Runecrafting Vs. Slayer [The Harder 99]

[Sir_Kurity]

Because, running around killing various different monsters for low XP and money isnt really that fun?

[Cptbaker08]

i dont see why this is a debate, rc is WAY harder. i cant see how someone would think slayer is harder

 

Coming from someone with 48 slayer -.- . If you actually get into the higher levels it does get harder and makes it harder to level. If you don't cannon it takes even longer to get levels. You tend to notice how small amounts of slayer exp you get from tasks, and tasks can take up to a few hours. I got 199 gargoyles, that was a pain to do.

 

 

 

But different players have different playing styles. I can slay for hours and not get bored, and i can RC for 30 mins and want to tear my hair out. Now RC'ing by ZMI is kinda fun, fast exp, and i can actually tolerate it. But i much rather slay.

[infamousmeh]

I'd say it depends on the person?

 

 

 

Personally Slayer would be far easier as it involves combat. I can enjoy any part of runescape as long as I'm fighting and killing something.

 

Runecrafting, and any other skill for that matter is mind numbingly boring and I would be surprised to get any over 70 willingly.

 

 

 

In other words, easiness depends on the amount of personal effort and dedication you would have to put into it. Thus, different for everyone.

 

 

 

EDIT:

 

If there were no online guides for runescape, I'd have to say slayer would be a much harder skill to level.

 

Runecrafting is the exact same from level 1 to 99, its just the altar that changes.

 

Slayer on the other hand; Lets say someone receives Turoths as their slayer task for the first time: "wth is that?!?".

[Guest]

Well since I am f2p I cannot say much about slayer... however I can talk about the hardest f2p skill.

 

 

 

For f2p 3 skills are the hardest;

 

 

 

Prayer --> costs 300-400m and requires a million clicks after that, very repetitive, 30k xp/h tops

 

Runecrafting --> may make gp, best gp --> 5k xp/h, best xp --> 25k xp/h (tiara's) also repetitive

 

Mining --> requires dropping iron as fastest way --> 25k xp/h --> also very dull

 

 

 

Still more f2p players have 99 rc than 99 prayer and mining, so I think that also makes pray the hardest :)

[D Jay99]

Well since I am f2p I cannot say much about slayer... however I can talk about the hardest f2p skill.

 

 

 

For f2p 3 skills are the hardest;

 

 

 

Prayer --> costs 300-400m and requires a million clicks after that, very repetitive, 30k xp/h tops

 

Runecrafting --> may make gp, best gp --> 5k xp/h, best xp --> 25k xp/h (tiara's) also repetitive

 

Mining --> requires dropping iron as fastest way --> 25k xp/h --> also very dull

 

 

 

Still more f2p players have 99 rc than 99 prayer and mining, so I think that also makes pray the hardest :)

 

Dropping iron can be more like 40k xp/h if you focus.

[r4ngewarlord]

personally i think runecrafting is harder as its slow, boring and wont let you multi task efficently.

 

slayer however is slightly funner.

[Gandorf61]

Still more f2p players have 99 rc than 99 prayer and mining, so I think that also makes pray the hardest :)

 

 

 

In F2P prayer is the hardest hands down. The amount of clicks that you calculated (on some other thread) was just mind boggling!

[Guest]

Still more f2p players have 99 rc than 99 prayer and mining, so I think that also makes pray the hardest :)

 

 

 

In F2P prayer is the hardest hands down. The amount of clicks that you calculated (on some other thread) was just mind boggling!

 

 

 

That was an underestimation ;)

[nerdboyxxx]

Still more f2p players have 99 rc than 99 prayer and mining, so I think that also makes pray the hardest :)

 

 

 

In F2P prayer is the hardest hands down. The amount of clicks that you calculated (on some other thread) was just mind boggling!

 

 

 

That was an underestimation ;)

 

 

 

*dies*

 

 

 

Honestly, Runecrafting is hard if you don't have patience, but if you can focus and Nat run till you are blue in the face, then you can probably get a bit more exp at slayer in the higher levels, depending on your tasks. With the Lunar spell NPC contact Slayer is MUCH faster also (no travelling required to get a new task). But Runecrafting is just about patience, determination, and been able to teleport about 5,000 times an hour.

