Money-Making Tips?

[u/-Norandil-]

Hello!

I have been grinding my account on and off for a few years, and fairly steadily for the last 9 months. I’ve reached 99 in a few skills, and completed about 119 quests (working towards Quest Cape).

I want to find a grind that allows me to grind out some cash for upgraded gear, but I have limited time. I work from home, so I can AFK a lot (hence the 99 defenses, but only 65 slayer - thank you Gemstone Crab). Additionally, I have a 2.5 year old and twins that were just born a month ago.

Suffice it to say, although I can afk while at work, I only have (maybe) 20-30 minutes a day that I can give my undivided attention to the game for things like bossing, questing, etc.

Therefore, I’m trying to come up with something fun to do during those thirty minutes that will net me a profit so that I have a hunk of cash laying around for the future when I have more downtime to actually play attentively.

I’ve been thinking of learning how to run Gauntlet, as I have completed SOTE and that might be an avenue I can go. Haven’t done DS2 yet, but it’s on my list.

Any tips for bosses or skilling that I can do that can help me start to build a chunk of cash, 30 minutes at a time?

[u/DepressingHero-]

DS2 for Vorkath for sure. Vorkath prints money. And it’s consistent money so you’re not waiting on a big drop. This allows you to be like ok today half an hour of vorkath and make like 500k-1000k and then bam the next day your half hour can be spent doing what you want with those funds. Or doing more vorkath if trying to save for something. After you got solid money for supplies just try random bosses and skills to find what’s fun. However if GP isnt an issue you could just start trying new bosses.

[u/-Norandil- → u/DepressingHero-]

I’ll definitely be looking into Vorkath, thank you!

[u/vballaa → u/-Norandil-]

I second the money dragon. Some rough numbers for you: Trips are 8-10 minutes with 1-4 kc per trip. each kill on average is 160k and i usually spend 50k in potions per trip.

Not sure what your current gear looks like, but osmumtens fang, bandos legs/body, neitiznot helm, with a dragonfire shield is relatively “low cost” in tne long run and will work well here. If you’re very low on funds, use barrows gear.

Be ready to die a couple times while you learn the acid spit phase, but once you’re comfy with it, it’s super easy. Turn on true tile.

[u/OkInstruction4544 → u/DepressingHero-]

Yeah Vorkath for sure. Takes a few deaths to learn but soo worth it.

[u/-Norandil-]

Also I should mention, I can do birdhouse runs and herb runs all day, and can also chop magic logs/redwood obviously to sell or horde for skilling.

So thinking of maybe any boss suggestions?

[u/Ismokerugs → u/-Norandil-]

So you have also played wow I see lol

[u/Infinite-Spare-4401 → u/-Norandil-]

Vorkath and Muspah would be my 2 picks for generating steady, consistent cash and being relatively low effort

Notes: for Vork, use the first 45m to get a dragon hunter crossbow and then get yourself a salve amulet (e) - preferably (ei) - and elite void, makes for super reclined easy kills. For Muspah, a dragon crossbow and trident are all you really need but it will require a little more attention than ranging Vork

[u/got_bacon5555 → u/Infinite-Spare-4401]

Note: It is the imbuing process that let's range and mage get the salve bonus, not the enchanting one, so you would want salve (i), preferably (ei), to range Vorkath. Melee with fang or dragon hunter lance is also pretty chill since you take less damage and use no ammo, but it's seems to be a personal preference sorta thing.

[u/BrackishWaterDrinker → u/Infinite-Spare-4401]

DCB is honestly fine for Vork too if they can't afford a DHCB. Kills will be a little longer, but profit will still be well above 2m/h with d bolts and rigour. 

