making money on runescape
By bobbyjoe143
@bobbyjoe143 (1287)
March 20, 2007 5:30am CST
this is how i make money in runescape.
there is no getting away with saying "a lvl 3 can earn millions" because it just isn't true unless they are a skiller. i hate to see those guides advertised, they give false hope that you can just get off tutorial island andbe an instant millionare...
i have some pretty high skills, and my biggest money makers are herblore and slayer. i do herblore because prayer pots, super restore pots and super sets make alot of money, and to make it more profitable, i grow alot of my herbs using the farming skill. with slayer, once you reach about lvl 50 it gets pretty profitable (at lvl 50 you can slay bloodveld, and they drop blood runes, money and rune med helms). the drops from slayer monsters can be pretty decent, aberrant spectres drop lava battlestaffs (100k ea), gargoyles drop black mystic robe bottoms (180k) and g mauls (100k) as well as a few runes and money... when you hit 80 slayer, nechreayls drop rune boots (200k ea) it has made me quite alot of money, and i get get very good combat exp out of it too (i melee). and slayer can be very important if you want to go kill dust sevils (lvl 65 slayer) as they drop d chains... just not very often :P
anyway, those are the ways i make money in runescape :)
7 responses
@ownage (25)
• Australia
31 Mar 07
Have you heard of merchanting? Buy low sell high. If a lvl 3 did this they could easy make millions. Merchanting is one of the best ways to make money. But i agree with you about all those websites claiming a lvl 3 can earn billions....Its unlikey a lvl 3 would have a few 100k to start of merchanting.
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@5ID3wind3r (55)
• United States
31 Mar 07
Yes, I am a merchant -- but I didn't start out to be. I wanted to be a mage, and today carry a level 65 in magic. But I quickly learned how EXPENSIVE being a mage is, especially if you don't happen to craft all of your own runes (which, except for maybe airs, you can't do at level 3, anyway). But if you're crafting runes, you're probably mining the essence, and getting mining experience, also. So I had to find a way to finance my chosen "hobby". I started out picking up the free stuff from the castle kitchen, basement and parapets. Then I would run to the General Store and sell everything for a few coins. I gained attack experience there also by fighting the spiders in the basement and rats in the castle, so that I could eventually fight the goblins. They dropped stuff worth lots more coins than the little trinkets I had been finding. Then I began to notice the items that other players seemed to be most interested in purchasing. I would buy those items cheap at the store whenever I saw them, and as you said, Ownage, "Buy low, sell high." As soon as I could, I began buying and selling runes. Laws are by far the most lucrative and bring the highest dollar amount the quickest. Today I do have several million, between cash on hand and in the merchandise in stock. So, it certainly CAN be done -- but certainly NOT overnight. Not legally, anyway.
@ProfSlughorn (93)
• France
21 Mar 07
There is a way to make millions in RuneScape without being a skiller, I downloaded a free guide on LimeWire which told me how to do it:
You start at level 3 and go to karamja where you can do the quest of puttin bannas into crates and getting 30 gp, then when you have gotten 1,500 gp you go to a near bank and buy as many lobsters as possible and sell them again for the highest amout possible.
That isn't all but I can't go on further, if someone wants me to send them the guides, send me a friend request on myLot and I'll send them it in an e-mail. You can scan them, no viruses whatso ever
@danprovolone (192)
• United States
27 Mar 07
yea, i've seen this talked about before but its time consuming, i could start a new account and make money faster just from woodcutting. but it is a clever idea
@tigerwolf21 (17)
• United States
23 Aug 07
hi there, I have a few non member accounts on runescape, and in regards to the karamja thing, I have made way more money with a beginning character just snatching up tunas and swordies that everyone drops when powerfishing. along the way i just fish my puney little sardines and cook.....raise levels and make money. Sure beats running around after bananas.
@johnanthons (223)
• New Zealand
26 Mar 07
well they arnt exactly lying about a level 3 earning millions. They just havent stated how much they already have and the time taken to earn that million. Any level character can merchant and earn millions but you would have to have decent starting money to merchant with. So no the guides arent lying but they don't tell the full truth either...which gets me annyoed too.
@waluigi1040 (215)
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20 Mar 07
i agree with you that u cant make millions when u are lvl3 unlees u are a skiller. i thnk though u have made a great guide on how to make money, just enough to make me train my herblivore
@bobbyjoe143 (1287)
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20 Mar 07
herblore can be great, even lower lvl potions can make money, if you make alot of normal strength potions, you can sell them in f2p for 1k ea, much more than they are worth, and definately more than you would get in members worlds.
the best place to sell potions would have to be edgevil bank, because pkers just love to buy pots haha.
best sellers in memebers have to be: prayer pots (up to 8k ea), super restores (8-10k ea), super sets (super att, str and def) ( up to 10k per set) also range potions sell fairly fast (4-5k ea). other pots people ask for are anti poisons (1-2k for normal, up to 5k for super).
@lonewoulfe (585)
• Philippines
20 Mar 07
wow...cool ur an online gamer, & if i may add ur a hardcore type....nice to know
i used to play UO, for a friend but i guess this type of graphics are not my kind, though i currently play hardcore gaming on 3D MMORPGs...w/ regards to runescape its one of thoose grandad of all online games no pun intended
@bobbyjoe143 (1287)
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21 Mar 07
i wouldn't say i am a hardcore online gamer as such, but i am really into runescape and i have played for about 2 and a half years, it is sort of a "grandad" now, as it's been going for about 6-7 years, the graphics may not be great, but jagex are slowly improving that by all the updates they do. they just do it bit by bit (probably so the really die hard players don't moan too much).
