How To Make Money On Runescape

Things are very different than they used to be, and on February the first the wilderness, free trade and staking has all returned.  This has completely changed the methods of money making that previously existed, and the game runs in a far less linear fashion.

Making big money in the last few years has been down to one thing and one thing only - merchanting.  I'm not talking about the suckers that the merchanting clans use to buy up the items they're selling, I'm talking about the leaders or high up members within the clans which are making a lot of gold.  For most people however there isn't the opportunity to rise within these clans or even create them.  This is why it's far better now because if you've got a brain in your head you can get to the top without reliance on levels, already being rich or having powerful friends - although they all do help of course.

So if you want to make big money then it's time to employ a few smarter methods if you want to be rich.  Cutting magic logs or fishing sharks may mean you become moderately wealthy if you do it long enough, but you'll never be rich.  Fishing shark is like being the manager of an office, sure you have a decent salary and a nice house but you're never going to have the latest Mercedes now are you?  The majority of people stick by the rules and do what they know or think they know.  But it doesn't take a genius to figure out that if you keep doing the same thing you'll end up with the same results.  People chopping logs complain about being poor, but I see them day after day at that same old tree.

Now I could sit here and talk about pking, staking, merchanting and luring until the cows came home but you'd learn very little.  Pking is like a sport, and you don't get good at sport just by reading up on it, you have to actually do it.  But the big barrier stopping people trying all of these types of things are that they're seen as risky, and of course they are.  But what you have to remember is that to get good at these types of activites you need to lose at first.  Here's the break of point, a lot of people try pking/staking/merchanting/luring the difference is that most people try it, die multiple times to the good players, don't learn from their mistakes and quit and go back to what they've always done and receive the same results.  These people, these quitters make up the majority of players - the other type of people persever and eventually become the people killing the beginners - which do you want to be?

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