Author: Esther Wade

OSRS Flipping Guide

Have you ever come across players at the Grand Exchange stating how they made money off Flipping? Well, that’s precisely what we are here to talk about today. Flipping is the process of purchasing an item at a low price and then selling it back at a higher.

It might be one of the most misunderstood money-making methods in the game. So, we’ve decided to make an item guide for players who are walking this path with the amount they have. Let’s start!

Runes

Runes are one of the most popular items to flip at the Grand Exchange. The most common ones are Air, Water, Fire, and Earth which sell for a relatively low price and have a tight buy/sell margin.

If an item has a tight margin, it becomes difficult to get profit from it. For instance, if you purchase 1,000 Water Runes at 20 GP each (just an example), and the highest you can sell them for is 21 or 22 GP, then you’re only making a 1-2 GP profit from each rune.

That’s why you should consider flipping Runes like Law, Nature, and Chaos which have a higher price and better margin.

Logs

Logs have a huge market at the Grand Exchange as players from different worlds are (even at present) trying to level up their Fire Making and Fletching. They honestly can’t be bothered to cut the logs themselves.

Due to the high volume of trades, the prices fluctuate on a greater scale, which is a good thing for you. Considering flipping Willows, Yews, and Magic Logs, and if you’re a member, you can go for Maple Logs too.

You won’t instantly get rich from flipping Logs, but the profit is 100% and it’s quick. Do remember that patience is the key. You can always pull out and try again in a few days.

Rings

Rings are higher-tier items with a significant value. You can always take a risk with your OSRS GP and try flipping rings for a change. For instance, Ring of the Gods and Ring of Nature has a wide variable margin, allowing you to make about 1 to 1.2M, but only if you know ways around the market.

We do recommend starting with low-priced items and then moving further because some items have a tight margin, thus decreasing the chances of good profit. A good example would be the Ring of Coins.

Armors

Armors have drastically declined in value since their release causing players to continue to play with customized sets instead. With that said, Armor Sets are actually popular among the flippers and sell pretty well.

However, it all depends on the item you go for. For instance, you can check out trimmed sets like Rune (G) or Bandos (G) sets, or consider flipping Monk Robes as they’re pretty good too.

Basics

No matter what happens, players always purchase base OSRS items, such as Arrows, Pickaxes, Axes, Armor Sets, and Scimitars for skilling purposes. They have an entirely different market at the Grand Exchange, at least from what we’ve previously listed in this guide.

Think of it as a real-life stock market, where you have to keep an eye out on the highest-volume item consistently. Look at the graphs from 6 months ago and compare them with what the price is right now.

For instance, if arrows are down 1-2 RSGP from what they were a few months back, then it’s a good time to enter the game. Also, these items are what you buy in huge stacks to increase the profit margin.

Capes

Capes go well with almost anything. It’s like if you don’t have a cape in OSRS, your character is butt-naked. Jokes apart, if you’re flipping regular Team capes, you’ll have noticed that there’s no rhyme to when the prices will fall or increase.

You never know when a clan comes up and says “Hey, let’s all wear Team 47 capes and head for battle, or simply roam around OSRS”. You can always purchase and add a pile of Team Capes for future profit.

Conclusion

We hope that you’re now pointed in the right direction as to whether you want to get into flipping or not. Truth be told, it’s not for everyone because there are lots of risk-takers out there manipulating prices on the go. Anyhow, we wish you the best of luck!

How to Make Your First $100,000 on Runescape

Even if you already have your starting cash you should read this section! It tells you how to make over 100k per hour easily with no skills required (although a higher woodcutting level may help).

If you are a member you can start making 100k+ per hour right away. All you need is a level one fletching and a knife. Keep the knife in your inventory and go cut normal trees. It took me two minutes to get a full load of trees and less then one minute to make them into arrow shafts. So for me, it takes me three minutes to do each round of logs into arrow shafts. You can do about 100 rounds per hour, which will be 540 logs cut into 8,100 arrow shafts. Shafts currently sell for 10 to 15 coins each (that turns the 8100 arrow shafts into 121.5K!) As you can see, you can easily make 100K plus per hour doing this. Once you get your first 100K and you wish to continue making money through arrow shafts then I suggest you get people to sell you the logs at 10 gp each. A good place to hire log cutters are the free world banks. You can pay them 10 to 25 gp per log and still make a good profit.

Another good way to make money is to buy the logs and sell to members without fletching them for 100 gp each. Note this is nearly impossible for non-member players unless they check and read the member forums often. I suggest you get about ten workers cutting you one hundred logs every ten minutes. That is 1000 normal logs every ten minutes and all you need to spend is 10k – 25k to sell for 100k. That is an 80K or 90K profit for 10 minutes of doing nothing!

