Just thought I would remind all that if you plan to mage to dress the part.

For Mage in f2p, make sure you get yourself a blue wizard’s hat(+2 magic att & Def) and robe(+3 magic att & Def), and get a ammy of magic (+10 magic att). Wear a anti-dragon shield, or nothing. (regular shield lowers your magic attack) Since you have no option for magic stat boosting bottoms, try the Monk’s robes bottoms or buy a blue skirt. Lastly, use a Staff of what ever elemental type you want, they add 10 magic to attack.

Membership benefits becomes clear when it comes to maging. Full Mystic Robes, Split Bark Armour and the Infinity Line. From the lowly Zammy Robes (at least they give bottom bonus)to lofty God Capes, Ammy of Glory and the Full Ahrim’s Barrows set (+73 magic att&def) Plus dozens of new spells and runes to choose from.

Great tips, thanks for the details Drawrof!

I noticed that the old skills page was both old (certain skills didn’t even exist yet) and broken so I figured I’d post my information anew.

This is my main character, which I started back at the beginning of this blog.

I now also sport a few other characters, playing around with a “pure wc” and a “pure miner” and a “pure fisher” just for the heck of it.

Current as of September 7, 2007

One of the easiest ways to make money is killing chickens by Varrock or Lumbridge;

1)collect about 500 feathers
2)collect 20 raw chickens
3) bury all your bones

go to port sarim and cook all chicken (raise cooking) eat them or sell them by the wilderness later, now for “the real money”; go to fishing shop and value feathers they stay from 1 gold to 4 gold, when they are 3 or 4 gold sell them 10 at a time with 500 feathers you can: make 15 to 20k, raise a little combat, and the most important… raise cooking level!!!

Thanks for the tip Uncle Vernon!

“Epza, the character (toon) I used, was created solely for the purpose of checking the limits and boundrys of Runescape’s Training Island. What follows are my findings.

On the Runescape Training Island, you can NOT go higher in any skill than level three (3). Not even one point higher. On the training island all skills are capped at level three (3).

You can melee kill as many rats as you want, and you don’t even have to use food to heal with because you will never go below one (1) hitpoint. In otherwords, you won’t die fighting rats on Training Island.

You can collect all the inventory items you want while on the island, but when you leave the island you will end up on the mainland with the following items in your inventory:

one bronze wood cutting axe
one tinder box
one small fishing net
one cooked shrimp
one bucket
one pot
one cooked bread
one pickaxe
one bronze dagger
one bronze sword
one wooden shield
one short bow
twenty five (25) arrows
twenty five (25) air runes
fifteen (15) body runes
six (6) water runes
four (4) earth runes
two (2) body runes

and in the mainland banks you will find:

twenty five (25) coins

Any stockpiles you made to your inventory, regardless of whether you stockpiled arrows, shrimp, bread, bronze bars or whatever, will NOT reach the mainland with you. You will get exactly that which I listed above and not a bit more.

Fishing skill-ups are a little faster on Training Island than on the mainland, and so are fire skill-ups, but leveling attack, strength, and defense are slower because you hit less often than you would with either normal rats or chickens on the mainland. This same slowness could apply to ranged, but killing chickens with free runes from the wizard might be worth considering.

But truthfully, my recommendation would have to be not to waste your time on Training Island. On Training Island you can’t get loot to make money with. In the low level mainland areas, you can get loot from your kills, and loot from the kills of other players who just leave it on the ground.

And one last thing, the very easiest and quickest way for a “newbie,” at least on the f2p (free to play) servers, to earn money is probably one of the most boring. It works like this:

Step 1) You get the “Rune Mysteries Quest” from Duke Horacio on the 2nd floor of the castle. (The castle you ended up in front of when came off Training Island.) You take the talisman the duke gives you to the head wizard, Sedridor, in the Wizards Tower south of Draynor Village. Sedridor wants you to take a package to Aubury, the owner of a rune shop in north east Varrock, and gives you directions to Varrock. (In the last update, Runescape made the barbarians hostile and they will now aggro newbies, so if you can’t figure out how to avoid their village, don’t walk through it, run.) When you find Aubury, keep in mind where he’s located, and that there is a bank just north of him. Aubury gives you his notes and asks you to give them to Sedridor. Take them to Sedridor and in return he gives you the privilage of being teleported to the rune essence stones via various npc’s.

Step 2) The the boring, but rewarding part. Go to the bank and store everything but your pickaxe. Wield your pickaxe. Your inventory should now be empty, the pickaxe in your hand. Go to one of the teleportation npc’s and get teleported to the rune essence stones. Mine the essence (ess), fill your inventory, then use the teleportation device back to the teleporting npc. Next, go to the bank and store the twenty eight (28) ess you’ve mined. Now go back to the teleporting npc and repeat this operation thirty five (35) times. (I said it was boring.)

