Powertraining - Your views.

[lorddayu]

I'm the type of player that wants to find the balance between speed and profit, I hate overspending to buy my skills, so I don't like powertraining.

[ultimatballr]

I'm pretty much against it. Not even talking Slayer here (though I do think it's the best way to go) but most power-training methods only make you lose money. There are plenty of ways to make decent money and get decent experience which I think is the best route to take. Also, I think Slayer makes combat much more enjoyable since you get a change of monsters, drops, tactics needed to use against them and extra total xp/levels. I only mentioned combat in this (mainly melee) because that's what comes to mind when I think of power-training.

 

 

 

Not picking on Baconxl or anything but through the first page this is really the only thing that stood out to me as I was going to post my views.

 

 

 

Now he says there are plenty of ways to make decent money and exp which is the best route to take. However look at it like this.

 

 

 

Powermining granite to level 99, saves you over 200+ hours of time as compared to mining coal and banking it. Now though mining coal and banking is decent exp and money if you could make 300k an hour easy (which is way more than you could make in an hour with coal, no matter what the circumstances) then why not grind away at Granite, and then use the 100+ hours you saved to make 300k an hour? That would net you moremoney and the same exp in the same amount of time.

 

 

 

[hide=A simple example.]Hypothetically lets say you start at level 75 mining.

 

 

 

That's 235,945 (236k for the sake of round numbers) which would net you a whopping 41,536,000 (41.5M) Unfortunately it took you 200 or so more hours than a granite powerminer.

 

 

 

Instead you powermine granite. It takes you roughly 110 hours for 99. However now you have 200 hours more in which you would need to make 41.5m for this method to actually pay off. Well since you can make 300k an hour (doing god knows what just examplary) you spend the 200 hours doing that. Well now you have a nice 60m cash-pile instead of 41.5m.

 

 

 

Who wants 41.5m over 60m? I am sure we can all agree that we would all want 18.5m more would we not?[/hide]

 

 

 

Now I realize not everyone can make 300k gp an hour (myself included, on a bad day :anxious: ) In-fact you would need to make a max of 207.5k gp an hour to make this method worth actually using. If not then you mine as well mine the coal and bank it.

 

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I also realize the thread creator has stated that they do not care about money or such and I am sure there are many others out there that feel this way as well. Well think about this, powermining saves you 200 hours. Now you have 200 hours to spend on another skill training that. 200 hours is enough to put a dent in more than one skill on its way to 99. Or if you are not into the 99's then to gain a mass amount of total levels and experience.

 

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This is the way I look at powertraining pretty much. The "fun" factor in runescape is approaching it in an organized and efficient way. I personally like to gain the most exp/money, in the shortest amount of time, that is what makes the game fun for myself. Also factoring in "afk-able" things such as wc or fishing where I like take a longer route to train while I watch movies, do homework, play other games or browse the forums instead of powertraining it.

[verte]

Woodcut was made as supplement to Fletch.

 

 

 

Fishing was made as supplement to Cooking.

 

 

 

Mining was made as supplement to Smithing.

 

 

 

and so forth.

 

 

 

Ruining those relationships is dumb imo. Leveling one thing very fast just for a 99 and doing some other mind boggling boring activity for money is no fun to me.

[SirHartlar]

I don't mind powertraining, I do it myself sometimes. For people like me who don't get to log in much, powertraining helps the goals become a reality. I would never consider 99 Strength without going to Armoured Zombies. Bashing people because of the way they play the game is really stupid.

[Sir_Redhead]

I find powertrainign extremely helpful, if you have the money to do so(if your buying)

 

 

 

I just bought almost 3k molten glass to powertrain my crafting to 66 (for a quest) So, to me, powertraining is easy as i have the finances to spare, and that i don't mind losing a lot of money in the process.

 

 

 

I also had bought 3k+ gold ore to raise my smithing, I earned some money back from the gold bars, but only 1/3 of what I spent on the ore.