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Are you using supercompost? Because you should average at least 6 herbs per patch.

There are sand pits in Zanaris, Entrana, and Yanille, among other places. Yanille is closest to a bank and nearest a tele spot. Just use a bucket with the sand pit, and voila! The sand pit is in the NW corner of Yanille, if you go there.

Yews will make money in the end, though.

I think msb with arrows is better experience than knives until you are at least 70 range. In my experience you miss a lot with knives until you get to around level 75.

Well, to actually answer your question, you can easily buy yew logs and make unstrung bows and sell them for a small profit.

I don't know if anyone has tried this, but a really fast method might be Carralanger Teleport over and over again. 94 xp per cast, though you need 2 laws and 2 souls for it. Although nothing beats ice barrage at pest control, if you do it right.

In my opinion, it's stupid to give stuff like that back. People need to learn that there is RISK involved in taking 5M worth of equipment to barrows. Don't take that equipment there unless you are prepared to lose it. I personally would be mortified if I did something that dumb, and wouldn't want my equipment back. A couple times I've died and had people ask if I want my stuff back. I always say no - I gave it away by my own stupidity, I don't deserve to get it back. Of course, if you are teaming DKs, or doing a quest like desert treasure with someone, and you make an agreement to pick stuff up if the other guy dies, that's totally different. But random strangers who do stupid things and die? I'll gladly keep their equipment.

First, READ THIS!!. Probably the most useful guide on this site. Don't go nuts and waste all that time selling your member stuff when you can hang on to it. I lost members 5 months ago, and still have a bank full of members gear. Don't bother RCing, spend all of your time training agility. Seriously. Sure, money doesn't come as fast on f2p, but there are also very few things actually worth spending money on in f2p. High agility, on the other hand, makes things so much easier. Don't bother working on any other skills, at all. I mean, if you're destitute and would like some pocket money, then by all means craft some nats. But you will make your life as a f2p player MUCH easier if you get your agility up as high as possible.

I think that all you have to do to get your account back is pay for 2 months of members. It kind of sucks that Jagex took 38 days to realize that your payment was bad, but I'm sure that all they want for you to do is pay them for the 38 days of members that you had previously used. I'm sure they would accept that payment by any method, PayPal or eGold would be fine. It's just like any other thing, if a pay-to-use website sees that you owe them fees, they suspend your account until you pay those fees. So pay the fees and everything will be fine. But make sure to get a full report from Jagex as to what happened to the money you paid, so you're sure it isn't a glitch on their end.

First of all, dueling rings can usually be had for 2-3k. Second of all, it's fairly cheap to buy your own emeralds and gold bars, make rings, and enchant them, and it doesn't take a whole lot of time to make a couple hundred. Third of all, it's not even all that time consuming to gather the gems and gold yourself to get free deuling rings.

I think the exp rate for randoms is either 1 XP per 10 damage, or 1 XP per 20 damage. The pheasants have 5 HP, so if you spread around your pheasant kills between your combat stats, you can do, at the very least, 2000 freaky forresters before gaining a level in a melee stat.

The cave is really easy without prayer. All you need is some energy pots. There are tons of rock formations hanging over the tunnel, and falling rocks don't hit you while you're under them. As long as you run from one formation to the next, and then wait for rocks to fall, you'll almost never get hit. A few pieces of food and you should be fine.

As a member, go to the hobgoblin mine. Easiest way to get there is via canoe in Edgeville. Canoe into the wilderness, run a bit to get to the mine, and glory out when you're done. You can either bring some good armor, or canoe down to Lumbridge each time and get a prayer refill and pray protect from melee. Keep in mind that your character will mine while under attack from hobgoblins if you turn off auto-retaliate.

Nope, f2p can't use a ring of forging.

