So ye, finally reached my first 99 and can share some tips, which helped me.
Lets talk about this portable sawmills method.
Why this method?
Well its pretty fast and you can get 99 FOR FREE!
You get protean planks by making any kind of planks on the portable sawmill.
The trick is that protean plank works as any plank, but it is stackable = big advantage!
1st thing you want to know if you really want to use this method is "where are those sawmills?" and you can find that out by simply joining friends chat Portables FC. There you can ask where sawmills are and within few seconds you will get the answer.Sometimes no one is hosting sawmills so no worries just be patient and sooner or later someone will start hosting it.Here is the LINK to their forum thread where you can find some rules and useful information. Also if you are rich you can buy sawmills and host them by yourself and also share it with others of course. Price range for sawmills are around 40k-80k ea. Portable sawmills are originally obtained from treasure hunter.
Then you want to choose which logs you will be using. Personally i used oak logs like 90% of the time, because i didn't have a lot of extra gold, and oak planks keeps fairly stable profit.For example:
i buy 1k oak logs 250ea but i will sell only 940 planks because 6% of logs turns into protean planks so it will be 940 planks. To make 1k logs into planks i will spend 475k(log price and sawmill fee included), so if i sell 940 planks for 625ea i get (940*625=587500) then just take 587500-475000=112500 gold profit.
So yea better tier of logs faster gain of protean planks but lower the profit.
Chance to get protean planks and sawmill fee:
Oak logs - 6% sawmill fee 225
Teak logs - 8% sawmill fee 450
Mahogany logs -10% sawmill fee 1350
Just check plank and log price at official runescape website they have grand exchange tab very usefull to have that open and then just calculate and you will decide which log will suit your needs :)
So now you want to know "how many planks do i need to get my desired lvl?"
1 plank = 140xp. Find you your desired xp and then just divide it by 140.For example i needed 12,850,391 xp to reach 99. So 12850391/140=91788 < and here you go this is how many protean planks you need.
Also i would recommend using this method after you reached construction lvl 52, because from there you will be able to make mahogany tables which gives 840xp/ea.Also don't forget to have steel framed workbench in your house, this will let you make mahogany table flatpacks. Of course you can go to building mode, go to dining room and build and destroy that table by hand, but i think flatpacks are more stable xp because you don't have to be so focused on game and its more relaxing.
To not burn out on this i set my daily goal to get 6k protean planks because i can't stand doing same thing over and over again because things like that makes me want to quit games. So i took it slow but steady, sometimes i was making more than my daily goal, but i always made 6k at least. Other people just rush for the planks and then just burns out after nolifing 10+ hours and gains goes down.
But ye at the end of the day it is all about the fun if you don't feel fun just take a break and resume later because games is one of many things that should be fun. Have fun in achieving your runescape and irl goals and see you later! :)
