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Posted: August 8, 2008 12:27 am  | |||||
      IRC Nickname: Wayne|Eregion2 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3087 Member No.: 156 Joined: January 25, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8    | Not many people put up with farming consistently, so this is almost a GUARANTEED profit. You'll need a decent farming level (+50 minimum) and ways to get to the four herb patches. I use: Ardounge Teleport, Camelot Teleport, Glory Amulet and Ectophial (from the Ghosts Ahoy quest). Magic Secateurs from the Fairy Tale pt.1 quest are also awesome, since they give you +1 herb per harvest (not sure if that's official but I'm convinced). You'll also need the basics like a spade, rake, seed dibber and SUPER compost.  I suggest that you have 15-30 levels ABOVE the requirement to grow a herb before you invest too heavily in this. As an example, I usually have a death rate among Snapdragons of 12.5-25% at +20 the required level. That isn't too bad, and I've been growing them consistently for quite awhile. In comparison, I haven't had a ranarr die on me in eons with +50 the required level, so the more you've got the better off you are.  The income range allows for up to a 25% death rate for what you plant, which should be unlikely unless you're planting something within 10 levels of your current farming level. Be careful though. I usually buy the herbs in lots of 20, so that's where that last column comes from. I usually start at the Morytania patch, then go to Catherby and bank. From there I hit Ardounge and then Draynor, which gives me bank stops after every two plants. Basically this is a plant-and-forget system, go back after about two hours and harvest them up. If you're really into it like I was a few months ago you can do a cycle in the morning, then two to four more in the afternoon/evening, which can get you up to 20 plants a day. If you're more laid back you can still get 8-12 pretty easily though, and the cycles don't take more than a few minutes. Just a note on the minimum-maximum income ranges. If you're conservative, and want to make sure you get a solid profit even if there's a higher death percentage, you should plant something like kwuarms that have a high minimum income range but a lower maximum income range. If you're not worried about your plants dying as much, you can take on something riskier like snapdragons. Estimates are pasted on a 7.5 herb-yield per plant, which is consistent for me over 150 plants. This is what I got from my last 20 ranarrs, not counting the 422k in seed costs:  So there you have it. Between this, barrows, and another method I'll probably be posting about in a few days, I paid off 99 smithing and now have close to 24m in cash sitting in my bank awaiting the Skill Olympics. If you try this out, good luck! Just be conservative at first I don't want anyone pissed off at me if they lose like 500k.  --------------------  | ||||
Posted: August 8, 2008 12:37 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Mickey Group: Emeritus Posts: 5305 Member No.: 48 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 282 | Wow nice! I'm doing fishing Atm, might get 99, not sure. Need support though. When I seen the title I was like "Omg Liam will be happy, there's a dealer in WG!"  --------------------    | ||||
Posted: August 8, 2008 12:38 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Sithofwookie Group: Ex-Member Posts: 2842 Member No.: 815 Joined: June 11, 2008 Total Events Attended: 48 | Very good guide, I am about to start farming soon, want to get lvl 70 so i will pro;;y farm rannars --------------------  | ||||
Posted: August 8, 2008 12:42 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Havochaha Group: Ex-Member Posts: 2257 Member No.: 106 Joined: January 5, 2008 Total Events Attended: 113 | not bad but u gotta find out if that magic secatuers work -------------------- Havochaha Perm Banned Oct 1st 2009 Havochaha Unbanned February 13th 2011  http://www.erepublik.com/en/referrer/Omar+Dandan How to Make 10m an Hour | ||||
Posted: August 8, 2008 01:12 am | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Wayne|Eregion2 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3087 Member No.: 156 Joined: January 25, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8 | I've never gotten less than 5 herbs with them in well over 100 plants, so as far as I'm concerned they work.  If you're looking at leveling farming, I used the income from herbs to pay for trees as well. It definitely speeds up the process. -------------------- | ||||
Posted: August 8, 2008 01:28 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: bto Group: Emeritus Posts: 3815 Member No.: 196 Joined: February 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 332 | Oh nice. Tabs + pete said something about this, and I've been trying this out -------------------- bto  Ex-WG Warlord  "It is our direction, not our intentions, that lead us to our destinations." | ||||
Posted: August 9, 2008 05:14 am | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Banned Posts: 2447 Member No.: 114 Joined: January 8, 2008 Total Events Attended: 149 | There are alternate ways of doing it. Both Pete and I prefer to farm on Lunar magics. You use the fishing guild teleport for the Ardy patch, and the Catherby tele for that one. You do need 87 mage for the Catherby teleport. You can cast Fertile soil, which saves on supercompost, and gives mage exp. Also, invest in marigold seeds. If you are doing just herbs, go ahead and plant a marigold. The seeds are cheap, less than 100 gp. At this exact moment of posting this...
