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Smithing: Steel Bars or Cannonballs?

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Greetings all, I am currently at lvl 69 smithing, and is smithing steel bars. Aiming for 80 smithing. Was wondering whether cannonballs are worth the time for their exp (and cash). I still earn a decent amount of cash from the steel bars as I mine the iron and buy the coal. Any suggestions or advice are welcome.

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NEVER do cannonballs.

 

If you want something that is more AFKable and want some great cash do cannonballs otherwise do bars

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it takes 6.6 seconds to smith a steel bar into cannonballs

 

it takes 5.4 seconds to fire a dark bow, which has a action speed rating of 1 according to jagex

 

if we use jagex's own speed rating scale, smithing of cannonballs would have a speed rating of -1

yes, NEGATIVE 1

 

it just fails that much

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smelting iron ores and making arrow tips would be better and still profitable.

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Just kill green dragons for the money (bout 450k per hour?), then mith plate it.

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If you do decide to smelt/smith I'd suggest Mith plates with SC hammers. SC hammers saves time and cash overall. I dont know about profit/losses now but I used to do this before SC hammers where out. I used the Blast Furnace and then alched the plates. Best of luck to you.

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Thank you all for generous advice, I will just stick with steel bars.

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