I currently have combat stats all around 90, 70 prayer, and 66 herb. I have maybe 20m spare cash and I plan to go make more over time. At present, this isn't enough to buy anything significant in terms of either herb (extremes) or prayer (soulsplit/turmoil). I plan to invest my money into character skills and was hoping for some advice. My goals are monster hunting as well as slayer, and being good in combat minigames would be nice too. Which should I buy to get maximum benefit both in the end and as I'm leveling partway? Are there other skills I should consider paying to speed up? (Summoning? Ranged?) Thanks in advance, guys.

Funny, this is exactly what I've been thinking about as well :lol: combats around 90, 71 prayer, 65 herb, going to slay, monsterhunt and use mtk for cash. I'll be watching this thread :P

Clean herbs. That'll get you started.

How (in)feasible is getting to extremes on cleaning alone?

How (in)feasible is getting to extremes on cleaning alone?

 

Its very feasible if

 

1. You have a lot of cash

2. The market is good

3. You're good at it

 

I can clean 10k herbs per hour. The problem is that herbs have a 10k buy limit, not all of them have a suitable cleaning market (lately especially, its really hard to find clean herbs that sell for the same price as grimy), and some of the suitable ones require a ludicrous amount of money for it to be worth your time (snapdragons are usually good for cleaning, too bad you need 85m to buy a half hours worth). If the market always has 2-3 herbs that cost about 5k and at least break even, I would've cleaned my way to extremes already.

Cleaning herbs IMO is a major pain in the wagon, tried it yesterday, terrible, but i guess with mousekeys it's a lot easier.

 

I am not well versed in the matter of prayer, but with herblore i'd reccomend you keep planting those herbs. What I do is I put in a herb run in between every slayer task I do and in the last couple of weeks i've gotten like 500 irits 600 kwuarms and 400 avantoe herbs. I realize that is not much and it is a bit of work, but while doing other skills it really is a good way to go, from slayer you will get some seeds anyway, so why not plant them.

 

For pure, cheap herblore xp plant irit seeds (500 gp each), which is amazingly cheap xp. You'll make super attacks, even if your yield per seed is only like 5 (more realistic is 6+) you'll be at pretty much 1gp/xp for herblore, because making super attacks, the seconds cost next to nothing.

For money plant higher herbs, you know the deal.

 

But yeah, all in all, i would definetly suggest planting irit seeds in between your usual hunting and slayer tasks. If you do 4 herb runs a day with 4 patches (i dont use trollheim), and do that every day, that's around 700 irit per week, wich translates into around 80k xp in herblore for a cost of 500*16*7=56k for seeds and 4*1200*7=33,6k for supercompost, and add in the farming xp as well. Hope that helps!

Cleaning herbs IMO is a major pain in the wagon, tried it yesterday, terrible, but i guess with mousekeys it's a lot easier.

 

I am not well versed in the matter of prayer, but with herblore i'd reccomend you keep planting those herbs. What I do is I put in a herb run in between every slayer task I do and in the last couple of weeks i've gotten like 500 irits 600 kwuarms and 400 avantoe herbs. I realize that is not much and it is a bit of work, but while doing other skills it really is a good way to go, from slayer you will get some seeds anyway, so why not plant them.

 

For pure, cheap herblore xp plant irit seeds (500 gp each), which is amazingly cheap xp. You'll make super attacks, even if your yield per seed is only like 5 (more realistic is 6+) you'll be at pretty much 1gp/xp for herblore, because making super attacks, the seconds cost next to nothing.

For money plant higher herbs, you know the deal.

 

But yeah, all in all, i would definetly suggest planting irit seeds in between your usual hunting and slayer tasks. If you do 4 herb runs a day with 4 patches (i dont use trollheim), and do that every day, that's around 700 irit per week, wich translates into around 80k xp in herblore for a cost of 500*16*7=56k for seeds and 4*1200*7=33,6k for supercompost, and add in the farming xp as well. Hope that helps!

You forgot to factor in selling the potions, it'll be about 500 gp profit per pot.

Cleaning herbs IMO is a major pain in the wagon, tried it yesterday, terrible, but i guess with mousekeys it's a lot easier.

 

I am not well versed in the matter of prayer, but with herblore i'd reccomend you keep planting those herbs. What I do is I put in a herb run in between every slayer task I do and in the last couple of weeks i've gotten like 500 irits 600 kwuarms and 400 avantoe herbs. I realize that is not much and it is a bit of work, but while doing other skills it really is a good way to go, from slayer you will get some seeds anyway, so why not plant them.

 

For pure, cheap herblore xp plant irit seeds (500 gp each), which is amazingly cheap xp. You'll make super attacks, even if your yield per seed is only like 5 (more realistic is 6+) you'll be at pretty much 1gp/xp for herblore, because making super attacks, the seconds cost next to nothing.

For money plant higher herbs, you know the deal.

 

But yeah, all in all, i would definetly suggest planting irit seeds in between your usual hunting and slayer tasks. If you do 4 herb runs a day with 4 patches (i dont use trollheim), and do that every day, that's around 700 irit per week, wich translates into around 80k xp in herblore for a cost of 500*16*7=56k for seeds and 4*1200*7=33,6k for supercompost, and add in the farming xp as well. Hope that helps!

If you are going to farm, you might as well farm the most profitable herb... It doesn't make sense to farm a herb that profits much less just because the seeds cost less, or you want the herb for herblore. The GE makes selling and rebuying something else way too easy, so you might as wel farm the most profitable herb, sell it, and buy the most cost efficient herb for herblore.

