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SlR
Nov Member 2020

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Here's a thread that might help the devs, since they want to do something about phat prices.
How long did it take you to save up for your rare(s) ? santa/ween/phat etc.


What I did: Dailies (viswax, sandstone, runes), nets me about 3m, then I do a few Croesus for 2 pages (on average). That's how I saved up for my Santa. 365 days earning 10m daily.
- Low effort and very doable if you have the patience.

I think this information would be valuable to Jagex so they can get a better idea of the time or effort it takes to acquire a rare. Are they unobtainable to the average player? Personally, I think spending 1hr per day a year is a fair investment of time. What about you? Thoughts?

I've gone from zero to
Santa hat
twice in my RS 'journey'. Both times took me roughly a year. The first one I bought cost 250m, the second cost me 3.2b. These time periods were roughly 10 years apart. When I came back to the game, inflation had gone up, but so had everything else, so I feel like it took me the same amount of effort each time. Anyway, that's my story!

I'm curious if anyone has saved up for a phat from scratch and how long that took?
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05-Feb-2023 09:55:41 - Last edited on 05-Feb-2023 10:16:58 by SlR

Tuffty
Jan
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2003

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What an interesting thread.

I got all my rares by Fletching to 99 and beyond. Took around a year of fletching and high lvl alching bows Yew longs and Magic shorts.

2004/2005 was a great time for Me and rares lol. :P

I got full P-Hat set, 2 Disks, 2 Easters, 2 Santas 2 Pumpkins, 1 half wine and 2 mask sets all for 100m gp and change. In them days they were cheap. VERY cheap as in a mask set for 2-3m. Half wine for 4m. Pumpkins for 2-3m each. Santas 100k+ gp. The good old days.

I'm so happy I got my collection back in the days as today I don't think I'd save enough cash for many items today even though I have a growing collection. Safe and Secure too. :P
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05-Feb-2023 12:49:23

Gobin
Mar Member 2020

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Before Eoc came into play me and my summon tank clan used to pk/bh for gp mostly. Then after finding out duel made alot more a few of us converted over to staking as it trumped the income of pvp. After being able to save enough for a blue at 3.55b bought from I harv I i felt completed. Boom got hacked right before the eoc update on the 4th of july for a blue, white, and purple lol. Was determined to get said phats back.

Eoc update hits and wrecked all pure/tank builds. Wiped out pvp for low levels mostly and was the meteor that took out the dinosaurs of the summoning tank clan I was in. Duel arena was no longer an option. Never knew how to properly flip or anything like that. So then last year i think or the year before i figured i'd learn to become a merch/flipper.

Started flipping santa hats for 100-300m profit each and got somewhat blamed for making santas go from 3b to 6b in about a month by posting my buys/sells on forums. Then got into flipping black santas hopping between w2/w54 trading between merchers and stakers making decent profit between flips. Finally managed to get my first yellow for a black santa and 30b cash (priced at like 80-84b at the time) and been upgrading since.

That is my story :D
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05-Feb-2023 14:23:46

Raphtalia6
Oct Member 2017

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i got my rares from flipping and pvm, in 2017 my first rare was a green halloween mask for like 300m, the 300m i got from flipping shadow dyes and silverhawk feathers for about 3-5 months,(not every day because i was in exam year). later i got a santa hat which was about 600m around that time and later on i got my first phat. trusting certain pc lists or prices of items or websites that dont belong to jagex will get you into trouble notice: external websites and trades are your responsibility, dont get fooled!.

05-Feb-2023 16:40:30

Flumps
Jan Member 2010

Flumps

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I used to have rares when the duel arena was around but lost them all staking.
After the arena was removed i went to start using my Nox dyed weapons to make money
I got FSOA Elite tectonic with EOF and my red we'en all from killing nodons.

Then i got a green we'en from selling all of my FSW lv 99 capes and QPC
Right now i am working on Zamorak to try and get a bow parts, to work towards getting a blue we'en.

05-Feb-2023 18:46:02

Lumbys Hero
Nov Member 2014

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Traded 75k bronz arrows for my frist red phat back in RSC. Shop runs / world hopping for weeks to every arrow shop to get that amount banked. Red was the lowest color at the time for 3m. Pink was the most at that point for 18m.

Red < Yellow < White < Green < Blue < Pink

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05-Feb-2023 22:08:41 - Last edited on 05-Feb-2023 22:13:33 by Lumbys Hero

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