Runescape Classic guide to start earning money

As rsc is about to re-open again, many of you are maybe wondering, how can I make money, starting from scratch?
Well it's not too hard, but does take quite a bit more patience than it does in rs2.

Runescape Classic guide for Collecting:

Many items on rsc, don't require any skilling, or killing at all. All you need to do is pick them up. A few things in rsc that you can gather to make a bit of money is:

Flax
Snape grass*
White Berries*
Vials
Eye of newt

All you need to do is pick them up, and walk them over to a bank, then just find a buyer who wants those items, and negotiate prices with them. It's a good way to start out.

*These are dangerous to gather, and may require some combat, with blue dragons, hobgoblins, or red dragons. Be careful when gathering these as you may need food.

Runescape Classic guide for Skilling:

There's a wide range of skills to gain money in rsc as well. I'll go over a few methods of skilling that are quite profitable.

Runescape Classic Mining guide - start out with a bronze pick axe, and mine some tin, or copper. Do this to about level 15 mining, when you can mine iron. Once you're done mining iron, go to draynor and get them changed into certs for easier selling. At 30 you can start mining coal, which are around 500-1k per cert. 55 for mithril, then 70 for adamantite. The real reward starts at 85 when you can mine rune, which from my knowledge there are only 2 rocks in rsc at red spiders.

Runescape Classic Smithing guide - If you choose to keep your ores, you could make bars and sell the bars, or use the bars to raise your smithing to make higher level items. A good item to smith are Steel Plates, which require 48 smithing, and high alch for 1200 ea. Once you hit 88 smithing you can make addy plates, then 99 for rune plates. Also you could just smith bars and sell them for a nice profit as well.

Runescape Classic Herblaw guide - Making potions from herblaw is also a good way to make money. Once you hit 65 herblaw you can start making super sets, which you can sell to pkers / stakers for 50-80k for a set. This one may take a bit longer, as you would have to either collect the herbs yourself or buy them to get to the higher levels.

Runescape Classic Woodcutting / fletching guide - If you're the woodcutting enthusiast, you could start out by cutting regular trees and making arrow shafts until 15 wc, then you can do willows until 30 or higher, (30 for cutting willows). Fletching will come in handy, as you can make bows / arrows. You can start out with fletching arrow shafts, until you can make oak longbows, and just sell those to the general store. It's not advised to start high alching bows until magic longbow, as nature rune prices won't yield as much profit if high alching yew longbows. If you don't fletch the logs, you could always cert them, and find someone who would like to buy the logs from you.

Runescape Classic Thieving guide - Thieving can produce quite a bit of profit at mid level, start off with pickpocketing men. It starts out slow, but once you get to about 40 when you can pickpocket guards it speeds up. At 55 you can pickpocket knights until 59. After 59 you can go north of ardougne to thieve the blood rune chest, which gives 2 bloods per thieve, (blood runes are 1-2k ea). At 75 you could also pickpocket paladins, which give 2 chaos runes and coins.

Runescape Classic Fishing / cooking guide - Fishing is a good way to start as well. Just grab a net, and fish shrimp up until you can start fishing trout and salmon, then just buy bait and feathers, also a fishing and flyfishing rod. You can decide to cook them, or just leave them to drop. Once you hit 40 fishing however, you can start catching lobsters and then certing them. Lobsters are useful for people who are training combat, and also stakers for healing up after a stake. I advise to just fish lobster up until 76 fishing, when you can fish shark. Shark will yield bigger profit, and if you can cook them, then you can sell them to anyone who pks or goes after higher level monsters that require faster healing.

Runescape Classic guide for Combat

Combat can also create some ways to make money.

Chickens - Great for starters, kill chickens to collect feathers and sell them to other people, may not be worth much but it stacks up fairly quickly.

Cows - Another great one for beginners, collect the cow hides and either get them tanned into leather in al kharid, or just sell the hides. You will also gain some decent stats to start killing higher level monsters as well.

Chaos Druids - These drop unidentified herbs, which almost everyone goes after. Herbs are crucial for leveling herblaw so they're in high demand. There are chaos druids in the edgeville dungeon, past the wilderness gate, and also at taverly and yanille dungeons. Chaos druid warriors also drop herbs and are located in the yanille dungeon (requires agility)

Hobgoblin / Giants - Hobgoblins and giants all drop limpwurt roots, which are used for strength and super strength potions. They also drop herbs, and half keys. Giants also drop big bones, which are useful for prayer.

Runescape Classic Tips

You can always ask other players, if they need anything gathered. This is a good opportunity to make money, as people are usually busy doing other things and don't have time to gather things such as secondaries for herblaw, or flax etc.

Original guide by; NkryptionD

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