Yes, you can make money without merchanting. For most skills, all you have to do is stick to it, and money will come. Please be aware some skills are better than others. So here they are...the skills in alphabetical order!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Agility

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What a bad one to start with. :? Next to construction, it is the worst skill to make money with. I guess there are still a few ways though. Here are the three that come to mind:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Level 20- This one really helps with mining. It makes the coal trucks much easier to get too. Besides the mining guild, it is the best place to get coal in the game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Level 40- The Birmhaven Agility Arena- Not very good, I suppose you could buy snapdragons with your tickets. They sell for a decent price. Very slow cash though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Level 70- This makes dragon killing soooo much easier. It is for the shortcut in the Taverly dungeon. It is rather close to a bank with this shortcut. Without it is a good 5 minute walk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Combat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whew, done with agility! This is actually one of the better money makers in the game. Here are my suggestions:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barrows- I'm not going to write a barrow guide for everyone, but the basics is that you kill six powerful brothers. At the end you open a chest and get some runes, bolt racks, coins, or even barrow armor! This rare armor sells for very high prices. The runes are good money makers if you don't use them all by maging the brothers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dueling- Again, I'm not gonna write a guide about this. You challenge players to a duel in the arena, set a stake, and hopefully win and collect the spoils! Some players make special accounts with high defense and attack, low strength and prayer. These tend to be successful here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PK'ing- This is so broad that I can't really explain exactly what to do. It goes like this, you kill a player, you get their items! Keep in mind you can lose just as much as you can gain, so be careful. Never take what you really don't want to lose.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monsters- When a monster dies it drops some items. Simple as that. The ones I'm going over are higher leveled monsters. The two most popular are Daggonath Kings and the Kalphite Queen. The DK's drop dragon axes, seerculs, mud battlestaffs, bezerker rings, archer rings, seer rings, and warrior rings. The KQ drops the most expensive drop in the game, the dragon chainbody! These monsters are very powerful though, you should always go as a high level'ed team.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Construction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The worst money maker of them all. Bad start to the guide, eh?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flatpacking- Maybe this was a decent maker the first week. I guess you could make a few k of this. I never see people in banks saying "buying teak chair 4k" though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teleport tablets- The only way to really make a profit. You can sell these to people who can't do the spell themselves or use ancient magiks. You need a lecturn in your house to make them. You also need runes and soft clay.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cooking

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yay, done with the bad two! Cooking is sorta hard to make money with by itself. Combined with fishing though, it is very good. Cook lobsters, monkfish, swordfish, and sharks sell for very good profit. Tuna and sweetcorn potatoes also sell for a lot, but they take forever to make.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crafting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crafting can be a decent money maker, it's not a very popular one though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Level 10- Bow strings can be one of the best money makers by lower levels in the game. It's how i made my first 50k, 100k, and even 500k! You go to Seers Village, pick a full load of flax, spin it into bow strings upstairs in the building north of the alter(people should be going into it), bank, and repeat! They sell for 150-180 each(you need to go to the official fourms to sell for higher than 150.) You can also sell just the flax for 100 each.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dragonhide armor- Hides are generally cheap, and the armor usually sells for a profit. You can also alch the bodies for a profit, if you get the hides yourself. I don't feel like typing all the levels. :XD:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Level 80- Dragonstone amulets. Crystal keys and dragonstones usually sell for 50-60k. The amulets usually sell for 70k. They can be a decent money maker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farming

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aside from popular belief, this can be one of the best money makers on RuneScape. Personally, this is one of my favorite money makers and skills.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

32 farming- Ranarr weed. This is an awesome money maker. I'm talking 150k an hour. The sweet part is, you don't have to be farming the whole hour. It takes 10 minutes of planting and 10 minutes of harvesting. They even grow while you are logged off. You can be sleeping, outside, at school/work, anything! You buy some ranarr seeds for about 15k, plant and sell the herbs for 6.5-7k each. 3 herbs will more than pay for your seed, and you usually get 5-8. Plant at all four herb patches to increase productivity. You can do the similar thing to snapdragons at a much higher level.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trees- Ever been woodcutting, and everyone else keeps getting all the logs? Well with farming, you can plant your own personal tree. No one else can touch it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Firemaking

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I really don't know much about this skill. I know there is something to do with shade burning, but that's about it. You should use another guide for this skill. :wink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fishing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This can be a great money maker in RuneScape! I already mentioned it with cooking. Now here are the levels to catch the money making fish. Please keep in mind that the higher your level, the faster you catch them. You catch very slow at the minimum level.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

