I want to train to 94 mage, and maybe eventually 99. Anyone have any advice on how to go about doing this, keeping in mind that cost is a major factor?

Stick to alcing, or should I be using Ancients to train? Any help is appreciated.

Ancients are mad expensive, but I take it you were thinking of going to a multi combat area and ice bursting everything? I doubt that would work out too well without prayer.

 

 

 

High alching is a good way, especially if you're able to make a profit off of what you're alching. Otherwise, I strongly suggest the mage training arena enchanting mini game as it is also a source of extra death and blood runes to cast ice barrage when you do hit 94 magic. Up until 87 magic you will need to have a mud staff and cast enchant lvl 5 jewellery, afterwards you can cast level 6 enchant jewellery with a lava staff. In order to help you make your decision, I'll include the math based on your high score lookup. This is also accounting for the fact that you receive 25% less xp from enchanting spells in the mage training arena.

 

 

 

79-87 magic: 39608 x lvl 5 enchant casts.

 

87-94 magic: 54466 x lvl 6 enchant casts

 

Overall: 91374 cosmics

 

 

 

You have two options, which is buying the cosmics or the rune essence to craft the cosmics, both of which are acceptable because you are high enough runecrafting to make 2 cosmics per rune essence. I'm using the average price for cosmics, but it can only be approximate because of fluxuating(sp?) prices.

 

 

 

Pure essence: 45687 x 155 gp = 7,081,485 gp

 

Cosmic runes: 91374 x 161 gp = 14,711,214 gp

 

 

 

Hope this helps, and good luck getting 94 magic!

Thank you very much. I'll certainly being looking at that as an alternative to High Alcing. Just one question: whats the XP rate on enchanting in the mage arena,and aproximately how much are the rewards worth?