im a tad confused about the part with the herbs under "farming run". there is not herb patch wher your dot says. it is a cactus patch

 

~~~legoman187~~~

Hmm, I mentioned this before:

 

Even though trees die 1-10 times without payment, I wonder in which cases its better to pay for every tree. 2 reasons.

 

1.) you are guaranteed the xp.

 

2.) You are guaranteed the fruit.

Cowmaster, that's because I recommend farming your cactus with your herbs.

 

Stonewall, that's true, but for the only case that really matters (other than periodic exceptions), yews are way to expensive to pay for anyway.

Now that Yew seeds are being merched, their prices are outrageous. Should I still buy them or wait for them to drop or buy maple seeds instead?

If an item is being merched, I have always stayed away from it. I would just buy maples, or if you are adamant on getting fast xp, maybe even magics if the price gets high enough.

Have you done any testing on what the best herb is for gp/xp ratio? EG, lants may be less profit/seed then snaps, but if the xp gained is great enough, you are saving on tree seeds. Just something I was wondering.

Have you done any testing on what the best herb is for gp/xp ratio? EG, lants may be less profit/seed then snaps, but if the xp gained is great enough, you are saving on tree seeds. Just something I was wondering.

 

Pretty easy to calculate. Find the difference in profit per 5 seeds, that's how much you would be "paying" for the difference in xp per 5 seeds. Divide and you have a gp/xp ratio. If it is higher than what you pay for trees, it's not worth it.

I can't do magics yet, so I do maples then, tyvm.

Going to start toward 99 farming on Sunday, and this is no doubt going to be a help. Should take just under 11 weeks. What fruit tree would you reccomend? I'm stuck between orange and curry. Curry is more xp, but bananas are hard to get, especially because of the double xp weekend and the high demand for summoning. Or, do you think pineapples would be better?

Pineapples and Maples seem the best

During my road to 99, I always used either palms or papaya, and rarely I used pineapples when I was in a pinch.

Torstols are by far the best seed now. Seems like they are the best xp AND the best money atm.

I'm not familiar with the market. Is it just because of the double xp weekend's effect, or have been been steadily increasing for a while now?

Torstol seeds are 110k and the herbs are 22k? They were but idk now.

For for double post but you might want to mention that Vinesweeper can be 1.2m profit/hr at 99 farming.

 

30 Gp per points (x) 38k-42k points hr.

Wow. You can get cash?

Wow. You can get cash?

No, that would be if you spend the points on poison ivy seeds, which cost 30 points and are worth ~900 gp.

On the topic of torstols and farming, I happened to buy some 350 torstol seeds back in November when they were ~25k, thinking I'd continue farming in the near future. I then promptly began a 4 month break, come back, and see that my seeds are now over 100k each. Simply: I bought the seeds for 9m, am now going to sell the herbs for 50m. Yay.

 

We'll have to keep an eye on the prices, indeed torstols are very good right now.

Haven't torstols been going up in price constantly since the update that added overloads to the game? I thought that the xp weekend just hastened the rise in their prices.

The best herb for gp is lantadyme. Herbs are 12k and seed is 28k.

On the topic of herb farming, I made a calc to reflect the typical best herbs since I can't manage to find one that someone gave me in the past. Someone check it over? First spreadsheet:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AuH40dSoQ3ccdHJ6RlRjUXZGbDRIaUN2a1puM0NLbXc&hl=en

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pI_Qb-gA9KF7sOg_AlHMDLg&gid=0 -- troacctid's calculator (I actually find the raw data page the most useful)

Out of curiosity, why clean herbs? I've never cleaned mine, is that something I should be doing?

Clean herbs, generally speaking, is herblore xp for a profit. The trouble is, it is click-heavy and it is extremely difficult to get your hands on the grimy herbs in such a big bulk.

 

So, while you're running from patch to patch, you waste no time cleaning your herbs and you increase your profit/get free or profitable herblore xp.

 

And that calc posted above seems to have an error on one of the herb values.

Great guide, very comprehensive.