Hardest Skill

[MaetNameno]

What is the hardest skill to get a 99 in? I'm doing combats as of now and I just got my second one to 99, but I would just like to know which one to hold off for the very last.

[dragon246665]

In terms of time, slayer, agility, and runecrafting are all the slowest.

[MaetNameno]

In terms of time, slayer, agility, and runecrafting are all the slowest.

I was thinking farming tbh

[Troacctid]

Mining as well.

 

In terms of time, slayer, agility, and runecrafting are all the slowest.

I was thinking farming tbh

Farming is one of the fastest, actually.

[ghjkl]

runecrafting cave crawlering takes the longest

[MaetNameno]

Mining as well.

 

In terms of time, slayer, agility, and runecrafting are all the slowest.

I was thinking farming tbh

Farming is one of the fastest, actually.

See I never farm so I wouldn't know. I'm just aware of the basics pretty much.

[xSxqPowerx]

I believe slayer is technically the slowest.

 

For farming, you're looking only at the time that you actually spend on planting and checking, not the time between which can be spent doing other stuff.

[The_Gabe]

rc

[Powerfrog]

Fishing is suprisingly time consuming (suprising to me at least) compared to most skills. With a max speed being about 70k/hour, 60k/hour if you don't use high concentration methods like drop 1 fishing.

 

Slayer is slow and takes a lot of effort as it's not just campi botting 1 enemy over and over like other combat training. Some could argue that this is more fun, and it's certainly great for training combat and summoning all at the same time. Difficult to pinpoint an average xp/hour here as tasks vary so wildy, but if you blocked/skipped all 'bad xp' tasks, you can get upwards of 50k/hour xp.

 

Summoning (Collecting charms.) is pretty slow even using the best (generally expensive) methods. Getting 250 crimson an hour at lobsters at level 96 would give you about 110k/hour, but training from lower levels would be far less xp as the amoutn of xp per charm depends on what you summon, and higher requires higher levels.

 

Agility is slow from level 1-99 and theres no escaping it. At maax level it's roughly 70k/hour experience.

 

Runecrafting isn't as bad as people make out. You can get 50k/hour xp at ZMI altar, which isn't far behind the above skills.

 

 

 

Those are all the skills that are slow even with an infinite bank.

 

For some players, herblore may be one of the slowest skills as they will clean a low level herb or make a low level potion + prepare the secondaries for minimal loss, which equates to something rediculous like 20k/hour experience.

 

Prayer with big bones is about 60k/hour experience, yet a lot cheaper than the faster bones.

 

If you only ever do herb runs for maximum profit, farming is incredibley slow too. (Impossible to say the xp an hour as its essentially 5 minutes work, 80 minutes wait)

 

If you can only afford to make gold amulets with crafting, you're looking at 36k/hour xp.

 

 

 

I have no idea why i wrote this massive wall of text. It was going to be a few lines post but i just kept writing. Feel free to tell me i'm wrong about every single thing i've said, pro people. :)

[Lose No Hope]

Alch-fishing requires minimal concentration actually. It's also the same xp/hr as drop fishing, slightly more if you include the magic xp from the alches.

 

Slayer is the most efficient way to train combat. When you consider the fast combat xp, summoning charms, and effigies, it gives great xp overall. Even without all those and only considering slayer xp, it's faster than rc.

 

RC is much slower than agility. That 20k difference is massive in the long run.

[JeRambo]

cooking is without a doubt the slowest

 

no really probably slayer

[Troacctid]

If you only ever do herb runs for maximum profit, farming is incredibley slow too. (Impossible to say the xp an hour as its essentially 5 minutes work, 80 minutes wait)

Slightly above 100k xp/hr average with torstol.

[Noxx]

Mining as well.

 

In terms of time, slayer, agility, and runecrafting are all the slowest.

I was thinking farming tbh

Farming is one of the fastest, actually.

