by Philip Thomas

Created on: September 11, 2009

This is a guide on Runescape to make a lot of money for non members. Why do you need money? Well, for starters, you need money for basically, everything. Some skills require millions and millions of money if you want to get them to level 99 quickly. Some quests require a lot of money. Most items cost more than you can ever afford! Well, now you understand why you need them right?

There are three ways to earn money in my opinion. Number 1: Merchanting, Number 2 : Skills, and Number 3 : Hacking ( Definitely not recommended by me). I say that the best way is by Skilling. You can get your levels up to 99, maybe even to 200 million exp, and get loads of money! I will show you how to make money by skilling.

First off, you can make money by doing these skills: Combat, Mining, Smithing, Fishing, Cooking ( if you catch the food and not buy it ), Crafting ( if you get the materials rather than buying them ), Woodcutting, and finally Runecrafting ( if you mine the essences, you get better profit ).

I will be showing you the Woodcutting, Mining, and Fishing way.

Firstly woodcutting. This is quite easy. When you start the game, go chop the normal trees near the woodcutting tutor a bit north of where you started. Once you leveling up, buy better axes and continue chopping. Bank the logs and don't sell them at the general store. Once you reach level 15, start chopping oak trees. Keep banking and chopping. You will have to do Oak trees till level 60 if you want money. If you want better money very fast, then start chopping Willow trees near Draynor till you get to level 60. Once you reach level 60 go behind Varrock palace and start chopping the Yew trees there. You don't have to bank as the Grand Exchange is near. Just go there and sell the logs. Sell all the logs and then keep repeating. You will get the money in no time. I make millions in a week with this technique.

Now for Mining. Start off by mining up the copper and tin ore south of Lumbridge. Then bank and repeat. I suggest you mine only Copper as it gives more profit. Keep repeating until you are level 15 at which point you should sell all your ores and buy a better pick axe. Now go to Falador. Go a but East and then at the last house you see that is north, enter and go through the stairs. There are 5 Iron ores here. They are very fast and very good profit too. I suggest you stay here and mine Iron ore and bank them in the Falador bank. Repeat till level 30. Now you should mine coal at the same place and bank them. Then when you reach level 40 start mining Gold ores. You get a lot of profit from these beauties! Then when you reach level 55 start mining Mithril. Repeat. Keep banking and mining till level 70. Start mining Adamantite ore. Bank and repeat till level 85. Now mine Runite ores. They are the ultimate profit. Sell all the ores and then you are almost a billionaire.

Now for Fishing there is no tactic. Keep fishing till level 40. Now go to Karamja and start catching Lobsters. Then sell all of them till you are level 55. Now fish Swordfishes. These are very good. You will get millions.

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