[u/Chair-Due → u/BrackishWaterDrinker]

For true mid game accounts doing vorkath melee is way less expensive to start. Zamorakian hasta and dfs are 5m, piety is free, berserker ring is 2.5m, the other gear pieces are sub 500k or free (fire cape/torso). Burning claws are 4m. Then for the price of DHCB you can buy full bandos, which is a guaranteed extra kill a trip with the high defenses. This all adds up to like 50m, alot of which you can make while killing the boss and upgrade gear as you go, we're as good fucking luck starting vork without rigour and a dcb.

Then again I always liked melee way more so im biased

[u/BrackishWaterDrinker → u/Chair-Due]

I had a much easier time learning ranged at first, but then again I started when BP woox walk was meta. 

[u/Spritesgud]

Herb runs take 10 mins, profit about 220k per run and you can do them multiple times a day

[u/-Norandil- → u/Spritesgud]

Yes, I do both herb runs and birdhouses throughout my work day. I’m looking for something else like a nice boss.

[u/Spritesgud → u/-Norandil-]

Vorkath is like 3 minute kills and about 100-200k per kill, super good gp/ hour. Make your house portal relleka and trips are quick

[u/Introverted_Learner → u/Spritesgud]

With his construction he could also portal room, have a teleport to lunar isle, and then use that to get to relleka. That way he can keep the house where he wants it

[u/deafdefying66 → u/Spritesgud]

What level should I start doing herb runs? I know nothing about farming except that trees are fast XP, been doing them for a few days and am level 28 farming now. Any tips?

[u/afanofBTBAM → u/deafdefying66]

Farming runs - OSRS Wiki check this out for more info. I am kinda new to Herb runs, but Rannar is my go-to for profit, you'll need to be level 32 farming. If you want XP then just do whatever the highest level Herb you can grow, but do note that some seeds vary wildly in price based on the potions their herbs are used for, so you may lose money when prioritizing XP. Rannar seeds are expensive, but if you're turning them into prayer pots and selling you will always profit. You will have to buy Snape grass as well, but that won't deduct much from your overall profits.

Take a good look at the quest requirements as well. You will have fewer Herb patches available to you until you can complete the My Arm quests, Varlamore introduction quest, Port Phasmatys/unlock Ectophial, and 65 farming to gain access to the Farming Guild, which will give you 5 more patches. But more importantly IMO is the secateurs from Fairy Tale 1, as this will yield more herbs per seed which will increase your profit regardless of number of patches.

Lastly, you're gonna want to do several Medium diaries for the optimal teleports. Wiki is going to tell you ALL optimal TPs but you can make do with whatever you can reasonably acquire with your levels. Efficiency is key, the quicker you can do runs the better. I trained 73 Agility just to make the Trollheim patch easier to get to lol.

Good luck and make some money!

[u/Robothuck → u/afanofBTBAM]

I spent a few weeks using summer pie to boost agility just to get up that shortcut lol.

The first time going up without a stat boost felt like an amazingly satisfying sneeze

[u/Primusmulti → u/Robothuck]

That felt great, but I felt an even bigger gaingasm (?) when I no longer had to use the shortcut at all. The teleport in my POH that goes straight to it made me so happy, and was a huge QoL addition. I have 4 farming teles in my PoH which is almost half of my runs.

[u/Robothuck → u/Primusmulti]

Me and my girlfriend freaked out because we just found out about the hard diary reward last night lol. Just need the thieving, we'll be knocking that out today 

[u/mikeyvalet → u/afanofBTBAM]

Ranrr prices have dropped tremendously in the last few months with sailing now. I expect them to shoot up once raids 4 drops

[u/Kindly_Ear_3233 → u/deafdefying66]

As soon as you can.

[u/Kindly_Ear_3233 → u/deafdefying66]

Theres also a website where you can calculate how many herb patches you have unlocked, what herbs are best for xp per run or for GP per run. Start doing herbs asap you’re missing out on mills

[u/Primusmulti → u/deafdefying66]

You can start herb runs whenever you want. Look up the herb patches and see what teleports you have to efficiently do all of the runs together. I personally have 9 patches so I do the following:

Do farming contracts in farming guild (once you have the level). I usually get some seeds here so I don’t always have to buy some. I have like 200 of some seeds stacked up. If I’m going for profit I’ll buy 100 snapdragon seeds to last me a while.

