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Combat or Skills?

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I was wondering if it's easier to get 99 is a combat skill(Att, def, str, mage, range) or a skill(crafting, construction, herblore, etc.) By easier i mean cheap, and takes the least amount of time. I understand combat can be cheap as long as you get the right equipment, and that skills may be expensive to get to 99, but they can earn you the money back fast. So any suggestions?

 

 

 

EDIT: I might not have been clear enough ;)

 

By easy i mean what takes the shortest amount of time. And if there's an answer to what skill to train, i'd like some training suggestions too.

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I believe that it's not how easy a 99 skill is achieved, however it's how long it will take to achieve 99 in a skill. Experiment as see which skill takes the less amount of time to level it up, and then of course, getting it to level 99.

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Well cooking and fletching are probably the easiest ones, and both are very cheap and fast.

 

 

 

If you have money maybe consider ranged for a combat? Or if you like sc and skills then crafting, con or smithing?

 

 

 

Melee stats are medium 99s imo, same sort of difficulty as wc or hunter.

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2000+ total with 5 99's, fletching, cooking, attack, thieving and firemaking

Well once you have all the charms, summoning is fairly fast. Also Hunter is fast, really fast. If you try i hear you can get 1-99 in 5 weeks.

 

 

 

As for the other combat stats, they very depending on what the others are. With low attack and str you're gonna get lower rates.

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Combat or Skills?

 

Why not both? :thumbsup:

 

 

 

 

I was wondering if it's easier to get 99 is a combat skill(Att, def, str, mage, range) or a skill(crafting, construction, herblore, etc.) By easier i mean cheap, and takes the least amount of time

 

Well from what i can tell combat would be faster and cheaper as a means of something like Soul Wars, Pest Control and Slayer. Combat makes profit and there is somewhat an essence of variety. Whereas skills like Construction and Herblore take time, a lot of money.

 

 

 

tl:dr (lazy)

 

Skills take less time but more Money. Combat possibly more time but less money.

 

 

 

 

I understand combat can be cheap as long as you get the right equipment, and that skills may be expensive to get to 99, but they can earn you the money back fast. So any suggestions?

 

Yes. Slayer is a pretty decent way of making money/charms/clues (which can lead to good rewards)

 

I mean, think about it. If you are 60 Slayer and you slay to 85, you not only open up a good way of making money (camping demons which is semi-decent) but you get a butload of Charms and Clue Scrolls. Who knows, you may even get Third Age from a Clue Scroll. Rare, but lucky and rewarding. Usually if a skill takes 50M to get to 99 chances are its not going to make it back after 99 anytime soon.

 

Example: 99 Construction. Costs 70M+ (not entirely sure) Once you hit 99. not many ways to make it back. Unless your Gilded Altar you charge 10k per person entry. :ohnoes:

 

 

 

 

By easy i mean what takes the shortest amount of time. And if there's an answer to what skill to train, i'd like some training suggestions too.

 

Short time: Skills. Skills are unique because basically the best thing to train on is the closest available. But cost a lot.

 

With combat its not so unique because you can train on a monster than you may or may not be able to defeat. Like a level: 100 on Lesser Demons.. Then later training on experiments.

 

 

 

Hope this somewhat helped.

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If you're just looking for a fast and cheap 99, I understand that thieving goes very quickly and costs next to nothing.

 

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Well cooking and fletching are probably the easiest ones, and both are very cheap and fast.

 

 

 

Melee stats are medium 99s imo, same sort of difficulty as wc or hunter.

 

 

 

 

 

QFT

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strong need for e-spect? imo get a firecape and train slayer. the 99 melees and high level slayer will be worth it in the end.

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With theiving you earn approx 5M, and it took me only 8 days from 65-99 :P Also, the cape is alot more respected then fletching, cooking and firemaking. Oh, and it looks awesome ;)

Well cooking and fletching are probably the easiest ones, and both are very cheap and fast.

 

 

 

If you have money maybe consider ranged for a combat? Or if you like sc and skills then crafting, con or smithing?

 

 

 

Melee stats are medium 99s imo, same sort of difficulty as wc or hunter.

