What should I do to make money?

[shaf_9110]

 

 

 

And I'm no good at pking..

[fatdog16]

if you dont want to kill monsters, mine coal or merchant, but with stats like those, kill monsters with good drops(KBD, KQ, DK, ect)

[shaf_9110]

I tried that once, killed 214 steel dragons and not one dragon drop, used up about 2m worth of runes so I gave up on that...

[RayOxide]

if you dont want to kill monsters, mine coal or merchant, but with stats like those, kill monsters with good drops(KBD, KQ, DK, ect)

 

 

 

Mining is always a good way,

 

 

 

If your crafting is high, with your mage, you can make ammys, Enchant and sell

 

 

 

Fishing? Lobs, Swordies?

 

 

 

Cooking? Same as above

 

 

 

Always a decent way to do them, but if you can, you should fish. Fishing is the best way, fastest (Atleast, I think it is)

 

 

 

Also, for you:

 

 

 

Mine Gold, Smith into Gold Bars, Buy Rubies, Make into a Ruby Ammy, Enchant, sell. Thats a good idea, but isn't the fastest

[Bloodyhand]

All to often I am asked by other players 'How should i make money?'. Often I reply with 'It depends'. And it really does.

 

 

 

Money making and getting rich are 2 different things in my view. Making money can be done by killing a goblin a picking up the 4gp it drops. Sure if you did this a million times you would hav made 4 million gp. But there are easier and less tedious ways. I will outline a few common money making ways, and you can take your pick.

 

 

 

Mining- A good solid skill is mining, since the dawn of time people have made money by selling their ores to smithers. I reckon iron or coal is a good way to start and a lvl of 40 for iron and 60 for coal is recommended. The mining guild is an obvious choice for coal with the added bonus of a few mith ores. The rimmington mines are the most common source of iron, although running is necessary due to no near by bank. Iron can be sold for 100gp each and coal ore for 175 to 200 gp each. Mining is perfect for non members because both iron and coal are freely availible in the free world. I calcuate 50k an hour as an average for iron mining and 100k an hour for coal mining.

 

 

 

Flax picking and bowstring spinning- Members only!!! Flax is easy to pick and can be found about 50 squares south of seers bank. It is easy to pick and then bank. From experience i can collect 1k an hour. Flax sells for 100 gp ea. However just running and picking gives you no exp. If you wish to gain crafting exp you can spin the flax into bowstrings.Bowstrings sell for 180 gp ea. Making bowstrings is more profitable but remember it takes longer. If you have completed roving elves quest you can pick flax in lletya, which is faster and closer to a bank and spinning wheel. This means you can get up to 2k flax an hour.

 

 

 

Runecrafting- Often many people leave their runecrafting at a pitiful level of under 20 etc. Runecrafting is not as boring as it seems and once you have lvl 44 it becomes very profitable. It is possible to make 1k natures an hour or 1.2k laws an hour depending on your method of crafting. This means the profits are about 250k an hour (350k minus 100gp ea for rune ess) Do not scorn runecrafting!!!

 

 

 

Herblore- You don't need a good herblore level, you don't even need to be a member to be able to make money off herblore. Many high level herblorists need valuable ingredients and will pay dear for them! Here is an idea- limpwurt roots- unicorn horns- blue dragon scales- chocolate dust. These are all items which can be sold at quite high profits. A little calculation is need here as prices seem to rise and fall often, but all the items listed above can be sold for about 500gp ea. Easy money huh?

 

 

 

A lot of my 'esteemed' friends (for instance Ianmk0) would reccomend collecting unids (unidentfied herbs) as the best way to make money.The best way to get these is to kill chaos druids in lvl 3 wildy in edgeville dungeon. Unids go into different 'stacks' depending on what type of herb they will be when identified. With a good enough herblore lvl a person can find out which is the ranarr stack and id all of those, maximising his profits. Chaos druids drop 11 stacks, with all 11 stacks, they can be sold for 1-1.2k ea unid. Some people can make up to and around 400k an hour with this method.

 

Thank you to Ianmk0 for 'enlightening' us as to this method.

 

 

 

Fishing- this has to be the easiest but most boring skill in the game. If you like talking and have a low boredom threshold then fishing is for you. About 100k an hour can be made fishing lobsters at about lvl70. However the profits are not incredible until lvl 99 where 300 to 400k can be made an hour.

 

 

 

Killing- Runescape is based aroung the simple concept of ending NPC life. There are many monsters who drop rare and expensive items, if you kill enough of them! How you could be in for a long wait if you want to get a rare drop. Killing other monsters such as dragons will get you dragon hides and bones which can be sold at high profit.

 

 

 

As you can see the later ideas are quite specialised and really not a great idea. Here are a few more ideas to make you laugh.

 

 

 

-Kill the kalphite queen for dragon chain drops

 

-Get lvl 85 mining and mine rune ore

 

-Get lvl 83 crafting and make full black dragon hide sets and sell them

 

 

 

[crow]

slayer monsters have also quite good drops

 

and I agree with the above poster about rc: I make 1k laws an hour with balloons (so not needing to go threw abbyss, unless for repairing pouches)

[specialcharacter]

Bloodyhand if you picked up the 4gp dropped by goblins 4 million times you woul;d have 16 mil not 4 mil.

 

 

 

On Topic- Mine clay using sapphire bracelts then sell for 350 on RSOF or mage stake people using ancients and dds spec. Or just get your total up to about 1500 as it is incredibly poor for your level.

[Captainkidd]

ROFL?

 

 

 

You guys are giving him nooby ways of making money, DO BARROWS. You got 55 slayer for magic dart and decent prayer. Barrows is the best way of making money.

 

 

 

Best thing of all you only need around 5M or so to do it effiantly(sp?) 100 times...Do barrows!

[shaf_9110]

ROFL?

 

 

 

You guys are giving him nooby ways of making money, DO BARROWS. You got 55 slayer for magic dart and decent prayer. Barrows is the best way of making money.

 

 

 

Best thing of all you only need around 5M or so to do it effiantly(sp?) 100 times...Do barrows!

 

 

 

Sounds good, I could read some guides on it and see how my luck goes, also KQ sounds pretty fun