Tidus wrote:
Hello, I'm trying to figure out some efficient ways to train the following skills.
Herblore (I'm clueless) (68 -> 80)
Farming (I was planning to plant trees) (63 -> 80)
SUMMONING (I have no clue at all) (1 -> 80)
Agility (61 -> 80)
Mining (Is powermining Granite still faster than iron?)
When I thinkof efficient, I think of skill relationships as well. The biggest problem I see here is that you are only taking xp into account with things like power mining granite. You need gp to train summoning, farming, and herblore yet get zero gp per hour of granite mining.
Granite mining: 45k xp per hour
Gold mining: 33k mining per hour
Mine granite for 2 hours is 90k mining xp
Mine gold for 1.5 hours, smelting and selling for a half hour is:
50k mining, 45k smithing, and 150kgp.
With arzinian mines, you can even mine more gold per hour. That 150k buys quite a bit of herblore xp and seeds. With summoning beasts of burder and the ring/whistle method of mining gold it is even faster.
I trained my farming and herblore into the 80s by doing herb runs 4-6 times a day. Develope a system that works for you. I can hit all 5 herb patches in five minutes now. With smapdragon seeds I get upwards of 100kgp per trip.
Some people might say don't let them die, but do the math yourself. 15% die, so you have the chance of getting 100% of 1 herb patch or 85% of 5 patches. You can still make money just letting stuff die. Tree payments are also a money loser, because only 1 in 10 dies. The value of the payment for 10 trees is more than the cost of a seed, especially in the case of yews and magics, the worst trees to pay for.
Agility - Just do the wildy course. Bring buckets of strawberries and an anti poison. The revs poison you. if one appears, try and just log out. you can do it by going through the tube, or up and down a ladder. Then log in on another server and leave the rev to kill whoever is left on the course (hehe).
Summoning - Might as well wait for the update to come out and see what happens. I would also say that over half of my levels are from tears as well. One thing to focus on are spirit spiders. Combine that with snapdragon farming, and you have easy seconds to make super restores. They well well and are the most profit of all seeds. Spider carcasses are a bargain at 300gp in the GE.