Easiest 99 in OSRS: 6 Skills Ranked by Hours and Cost

The Easiest 99 in OSRS

Cooking is the easiest 99 for most players. Once you have completed Tai Bwo Wannai Trio you can cook karambwans from 30 to 99: about 50 hours if you play AFK, or about 15 if you 1-tick them, by our maths from the wiki's rate table. The wiki's cost table currently shows both routes making a profit, roughly 7.3M to 8.3M over 30–99.

If you have GP and want the quickest 99 instead, Prayer and Construction are faster still. Firemaking at Wintertodt is cheap. Fletching is quick, but broad arrows cost about 6.7 GP per XP at current prices. The table compares six skills on hours, cost and how much attention each needs.

Easiest 99s Ranked

Cooking: The Usual Answer

Karambwans need level 30 Cooking and Tai Bwo Wannai Trio; without the quest you only make poison karambwans. Each successful cook is 190 XP. The wiki's AFK rates run from 141,000 XP an hour at 30 to 273,000 at 99, cooking in the Hosidius kitchen up to 96 and at the Rogues' Den after that.

1-ticking at the Rogues' Den fire is the fastest Cooking XP in the game: 464,000 an hour at 30, rising to 950,000 at 99. Jugs of wine are the other common route, at up to 490,000 XP an hour from level 68. For 1–30 the wiki suggests cooking fish rather than poison karambwans unless you are tick manipulating.

Firemaking and Fletching

Wintertodt needs 50 Firemaking. The wiki gives 161,000 XP an hour at 50, 226,000 at 70 and 320,000 at 99, and estimates 50 to 99 at about 40 hours if you skip fletching the roots and 50 hours if you fletch them. Any food that heals 4 Hitpoints or more works, and once you score 500 points in a game you get rewards from the reward cart.

Fletching starts with 14,074 XP from five quests, enough for level 30: Animal Magnetism, Big Chompy Bird Hunting, Zogre Flesh Eaters, Temple of Ikov and The Fremennik Trials. From 52, broad arrows give 450,000 XP an hour at 3,000 actions an hour, so 52 to 99 is about 29 hours, at roughly 86M in materials, and they need the broader fletching Slayer reward. Bows are the calm option: stringing magic longbows gives 224,175 XP an hour at 85+.

Fastest if You Can Pay: Prayer and Construction

Dragon bones give 252 Prayer XP each on a gilded altar with both burners lit, so 1 to 99 is about 51,700 bones and roughly 20 hours at the wiki's 643,000 XP an hour. The Chaos Temple altar in the Wilderness gives the same 252 XP with a 50% chance of keeping each bone, roughly halving the bone count, in exchange for the Wilderness risk.

Construction is about 13 efficient hours on Wise Old Man's rates, but the planks are the bill. The wiki prices mahogany tables from 52 to 99 at 92,220 mahogany planks, about 179M coins plus servant fees at current prices. Mahogany Homes is the cheaper, slower option: 185,000 to 210,000 XP an hour on Expert contracts from 70, or 240,000 to 280,000 with a plank sack.

Farming: Few Hours, Long Wait

Farming needs about 8 active hours on Wise Old Man's rates, more than only Prayer with superior dragon bones. The wiki's example tree run (six magic trees, six dragonfruit trees, a calquat and a celastrus) takes about 5 minutes 20 seconds for 215,761 XP. The catch is the calendar: trees grow in real time and you can do only one or two runs a day, so the wiki estimates 3 to 4 months of fairly consistent runs for 99.

Picking Your Easiest 99

• Short on GP: Cooking on karambwans or Firemaking at Wintertodt.
• Want it done fast and have the money: Prayer, then Construction.
• Little time at the computer: Farming, done as daily tree runs.
• Planning a max: keep Cooking or Firemaking for the end and do the slowest skills to 99 while motivation is high.

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