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  1. On Merchanting with Free Trade - Predictions & Preparations [/center] As you all know, Jagex has made the decision to return unbalanced trade as well as old-style player killing to Runescape. To all of us here at Rune-Tips and anyone who who engages in Grand Exchange merchanting or investing, this update will have a profound impact on the way we play the game. Some of the players reading this may remember the days before the Grand Exchange was implemented and Free Trade was removed - Merchanting was a completely different animal. Now, with the largest update Runescape has seen in years around the corner, we all want to know how to best prepare ourselves. Will this update kill merchanting as we know it? Quite simply, no. The Grand Exchange will be kept with adjusted price limitations, and older players will remember that the Grand Exchange and free trade co-existed for some time before the eventual removal of free trade. What will happen to the economy once free trade is returned? I will state it very strongly - once free trade is returned, there will be a period of 3-6 weeks during which it will be exceedingly risky to invest. A wide variety of factors will make the market extremly volatile, some items will crash and some will soar. New price baselines will be set for many items, and while there is extreme risk of losing a large amount during this update there is also the chance of a lifetime for the prudent and well-informed merchant to nearly double their wealth. If you are new to investing or have a problem with taking risks, I HIGHLY recommend you liquidate all your assets - sell all your investments and high-value items immediately, and lay low until a month has passed. For the rest of you, I will provide the information you need to take advantage of this opportunity. Effects of the update Right now, the system of regulated trade has resulted in the price of many items "artificially" being raised or lowered based on the dynamics of the Grand Exchange. These items will quickly and immediately become either gold or trash once the update has taken place. Manipulation clans Four words - your time is over. General dynamics of Grand Exchange merchanting Despite the commotion, the truth is that the basics of Grand Exchange merchanting will go unchanged once free trade has returned. New dynamics will mostly effect the newer or higher-value items, while basic investing and flipping will go unchanged. Even with free trade, the vast majority of transactions will be made on the Grand Exchange instead of in person. For more common items and supplies, they will be sold almost exclusively on the Grand Exchange. More expensive, items however, will be sold mainly in the area around the Grand Exchange in worlds 1 and 2. This will provide a distinct profit opportunity for merchants who wish to learn the art of old-style merchanting, in which items are bought and flipped manually. Once they have settled in price, the rares market will be extremely lucrative for the more skilled of these merchants. Immediate advice for the update Immediate investment - PvP supplies The second part of this update, the return of old-style Wilderness PKing, means of course that PvP supplies will be in high demand. Stock up on the following items: High-level food (Sharks, Lobsters, Swordfish) Basic weapons and armor (Rune scimitars & platebodies, dragon daggers, etc) Strength potions and other PKing supplies Runes and ammunition High-level weapons will likely rise or fall depending on Jagex's decision regarding item-protection prayers and the details of the old-style Wilderness. It is likely, however, that most of these items (with the possible exception of insanely-priced weapons such as Godswords) will rise. Effect on Rares For the lucky among us who own any type of rare, prepare for a wild ride. The reason rares have become so overvalued in the last few years is because of the existence of the Grand Exchange's trade limits - the 5%-rise-per-update rule kept the Grand Exchange price of rares well behind the true street value, and as a result rares became exceedingly hard to buy and sell. Once free trade is returned, the price of rares will stabilize, and violently. I predict that the eventual street price will fall somewhere between the current Grand Exchange value and the current street value for each item, but undoubtedly there will be a violent period in price fluctuations before this level-out occurs. To rare owners, I can only suggest that you remain calm and keep your bearings for the first few weeks - thankfully, rares are the only thing that will have a guaranteed value in the future. So what should I do to prepare? In preparation for this update, I will be putting approximately 75% of my money into a variety of mainly PvP-related items that I predict will earn 40% or more on my investment (I will release a full list of these items for RT members only in the merchanting Items section of this forum). In addition, I will be selling several of my rares and most of my high-level items with the intention of repurchasing after the update. Feel free to post your action plans and additional information and speculations on the results of the upcoming changes. This update will provide the opportunity of a lifetime for those with the cleverness and knowledge to take advantage of it. This is a very interesting post i read on a site I'm a member of.. basically it sums up all that will happen after the update. What do you guys thin about this?
  2. You can do green dragons as well, although it's not as rewarding as the other monsters that have been previously posted.
  3. God wars probably shouldn't be done until 80plus. It will be almost impossible to find a team with levels like that. Barrows on the other hand, can be done easily. weather it's with mage, melle or range.. you should be able to average 2-6 loots per trip depending on inventory and equipment, ect.
  4. I think it does. I know the champion challenges show up if you don't pick them up. It's happened to me a couple of times when i haven't been paying attention.
  5. They are from level 2 clues, and I'm not too sure about their drop rates and monsters that drop them..
  6. I see people like this in my CC every so often. It's funny how stupid it looks typed out. don't u mean how funny it sounds to? And that. I'm a regular in that CC there's a fair bit of noobiness that comes out of there. Although, it's a CC for helping people, so it's a given.
  7. If money is a problem, just fill the books from cheapest to most expensive.. That's how i did it. Or, you can go do some level one treasure trails, they give Pages pretty often, and a rather easy to get. The best clue scroll droppers, personally, is theiving H.A.M. members.
  8. What's 2.5ing I find the best way is to do Irons/Steels.. They are easy to kill, and have pretty good drops.
  9. There's plenty of ways to make 1m an hour. Hunting kebbits in Llyeta is apparently 1m or more an hour..
  10. Fight Caves is a good way.. usually after finishing/dieing in there, you get tele'd away in a random.
  11. Nice guide dude. I have a skiller myself, and this helped quite a bit. Thanks.
  12. I would post on the forums and ask. It's a built in capability of the mouse, and i don't think the class that as 3rd party software.
  13. Exactly. Prestige beyond that would be a complete waste unless you are P2P. Go find a team to start from floor one again for the best XP, if thats what your looking for.
  14. I think people do the nats, particularly, because it's insanely fast with the Grahhk. If you get to - or are already at that stage - i would go with Double nats over Deaths. I'm not sure if there is a faster method for Astrals, the only reason i can think of them being crafted is their high demand, although then again, deaths demand would be the same if not higher.
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