Amduseias' Little Guide to Everything

Writer's Notes

Hello to all and welcome to Amduseias little guide of EVERYTHING runescape. I will attempt to teach you tricks of the trade in this guide to help you along your runescape career. Everything in this guide is based solely on my opinions and is not for everyone. If you choose to follow my footprint design I will GUARANTEE your success on becoming a better player. As you grow in levels, your knowledge of the game will grow as well and you will be better suited to making decisions of your own. I hope the best for all who read this and apply it to their gaming strategies. The guide contains many things from my own personal experiences as well as the many things I've learned from a multitude of sources and I will attempt to compile them for you in a presentable manner that will teach you as I have learned. Again best of luck and happy scaping. - Amduseias

Combat Skilling General

Before I delve into the vast explanations of how and where to train things I want to make some general rulings that apply to all types of combat training.

1 - Gear up! ALWAYS train with the best equipment you can use. If you have 10 attack and are using a bronze mace your cutting you damage per hour and reducing the amount of exp you will recieve. There is NO excuse for using sub par equipment to train with until your well past using rune weaponry. Rune itself is very cheap as you will find later in the game and with the free money from tasks and strongholds you should have no problem affording your gears.

2 - Preparation! Know your opponent and exploit its weaknesses. Although most free to play characters wont have to deal with monster weak to specific attacks, as a member you will run into this often. Know when to slash, when to crush and when to stab! Free to play members will also learn this valuable knowledge in Demonheim. Many of the monsters there are weak to a single specific attack and need to be ground down with it as best as possible. Also keep in mind a few questions. Can I survive without food? Is the monster poisonous? Is the monster disease riddled? Know what food and antidotes to take with you.

3 - Drink up! Potions are one of the players best methods to speed up training. As a free player you are very limited. The only potion your allowed is the strength potion, which will boost your strength by a moderate amount for a short period of time. This will however increase your damage in turn making you level faster! Mages can drink wizards mind bomb for temporary gain to magic level but, overall this would make for very ineffective training. Range lovers, you got nothing. Members shine here like a new penny. You have such an over abundance of potions, nothing can hold you back. Familiarize yourself with combat potions and supersets (Super attack, strength, and defence potions) for maximum gains with the potted stats. You also later have access to range potions for boosted range damage and extreme potions for furthering any of the potions effects. Ontop of these you have prayer potions for long periods of invincible training outtings.

So long as you follow those three main rules, you have the basics for leveling up at an extremely accellerated rate. This being said, GET OUT THERE AND LEVEL!!!

A somewhat brief overview of weapons

Weapons in runescape come in many shapes and sizes. As a player its is absolutely necessary you learn what each one really has to offer you in terms of use.

Melee Weapons include three major groups: Slashers, Stabbers, and Crushers. Most weapons contain at least 2 of those attack styles and a couple actually contain all 3! I will give a general list of the weapons that puts them in the category they act best in. Daggers and swords are best for stabbing. Longswords, scimitars, two handed swords, battle axes, claws and halberds all primarily belong to the slashing family though the halberds stab and two handed sword or battle axes crush should not be taken for granted in a pinch. The least used weapons are the crushers. These include war hammers and maces. There are two specific weapons I left out on purpose. This group contains the Spears and Hasta's which can use all three types of attacks with equal bonus to all attacks.

After you figure out your weapon type your going to want to focus on your weapons speed which is a large reason crush weapons get left in the dust. Daggars, scimitars, swords and claws ring in for the fastest attacking weapons. following them in respective order are maces, long swords, hastas, spears, war hammers, battle axes, two handed swords and halberds.

Spears, hastas and daggers all have another consideration. These three items may be poisoned on members worlds for more damage. The poison usually takes effect within 4-8 hits. Based on the poison you use you can inflict up to 68 poison damage every 18 seconds! You should note that this type of damage does not actually give you any exp. For killing many monsters on a slayer task or trying to kill monsters to farm loot, all the damage helps them go down that much faster though.

