Thoughts on 99 Crafting.

[SirHartlar]

Heres my hypothetical plan:

 

 

 

-Get 20m or so

 

-Buy 68k essence, craft to natures

 

-Buy 10k Green D'Hide

 

-Make into bodies -> alch

 

-Buy more hides, repeat

 

 

 

Of course, I can always craft less natures to begin with and buy more as I go along. Does this seem like a relatively good way to get my first 99? Any ideas how long this would take me, including buying times (assuming I buy essence @ 100 each and hides @ 1.45k each).

 

 

 

Thanks.

[Primeaction]

well it sounds like a good decent pace. ur gonna be using the abyss to craft nats right? if you are it will save you alot of time

 

 

 

well thought out plan if you ask me. good luck with 99 crafting

[SirHartlar]

well it sounds like a good decent pace. ur gonna be using the abyss to craft nats right? if you are it will save you alot of time

 

 

 

well thought out plan if you ask me. good luck with 99 crafting

 

 

 

Thanks, I will of course be using the abyss. It is fastest and therefore best method for me. I tam still unsure whether to raise more money to begin with and get ALL the runecrafting over and done with, or whether to stagger it (i.e craft 3500 natures, craft 10k hides & alch).

 

 

 

The alching is the bit I am a bit worried about, hopefully by staggering it as I go along 3500 alchs or so at a time won't seem so bad. :)

[mchainmail]

I'm pretty sure it's really hard to buy green hides for less than 1550 gp ea.

[Harrington]

A rough calculation.... (you might want to refine this a little if you're serious)

 

 

 

I see your starting level is 400k exp. So you need a further 12,600,000 or so experience to go. It's 62 exp per green hide, so you'll need 203k hides.

 

 

 

This means you can make 67k bodies. Which also means you'll need 67k nats.

 

 

 

Costs:

 

HIDES = 203k x 1.45k = 294m

 

BODIES = 67k x 4860 = 313m

 

ESSENCE = 7m

 

TOTAL = 12m profit (approx)

 

 

 

Time:

 

Nats - 45 hours (assuming 1.5k per hour)

 

Hides - 203 hours (assuming 1k per hour) - I think u can do more though

 

Alchs - 67 hours (assuming 1k per hour)

 

 

 

You could reduce the time by selling the bodies & buying the nats, but that means you'd make a loss by saving 100 hours.

[Deadlyfun]

I would def. stagger the nats because if you don't you will probably get burnt out of it way to fast because that many nats to rc will take a very long time.

[SirHartlar]

A rough calculation.... (you might want to refine this a little if you're serious)

 

 

 

I see your starting level is 400k exp. So you need a further 12,600,000 or so experience to go. It's 62 exp per green hide, so you'll need 203k hides.

 

 

 

This means you can make 67k bodies. Which also means you'll need 67k nats.

 

 

 

Costs:

 

HIDES = 203k x 1.45k = 294m

 

BODIES = 67k x 4860 = 313m

 

ESSENCE = 7m

 

TOTAL = 12m profit (approx)

 

 

 

Time:

 

Nats - 45 hours (assuming 1.5k per hour)

 

Hides - 203 hours (assuming 1k per hour) - I think u can do more though

 

Alchs - 67 hours (assuming 1k per hour)

 

 

 

You could reduce the time by selling the bodies & buying the nats, but that means you'd make a loss by saving 100 hours.

 

 

 

Thanks very much for such an informative post. Unless I can find myself a high earning way of making cash, I think my current plan may be the only option for me. If I bumped up my playing time to around 21 hours a week, I reckon I could finish all this under four months. :-k

[Harrington]

A rough calculation.... (you might want to refine this a little if you're serious)

 

 

 

I see your starting level is 400k exp. So you need a further 12,600,000 or so experience to go. It's 62 exp per green hide, so you'll need 203k hides.

 

 

 

This means you can make 67k bodies. Which also means you'll need 67k nats.

 

 

 

Costs:

 

HIDES = 203k x 1.45k = 294m

 

BODIES = 67k x 4860 = 313m

 

ESSENCE = 7m

 

TOTAL = 12m profit (approx)

 

 

 

Time:

 

Nats - 45 hours (assuming 1.5k per hour)

 

Hides - 203 hours (assuming 1k per hour) - I think u can do more though

 

Alchs - 67 hours (assuming 1k per hour)

 

 

 

You could reduce the time by selling the bodies & buying the nats, but that means you'd make a loss by saving 100 hours.

