Herblore training

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Making potions

The most efficient way to gain Herblore experience is to buy base and secondary ingredients from the Grand Exchange and combine them into potions. This can be very expensive and requires a lot of capital to buy the supplies needed. The fastest Herblore experience is gained by simply making potions that offer the highest experience per hour; however, some slower options can be notably cheaper and should be considered if the player prefers to save money. Some options may also require a lot more capital than others, and might be inconvenient to do for players with less capital available.

An amulet of chemistry can be used when training Herblore with potions worth more than the cost of 1 amulet per 5 doses, if the player is willing to put the effort of equipping a new amulet when the last one breaks. This decreases experience rates slightly, but can potentially save a lot of money on the way to 99. For example, using this amulet when making Saradomin Brews slows experience rates from 450,000 experience per hour to approximately 410,000 experience per hour.

Viable training options considering cost and ingredient supply are listed below. The table assumes 2,500 standard 14 x 14 potions made per hour, 2,750 for 27 x 1 (such as stamina potions), 2,330 for serum 207's, 2,166 for super combat potions, and 1,667 for forgotten brews, with the finished product being sold after being decanted into a 4-dose potion (if applicable). "Cost/XP" means how much money is needed for the supplies alone (when not selling the finished product) per experience. Serum 207s, stamina potions, extended antifires, anti-venoms and extended super antifire potions can all be manually sped up to 1 tick per potion at the cost of high intensity, allowing players to average 4,583 potions made per hour.

The table below assumes potions are made in one step, using ingredients on an unfinished potion or precursor potion.

Level	Potion		Base		Secondary		Stackable	XP	XP/Hour
1		Attack potion		Guam potion (unf)		Eye of newt	No	25	62,500
9		Strength potion		Tarromin potion (unf)		Limpwurt root	No	50	125,000
26		Prayer potion		Ranarr potion (unf)		Snape grass	No	88	218,750
34		Super attack		Irit potion (unf)		Eye of newt	No	100	250,000
42		Super strength		Kwuarm potion (unf)		Limpwurt root	No	125	312,500
54		Super restore		Snapdragon potion (unf)		Red spiders' eggs	No	142.5	356,000
66		Super defence		Cadantine potion (unf)		White berries	No	150	375,000
69		Antifire potion		Lantadyme potion (unf)		Dragon scale dust	No	157.5	393,750
72		Ranging potion		Dwarf weed potion (unf)		Wine of zamorak	No	162.5	406,250
76		Magic potion		Lantadyme potion (unf)		Potato cactus	No	172.5	431,250
77		Stamina potion		Super energy(4)		Amylase crystal (x4)	Yes	102	280,500 (535,500)
80		Bastion potion		Cadantine blood potion (unf)		Wine of zamorak	No	155	387,500
80		Battlemage potion		Cadantine blood potion (unf)		Potato cactus	No	155	387,500
81		Saradomin brew		Toadflax potion (unf)		Crushed nest	No	200	450,000
82		Super combat potion		Super attack(4) Super strength(4) Super defence(4)		Torstol	No	150	324,900
86		Extended super antifire		Super antifire potion(4)		Lava scale shard (x4)	Yes	160	440,000