Just WHAT is a solid money gaining activity?

[brad1431]

the answer is easy, no nothing besides merchanting and high level boss hunting make good money. Everyone keeps telling people to farm and do dailies so the profit keeps going down and down, ruining what was two of the last decent moneymakers, now there is nothing but merchanting or TD's or Nex, that is it, eveything else is just slow cash.

 

Id rather make a little less money slowly and steady, then try to make more by getting one big drop, but this is the state of the game now.... I am hoping for another kuradel dungeon for 95+ slayer and some new drops to get some decent money making methods back, until they ban bots, there really not too many alternatives, they have killed the economy.

[Sona]

You have to bear in mind that in theory, the slowness behind moneymaking is meant to be enjoyable. It's so that Jagex can extend the lifespan of its subscription member and hence, make more money off you in the long run. :)

 

So until you've sank 49238423432 hours into the game and have established roots, the only thing you could hope for is to get lucky with drops. This game is insular in nature, after all.

[jjjon123]

I dont know how profitable it is but what about black dragons? The hides still fetch 5-6k.

 

Also in line with black dragons, you could mess around and do some KBD every once in awile. The Visage and elite scrolls drops are there.

[HostVesta]

If you want to boss to make money train slayer. You make a lot of money training slayer, it's not boring and training combat.

[bedman]

If you want to boss to make money train slayer. You make a lot of money training slayer, it's not boring and training combat.

slayer's money making capabilities have been gone for some time now. Whips ate 500k, herbs low, Dbows at 250k, mauls at 30k, SOLS at 1.5m (?), it's not what it was...

[Cerri]

If you want to boss to make money train slayer. You make a lot of money training slayer, it's not boring and training combat.

slayer's money making capabilities have been gone for some time now. Whips ate 500k, herbs low, Dbows at 250k, mauls at 30k, SOLS at 1.5m (?), it's not what it was...

 

 

You can say that again. Though, it is still steady income, at least. I save more of my drops now, and in the case of herbs and seeds I have always saved them. I guess in this stage of the game where I am pretty broke and don't enjoy the current moneymakers, every herb, log, ore, etc. saved is one more I don't have to buy.

[transcript80]

High-level skilling does not make money comparable to the combat methods described earlier.

 

Skills that do make (decent-good) money are farming (high level herbs), hunter (implings, grenwalls, jadinkos) and herlore (making unf potions with scroll, gives no xp).

 

Other skilling either costs money (i.e. smithing), makes no money (i.e. Ivy) or makes little money compared to combat (i.e. runcrafting, fishing) when done for at least decent - fast xp.

[Powerfrog]

You should easily be capable of averaging 2m+ hour at TDs with your current stats, and if you have it banked, getting a uni would be much more useful than prayer (for tds). Claws are not crashing, they only fell because of xpweekend and everyone being focused on supplies instead of rares/expensive weapons. (Ok they are, but not by a significant amount to make it not worth doing)

 

TDs are a little luck based, sure, but 1/150 is better than hunting for a 1/10000 DFH or something stupid. You should be able to consistantly get at least one pair a week if you play a few hours a day.

 

I am totally with you by the way, i dispise how you need money to make money on such an extreme scale. Blame jagex for allowing the bot situation to get as bad as it is.

[stewyxcore]

Invest in rares

log off for years

come back

?????

Profit!

[Troacctid]

Other skilling either costs money (i.e. smithing), makes no money (i.e. Ivy) or makes little money compared to combat (i.e. runcrafting, fishing) when done for at least decent - fast xp.

Odd that you should list smithing as costing money and fishing as making money; smithing is much, much more profitable than fishing. (Smelting runite at the blast furnace is like 600-700k gp/hr or something.)

[LitterBug]

Other skilling either costs money (i.e. smithing), makes no money (i.e. Ivy) or makes little money compared to combat (i.e. runcrafting, fishing) when done for at least decent - fast xp.

Odd that you should list smithing as costing money and fishing as making money; smithing is much, much more profitable than fishing. (Smelting runite at the blast furnace is like 600-700k gp/hr or something.)

 

Please elaborate on this?

I've never heard of profits going that high.

