Well guys, me and my friend decided to do this back a long time ago. What it is is how much you profit/lose doing a skill the fastest way. Note: I do NOT include non-profitable ways that are the fastest, examples: Ivy, Timber, Precious Stone, etc. All of these ways either profit or lose.

 

Note: I do not include combat skills, Dungeoneering, Agility, or Slayer. Agility, CB skills, and Dungeoneering aren't profitable in their fastest ways unless you collect drops in CB skills, which fastest ways don't usually have good drops. Slayer goes differently for each player.

 

Profitable:

Mining - I got 104m on my account in 3 months, which was my fastest.

Fishing - 10.3m, dropped fish during fly fishing then did lobsters from 40-99 and banked them.

Cooking - 950k, over 3m doing Tuna to 94 then Rocktail to 99 is over 2m loss.

Woodcutting - 8m, highest possible log to 40, Maples to 99

Farming - 53m, mostly highest vegtables and lots of herbs.

Hunter - 398m, though I did do some slow yet super profitable ways during my 99, I wound up with tons of great drops. Most profitable skill.

Fletching - 1.3m, 99% of Fletching came from Yew Longbow stringing.

Thieving - 58m, Blackjack.

Runecrafting - 68m, I did one with Runespan in 2 weeks without any profit, then one with normal Runecrafting in about 4 months and got what I got.

Together, that's about 701.5m. All of those skills together will take a little longer than 18 months playing 8 hours a day.

 

Now, the other way around..

 

Loss:

Magic - 13.3m, though you could make decent profit Alching, the quick way that can be done at exactly 13,350,000 is doing Rune Arrows, still requiring a lot of alching then rebuying.

Prayer - 119m, the price of 75 construction, Marrentill, and to make the G. Altar will cost even more. Possible to get in one day.

Construction-44m, despite the fact it costs a ton, it still takes about 3 weeks.

Crafting - 75m, profitable in a super slow, 25k xp/hr way. 75m doing a 275k xp/hr way.

Herblore - 275m, the cape makes it worth it. So do the extremes/overloads.

Smithing - 19m, less and faster with SC hammers.

Firemaking - 4m, not the fastest way, but Maples from 40-99.

Summoning - 250k, you just need the charms, as you only lose 250k from selling the pouches 1-99.

This ends up with a loss of about 549.5m, meaning you could max your skills by doing all the profitable skills, then doing the loss skills. These loss skills would take about 2 months to all 99 together, about 2 years to max these skills. You would still wind up with a 152m profit if you did the profitable skills max before maxing these.

 

Prayer and Summoning are included because you don't need to actually do combat to level them, except for charms for Summoning, but those can be gotten by Firemaking bonfires.

 

If I forgot a skill, let me know, as I did rush this back with my friend and haven't had the time to edit it. Thanks for reading! - Woundtight

how do you only lose 250k training summoning to 99........Are you assuming people will collect secondaries rather than buying??

Nothing you did in this post is the fastest method or anywhere near teh efficient way to do anything.

 

Profitable:

Mining - I got 104m on my account in 3 months, which was my fastest.

Shouldn't have made that much if using JuJu + Urns and superheat dropping conc gold

 

Fishing - 10.3m, dropped fish during fly fishing then did lobsters from 40-99 and banked them.

Extremely inefficient, either do Rocktails or c2 fishing

 

Cooking - 950k, over 3m doing Tuna to 94 then Rocktail to 99 is over 2m loss.

Extremely inefficient, no reason not to do wines

 

Woodcutting - 8m, highest possible log to 40, Maples to 99

Extremely inefficient, do Ivy, artic pines, or c2 wc

 

Farming - 53m, mostly highest vegtables and lots of herbs.

The only one on this list that is sort of okay, but you should have been doing herbs and tree runs

 

Hunter - 398m, though I did do some slow yet super profitable ways during my 99, I wound up with tons of great drops. Most profitable skill.

Extremely inefficient, do Jadinkos

 

Fletching - 1.3m, 99% of Fletching came from Yew Longbow stringing.

Broad arrows, nough said

 

Thieving - 58m, Blackjack.

Pyramid Plunder

 

Runecrafting - 68m, I did one with Runespan in 2 weeks without any profit, then one with normal Runecrafting in about 4 months and got what I got.

 

 

Together, that's about 701.5m. All of those skills together will take a little longer than 18 months playing 8 hours a day.

 

You're saying it took you 4320 hours just to get 99 in all those skills?

