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Farming. It's about the only skill that's not totally repetitive. Just plant, forget and come back when you like to see how many herbs you've got.

Chaos Druid Warriors (dungeon under Yanille) also drop them.

It's on the east side of the Piscatoris hunting area. You can't miss it once you're there - it's a big fenced off area.

I got to lvl 49 in about 7 hours of playing - not bragging about this, just happened to be on when the update came out and you find yourself one step ahead of the mad rush to the skill. I was also looking at the high scores thinking - how the hell are the top players getting such scores from the skill so quickly? I think the key to it is to multi-task. For example, from about lvl 47 you can trap orange salamanders in the desert. As these are really close to the birds, you can lay down 3 snares at the same time. It would be frantic, but the xp would roll in. You'd be constantly setting the trap and checking the snares etc.

Couple of additional tips: Go for the herbs that have secondary ingredients that are east to obtain: Toadflax - pick frogs legs (Gnome stronghold) Harralander - Buy chocolate from Gnome Tree stronghold Guams - easy to get hold off, and just needs eye of newt. irits - also good as they just need eye of newt People fixate far too much on ranarrs, so the price is inflated and they're hard to come across. You could probably buy 5 times as many toadflax for the price of 1 ranarr. Buy / steal loads of seeds and farm the herbs. Stock up on the herbs for a couple of days before making the potions in one big batch. You can buy the vials in Ardougne (too popular) or quieter out of the way places like Taverly. I moved my house there for a while so that I could stock up on loads of eyes-of-newt and vials more easily. You can also kill the Chaos Druid Warriors down in Yanille dungeon; these are fairly decent herb droppers, but also drop secondary ingredients which can help you stockpile the harder to obtain stuff. Keep all your higher level herbs that you can't yet identify. These can be a massive boost to your herblore once you reach the level to identify and use them. You can suddenly find yourself with a couple of hundred irits that'll take you straight up to the next level. If you can afford it, buy some unids. If you're a couple of thousand off a level, paying 1K per herb is worth it to put you up to the next level. You can usually tell from the spread and numbers of herbs on offer as to whether the deal is a rip off or not. Good luck

You can get around 7K per ranarr herb, and ranarr seeds cost around 25K each. Getting 5-6 herbs per seed will make you around 10-17K per patch harvested.

Chaos Druid warriors (Yanille dungeon) are also pretty decent as you get a mixture of herbs and secondary ingredients - which helps leveling herblore. In the stronghold of security, there's also a crawler type creature down on the second level. I only trained there for a couple of hours, but can remember thinking the herb drops were great. You also get noted pure ess etc.

You're not always guaranteed to smelt the iron on F2P because there's no rings of forging. At least with Steel you will always get the bar. You could try buying the coal (150 each) and mining the iron. This will allow you to level up much quicker - if you've got the cash.

I can remember thinking that I'd found a fantastic way to make money in the early days. I'd buy willows from Falador general store for 12gp, bank in the north bank, then sell at draynor village for 30-40gp. I thought i was loaded by making 500gp a trip for almost no work.

Been playing runescape for about a year now, and I think that prayer needs a complete overhaul. At the moment, I only really use it for Protect from Melee, protect from range etc. Jagex could do so much more with this as a skill. It'd be great if they introduced some new quests so that you could become a priest for a particular god. Once you're accepted, you then get a different set of prayer spells linked to that god's alignment. Prayers could be more attack based for one god, defensive and healing for sarrodim (?) etc. This would also then give them scope to introduce future quests to raise your rank within the relevant church (novice, lay priest, pastor, vicar, dean, bishop, arch-bishop etc). With the completion of each quest and an increase in rank, new powers / more potent spells would become available to the player. If you'd joined a particular religion and didn't like the spells, you could resign and start at the bottom in another religion. To me, this would actually provide an incentive to bury bones and work on the prayer skill. How does this sound?

It's most effective on the priest underneath the stairs in varrock castle. It's a v cheap but boring method of raising your magic.

You can use normal essence with the fire altar surely? I thought pure ess was on the member specific stuff (chaos, law, nature, cosmic and astral), but if you've got normal essence you can use it on any F2P altar. will try the duelling arena method as well

Edgevill is much closer. All you have to do is be careful. If you see players within 4 levels of youself hanging around a bit too often for comfort - switch worlds and continue. Keep your eyes looking out to north, if you see a player running down, run like hell. Apart from that, runecrafting through the wilderness is fine.

If you're F2P (and fairly low level), I'd suggest the Dark Mages in the stone circle just south of varrock. They drops loads of runes and these often include Laws. Just keep tring to accumulate them.

I've just finished the Trollhold Quest and received the Law Talisman. I now want to increase my Rune Crafting level quickly (currently 51) to 54. I don't have the stats for Abyss runecrafting, and have quite a few normal rune essences banked. Crafting airs is time consuming and I only really craft natures to high alch bows fletched. I was thinking about alternate means of rune-crafting and was wondering whether the following would work well (it's a fusion of rune-crafting natures using the bank and fire runes): If I log on to a F2P world and withdraw all the rune ess (noted) with some cash, I can craft at the fire altar, run down to the bank, sell noted ess, buy back and craft again. Repeat till essence exhausted / bored senseless. This (without trying it) looks to be as quick if not quicker than using Duelling Rings, but also works out cheaper. It's also got to be quicker and gains more Xp than crafting airs. I just wanted your thoughts before giving it a whirl to see if it works.

I tend to mine in fallador (coal / mithril), or Yanille (iron). Haven't tried the coal trucks yet. Once I've got a fair amount of raw materials, tele to lumbridge and run down to Al kharid. Smelt the load there - walking to the furnace with the ores, running with the bars back to the bank. Tele to Varrock, head to West Bank and smith all the bars on the anvils just south of the bank. High Alch the stuff once the smithing's complete. Rinse and repeat. It's still v boring though even if you buy the coal rather than mining it.

Kill cows in falador, bank the hides and sell in Al Kharid for 100-150 each. Alway take plenty of gold and a chisel to shops. Buy any uncut gems, cut them and either store them or sell them back to the shop. Buy all runes / rune ess you see in general stores, as these tend to be far cheaper and you can sell them later / use them to up your mage level. Craft air runes, you'll soon get your RC level up and it will become steadily more profitable as the number of runes you produce increases. Most runes (excepting bodies) sell for about 20 per rune. Cut willows in Draynor, bank & sell for 30-50 gp each. Members tend to go to these spots to buy willows for fletching xp. If you're desperate, you can buy willows in Faldor west shop for 12 gp, bank and sell on at a later time. Hang out at hill giants, save and bank the big bones. Sell these on for c250-300 each whilst training your combat. Pick a quieter world though, as this spot tends to be well crowded on F2P worlds. Try to get your fishing up by fly fishing west of Varrock, cook any fish on the range heading back to varrock. Once you can fish lobsters, head over to Karamja, fish these and bank them (you can also buy uncooked lobsters cheap in Port Sarim). Try to sell these up in Edgeville bank, as PKers will always be on the look out for good sources of food and will be willing to pay around 250 per lobster. Once you get a bit of cash together, buy your coal in falador east bank for 100-150. Mine your own iron. Smelt steel bars in Al Kharid and either sell on for 600-650 each or smelt from Varrock West Bank.

The prices for high alching all types of bows are on the fletching skill guide.

One of the ways Jagex could make things more difficult is to allow items to be combined to create new things. This way, you could introduce quests / rare drops to look for certain 'parts', and it's only when several quests are completed that you have all the items needed to create a new weapon / armour etc. It would mean that players would have to invest time into discovering things rather than just mindless slaying / mining etc to get something new.