Before GE I used to buy steel bars at 550 each to level up smithing. This is a serious money drain and actually I stopped when steel bars reached 600gp because I thought that was too expensive. I tried to buy iron bars but these appeared hard to come by in the sort of quantities I needed.

 

 

 

Now with the GE I assume iron bars are easy to get for approx 200 and steel bars are back to 550. So which should I buy for smithing or should I buy addy or mith bars?

 

 

 

I have at present a smith level of 90 and have 53k steel bars but obviously I could sell these and convert to another type of bar. I also do not want to use up all my money as I need to have alot to trade efficiently in the GE.

 

 

 

Discuss or advise please!!!!!!!

I hear you on this one. I just got fed up and starting my own gold and smithing that (ok back on topic). I hear a lot of times people just buy addy bars and make bolts. Mine always well but just took about a day or so, or you could just make mith plates. I hope i could be of some help. Good Luck man!

You can break even with silver (ores and bars both at 180), but smelting silver bars is a long, long haul.

I personally make cannonballs. Not the BEST exp, but itll wield you a break even or some profit.

i mine gold, smelt it and make bracelets from it and alch those (with my own crafted natures) it takes long but its fun ^^

If you want to know what is the best bar, Iron gives the most xp/gp spent.

iron is best xp/gp and iron knives sell really, really well.

Well I've done lots of different things getting to 80, when I was back in F2P I used to mine coal buy iron and and smelt steel bars to sell, a full inventory of coal takes around 5 minutes to mine. While a member I made around 80k cannon balls, however even 10k takes a monumentous effort and is mind numbingly dull. Other methods included buying the ore for 2k adamant bars and smelting and smithing them into adamant bolts, unfortunately I finished just as the price dove from 300-210 gp per bolt. I've also used mithril ore gained from ankou training by buying coal, smelting and smithing into mith bolts to sell or use. Other ways include super-heating in the mining guild and dwarven mine, (adamant and mithril) and then selling or using the bars, obviously this includes an extra nature rune.

iron is best xp/gp and iron knives sell really, really well.

 

Sell instantly (or almost) on GE?

iron is best xp/gp and iron knives sell really, really well.

 

Sell instantly (or almost) on GE?

 

 

 

My last batch took over 2 weeks to sell. And I have several thousand there now that have been available for 4+ days...

 

 

 

Where are all these knife buyers I keep reading about?

The market is smothered with Iron Knives.

 

 

 

Don't make them if you want profit.

 

 

 

~Knotch

stick to steel bars. because i can give you some good reasons to stay on it if you do want to save money.

 

 

 

addy bars = 2.6k

 

mith bars = 1.2k

 

steel bars = 560

 

 

 

those are the price of the bars at the moment in the ge. and assuming that you can buy it at that price.

 

 

 

i am assuming you are going to make plates out of the bars so i give you the stuff i calculated that i had done.

 

 

 

I too want to get 99 smithing and want to do it at the lowest cost that i can do.

 

 

 

 

 

xp per plate cost total if you buy the bar at price above

 

addy plate= 312.5xp = 13k

 

mith plate= 250x p= 6k

 

steel plate= 187.5xp = 2.8k

 

 

 

so far you are paying

 

addy=41.6 gp per xp gain

 

mith=24 gp per xp gain

 

steel=14.3 gp per xp gain

 

as you can see so far those are the posible cost for the xp you want

 

 

 

steel bars are the logical choice to use to level up. And i didn't in the high alchem factor in yet.

 

 

 

alching them:

 

addy plate = 7680gp

 

mith plate = 3210gp

 

steel plate = 1200gp

 

 

 

cost of 5 bars - high alching = total price for the 5 bars

 

addy = 13000 - 7680 = 5320

 

mith = 6000 - 3120 = 2880

 

steel = 2800 - 1200 = 1600

 

 

 

so take the total and divide it by the xp gain for every plate

 

addy = 5320 / 312.5 = 17.024 gp per xp

 

mith = 2880 / 250 = 11.52 gp per xp

 

steel = 1600 / 187.5 = 8.53 gp per xp

 

 

 

so my plan for you is to stick to steel bars because you are paying less for every XP. even though the gp per xp may look like only 3-11 gp away from each other, but they all add up and could costing your milllions of gp while your are skilling that skill.

 

 

 

Good Luck and i hope you can understand what I wrote. i havent tried iron bars but if magic says it is cheaper then it is cheaper.