Elucin8er's Brief Skilling Guide

[elucin8er]

Elucin8er's Breif Guide On Skilling

 

 

 

Intro

 

 

 

Not sure exactly how to level those stats effectively?

 

Believe you're wasting time?

 

Spending far too much cash on skills?

 

 

 

Then this is the place for you. Here, I will discuss time management, give you some handy tips on skilling and show you some ultra fast ways to level several stats at once. I'm open for critisism, and looking for some additions to my methods, i.e. faster ways (looks at Volte).

 

 

 

EnJoY!

 

 

 

Time Management

 

 

 

Now I know a lot of you log into Runescape, and are not quite sure what to do. So you sit in the bank for a bit, maybe get out your rubber chicken, waste some cash staking, etc. If you want to make some cash in this game, then that sort of behaviour is not a good start.

 

 

 

What you need to do is, come onto RS with an idea of what you're going to do next. Naturally, you'll be in certain moods, so do the skill that's right for you. Eg - You don't feel like paying attention to the game, so in this case you're best to:

 

 

 

Fish

 

Afk Train (Bandits, axes Earth Warriors etc)

 

Cut Trees

 

Cook

 

 

 

While doing these things, you may want to read a book, read the forums, play an instrument, or, watch some TV.

 

 

 

Sometimes you'll be in the mood to get some things done, you need to take advantages of these moments, and get skilling :P

 

 

 

So basically, don't bum around and waste time. This leads to boredom, and eventually you'll find yourself not having much fun anymore. Use your time effectively.

 

 

 

Tips

 

 

 

1. The RS official forums are your friend, USE THEM. Post once, put your chat to "ON" and wait. I can't tell you how many times this has worked for me in the past. Occasionally, the forums will be of no use to you, so falador world 2 for buying/selling is a useful option. Always have your chat to hide for lag reduction and ease to see people trading with you.

 

 

 

2. Read forums while doing those boring stats, and you'll find they won't be so boring afterall.

 

 

 

"OMG agility is SO boring." - This sort of talk doesn't exist for me now. I only do agility when someone is there occompaning me, or I'm doing some good reading on forums.

 

 

 

3. Don't look how far you have to go for a level. Wait it out, and don't expect anything. Then, the reward of leveling will come as a nice suprise.

 

 

 

4. Don't stop going after you level a skill. Keep it up, or you won't get anywhere. It's all to common to see people get a lvl, and then push it aside. You'll find it'll be a long time before that stat sees another level increase.

 

 

 

5. Don't be a solo man. Bring friends along to skill with you, the conversation and company makes things less boring and repetitive.

 

 

 

6. Once you start a skill, try to stick with it. Focus on a lvl, and go for it.

 

 

 

7. Invest in a wearable discontinued item, such as a party hat, mask, or santa hat. They are ever increasing in value, so it's like growing money in your bank. After buying the item, get back to skilling and money making, and completely forget you have the item.

 

 

 

Skill Combinations

 

 

 

This section will be rather large, as it's the main area of this post.

 

 

 

Farming + Herblore Combo

 

 

 

People who hate farming are usually lazy, or are going about it wrong. NO, you do not sit and watch your plants grow, that's just plan boring. What you need to do is:

 

 

 

Get out an ectophial, and tele runes for camelot (you may want more places, up to you). You bring the seeds you wish to plant, which will ALWAYS be at least 2 herb seeds, possibly 2 limp seeds, and possibly some vegetable seeds. ALWAYS use supercompost. whether it be a mixture of your harvested watermelons, or a collected bunch of pinapples from brimhaven.

 

 

 

After planting in at least 2 locations, you LEAVE. That's right, you go off and do something else, and come back around 1.5 hours later. Upon returning, I've noticed a 90% chance your crops will survive when using supercompost. Keep your harvests, as they'll most likely be useful later.

 

 

 

After doing around 10 or so rounds, you'll notice a large number of herbs in your bank. I found the best thing to do is to continue stocking up on these herbs, and when you feel like doing some herblore, you'll have at least a level banked.

 

 

 

(For the large farming lvls, the only real thing to do is plant tree and fruit tree seeds. Always get a farmer to look after them, and plant as many as you can).

 

 

 

Crafting + Prayer + Combat

 

 

 

That's right, killing dragons. You have several choices here, and I swap between each from time to time.

 

 

 

1. Taverly Dungeon Blue Dragons. MUST have 70 agility for pipe route. Walking around is much too time consuming.

 

 

 

2. All Famous Graveyard Green Dragons. Must have 84 magic for graveyard teleport, and a decent stock of glories for the return trip. A small amount of food is required, aswell as some prayer to avoid those pkers.