The part I want you to see? Marigolds: 3,430gp - 3,791gp From something that costs less than 100 gp, you get so much back. EVEN IF HALF OF THEM DIE, you get so much more profit. Just stick them on GE for medium price. First important tip: Always, ALWAYS use super compost with herbs. Second tip: Always pay the farmer. You can't with herbs and flowers though... But almost everything else you can. -------------------- | ||||
Posted: August 9, 2008 05:42 am | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Wayne|Eregion2 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3087 Member No.: 156 Joined: January 25, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8 | Wow, I didn't know about marigolds. That's insane. -------------------- | ||||
Posted: August 10, 2008 09:16 pm | |||||
| IRC Nickname: bto Group: Emeritus Posts: 3815 Member No.: 196 Joined: February 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 332 | Tried this out with ranarrs Took me about 3 days of work, maybe like 10 minutes per trip. I didnt really do them every 2 hours, just when I was free: I was 59 farming, last patch got me 60 farming First number - Seed number Second number - Crop yield All of these were just grown with super compost and forgotten. Used magic sectaurs: 1: 6 2: dead 3: 5 4: 5 5: dead 6:7 7:7 8:dead 9: 10 10: 8 11:9 12:6 13:5 14:6 15:12 16:6 17:5 18:6 19:dead 20:6 21:7 22:7 23:6 24:7 25:9 26:7 27:7 28:5 29:8 30:5 =177 ranarrs Rounding ranarrs to 6k each, that gets me 1,062,000 gp at the cost of about 600k I use these teleports: Fishing guild teleport (Ardy patch) Explorer ring - Cabbage teleport (Fally patch) Catherby teleport (Catherby patch) Ecophial Good guide, again -------------------- bto Ex-WG Warlord "It is our direction, not our intentions, that lead us to our destinations." | ||||
Posted: August 10, 2008 11:26 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Gorgemaster Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9840 Member No.: 3 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 540 | I think I should just mention. The herb patch at Troll Stronghold on the top floor (roof) is disease free even without super or normal compost. Seeds cannot die there! I think you need to do my arms big adventure for access to it. --------------------    | ||||
Posted: August 11, 2008 12:39 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: ``Pete Group: Banned Posts: 913 Member No.: 775 Joined: June 6, 2008 Total Events Attended: 49 |
I tend to use limp seeds, you get alot more farming exp but not as much profits. I normally only do marrigolds when you make me  Lol But yeah, i'd say the Lunar magic way of farming is better. But that's just me. ^-^ Start off with ectophial tele Then fishy guild tele Bank at draynor (using glory) go to the cabbage patch farming area. Then lastly tele to Catherby. This way of farming you need runes 1 trip = 30 astrals, 20 natures, 10 law (I think) However you must have a mudd battlestaff/mystic staff for the infinate Earth/Water. Snap seeds are much better to farm aswell, get more exp in both Farming and Herblore, and a larger profit all-round, besides i think the seconds for super restore is cheaper than the seconds for pray pots.  reading this thread reminded me i need to start farming again. XD *nudges Tabs* c'mon you we good farm -------------------- Mikel Arteta  Tim CahillNothing But The Best | ||||
Posted: August 11, 2008 12:59 am | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Banned Posts: 2447 Member No.: 114 Joined: January 8, 2008 Total Events Attended: 149 |
You're right... I'm running low on toadflax.  -------------------- | ||||
Posted: August 11, 2008 01:54 am | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Wayne|Eregion2 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3087 Member No.: 156 Joined: January 25, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8 | The reason I'm not doing snaps is because they still die on me a little too often, so I actually make more off ranarrs. I'll have to look into lunars... -------------------- | ||||
Posted: August 20, 2008 08:24 pm | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Wayne|Eregion2 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3087 Member No.: 156 Joined: January 25, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8 | Just an update on the last 45 seeds if anyone's interested in exact statistics.  Four first plots are ranarrs, the fifth plot is Trollheim where I started putting in Snapdragons. I've already deducted the cost of each seed, then totaled the profit by column and then by the total after every five cycles. "---" in one of the plot rows is a death. -------------------- | ||||
Posted: August 20, 2008 09:59 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Kiwi011 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3052 Member No.: 40 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 21 | selling weed 3k an ounce. --------------------  | ||||
Posted: September 3, 2008 03:28 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: rachellove Group: Council Posts: 6955 Member No.: 173 Joined: January 31, 2008 Total Events Attended: 305 | The only problem with the disease free patch is you only get set number of herbs with no chance of extras. The septars I've read somewhere give 20%. But I could not find it again to link you sorry. I think I will start farming again occassionally. --------------------  Thank you Garrett and Dallar. “The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” ~~Colin Powell ~~  | ||||
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