Unfinished potions
Combine clean herbs with vials of water. Fast, needs almost no attention, and the margin is usually positive.
Unfinished potions are worth money precisely because making them gives no experience. Players levelling Herblore want to skip that step and are willing to pay someone else to do it.
The work is trivial — combine a clean herb with a vial of water — and the only requirement is the Herblore level for that specific herb.
The margin per potion is usually small, so this is a volume business constrained by how many herbs and vials you can buy within the limits.
Running several herb types at once is how the rate becomes meaningful, and it also spreads the risk of one particular margin closing while you are mid-batch.
What you actually do
- 1Buy clean herbs and vials of water in bulk.
- 2Combine them into unfinished potions — one click per pair, no experience given.
- 3Sell the unfinished potions and repeat.
Getting the most from it
- Making unfinished potions gives no experience, which is exactly why other players pay for them.
- It is fast and mechanical, so the rate is limited by buy limits rather than by clicking.
- The margin is usually small per potion, so this needs volume to be worth the time.
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