Debate on which is the harder 99 skill

[FluffyG10]

Prayer in f2p is hardest nuff said.

 

 

 

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[Pkmastachaos]

 

so it basically boils down to low levels without much money find slayer easier and high levels with money find farming easier

I highly disagree. Slayer is far, far easier for high lvls with money.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See, but the thing is farming is far, far easier for anyone with money. :wink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd have to say slayer is much harder. Reason being you can't totally* buy your way to 99 unlike farming, slayer takes alot of patience and determination. Farming, just takes a few seeds, then you forget about them for a few hours, check their health, replant, and then rinse and repeat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*I understand that you can buy cannons, guthans and all that other stuff to "buy" your way to 99 slayer. But in reality those merely speed the skill up. Can't really buy 99 slayer, you just merely speed up the process.

[Viv]

farming isnt hard..if your rich..

 

 

 

slayer just takes a really long time , but it trains your combat stats at the same time...so , if you want 120+ combat , iam sure you could get there on the way to 99 slayer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

but the hardest is agility..

 

 

 

think about it..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SO BORING...lol

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i think agility is fun lol......but i think that the hardest 99 is runecraft just cause of the low exp and 99 rc is the one that the least people have.

[Solidus_77]

 

farming isnt hard..if your rich..

 

 

 

slayer just takes a really long time , but it trains your combat stats at the same time...so , if you want 120+ combat , iam sure you could get there on the way to 99 slayer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

but the hardest is agility..

 

 

 

think about it..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SO BORING...lol

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i think agility is fun lol......but i think that the hardest 99 is runecraft just cause of the low exp and 99 rc is the one that the least people have.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Incorrect, construction has less (less than 100)

[The Observer]

It would probably be prayer because each bone gives so little experience points its not funny. You will need alot of time on your hands to get to that. Especially if your F2P.

[Solidus_77]

It would probably be prayer because each bone gives so little experience points its not funny. You will need alot of time on your hands to get to that. Especially if your F2P.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

not when using gilded alter and d bones, it's a huge amount of exp per hour, but the cost becomes the hard part.

[Viv]

ugh i forgot it was construction :wall: wasn't thinking at school sorry sodius. but i think that all the hard skills are the ones with less then 1k people at 99 they may not be hard but uncommon or no motivation to get 99 unless you enjoy the skillz or want to be unique.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

but just cause a 99 like fishing is common doesn't mean that it is easy to get.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and i think that slayer is harder then farming cause you need a high combat a lot of time and have to pay attention to the screen way more then with farming where you can even train when your logged out o.o.

[Solidus_77]

Agreed x 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

less than 1000 people at 99 = hard skill pretty much (unless the skill is brand new)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

on the other hand, less people achieved is not always harder skill. It's one of the factors, and an important one but not the only one. It does, however, give a pretty good idea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

slayer requires a lot more activity, I agree there too

[runescapeloser22]

The HARDEST I'd say Slayer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is no possible way that you can use you're money to get faster experience (apart from cannons, guthans, ect., but that's not what I mean), other skills you can buy stuff to make it go faster, except for Mining, Woodcutting, Thieving, Agility, Runecrafting and Fishing. But those are skills where you do the same thing over and over. With slayer you have to kill things, then go back to the slayer master and get a new assignment, and repeat and all that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The skill I would hate to have to train to 99 would probably be Fishing because I hate it. :lol:

[Solidus_77]

Good equipment isn't a given, that costs money. From that point money does help for slayer. Furthermore, using lunar magiks + full portal'd house will cost money. I don't see how the money used to get the equipment doesn't count, it's a cost like anything else.

[joris_n]

Slayer is the hardest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whooptidoo

[thephat]

u can get 200k slayer xp per day if u use the right things and bad task doesn't matter that much with my way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

farming is hard to train, unless you got the right seeds and alot of money

 

 

 

then i say mining is hard.

[joris_n]

u can get 200k slayer xp per day if u use the right things and bad task doesn't matter that much with my way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

farming is hard to train, unless you got the right seeds and alot of money

 

 

 

then i say mining is hard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can only get 200k slayer exp per dag if you play 10+ hours.. even with the cannon and black black etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farming is a buyable skill, it takes a few mins to plants your trees and your done for the day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And if i am right this topic is about the hardest to ' train' skill and not about how hard it is to get loads of money.

[tryto]

i think mining is the hardest. Slayer is at elast interestiing. But, i think that HP is also very hard, becasue it requires like 1 or 2 99's to get to it.

[mrmyk]

Slayer is the hardest skill xp wise..

