easiest skill to get 99 in?

[Mukkor]

Unless you have some magical source of crushed bird's nests that gives you 1k of them every day.

 

 

 

There is an awesome source of birds nests - using your Kingdom for maples.

 

 

 

That's 8 or 9 nests a day, and if you buy nests from someone who just did it for 2 months on the forums... :thumbsup:

[captainpoet]

In my opinion, getting one skill to lvl 99 is silly.

 

You need to do 2 at a time.

 

 

 

The quickest I would say would be Fly Fishing & Cooking

 

Then Wood Cutting and Fletching.

 

 

 

Fly Fish in Shilo Village and Cook it in Catherby

 

Wood Cutting and Fletching in Seers.

 

 

 

Hope this helps

 

cooking in rogue den is way faster....

 

 

 

 

Heh, I would just keep the tinderbox with me and cook the fish and bank them...sure the xp might not be as fast that way, but it'll keep you more interested in what's going on. Thus, you could play for a longer period of time to get more xp per day.

[tripsis]

 

1) It takes a lot of money to actually get to the level where you can start actually making money instead of losing it.

 

 

 

2) Most people, including several on this thread, see Herblore as a waste of money and an overall slow skill (when really it's not) and therefore just don't bother training it.

 

 

 

Also, you're mainly just saying that herblore is slow ("if herblore is so fast"). Honestly, do the math... Here's an example comparing fletching Yew Longbows (lvl 70) to making Ranging Pots (lvl 72)

 

 

 

Yew longs (u) = 75 xp

 

Yew longs (s) = 75 xp

 

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150 xp

 

 

 

 

 

Unfinished ranging potion = 0xp

 

Ranging potion = 162.5 xp

 

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162.5 xp

 

 

 

As you can see, Ranging Potions are actually faster than yew longs. Both skills, fletching and herblore require two steps:

 

Fletching

 

-Cutting logs (half the xp; yew longs = 75xp)

 

-Stringing the bows (other half of the xp; yew longs = 75xp)

 

 

 

Herblore

 

-Making the unfinished potion (0xp)

 

-Finishing the potion by adding the second ingredients (full xp; ranging pots = 162.5xp)

 

 

 

As you can see, Herblore is exactly like stringing bows, and fletching in general. Now when you get up to Sara Brews where you can actually make 500 gp - 1k gp profit per potion, the xp gets even better and you make money.

 

 

 

Sara brews are 180 xp per potion

 

Weapon Poisons are even 190 xp per potion

 

 

 

Now try to tell me that Herblore isn't as fast as Fletching?

 

 

 

I will. It's 1000 times harder to find the ingredients for 10k or more Sara Brews or ranging pots than it is for a large amount of yew longs. You would have to spend weeks buying enough ingredients for 99 herblore, and probably years to actually collect enough herbs, vials, and seconds yourself.

 

 

 

By contrast, someone on this board proved that it is possible to get from 1-99 fletching in 2 days, if you have the money. Thats right, 2 days. It takes months to get 99 herblore. The exp from the pots might be the same, but actually getting the ingredients for those pots takes forever. Unless you have some magical source of crushed bird's nests that gives you 1k of them every day.

 

 

 

I'm guessing that's the key point of what you're saying.. And quite honestly, that's very exaggerated. I'm currently at 83 herblore and I have no problems whatsoever buying the ingredients to get there. In addition, a smart person makes pots while they're buying materials, which makes the process even faster. Furthermore, if you overpay by even 50 or 100 gp per ingredient (which only counts towards losing large amounts of money before you can make Sara Brews) you'll have everyone selling to you.

 

 

 

All it takes is the correct approach. If you decide to go the difficult, yet sometimes profitable route of prayer potions, yes, you are going to have major difficulties. Why? Because everyone does it.. Everyone wants ranarrs, which makes them very hard to buy unless you overpay.

 

 

 

Runescape is all about pleasing the people. Give them what you want and you'll succeed immensely. I'm not saying that herblore is always cheap. Herblore just requires a bit more... brain power than fletching does. Learn which pots to make, when to make them, how much to pay for ingredients, etc.. Master those aspects and you can easily level very fast.

 

 

 

I went from level 60 to 80 in about three days. I know that's not the same as going from 1-99 fletching in two, but my example isn't exactly the best. I didn't have much gp to start out with, I didn't play very long and I didn't know which potions were the best to make. But for someone with very little knowledge of the skill, I'd say that's pretty good.

[funihead0]

F2P - Runecrafting and P2P - agility