Smithing or Constuction.

Smithing costs some 120mil... No skills seem to cost really much these days though, prayer used to cost upwards to ~500mil back in the days of no guilded altar, etc.

 

 

 

In smithing you can get money back, tho. For example I'd need ~174k gold ores to 99 smith and I'm 85 atm. That would cost me 87 million. If I sold them away 150gp each, I'd lose around 61m. If we start counting from 0xp, you can add like 20m to that. In construction you don't get money back.

 

 

 

Construction would cost a bit over 50m if you cut all 210k+ oaks by yourself, ran almost 8 million times to the sawmill and then ran between your house and bank for months. At any reasonable way to train it you gotta spend at least 100m, probably more.

 

 

 

The most expensive skill depends on the way how you train it. F2p 99 prayer is probably the most expensive one, even comparable to that Duke's cost of 99 pray in old days. Construction is a skill which can't really be trained in a away which is same time somewhat sane and cheap. You could make profit on your way to 99 smithing or you could spend hundreds of millions on making it as fast as possible.

 

 

 

Skilling is about choices :wink:

In smithing you can get money back, tho. For example I'd need ~174k gold ores to 99 smith and I'm 85 atm. That would cost me 87 million. If I sold them away 150gp each, I'd lose around 61m. If we start counting from 0xp, you can add like 20m to that. In construction you don't get money back.

 

 

 

Yes, it is about the money you loose. I actually used steel bars for calculation though. Need roughly 350K of them * 600 each = 210mil. You make 70K steel plates (market value ~1000), so you get 70mil back: 210-70 = 140mil pure costs. Leveling smithing (with steel bars) has always cost somewhere around that.

 

 

 

Skilling is about choices :wink:

 

 

 

Or about efficiency, with time = money. ;) For some people training skills the fastest way is the best, for others training it the slower but cheaper way is more efficient instead.

Id say contruction

Construction. No contest.

 

 

 

NEXT!

Yeah, i would go with construction as well.

Construction definately, it's the only skill that is impossible NOT to buy, unless you have a friend that gives you supplies for free. I envy any lucky person who does.

Obviously construction

 

 

 

Smithing costs some 120mil... No skills seem to cost really much these days though, prayer used to cost upwards to ~500mil back in the days of no guilded altar, etc.

 

 

 

But there is a return on your investment so it's technically not 120 mill (although the means to obtain 120 mill are still required)

 

 

 

Construction costs 120 mill the most efficient way, and there is no return.

 

 

 

edit: Useing the most efficient method for skills. That would be gold bars with goldsmith gauntlets, cheaper and better exp than steel bars.

 

 

 

I was wondering; 120 mill seemed a little high.

cons... inclused filling your house... :lol:

edit: Use the most efficient method for skills. That would be gold bars with goldsmith gauntlets, cheaper and better exp than steel bars.

 

 

 

Didn't know things changed regarding that - gold ore wasn't easy to get in bulk a year or perhaps two back, but I see that it is now. Seems gold ore is the way to go now indeed, making smithing quite a bit cheaper then what it used to cost.

edit: Use the most efficient method for skills. That would be gold bars with goldsmith gauntlets, cheaper and better exp than steel bars.

 

 

 

Didn't know things changed regarding that - gold ore wasn't easy to get in bulk a year or perhaps two back, but I see that it is now. Seems gold ore is the way to go now indeed, making smithing quite a bit cheaper then what it used to cost.

 

 

 

Yeah that's right, I remember, steel bars was the way to go. Would be interesting to find out when the switch happened and why, dou you have records of gold ores prices by any chance?

Yeah that's right, I remember, steel bars was the way to go. Would be interesting to find out when the switch happened and why, dou you have records of gold ores prices by any chance?

 

 

 

Nope don't got that. Gold ore has always had similiar prices, although I believe at peak it did cost somewhere around ~600 each, but it just wasn't possible to get it in bulk for a long time anyway - no matter the price.

 

 

 

Didn't the Blast Furnace update (23 augustus 2005) also come with that gold mine section somewhere around there? Now that I think of it, I actually should have known as I've been there once and was surprised by the (for low lvl mining) relatively good profit / hour mining gold there then. I believe that started making bulk gold ore more common?

construction definitly

 

 

 

 

 

i'm keeping it short.

 

 

 

just that, with herblore, i make profit, 'cause i sell my potions :

 

 

 

and prayer, that comes 2nd i think. with guilded altar its alot eiser but still cost millions.