But you're missing the point. To calculate true profitability, you have to factor in the opportunity cost. When you RC for an hour, you must do it to the exclusion of all other activities. Crafting natures has the highest profit margin for that time, so you still come out ahead in the end when you take into account the next best moneymaking skill, which would probably be mining runite, if you do it properly. Think of it this way - say you make 500k an hour by runecrafting, and you can make 400k an hour mining runite (made up numbers). If you spend an hour mining runite, you actually lose 100k. Why? Because you've given up the opportunity to make 100k more by choosing to mine instead of craft nature runes. Businesses will always take the opportunity cost into account, because it allows them to calculate the most efficient way to spend their time. As it is in Runescape, although such calculations are meaningless to most players, because rewards such as XP mean more to them. But from a pure monetary standpoint, it has to be accounted for. Now, look at farming. You take 8 out of every 75 minutes to do a farming run. Growing snapdragons will net you 140k in that 8 minutes. 8 minutes of RCing, even at 500k per hour will net you around 67k. Which means that if you spend those 8 minutes RCing instead of farming, you are losing 73k. More importantly, though, not farming for the other 67 minutes doesn't cost you anything, since the profit from farming while your herbs are growing is zero. This leaves you the opportunity to craft nature runes. In other words "I will have more money in my bank after an hour of runecrafting compared to an hour of farming" is a simplistic way of looking at things, and doesn't measure true profitability taking into account the opportunity cost. Because the reality is that you are losing money if you choose to RC for 75 minutes without taking the time to grow herbs.

Actually, it's 12,725 exp for Knight's Sword. Devious Minds gives a decent 6,500, although since you need 65 smithing to do it, it's not really all that much.

Right, but the thing about any other way of making money is that you must be doing it the whole time in order to make money. The point with farming is that, for the 8-10 minutes you spend actually farming out of every 75 minutes, it is THE BEST method for making money for those 8-10 minutes. You will make more money than anything else skill related. In other words, you will make more money RCing and farming than you will RCing alone. Without farming, you are making less money per hour. Therefore, farming is the best moneymaking skill there is, since you MUST farm in order to maximize your gold earned per hour from skills.

I've already explained it, but running to all 5 herb patches, harvesting and replanting, takes less than 10 minutes. Each run harvesting snapdragons will make you around 140k. 1 hour of farming time is 6-7 runs. 7 runs of making 140k is 998k per hour. Even if you are only level 32 farming and grow ranarrs, you make around 600k in an hour of farming. That's NET profit. NET profit with runecrafting, ie factoring in essence costs, isn't even close to that until you have 91 runecrafting. Now, what's easier and faster to get - 32 farming or 75 runecrafting? 63 farming or 91 runecrafting? Exactly. Ergo, farming is the best moneymaking skill there is.

I like to try and smelt an iron bar while at the furnace. Then I can store my steel, withdraw 10 iron, withdraw all coal, and head right back to the furnace. It adds up eventually - 1k iron bars for every 18k steel bars you smelt. The fastest way to do this is to click on the iron ore, then click on the furnace as soon as the 9th steel bar finishes. With mith, I do an extra steel bar the same way.

And I pretty much proved that farming is much better than runecrafting if you can't make double nats. If you can make double nats, farming still beats it if you grow snapdragons. And 63 farming is a hell of a lot easier to get than 91 runecrafting.

You can't rely on being able to get rune ore that fast all the time. Late at night, I can get around 60 per hour, but it takes a very empty game to do it that quickly.

Every 3 hours you get 3 million with runecrafting. Every 3 hours with farming you can get a maximum of (15 is the max right?) 150 snapdragon. Wich is a bit over 1 million. Explain how farming is the better skill. First of all, you only need 32 farming to start making bank. You need at least 75 runecrafting in order to start making even half a mil an hour. And you aren't making a mil per hour, sorry. You'd have to craft 5k nats an hour to do that, which I'm pretty sure you can't do even at 91 RC. Factor in ess cost when calculating money made. It takes 75 minutes for an herb patch to grow. You average 6 herbs per patch, in my experience, using magic secateurs, supercompost, and factoring in the herbs that die. So each run gets you 30 herbs. If you bought your herb seeds, you probably paid about 100k for them, whether you grow ranarrs or snapdragons. The 30 snaps will get you 240k, the ranarrs will get you 180k, for profits of 140k and 80k, respectively. But here's the beauty part - an herb farming run takes not even 10 minutes. An hour of farming includes 6-7 runs, because the rest of the time is spent on other skills. So for your 10 minutes of effort, you make 80-140k. So an hour of farming will actually make you anywhere between 480k and 998k. And none of the worries of runecrafting, like getting pked. So yes, as a matter of fact, farming is a better moneymaker than runecrafting.

Farming is better even than RC, especially now with My Arm's patch.

I've been averaging 3 Freaky Forresters per day recently. At least it's a fast random.

I'd say it's probably the one in Zanaris.