Last and definitely not least are the special attacks of some weapons to consider when selecting your leveling buddy. Once you get into the dragon weapons and some specialty weapons like abyssal whip or granite maul, you have special move energy. A weapons special move alone can make your exp growth all the faster. Some of the more popular special moves are :

• Rampage - Dragon Battle Axe, Boosts strength while lowering attack defence range and magic. Best paired with stat restore potions. If you follow my guide though this skills will be pretty useless. The combat potions boost both your accuracy and your damage. With such a low price on them this skill has been nerfed out.

• Cleave - Dragon Long Sword, attack with much higher accuracy.

• Puncture - Dragon Dagger, two quick hits costing only 25% of your special move energy. Although your accuracy suffers a bit this move can dish out 8 hits in 4 hits time, a great leveling addition.

• Slice and Dice - Dragon Claws, 8 hits in the space of 2 attacks! Although this seems like a great deal the damage of the 2nd 3rd and 4th hits on each attack is greatly reduced. Better to stick with the Dragon Dagger unless your trying to kill things with one special attack.

Attack

Attack is levelled for two main reasons. One being the purpose of gaining an accuracy bonus upon your opponents. The second being that it provides you the requirement for using higher level equipments.

Low Levels (1-39)
Through the low levels (1-39) youll want to use a Scimitar of the highest quality you can get at all times (short of the black scimitar for its price). Monsters you will want to focus on will include goblins, chickens, cows, monks, imps, al kharid warriors, and even scorpions. If your really feeling spunky you can buy a leather armor set and train on the wizards at the wizard tower as well. Just remember their spells hit through Metal armor much more accurately then the leathers.

Members might also consider starting to use Tureal as their slayer master for tasks like crawling hands, cave bugs, and cave slugs. As you level you should keep up with whatever slayer master will serve your purpse most since you can always cancel by returning to Tureal.

Mid Levels (40-59)
Through the mid levels (40-59) you'll be able to start using weapons of the games namesake, the wonderful rune arsenal. Although you may want to grab that super sweet gigantic rune two-handed sword... just remember it's about as fast as a slug in your home garden. Leave the two-Handers to the pkers. Stick with your scimitars and maybe even a longsword at this point. Scimitars of this grade will have to be bought of of players or in the Grand Exchange. Good Monsters to run through these levels include Hill Giants, Hobgoblins, Moss Giants, Black/White Knights, Red Spiders, Skeletons, and Lesser Demons.

Members at these levels should definitely at least start slayer for the well known fact that slayer monsters drop better loot for their combat level. They are also an abundant source of herbs for leveling your own herblore or making a large sum of money for more training gear.

Higher Levels (60+)
For the higher levels (60+), it all depends on if your a member or not really. Members will be ready to move onto the tougher dragon equipment at 60. They will also be able to use the ultimate attack levelling weapon, the abyssal whip, at level 70 attack. Not a member do not despair.... read on =).

This section is for the non-member players. Because rune weaponry is your final stop, you will want to stick to 3 main weapons. The scimitar, longsword, and battle-axe. The scimitar will hit the fastest, the battle-axe the hardest and the longsword being a decent median between the two aforementioned. Enemies to train on at this advanced level are rather difficult to train on since by this point you will be ready for much tougher monsters. My personal suggestion is Moss Giants on crandor, Lesser Demons in Karamja Volcano, or Ice Giants and warriors in the Blurite Dungeon. If you have a decent fishing and cooking level you can bring a hatchet and tinder with you to karamja. Fill your inventory with lobsters or swordfish and cook them as well. From here you can go to any of the three locations to train quite well. Bring along some high alch runes as well if you want to save space by alching steel, mithril, or rune drops for exp and money. Spiders and ankous can be killed in the stronghold of security but they will deal more vicious attacks to a rune equipped warrior then a better equipped member character. The ankous also dont drop nearly as good for non-members hence the three better options are listed above IN MY OPINION. Whatever you choose is up to you, this is only a recommendation.

