Herblore

[Gandalf14141]

Is there any viable method to getting to ~90 herblore with 54 herblore?

[Norriie]

Depends on what you mean by 'viable'.

 

There are plenty of acceptable methods which cost a lot of money, see grimy's spreadsheets for details.

 

Otherwise, clean herbs with mousekeys, use MTK to gather herbs for you, grow your own herbs, and use any lamps/penguin hunting exp on herb.

 

Alternately, there's that new minigame. Not sure how good the exp is from that. You could always give it a try and see.

[Quyneax]

Herblore Habitat is essentially DIY herblore training but conveniently all in one place. It's not very fast xp. It is good hunter xp though.

[Noxx]

Best way of doing it cheaply is by using the herbs from you own patches. This however is very slow. I used to do this for about 1m exp but gave up due to the slowness of it. You only manage to get about 120 or 130 herbs a day (depending on how much you play) which makes it super slow herblore exp. The other way is of course to clean herbs. It's not very fast either. I think someone once told me the cheapest most effiencient way to train herb is to sell the herbs you farm and buy unf pots. This won't be much faster than the method i first mentioned but it saves you that few minutes of making unf pots yourself. And at the end you break even 100%

[Quyneax]

Farming your own herbs isn't break-even as you still have to buy the seeds and can't sell the herbs. And you can't use torstol well until you can make overload, which means you'll lose out on a lot of profit.

[Noxx]

Oh yeah i assumed planting seeds from Slayer drops and MTK. My bad. Anyway making herbs from MTK into pots is also not a bad idea. But bottom line. 95% of the people who have 99 Herb or even 85+ Herb did it the costly way because it's the most efficient. Spend 150m on herb and get the level you wish, use your newly made potions to Slay/Boss Hunt faster, make your 150m and more back in no time.

[xpx]

Oh yeah i assumed planting seeds from Slayer drops and MTK. My bad. Anyway making herbs from MTK into pots is also not a bad idea. But bottom line. 95% of the people who have 99 Herb or even 85+ Herb did it the costly way because it's the most efficient. Spend 150m on herb and get the level you wish, use your newly made potions to Slay/Boss Hunt faster, make your 150m and more back in no time.

Herb seeds from slayer are profit from slayer.

Herbs from farming are profit from farming.

Herblore xp from making pots is a loss from herblore.

 

Combining any of these doesn't make it more effective or efficient(furthermore as it's so easy to buy/sell items). If you have cash, make some higher level potions for ~20 gp/xp. If you don't have cash, clean herbs or make barbarian mixes, but know it'll take tons more time.

[ruben1026]

Just spend cash to do it. Like someone has already said you will quickly get your cash back from killing bosses. I did super sttacks and pray pots to anti fires.

[bedman]

Oh yeah i assumed planting seeds from Slayer drops and MTK. My bad. Anyway making herbs from MTK into pots is also not a bad idea. But bottom line. 95% of the people who have 99 Herb or even 85+ Herb did it the costly way because it's the most efficient. Spend 150m on herb and get the level you wish, use your newly made potions to Slay/Boss Hunt faster, make your 150m and more back in no time.

Herb seeds from slayer are profit from slayer.

Herbs from farming are profit from farming.

Herblore xp from making pots is a loss from herblore.

 

Combining any of these doesn't make it more effective or efficient(furthermore as it's so easy to buy/sell items). If you have cash, make some higher level potions for ~20 gp/xp. If you don't have cash, clean herbs or make barbarian mixes, but know it'll take tons more time.

Exactly what i wanted to point out.

 

It's actually not very smart to make pots of the herbs you farm, because mostly the most profitable herb to farm, isn't the best herb for cheap herblore xp.

Okay, it may SEEM less costly, because you are always working with small amounts, but trust me, you're better of maximising the seperate steps (= farming most profitable herb, making best pots)

[MstrMonopoly]

First of all, aim for 89 rather than 90. It's cheaper and provides all the same benefits (perhaps it's a little harder to make Super Prayers if you need those).

 

Second of all, barbarian potions can sometimes profit and give 100k/xp an hour. It's junk, but you can always pawn it off while lending items or trading with good friends.