Usual Making Money Question

[Alistair]

What is the best way of making money with my stats (in signature)? Non-combat methods would be preferred if possible.

 

If suggesting combat, in terms of equipment I have:

 

[spoiler=Equipment]Head: Neit, FSH

Neck: Fury, Glory, Arcane, Ranging

Cape: Ardougne 3, 2 non-trimmed capes, SW Cape, Alerter

Body: BCP, Black D'hide

Legs: D Legs, Black D'hide

Weapons: Rapier, Whip, SS, DDS, EEE, Korasi's, Rune C'Bow, Crystal Bow, Dark Bow, Staff of Light

Shield: D Def, Obsidian, Sara/Guth/Zam book

Boots: Dragon, Snakeskin

Gloves: Barrows

Ring: Vigour, Explorer 4, Slaying

 

Also: Full Void, Full Proselyte, Full Mystic, 5 sets of Rune, any quest items, stuff I forget because I never use, and have a spare 500k+ DG tokens if that counts for anything. I don't sell equipment either, only buy if you're suggesting I get something like a Berserker Ring

 

 

 

I haven't really tried making money before; most of it came incidentally. But now I've dropped down to 5m so I need some money back to not feel stuck. I do dailies and herb runs atm (with Juju potions) but not entirely sure which herbs I should be growing. So help please :pray:

[Hegelstad]

Get one more farming level quickly and plant Torstol with JuJu, great profit of what i've heard.

[Th e Doctor]

Short answer, MTK will net you a mill a week, more with luck if you do maples and have crazy seed drops.

 

Herb farming (torstol w/scroll of life and juju's) maxes at around 350 k profit per run. So over 2 mil a day. Dailies are another 1.1-1.3 mil a day.

 

Throw in something mediocre such as cannoning blue dragons and you're looking at over 5 mil a day easily.

[Quyneax]

Torstol doesn't max at 350k/run, it AVERAGES 350k/run with up to 1.5m profit in a single run. I've has single patches make me over 1m. It's no doubt the best steady cash outside of combat and merchanting, and it can compete with the lower-tier high-end combat moneymaking methods like frosts, some GWD, corp, tds with uni.

 

For now I'd slay. It will net you useful xp, charms, effigies (I recommend saving these until you can open them) and it profits. However for that I'd sell ss and obsidian, rune sets etc. what you really don't need (get a cmaul to replace the ss). You'd have around 12m to work with then, for which I'd get Verac's skirt and a berserker ring. That would give you a near-maxed slayer setup.

 

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The base slayer gear is as follows (alternatives in brackets):

• [For all slayer monsters except those mentioned under other weapons] Chaotic rapier (whip)
  
• Bandos body + legs (Verac's skirt with either fighter torso or proselyte top)
  
• [Depending on prayer/accuracy needs] Fire cape/Soul Wars cape/Ardougne cloak 3
  
• Barrows gloves (your best rfd gloves, at least rune)
  
• Dragon boots (rune boots)
  
• Amulet of fury (glory)
  
• Dragon defender
  
• Berserker ring (i)/ferocious ring if slaying in Kuradal's Dungeon (berserker ring, warrior ring)
  
• [Most important] Full slayer helmet.
  
• [For magic defence on waterfiends/aquanites] Karil's top and elite void skirt (black dragonhide body and chaps)
  
• [Crush attacks to use on waterfiends] Chaotic maul (Saradomin sword, Zamorakian spear)
  
• [stab attacks for higher-levelled dragons, when not using rapier] Korasi's sword (Zamorakian spear, leaf-bladed sword)
  
• Task-specific items such as mirror shields, antifire shields/potions, elemental shields, rock hammers, crystal chimes
  
• Cannon (optional, up to personal preference)
  

Slayer setups generally emphasise strength bonus, which increases the average damage of each succesful hit (slayer monsters usually having rather low defence, hitting is not a problem). Secondly, prayer bonus is important to keep the cost of prayer potions down (as you slay with piety on, to increase the speed of your kills. This is cost-effective and highly recommended). As a rule of thumb, +15 prayer bonus or above is good, but don't overdo it (anything above +25 is a waste). Defence and accuracy bonus are usually not fretted over (any defence bonus over 200 will do; if you get hit too often you should be using a protection prayer). Dagganoth, black demon, lesser demon, hellhound, bloodveld and spectre tasks should be cannoned, as it dramatically increases xp rates (although it costs a bit).

