Pay-to-play Firemaking training

This article gives tips on training the Firemaking skill for Members. Firemaking is trained in much the same way in P2P as in F2P; however, Members offers some additional content to firemaking such as Eucalyptus logs, Teak logs, Mahogany logs, Magic logs, Elder logs, the Ring of fire, Flame gloves, and the Inferno Adze. Members firemaking also offers burning shades in Mort'ton, but for actual firemaking training the vast majority of people burn logs. Firemaking is essentially a money-losing skill, but can be much less expensive to train than other skills usually considered to be buyables such as Herblore, Crafting, Prayer, Smithing, or Construction.

Equipment
The only equipment needed for training Firemaking is a tinderbox, which is used to light logs on fire and is automatically stored in every player's tool belt, meaning that it is unnecessary to buy one or keep one in the bank. The ring of fire and the flame gloves can be worn with a Firemaking level of 62 and 79 respectively and grant respective experience bonuses of 2% and 2%. When worn together, however, they give a 5% Firemaking experience bonus. The are both obtained as rewards from the All Fired Up minigame after completing the All Fired Up quest.

Bonfires
Players can add logs to an existing fire to create a bonfire. Using bonfires yields more experience per log; however, a log is burnt every 6 game ticks (3.6 seconds) rather than every 4 game ticks (2.4 seconds) when lighting fires the normal way. Experience gained is increased per log and is further increased by up to 4% for every other player (up to five) using the same bonfire. With the maximum boost from extra players, the experience/hour for this method is slightly lower than lighting the logs themselves, but bonfires are semi-afkable added bonus of not having to run as far to bank between inventories.

Training
These basics of training firemaking are relevant on both F2P and P2P.


 * Training firemaking typically involves training near a bank for the highest efficiency, and repeatedly withdrawing banked logs and burning them.


 * Training at the Lumbridge dungeon bank chest (After Recipe for Disaster) is a highly used location as a fire can be made right outside the bank. Contrary to popular belief, making a fire beside the bank is faster than making it beside the stool. Making the fire next to the bank will allow you to not have to manually click to move, otherwise, you will have to manually move to the stool, place the fire and move back.

Assuming that 1200 logs are burnt per hour:


 * Players who value their time at under 0 coins per hour should burn Willow logs.
 * Players who value their time between 0 coins per hour and k coins per hour should burn Maple logs.
 * Players who value their time between k coins per hour and k coins per hour should burn Yew logs.
 * Players who value their time between k and k coins per hour should burn Magic logs.
 * Players who value their time at over k coins per hour should burn Elder logs.

Level 1-15
At first, only normal logs, which give 40 experience each, can be burnt, Trees, evergreens, dead and dying trees can be cut nearly everywhere in RuneScape, ranging from Lumbridge to the Wilderness. Also, on the second floor of Lumbridge castle, there are four logs spawns that can be lit along with logs brought by the player. Purchasing the logs for 1 to 15 firemaking is not necessary as getting level 15 is only several minute's work; only 60 logs have to be burnt to raise firemaking from level 1 to 15.

Level 15-30
After level 15, Oak logs, which give 60 experience each, should be burnt. Oak trees can be cut almost everywhere. Level 15 woodcutting to cut the oak logs may be useful; oak logs also can be easily bought from the Grand Exchange. About 183 oak logs have to be burnt to get from 15 firemaking to 30.

Level 30-45/99
After level 30, Willow logs, which give 90 experience each for lighting and 105 experience for adding to bonfire, should be burnt. Willow logs are always available at Grand Exchange for coins each, or they can be cut with 30+ woodcutting. Willow trees can be cut near the River Lum in Lumbridge, near Edgeville, near the sea south of Draynor bank, south of the cabbage patch north-west of Draynor Village, a little west of Catherby bank, in Rimmington, just northwest of the bank in Seers' Village, Or in Barbarian outpost. You could also go to a crowded world and go to a spot where many woodcutters are, and pick up the logs they often drop. The typical cost, if buying the logs, is coins per experience. Burning willow logs is essentially the cheapest way to train firemaking. After burning 535 willow logs, you will reach 45 firemaking

Level 45-99
At level 45+ Firemaking Maple logs, which give 135 experience each and cost coins each, can be burnt. The typical cost, if purchasing the logs, is coins per experience. They are much faster experience than willows but are still very cheap. In general, the amount of time saved burning these instead of willow logs to a high level (such as 99) outweighs the extra cost of using maple logs. Otherwise, maples are the best option until the player reaches higher levels. If you have done the quest Throne of Miscellania, you can get many maple logs (892 plus bird's nests for every 100 logs to cover costs) every 24 hours for only 50,000 per day (75,000 a day if you have done Royal Trouble.)

Level 58-99
People who want to train Firemaking faster than allowed by Maple logs can now move up to better, more expensive logs.

