[hide=Question]I know this is a bit of a lazy question, but it's been a while since i've looked into getting my first 99.

I have about 40mil to spend - could some briefly list some of the skills i could get, with the best method?

 

I can do the math.

 

For instance... 99 cooking with raw trout till 92 and then monks thereafter. Or 99 crafting with green dragon hide chaps.

 

I'm just looking into buyables at the moment.

 

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Thank you bladewing and others who took time to reply :mrgreen:

 

Question answered!

Firemaking is doable either maples or euc's.

Cooking I'd go swordfish to about 90 then monks the sharks once you hit 94. This is using the gauntlets to reduce loss.

 

Magic should be buyable with your budget, but the method depends on personal preference more then anything.

Maples are much, much more efficient for firemaking. Just use them all the way up.

 

Cooking is a blend; judge for yourself what you'd like to use to move up; consider the buy vs. sell price for cooked/uncooked and what margin is acceptable.

 

Herblore is expensive unless you use really garbage items. One way to level for free is to use Miscellania and create potions like Serum 107 with Tarromin/Ash. Downside: this will take forever.

 

Farming is a balance: you can offset losses from trees with profits of herb farming. Toadflax is best until your level is higher, and then use higher yield to get snaps, ranarr, etc. to offset losses.

 

Smithing is cheaper than ever, particularly if you use Stealing Creation Hammers. This cuts the cost clean in half, and you can divide the margin by making things like mith bolts, adamant arrowtips, etc.

Crafting - 50m with green bodies and SC; 42m with air battlestaves

Smithing - 21m with iron knives and SC; 45m with addy arrowtips and SC; 54m with gold; 74m with addy plates and SC

Construction - 59m with Oak and SC; 67m with Teak and SC; 100m with Mahogany and SC

Cooking - not too sure, depends on what prices you can buy/sell fish at; previous calculations showed 5-8m

Farming - depends on how quickly you want to level.

Firemaking - 2.8m with Maples; 28m with eucs; 30m with yews

Fletching - ~0m with Yew longs; 8m with Magic longs; 20m with adamant bolts; +78m with broad bolts

Herblore - hard to tell for near future; previous estimates range from 160-250m

Prayer - 180-200m

 

Hope these helped.

Crafting - 50m with green bodies and SC; 42m with air battlestaves

Smithing - 21m with iron knives and SC; 45m with addy arrowtips and SC; 54m with gold; 74m with addy plates and SC

Construction - 59m with Oak and SC; 67m with Teak and SC; 100m with Mahogany and SC

Cooking - not too sure, depends on what prices you can buy/sell fish at; previous calculations showed 5-8m

Farming - depends on how quickly you want to level.

Firemaking - 2.8m with Maples; 28m with eucs; 30m with yews

Fletching - ~0m with Yew longs; 8m with Magic longs; 20m with adamant bolts; +78m with broad bolts

Herblore - hard to tell for near future; previous estimates range from 160-250m

Prayer - 180-200m

 

Hope these helped.

 

 

I want to get my third cape but i only have little more than 20m to spend, so i have question, does it only cost 21m to buy iron bars and smith iron knives to get 99 smithing? or do i have to smelt the ores to? becourse i hate smelting=)

And 50m to craft green bodies, is it including selling the bodies and buy new d hides all the time?

 

i hope u can understand what i mean, not that good in eng:) ty

Crafting - 50m with green bodies and SC; 42m with air battlestaves

Smithing - 21m with iron knives and SC; 45m with addy arrowtips and SC; 54m with gold; 74m with addy plates and SC

Construction - 59m with Oak and SC; 67m with Teak and SC; 100m with Mahogany and SC

Cooking - not too sure, depends on what prices you can buy/sell fish at; previous calculations showed 5-8m

Farming - depends on how quickly you want to level.

Firemaking - 2.8m with Maples; 28m with eucs; 30m with yews

Fletching - ~0m with Yew longs; 8m with Magic longs; 20m with adamant bolts; +78m with broad bolts

Herblore - hard to tell for near future; previous estimates range from 160-250m

Prayer - 180-200m

 

Hope these helped.

 

 

I want to get my third cape but i only have little more than 20m to spend, so i have question, does it only cost 21m to buy iron bars and smith iron knives to get 99 smithing? or do i have to smelt the ores to? becourse i hate smelting=)

And 50m to craft green bodies, is it including selling the bodies and buy new d hides all the time?

 

i hope u can understand what i mean, not that good in eng:) ty

Yep, I understand. The 21m figure for smithing is buying bars and selling knives. The 50m for green bodies is buying leathers and selling bodies. You could tan your own hides, but the true cost is 50m (there's an implicit opportunity cost of using leathers you tanned equal to their sale value).

Crafting - 50m with green bodies and SC; 42m with air battlestaves

Smithing - 21m with iron knives and SC; 45m with addy arrowtips and SC; 54m with gold; 74m with addy plates and SC

Construction - 59m with Oak and SC; 67m with Teak and SC; 100m with Mahogany and SC

Cooking - not too sure, depends on what prices you can buy/sell fish at; previous calculations showed 5-8m

Farming - depends on how quickly you want to level.

Firemaking - 2.8m with Maples; 28m with eucs; 30m with yews

Fletching - ~0m with Yew longs; 8m with Magic longs; 20m with adamant bolts; +78m with broad bolts

Herblore - hard to tell for near future; previous estimates range from 160-250m

Prayer - 180-200m

 

Hope these helped.

 

 

I want to get my third cape but i only have little more than 20m to spend, so i have question, does it only cost 21m to buy iron bars and smith iron knives to get 99 smithing? or do i have to smelt the ores to? becourse i hate smelting=)

And 50m to craft green bodies, is it including selling the bodies and buy new d hides all the time?