Mining is by no stretch of the imagination slow. 80k - 100k exp/h (depending on your level of course, but at least 80k/h once you reach Level 80) is what i would describe as a decent exp rate.

Fishing at 70k+/h, 80k even, isn't exactly slow either.

 

Besides, OP asked for the hardest skill not the slowest. Seeing as Slayer can be afk'd almost entirely, farming takes little effort even if you decide to do herbs from 1- 99, any other buyable takes almost no concentration except for construction which has such a high exp rate that even with the click intensity can't be seen as hard. Hunter and thieving are way too fast to be considered hard despite their tedious nature.

This only really leaves Agility and Runecrafting if trained the conventional way. Although Agility can have a similar exp rate as Fishing, there's a lot more movement of the mouse involved making it slightly more tedious. Runecrafting is much the same.

Even when training Agility and Runecrafting via Effigies they would still be the 2 "hardest" skills to train.

[Triquos]

Runecrafting.

[Powerfrog]

Alch-fishing requires minimal concentration actually. It's also the same xp/hr as drop fishing, slightly more if you include the magic xp from the alches.

 

Slayer is the most efficient way to train combat. When you consider the fast combat xp, summoning charms, and effigies, it gives great xp overall. Even without all those and only considering slayer xp, it's faster than rc.

 

RC is much slower than agility. That 20k difference is massive in the long run.

Alch fishing requires constant concentration as you must alch each fish as it catches. Compare this to clicking a spot and leaving the computer for a few minutes, dropping all fish and clicking another spot. But i understand what you're saying, you don't really need to FOCUS as you do it.

 

Slayer is only efficient for combat if you actually care about training slayer in the first place. There are far faster ways to train combat, collect charms and effigies.

 

RC is arguabley one of the fastest skills if we're talking 'infinite wealth' though. You can quite easily pay off multiple low levels to unnote your essence and run back, leaving you to only craft runes and trade, getting insane speeds if done efficiently. (Pay them in advance or afterwards to speed up each individual trade by a considerable speed.)

 

Hell, if you get low enough levels, they'd probably be grateful to make 300k/hour each. 10 on your payroll should get well over 150k/hour experience possibly while profiting from all the runes.

[Quyneax]

Pure runecrafting and crawlers for runecrafting are the slowest.

 

Slayer is the slowest if you don't use effigies on slayer.

[tigershelby2]

Hardest as in the amount of skill actually needed to train? Because if thats so, then go find another game, few things in rs besides bossing takes actual "skill"

[MaetNameno]

Hardest as in the amount of skill actually needed to train? Because if thats so, then go find another game, few things in rs besides bossing takes actual "skill"

Hard as in time consuming/expensive. I know summoning will be expensive going to fast way (correct if wrong). My to-do-list is:

Firemaking-Fishing-Cooking-Magic-Construction-Herblore-Hunter-Thieving-Agility-Crafting-Mining-Smithing-Runecrafting-Summoning-Farming-Slayer. (In that order)

Most people say to train combats doing slayer but I wanted to hold it off for last so that when I'm farming I can do slayer. Might be inefficient in some people eyes but in my mind best for last. :thumbsup:

Edit: On dungeoneering I just do this as a time waster when my brothers get on so I'm just gonna get that somewhere along the way

[Troacctid]

If your goal is a max cape, you should not be maxing skills one at a time all in a row. That's a bad strategy because it wastes all your incidental xp, like effigies and the time-limited methods (like the circus) that are more efficient than straight grinding. It also limits your ability to combine skills, like mining/superheating for magic/mining/smithing, or curly roots for woodcutting/firemaking/farming, or slayer for slayer/melee stats/summoning/effigy skills.

 

Don't get caught up in skillcape fever. Tunnel vision is only going to slow you down in the long run, and it puts you at a greater risk for burnout. Diversify a little. You are better off getting everything to mid-90s and then later continuing to 99 than you are chugging along at each skill until you max it out.

[essiw]

Runecrafting after that Agility