If you are going to farm, you might as well farm the most profitable herb... It doesn't make sense to farm a herb that profits much less just because the seeds cost less, or you want the herb for herblore. The GE makes selling and rebuying something else way too easy, so you might as wel farm the most profitable herb, sell it, and buy the most cost efficient herb for herblore.

 

True. IF you have the money to do that it is the best way to go. It's just that if you want pretty much free xp without the hassel of getting expensive seconds and herblore is something that you're just doing inbetween your usual training irits are in fact the best way to do that.

 

But for numbers:

With snapdragons you're paying 350 gp per pot for seconds + herb cost of 86k/6=14,3k which translates into 14,65k/142,5=102,8 gp/xp .

At 67 farming and cadantines you're paying 2,7k/6= 450 gp per herb, 1,2k per seconds which translates into 1,65k/150=11 gp/xp.

Which are both way more expensive going 11 to 100 times over the 1gp/xp for attack potions.

And all that is not even taking into the equation of the time of getting all the seconds for your pots, where as in newt eyes it is real simple.

 

I'd still go with - bury your 20M into prayer and just farm those irits when herblore is not the main skill you're after.

If you are going to farm, you might as well farm the most profitable herb... It doesn't make sense to farm a herb that profits much less just because the seeds cost less, or you want the herb for herblore. The GE makes selling and rebuying something else way too easy, so you might as wel farm the most profitable herb, sell it, and buy the most cost efficient herb for herblore.

 

True. IF you have the money to do that it is the best way to go. It's just that if you want pretty much free xp without the hassel of getting expensive seconds and herblore is something that you're just doing inbetween your usual training irits are in fact the best way to do that.

 

But for numbers:

With snapdragons you're paying 350 gp per pot for seconds + herb cost of 86k/6=14,3k which translates into 14,65k/142,5=102,8 gp/xp .

At 67 farming and cadantines you're paying 2,7k/6= 450 gp per herb, 1,2k per seconds which translates into 1,65k/150=11 gp/xp.

Which are both way more expensive going 11 to 100 times over the 1gp/xp for attack potions.

And all that is not even taking into the equation of the time of getting all the seconds for your pots, where as in newt eyes it is real simple.

 

I'd still go with - bury your 20M into prayer and just farm those irits when herblore is not the main skill you're after.

 

Lol, that is a completely flawed argument, because you sell your finished super restores for over 10x the price of your finished attack potions. I honestly hope you don't believe your own [cabbage].

"taking the time to get the seconds in the equation": Wtf? You are first telling me you are PAYING for them (which means no time at all because of the GE) and then suddenly you assume you gather the seconds yourself.

 

Next time, try to be consequent. Also, don't mix skills up. You have farming, and you have herblore. Because of the GE it's better to to both in their own best way, in stead of trying some "combo" way where you compromise in both areas. This is of course if you want to be efficient, and not a DIY guy.

Having high prayer is much more useful than high Herblore. Soul Split and Turmoil are really amazing -- extreme pots are only a little better than the super versions. The only really revolutionary extreme pots are super antifire (if you kill dragons a lot) and overloads (if you do a lot of high boss hunting).

 

I'd build a gilded altar and spend an hour a day hunting dragons.

What would you guys consider significant milestones in prayer and herb besides overloads and turmoil? (As in, what's worth buying before I can afford the final goal?)

What would you guys consider significant milestones in prayer and herb besides overloads and turmoil? (As in, what's worth buying before I can afford the final goal?)

Wait until you can buy at least 85 herb before bothering spending your bank on it. Soul split is nice but if you like to use piety a lot then don't spend all your cash for 92 prayer.

The most important milestone in high Herblore is 84, so you can make super antifires using regular greenman's ale. Super antifires *greatly* speed up dragon killing.

 

I wouldn't bother with curses until you can get to 95. Turmoil is better than Piety, but losing Piety is not made up for by the lesser curses.

How (in)feasible is getting to extremes on cleaning alone?

 

Its very feasible if

 

1. You have a lot of cash

2. The market is good

3. You're good at it

 

I can clean 10k herbs per hour. The problem is that herbs have a 10k buy limit, not all of them have a suitable cleaning market (lately especially, its really hard to find clean herbs that sell for the same price as grimy), and some of the suitable ones require a ludicrous amount of money for it to be worth your time (snapdragons are usually good for cleaning, too bad you need 85m to buy a half hours worth). If the market always has 2-3 herbs that cost about 5k and at least break even, I would've cleaned my way to extremes already.

I thought cleaning Irit makes money? Just barely any, but... it's money.

How (in)feasible is getting to extremes on cleaning alone?

 

Its very feasible if

 

1. You have a lot of cash

2. The market is good

3. You're good at it

 

I can clean 10k herbs per hour. The problem is that herbs have a 10k buy limit, not all of them have a suitable cleaning market (lately especially, its really hard to find clean herbs that sell for the same price as grimy), and some of the suitable ones require a ludicrous amount of money for it to be worth your time (snapdragons are usually good for cleaning, too bad you need 85m to buy a half hours worth). If the market always has 2-3 herbs that cost about 5k and at least break even, I would've cleaned my way to extremes already.

I thought cleaning Irit makes money? Just barely any, but... it's money.

 

The market is totally going to pot (excuse the pun ;)).

However according to the wiki ranarr and snaps are the best to clean being 100 and 200 gp profit respectively. However tbf, I'd say stick with bedmans idea of farming etc and spending the money on the cheapest pot you can make. And the same for MTK. Stockpile the herb that you'll turn into pots then sell the others and buy more and the 2nds then hope they sell.