I want to power range levels

[RichardG]

...without chinning.

 

I'm level 71 range and I want to get that up to 80. Where would be a good place to train it so that my loss is minimum and what gear should I be using?

[Quyneax]

Elite void deflector, acp, ranger's boots, alerter, archer's (i), rune knives/dragon darts (look up which one has more range str) and kill yaks. Use rigour and extreme range pots throughout (or ovl but that's a bit overkill).

[RichardG]

Will I be losing a lot by using rune knives?

[Quyneax]

Hmmm, they are 2k each (I think?) and you can expect to lose perhaps a few hundred per hour, not sure. There's a reason people chin :P.

[Nifflin]

Using a lower tier of knives or darts will cut into your exp/h. Also, you could cannon walasakies for charms and ranged exp. Or cannon cave crawlers for effigies and ranged exp.

[Quyneax]

Tbh cannoning would be great with a yak on some things as you'd break-even and could last for a very long time (spectres come to mind, crawlers are a big loss, wallasalkis would be break-even with a yak I think).

 

Without a yak you are banking more often or you can't carry as many drops, but it still works of course, though wallasalkis are annoying to get to (as rock lobsters).

 

Crawlers for range xp is really not a good idea unless you have hundreds of millions to spend.

[Nifflin]

For your criteria...

 

Making money then chinning > cannoning frost dragons > cannoning abby spectres > cannoning walasakies > yaks with knives > slayer

 

I think this is about right. Oh, you can cannon abby spectres pretty will with only a BoB and herb drops should cover you or come close. It's been a while since I got them as a slayer task so I'm a little unsure.

 

On the flip side aviansies are super slow exp but you will make decent cash camping them.

[Sy_Accursed]

To be honest:

 

Steel knives + void + ranger boots + ranger ammy + alerter.

no prayers or pots or familars at Yaks is pretty decent xp rates; from what I gather yaks r such low def that using all tht extra crud doesnt make a significant xp increase for the cost.

 

If you realllllly wanna up the xp I'd use better knives, but the expendables eg prayer and pots jsut r not worth it.

I mean if ur paying attention you easily down like 4 or 5 yaks a minute and very easily push the 200k xp an hr mark

[Quyneax]

Lol @ pots not being worth it. A simple ranged potion will add 10% to your xp at virtually no cost, same for eagle eye/rigour.

 

You need 1k kills/hr for 200k xp/hr. That's one kill per 3.6 seconds or 3 darts to do 500 damage. 166 damage per throw on average. The max hit with void, no pots/pray @ 99 range using black knives is 151 damage. This suggest an xp rate roughly half of what you suggest.

 

Max hit is 261 with rune kives, xrange and rigour, or about 130 damage average ignoring accuracy. That's perhaps 150k xp/hr in all.

[Nifflin]

To be honest:

 

Steel knives + void + ranger boots + ranger ammy + alerter.

no prayers or pots or familars at Yaks is pretty decent xp rates; from what I gather yaks r such low def that using all tht extra crud doesnt make a significant xp increase for the cost.

 

If you realllllly wanna up the xp I'd use better knives, but the expendables eg prayer and pots jsut r not worth it.

I mean if ur paying attention you easily down like 4 or 5 yaks a minute and very easily push the 200k+ xp an hr mark

 

Making cash then chinning is still faster. Cannoning the things I mentions is still faster.

 

Time = money, when you waste time, you are costing yourself what you could have been spending that time on. So really yaks are the more expensive option as your are costing yourself time and the opportunity to make more money or do other things.

[Vex]

Try Karils Xbow + Void @ Lrc

[Bladewing]

karils bow is a great weapon for training ranged if you are vehemently opposed to chinning

[Sy_Accursed]

Lol @ pots not being worth it. A simple ranged potion will add 10% to your xp at virtually no cost, same for eagle eye/rigour.

 

You need 1k kills/hr for 200k xp/hr. That's one kill per 3.6 seconds or 3 darts to do 500 damage. 166 damage per throw on average. The max hit with void, no pots/pray @ 99 range using black knives is 151 damage. This suggest an xp rate roughly half of what you suggest.

 

Max hit is 261 with rune kives, xrange and rigour, or about 130 damage average ignoring accuracy. That's perhaps 150k xp/hr in all.

 

Fair enough, but I've gotten around 160k an hour with steel knives no pots etc; may have just been a really lucky run.