After level 58, Eucalyptus logs, which give 193.5 experience each, can be burnt. The power levelling cost is coins per experience, which is far higher than willow and maple logs. However, this can be a good alternative to yews, for they are much less expensive.

Yew, which give 202.5 (only 9 more experience than eucalyptus) experience per log. The power levelling cost is coins per experience.

Level 75-99
After level 75, Magic logs, which give 303.8 experience each, can be burnt. The power levelling cost is coins per experience (or if you are using a Penance horn or a Penance master horn, the cost per experience is ). Magic logs are the fastest and most expensive way to train firemaking.

They are rarely burnt because of the large cost of burning them. Most players who train firemaking choose not to use magic logs as there are cheaper alternatives, though the experience gained is slower. Only players who have spare cash should train with magic logs. At a rate of 1200 logs per hour, the player would have gained 364,560 experience (729,120 if you are using a Penance horn or a Penance master horn) much more compared to using other logs.

It would take only 38,921 Magic logs (or only 19461 if you are using a Penance horn or a Penance master horn) to get from Level 75-99. At current Grand Exchange prices, this would cost about 0 gold or about 0 gold if you are using a Penance horn or a Penance master horn.

Level 83-99
After level 83 Firemaking, Curly roots, which give 378.5 experience each, can be burned in special firepits found in the Jadinko Lair. They must first be chopped from curly (not straight) Jade Roots hanging from the ceiling near the slayer monsters there, requiring 83 Woodcutting. Four roots are received for each vine chopped, the vines chop quickly even at only 85 Woodcutting. At the minimum required levels with a ring of fire, a player can expect to get about 235k Firemaking experience per hour as well as 23.5k Woodcutting experience. At high levels with full Lumberjack equipment, the inferno adze, flame gloves and the ring of fire equipped, one can expect to get about 35k Woodcutting experience and around 305k Firemaking experience per hour, as well as over 1100 Jadinko Favour, making this second in speed only to making lines of magic log fires and burning elder logs, but for free (and potentially profitable), as well as being partially AFKable (the character burns all the roots in the inventory automatically). The animation is the same as cooking.

Bonfires versus fire lines
Typically, people train Firemaking by putting logs into bonfires. However, training Firemaking by making lines of fires is significantly faster (around 20% with magic logs), as it takes only 2/3 as long to light a fire than to add a log to it, which generally more than makes up for the bit of experience lost per log. However, lighting lines of fire takes a great deal more attention, costs marginally more, and doesn't give the chance to get fire spirits.

Combining Woodcutting and Firemaking
Woodcutting and firemaking can be combined by cutting an inventory of logs, then burning them. This allows simultaneous woodcutting and firemaking training without the need to buy supplies and visit the bank. The most effective logs to perform this method on are teaks. A great location for this is the teaks by Tai Bwo Wannai. Alternative locations are in the Kharazi Jungle and on Ape Atoll.

Logs requiring a higher level than teaks will result in slower woodcutting and firemaking experience per hour because of reduced woodcutting speed.

Trivia

 * After completion of the quest All Fired Up, players may play an activity where they light beacons to obtain items that are helpful in training firemaking. These include the Ring of fire, the Flame gloves, and the Inferno adze.


 * When worn together, the Ring of fire and Flame gloves give +5% experience total when burning logs.


 * The Inferno adze randomly burns logs while woodcutting. Thus, when using the Inferno adze, is as if the player gains firemaking experience as an "extra" while training woodcutting. Many players power-cut teak logs to achieve 99 woodcutting. Gaining 13M woodcutting experience cutting teaks with an Inferno adze would give approximately 4.82M firemaking experience extra, this is an average of 2.7 Woodcutting experience for every 1 Firemaking exp. As the inferno adze requires 92 firemaking, it may be useful to get 92 firemaking before doing any serious amount of woodcutting for experience. This method is especially useful for Curly roots, where more than one root can be incinerated by the Inferno Adze at a time.


 * It is possible to light fires using a bow instead of a tinderbox after completing Barbarian Training. This ability could be argued to be useless as a bow may be accidentally wielded. However, if you use the log on the bow, instead of bow on the log, it serves the same function as a tinderbox. However, after the addition of the toolbelt, this technique has become obsolete.


 * When wielding a Penance Horn or a Penance master horn acquired from Barbarian Assault, the experience you earn from burning a log is doubled, netting a much higher amount of experience for cost, making burning maple logs about the same as burning yews normally. However, it takes much time and effort to fill the horn with experience, making it slower overall. This bonus does not apply to burning Curly roots however.


 * The Book of Char can be used if you have completed The Firemaker's Curse, it will give double the xp for walking over logs, but dropping the logs beforehand is very tedious. A much more efficient way of getting logs lined up on the ground is to fill BoBs with logs and dismiss them in a line. This allows a player to run continuously over the same line, burning 1 log in each stack of logs at a time, gaining a large amount of exp in the limited time the Book is activated.