To even get a good amount of money you need to have a high woodcutting level and have tons of patience since the trees are all crowded.

IMO, I think mining & fishing is better considering you can start low level on both skills and still make a decent amount of money.

You are a F2Per, and woodcutting in members is a lot different then woodcutting in F2P.

Pretty much the best way to make money wcing in F2P is yews. Of course the yews are always crowded there.
Fishing in F2P is farther away from a bank, so I don't see how it could be any better then wcing when they give similar amounts of cash per inventory.
Mining in F2P is very good if you have the right levels.

In members, there are tons more trees and different types of trees (magic, teak, etc.) that give more money then yews do. As a result, yews are much less crowded then other trees.
Fishing in members is really good once you can use the Fishing Guild. (that's how I make money )
Mining is pretty much the same.

I am a member, just haven't updated my thingy.

Also I'm talking overall.

Being an avid woodcutter myself, I can tell you that I don't wc for the money. For most people its a time to relax and train a skill, that does give a decent profit.

I woodcut and make money. I don't woodcut for money though...

If that makes sense.

some people like myself find it a relaxing skill and you can semi afk it unlike mining. Its also better money in freeplay because the fishing spots are far from a bank.

Fishing is close to a bank and you can semi-afk, just like wc.
mhmm

Woodcutting can make you 35m if you do yews from like 70 - 99
So why not? Also I only know like 4 Lobster+ fishing spots. Quite the much different for woodcutting.

Soon2benotpro, maybe because it is good money. I made 500k off Yews in F2p playing about 6 hours. Which is pretty decent.

You can make 40m+ from 63-99 fishing on monkfish.
You can make approximately 130m from 76-99 fishing on sharks.

Some people like Woodcutting. Some people think Fishing sucks. That could help you.

Magic trees, my man! If you go outside Lletya, there are very few people there (especially on PvP worlds), and magic logs are like 1.5k each, if I'm not mistaken!

1) You need a high level to cut em so your not gonna be earning money right away.
2) Crowds.
3) Takes forever to get a full inventory, where catching lobsters or sharks is way faster. Even mining is faster. ha

As to 1.), you are correct. As to 2.), that's why Lletya is such a good place- less people are there, because very, very few wc pures are able to do Regicide and MEP1. As to 3.), I am 77 Woodcutting and can get an inventory in about 10 minutes with a dragon axe.

I have a secret yew tree that is almost never crowded
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You speak like there's something wrong with woodcutting for money. Like woodcutters are inferior to you...

And you've made good points. In P2P, Fishing can surpass Woodcutting in terms of cash, especially since they train in the same way.

But, aforementioned, some people just enjoy woodcutting. In the new tutorial, you pick between finishing off with Mining or Woodcutting, ultimately to be level 4 in that skill. Some people pick woodcutting because they like it. And there's nothing wrong with that.

And honestly, in a lot of places there is a smaller crowd. Go to Catherby, and see how many people are fishing lobsters. In a lot of worlds, the list goes up and down the whole page. I don't typically find that many people on one Yew Tree, unless I'm looking on a F2P server.

1) How can you earn money right away with Fishing, and Mining? Shrimp, and Copper Ore? Shrimp, are what 10gp? And how about Copper, and Tin? 20gp? While Regular Logs sell for about 50gp+.

2) Lletya has no crowds, especially in PvP, as stated by Mohorak.

3) Takes forever? And how long does it take to get a full inventory of Runite Ore, or Rocktail?

HA

The more people at a fishing spot the better, the fish respawn faster and you get faster catches.

Yeah, I noticed that outside Llyeta is almost always empty (waiting for the roving elves to recharge my crystal!)
Funnily, I find combat to be more rewarding than skilling GPwise, but I find skilling funner. Am I a nerd

In no way are sharks 'way faster'. Is it even proven that sharks are faster than magic logs?

In freeplay, woodcutting can be a great way to earn money.
Fishing in freeplay doesn't work all that well (you can only really either fly-fish for really bad money, or do Lobsters, which are really far from a bank), and it would take you a very long time to get a high enough level to earn much money mining.
When you get to members, then Fishing (sharks and monks can earn a lot), and Mining are better, so woodcutting is best in freeplay (although magics can earn 200k+ an hour at about 80 Woodcutting).

I hate woodcutting for no reason really, mining has always been my way of making money, woodcutting IMO takes away all the fun.