Members, members, members... There isn't enough space for me to write a complete guide to every which way you can continue to level at this point. Therefore i will cover two main strategies. The first is power-levelling. It only makes sense with this being a guide on levelling attack. There are 3 main ways I would recommend you go about this. The first involves investing money into a good armor set. Rune will work but dragon, barrows, or god sets are most ideal. After gearing up you have 2 main choices. Fighting spiders or fighting ankous. Each have their own inherent pros and cons. While fighting spiders gives no loot, the spiders in the stronghold of security present little to no threat while using combat potions or super sets with small amounts of food. They can be found on the third floor of the stronghold and appear in massive numbers. The ankous will drop significant loot to improve your runescape life and they will drop bones in which you can make food using the spell bones to peaches or using bones to peaches tabs. Either is a good venture for the person looking for a great deal of fast experience. The second option is more of a cash sink, but works wonders when trying to powerlevel. Using prayer potions and supersets you can do massive nonstop fighting damage to zombie monkeys on ape atoll island. This requires you to do the monkey madness quest but is very well worth it to the player looking for maximum returns of experience. Ontop of supersetting you can use the Salve Ammy or salve ammy (e) to boost your damage another 15% or 20% respectively. This can give you phenominal returns. You can also use this amulet on Armoured Zombies for great exp (after the defender of varrock quest) with an altar nearby or on the aforementioned ankous. The third and last real strategy I will present is the most profitable of the three. It involves training directly in relation to slayer. Slayer monsters tend to drop the highest quality good for monsters of the same combat level rating and therfore increase your per capita per kill. Though you will level slower, you will gain more money while doing so thus enabling you to train other skills to support your training such as herblore, magic, prayer and/or summoning. A worthy note here is that you can get a black mask which will provide you with a 15% rise in attack and strength against any monster your slaying. Later in the game you will be able to make a slayer mask (after smoking kills and using points to unlock it) which is even better. While providing the 15% boost it also supplies an ample defense that the mask itself does not support. Best of luck levelling your attack =)

Strength

OH MY, what a short section this shall be. Why you might ask? You only need to know what its for and the weapon differences involved really. Other then that the guidelines follow the same strategies as attack.

Okay so why level strength? Strength increase your damage and allows for certain weapons to become available for members. With combat, exp is gained through damage. So no strength equals, you guessed it, smaller portions of exp. Thats just not what we are about so how do we level it?

Your going to stick to your attack guns here and ride a scimitar all the way to level 60. Once you hit 60 as a free player, your going to continue down the attack strategic path. As a member however, things are about to get a bit different. You now have a few choices to make weaponwise. The tough part is that each of them has pretty much its own required quest. the dragon scimitar with dragon defender will be the best strength training you can get off relatively low requirements. The new Brackish Blade is effective as well but at around 4x the price of the scimitar. Once you hit level 70 you open the option of training with the saradomin sword which is the second best weapon to train with in my opinion. The final and best training weapon combo would be Korasi's Sword (obtained in the pest control quest series) and a dragon defender. If you train with it in a multizone it will hit up to 3 opponents with a decent magic damage hit giving you a small portion of magic experience as well.

Defence

Defence, like attack, has two main functions. It boosts your chance of negating damage and it is a required stat for equipping armors. Defense itself also provides a 30% bonus to resisting magic damage making it an invaluable skill to have. For the training plan, we want to stick with the attack guide plan. You should use the same weapons as the attack guide recommends. Although all weapons with train defense, the abyssal whip along with dragon defender at high levels is still your best option. Monotonous I know, but I do want you to succeed. There are 3 basic armor types and that's all I will be covering in this section.

Metal Armors are the typical armor of choice for the meleer. They provide a "tank" like setup that covers the player heard to toe in metal. Obviously this is the best armor to wear if you plan on going to be smacked around by a troll or what not. Magic however conducts through metal like lightning through a puddle. Don't ever wear metal armor against a mage. This will be your main armor throughout most of the game. Wearing these armors relies solely on your defence level.

Leather armors are friends of the ranging community. Unlike Metal armor they actually boost your magic defense rating and give a decent bonus to your ranged attacks. Leathers are also much less expensive then metal armors for the most part. Almost any part of the higher version leathers including frog, snake, and dragon leather armor can be bought in the grand exchange for a cheap price. A common trick to getting a high range boost with a little extra defence is to wear a coif, leather chaps and a chainmail shirt or a high level leather torso with metal leggings and helm. These items typically require a range level equal to the defense level needed for them to be utilized.

The last armor comes in the form of mages robes. These low defensive items are made solely for boosting the power of mages spell accuracy. Unless you are training magic specifically these will not be used. Leathers provide a much higher magical defense base. Metal armors provide a much higher defence base against range and melee attacks. Not much else to be said about these items other then for their defensive capabilities they are well overpriced. Use them solely for offensive modifiers. As with the rangers leathers, these typically require a magic level equal to the defence level required to wear them.

