Summoning is mainly a support skill that helps you earn money in other activities, but there are a couple of methods that use Summoning itself to earn money directly. One of these is using a spirit spider familiar, whose special move generates 1 to 5 red spiders' eggs on the ground around the player. What's particularly unique about this is that the familiar only requires level 10 Summoning, and there are no other requirements at all for the technique -- you need no special equipment, no other skill levels and no quests. So this is a prime way to earn money for very new players, even ones who have been playing for only a couple of hours!
You can do this right at a bank, so even low Agility doesn't matter, but there are two "gotchas". First, it doesn't work properly indoors, and second, the eggs spawn on the ground, so if there are "noobs" around they can pick them up if you aren't able to pick them up fast enough. I found a nice solution, though: the bank at Bounty Hunter. You can teleport to it quickly using a games necklace and on a quiet world it is nearly deserted.
At mid levels you also have some other "quiet bank" options -- Burgh de Rott would be good to try, for example. At high levels I like Oo'glog, since it is even more deserted than the Bounty Hunter bank and only higher level people tend to be there (who generally leave you alone), but Bounty Hunter is still the most convenient.
Note that other than choice of banks to use, there's no benefit to higher levels with this method. |
All information based on Grand Exchange price data from: May 20, 2012. Note that the three-day delay in price updates is waived for RuneScoop members. 