40- Lobsters They sell for about 250 each. Raw are sometimes a little more

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

62- Monkfish They sell for about 350 each. They are a great training fish!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

76- Sharks The thing most fishers long to have. These monsters heal 20 each and sell for 900-1000 gp each! Higher level fishermen(women) love these as a money maker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fletching

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ahh, fletching. This skill has made me a few million gp. It is a very popular money maker, and rightfully so.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Level 70- Yew Longbows These are my money maker. Here's the basic process. You buy yew logs for 250 each(cheaper if you can find), and bow strings for 150 each. You make bows and sell for 550-600 each on fourms. I personally like to buy yew longs(u)(about 20 gp extra per log) and bow strings to cut the time in half. You can also alch your bows for 768 gp each, you have to buy nature runes first though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Level 85- Magic Longs These are popular among high level players. I personally don't know enough about them to give you advice. Sorry. :?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Herblore

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I personally am not a fan of herblore, but it can make good money. It goes hand in hand with farming, make potions with the herbs you grow. The most popular potions for money are prayer potions(38), super strength(55) and sara brews(81).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Magic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are some decent ways to make money with magic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Level 55- High Alchemy This is great used with fletching, smithing, or crafting to get money for you goods.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DK's In order to kill the Range king, you need to use magic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steel Dragons- Magic is popular to kill these, you can get dragon legs or skirt if you're lucky!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PKing- Mages can use the ancient magiks and the teleblock spell to get the edge on their opponent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mining

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mining is such a popular skill among lower levels. It is also a great money maker from higher levels!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15- iron This can sell for 100 each, not bad for a low level player

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

30- coal This can sell for 200 each

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

85- runite I skipped mith and addy because they aren't very good. But runite is one of the best money makers in the game. Ore can sell for 10-12k each! Talk about money!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prayer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Really helps with combat...I can't say too much more

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ranged

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pking- Rangers can hit fast and hard, making them powerful

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DK's- One king is magic, which means range is the way to take him out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Runecrafting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of the best makers on RS! It is very popular. Higher runes sell for a lot of money.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

44 nats- The most common rune, it is always in high demand. They are usually made via abyss. This can bring in 300k an hour!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

55 laws- They are needed for teleport spells. Not in as high demand, but can sell for 350-400 each!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

91 nats again- This time you can make double nats! It is very had to get, but worth it if you ever reach it. Skilled runecrafters can make up to 1 million gp and hour with this!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slayer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a great skill in the game. You can train combat and get money at the same time. If you're not serious into combat, I wouldn't bother with this skill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

85 slayer- I don't know much about slayer, but I know this is the best moeny maker in the game without luck streaks at merchanting, barrows, staking, or pking. You can kill abyssal demons, which drop whips! They can sell for about 2 million each.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Smithing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This really won't bring in the mills unless you are very high at smithing and can make rune. There is really only one good money maker at lower levels.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Level 35- cannonballs A steel bar is about 550 gp. A cannonball is about 180 gp. You make 4 c-balls for every one bar. It turns out to be a nice profit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thieving

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This really is a BAD money maker. All I can recommend here are master farmers. You can steal all seeds from these except trees. If you get lucky, you can make a nice little profit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Woodcutting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last, but not least, it's woodcutting. It is a nice money making skill, especially in f2p. Fetchers always want to buy logs. Here are some prices:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Level 30-willow These can sell for about 30 gp each.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Level 45-maple These are about 100 gp each

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Level 60-yew These are about 250 each

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Level 75- magic These are about 1000 each.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well this ends my money making guide. I hope this helps you make the mills. I sure have gotten a lot of money from this guide. My best advice is to pick a skill and stick to it. It will make you a lot of money. Please leave feedback. Thanks for reading!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~ugafan 2009

I'm sorry, but this is a bad guide. You just summed up all the skills, told a couple of moneymaking methods you happen to know of and called it a guide. You even got the levels wrong; how hard is it to log on, right-click a stat anc check how high your fishing has to be in order ot be able to fish a sharK? 76, not 78 as you stated. Monkfish require 62 and sara brews 81. I won't be saying anything else about it.

I'm sorry, but this is a bad guide. You just summed up all the skills, told a couple of moneymaking methods you happen to know of and called it a guide. You even got the levels wrong; how hard is it to log on, right-click a stat anc check how high your fishing has to be in order ot be able to fish a sharK? 76, not 78 as you stated. Monkfish require 62 and sara brews 81. I won't be saying anything else about it.

