Troacctid

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.

I just buried my bones during slayer tasks that dropped bones where I wasn't using bones to peaches. I got the last pieces at turoths and got to deposit all my herb drops each time, which was nice.

Heavy rod powerfishing is the fastest fishing experience at level 70 and higher. You bring a knife and 25 bait to Otto's Grotto south and west of Barbarian Assault, near the whirlpool. Then you talk to Otto and he'll give you a barbarian heavy rod. Then you go to the fishing spots in the lake and you can use the rod to catch leaping trout, leaping salmon, and leaping sturgeon. You need 70 fishing, 45 agility, and 45 strength to catch all 3 and get the best exp. You can fish indefinitely without needing more bait, because using a knife on a leaping fish provides you with fish offcuts and roe or caviar, all of which can be used as bait. So you fish until you have a full inventory, gut all the fish, use the fish offcuts to refill any spaces where you didn't receive roe or caviar, and then drop your offcuts so that you can use the roe and caviar for bait instead. Then you can repeat the process. Catching the fish provides agility and strength exp as well as fishing, and gitting them is worth cooking exp.

Although you will get a lot of agility experience fishing, it won't be very fast. Since your agility isn't showing up on the hiscores, it probably isn't worth just catching leaping trout and salmon to 45 agility, so I would say yes, it is worth it to train agility to 45 for leaping sturgeon. It's worth it to train agility to 45 anyway whether or not you're fishing leaping sturgeon, since it's great to be able to use all the shortcuts and do the quests. The fastest way is probably skullball for most of the training you would do. You could get there within a few hours, I'm sure.

The best thing to do would definitely be to buy the snapdragon seeds, make the snapdragon herbs into unfinished potions, and then sell for more seeds or whatever you want to buy.

Some statistics you will want to know. Shilo village fly fishing: 40-45k exp/hr About 280 hours 70-99 About 10m gp profit Barbarian heavy rod fishing: 50-60k exp/hr About 220 hours 70-99 0 gp profit/loss with appr. 1m exp in str and in agility, and 2m exp in cooking Monkfish: 28-36k exp/hr About 375 hours 70-99 Over 40m profit From an efficiency standpoint, Shilo is a lot worse than heavy rod fishing. At the cost of 10m gp you could save 60 hours of fishing, 15 hours of strength, 15 hours of cooking, and if you have 75 agility, 20 hours of agility training--less if you have 85+, but more if you have under 70 or so. That's over 100 hours to get 10m gp, or less than 100k gp/hr time value. And since you can easily catch 150 sharks an hour at 99 fishing, Shilo is not an efficient choice. Which means it would come down to heavy rod or monkfish. Since heavy rod effectively saves about 50 hours of other skills, we can count it as 180 hours. Then the question becomes whether 200 hours is worth 45m gp. That's 225k/hr. Pretty respectable, but also not tough to get. You can feel good about monkfish or heavy rod fishing, whichever you like better. I would try both before picking, or use some combination of the two. And I know that's what I would do because that's what I did.

The Grand Exchange is the best way.

Alternatives to energy pots is: Super energy pots. Strange fruit. Oo 'glog pools. Running scrolls. Scrolls are out cuz you can't take familiars to the law altar. :(

That saved 30 hours sounds a bit high estimate imo, that would mean roughly 10-15k more xp per hour. Anyways the point is that we both agree that it's a bit faster and cutting willows for profit isn't just the thing. However in your calculations you don't value efford at all. Cleaning your inv at willows is a lot easier and the only reason I took my 99 (ok, been over 10 weeks 33k away from it) there. Yeah, 10-15k more per hours is about the figure I hear most of the time. In this case I arbitrarily used 70k/hr with teaks and 60k/hr with willows, because it sounded like a reasonable average. As far as dropping, it seems to me like too many people overestimate how much work it is to drop an inventory of something (or to gut an inventory of leaping fish for heavy rod fishing). You spend way more time chopping logs than dropping, so it's not like it takes a lot of extra attention. You can drop an inventory in 20 seconds or less. It's not that hard. In any case, I was speaking from an efficiency standpoint. Enjoyment is an important factor as well, and you should never be afraid to switch to a less efficient method if you can't stand the more efficient one. You just can't then go on to say the method you ended up picking is "better" since you based it solely on your subjective viewpoint. (Don't worry, that's not an accusation. ;) )

1) I didn't know Teaks were freeplay. 2) Teaks are much more valuable banked. 3) Willows, in my experience, seem to be a lot faster (and dropping the logs is 100% optional). Yeah, it's pretty efficient to bank from Ape Atoll, right? You save probably around 30 hours or more on 99 woodcutting by chopping teaks instead of willows, and the logs you get are worth about 3.5m if you use willows. So from an efficiency standpoint at least, you'd be saying you can't make 3.5m in 30 hours, which is 115k/hr. And any member can easily make that much money, so teaks are clearly more efficient.

