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[kburts]

So, starting about 2 months ago, I have been doing a lot of stakes, so many stakes in fact that I made around 90m, so I spent all this money on 91 herbalore for extremes, and now that I have them, I went staking again, but lost my last ~15m, so now I've been completely cleaned (honestly, bank is like 30k), but have overloads. I really like boss hunting, but I find that the materials cost more than the rewards almost all of the time, seeing as i have about 300 bandos kills and still haven't seen anything rarer than a godsword shard/snap seed. I can do frosts, but they are boring as hell and it's so plugged up with bots you get one dragon ever minute approxamately.

 

What should I do? I have no money, no gear and overloads.

[Serpent Eye]

Are you strictly looking for methods involving boss-hunting?

 

I know it gets thrown out there a lot, but if you like skilling, Farming is a great way to profit. :thumbup:

 

Sorry I can't give advice about boss-hunting. Not my area. :P

[My_Eggs]

Well, If you want to get some money back for gear, I commonly see people lending whips for 5k/hour. You could borrow a whip for a few hours, kill some green dragons or something like that in those few hours, and be able to afford your own whip and some other gear. Or you could do dungeoneering and get a rapier, which will help you for boss hunting.

[GoldTatze]

Join a Corp Clan. Borrow Zammy Spear. Bring Ovls. Make some decent money from LS. Then slowly work your way back up to the 10M range (or get lucky with a sigil drop). Then buy gear for more boss hunting.

[Quyneax]

Join a Corp Clan. Borrow Zammy Spear. Bring Ovls. Make some decent money from LS. Then slowly work your way back up to the 10M range (or get lucky with a sigil drop). Then buy gear for more boss hunting.

Err... corping is extremely inconsistent, not what you need when looking for a new start. And even then it's pretty low income.

 

I'd recommend doing some break-even skilling (woodcutting etc.) for all stats 50, 60 or 70+ to maybe snatch a nice cape, and farming for money.

[Th e Doctor]

Pick mort myre fungi for 30 minutes (~250 k).

 

Spend this 250 k on 5 snapdragon seeds and 5 super compost to plant. After you plant them go DG for an hour and a half. Then go harvest all of your herbs, sell them on the GE, buy 5 more seeds.

 

With the 150 k profit go to the RFD chest and buy all the chocolate bars, cooking apples, and pots of flour and sell those on the GE for another 120 k profit.

 

Visit ardy for your free rune essence, yanille for your free sand, catherby for your almost free seaweed for another 50 k profit.

 

Take your 320 k to your slayer master and buy all the broad bolt/arrow tips you can to sell for another 100-130 k profit.

 

Take this and buy all your battlestaffs for another 10, 18, 35, or 70 k profit (depends on your tasks completed). With what's left on your hour and a half timer go back to DGing.

 

Go harvest your second set of herbs and plant your third set. If you don't have Jujus go to Herblore habitat to work on getting them. Once you've aquired 1.6 mil again invest 1.35 mil into MTK for your passive 2-3 mil profit a week.

 

On another note, Bandos is only decent money if you can yak the bones and have turmoil to make up for the lack of a healing familiar. That and the hilt drop rate is estimated to be around 1/250-1/300 means its not surprising at all that you haven't seen any good drops...

[kburts]

okay, i really do appreciate all these kindly replies from everyone trying to help me out, and I feel that I have not expressed the problem as well as I could have;

 

I DO have a rapier (2nd one to be precise,) I think my farmin' level is 39? I've never corped before, and I have learned to detest skilling.

 

As far as I can see it there are only a few meathods of making money

 

• Production Skills (wc, mining etc)
  
• 2nd step skills (smithing, runecrafting etc..)
  
• Boss hunting
  
• Consistant moneymakers (frost dragons, green dragons etc..)
  

 

The thing is that I have done all these menial tasks so much that they no longer appeal to me in any way (except bossing really) To be honest, if there was no dg'ing I'd probably have quit a while ago, but I just dont know what to stay for anymore :/

 

EDIT: tieszen, although hilts are 1-250/300, shouldn't it really be 3-250/300 because of bcp's and tassets? or am I mistaken

[chrisman638]

EDIT: tieszen, although hilts are 1-250/300, shouldn't it really be 3-250/300 because of bcp's and tassets? or am I mistaken

 

 

Yes and no. Since its all luck, just because a drop rate is 1/300 doesnt mean it has to be 1/300. You can easily go 600+ kills with out a drop.

 

And i'm pretty sure that it's not 3/300. It would be my best guess that after you get the first drop, it would reset the drop rate for your next super rare boss specific item to 1/300 again. In a perfect world that is.

[LitterBug]

EDIT: tieszen, although hilts are 1-250/300, shouldn't it really be 3-250/300 because of bcp's and tassets? or am I mistaken

 

 

Yes and no. Since its all luck, just because a drop rate is 1/300 doesnt mean it has to be 1/300. You can easily go 600+ kills with out a drop.

 

And i'm pretty sure that it's not 3/300. It would be my best guess that after you get the first drop, it would reset the drop rate for your next super rare boss specific item to 1/300 again. In a perfect world that is.

 

lolol.

Unfortunately - probability of multiple things occuring is an independent event.

It only makes sense as the way RS codes their programs. Otherwise, killing in a group means a lot higher drop chances per boss which is simply not that case.

