spirit trees

[cowmaster187]

soon i shall have the ability to have another spirit tree.

 

i am looking for a basic idea of where the best place is to put it.

 

of the three places i have all ready eliminated one because of the cabbage port.

 

so what do you guys think

 

brimhaven?

or

ecteria?

 

which do you think has the most benefits for being there? i have no real preference because they both are about equal in difficulty to get to already

 

~~~legoman187~~~

[aspeeder]

I'd opt for Brimhaven, it's far from most teles except glory to Karamja and charter ships but Ecteria is close to a fairy ring with is extremely easy to get to with a slayer ring.

[K4ylan]

Brimhaven has a house teleport(which I use), glory, and Karamja Gloves 3. I'd go with Etceteria, you can just make a house in Brimhaven, or get K Gloves 3.

[the_korny]

I'd go Brimhaven. There isn't really anything in Etceteria other than the bush patch and you can just run from fairy ring. Whereas Brimhaven is near the Agility Arena, a fruit tree patch, and Brimhaven penguins are often right there.

[Sy_Accursed]

Brimhaven wins hands down.

 

Yes it has house port; but houses are FAAAARRR more useful in rellekka for getting up that way.

The Glory spot is miles away on the other side of volcano.

 

Ecteria is a waste because its the wrong end of the island for collecting MTK profits, and there good end of the island has a fairy ring right by the castle, plus its not that useful for anything else as between frem boots, lyre, house port, lunars etc you can get everywhere else up there pretty fast anyway.

 

And as you said Sarim is a waste due to cabbage port and draynor glory

[lordkafei]

I put mine in Etceteria. It's in the perfect place - you pass by all the activities (teaks, maples, mahoganies, coal, etc) on the way to the castle. You can make your runs to Etceteria from the GE and go right back to sell your wares. It makes MTK painless & easy.

[Sy_Accursed]

I put mine in Etceteria. It's in the perfect place - you pass by all the activities (teaks, maples, mahoganies, coal, etc) on the way to the castle. You can make your runs to Etceteria from the GE and go right back to sell your wares. It makes MTK painless & easy.

 

Doesnt the fairy ring do the exact same thing?

 

It's right outside the ge and you run past the coal and maples as u come round the castle.

Plus its less distance to run than the spirit tree. and you can go right bk again

[lordkafei]

I put mine in Etceteria. It's in the perfect place - you pass by all the activities (teaks, maples, mahoganies, coal, etc) on the way to the castle. You can make your runs to Etceteria from the GE and go right back to sell your wares. It makes MTK painless & easy.

 

Doesnt the fairy ring do the exact same thing?

 

It's right outside the ge and you run past the coal and maples as u come round the castle.

Plus its less distance to run than the spirit tree. and you can go right bk again

 

The spirit tree is inside the GE walls (unlike the rings) and I don't have to fetch a staff from the bank to use it.

[Sy_Accursed]

I put mine in Etceteria. It's in the perfect place - you pass by all the activities (teaks, maples, mahoganies, coal, etc) on the way to the castle. You can make your runs to Etceteria from the GE and go right back to sell your wares. It makes MTK painless & easy.

 

Doesnt the fairy ring do the exact same thing?

 

It's right outside the ge and you run past the coal and maples as u come round the castle.

Plus its less distance to run than the spirit tree. and you can go right bk again

 

The spirit tree is inside the GE walls (unlike the rings) and I don't have to fetch a staff from the bank to use it.

 

True but dont you have to fetch a pick or axe from the bank anyway when going to do MTK?

[Laura]

I put mine in Etceteria. It's in the perfect place - you pass by all the activities (teaks, maples, mahoganies, coal, etc) on the way to the castle. You can make your runs to Etceteria from the GE and go right back to sell your wares. It makes MTK painless & easy.

 

Doesnt the fairy ring do the exact same thing?

 

It's right outside the ge and you run past the coal and maples as u come round the castle.

Plus its less distance to run than the spirit tree. and you can go right bk again

 

The spirit tree is inside the GE walls (unlike the rings) and I don't have to fetch a staff from the bank to use it.

 

True but dont you have to fetch a pick or axe from the bank anyway when going to do MTK?

With barbarian fishing techniques one does not require any equipment.

[Sy_Accursed]

That is true Laura, but on neither route do you run past the fishing spots. And the argument for his case was you run past all the wc spots and the mine spot on the way, my case was you run past the mine n wc spot.

 

Thereofre you require a pick or an axe (if aiming to be most efficient) whihc would imply you have to bank anyway, which gives a chance to get dramen/lunar staff out, which makes fairy ring just as easy an option as spirit tree.

Thus making it kind a waste to put the spirit tree on ecteria, when it is so much more useful in brimahven.

[lordkafei]

Brimhaven is utterly useless for those of us with level 3 Karamja gloves (close proximity to a 10gp cart ride).

 

And the GE spirit tree is still closer to the exchange than the rings, and much quicker to use than the ring process.

[Sy_Accursed]

Brimhaven is utterly useless for those of us with level 3 Karamja gloves (close proximity to a 10gp cart ride).

 

And the GE spirit tree is still closer to the exchange than the rings, and much quicker to use than the ring process.

 

Cart rides take a while though

 

