Would barrowing be profitable for me?

[Curiosity]

Skills:

99 Attack 99 Strength 93 Defence

99 Constitution 75 Prayer 95 Magic 87 Range

 

 

Equipment:

Helm of Neit

Amulet of Glory

Sacred Clay Platebody + Black Dragonhide

Rune Platelegs + Black Dragonhide

Barrow Gloves

Dragon Boots

Fire Cape

Ring of Life

Black Salamander (magic)

Armadyl Godsword

 

*Can't afford Amulet of Fury, and price is rising faster than I can make money.

**I am poor, so cannot afford great armor - hence why I am using "free rune" (Sacred Clay)\

*** Debating whether to sell Ags for Sgs + Bandos armor (at least 1 part)

 

Inventory:

House Teleport Spade Sharks

 

*I plan to not use prayer potions, till I get richer at least. I plan to recharge prayer at my POH and only use prayer on Dharok, Karil, and Ahrim.

**Salamander against the melee brothers, Ags against Ahrim + Karil.

 

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Using the following equipment and setup, with the skills provided, would barrowing be profitable for me?

Luck doesn't matter.

[ghjkl]

Get full ahrims fire surge with max damage bonus as possible and you profit at max rate.

USE PRAYER POTS, much faster trips means faster profit per hour.

[manitstinks]

Barrage -> salamander will always profit.

Sell ags get claws and whatever you need (don't get bandos it is overated)

[ghjkl]

Ancients to salamander sucks.

Fire surge is much faster and more profit per hour.

[manitstinks]

Yeah he had salamander anyway so I was going along with his original plan. Fire surge works too, just buy bunches of runes first.

[ruben1026]

Ags and sgs is way over rated. Get full ahrims, surge or ancients, and for the love of god buy some prayer pots u won't regret it. Use the rest to skill herblore or prayer more.

[Hegelstad]

What people fail to understand when playing runescape, is that speed = money, the time you save drinking prayer pots would triple your effiiciency. As for the Fury, you should sell your Ags and buy a fury before it raises even more. Buy a SGS or even drop the Godswords and skill with the money. They're not very good, and Bandos armour is only marginally better than barrows, no point of getting that either. Buy Prayer levels or get buyable skills for quests.

 

ON topic:

 

You also mention you have a magic lvl of 95. My friend with 99 magic barrages the brother without prayer pots (only a dose for Karil) and uses blood barrage for healing. This means he can stay there for hours, very efficient. The most he has earned (Profit) with this method is 12 mil in three hours. But on the other side, if you run on a drystreak or badloot streak you will suffer from high losses. And also, using this method you don't get KC as its a waste of speed.

 

Setup:

 

Battle Robes (cuts costs)

Staff Of Light (15% dmg bosst, saves runes)

Mystic boots

Unholy book / Tome of Frost / Magic Book

Arcane Stream Necklace / Fury

God Capes

Ring Of Life

 

The 6 minute grave, and preferably a friend to bless your grave, its a pretty high risk of dying.

Have fun!

 

For the last question, Barrows is always profitable once you get your first "drop".

[xpx]

You don't have money for a fury but have an AGS.... bah, i'm not even going to ask...

[Andy]

Sell the AGS. Seriously, it's terrible. You could buy full ahrims, sol, use prayer potions and barrage if you sold it. An out-dated special weapon isn't worth 60m anymore.

[Zaaps1]

Expensive weapons are only good if you have the basics already.

 

If you have to resort to using SC armor because you spent all your money on an AGS, then what good does it do?

[Owned_Nex]

What people fail to understand when playing runescape, is that speed = money, the time you save drinking prayer pots would triple your effiiciency. As for the Fury, you should sell your Ags and buy a fury before it raises even more. Buy a SGS or even drop the Godswords and skill with the money. They're not very good, and Bandos armour is only marginally better than barrows, no point of getting that either. Buy Prayer levels or get buyable skills for quests.

 

ON topic:

 

You also mention you have a magic lvl of 95. My friend with 99 magic barrages the brother without prayer pots (only a dose for Karil) and uses blood barrage for healing. This means he can stay there for hours, very efficient. The most he has earned (Profit) with this method is 12 mil in three hours. But on the other side, if you run on a drystreak or badloot streak you will suffer from high losses. And also, using this method you don't get KC as its a waste of speed.

