Battlestaves for profit

A staple in my money making is high alching element battlestaves after having gone through the ritual of making nature runes, making and enchanting orbs, buying the staves and jamming the orb atop one. Doing all this guarantees a steady profit of 2300 gp each staff.

There's a few bits of bother in making the elemental staves from scratch. You need at minimum: 54 crafting (putting water orb on staff), 56 magic (enchanting water orb) and 56k gp (to buy staves, more if you buy molten glass). Some of this has to be done or else it's not profitable. If you aren't into doing all this or don't have the skills, you can just go buy the battlestaves from Zaff and resell them on the GE. Wearing any variable of the Varrock diary armor improves the amount of staves you can buy each day - 16, 32 or 64 for levels 1, 2 and 3. Without it, you're only going to get 8 battlestaves a day.

Getting sand and seaweed for molten glass can be easy or troublesome. The easy method is pick up sand from Bert in Yanille, provided you've complete the quest The Hand in the Sand, then teleport to Catherby and buy seaweed from Arhein (talk to him). The other way is to scoop up buckets of sand from a sandpit (Yanille by house portal, Zanaris by cows and Entrana by hops patch) and gather seaweed from a coastline (north of Rellekka's rock crabs near Olaf or Entrana west of the law altar). Again, making the glass comes in two methods. The easy one is using a lunar magic spell, Superglass Make, and the harder is to cook seaweed on a range for soda ash and taking it and sand to a furnace.

Choosing an obelisk to enchant the orbs is personal. The air and earth obelisks are in the wilderness part of Edgeville dungeon and subjected to revenants (air) or revenants and poison spiders (earth), while the water and fire obelisks are deep in Taverly dungeon where the black dragons live (water is up a ladder between dragons and hellhounds). For myself, I make fire orbs as they're the easiest for me to get to now that I can use the agility shortcut by hellhounds. Most people tend to make air orbs and teleport back to Edgeville with a glory ammy. Beasts of burden (BoB) will carry orbs, but keep in mind it's a juggle to swap inventories.

Here is how I do it. I collect sand and seaweed every day for a week or so, then go to Moonclan island and switch over to lunar spells. I equip a fire staff since I have too many air runes, get enough air and astral runes to make all the sand and seaweed into glass, then take out 13 seaweed and 13 sand. The spell is so lovely because it converts the whole inventory and gives bonus glass per cast. Now I blow all of it into orbs and go enchant them into fire orbs. My only worry in Taverly is getting nommed by a dragon, so I keep the anti-dragon shield readied. The blade jump shortcut is fast, though watch out for the poison spiders if your combat is less than 129. I use the west bank in Falador, either using a Falador tele tab or the cabbage port of the explorer's ring when I forget a tele tab.

The bottom line: what kind of profit do I make each week? I spend 3,185,000 gp on buying battlestaves and get back 4,231,500 gp for high alching 455 fire battlestaves. My net profit is 1,046,500 gp.