 

 

 

3. Canoe Dragons. This is for those of you preferring to range, or those who don't have 84 magic.

 

 

 

4. Ogre City Blue Dragons. For those without 70 agility, and have completed watchtower.

 

 

 

Always keep bones and hides, as they come in very useful later.

 

 

 

Not only are these 3 methods good for range/combat xp, but you can gain quite a nice amount of prayer lvls and cash. I always reccommend crafting the hides, and it's your choice to ecto the bones, or sell them (for those stakers and pkers).

 

 

 

You'll find the money gained is quite nice, I believe this will be a favourite for most.

 

 

 

Mining + Smithing + Magic

 

 

 

(Thanks to Rens for this great idea, all credit to her).

 

 

 

If you have completed "Between a Rock" you have acess to a large, private gold mining area. Here, you should bring a pickaxe, a staff of fire, gold smithing gauntlets and lots of nature runes. You simply mine the gold, and superheat it. This is possibly the best xp for smithing, and it also helps out your mining + magic.

 

 

 

Currently, if I mine 20k gold ore and superheat it, I will gain:

 

 

 

75 - 81 Mining

 

72 - 80 Smithing

 

92 - 94 Magic.

 

 

 

This kind of leveling method is an example of skill combinations at it's best. Normally, people would powermine iron, buy and smith steel bars, and stun to get their levels. This combo of skills does all in one fall swoop, and costs minimal cash compared to other techniques (or none at all if you choose to runecraft your own nature runes).

 

 

 

Crafting + Runecrafting

 

 

 

(All credit to Primadog for this idea. I tweaked it a touch).

 

 

 

This method is best done when you are interested in crafting law runes. If you're not in the mood or don't require them, then don't do this technique until you are.

 

 

 

Basically, you just need to head out as if you're crafting law runes through the abbys. You make the runes as normal, the amount doesn't make a difference, you'll still end up with many free inventory spots, which is all you need. After you've crafted the laws, head outside to the 8, that's right, 8 seaweed respawns. Gather as many as you like, and return to edgeville as normal.

 

 

 

This will obviously take a little longer than teleporting from the alter, but at the end of the day you'll discover you have a hell lot of seaweed. When you team this up with the buckets of sand (84) you recieve each day from the quest reward of _________ you'll be getting a lot of crafting xp that you could not normally obtain so effortlessly. And naturally, if you sell the orbs you'll gain a nice little bit of unexpected cash.

 

 

 

Breif Skill Leveling

 

 

 

Theiving

 

 

 

Stalls - Warrior Women - Guards - Knights of Ardguone.

 

 

 

After getting up to knights of ardguone, theive a invent of cakes from the cake stall. Then, attack a knight, and lure him into a small room. When in the room, close the door, and work on getting him to stop attacking you. This can be done by running or climbing up a ladder/stairs. Now you have a full invent of food, and a knight with nowhere to go.

 

 

 

Fishing

 

 

 

2 Words, fly fishing. Get lots of feathers, and camp at shilo village for a few days. Cooking them also ensures some reasonable xp.

 

 

 

Cooking

 

 

 

Buy raw, and sell back cooked. Sure, you'll lose some cash, but this stops after you get to lvl 94. At this level, you will never burn a shark with those cooking gauntlets. Plus, you'll lose no money trading cooked for raw.

 

 

 

Runecrafting

 

 

 

For fast levels, use fast free laws on world 66. Works a charm, but tends to be a bit repetetive and boring :P

 

 

 

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I believe the rest of the skills are pretty straightforward. If you want me to add anthing, just say so and I'll be happy to.

 

 

 

Open for critisism and spelling corrections. Looking for advice and more skill combos. :P

[Giordano]

Nice guide, learned some nifty things about it :)

[jsmith3]

nice guide

[remoteman]

nice guide, i was wondering with crafting if it was easier to use the tanner in cannafis or al kharid? and if making tiaras or coifs was better xp until u get to drag hides

[Greedom1]

nice guide, i was wondering with crafting if it was easier to use the tanner in cannafis or al kharid? and if making tiaras or coifs was better xp until u get to drag hides

 

 

 

Tanner in al kharid charges 20 gp, while canafis charges 40 per hide (not much of a difference) I think al kharid is easier imho.

 

 

 

Tiaras are 52.5 xp ea, coifs 37 xp each... if you buy silver bars, there is nothing faster, if you're smithing the silver ore into bars first, I think coifs are faster (as you can tan all at once as opposed to smithing one ore at a time). The time it takes to smith a tiara (from a bar) is about the same as the time to craft a coif (from a tanned hide). Trust me, I'm 85 crafting, and have done easily 25k of both coifs and tiaras...

 

 

 

Alternatively, you might consider mining gem rocks in shilo on an empty server, or thieve the safes in the rogue's den for crafting xp while also training mining or thieving respectively.

