I'm trying to get to 70 smithing in order to be able to complete the varrock achievement diary. I'm looking for the best option for some one who has a limited budget (about 3.5m)

 

 

 

any help would be appreciated :thumbsup:

Go play Stealing Creation and get as many tools as you need. Once done playing you can either make steel platebodies of mithril bolts (u). I think the steel bodies would be cheaper. To make it even more cheap you could also try playing the Blast Furnace minigame to make it cheaper (it cuts the amount of coal needed in half).

i looked into mith bolts and figured the cost to be around 3.5m-4m without using the morphic tools as for steel platebodys... not sure how that would be cheaper

Check out Dan's Blast Furnace Guide for a way to quickly train smithing that profits. You might want to check the prices to make sure they haven't changed to much but you will most likely be able to train and make a small bit of cash.

Ok I calculated this for you. (This is buying the bars at min)

 

 

 

You need to use 8,682 steel bars to get to 70. Thats going to cost 7,244,972 gp. With the SC hammers it will be 3,672,486 gp.

 

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Using mithril bars you need 6,511 bars. That costs 8,828,916 gp. With the SC Hammers it will be 4,414,458 gp.

 

 

 

This is selling the items back at min price (if they sell).

 

 

 

You'll make 1,737 Steel Platbodies. If you manage to sell them back at min price, you'll get 2,258,100 back.

 

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You'll make 65,110 Mithril Bolts (u). If you manage to sell back at min price, you'll get 5,308,200 back.

 

 

 

So if you don't include sell the items back, it will be cheaper to make steel platebodies. But once you sell them you will make a loss while if you do the bolts you'll make a profit.

 

 

 

Also doing platebodies will make it go faster as you will go through bars faster.