Dusk Souls Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 After a long time I finally decided to do the Dwarf Cannon quest and thus got the right to have my very own cannon. Considering my low (40) ranged level how many cannonballs should I use to start slaying? I have 500 steel bars to be converted into cannonballs, I originally planed to sell all of them; but I am thinking that keeping some for myself was a better option. I was thinking on keeping about 500 cannonballs to start, though I am not sure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Paul Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 If you want max efficiency, cannon everything. I don't know how many of the lower level slayer tasks can be cannoned, but at the upper levels it's around 1150 cballs/hr. Working on max and completionist capes. 2435/2475 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandalf14141 Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 You'll want a lot more than 500 to begin with. I'd have at least 2000 at all times, if not more. Once you get more accustomed to the cannon and use more, I'd keep a supply of 10,000. Finally on here to update that I have officially quit! It's been fun.[hide=Signature]R.I.P Billy Mays and <3 My Friend C.D.S 7/8/09 <360,816th to 99 Fletching 03/07/09|220,309th Person to be Able to Kill Dusties | 10 Year Cape on 12/20/14[/hide] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusk Souls Posted January 24, 2012 Author Share Posted January 24, 2012 I think I'll start with 1k cannonballs to try and recover a bit of the costs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scherzo Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Smelting cannonballs is a terrible idea though, unless you've got absolutely no other ways to earn money. Also, if you smelt them yourself, then sell all of them, because smelting them yourself implies that you value money too much to waste it on using the cannon, which is actually quite expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusk Souls Posted January 24, 2012 Author Share Posted January 24, 2012 Well money is tight and I have found than buying the runes, iron ore and coal from the GE I get about 500 profit per steel bar and quite a bit of XP, around 10 levels since I've started to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quyneax Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 At your smithing level, cannonballs might actually not be bad for training (don't take my word for it) and if you feel like afking it's always an option. For cannoning, you will get more damage (= killls and xp = loot and xp) if you cannon something with low defence. So I'd start with those. A bunch of slayer things sadly can't be cannoned but most other tasks are weak to it. 500 cannonballs can be fired in as little as 5 minutes. Supporter of Zaros | Quest Cape owner since 22 may 2010 | No skills below 99 | Total level 2595 | Completionist Cape owner since 17th June 2013 | Suggestions 99 summoning (18th June 2011, previously untrimmed) | 99 farming (14th July 2011) | 99 prayer (8th September 2011) | 99 constitution (10th September 2011) | 99 dungeoneering (15th November 2011) 99 ranged (28th November 2011) | 99 attack, 99 defence, 99 strength (11th December 2011) | 99 slayer (18th December 2011) | 99 magic (22nd December 2011) | 99 construction (16th March 2012) 99 herblore (22nd March 2012) | 99 firemaking (26th March 2012) | 99 cooking (2nd July 2012) | 99 runecrafting (12th March 2012) | 99 crafting (26th August 2012) | 99 agility (19th November 2012) 99 woodcutting (22nd November 2012) | 99 fletching (31st December 2012) | 99 thieving (3rd January 2013) | 99 hunter (11th January 2013) | 99 mining (21st January 2013) | 99 fishing (21st January 2013) 99 smithing (21st January 2013) | 120 dungeoneering (17th June 2013) | 99 divination (24th November 2013) Tormented demon drops: twenty effigies, nine pairs of claws, two dragon armour slices and one elite clue | Dagannoth king drops: two dragon hatchets, two elite clues, one archer ring and one warrior ring Glacor drops: four pairs of ragefire boots, one pair of steadfast boots, six effigies, two hundred lots of Armadyl shards, three elite clues | Nex split: Torva boots | Kalphite King split: off-hand drygore mace 30/30 Shattered Heart statues completed | 16/16 Court Cases completed | 25/25 Choc Chimp Ices delivered | 500/500 Vyrewatch burned | 584/584 tasks completed | 4000/4000 chompies hunted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonMedo Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 unless you are really wealthy,I wouldn't recommend cannoning at such low lvls,that money will be of more use in other skills.For example 70 prayer for piety will help you like a cannon but much much cheaper Mamiću odlazi! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riptide Mage Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Based on my experience; getting 99 slayer requires just under 300,000 cannonballs which is 133 mil at current prices. You make it sound like running through a few level 87 monsters is hard which it really shouldn't be at your level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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