It's not as if the same people are switching between graphics and content. There are two separate teams, so neither one impedes the other's work at all. So allocation of development time doesn't really come into it. Graphics updates don't mess up the content updates. I doubt the content team will twiddle their thumbs and hover over the graphics team's shoulders, or vice versa. ;)

Or maybe the item you borrowed just goes back to its owner. My guess is you won't be able to take the item there.

I made a spreadsheet the other day to figure out the profit you get from commonly-planted herb seeds. It's not that great, but... http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pI_Qb-gA9KF6X6BtvCUVHEA It's pretty easy to get 100k profit off a 10-minute herb run.

I didn't see mine there, so here you go.

Any speculation based on "Why get a godsword if you can borrow one?" is going to be wrong. Come on, you can't just assume that there's always going to be somebody next to you with a godsword who's willing to have it effectively disappear from them for however long you want it. We heard the same thing about the assist system--"Nobody's going to train skills when they can just request assistance and get what they want without trying!" And here we are with steel bars still at 650 gp.

Right. Maple logs are 1.5x faster than willows and only 20 gp or so more per log. You save about 50 hours on 99 fm by using maples, at the cost of what, 2m gp? If 2m gp is worth 50 hours to you, you're not valuing your time very highly. That's 50k/hr. And this applies to f2p too. Hence why people don't use willows.

Probably? My guess would be it's probably the same increase over a rune axe that a rune axe is over an adamant axe. Would you want to use an addy axe instead of rune if you were getting 99 woodcutting? Because neither would I. It's not as if you can't resell the dragon axe afterwards. I'd apply the same principle to the pickaxe.

Oh mark my words, there will definitely be a dragon pickaxe, and I will be happy about it when it comes. My money is that it'll be somewhere in the Red Axe storyline. I mean come on. Red Axe, duh. And of course it will require 61 mining to use, and it'll have some lame special attack like the dragon axe does. Incidentally, I'm also betting that the Soul Altar will come from the gnome storyline. Oh, and Duradel has dragon claws already; he just wears the rune claws for instructional purposes.

2 corrections I'd like to make. 1. Willows are not the fastest woodcutting exp; they are the second-fastest. The fastest is powercutting teaks. 2. Normal logs are also commonly used in the balloon transport system...not just for arrowshafts.

Magic Essence potions cannot be made with assistance.

Heavy rod and fly fishing hardly count as decent money. Although I did get 63-74 agility, 68-77 strength, and 78-84 cooking at barb. :

You gotta pick a skill that you actually enjoy training. Else what good is it spending hundreds of hours on it? So whatever you decide you need to spend some time with the method you're going to be using for whatever you're training, to make sure you like it, and don't be afraid to quit at a lesser goal like 75 runecrafting or 85 slayer.

Monkfish are far and away the best moneymaker for 99 fishing. Sharks are just barely more profitable, but only a third as much exp. Even with shark gloves it's not easy to get over 20k exp/hr--you'd need to be really fast at fog. Swordfish are occasionally worth more than monkfish, thanks to increased demand from f2p; however, probably due to the tuna, the actual swordfish catchrate is a lot slower than monkfish. Swordfish gloves help considerably, but they only serve to make it almost as good, not better, the only advantage being the strength exp, which adds up. But then why not go with heavy rod fishing and get twice the exp rates? And then lobsters are flat-out strictly worse, giving less profit and less experience than monkfish. And lastly you have monks, which require holy symbols as bait. Monk robes are hard to sell in bulk, so you might as well stay away from Entrana. So stick with the luphios piscatorius.

I was under the impression that the entire region is called Tirannwn, and that Isafdar is the name of the forest, and Arandar is the mountain range that surrounds it, and then you have the Elf Camp and Tyras Camp, and the rebel city of Lletya and the big majestic mysterious crystal city of Prifddinas. Looks like you have Tirannwn down as a region in the elven lands, though.