They will be very close in ACCURACY. Which means that rapier should be stronger. Logically if you hit 50% of the time with a rapier (can achieve this with a whip, mind you), it would be impossible for the longsword to hit 114% more often. PLUS you add in accuracy prayers, attack potions, 99 attack, fury, and other bonuses and I see no reason why the longsword would be better for any monster, except perhaps TDs where you'd want a maul anyway. PvP is something else since there's a requirement to get KOs.
I don't get why rapier is discounted as a PvM item. Using some standard gear, extremes and prayer, the difference between the accuracy of the longsword and the rapier is almost negligible (the longsword's accuracy bonus should only surpass the rapier's DPS if you're hitting less than 10% of the time, which makes me :-k). Not to mention it would replace zamorak spears for all dragons.
You should be focusing on killing dragons, don't bother trying to fight a revenant. When a revenant appears hop worlds. It's not the method that sucks, it's that ur doin it rong. The only reason you should kill the ones in level 30 wilderness is if your connection is too bad to get dragons at clan wars.
If you've touched a rapier you would know it's a shortsword. It's attack styles are stab-accurate stab-aggressive slash-aggressive stab-defensive whereas a scimitar's attack styles are slash-accurate slash-aggressive stab-controlled slash-defensive
Just got 85 firemaking today, which was as high as I could stand. It seems high enough to me that hand cannons might be decent, so I went down to try and get a few for TDs. Aww.
Hmm that's interesting. But we should see a fairly stable equilibrium in both ores and bars. I misunderstood your original post. I read something like this: Some change causes gold ores to rise in price (such as a new method of training mining that reduces the supply of ores). I didn't read it as an increase of +2 gp or something. ANYWAY... expect gold bars to drop as a large demand of the gold bars, creating gemmed jewelry for manipulation, was recently removed. Now the only people who will use gold bars will be making gold amulets (u).
Melee is basically the best at everything. Notable exceptions are Dag Rex, Dag Prime, Barrows, Armadyl, Aviansies, Ice Strykewyrms. Range can compete kills/hour wise on a few things in Kuradal's, such as hellhounds, greaters, blues, gargoyles.
Use abyssal whip/saradomin sword -> undead monster. That's basically the best way to train. As for what you should kill with it... Bandos, Saradomin, Zamorak, Corp, DKS are all options for meleeing.