Ranged

Now for a skill with some more finesse to it then simply running at your opponent head on. Or is it? To be honest throughout my runescape career I have found this skill to be quite a treat. When I was lower in levels I thought that I literally had to hide from nearly everything I fought in order to get enough out of a trip to make skilling worthwhile. One word summarizes this behavior, WRONG. Unless you are fighting some of the larger monsters in the game starting from say combat levels 80-90, there is no real reason you cant get toe to toe with them in combat. True you will take more damage from them then if you were wearing full metal gear. For the most part though you will be able to do successful trips off nothing more then any enemy that drops bones. Nowadays you can train quite easily while using bones to peaches scrolls or, at high sumoning levels, things like bunyips and titans. These healing methods provide enough health on most occasions to make safespotting no more then a nuisance. It is true that you will want to hide from a lvle 170 black demon with its abilities to hit well into the 150+ range, but most people wont even use melee armor on them and talk tough. Rangers are not the pitiful hiding creatures people point them out to be except against the highest of levelled beasts. Even then, that is when people begin to revere them for their masterful archery that takes down the strongest of bosses with high levelled enchanted bolts. A master Ranger is truly in my opinion a master of combat.

Lower Levels (1-39)
For the lower levels (1-39 as was the case with melee) you will be constantly upgrading your equipment through a barrage of wood types for the best bonus accuracy possible. Only use Bronze or iron arrows for training as the higher levelled ones will cost you more then you most likely make on loot.Though some people would steer you to a amulet of accuracy which is a good free alternative, you will eventually want the diamond amulet of power. Upgrade your bows and leathers accordingly. I would support a charachter keeping his range level with his defense in this scenario and sporting chainmail with his leathers for the boosted defensive bonus. Range can be trained on a plethora of creatures from the lowly chicken up to guards with ease. A very strong way to level through these lower levels would be in the first floor area of the stronghold of secuity. The minotaurs there drop a large amount of arrows so you can constanly range and there is plenty of cover if you are low on life and need to hide while fighting. Just because you can go toe to toe, doesnt mean you have to =). This is truly a decent levelling spot right up to the 40 mark but you can always adjust to change. The low level ranger can pick on wizards in the wizards tower while sporting full leather for a decent bonus while stocking up on low level runes for training magic as well. If you train magic while levelling your range you will build up even more magic defense! Thats right and you will find out in more detail in the magic section. If you are low on cash you can always keep a sword handy for when you run out of arrows. The leathers will not be detrimental to your melee attack bonuses. Utilizing these two areas alone should give you good sport while steadily increasing your supplies and monetary flow. Other good spots include the barbarian halls in Barbarian Village, the jail in port sarim, the sewers of both Varrock and Edgeville and the guard house or wilderness ditch on the north side of Edgeville. Members will have the ability to knock out rockcrabs around the Fremminik province but these will work just as well for serving your lower level needs.

Mid Levels (40-69)
For the mid levels (40-69) you can continue killing the same old beasts, thats right it will still work. Personally I would move on to the stronger game at this point however. At level 40 you an unlock green dragonhide chaps and vambraces without the dragonslayer quest. The dragon slayer quest will however unlock the dragonhide torso which can help to make a transition in armor. Once you have succesfully unlocked the dragonhide armor top you can move onto using a dragonhide top with rune helm and rune legs for great defensive capabilities. For the most part full green hide with just a rune helmet vs a coif should be ample defence for most enemies. At this point you should be using a yew bow only until you can opt for a magic bow for members. Only use iron or steel arrows for training as the higher levelled ones will cost you more then you most likely make on loot. Once you are feeling confident as player you can start going into the lower areas of the stronghold of security for flesh crawler, spider, and even catebolpas kills. Again your leather armor will help protect against the magic attacks of the catebolpas so you can effectively train on them. Personally in this scenario I would stick with the crawlers. Although low level you tend to get faster kills leading to more experience. Around the world new options open including safespotting lesser demons and going toe to toe with hill or moss giants. You can also try ranging inside the black knights fortress across tables or toe to toe if your feeling brave. Getting your fishing up will help to fish and train right around karamja which contains most of the more feared creatures on the free to play map. Alch runes are always welcome to turn those heavy steel mith and rune drops into cold hard cash. Members should definitely get into slaying during these levels as most slayer monsters can be safe spotted or are weak enough they shouldn't be able to break through your defenses. Once again I will repeat that slayer monsters do drop higher valued items for the most part then their equally levelled counterparts.

