I'd go with 85 smithing, since money isn't so needed in f2p... And skills > money sitting in bank.

just get your mining up so that you can mine everything and get the lvls for free.

It takes months to mine and smith your own materials for 80-85 mining, buying the bars it'll take less than 2 weeks.

With 11m you can turn quite a large profit making steel bars until 85 smithing. Dunno what the profit turnout would be but you would obviously have a lot more than 11m and 85 smithing. All depends if you want 85 smithing NOW. Smithing rune bars makes some profit, but you may not have any money to start off with.

I say go for the smithing level. With 85+ smithing, you can make the money back, and then some.

Yea, go for 85 smithing :P

Cash :

I would train al my stats that doenst cost money to 99 first

 

then train al stats that costs money

85 smithing!! its hard to get up

11m i think and then get 85 mining myself

11M, make 9M more and buy yourself a green mask or maybe a santa hat.

 

 

 

80 is allready impressive, why 85? For that rune? Pff.. I'd rather have a rare item instead of raising a skill 5 lvls up. You allready got 80, stay with that and use your 11M to train other stats

Ok im standing in front of a tough choice here

 

 

 

Ive always had a goal to get lvl 85 smithing, and now i have enough money to get it. But the problem is, that I cant just waste my 11m (im f2p) I dont want to leave them lol and my smithinglvl is 80 atm

 

 

 

So what would you choose?

 

 

 

lvl 80 smithing w 11m

 

lvl 85 smithing w 0gp

 

 

 

?

 

funny enough i have same goal, and same smith lvl atm--80, and similar amount of money to waste- i mean invest, and then certainly, same decision to make. rofl.

 

my choice is: go for it! 11m is not hard to make. but before doing that, personally i will raise my combat to over 100 so that i can mine runite safely ( i have 85 mining btw which helps a lot). also i suggest choosing mith and steel bars than iron. it may cost a little more (1-2m more i guess), but a lot faster (50 or 100% faster xp) than iron. Aslo you should just alch pl8 for mage xp. dont waste time selling. good luck

Well, for me its like: Skills > Money

 

 

 

But How does it cost you 11m?

 

 

 

Make steel plates, alch them, i think that wont cost you 11m.

 

 

 

~ColossuS~

 

 

 

Steel bars are 550-600 each so lets say they are 575 each. Each steel plate requires 5 steel bars so it costs 2875 gp to make each steel plate.

 

 

 

Each steel plate alchs for 1200 gp.

 

 

 

The loss per steel plate would be 2875+300(nature rune)-1200 = 1975 gp.

 

 

 

You get 187.5 xp per steel plate so it costs 10.5gp/xp using steel bars.

 

 

 

Level 80-85 is a little over 1.25m xp so it would cost well over 11m to buy steel plates and alch them.

 

 

 

(If you bought the ores and smelted them it would be a little bit cheaper but probably still over 10M. Mining your own ores to smith is just not feasible due to the amount of time it would take if you sole goal is 85 smithing).

 

 

 

if you need this many steel it will end up costing you 600 each easily ;) if not more..

i still don't understand why this has to be an all or nothing deal

 

get 83 smithing now then come back a bit later and get that 85

 

but i can understand why you want 85 so bad (i do too)

I had the (almost) same question years ago

 

smith 70 or 2m :D

 

now I have smith 78 and over 20m

 

conclusion: in the end you get both 8-)

 

it's only a matter of time

 

note: I was f2p back then, now I am member

go for 85 smith :roll:

 

then you can make some money making rune bars and stuff

 

lol pati your mad

 

99 con :wall:

First of all, if you're an F2P what are you going to spend all of your money on? You should probobly go for the smithing, but have you thought about spending a few mill on whatever it is that you want, and buying ore with the rest?

I would go with 85 smithing

85 smithing its one of the better achivements out thier

if you wanted to take a bit more tine doing it, smith in east varrock, rather than west, and sell the iron plates as you go. You can average selling each plate for 200gp+ before world hopping. It might double your time, but save a mil or two?

 

 

 

No idea, just random thoughts lol.

go for 85 smith :roll:

 

then you can make some money making rune bars and stuff

 

lol pati your mad

 

99 con :wall:

 

 

 

I know :P

hey im also planning to get 71-85 smithing... i got 22M to spend...

 

and i dont know if its profitable....:)

 

 

 

i would choose 85 smithing but i still got 1M+ more xp to my 99 ranged... then i smith

Depends if you're going to use that 85 smith or let it sit.

85 smithing, no thinking included.

11m.

Mmmmm tough choice. I'm not really much of a skills person, and I'd probably never even use my 85 smithing :P

 

But I guess I would pick 85 smithing just cause 11m isn't a huge amount to me now, and I'd probably never get smithing up otherwise.