A guide to all Protean Items (post changes)

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I know you aren't the biggest quester but could u do a quick and simple video on quest that have bonus rewards kinda like broken home where u can go back at base level 90 in all skills and collect the chest

I liked Protean Memories. The grind to level 70 for HOM was... so... slow... and the grind to level 80 was needlessly click intensive. Since I was using BXP on Divination, when DXP hit I was getting a satisfying amount of exp for basically no effort, it was worth it for that specific moment.

Have you checked gem cutting these days? Crafting doesn't cost money anymore

Shout-out to this one channel for explaining literally everything I need to know how to play this game I was just looking up what these are lol thanks :)

FYI, protean traps, planks, memories, and cogs CANNOT be converted to other protean items for the 2/3 ratio. As a nonmember, I’m screwed holding those in my bank 😐

The "select all" option for opening protean boxes is broken for newer types.
Planks definitely are the worst proteans if not cogs. If you want construction to be afk, you can make teak magic wardrobe flatpacks with the highest-tier plank box. This gives you 2-3 minutes of full afk per inventory iirc but I may be way off because it's been a loooong while. Might even be closer to like 30 seconds of AFK. No one should ever use protean cogs, regardless of their invention level. Also, this may be a hot take, but since the release of alternative methods for hunter (decaying guards, whirligigs) protean traps are extremely bad and not worth using, either. Logs are very good, but firemaking is not a skill anyone struggles with, so it's still probably best to convert them. Same goes for proteins. The ones you want to shoot for are bars, shakes, hides, and essences. I got 200m smithing for basically no cost at all with proteans and corrupted ores on DXPs, but the caveat is that about 30,000 of those corrupted ore were pre-nerf [Directly after the M+S rework, corrupted ore rates were absolutely broken]. I do also like memories, but that's only because I've maxed most of the other relevant skills for proteans and can't gain anything from them.

If you make Flatpack depackers you can create up to 60 flatpacks and you can even set them to note or disassemble them for simple parts. Just make sure to activate them first.

Does using the protean shakes (Herblore) on a portable well have any effects?

It should be noted that, currently, the only way to make a gp return on protean items is via flatpack construction with protean planks. It’s not a lot, because the prices of flatpacks are so abysmally low, but as far as I know this is the only way to turn protean items into a sellable resource.

Sorry but hides are one of the biggest wastes when it comes to proteans, the best crafting method in the game currently (cutting dstones) on mainscape is either a slight loss, break even or with brooch of the gods even a slight profit. No need to waste ur proteans on that!!

As far as crafting being an expensive skill, once I was able to make black dragonhide shields I started gaining xp fast and also made money. They take 4 leathers with each being 2k each right now, and the shields are 8k. Also considering the daemonheim crafting scroll unlock and the portable station you end up making a good amount of money. According to the wiki it's the same xp as cutting uncut dragonstone. It can also be sped up by storing some of the leathers in a bob familiar and withdrawing when inventory is getting low. Not afk at all but really good xp and gp so personally I wouldn't use protean leathers.

saved my proteans for 2 years and got 120 herb for free basically. im happy

Maybe it would be worth mentioning Brawling gloves?
G.E. smithing

I’ll grab my Mountain Dew High Voltage :)
I converted over 30k proteans that i had saved up over the years. I converted them into 30k shakes and got 120 Herblore during Dxp with over 11million bonus xp :)
I had about 15k leftover turned them into cogs. I have over 25k cogs now I wonder if I can get to 120 invention from 117 with 25k cogs?

cheeeeeeeers!!!! i have been waiting so long but i was SOOOOO HAPPY that they added protein shakes to protein packs this year hahahaha ESPECIALLY even just protein essence lol. my main probably has only like 80k proteins in pakcs i could pull out but since im already 120 herblore im not too pushed for any of it.... buuuuuuuuut its been A BLAST AF now that fsw has finished comp and th has snuck in~ that was a wiuld rush lol but atleast it makes some of the scary or expensive grinds a bit quicker like unlocking invention yep

Used about 30k protean shakes and 30m bonus xp to get 120 herb. Love when an expensive skill is free from banked daily keys

Pretty great video! One small question. If I have no proteans left to use for 99s and don't care about 120s at the moment, would it be good to just make some soul/blood runes with every single protean in my bank?