 

 

 

 

 

lol not only is it cheap to 99 fletch last i checked u make 17m getting it, but it was b4 the big rise in everything

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If you're just looking for a fast and cheap 99, I understand that thieving goes very quickly and costs next to nothing.

 

 

 

I made 2m from thieving, and yes it's 250k exp/hr after 91 thief.

Well once you have all the charms, summoning is fairly fast. Also Hunter is fast, really fast. If you try i hear you can get 1-99 in 5 weeks.

 

 

 

As for the other combat stats, they very depending on what the others are. With low attack and str you're gonna get lower rates.

 

 

 

5 weeks is slow, but you can get quicker ;)

 

 

 

It's not overally fast, 120kexp/hr I think.

 

 

 

Well cooking and fletching are probably the easiest ones, and both are very cheap and fast.

 

 

 

Melee stats are medium 99s imo, same sort of difficulty as wc or hunter.

 

 

 

 

 

QFT

 

 

 

Tru dat

 

 

 

With theiving you earn approx 5M, and it took me only 8 days from 65-99 :P Also, the cape is alot more respected then fletching, cooking and firemaking. Oh, and it looks awesome ;)

 

 

 

Ooh another member of the club 8-)

 

 

 

Well cooking and fletching are probably the easiest ones, and both are very cheap and fast.

 

 

 

If you have money maybe consider ranged for a combat? Or if you like sc and skills then crafting, con or smithing?

 

 

 

Melee stats are medium 99s imo, same sort of difficulty as wc or hunter.

 

 

 

 

 

lol not only is it cheap to 99 fletch last i checked u make 17m getting it, but it was b4 the big rise in everything

 

 

 

17m, pssh never. I heard you can still make money from 99? Why did I get it right after skillcapes came out: The price surge in materials soared! :wall:

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2000+ total with 5 99's, fletching, cooking, attack, thieving and firemaking

Fletching, cooking, firemaking and thieving are all quick 99's. Combat skills take longer, but are worth it in the end. When you get 99 thieving/firemaking/cooking/fletching you'll be saying...Now what? If you get max combat skills you can solo gwd, go corp. beast and do basically anything in that category, and it's a lot of fun. It requires more work, but it definitely pays off.

 

 

 

PS: get max combat skills off slayer; you'll be kicking yourself if you train combat via other methods :ohnoes:

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[hide=]If you're just looking for a fast and cheap 99, I understand that thieving goes very quickly and costs next to nothing.

 

 

 

I made 2m from thieving, and yes it's 250k exp/hr after 91 thief.

Well once you have all the charms, summoning is fairly fast. Also Hunter is fast, really fast. If you try i hear you can get 1-99 in 5 weeks.

 

 

 

As for the other combat stats, they very depending on what the others are. With low attack and str you're gonna get lower rates.

 

 

 

5 weeks is slow, but you can get quicker ;)

 

 

 

It's not overally fast, 120kexp/hr I think.

 

 

 

Well cooking and fletching are probably the easiest ones, and both are very cheap and fast.

 

 

 

Melee stats are medium 99s imo, same sort of difficulty as wc or hunter.

 

 

 

 

 

QFT

 

 

 

Tru dat

 

 

 

With theiving you earn approx 5M, and it took me only 8 days from 65-99 :P Also, the cape is alot more respected then fletching, cooking and firemaking. Oh, and it looks awesome ;)

 

 

 

Ooh another member of the club 8-)

 

 

 

Well cooking and fletching are probably the easiest ones, and both are very cheap and fast.

 

 

 

If you have money maybe consider ranged for a combat? Or if you like sc and skills then crafting, con or smithing?

 

 

 

Melee stats are medium 99s imo, same sort of difficulty as wc or hunter.

 

 

 

 

 

lol not only is it cheap to 99 fletch last i checked u make 17m getting it, but it was b4 the big rise in everything

 

 

 

17m, pssh never. I heard you can still make money from 99? Why did I get it right after skillcapes came out: The price surge in materials soared! :wall:[/hide]

 

 

 

 

 

ok im wondering wat is the way u got 99 theive? is it from pyramid plunder

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Most skills can be trained cheaply to 99, just not very efficiently

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I believe the fastest ones are Cooking, Firemaking and Fletching (Considering someone got over 140M fletching xp in a month...)

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