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I thought that this video was pretty informative: Desert Treasure For Pures

If you find a Runescape skill that you actually enjoy doing, you should by all means pursue it whether it is the quickest money maker or not. While glancing over this thread, I see posts from people claiming that farming is not a quick way of gaining herbs. I guess if your goal is to powerlevel, then that might be true, but I never thought it was that bad. Buy ranaar seeds for 25k ea. They usually sell for 30k, but be a cheapy, people will sell. If you plant ranaar seeds at all 4 (I think there might be 5 now) herb patches and average 6 herbs per patch, then you can end up with 30 ranaar per growth cycle. Be sure to use magic secateurs to get more herbs and also grow limpwurts and watermelons for seconds / cash. Collect your own snape grass and you'll make 800k per 100 prayer potions you sell (it's been a while since I've played and I'm not sure what prayer pots sell for these days). Kill chaos druids and merchant seeds while you are waiting for your crops to grow. I know this thread is supposed to be about herblore, but if you want to actually make money with herblore you should consider pairing it with farming (which I happen to enjoy a lot). Edit : Just looked at the amount of money you want to make. 52 mil.. Yeesh.. That's a lot of dough and would indeed take forever to make using farming / herblore. That 3rd age range armour is ugly anyways. :)

There may be players with better stats, but of all the tip.it posters, I've learned the most from Leesters. The guy makes great guides and I've seen him volunteer his services (helping less experienced players) on numerous occasions.

When I got my rune defender, I earned my tokens by animating mithril amour and then killing it over and over. If I remember correctly, you need a mithril full helm, a mithril plate body, and mithril legs.

Buy half keys for 25k ea to get dstones.

I always thought that Jagex should create a "frog vending machine" where you can use your frog tokens to buy various items.

I used to write down santa hat prices from time to time, for what it's worth, this is what I have (I even left the comments in, no flaming please.. :)): 06/15/06 : 11.1 mil (prices dipped due to addition of construction skill) 08/15/06 : 20.0 mil 08/24/06 : 22.5 mil 08/28/06 : 25.6 mil (santas skyrocket on news of cursed_you ban) 08/30/06 : 26 mil (it'll be interesting to see if we see a slight dip as the cursed_you news gets old) 08/31/06 : 25 mil (suprise, suprise) 09/05/06 : 25.75 mil 09/07/06 : 25.5 mil 09/12/06 : 25.4 mil 09/15/06 : 25.4 mil 09/20/06 : 25.25 mil 09/22/06 : 25.5 mil 09/26/06 : 30 mil! (what happened?!?) 10/02/06 : 27.5 mil 10/12/06 : 25.8 mil (I'm guessing they will start going back up shortly) 10/23/06 : 26.3 mil (I guess I was wrong.. :)) 11/13/06 : 22 mil (I thought rares would take a hit when the lvl 99 capes came out. It didn't happen immediately, but I'd guess this is the delayed reaction to the release) I see people selling santas on the RS forums for ~ 20 mil right now.

Search google using these keywords: runescape unid buying You will very quickly discover how to *not* buy a bunch of unid guams.

I made energy potions until I hit level 38. Harralanders are cheap to buy (I think I payed 1k ea for them when I did it, prices might not be favorable anymore tho..) and you can buy tons of chocolate in the gnome stronghold. Buy your water filled vials from the shop in Ardougne. At level 38 make prayer potions. Buy ranaar weeds and seeds (if you can grow them) and collect your own snape grass. You can actually make some money doing this. If herb prices have risen and I am not aware of it, level farming and grow your own.

Well, the fact that they have been changed so that they only hit a max of 9 enemies at a time means that you won't be earning as much exp per chin as you once could. I'm guessing, however, that the price of chins has gone down to reflect this. I personally haven't tried this, only watched the video like you.. :) I think the best thing to do is to buy some chins, but not a ton, give it a shot, and then determine if the cost is worth the experience.

Search youtube for "insane range" and the first video in the results should be a video that shows a guy using chins on the skeleton moneys on ape atoll. I'd link to the video directly, but I'm not sure if that's ok to do, let me know if you have trouble finding it. The guy who posted the video claims that you can earn 220k to 300k range exp per hour. From what I understand, the chins used to hit an unlimited number of enemies in the area, but Jagex recently changed them to hit a max of 9 enemies. That said, I'm not sure if chins are still worth it. I understand your desire to get to 70 quickly (ranging fire giants is not quick) so if it's not a bother, I'd love to hear the results of whatever you end up doing (cannon or chins).

