Eskemo's guide to superheating for XP and profit!

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Eskemo's guide to superheating for XP and profit!

Introduction

[hide=]Hi everyone! I've been looking at a way to level my (very meager) magic level and perhaps make some money along the way. I happened across this method whilst checking out some very outdated guides and found it had change significantly. I do not profess to be an expert in either of the skills I'm writing about - quite the opposite in fact. But here is a method, including some math and 'food for thought' about different options. I hope it helps someone out![/hide]

Method

[hide=]Okay ladies and gents. What are we doing here today? We're using the level 43 spell - Superheat Item. Various ore can be superheated, though for the purposes of this guide I will be addressing Steel and Higher.[/hide]

Requirements

[hide=]To begin this method, you need to have at least the following skills and assets:

Level 43 Mage - This is to cast the superheat spell.

Level 30 Smithing - This is the requirement to smelt Steel.

Some Iron and Coal

Or

Some GP.[/hide]

Superheating Steel

[hide=]This guide centers around Steel and the money making options it gives you. This will provide you with steel bars. I have several suggestions of where we can go with these bars, but these will be explored further on in the guide.

So, what are the costs of this method?

Thats:

Iron: 127g

Coal: 208g

Nats: 255g

Total: 590g

And what is the result of this?

Yep, thats right. Thats:

Steel Bar: 775g

So, per bar we make:

775g - 590g

185g

We also have a few options of what can be done now that we have some steel bars. A few quick suggestions:

Sell them back on the GE, spend profits on more Iron and Coal and rinse/repeat.

Smith them to Steel Plates and High Alch them. This will give you more mage/smith XP and some cash. I don't have figures on profit/loss for this yet.

And lastly, my personal favourite:

Smith these to Cannonballs and sell on the GE.

This gives us a profit of:

402g per Steel Bar

Note; This is currently based off a price of 248 per ball. I believe this may have risen recently due to a merchanting clan, so be sure to check prices on the GE before you follow through this method!

Thats some hefty profit, not to mention the XP gained and the ability to use these for your own cannon.

So how much XP do we gain?

Per cast:

Magic XP: 53

Smith XP: 17

INVENTORY SETUP:

The inventory is a little bit messy to setup for Steel. I suggest the following:

Thats:

1 Nature Rune

9 Iron Ore

18 Coal

TIP: When banking, use a 1 click bank. Use the 'Withdraw X' option, where X is 9. This will mean Iron is single click withdraw. Coal is double click withdraw. Bars are single click deposit. Weild a Staff of Fire, this will allow you to save money on Fire runes as well as saving an inventory spot for ore.[/hide]

To come

[hide=]Mithril Superheating - Sweet inventory setups, requirements and hints and tips. More profit and XP gain values for your enjoyment.

Addy Superheating

Runite Superheating[/hide]

I hope this helps everyone. I'll be updating it more tomorrow hopefully, as it's 4am here. Bit sleepy.

Enjoy,

-Eskemo.

Steel requires 2 coal and 1 iron, but in your calculation for the cost you only calculated it for 1 coal and 1 iron. Huge mistake.

EDIT: Also, your picture for superheating steel appears to be only coal, with no iron in the pic.

mhm another wors ur accualy losing money doing this

2 coal not 1

what i do is take pickaxe, natures, and 24 iron (leaving 2 spaces left), while wielding fire staff. i mine 2 coal, superheat into steel, and repeat until i have 24 steel bars.

also when withdrawing from bank keep ur bars in ur inventory withdraw all on the coal / then withdraw all on the iron

no need for the 9-thingy

also when withdrawing from bank keep ur bars in ur inventory withdraw all on the coal / then withdraw all on the iron

no need for the 9-thingy

you did not take time into account while writing this, comrade!