Monster Drops and Money Making for a Self-Sufficient Player

[Sinkhan]

Into my second month of P2P ( : ), I've raised a good number of skills to half-decent levels, done dozen or so quests, and bought and earned some awesome P2P gear.

 

 

 

However, there's still a lot that I'd like to buy: Guthans, Veracs, Ahrims, an abyssal whip, Zamorak pages, a cannon (Heard this helps with slayer tasks), a dragon axe, and slayer mask. Most people will agree that these items are pretty useful, but come a fairly hefty price tag.

 

 

 

On top of all that, I need some money to raise less profitable skills such as construction and prayer.

 

 

 

The biggest problem is that I can't seem to find a good monster with consistent drops that aren't involved in my skilling or an efficient money making method.

 

 

 

Dragons you say? I'd keep the bones and the hides for prayer and crafting. Thieve from farmers? Any seeds like snapdragons or ranarrs would be grown by myself for the XP and herbs.

 

 

 

My two current methods of making money are buying pizzas as the warriors guild, adding anchovies or pineapples, and reselling or buying gold bars and sapphires, making them into necklaces and then enchanting them. I particularly like these methods because they give me a relatively steady rate of income, but more importantly raise my skills.

 

 

 

So after all that, this is essentially another "I NEED MONEY" thread #-o

[asianboy7o7]

i did barrows for most of my money when i was around 80-105

 

 

 

made great profit

 

but i still reccomend you do it even though prices are extremely lower than before (5.5m for a g spear the days...)

[Amaranth_GTO]

Barrows could work.

 

You could also runecraft for money.

[Warcraft53]

Depending on levels If you have 60 WC and 70 Fletching

 

Cut yew logs, Buy Bow string or pick flax and spin then make yew long bows or alch them for money not fast but its decent over time

[drachedolch]

Kill Zamorak Warriors. I got 700k in 3 hours last night. Consistent rune scimmy drop.

[Sir_Kurity]

I would do barrows, if your stats are good enough.

[transcript80]

I have the same attitude as you!

 

 

 

Make things from scratch and ach them for money!

 

Examples: buy battle staves from zaff, seaweed from arhein and sand from Bert (after "hand in the sand"). Craft cosmic runes, make orbs from the glass (make glass with lunar spell super glass make) and enchant the orbs. Make elemental battle staves and alch them with your own natures. Same for green dhide items.

 

 

 

Or the above mentioned yew longs. As you seem to enjoy slayer, level it up and get some nice rewards. Still, not the fastest income source, but steady.

 

 

 

Thing is: you are making money killing green dragons, but you spend the "money earned" (eg. hides and bones) directly on your skills (prayer, crafting). You could try selling the end product (I make a lot more super attack potions then I can consume), but you'll get less money of course. You can either proceed this way, and never see any "real" gp's or liquify the the goods into gp and do whatever you want with those.

[Sinkhan]

Seems like the general consensus is barrows and perhaps zamorak mages. You were particularly helpful transcript, thanks. Guess I should do quests like the Myreque ones.

 

 

 

To perhaps focus the suggestions more, my stats:

 

 

 

70 Atk/Def/Mage

 

73 Range/Str

 

75 HP

 

52 RC

 

66 WC (I personally dislike this skill)

 

56 Crafting

 

37 Fletching (Also don't like this one)

 

42 Slay

 

59 Pray (Chivalry, Soon you will be mine!)

 

73 Fishing/Cook

 

 

 

Monks? I need food for myself when I go slaying or boss hunting :roll:

[Cptbaker08]

Monks are also a good way to make money, what i would do is fish enough to gain a level, sell them all and use the money from those i sold to buy 1k cooked ones. You will make a little bit of cash. If you have a decent summoning level you could sell even more monks and only need like 500 or so. Bunyips do help out a lot on slayer tasks.

[Sy_Accursed]

The ultimate crux is:

 

 

 

Anything and everything useful is what makes money

 

 

 

So if you outright refuse to sell on any useful items you get nowhere.

 

 

 

I can't suggest anything that produces money that isn't something you'd want to keep. I mean mtk makes gr8 money but you'd want the resources no doubt.

 

 

 

Avainsies drop a gr8 amount of addy abrs, but you'd want to keep them to smith

 

 

 

The production skills eg mine, fish, wc all make money but you'd want to keep the resources to smith/craft, cook and fletch/fm with.

 

 

 

Just learn to pick your battles, you can't hoard everything for every skill and still expect to make money.

[crow]

Start training slayer allready: makes you cash.

 

Don't buy guthans:

 

bunyip is better and pony totally rocks.

[JoeDaStudd]

Daganoths(sp?) in the CT.

 

They drop a lot of alchables as well as hides which sell for atleast 1k a piece (the circular ones sell for a whooping 26k each). Not to mention the amount of charms they drop is extremely high (almost [if not] on par with dust devils).

