Woodcutting vs Hunter

[Mint]

99 strength is coming up fast so I need to decide what I'm doing after it. I will be wanting this setup:

Helm of neitz/slayer helm
Fury
Bandos chestplate
Zerker ring
Whip
Rune defender
Bandos tassets
Dragon boots

I already have a bandos chestplate and about 10m remaining after I sell some of the stuff I used for 99 str. This means that I need to make around 20 mill for the rest. Might sound a lot to you but I could make it all quite quickly with a skill like woodcutting at the rate I train at.

It was all planned out until people started to persuade me to train hunter instead. When I get to 63 hunter (I'm lvl 1 now and know nothing about it) apparently you get around 20k xp per hour catching red chins, when at level 95 you get a constant 80k - 100k per hour which is over 3x as fast as cutting yews in terms of xp, makes more money as well from what I've heard (red chins). Without knowing anything about hunter I wanted to know from people on hxf if hunter is actually better than wc and if I should train hunter instead.

Thanks in advance +rep to all serious replies.

[user130523]

99 hunting takes around a month and brings you in like 35M so i'd do that first

and well woodcutting, takes like 2-3 months plus its REALLY boring (unless u bot)

[LiveToDie]

well, i enjoyed getting 99 hunter. it came to a point where i could watch a film and collect/set traps without hardly looking at the screen. its where i made my 1st large-ish amount of moneys :]

[Mint]

Ahh thanks, sound like hunter is the thing to do. I will certainly give it a good try and if it isn't for me then I'll wc. Hope it is for me though cos it works out a lot better.

[Imnotpure]

race u to 99 ill do wc

[Psoleos]

99 WC is not worth it, takes ages and doesn't make you that much money.

[Mint]

race u to 99 ill do wc

Gonna do hunter

99 WC is not worth it, takes ages and doesn't make you that much money.

Thanks, I've made my mind up and am definitely going to be hunting after 99 str (a few days).

[MJJ]

Woodcutting may be a lot slower than Hunter, but the problem with Hunter is that there is so much clicking. With Woodcutting, you can browse some forums, and check back every few minutes, but with Hunter, it is constant clicking.

Once you get to level 63 and start catching red chins, the spots are very very crowded. You will probably have to share your spot with at least 2 or 3 other people, and their not always the nicest people to talk to.

If you have the patience, then you should go for 99 Hunter, since it's faster, but you might get bored of it after a while.

[scottish]

be a man and get money thru slayer/monster killin

[Ed.]

Woodcutting is slow than hunter but it doesn't cost anything. it is also not boring because you can just watch a film or talk in irc while doing it.