Wo0tilici0us's Guide to Train Efficiently

 

Every person in RuneScape encounter some kind of annoyance when skilling or training. This guide will help solve that problem.

 

 

 

Note*: This is my first guide. It's encouraged to give all advice necessary and within the limits of this guide.

 

 

 

Table of Contents

 

 

 

1.0- Introduction

 

2.0- How do you train/skill efficiently?

 

2.1- Managing your time

 

2.2- Getting the required items to fulfill your goal

 

2.3- Dealing with autoers

 

2.4- Dealing with "roadblocks"

 

 

 

1.0-Introduction

 

This guide is to help you suceed in RuneScape by showing you how to train and skill efficiently. Ever since RSC, there has always been many "roadblocks". These "roadblocks" are but not limited to random events, autoers, and time in general. This guide will help you enjoy RuneScape by showing you how to avoid these "roadblocks". But before you read this guide, ask yourself "am I ready to train and skill efficiently?". If you answered no, stop reading this guide. So... without further ado, here's the rest of Wo0tilici0us's Guide to Train and Skill Efficiently.

 

 

 

2.0- How do you train/skill efficiently?

 

Definition of training/skilling efficiently: Being able to get the most experience from the skill at the least amount of time.

 

Simple as that, but actually doing it can be a hassle.

 

 

 

First, lets look at the different types of skilling/training.

 

 

 

Power-training (skill)- Being able to train a skill without banking. This results in faster experience (up to 2x the experience) while in return, you do not (usually) receive any profit or the experience in any other skill that may use the items received from leveling the former skill to level the other. This works for all singular skills (these skills are skills that do not require any other skill to level).

 

 

 

An example is: Power-mining: mining ores (preferably iron ore) and dropping them. This is faster than banking them (especially if the bank is farther away), but there is no profit/experience in other skills (such as smithing (iron bars->iron arrow tips)->fletching (making arrow shafts->iron arrows)->profit (selling iron arrows)). In return you gain more experience then if you were banking.

 

 

 

An odd example of power-training (this includes profit)- World 16 air crafting company. With a high enough runecrafting levels, you can participate in this company, crafting rune essence from the runners in order to make enough airs to equal or exceed the cost of 25 essence and 2k coins (the usual amount). This method, when having a high enough level, can create millions, with the concept of not banking.

 

 

 

Normal training (skills)- Being able to train your skill while banking what you receive from skilling which leads to slow experience. In return for the slower experience, greater profit is earned than if you power-trained (most of the time). This works for every skill, but it is tedious at some points, especially if the bank is far away.

 

 

 

An example of normal training- Cutting yews and banking them. This is slower than power-training, but in return you receive huge amounts of money and/or experience in other skills such as fletching and magic (fletching yew longs and high-alching them) and firemaking (burning the logs).

 

 

 

I do not advise you to train skills with mini-games.

 

 

 

Also, there are two types of combat training.

 

 

 

Power-training (combat)- Being able to train your combat skill without banking, which leads to more huge amounts of experience. In return from the huge amounts of experience, less profit to no profit is earned.

 

 

 

An example of power-training (combat)- Killing Ankous' in the Security of Stronghold without banking. This is less profitable than normally training, but more experience is earned.

 

 

 

An odd example of power-training (combat- no drops)- Killing Deadly Red Spiders in the Varrock sewers, karamja, or anywhere else. These have no drops, so there is no point to bank (suggesting if your hp and defense are high enough to withstand them without food).

 

 

 

If you incorporate the idea of high-alching or low-alching into combat training, then you still make a decent profit and gain experience in magic. Also, stackables, such as runes, are great drops from training because there is no need to bank until you are completely done with your training.

 

 

 

Normal training (combat)- Being able to train your combat skill while banking what you receive from drops. In return for the slower experience, greater profit is earned than if you power-trained (most of the time). This works for for any situation, but it is tedious at some points, especially if the bank is far away.

 

 

 

An example of normal training (combat)- Killing moss giants in the Varrock sewers, Crandor, or anywhere else while banking your drops. In return for slower experience, greater profit is earned.

 

 

 

High-alching/low alching drops from moss giants can reduce the number of times to bank, but the profit decreases.

 

 

 

Mini-game training (combat)- Being able to train your combat skill using mini-games. The main mini-game is pest control which gives you experience while attack portals/monsters and experience from pest points.

 

 

 

I recommend using power-training methods. This increases efficiency. If you do bank, it's not much of a hassle, except the efficiency is lowered, which takes more time to level your skills.

 

 

 

2.1- Managing your time

 

While doing the various skilling and combat training techniques, time can be one of those "roadblocks", and is one of the largest ones. From level 1 to level 99 can take years and years of experience and leveling, but if you learn to avoid this factor it can be no longer!

 

 

 

How do you manage your time? First off, unless you have homework, or you're briefly checking tip.it or RuneScape's knowledge base, you should devote all your time to skilling/combat training when you're on the computer. Another way to mange your time is by spending less time just spending with your friend(s) talking in places such as the Varrock wall. If you really want to, bring some low/high alchs and practice alchemy while talking. This way, at least you get some experience while talking.

 

 

 

 

High-alch/low alch while talking to a friend.

 

 

 

Also, don't take the long route in everything. This limits the experience gained, even if the profit is pretty good. Mining iron vs adamant- iron is much faster with decent experience. They sell for 100ea. Adamant is much slower, and the respawn rate is slow too. They sell for 1.1k each. By the time you could mine 30 iron ore (if your mining is high enough with a good amount of rocks and a bank that's very close in the area), the adamant ore will spawn. 30 iron=3k, while only 2 adamant=2.2k.

 

 

 

Also, if the drops are only a little better than the experience, and you're really rich, you should just power-train combat (unless you get something such as dragon legs...).

 

 

 

An example: meleeing at lessers vs. guards in edgeville

 

 

 

The lessers best drop is a rune med (this is a very rare drop). This is worth 11k when high-alched. The guards have no good drops.

 

Lessers are usually crowded, the guards are not.

 

Lessers have okay defense, the guards have horrible defense.

 

It is easier to max out a hit on a guard than a lesser.

 

Chances are, you'd die more often at lessers than guards.

 

Getting to Karamja/the wildy is really hard, while getting to edgeville is easy.

 

 

 

Lessers: score of 2 Guards: score of 5. Good experience overrides good drops.

 

 

 

2.2-Getting the required items to fulfill your goal

 

This is the hardest part in skilling, especially in skills that always require items such as smithing, crafting, fletching and more.

 

 

 

There are two ways to obtain items.

 

 

 

Buying items- The process of buying items with money or other items. You lose more money than if you obtained the items yourself (and the loss of experience in that skill), but this way is much faster which leads to faster experience.

 

 

 

An example of buying items- Buying logs for firemaking. You spend a lot of money especially if you're going for 99. You lose experience in woodcutting, but gain the experience in firemaking quicker.

 

 

 

Getting the items- The process of getting the items with skills. You gain more money than if you bought this items. This leads to the experience to more than one skill. This also is slower and cannot be done with every skill.

 

 

 

An example of getting the items- using a combat skill or multiple combat skills to obtain unicorn horns for herblore. This takes a longer amount of time, but it leads to experience in one or more skill, in this case, the combat skill and herblore. The experience in herblore is achieved slower.

 

 

 

2.3-Dealing with autoers

 

You can probably spot at least one autoer woodcutting on a yew. So woodcutting yews for experience is quite hard. If you do, you would be taking the long way in skilling (2.1). That is bad. I haven't spotted many mining or fishing autoers, but I'm pretty sure there would be some in karamja or the mining guild, but that's just me. I saw an autoer get 40 crafting to get into the crafting guild to mine the gold. I guess it depends.

 

 

 

Avoiding autoers is simple. If you notice more autoers in your world than in another world you commonly visit, go to that world, or hop to another world. You could also go to a German world, but that is really intended for people who know German better than English. But before you do hop, report the autoer (if you're sure of it). We want all autoers to be gone!

 

 

 

 

This is where you report autoers

 

 

 

Ways to tell a normal player from an autoer:

 

Autoer- responds way slower to tree spawns and random events

 

Player- even with a laggy computer, he/she still responds faster

 

Autoer- carries a name like this "szhfvdjn31qd", which makes it hard to report him/her while being level 3.

 

Player- You can distinctively understand his/her name. And they are usually higher than level 3.

 

Autoer- wears the clothes that you start off with on tutorial island

 

Player- usually does not

 

But take a note that not all level 3's with a name like "dsupfjdwa2" are autoers. They could be a level 3 skiller. It sometimes takes time to tell the difference. You'll get the hang of it.

 

 

 

 

most likely to be an autoer

 

 

 

If none of the two options work you can attempt to kill the autoer.

