Elf Thieving Money Making Guide (INSANE 3M GP/HR) OSRS 2020
| Date | 2020-05-21 |
| Type | guide |
| Video | youtu.be/Ydau_VX-3kw |
Summary
A guide to pickpocketing elves in Prifddinas, which Gnomonkey calls the best skilling money-maker in the game at over 3 million gp an hour with seed prices at the time, while low-intensity. He covers requirements, setup, how to use Lindir and Mithrandir, loot including enhanced crystal teleport seeds and crystal shards, helpful RuneLite plugins, and XP and pet rates.
Outline
- 0:00 Method overview and benefits
- 0:18 Requirements: Song of the Elves, ornate pool, 85 Thieving, Ardougne hard diary, rogue outfit
- 1:21 Equipment and implings
- 1:51 Inventory and house setup
- 2:29 Thieving Lindir
- 3:21 Mithrandir and the door trick
- 4:29 Kurdan, the wiki's suggestion
- 4:59 Loot and what to drop or cut
- 6:01 Enhanced crystal teleport seed value and crystal shards
- 6:42 RuneLite plugins and mouse keys
- 8:01 XP rates, pet rate and conclusion
Topics covered
Elf pickpocketing
- (0:00) Gnomonkey says elf thieving in Prifddinas is legitimately the most money you can make from a skilling method, over 3 million gp an hour at the then-current seed price, with low enough intensity to watch Netflix or YouTube on another monitor.
- (0:00) Gnomonkey says elf thieving is also one of the fastest ways of getting crystal shards on an Iron Man.
- (0:00) Elf thieving requires completing Song of the Elves, a built ornate rejuvenation pool (or a friend or alt with one), and at minimum 85 Thieving, though Gnomonkey recommends 99 for the thieving cape's extra 10% pickpocket success.
- (0:28) Gnomonkey says elf thieving is not worth doing without the Ardougne hard diary, which gives 10% more success everywhere and stacks with the thieving cape; the Ardougne cloak does not need to be equipped.
- (0:55) The rogue outfit is needed for the method because it doubles all of the elves' loot, including the enhanced crystal teleport seed.
- (0:55) With 85 Thieving and the Ardougne hard diary the success chance is 37.3%, versus 47.5% with 99 Thieving and a thieving cape.
- (1:21) Gnomonkey's rates assume 99 Thieving; with less than 99 Thieving you thieve about 24% slower, bringing gp an hour closer to 2.3 million.
- (1:21) Equipment for elf thieving is the rogue outfit, thieving cape and a dodgy necklace; Gnomonkey also brings a butterfly net for crystal implings, which needs 80 Hunter to catch and 90 to catch barehanded.
- (1:51) Crystal implings are worth an average of 72k with a 1 in 50 chance of dropping an elite clue, and Gnomonkey saw about one an hour.
- (1:51) Gnomonkey's inventory is 19 dodgy necklaces, a chisel to cut diamonds into bolt tips (which profits more than alching them), and an impling jar if 80-90 Hunter; the rune pouch is questionable because nature and death runes do not auto-add to it.
- (2:24) Gnomonkey's method needs the player-owned house in Prifddinas, thieving the elves near the house portal and going back in the portal to restore at the ornate pool when out of health; he sets quick prayers to rapid heal and redemption.
- (2:29) Lindir is the elf closest to the house portal and never leaves his house, stuck on four tiles, so he never needs luring; with a friend you can trap him in the corner, use one-click mode and spam pickpocket without moving the mouse.
- (3:25) The elves' left-click option is Talk, which prevents left-click pickpocketing like with Ardougne Knights.
- (3:25) The elves occasionally drop wines, lengthening trips, and you get on average about five minutes of pickpocketing before needing to restore.
- (3:25) Dodgy necklaces give a 25% chance when failing a pickpocket to avoid damage or stun, at the cost of one of its 10 charges, and Gnomonkey says to always use them.
- (3:58) Mithrandir wanders near the house west of the portal and can be soloed: open the door when she is in the corner to block her, then single-click pickpocket her; she is forced to move after five minutes, the same timer as the door shutting, so shut the door before 300 seconds, wait, and reopen it to reset her.
- (4:29) If you receive only four wines or fewer in a trip you will restore before Mithrandir is forced to move, so no reset is needed.
- (4:29) The wiki suggests pickpocketing Kurdan stuck near the bank, but Gnomonkey struggled to find a decent way to trap him because of his large wander distance, and says it would take at least two people and he could escape after 300 seconds.
- (4:59) The elves drop coins, death runes, nature runes, jugs of wine, diamonds, fire orbs, gold ore, crystal shards and, extremely rarely, enhanced crystal teleport seeds.
- (5:31) Gnomonkey cuts diamonds into bolt tips, drops gold ores, and drops fire orbs (worth 1,400 gp each) early in the trip, filling up on orbs only as he runs out of necklaces.
- (5:31) At the time the enhanced crystal teleport seed was a flat 3 million gp, and with the rogue outfit each drop gives two.
- (5:31) A player can pickpocket about 450 times an hour; the wiki says 475, which Gnomonkey thinks would need several dodgy necklace procs.
- (6:01) The enhanced crystal teleport seed is a 1 in 1,024 drop, which at those rates takes on average 2 hours 15 minutes, and it can be broken down into 150 crystal shards needed to imbue the Blade of Saeldor.
- (6:01) The elves give about 25 crystal shards an hour, worth 15k each if turned into divine super combats, which requires 97 Herblore (shards can be held until then).
- (6:30) Gnomonkey says the teleport seed's price is held steady by both the Blade of Saeldor and the value of divine potions.
- (6:42) The most useful plugin for elf thieving is the external NPC Idle Timer, which puts a 300-second timer over an NPC's head that resets when it moves, letting you move the trapped NPC before it escapes.
- (6:58) Gnomonkey puts the phrase 'your dodgy necklace has crumbled to dust' in the chat notification plugin, sets the menu swapper's home option to enter the house, and configures the implings plugin to notify when a crystal impling is nearby.
- (7:28) Mouse keys lets you click with numpad 5 so the mouse stays in place; with no numpad a key can be rebound to left click with software or AutoHotkey, which Gnomonkey says is allowed because it is one-to-one input.
- (7:55) If fast enough to pickpocket 450 times an hour, elf thieving gives on average 3.2 million gp an hour, and about 600k an hour without a teleport seed.
- (8:01) On an Iron Man, elves give about 25 shards an hour plus about 66 on average from breaking down teleport seeds, about 91 an hour, which Gnomonkey says is faster than Zalcano and the Gauntlet.
- (8:32) The elf thieving pet chance is about half the chance of the pet from Ardougne Knights, and Gnomonkey says it would take 215 hours post-99 but would provide roughly 650 million gp.
- (8:53) Gnomonkey hit 150k Thieving XP an hour very easily, despite dying twice in the hour, and thinks 160k to 170k is possible.
- (9:23) Gnomonkey is not sure he would recommend elves below 99 Thieving as it is slower without the cape, and suggests taking the higher XP rates at Ardougne Knights until 99, though starting early is not terrible if you want the money.
Thieving
- (0:00) Gnomonkey says elf thieving is the best money-making skilling method in the game, with the highest requirements of any skilling method except maybe wrath runes.
- (8:53) Elf thieving gave Gnomonkey about 150k Thieving XP an hour.