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I have an iPod Touch, so not quite, but I would find an RS app really useful.

Depends on your prayer level of course. Don't have the exact formula but I'm sure you could find one. I've managed to derive a formula for how many prayer potion doses you use per hour: doses/hr=(k+b/10)/(L/4+7) k=seconds/point (found here) b=prayer bonus L=prayer level Derived from these equations: Points/dose=(L/4+7) Points/hr=3600/(k+b/10) When using a holy wrench, replace (L/4+7) with (L/4+8). When using multiple prayers, use the above formula for each prayer and add them together (can also be written as a single equation using multiple k values). I also have a question that, while applicable here, goes well beyond just the scope of this guide: What is the best way to make sure that whatever combat familiar I have is always attacking? Most of the time that I use one, I find it standing around following me about half the time unless I force it to using the "attack" option. Calling it seems little help, but maybe I'm doing something wrong.

Bandos wouldn't do so well, as it has relatively low defences and a lot worse magic attack bonus than Verac's. There's a reason that it's in all the guides -- it works, and it works well. Only alternative that I would offer (off the top of my head for that method) is Torag's Plate instead of Verac's brassard in case you're getting hit too much, but you shouldn't have a problem with that looking at your defence.

I personally love Bandos' extra offence on most tasks, but it is quite expensive for what it does. As others have said, get it if you have extra cash. I believe that it's better than using the money for prayer potions and using piety, as Bandos can always be sold back when you're done with it for at least part of what you spent on it.

Solo maging Dagannoth Rex. Requires pretty high stats to do it efficiently, but it's possible to make 1m or so an hour. Good luck should you decide to do that.

Basing it on the numbers of ess/hr in Qeltar's guide (using updated prices, of course), I've found that deaths are better xp and gp than natures at the moment, even considering using a graahk for natures. I'm not sure how great of a difference not having the giant pouch will make in the overall numbers, but I would think that they wouldn't be too different.

Technically, the option is "Dismantle", but that's being a little picky on my part.

I just looked again, and the guide linked to in section 6 is currently extremely out of date. Thanks to various updates, not just RuneTek 5, the pathfinding algorithm has changed greatly, meaning that most of the tips in Keruly's guide are extremely out of date. The biggest changes are that all monsters now go diagonally and trapping them on the east or west side of a corner is no longer effective as they'll just walk around the corner. I just thought that I'd mention this, but there's really no guide that can replace it in the meantime, as there aren't really any guides written in nearly as much detail on that topic since.

Forum Name: thekiller308 Desired Name for Credits: MischlingsSH Method (1): Mining Concentrated Gold in Living Rock Caverns (mining coal when all gold rocks are down), 28 gold per inventory, world 84 Equipment (1): Varrock Armour 3, Rune Pickaxe, Obsidian Golem, non-barrows armour in other slots Results (1): 44415 xp in 55 minutes, extrapolated to 48452 xp/hr (though that would require bringing extra pouches in your inventory to maintain for the full hour) Note: There were times where I made mistakes due to not paying full attention, so 50k xp/hr should be relatively easy to get with this method if you pay more attention to when your inventory fills up. This also was at a peak time (3 PM EST on a Saturday) so there was a sizable amount of lag, slowing down both banking and running to the rocks. EDIT: It's far too bad that I didn't keep track of xp rates back when I got 85 mining banking iron ores -- that would've been a huge data sample, but back then I just didn't care.

One I can't walk on -- a tree or plant usually.

Sad thing is, when I've tried, it's been so crowded that the only open spawns I could find had obstacles on one side so that I couldn't set up all my traps around it. I was even on at 3am EST (couldn't sleep last night) and it was still crowded. I've tried the surround method and, while it wasn't horrible, there weren't many free spawns and whenever I managed to find one, someone else came in and tried to take it. I'm reminded of why it's been about 1.5 years since I trained this skill.

I'm not only using German worlds -- I was saying that even the German worlds are crowded -- usually you can find a more open spot in the foreign language worlds, but that hasn't worked for me.

I've been trying to train hunter the last couple days (key word: trying) and the problem is the sheer number of people. I cannot even find a remotely empty spot in the German worlds. So, at 73 hunter, are there any decent alternatives that don't involve dropping/releasing everything that I catch?

According to Zarfot, the two at a time method was about 400k xp/hr, which would translate to about 1900 sharks an hour.

I'm not going to read a book with a typo in the title -- people are less likely to read a guide with a typo in the name. Just fix the damn thing -- that'll make it look much better.

Do you need tests to be a full hour or is it acceptable to do a shorter test? (example: using an obsidian golem (55 minutes) to mine and basing numbers on the duration of one familiar)

I manage easily 1m+ a day with only herb farming, MTK, buying and reselling broad bolts/battlestaves, and some small scale flipping. All that comes from probably ~40 minutes' time. Thanks to all of that, I rarely have to go out of my way to make money, though there are other things that I do to make money. - Slayer: not the fastest source of money, but it's the fastest source of slayer xp. - Superglass make: magic and crafting xp with a profit of 600k or more per hour. - Fishing monkfish: Not that fast, but it's decent xp and money. - Mining gold: Good xp and decent money. - Barrows: Can be around 1m/hr if you're really fast -- I can do it that fast but it requires too much attention for me to do for more than an hour. - Tormented Demons: I've heard that these guys can be crazy good money, but I don't have good enough levels to kill them seriously, so I just do about a trip a day and hope I get lucky. - Thieving: Horrible money per hour, but amazing xp. The money from blackjacking is better than from Pyramid Plunder, as well as faster xp. It's not great, but it's something I do for money. In short, variety is the spice of life. I do my little daily tasks then whatever else I feel like. Money isn't in short supply in RS, it's just a matter of finding it.

With herbs, there is little difference. I'd guesstimate maybe .5 herbs/patch difference between base level and 99, if that much. However, check out allotments and see just how much more of those you get at higher levels. Since most people avoid allotments entirely, going with just trees and herbs, they never see a large difference in yield as they level up.

The objective is wrong. If you check firemaking objective, it says you can light logs faster when you increase your firemaking level, though a level 45 firemaker can get as much xp per hour as me when we both burn maple logs. That is right -- with logs right at the level you can burn and maybe slightly under (for example, magics between 75 and 80), you sometimes don't light the log right away and it takes a while to get it lit -- most people probably don't remember that because they spend all their time training with maple logs, which are low level and rarely have that problem past level 60.

These are supposed to be different, though -- they're not about grinding enough that you manage to do something, they're more about using your skill (not necessarily skills) to do something difficult that's more than just a point, click and wait affair.

Also, if you have it, use Saradomin Sword on crush -- gargoyles are weak enough to crush that it's more effective than a whip on them. If you don't have SS however, just use a whip, as they're not strong enough that a whip is ineffective (such as waterfiends).

The yield actually does increase as your level increases (set a high farming objective and read what it says), but the difference when it comes to herbs is so small that it's pretty much negligible.

I take back what I said in my last post in this topic -- take a DDS instead of EE and bring about 6 monkfish -- with void and 92 defence, I can go through two pure sets (about 40 minutes) with that amount of food no problem. The DDS spec is very powerful -- I can kill warriors with one spec about 25% of the time -- and there's really no need for EE because even that will heal you more than you need.

Thank you for the pointless Grammar Nazi comment. You spelled the title of your guide wrong. In no way is that pointless -- not correcting it is pointless and only makes you look bad. As for the guide itself, it seems pretty good but also very basic -- are there no special tactics needed at all?