 

 

 

Personally, I enjoy runecrafting but It isn't very high because I neglected it (too slow to train I thought. I'm so stupid #-o). I can't really talk with my stats at the levels they are, but I know quite a few friends with slayer levels in the 90's and they find experience incredibly slow depending on there tasks. But it is good if you train farming :)

[Lap]

Of course slayer is the harder skill. You don't see anyone with 200 million slayer experience but you see a load of people with 200 million runecrafting experience. Sure it may take more focus to runecraft but it all really is the same thing, clicking. You also need to run all over the place for slayer so it can't be an efficient steady experience coming in.

 

You have a point,but not one person has 200m runecraft xp....

 

 

 

Runecrafting experience (top): 157,034,220

 

Slayer experience (top): 123,832,494

 

 

 

My point has been made.

 

 

 

Runecrafting was released what... 2-3 years before slayer?

[Guest]

Of course slayer is the harder skill. You don't see anyone with 200 million slayer experience but you see a load of people with 200 million runecrafting experience. Sure it may take more focus to runecraft but it all really is the same thing, clicking. You also need to run all over the place for slayer so it can't be an efficient steady experience coming in.

 

You have a point,but not one person has 200m runecraft xp....

 

 

 

Runecrafting experience (top): 157,034,220

 

Slayer experience (top): 123,832,494

 

 

 

My point has been made.

 

 

 

Runecrafting was released what... 2-3 years before slayer?

 

 

 

Runecrafting was released with RS2 so yeh 2-3 years before slayer, but you can not compare the top in both skills because you need to know how much time they spend on it, they could as well been training other skills than slayer or rc, you can not compare the skills this way

 

 

 

You need to take boredom as well as xp/h in account, the possibility to talk to your friends and that kind of stuff.

 

 

 

I got 99 rc in f2p in an extra-ordinary way. I traded 2.2k+ess for unnoted essences just before the trade limit and it got me to 87 rc, 87-99 rc I assisted on airs, 30 minutes - 2 hours of assisting a day (30k xp) and it was long, though not boring since I only rc-ed a few hours a day. I am not familiar with p2p training methods, but I heard things about the abyss etc. but mostly it's either running yourself or assisting in double natures, and many of them come to assist in f2p airs.

 

 

 

I have no idea how bad slayer is, so I can not give an accurate estimation to which is the hardest. All I know is that RC is the second hardest in f2p (Prayer being #1, mining #3)

[Agent1777]

Slayer is easier imo, look at runecraft, the same thing, over and over and over again. With slayer, you get varied tasks that have different approaches making each task different.

[nerdboyxxx]

Slayer is easier imo, look at runecraft, the same thing, over and over and over again. With slayer, you get varied tasks that have different approaches making each task different.

 

 

 

Exactly. I find a skill with mor varying ways of training is much easier to get to level 99, or just train in general. Skills like Agility, where you can mix up the courses, and Fletching where you can alternate between bolts, bows, and possibly crossbows is much easier than skills like Runecrafting where you have to pay 100% attention to achieve the max amount of experience possible within the hour. Slayer, in my personal opinion, offers the biggest variety of training possible. And its a great deal of fun too ;)

[All_Is_Great]

I'd have to say that FARMING is hardest, with slayer a close second and RC third. But that's just me.

 

 

 

^ Farming you only have to make a couple runs a day to get maximum xp. It just takes a while if you don't have a lot of money. The time spent actually p;laying the game to achieve 99 farming is actually very little.

 

 

 

Since I made this thread I've almost come to think of mining as one of the hardest 99 skills as well. While it can be a bit faster than runecrafting and slayer it is painfully boring.

 

 

 

Runecrafting is faster than slayer (I can get 55-60k xp an hour at ZMI) but it requires a lot more concentration and effort than slayer. Slayer is overall just a really lengthy skill to level up that is fun and easy.

 

 

 

Sure the time spent actually planting/picking stuff is short, but you still have to count the time you wait. It's not like you can get 99 farm in 1 week.

