The Ultimate Guide to Herblore

[beenbeen]

I may regret sharing this nifty little bit of information to everyone who can read :wall: but there is a second location that is better than taverly and edgeville dungeons for chaos druids... if you all know where the blood rune chest are its in the same tower. If you do not know then it is north west of ardounge. There is mostly never anyone there and at most theres 2 which in fact is good since there's usually about 6 at taverly. We'll I just shared a great spot and i hope some of you herblorists use it to your advantage :D

[lavaownz]

^^^ I forgot to add more spots to chaos druids, but with the revamp I will add some. This spot you are talking about is good, but only if your the only one there, with other people its very crowded and impossible to get a steady strem of chaos druids

[Anguswaffle]

Another good way to get bird nests is to use Miscellania.

 

 

 

Put 10 workers on Maples and 5 on Teaks

 

 

 

Keep your popularity at 100%, and check back at the end of the week.

 

 

 

You get something like 80 nests a week.

[Manwe]

Ground Blue Dragon Scale

 

 

 

This is pretty simple: go to Taverly Dungeon Blue dragon room and there are some respawns. The best thing to do id have 70 agility (67 with potion) and go through the tunnel, pick up some scales and teleport to Falador.

 

 

 

 

 

Actually, you can just get a summer pie to get there with 65 agility. If you want to be cheap like me just get materials for about 30 pies and ask for 20 from anyone you know with 99 cook.

[yugun]

you mention men and women are bad, however, they only have 8 hp which means you can kill more in a smaller amount of time than chaos druids... you can kill the men 2.5 times faster than chaos druids so I believe you should multiply the herp drop rate by 2.5 :twisted:

[lavaownz]

I know where your coming from with this, and I was thinking about that too. Abberrant spectors have like 105 hp, which is 5x what chaos druids have, which means that chaos are better in some areas, but you do get combat xp from them, minimal I have to say, but xp all the same.

 

 

 

Another point: Between men and chaos druids, most people can 1-hit men, and some can 1-hit chaos druids, so its the same.

 

 

 

Basically I am looking at the heb drops, if you prefer weaker monsters with slower drops, fine by me, but my whole point is that I am only saying if there were like 10 monsters, all killed in one hit, which would give you the most herbs in the least amount of time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another good way to get bird nests is to use Miscellania.

 

 

 

Put 10 workers on Maples and 5 on Teaks

 

 

 

Keep your popularity at 100%, and check back at the end of the week.

 

 

 

You get something like 80 nests a week.

 

 

 

 

 

good idea, but you will not make as much money, and you may not even break even, I am just offering over all best way.

[Suzanne_Vega]

Once you get the hang of the Sorceress' Garden, it's easy. I got from 60-67 Thieving in a few days of not very intense playing (2-3h a day while chatting), which would have led to tons of herbs if I'd been interested in anything but leveling Thieving.

 

 

 

A Newtroost is a combination Newt + Rooster (I thought that was obvious).

 

 

 

It's Pestle & Mortar, not Motor, I suggest taking that motor to Mort'ton and attach it to the Swamp Boaty :)

 

 

 

Do your editing in Notepad or Notepad++, it's much more effective and you don't have to worry about Word's poor handling of anything that isn't meant to stay in Word.

 

 

 

HTH

[Anguswaffle]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another good way to get bird nests is to use Miscellania.

 

 

 

Put 10 workers on Maples and 5 on Teaks

 

 

 

Keep your popularity at 100%, and check back at the end of the week.

 

 

 

You get something like 80 nests a week.

 

 

 

 

 

good idea, but you will not make as much money, and you may not even break even, I am just offering over all best way.

 

 

 

Well, the Miscellania way could be good for people who don't get on often enough to go kill moles or anything else >.<

 

 

 

Any you could break even very easily + make a profit if you sold the Seeds from the nests and the maple logs

[bdavis12]

I know a good way to get nightshade. :mrgreen:

 

You need to be fairly far in watchtower, and inside the caves you discover during it, there is a nightshade spawn.

[cardsfanbj]

 

 

 

here is a pic of my inventory for slaying aberrant specters. i have a Kharryl (sp?) tele portal in my house for banking in canfis.

 

 

 

i have also arranged my food from lowest healing to highest. this was all misc. food i had needed to clear from my bank. the reason i arranged it this way is so you use the lowest food first, which is used up quicker to make more spaces faster for more herbs, but also keep higher food to last longer. this method does not require prayer pots, but you can use prayer my way for a short time because i can recharge when i use my house tele.

 

 

 

i use my fury instead of a salve ammy (e) because of the higher mage def.

 

 

 

but for those who cannot use black d'hide, go with the proselyte and prayer pots as suggested earlier.

