So, whips are pretty useless now? What replaced it? I was thinking of picking this up casually again, since you can apparently buy Membership with coins. But man, I've been gone so long. I have 56m (I gave away 50m when I quit), Bandos Chest and Legs, Fury, Dragonfire Shield, Whip, Fire Cape. I was training mostly Slayer before I quit. Is that even a viable money making skill anymore?
Slayer is just ok money now.
I would say godswords replaced whips, they all do the same damage but each has it's own special effect which explains the price differences.
Dual wielding is generally considered better I believe, but I'm not sure how far down that goes.
I would probably go for a godsword if you can't get chaotic claws. The absolute best are Drygore weapons, which are currently 130-160 ish mil for a set.
Whips<Godsword<Chaotic Maul<Dual Wield Chaotics<Drygores.
Dragon fire shield is quite poor now, sell unless you do not have 85 Herblore.
Bandos is good, but I would star working on player owned ports to get Tetsu (you need 90 in one of a few skills).
Fire cape is still great for melee training, but can be upgraded now into a TokHaar-Kal.
Edit: If you wanted ways to make money to replace slayer, queen black dragon is a solo boss that gives consistent gold. Maybe the best thing you could do is get 85 dungeoneering, this would get you chaotic claw/longswords/rapiers and access to Frost Dragons which are around 2.75-4m per hour depending on if you have 95 summoning or not.
Slayer remains a great way to train combat though, and make a little bit of money while doing it. So if that is your intent, just continue that.
The reason I rank claws over rapiers or longswords is because claws cost 200k tokens while the other two cost 300k. Claws also come fully charged, the others are 25% or something when you get them.
