Mining help

[Maxingmck]

So liek with the new skill i wanted to get 90 smithing but grimy buttyip says its good to get 80 mining and superheat for good xp in 3 stats instead of one

 

SO whats the fastest way to 77 mining amg I hate mining w/o Lrc

[brownman85]

Mining granite is what i think that is still the fastest but i like to do shooting stars. i find that to be the funnest way to train it.

[Madouge]

I would get yourself a telescope and do Shooting Stars, more advice can be found here: Shooting Star/Solo Guide

[Jaffy1]

As a master of mining I would say powermining is a waste in my opinion.

 

However if you insist on the fastest experience I would recommend you mine granite with a dragon pickaxe. Familiars should be used, if you mine in the desert the Lunar spell Humidity is very useful to refill your waterskins.

[Bladewing]

Economically speaking, not power mining is a waste. It's easy enough to drop a full inventory with mousekeys and get good xp rates without killing your wrist. If you have a yak, which you don't, you could scroll the large blocks.

 

At 80 mining concentrated gold becomes good enough that taking the lower xp rate is a small enough tradeoff for the bonus of ease.

[Jaffy1]

Economically speaking, not power mining is a waste.

 

 

That would depend on your goals. I enjoy mining quite a bit, yet couldn't stand powermining as to me, that is not fun.

If people are okay with grinding, I would recommend what I said above. Personally, I quite enjoyed taking the long way in F2p, and making many millions while I was at it as well as level 2 other skills.

[Bladewing]

Economically speaking, not power mining is a waste.

 

 

That would depend on your goals. I enjoy mining quite a bit, yet couldn't stand powermining as to me, that is not fun.

If people are okay with grinding, I would recommend what I said above. Personally, I quite enjoyed taking the long way in F2p, and making many millions while I was at it as well as level 2 other skills.

Disregarding the utility derived from fun (as this varies by person and is quite hard to valorize) the efficiency of powermining is independent of your goals. Powermining will always be more efficient.

 

I assume the two other skills are smithing and magic (superheat)? Magic doesn't have many superior alternatives for F2P, but for P2P it's basically a waste unless you superheat gold as you mine it. Smithing is better trained purchasing bars and making platebodies.

 

I think this discussion would be more lucid if the concepts of trade and opportunity cost (especially with regards to one's time) were givens.