If you are a member and you wish to make 180k+ an hour then all you have to do is run nature runes. It takes no skill and it takes about three minutes time per run. That makes twenty loads per hour. Twenty loads of twenty-seven nature runes are equal to 540 nature runes per hour (or 189K). You can check the Runescape forums if you need to find people hiring runners. If you were to sell the nature runes for 400 each it makes 219K an hour. This is twice the price of yews and is done in half the time as a full load of yew logs. That is why yew logs are NOT a good way to make money.

These are all great ways to become a member, plus the usual skill benefits, quests and everything else that Jagex uses to attract you to the member game.

Now, if you are a free player the quickest and most efficient way of making your first 100K is killing chickens (yes, chickens!). Kill the chickens and collect the feathers, it actually makes a great business for low level players to make money. Every chicken you kill will drop 5 to 15 feathers, which can sell for 10 to 15 GP each. So, that is 50 – 255 gold coins for each chicken that you kill. Below is the list of the possible income for each chicke killed

5 feathers = 50 – 75 gold
10 feathers = 100 – 150 gold
15 feathers = 150 – 225 gold

You can easily get 10K feathers in five hours of work. Once you have 10K feathers you can sell them by looking for a buyer in the Runescape member forums. You should get somewhere between 100K to 150K for your 10K feathers. You could also shear sheep until you get 1000 balls of wool (which do sell high if in bulk). Get at least 1000 wool if you choose this route. This takes a long time to do so I recommend that you kill chickens instead. There is also an option to buy the feathers from other players for 1 – 3 GP each. A lot of people will easily sell for that price. Once you reach 10K feathers sell them in the same way I mentioned above.

For the higher-level free players I suggest you mine iron ore until you have 1000 of them. These will sell for 100 gp each and will make you 100k easy. You could also fish and cook lobsters until you have 500 of them and then sell for 200 each (100K). Now that you have your first 100K (or your starting money) then you can start really making a profit.

The Ninja RPG: Leveling Up Your Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, and Genjutsu Stats!

Perfecting your stats in the Ninja RPG are a must, and not always easy. Each time you level up a specific offense or defense you will gain extra Chakra or Stamina, if you level up Genjutsu or Ninjutsu then you’ll add extra amounts of Chakra to your pool, if you level up Taijutsu you’ll add stamina, and Weapon will add to both. So that being said, how do you effectively level up any one specific strength or defense?

You only want to have one offensive focus, this is very important. Whatever you choose as your offensive focus, you’ll have to make up for the gain to that particular pool by leveling up your defenses. For example, lets say you want to become a Taijutsu master. That’s great, but you’ll have to work hard to make sure your Chakra stays up to par so you can use specific jutsu relating to your Tai attacks. This means you’ll have to really level up your Gen and Ninjutsu defensive skills. So by working on leveling up a Taijutsu offense, and leveling up a Genjutsu and Ninjutsu defense you’ll keep your pool balanced.

The same is true if you choose a Chakra bases attribute like Genjutsu or Ninjutsu as your primary offense. If this is the case you’ll need to focus more on leveling up your Taijutsu defense to compensate for the lack in Stamina gain. This can prove a bit difficult because where there are two Charkra building skills, there is only one Stamina building skill, and thus making it harder to maintain even pools.

No matter what you do you’ll end up getting your Chakra and Stamina out of balance one way or another, and that’s okay, but you’ll need to compensate. This is where Weapon defense comes into play. A lot of ninja in the Ninja RPG have chosen to become Weapon Masters. There are a lot of advantages to this path, but that’s beside the point, you need to be ready to face them by having a very high Weapon Defense.

By leveling your weapon defense you’ll evenly split your stamina and chakra gain between the two pools. This will ensure an overall gain no matter what specific skill you’re looking to improve upon. This is also very effective because Weapon attacks care every powerful and those who are Weapon Masters will have an abundance of strength. That’s why it’s always a really good idea to keep your weapon defense above all other defenses.

Remember to use all your Chakra and Stamina as often as possible because the more you use it the more you gain overall. Using Chakra and Stamina will also gain you much needed experience that will allow you to advance levels quickly. A ninja in this game will be most effective when he or she is able to go for a prolonged period of time, like around 8 hours, and not have replenished their Stamina and Chakra pools. This is because you would level up your stats, go to sleep, work, or school and then come home and then level up again without any wasted time.

