just northeast of Yanille. It's the closest iron to a bank that doesn't require doing a quest or anything and it's really not much farther then the Fishing Colony spot. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 45-99: Granite is actually faster exp than iron, but you have to power mine it (dropping it after you mine it) and you get absolutely no profit. Also another HUGE recent update that affects this is now you need waterskins to stay alive at the granite quarry. It's not all that bad if you have desert clothes. Just bring 10 or so waterskins and you'll be fine for around an hour. IMPORTANT!!! Ways to get waterskins: 1) Very useful is bringing noted waterskins and a little money and sell them to general store and buy em back. That way you'll have like unlimited supply w/o banking! 2) The new quest gives you new lunar spells that allow you to refill waterskins.... Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:42:47 Last edited on 14-Jun-2007 15:50:01 by Spaderdabomb _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 40-99: Gold actually isn't a great option, but it ties in with smithing very well. Smithing gold ores into bars is probably the best way to get smithing exp, so obviously you'll be needing gold ores to do that....so what are you waiting for? Get mining that gold! Perhaps you're waiting for me to tell you where to mine gold, what the best places are. I find the horseshoe of gold ores on Karmaja, (little north of Brimhaven) the best place. Although many of you won't because you'll need several glories and access to the faerie rings or house in Brimhaven. Best way to bank: Use a glory to get to Edgeville, bank and then teleport to your house (if you move it to Brimhaven) (continued on next page) 2nd best way to mine gold: Use the faerie rings to get to a bank and then use your glory to get back to Karmaja and then get back to work on mining your gold.... The 3rd best place to mine gold: In the game would be the Keldegrim mines. You need to have completed "the giant dwarf" quest to do it. In the gold mining spot, there are almost hundreds of gold ore spots, but spread out. A dwarf in the mines will bank your ore for a price of I think 6 of that ore and 3 with a ring of charos (u). Therefore this place is fast. One last place would be the crafting guild....which is also fairly quick. ***SPEED*** Mining is probably a low 3 on the scale of speed because doing the recommended way only gets you a mere 30k-35k per hour. ***USES*** Money making is a big one for beginners. Coal is definitely a great way for beginners to make money. Otherwise this is used a lot in quests and stuff. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:42:52 Last edited on 19-May-2007 03:41:34 by Spaderdabomb ***FAMILIARITY*** I am fairly familiar, probably an 8 on prayer. I'm a lvl 57 in it although i have plenty of dragon bones for around 65. ***ITEMS*** Money, bones and more bones, you'll need a glided marble alter with incense burners as well. ***LVL 1-99*** (NOTE) There is no required lvl to bury any bones that I am aware of, so it completely depends on how rich you are or how high of a combat lvl you are. These methods are simply the most common to go about at these lvls. I will list lvl 1-? whatever it may be for every single one so just take that into account. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-15: Prayer really isn't all that hard at the very early stages. Killing anything from cows to chickens will do. Simply bury the bones and you'll get some fairly quick prayer lvls. ----# 1 METHOD---- Lvls 1-30: Once you have 15 prayer, your combat lvl should be high enough to kill something that drops big bones. Hill giants are great if your combat lvl isn't all that high yet. If your combat lvl is higher see the next one. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-50: You most likely won't be able to kill baby blue dragons until around 30ish prayer because of your combat lvl, but when you are up to it, attack baby blue dragons in Taverley dungeon. They're bones gives 30 exp each and just bury them on the spot. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-99: Once you get enough money or a high enough combat lvl, find yourself some dragon bones. You can either kill dragons and bank them (fairly good profit), or you can buy them from another player. Bones have gone down to I think around 1.2k each now. Very expensive, but of course very fast. Now if you are wondering why you want to save your d bones and not bury them on the spot.....see the next page for your answer. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:42:56 Last edited on 13-Jun-2007 23:36:01 by Spaderdabomb Alright, it's very important to save your dragon bones because there's ways to get up to 4x the ex* as they give just normally burying them. BEST OPTION: I think using a glided alter with incense burners is by far the best option to get prayer exp. I've heard you get crazy fast exp (like over 200k per hour doing this) although you'll need to supply yourself with d bones which will be expensive. If you don't have a glided alter yourself (made in your house) then you can use somebody elses if they're having a house party or something. The best place to do it I think is in Yanille, correct me if there's a faster way. There's three options you have. 1) Use dueling rings to bank and home tele tab to get to your house 2) You could use the general store method, note all your d bones, sell them to general store in Rimmington and buy them back so they are unnoted. This is the fastest method seeing you don't have to bank although it costs a little more..... 3) Just use a bank and bury them at glided alter. Slower but of course less expensive. 