Not the feedback I wanted, but thanks. I'll change the levels. Its my first guide lol, I didn't think it would be that good.

This is an OK guide, but(with some of the skills) you are trying to help people in fields you are not familar with. Try making a more detailed guide about a skill you know a lot about.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OK guide overall, just be sure for it to be more detailed :wink:

It's kinda vague, but if you went in more detail the guide would be huge.

 

 

 

Good for an overall idea of how to make money.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BTW you mage Rex, the melee King. Not the ranged king, you melee the ranged king.

Nice guide for the people that didn't know all of this, however you can craft laws at level 54 Runecrafting instead of 55. :)

i don't know how about others skills but... Cooking is really a good way to make money, And without FISHING . Otherwise this giude is pretty lame, (no offence) , but collect more information, more accurate calculations how much money do you get and you will get a great guide!

Okay guide, could be better.

possible pictures of loot that you could get??

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

also for thieving paladins i hear are very good cash

Ranging:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You forgot blue dragons! How can you forget blue dragons! You get at least 4k per kill by default! And don't go whining about banking, I can bank and be back before my special bar recharges, and I walk!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blues are at least 150k per hour, and that's assuming you get no drops other than hides and bones. I find I get roughly as many nats as dragons I kill, they drop plenty of alchables, and the herbs too. Add lvl 3 clues to that, and these are monsters that will yield more than 200k per hour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am angry that my precious blues have been slandered by not being included!!! You are a horrible, malicious, nasty person!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, just kidding. It's more of a list than a guide though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And you're welcome to try maging the range dagganoth king. You will die though. I'd also mention that your dagganoth king team should not only be high levelled, but attentive and well equipped as well. A lvl 95 with verac/karil parts and a crystal bow is much better of than some level 120 with bronze arrows and red hides.

"DK's In order to kill the Range king, you need to use magic."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Magic is used to kill the Melee King, Rex. Not the Range King, Supreme.

very nice, this is very usefull, especially as i'm a terrible merchanter, very slow money in it for me

very nice, this is very usefull, especially as i'm a terrible merchanter, very slow money in it for me

With 80 firemaking you can easily quadruple or quintuple (<-- it's a word now if it isn't already) your investment. I bought 500 magic logs and burned them all there. I made back 1.6m in cash alone not even counting the 76 fine cloth and various rune items I hadn't high alched.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Even with 65 firemaking and burning yew logs instead of magic logs at the pyres, you still make quadruple or quintuple profit... That place is really good money considering you're using firemaking to do it.

Not bad guide.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However you can mine rune/pure ess which is pretty good money. Also runecrafting airs can be very good especially when you can make multiple airs per ess because you can sell airs for between 10-20 ea.

a very nice well constructed and easy to read guide. for firemaking at level 65+ there is the oppurtunity to burn pyre remains for igh level'd rewards like rune items and level 3 clue scrolls.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also i disagree about your comment on smithing not being good till runite, i can make 300k in a hour using the right techniques form 70 smithing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

how ever very good guide

Who said thieving makes bad cash? :x I earned close to 500k off thieving already, paladins or pyramid plunder, i am more than self sufficient in food and pots

A lot of things are lacking, for insteance DK's and thieving...

 

 

 

Pyramid plunder is 250k an hour average to a friend of mine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But anyways, you tried and it is nice to let clueless people know of atleast some ways. Therefore, nice guide.

in my opinion i wouldn't really call it a "guide" as i'm sure everyone knows that at 85 slayer whip drops are the way to make money etc. and all of that is basically common sense..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and also agility isn't the worst to make money

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i've gotten a pirate hook in 2 days at brimhaven training there which i sold for 1.7m, so u can't tell me that it's a bad skill to make money..

I liked it, helped me learn a few things i had no clue about. Although heres some constructive critisim, more detailed next time please ? :thumbsup:

This is a poor guide, especially with theiving. It's actually a very good money maker, you jsut need patience and be able tog et on a busy world. I used to make money by stealing grey wolf furs, then selling them to the guy in Varrock who would buy for 120 gp each. Thats some good money, and they respawn every 5-15 seconds in busyier worlds. Thats some good money right there. And a bank is right next to the place you steal from. You also almost never miss steals due to guards if your in the right place.

Ok, I messed up. I tried to write a guide about everything, and I don't know everything. Next guide will be specifically on one thing. Meh, I got some practice writing this.

nice guide!!! :boohoo: :boohoo: :boohoo: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>