One last tip as to leveling up stats is to buy a house as soon as possible. The Large home is a good idea because it’s not terribly expensive, and adds +10 to your regeneration. This is so important to getting your ninjas stats back to full quickly. So with a good home, and large pools of both Chakra and Stamina you should have no problem leveling up your stats and be yet another step closer to your ultimate goal, wither it be Hokage, or worlds most feared Outlaw!

Breaking Down the Character Alignment System: Neutral Evil

Neutral evil characters are the sort who will do whatever serves their own best interests. As far as they are concerned, that is all that matters. It doesn’t matter what they need to do in order to do it, that’s what will be done.

Interestingly enough, it’s this alignment that gets dubbed as “true evil”. Whereas you would think that “chaotic evil” would take that spot. I suppose it’s similar to how “neutral good” could arguably be seen as “true good” as opposed to “lawful good”.

The flavors of neutral evil characters vary. Some are just egomaniacs who see themselves as above any sense of morals or laws (though they will often use said laws when it suits them to do so). Others are just amoral. They aren’t malicious, they just don’t care one way or the other. You can also come across more actively evil characters who still work to serve their own interests, but know full well that what they are doing is wrong and choose to do it anyway.

Both Marvel and DC Comics have major villains that fall under this category in Wilson Fisk (aka The Kingpin) and Lex Luthor. Both are corrupt businessmen who do what they need to in order to get more power. They will break the law without remorse, but they will also manipulate that same law in order to get out of trouble.

Spider-Man’s nemesis, the Green Goblin, also fits this bill as the Goblin persona often makes a point to do things that will improve Norman’s status. Of course, Norman isn’t the most moral of people on a good day, but that element of his fractured psyche takes it to a whole new level.

Another excellent example of a neutral evil is Alex Krycek from The X-Files. He worked with and betrayed just about everyone in the show over the course of the series depending on what his goals were at that time.

South Park’s Eric Cartman is also a pretty solid example of a neutral evil character. He uses chaotic elements as well as more lawful elements on a whim in order to manipulate people into helping him accomplish his goals.

In a more general sense, a lot of hit-men and con men fall under this category as they generally do what they do for profit and make a point to say that it’s only business.

Neutral evil is a tough alignment to maintain in a tabletop group as other members are often heroic people doing heroic things. As such, it becomes tough to figure out a way to maintain the alliance with the group without becoming too heroic.

They can make for compelling characters, though. Even if it is tough to pull off in role playing, they are fun to watch or read about.

World of Warcraft: How to Make a Fire Mage

Talent Tree: The Talent Tree is what makes each mage special in a certain area. In order to be a fire mage, you will have most, if not all, of your talent points in the fire tree. It is very important to make sure you know what you are doing while inserting these points. Make sure you are aware of what each talent does and that those talents will be useful while you are casting and trying to burn someone alive. If you end up making a mistake and want to adjust your talent points, it will cost gold. This cost can range from a simple 10 gold charge to a hefty penalty of 200 gold. If you want, you can pay 1000 gold to have dual talents that you can simply switch back and forth from. When people do this, they usually have one PVP type talent tree set up and one PVE Talent tree set up.

Now in order to be a fire mage you will need to even out your talents within fire and the other two trees. Follow this easy guide and you will be burning enemies into ash.

Fire Mage Talents:

Fire – The main target is to get the most damage you can out of your fire spells as fast as you can. Using scorch will help you get some fast critical hits and damage on your enemies and if you put points into improved scorch, you will add a critical chance strike on each enemy. Make sure to acquire the spells Pyroblast, Blastwave, Combustion, Dragons Breath, and Living Bomb. These are in your fire talent tree and will improve the amount of damage you can do in a single battle.

Arcane – The best fire mages have anywhere from 10-20 points in their Arcane talent tree. The most important talent to acquire in this tree is the Arcane Concentration. This enables you to have a mana free cast from time to time. If you can get to the Spell Impact talent it will increase the damage done by some of your fire spells as well.

Frost – This talent tree can be very useful to some fire mages. I, however, choose not to use it. Some fire mages use it for the Icy Veins talent. This talent allows you to cast spells faster and doesn’t allow any damage taken to impact the casting time of your spells.

Glyphs: Glyphs are a new part of World of Warcraft. They can be added to give you special aspects that will improve your spells or your overall characters ability. The two major glyphs that the fire mage will need are the Glyph of evocation and the Glyph of Scorch. The Glyph of Evocation will heal your health while regenerating your mana. The Glyph of scorch will stack scorches ability five times per one cast, which makes it very useful in PVP battles.

I used www.worldofwarcraft.com to make my characters talent tree. This talent tree can be found at THIS link.. Feel free to use or adjust as you like.