L0rdAki

I'm fine with bossing - Monster hunting is a matter of fun for me. As long as it profits period, I don't care. The problem lies in which of these is better. I'd appreciate all discussion moved to the "buyables" thread, as it includes more options.

Unfortunatly I'm not up with the stewing method logging in/out...I'd need some explanation. I plan on monster hunting a hellva lot, hence why I'd want super prayers and overloads, ect.

Yeah, it will help with the final decision Skylor, again, thanks so much. Nif, I was thinking solo gwd or team Armadyl, hence it being a long-term goal....:P I've done both nomad and Wgs, and they wern't a problem. I'm just too tight to fork out for smithing, ect, when the end result of a quest cape is for looks. Questing again is a long term goal, I had to powerquest like 70 qp for wgs and loved it. I'm leaving it for a while then I'll powerquest again. At this point in time I'm thinking that Herby is the way to go, it's useful for slayer and overloads are Ftw. I'm just not sure which option is immediatly best to pursue as I am a "casual" player compared to most, and I can't aim for all of these at once. It's just pretty hard choosing. In terms of what I'd like, summoning followed by herby, but it might not be the most practical.

Skylor...my jaw dropped with the awesome of that post. Thanks. Nif, I'm undecided on my long-term play style. A few side goals are 83 slayer and the ability to GWD for cash. I'm more of a casual player, you could say... I like slayer, but I'd like at least one of these first. Basically, I like questing, bossing, making cash and slayer for fun.

Trying to make more money long-term. Currently farming and going green drags, with kingdom on the side. 58m ATM, more every day. Get a (item) -Rare (specify) -Armour (specify) OR Buy skill: -99 range -99 Mage -95 prayer -95 herblore -96 summoning (either way it seems slow for a buyable lol) -any other buyable combat skill. Answer which one of these (if over 100m) or combination (if under 100m) is best for making long-term cash.

Cause prayer switching sucks, and many people like me can't do it >_<

They used to be good for arma kc, Zephy, until jagex fixed them. They still hit lowish (60-70 lp?) but hit very, very consistantly, cutting though armour like butter.

I disagree since jagex buffed them. When I was bored at aviansies I tried smacking a few...they totally owned me. This is with good aviansies gear and stats in sig. Only range arma ones if you like range :/

Zammy warriors near the boss room. Zammy book is fine. Bring slayer helm, full rune. Invent is just 2 super sets (including defence) and monks, plus alchemy runes.

Bump from page 2! More opinions wanted. Summoning might not be the most Time effective...

Thanks guys. I'll just tell him to go with his gut. Lock/Let thread die please.

My fail defence level states that I'll need to pray range :/

I know that good gear at fiends is like 30m and you spend on prayer pots...how exactly do you profit? What drops do you pick up?

A irl friend of mine has been offered the position of a higher-up in a merch clan. He's rather a moral person, though, and thinks it's classified as stealing. I don't want to undermine his values or whatever, so can I ask a few questions on his behalf? - are merch clans moral? -if not, is there any way around the morals? (loopholes if you will) -if still no, how could you go about normal merching? (I'd also like to know so I couldn't tell him). Thanks very much. Hopefully you can give my friend some advice that I can't :/

Tbh I was thinking of doing summon first...just so damn useful everywhere. The idea of a yak also is awesome. I'd own at green dragons. :D So i'ma going summon first. It's awesome. Best way to do that? I probably only get to play like an hour a day on weekdays and a few hours/day on weekends...making cash is painfully slow :S Would I be better off going fiends for charms? I heard multiple times you can profit, but I don't know the specifics. Profiting with slow charms seems infinitly better to me then losing :D

I need 167k Serum 207's to get to 95 herblore. At 850 each (Max, grimy), this will cost 141m. I need 31k Dragon bones on my guilded alter to get to 95 prayer. At 5300 each (Mid), this will cost about 160m. The missing link is the bursting lobs for summoning :L How much will it cost bursting lobs to 96 summoning? Are waterfiends more time efficiant? How much will making the pouches cost once i've obtained the charms? Which is better to get, summon/prayer/herby?

This is what I'm talking about. Not some "my opinion is..." or "my experience is..." with bogus conclusions based on feelings and "how it seemed". Sara Sword has been proven to be faster. The zamorakian spear may have 5 more crush, but you should realize that an increase in 5 crush attack when you're 99 attack, potted to 125, using piety, and already hitting 95% of the time anyway is going to have a much smaller increase in kills/h than even an increase in your max hit by 10 lifepoints. EDIT: If you were hitting 90% of the time with a saradomin sword, you'd hit about 90.3% of the time with a zamorakian spear. You would need to average around 1700 damage per hit (absurd) for the increased accuracy of the spear to outweigh the increase of 5 average damage per hit. Thank you for some common sense.

Extensive testing was conducted by a maxed player consistantly potting and praying, same gear...The SS outdamages the ZS by like 1k exp/hour, due to the higher str bonus presumably.

Dfs is good for bossing, to be fair. +10 Mage defence beats out the bss's +2.

How would I go about flipping? I know nothing about merching except pyramid scams.

I realize that you need to put in some effort. I appreciate your style of posting and your constructive advice. I'm aiming for boss hunting in the long run and it is something I want to aim for. However, I do need like 400m first >_< EDIT@Above: I do MTK and check it every day to keep approval at 100% ^_^

You could try either growing your own herbs and gathering your own secondaries, or cleaning herbs. You can profit on cleaning herbs, but it takes longer.

Nah, not on like abberents or something. Comparitivly, level for level, I'm hitting worse. Maybe it's my luck :S

Ok, fair enough, i'll stop being a tight [wagon]. How would I go about making cash then? >_< Note that green dragons still arn't an option.

I have 82 Attack, and with a godsword and super attacks I still hit heaps of 0's. I don't know what you're worrying about. I hope we're using the same algorithm for attack >_<