Making Gold with Skills
 
Although merchanting and investing are fast ways to make gold, in some cases skills may even be faster. However, getting your skill levels high enough may cost time and money in the long run, whereas merchanting and investing can be done by just about any player. Although this guide was written primarily to help people with less experience in skills, this section will tell you how to best make gold off your skill levels.
 
When gathering resources with a gathering skill (such as woodcutting, when you are gathering logs), there's bound to be other players competing for the same resource. If this is the case, switch worlds or respawn locations if the other players hinder your progress enough.

Woodcutting
 
We'll start off with woodcutting. Woodcutting is one of my favorite skills to make gold on, simply because of how much demand there is for logs. Before level 35, train up on normal and oak trees. After level 35, one of the best ways to level up woodcutting is to chop willow trees in Draynor. Although this won't exactly make you a fortune, selling the willow logs is a good idea. If you're trying to raise other skills that require the logs, such as fletching, use them for that - the logs aren't all THAT valuable.
 
Once you reach level 70 woodcutting, you can begin chopping Yew trees. Although you could already do this at level 60, chopping Yews for gold is highly inefficient at that level. You can choose to keep training on Willow trees until Level 75, though, because Willow trees still yield the most experience at your level.
 
Level 70 is when the serious gold making begins. For non-members, my favorite place to chop is south of Falador, where there are three respawning trees. There's also a few in north Varrock and a few at the Edgeville entrance to the Edgeville dungeon. Members have some more choices. You can either chop the Yews in the Seers' Village, or go west of Catherby and use the many trees there.
 
Non-members can continue to chop Yew trees until 99. At that level, chopping the trees is efficient enough to make lots of profit - each log can sell for up to 400 gold in today's market. However, members have Magic logs as another option.
 
Once members reach woodcutting level 85, they can begin to efficiently chop Magic trees. Remember that cutting Yews results in faster money sometimes, because the Magic trees are often crowded. Try switching servers if you are stuck with a crowd or people. Cut Magic trees at the Mage training area, southwest of the Seers Village, southwest of Lletya, and outside the Sorcerer's Tower.
 
To best sell your logs, look at the Buying and Selling section of this guide. For maximum profit in the least amount of time, always sell in bulk of 1k or more, and for the best current price.

Smithing

Steel bars are in high demand in the Runescape market today, so it's a good idea to smith your own steel bars in order to sell them for a high price. However, instead of mining your own ores for this purpose, which can take quite a long time, buy the iron and coal from individual miners on small worlds for cheaper than the normal market price (I recommend buying at the Falador bank).

Make sure you buy the right proportion of coal and iron. For example, if you wanted to smith 1000 bars, you would need 2000 coal and 1000 iron.

After you smith all the steel bars, sell them for a higher price than you bought the iron and coal for. Use World 1 or World 2 Falador to sell the steel bars the fastest, and don't forget to keep an eye on the forums as well.

Combining Magic and Smithing

You can combine Magic and Smithing to make gold, too. If your Magic level is high enough to perform the High Alchemy spell, don't sell your steel bars. Instead, smith them into Steel Plate bodies and perform the High Alchemy spell on the plate bodies to make gold (be sure you have the necessary runes!). This is almost always faster than just selling the steel bars, but watch the market to see how to maximize your profit. Each Steel Plate mail yields 1,200 gold from High Alchemy.

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