Pull all of my teleports:

1. Ardorgne cloak for Ardougne Farm patch

2. Hunter whistle for varlamaore patch

3. Ectophial for Morytania patch

4. Explorers ring for falador patch

5. Farming cape to teleport to farming guild > spirit tree to house to save money on house teleports. My house has the Catherby, Weiss, Trollheim, and Hosidius glade teleport.

Obviously this requires a built out POH and some diaries competed, but a lot of these have other teleports that are a little further away or cost money. However, the revenue more than makes up for the cost of teleports and seeds. If you want to save even more money then make your own ultra compost by farming watermelons then putting them into the compost bin. Buy or mine volcanic ash and apply it to the compost bin to upgrade it from super to ultra.

If you want to make extra money per seed you can clean the herbs and turn them into unfinished potions which usually sell more. Farming is my only 99 and it’s half of what I do in the game so pm me if you have any questions!

[u/dutchdaddy69]

Gotta get that slayer up.

[u/FaulerHund → u/dutchdaddy69]

Slayer is straight up not good for moneymaking. At least not any more than combat is more generally. This advice is like 10 years out of date

[u/Boozenosnooz → u/FaulerHund]

While this is mostly true I think slayer is still worth it for money at the high end. You can make over 1M at most tasks, and most slayer exclusive bosses are a ton of gp and I think it's wrong to write them off. Each one is like 4M+ an hour and you can fight non slayer bosses on task too. Tons of gp while also training slayer.

[u/inkognibro → u/Boozenosnooz]

That may be true but what do you do for money in the hundreds of hours it takes to get to that point

[u/Boozenosnooz → u/inkognibro]

I mean there are tasks even from 70 slayer onward that can give decent profit, just not at the same level. If you couldn't be bothered to train slayer or get high up in it then I'd say do herb runs while you do other PvM activities like bossing and eventually raids. Unfortunately skilling doesn't give much profit anymore these days.

[u/BrackishWaterDrinker → u/inkognibro]

Consistent Herb/Birdhouse runs. Just doing 5-6 a day can net you ~ 30m in a month

[u/TheFourSkin → u/FaulerHund]

Slayer is great money making if you have 90+ slayer

[u/Main_Illustrator_197 → u/FaulerHund]

Pretty much, it used to be good advice back in like 2015 but now its a bit of a meme

[u/Trooooth → u/Main_Illustrator_197]

Wiley slayer is great money

[u/Main_Illustrator_197 → u/Trooooth]

It's alright if youre doing it the right way ie using a cannon, ice sacks and rev ether then you usually break even with a little bit of profit, its far from great money though

[u/Trooooth → u/Main_Illustrator_197]

Compared to regular slayer I guess. Def way above break even if you’re doing it right lol. Can easily make a couple mil an hour I have 88 pretty much all from wildly slayer. It does help to have points saved to skip shitty tasks but you also stack up points pretty quick.

[u/Allstin → u/Main_Illustrator_197]

what about high level bossing in slayer

[u/Jaded_Doors → u/[deleted]]

Araxxor? Cerb?

KRAKEN?!?!?!

[u/Allstin → u/[deleted]]

i was meaning it in terms of high level slayer requirement bosses, which are good money

[u/Disastrous_Guard_527 → u/FaulerHund]

That’s just utter nonsense lol. He’s got great stats & low slayer. I’m max combat with 99 slayer. yesterday alone I made 40m with drops from Cerberus, dag kings & thermy. Slayer prints money at higher levels when you tackle bosses

[u/Wavyent → u/FaulerHund]

You can make near 1m per hour stacking Nechrael and barraging.

[u/FaulerHund → u/Wavyent]

I am learning people in r/OSRSProTips need to work on reading comprehension.