2nd BEST OPTION: I would say ectofuntus really shouldn't ever be used any more now that there's glided alters because you save sooooo much time at the glided alter. You get almost 10x the exp rate at glided alters then you get at ectofu**us.....although the ectofu**us is 4x the exp per bone instead of the glided alter which is 3.5x exp per bone. It still isn't worth it though. You'll be saving something like 10k per hour if you use ectofu**us, isn't worth it at all. ***SPEED*** Expensive but very fast if you use the dragon bones way. This skill is very hard to train though if you don't spend money, so if you spend money probably a 9 on speed, but if you don't like a 3. ***USES*** This skill is VERY important to have especially to lvl 43. Almost all the hard quests require protect from melee, which is lvl 43. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:43:01 Last edited on 16-May-2007 06:39:32 by Spaderdabomb ***FAMILIARITY*** Very familiar with this skill, probably a 9.5 out of a 10 and my lvl is one of my highest, 88. ***ITEMS*** The best bows and arrows you can afford, possibly red chinchompas, the best kind of dragonhide armor, or karils or 3rd age armor, whichever suits you best, archer ring, robin set/archer helm and avis' acculmulator. ***LVL 1-99*** _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-15: Most people will pull out their bows and arrows but I'd advise you to use iron knives from the start. That is if you are a member, seeing f2p cannot wield these. So if you are a member, pull out the knives at all times. I'd recommend for your opening lvls a simple monster, such as cows, or goblins. I'd put cows as first option though. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 15-35: If you are f2p, I'd suggest going down under the edgeville dungeon and ranging some things down there. Hill giants are best option but can be crowded, so just range anything down there, seeing there's a broad varieties of good lvled monsters. For p2p, I'd suggest trying out rock crabs or hill giants. Either work. Rock crabs will get you faster exp, hill giants drop better things. Now having that said, make sure you bring iron knives because they are a very fast way of getting ranging exp. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:43:05 Last edited on 16-May-2007 06:39:41 by Spaderdabomb _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 35-60: I think sticking with rock crabs is still a great option here. They offer very quick exp. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 35-60: A nearly identically good method, attacking experiments in Dr. Fenkensteins backyard dungeon or whatever is a great option, seeing these have tons of hp and very low defense. _______________ | ~ METHOD 3 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 35-60: A great method to get prayer exp as well is killing baby blue dragons. There are a few good range spots down in the Taverley dungeon (where they are). Not as fast range exp because of their kind of low hp and high def, but a fine way to raise your range and prayer at the same time. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 60-70: Now the best method I think is ranging fire giants with iron knives. They have tons of hp and are easy to hit AND drop great things (I'm proud to say I got a left half of drag shield from them ) Range them in Baxtorian falls..... _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 60-70: You may be ready for pest control if your combat lvl is high enough and you're in a good pest control clan. The points really just aren't as effective though until you're around lvl 70. _______________ | ~ METHOD 3 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls ?-99: A new choice of ranging is arising with red chinchompas. Many people do not know this, but they hit a 3x3 square like ice barrage does, just not as powerful. If you remember where you got your monkey greegree, there are lvl 143 monkeys you kill, the more you kill the more that spawn. You'll have to have prayer potions though because there aren't any good ranging spots. I've heard people boasting of getting up to 200k exp per hour!!! You can try out this method anytime you want although there is a let down...... Note this method is VERY expensive.. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:47:42 Last edited on 16-May-2007 06:39:49 by Spaderdabomb _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 70-99: Pest control pest control pest control....... I get great exp rates here. I usually melee while controlling the pests and then spend my points on ranged and still get 60k per hour.....not to mention the exp I get for melee stats. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 70-99: You could continue the fire giants method and I really recommend it if you have trouble with pest control. _______________ | ~ METHOD 3 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 70-99: A money making method is killing blue dragons with a crystal bow. Easy relaxing and money making....not too fast exp though. _______________ | ~ METHOD 4 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Only for the richinglings follow the chinchompas method a few methods above....very fast exp. ***SPEED*** A very average skill on speed, I'd say a 5..... ***USES*** Not much of a quest requirement although some quests do.....it's a great way to make money off pking/d Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:47:46 Last edited on 22-Jun-2007 08:21:53 by Spaderdabomb NOTE-This is a long guide so bear with me (4 pages) ***FAMILIARITY*** Although my low lvl of 72, it's not half bad for runecrafting and actually I'm VERY familiar with runecrafting, probably a 9 out of 10. ***ITEMS*** Pure essence, rune essence, possibly money, maybe a pick-axe several glories and dueling rings or completion of Desert Treasure or completion of Fairy Part II.....quests aren't required and glories aren't required but recommended. Protective gear from abyssal pkers.... ***LVL 1-99*** _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-8: I think you should definitely do air runes through these lvls because it's a very close alter to a bank. Air rune alter is located just south of Falador and rune essence is required. