99 Smithing in f2p.

[Obtaurian]

What would I be making? What are we looking at as far as time, exp per hour, etc?

[kdb148]

You are looking at superheating as your only real option for smithing XP that is reasonably fast but doesn't lose tons of money. You can't buy bars and smith them and hope to do anything but lose ridiculous sums of money, because your options are so limited. If you don't want to stand at the GE all day buying ores and nats and superheating, then smelt mithril. Mithril smelting is the best XP per furnace trip, because you can smelt 5 mith bars and 1 steel bar per trip.

 

 

 

Straight smelting, you can do about 300 mith bars and 60 steel bars an hour this way, buying all the ores to smelt will make you around 70k gp and 10k smithing XP per hour. Superheating I haven't done large-scale, but I hear you can superheat around 1k bars, which if you are using mithril will lose you 20-30k per hour and gain you 30k smithing and 53k mage XP. From an XP standpoint, because the cost is so low, superheating wins hands down. But smelting at the furnace in al-Kharid requires much less clicking, and doesn't require much attention. While superheating is constant clicking.

 

 

 

Alternate methods involve mining a part of what you smelt. The money you save through mining can then allow you to save a portion of what you smelt in order to smith it yourself to add to the XP you obtain. Finally, you can simply buy mithril ore and go mine coal and superheat. A good place to do this in Edgeville dungeon, because the coal rocks there are much less crowded than the ones in the mining guild. And there is even a mithril rock there for you to grab some ores from on each trip, and 2 addy rocks for when you make it to 70. It's good mining XP, and you can smith all of the bars you make and still come out way ahead.

[Obtaurian]

Thank you, that was really helpful.

[magicmagicy]

You are looking at superheating as your only real option for smithing XP that is reasonably fast but doesn't lose tons of money. You can't buy bars and smith them and hope to do anything but lose ridiculous sums of money, because your options are so limited. If you don't want to stand at the GE all day buying ores and nats and superheating, then smelt mithril. Mithril smelting is the best XP per furnace trip, because you can smelt 5 mith bars and 1 steel bar per trip.

 

 

 

Straight smelting, you can do about 300 mith bars and 60 steel bars an hour this way, buying all the ores to smelt will make you around 70k gp and 10k smithing XP per hour. Superheating I haven't done large-scale, but I hear you can superheat around 1k bars, which if you are using mithril will lose you 20-30k per hour and gain you 30k smithing and 53k mage XP. From an XP standpoint, because the cost is so low, superheating wins hands down. But smelting at the furnace in al-Kharid requires much less clicking, and doesn't require much attention. While superheating is constant clicking.

 

 

 

Alternate methods involve mining a part of what you smelt. The money you save through mining can then allow you to save a portion of what you smelt in order to smith it yourself to add to the XP you obtain. Finally, you can simply buy mithril ore and go mine coal and superheat. A good place to do this in Edgeville dungeon, because the coal rocks there are much less crowded than the ones in the mining guild. And there is even a mithril rock there for you to grab some ores from on each trip, and 2 addy rocks for when you make it to 70. It's good mining XP, and you can smith all of the bars you make and still come out way ahead.

 

 

 

This is good if you want low level levelling, but once you get to around 85ish, you'll find this boring and ineffective.

 

The only effective way for 99 in f2p is smithing.

 

Addy plates are the best.

[Derrick44444]

You are looking at superheating as your only real option for smithing XP that is reasonably fast but doesn't lose tons of money. You can't buy bars and smith them and hope to do anything but lose ridiculous sums of money, because your options are so limited. If you don't want to stand at the GE all day buying ores and nats and superheating, then smelt mithril. Mithril smelting is the best XP per furnace trip, because you can smelt 5 mith bars and 1 steel bar per trip.

 

 

 

Straight smelting, you can do about 300 mith bars and 60 steel bars an hour this way, buying all the ores to smelt will make you around 70k gp and 10k smithing XP per hour. Superheating I haven't done large-scale, but I hear you can superheat around 1k bars, which if you are using mithril will lose you 20-30k per hour and gain you 30k smithing and 53k mage XP. From an XP standpoint, because the cost is so low, superheating wins hands down. But smelting at the furnace in al-Kharid requires much less clicking, and doesn't require much attention. While superheating is constant clicking.

 

 

 

Alternate methods involve mining a part of what you smelt. The money you save through mining can then allow you to save a portion of what you smelt in order to smith it yourself to add to the XP you obtain. Finally, you can simply buy mithril ore and go mine coal and superheat. A good place to do this in Edgeville dungeon, because the coal rocks there are much less crowded than the ones in the mining guild. And there is even a mithril rock there for you to grab some ores from on each trip, and 2 addy rocks for when you make it to 70. It's good mining XP, and you can smith all of the bars you make and still come out way ahead.

 

 

 

This is good if you want low level levelling, but once you get to around 85ish, you'll find this boring and ineffective.

 

The only effective way for 99 in f2p is smithing.

 

Addy plates are the best.

 

 

 

How much money are looking at from 61 to 99? I'll probably start superheating once I'm tired of wc'ing. Really need to get my mage up, that would kill 2 birds with one stone. And at any point can you profit with smithing?

[awesome400]

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You are looking at superheating as your only real option for smithing XP that is reasonably fast but doesn't lose tons of money. You can't buy bars and smith them and hope to do anything but lose ridiculous sums of money, because your options are so limited. If you don't want to stand at the GE all day buying ores and nats and superheating, then smelt mithril. Mithril smelting is the best XP per furnace trip, because you can smelt 5 mith bars and 1 steel bar per trip.

 

 

 

Straight smelting, you can do about 300 mith bars and 60 steel bars an hour this way, buying all the ores to smelt will make you around 70k gp and 10k smithing XP per hour. Superheating I haven't done large-scale, but I hear you can superheat around 1k bars, which if you are using mithril will lose you 20-30k per hour and gain you 30k smithing and 53k mage XP. From an XP standpoint, because the cost is so low, superheating wins hands down. But smelting at the furnace in al-Kharid requires much less clicking, and doesn't require much attention. While superheating is constant clicking.

 

 

 

Alternate methods involve mining a part of what you smelt. The money you save through mining can then allow you to save a portion of what you smelt in order to smith it yourself to add to the XP you obtain. Finally, you can simply buy mithril ore and go mine coal and superheat. A good place to do this in Edgeville dungeon, because the coal rocks there are much less crowded than the ones in the mining guild. And there is even a mithril rock there for you to grab some ores from on each trip, and 2 addy rocks for when you make it to 70. It's good mining XP, and you can smith all of the bars you make and still come out way ahead.

 

 

 

This is good if you want low level levelling, but once you get to around 85ish, you'll find this boring and ineffective.

 

The only effective way for 99 in f2p is smithing.

 

Addy plates are the best.

 

 

 

How much money are looking at from 61 to 99? I'll probably start superheating once I'm tired of wc'ing. Really need to get my mage up, that would kill 2 birds with one stone. And at any point can you profit with smithing?

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yes there is a point that you can profit while superheating, its when u buy materials at a lower price and the bars rise :P (bought materials when bars were worth 1150 and the bar price went up to 1215 so if you time ur buying right you can profit