for almost 2 years i was only working on skills, but now im working on money cause i must be the only lvl 100+ with less than 10m :oops:

 

You aren't the only one, but i've never been a member so i guess its not as bad for me. :P

Skills.

 

 

 

Skills are pointless. You will never make as much money chopping a tree as you would merchanting, or killing a boss monster.

 

 

 

IF one person did a skill for x ammount of time, and then killed boss monsters like kq, dag kings, etc or even barrowed for the same ammount of time. You would always come out on top with the non skill.

 

 

 

You only need levels in useless skills for quests and to do stuff that you just dont want to shell out a few gold to get done 10x faster.

 

 

 

Spend an hour fishing 200 shark or spend an hour making like 500k an hour and just buying 200.. hmmm i wonder.

 

 

 

I find that rather shortsighted saying that merchanting etc. is superior since you earn more gp than skilling doing it for the same amount of time. What would you buy for combat with all that profit if there weren't people with high level herblore, crafting, fishing and smithing? :-k

Skills.

I skill, but that's led me to getting a quite decent bank also.

 

 

 

Money definitely isn't unimportant, but I'd much rather train skills than merchant.

Skills for sure! :mrgreen:

This is a hard choice, but I have to chose skills. Say, if you got scammed/hacked of all your money...you really wouldn't have anything left. If you got scammed or hacked, you would still have the skills to show, make money again, etc. One problem is that, some skills like construction need money to get it up, so that's where money comes in.

Skills show more than money can. I used to place all my focus on money, but it got too repetitive. I have never spent money on skills either, being it buying logs, bowstrings, fish, anything. I had a little money saved up, and decided to spend in on the one skill that actually required money - construction. All the others can be done cost free.

 

 

 

I have about 80k left now :? , but who cares, you don't need money for skills.

Skills, of course! A no-skill merchant can only move supplies; a skiller can buy raw supplies cheap, turn them into something far more valuable, then sell it at much higher than the component supplies would ever be worth. An examples:

 

To make an Ammy of Power, you need a Gold Ore or Bar (300-500gp), a Diamond (4,000-5,000gp), a Cosmic Rune (160-200gp) and 10 Earth Runes (50-200gp total). This means spending 4510-5900gp to make one Ammy of Power, but you can sell the Ammy for 6,000-10,000! That means, if you buy high and sell low, you're still making at least 100gp profit, so long as you have the skills. A no-skill merchant could only make a minima profit, whereas a skiller could beat him by almost 200%.

 

Obviously, this isn't true for all cases; if you bought all your supplies to make steel plate bodies, you'd lose cash, but if you had the mining and smithing skills to make your own, then you could still earn a bit of money; 1,200gp if you high-alched or 900-1,300gp if you sold it. Since you paid nothing to make it, it's all profit, whereas as a no-skill merchant, you can only make a profit after making a purchase, which means losing money to earn it back. The skiller only makes money.

 

Yes, money does play an important part in RuneScape, but without skills, it'd be impossible to make any significant amount of money; almost everything a merchant moves most likely came into circulation thanks to someone's skills. Without skillers mining, smithing, chopping, fishing, cooking, fletching, crafting, slaying, fighting or enchanting, there would only be very few items being bought and sold, and even less money to buy and sell with. The economy as we know it now was built on the labor and toil of skillers, not merchants. If Jagex one day decided they were tired of skyrocketing rare prices and made all rares untradeable, the economy wouldn't crash because the skillers would still be there, selling their wares.

i play to get the best skills , but sometimes, to level easier u need the latest armour ;) or the latest weapon, or even hat ;) come on u gotta look good

 

 

 

this is what i do

 

 

 

I buy yew logs, i fletch em, i pick flax, i string em, i buy rune essence, and i craft it into nats, then i high alch

 

 

 

 

 

long but u come out with like 700k and alot of experience

 

 

 

i could jus by the flax, but its expensive, id buy the nats but.. i want my rune craft up so its best all round

 

 

 

My best stats are fletch and woodcut - fletch 75 woodcut 73

if you had a bunch of high skills, \ , then you could make a lot of money. :thumbsup: but you can still use the money to get up some of the skills that you can level up just by buying things, like cooking (buy lobs/swordes etc)

well i didn't know the poll was added!

 

 

 

lets bump it up

Skills are pointless. You will never make as much money chopping a tree as you would merchanting, or killing a boss monster.

 

 

 

IF one person did a skill for x ammount of time, and then killed boss monsters like kq, dag kings, etc or even barrowed for the same ammount of time. You would always come out on top with the non skill.

 

 

 

You only need levels in useless skills for quests and to do stuff that you just dont want to shell out a few gold to get done 10x faster.

 

 

 

Spend an hour fishing 200 shark or spend an hour making like 500k an hour and just buying 200.. hmmm i wonder.

 

 

 

Amen to that. :D

 

 

 

But everyone's different I suppose, so I'm not going to judge if they prefer skills.

I personally prefer to have skills over money, this is probably why I'm poor compared to other playesr around my level. I don't merchant I only make money by using my skills. As long as I have enough money for my armor and weapons I'm happy :) .

I voted money cause money can buy some skills later on, like cooking, fletching, herblore etc

i go for skills but hey if those skills increase my monetary income im not gonna complain :P

i am with skills, but i occasionally combine skills with merchanting. i buy coal at 150-200 ea, i buy iron ore at 100 ea, then i smelt and sell steel bars at 550-600 ea. so im skilling, but i still get a good bit of money

The fun of Runescape is getting your skills up and enjoying while doing so. Although many people are convinced that the fun is after you get level 126 and 999mil so they can pk, stake, etc.

i like to merchant if i need to but i use my skills to get my resources i like getting my skills up.

 

 

 

becuase you can set achivement.s

Skills, def skills. The only thing i like bout money is using it to raise my skills, thats wot its all about like!

Skills ftw on me. I hardly make money off merchanting so yeah :-w :-w.

 

 

 

Ranged Crave

Skills -> Money -> Items -> Skills -> Money -> Items -> .....

 

 

 

^Thats it?!? Thats the only reasion why I spent several hundred hours of my life!!! I want a refund! Im gona return playing RS.

 

 

 

^MMORPGs are like drugs, cant get enough but they ruin your lives.

Skills...

Skills for the most part, but sometimes a mixture of both. The money is helpful for the skills and good armor, and frivolous items (yes, I'm talking about you, halloween mask that one day I shall be able to afford), but I have the most fun in the game raising skills, so that's what I usually do when I play.

Skills, basically melee

Non-Combat skills for me \