BXPW Farming

[Unknown_Warrior]

So I'm planning on farming the following in the BXPW:

 

- 5 Torstols

- 2 Samaden

- 6 Palm Trees

- 5 Magic trees

- 1 Calquat tree

- 2 Spirit trees

 

Anything I should add or have forgotten?

[hlpmee]

you may add bushes as well. 4+1

 

or just the one in hh

[homer205]

So I'm planning on farming the following in the BXPW:

 

- 5 Torstols

- 2 Samaden

- 6 Palm Trees

- 5 Magic trees

- 1 Calquat tree

- 2 Spirit trees

 

Anything I should add or have forgotten?

The herbs aren't exactly great xp, though of course are good profit, I wouldn't be using the higher modifiers on them. Also, you could've just made one topic with both questions.

[haimonek]

I'd just do all the trees. Herbs won't make that much of a difference and aren't really worth the time.

[LitterBug]

Like everybody said, don't waste your time on the herbs/bushes

 

Would you even do calquats?

[haimonek]

Like everybody said, don't waste your time on the herbs/bushes

 

Would you even do calquats?

 

Lol wtf, why not? It's great xp and easy to acces with a teleport scroll or starting your run at the calquat.

[Urza285]

Just for reference because I already did that math for the first half hours bonus xp you'll get a total of 488k farming xp just doing 5 magic, 6 palm, 1 calquat, and 2 spirit trees.

 

Suppose you get an average of 6 torstol for each of the five herb patches. Each torstol is like 200 xp each for picking. That comes out to about 13k xp for doing them. Of course this is all fast math in my head and rounding. Generally during bxpw every minute counts for the first 5 hours. I won't tell you that you are squandering your time because in reality it's what you value in terms of how your time is spent.

[LitterBug]

Just for reference because I already did that math for the first half hours bonus xp you'll get a total of 488k farming xp just doing 5 magic, 6 palm, 1 calquat, and 2 spirit trees.

 

Suppose you get an average of 6 torstol for each of the five herb patches. Each torstol is like 200 xp each for picking. That comes out to about 13k xp for doing them. Of course this is all fast math in my head and rounding. Generally during bxpw every minute counts for the first 5 hours. I won't tell you that you are squandering your time because in reality it's what you value in terms of how your time is spent.

 

I would much rather save those 5 minutes of 2.7 xp time and use them on a different skill.

-Say crafting, you can easily get 300k an hour, or 25k every 5 minutes.

A 1.7 bonus is pretty significant.

 

Farming herbs would take at LEAST 5 minutes

-you would have to bank

-you would have to run to trollheim (unless you unlocked the spell)

-the herbs would have to be all alive

-you would need a decent number of herbs to be picked (gf if every patch is yielding like 4-5 herbs)

-banking again after

So in total, it's more like 7+ minutes wasted going no a herb run.

 

It's not totally significant, but if you plan well - herbs can be farmed every 75-90 minutes (or something)

However trees take like a day (sometimes more) to farm and that's if they all survive, etc, etc.

[transcript80]

Don't waste your time on herbs. If you have the Ardougne cloack (2+) you can add the monastery bush (poison ivy) as it taks 5 extra seconds, but overall just do trees (normal and fruit) and caquat.

 

edit: w000000t 1800 posts!!!

Edited September 7, 2011 by transcript80