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Explanation of Skill Optimization Guide Activity Index Pages Caveats on Prices, Profits, Buying and Selling

Many skills have few equipment requirements: they often need just a couple of tools. But others have more complex equipment and supply needs, or cases where better equipment and supplies can make training better. So I had some decisions to make in selecting items for my tests.

I had two primary rules to guide me when I was choosing equipment. First, I wanted to pick gear that was typical and appropriate for each level of player. Second, I tried to bear in mind that many people don’t have the money needed for very fancy or rare gear.

Accordingly, I made the following assumptions and decisions in choosing items for my methods:

• Level Appropriateness: I picked what I felt were fairly typical items for each level of player, using the standard assumption that most players level skills approximately evenly. I tried not to be too “religious” about this, because again, nobody levels skills exactly evenly, and I also had to stick to round figures to keep things from getting complicated. So, for example, in evaluating a level 30 Woodcutting activity, I’d assume use of an adamant hatchet (which requires level 31 in the skill—close enough!)
  
  
• Level Budget Appropriateness: A player with level 61 Mining can use a dragon pickaxe, but few characters with level 61 skills can afford one. So I tried to avoid using such expensive gear until higher levels.
  
  
• Avoidance of Barrows Armor: In cases where armor is needed while doing skills, I assumed the use of Barrows armor only where I felt it was necessary, because of Barrows repair costs.
  
  
• No Difficult-to-Obtain Untradeable Items: My methods generally are not dependent on the use of untradeable items that require many hours of time or completion of minigames to obtain.

The same general principles described above for equipment also apply to supplies, except that most of these do not have level requirements. In general, my goal was to find the least-costly supplies necessary to accomplish the task at hand.

Explanation of Skill Optimization Guide Activity Index Pages Caveats on Prices, Profits, Buying and Selling