Mining: 130 hours

Fishing: 130 hours

Cooking: 20 Hours

Woodcutting: 130 hours

Farming: Negligible

Hunter: 52 Hours

Fletching: 22 Hours

Theiving: 52 Hours

RC: 130 Hours

 

For roughly 666 hours to get 99 in all the skills. This leaves you 3658 hours to do PVm or money making; which at a realistic 5m/hr rate would have made you 18.3 billion (minus the costs of doing skills efficiently)

 

 

how do you only lose 250k training summoning to 99........Are you assuming people will collect secondaries rather than buying??

 

No idea, it cost me 260m to get 99 summ

The methods are not the fastest, not the most efficient, and/or outdated.

I think it would be interesting to make a more comparative list between doing a profitable method of some skills, vs doing them efficiently, vs doing the most afkable method, vs doing the "daily method". Example of most afkable: ivies over artic and banking gold ore vs superheat (both using juju of course). Example of daily method: battlestaves from varrock, skills from circus, peng points for x skill, Bork for all charms, woodcutting with those evil trees, the new hunter one, etc.

do you know blade?

 

anyway, at some point, nonprofit xp>slower profit xp.

one also has to factor sanity.

That whole chart didn't even make sense.

Hunter - 398m, though I did do some slow yet super profitable ways during my 99, I wound up with tons of great drops. Most profitable skill.

Extremely inefficient, either do Rocktails or c2 fishing

 

This doesn't seem right ... :unsure:

Sorry, but these methods confuse me. Almost all of these are not the fastest methods, nor the most profitable. Please explain your reasoning.

Sorry, but these methods confuse me. Almost all of these are not the fastest methods, nor the most profitable. Please explain your reasoning.

He's talking about gaining the fastest xp possible still while maximizing profit.

 

For example, Woodcutting:

The fastest xp is cutting Ivy which yields 0 profit, while cutting Magic logs would yield the most profit per log while giving extremely slow xp.

 

His example of cutting Maples gives, in theory, both xp and profit at reasonable rates without completely sacrificing one for the other.

Could someone actually please post the following or simply PM me:

 

Fastest way to each 99 (buyables) and their price.

 

Thanks :)

His example of cutting Maples gives, in theory, both xp and profit at reasonable rates without completely sacrificing one for the other.

But sadly, that's not how woodcutting works :(. Sometimes, the next tier log you can cut is actually both worse xp and money than the previous, for example willow to maple.

Not to mention his farming money calculation is misleading because many factors change profit values of herbs (jujus, auras, remote farm, quests) which increase profit drastically. Plus you should do trees and herbs, (and maybe allotments as well) which he didn't mention.

 

You want to compare not just maximise profit and xp within a skill but look at how other skills compare.

 

If you are looking at efficiency disregarding other skills that leads to odd conclusions.

Hunter - 398m, though I did do some slow yet super profitable ways during my 99, I wound up with tons of great drops. Most profitable skill.

Extremely inefficient, either do Rocktails or c2 fishing

 

This doesn't seem right ... :unsure:

 

Fixed

I think it would be interesting to make a more comparative list between doing a profitable method of some skills, vs doing them efficiently, vs doing the most afkable method, vs doing the "daily method". Example of most afkable: ivies over artic and banking gold ore vs superheat (both using juju of course). Example of daily method: battlestaves from varrock, skills from circus, peng points for x skill, Bork for all charms, woodcutting with those evil trees, the new hunter one, etc.

 

I was once told by an efficient bunyip not to post what is well known. On top of that, I highlighted things a level 3 might do to save/make gp before they're lvl 70 combat.

 

 

Just saying, this thread's title is misleading as all hell and needs to be changed..

I was under the impression that blackjacking was faster than pp @ <91 thieving, after which they become about the same exp per hour.

Can we just close this thread? The OP is wrong about just about everything...

If you can make the money back faster, there is no reason not to use the most expensive methods you can use. Time is money, so if I could be spending the time nexing instead, I'm not going to bother cooking tuna to 94 or not do runespan. It took you 2 months to make 68m. I can make that in a day.

 

Also maples to 99 is so bad its hilarious

Give the guy some credit for trying atleast -.-

The way I read it he took 4 months to get 68m via rc.

Can we just close this thread? The OP is wrong about just about everything...

 

I fell asleep last night when I saw this topic and forgot about it until just now. I apologize.

 

OP, I appreciate your initiative! But as many pointed out there are many flaws in your approach and it's lead you to some very strange and incorrect conclusions. I welcome you to remake a topic about a discussion on the current day training methods if you'd like, but as the topic stands now it doesn't yield any fruitful discussion.

 

PM me if you, or anyone else, has any questions. :)