ZMI

[Umanyar]

So, I have about 10k ish p-ess banked from slayer. Im not looking for profit as much as xp, and Ive always heard that ZMI is the fastest xp for RC. Problem is, I have no idea how to craft at the ZMI since Ive never used it before. Whats the best way to do this at my levels? I have access to the ourania telepoort.

[The_Avatar]

From what I know, the most commonly used method is to buy a large sum of mind/body runes to bank with, wear some good magic defense armor, and simply use the short route, using your ourania teleport to bank. You can pray if need be because there is an altar right at the entrance to the ZMI that you pass every time you bank. Some people like to fill up their banks completely for easier banking, but I don't see it as worth the trouble.

[Beaumonde]

Equip:

• Some sort of earth staff for Ourania/Moonclan tele
  
• Ardougne cloak 2 or higher for extra runes, but no bonus experience (1 gives no bonus)
  
• Weight reducing clothing (Which looks like it will be just boots for you, unless you don't have Ardougne cloak, in which case wear a spotted/spottier cape)
  
• Regen bracelet for minor damage
  
• Master Runecrafter robes wont hurt if you have them

 

In your inventory:

• Pouches (which may or may not increase experience with ZMI, depending on how quick you are to fill/empty them)
  
• Essence
  
• All of your astral and law runes, even from your bank
  

 

You'll have to decide whether to use a familiar. They tend to slow me down, so I don't, but there's a mini-obelisk right where Moonclan tele takes you, so you wont have to worry about point drain.

 

First fill up your bank. I used wilderness capes, afros, different potions, and teleportation jewelry at different numbers of charges to do it. Teleport to Ourania, run inside and use the short/straight route to the alter. Run in a group or follow someone if you can to minimize damage, but it's not too bad.

 

Craft your runes, empty your pouches and craft those. If your pouches are starting to degrade, now is a good time to see if you've crafted the right runes to use the NPC contact spell and have the Dark Mage repair them. Now either tele/telegroup Moonclan. Note that many people on the official world use the Telegroup Moonclan spell because with an Earth staff it uses the same amount of runes as the regular teleport with a bit more experience, if you want to save a few runes and don't need magic experience then you can turn on Accept Aid and hitch a ride with someone else.

 

Recharge your summoning every few runs at this step if your using a familiar. Now run to the bank. This is where having a full bank comes in handy, now if you press the Deposit All button, all of your crafted rune except Astral/Law and your pouches will be deposited. This way you don't have to deposit every stack/rune by hand. Now get some essence, fill those pouches, and repeat.

 

A few random notes: Using this teleportation method you'll probably never run out of run energy. You could use a Ring of kinship, Ring of dueling, Glory, Games necklace, Tokkul-Zo, or even tele straight out to Ourania and just pay the banker Eniola 20 runes, but Moonclan seam to be the fastest and makes the most sense. Make sure you take pure essence, regular rune essence wont work. Use the official world (70) to prevent damage from the Zamorak warriors and wizards. And finally, be prepared to lose money until you get your RuneCrafting up to about the mid 60s.

[Sy_Accursed]

From what I know, the most commonly used method is to buy a large sum of mind/body runes to bank with, wear some good magic defense armor, and simply use the short route, using your ourania teleport to bank. You can pray if need be because there is an altar right at the entrance to the ZMI that you pass every time you bank. Some people like to fill up their banks completely for easier banking, but I don't see it as worth the trouble.

 

It is worth the trouble, no doubt about it.

Between a few cheap shops (canafis clothes, gnome clothes, range guild etc) and poh bookcase + costumes it takes all of 5 minutes maximum to fill bank even with several hundred spaces. Full bank = massive time savings on ZMI banking in the long run.

 

Without full bank you either have to:

Press bank invent then withdraw 4 pouches and banking runes as well as refilling ess.

Or individually bank-all 10+ separate stacks of runes.

 

Talking at least 0.5 seconds per extra action I'd say so you add 2.5 - 5 seconds to your bank run.

That's 1 minute lost in 12 runs.

5 minutes lost in 60 runs.

 

At 53 ess per run (invent lest 5 for 4 pouches + banking runes then +3+6+9+12) and he has 10k ess that's 189 runs.

So doing yourself out of a good 15 minutes on banking alone.

 

And tbh I'd say mousekeys aside (which I don;t think u can work nice for zmi anyway) 0.5 seconds per extra bank action is probably on the fast side clicking wise. I'd probably take 1 second as a more average joe time which would double up time loses to 1 minute in 6 runs. 5 mins in 30. So a good 30min lose on the 189 runs.

[The_Fray]

ZMI is not the fastest xp at your level, you are better off doing combination runes but they will result in a loss.

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AldEhLOK6ejJdEJfWVg5ZzlMaUJrei0tNWdmVkdBSUE#gid=0

 

Use this as a guide, remember that xp/hr given for ZMI is for a person with 99 Runecrafting. I am not even sure if ZMI will be faster than duel ring fires.