NOTE: Don’t try to sell until you have at least 1000 ess. Buyers don’t like piddly amounts, and you can always take breaks if it gets to boring. Oh, I almost forgot, you should be able to sell your one thousand (1000) ess for thirty thousand (30,000) if your patient–most likely to just a single buyer. If you are willing to sell for less, don’t let them get you down to low, because there are buyers that will turn around and sell the thousand essences’s they bought from you for 35,000.

Good hunting.

Epza”

Some are great! I’ve approved a great number of comments today and they now appear in the comments section of the various posts they were posted to. I especially like the friendly comments from other blog owners - when I update this site, I’ll be setting up cross-linkings with some of the ones with quality content.

Some are spam - runescape gold, runescape scams disguised as helpful sites, etc. I’m sure the spammers don’t really care that they get comments rejected on some sites, as their modus operandi is “spam lots, all over the place” and even a %.01 return rate on their spamming is enough of a reward for them.

Some comments, however, are well-meaning people who are probably a little frustrated, and their frustration is coming across in their attempted communications with me.

Like the guy who hadn’t looked at the most recent postings on the blog to realize it hadn’t been updated in over 8 months when he said, exasperated:

dude wtf top blocking all my comments and stop trying to make people thing thoughs are yur runescape stats

All ridiculousness and jest aside, I’d like to let and commenters know that I don’t ignore them, exactly - but I’ve left this blog unattended for a while and have a lot of work to do to clear out the backlog of comments. So, if I haven’t answered your question, it is likely that I haven’t gotten to it in the comments yet.

And of course, because of all the spammers that abound, all of the comments in this blog need to be approved by me before they show up on the site. If the world were full of people who don’t try to clog the system up for the rest of us, I wouldn’t have to do this.

But it has to be said - why do my character stats threaten you so? Certainly there are many players much higher level in everything than me now? And what “accomplishment” exactly is it for me to have wasted so much time to level all those silly skills? :)

Silly noters. Thank you for your entertainment - good and bad.

Are you looking to buy mass amounts of raw materials to level skills, and wanting to hire a “worker”?

Maybe you’re looking for a Runescape friend around your age who is also looking for friends.

Or you’re looking to Join a Clan!

Or maybe even you’re a Clan recruiter looking to get the word out about your new clan to join!

For all of you, and because it’s fun for me, I’ve started this new project:

Runescape Pals - find friends, clans, jobs, workers and more!

This is a brand new roll-out and needs a few people to start the ball rolling by getting themselves listed (for free of course). I have more updates planned over the coming months as well!

When I was playing regularly, I started out as a “solo” player who would collect all of my own materials and process them all and then use them up. I became a Member partially because I wanted to make my own arrows instead of buying them, and for the first while, I was happy with this. Cash was accumulating because I mined my own ore, blacksmithed the results, and took pains to sell them in small doses to shops on different worlds to get as much cash as I could.

At some point, however, I ran across someone who offered to do some mining for me, or some wood chopping, to speed up my creation and levelling processes. Ken was 11 years old and AMAZING at making deals with others - he became my middle-man. I’d tell Ken what I wanted and how much I’d pay for it (note, I always pay well compared to the market, it’s part of why Ken would work so eagerly for me), and he’d go out and buy materials for cheaper than that, and resell it to me.

Then, Ken stopped playing for a while, but I had become addicted to having someone else do a lot of collection work FOR me so I could just produce product, sell it, and get bigger, stronger and better, faster.

So, I had to find other workers.

Truthfully, I find going to a busy bank and calling out that I’m looking for a worker to gather wood in lots of 100 will get me a LOT of responses. From the “employer” end, there’s no shortage of workers.

From the worker end? I could only choose one. So, how did I go about choosing?

Traits I’d Look For In Workers

Generally I am not going to have a forever-ongoing need for any one commodity on the game (logs, ore, fish), so the first thing I’d look for in an ongoing “job” situation would be for the person to have high skills in the following:

• Mining
• Woodcutting
• Fishing

At the very least, be able to mine coal and fish lobsters. Most of the logs I’d be buying off of you would be regular low-level logs for fletching into arrows, but many players would buy up every bit of Yew you have if you can advance that far and get into Members areas.

The second big thing I’d look for in a worker is the ability to sell product in lots of at least 500 at a time. Some things I’ll buy in lots of 100 at a time if I absolutely must, but if I have 5 people providing 100 at a time and find one new guy who’s willing to provide 500 at a time, those other 5 people are out of a “job” with me. Thus, before you offer to sell anything, gather up at least 500 of that product if at all possible, with 100 being a bare minimum.

Finding Buyers On The Web

Forums are another place you could turn to in order to sell your wares or buy wares from others - here are a few sites I found when I searched on Google this morning:

• RS Boards
• Rune Market
• Nomad Gaming Runescape Market

Note, I haven’t used any of these boards myself, just did a search on ‘runescape market’ and keywords like that in Google to provide links here.

What’s Your Favorite Runescape Market Site?

If you know of better sites to list here, be sure to let me know!

