super heat item, worth it?

[money_bought]

well here is my scenario, im curently making 100k steel arrows made 15k so far buy buying the coal, minign the iron running to furnace to make bars. then smelting these bars in varrock into heads banking these then when i got the 15k heads i brought the 100k feathers and set about fletching the 15k shafts.

 

 

 

now all this wasnt to bad apart from the smelting takeing ages, so i was wondering as my next goal is 44 RC would it be much quicker to make the nats (which i would do anyway to further raise my RC to 50+) and then super heat the steel bars in a bank rather than running to the furnace as i will get smithing and needed/wanted mage xp which means im training 4 skills rather than just 2.

 

 

 

note money is no real matter id rather have higher skilsl than a large gp stockpile

 

 

 

any opinions?

 

 

 

:D

[tintmangbpack]

I think a better use for nats is always high alching.

 

 

 

Heres what I think you shoudl do is stockpile your ores until you have the wanted amount, then go to Port Phasmytys (sp?) becuase that is the closest furnace and when you are done with that smith them in Yanille, same distance as Varrock but way less crowded.

[LadyDragon]

Yes, what tintmangbpack said.

 

 

 

Super Heat is better for smithing metal that you just mined and that required lot of coal, like mythril and up. It gives you more space to keep on mining.

 

But it's better to use the Nature runes for H. Alchemy. It gives you more Magic Exp too.

[Doomster]

In members, you could also make steel in the blast furnace, using 1 coal per iron instead of 2.

[kdb148]

Blast furnace is a great alternative if you have 60 smithing, as you can just stay down there and smith the stackable arrowheads until you're tired of it.

 

 

 

For your method, no it's never worth it to superheat in a bank. If you're making steel, you're much better off mining 24 iron, then switching to the mining guild and mining the coal and superheating right there. The big advantage that superheat has over smelting is that you can mine for much longer periods of time without banking. I think this is worth doing, even for steel, as the magic exp is pretty good, and you are using it to speed up levelling other skills. Plus, you'll be gaining a lot more mining exp by getting all of the coal yourself, and if you are also making your own nats, your savings will be very, very significant over buying the coal.