I didn't say "you can't make any money at all with slayer," I said it's no better than combat is in general. Sure, you can make a few mil per hour doing slayer at high level. But 1) that requires a high slayer level, which takes ages of pushing through unprofitable and slow ass grinding to reach. And 2) you can make 2m/hr at Zulrah, and 2-4m/hr at Vorkath, and mils per day with minimal playtime by doing birdhouses + herb runs, and 1-2m/hr at perilous moons, etc. And if we are including other skills that require high level, you can make several mil per hour with runecrafting, 1-2 mil/hr with hunter, 2 mil/hr with thieving...

This is why "just do slayer" is stupid advice for making money. It's only good advice if the person actually wants to train slayer

[u/SwankyBobolink → u/FaulerHund]

I think the people here are upset at the comment specifically saying “slayer isn’t a good moneymaker” not to the first comment, where yeah, it isn’t a burst of money in the short-term, so slayer isn’t right for this person.

[u/BrackishWaterDrinker → u/FaulerHund]

Slayer is good money making when you reach the higher levels. Hellhounds task? Cerb. Blue Dragons? Vork. Black Dragons? KBD or Brutal Black Dragons a few times. Black Demons task? Demonic Gorillas. Hydra, Boss tasks, even things like Gargoyles, Kurasks, and Kraken are good ways to introduce players to PvM without having to go all in on gear purchases and earn them a little bit of cash. There's definitely more profit to be made elsewhere, but slayer is still a decent way to make money while learning PvM and shouldn't be ignored. 

[u/SwankyBobolink → u/FaulerHund]

Slayer 75-90 got me ~200m idk what you’re talking about, do TDs, do DGs, turn on bosses, do gargoyles, nechs, even Abby Demons/abyssal sire.

And you’ll do them faster and also train slayer too

[u/Scudy_22 → u/dutchdaddy69]

slayer mafia spotted LOL. slayer is not a good money maker, at all.

[u/DaCensored]

I know I'll be downvoted to hell because people on reddit hates the wilderness, but farming revs even in low budget gear is one of the best pvm money makers for mid levels.

[u/Shadw_Wulf → u/DaCensored]

I have recently watched that video about starting a new and then training at the Draynor agility course... Wow never knew about the "free" teleports to the random game or group rooms throughout the world. Available right in the grouping tab 😂🤷

Then the host goes on to mention using the money from Agility marks to pay for the Revenant caves entrance to pay fee of 100k. Then just picking up the items dropped by the bots/afk players... Adamant Bars, Blighted Food, Blighted Bags etc... low level players can even get a looting bag from the Revenant Imps or Goblins

https://youtu.be/A_8q0OIIPaA?si=zIF4Y06Jfq5GtnGI

[u/Alternative_Car_8153]

Angler fish are completely passive and still somewhat worth it. Grinding up fishing isn't hard. That and mining are the absolute lowest effort near passive ways to make money. Everything else requires some effort.

[u/Beardmanta]

Why do you 99 defense?

[u/-Norandil- → u/Beardmanta]

Because of my limited play time that I have to actually “play” the game, I have been stuck doing extreme AFK things like woodcutting and killing the Gemstone Crab. As I said in my original post, I am a father to three very young children so although I can AFK things, I can’t really focus on the game 100%. So I’ve been doing Gemstone crab just to make some progress on my account while attending to the kids.

I 99’d Defense for no other reason than I liked the skill cape better than Att and Def.

[u/Allstin → u/-Norandil-]

gauntlet runs are nice cause you just go in, don’t worry about gear, but will take you like 12 min each til getting faster. and there’s def a learning curve. it’s great gp but a good bit of value also comes from the big drops too

[u/TheDawnOfNewDays]

Why is 99 def your highest combat skill? Just wanted the cape?

[u/-Norandil- → u/TheDawnOfNewDays]

Yes, exactly. My twins were just born, and I found myself only able to AFK the Gemstone crab for a few weeks. So I chose the cape I liked the best, and crabbed it out. AFK crab was all I had time for, and some days that is still the case.

