Skills< Easy = Hard> ??

[Celluzion]

Sigh, seeing Thieving on the easy list saddens me. Pyramid Plunder ruined Thieving's rep as a hard skill, but it was ruined a long time ago by RCing anyway..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I remember when I quit I was in the top 300 or so. I came back a year later to find I was still in the top 1k.

[meb]

 

Agility is the hardest skill to train.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Woah that was pretty final :wink: Well i say Slayer is harder

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slower, perhaps, but it doesn't make you feel like grabbing the nearest sharp object and try to kill yourself with it.

[nikoli40]

If you really look at the skills, and use them yourself, you will find out that they aren't hard. No skills are hard, all skills just take "time" to progress in. When you see ppl type stuff like, "gah, farming is hard, i hate it", farming is not hard, its just one of those skills that take "a lot" of time to get up. Its not hard or impossible, same with all the other skills. Hard would be a term used for mini games or maybe pking. But skill wise, "hard" isn't the term to use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyways, cooking is the easiest :thumbsup: and farming takes forever :wall:

[Uula]

 

Easy/cheap:

 

 

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Woodcutting

 

 

 

Fishing

 

 

 

Mining

 

 

 

Agility

 

 

 

Thieving

 

 

 

Melee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost basically nothing, and the materials gotten pay for the tools.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Easy:

 

 

 

Fletching

 

 

 

Cooking

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Both require some cash to start it, but when you've started, you can get a pretty good 150k+ xp per hour in both

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Easy/expensive skills:

 

 

 

Herblore

 

 

 

Construction

 

 

 

Prayer

 

 

 

Smithing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Require a lot of cash to start, but are very fast when you have cash.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hard skills:

 

 

 

Slayer

 

 

 

Runecrafting

 

 

 

Farming

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Are moderately slow to train even with infinite money.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

you forgot firemaking in the easy expensive skills =/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't see it as a real skill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*edits it in while no one's watching*

 

 

 

:^o

[Juanflores]

i can't read your very small letters @_@ (I'm going to take a guess your talking about your 99 fm)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i don't really see it as a real skill either but its a skill nonetheless

[Golvellius]

Whats hard and whats not is a preference thing and differs for each person.

 

 

 

Being a slow skill alone doesn't make it hard in my mind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are the skills I find hard.

 

 

 

Agility: Constantly going around in circles as a monkey. You completely zone out at times because its so monotonous. Its a real challenge of mental endurance. And its slow, 48k an hr at ape atoll is about the best it gets. If I had't learned to surf the web and keep my monkey moving I would have never been able to go for 99. (97 atm)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minning: Click click click. 40k an hr at granite mining. You can't afk, and you just sit there and click. Wanna make money, gotta bank ores, and xp rate drops hard. Most mines are also terriblely laid out and you spent as much time walking as mining and you gotta fight for rocks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Herblore: I hate trading and I hate making gp. To get the stuff yourself takes a rediculous amount of time. Standing on respawn spots is just boring as can be. Then click click to put it all together. My worst skill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Smithing: You have one option really. Gold with the gloves. 50k an hr tops. Gold doesn't mine easy or sell cheap. Iron or steel are just plain horrible and like 10k an hr. Bleh! I can't get the raws, and its useless other than for that stupid armour stand in my skill room. God that ruins my perfect skill room....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Skills that I think are easy:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All combat ones except prayer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slayer: Its just pitifully slow or loads of people would have 99 already. Its combat for crying out load. 95% of runscapers love that, me included.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WC/Fishing/Cooking: Afkable to the highest degree. Not even sure I'm playing runescape when I'm training these skills.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everything else I'm nuetral on, don't feel like writing an essay to say why.

[runnybabbit]

Cooking lobbies in al-kirad you can get 120k xp an hour, so easyest. But mage is very hard for f2p to train, so thats the hardest imo.

[kido14]

 

 

 

Thieving

 

 

 

Cooking

 

 

 

Fletching

 

 

 

Prayer

 

 

 

Melee

 

 

 

Herblore

 

 

 

Firemaking

 

 

 

Crafting

 

 

 

Mage

 

 

 

Range

 

 

 

Hitpoints

 

 

 

Construction

 

 

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Smithing

 

 

 

Fishing

 

 

 

Woodcutting

 

 

 

Farming

 

 

 

Mining

 

 

 

Agility

 

 

 

RuneCrafting

 

 

 

Slayer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thieving is the fastest xp per hour? Maybe something has changed since I last played a few months ago, but thieving was definitely not an "easy" skill to train...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No skills are HARD. They're just much more time consuming.

