How did you balance maxing vs PVM

[red spade]

I rushed max and then have been on a 4 year PVM arc since
No regrets, you basically never run out of supplies these days
Just chiming in with what I did personally, not what I would recommend

[past marsh]

set goals imo, 30 cox , then 98 agil. or whatever. just an example. or arma piece to fortify your masori, then back to skilling for a bit, etc

[carmine rain]

Do whatever you like to do in the moment. It's a game have fun 🙂

[red spade]

Measure by EHP remaining rather than 99s remaining
Not each skill is same TTM after all

[hoary vault]

I did the complete opposite and put off maxing as long as I could. Doesn't make much difference either way

But pvm benefits maxing a lot more than the other way around

[wispy galleon]

I can only imagine having runes and pots ready to go, and max combat stats make getting into pvm a lot easier. What does pvm provide that skilling can't, outside of more herb XP?

[hoary vault]

There's a difference between "not maxing" and "not skilling at all and doing all pvm at 1000 total with void"

You can do pvm prep without doing useless skilling grinds

[wispy galleon]

Yeah, but there's not really any way to do pvm prep without skilling, and you can't really pvm to prep skilling afaik. So directly commenting on your statement, I don't really think that pvm benefits maxing more.

But to directly comment on OPs question, you probably should just do whatever is fun for you, but make sure to keep up herb and birdhouses

[vale grove]

U can bank smithing con herb cooking through pvm

[spring epoch]

prayer, craft, fletch, FM too technically

[vale grove]

Idk how I forgot prayer and crafting lol

[lunar granite]

my philosophy here is mostly that i do whatever i want at this point, but im also inspired by not nescesarily being in a rush to max, and training my skills to the point where no further gain happens. Beyond this, i am also inspired with letting supplies from the pvm contribute to xp required for max. after bis, if theres a deficit, i fill in the gaps with standard methods.

[red spade]

Yeah I think what Mad is saying here
(and what I agree with)
Is basically get the skills up to what they need to be so that ur not scuffed
Then PVM to finish off max
The definition of scuffed and how much skilling you're willing to do will vary
Not everyone wants to pot Sep for early money and that's fine
But conversely most people don't wanna pot zontent for 1k CoX either lol
So just pick whatever seems reasonable
Where you are right now is firmly "not scuffed" @ OP so prob just do whatever you find fun. Max if you want, PVM if you want, do both if you want, etc.

[last pulsar]

one issue is many skilling methods are far more useful when done early. ie sep to high 90s

if you are pvming then going to try to max, you are simply maxing for the sake of maxing. whereas the other way around maxing (at least for a bunch of skills) will directly benefit other grinds

( i have always pvmd first and never managed to find motivation to max)

get 99 rc, or... play a new account all the way up thru the early~midgame