 

i hope u can understand what i mean, not that good in eng:) ty

Yep, I understand. The 21m figure for smithing is buying bars and selling knives. The 50m for green bodies is buying leathers and selling bodies. You could tan your own hides, but the true cost is 50m (there's an implicit opportunity cost of using leathers you tanned equal to their sale value).

 

 

Okej, cool:) then i think my next cape will be a smithing cape then:) thnx

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Crafting - 50m with green bodies and SC; 42m with air battlestaves

Smithing - 21m with iron knives and SC; 45m with addy arrowtips and SC; 54m with gold; 74m with addy plates and SC

Construction - 59m with Oak and SC; 67m with Teak and SC; 100m with Mahogany and SC

Cooking - not too sure, depends on what prices you can buy/sell fish at; previous calculations showed 5-8m

Farming - depends on how quickly you want to level.

Firemaking - 2.8m with Maples; 28m with eucs; 30m with yews

Fletching - ~0m with Yew longs; 8m with Magic longs; 20m with adamant bolts; +78m with broad bolts

Herblore - hard to tell for near future; previous estimates range from 160-250m

Prayer - 180-200m

 

Hope these helped.

 

 

I want to get my third cape but i only have little more than 20m to spend, so i have question, does it only cost 21m to buy iron bars and smith iron knives to get 99 smithing? or do i have to smelt the ores to? becourse i hate smelting=)

And 50m to craft green bodies, is it including selling the bodies and buy new d hides all the time?

 

i hope u can understand what i mean, not that good in eng:) ty

Yep, I understand. The 21m figure for smithing is buying bars and selling knives. The 50m for green bodies is buying leathers and selling bodies. You could tan your own hides, but the true cost is 50m (there's an implicit opportunity cost of using leathers you tanned equal to their sale value).

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Okej, cool:) then i think my next cape will be a smithing cape then:) thnx

 

Before you jump right into it and buy all the bars you need, wanted to say that iron knives are slow for smithing, something like 200 hours for 99 from a post I read a little while ago.

Here's the analysis of common smithing training methods I made in a 99 smithing thread a bit ago.

 

Well addy platebodies with SC is basically the most efficient way to go, once you have 88. It's about 340k xp, 1.9m coins, and 5.4 hammers per hour. It takes just over an hour to get get those hammers (you get about 5.3 hammers hourly in skill-only SC).

 

He needs 10.6m xp or so. He'll be looking at about 31 hours of actual smithing, 60m gp costs, and about 32 hours of SC.

 

Another popular method is iron knives, costing 1.62 coins per xp. You can smith about 900 bars hourly, if you smith 1 at a time (as you do with knives), and he'll need 212k iron bars to get to 99. This will take him 235 hours of smithing, 17.1m coins, and the 31 hours of SC.

 

Addy plates: 63 hours, 60m coins

Iron knives: 266 hours, 17.1m coins

 

Using addy plates saves you 203 hours at the cost of 42.9m, the equivalent of costing you 211k/hour. That rules knives out!

 

Another option is addy arrowtips. Again, you smith 900 bars hourly, but this time he'll only need 84k bars, which will take him 94.2 hours to smith. Addy tips will cost him 37m.

 

Addy plates: 63 hours, 60m coins

Addy arrowtips: 125 hours, 37m coins

 

Using addy plates saves you 62 hours at the cost of 23m coins, the equivalent of costing you 370k an hour. Addy plates are the best!

wow, that was some nice=)

 

first i need 75smithing if im going for addy arrowtip, so i will go for iron knifes till 75 then, and then i will start learn SC and get alot of hammers, and then back to smithing:)

 

thnx alot =)

i havent played in awhile...in all those exp rates the guy said sc.. what is sc and whats it do

i havent played in awhile...in all those exp rates the guy said sc.. what is sc and whats it do

SC, or Stealing Creation, is a members-only minigame based primarily on non-combat skills. You are rewarded with sacred clay tools which give double xp for a certain amount if experience. These tools are useful because they usually speed up training and cut costs.

Uhm.. what u said about 20-30m to 99, i started smithing addy arrowtip at 75 and soon im 85 smithing and im using SC hammers, so i think i have spend more than 10m so far :o

Uhm.. what u said about 20-30m to 99, i started smithing addy arrowtip at 75 and soon im 85 smithing and im using SC hammers, so i think i have spend more than 10m so far :o

How much are the Arrow tips worth? Remember that figure is after you sell them, not before.

Uhm.. what u said about 20-30m to 99, i started smithing addy arrowtip at 75 and soon im 85 smithing and im using SC hammers, so i think i have spend more than 10m so far :o

How much are the Arrow tips worth? Remember that figure is after you sell them, not before.

 

 

Okej i just got smithing 85 and i sold all arrowtips and its ends up with 7.5m left, i had 18m when i started from 75 smithing, and i done addy arrowtips with SC hammer all way. and i guess i will be around 90 if i use all the money, so anyone who calculated wrong?:S

Uhm.. what u said about 20-30m to 99, i started smithing addy arrowtip at 75 and soon im 85 smithing and im using SC hammers, so i think i have spend more than 10m so far :o

How much are the Arrow tips worth? Remember that figure is after you sell them, not before.

 

 

Okej i just got smithing 85 and i sold all arrowtips and its ends up with 7.5m left, i had 18m when i started from 75 smithing, and i done addy arrowtips with SC hammer all way. and i guess i will be around 90 if i use all the money, so anyone who calculated wrong?:S

Prices change.

well, that much?:S