[Juanflores]

yeah it has if you'v never heard of a little something called pyramid plunder so fricking good for exp x_x

[Kenshinjapan]

Easy/cheap:

 

 

 

Hunter

 

 

 

Woodcutting

 

 

 

Fishing

 

 

 

Mining

 

 

 

Agility

 

 

 

Thieving

 

 

 

Melee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost basically nothing, and the materials gotten pay for the tools.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Easy:

 

 

 

Fletching

 

 

 

Cooking

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Both require some cash to start it, but when you've started, you can get a pretty good 150k+ xp per hour in both

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FAST!/expensive skills:

 

 

 

Herblore

 

 

 

Construction

 

 

 

Prayer

 

 

 

Smithing

 

 

 

Firemaking

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Require a lot of cash to start, but are very fast when you have cash.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hard skills:

 

 

 

Slayer

 

 

 

Runecrafting

 

 

 

Farming

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Are moderately slow to train even with infinite money.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd like to find ONE person that thinks agility is easy...

[SaidinWoT]

I'd like to find ONE person that thinks agility is easy...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Me, because, while it's slow, I find it quite enjoyable :)

 

 

 

Congratulations, you have acheived your goal :wink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RC is slow, but not hard, in my opinion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For me personally, the hardest is combat. It is mind-numbingly boring.

 

 

 

Easiest would have to be any of the AFKable skills.

[12pure34]

The big thing is not to say which one is easy or which one is hard, it is what you find easy or hard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

there are different kinds of people:

 

 

 

Patient people: They can grind a skill for longer, as they get bored less soon. Skills they tend to find easier then others.. agility mostly or other NOT to be afk at skills.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rich people: money investers.. the real deal is to invest so much money that the experience per hour goes sky high. They tend to find construction and herblore alot easier then others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poor..impatient people.. well there isnt much left for these. I myself am in this group and I love runecrafting for the profit per hour rate, rather then experience per hour rate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My list of skills is not easy/hard, but boring/fun.. something I do not like, I tend to train slower. The other factor is cash involved. But not as much as fun.

[Cbkviper]

I'm personally surprised no one has mentioned crafting. This skill is probably in the top 5 for the hardest skills to get to 99. To be completely honest, I have seen every single skill cape ingame excluding crafting (and farming :-# ).

[Blaze The Movie Fan]

I exclude farming in hardest since I don't even bother to train that skill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Easiest: Thieving; Because it's my best skill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hardest: Construction; Because it's too expensive, getting from 1-99 can cost many trillions.

[Jock66600]

Slower, perhaps, but it doesn't make you feel like grabbing the nearest sharp object and try to kill yourself with it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not a good idea, you get sent away to a very evil place. Take my word for it. Your giving people and me bad ideas. Not flamimg just saying not a good idea. Soo back on topic, I think the easiest skill would have to be the combat ones. Not just to do but wack away. Even wcing is second easiest just need an axe. Chopping away. Wait whats the main topic again?

[cool75155]

Skills that can be bought are easy I think. ex.prayer

[Freesia]

Mining and agility will definitely be the hardest few skills. They don't give very good exp/hr and it drains your sanity really quickly

[Saru Inc]

Easy:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mage (if you do barrows, you never have to buy runes)

 

 

 

Herblore:Buying the herbs (rannars and 2nd ingrediants and vial, then sell for like a 100 gp profit.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hard:

 

 

 

Thieiving (haven't tried PP yet.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boring:

 

 

 

Fishing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Saruman44

[Freshwacka]

Easy:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mage (if you do barrows, you never have to buy runes)

 

 

 

Herblore:Buying the herbs (rannars and 2nd ingrediants and vial, then sell for like a 100 gp profit.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hard:

 

 

 

Thieiving (haven't tried PP yet.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boring:

 

 

 

Fishing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Saruman44

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thats the worst list my pupils have had the unfortunate experience to experience.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I exclude farming in hardest since I don't even bother to train that skill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Easiest: Thieving; Because it's my best skill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hardest: Construction; Because it's too expensive, getting from 1-99 can cost many trillions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Getting 1-99 costs about 100 million. That is .0001 of a trillion.

[joris_n]

 

Agility is the hardest skill to train.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Woah that was pretty final :wink: Well i say Slayer is harder

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Agreed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slayer is the hardest skill, you can't buy it, and it's slow.