 

 

 

And since half the arguements here is about how boring one skill is, there are ALOT of people who find farming boring, and throw mining in there too while we're at it.

[Sir_Kurity]

Well, slayer has 20-30k XP an hour, + combat stats.

 

 

 

RC has 50k XP an hour, + **** all.

 

 

 

Slayer is the easier 99, i think, the easier 200 mill XP probably RC.

[nerdattack16]

I got to 65 slayer before 40 runecrafting.

 

I have a friend at ~60 runecrafting and 32 slayer.

 

 

 

It's all about personal preference. Whichever you like more is gonna be easier.

[RayOxide]

Nothing in runescape is hard.

 

Runescape is long, not hard.

 

 

 

Both are pretty much 2 of the longest skills to get to 99/200m xp, but slayer is much more bareable. Runecrafting is very repetitive, and gets extremely boring in what.. an hour or less? It takes like 4 days for me to get bored of slayer like I do for RC.

 

 

 

So obviously slayer isnt "harder" than rc.

[Wee Man]

Easily Runecrafting is the harder of the 2. It takes a lot longer to get and is incredibly boring but requires a lot of attention, whereas slayer is incredibly varied requires less attention and is faster xp.

[Niko612]

RCing is definatly harder to get to 99 then slayer, with slayer (now) you have the slayer points system after doing smoking kills. Now i'm not going to explain it right now cus thats what the main site is for but it is definatly an insentive for training with all the rewards (e.g. blocking terror birds or buying the slayer right). But with RC there are no insentives other than your origional motivation, and lets face it mentaly speaking you have to break up your RCing into smaller numbers otherwise whenever you bank you'd see some terribly large number of Pure ess staring you in the face. IMHO RCing is definatly much harder than slayer.

[langer]

Easily Runecrafting is the harder of the 2. It takes a lot longer to get and is incredibly boring but requires a lot of attention, whereas slayer is incredibly varied requires less attention and is faster xp.

 

 

 

I agree with your post except RC is better xp per hour than slayer (even with cannon).

 

 

 

Well, slayer has 20-30k XP an hour, + combat stats.

 

 

 

RC has 50k XP an hour, + **** all.

 

 

 

Slayer is the easier 99, i think, the easier 200 mill XP probably RC.

 

 

 

Well said, though getting 200 mil XP in RC with today's trade limits will probably not happen until the next 2-3 years.

[D Jay99]

Nothing in runescape is hard.

 

Runescape is long, not hard.

 

 

 

Both are pretty much 2 of the longest skills to get to 99/200m xp, but slayer is much more bareable. Runecrafting is very repetitive, and gets extremely boring in what.. an hour or less? It takes like 4 days for me to get bored of slayer like I do for RC.

 

 

 

So obviously slayer isnt "harder" than rc.

 

Which 'long' thing is 'harder'? That's what this is about, they both take a long time to level. But, how hard it is to stick to levelling?

[RayOxide]

Nothing in runescape is hard.

 

Runescape is long, not hard.

 

 

 

Both are pretty much 2 of the longest skills to get to 99/200m xp, but slayer is much more bareable. Runecrafting is very repetitive, and gets extremely boring in what.. an hour or less? It takes like 4 days for me to get bored of slayer like I do for RC.

 

 

 

So obviously slayer isnt "harder" than rc.

 

Which 'long' thing is 'harder'? That's what this is about, they both take a long time to level. But, how hard it is to stick to levelling?

 

 

 

RC is harder end of.

[OwnagePie]

I'd say slayer because you can actually die, plus every new task makes you equip something different, go to different places and etc.

[langer]

I'd say slayer because you can actually die, plus every new task makes you equip something different, go to different places and etc.

 

 

 

You can die when RCing too (abyss and ZMI). I don't know how going to different places or having different equipment makes it harder.

[Guest]

This is the $64,000 question and the only person who can really qualify to answer is someone who has 99'd both. I personally see more kudos in the slayer cape due to the slower xp gained per hour. Its all about personal preference too - You either like something or you dont.