High Levels (70+)
Last but not least, the high levels (70+). Congratulations, your well on your way to becoming a boss killing behemoth. Although people tend to wait for the 90+ stages for this type of activity, with enchanted bolts you can start at 70 with ease. A few lucky shots and your team will be doing great.

By now you have learned in free to play the best way to safe spot and save your energy when necessary and kill the most efficient enemies for quick kills. Unfortunately for you there are not many venues that open to you past lesser demons. Your best bet at finding new adversaries lies in demonheim and unfortunately, in my opinion, the bosses and monsters here are much more a slave to the meleer. Keep to your guns and you will get better as time goes by, I wish you all the luck in runescape to getting stronger.

Members, your turn! At level 70 you have many options open including higher levelled hides including black dragonhide (poor man's leathers). Although the wealthy don't tend to adorn them as much as Karil's or Armadyls sets you don't have to worry about being effective in battle. You can still make quite the killing in loot. Now to talk you through your choices of continued experience gain. Just like with melee there are only a few prefferred methods and it boils down mostly to money or exp. Youll learn this tends to be the way with almost all skills. Slaying will help you to boost your monies while powerlevelling will lead to incredible gains of xp per hour at a cost. Since this is a levelling guide we will start with powerlevelling. As a member you have access to a unique weapon called a chinchompa or as they are more commonly referred, chins. Chins are basically exploding rodents that you throw at monster. They benefit is that you hit every monster in a 3x3 area of effect. Great monsters to use this on include zombie monkeys in the ape atoll cave, as well as mummies and nechreyeals in the chaos tunnels. Keep in mind, nechreyeals require you have lvl 80 slayer and a nosepeg. Slaying should be easy breezy and you should know your safespots through trial and error. You should also be able to judge your situation quickly now to know when to hide and when to face your enemies. Just gather loot and sell. A good strategy is to sell loot each time you level your range or slayer. That gives you some positive motivation to kill =). If slayer doesn't seem to be your niche either then you can always range higher level monsters at random. Rangers can deal with demons, prismatic dragons, metal dragons and many other creatures with ease. Crossbows with enchanted bolts are a good but costly option for these strong enemies. They really speed up your kills and more kills means more drops. Hopefully some of those are rare ones. Good luck on becoming a true master of range!

Magic

Magic is a bit tricky. There are really two main ways to leveling it up. You will have to choose which form you would prefer. Combat or non-combat. Combat training will give you experience in both magic and hit-points with the option to train defense. Although both ways work perfectly well, some players opt to train magic without raising hit-points for the purpose of keeping their combat level lower. The lower combat level helps give them a competitive edge for pking (player killing). This is not a pking or pure guide however so that will be my only mention of it in this magic guide. The main reason I bring this up for training a main character however is that it is not always necessary to be leveling your hit-points when you could train faster doing non combat spells.

For the combat portion of my guide I will go into some of the finer points of how, where and why to use what. It is imperative that you realize while training in combat situations, you will have next to nothing for defensive bonuses. While training as a combatant you want to boost your casting accuracy to the extreme. Robes enhance this ability the best and being little more then padded cloth, dont protect you from monsters well. Just imagine what being scratched by a large animal would do if you were wearing a small cloth glove versus a metal gauntlet or leather animal training glove. Better exp comes from hitting higher and harder though, so defence will be our lowest priority.

For the non-combative player, what you wear really doesn't matter after the lower levels are taken care of. You will mostly focus on debilitating monsters with no care of killing them and using magic on a plethora of items just to do it. It can lead to fortune or famine depending upon the time spent researching your goal. These spells will include curses, alchemy, super heating and teleporting for non-members. Other options open to members including the lunar spell book which contains many more non combat spells along with the regular spell books higher level curses. Just keep in mind while doing this that just because you aren't getting loot, doesn't mean you can't make money.

