August 3, 201015 yr Since I am going for 99 runecrafting and farming, I do not know whether i should assist in runecrafting or farming every day. I am currently 94 runecrafting and 90 farming. So I could either reduce the time it will take me to get 99 runecrafting or reduce the time/cost it will take me to get 99 farming. What is the more logical choice? I am leaning towards farming right now. Any opinions?
August 3, 201015 yr Runecrafting, unless you tremendously enjoy it, Farming is a lot easier (if you do trees); even herbs will be a lot of xp daily. Supporter of Zaros | Quest Cape owner since 22 may 2010 | No skills below 99 | Total level 2595 | Completionist Cape owner since 17th June 2013 | Suggestions 99 summoning (18th June 2011, previously untrimmed) | 99 farming (14th July 2011) | 99 prayer (8th September 2011) | 99 constitution (10th September 2011) | 99 dungeoneering (15th November 2011) 99 ranged (28th November 2011) | 99 attack, 99 defence, 99 strength (11th December 2011) | 99 slayer (18th December 2011) | 99 magic (22nd December 2011) | 99 construction (16th March 2012) 99 herblore (22nd March 2012) | 99 firemaking (26th March 2012) | 99 cooking (2nd July 2012) | 99 runecrafting (12th March 2012) | 99 crafting (26th August 2012) | 99 agility (19th November 2012) 99 woodcutting (22nd November 2012) | 99 fletching (31st December 2012) | 99 thieving (3rd January 2013) | 99 hunter (11th January 2013) | 99 mining (21st January 2013) | 99 fishing (21st January 2013) 99 smithing (21st January 2013) | 120 dungeoneering (17th June 2013) | 99 divination (24th November 2013) Tormented demon drops: twenty effigies, nine pairs of claws, two dragon armour slices and one elite clue | Dagannoth king drops: two dragon hatchets, two elite clues, one archer ring and one warrior ring Glacor drops: four pairs of ragefire boots, one pair of steadfast boots, six effigies, two hundred lots of Armadyl shards, three elite clues | Nex split: Torva boots | Kalphite King split: off-hand drygore mace 30/30 Shattered Heart statues completed | 16/16 Court Cases completed | 25/25 Choc Chimp Ices delivered | 500/500 Vyrewatch burned | 584/584 tasks completed | 4000/4000 chompies hunted
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August 3, 201015 yr Author Wow, thanks guys. I thought this would be an almost stupid question and that a majority woud say to use assist on farming because it would both reduce the cost and the time for 99 :wall: . I guess the more logical choice would be runecrafting based on your answers. Thanks.
August 3, 201015 yr I'd go for Farming, mainly because Runecrafting is more profitable. (right?) Proud (retired) Tip.it Times Editor! Tip.it Times Archives TET event forum
August 3, 201015 yr Farming is more profitable per time spend I think. RC is more profitable per xp, perhaps. Supporter of Zaros | Quest Cape owner since 22 may 2010 | No skills below 99 | Total level 2595 | Completionist Cape owner since 17th June 2013 | Suggestions 99 summoning (18th June 2011, previously untrimmed) | 99 farming (14th July 2011) | 99 prayer (8th September 2011) | 99 constitution (10th September 2011) | 99 dungeoneering (15th November 2011) 99 ranged (28th November 2011) | 99 attack, 99 defence, 99 strength (11th December 2011) | 99 slayer (18th December 2011) | 99 magic (22nd December 2011) | 99 construction (16th March 2012) 99 herblore (22nd March 2012) | 99 firemaking (26th March 2012) | 99 cooking (2nd July 2012) | 99 runecrafting (12th March 2012) | 99 crafting (26th August 2012) | 99 agility (19th November 2012) 99 woodcutting (22nd November 2012) | 99 fletching (31st December 2012) | 99 thieving (3rd January 2013) | 99 hunter (11th January 2013) | 99 mining (21st January 2013) | 99 fishing (21st January 2013) 99 smithing (21st January 2013) | 120 dungeoneering (17th June 2013) | 99 divination (24th November 2013) Tormented demon drops: twenty effigies, nine pairs of claws, two dragon armour slices and one elite clue | Dagannoth king drops: two dragon hatchets, two elite clues, one archer ring and one warrior ring Glacor drops: four pairs of ragefire boots, one pair of steadfast boots, six effigies, two hundred lots of Armadyl shards, three elite clues | Nex split: Torva boots | Kalphite King split: off-hand drygore mace 30/30 Shattered Heart statues completed | 16/16 Court Cases completed | 25/25 Choc Chimp Ices delivered | 500/500 Vyrewatch burned | 584/584 tasks completed | 4000/4000 chompies hunted
August 3, 201015 yr I'd go for Farming, mainly because Runecrafting is more profitable. (right?) Runecrafting is more profitable, but as it's really not that good of a money maker, even at the highest levels, it's just not worth doing it. Therefore it's better to assist/lamp rc and use the time you save making even more money doing something else. And if you're still not sure, Lan recently dropped about 70 effigies into RC. If that isn't a good example to follow, I don't know what is. give F2P a penny and they want a dime; give P2P a quarter, they want 100,000 dollars, your car, house, boat, social security number, credit card numbers, drivers license, clothes on your back and everything you ever owned or interacted with ever
August 3, 201015 yr My response is based on two things. First: Which do you want first? That is probably the most important for somebody getting close to 99. If you want a more strategic breakdown of it, look into the time it would take to get the exp in rc vs. farming. Let's just say you can get 30k exp in an hour of rcing (which you can't get unless you zmi) and will make 700k in that hour. You need to evaluate which skill has more value to you playstyle. Farming requires like 15 hours of waiting before you can get any experience, which for the average player equates to once a day. So would you rather save yourself an hour of rcing, or give yourself the (rough) equivalent to 2-3 extra fruit tree patches (depending on which tree)? Answer that last question and you have the solution. When I was still trying to get 99 in rc, I cashed out on rc every day even though herb was an option. 30k exp in herb is worth close to 900k, which would have been a smarter choice based on an efficiency standpoint, but I wanted rc exp more than anything. I would probably do rc. The less you have the play, the better imo xD
August 3, 201015 yr Runecrafting for sure. I've been training farming recently, and it's so easy. I do yews + papayas + calquat, and torstols as herbs. I get around 100k xp per day in around half an hour of work and I still profit. (most torstol trips make me over 300k) A Guide to Chinning in Ape atoll: up to 325kxp/h!
August 3, 201015 yr Author Thanks for helping me put this all in perspective. So now my reasoning is this: As mentioned above, runecrafting isn't the money making skill it use to be therefor getting through it fast would be the smarter thing to do especially since I can pair farming with almost anything in runescape.
August 3, 201015 yr Runecrafting for sure. I've been training farming recently, and it's so easy. I do yews + papayas + calquat, and torstols as herbs. I get around 100k xp per day in around half an hour of work and I still profit. (most torstol trips make me over 300k) Ha, that's EXACTLY what I did up to my current status (98). Just a word of advice: don't make too many saplings ahead of time. I'm still stuck with 35 calquats (and also 35 papaya to match them on the run). But I made a killing on torstols especially because I bought them all when they were ~100k each..
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