There is a "square obstacle" in the middle of the room where the demon is. When I fought him, I just ran until he got caught on one of the edges of the square. Once he was caught, I ranged him to death with my crystal bow. I don't remember getting hit once.

I used to level smithing by soloing the blast furnace and making a combination of steel and mith arrowheads as well as steel plates. By doing this, you can manage to not lose money. Making gold bars using the goldsmithing gauntlets is extremely fast, but gold ore is very expensive while gold bars sell for almost nothing. You can offset the loss by buying gold ore on f2p worlds and then using your bars to make rings of dueling and forging and then selling those on p2p worlds. I found making cannonballs to be very slow.

So true. I can't tell you how many times I've typed up a lengthy response to a "what to merchant?" question only to erase it before posting. If the goal of a good merchant is to make as much money as quickly as possible, why would he give away his secrets and tactics thus creating more competition?

I know that this isn't a very exciting suggestion but I've found the cows near the crafting guild sw of Falador to be good for low level range training. They have some hps, they're easy to hit (bronze arrows work just fine), they're plentiful, they'll never hit you if you are wearing decent range gear, and not many people range there. Personally, I just left the skins so the leveling is quickest.

My humble opinion is: If you can afford to hold on to your rares, then I suggest you do so. When rares dropped after construction came out (santas dropped to below 10 mil), they recovered with a vengeance. The same is bound to happen again, now is the time to buy rares, not sell them.

The tip it guide gives good advice on fighting this monster. They say to wear a combination of range and mage gear, making sure that your magic attack bonus is about +5. If you keep your distance from the mother, she will attack with range which will shred you if you are wearing only mage gear. I mixed and matched dhides with mystic and didn't have any trouble at all with this monster.

I used sharks to heal for all bosses and left the room after defeating each one to restock my supplies / change equipment. The tip.it guide for the quest, as usual, is excellent and you shouldn't have any problems with the bosses if you follow it. Karamel: I wore my best "protect from magic" gear (dhides, etc) and equipped my crystal bow. As the tip.it guide suggest, I got up right next to it even though I was ranging. I took very little damage during the battle (I didn't get hit for much) and sipped restore potions when my range dropped too low. Your melee stats are better than mine, but my range is better than yours so melee might work better for you. Dessourt: Same gear I used for Karamel, much easier. Gelatinnoth: I followed the tip.it guide and used a combination of mystic armour and dhides. Try different stuff, but as they suggest, make sure your magic attack is about +5. I took a dds, an air staff (and runes for all the spells I would need), and my crystal bow. This dude is exactly like the horror from the deep boss and it took me a while to kill it. Be sure to leave the room after you defeat the Gel boss because the Culinaromancer can hit you hard (20+) and often through the mixed gear. Culinaromancer: I wore mystic and I forget which sort of attack I used on him. With your stats, I'd try melee. My guess is, by the time you read this, you are already done with the quest and sporting some cool new gloves (I love the gloves, the stats are rediculous, better range bonus than black vambs!).

I don't know about that. If the new capes look really, really cool and/or have really good stats, there will be a big push to get 99 skills. The more money one spends, the quicker it is to level skills.

This is the way to go. The only things that I have to add are - Do your cooking at the rogue's den, the bank (an npc) is always insanely close to a permanent fire (sometimes he even stands on top of it). Switch from lobsters to higher fish as soon as your cooking level is high enough so that you don't burn them frequently.

The excerpt below was taken from http://news-web.runescape.com/lang/en/aff/runescape/newsitem.ws?id=564 : Wilderness Tag features a series of pillars dotted around the entire of the wilderness, with players being invited to tag them, similar to the way the Agility Arena works but without the timers. Players who successfully tag all the pillars (featuring various levels of difficulty) are rewarded with a generous helping of combat XP in the discipline they choose. Be careful, though, it is the Wilderness after all.

You can buy dark gloves after you complete the Recipe For Disaster quest. Start the quest by talking to the cook at Lumbridge castle.

Nice guide, one small comment: When I steal from the safes, I am able to eliminate the need for food by employing the following technique. 1) I steal until nearly dead. 2) I bank everything and make sure that I have only a games necklace in my inventory. 3) I steal until death. 4) I use the necklace to telly to the games room and run back to the Rogue's Den. 5) Goto 1

No, it's not a glitch. The god staves cannot be used to autocast god spells. Seems odd, but it's true, I was very disappoined to discover this. If you have the void knight mace, it can autocast claws of guthix.

Nice guide, keep it up. One question I have is : A lot of people talk about the axe hut and how good it is for training, but why use the axe hut instead of the axe area in the taverly dungeon? Is it because the axe hut is a much smaller space? Just wondering.