A final note for those ready to train magic is that you can always opt to do the mini-game Fist of Guthix for a reliable source of free experience in the skill. I don't want to get too far away from the main focus of skill training in this guide but, I will mention this as a possible jump starter.

Low Levels (1-42)
For the low levels (1-42) You will want to do any small quests gaining magic exp for the early levels and possibly begin runecrafting. Magic can be very expensive to level up in the early stages without.

For our low level combatants we will look into doing the blood pact quest as a first priority. Throughout the quest you will recieve what is essentially a free staff of air. This will allow you to do the starting wind rush spell for no rune cost. This spell will be strong enough to kill most of the lower level creatures in lumbridge and the surrounding areas with no real need for food or protection. Once you are able a good investment would be to obtain some magic robes for boosted accuracy with your combat spells. Advance in levels up until you reach the ability to cast fire strike and buy yourself a load of air runes and a fire staff. You will need 2 air runes and 1 mind rune per cast but 2 air runes is usually cheaper then paying for 3 fire runes. Just keep an eye on the grand exchange to see what is priced to better suit your needs. You will be using this spell all the way up to at least level 39 when crumble undead becomes available. Crumble undead is an alternative cheap spell for leveling faster but will stiff cost you more in the long run. A good rule of thumb is to remember that the higher level the spell is, the more you pay to use it. Most of the time you will want to be standing behind a gate or safe spotted in some other way since even low level monsters will be able to break through your defenses. Just like the ranger you may want to stick in the stronghold of security for the first portion of your journey into mage hood so you can shoot from behind walls while collecting loot.

For the non-combative type player you will want to follow the first portion of the combat guide by doing the blood pact. Get your free staff and follow up with the witch's potion quest as well. Once you've done this you should start gathering up a suit of bronze armor along with a water or earth staff. Whichever staff you choose won't matter as long as you buy runes opposite of the staff decision. You will also need to start building up a supply of body runes. Once you have these items equipped you will have a severely low magic attack bonus which will be perfect for what you will be doing. The basic idea will be to go to a gated monster and cast curse, weaken and confuse spell on them. You are doing it right if you are constantly missing and getting splashes. The point of the bronze is to make you incredibly inaccurate so that your spells miss consistently. This allows you to cast over and over again for great gains on your experience. Teleports can also be used for some faster experience as long as you remember higher spells will cost you more money. That is a consistent rule whether your combative or non combative.

Mid Levels (43-58)
Now for our mid level mages (43-58). These will be much harder to gain using your traditional methods so we will hope to bump them up a little bit.

For our combatants I would recommend moving onto either crumbling the undead or using air blasts. Crumbling will do a bit more damage but air blast will give a bit more base exp which may be better for you short term. These levels will get progressively more expensive and runecrafting may need to be implemented for these levels when the costs begin to rise. Members will find there are many small things the can do such as gathering herbs to make up lost cash but non-members won't have that luxury. Learning to mine your own essence and craft efficiently will be near vital for you. Learning what monsters to kill can also play a vital role in your costs. Creatures like flesh crawlers and lesser demons drop very good amounts of fire runes for instance. If you seem to be lagging behind others that are leveling their magic keep in mind that not many people choose this as a first skill because of the cost behind it. Don't be afraid to pick up sword and shield to gain funds until your ready for the big leagues. This is the end of the road for free to play combatants so the next section will be members only combat.

Okay non-combatants, your turn again. Once you reach level 43 you will be switching to super heating items. This skill will be an invaluable addition to your money making arsenal when used correctly. Simply get your mining and smithing up to around level 15 each. This will allow you to mine iron ores mine around 2000 and bank them for good measure. This will give you roughly 70,000 mining exp alone and a good way to make money to support your magic loving habits when coins seem to fade. What you want to do is buy nature rune in the ge and using a fire staff, superheat the ores so that they all turn into bars. Its that simple and you can probably pump out nearly 1500 of these an hour doing this. When you cast the spell it is important to notice that not only are you gaining some magic experience, but also gaining smithing experience for each bar made. Once you are at 30 smithing you can buy coal for your iron and make steel bars which sell for a good bit more and provide you with higher exp per bar. This will actually slow you down in the long run though since you can only do 9 per inventory versus the 27 per inventory of iron. Regardless the only real point in doing this is to get to that wonderful level 55 where your best friend will be accompanying you throughout the rest of free world leveling. As a non combatant can expect to click 395,932 times roughly from the time they hit level 55 to the time they hit 99. It will take roughly 197,966 casts of high alchemy. The best thing to do is keep up on your research in the grand exchange and find something that will make a small or decent profit with each cast. With that many casts even a 5 coin profit turns into around a million coin profit. You can also start training other skills and use the end result as your transmutation item such as making iron or steel plate bodies. This is the end of the road for non-combatant free players as well. The next section will not contain a leveling guide for free players.