 

The alchables are practically no use apart from being alched, the hides are used to create the fremmy armour (which is pretty much useless at your levels) and the charms are great summoning exp (since they drop mainly crimsons).

 

I did my first trip last night and was surprised with the profit and charms.

[ultimatballr]

After typing it up its kind of a long read, but helpful I believe, so if you don't want to read it skip to the end.

 

 

 

I was exactly like you back in the old days (wish I would of got out of that mentality sooner :( ) I would mine my own ess to rc with, mine my own ores to smith with (and if I didn't have the level sell the mined ores to buy whatever I was going to smith) Thieve the master farmer for seeds for myself. Cut my own oaks to make planks... the list goes on and on.

 

 

 

Then I figured it out in my noodle that, and this is a very common quote, YOU HAVE TO SPEND MONEY TO MAKE MONEY.

 

 

 

My friend, Tall, was slightly higher than me in every skill, then all of a sudden he jumped up about 400 total levels higher than me but we both played relatively the same amount of time. On top of that he had the money to buy 11 santa hats (they were about 11m back then). He was making money and then spending it to get his skills up more efficiently and still earning a profit with his newly raised skills.

 

 

 

You see what I mean? When you kill dragons sell the bones and hides. Keep going until you get a pile of cash 10m or whatever is high for you. Then you will see it is much faster to buy those ranarr seeds and plant them to turn seeds into money than it is to steal from the master farmer and hope for a ranarr seed drop. Or it is faster to buy the yew logs and bowstrings than it is to pick your own flax and cut your own logs (even though you hate fletching this is a great example) It's much faster to buy those d bones for prayer and with the time you saved go back and remake the money you lost so now it is kind of like you got the levels for "free" since you ended up with the money and the levels.

 

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Make sense? I hope so. But anyway a good money maker for your... I would personally stick with the green drags. EXCEPT actually sell the materials, for your own sake just sell them. Stop being stubborn and just sell the damn bones and hides :

 

 

 

Yea it was a long read but I felt it necessary to get my point across.

[Sinkhan]

Hmm...well there are definitely money making methods whereby I make items that I don't necessarily need. Like I said, adding pineapples to pizzas or making game necklaces both make a profit, but the key thing here is that I have to sell them through the GE to make any profit. I don't have any share in the pizzas themselves, I just process them.

 

 

 

If I were to use MTK, I would undoubtedly max out fishing and put a few on some other area. I'm most likely not going to able to use up all the food they produce, and I'll probably be able to get my hands on better options anyway. Those remaining workers would just be chugging away getting me ridiculously cheap resources.

 

 

 

I don't see what benefit there is to taking the materials from production skills and then selling them, only to rebuy just as many later on when I decide and train the skill. Similarly, what point is there in selling those d bones now if I have to buy them back later on? It seems quite counter-intuitive from my standpoint.

 

 

 

I can sort of see ballr's and paw's logic in that if I sell my materials now, I could get higher skills and then make that money back later, but I can only see it working in certain scenarios.

[Sy_Accursed]

The ting is you dont HAVE to buy back later.

 

 

 

production skills gain xp FAR slower than the skills they feed.

 

 

 

I fished sharks and cooked them as i fished nearly all the way to 99.

 

 

 

Fishing started a good 10 lvls higher than cooking, however I got 99 cooking a good 2 months before 99 fishing.

 

 

 

Equally making money is the key to success

 

 

 

Keeping all your d bones may seem like a good move, but its a bad one until you have money.

 

 

 

Overall in your rs career you will sell far more d bones than you could ever need, and you will get to a point where u can horde them.

 

 

 

Eg i keep my d hides and bones now because I know I have the stats to go fish or wc for a few hours and make a few mil.

 

 

 

In simplistic times your logic works perfectly, in the grander picture however you save a hell of a lot of time in getting good stats by selling things now. And that time you save results in far greater profit sooner, whihc far outways what you wasted.

 

 

 

Eg I sold off about 100mil worth of sharks on my way to 99 fishing, but at the time i was a low level so i only needed lobsters. So I still got what i needed (by buying the lobtsers) and had massive profit which allowed me to buy all the barrows sets (60mil at the time) and then from using the armours and fishing later on I have more than compensated for tht early lose.

[Sinkhan]

Well I could perhaps apply this to certain skills and certain drops then. The dragon bones I'm pretty deadset on keeping, but I could sell back those hides and sell any monks and sharks I'd pull in.

[Sy_Accursed]

Yup its a case of picking your battles.

 

 

 

Until you have the lvls to be self sufficient you cannot horde everything, but you can horde somethings.

 

 

 

Eg horde ur d bones but sell the hides

 

 

 

Horde the herb seeds but flog the tree seeds