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I don't know for sure how much time I saved, only that I can now do a complete 5-patch herb run in less than 8 minutes, which is a heck of a lot faster than what I got when I planted strawberries.

At level 60, you could get maybe about 40k exp/hr if you fly fished. Heavy rod fishing is a possibility, but it's mostly untested (as far as I know) below 70 fishing, so you'd have to see for yourself. After 62 I recommend monkfish until 70; they're the most efficient method for those levels.

A sample of 200,000 fish showed about 120k trout to 80k salmon.

I stopped planting allotments because they were tripling the length of my herb runs to harvest, replant, and bank them. Since they don't even turn a profit, I didn't feel the experience was worth the extra time and effort spent.

The macaw and compost mound barely forage anything. I've gone through multiple macaw pouches before and only gotten 1 herb from all of them...it was sad. I've heard similar reports for the compost mound--barely any seeds. Macaws are still great for fighting herb droppers, though--they drastically improve your herb quality.

Guthix Coif (+7 ranged): 0.1m Robin hat (+8 ranged): 2.1m Armadyl helmet (+9 ranged): 4.8m I don't think the robin hat is worth it. If you're rich enough that +1 ranged is worth 2m, then you should get the birdie hat instead. Although to be fair, the robin hat is easier to wear.

As long as you are fishing, the ibis will produce additional fish. (Swordfish and tuna.) You get 10% of the experience you would normally get for the fish it forages. While it doesn't technically "fish for you" now, that is what it used to do before the second part of summoning came along. Back when summoning was first released, clicking "harpoon" on a harpoon spot would cause the ibis to move to the spot and actually start dipping its beak into the water to catch fish. The Granite Crab/Lobster could do this as well. Then while the ibis was fishing, you could go to the same spot and fish as well. (Although if you also wanted to harpoon, you'd need to be a little tricky to keep the game from just telling the ibis to harpoon again instead.) It was also possible to do other things like alch or attach feathers to bolts as it fished for you. It looked like this: The Granite Crab and Ibis were some of the few familiars that got weaker with the Summoning 2 update. The crab can no longer catch all those bass and caskets, and it doesn't last nearly long enough to be as good as it used to be. But on the plus side, they may not last as long, but they no longer need to be used in the right kind of fishing spot.

You can't get the exact amount from a calculator because you don't know whether you'll get a trout or a salmon for each feather. -.- Anyway, fly fishing isn't a good way to train fishing. Heavy rod fishing is faster and you get strength and agility and cooking experience too. And you never need to go run to the other side of the river when the spot moves; in fact, it's common to have 3 spots on top of one another.

I tried catching shrimp. Ended up with an anchovy though, of course. :roll:

The rumor I heard was that the pages got rarer. It might mean they're rarer from Vyres too if it's true.

I still think it's a little big. (Hehe, little big.) Stretches out my screen It could do with some shrinking.

The beacons are to protect Varrock from invasions by signaling when an enemy appears. And the fires are made in a cauldron. *shrug*

On that note, if you're gonna do a guide to collecting seconds, you better not go lazy on it. You gotta include how fast you can get em too, or else how do we know they're worth collecting rather than buying on the Grand Exchange? Or y'know, at least for the seconds that matter.

Make it smaller. Lol. It should showcase the most desirable and well-known familiars, the ones that really entice people to train their summoning. Spirit Terrorbirds, Bunyips, Unicorns, Pack Yaks, and Steel Titans would be great examples. Alternatively, you could make a sort of spread that shows samples of familiars from all different level scales, like from Spirit Wolf to Steel Titan in order. And it should be small enough to fit in a sig of course :XD: so have them overlap as needed. And the heading could be "Click here to learn how to be a master summoner!" or something, or just "Inuashakent's Summoning Guide."