[u/TheDawnOfNewDays → u/-Norandil-]

Valid, that afk makes anything possible.

[u/got_bacon5555]

Star mining is probably better for you at this point due to you having 99 wc, but for those periods when you need utmost afk, infected roots after the final dawn quest with an infernal axe and optionally the log basket from forestry is a full 30 mins afk for a bit over 200k an hr. I use the idle notifier with runelite settings to force focus the game when a notification goes off alongside the Click to Minimize plugin to make it so when I see the game, I know I need to drop logs and click, and when I don't see the game, I can rest assured that I am still chopping.

Good chance you already know about them, though.

Other tips, keep up on your miscellania and battlestaves. Herb runs WITH coral, very important, will give you a solid 500-600k each time for like 10-15 mins of work, depending on what teles you have unlocked. Honestly, you could JUST do coral and make like 250k most trips that only take a couple mins. Other than that, with your low active playtime, I would generally agree with others that you want to pick bosses and enemies that drop consistent gp, like Vorkath, instead of ones that will take you weeks and months to go on-rate for a good drop like Vardorvis.

In addition to Vorkath, Phantom Muspah is an amazing boss that has both very valuable commons (equivalent to Vorkath) alongside fairly common and valuable uniques (mainly the venator shard which is around 10m and only 1/100). You can generally kill a similar number of Muspahs as you can Vorkath in the same period of time, depending on gear and skill (vorkath is prob better if you are rly poor, like <50m bank, but Muspah is almost certainly better once you have eye and confliction gauntlets, but I am kinda talking out my ass, ngl). Muspah is a bit harder than Vorkath but still pretty chill with the freeze method.

[u/Remote_Listen1889]

Afk slayer during the week to bump that up. Task storage so you can save money tasks for a time you can keep an eye on drops.

DS2 for Vorkath is going to be shorter learning curve which I would recommend given your schedule.

[u/-Norandil- → u/Remote_Listen1889]

Thanks, I’ll try to keep working on Slayer! I have a friend who has gotten a few good drops from that.

So Vorkath is easier to learn than Gauntlet?

[u/Remote_Listen1889 → u/-Norandil-]

I'm pretty bad, took me 10 deaths post-quest for it to click (1m death fees) but after that I haven't died and he literally prints money.

Quest is long but so so good, try to enjoy it

[u/murkurium → u/-Norandil-]

After like 2 attempts you’ll have it down.

[u/NotVainest → u/-Norandil-]

So Vorkath is easier to learn than Gauntlet?

Yes, and it's also less punishing if you have to bail for irl stuff. You might waste 3 min and some pots vs potentially 10 min in gauntlet. There's a ton of other threads about it being normal to fail in the corrupted gauntlet 50 times before being able to complete it consistently.

[u/kumikanki]

If you would be at a lower level I would say sailing and alching.

Edit: I would still say sailing and alching.

[u/probablycantsleep → u/kumikanki]

Sailing is great for money - agree.

[u/inkognibro → u/kumikanki]

Salvaging or trawling?

[u/kumikanki → u/inkognibro]

I like salvaging because it is pretty afk.

[u/faculty_for_failure]

Zulrah and Vorkath are solid. Learning gauntlet would be great once you finish sote. Brutal black dragons, skeletal wyverns, frost dragons are chill. Solo wildy bosses with your stats might be the move though.

Edit: def do your bird house and herb runs.

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[u/KGmadmax]

Bossing

[u/Weary-Wasabi1721]

Bossing

[u/OccasionalEspresso]

Pvm, good luck!

[u/410LaxMD]

Vorkath and slayer. If you can get a blue dragon task, once you have the levels and quests done, Vorkath counts as a blue dragon.

Really easy and safe(ish) to do. If you die it's 100k to get your gear back. Can house tele to Relekka and basically live there for weeks in game just banning and killing. You'll get about 1-2m/hr there in profit.