Hey I have some tips for new players for the Wild(lvl 3 players). First, sell all the stuff you start out with. make sure you go to the specialty shops to do this. then you should have enough for bronze pl8 and legs. Then buy a bronze or iron weapon. Then get defence and attack to 5. then unequip everything and go into the Wild. Make sure no one follows you. Stay away from mosnters and run through the graveyard. You should find a steel dagger. equip it. Next find some ruins and get steel legs that are there. Also theres gold ore there. Then speed back to non-wild area. There now uyou have steel legs and a dagger an money from selling the gold ore.

Excellent advice! And since some of those things reset, by doing it every time you can, you’ll earn a bit of extra cash as well, which is always important!!

Drawrof writes:

“I spent some time in the Mage Training minigame. In particular I went to the Alchemist Playground. I took a fire staff and 100 natures. What I thought would be a short trip ended up lasting a long time. Here was my stategy.

1 - Casting High Alchemy gains 65 experience.
2 - Waiting for “Green Arrow” allows for all of that indicated item to be converted for free.
3 - I would accumulate 8 of a particular item, those that had not been given the green arrow lately.
4 - Every now and then I would convert 30 without the arrow.
5 - the items are sorted in the cupboards in clockwise order, according to the list (Boots, Kite, Helm, Emerald, Long) So if you are looking for a long and you find a helm, more 2 cupboards to the right and you will find the long.
6 - do not save coins for big deposit. Your computer may crash and you will lose all the coins. Therefore it is best to continue to deposit.
7 - although Im level 69 mage, this method is best for a level 21 member mage. The money that you collect for low alch compare to high alch is the same. Therefore the magic bonus of 2 times the money deposited is the same.

Result.

With only 100 Natures I was able to deposit over 10,000 gp. Averaging about 10 gp per cast, or 1000 high alchs.

total Experience:
1000 High Alchs- 65,000
10,000 gp X 2 - 20,000 bonus
total 85,000

Yes you do not get the gps of high alching mith armor. However, most mages high alch at a loss. This method takes discipline and sometime. However, you can cast an infinate number of alch spells with only 1 nature rune and 5 fire runes in your inventory.

This makes mage advancement abosolutely free after level 21 for all members. If you were to do the same for low alch at level 21, you could be level 45 in one after noon. try it out.”

Wow! Excellent, I’m always into free skill levelling, myself! Great way to save cash is to not spend it after all.

Here’s one such donation, by an Anonymous writer, in response to the post about Mage and Range: Powerful but Expensive:

NOTE! I didn’t write this but thought it was good enough to pull to the front and share.

“its pretty simple if u wanna b good pker.

a)fish. skip sardines, pike, and tuna when training. when u can fish lobbies, get about 100 cooked and sell for 25-30k

b)buy tons and tons of bronze and iron arrows with the money.

c)kill chickens untill ur range is 10, then go to cows untill 20, then go to barbarians untill it is 30(make sure to bury all bones u get). now here comes the big money

d)get a brass key and go to the hill giants. there are multiple ranger spots that you can use. make sure to train on rapid, keep ONLY THE BIG BONES and expensive runes(natures, laws, deaths, chaos)

e)sell all your big bones when you run out of arrows. they sell from 300-410 each. buy more arrows and get more big bones, do that untill u got 60-70 range( i recommend 70)

f) buy as many rune ess as u can in world 1-4. ull hav like 2-3 mil at least so u shouldnt hav to worry about prices too much

g)do runes mysteries, and start making airs until u get 17 runecrafting. then, make minds until u get 22 rc(make sure to use edgeville bank for mind runes), then airs untill 28 rc, minds until 33 rc, airs until 39 rc, minds until 44 rc, and so on until u run out of ess

h)get mage to 13, then start using fire strike at hill giants. if u feel like it, then u can go to the leser demons and kill from there, but make sure u got good connection, food, and not too many runes(keep it at 500 minds and 1k airs per trip)

i)ull hav tons of money, so use it. i suggest gettin all the deaths and addy arrows that u can. get some ess also so u can make airs and fires.

j) now heres the fun part…owning every1 in sight! bring teleport varrok runes, binds, 100 fire blasts, and 100 addy arrows in ur inventory. here is the suit u gotta wear to walk on every1:

helm: blue mage hat
sheild:none
ammy: power ammy, glory ammy for p2p
shirt: blue mage top
pants: best d-hide chaps u can wear
weapon: best shortbow that u can use

find sum1 with full rune in the wilderness in a less crowded world, but make sure that he is max 10 lvls higher than u( i suggest varrok wildy, they like to go ther). now, most of the time, he will attk u. bind him once and run. u will weigh about 20 kg and the full rune person about 45 kg, so he will run out of energy fast. when he starts walking, you start walking also. keep taking him deeper and deeper and start ranging him down. this is where multiple binds are useful. when ranging him down, also use fire blasts every 2 range hits. if he starts running, then bind him. there are rarely any full rune peeps taht can “run” from u. they like always die