 

 

 

PM me if you'd like any other crafting tips - it's by far one of my proudest skills (though not my highest), so good luck.

[primadog]

RuneCrafting/Crafting

 

 

 

If you found yourself in need of some seaweeds, empty out your inventory/equipments, bring law tiara, glory, ess, and pouches. Tele to draynor village, head over to Entrana to craft those law runes, then run slightly west to grab a load of seaweeds, repeat. This and "Hand in the Sands" should quickly send you to crafter heaven. :P

[captianant]

ahhh, Elucin8er made it... its gotta be a lie...

 

 

 

HAH! I kid!

 

 

 

Nice guide dude, can you make a link to it so i can put it in my sig?

[nvw08]

Nice guide :) helped me a lot :)

[Sk8erfreak]

Very nice!

 

 

 

I definately think this is worthy for the Archive of Wisdom, we just need Leesters to see it :D .

 

 

 

I especially like the crafting/prayer section.. I had no idea about the ancient magic tele being close to greens, I always used that stupid canoe! Thanks for that tip :).

[elucin8er]

Thanks everyone for your kind comments :) I'll add some more little techniques when my web browser decides to co-operate.

[Risen_The]

Great guide, I'll try that mine+smith method. But AFK training is not allowed anymore, I know what you meant, but AFK stands for Away From Keyboard.

[Not2Day1024]

Very nice guide, I also think it's suitable for the Wisdom Archive.

 

 

 

[off-topic]I love your sig Sk8er, every time I see it, I stare at it for a while :)[/off-topic]

[volte]

Lol, you didn't believe me when I told you that you spelled "Brief" as "Breif" Oh and add my tips.

[hazardmaster]

Great guide :)

[elucin8er]

Lol, you didn't believe me when I told you that you spelled "Brief" as "Breif" Oh and add my tips.

 

 

 

:oops: Will do, later

[remoteman]

nice guide, i was wondering with crafting if it was easier to use the tanner in cannafis or al kharid? and if making tiaras or coifs was better xp until u get to drag hides

 

 

 

Tanner in al kharid charges 20 gp, while canafis charges 40 per hide (not much of a difference) I think al kharid is easier imho.

 

 

 

Tiaras are 52.5 xp ea, coifs 37 xp each... if you buy silver bars, there is nothing faster, if you're smithing the silver ore into bars first, I think coifs are faster (as you can tan all at once as opposed to smithing one ore at a time). The time it takes to smith a tiara (from a bar) is about the same as the time to craft a coif (from a tanned hide). Trust me, I'm 85 crafting, and have done easily 25k of both coifs and tiaras...

 

 

 

Alternatively, you might consider mining gem rocks in shilo on an empty server, or thieve the safes in the rogue's den for crafting xp while also training mining or thieving respectively.

 

 

 

PM me if you'd like any other crafting tips - it's by far one of my proudest skills (though not my highest), so good luck.

 

 

 

thx, i've bought 2k hides, is it possible to tan all of them at once? i've been running to the tanner with 25, and crafting on the way back. if u can tan all at once i'll be very embarrased :oops:

[nvw08]

nice guide, i was wondering with crafting if it was easier to use the tanner in cannafis or al kharid? and if making tiaras or coifs was better xp until u get to drag hides

 

 

 

Tanner in al kharid charges 20 gp, while canafis charges 40 per hide (not much of a difference) I think al kharid is easier imho.

 

 

 

Tiaras are 52.5 xp ea, coifs 37 xp each... if you buy silver bars, there is nothing faster, if you're smithing the silver ore into bars first, I think coifs are faster (as you can tan all at once as opposed to smithing one ore at a time). The time it takes to smith a tiara (from a bar) is about the same as the time to craft a coif (from a tanned hide). Trust me, I'm 85 crafting, and have done easily 25k of both coifs and tiaras...

 

 

 

Alternatively, you might consider mining gem rocks in shilo on an empty server, or thieve the safes in the rogue's den for crafting xp while also training mining or thieving respectively.

 

 

 

PM me if you'd like any other crafting tips - it's by far one of my proudest skills (though not my highest), so good luck.

 

 

 

thx, i've bought 2k hides, is it possible to tan all of them at once? i've been running to the tanner with 25, and crafting on the way back. if u can tan all at once i'll be very embarrased :oops:

 

 

 

Nope, you can't tan all at once.

[RAHK]

You might want to emphasize the importance of agility training. It greatly speeds up the training of nearly every skill. By far the most useful and underappreciated skill out there. At 50 agility you rarely need to walk if at all.

 

 

 

Good guide overall.

[elucin8er]

You might want to emphasize the importance of agility training. It greatly speeds up the training of nearly every skill. By far the most useful and underappreciated skill out there. At 50 agility you rarely need to walk if at all.