High Levels (60+)
The high levels (60+) will be glad to know that even if you are a free player, your magic defence rises with each level. The next two sections apply explicitly to members as i have stated in previous sections.

Member combatants will want to go ahead and do the desert treasure quest. This will bring you into being able to do the advanced ancient magics that will start providing some high experience gains. A huge word of caution goes out when I mention that although these spells will help you to level quickly, they fall back on the typical runescape rule which is that you typically gain money OR exp. These spells will deplete your funds in-game very quickly and if not trained with properly, will do so without giving you significant gains over the old spells. The main purpose of these spells are to hit in multi-combat zones similar to the chinchompa scenario I described earlier. Personally I would stay away from nechreyeals with this method and instead substitute in rock lobsters. Its been proven that this can be one of the least costly methods for using these skills while adding charms to your bank for summoning at an alarming rate. While slaying it is highly recommended you use a hexcrest or full slayer helmet for a 15% boost to your magic damage and making you gain more exp on each of those costly casts. I would still recommend you to the previous methods for efficient training but if you want expidited experience, this is the way to go. In a single hour you can look for gains of 200,000+ magic experience but easily lose 1.5-2 million coins worth of runes. It is extremely important that if you plan on trying this with mummies or zombie monkeys that you have a protection from melee prayer. They will kill you very quickly with their strong melee attacks otherwise.

Non-combat members I would like you to look toward another spell book instead. Although you are free to use high-alchemy just as free players would, you have lunar spells to aid you as well. Lunar spells can help you to gain even faster exp through stringing amulets, baking pies, and making planks using your spells. This will again cost more but expedite your magic exp in some cases up to twice as fast as alching. As far as regular spells go you can also start enchanting bolts (ruby and higher are faster exp then alching), making teletabs (less exp per hour but positive income) and enchanting higher level jewelry. The mage training area is also open to you. You can cast enchantments for slightly less exp per cast here. Casting the dragonstone and onyx enchantments in the enchantment room is ideal if you use a mud staff or lava staff respectively since each cast will only cost you one cosmic rune. The bonus shapes don't have to be enchanted for this exp but, can be followed through with if your trying to get the bones to peaches spell or infinity gear. A couple of tricks you can do for leveling include hunter kit stringing and alchemy stunning. You can cast both the hunter kit spell and string amulet spell at the same time for enhanced exp gains upwards of 200,000 exp per hour. The other method involves cast stun and high alchemy at the same time, albeit more expensive, and can get upwards of 300,000 exp per hour.

I fully believe following these methods can earn you the 99 magic you are seeking in minimal time and hope this section helps you along. Good luck on developing your magic skill and becoming a great mage in Runescape.

Constitution

This should be the easiest skill you will ever train. This skill ties in all of the above skills just by being a skill. Each time you damage an opponent, no matter how you do it, you will gain a small portion of experience in your constitution skill. Constitution affects your life points and can be easily figured out by multiplying your constitution level by 10. There's really not much to tell you about how to train this skill since each guide above is dictated toward the combat that will level it in the best way which covers how to train this skill in the best ways.

On a side note I will explain that through some mini games, such as Pest Control and Soul Wars, you can actually single out your constitution experience. This will allow you to level your constitution skill faster increasing your life points.

Lastly, it is important for members to note that there are certain healing items affected by this skill. Sweet corn, when eaten, grants you a 10% healing bonus of your max hp. Saradomin brews give roughly a 15% healing boost with an addition to defense much like a super defense potion. It also lowers your other combat stats though and should only be taken with a restore or super restore potion handy. Also unicorn familiars restore roughly 15% of your health with their healing aura special ability. They also carry the ability to cure poisons and diseases with a simple right click ability.

