rareghoul1 Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 alright, this thread is basically to ask you this, do you buy raw materials for skills or do you just get them yourself? i.e. buy 1k sharks for cooking or spend a week fishing them. naturally this seems this is a short answer thread, so put in your reason for not obtaining the materials yourself or not buying them. and list any exceptions to this. i personally prefer getting my own materials. i prefer it because i'm usually poor, and i like having my skills get higher instead of my cashpile getting lower. of course, if i ever see a sweet deal at a bank, i usually buy it, wether to use it or just merchant it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olbritishchap Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 well i dont skill much, but when i fletch, i mainly cut willow logs and fletch as i cut them, so i get double exp and save money \ oh and how the hell did you get 1000+ plus posts since april? :-k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emp75 Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 I buy mine... like 90% of the RS population... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlanders Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 I buy. Someone made a nice example on another thread: In an hour of Rc you can get enough money to buy what you would get in an hour of woodcutting, fishing and mining, by example. It really saves time to buy. 2480+ total Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xSxqPowerx Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 ALWAYS buy, lol. I have no interest really in raising gathering skills, I would rather spend double what materials are worth than collect them lol. So if I want raw materials either to use or to raise a secondary skill with, I buy them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue_Fire_Blaze Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 I get my materials because i get a lot of exp that way And the cavemen wondered how to make fire...Im in the .00001% that finds Firemaking fun. If you find it fun add this to your siggy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rareghoul1 Posted July 14, 2007 Author Share Posted July 14, 2007 well i dont skill much, but when i fletch, i mainly cut willow logs and fletch as i cut them, so i get double exp and save money \ oh and how the hell did you get 1000+ plus posts since april? :-k the forums really distract me, i can never get back on rs if i was away for 5 minutes, these forums just make me keep on posting. i guess i have a lot to say.... ironic. oh and highlanders, if you get the money to buy something you could get in an hour, saves time to get it yourself, as it might take a while to buy it. EDIT:when the hell did my cooking get to 59? damn, i gotta look into that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rareghoul1 Posted July 14, 2007 Author Share Posted July 14, 2007 well, i have to go for the night, so if the topic isn't going well, i'll request it be locked. chances are tommorrow it will be dead though, seems to happen a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlanders Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 That's to be expected, this is not an interesting discussion topic at all. 2480+ total Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
25leaf Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 Depends. I am a merchant/skiller in my ways. Never really got into the whole combat thing at all. It always comes down to which part of me wins out, the skiller trying to be as efficent as possible, or the merchant trying to make as much money as possible. For this reason I have not been able to actualy smith a bar in months. Smelting them makes me a profit, but smithing is one of the biggest money losses possible. I must say most of the time the merchant wins out, so I gather most of what I use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freesia Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 I only get for fishing & cooking, as well as 2nds for herblore, all others buy. Strangely with WotLK so near, I wished I could delay it a bit to push through that last TBC content in MH/BT :'(. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJE03 Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 I usually gather my own resources, though sometimes I do resort to buying to save a bit of time. [spoiler=Stats:]Updated December 22, 2011: Total level - 1442 - 170M+ XP , Combat level - 115Combat skills: Attack - 90, Defence - 99 (24.45m+ XP), Strength - 90, Constitution - 99 (16.42M+ XP) Ranged - 99 (13.32M+ XP), Prayer - 60, Magic - 99 (13.25M+ XP)Non-Combat skills: Cooking - 99 (13.80M+ XP), Woodcutting - 99 (31.95M+ XP), Fishing - 90, Firemaking - 99 (24.82M+), Crafting - 90, Smithing - 90, Mining - 85, Runecrafting - 60, Dungeoneering - 85 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonshadow Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 If I can, I will save myself the money, and make the stuff myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underu2000 Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 Whichever makes me the most money in the least time. Simple as that. This means that i would just buy stuff because the time saved is valuable, but i usually try to train 2 skills at once. Like mining/smithing, wcing/firemaking, fishing/cooking, etc. Whatever i do, it never turns out to be a loss to my bank deposit. I do hate parting with money. Life is a joke. Yeah, I don't get it either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giordano Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 Some skills I gather, other skills I buy. Such as food and Herblore, I gather. Prayer I buy. "The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you never hear it you'll never know what justice is." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spikerkid Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 Myself. I'm cheap like that. Quit RuneScape :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bashful Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 it depends on the skills.. if my wc is low, and i want to fletch mage longs, ill buy. if i wanna train both fishing and cooking, ill get the fish myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kill_Thomas9 Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 I look at it this way: I can make 300k an hour. I am now going to spend an hour getting materials. Are those materials worth 300k? If the answer is "no, they're worth 150k", then I could make money for an hour, and buy 2 hours of work, or I could work for an hour, and get 1 hours work. If the answer is "yes, they're worth 450k", then I could make money for an hour an a half, and buy an hour's work, or I could work for an hour, and get an hour's work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatebringer Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 yeah, i mostly buy my materials, unless i want to train two skills. fishing and cooking is a big on ethat i never buy materials. I fish every cooked fish i have. but i do buy cooked fish, since i can cook, so that doesn't count 99 Fletching 99 Attack 99 Constitution 99 Cooking 99 StrengthGamertag: H8tebringer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idarodo Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 Mostly myself. I'm cheap like that. 6,521th to 99 woodcutting | Fletching 98/99 | Idarodo | Combat 90 | Total 1565+ | 38m+ total exp Retired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doomy Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 If I have a goal i'll buy, if not, skill for it. Doomy edit: I like sheep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natasa777 Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 i always get my own materials, i want xp in other skills too and i'm cheap refresh to see another sigF2p forever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tintin113 Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 It depends, there was a time, when I wanted to get skills up, and make what I called: pure money. This is where it is all profit. Yet this ended up taking a long time, and so I bought things that i knew I could make into something worth more, and so sped up my money-making times :D Because as they say, time is money! :thumbsup: Thanks to Quarra for the awesome sig!Xbox360 Gamertag = Tintin113 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost-Knigth Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 Fletching: Buying both bowstrings and yews. At this points I make my own nats. Cooking: A mix - I might spend some time fishing the sharkies but if I wanted 99 I'd defenitely buy it. Herblore:: I'd collect all ingredients for that. But again, if I would go for 99 I'd buy it (if I had the cash of course :P) Prayer: I would without a doubt buy the bones. Construction: Same counts for construction. I would make the items needed for the lower levels myself - but if I could afford 99 and wanted it I would buy it. Crafting: I would buy crafting 80% of the time. Just too slow to get the stuff yourself. Farming: Buy at low levels - if going for 99 I would have to buy the seeds. Firemaking: I would buy this skill at all time. Smithing: I'd also buy this skill. At least from now on (71 atm and 74 mining). Mining just seems pointless to me so smithing would have to be bought. 99 ranged | 99 magic | 99 defence | 99 hitpointsRemember, it's just a gameFeel free to add me on RS. :) Always ready for a chat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achilleus Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 Buy them 100% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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