 

 

 

edit: I took this pic before i went and killed the A.S., and afterwards, found that i only used 1 of the combat potions i brought. i am going for a second round, and am bringing only 1 and a different assortment of food

 

 

 

first trip's loot:

 

no guam/marrentil (i tossed)

 

4 tarromin

 

2 harralander

 

3 ranarr

 

1 irit

 

2 kwarum

 

1 toadflax seed

 

2 kwarum seeds :thumbsup:

 

2 uncut rubies

 

1 mithril kiteshield

 

1 adamant platelegs

 

1 rune full helm

 

0 unids

 

(5 places used for my 2 remaining potions and 3 tele runes)

 

 

 

edit: If you are doing these as a task, i suggest that you use combat bracelets instead of barrows gloves, so you arent constantly wondering how many more you have left until your assignment finishes, making you crazy, wishing you could make a bank trip so you could go back and get your braces so that you could know... :wall:

[joke33]

I don't know if it's been posted yet, but great way to get the secondary ingredients is to kill Cave Crawlers. (Only thing it's not good is that they poison you- up to eights)

 

Drops:

 

* Gold: 3-29

 

* 100%: -

 

* Weapon: Rune javelin(5), Dragon spear

 

* Armour:Bronze boots

 

* Runes/Arrows: Nature(3), Fire(12), Earth(9)

 

* Misc: Herbs(1-3), Potato seed(1-4), Watermelon seed(1), Tomato seed(1,2), Onion seed(1-3), Sweetcorn seed(1,2), Cabbage seed(1-3), Strawberry seed(1), Whiteberries, Snape grass, Ground unicorn horn, Limpwurt root, Eye of newt, Red spider eggs, Vial of water, Uncut gems, Chaos talisman, Half key, Shield left half(dragon)

[cardsfanbj]

random observation:

 

from killing A.S., i have found that the best herbs seem to come not from single drops nor from triple drops, rather, from double herb drops. :!:

[joepie8899]

Excellent guide, well written and goes in on the detailed explanations.Funnily enough, this has convinced me to power herblore untill i reach lvl 56,lol.I would like to thank you for writing this guide, because it helped me ALOT. :thumbsup:

[cardsfanbj]

One thing i forgot about in my first post:

 

this may take a while, but a free source of wfv's AND herbs (water runes and asst. junk) would be water elementals, underneath Seers' Village, elemental workshop pt 1 req.

 

they drop a fair amount of herbs (not sure of stats atm), and drop 1 wfv per kill.

 

 

 

this does require time/effort, but NOT MONEY!!! (but then again, time=money...)

 

 

 

after a while, if you have the secondarys in the bank, you can sell them in Seers' bank

 

 

 

I am very bored today, if you can't tell from how many times i have posted and edited already this morning...

[joepie8899]

Cards, tyvm for that tip, I forgot that trick a long time ago o.O good you reminded me :P

[Mischlings]

In response to the max amount of herbs being 12, I got this earlier:

 

 

 

 

That's 15, with magic secateurs, so I know you can get more than 12.

 

 

 

Besides that, this is a great guide. It's helped me get to my current herblore level, and probably will help me beyond here.

[tripsis]

^^ Dork and I have also gotten as few as three herbs (as opposed to four) with super compost, gardening boots and magic secateurs :wall:

 

 

 

Overall, pretty good, informative guide on the basics of herblore :)

[lavaownz]

Gald you liked it :D

 

 

 

Ok, well I guess I will never win the fight on herb farming, so I will cave in, but I will make it clear that it is exceptionally rare

[LordoftheSquishies]

Nice guide. Then again it's 2:46 so what do I know? Only thing I'd like to point out is about the aberrant specters... You really don't have to use the prayer pots if you don't feel like it. I can manage pretty easily with lobsters and full black d hide.

[rossmallo]

I think Ninja Implings (someone verify, but im sure im right) can drop sinister keys. So therefore, if youre catching Nature Imps, look out for Ninjas too, because free Torstol is always worth it :D

[physwap]

Instead of using the fally teletabs....u could use the balloon from cwars to taverly...buy vials and tele to cwars for banking. Not sure if this has been recommened before.

 

 

 

Physwap1(rs name)

 

(Trying his hand and powermining...not sure if he will stick with it)

[jayc3399]

For Collecting Chocolate dust, there are 2 venders in Ardy that sell them usually stock about 8-10, not the best and bad if you steal from there stalls as they wont sell to you.

 

 

 

Also, I don't remember but there is a higher leveled monster that drops noted Wine of Zammorak which is also a decent way to collect them efficently.

[Wachtwoord]

Good guide, but I think a good addition would be to count how much of seconds/vials/herbs/what ever you can get per hour using way X.

 

 

 

I've already made a start, with sup energies you can get around 1.3K snape grass an hour, leaving with a profit of over 400K an hour, this is if you sell them on their lowest for 400 ea, for 500 ea you profit is easily 500K+ an hour! :thumbsup:

 

 

 

For Collecting Chocolate dust, there are 2 venders in Ardy that sell them usually stock about 8-10, not the best and bad if you steal from there stalls as they wont sell to you.

 

 

 

Also, I don't remember but there is a higher leveled monster that drops noted Wine of Zammorak which is also a decent way to collect them efficently.

 

You mean the kaphlite queen?! Well, try getting 1K wines that way. It's no where near easy to get in loads.

[Framinglory]

i didn't see this already mentioned, but rather then killing demons or burning logs for ashes, those who have at least started fairy tale pt2 can go into the alternate abyss (code ALR) and kill abyssal leeches (10 hp) for ashes, i find it to be a nice alternate to firemaking, while still being fairly fast.

[mega_vegeta6]

best way to get your hands on bird nests is actually "managing your kingdom", when you collect maples you get quite a load of those(and inside of them, guess what, more herb/tree seeds!).

 

 

 

best use of tarromin so far, if you are too lazy to get limp roots, is serum 207, just add ashes.