 

 

 

Thanks very much for such an informative post. Unless I can find myself a high earning way of making cash, I think my current plan may be the only option for me. If I bumped up my playing time to around 21 hours a week, I reckon I could finish all this under four months. :-k

 

 

 

that's awesome mate... best of luck. I think you've got the right idea by doing all three things, as this will make it far less boring lol.

[2thug2pk]

ya very nice plan...

 

 

 

a lot of 99 crafters did it this way and things go pretty fast

 

 

 

 

 

id suggest not soooo many nats or youll be bored to quick

[QueenValerie]

Good plan and I myself is doing this. Only problem is there is no way you can buy hides for 1.45k each. I have been buying them in bulks of 5k or more at the price of 1550/1.6 k each. If you are buying the hides at 1.45k then you my friend are a lucky man. :lol:

 

 

 

Good luck to you.

 

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[SirHartlar]

Good plan and I myself is doing this. Only problem is there is no way you can buy hides for 1.45k each. I have been buying them in bulks of 5k or more at the price of 1550/1.6 k each. If you are buying the hides at 1.45k then you my friend are a lucky man. :lol:

 

 

 

Good luck to you.

 

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:x

 

 

 

That totally throws my plan up in the air, I am relying on the ability to break even or a small profit. #-o

[Harrington]

Good plan and I myself is doing this. Only problem is there is no way you can buy hides for 1.45k each. I have been buying them in bulks of 5k or more at the price of 1550/1.6 k each. If you are buying the hides at 1.45k then you my friend are a lucky man. :lol:

 

 

 

Good luck to you.

 

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:x

 

 

 

That totally throws my plan up in the air, I am relying on the ability to break even or a small profit. #-o

 

 

 

To be honest, I've been paying 1.6k per hide recently as well (ever since the bot cull). Anyway, gotta say that it's still worth taking a loss for such an elite lvl 99 skill.

 

Not only that, you'll gain 4.3million magic and 600K runecrafting experience... quite respectable :)

 

 

 

My only other advice would be that with current hide prices, I'd consider a little more startup cash.

 

 

 

Anyway, 12m profit isn't that great for 2months hard work. Personally i'd bite the bullet and take the loss. It's a good trade for all of that experience.

[QueenValerie]

Anyway, gotta say that it's still worth taking a loss for such an elite lvl 99 skill.

 

Not only that, you'll gain 4.3million magic and 600K runecrafting experience... quite respectable :)

 

 

 

I agree no matter which way you try to level crafting expecially to level 99 it will cost you some money.

 

Unless of course you kill the drag's yourself. :-X You could always just keep Runecrafting natures to make

 

up the loss once you have reached your level 99 crafting goal. :)

 

All in all it is well worth the loss for such a awesome elite level.

[countzeroh]

If you are concerned about profit, break it up a little.

 

 

 

slower crafting XP...but no loss is Spinning flax. I calculated how many bowstrings I'd need for 99 Fletching (not a major goal.....but one day), and have spun all those bowstrings myself.

 

 

 

I'm currently in the midst of making myself about 50k vials.

 

 

 

I'm heading towards 99 crafting....but slowly

 

 

 

I do a little dragonhide crafting occasionally,

 

 

 

I recommend try all the possible crafting XP tasks, see what you enjoy doing...and then mix those up (assuming you can find more than one)

 

 

 

Whichever way you choose...best of luck!

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers

 

 

 

Count

[curmudgeony]

Another thought, break it up. Don't go for 99 in one shot, use different crafting ideas as you reach each higher level. Consider clockwork cats at 85. They are 1 plank and one steel bar and people will buy them b/c they aren't too common. Price them out at 3k and make back some of that green dragon hide money. Or just craft up to the point where you get max return on investment, and no higher. Level to 90 and stop.

[Master_Smither]

Very nice idea my bud bought nats and lost 24m

 

 

 

Have your friend help you tan hides maybe.

 

 

 

I did over 10k of his hides he gave me hides and the Gp and made i was glad to help him out :)

[SirHartlar]

Ok, so we've established that I WILL make a loss whilst crafting. What if I made all the natures in one go (would cost me ~6.8m) and then bought 10k hides. I could then alch, and make up the difference for the next 10k by Barrowsing or similar. How does that sound? It would mean raising about 2,5m in between every 10k hides.

[SirHartlar]

Ok, so we've established that I WILL make a loss whilst crafting. What if I made all the natures in one go (would cost me ~6.8m) and then bought 10k hides. I could then alch, and make up the difference for the next 10k by Barrowsing or similar. How does that sound? It would mean raising about 2,5m in between every 10k hides.