exp rates in f2p

[intervention]

Hey, due to next year being my last year of school I have decided to put school before runescape (I did already but next year it will be to a greater extent). So I was thinking about getting all f2p stats 70+ which is just smithing, mining and rc. I was also thinking about getting fishing and range up.

I was wondering about the exp per hour rates at these places:

 

Ranging Ice Giants with bronze arrows:

 

Fishing lobsters on karamja:

 

Power mining iron:

 

rune crafting airs:

 

cost of cheapest method of getting 70 smith:

 

I think thats all, thanks in advance!

[Zaaps1]

I can tell you that ranging Flesh Crawlers/Giant Spiders is the best ranging xp (look to my combat guide for more info) and gets 30-35k xp/hr.

 

Powermining Iron technically can get up to 42k or even 45k xp/hr, but more realistically you should expect to average at 30-35k in f2p.

[intervention]

I can tell you that ranging Flesh Crawlers/Giant Spiders is the best ranging xp (look to my combat guide for more info) and gets 30-35k xp/hr.

 

Powermining Iron technically can get up to 42k or even 45k xp/hr, but more realistically you should expect to average at 30-35k in f2p.

Thanks for that! Looks like 99 range would take me way too long. iron on the other hand won't take that long so I'll defenetly be doing that.

[Gin_and_Tonic]

Why not use your cash to buy 99 range in p2p? It doesn't take long and you'll be using up money that you wouldn't usually need in f2p.

[intervention]

Why not use your cash to buy 99 range in p2p? It doesn't take long and you'll be using up money that you wouldn't usually need in f2p.

99 prayer killed my cash pile and am currently 10m short of chinning to 99. If I make more cash I will get before I go f2p but if not I will just get after next year. I'm not in any rush to get 99 range it was just something to do in f2p.

[intervention]

I think I am intitled to a bump because it is off the first page and my questions remain unanswered.

[Youmu]

Hey, due to next year being my last year of school I have decided to put school before runescape (I did already but next year it will be to a greater extent). So I was thinking about getting all f2p stats 70+ which is just smithing, mining and rc. I was also thinking about getting fishing and range up.

I was wondering about the exp per hour rates at these places:

 

Ranging Ice Giants with bronze arrows: Forget ice giants, ranging flesh crawlers are better exp/hour, at about 30k-ish.

 

Fishing lobsters on karamja: Forget lobsters, fish trout/salmon using feathers. About 25k-30k exp/hour, I've heard.

 

Power mining iron: With rune pickaxe, roughly 30k-35k exp/hour.

 

rune crafting airs: Forget airs, earths with gloves are better. Earths (with gloves): 13.5k exp/hour.

 

cost of cheapest method of getting 70 smith: Steel bars make profit if you buy iron and coal ores. Not very good exp/hour though, about 10k-ish.

 

I think thats all, thanks in advance!

Bolded, hope that helped.

[intervention]

Hey, due to next year being my last year of school I have decided to put school before runescape (I did already but next year it will be to a greater extent). So I was thinking about getting all f2p stats 70+ which is just smithing, mining and rc. I was also thinking about getting fishing and range up.

I was wondering about the exp per hour rates at these places:

 

Ranging Ice Giants with bronze arrows: Forget ice giants, ranging flesh crawlers are better exp/hour, at about 30k-ish.

 

Fishing lobsters on karamja: Forget lobsters, fish trout/salmon using feathers. About 25k-30k exp/hour, I've heard.

 

Power mining iron: With rune pickaxe, roughly 30k-35k exp/hour.

 

rune crafting airs: Forget airs, earths with gloves are better. Earths (with gloves): 13.5k exp/hour.

 

cost of cheapest method of getting 70 smith: Steel bars make profit if you buy iron and coal ores. Not very good exp/hour though, about 10k-ish.

 

I think thats all, thanks in advance!

Bolded, hope that helped.

 

thanks for the infomation. I only want to know the exp for lobsters though because I can do homework while fishing and I don't have to worry too much about whats happening on runescape.

[Youmu]

thanks for the infomation. I only want to know the exp for lobsters though because I can do homework while fishing and I don't have to worry too much about whats happening on runescape.

In that case it would be far less, it's about 15k or so exp/hour.

 

Also, if you wish to level up smithing, buy iron bars and nats, and make iron platebodies and alch. Dunno about the exp rates as I'm too poor for that.

[intervention]

hmmm thanks, hardly seems worth it.

[Skull]

Basically, after being a member f2p is painfully slow.

 

You've got pretty good answers for everything so far I think but I'll give you what I found for some of them.

 

Lobsters are about 15-20k, but it tends to fluctuate a bit. Making use of the cabbage teleport will help get it towards the higher end of that range. I haven't fished lobsters in almost a year though I think.

 

Powermining I averaged about 28-33k an hour depending on how much attention I paid to the actual mining. Being in a clan chat dropped me about 5k an hour, so if you're like me, avoid that.

 

Crafting airs I crafted 1k ess an hour almost exactly back when the alter was in falador. With the bard on the path from the bank to the alter now you might be looking at 1.1k, maybe. I haven't actually tested it. So 5.5k without gloves, still probably about 10 at the most with gloves since you have to run over to FOG, buy them and come back. It might even be less than 10k. If you get Air alter tabs from GOP and use telly to fally (I think that's the closest teleport to a bank, I could be wrong though) you're looking at something like 3 or 4k ess an hour. I can't stand that game though so I don't think I ever got enough tabs to do an hour of testing.

 

Smithing I went with superheating mithril. At the time I made a small profit off it as well as getting magic experience, but I'd honestly say it's not worth the hassle. Smithing is one of those skills where spending the cash to smith instead of smelt is definitely worth it.

[Youmu]

Crafting airs I crafted 1k ess an hour almost exactly back when the alter was in falador. With the bard on the path from the bank to the alter now you might be looking at 1.1k, maybe. I haven't actually tested it. So 5.5k without gloves, still probably about 10 at the most with gloves since you have to run over to FOG, buy them and come back. It might even be less than 10k. If you get Air alter tabs from GOP and use telly to fally (I think that's the closest teleport to a bank, I could be wrong though) you're looking at something like 3 or 4k ess an hour. I can't stand that game though so I don't think I ever got enough tabs to do an hour of testing.

Keep in mind that with Explorer's Ring 3 you can get extra runes and exp, so that's why I said 13.5k exp/hour with earths instead of 13k exp/hour.

 

Also, with my experience of crafting airs, I don't actually recall myself getting 5.5k exp/hour. More like 6.5k exp/hour or something. It's closer to the bank than you think.

 

Still, airs are not worth it. You're better off crafting waters for pure cash, earths if you play Fist of Guthix a lot, or fires for pure experience.

[Skull]

I know for a fact that with the alter in the old location you wouldn't be able to craft 1.3k ess an hour unless you were doing it with high agility before it got removed from F2P. I remember reading that the new location was the exact same distance from the bank, so I'm doubtful that you'd be getting rates like that now.

 

Of course I don't even play anymore so I might not be the best source of information.