Hey guys =] Sorry to bother you all again so soon, but I need some help picking your brains in regards to the upcoming bonus exp weekend. I'm not going to use this weekend on buyables; I value time highly enough that it'd be better to do other skills, and it's probably not a 2x cost saving with the price hike. With that in mind, i'm not really worried about saving every single cent possible; I'd pay 200k to gain an extra 10k mining exp an hour (Although that's technically 20 gp/exp, i'd stretch it over the whole exp gained per hour regardless), for example.

 

Undoubtedly there's been new skilling methods added in since I last played, and i'm probably not aware of most of them. So, without further ado...

 

1) Is LRC mining with juju potions (I'm aware they've been changed to 10% bonus exp and autosmelting on spirit) and urns still the most efficient way to mine? I'd imagine that using low alch would still be the best way of taking care of the ores? Also, I have three pieces of the golden mining set (I obtained them when I had to semi-afk for long periods of time). I've heard that it's also not worth finishing the rest of the set to 99. Is this true? My mining level is 86, for reference.

 

2) Is arctic pines + low alch or ape atoll teaks + deposit box w/urns, beaver, juju and adze still the most efficient way to train woodcutting? I'd like to finish woodcutting before I look at 99 firemaking simply because of the autoburn of the adze. I already have the full lumberjack set from temple trekking as I needed 594 for the elite tasks. My woodcutting level is 85. (Note: I didn't mention arctic pines + split because I don't have the apm for that; I tried it a long time ago and decided I couldn't do it.)

 

3) Is Pyramid Plunder still the best way to train theiving? I absolutely hate thieving and would like to get to 91 for the elite desert tasks so I can ignore it until it's my last 99. I have a tier 1 Five Finger Discount aura, and my thieving level is 85. (Note: I omitted blackjacking for the same reason as arctic pines+split)

 

4) Are Draconic Jadinkos still the best way to train hunter? I did ask in my previous topic about the big chinchompa and the private hunting grounds but I was told doing those were worse. At a quick test I gained around 160k exp/hr at my level 90 hunter with full juju camo and the arctic bear (Not warding off commons). Is it worth stockpiling zammy vines for zammy favour pots? I do have around 100 banked but I remember they were painfully slow to catch. I don't yet have the enhanced yimminewhatchever stick as I really don't have a clue what the charm sprites thing is about.

 

5) Is barbarian fishing + low alching still the best way to train fishing? I tried the fish flingers d/d and it seemed to be a little slow, exp wise. I have also been told that rocktails are also decent exp; however i've only really fished them a few times for my daily challenges and didn't pay any attention to the exp rates. I have a tier 1 call of the sea aura.

 

A few extra quick questions related to skills:

 

-I did a few dungeoneering floors on world 77 today and they were around 15 minutes long each. However, for some reason, the loading screens when someone opened a door took much, much longer to load then I remember, rendering me practically catatonic in a barrel room on my path which took the greater part of 5 minutes to do - during which I had to clear it because I couldn't lure mobs as I was jumping all over the place with lag spikes. Is this simply a problem on my end, or was there some kind of update which made dung much laggier?

 

-Which combination of Hood/Plate/Legs/BN should I use as my loadout? I destroyed my hood long ago and so i'd have to hunt for a new one; however with the platebeard not making you essentially immortal along with the lack of accuracy penalty (not that it matters with berserker ring) of the hood, i'm considering adding it back in my loadout to help with puzzles. I did try using a weapon switch, but with the accuracy of the 2h and lack of boss weakness (and apparent nerf, I soloed the bosses on my floors today with only a few food) it doesn't seem worth it to me unless the hex gets a buff.

 

-Does anyone have a resource or numbers they could point me towards regarding divination, such as energies consumed/hr with third option, exp hour with and without? I'd like to know whether it's worth it for me to buy energies to help this skill along. My divination level is 89, if it matters.

 

-Which items produced from divination are actually worth using?

 

-Assuming you can't find people to go KK with on a kalphite task, is it worth doing exiled kalphites and yakking/notepapering/banking the chitin scraps?

 

Thank you all for your help in advance, and good luck with preparations for your double exp weekend =]

1. Warbands are the best, but they're incredibly overpowered and you'll probably feel like a bad person for doing them. If that's the case, then, yes concentrated gold is the best. Juju potions are now worth using. Superheat the ores and drop the bars.

