Cheap Herblore Training

[Skeptical]

I would like to train my herblore up, preferably only spending a couple mil, while minimizing time.

 

I'm level 60, and am open to buying and collecting. I do farm quite a number of herbs per week, but obviously it's a slow way to collect them.

 

Fire away, and thanks in advance for the help. :thumbsup:

[Aiel]

cleaning herbs is going to be the only "cheap" way to do it. this wiki page shows xp:gp for most potions though. http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Calculators/Potions

[SirIzenhime]

YOu could make the Magic Essance potions from the Fairy Tale part 2 quest. You get your own items for it, so it's technically free. The only problem is it's not exactly fast :P. It's only cheap.

[Bladewing]

Clean the best herb you can, really. Or at least a high leveled one that profits.

[TheAncient]

Weapon poison ++ when you're at level 81 or above.

[iDr]

If you're only looking to spend a couple mil from 60 herblore, don't. Not worth it, since you probably don't have much to spare and that couple mil won't do squat for you in terms of benefits from leveling herblore. Get more money then do it.

[Bladewing]

Weapon poison ++ when you're at level 81 or above.

Too bad you have to manually gather the nightshade at like 120 an hour. :thumbdown: Don't do this method.

[Grimy_Bunyip]

Weapon poison ++ when you're at level 81 or above.

Too bad you have to manually gather the nightshade at like 120 an hour. :thumbdown: Don't do this method.

nothing inherently wrong with the nightshade method, it's a great thing to do while fletching/alching too

and if the market is right, it can net you alot of profit.

[Bladewing]

Meant don't do it as a primary method of training. Whenever I alch I gather nightshades.

[TheAncient]

Weapon poison ++ when you're at level 81 or above.

Too bad you have to manually gather the nightshade at like 120 an hour. :thumbdown: Don't do this method.

 

You're silly. Stop trying to troll me.

 

120 nightshade an hour = 22800 herb xp an hour

30 gp/xp * 22800 xp = 684000 gp an hour (in herblore xp)

120 Weapon Poison ++ * 2.5K profit per poison = 300000 gp an hour in profit

 

Total worth gained in 1 hour: ~1M

Number of clicks: ~300

 

Tell me, other than merching, what else can you do that earns you 3K per click?

Not to mention you don't have to pay any attention while doing this. You can use a wireless mouse, do homework or watch tv, and click the mouse looking at the screen every 1 minute.

[Bladewing]

Weapon poison ++ when you're at level 81 or above.

Too bad you have to manually gather the nightshade at like 120 an hour. :thumbdown: Don't do this method.

 

You're silly. Stop trying to troll me.

 

120 nightshade an hour = 22800 herb xp an hour

30 gp/xp * 22800 xp = 684000 gp an hour (in herblore xp)

120 Weapon Poison ++ * 2.5K profit per poison = 300000 gp an hour in profit

 

Total worth gained in 1 hour: ~1M

Number of clicks: ~300

 

Tell me, other than merching, what else can you do that earns you 3K per click?

Not to mention you don't have to pay any attention while doing this. You can use a wireless mouse, do homework or watch tv, and click the mouse looking at the screen every 1 minute.

I'm not trolling you to start with. It's very poor as a way to train herblore. I would NEVER consider collecting it if I weren't fletching bolts or alching or humidifying or something at the same time.

 

Another thing: herblore is not 30gp/xp. It's 25gp/xp with the best potion methods. That makes collecting nightshade about 870k/hour.

 

Here are two better alternatives:

 

Cleaning Dwarf Weeds

XP gained in one hour: 98k (worth 2,450k)

GP gained in one hour: 1,400k

One hour of this saves you 2.25 hours of nightshade gathering, and about 0.15 hours of weapon poison making. Since you can make 1.4m with this method, we'll assume you can make at least that much, or a total of 3,360k. But you forgo the 870k/hour of nightshades.

Total "profit" over nigthshades: 6,340k/hour BETTER than nightshades.

 

Making Extreme Ranging potions:

XP gained in one hour: 600k (worth 15m)

GP gained in one hour: -15m

One hour of making these bad boys saves you 19 hours of nightshade gathering. Assuming you make 1.4m/h as stated above, this method saves you 26.6m/hour. However, you forgo the 870k/hour of nigthshades.

Total "profit" over nightshades: 25.7m/hour BETTER than nightshades

 

So nightshades suck. Yes, you can gather them while watching TV. But when I play runescape I want to PLAY it, not watch TV and click on a mouse. It's not my job, I want to enjoy it. Plus these methods are just SO much better.

 

Oh, and here's a few things that make 3k per click (although this is a horrible measure of how good something is for money lol):

Green Dragons

Blue Dragons

Red Dragons

Black Dragons

Bronze Dragons

Iron Dragons

Steel Dragons

Abyssal Demons

Team Armadyl

Team Bandos

Team Zamorak

Probably even soloing these bosses or even Saradomin or TDs.

[qeltar]

Arguing about super weapon poisons is pointless -- whether it is a good method or not depends entirely on your priorities. It comes down to whether you have something else to do during the downtime; if so, it's a decent method, if not, it's a waste of time. Either way, it's a very slow method for getting Herblore XP.

 

Herb cleaning is a very unreliable technique, because even small swings in the prices of clean and grimy herbs can turn it from proiftable to unprofitable. It's also very tedious.

[TheAncient]

Arguing about super weapon poisons is pointless -- whether it is a good method or not depends entirely on your priorities. It comes down to whether you have something else to do during the downtime; if so, it's a decent method, if not, it's a waste of time. Either way, it's a very slow method for getting Herblore XP.

 

Herb cleaning is a very unreliable technique, because even small swings in the prices of clean and grimy herbs can turn it from proiftable to unprofitable. It's also very tedious.

 

Herb cleaning can only be done effectively with stable prices.

What I usually do is:

-- Use a herb that I wouldn't mind keeping (i.e. avantoes or dwarf weeds for extremes)

-- Buy 1K

-- Clean 1K

-- Sell 1K

-- Repeat

 

This way, you don't risk losing that much per cleaning cycle, and even if you can't sell back the herbs you're okay because you'll end up using them anyway.

 

And when I mean 3K per click I meant, there's almost nothing else that you can directly click and earn money for. All those things you listed require more attention than just clicking the same spot.

[Skeptical]

Thanks for all of the info guys.

 

I do have about 60 mil in cash and additional liquid assets, but I would really prefer to not have to spend massive amounts of gold on gettting only a few herby levels.

 

I tried buying and cleaning herbs, but the constant clicking drove me insane.

 

Is there a general consensus on what method is best, that will not involve cleaning massive numbers of herbs?

[K4ylan]

I think restore potions and regular energy potions have a good gp/xp ratio.

[Unknown_Warrior]

Nightshade gathering can also be done whilst farming.

Once a day, I do an advanced farm trip.

 

A normal trip of mine constitutes of just browing all the herb patches. But on the advanced one, I visit all fruit trees, bushes, the cactus and my belladonna as well whilst using a Giant ent. Granted, this may not be a lot of Nightshade, but it adds up over time.

I consider it an extra.

[qeltar]

There is no consensus. It is all a trade-off and you have to decide what is more important to you: training speed or training cost.

 

I have a detailed guide on the member's side of my site that computes various options on a daily basis, but it is too complicated to summarize here.

 

If you give a better indication of what you're willing to spend, I can make some suggestions.