 

 

 

Good guide overall.

 

 

 

Yeah good point, it does help a lot. Not only for fast skill training, but for both f2p and p2p pking :)

 

 

 

I'll start to do these little tweaks soon, thanks for your support and info everyone :)

[henk333]

Great looking guide, I've allways been kind of a skiller, but gained a whole lot of combat levels from 76 (and rising) slayer. A thing I like to do while skilling is listen to audiobooks. I got my 81 agility yesterday while listening to 'A short history of nearly everything' by Bill Bryson. Audiobooks are especially usefull for skills you need to look at your screen for or click a lot like agility, firemaking or alching.

 

 

 

Farming is a great skill to do inbetween others. You can go plant at 2 or 3 locations, then do a slayer assignment, or hang around in Catherby cutting yews or willows, or fish lobsters/sharks.

 

 

 

A thing to mention is the combination of firemaking, crafting, combat, woodcutting and prayer leveling by shade burning. There's a great guide on this (it's actually about splitbark, but very usefull for prayer xp aswell):

 

http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=435487

 

I think you get 100k prayer xp and 400k firemaking xp for burning 1k of the highest level shades.

 

 

 

I had a question on crafting: I've been to Bert (from Hand in the Sand) a lot of times now and I think I have almost 2k sand in my bank now. What would you recommend making of that? I know the best xp is air battlestaffs but I don't really feel like hopping worlds some 400 times to get the 'empty' battlestaffs. I was thinking about making them into vials so I could use them in herblore but it seems like such a waste to me.

[Pirkka]

I think you will get a lot more experience by smelting the gold with the gold smelting gauntlest from the Family Crest-quest. So, that would give you a lot more experience in smithing.

[elucin8er]

I think you will get a lot more experience by smelting the gold with the gold smelting gauntlest from the Family Crest-quest. So, that would give you a lot more experience in smithing.

 

 

 

I think I said that :P

 

 

 

.... Here, you should bring a pickaxe, a staff of fire, gold smithing gauntlets ....

 

 

 

I had a question on crafting: I've been to Bert (from Hand in the Sand) a lot of times now and I think I have almost 2k sand in my bank now. What would you recommend making of that? I know the best xp is air battlestaffs but I don't really feel like hopping worlds some 400 times to get the 'empty' battlestaffs. I was thinking about making them into vials so I could use them in herblore but it seems like such a waste to me.

 

 

 

I am also thinking the same thing, and I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I thought about just selling uncharged orbs for 40gp per :P It's good xp, which is what u want, unlike vials :P If I find out something new, I'll post it here for you.

[primadog]

uncharged orbs can be sold for 500-1k each easily.

 

 

 

Just a thought :)

[oddfaery2]

wouldn't superheat gold... port phasmatys with gold gaunts ftw.

 

 

 

Also, you might mention that you should NEVER sell your ores if you plan to EVER raise smithing.

 

 

 

Even if you mined everything yourself, you would get 99 mining far before you get 99 smithing. Just look at addy and rune, 6/8 coal per bar. Eventually, unless you mine past 99, you will HAVE to buy ores/bars at SOME point in order to get 99.

 

 

 

Although, therein lies the dilemma. If you push the philosophy that you should never sell ores because you'll have to buy some eventually, when buying them, you're pushing others from that philosophy...

 

 

 

oh my head.

[elucin8er]

wouldn't superheat gold... port phasmatys with gold gaunts ftw.

 

 

 

Also, you might mention that you should NEVER sell your ores if you plan to EVER raise smithing.

 

 

 

Even if you mined everything yourself, you would get 99 mining far before you get 99 smithing. Just look at addy and rune, 6/8 coal per bar. Eventually, unless you mine past 99, you will HAVE to buy ores/bars at SOME point in order to get 99.

 

 

 

Although, therein lies the dilemma. If you push the philosophy that you should never sell ores because you'll have to buy some eventually, when buying them, you're pushing others from that philosophy...

 

 

 

oh my head.

 

 

 

That's a good idea, but mining tends to get boring. However, for the insane skillers, then never selling ores is a VERY good point to add.

 

 

 

The reason behind my superheating is because it's fast, cheap, and raises a few lvls at once. The mining lvls are much needed, along with the bonus magic lvls.

 

 

 

Naturally, one could buy gold ore, smelt at port phasmas, and re-sell the bars. It works out to be the same price you'd spend on nature runes for superheat, and probably faster. This method is for those who just want fast smithing lvls, and couldn't be bothered doing the awful chore of mining. For me however, I try to stay away from the market, and do things on my own :oops:

 

 

 

But thanks for those points Oddfaerie, I'll be sure to do an update of my guide shortly :P (Btw I am planning to get 90 prayer just like you, by killing blue dragons :oops:)