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Remember, though, it's not just the time spent in-game, it's the growing time. A yew tree takes what, 6 hours or so to grow? The actual time isn't just the 48 in-game minutes, the extra 40 yew trees from your example require 9 (10 if unlucky) additional growing cycles to get the XP from 40 yew trees. If you happen to catch the farming clock exactly right every time, you're looking at waiting an extra 2 and a half days or so, playing 24 hours a day (or at least setting an alarm to catch them as soon as they grow). Realistically, this time would be a week or possibly a lot more for a player like me who is a bit more casual, and doesn't play every day. So it really depends on several factors. I personally always pay for trees, because I very rarely plant them, and can't be bothered and often don't have time to check in regularly to chop and replant them. So I want to maximize the XP that I get from planting them, and the opportunity cost is totally worth it to me. It would also be worth it to me if I was going to use yew trees to get to 99 farming, because even no-lifing you'd get it a few weeks earlier by paying for all the trees. But if you are just planting trees to gain a level or 2 every now and then, the time saved is probably minimal enough so as not to be worth it, unless you are REALLY into speed.

You haven't farmed a lot, have you? The minimum is indeed 5 if you use secateurs + supercompost. The max I've personally gotten is 17, but it's very rare as it only happened to me twice in over half a year of farming. Around 6.5 is the average you'll get, it depends on the herb you grow. Ranarrs will yield a lower average herb yield per seed than irit or something. I haven't tested this myself though, I've only ever grown snapdragons/dwarf weeds and I can say the average you get per dwarf weed seed is higher than the amount of herbs you get per snapdragon seed. Yields aren't seed-dependent, your anecdotal evidence aside. I get more herbs generally from snapdragons than kwuarm, but I know that doesn't mean snapdragons have higher overall yields. It's all luck. All seeds will average out to somewhere between 6-7 per seed if you grow enough herbs, but you have to grow thousands of seeds in order to have a statistically significant sample upon which to base a sound conclusion.

Fast smithing experience involves either gold ore with goldsmith gauntlets, or buying bars and smithing plates. The fastest way from 41-50 would be to buy iron bars and make plates with them. You'd lose a lot of money, but it is the fastest method. Gold ore with goldsmith gauntlets would be a very close second, and might even be cheaper.

That is exactly what opportunity cost is. Using the spines to pay for a yew tree is an opportunity cost of 33k, whether you picked them or bought them. I am well aware of this fact, I didn't need it explained to me once, let alone twice :roll: No. You missed the point. You will gain farming experience around 12.5% faster by paying for all of your trees, rather than simply using supercompost on every tree patch. For every 8 yew trees you plant with only supercompost, 1 will die. Plant 100 seeds, and 12 or 13 will die. Plant a thousand seeds, you will lose very close to 125 of your trees. These are additional trees that must be grown for the same amount of XP, costing the extra waiting time for those trees, or alternately, time out of what you are doing several times per day to go check on your trees. Either way, you have to spend more time for the same amount of XP that you get from paying the farmer to look after your trees. And time is worth radically different things to different people - you can't quantify it and say for certain whether or not the extra time and/or effort is or isn't worth an extra 31k per tree.

No, powerminer, there are only 4 mithril rocks in the grand tree. And there are 2 on each end of the mine, making mining them a huge pain. Lumby swamp west is your best bet, better even than the mining guild. Use glories to bank in Draynor. You can mine a few coal if your first mithril isn't respawned after mining all 5 of them. Mining mith down here isn't bad after level 70, as you can snag the addy there as well.

You can range almost all monster in RS. Only cyclops are immune to it. I take it you mean training range from a safe spot. The OP asks about melee and you suggest ranging them as melee is useless... in your opinion. You are clearly not helping him, you are rather pushing him in your way of training based on... your definition of efficiency without facts to back you up. That is a pretty lame advice. No, I was merely suggesting an alternate training method that he may not have thought of. Isn't that what the help and advice board is all about? Giving advice? Isn't part of giving advice suggesting things that players may not have otherwise thought of, or might not know about?

Meleeing anything you can range just seems pointless to me. And "faster and more efficient" would depend on the person's levels, no?

yes, and SELL those cacti. Seriously, it's not because you got them yoruself, that it's suddenly good to WASTE them on yew trees. By not selling, you are losing on a lot of profit. Yes, it seems like you're not losing anything, since you get them yourself, but trust me, you are. I'm getting pretty sick of the misconceptions about this, that show up in about every thread. (example: MTK, "I get my seeds through MTK for free" NOT!!). Yeah, I'm well aware of the concept of opportunity cost. I'm also well aware of the idea that the minimal effort required to amass cactus spines on your own might be preferable to the out of pocket expense for some players, who are intent on raising their farming levels via yew seeds, and would prefer not to suffer the 12.5% reduction in experience/time that comes from growing yew trees without paying the farmers. There is more to the equation than just the amount of cash involved, as with most skills. Some people value things differently in the game. Learn that, instead of spouting off on what people ought to be doing based on your priorities. Other players have different sets of priorities, and hence can gain from advice that doesn't just offer the most cash-efficient method.