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 8-14: Now I'd suggest for fastest exp doing earth runes. This alter is also VERY close to Varrock (slightly northeast of Varrock west bank). It will get you slightly faster exp then air alter. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 8-14: You could also just continue doing air runes for these lvls and you may want to do this because air runes are usually easier to sell then earth runes if you're looking to make a small profit. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 14-44: For these lvls I'd suggest crafting fire runes. It's a long hard stretch to 44 but I really think it's the best way. You have 2 options when making fire runes.... 1) The fastest and recommended way if you have 100k to spare....This method will get you nearly 20k+ per hour which is very fast at this lvl. Buy as many dueling rings as you can, teleport to duel arena, go into the fire alter and craft your runes then use the tele to castle wars to bank. Then repeat process. You can use glories to bank seeing it will be less expensive but just a tad bit longer. (continued on next page) Post 41: RUNECRAFT (continued) 2) Just do it the normal way, bank in Duel Arena or Al-Kharid if you're non-member and craft your fire runes. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 44-66: Making nature runes is the best for all of these lvls. You make a great profit, and don't get the fastest exp but its fine exp. There's several ways to make nature runes.... 1) Use the abyss, it's definitely the fastest although risky. MAKE SURE, no matter what method you use, you get pouches from the abyss, it's definitely worth it. GUIDE TO ABYSS: Here's a quick guide to abyss 1) You must complete a mini-quest, started in Varrock by talking to wizard in the southern alter 2) First get pouches in the abyss. Bring some fairly good armor, but not expensive seeing it's possible to die and lose it all. Also bring some tele runes and a good weapon, and food. Kill ABBYSAL LEECHES, for pouches. It's by far the fastest way to get pouches. You can only have 1 of the pouch at a time and you can get all pouches, no matter what you're rc lvl is. 3) Bring a pick axe to get into the middle of the abyss and mage protecting armor from pkers then you should be set! 4) You will NEED 10 glories if you want maximum exp. If you can't afford that many glories, you can use the ancients tele to edgeville dungeon (slightly slower) OR you can use one more alternative, which is probably the preferred method. You can put a glory inside your house that will have infinite charges. All you need to do is take home tele tabs when you go through the abyss, tele to your house and then tele to edgeville using the glory. 2) Now you can also use faerie rings, which is almost as fast as abyss, although you need to START (no need to complete it, just get to the rings part) Faerie Tale Part II. Use pouches and use rings to bank and get to nature alter. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:47:58 Last edited on 12-Jun-2007 05:44:36 by Spaderdabomb 3) You can use the general store method, very slow but an easy way to do it. Note all your pure essence and bring along 20k. Sell you essence to the general store on Karmaja (the one in the middle of the island) and then make your way to the nature alter, which is southeast from there. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 44-66: Lava runes are very unknown but great exp! 45k an hour is easily possible. Follow the fire rune crafting method except instead make lava runes. You need pure essence instead of rune and 82 mage! 82 mage will make you not waste tons of tallys. Also Lunar diplomacy must have been completed and you'll need binding necklaces. THIS IS FASTER THAN WORLD 66 LAWS AND SLIGHTLY CHEAPER ALTHOUGH YOU'LL STILL LOSE A LOT OF MONEY! Lava runes are why world 66 laws does not appear in this guide, they're faster and cheaper. _______________ | ~ METHOD 3 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Quick fire rune crafting with dueling rings.....see my earlier posts for what to do. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 66-91: Crafting nature runes through the abyss is slow (17k per hour exp) until lvl 75, then you can get around 25k exp per hour and also a huge profit of over 500k per hour! _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 66-91: World 16 Airs becomes better than lava runes at this lvl and is a great way to get exp at this lvl. You can get about 30k exp per hour this way. At lvl 66 you can make 7x airs. You have to pay each runner 2k and give them rune essence I'm pretty sure for each time they trade you. You can break even and possibly make a profit once you 7x airs. Lvls 66-91: _______________ | ~ METHOD 3 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 66-91: Combo runes are a great source of exp. If you read a little bit above it will tell you exp rates and details about it. (continued on next page) Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:48:02 Last edited on 31-May-2007 01:06:28 by Spaderdabomb _______________ | ~ METHOD 4 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ I can get up to 32k per hour in world 66 laws, but it's very expensive, about the same as combo runes, and you can get much better exp rates doing combo runes, so I don't see why you'd do this unless it's more fun for you or something. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 91-99: The VERY BEST option here and definitely you shouldn't do any other option, is highering runners for nature rune crafting. Sometimes, you can make money by offering cash instead of double nats for people, in which you can earn money off, but you cant earn much more than 200-300k an hour highering runners. Give runners like 80% of the money you'll earn from nats, and I guarantee you you'll make something around that. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Now this will take you almost forever, but now if you make nature runes you can double them, which will get you a maximum of 1.2 mil per hour! If you do this all the way through lvl 99, you will have enough money for all your other expensive skills to reach 99 (a profit of approximately 500-600 mil will be gained) ***SPEED*** Probably a 1 on speed, this has got to be one of the slowest skills. ***USES*** Money money money, that's what it's all about. Running out of space but yeah it's important. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:48:03 Last edited on 22-Jun-2007 08:22:10 by Spaderdabomb ***FAMILIARITY*** I am pretty familiar with this skill, probably an 8. My lvl is 70. ***ITEMS*** Several items to kill slayer monsters, good armor, Guthans is helpful, Black mask, a good weapon. ***LVL 1-99*** Alright everybody, this guide is going to be slightly different. Instead of 1-99 sequence, I'll just give some recommendations about how to train it the best and what slayer master to use and everything.....bear with me. Alrighty, begin your heroic skill of SLAYING in Burtherope. Talk to the slayer master there and he will tell you about the skill. Eventually you can get a slayer task from him. There's not much to slayer at first. Just talk to the best slayer master you can go to. As you progress you'll get harder tasks from each slayer master. TIPS- Alright here are some tips you should think about whilst adventuring slayer. 1) Use your common sense when doing your slayer tasks. Some tasks that are assigned are absurd, such as 8 bronze dragons. That is a complete waste of your time, seeing it's only 8 of them and they're terrible exp in the first place. You can switch your task with the first slayer master. 2) Lots of times they'll give you a general monster. Such as wolves. There are wolves ranging from 27-130ish. Kill the ones suitable for you. It's best to go after the hardest ones, seeing your task will last longer and you'll not have to switch so often. Switching tasks does waste a lot of time and it's best to keep that down to a minimum. 3) Kind of like number one, there are many slayer beasts that are stupidly annoyingly hard. Some require salt bags to k0 them and you'll have to bank and stuff to get items to kill them. It's a complete waste of time to do these tasks so always switch a task when you get something like that. 4) Use NPC contact spells. You can use this if you do "Lunar Diplomacy." DO THIS....you can talk to slayer masters without going to them! Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:48:07 Last edited on 16-May-2007 06:40:40 by Spaderdabomb 5) Always melee the monsters. There are very few conditions where you'll want to range them. One reason could possibly be you are a pure and NEVER want to train melee. That would be a good one. I guess if you REALLY just want to raise range you could do slayer with it, but melee is better because there's the slayer mask. It only works for melee and it will get you very fast exp in both melee stats and slayer. NEVER range if you're after quick slayer exp, seeing range will make it go extremely slow. I guess another reason you could use range is if your melee isn't up to fighting a monster and you must range it. 6) When you get a task from a slayer master, have runes to tele to a bank so you can get the right tele runes to go to where the monster is. It saves nearly 5 minutes per trip, seeing if you don't have close access to a bank you're walking to get runes to tele..... 7) If you want fast exp (as in 300 exp a min) USE A CANNON. You'll get range exp and nearly 2x faster slayer exp. I personally think now that they changed the hardest slayer master to giving less dragon assignments, he is better. It's really up to you. I get close to the same exp rates from Cheldler (the guy in Mort Myre don't know his name), and the slayer master in shilo village. You can be your own judge. NOTE: I guess I can't quite say I recommend shilo village guy seeing I'm not 100 combat yet (99) but it's what I've heard, I'll test it soon. ***SPEED*** I think this is the slowest skill. I personally get only like 200 exp per minute and this doesn't even include the time it takes to get new tasks and get to monsters.....all in all I probably get 100 exp per minute lol but if you get good and efficient you could max around 200 a minute. ***USES*** Slayer gives great drops as you progress. Slayer monsters can give you whips, tons of herbs and more. It's a great way to get money and help out other skills. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:48:12 Last edited on 07-Jul-2007 23:14:14 by Spaderdabomb ***FAMILIARITY*** Not the best smither, not the worst...I'm probably an 8 out of 10 on a scale of 1-10. My lvl is 66. ***ITEMS*** All sorts of bars, gold gauntlets and money. ***LVL 1-99*** _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-29: Ok I have another trick up my sleeve. The quest "The Knights Sword" does not require any smithing lvl. It just requires one iron bar, which can be bought from another player. This quest takes under an hour and you can boost your smithing lvl very easily from it. I really recommend it. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-15: You always have the choice of mining copper and tin ore and smithing into bronze bars and such. It's the most common way to get smithing up in the early lvls, although definitely not the fastest. By the time you have 10 this way, you'll have 29 by doing the quest. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 15-29: If you still didn't want to do the knight's sword, just mine _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 29-40: Throughout these lvls, I'd recommend iron. You will make a small profit and it's quite fast. The best place to mine iron is in Yanille, so go there to mine it. When you make your bars into things, if you're after the profit, then go with iron knives, and if you're after exp then go with platebodies or something. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 40-99: Gold bars are now the known way to go. They can seem quite expensive, but the fast exp makes up for it. Nearly 3 times faster then iron, smelting gold bars out of gold ore with goldsmith gauntlets will get you mad exp. 56.5 exp per bar I believe. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:48:16 Last edited on 16-Jun-2007 21:11:42 by Spaderdabomb Now what to do with gold bars? You basically have 3 choices.... 1) Use them to make gold bowls and get even more exp per bar 2) Use them for making jewelry to boost up your crafting (great easy way to get exp) 3) Sell them for around 200 each _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls: 70-99 This is a great method for magic/smithing combo. You get 40k exp an hour in smithing and 53k exp an hour in mage! This is THE BEST method if you wish to couple smithing and mage. Buy addy ores and coal and Superheat them into bars. Sell the bars to break even. You save about 50 hours doing this over the # 1 methods for smithing and magic and also save 80 mil. _______________ | ~ METHOD 3 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 40-?: I've always used this method, seeing I don't want to spend money on smithing yet. I'll use gold bars next time though. Making Iron bars and smithing them into things is alright exp. But the best part is you make a profit in most cases. It's an easy way to make cash and get some smithing exp by making bars (AND MAKE SURE YOU USE THE VERY CHEAP RING OF FORGING!!!) and then smithing them into iron knives or possibly platebodies to make the exp faster, but profit lower. _______________ | ~ METHOD 4 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 35-?: Cannonballs, a great way for beginner smiths to get exp. It's profitable, not the greatest exp but not the very slowest either. I'd recommend buying your steel bars and if you do it this way, it'll be faster than method # 2 although you'll get a slightly smaller profit. # 2 and # 3 Methods are very close to the same in I'd say just to choose whichever one you prefer. ***SPEED*** This is a slow skill and probably a 3 out of 10. ***USES*** Making armor is a huge bonus in the beginning lvls. It helps out your beginning careers in runescape. Other than that, I guess mainly it's just a good quest skill to have. Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:48:20 Last edited on 16-May-2007 06:41:02 by Spaderdabomb ***FAMILIARITY*** Very familiar with thieving, always trying to find the best ways so I'm probably a 10 out of 10. My lvl is 99. ***ITEMS*** Food, Gloves of Silence, and Pharaoh's scepter for pyramid plunder. ***LVL 1-99*** _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-10: Thieving from "mans" to get your first 10 lvls. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 1-21: Free, easy and fairly good exp is the Sorceress' Garden. Almost as good option as # 1 method. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 10-21: I've always loved cakes for these lvls. They are quick exp and you don't really have to have food. Bank these cakes, I'd really suggest it for several reasons, such as later thieving training, or agility. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 21-38: Pyramid Plunder as early as this!?!? Yep, many have lower combat lvls at these low thieving lvls though so it's not always the best option......read on _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 25-38: Stick with cakes until lvl 25 if you don't do pryamid plunder. Now you should have a huge stock of cakes so go thieve from some warriors (good place is varrock castle) and use those cakes to heal yourself. _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 38-55: Pryamid plunder once again is the # 1 option.....look at the end for my mini-guide to pyramid plunder. _______________ | ~ METHOD 2 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 38-55: Although you may fail master farmers a lot at this lvl, I think they're a great option to boost your thieving and also get you started with farming.....use your cakes and steal from them in ardougne (just north of it). Spaderdabomb 14-May-2007 05:50:14 Last edited on 12-Jun-2007 15:38:54 by Spaderdabomb _______________ | ~ METHOD 3 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 38-55: If you continue with warrior you'll get about the same exp rates as master farmers, so these are also a great option. I wouldn't suggest guards when you can do them because you just fail too much. _______________ | ~ METHOD 4 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 40-55: Guards like I said, you fail a lot on, but that doesn't make them terrible exp. They're fine if you really really don't _______________ | ~ METHOD 1 ~ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Lvls 55-99: |