 

Some notes on gear: You'll want a fury and a berserker ring before you get bandos plate, and get that before tassets. You'll want accuracy bonus on higher-levelled dragons; if using stab attacks (which you should) you can use the Ardougne cloak 3 which provides you with +6 stab and +6 prayer bonus. Torso + sw cape and fire cape + proselyte are common cheap top/cape combinations; the former is better.

 

Some levels to get for slayer (in approximate order but I'm not sure on the summoning):

• 68 summoning - bunyip
  
• 81 dungeoneering (you need 2 million xp, which takes you to level 80, but allowing some tokens for the scroll of life) - rapier
  
• 89 herblore (85 with a +4 stew boost) - extreme potions, superantifires
  
• 95 prayer - turmoil and soul split
  
• 88 summoning - unicorn
  
• 96 herblore (91 with a +5 stew boost) - overload
  
• 99 summoning - steel titan
  

I'm sure I missed something but this is most of it.

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[Alistair]

Thanks for the suggestions so far. I have started planting Torstol in the Trollheim patch (have quite a lot of Stranger Plants) and will move onto using it on the others once I get enough Torstol seeds and when my Ranarr/Snapdragon seeds deplete.

 

I went ahead and sold SS and some other stuff. Put in an offer in for Verac's Skirt. Not sure on the Berserker Ring though. It's 4.5m for a 1+ strength increase above the Ring of Vigour minus the special bonus - convince me :P I'll get the Chaotic Maul as soon as I get a task in which it would be beneficial. Keeping the Obsidian Shield as I still use it for some things like BA and that extra 110k won't do much anyway. By Slayer, I assume you mean Kuradal for all tasks?

 

Any further suggestions would be appreciated. :thumbup:

[Quyneax]

Kuradal for all tasks indeed, and yes, berserker probably isn't worth it. Most people don't have a vigour (as it isn't so great for many things) so I recommend berserker out of habit :P. If you ever get imbued rings though, berserker (i) is quite a bit better.

[GlowinRedM]

Berserker can be imbued, Vigour can't. Vigour only good at places when the miniscule amount of special saved makes a difference (i.e. using specials that use 55% of spec bar)

[Quyneax]

Well you would be right if he still had to buy vigour, but since he doesn't, I wouldn't pay the 4.5m for +1 str since that's offset by the spec saved.

[Alistair]

Just to note, I have a Ring of Vigour firstly because I misinterpreted the specialness of the special effect and secondly because it is more useful in skilling. Faster EEE charges mean more safety when Thieving and doing Agility. Of course, when I do consider doing MA, I would go for Berserker but I just don't think it's necessary right now.

 

Also just harvested my first Torstol patch - 350k profit from Trollheim alone :P It does look rather profitable.

[Th e Doctor]

My apologies for being mistaken about the profit from torstol. Running on 3 hours of sleep and I completely miswrote what I was trying to say.

[That_Brown_Kid]

once you get a cashpile going, flip merchant. its really easy money.

 

i made 3m in a day with very little gameplay.

 

1.2m over night just by using 43m. (I usually increase my wealth by 2.5-3% every flip.)

[Sir_Squab]

once you get a cashpile going, flip merchant. its really easy money.

 

i made 3m in a day with very little gameplay.

 

1.2m over night just by using 43m. (I usually increase my wealth by 2.5-3% every flip.)

 

That's for people who can, you know, flip. >.<

 

And are able to keep their cash pile high. If I had 43m, I'd blow it on herblore or prayer or 80 con and house upgrades.