skills or money?

[quelmotz]

Definitely skills. You have 1mil gp and all skills at level 1. I have all skills at lvl 99 and 1 gp. I'll just skill to make money while you waste money to train skills.

[Kensei]

Skills. Money comes and goes, but you don't lose the xp.

[Giordano]

I always liked getting money on RuneScape, weather it was merchanting or runecrafting. I just like money. :mrgreen:

[Sir_Kurity]

That would be funny.

 

 

 

And if you watch one of your friends go from 100k to 20 mill in a day, you know they are RWTing :P .

[JustPokemon]

That would be funny.

 

 

 

And if you watch one of your friends go from 100k to 20 mill in a day, you know they are RWTing :P .

 

Its called a good drop :XD:

[theskalabrad]

money is useless if you do not spend it on skills, even in a godsword or buying 200M cooking exp. People with cashpiles are sad

[Deaners1212]

Skills make money; money funds skills.

 

 

 

Skills ftw.

[Sir_Kurity]

It depends on how much skills / money i get.

 

 

 

For example, i would pick 10 mill over 50 in a skill, but i would pick a 99 skill over 10 mill.

[sadukar123]

Definitely skills. You have 1mil gp and all skills at level 1. I have all skills at lvl 99 and 1 gp. I'll just skill to make money while you waste money to train skills.

 

Nice strawman.

 

 

 

1m gp CANNOT get you all the xp needed for 99 everything, the comparison would be 7 stacks of max cash vs all 99.

[Icarium]

there is something to be said for the fact that many people either wish they could lose xp in skills (eg pure with 2 def), or simply get no joy out of having levels in a skill and only train it for quests.

 

However you don't often see someone regretting the extra few mil sitting around in the bank, or failing to find something to spend it on....

 

 

 

I'm not saying that I disagree with the 'only point of money is skills' argument - if I have spare cash I tend to spend it on training a skill. Yet the majority of players in the game own less than a mil, and may well prefer 50 - 100m cash to a 99 skill.

[unkn0wnwarrior]

I would take skills over money. I have only once had over 3M in coins, and I rarely buy anything for a skill, with the exception of armor/weapons/arrows and the like.

[Parkzer]

Throughout my Runescape career, the most money I've ever had at once was 3.5M. I've always wanted to get those special, powerful items that cost over 10 million coins each, but I've never had the persistence to ever get that many coins.

 

 

 

That leads into my choice - I would pick skills over money. Even when I had money, I would look at my skills and end up spending a lot of my money to raise my skills. I don't think I'll ever be able to get Bandos or Armadyl until all my stats are 99 and I don't have anything else to level up. I don't really see the ultimate goal of Runescape as making billions of coins, I see the goal as having Level 99 in all stats. I guess money would help you achieve that goal faster, but in my case, I just can't see that much money sitting in my bank when I could be ranked higher in the high scores table.

[Youmu]

Skills. You use skills to earn money. Also, buying your levels are another alternate to skilling, to gain more total levels.

 

Total levels > Money IMO.

[Bauke]

Skills. You use skills to earn money. Also, buying your levels are another alternate to skilling, to gain more total levels.

 

Total levels > Money IMO.

 

Indeed, money buys stuff. A large pile of cash doesn't mean anything. Someone with a lot of cash might just a lack good armour and weapons, for example. I have 170M cash, but that's only a fragment of what I've invested in skills and items.

[ISREAL63]

skills for sure

[HOSTiLE_KAi]

Money is a great motivator, looks nice in huge piles but it doesnt do anything until you actually spend it.

 

 

 

Skills are functional, but not necessary.

 

 

 

I would prefer skills tho.

[JAMjE]

Depends how much money :)

 

Depends what skills at what level.

 

I prefer money because Im impatient and wouldnt waste time making it myself, i can have alot more fun with moeny :)

[PhilosopherNeptune]

I say, They go hand in hand. You can't have some skills without money and money without certain skills.

 

 

 

Just my opinion.

[Troacctid]

Skills are more important than money. If I could bribe a genie right now to take all my cash and give me a fat chunk of summoning experience, I'd do it in a flash.

[Jaffy1]

Skills, obviously.

 

 

 

Money buys you things, sure, but...

 

 

 

 

 

Skills can be used to make you things, get you useful things, train, advance, create money, if necessary, money to spend on other skills. Both essencial, skills and money, but skills are what you train when you play.

[forestfrolic]

Ah.. money is worth nothing unless you buy something with it. Money can be spent on items. Skills create money, infinitely.

[Faiylen]

Skills, at least for me personally. I don't care how much money I have just sat in the bank, or how I look in the game. If I want to train an expensive skill, I'll make the money for it from scratch. I'm sure I've spent much over 220 million on all skills (half of that on just crafting and smithing), yet have like 2M cash in the bank - for food and armour repairs though, as I'm training attack.

 

 

 

Money is sorta important, but in my opinion at least it's wasted by too many people on fancy items that just make them look good, or hit a little higher. It's fine to buy things if you want them, but in my opinion money going towards say herblore experience is much better spent.

[Fools_Taco]

You get to a point in this game where you dont need money anymore. Maxed out on combat and don't care for boss hunting? whats left but to buy skills. Rares are useless unless you have all buyable skills at 99.

 

 

 

Not to mention 99 slayer and runecrafting is going to bring in like 500m anyway.

[kingbrooks]

I'd say skills. You can hardly "buy" any skills, it takes actuall effort and time to raise the skills to a decent level, next to money making. which you can get millions of GP in days.

 

 

 

Actually, you can buy almost every skill, except for the ones that are gathering/combat skills.

 

 

 

and now you can buy mage, range, pray and summoning.

 

 

 

 

 

And I believe skills, you can't win the game buy having lot's of cash. You need to max out your stats (skills). Well you don't technically win it, but some people say you do.

[nerdboyxxx]

Honestly? This game revolves around skills to exist, for items to make cash, train other skills with, or get as drops from monsters which other people use. Effectively, if you had large quantities of cash (like 1B if you are super rich for instance), but nothing to do with it, I'd be dropping it on the ground. Skills are what make this game, and money wouldn't be in your bank without them. So skills for sure.