 

Setup:

 

Battle Robes (cuts costs)

Staff Of Light (15% dmg bosst, saves runes)

Mystic boots

Unholy book / Tome of Frost / Magic Book

Arcane Stream Necklace / Fury

God Capes

Ring Of Life

 

The 6 minute grave, and preferably a friend to bless your grave, its a pretty high risk of dying.

Have fun!

 

For the last question, Barrows is always profitable once you get your first "drop".

 

I seriously doubt what you say. First off, you can clip potions with combat or drink while running around. Potions should not add any time to your run speed. Second, there is absolutely NO way you can consistently MAKE 4m an hour. Even with SoL+B Robes, MORE than half of your profit is going to go just to rune cost. Without a item drop, your average chest loot is 80k at most. If you don't get KC, you will lose money 100% of the time. Even with an item, unless its a good item, you'll lose money. KC "unlocks" loot. You won't get much more than mind runes with 0 KC.

 

In the end, Barrows is no longer as good as it used to be. The drop rates have been nerfed, and it is very easy to lose money. With your stats I would do something else like go for 85 Dung.

[bedman]

Pantim, have you even barrowed lately? If you get like 5 kc, the runes you get WILL pay your runes for maging, unless you barrage all brothers or something. So it's nearly impossible to lose money.

 

Also, the drop rates haven't been nerfed as far as I know, and the most expensive item has never been more expensive (DH helm at 10m).

 

I admit it's a bit outdated when you compare it to frost dragons, or dks with yak, or TD's at high lvls (steel titan), but for mid lvls it's a decent and enjoyable way to make money. Anyone with 95 magic and some decent melee/ranged can make good money there. Heck, even with 80 magic you can. (it helps when you can overload and turmoil though)

 

ps:

How I barrow: Void/Bandos + rapier with overloads and turmoil every brother. Use ppots whenever you need, they are dirth cheap

I'm thinking about trying Void with fire surge though. The new prayer bonus is neat, so I'll just use pro melee on most brothers I think and spec ahrim karil (bring void melee helm).

[Hegelstad]

What people fail to understand when playing runescape, is that speed = money, the time you save drinking prayer pots would triple your effiiciency. As for the Fury, you should sell your Ags and buy a fury before it raises even more. Buy a SGS or even drop the Godswords and skill with the money. They're not very good, and Bandos armour is only marginally better than barrows, no point of getting that either. Buy Prayer levels or get buyable skills for quests.

 

ON topic:

 

You also mention you have a magic lvl of 95. My friend with 99 magic barrages the brother without prayer pots (only a dose for Karil) and uses blood barrage for healing. This means he can stay there for hours, very efficient. The most he has earned (Profit) with this method is 12 mil in three hours. But on the other side, if you run on a drystreak or badloot streak you will suffer from high losses. And also, using this method you don't get KC as its a waste of speed.

 

Setup:

 

Battle Robes (cuts costs)

Staff Of Light (15% dmg bosst, saves runes)

Mystic boots

Unholy book / Tome of Frost / Magic Book

Arcane Stream Necklace / Fury

God Capes

Ring Of Life

 

The 6 minute grave, and preferably a friend to bless your grave, its a pretty high risk of dying.

Have fun!

 

For the last question, Barrows is always profitable once you get your first "drop".

 

I seriously doubt what you say. First off, you can clip potions with combat or drink while running around. Potions should not add any time to your run speed. Second, there is absolutely NO way you can consistently MAKE 4m an hour. Even with SoL+B Robes, MORE than half of your profit is going to go just to rune cost. Without a item drop, your average chest loot is 80k at most. If you don't get KC, you will lose money 100% of the time. Even with an item, unless its a good item, you'll lose money. KC "unlocks" loot. You won't get much more than mind runes with 0 KC.

 

In the end, Barrows is no longer as good as it used to be. The drop rates have been nerfed, and it is very easy to lose money. With your stats I would do something else like go for 85 Dung.

 

 

Well, first of all i didn't say it was 4 mil an hour, I told you he made 12 mil in 3 hours, that's because he got good helm drops (Dharok + Verac - (1-2M in runes)=~12M). And the thing about KC, it takes time. If you plan to be effective, don't get KC. It speeds the chest up by so much time. That could be used for more chests, and potential barrow items. Therefore if you get drops it can be very profitable.

 

You mention your pots and such. I don't mean that it takes time to eat. I mean that it takes time to restock. If you use my specified method, you will only need to bank about every 60th trip with good stats and not screwing things up.

 

@bedman, 82 magic is very good for barrows, since you unlock Ice blitz, a spell which freezes loong time =)