Are you paying coal runners/buying noted coals/etc?

 

Where did you get these figures from?

[Quyneax]

Blast furnace requires half coal - you can use a bob + coal bag to carry 84 items (of which 27 must be coal) which equates to 16 rune bars per trip. One rune bar + 4 coal costs just under 12k, a bar about 13k. 16k per trip means about 1.6 minutes per trip to get 600k/hr, I don't know if it's possible, but you can do like 5 minute trips to beat fishing rocktail.

[LitterBug]

^ That's only for pack yaks, and if you have a pack yak - i think it's pretty to safe that you can make more then 600k an hour.

 

However, if you have a war tort - you can make 14 bars which isn't too far off.

This sounds like a pretty good method however, is anybody aware of how much smithing exp you can get?

[Troacctid]

You bring noted coal and unnote it there, either by selling it to the shop and buying it back or by asking Ordan to unnote it for you. It should be possible to get like 550-ish bars per hour with a war tortoise (28k-ish xp/hr, 600k-something gp/hr) if you can get the furnace to keep running okay (I think you can do it with just one person, but it would be easier with a friend or two). Pack yak is better obviously.

[All_Is_Great]

I just made 20m yesterday doing some dharok pking. In about 3 hours.

[Sir_Squab]

We're looking for solid, semi-reliable money making methods.

 

If you can actually make 6m/h dhaork pk'ing, please tell me how. And when. And where.

 

And I'll show up with ancients.

 

>_<

[All_Is_Great]

In w65 north of the wall at Oziach's house.

 

Do helm risk fights and practice and get good at it, or get lucky.

 

Let's face it, everything that makes any sort of decent cash is based on luck, so why not try pking?

[pulli23]

In w65 north of the wall at Oziach's house.

 

Do helm risk fights and practice and get good at it, or get lucky.

 

Let's face it, everything that makes any sort of decent cash is based on luck, so why not try pking?

 

Because the average expected profit is always less than 0 when pking.

[skaterrjamez]

no one has mentioned this but.. staking?

if you keep your head in the right place you can make large amount of profit.

however people including me have lost huge amounts there :/ but what i do know is take 5m out of my bank and stake 1m and 2m stakes and everynight i do this for about max 2 hours and on average get 20m. This is my money maker so i get 20m a day.. kind of

[MightyMuddy]

no one has mentioned this but.. staking?

if you keep your head in the right place you can make large amount of profit.

however people including me have lost huge amounts there :/ but what i do know is take 5m out of my bank and stake 1m and 2m stakes and everynight i do this for about max 2 hours and on average get 20m. This is my money maker so i get 20m a day.. kind of

He's not maxed melees so no staking.

[pulli23]

Also can you please stop posting those things where the average turn out is less than 0. Each gp won in staking is lost by someone else, so to earn money you have to be "better than average". However if everyone would try to do that, it again means that you won't make money.

[Stommel]

I made 4-6m an hour doing leech floors. With 99 dg (which is very fast in the grand scheme of things) making 2m+ an hour is easy on w148, and if you get a good trio team together you can make more

[Triquos]

Barrows is a great way of making money and you don't need a lot of money in order to do it too. Personally I am uncomfortable with bosses (I run around like a headless chicken 99% of the time getting owned like a noob), frost dragons are bombarded with bots, I fail at merchanting (I buy something, it falls, I sell something, it rises - murphies law), and Slayer? well, it is hardly profitable anymore these days. So what I do now is:

 

A) Camp Dark Beasts for attack xp and effigies. Any dark bows and fellstalk seeds are a bonus.

B) Barrows for money

 

That's pretty much it really. I highly recommend barrows, it has hardly any requirements from memory, you just have to kill the barrows brothers and loot the chest. Good luck with whatever you decide to do :-)

[MotherBrainII]

I made 4-6m an hour doing leech floors. With 99 dg (which is very fast in the grand scheme of things) making 2m+ an hour is easy on w148, and if you get a good trio team together you can make more

 

What are leech floors, and how do you make money with a skill that doesn't interact with the economy in any way whatsoever?

[Noxx]

People pay you to key while they sit and do nothing the entire floor.