 

 

 

ah well, my 99 goal is firemaking, and i'm at barbarian outpost cutting logs, come and join me w99 so i don't get lonely!

edit: Use the most efficient method for skills. That would be gold bars with goldsmith gauntlets, cheaper and better exp than steel bars.

 

 

 

Didn't know things changed regarding that - gold ore wasn't easy to get in bulk a year or perhaps two back, but I see that it is now. Seems gold ore is the way to go now indeed, making smithing quite a bit cheaper then what it used to cost.

 

 

 

Yeah that's right, I remember, steel bars was the way to go. Would be interesting to find out when the switch happened and why, dou you have records of gold ores prices by any chance?

 

 

 

haha i know why it happened, but i'm not telling :-# let's just say it has something to do with fairy rings.... :-w

 

 

 

and i'm surprised nobody mentioned range training with chinchompas.... :-k

Construction can be cheap if you make 800k clay fire places :ohnoes:

psh i believe woodcutting is the most expensive. ok jk I'd go with construction, but you can make skill much more expensive than they should be by the way you do them. example prayer with regular bones at 50 ea with out alter can cost 144 mil

well farming cost me about 230m alltogether, though i got about 100 mil back due to the prices of poison and ammys.

 

 

 

construction is from 80 to 99 90m, not that expencive to be hounest, if you only ment outright buying then it would shurely be crafting. 1750 per tanned green hide and 65 xp per, 80-99 would take 300 mil 8-)

when you get to 44 runecrafting theoretically you dont need to buy any more essence.craft ,sell it,buy twice as much then just wait for the essence to build up.although ive invested quite a lot of money in essence once i can be bothered to craft all the fires needed for 44 runecrafting.

 

 

 

id say smithing or construction as the most expensive with construction being only 10-20mil more.but i dont know how much 99 smithing costs,but id say construction is more expensive if my estimates are correct

mage can be the dearest depending on which way you do it pray pots + ice bursts then switch to barrages when you have the level at bandits can easily cost 150m just doing bursts

the universally accepted most expensive skill is construction, to my knowledge. it takes around 130m CUTTING YOUR OWN OAK. keep in my that this is OAK, and pretty much the cheapest method for construction.

magic via ice bursting

the universally accepted most expensive skill is construction, to my knowledge. it takes around 130m CUTTING YOUR OWN OAK. keep in my that this is OAK, and pretty much the cheapest method for construction.

 

if you buy oak planks, it only takes 97m from 33 to 99 construction+ about 10m to pay the servant, farming certainly takes more, smithing with steel bars takes 140m, so construction is not the most expencive skill, like alot of people believe.

ya can train construction for free. just pick planks on spawn points :wall: i agree on construction :lol:

the universally accepted most expensive skill is construction, to my knowledge. it takes around 130m CUTTING YOUR OWN OAK. keep in my that this is OAK, and pretty much the cheapest method for construction.

 

if you buy oak planks, it only takes 97m from 33 to 99 construction+ about 10m to pay the servant, farming certainly takes more, smithing with steel bars takes 140m, so construction is not the most expencive skill, like alot of people believe.

 

 

 

Acctually it is if you compare most efficient method to most efficient method

 

 

 

steel bars is NOT the most efficient method for smithing. The most efficient is gold ores. Now not only is that clearly less but you are also forgetting that smithing, unlike construction, has a return on the investment. So even if you need the 100 mill (I htink that's what you'd need) to acctually buy all the gold ores, you will get 40 mill back. So technically you need the means to buy 100 mill and you need to spend only 60 mill.

 

 

 

as for farming? Why would farming be more expensive? It doesn't strike me as too costy, unless obviously you use an innefficient method. What is the most efficient method and what does it cost?

 

 

 

Also, for the ridiculous examples, construction using magic stones, is the most expensive and beats all the other silly methods.

 

 

 

haha i know why it happened, but i'm not telling :-# let's just say it has something to do with fairy rings.... :-w

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You would be referring to the bjr/whistle ring route for gold mining written about in this guide, but the switch happened way before fairy rings came into the game. People have been getting 99 smith with gold ores for a long time. Duke was probably closer to the time with his mention of rock & hard place. And btw, if you truly want to keep something to yourself, the best way to do that would be to keep it to yourself.

 

 

 

Regarding construction being the most expensive, yes it is, but it seems people are making a pretty good chunk back by selling costume sets once they get high enough.