hunter/ summoning/ herblaw

[dongleberry]

Now that I've gotten myself about a mil in stuff after those great suggestions I'm trying all these skills that weren't around when I quit. I've already gotten 25 hunter and 18 summoning. But other than doing the starting stuff (276 gold charms given and hunting birds in jungle), I'm a little lost. I'd like to get 50 in both of those skills by the end of the month which isn't an unreal goal but I don't know the progression. I've always cared more about skils than money, so the sequence for getting to 50 would be awesome if it incorporated other skills.

 

 

 

I know that I need to collect charms for summoning, but what is the fastest way to get those charms? I guess I could train my summoning until I have a thousand or so but then what type of charms should I collect and what should I craft? For hunter how long should I snare the blue birds before I move onto another type of hunting/ or another type of bird?

 

 

 

What's the money requirement to get to 50 summoning if I buy the secondary ingredient.

 

 

 

I'm also interested in getting 65 prayer, I have 46 now which is good since I've read that for every xp I get I lose 6.43 gp. I could do prayer potions and make 4.4 thousand. In the end I'd lose 2.4mil gp. That isn't much, but I've heard farming your own herbs is a good way to recoup that loss. I'd need to get 12 more farming levels but I guess that it's easy to get to 32 farming. When that happens how much ranarr do you get for each harvest you have? How many seeds can you plant at once and whats a good way to maximize the production? I guess planting them at different farms (how many farms?) then jump over to slayer so I can collect charms and get slayer xp or do hunter, then farm it for a little while.

 

 

 

I hope this makes sense and I'd appreciate it if you tried to use as little acronyms as possible, I'm out of touch with the short hand runescape speak.

[Troacctid]

The best charms to hunt for are crimson charms. Gold and green give too little xp, and blue charms are too rare. Crimsons are definitely the best bet. The fastest way you could go would probably be to get yourself a good crush weapon, either a Saradomin Sword or Zamorakian Spear, and kill waterfiends in the Ancient Cavern near Baxtorian Falls. You could kill them at your levels if you're prepared with some good food and gear, but a higher prayer would be preferable, and they'd be much easier if you already had 68 summoning to use a bunyip...chances are you could more or less break even on summoning expenses at waterfiends.

 

 

 

If you prefer something a little more docile, I'd recommend dust devils. They have nice charm rates, but they're also much lower defense, so the melee xp is loads better, and you don't need any expensive gear or anything...plus they're much more profitable and ought to net you a gain even after the cost of seconds and shards. The Chaos Tunnels are the best place to kill dust devils--consult a map if you haven't been there. Naturally it necessitates further slayer training, which should get you some charms already, and hopefully enough that by the time you can kill dust devils you can have a nice combat familiar at your side.

 

 

 

Hunter is fairly simple to train. Switch to swamp lizards when you can, then move up with the highest level salamanders you can catch until you can catch red chinchompas. You can also do falconry or grey chinchompas if you like.

 

 

 

There's a good calculator on the RS Wiki for the costs of training herblore: http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Calculators/Potions

 

 

 

As for farming, there are four herb patches, plus a fifth that can be accessed after My Arm's Big Adventure. You should farm them all. Use magic secateurs (from Fairy Tale Part 1, do that quest if you haven't) to get a 10% boost in harvest, and supercompost to stop death and further boost the harvest, and you should be able to average 6-7 herbs per patch. Don't worry too much about planting the same herb you're using for potions, because it's easy enough to sell your herbs and buy the ones you want for herblore. Farming is really profitable just buying seeds and selling herbs. Just teleport to each patch regularly to harvest, supercompost, and re-plant. Easy cash.

[Cptbaker08]

Since he is only 50 slayer i suggest to either train slayer until you can kill Dusties for charms, or kill greater/black demons, which ever you prefer.

[Dullmage]

You should have no trouble getting 50 hunter. It should take you no longer than a few days. :thumbsup:

[dongleberry]

Hunter is fairly simple to train. Switch to swamp lizards when you can, then move up with the highest level salamanders you can catch until you can catch red chinchompas. You can also do falconry or grey chinchompas if you like.

 

 

 

There's a good calculator on the RS Wiki for the costs of training herblore: http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Calculators/Potions

 

 

 

As for farming, there are four herb patches, plus a fifth that can be accessed after My Arm's Big Adventure. You should farm them all. Use magic secateurs (from Fairy Tale Part 1, do that quest if you haven't) to get a 10% boost in harvest, and supercompost to stop death and further boost the harvest, and you should be able to average 6-7 herbs per patch. Don't worry too much about planting the same herb you're using for potions, because it's easy enough to sell your herbs and buy the ones you want for herblore. Farming is really profitable just buying seeds and selling herbs. Just teleport to each patch regularly to harvest, supercompost, and re-plant. Easy cash.

 

 

 

So hunt tropical wagtails until I am 29. Switch to swamp lizards and then slowly increase. Can I buy the speciality hunting clothes or do I have to make them? Same for the herb tars, can I buy them? Or do I have to make them with swamp tar, and can I buy that tar? since I can use two bird snares does this mean I can use two net traps?

 

 

 

I only have another month to play, so I guess 65 slayer is out of the question along with the others. Thanks.

[Amaranth_GTO]

There's a link in my sig to my hunter guide which goes a lot more in-depth, but here's a basic overview for hunter.

 

25-27: Tropical wagtails

 

27-43: Swamp lizards

 

43-47: Falconry

 

47-50: Orange salamanders

 

 

 

I don't really know much about summoning so I can't really help you with that, sorry.

[Troacctid]

Hunter is fairly simple to train. Switch to swamp lizards when you can, then move up with the highest level salamanders you can catch until you can catch red chinchompas. You can also do falconry or grey chinchompas if you like.

 

 

 

There's a good calculator on the RS Wiki for the costs of training herblore: http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Calculators/Potions

 

 

 

As for farming, there are four herb patches, plus a fifth that can be accessed after My Arm's Big Adventure. You should farm them all. Use magic secateurs (from Fairy Tale Part 1, do that quest if you haven't) to get a 10% boost in harvest, and supercompost to stop death and further boost the harvest, and you should be able to average 6-7 herbs per patch. Don't worry too much about planting the same herb you're using for potions, because it's easy enough to sell your herbs and buy the ones you want for herblore. Farming is really profitable just buying seeds and selling herbs. Just teleport to each patch regularly to harvest, supercompost, and re-plant. Easy cash.

 

 

 

So hunt tropical wagtails until I am 29. Switch to swamp lizards and then slowly increase. Can I buy the speciality hunting clothes or do I have to make them? Same for the herb tars, can I buy them? Or do I have to make them with swamp tar, and can I buy that tar? since I can use two bird snares does this mean I can use two net traps?

 

 

 

I only have another month to play, so I guess 65 slayer is out of the question along with the others. Thanks.

 

You can buy the camo clothes. You don't need bait, so no point in herb tar. And yes, you'll be able to set two net traps--the multiple trap thing works for all traps except deadfalls, and deadfall traps aren't the best training method anyway.