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Hi all. I've gone off and purchased 40k gold ore and was just about ready to start smelting with gauntlets at the ready when i thought "surely there's a better way?!"

 

Any thoughts of a faster way of smithing a similar amount of xp without spending much more on this? Aiming to get to lvl 88 or so as that will put most of the elite diaries within reach with a helpful stew or two. Thanks!

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a faster way of smithing a similar amount of xp without spending much more on this?

Regretfully, there is none, which may be why it's such a common method. You could superheat while smelting for some nice magic and additional smithing xp though.

 

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last time i checked (and it was awhile ago, so this may have changed) smithing and smelthing mithril bolts (and adding feathers) at blast furnace with sc hammers was break even-small profit and is pretty decent xp.

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last time i checked (and it was awhile ago, so this may have changed) smithing and smelthing mithril bolts (and adding feathers) at blast furnace with sc hammers was break even-small profit and is pretty decent xp.

 

It's not break even after factoring in the opportunity cost of getting the SC hammers.

 

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Agreed, the time spent getting hammers could be spent gaining 500k-1 mil an hour, actually making it a worse option that buying the best best bars possible. Remember time equals money.

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Agreed, the time spent getting hammers could be spent gaining 500k-1 mil an hour, actually making it a worse option that buying the best best bars possible. Remember time equals money.

 

Yes, but FUN equals money too :twisted:

 

Personally I love playing sc and spawn camping the other team. I skill till I have around 50k score, and then spawn trap. Of course, if anyone tries stealing my team's resources while I'm getting points I'm ready to defend. 23-24 sc points every 25ish minutes is worth it for me because its fun :lol:

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Why not smelt AND superheat? it's both cheaper and faster xp than just superheating.

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Why not smelt AND superheat? it's both cheaper and faster xp than just superheating.

 

Apologies for my ignorance but i'm not sure i understand how you combine. Can you elaborate? I quite like Blastfurnance but it does take forever and frankly

smithing is a means to an end for me, not an end in itself!

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Agreed, the time spent getting hammers could be spent gaining 500k-1 mil an hour, actually making it a worse option that buying the best best bars possible. Remember time equals money.

 

Yes, but FUN equals money too :twisted:

 

Personally I love playing sc and spawn camping the other team. I skill till I have around 50k score, and then spawn trap. Of course, if anyone tries stealing my team's resources while I'm getting points I'm ready to defend. 23-24 sc points every 25ish minutes is worth it for me because its fun :lol:

agreed, for me playing sc is much more fun than standing in one spot and skilling. same with ba/agility training.

Also, i like sc hammers b/c then i can save my money for other things i need...

 

Why not smelt AND superheat? it's both cheaper and faster xp than just superheating.

 

Apologies for my ignorance but i'm not sure i understand how you combine. Can you elaborate? I quite like Blastfurnance but it does take forever and frankly

smithing is a means to an end for me, not an end in itself!

I think he means smith and superheat gold ores. you can really speed up your smelt per hr rate by doing this. also, theres no point to using blast furnace on any ores that dont use coal. its better to use edgy furnace then.

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Why not smelt AND superheat? it's both cheaper and faster xp than just superheating.

 

Apologies for my ignorance but i'm not sure i understand how you combine. Can you elaborate? I quite like Blastfurnance but it does take forever and frankly

smithing is a means to an end for me, not an end in itself!

You take out a load of gold ore, superheat some ore while running to the furnace, click to smelt all ore on the furnace, and while you are smelting by the normal way, you also use superheating, as it doesn't disrupt the normal smelting. Somewhat click intense, but not much worse than normal superheating.

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