Meleeing them is pointless, try ranging instead. They are very good crimson charm droppers, they drop charms about 50% of the time, and the vast majority of those dropped will be crimson.

The best solution is to plant a cactus and pick 3 spines every time you visit al-Kharid.

He wants to train woodcutting and fletching, too. There are other skills besides money making. Rimmington is a great place to cut, 4 trees in a clump and easy to get to with dueling rings and skills necklaces.

Kill banshees as much as possible. You'll get a decent amount of charms and tons of cash.

If you are interested in killing dusties for charms, just range them.

A round of penguin hide and seek and tears of guthix ought to do the trick. Should take you about an hour. Just make sure you have more XP in your other level 40 skills first. You XP from tears go to your skill with the lowest XP (I think) if you have multiple skills at the lowest level.

Great method until you hit 88 smithing, but there are better ways to maximize XP + profit at the blast furnace for those who can smith addy plates :D Especially now that mith ore has gone up some, and bolt prices are down significantly from when this was written.

There actually ARE safespots in the crypts - however, they don't work all the time. You can get a melee brother caught on the corner of a crypt, but after you hit him a couple of times, he will step out and hit you. It will reduce the # of hits you take, but not by that much, unless you get lucky and the brother doesn't step out. They don't always.

I find Karil's mage defense to be significantly higher than the melee brothers, even at 95 mage. I kill him faster with ranged. Your best bet is to wear the best melee defense armor you can. The melee brothers have such low magic defense that you can mage them even in full rune/barrows quite easily.

I'm not exactly sure how high Ahrim and Karil's range defense is, but I would think you'd want to be 60 ranged at least. You could always go down there and test out how well you hit before trying full runs, but it is pretty risky trying to kill Ahrim without prayer, so if you can't kill him fast enough at 60 ranged, you can always just use prayer against him. For training ranged, just do slayer. Since you have a slayer goal already, and most tasks can be efficiently ranged, should work out nicely :D

You should get your defense, range, and mage up. You want to be able limit your praying to Dharok and Karil - food is much cheaper than prayer pots. You don't need the other pots because you shouldn't melee any of them - just mage the melee brothers, and range Karil and Ahrim.

They aren't that spread out, the first room has 3-4 in a fairly small area, and they respawn very fast. 13 pure ess is about 1800 coins, true, but what other monster that you know of drops a noted 1800 coin drop every 3 or 4 kills? You can easily get 40-50 p ess drops per hour, in addition to herbs. True, it's more clicking and slower XP than, say, rock crabs, but rock crabs are a waste of time because you don't get anything out of it other than XP. Whether it's straight money, or raw materials for herby/runecrafting you are after, banshees rock.

Personally, I find steel dragons are great for green charms. I know, hunting metal dragons is a pain in the butt, and your mage level might not be high enough to make it worth your time, but they drop 3 charms almost every kill, and mostly greens at that. And there is always the chance, however remote, of a visage drop, and the somewhat better chance of a dragon legs/skirt drop. Lots of other good alchables as well, but if you can't kill them with fewer than 40 fire bolts (with gaunts, of course), you might be wasting your time. Good mage training if you can, plus the charms. If you use Ahrim's down there, you might be able to kill them pretty efficiently at your mage level.

This is the best advice. Banshees not only have good drops for low level monsters, they have perhaps the best drops of any monsters in the game. They drop 13 noted pure essence fairly often, as well as herbs AND charms. They drop gems, which means half keys - though this is a very rare drop from them. They also drop black mystic gloves fairly frequently, you can expect, on average, 1 pair per load of herbs ranarr and above that you go to bank. Sadly these only sell for about 6k now, but still not bad. And they are close enough to Canifis bank so that banking the herbs isn't terribly time consuming. Wear your best magic defense gear and earmuffs. You can make well over 100k per hour killing them with melee. They might not be the best for XP since they only have 22 HP (though they regenerate HP REALLY fast), but the cash more than makes up for it.

The crafting guild is usually fairly crowded on busy worlds, but it's gotten better since they got rid of the autoers. Though I wouldn't recommend trying gold until level 50 or so - right at 40 it takes way too long to mine. And remember - when mining in the crafting guild, ALWAYS craft a load of air runes on your way. It may seem insignificant, but I went on a mining jag once and mined about 4k ores in there, and gained 2 RC levels in the process - and I was around 50 RC at the time. Plus it's a little extra cash, you will make a profit starting at level 33 RC, and 33 RC doesn't take all that long to get.

Range every slayer assignment.

Unlucky. # of herbs is not affected by farming level, herb type, or what patch you use. The only things that affect harvest size are type of compost used and whether or not you use magic secateurs.