As many of us probably know by now herblore is a losing money skill. But there's a small chance you can make a
small amount of money doing herblore. This has been tested but not formally looked at by me. By formally looked at, I didn't look at everything I just did one item. This might be just common sense for some but for others maybe it's a bust? You never know.
Now here's the method:
- Buy Grimy herbs for below mid.
- Clean
- Re-sell for above mid.
This might seem to some ludacris, and just a waste of time, but look at the math?
Grimy cadantine 1,136
Clean cadantine 1,256
That's an 80k profit for probably about an hours work. Not that good but let's look at the rest.
Dwarf Weed
Grimy dwarf weed 2,963
Clean dwarf weed 3,328
A solid 300k per hour profit at the very least.
Irit
Grimy irit 1,289
Clean irit 1,320
40k an hour is bad, but it's herblore exp.
Lantadyme
Grimy lantadyme 1,265
Clean lantadyme 1,337
70k+ an hour.
P.S.
I lol'd at the price of the Lantadyme
Snapdragon
Grimy snapdragon 6,849
Clean snapdragon 6,928
80k+ an hour.
By now it's getting pretty obvious that by buying for
less than mid and selling the clean herbs for
higher than mid, you get a lot more profit. And also it's just a guess that you can clean 1k. It takes one click for 1 herb, and takes about a second, but for the math let's just say you can clean one every 2 seconds.
60(mins in an hour.) * 60(seconds in a minute) = 3600(seconds in an hour)
3600(seconds in an hour) / 2(seconds for every herb) = 1800(herbs clicked every hour)
If I'm not mistaken that just about doubles all the values (approximate profits of cleaning herbs). 600k an hour from cleaning Dwarf Weed and getting the exp for it doesn't sound too bad for me. But of course you could also use an auto for this cleaning an herb every second making your total profit up to 1.2m an hour by cleaning Dwarf Weed. Or do it yourself, no matter. But remember
not to buy the Grimy for
above mid. Because if you do, this'll increase the price of the Grimy which will in the long run take away profit. I have another idea to this herblore skill and I'll post when I can.
Please tho, no people claiming they knew this and that they've been making money with this for months or blah blah blah. Why? Because if you knew this why did you not share? Some have "all bark no bite", so to speak.
All images and prices courtesy of JaGex. The prices are current as September 9, 2008. California time 10:43.
Fortune favors the bold.