Debate on which is the harder 99 skill

[24SE7EN]

Both skills are equally easy to train, one just takes longer than the other.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farming, you plant things.

 

 

 

Slayer, you kill things.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Both are one dimensional skills that take no skill to level, just time and patience.

[Berrakus]

Farming is only expensive if you power-farm it with high level trees. The problem with Farming is that other than the Cape, there is no incentive to power-farm the skill. Having a higher Farming level does not decrease growing time, lessen your chance for disease, or increase your yield. That's the reason why you there are only a few level 99 Farmers.

[-Devoted12-]

Slayer is harder. I think Farming would be hard if you do allotments the whole way, but that would take years.

[ssenmodnar]

farming is harder to boost into the higher ranks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

it's a pain to find sellers for the kinds of seeds you would need..., not to mention earn the cash you need.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

but slayer takes much more time to gain exp in general however

[Greedom1]

Slayer is the hardest 99 to get followed by runecrafting. Farming can't be compared because it costs money not time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I agree with everything but except that farming does take time - it's the only skill affected by real-life time. I mean it'd be a lot easier if i could weed, compost, plant, pick, and repeat over and over (like wcing or herblore or hunter, etc).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In some ways farming is a lot like mining.... If you only had about two dozen rune rocks to level on all around runescape that spawned every 30 mins or more... :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I just got 85 slayer yesterday (farming is at 87) and slayer was waaaay tougher to level. The only reason folks may say farming is harder is because it isn't as interesting / profitable as slayer is. Without a doubt though, slayer is the tougher skill to get to 99.

[BBC3]

the main hard skills are:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

prayer- buyable

 

 

 

crafting- buyable

 

 

 

smithing- buyable

 

 

 

mining- very hard and slow xp

 

 

 

agility- very hard the first 80 levels, still hard after 80+ but more xp per hour

 

 

 

slayer- very hard, people have different views on this, its easier if you are high combat and can invest in the cannon balls/guthans to train it, 0ddball was first to 85 slayer and was one of my friends, he was already stocked up.. he got 85 around 2 weeks after its release

 

 

 

farming- buyable, just plant and logout

 

 

 

rc- very hard and slow xp but its impossible to not make a profit from this, even though its slow to train, you make so much money from rc per hour

 

 

 

con- very buyable

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

personally slayer is the hardest skill for me

 

 

 

2nd is agility

 

 

 

3rd is mining

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

its a persons opinion on which the hardest skill is, everyone has their own likes and dislikes.

 

 

 

overall slayer is hardest for everyone mostly because in order for slayer to be easy, you have to be 110+ combat with lots of supplies and every other skill you can be level 3 combat, the time it takes to get 110+ combat adds on to the difficulty of slayer

[Harrington]

Between Farming and Slaying I would say Slaying is harder to train. The reason... you can buy your way to level 99 with farming much quicker than you can with Slaying.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I believe the hardest skill overall would be runecrafting... until level 91, about the most you can manage per hour is about 10k exp right?

[Who]

Why do people keep thinking that farming is such a hard skill?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's sooooo easy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I know! Sure it costs money but heck, MTK you get free seeds anyways. Besides to plant on all the tree and fruit tree patches is only a half an hour activity.

[Brandon_7]

Slayer definitely, there's nothing challenging about Farming really -- if you have the money, you just buy the seeds, plant them, and wait for them to grow. :-s

[Mordendravid]

Between Farming and Slaying I would say Slaying is harder to train. The reason... you can buy your way to level 99 with farming much quicker than you can with Slaying.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I believe the hardest skill overall would be runecrafting... until level 91, about the most you can manage per hour is about 10k exp right?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I agree that rc'ing is one of the toughest, at top speed it's about 16-18k per hour going through the abyss. 91 rc actually doesn't increase the amount of xp per hour though, unless you choose to hire runners. It just increases the profit of running through the abyss :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Using runners the xp per hour is apparently somewhere around 35k xp per hour.

[buffrichie]

ida love to seen all you train attack/def/strength on rsc then lol considering leveling one combat skill on rsc is the same as slayer on rs2

[Risen_The]

Why do people keep thinking that farming is such a hard skill?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's sooooo easy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Easy for you to say...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also think Slayer is harder though. It takes time.