Whoops, guess we better kill off Miscellania then. I'll go summon an army of undead to overrun them, you go breed some giant nuclear chinchompas of mass destruction! :thumbsup:

You can't be serious, :wall: Honestly, this is a ridiculous notion. It's pure superstition and nothing else to think that every single little thing you do affects random events/drop rates/whatever. You might as well tie a lucky ribbon around your finger--I'm sure it would increase your chances of getting a visage more than "doing some other kind of activity for a healthy amount of time." Seriously, what would you be trying to do? "Dust devils? No, I'm not planning on killing dust devils. Of course not. The dust devils are completely safe from me. See, I'm just training my thieving on these Menaphites near the Smoky Well, I'm not actually going in. The dust devils can stop hiding their dragon chainbodies, really, it's ok, I don't want them." #-o Besides, if it was really supposed to be "anti farming code," then it would punish people for logging off. Come on, who stands around at a farming patch to watch their crops grow? :P

Hey, I need the Grand Exchange to sustain a decent living! If I had to stand around in a bank yelling every time I wanted to sell something, I would end up using all my fish/herbs/logs/whatever myself just to spare the agony, and then I'd never have my bandos plate, pirate hook, and sara sword. Besides, nobody really needed merchanting to sustain a decent living, and it still exists in the Grand Exchange anyway, as that ridiculously long picture proved. So this article was kind of a miss for me, since it tried to present both sides of an issue when there really is only one side. Oh, and: I didn't know. ;)

There you go, you've got nothing against it, you just haven't tried it. : Give it a shot and you'll probably like it. It's probably the skill with the least input required. Sure, with fishing you can click and wait, but with farming you can click, log off, and log in two hours later for all the game cares. :D Basically, the fast experience comes from trees and fruit trees, and the fast cash comes from herbs. (Marigolds are good too.) Check the Game Guide to find all of the herb, tree, and fruit tree patches, and just plant the best thing you can in each patch. (Or for herbs, the most profitable, which are ranarr, kwuarm, and snapdragon, not necessarily in that order.) You can also plant marigolds for more profit, and allotment crops for more experience, but they will of course lengthen your farming runs. Hops and bushes are mostly a waste of time though, especially at low levels when you can't even plant a whiteberry bush. Use supercompost to give them a 90% survival rate, and you won't need to bother watching them at all. Just plant, teleport to the next patch, repeat until you've gone to all patches, and then go do something else for a while, be it chopping wood, or logging off for lunch. Come back later and do the same thing, but on your second run you can harvest before you replant stuff. And always wear magic secateurs when you harvest herbs. The quest for them is easy, and it also unlocks fairy rings, so you really can't lose. :thumbsup:

QFT. I trained woodcutting to 99 because I liked fishing, and they were essentially clones of one another. It felt a lot like getting 99 fishing twice.

Well, they are the two best moneymaking skills in the game. I don't see why you shouldn't train them.

So for 23 tasks, you're going to get 10k experience that you could have gotten in fewer than two tasks? How silly. You should definitely go for the slayer helm, but if you really don't want it, at least get the ability to make slayer rings or broad bolts, or save the points to ban tasks you don't like. Even if you had filled up your ban list and bought all 3 abilities, you'd be giving up 2.75k deaths and 11k minds to get 10k slayer exp. Do you really think it's worth 80 gp/xp?

I'll just assume that that is an excessively exagerated number :shock: Fire giants or rock crabs(from what I've heard) are good blue charm droppers. I would suggest that you go after crimson droppers, though. im not exagerating the number, i just get extremely lucky at times. but it rarely works out to that many that often. Don't know what you're talking about...I can't even kill that many turoths in an hour, let alone get that many charms from them.

QFT. No point wasting time on a goal that you don't really care about when you could be spending that time on something more fun and/or useful.

Bagged Plant 1s are 1k gp at the shop, and a little over that in the Grand Exchange. You can get them at either place.

Well manta rays are only 46 experience each, so it's iffy. I'd say it's possible, but more likely you'll be left with just a little bit left. So just catch a couple more fish first and you should be fine. At my 99 fishing I average about 17-18 manta rays a trip in the Trawler world.