 

2. C2s > Arctic pines > Crystal trees. Do fishing too if you decide to do c2s. Also look into doing daily divine yews. It's about 42k xp per day.

 

3. Yes, pyramid plunder is the best from like 51 to 200m xp. A lot of people switch to dwarf traders after they get ibis, but that's because they're lazy. It's significantly worse. I haven't confirmed if five-finger discount works at pp, but it should provide a noticeable effect if it does.

 

4. At 90 hunter, you can probably get into the 200-250k xp/hour range with draconics. Big chin/grenwalls are absolutely horrible and you should never do them. Zamorak favors are worth getting (prioritize these over mining potions; they both use samadens). Proper technique:

 

 

5. C2s > barb > rocktails. Rocktails are actually incredibly efficient relative to how much input they require. They're significantly more efficient than bonfires for firemaking, which a lot of people do. I recommend at least doing C2s when you don't need to afk. If you decide to do barb, most people just drop the fish now because magic xp is so cheap because of glacors. Just put your action bar on the bottom of the game window and alternate between left and right clicking.

 

See if this helps your lag problem: http://www.xp-waste.com/modifying-garbage-collection-to-increase-performance-t3960.html

 

I think people are using Saggitarian shortbows, Saggitarian bodies, Primal 2hs, Primal plates, and hoods. Hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

 

Regarding energies: http://forum.tip.it/topic/323140-divination-energy/

Remember, it's either going to be worth buying them or selling them.

 

Divine yews, portents of life (I think people use these), the one that banks things (for rocktails)

 

Don't chitin scraps stack? Either way, I'd probably skip kalphites.

I can say without a doubt that the aura does effect pp. When I went with a friend to get 99 we both had t3 aura and if one of us started earlier then the other you could easily get ahead of the other person and stay there for the duration of the aura. And once the first persons wore off it always evened out in terms of urn failures.

Chitin scraps stack but damaged chitins don't. - but yes definately do it at exileds easy 1-3m profit.

Awesome, thanks so much for the quick feedback! That's exactly what I was looking for =]

 

Regarding C2s - I had heard they were nerfed, is that no longer the case? If so, i'll be looking into doing those.

 

Is the line method of laying traps better then the X method of laying traps? I've heard many conflicting things about that.

 

Apart from that...Thank you so much for helping out guys =]

C2s were nerfed but are still the best

 

The best trap formation is in my video.

Hey guys =] Sorry to bother you all again so soon, but I need some help picking your brains in regards to the upcoming bonus exp weekend. I'm not going to use this weekend on buyables; I value time highly enough that it'd be better to do other skills, and it's probably not a 2x cost saving with the price hike. With that in mind, i'm not really worried about saving every single cent possible; I'd pay 200k to gain an extra 10k mining exp an hour (Although that's technically 20 gp/exp, i'd stretch it over the whole exp gained per hour regardless), for example.

 

Undoubtedly there's been new skilling methods added in since I last played, and i'm probably not aware of most of them. So, without further ado...

 

1) Is LRC mining with juju potions (I'm aware they've been changed to 10% bonus exp and autosmelting on spirit) and urns still the most efficient way to mine? I'd imagine that using low alch would still be the best way of taking care of the ores? Also, I have three pieces of the golden mining set (I obtained them when I had to semi-afk for long periods of time). I've heard that it's also not worth finishing the rest of the set to 99. Is this true? My mining level is 86, for reference.

 

What hedge said, LRC is best if you don't warbands. If you value your time at all you should be warbanding though.

 

2) Is arctic pines + low alch or ape atoll teaks + deposit box w/urns, beaver, juju and adze still the most efficient way to train woodcutting? I'd like to finish woodcutting before I look at 99 firemaking simply because of the autoburn of the adze. I already have the full lumberjack set from temple trekking as I needed 594 for the elite tasks. My woodcutting level is 85. (Note: I didn't mention arctic pines + split because I don't have the apm for that; I tried it a long time ago and decided I couldn't do it.)

 

Pines are the fastest xp/hr in pure wc exp outside of DG. They really should just be done in tandem with fishing in c2's though if you value exp in both skills. Better to just buy firemaking out after maxing wc in c2's. You should also be hitting up W2 or W48 at global reset to take advantage of using all your Divine Location items on harvesting yew logs for 40ish k exp in 5 minutes.