I have always preferred mining because it has more action in it.
whereas woodcutting for me is a skill that is used to scrape some money and make some friends.
woodcutting is faster to level at then mining,so its no biggie if you have high wc but it is if you have a high mining

Also another thing. Why do you have such an awful attitude? Woodcutting is a good skill, more relaxing then mining. It may not make as much money as fishing but it's still good way to earn money.

I think for f2p wc is much better, membs fishing is better by a margin. I cant really comment on mining, i've heard mixed reports about the real money maker, runite. Could be very good cash, but it requires very good timing and world switching and luck along the way The fishing spots in f2p are jus out of the quesiton for banking, and you can find uncrowded yew spots easily, just dont go to the nooby ones.

Most skills are terrible for making money. You have to do group events like GWD to get the big money, or just merch like Spar does:P

I think that's a erroneous statement.

Fish don't respawn. Trees respawn. Mining rocks respawn. Mind runes in level 6 wilderness respawn. Fish don't. Except, perhaps, that having 1900 people on a server will give you faster fish, but you can't get hard evidence for that. You can get it for Mining and Woodcutting.

And more people doesn't encourage faster catches. Your Fishing level determines faster catches, in addition to chance.

There's a ton of people at Catherby. Tons of people = lag on a lot of computers.
And don't respond by saying "My computer can take the lag." Not everybody plays on fast computers. People play on the most inferior of laptops. They don't take lag as well as you do.

GOP beats any other method of making money in f2p as far as I am concerned. You could have easily made 2m in the time it took you to cut those yews o_o Of course, you wouldn't get a bunch of wc exp then >_> It depends on what you like to do, I guess. GOP can get really boring after awhile

As for this little "debate" going on here, who do you guys think really cares? People have different opinions about money making methods and that's not going to change, or at least not because of you. It's like you people feel the need to prove someone else wrong and yourself right. Just let people do what they like, because that's the point of a game like RS: to have FUN! If someone hates wc or mining or whatever even though it makes a bigger profit then what they like to do, who are you to call them ignorant?

Arguing on the internet is like racing in the special olympics: even if you win, your still a retard

They're discussing the topic, isn't that what you're supposed to do on a Runescape Discussion board? I'd hardly call it a debate or argument.

Can I also throw in how for wc you have to buy axes, sure you can just use a rune axe but to go faster you need to spend 2M+.

For fishing it's like, under 1k?

Woodcutting is the skill of choice because it is relativity easy to train and it doesn't need your full attention. Fishing is a better money maker overall because shark are faster to catch then magics are to cut (due to the fact that the number of people on the same spot doesn't affect the rate you catch the sharks, whereas woodcutting does).

One thing about Fishing and Woodcutting.
Think about woodcutting: for either magics or yews, you'll generally fine a maximum of 2 or 3 trees near each other.
But with fishing, say Piscatoris for monks or the Guild for sharks - even if there are more people there are more and better spots and you'll earn more.

The thing is, no fishing item speeds up the way you fish. Most fishing items = Bronze.

@ Liger: most times, a moneymaking method that earns you xp is better than one that gets you more money. The xp earned in GOP is negligible compared to cutting Yews.

Stop assuming things, lots of good tree spots are not crowed and you don't have to spend 2m because of the existence of the inferno adze.

Woodcutting for money is similar to mining or fishing, none of them are really good way of making money but they are all easy to do. I used to cut magics at Lletya because at the time I thought sharks and magic trees were decent money and it required very little effort, there were no crowds, infact most of the time I could woodcut alone. Later as a more experienced player I would power train woodcutting on teaks in the hardwood area, banking to make money was optional similar to iron powermining which makes about 100k an hour, both techniques are a close second for xp but make some money. I haven't been playing this week so I haven't checked Ivy yet.

I think most people do these skills badly because they aren't experienced enough to know better, some people cut magics/yews (and sharks/rune rocks) while at work and some just enjoy cutting trees, as well as other reasons.

I got 99 woodcutting thinking that i would make lots of money, but the time spent woodcutting isnt really worth it compared to other ways to make money eg. Hunting red chins or fishing monks

You guys don't really get the question, and what type of response should be given .

I think that the reason that people cuts trees for money is because they think it's good for money because if you AFK it, it feels like you are making alot of money per hour than you actually are.

Personally I would cut Ivy for training woodcutting, and boss hunt/make double nature's for money.

Fish do respawn, I know for a fact.

Raw shark: 1406 each
Magic logs: 1339 each

Magic trees is always crowded, shark spots too, but when fishing crowds is not a problem, fishing wins.

I have 93 wc and i wish i had 93 fishing it'd be better imo.

I have 93 wc and i wish i had 93 fishing it'd be better imo.