Is 99 firemaking much easier to get now?

[mlclm]

Willows are still a waste of time and time is money. Some calculations:

 

 

 

Willow cost 8 ea and maples 32 ea. You need 144k willows for 99 fm or 96k maples. Thats a cost of 1.15m for willows or 3.07m for maples.

 

 

 

If you burn 1200 logs per hour it takes you 120 hours with willows to 99 or 80 hours with maples. So you save 1.92m but need 40 hours more. Thats 48k per hour and I think you can earn more than that per hour. (For 1000 logs per hour speed it's 40k per hour you need to earn.)

 

I'm surprised more people haven't payed attention to this. Willows are actually more expensive to train because with the "extra" 40 hours from burning maples, you could make a lot more than 2m. With the (pretty conservative) assumption of 300k an hour, player y will make 12m in that 40 hours, with a profit of 8.93m. That brings the cost of willows up from 1.15m to 13.15m which equates to 91gp each log. So, really, if player y trains with willows, it's about 3x the cost and 1.5x the time. That hardly seems desirable.

[mlclm]

Willows are still a waste of time and time is money. Some calculations:

 

 

 

Willow cost 8 ea and maples 32 ea. You need 144k willows for 99 fm or 96k maples. Thats a cost of 1.15m for willows or 3.07m for maples.

 

 

 

If you burn 1200 logs per hour it takes you 120 hours with willows to 99 or 80 hours with maples. So you save 1.92m but need 40 hours more. Thats 48k per hour and I think you can earn more than that per hour. (For 1000 logs per hour speed it's 40k per hour you need to earn.)

 

I'm surprised more people haven't payed attention to this. Willows are actually more expensive to train because with the "extra" 40 hours from burning maples, you could make a lot more than 2m. With the (pretty conservative) assumption of 300k an hour, player y will make 12m in that 40 hours, with a profit of 8.93m. That brings the cost of willows up from 1.15m to 13.15m which equates to 91gp each log. So, really, if player y trains with willows, it's about 3x the cost and 1.5x the time. That hardly seems desirable.