 

3) Is Pyramid Plunder still the best way to train theiving? I absolutely hate thieving and would like to get to 91 for the elite desert tasks so I can ignore it until it's my last 99. I have a tier 1 Five Finger Discount aura, and my thieving level is 85. (Note: I omitted blackjacking for the same reason as arctic pines+split)

 

At 95+ dwarven traders are as good and much less attention oriented than PP. Until then you're stuck with PP unless you are willing to go to Monkey Knife Fighters or Blackjacking. I would look into using a 1:1 script for blackjacking or MKFs with AutoHotKey. It makes it much more bareable than doing it normally. PP is better with a friend and also better with a Pharaoh's Scepter. 

 

4) Are Draconic Jadinkos still the best way to train hunter? I did ask in my previous topic about the big chinchompa and the private hunting grounds but I was told doing those were worse. At a quick test I gained around 160k exp/hr at my level 90 hunter with full juju camo and the arctic bear (Not warding off commons). Is it worth stockpiling zammy vines for zammy favour pots? I do have around 100 banked but I remember they were painfully slow to catch. I don't yet have the enhanced yimminewhatchever stick as I really don't have a clue what the charm sprites thing is about.

 

Once you get draconics down they will be the best way to train hunter. Depending on how much you hate the skill though the Big Chinchompa may be of relative value in doing, and if you loathe it above all other skills I would say just do divine box traps every day (note: this is one of the worst ways in over all efficiency to use your daily divine location). 

 

5) Is barbarian fishing + low alching still the best way to train fishing? I tried the fish flingers d/d and it seemed to be a little slow, exp wise. I have also been told that rocktails are also decent exp; however i've only really fished them a few times for my daily challenges and didn't pay any attention to the exp rates. I have a tier 1 call of the sea aura.

 

Without t4+ CotS rocktails are annoying, but still worth doing if you value afkness, besides that like I said do this in tandem with WC in c2's. 

 

A few extra quick questions related to skills:

 

-I did a few dungeoneering floors on world 77 today and they were around 15 minutes long each. However, for some reason, the loading screens when someone opened a door took much, much longer to load then I remember, rendering me practically catatonic in a barrel room on my path which took the greater part of 5 minutes to do - during which I had to clear it because I couldn't lure mobs as I was jumping all over the place with lag spikes. Is this simply a problem on my end, or was there some kind of update which made dung much laggier?

 

Not sure. 

 

-Which combination of Hood/Plate/Legs/BN should I use as my loadout? I destroyed my hood long ago and so i'd have to hunt for a new one; however with the platebeard not making you essentially immortal along with the lack of accuracy penalty (not that it matters with berserker ring) of the hood, i'm considering adding it back in my loadout to help with puzzles. I did try using a weapon switch, but with the accuracy of the 2h and lack of boss weakness (and apparent nerf, I soloed the bosses on my floors today with only a few food) it doesn't seem worth it to me unless the hex gets a buff.

 

Just stick with melee unless you're doing hardmodes where having 2 styles is basically mandatory. Hood isn't worth hunting for at this point, night spiders are laughably common in solo's and you'll find one eventually. In the mean time just use other armor or a BN. 

 

-Does anyone have a resource or numbers they could point me towards regarding divination, such as energies consumed/hr with third option, exp hour with and without? I'd like to know whether it's worth it for me to buy energies to help this skill along. My divination level is 89, if it matters.

 

In terms of xp/hr each memory deposited with energy gives ~24-25% more exp than without so in the long run I believe its around a 10% increase in xp/hr. I wouldn't bother buying energies, the gp/xp is horrendous when you break it down.

 

-Which items produced from divination are actually worth using?

 

All of the boons are worth making for the exp boost. Most of the divine locations are worth using, divine yews give the best wc exp/hr in the game, divine runite, magic trees, and herb 3 all give 150 k + profit in addition to their exp in skills. In general its best to hit up w2 at global reset to use all yews there in Burthope, deposit when inv fills and hit the next tree until you've capped for the day. You'll still get ~100 k profit capping with yews.

 

-Assuming you can't find people to go KK with on a kalphite task, is it worth doing exiled kalphites and yakking/notepapering/banking the chitin scraps?

 

It depends on what you want in a task, they're ~1 mil per task if you take all the drops worth gathering, and exp-wise they aren't terrible but they're far from ideal compared to abby demons for example.

 

Thank you all for your help in advance, and good luck with preparations for your double exp weekend =]

 

 

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