From what I've read all over the place assuming you have all teleport options available brimhaven is the best option as it is the most useful location that lacks other direct teleport options.

Yes glory and gloves 3 tele to karamja, but neither are directly to brimhaven or right next to a farming patch.

 

I cant see spirit tree making MTK faster than fairy ring, as although its a quicker tele you have a much greater distance to run, especially since to dial to MTK you only need to change 1 dial if i remember rightly.

[De_Lille_D]

- Advantage for putting it in Brimhaven: Fruit tree, Agility Arena, Cart to Shilo [if you don't have Karam gloves 3], Brimhaven Dungeon, Monty (daily pineapples), Frequent penguin location

...Other ways of getting there: Glory to Karamja (long walk), Ardougne tele (long walk + 30 gp), Shilo cart (??? gp + long walk + Karam gloves 3)

 

- Advantage of putting it in Etcertia: Bush Patch, MTK

... Other ways of getting there: Fairy ring (CIP)

 

Why not to chose Etcertia:

The only reason to chose Etcertia, would be if you do a lot of Farming (Fairy ring would be faster for MTK), but if you farm, you'll need to go to Brimhaven too. So, even if the only reason to go to Brimhaven would be the fruit tree, it would be as good as Etcertia. However, there are more reasons, and that's why Brimhaven wins hands down.

[Sy_Accursed]

- Advantage for putting it in Brimhaven: Fruit tree, Agility Arena, Cart to Shilo [if you don't have Karam gloves 3], Brimhaven Dungeon, Monty (daily pineapples), Frequent penguin location

...Other ways of getting there: Glory to Karamja (long walk), Ardougne tele (long walk + 30 gp), Shilo cart (??? gp + long walk + Karam gloves 3)

 

- Advantage of putting it in Etcertia: Bush Patch, MTK

... Other ways of getting there: Fairy ring (CIP)

 

Why not to chose Etcertia:

The only reason to chose Etcertia, would be if you do a lot of Farming (Fairy ring would be faster for MTK), but if you farm, you'll need to go to Brimhaven too. So, even if the only reason to go to Brimhaven would be the fruit tree, it would be as good as Etcertia. However, there are more reasons, and that's why Brimhaven wins hands down.

 

In addition to you're farming point arguable any good farmer will tell you bushes are not really worth the xp unless the patch is like right there on you're route. You mainly do allotments and herbs for small but fast xp and trees for slow but huge xp. With specials for decent xp and money too. Which equally makes brim > Ecteria

[Sinkhan]

 

In addition to you're farming point arguable any good farmer will tell you bushes are not really worth the xp unless the patch is like right there on you're route. You mainly do allotments and herbs for small but fast xp and trees for slow but huge xp. With specials for decent xp and money too. Which equally makes brim > Ecteria

 

On checking, poison ivy gives 675 XP instantly + 180 from berries. It also doesn't require any supercompost, but it is still guaranteed to grow into a mature plant. A cadantine or lantadyme seed, the closest ones to the poison ivy in terms of level requirements, require supercompost, can possibly die, take longer to pick, and need >7 herbs to beat the XP of a poison ivy bush.

[Sy_Accursed]

 

In addition to you're farming point arguable any good farmer will tell you bushes are not really worth the xp unless the patch is like right there on you're route. You mainly do allotments and herbs for small but fast xp and trees for slow but huge xp. With specials for decent xp and money too. Which equally makes brim > Ecteria

 

On checking, poison ivy gives 675 XP instantly + 180 from berries. It also doesn't require any supercompost, but it is still guaranteed to grow into a mature plant. A cadantine or lantadyme seed, the closest ones to the poison ivy in terms of level requirements, require supercompost, can possibly die, take longer to pick, and need >7 herbs to beat the XP of a poison ivy bush.

 

That may be true but it still stands that any good farmer and pretty much all the good guides don;t really recommend doing bushs. As the xp:time:money ratio on them is aweful compared to others.

[Sinkhan]

 

That may be true but it still stands that any good farmer and pretty much all the good guides don;t really recommend doing bushs. As the xp:time:money ratio on them is aweful compared to others.

 

Many of you will probably decide bushes are not worth it. I do not believe so. They are often overlooked. They do not give a lot of xp, but its quick and profitable.

[Merre]

I chose etceteria for the obvious reason: it's faster getting to Brimhaven with ardy tele and pickpocket guard for 30coins than to having to get to a fairy ring and look up the code to get to MTK ring :P

[pgmr185]

I think that one of the problems is that none of the locations are very useful. I've got mine in Brimhaven, and use it maybe once a week on a treasure trail, or chasing penguins. I actually use it so rarely that if I need to get there, I completely forget that I have the tree and get there some other way

 

If I had it in Etceteria I'd probably use it 1-2 times a month, if I bothered to care enough to check the bush patch.

 

Not much of a loss either way.

[cowmaster187]

intresting amount of conversatio about which is best.

 

follow up info:

 

about bushes

i do bushes because i get one run in a day and bushes get me about 3k xp total (i dont hink i use all of them)

about excteria

while farming i always have my lunar staff so that is no big deal.

about brim: i have kar 3 gloves but usually i charter from catherby to brim cause it is on the way from the catherby fruit tree sort of.

 

consensus about the port sarim patch= useless

 

so i am still not sure where to put it.

 

so far the best argument is for brim.

 