[bluehawk92]

Has anyone forgotten the oh so favourite of mine, runecrafting? That has got to be the hardest hands down. Even with world 66 its 35k an hour at peak times, let alone the costs.

[BoD]

Herblore...

 

 

 

I have seen just about every skill cape except herblore

[Kilo]

 

Slayer is the hardest 99 to get followed by runecrafting. Farming can't be compared because it costs money not time.

Sorry but I have to disagree. I think agility, mining, fishing, and RC are all harder than slayer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Come on! Fishing!? that you don't even have to click frequently on, just once, two minutes later you have to click again, it doesn't take major effort. :shame:

[bigmoneyak]

Slayer is harder but more people do it becasue of all the bonuses which are a by-product of the skill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farming is a bit harder for the average player as it requires a steady source of seeds or a bit of skill in merchanting to provide you with XP ammo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Choosing B/W the 2 I'd still say slayer, but farming only herbs I can appreciate how much work and time goes into a hard worked farming level.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If someone were silly enough to power level each skill. Both would cost many millions but slayer would still be harder because of the effort involved in gettting good cannon tasks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All skills are essentially mindless clickathons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slayer is still one of the best achievements in the game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farming has to be bought for fast xp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slayer requires luck and skill. With only minimal help from cannonballs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As for monotany Mning, Smithing, and Rcing are "Hardest".

[Chocobodude0]

Honestly, you can buy farming through the purchasing of seeds. You can't really buy slayer. Slayer wins.

[tripsis]

I don't think that being able to buy a skill makes it easier. What about the effort it takes to make that gp?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Although for the actual question (the way you stated it), I'd say slayer is harder. Why? Because putting aside having to make all the gp required for 99 farming, all you have to do is spend under an hour a day checking health on trees/harvesting and you can get 99. In addition, you can get many seeds practically for free via your kingdom. So the actual skill itself is not hard at all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But if you are including the aspect of having to make probably 100m to pay for 99 farming, then I'd say they're about equal. They both take several months to get 99, both require patience, and a lot of work (whether it's training the skill itself, or making gp in order to train that skill).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope that doesn't sound too confusing, but it's kind of hard to explain what I mean

[QueenValerie]

Farming or Slayer the two skills hated to train to 99 which do you all say is harder give a reason why you think so should be fun :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He is asking out of these 2 skills which one is harder with that said I would have to go with Slayer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farming is not all that hard if you get your seeds from manage thy ( QueenDom) :D Sure buyable

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

skills are easy but making the money to buy the skills isn't all that easy like Tripsis was explaining on her post.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slayer is time consuming expecially if you have never used a cannon on any of your tasks. :

[retaxis2]

Herblore

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First you got to earn 1billion which is part of the skill process as your obtaining money to train this skill which will take years. Then you got to do the skill which will take months.

[ReapMe]

Herblore

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First you got to earn 1billion which is part of the skill process as your obtaining money to train this skill which will take years. Then you got to do the skill which will take months.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 Bil for 99 herb?

 

 

 

lol

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i'd say farming is harder because it is less enjoyable than slayer

 

 

 

i don't consider slayer hard because i like to do it

 

 

 

farming actually feels like work

[retaxis2]

 

Herblore

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First you got to earn 1billion which is part of the skill process as your obtaining money to train this skill which will take years. Then you got to do the skill which will take months.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 Bil for 99 herb?

 

 

 

lol

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i'd say farming is harder because it is less enjoyable than slayer

 

 

 

i don't consider slayer hard because i like to do it

 

 

 

farming actually feels like work

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

something like that

[Hazbaz0]

Slayer is harder then farming, farming is easy, just takes awhile.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOW MINING! JEEEZE, thats hard and long, i wish i had a mining skill cape :(

[hibiki]

hmm between the two, i'd really say that slayer is harder just since i'm not really all that interested in killing monsters that an npc is telling me to kill for months. also it feels to much like leveling in rsc... oh, and i have horrid luck at drops so... lol?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

however, farming is just one of those skills i hate doing for the 30 minutes i actually worry about it, then its forgetten. guess thats why my herbs are dead by the time i check them a few days later :wall:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i definitely agree that the monotiny of other skills still puts slayer/farming to shame sometimes hehe.

[Freesia]

Seriously farming is not a very hard skill if you are able to buy it of course. Slayer should be the hardest skill followed by rc (yes you can buy it but still very slow).