[Harrington]

EASY

 

 

 

Firemaking (I can do 200k exp per hour burning yews)

 

 

 

Cooking (I can manage 200k exp per hour cooking shark)

 

 

 

Fletching (I can do 175k per hour on magic longs)

 

 

 

Ranging (Can manage 120k ish exp per hour with a cannon on Dagannoths)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MODERATE

 

 

 

Thieving (Can do about 60k exp per hour against Knights of Ardy)

 

 

 

Crafting (Can do up to 80k exp per hour on dragon hides)

 

 

 

Melee (Easily do 60k exp per skill per hour)

 

 

 

Construction (60k exp per hour with Oak planks, but expensive)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HARD

 

 

 

Runecrafting (just can't get to grips with this skill at all)

 

 

 

Slaying (can manage up to 15k exp per hour on my chosen asignments)

 

 

 

Prayer (25k exp per hour on the Ectoplasm thingy with Dragon bones)

[jwrm22]

EASY

 

 

 

Firemaking (I can do 200k exp per hour burning yews)

 

 

 

Cooking (I can manage 200k exp per hour cooking shark)

 

 

 

Fletching (I can do 175k per hour on magic longs)

 

 

 

Ranging (Can manage 120k ish exp per hour with a cannon on Dagannoths)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MODERATE

 

 

 

Thieving (Can do about 60k exp per hour against Knights of Ardy)

 

 

 

Crafting (Can do up to 80k exp per hour on dragon hides)

 

 

 

Melee (Easily do 60k exp per skill per hour)

 

 

 

Construction (60k exp per hour with Oak planks, but expensive) what about power training with magic stones :thumbsup:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HARD

 

 

 

Runecrafting (just can't get to grips with this skill at all)

 

 

 

Slaying (can manage up to 15k exp per hour on my chosen asignments)

 

 

 

Prayer (25k exp per hour on the Ectoplasm thingy with Dragonbones) 250k hour, just burrying the drag bones

[Leonard12440]

 

EASY

 

 

 

Firemaking (I can do 200k exp per hour burning yews)

 

 

 

Cooking (I can manage 200k exp per hour cooking shark)

 

 

 

Fletching (I can do 175k per hour on magic longs)

 

 

 

Ranging (Can manage 120k ish exp per hour with a cannon on Dagannoths)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MODERATE

 

 

 

Thieving (Can do about 60k exp per hour against Knights of Ardy)

 

 

 

Crafting (Can do up to 80k exp per hour on dragon hides)

 

 

 

Melee (Easily do 60k exp per skill per hour)

 

 

 

Construction (60k exp per hour with Oak planks, but expensive) what about power training with magic stones :thumbsup:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HARD

 

 

 

Runecrafting (just can't get to grips with this skill at all)

 

 

 

Slaying (can manage up to 15k exp per hour on my chosen asignments)

 

 

 

Prayer (25k exp per hour on the Ectoplasm thingy with Dragonbones) 250k hour, just burrying the drag bones

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think training construction with steel dragons is the fastest. :-w

[Freshwacka]

EASY

 

 

 

Firemaking (I can do 200k exp per hour burning yews)

 

 

 

Cooking (I can manage 200k exp per hour cooking shark)

 

 

 

Fletching (I can do 175k per hour on magic longs)

 

 

 

Ranging (Can manage 120k ish exp per hour with a cannon on Dagannoths)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MODERATE

 

 

 

Thieving (Can do about 60k exp per hour against Knights of Ardy)

 

 

 

Crafting (Can do up to 80k exp per hour on dragon hides)

 

 

 

Melee (Easily do 60k exp per skill per hour)

 

 

 

Construction (60k exp per hour with Oak planks, but expensive)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HARD

 

 

 

Runecrafting (just can't get to grips with this skill at all)

 

 

 

Slaying (can manage up to 15k exp per hour on my chosen asignments)

 

 

 

Prayer (25k exp per hour on the Ectoplasm thingy with Dragon bones)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can get around 200k with construction, and around 200k with theiving (pyramid plunder)

[NukeMarine]

I personally think a skill should be rated 1 (worst) to 10 (best) in four areas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Time to Train" - (1 = 10k xp per hour, 10 = 100k+ xp per hour)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Cost to Train" - (1 = pay 10+ gp per per xp, 5 = break even training, 10 = profit 10+ gp per xp)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Ease to Train" (1 = click every 3 seconds or less, 5 = click every 30 seconds, 10 = click every 60+ seconds)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Fun to Train" - (That's your opinion)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Look at Runecrafting. If you consider pure essence as 100 gp each and you're using the abyss to make laws you make 40 trips an hour, make 2k laws (cost 200k, sell for 600k), getting 20k xp. That a profit of 20 gp per xp. You're constantly clicking.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost 10, Speed 2, Ease 1, Fun ?? if you run your own laws using pouches at 75+ runecrafting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Use this logic to rate the skill based on the training method.