[Serpent Eye]

I don't mean any offense to the OP, but it really just sounds like you need to figure out how badly you need the money.

 

If you were really hard-pressed for cash, you could just do one of the methods you listed, even if they're menial tasks. :P If Farming is too boring for you, try doing an herb run in between Slayer tasks, or between boss-hunting trips. That way you can get a mix of profiting and enjoyment at the same time.

 

Like I said... no offense intended!

[kburts]

I don't mean any offense to the OP, but it really just sounds like you need to figure out how badly you need the money.

 

If you were really hard-pressed for cash, you could just do one of the methods you listed, even if they're menial tasks. :P If Farming is too boring for you, try doing an herb run in between Slayer tasks, or between boss-hunting trips. That way you can get a mix of profiting and enjoyment at the same time.

 

Like I said... no offense intended!

 

No, I certainly wouldn't take any offense from that, my problem is that well... I dont know how much I need the money, nor do I have any to get started on bossing, I've been doing homework for the whole day except for about 15 minutes, but hope to get some scaping done eventually, I believe my problem is more on a physiological sense where I no longer have the will to play the game because it's just not fun for me anymore.

 

Well, I went to frost dragons and they are jam-diddly-packed with bots nowadays, which is kind of heartbreaking, considering they were my main money maker, as bosses seemed to actually end up losing me money most of the time because of money spent on supplies.

 

and to litterbug and chrisman; the drop is not dependant on the player, but on the specific graar you're killing, so having more people in a group would no increase the chance at a drop

 

and i was thinking you have a 1/300 of a hilt, 1/300 of bcp and 1/300 of tassets

means you have a 3/300 of getting something rare

so 1/100 chance at a rare drop from bandos, or at least thats how i see it :/

Edited May 3, 2011 by kburts

[Obtaurian]

Screw overworld Runescape, just dg moar. :thumbup:

[GlowinRedM]

I don't mean any offense to the OP, but it really just sounds like you need to figure out how badly you need the money.

 

If you were really hard-pressed for cash, you could just do one of the methods you listed, even if they're menial tasks. :P If Farming is too boring for you, try doing an herb run in between Slayer tasks, or between boss-hunting trips. That way you can get a mix of profiting and enjoyment at the same time.

 

Like I said... no offense intended!

 

No, I certainly wouldn't take any offense from that, my problem is that well... I dont know how much I need the money, nor do I have any to get started on bossing, I've been doing homework for the whole day except for about 15 minutes, but hope to get some scaping done eventually, I believe my problem is more on a physiological sense where I no longer have the will to play the game because it's just not fun for me anymore.

 

Well, I went to frost dragons and they are jam-diddly-packed with bots nowadays, which is kind of heartbreaking, considering they were my main money maker, as bosses seemed to actually end up losing me money most of the time because of money spent on supplies.

 

and to litterbug and chrisman; the drop is not dependant on the player, but on the specific graar you're killing, so having more people in a group would no increase the chance at a drop

 

and i was thinking you have a 1/300 of a hilt, 1/300 of bcp and 1/300 of tassets

means you have a 3/300 of getting something rare

so 1/100 chance at a rare drop from bandos, or at least thats how i see it :/

 

When doing HW or something just have RS open in another tab or something fishing for monks/sharks/rocktails whatever, so you have that tiny bit of extra cash when you go to do something

[R3moteman]

I don't know your levels so without knowing them i would suggest doing green dragons for your basic gear then slay for levels and O.K money till you got the money you want.

[BeNiceOk]

I believe my problem is more on a physiological sense where I no longer have the will to play the game because it's just not fun for me anymore.

 

Posting on this, (and just note this is from my own personal experience being in a similar situation).

 

A big question you need to ask yourself is "what is GP going to do for you?". I am currently F2P because of a similar reason as you. I did most everything I found enjoyable, got bored, studies and such start to take priority, and frankly the game lost its appeal to me. So I switched to F2P. Now i'm sitting in F2P with a bunch of gold I spent time making in members. I regret spending that time now and feel it was "wasted" when I could have been doing things I enjoy more.

 

In summary, blindly making/grinding for gold is a bad idea if you have nothing you wish to apply it to. If you set a goal as getting xx armor or xx skill, by all means, make the money and go for it! But speaking from my experience (and my personal opinion) it's usually a bittersweet reward making gold with no intention to spend it. It might feel good to see the number grow at first, but once you reach a point, you look back and say "why did I spend all that time doing that".

 

If you don't have any main goals for gold usage, I would focus on things you enjoy more. You mentioned you like Dungeons, so perhaps that's a route you should take instead (as it requires no gold to start). I hear DGS is quite a good dungeon clan if you are looking for a group to join.

 

Just don't put the caboose before the coal car. Find out what you want first and then put a goal for it. If nothing appeals to you at all, perhaps a break is in order. Sometimes a 1-2 month break can make Runescape appeal more "interesting" when you return to it.

 

These are all personal opinions though, so as always, take them with a grain of salt. I wish you luck on whatever decision you make.

[z0diark]

If you enjoy dg then I think it's quite possible to spend your entire time in daemonheim. However, if you don't enjoy dungeoneering then I'd suggest you quit rs for a bit. There's not much point if you're not enjoying yourself and you'll probably enjoy it more if/when you come back to it.