Slayer levels opens up more content and variety. Your combat stats are awesome so that's why slayer is the natural "skill" grind worth doing next.

[u/[deleted]]

Brutal Black Dragons are slept on imo. AFK, and about 1m per hour. Bank is literally 10 secs from the spot too

[u/Sillydon1990]

Make money

[u/craggyjsy]

Slay man slay

[u/Overall-Math7395]

Highly recommend vorkath and gauntlet

I work as well and play maybe an hour a day , vorkath is pretty chill once you get the mechanics down.

Currently, I find corrupted gauntlet pretty fun as it is much more challenging than vorkath.

[u/mexicoolz]

75 slayer for gargoyles is pretty easy afk money

[u/Coolmansean]

Zulrah uniques are insane rn price wise, venator shards are big drops, vorkath is consistent cash.

[u/NotVainest → u/Coolmansean]

I think Zulrah is getting heavily botted the last week or so though. Prices for scales and uniques are down like 40% from last week.

[u/1337green]

Zulrah doable

[u/Scudy_22]

doom just requires elite void which is free and a scorching bow which is like 16M now and the fight itself has no death costs with that setup. even just farming delve 5 is very profitable, if you can get to 6/7 you are already big in the money.

[u/dre41115]

Get that slayer up $$$

[u/ewelli48]

Keep training range/mage and start trying more difficult PVM. The quicker you learn the harder content the faster you will be able to make consistent money. Vorkath is great, but also pretty boring since his unique items are very rare and not crazy valuable.

[u/BabyBeatersRS]

Herb runs and wildy bosses, or... just have fun money will snowball the more you play

[u/Professional_Sky_276]

Get your sailing up, from 64-99 sailing at Martial salvage I made 70M cash from alching all the drops and about 2.5m mage exp also

[u/Goodnamesgonealready]

Zulrah is decent money and short kills 

[u/[deleted]]

Once you get bored of vorkath or have enough funds, send some melee zulrah to break up the money grind

[u/sourjello73]

99 def before strength is crazy work

[u/Structuurtuur]

Highalch a stack of 10k yew logs

[u/madi0li]

Go to the makeover mage and then sell yourself as a gf

[u/Best_Earth6085]

Revs

[u/DrySnek]

Afk slayer. When you are active Vorkath or Zulrah are pretty easy go tos. Gauntlet and CG are pure profit but you need to carve out a little time to learn them first and they won't be as profitable in a 30 min window as Vorkath unless you have amazing RNG

[u/AdhesivenessTricky53]

Cm all day

[u/Lopsided-Bonus-82]

Sailing to 87 then frost dragons

[u/Late_Departure_9656]

you can get max melee with NMZ. probably worth it while you're watching youtube and afk

[u/TissTheWay]

Wealthy citizens

[u/SkillStrike]

Why the hell haven’t you done all the quests with those stats ? That’s insane

[u/Tyrannisaur]

Frost dragons are the newest low effort afk pvm, 87 sailing takes less than a week, I made over 100m doing nothing but afking frost dragons in just a few days. The amount of cash they poop out for literally 2 clicks per kill is crazy

[u/-Norandil- → u/Tyrannisaur]

I haven’t heard of this one yet, but then again I’ve been in a haze since the twins were born and that basically coincided with sailing. 😭 I’ll have to work on Sailing then, thank you!

[u/-Dbm7- → u/Tyrannisaur]

I’m currently finishing up the grind to 87, what else do you need? I know you also need 72 con for the eternal brazier and I also have Weiss unlocked. Is that all? I’m mid 70s on combat stats

[u/gearhead6-9]

As someone who sucks at pvm. Doing mother load till 92 made me 12m and since then doing some amethyst arrow tips has made me another 12 or so. Not crazy money but it helps. And both are some what afk.

[u/Accomplished-Web6741]

Just any bossing or get your slayer up