~~~legoman187~~~

[i_D_r]

theyre all useless, but i choose ecteria cause of when I do MTK its easy to replant yer spirit tree there.

[Sinkhan]

To be perfectly honest, you might just be better off keeping the seed and hoping your hardest like I am and Jagex releases an update to provide new patches that don't have a whole bunch of equal if not superior alternatives.

 

If you get more than one seed, then plant it in the spot that you decide from this thread. But even then, I'm leaning towards holding onto mine.

[010jonathan]

I got my spirit tree at port sarim cause of its easy access so I can get quick in the spirit tree transportation. I dislike the spirit tree at the G.E. cause of the no familiar issues

[Zaaps1]

Brimhaven tree is the absolute FASTEST way to get to the Brimhaven tree patch, house teleport is pretty competitively close, but it's a fairly expensive tele for those on lunars and your house, for farming, is better suited at Rimmington for the bush patch. You can easily access a spirit tree using MA tele, either via the spell or the duelling ring. There should be no excuse for not being able to readily access a spirit tree.

 

Etceteria, on the other hand, is far less useful. True, it's closer to resources that let you replenish your favor, but such actions for the typical player are only conducted on a periodical, not regular, basis. And when they are conducted, they are usually done along with collecting items from MTK and perhaps refilling the coffers, which would require a trip to the other side of the island. This trip is easily accomplished with Fairy Rings, and can easily be accessed using the Slayer Ring or Glory Amulet (Edgeville).

 

Port Sarim is totally worthless. Before MA update, I would have recommended it here so you could have a close Spirit Tree to a teleport, but nowadays there should be no reason to have a tree here.