Being a relatively new member, I've still got a good number of quests and things to do like diaries and the Varrock museum with sizable XP awards at the end.

 

 

 

I'd just like to get some input on which skills it would be most advantageous to use these lamps on.

 

 

 

For the most part, I've narrowed it down to agility, smithing, herblore, thieving, slayer, farming, construction, and summoning (And MAYBE crafting or hunting).

 

 

 

Skills like agility, summoning, slayer, and farming all take a relatively long time to get XP even with exorbitant amount of cash so I'm leaning towards these one's for the time being.

I'd say use them on the skill you most dislike to train. If you don't have a particular "favorite", then use them on the skill that takes the longest to train. Runecrafting (my favorite for lamps and such), mining and agility would come into my mind here.

 

 

 

I wouldn't pick slayer, as slayer can be trained while training other skills, being attack, strength, defence, hitpoints, ranged, magic and summoning. Naturally, if you don't like to slay at all, slayer would be a good pick for your lamps aswell.

i put mine into agility as i hate running around a course over and over...

I use all my books/lamps on runecrafting or hunter. I don't mind spending the money on the expensive skills otherwise I would choose those. RCing is like the slowest xp/h in the game, and hunter is just bleh. I've gotten 70-72 agility so far off lamps but now I'm using them all on hunter/rc.

 

 

 

On my pure I use them all on agility just because it's so annoying to train at the low levels

mine goes into herblore or construction... ill put it into summoning when i get my summoning up into a more respectable level, dont find it worth using skill lamps on really really low level skills, the xp you get is really lousy.

I'd recommend alternating between agility and herblore. Herbs are slow to gather and potions are terrible experience, so herblore is slow. And as for agility, it CANNOT be bought, and it is the most boring thing ever to run a course over and over. You can't even semi-afk the task, you have to be constantly clicking the same things, over and over and over and over and over and over and over . . .

either use it on a skill that you hate to train or on a skill that you are going to train.

either use it on a skill that you hate to train or on a skill that you are going to train.

 

what he said =P or if i have a really low skill and i'll gain a few lvls id use it on that compared to a skil that id gain no lvls.

 

really its your choice

I put it on Summoning. :)

for me its summoning/rc/herblore/construction

Personally I'd use it on construction.

Genie lamps and knowledge books give xp based on your level

 

So, if its like, under 20 I wouldnt use them on it.

Summoning. It's the only skill that is purely secondary to the training of other skills, namely combat. Every other skill you can train directly if you wish, so training the skill up to a reasonable level on its own without the use of lamps is much more of a burden than any other.

I put all my lamps, tomes and xp rewards in Runecrafting as it is one of the most slowest skill to train. You could also put your rewards in skill that cost the more per xp. Construction, prayer, summoning and herblore are good choices. One solution is to put those rewards on skill you hate and wouldn't train otherwise (I hate hunter and I like that my tears of guthix rewards help me every week to "train" hunter).

I use them on agility.

 

I find it the most boring skill to level.

 

Construction is cheap if your careful and regularly kill monsters which drop big bones. (I got from 30 to 37 without spending a single penny).

I use them on rc or prayer. Which ever one has the least xp until I lvl.

My reasoning for putting it on summoning was that the skill takes relatively long to train. 1 or 2 1000XP lamps from quests could really give it a nice boost to a place where the familiars are actually useful than just grinding away with Spirit Wolves.

 

 

 

Agility is also one of my top choices as again like already said, it CANNOT to be bought and can't even be "semi-afk'd" as someone said.

 

 

 

As I haven't raised hunter either, I think I'll use a quest lamp or two on it to get to a point where it's slightly more useful (BTW, what's the point to hunter other than chins and light equipment? Any use for it at low levels?)

 

 

 

I'm ruling out slayer for now since it does seem like a skill I could raise with other CB skills.

 

 

 

I hadn't thought of RCing, but it might be an attractive option as it is a little slow. I've only got 51 right now.

 

 

 

Herblore is quite expensive and the low level potions are quite worthless. Maybe a lamp or two here.

 

 

 

So I'm guessing that I'll rank skills by:

 

 

 

Summoning/Agility

 

RC/Construction

 

Herblore/Prayer

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Another question, anyone know if the diaries require level requirements to use the lamps? Some of the quest lamps need like level 30 in a skill to use the lamp on it.

Hunter has the rewards that you mentioned. Plus, you can get to level 50 in probably 6 or so hours(someone had a guide on how to get to 50 in a day). It's really not hard at all. Just don't do tracking.

I have used them on several skills. Often on one that would raise me up a level, or one that is very slow and difficult to train.

 

 

 

Herby is one I have used many lamps on, especially from around 30-40ish.

 

 

 

Runecrafting and slayer were the other 2 I would have put most of my lamps into.

I use all mine on Herblore because it costs so much. I also put my mtk workers on herbs so I should get cheap herblore levels. But its up to you. I hate training many skills but chose herblore because not do I only hate it, but its very expensive.

Anything that requires lots of time or money to level up - with the exception of RCing because going by the "Time = Money" logic, RCing technically saves you more time than you are spending since it's so profitable. I prefer Summoning.

Summoning. I use every lamp I get on summoning (except for the 400K ones from while guthix sleeps, but that was because it was -65. Mistake, really, could've skyrocketed to ~71)