Should I bother banking ashes/hides/bones anymore?

[Iamfarming]

Hey guys,

 

Recently I've been slaying and for all dragon task + task that drop infernal ashes, I tend to bank the ashes/bones/hides. Now it's starting to get a bit boring considering it drastically lowers my xp/h (considering I don't have a yak yet). I was just wondering if it would be worth simply just using urns/bonecrusher on these task from now on? I know it's different for everyone but what would be your estimate on how much I would be losing out on in terms of gp? At least from 83-96ish slayer.

 

Money isn't a problem for me but at the same time I don't want to be losing out on huge profits haha. Basically what I'm asking is, if you were in my shoes, would you still bank the stuff or would you just speed up xp? I'll go with the general consensus.

 

Thanks in advance!

[BabyPunchers]

You've got a lot of your buyables done, and you say you don't need the money. I think you should do away with it, take the better exp per hour. If you want, you can set a limit for yourself;bank one task, don't bank the next one or something like that. I did that on the way to 99 a few times. :)

[Aten]

You're better off with a bonecrusher and urns; since most of the tasks dropping these items are assigned in fairly sizeable numbers (with the exception of metal dragons), you're gonna be banking a lot and wasting a ton of time. I used to bank bones/ashes/hides as well lol, with a tort you cap at 46 items per trip... try doing this at blue dragons for instance, and you're looking at 6 trips per task.

[Iamfarming]

You've got a lot of your buyables done, and you say you don't need the money. I think you should do away with it, take the better exp per hour. If you want, you can set a limit for yourself;bank one task, don't bank the next one or something like that. I did that on the way to 99 a few times. :)

 

Hm I might just do that, might change the monotony of some task :)

 

You're better off with a bonecrusher and urns; since most of the tasks dropping these items are assigned in fairly sizeable numbers (with the exception of metal dragons), you're gonna be banking a lot and wasting a ton of time. I used to bank bones/ashes/hides as well lol, with a tort you cap at 46 items per trip... try doing this at blue dragons for instance, and you're looking at 6 trips per task.

 

Yeah that's why I'm asking this question, the constant banking gets annoying but at the same time... It feels so wrong just leaving the stuff there (okay in this case burying it). I'm very weird when it comes to potential money haha. But so far I'm leaning to just leaving the banking behind due to how many times I have to bank (216 nechs = 216 ashes to bank with tort = long task lol).

[Aten]

Yeah that's why I'm asking this question, the constant banking gets annoying but at the same time... It feels so wrong just leaving the stuff there (okay in this case burying it). I'm very weird when it comes to potential money haha. But so far I'm leaning to just leaving the banking behind due to how many times I have to bank (216 nechs = 216 ashes to bank with tort = long task lol).

 

I know how you feel lol, but after bonecrusher/urns you're only really leaving metal bars and hides behind. You're already maxed crafting, and if you don't value xp past 99 then this isn't the best alternative... but I found a use for Make Leather particularly on Black Dragon tasks which gets you some quick extra xp near losslessly (make leather takes 1.5 rapier attack turns I believe?). You simply bring along a needle and thread, necessary runes, then Make Leather after you've collected 5 or more hides. Craft into body, spellbook swap, alch. I first did this on Blues, but it's actually worse than just ditching the hides since they are killed quickly, assigned in large numbers, and give crappy crafting xp relatively.

[Iamfarming]

Hm okay, I might try that but seems like a lot of hassle. I'll probably just ditch the hides as much as it pains me to do so haha. Thanks for the advice so far :)

[NastyJenny]

If money really isn't a problem there is no reason going out of your way to bank bones/ashes and hides.

Just like in the real world, there is no reason doing dirty work if you can afford all you need anyway. Dirty work here means banking 'manually'

 

Little tip/advice : charms and stuff like seeds are a pain to pick up without a *right click placeholder* for them... May be a good idea to not use bonecrusher/Urns on nechs/hellhounds/etc if your clicking abilities aren't that great.

[Iamfarming]

If money really isn't a problem there is no reason going out of your way to bank bones/ashes and hides.

Just like in the real world, there is no reason doing dirty work if you can afford all you need anyway. Dirty work here means banking 'manually'

 

Little tip/advice : charms and stuff like seeds are a pain to pick up without a *right click placeholder* for them... May be a good idea to not use bonecrusher/Urns on nechs/hellhounds/etc if your clicking abilities aren't that great.

 

Hm alright thanks for the input :) And I always use the minimap to ensure I haven't missed any drops (works wonders when you cannon spectres and half their drops are seeds)

[Quyneax]

Yeah that's why I'm asking this question, the constant banking gets annoying but at the same time... It feels so wrong just leaving the stuff there (okay in this case burying it). I'm very weird when it comes to potential money haha. But so far I'm leaning to just leaving the banking behind due to how many times I have to bank (216 nechs = 216 ashes to bank with tort = long task lol).

 

I know how you feel lol, but after bonecrusher/urns you're only really leaving metal bars and hides behind. You're already maxed crafting, and if you don't value xp past 99 then this isn't the best alternative... but I found a use for Make Leather particularly on Black Dragon tasks which gets you some quick extra xp near losslessly (make leather takes 1.5 rapier attack turns I believe?). You simply bring along a needle and thread, necessary runes, then Make Leather after you've collected 5 or more hides. Craft into body, spellbook swap, alch. I first did this on Blues, but it's actually worse than just ditching the hides since they are killed quickly, assigned in large numbers, and give crappy crafting xp relatively.

I'd say yak bank > alch (considering you need to be out of combat for spellbook swap).

 

I'd certainly use urns and a bonecruncher until you get a yak, and even then I would continue to use urns.

[Iamfarming]

Yeah that's why I'm asking this question, the constant banking gets annoying but at the same time... It feels so wrong just leaving the stuff there (okay in this case burying it). I'm very weird when it comes to potential money haha. But so far I'm leaning to just leaving the banking behind due to how many times I have to bank (216 nechs = 216 ashes to bank with tort = long task lol).

 

I know how you feel lol, but after bonecrusher/urns you're only really leaving metal bars and hides behind. You're already maxed crafting, and if you don't value xp past 99 then this isn't the best alternative... but I found a use for Make Leather particularly on Black Dragon tasks which gets you some quick extra xp near losslessly (make leather takes 1.5 rapier attack turns I believe?). You simply bring along a needle and thread, necessary runes, then Make Leather after you've collected 5 or more hides. Craft into body, spellbook swap, alch. I first did this on Blues, but it's actually worse than just ditching the hides since they are killed quickly, assigned in large numbers, and give crappy crafting xp relatively.

I'd say yak bank > alch (considering you need to be out of combat for spellbook swap).

 

I'd certainly use urns and a bonecruncher until you get a yak, and even then I would continue to use urns.

 

Alright awesome. Seems like the general consensus is to leave the stuff there/use urns/bonecrusher so that's what I'll do. Thanks everyone!

[Aten]

I'd say yak bank > alch (considering you need to be out of combat for spellbook swap).

 

I'd certainly use urns and a bonecruncher until you get a yak, and even then I would continue to use urns.

 

Unless there's been some recent hidden update, spellbook swap can be done in combat if you can quickly click Standard (which should become second nature quickly).