What is so good about Hunter skill?

“What is so good about Hunter skill? Can I make money with Hunter?”
Sounds familiar? Yes, these are some of those questions which appear on the forums over and over again. And here is another one: “The Hunter skill is fast to raise but useless. You only get Imps at lvl 71 and that’s it. Why should I even bother?”

Well, let’s take a look.

• First things that comes to mind are Spotted and Spottier Capes. They reduce weight by 2-3kg and 4-5kg. Add Boots of Lightness to the picture and you can run your Runecrafting and Agility routes with negative weight! You need lvl 40 for Spotted Cape and lvl 66 for Spottier one.
• Gloves of Silence (at lvl 54) come handy for pick-pocketing. That was the main reason for me when I started my Hunter carrier.
• Stripy feathers. This is one of often overlooked outcomes from hunting. Starting from lvl 19 Tropical Wagtails usually become the main hunting prey and remain so until lvl 43 (when Falconry starts). From lvl 19 till 43 you’ll get thousands stripy feathers which are used for Rainbow fish fly-fishing. Rainbow fish fly-fishing is a decent way to raise Fishing, comparable with lobsters. And cooked Rainbow fish looks good and heals 11.

“It’s all very good” - you may say now: “But what about money? Do I get any money from it?” And the answer is “yes”. Money comes from selling Chinchompas (lvl 53) and especially Red Chinchompas (lvl 63). When properly used (in multi-combat areas) these explosive little creatures become one of the best ways to raise Ranging and therefore eager Runescape archers and bowmen are willing to pay good money for them. 200-225gp for Chinchompas and 600-700gp for Red Chinchompas.

What else? Prayer!
Do you know how many normal bones you get while catching birds and doing falconry? Tons! If you bury them all, it adds up pretty quickly and you get a few unexpected Prayer levels.

Finally, the new Impetuous Impulses minigame rewards high level hunters with awesome rewards. Mystic and Splitbark armor, Power Amulets, Dragon Longs, Daggers, Arrows and Darts - just to name a few. Yes, you need to have at least lvl 65 in order to get such rewards, but even at lvl 58 you get good stuff from Nature Implings (good seeds, herbs and magic logs). Pretty nice, don’t you think?

So, is it worth doing? Yes, of course.
Go to Yanille. Get yourself a few bird snares, noose wand and start the hunt!

Posted by vrunewise (owner of Runewise)

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10 Responses to “What is so good about Hunter skill?”

knifestorm Says:
June 20th, 2007 at 4:41 am

Nice article.
Hunting is a great companion skill to Ranging. Chinchompas, as you mentioned are great ranging weapons. Also the hunters crossbow and kebbit bolts are another good ranger weapon gained through the hunting skill.

The spotted capes can also help you when you use balloons to get around. You are limited to 40kg on the balloons but the capes will let you bring a bit more.

vrunewise Says:
June 26th, 2007 at 1:37 am

Thank you for the comment. Very nice advice about balloons. I did not mentioned crossbow kebbit bolts because I believe that catching those kebbits is not an optimal way to raise Hunter, so people would not normally get a lot of kebbit bolts. The main Hunter training path as I see it is:
a) 1-18 Crimson Swifts and occasional kebbits
b) 19-42 Tropical Wagtails
c) 43-53 Falconry
d) 53-58 Falconry and Chinchompas
e) 59+ Chinchompas and Red Chinchompas
I would encouradge to try all other monster hunts as well, because it is fun (or for costumes, spikes, potions etc.) But the main training path (IMHO) should go through Wagtails/Falconry/Chinchompas.

Mr Says:
July 7th, 2007 at 7:29 pm

Hunter is a very Good Skill, I am level 74 hunting working on 99.

I did, the level 1 birds till 11, Then the level 11 birds to 24, Then to the lvl 19 birds until i got lvl 37.

Then i did DeadFall until Falconery, When i got 51, So i did deadfall agian until i got to The regular ChinChompas Until i got to dark kebbits at the falconery, until 59.

So then i did red Salamanders until 63…

So Then i got 63, So red chinchompas are the best, money, And exp, Till 99

Hope this helps.

vrunewise Says:
July 11th, 2007 at 3:26 am

Thanks for the comment. I am firm supported of Tropical Wagtails/Falconry/Chinchompas path Lvl 71 Hunter myself. But I agree that there are several good ways up in Hunter. I tried all of the ways and almost all are fast exp. So, yes, if you like netting and dead fall traps more - you could do that just as well. I think it would be a bit slower but not by much.

jbpsycho Says:
July 27th, 2007 at 5:54 pm

nice, i only have 33 hunting, im using wagtails right now

Runescape player Says:
November 16th, 2007 at 12:49 pm

great article im currently lvl 50 hunter going for 99 13 lvls till red chins and the way to millions and the santa ive always wanted but instead of falconary im doing orange salamanders there fast exp if u can find a world wit no one u should add this to ur article

dylan Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 7:24 am

i went on this site to see if u make good money on hunter,
ppl said from lvl 1-99 hunter u can make 45mil :O,
so can u please respond saying wat lvl hunter u can start
making alot of money,
thx, i only go wc for mage lol so boring

Vaskor Says:
March 19th, 2008 at 2:52 pm

lvl 63 (Red Chinchompas) is where big money starts. But you can sell grey chinchompas too (lvl 53 I think), but 3-4 times less than red ones.

x z4m4r4k x Says:
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:59 pm

HUNTER IS GOOD CHINS R WORTH ABOUT 900 EA BUT FIREMAKING P W N S

the right man Says:
June 20th, 2008 at 1:38 am

if u hunt from 63 to 99 u will get about 48k red chinchompas which will sell for about 30 mil

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