eskemo

Welcome to... Eskemo's guide to superheating for XP and profit! Introduction [hide=]Hi everyone! I've been looking at a way to level my (very meager) magic level and perhaps make some money along the way. I happened across this method whilst checking out some very outdated guides and found it had change significantly. I do not profess to be an expert in either of the skills I'm writing about - quite the opposite in fact. But here is a method, including some math and 'food for thought' about different options. I hope it helps someone out![/hide] Method [hide=]Okay ladies and gents. What are we doing here today? We're using the level 43 spell - Superheat Item. Various ore can be superheated, though for the purposes of this guide I will be addressing Steel and Higher.[/hide] Requirements [hide=]To begin this method, you need to have at least the following skills and assets: Level 43 Mage - This is to cast the superheat spell. Level 30 Smithing - This is the requirement to smelt Steel. Some Iron and Coal Or Some GP.[/hide] Superheating Steel [hide=]This guide centers around Steel and the money making options it gives you. This will provide you with steel bars. I have several suggestions of where we can go with these bars, but these will be explored further on in the guide. So, what are the costs of this method? Thats: Iron: 127g Coal: 208g Nats: 255g Total: 590g And what is the result of this? Yep, thats right. Thats: Steel Bar: 775g So, per bar we make: 775g - 590g 185g We also have a few options of what can be done now that we have some steel bars. A few quick suggestions: Sell them back on the GE, spend profits on more Iron and Coal and rinse/repeat. Smith them to Steel Plates and High Alch them. This will give you more mage/smith XP and some cash. I don't have figures on profit/loss for this yet. And lastly, my personal favourite: Smith these to Cannonballs and sell on the GE. This gives us a profit of: 402g per Steel Bar Note; This is currently based off a price of 248 per ball. I believe this may have risen recently due to a merchanting clan, so be sure to check prices on the GE before you follow through this method! Thats some hefty profit, not to mention the XP gained and the ability to use these for your own cannon. So how much XP do we gain? Per cast: Magic XP: 53 Smith XP: 17 INVENTORY SETUP: The inventory is a little bit messy to setup for Steel. I suggest the following: Thats: 1 Nature Rune 9 Iron Ore 18 Coal TIP: When banking, use a 1 click bank. Use the 'Withdraw X' option, where X is 9. This will mean Iron is single click withdraw. Coal is double click withdraw. Bars are single click deposit. Weild a Staff of Fire, this will allow you to save money on Fire runes as well as saving an inventory spot for ore.[/hide] To come [hide=]Mithril Superheating - Sweet inventory setups, requirements and hints and tips. More profit and XP gain values for your enjoyment. Addy Superheating Runite Superheating[/hide] I hope this helps everyone. I'll be updating it more tomorrow hopefully, as it's 4am here. Bit sleepy. Enjoy, -Eskemo.

I just started playing again and noticed I had a few thousand iron ore in my bank. So, I figured I'd make some money by turning them into steel, so I bought a bunch of coal and I'm currently smelting em into bars. So, do I sell em as bars for a definate sale, or do I sell them as cannon balls? Im not sure how either of those sell, but the smithing XP would be nice to have.

I wouldn't say that the ONLY people who profited from this update were the merchants/macro'ers etc. I'd say that alot of skillers have benefited (whilst it may be at the expense of others) because they can now get bulk items easier without having to spend time buying them from another player. Saves time, and is more convenient.

My guess is that she would've att'd just before the damage was dealt, but due to latencys, you didnt see it until it hit you.

May I make a suggestion? I find your reports to be pretty interesting, and I think its fair to say that alot of the other tip.it'ers do aswell. So, would you be interested in doing a more formal and/or in-depth report on a regular basis (I'm no expert in economics, so I don't know what sort of time frame would be relevant. 1 month? 3 months? 2 weeks?!) and keep it in a place where everyone can see it? (ie; a website, rather than a simple post on the forum, which can be lost after being bumped away.) I for one, would be willing to give you some (free, of course) professional hosting if you think this idea holds some merit. If anyone else has any thoughts about this, or have any additions to my idea, or reckon its utter bollocks, feel free to let me know. Many thanks, and keep up the good work. Good luck on College too mate =] -Esk