how to raise smithing

[drgnrider]

i want to raise my smithing level to 70 and i wanna know the best way

 

im not a member and i want to make a profit or break even

 

i can high alch anything i make

 

 

 

here are my levels

 

Mining-60

 

Smithing-49

 

Crafting-47

[Lord_Useless]

You could buy iron and coal and then smelt into bars and sell for a profit. Or you can mine iron and coal and then smith into pl8s and high alch them. Either way you get money, and both ways take time.

[drgnrider]

i cant craft my own natures so i lose money if i buy coal

[Doomster]

I guess you have to mine coal in the guild, mine or buy iron to go with it, then make and alch steel plates - if you make them in Horvik's, then you can economize on nat runes if the buying price there is better than alch - the cost of a nat (unless the objective is also to train magic by alching).

 

 

 

Put the cash remaining after buying more nats toward additional ores.

 

 

 

Not a lot more you can do in F2P, while you can make a profit on smelting steel bars, it's rotten XP compared to smithing them.

[Ltfairy]

Here is what I do:

 

 

 

1. Buy Iron ores for 50-100gp each and coal for 200gp each.

 

2. Smith them into steel bars.

 

3. Sell the steel bars for 600-800gp each.

 

 

 

Just repeat these processes, it takes time, but it's worth it.

[reversal]

Be advised that if u choose to smelt steel bars all the way to lv 70 it will take

 

approximately 36.9k steel bars to do so. Even if u were smelting them efficiently, which is about 400 bars per hour, it will take 92.25 hours to do.

 

This does not even include the time and money required to gather the materials.

 

 

 

As a lv 75 smither this is my suggestion:

 

As a intermediate, smither you should only buy coal for 150 and iron less than a 100. Smith all the steel bars you have and sell plates to horvick at the best time so that you could get roughly 1.1k for each steel plate. This may be tricky. There are players who will buy steel plates for 1k.

 

 

 

When you are lv 50 smithing and lv 43 magic, i strongly suggest using superheat when mining mith ores. By using superheat it will save you valuable time by decreasing the number of trips you have to make to deposit ores and by skipping having to withdraw them to smelt them with a furnace. With the mith bars I suggest you save them until you can make mith kites and try to sell for 3k. If you choose to sell mith bars they can go for 1.1k to 1.2k each.

[Noctis]

Once you hit 68, you should use Superheat to make mith bars, smith them into plates, and then high alch.

[Doomster]

On hitting level 50, you could start superheating mithril in a mine that has mithril and coal (mining guild or Hobgoblin).

 

 

 

Superheating that way brings back more potential XP per run since it converts 1 mithril and 4 coal into one bar, making one bank run equal to 4+ (not 5, since you lose some spaces).

 

 

 

In terms of ore usage, Mithril is no better than Steel, actually slightly worse for XP, so if you carry the ores back, better to stick to Steel, especially as iron is faster to mine.

 

 

 

When you can do better Mithril items (and you need to reach the Kite shield at level 62 for this), the alch value is then higher than for steel plates, giving a greater return per nat rune. This is a 3 bar item, so uses 12 coal and 3 mith, compared to 10 coal and 5 iron for the steel plate - still 15 ores, but no fast ones. Two handers at level 64 are definitely worth switching to, alching at 1560 and still a 3 bar item.

[Nutty]

The way I do it is simple:

 

 

 

Get stuff from pit mine

 

run to Al kharid

 

Smelt it

 

Sell it in a place with lots of noobs (no offence) (Lumbridge, Draynor)