[omario_101]

i agree with most of the people on here cooking flech and even fm are way to common these days

 

 

 

but still even though 99 herblaw can possibly be bought how often do you actually see one ingame in my opinion there pretty rare sight and a very admirable cape

 

 

 

but when it comes down to it i think agil seriously...i mean going through that same course thousands of times...u might not buy anything to do this but theres gotta be a decent amount of food involved at some point

 

 

 

along with 99 prayer i mean yea if your rich enough you can afford but still and this actually comes in really really handy asen u can actually use it at any time

[tryto]

You can actaully get much more slayer xp in a day then farming. There was a video i've heard emntioned on these forums,( forget the name), of someone on these forums getting to 99 slayer in just under 24 hours i think. Farming is about 200k? Even though mining is harder than either

[meol]

It depends heavily on what you define as "hard". Skill-wise? They're both quite easy, you don't have to actually think for them.

 

Effective-time-wise? Slayer is harder because you only need to plant a tree, wait, and check health for lots of exp, and the "wait" phase can be done even while being offline.

 

Money-wise? It is hard and it takes time to make much money (unless you are awfully lucky), and thus you could consider that getting the money for buying all your seeds amkes Farming harder.

 

Click-wise? Slayer requires more clicking, but mining requires even more.

[Sumpta]

You can actaully get much more slayer xp in a day then farming. There was a video i've heard emntioned on these forums,( forget the name), of someone on these forums getting to 99 slayer in just under 24 hours i think. Farming is about 200k? Even though mining is harder than either

 

 

 

99 slayer in under 24 hours? Seriously, that just ain't possible.

 

 

 

I think slayer and farming are comparable in the sense that they leave space for a kind of "multi-tasking". While getting 99 slayer, you can (and will) also max out HP, attack, strength, defense, ranged and still make a profit. You'll also get the seeds & herbs needed to get high farming and herblore. As such, high slayer is a guarantee for a good all-round character.

 

 

 

The same sort of goes for farming because there's such a lot of waiting involved, time you'll be using to train other skills. With farming, however, you have the freedom to spend that time as you will. You can log off and do other stuff, you can spread your efforts on several different skills, thus gaining more overall levels.

 

 

 

Slayer would be the hardest of the two, as it requires more dedication and time (even when simply counting exp/hour). I also go "wow" for 99 agility and rc, because they require "screen attention" combined with a lot of time (whereas fm for example requires screen attention but less time). But slayer has the edge over them all because it requires the same amount of screen attention ÃÆÃâÃâànd it holds a certain amount of danger on top, since you can hardly "zone out" like you can with agility and rc - too high risk of dying with very expensive gear. Nobody cares if you stand still for 5 min on the agility course, but in combat it equals certain death. RC can be trained in a safe way too, although it does mean less xp. To make a clean sweep of it: slayer profits highly from good skills in other areas and that takes additional time: agility and quests to get to certain areas; herblore and farming help to get pots easily and cheap; high combat speeds up training; etc.

 

 

 

Typing this made me realise once more how much I love slayer. It just ties in so well with every other skill - only thieving, mining, woodcutting and firemaking hold no advantage whatsoever for slayers. Slayers are simply unable to have the one high skill (vs. rc'ers, agility lovers etc). Unless they go for an insane use of the recoil ring, but that's just plain weird.

[gimmecola]

overall, i would probably say slayer, but i love slayer, and hate farming, so farming would be harder for me. (54 slayer 17 farming (farming level achieved through tears of guthix)

[Champion0113]

Slayer is the hardest by far. It requires a lot of dedication and time to train. You have to decide which tasks are worth doing and which tasks you should change. Also, how lucky you are when getting tasks can determine how fast you can train it. If you have a streak of bad tasks than slayer is going to be slower than it already is. Slayer is a very fun skill but it just takes too long and requires a lot of attention.

 

 

 

Farming on the other hand requires a lot less time. All it requires is about a hour a day planting trees and you can get about 80k xp a day which is similar to the speed of slayer. It does require a lot of money though. If you have the money then farming is far easier than slayer. If you don't then it would probably be about the same as slayer since you have to spend sometime making money to buy seeds.

 

 

 

Either way, getting 99 in anyone of these skills is a great acheivment

[hatebringer]

Farming, simply because you can't have a never ending flow of xp into it, its just large chunks at a time, sometimes even longer. slayer is fun to train, and the rewards own.

[Skate4u]

it depends on wat u think is hard..

 

if u don't like tellying back and forth to get slayer tasks slayer is hard but if u don't like spending time making herbs, trees, etc farming is hard. but for me id say farming for me :P

[zostar2]

Slayer.

 

 

 

To be good at slayer you also need a decent combat level to start with.

[Elessar3019]

Slayer, hands down.

 

 

 

I myself am considering going for 99 farming, for the exact reason as has been stated so many times. You don't have to sit at the computer all day, paying attention to what you're doing, spending money on food/pots. You plant your trees when you get online, go train another skill, and come back a couple hours later to find free exp virtually growing on trees! Farming may take a long time, and it certainly isn't the cheapest 99, but it's definitely the easiest to the extent of actual time spent farming and number of clicks.