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dang it i was trying to get a big swordfish with my hands Not big swordfish, I mean the big fish random that knocks away your harpoon. Don't worry, it won't knock your gloves off. ;)

Oh, I can tell you one NOT to do. Rat catchers. You could do it if you enjoy banging your head against the wall, I guess. But otherwise it's long and frustrating for little reward.

No, at 96 you can catch sharks with your hands, and you can't get big fish and whirlpools that way.

You get way more randoms at 90.

Your level is too low for sharks if you ask me. You should get at least 6 more levels before it's worth it to catch em. But if you must, you'd better use shark gloves. And my personal favorite spot to catch sharks is Burgh de Rott, since the spots don't really move more than 2 or 3 spaces. Anyway if you're so concerned about money, why are you fishing? Fishing isn't good money. You should catch monkfish instead of sharks if you want to fish for cash. You can catch 300 monks in an hour at your level, but you'd average like 130-140 sharks. That's a really small difference in profit for such a huge experience gap. Catching sharks is like giving up hope. It's like saying, "I'll never be better than what I am."

It's actually 25 bait, not 26, since the bait takes up space too. Apparently the game isn't smart enough to realize that the bait is going to disappear if you only have 1 left. :roll:

Prayer lets you fight several at once, so you can poison em all with emerald bolts and get more kills.

Sorry, I can't really help much, because I think pretty much every quest is worth doing. : But if you go to the Knowledge Base entry for a quest, it tells you the length.

If you run to the side there's a little path you can take that says "evade event." It's only available for combat events. Oh, and you wouldn't need an ectophial or teletab except as an emergency one-click teleport, which is probably not needed, but I guess you could use it.

The fastest way to get lumberjack is to take the easy route, so that you can skip unwanted combat encounters. If you're skipping all combat encounters, you shouldn't need to bring combat equipment. You will need food for the "Birth of a Ghast" event where you need to feed the starving travelers; I recommend sacks of cabbages, since they're cheap and they hold 10 food in one inventory slot. You also need a druid pouch to protect the cabbages from pot-shots by ghasts, since you need to run past them to evade them. Wear a Ring of Wealth to help you get the rarer pieces quicker. Take the hardest follower for better rewards, since you're skipping the combat events anyway. It's worth pointing out as well that some events are worth fighting, mainly the snakes, which drop 6k-10k worth of snake hides each kill (requires a knife to skin the corpse), and the nail beasts, which give you nail beast charms that you will regret having missed out on if you ever hit a high enough summoning level to use them. Feel free to bring a whip for these if you want. I advise praying against the snakes, since they can hit hard and fast. If you wanted to have the full experience of the minigame using a tougher route, you would need a silver weapon to use against vampyres, a snelm to block the attacks of giant snails, and some food and possibly prayer potions, as well as a dds as a secondary weapon for its special. Personally, I hate the Juvinate and Snail events, so I like to use the easy route so I can skip them, even when I'm not going for a specific event.

Well I got 74 agility when I heavy rod fished to 99, but I'm guessing that's out for more than one reason. :P Nah, the wildy course is your best option, followed by the Brimhaven Arena. Sorry, the lower level training is annoying, I know. You could try the penguin course, but I don't think it would be as effective.

Neither one is going to make much more than 100k/hr profit anyway. I would do swordfish just because you're allowed to fish with your hands. So fewer randoms and free strength exp. Well actually, I would do monkfish. But apparently that's not an option.

Drop the offcuts. Oh, and... You're welcome. (That was me.)

I still don't see my picture...so here.

70-99 is like 12m exp right? So if teaks are 70k exp/hr that's about 170 hours. about 2 months at 3 hours a day.

Ape atoll is the best spot cuz there's no randoms, but kharazi jungle and tai bwo wannai are fine too.

There's a player-brewed beer that boosts wc. Axeman's Folly.

You still need about 10.7m exp, according to your sig. Willows are about 60k exp/hr. Yews are about um, 35k/hr I think. Teaks would be about 70k exp/hr. I don't have any data for Maples, but I'm pretty sure they're pretty bad cash anyway and not worth the slower exp. So if you chopped willows you'd be looking at about 180 hours, give or take, with about 2850k profit. Teaks would be about 150 hours, give or take, with no profit. And yews would be about 350 hours, give or take, with something like 25m profit. So if we compare them to teaks, we see that willows add 30 hours for less than 3m profit--that puts the value of the additional time at under 100k/hr. Willows are clearly less efficient exp for you, since after 99 woodcutting you should have no reason to value your time at under 100k/hr. (Magic logs are at least, what, 120k/hr? And that's just woodcutting.) So willows are out. Then you can compare yews. That's 200 hours for 25m gp, or 125k/hr. Again, not a very good value for your time. So out of these, your best option is actually the one you neglected to mention: teaks. Assuming my exp rate data is accurate anyway. Yews might actually be faster. I confess my testing in this area is mostly concentrated on eucalyptus. :oops: (I can chop about 120 logs a beaver at my 94 woodcutting, if you're curious--so about 300 an hour.)

Am I missing something? Which herb seeds don't bring back their money?

So you're going to stand around and wait at the farming patch? You don't spend 75 minutes watching grass grow, you go out and spend that time doing something else. Only the 8 minutes is actually spent farming. Thus, 120k/8 minutes, which averages to 900k/hr.

Your figures are well off and not thought out. Yes you can make huge XP on trees but even with Palms and Magics it will be nowhere near 500k per run. Also each run isn't an hour, it's far greater, and most people just do one tree run a day. As for Snapdragons, I fail to see how that can get you 40k XP per hour. I got 2-3k XP from strawberries and dwarf weed last night on one patch. That would make 4 patches 12k add in an extra 1k for the troll patch, makes it 13k every 1.25 hours if you do allotments (with strawberries) as well. Don't get me wrong you will still profit from herb farming, but the XP rate isn't really that high, otherwise we'd be seeing lots of level 99 farmers. 2 posts up:

And you're talking about flax. #-o Craft cosmic runes in the abyss for like 300k gp/hr. Then at 65, do Mourning's Ends Part 2 and craft deaths for even more.

The fastest way to get points is to use Duradel every tenth task and Mazchna for the rest. So they say.

If it takes you an hour to visit 5 herb patches, then you must be the one who's really stupid. :P You can do a run in 8 minutes. That's 7.5 runs in an hour. You make an average of 120k profit each run. 120k * 7.5 = 900k.

Probably the confusion came from the fact that you can use the permanent ban on 4 different assignments...so you could ban steel dragons, dark beasts, black demons, and warped terrorbirds, for example, if you didn't like those tasks. I could easily see someone saying "This works for up to 4 tasks" and misunderstanding resulting.