This guide contains the best Thieving money making methods for Runescape 3. The easiest and quickest way to get Runescape Gold is by buying it at an online store, but if you want to farm yourself, here are your opportunities:
Stealing Cave Goblin Wire
This method has very little requirements while yielding decent gold for starter accounts. The only two things you are going to need are:
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Level 44 Thieving
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Completion of the quest “Death to Dorgeshuun”
You are going to be stealing wires from the wire machine, which can be found in the southwest area of the city. Once stolen the wire respawns after 6 seconds, so a full inventory takes about 5 minutes. It is best to combine this method with high alching any profitable item to increase profits.
GP/H: 2.1M EXP/H: 7K
Pickpocketing Crux Eqal Knights
This is a high level Thieving method that makes decent money while yielding good experience rates. Here are the requirements to do this method efficiently:
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Level 83 Thieving, 99 is recommended
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Completion of the quest “The Light Within”
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Crystal mask spell
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Light form prayer
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Legendary five-finger discount aura
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Master camouflage outfit
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Seed bag
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Ardougne cloak 3
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Lava battlestaff
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Grace of the elves
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Ancient elven ritual shard
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Holy scarab pouch
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Large rune pouch for storing runes for crystal mask
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Mystical sand seed
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Luck of the dwarves or any tier 4 luck enhancer
The combination of Light form, Crystal mask, Legendary five-finger discount aura and the master camouflage set will make your pickpocket success rate 100%.
GP/H: 2.1M EXP/H: 500K
Stealing From Vegetable Stalls
This is a great method to make some cash on freshly created accounts. It only requires level 2 Thieving to do. This stall can be found just north of the bank chest in Lumbridge. Steal from the stall until your inventory gets full, then bank at the chest nearby to repeat.
GP/H: 1.6M EXP/H: 14K
Pickpocketing Paladins
Pickpocketing paladins yields chaos runes and coins. Although it is recommended for you to do other methods if you are this high level in Thieving, you can still do this if you do not have access to the other methods. Here are the requirements:
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Level 70 Thieving, 99 is recommended
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Completion of the quest “The Light Within”
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Crystal mask
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Light form
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Master camouflage outfit
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Magpie pouch
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Medium or higher Ardougne achievements
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Lava battlestaff
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Grace of the elves
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Ancient elven ritual shard
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Stick fingers relic power
With level 99 Thieving and with the combination of Crystal mask, Light form, Medium Ardougne achievements and a Magpie your pickpocket success rate becomes 100%.
GP/H: 1M EXP/H: 450K
Pickpocketing Elven Workers
This is a very high level Thieving method but is very low on intensity. There are a lot of requirements for this method:
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Level 99 Thieving
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Level 90 Magic
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Level 62 Summoning
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Level 80 Prayer
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Master camouflage outfit
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Thieving cape
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Legendary five-finger discount aura
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Completion of the quests “Plague’s End” and “The Light Within”
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Abyssal lurker pouch with abyssal lurker scrolls
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Crystal mask
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God banner
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Attuned crystal teleport seed
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Elemental battlestaff
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Light form
This is a really AFK method, although you will need to bank once your inventory gets full. While pickpocketing, you can get caught which stops your auto-pickpocket, once you are caught 3 times you can’t continue to pickpocket from that clan for 20 minutes. So once you are caught three times, rotate to the closest next clan and continue. You will never run out of clans to pickpocket, as before you come back to where you have started, the cooldown on your pickpocket ban would have been lifted.
Also in Prifddinas, the Voice of Seren will continuously rotate between clans. You should always prioritise pickpocketing from the clans that the Voice of Seren is currently on. This will yield 20% more experience per hour.
The gold per hour does not account for the clue scrolls. If you want to maximise your profits you should complete all the clue scrolls that you get.
GP/H: 670K EXP/H: 250K