 

 

 

http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=620763

 

 

 

2.4- Dealing with "roadblocks"

 

Some other "roadblocks" include random events. Use this guide from tip.it for understanding the events and how to deal with them.

 

 

 

http://tip.it/runescape/?page=random_events.htm

 

 

 

Noobs are another "roadblock". These are sometimes harder to deal with.

 

 

 

First- ignore them

 

Second- if they continue to distract you, put them on your ignore list

 

Third- If they are still following you, hop worlds.

 

 

 

How to distinguish a noob from a regular player-

 

Noob- begs a lot

 

Player- does not

 

Noob- uses a language we do not use (using forms of leet, or not using proper spelling such as wut, noe, 4, etc (this is based on the language, English))

 

Player- does not

 

Noob- reports people for killing a bug

 

Player- does not

 

Noob- annoys people

 

Player- does not

 

 

 

 

This is a noob. Notice the way he talks, and how he begs.

 

 

 

Other players combating/skilling where you combat/skill is yet another "roadblock".

 

 

 

1- Ask him/her politely to move

 

2- Politely ask to share the spawn.

 

3- If that is unsuccessful and he/she is being a total noob, beat them to the spawn

 

4.-Hop worlds

 

 

 

Hopefully that might help avoid "roadblocks".

 

 

 

3.0-Credits

 

Me- for the guide

 

Runescape102- For the guide on how to kill autoers

 

Tip.it- Being such a great community and for the guide on random events.

 

 

 

Hopefully this guide has helped you train/skill more effectively.

Added more information in the dealing with autoer section. Enjoy.

how does speaking a different language make some1 a noob... I personally speak 4 languages, and I doubt I'm a noob...

how does speaking a different language make some1 a noob... I personally speak 4 languages, and I doubt I'm a noob...

 

He means bad language, swearing for example.

 

 

 

Anyways good guide, helpful advice in there. Maybe add one or two pictures, but it's a good guide.

Yeah there was no need to flame him, he obviously put a lot of time into it.

 

 

 

Nice guide!

 

 

 

I thought it was good and in-depth, although it seemed to stop rather abruptly - just as i was getting into it lol.

 

 

 

Overall nice guide though, thanks.

I think I'll change the language thing. Maybe I'll add a pic or two later.

 

E D I T- pictures added!

Lol like the pics =D> but not a big fan. Spent more time talking about bots than talking about training spots or things to train on. but good guide!

It was just a general guide about how to train effectively... I didn't go in depth with skills because it would have been too difficult.

Ok fair enough but I would have gave some suggestions for some of the most popular skills like combat (you did give some though) or woodcutting or fishing. Just saying but.

I'll see if I have time. Currently going for 40 runecrafting.

Good guide. Free bump :P

Hey!Nice guide! Gratz with ur 1st guide, hope u feel great, not like i felt when i did my first topic...

 

Thanks for the post in my blog, support relly help's me \

 

U will surely notice my bad-spelling, just ignore it, im not from the USA (so dont think im a little kid)

 

Bye, bump!!VEry nice guide!!

Thanks!

Im sorry but for the noob section if you for example say u instead of you it can be that the other speaks a other language( im Dutch) that does not make someone a noob, i for one thougt u was just being polite (in dutch u is for talking to a person elder then you are and jij (seems like you) is for people of the same age. So that does not make someone a noob.

Eek sorry. Picky picky picky, but out of respect for your own language, I'll change it.

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I'd give it a 6/10, needs more in-depth info.

Such as...?

Great Guide :

 

,and alot of the noob vs player is mainly true.

Thanks!

I have something to add...its two skills in one (or even three sometimes)

 

 

 

Instead of talking to a friend while alchin try farming

 

 

 

Or while farming fish at catherby and cook or wc and fletch(doing arrow shafts is best...they r stackable) or train fm

 

 

 

but these only work for members

 

 

 

btw another way to tell autoers...bald women cuz most ppl dont look like that in rs or rl

Lol I think its okay, I mean some people do, and I do not want anyone to get confused.

 

 

 

And I think I put something about if you absolutely have to talk to your friend you should. Not farm. I'm f2p so I'm not too bright with members.

Bump...

You have one thing wrong.

 

 

 

If someone comes along ask to share first. If you start by stealing their spawns and ask to share cause you are losing well they won't share.

cool luved the guide :)

You have one thing wrong.

 

 

 

If someone comes along ask to share first. If you start by stealing their spawns and ask to share cause you are losing well they won't share.

 

 

 

Heh better go edit that.