Would love to see a dungeoneering divination guide, then i can decide if protean memories are worth it :p

Protean shakes are so damn good. got 4 levels in just a couple hours of dxp and bonus xp. went from 106-110

Pro-tea-ann. Love the videos, hate how you say protean. Hearing you say protean protein about made me cry.

I was 82 herblore and converted all my proteans to shakes. It only took me about 9k shakes to get to 99 during double xp. Highly recommend

Protoxx are my favorite Protean

Another good piece of information for the newbies... you don't get skilling pets/fragments using proteans. However, you'll still receive memory strands using protean memories

I love this man and content. Amazing man. 👊💪

Writing off crafting training as a buyable skill is wrong. Crafting is at a place right now that you could get comparable xp rates as protean but actually make profit (case in point, attaching orbs to battlestaves and alching).

Motherlode maw also, my iron got a few from it

Returning player here. I got 102k protean hides and got boxes for another 50k of protean items. Currently sitting at 111m Herblore XP. Should I get shakes and get 200m XP? What other protean items is worth these days? Thanks!

You know in the past many of us joked about Herb Protean and Protean meat...now these are into the game. What's next? Protean Bones? Lol

All of my skills except invention which use protean items are lvl 99. So I have decided to convert all packs and items into shakes and train herblore during a dxp. I have managed to go from 99 to 105 herblore just this November dxp which has recently ended. Luckily the new proteans became available in the middle of active dxp.

I always did wonder about the protean power ups because the timers and numbers on UI did not match up

Crafting and smithing are profitable at decent xp rates. Wouldn't recommend proteans in these skills at all.

can u make a quick gide how to get ultra compost

P. Logs are also used for Croesus if you do not own a furnace core or fyr torch, like mentioned in the video P. Planks can be used as a stackable plank source for Construcion Contracts. personally i use P. Hides as a stackable xp source during croesus encounters to have something to do during downtime

I used protein shakes to get 99 herblore on my fresh start world character

bars are ideal for smithing brawlers

Just do warbands on a good day you can get 363k xp in either herb, smith, con

Better to save the protean for something else :)

Crafting is a profit, make royal d hide top/legs and alch, or cut d stones and alch (invention machine for alching)

I have 640 planks but i dont have the workbench

Currently trying to unlock invention during dxp right now. I am at 69 crafting and divination and about 58 smithing. I've only been using protean for this hahahah

I have a question for the very helpful Protoxx, if I'm smithing Elder Rune Burial from scratch (im not ironman but, hey, I got a thousand elder rune bars just sitting around) is that more xp/hr than Protean Bars? (which I have like, 5000 of)

just really want to get to 99 during double xp live

One thing I can't seem to find information on is when should I start using Proteans? Are they worth using whilst skills are still early on in the 1-50 range?

If you want to really get good rates with protean logs, get a can, go to wildy with a stack, get a pyro-matic on and make line fires. at 90+ fm it's over 1.5m xp/hr base, and on dxp if you grab all the buffs first I was getting over 4m xp/hr + many millions of invention as well.

Protean protein is the best because of the bad pun. End of debate.

I have a lot of proteans but gave up on using them because they took a very long time and I didn't see a point beyond max

omg this is the third guide, and it starts smithing guide with a character ALREADY SMITHING something, it took me like 15 minutes, trying to insert bar into the forge and finding some info of how to use it at all, and NOBODY tried to explain that the anvil will automaticly recognize an amount of bars in your inventory. your guides are useless, because you have no empathy on being a noob.

Would be interesting to hear your take on the skill training dummies, showing which ones are the best and worst ones to use

Should I use pulse cores or brooch of god's when using protean shakes?

This needs to be updated, as a lot has changed with proteans