Prayer

This will be the first of two combat skill guides that don't actually have to involve combat. The guide is very short for non-members only because there are very limited items for you to use. Regardless of how you level it, this is one of the best skills in the game. It has the ability to make you invulnerable to enemies for periods of time, boost your skills, leech your opponents skills, protect your items, regenerate your body and much more. Now lets get into what one of the most powerful skills in the game has to offer.

Free players, as I said before you don't have a whole lot of options. You basically get bones/burnt bones (4.5xp), monkey bones(5xp), big bones (15xp), impious ashes(4xp) and accursed ashes(12.5xp). You can make a mid level prayer urn as well for the ashes which will give you a 20% bonus prayer modifier and collect the drop automatically. That's all you will be able to do for training. On a side note there is an area in the wilderness that is north of varrock. It sprawls all sorts of bones around and can be a place to quickly gain some prayer exp. You will find it right next to a chaos alter as well in case you need some prayer refill after an attack. Personally for leveling prayer I would level my combat until I was confidently able to take down hill or moss giants and train my attack on them while burying the big bones. After your strong enough I would suggest moving onto prayer urns and training on lesser demons for the prayer bonus from urns. Your highest prayer will be mystic might at level 45 prayer but, unless your a pure or a combat mage, you can probably be alright with 43 for protection from melee. This prayer along with its counterpart, protect from magic and protect from range, will reduce damage dealt from the specified source to zero. In pvp (player versus player combat) it will only reduce damage to about half of normal.

Members on the other hand have a ton of training options. With many quests allowing you to gain prayer exp as well as ways to train, it's a veritable playground for the traveling priest. To start off with you now have around 18 different bones spanning from 4.5 to 180 exp each when buried. These can be modified to 400% as much exp (up to 720 per bone!) using the ectofuntus or 350% on a player owned homes altar (depending on make model and sacrificial herbs). You now get an upgraded type of ashes as well that is worth 62.5 exp per spread and can be ectoed, sacrificed, or urned! Basic gist here is that your leveling opportunities have increased 10 fold or better now that you can get some killer fast exp. Now for the bad news, go ahead and add in runescapes most prominent rule. If its faster exp, it's going to cost you. I can't say enough how this rule affects this game. Some games money is actually worth something, in runescape experience is worth its weight in gold and in prayers case, much more. This means that you should exploit any means possible to get bonus experience such as the ectofuntus. Although it will take longer per bone, you will save yourself a fortune. Just for scale, at the time I'm writing this, dragon bones cost roughly 4500 coins each. Lets say you are level 50 prayer and going for 75. That is right at about 640,000 exp yoiu will need. If you were to bury the bones you would spend 39.5 million coins on 8,787 bones. Using the ectofuntus you would spend roughly 9.9 million coins on 2,197 bones. This effectively saves you roughly 29.6 million coins. Say you don't want the money, let's say you used the money and have all those spare bones. You could ecto them as well and you end up getting 2,530,656 exp instead of the 640,000 exp you were expecting. If I can't convince you enough with these numbers to take your time and level correctly, nothing is going to work. As far as your prayers go, you will actually be able to unlock an entire new prayer set that includes curses. Curses drain your enemies stats (attack, defense, ranged, etc.) and add them to your levels! Not only that but now those prayers that made you invulnerable before now reflect portions of the damage back at your opponent. These curses can drain an opponents life force as well by replenishing your health based on your damage. These are the highest leveled prayers in the game though, so don't think they come cheap or easy. Stick with your devotion of faith and gain those levels the best you can. May the gods watch over you on your journey to becoming a holy warrior!

Slayer (Members Only Skill)

I decided to include this close to the combat guides due to it only leveling primarily during combat. You can use some mini games to boost it but, again, this isn't a guide to mini games. To start as a slayer you must approach a slayer master. There are 7 different masters and each one has it's own set list of monsters for you to slay. If you talk to the masters they will even recommend you to another master if your combat level and slayer level are high enough. If you find that these tasks are to hard however you can always return to Tureal to have it reset to an easier task. The masters in order of easiest to hardest are: