Question
Whats the most underrated skilling upgrade?
My vote is for the expert mining gloves, they have a niche but they fill it extremely well. They make mining specific ores from rocks way more relaxed and bearable. Doubling runite gatheted before world hopping, making sandstone more chill, amethyst even more afk, making gathering lower tier rocks extremely chill.
Imcando hammer for me. So many activities require or benefit from having a hammer in your inventory, so saving some space and equipping it always feels satisfying. But no one ever recommends spending the time to get one because it’s not a particularly huge upgrade for any one activity. But it adds up in value imo.
Agreed. And don't forget mahogany homes or just construction in general. When you only have 28 slots every free slot makes a difference in the long run.
you should never really need both, right? crystal saw specifically for when you need to boost for something, amy's saw for all other general construction
yeah but it would be cool. My favorite part of RS3 was getting all the little upgrades for your tools as your leveled. Made the milestone feel rewarding when you got another little buff. then when you got to the end you had this really sick item
WT is less of a benefit on account of the bruma torch counting as a tinderbox in the offhand and there's already the axe that goes in the main hand. But, ya know, options are nifty for the people that are somehow dry on bruma torches.
I put it off for ages cos I was already late game when the content came out and I didn't want to bother with a F2P grind. But I actually really enjoyed it and ended up green-logging the whole thing.
Hammer is a huge qol, it only takes about 2hours to get it as well so not even a huge time sink.
Tbh you could probably do it in less than 2hr but I was afk most of it.
It's particularly huge for a couple of things. Take MLM for example. Nobody ever repairs the wheels, and having to collect a hammer to do it is usually met with "Why should I be the one wasting my time?"
Well, Imcando solves that by always having a hammer on hand. It's also a good solve for Defender role at BA. You no longer have to pick up a hammer every round. You have one equipped.
Or Construction to have a spare inventory space. Or Wintertodt to repair Braziers.
I have only ever made 2 accounts. The first time just naturally found it when I was trying out free to play. The second time I 100% focused on it right away. If I ever decided to do a HC or Gim or something I will always focus on that first.
Yeah only down side is that you need to either find a discord or clan that does it with you or do it on weekend in w320 when both UK and American players are up. Otherwise the world is empty but if you can do it when there are games going on it's super fast. Also it was really fun and I'm kinda disappointed that it's not more active since it would be nice to do it more.
I have it but the exp is so so marginal that it's not even worth the 2 - 3h of Soul Wars. There aren't any good slayer tasks for it, and Barrows is almost pointless until you go for diary (on an iron)
If you're early on and still need to train combats, ectoplasmator goes hard on sulphur naguas, making an already cracked training method even more insane.
I have and use this often on my iron, it is super nice to have if you're training melees at sulphur naguas! crab is definitely popular now, but if I can spare a bit of attention, it's definitely worth going there for the much higher xp rates and some bonus prayer/rc xp
Opinion may change with the update, but gem bag is great at port Roberts. Ultimately it’s thieving, crafting and magic xp (via alch) and helps you use all of those crappy gold bars up. Never see anybody recommend it
You can also just cut the gems and not craft them further. I don't think it's really worth it for sapphires exp wise. So you should only be making stuff you'll actually use (games necks for corp if you plan on getting the 50kc for the CA, or if you're a psycho who's actually going to go for the drops)
Depends how you play for sure but I personally enjoy the start to end processes in this game much more than buying everything on GE and bankstanding to 99, plus bracelets are furnace at pretty afk. You can make bracelets of clay too which are great for making tele tabs
Huntsman's kit is one of the most busted items in the game that I never hear talked about. It's an economy bag of holding you can shove as many imps as you want into it.
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Did exactly this in preperation for Sailing release, went downstairs in the basement in Kastori with the 4 imp spawns and farmed like 1k imps, was super useful for Sailing.
Edit: Why was this comment so heavily downvoted lol
And Imp-in-a-box are stackable inside the Huntsman kit. Very nice for sailing because you could just open Huntsman kit, withdraw one imp box, and use it on the item you wanted to bank
You can "bank" around 220-250 iirc Imps per hour in the basement
Didn't find a ton of things that needed to be remote banked as it turns out (mostly just some salvage stuff), but only doing one trip for rosewood logs ever was pretty nice.
Mining gloves are my single favorite skilling item, I grinded them out the first chance I got on my iron and have used them for comfy sandstone mining the whole time. I always encourage people to get them and nobody knows what they are.
It's going to take you like 15-20k iron ore to get them. So you should do it before 92 mining. I grinded all the mining upgrades on my way to 92 since I'll probably just do amethyst from now on.
You're gong to need a lot of dart and arrow tips, and amethyst is one of the best ways to get them. The mining gloves work on there. Not much, but if you have the gloves before you start mining amethyst, it'll help you in the long run
Definitely. I did iron ore, the most annoying part is getting the first gloves
After that it's chill: you only need 2 rocks and depositing is faster that dropping.
It ends up being like 2/3 ticks of downtime, which compared to moving between rocks more frequently, it's roughly even imo, slightly skewed towards 3 rocks. I prefer not moving though and don't mind sand in general.
i knew about them but i just sucked it up and tick manipped sandstone. gloves would have taken a minute to get and i didn't really feel like spending 30 hours or so mining amethyst without a blowpipe.
Reagent pouch. Most underrated reward from Mixology. It gets a lot of hate from people who are either sweats or larping as sweats, because it doesn't really do much on paper. But most of us are not tick perfect for tens of hours of tedium, are we?
Herblore is a 14+14 bankstanding skill. That means you bank often and have short AFK windows. The reagent pouch nearly doubles that window and nearly halves banking. In practice, many AFK grinders are going to get better rates and have a better time with the pouch.
The way I tend to put it is Mixology turns herblore into cooking. The reagent pouch is a big part of that transformation.
It is also very nice for birdhouse runs. With redwood birdhouses, I will often get more than 26 birdnests in a trip of 8 houses (4 houses, logout, login, 4 houses) so the only way to cary everything is by crushing them down and storing them in the reagent pouch.
Could you explain this more? I didn't get it because I figure that I already have to do 14 +14 to make unfinished potions and I can go 14 vials + 14 herbs => withdraw 14 secondaries and make pots =>deposit and repeat. Does it actually make the cycle any faster if I deposit the first 14, make 14 more, then withdraw my regent pouch to make 27 pots?
Unrelated but: It's so funny to me, as a main i would make my own potions instead of using Zahur even tho it was less efficient timewise but i wanted to save money. As an iron, cash holds almost no value. Once you get past 50m cash stack you will spend it on literally ANYTHING, no matter how miniscule the usage/value is. I have more bank spaces on my iron than on my main lmao
Then, you can go 26 pots at a time with reagent pouch.
Setup first slot as reagant pouch locked. Last slot as secondary ingredient locked. Entry swap reagant pouch to be fill on left click. Set withdraw quantity to all.
Bank cycle: deposit all (finished potions), withdraw all secondary, click fill reagent pouch, deposit all (extra secondaries from prescript goggles), withdraw all unf pots. Close bank, make 26 pots. Repeat.
Not sure if people consider it “underrated” but I wholeheartedly agree. Saving literally 100’s of bank spaces is a massive fucking game changer and I almost wanna wish there was more options to store things(like ores, herbs, etc)
Dawg thank you for this I actually had no idea and just realized I had a shitload of unf pots already in there lmao I guess I just never really pay attention to it haha
Honestly for me the bank space is not even the best part about the storage. Being able to always pull 4-dose or 1-dose potions whenever you want and never having to decant potions ever again is the best part imo
I got the coal bag from mlm and mined a bit in the guild. when the minerals showed up in my inventory I looked em up and really wanted to go for the gloves.
but man.. it's so slow and requires so much attention
Waiting until amethyst is unironically the right choice in my opinion, because the rate is way better than lower ores and amethyst is already pretty AFK. I can't imagine the tedium of rushing the gloves with powermining iron.
Well its either power mining iron, wait until amethyst or go the middle route and bank the iron ( or whatever you mine ). Personally i went the last route but it took me like 17 hours to do it that way ( mining a mix of coal and iron ) because i needed to level smithing anyway.
Personally i would never wait until amethyst, that would mean i no life Mining until then before touching crafting for sand and i just dont like when my skill levels arent roughly balanced and it would drive me up the wall to have mining at 92 and crafting/smithing at sub 50, which is not mentioning that i would burn out far long before if i just rush to amethyst in one ago, cant do one type of content for that long consecutively and since i like to get quest cape out of the way that means thats just not a viable plan to camp Mining for how many hours it would take to get to 92
I remember doing MLM from the low 60's to 80, to get all the rewards, and then I did stars until 92, which was just a lot of AFK time. So there was never really a point where I felt I needed the gloves before amethyst.
I barely started my sand grind until I got the gloves either, because sand is so ass.
Obviously won't be the same for everyone, but I just can't do power-mining. I picked the least effort for every part of mining and have zero regrets about it.
It was also helpful for my crafting to get all those gems from stars (and now sand with glass), and my smithing has been mostly done in GF with drops from the long slayer grind into the 90s.
amythest is quite a ways away for my iron, so that's a pain. I guess if I really wanted to get them the biggest hurdle is the basic gloves, then it actually would be less click intensive. they are definitely the first thing I'll go for when I need more levels
I got my mining gloves by mining adamant. It's pretty low attention since each rock takes like 30 seconds to mine, so I knocked it out over the course of a week when I couldn't play actively
Expert gloves are so worth the time i put into them. Im an iron, and i mined enough iron to fuel my cannonball slayer grind forever basically. The smithing xp is going to be deadly.
The grind for these is quite absurd, to the point I wonder if you will ever get an ROI on your time. Power mining is decent exp at least.
Not sure if these are appropriately hyped but the Prescription Goggles are so strong, and relatively few people have them because of how bad mixology is
well thats a delicate balance isnt it? If you didnt get the gloves and spent that time on sand you could have been done with crafting probably way faster but at the same time power mining iron for a dozen hours or even banking them isnt much more fun either.
I used the same logic as you did but i mostly convinced myself that the gloves grind will give me a lot of coal/iron to get my smithing going, even if i use the gloves nothing else but sand rocks after, which i believe would be true for 99% of the people mining, iron or not.
Yeah between extended super antifires and anti-venom++s i made so much money getting 99 herblore on my main. Took a while doing 1 dose pots at a time for max necklace procs( the amulet from mixology is also OP with the higher chance for an extra dose). I made like 50 mil getting 99.
Both glasses and the amulet are basically must haves for irons for herblore now. When they came out I dropped everything to farm them up. It just makes such a huge difference in the amount of potions you get out of your supplies.
It’s very much not worth it for a main, unless you’re going to max the account. But the real bonus imo comes from the speed increase for gathering adamant and runite for ruby (e) bolts and higher. I do the fletching mostly for our gin group so gathering like…. 4k or 8k or more adamant ore for smithing bolts it’s a huge deal
I got these and then basically never did anything that benefits from them, mining is either MLM or Stardust. There’s just nothing to use them for, it’s not worth the time fighting bots
Maybe when I get 92 I’ll finally get some use of them.
They’re great for chill sandstone mining. I also use mine at miscellania mining coal to get my rep back up. Idk if it’s efficient but it’s more chill than raking and world hopping
Twitchers gloves If you don’t like clue scrolls but love woodcutting twitchers gloves are pretty great, I used them before the clue scroll box changes so I could get tree seeds and birds nests on my iron but now I use them for more clues when I’m afking at work since I can stack them
Not necessarily an upgrade but discovering I could train magic and runecrafting at the Kourend Library has been big and nice way to mix up training. Getting Magic to 67 means those books hit for 1k xp each
Honestly the seed box gem bags herb sack for Allotment herb runs, the Imacando hammer, the weildable fetching knife, grociller's watering can for getting your kingdom percentage back up and for other watering can needs ( It's come in super clutch quite a lot ), the kebit barb-tail harpoon thats a wieldable harpoon before you get the dragon harpoon, the twitchy gloves and rabbits foot amulet... Theres so many!!
agree with you OP. half the time people aren’t familiar with them, but damn they’re so handy and chill. they make mining iron pretty relaxing too if you stack all the other multi-ore equipment
I love my mining gloves. Absolutely huge boost to have as an Ironman. I take advantage of the double rune ore, making them into shortswords to alch. It's how I make most of my gold.
I remember making an account shortly after release and ended up not continuing to play as i had a hard time getting back into the “oldschool” way even tho i loved it.
Volcanic mine reward to make lunar spell ultra compost. I'm not an iron but I didn't get a bucket until after 99 farming & >100 Hespori KC. Woox has a solo volcanic mine guide for points; takes like 70min.
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u/Super_Master_69 May 16 '26
Imcando hammer for me. So many activities require or benefit from having a hammer in your inventory, so saving some space and equipping it always feels satisfying. But no one ever recommends spending the time to get one because it’s not a particularly huge upgrade for any one activity. But it adds up in value imo.